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We take a break from the snow to tell you our city's rugby team made it to the finals of the competition that runs each winter (here) between South African, Australian and NZ rugby teams. They had to beat last year's champions, a Sydney team at their home ground, to do it and scored 5 tries to one to do it.
This is a try being scored by our men in blue and gold against the Waikato team last weekend at our home stadium. Next weekend is our equivalent of the Superbowl but unfortunately playing against our capital city team at their home stadium. But then, we have become giant killers!
Sunset shot taken from the bridge on the GreenwayTrail at 5 Points in Whittier, CA on a day when there were EPIC storm clouds.
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Sony a6500 | Sony SEL 55-210mm zoom @122mm | ISO 100 | f/11 @ 1/100 sec | Edited in Lightroom Classic
This will probably make some of you cringe, but my normal routine after doing my pp work is to dump the original and any other versions I created along the way. I find no need to have that sort of thing clogging up my hard drive nor being forced to wade through yet an even greater sea of image files when looking for one particular shot. But for some reason, I felt compelled to do a bit more experimentation with regard to this image and see if there were any other interpretations I could possibly come up with. The image by its self is far from inspiring and the first post of it left me feeling sort of ho-hum. So I retrieved the original HDR I had created and decided to force myself to come up with at least 2 other versions that wouldn't have me running in embarrassment.
This turned out to be a much more difficult task to accomplish than I thought....particularly when working on the third version. I found it very challenging to "turn off" the elements of the first two versions to make something distinctive of the third.
So, as you can see by the name....here is version 2. I will post version 3 in a day or so.
I know some of you are really up for this sort of thing so I would highly encourage you to do the same experiment. It is always interesting when I have been apart of challenges started by some of my other Flickr contacts...(you know the kind...download an image and lets see what everyone else comes up with). But when YOU are the one coming up with all the other versions.....it does push you to think.
Hope you enjoy and let me know which of the 3 is your favorite.
Paul W. Stewart founded the Black American West Museum in 1971. The Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating the contributions of Blacks in the Old West.
While famous for telling the story of Black cowboys, we are broader than this with interests in the stories of all those early Blacks who came west and performed as miners, soldiers, homesteaders, ranchers, blacksmiths, schoolteachers, lawmen, and every other profession needed to build up the West. In fact, the Museum itself is in the home of Dr. Justina Ford, Colorado's first Black woman doctor!
Black American West Museum
3091 California Street
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 482-2242
"...we parted green from green,
we sought further thickets,
we dipped our ankles
through leaf-mould and earth,
and wood and wood-bank enchanted us."
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
From "The Helmsman."