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Sorry for my rather long absence from Flickr, my friends... So much work and personal vicissitudes have drained my energies. Sadly, I cannot promise that I will try and catch up, since I am still in that situation. Nevertheless, I'll try.
It looked like that early November morning's efforts were to be wasted, but there always is hope, after all - a lesson we should treasure in those dark times. After all, the magic of our RAW files and postprocessing can dramatically overturn our perception of a photo.
This is my favourite location, a peaceful spot downstream the eastern arm of the lake Como, where the river Adda flows in lazy meanders hugging a wetland in the process. Even being so close to a main road and to several towns, this place is so peaceful and remote from the busy life of the world all around it - on very early mornings, at least. An oasis, a secret garden. A somehow mysterious land of deep peace, light, and everchanging mists. However on that morning there was an unusual hustle and bustle of people running, strolling, photographing - an effect of the long, dark lockdowns. I tried to shoot hoping that a bit of post-processing magic could infuse life in my apparently wasted shots. So here it is this new image of mine, emerging from the flat, almost lifeless five shots of an exposure bracketing, celebrating a deep, amazing truth: the whole can be more beautiful than the sum of its parts. Long, careful work lays behind this seemingly little miracle, of course: you must apply energy to the system in order to increase the level of beauty in the world, against the natural, blind tendency towards ever-increasing universal ugliness (as stated by the 3rd law of beautydynamics). I hope that you enjoy this image and that it can somehow uplift your spirits and foster your own efforts in making beauty and harmony emerge in this dark, troubling world.
Explored on 2021/03/18 n° 19
I have obtained this picture by blending a 5-exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing, improving the refkections of the sky in the foreground. I have painted some tiny bits of the inverted blue channel layer here an there to highlight several precious detail of the scene.
RAW files processed with Darktable.
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Excerpt taken from Sum by David Eagleman, which explores different versions of the afterlife.
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Absence- of people we love, of social contact, of "normalcy", whatever that meant- has come to define our lives this year, and probably will continue to as we move into 2021. In the absence of trains, shoot the track structure itself- it's much more solid, lasting, real, and timeless than many things these days. There's a good reason the British call it the "permanent way".
Union Pacific Milwaukee Sub, West Allis, Wisconsin
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"Courage is not the absence of fear – it’s inspiring others to move beyond it." – Nelson Mandela
Taken at the China Hong Kong City in Kowloon, Hong Kong
My apologies for my absence recently. I will catch up in the next few weeks. I thought I drop by as a few of my friends, for different reasons, had a tough time and I wanted to say a few words.
Although you don’t feel so or don’t believe it, you will feel better again. You will feel like the human version of yourself. You will get your life back, whatever happened. My advice? Get your army together. Get those close friends and family around you to support you, and don’t be shy. If you need something - ask. That’s what they’re for.
They say that ‘time is a cure’ which is probably right. Be generous with yourself. Get outdoors if you can, and you know what? Retail therapy can do wonders.
I posted an identical composed image. The light, though, is different and I thought might be appropriate.
When I set up to capture this image I had monochrome in mind, just had to finish it off to see it done.
Pentax K1 w DFA24-70/2.8 and 10stop ND
ISO320 f/11 2s 53mm
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, IR converted in Color Efex Pro 5, a visit to Affinity Photo 2 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Wombarra, NSW
To my mind these are among the very most charming of creatures, scurrying, farming, "eeping," and popping in and out of hidey-holes. We saw so many--literally hundreds--of pika on the Wonderland Trail that I greatly regretted the absence of any kind of wildlife camera. I took this with the relatively ancient and practically unused Canon S120, which I recently rediscovered buried in a junk drawer, and which somehow still thinks that it is 2014.
Pika, Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
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Non è vero che abbiamo bisogno dell'assenza, della solitudine, dell'eterna attesa: non è vero!
(da L'anno scorso a Marienbad)
It’s not true that we need absence, solitude, everlasting waiting. It’s not true!
(from Last year at Marienbad)
I normally shoot nothing but landscapes. Nature restores my mind,heart and soul. This scene however, was too beautiful to pass. Hope to find it interesting.
if words - no escape, but to accept -,
fall victim to oblivion,
no more sound will be heard,
but that possessed by
silence"
Wow, quite a hiatus from Flickr for me.
I've been in San Diego almost a month and have only went out with photography in mind once. And that day the marine layer was close overhead and the light sucked, so no pictures.
I've been going out to some of my old haunts, not to shoot, but to just enjoy. With a camera in hand, I find that it's hard to properly relax. Now that I've gone out and truly enjoyed the SoCal beaches and sunsets I'm gonna start taking the camera out more. Promise.
This was taken somewhere in Utah on my drive out here. I really wish I could have devoted more time to Utah, and I will. The drive was gnarly. I don't recommend driving an economy car loaded down with all your crap through the Rockies. And then I hit Vegas the day after Independence Day and the traffic was the worst I've ever encountered. EVVVVVVVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR! It took two hours to get from Vegas to the California state line, and that ain't far.
San Diego is as I remember it. (like it's been years!) I have a different, but nicer apartment. The weather is the best in the world. Everyone here is complaining of the heat. It almost hit 80. I just have to laugh. The marine layer (morning & evening cloud cover that moves inland from the coast) has persisted pretty much since I've been here, but this time around I accept that it's just part of the deal. Last year I was cursing it, non stop.
Anyway, sorry for my absence and I'll start posting more.