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IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE

Bona part de la industria fotogràfica sovietica es deu gràcies al botí de guerra alemany del 1945. Aquí teniu tres "clons" de càmeres alemanes dels anys 30: Una Arsenal Kiev III (Zeiss Ikon Contax III), una KMZ Moskva-4 (Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531/2) i una KMZ Zorki-4 (Leica II força modificada).

Es tracta d'un ferrotip de format 4x5 polzades, realitzat amb una Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic fabricada cap al 1949; objectiu Kodak Anastigmat f4.5. Col·lodió Old Workhorse de Franalog.

Les plaques de col·lodió es realitzen al moment, cobrint una placa de vidre o planxa metal·lica negra amb col·lodió i sals de cadmi i/o potassi, sensibilitzat amb nitrat de plata. Aleshores s'ha de fer la fotografia i revelar-la en uns 5 minuts, abans no s'assequi la emulsió. És un dels processos fotogràfics més antics del món, inventat el 1851, i que dominà fins el 1880. Però ara ha resorgit, ja que les imatges, molt treballades, que dona són úniques, màgiques i i irrepetibles.

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A great deal of the Soviet camera industry derived from WW2 war bouty, as they cloned (and in fact improved) German cameras from the 30's. But they are not only cheap imitations. Some are superb cameras which give great images and fun. Here's an Arsenal Kiev III (Contax III), a KMZ Moskva-4 (Super Ikonta 531/2) and a Zorki-4 (quite modified Leica II).

Tintype in 4x5 format, made with a Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic (from 1949); Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 lens; Old Workhorse collodion by Franalog.

The collodion plates are made covering a glass plate or black metal plate with collodion and salts of cadmium and / or potassium, sensitized with silver nitrate. Then you have to take the photo and reveal it in about 5 minutes, before the emulsion dries. It is one of the oldest photographic processes in the World, invented in 1851, and which dominated photography until 1880. But now it has resurfaced, as the images, very elaborate to create, that it gives are unique, razor sharp, magical and unrepeatable.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process

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1.i have date night every friday night, even if no one else is here to share it.

date night involves me taking a bath and lighting about 50 candles in the living room.

i put on some groovy tunes and something satiny and drink something alcoholic and cuddle up to the softest

blanket ever and yeah, that is about it.

2.i have another date night every saturday night, with my best friend jessica.

it usually involves kung pao tofo and peppers and some crappy romantic comedy

and a crafty creative project.

3.i have 2 bathrooms in my place. one of them has doorknob issues. everyone who

has ever used it freaks out because they think they can't open the door. actually,

you just have to turn the knob the other direction ( to the left ) ... but trust me on this

... almost every doorknob is supposed to turn to the right.

4.i don't watch that much tv anymore but i have noticed that my favorite shows over the

years are ones that involve major sexual tension between the main characters ( i.e. moonlighting,

who's the boss, x files etc.)

5.i have temperature issues in bed.

i am usually naked or in a slip at night.

if i am really cold, i love tons of warm blankets

and if i am really warm, i love one super cold sheet wrapped around me.

6.i have a fascination with Starbucks Iced tea Lemonade concoction.

i have yet to find a barista make it the same way twice and i know they have

directions for all their drinks.

i finally found a man who made it perfectly

it used to be my favorite drink there

...

he quit and now no one makes it good anymore.

7.i have serious light bulb issues in this apartment.

with all my ceiling lights, bathroom lights, kitchen lights, bedroom lights, etc.

i probably manage to kill 2 light bulbs a week.

even on a step stool i can't reach them, so i have to wait until saturday night date night

to have my tall best friend change my bulbs.

i spoke to her earlier tonight and told her she needs to come over tomorrow

because if i wait any longer, i am going to be sitting here in the dark.

8.i've been thinking about quitting my job and moving.

something very unlike me but i really feel as if i need a change.

i don't know where i'd go. i have ideas, but not really.

all my friends and family are here.

i have a good job at a company i have been with now starting 8 years.

i just need something different somewhere else.

9.one of my favorite ice creams is Nestle's King Size Drumstick ice cream cones.

my friend just came by and i made him drive me to 7-11 to get one and i gobbled that fucker right up.

yum!

10.i've been really poopy all year.

i am not used to this feeling of gloom.

i find myself crying far too much and it kind of sucks.

i don't really have it in me to go on more about that, so pffft.

11.i have a magnetic dart board on the back of my front door.

i suck at it.

with practice i am sure i could get better.

these magnetic darts are what suck, not me.

12.which reminds me, i used to love to shoot pool.

i grew up with a pool table ( my parents own one)

and i used to frequent a coffee house in high school that had one.

sadly, the coffee shop table had this horrid tilt and i had to learn the tricks and secrets

of how to play on that table..but when new comers would play, i managed to kick and ass

or two.

13.i collect wrapping paper, but not in a Dyxie way :P

i have this tall clear glass vase with rolls of beautifully printed wrapping

paper sticking out of it. i use it as art or something.

once in a while, if i am feeling crafty, i cover a coffee can in it, or frame it, or cover

my refrigerator in it, or wrap a pringles can in it for my ttv contraption.

....

if you want more random things about me,

click here and

read more.

thanks for listening.

carry on with your bad selves.

xoxox

Highest position: 85 on Monday, December 31, 2007

I just realized i got tagged like 5 days ago, so here they are: 10 fact about me:)

1.My favorite color is blue

2.I hate when people lies to me even when I already know the truth

3.I want so very much a pro camera

4. I would like to travel atleast to one country of every continent

5.I think my "friends" aren't my friends anymore

6.I love italian food just like mexican

7.I'm turning 15 in 2 days<3

8.I'm a very positive person and shameless most of the times

9.I believe in god

10.Flickr makes me so happy:)_

This is the first time I do this, and I think you must do the same if you've got tagged:) if I tagged you, do this, ignore it or do whatever you want, You'll not be cursed if you don't or something like that haha, (I hope)

1. I try to be optimistic at all times, but it usually doesn't work out.

2. I'm pretty lazy.

3. I have a text draft on my phone with a bunch of photo ideas, but I never get to using them.

4. I'm perfectly happy not having an SLR camera for now, I love mine :)

5. I get annoyed easily.

6. My favorite cereal is Peanut Butter Crunch, but I never eat it anymore.

7. I have a love/hate relationship with running.

8. I want to travel the world someday.

9. I don't really have many secrets.

10. I have a doctor's appointment in an hour.

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*Explored*

Polaroid Week Spring '25, day 1. 1/2.

Polaroid I-2

i-Type Film

Taken: April 18, 2025

While I was stuck at home with a cold few month ago, I took some pictures of the sunflowers I bought at Trader Joe's just before. I used 3 different lenses to see how the outcomes will differ. This capture was taken on Helios 44-2. I prefer to photograph flowers in nature and not indoors, but with this experience, I now started buying flowers at the local Farmer's market regularly and photographing them at home. And this how my series "Flowers at home" has started. :-)

NikonD7500

Helios 44-2

f/2

1/160

ISO100

1) Hello [UMEBOSHI] new eyes soon for Seasons Story Anniversary :)

2) I did this edit at 1am and got a little wacky with the filters. I however did not edit the eyes. That's how they look inworld. whee. Will release eye colour chart soon

3) (sorry about lack of updates and general slowness... RL is eating my time and I up. Will try to get back to SL once my holidays start)

4) credits whilst i'm alive: hair by wasabi pills, base skin Anis by Mudskin, makeup by My Ugly Dorothy but is not available.

goodnight world~

(cameraphone H. P9Lite)

لا تـمـسـه أيـــدهــم

part 2

PS. i missed u JOjo even how long the distance is =')

Mittens sitting on the hallway runner rug, pondering the mysteries of life as a Siberian Forest Cat living in Adelaide Australia.

Actually, she is more likely to be thinking:

1. it is time for breakfast, shall i have dry buscuits or wait for chicken wings?

2. i want a cuddle from someone, preferably Michael.

3. why do they always take my live catch away and let it go in the garden?

Polaroid Week Spring '25, day 1. 2/2.

Polaroid I-2

i-Type Film

bulb (2 hrs) @ f8

Taken: April 17, 2025

I want to be the last woman

The final, the concluding

Not coaxed, but married

With the clear light of your abode

Good morning and a quiet harbor

And a maddening desire

I want to be the control shot

And your last confession

I don’t know how to live on less

Why are you looking into my eyes so intently?

I want to be the last woman…

Just a woman, and the only one…

I don’t know how to live on less!

Why are you looking into my eyes so intently?

I want to be the last woman...

Just a woman, and the only one...

[Verse 2]

I want to be your wings

This light, reliable burden

I want to be your stories

Within time and timelessly

I want to be the last woman

Final, final

Not coaxed, but married

With the clear light of your abode

[Chorus]

I don't know how to live on less

Why are you looking into my eyes so intently?

I want to be the last woman...

Just a woman, and the only one...

I don't know how to live on less!

Why are you looking into my eyes so intently?

I want to be the last woman...

Just a woman, and the only one...

Explored, ranked #169 on May 26, 2010. Thank you, everyone. <33

TAGGED!

First time everrr! Thanks to xclarexbearx (:

My 10 Facts:

1. I do not edit my photos. (Unless it includes overlay/I have stated otherwise on certain photos.)

2. I've taught myself everything I know about my camera.

3. I'm no older than 15 and no younger than 11. (Take a guess at my age.)

4. I hate anything that smell/tastes like orange candy.

5. I live in the south of the U.S.

6. Sometimes I wish I could move out and see the world for myself.

7. My hair is naturally curly.

8. I always wear perfume.

9. I'm old fashioned in most cases.

10. I don't believe in school (x

Got tagged by my good friend, Guiseppe Parisi.

Here are 10 things that I didn't list the last time I got tagged. Not sure how interesting they are, but here goes:

1. I hate being tagged.

2. I met my hubby at the first NASCAR race that either one of us had ever attended. We’ve only been to 2 since.

3. I am allergic to darkroom chemicals, but loved the whole processing of developing and printing.

4. It’s easy to become lost in a world of photography and Photoshop and forget about the outside world.

5. I volunteered for 11 years at a local food pantry serving the poor and needy.

6. I spent many years in the jail ministry and have been in both of our local county jails – as a day guest.

7. To this day I miss my 1974 Checker that I sold 10 years ago.

8. I worked at Walt Disney World for 5+ years many years ago.

9. I am a slave to our parrots – and they know it.

10. I think kindness is the super power that I would possess if I could be a Super Hero.

Leitz Canada Summicron-R II 50mm F/2

1977 | 6 blades iris | Leica R | @f/2

Paris | 2017

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A long long time ago, I was tagged...I apologize for the super late response!

1. I do not know where to transfer this fall.

2. I have scars on my arms resulting from my clumsiness with ovens.

3. This summer, I'll be visiting the place where my affair with photography began.

4. I would love to study abroad.

5. I haven't taken math in almost two years.

6. I miss calculus.

7. I'll be rereading Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting this year.

8. My goal is to read at least 50 books...Last year was a total failure, so I have to make sure I do it this time around.

9. I do not know how to swim.

10. I prefer yellow roses first, then white and lastly red.

Once I bought my EM-1 markII and 45mm f1.2 I debated selling E-M5 mark II and OLY 45mm f1.8.. But then I realized the fun in having the perfect grab and go camera.. You shoot this setup at f4 and it is almost always magic..

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Just waiting on those tan turret pieces from Bricklink (please hurry Canada Post!). Brought the Leopard along to a NALUG meeting the other evening, and was informed that my tan 4x4 "umbrella" was a little small. So this afternoon I checked my mailbox looking for the tan wedges. Instead, I found to my surprise a 6x6 Verdant green umbrella! It still fits the Leopard too, since there was variety among umbrella colours in Afghanistan. So yeah, big thank you to Forbes* for the umbrella!

Other than the new hat, I managed to pick up a set of 1x1 LED studs from Brickstuff during BBTB. They make excellent headlamps for the Leopard 2! I'll see if I can get some low light shots in the next few days that can really show off their effect :D

That's all for now!

~Connor

*(He also has one of the largest BL stores in Canada, so if you need some parts, feel free to check him out! www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=Bricklord#/shop )

I was tagged by my flickr-friend gismaster yeah thank you so much....

oh well now...16 things to say about me...

#1-My name is Lorena, 39. I'm a giant (only 1.60!!!), black hair, brown eyes and I have an important nose!;

#2-I love to travel (my mission) and the sea (my life);

#3-I'm so much self mockery (see #1-#16);

#4-I love so much the water and swimming: I love to swim backstroke,breast stroke, not so much in crawl;

#5-I hate controversy;

#6-I love friendship;

#7-I love to read books, Stephen King is my favourite for free my mind;

#8-I hate to run, I love to walk;

#9-I have few vices: no smoking, no live in luxury, no important clothes... All my money are for travelling...;

#10-Few vices are: joining my friends, I love so much make parties and have fun;

#11-I hate to hear the ring of the phone;

#12-I'm a gourmand;

#13-I'm egocentric, touchy, moody;

#14-I adore the wind and the waves;

#15-I love to dress in black;

#16-I love to sing, but it is better to do it when I'm lonely!!!

Sono stata taggata da un flickr-friend gismaster yeah Grazie molte....

oh bene ora...16 cose da dire di me...

#1-Il mio nome è Lorena, 39 anni. Sono una gigante (solo 1.60!!!), capelli neri, occhi marrone e ho un naso importante!;

#2-Amo viaggiare (la mia missione) e il mare (la mia vita);

#3-Sono molto autoironica (vedi #1-#16);

#4-Amo molto l'acqua e nuotare: amo nuotare a dorso e a rana,

non tanto a stile libero;

#5-Odio la polemica;

#6-Amo l'amicizia;

#7-Amo leggere, Stephen King è il mio favorito per liberarmi la mente;

#8-Odio correre, amo camminare;

#9-Ho pochi vizi: non fumo, non vivo nel lusso, niente vestiti importanti... Tutti i miei soldi sono per viaggiare;

#10-I pochi vizi sono:stare con gli amici, mi piace molto far festa e divertirmi;

#11-Odio il trillo dl telefono;

#12- Sono una golosona;

#13-Sono egocentrica, permalosa, lunatica;

#14-Adoro il vento e le onde;

#15-Amo vestirmi di nero;

#16-Amo cantare ma è meglio che lo faccio quando sono da sola!!!

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[From the archives 2018].

Post processing in 2024 with Affinity Photo

Uhhhhhhh....yeah.

After much deliberation, and a LOT of teasing from the hubby....ROFL

Erm....I'm back. hee hee.

year two of just.K.

*awww.....crap* right???

Couple a things though:

1. I must have fun or I will stop.

2. I will keep it simple and not get frustrated.

3. I refuse to take part in any drama...so like...don't involve me.

4. I will block any and all footie freaks who get all over my feet for this photo.

just sayin.

TRP - Me and my Jeans. :) (accidental but it still counts.)

Have a good Sunday! *muah!*

A tiny mass-produced starfighter designed for use in large fleets as a scout or light fighter.

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Entry to the Small Starfighter Contest.

Well, it's been nearly six weeks since I last posted anything. I have my reasons though.

1) Homefront building, which is completed.

2) I now have a job.

3) Trying to finish Eagle Scout and another project before the end of next school year.

4) Swim team.

Takes up a lot of time, those four things. And it's summer. Gosh.

Hopefully next summer will be more restful.

Oh, and this will be coming to BF with me, along with another small starfighter that will hopefully be better designed. :P

I'll be there probably Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and just long enough on Sunday to pick up my stuff and finish up.

-IronBricks

While riding south in an Uber on DuSable Lake Shore Drive at dusk on May 2, I saw a beautiful scene: the Drake Hotel set against the John Hancock Center, the Chicago skyline, and a dark blue sky. I wished I could stop and take a photo.

[55/365] New Years Eve Resolutions

1. I will not party every night. (Maybe only 6 days a week.)

2. I will not let Monsters slaughter any more of my family members. (Well maybe my brother.)

FGR: New Year Resolutions www.flickr.com/groups/578279@N25/

Well ladies and gents, i have created me as a super hero.

To anyone who can come up with the best name for me, i will give a shout out with the full, actual picture, along with a backstory.

To help you name him i will give a summary of my powers.

1)I can shoot balls of plasma

2)I can keep track of the baddies by circling them in this plasma, in a lava lamp kind of way

3)I can either disintigrate or knock out people by incasing them in my plasma stuff, like a cacoon

4)I have hightened abilities and senses

5)I can see my plasma through walls

6)I can hover (not fly)

That's all for now folks

P.S. Not sure if my weapon will be plasma

Acadia National Park, on Portra 400 film, with my Yashica FX-2.

I've had computer troubles for the past week or two, but all seems to be resolved now, thankfully. Hope to be back here more regularly.

--I've Been Tagged--

Tagged by Selvin

1. Its been about 2 years since I started photography

2. I still shoot with my point & shoot camera; Canon Power Shot A550

3. I love anything that is in sky blue colour. So drop me by a beach side & I can survive!! :)

4. Can't live without music. So won't leave anywhere without my music collection. Lately its my Iphone music.

5. Love to collect quotes. Have Tons of 'em.

6. Was away from flickr (Hated it!!) a few times.. mainly due to work!

7. Was about to delete my flickr account two months back after an unwanted personal episode with a fellow flickr member.

8. Did not touch my camera for about 3 months after the 'episode'.

9. Lost all my vacation pictures & my pictures collections after I misplaced my thumb drive for good! (thanks to all Flickr friends who offered their kind words)

10. Love nature shots the most, unfortunately, didnt get to travel much these past two years.

11. Love to read book, mostly fiction (no, not Mills & Boons!!:)

12. Adore kids & my four nieces keeps me adoring them more & more day by day. (Miss them much now!)

13. Love to experiment with food. A foodie!

14. A total movie geek!

15. Believe to have some sort of luck in poker games. Maybe I should give Vegas a try! :)

16. Seriously think that flickr members are the best friends you can get online!!!

I love both cars, both for very different reasons though! Both cars are in desperate need of a clean too which I must get sorted.

Sadly within the next month or 2 I hope to sell the Mk3, as much as I love it its not being used and its a waste for it to just sit on my drive.

No time for pictures today, so took this when i had a break in tables at work. Was tagged twice more so here we go again!

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1. I have been out of high school for a year now, loving every minute of it

2. I live maybe 40 minutes from ocean city, yet i hate the beach

3. I didnt go to my senior week, i worked the whole week

4. My old high school boys vasity lacrosse just won states! GO QA!

5. This year the varsity football team went to states too and played in the Ravens stadium, unfortunately they lost :(

6. My birthday is in 16 days! woooo!

7. I love chicken salad. i could eat it everyday for every meal :)

8. I love Lee DeWyze. Im so happy he won :)

9. Sorry if im repeat tagging, i forgot who i tagged before.

10. I need ideas for self portraits for my photography club! let me know!

31/365

this is still an unfinished flick but i thought id chuck it up to see what people think. i am going to do a key line against the outline on the black sections only and maybe do some too dads coming off the key line in the same colour, now the only colour i can see working is and orange like a dare orange maybe a halloween not to sure but it is the on ly colour i can see working out anyways, I will be out of commission for a couple months with the birth of my second child so i am pretty happy with this being one of my last pieces for awhile the only things i can pick on are the S is a bit to chunky compared to the other letters and i need something to break up the black on the L but ah well

(EXPLORED - April 09, 2013)

_Willis Building, City of London - Architect Sir Norman Foster_ www.juliaannagospodarou.com

We are what we create.

I have no doubt about it. We might be searching for a way of expression for long years and try a lot of things till we find it, we may be struggling with prejudice and limitations, with doubt and with being misunderstood, we may have to ignore common sense and go against the flow, we may have to figure out new ways of escaping what we call reason, what we call reality (what is reality anyway?) but in the end, what we will settle for can only be that very thing that expresses what we are completely, that helps us feel accomplished and free, that helps a restless soul find peace and allow us to stop and take a breath. If you look at this image you will see very much of what I am. I won't explain it, I don't want to limit your imagination. :) I will say just one thing: whatever this journey may take, do it! It's much better to burn out searching than never know...

OK, now that we said what was important, here's a few words about this image. First, it's been two and a half months since my last architectural image, which may seem a lot but it actually isn't for me, as I've done a lot of searching, discovered a lot of things, even worked on a handful of images that are to come soon. I've done some thinking, I've done some experimenting and the results will show in the months to come. I've even tried to step away from architectural photography to see how it is, but despite the fact that I love all kinds of photography, I think my call is architectural photography. There's nothing I love more than working with shapes and light, nothing I like more than abstracting a volume till it shows a part that would hardly show to the naked eye. I finally understood what I'm trying to do in photography and that is exactly what I'm doing in architecture too. I am designing my photographs to suit my vision. I am deconstructing the volumes I see and recomposing them using light and shadow, I am in essence using the existing subject, I'm using reality as a base on which I build my own dreams. Photography, architectural photography is the tool my imagination needs to stay alive and to express itself. It would be interesting I think to show you the RAW file of this image. I'm sure you wouldn't recognize much of what you see here in that image. But hey, you will tell me, that's manipulation! Well, yes, you're perfectly right, I will answer you! But who said I want to do traditional photography anyway? This may not even be photography, as a matter of fact. This may be something else. This IS something else! As I was calling it a while ago while discussing with a friend, this is “(en)visionography”. More on this concept coming soon...

And at last a few words about the image and the processing side of it... But, since this is getting long, let's better move over to my site if you want to read more about processing and also to read my answer to a question I'm getting quite often lately, a question about my skies... blog.juliaannagospodarou.com/ode-to-black-iii-extreme-bla...

Technical data: 333.0 sec. @ f/9, Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 ED AF-S DX @ 11mm, ISO 100. Processing: LR4, PS CS6, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2.

You like this image? You can have a print of it. Have a look... bit.ly/10zPqzD or bit.ly/10LD9qN

PS:

If you are in London April 26 to May 12 go have a look at the SWPA 2013 - Sony World Photography Awards Winners Exhibition. My series Like A Harp's Strings will be exhibited as Shortlisted Finalist in Architecture Professionals category. And cross your fingers for me on April 25, when the prizes will be announced. Maybe... :)

More about the exhibition on WPO site: worldphoto.org/festivals-and-events/events/sony-world-pho...

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Thought I'd give this free programme a trial using Silver Efex 2. I think mono suits architecture or mechanical things best - might give that a try.

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I must write out a 100 times: 'I must keep it simple'. I never seem to manage it. I think I just about got away with this - the harsh backlight, the strobe through brolly which kept falling over on camera left at about 1/4 power and one other strobe that had already fallen in the drink. Still, marvellous shoot with an amazing model: Ella. And we tried a concept part to this location which I will get round to adding.

Oct 23

There's No Place Like Home!

Finished!

Blocks made by the ladies in Bee Addicted 2. I asked for the blocks in December of 2009, but just got to it now.

Thanks!

Athearn GP40-2 I weathered and photographed on a module I built.

Dry Plate photograph made with the Voigtlander Petzval lens on the B&J 5x7.

Approx. 1/4 second exposure, wide open.

Hand made dry plate negative using the Foma liquid emulsion, developed for 3 minutes in D-23 diluted 1:2. I'm liking the results!

As much as I like (and prefer) the wet plate collodion technique for making negatives, I have grown weary of the limitations it imposes: always working within proximity of the darkroom, or taking a portable darkroom with me. The latter is often not possible. So, my compromise is: make my own dry plate negatives, which I can use anywhere. They still allow me to use the same limited spectral sensitivity (the emulsion is red blind) and the plates have imperfections, but they aren't the nuisance that wet plate negatives are to make.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

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Leitz Canada Summicron-R II 50mm F/2

1977 | 6 blades iris | Leica R | @f/2

Paris | 2017

For TMI’s challenge Those Amazing Animals ... focus on Sleepers

Own image lightly processed in Topaz Studio 2

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On Sunday evening I set out to take some late afternoon/sunset shots. As I was driving back from the spot where I had just shot 300+ HDR source images, I spotted this shiny dumptruck by the side of the road. Shooting this allowed me to put the versatility of my tripod to good use -- I had to adjust one leg out so that I could get a lower angle for the shot. So yes, like a fool I was on the asphalt in a very contorted position trying to get a shot. I have to say that I'm very careful when I shoot while crouching/lying down on the asphalt. I'm hoping being careful (and perhaps lucky) allows me to get good shots without getting run over. This is a blend of seven source images. Here's the process:

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=> All of my HDR photos can be found here.

=> IF you're interested in learning about HDR, I suggest you also check out Trey Ratcliff (Flickr handle: Stuck in Customs). Trey is widely considered an HDR guru/expert/pioneer. His website has a few free basic instructional videos on how to create HDR images, as well as information on how to learn more advanced techniques.

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Been tagged in my holiday absence (that'll teach me!) The original 16 facts were difficult enough so I'm not going to find this easy! Thanks to those kind souls ;0)

1. Please remember this one...I don't like having my picture taken! Would much rather be behind the camera :0)

2. I enjoy reading and the escapism it often provides, but not girlie fiction...much prefer a thriller!

3. One of my fave films of all time is The Goonies, makes me laugh and cry!

4. I couldn't name my fave animal, I like too many (but you probably knew that already!)

5. Love everything about the seaside...but I live in the middle of the country :0(

6. I am going to take a balloon flight over the Serengeti one day.

7. Love magic...and trying to figure out how it's done! :0)

8. Enjoy the theatre, especially musicals.

9. I feel ill at the sight of blood...which is never a good thing when I'm on playground duty at school!

10. I love the fact that Flickr has not only introduced me to some incredible photographs and shown me some fantastic places, it has also introduced me to some amazing people who have become friends :0)