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Passengers alight from the 1456 Manchester Victoria to Leeds at a wet Hebden Bridge station.
The 1893 station buildings are maintained in good order with an attractive Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style signage.
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Find me in the darkest hours of night
when the owl becomes alive
and leaves the shelf to find a world alight.
Find me in the deepest of the wells,
in the largest of the forests and the wider of the oceans.
Find me in the voice that never speaks,
in the eyes that never see, in the noises that get lost.
Find me in that frame you never wanted
in that picture you threw out.
Find me everywhere, in every place and none. For now I am eternal.
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During the holiday season, the towers of the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco are decorated with strings of lights that run along their edges. Here's a shot of the top of Embarcadero One, the tower nearest to the bay.
This was a test of a new camera lens of mine, and hasn't been post-processed in any way except for some levels adjustments. "How did you blur the top and bottom of the building"? Let me explain...
Basically, this shot is an extreme "tilt-shift" exposure on medium format 120 black-and-white film, using an 153mm Aero Ektar lens, a derivative of a lens design originally intended to be shot at maximum aperture, f/2.5, on 4.5-inch square film, for night-time military aerial recon using flash bombs.
Using this lens on the large types of film allows you to make pictures with mind-blowingly thin depth of field. David Burnett, a well-known photojournalist, uses an old Speed Graphic 4x5 camera and Aero Ektar lens to harness this wafer-thin DOF to very impressive effect! A favorite of mine is the Hurricane Katrina series of his that ran in National Geographic.
On 6x9-cm film with the lens wide open, it's approximately equivalent to a 68mm lens at f/1.1 on full-frame digital. On the 4x5-inch film, it's equivalent to a 38mm lens at f/0.65! Which essentially means that you can make backgrounds that are more than twice as blurry as anything you could do at a similar focal length with a 35mm camera. Gnarly!
Given the large image circle of the lens (the size of the image it projects), if you shoot with a view camera, you can tilt it to change the plane of focus, quite extremely on the intermediately-sized film formats. In this shot, I tilted the lens about 20 degrees backward, resulting in a plane of focus that ran roughly through the middle of the building, progressively blurring the lights on either side. Google "Scheimpflug" for more details.
As with all old military hardware, there's quirks. There's no mechanical exposure control in the rig at all, requiring the wave of a "black hat" as a shutter and timing shots by counting (unless you're using something like a Speed Graphic with built-in focal plane shutter). It's just about as manual as you can imagine, next to having to actually sketch the photo by hand. And, owing to a coupla Thorium-enhanced lens elements, the Aero Ektar is mildly radioactive, casting off a steady stream of gamma rays! Cover the family jewels, breeders!
San Francisco, California.
For more about this photo, see the Functionally Structural series in my online gallery. Thanks for your interest!
This is one of the fruits of an art project to illuminate the bridges along the Thames in central London. By Mark Higham. You can find more of my photos on instagram at @mhigham.photos
Softened with added textures and made mysterious by light, these beautiful dogwood flowers always herald the coming of spring and for many, Easter.
Vivacious and Soft Chaos textures from 2 Lil Owls.
If you'd like a print, greeting card or phone cover, go to 1-rebecca-cook.artistwebsites.com
I know I keep posting these types of photos, but I can't get enough of this fog to be honest. That, plus the grain from the high ISO and the film lens I'm using is really appealing to me.
Glenrock Lagoon on fire this morning. Went for a walk with a mate, Daniel to Glenrock this morning. Colour was evident early, almost an hour before sunrise. Shortly after settling on this composition, Daniel discovered his battery was flat...including the spare.. which left him in complete despair!! Photo dedicated to Daniel and his camera!
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED Lens
F11 | 2.5s | ISO 100 | 44mm
Lee Filters | .9 GND hard
12 Images Stitched
14mm photo of a burning red sunset smoldering over the winter salt marsh with sky reflections in the water.
The surreal spectacle of the Aurora - here on a very cold winters night on one of the vast lava plains on the south coast of Iceland - about 30 minutes west of Jökulsárlón.
Looks best on black.
Comments as always appreciated, but please no flashy award codes.
© 2018 Garry Velletri. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission.
This was one of those 'look behind you' moments. I was photographing a waterfall in the North Cascades and turned around to see some beautiful morning light in the forest scene behind me. A lot of photographers think trees are a boring subject but I happen to love their quiet beauty.
2016 © Michelle Jensen
Mt Cook - South Island - New Zealand
Canon 5D MKII - Canon EF L Lens 17-40mm
4 portrait frame Vertical pano.
Despite the rains of the 59th Koenji Awaodori, the performances were radiant.
雨の日にも、第５９回高円寺阿波踊りの演出は眩かった！
Stay Alight"
Today is World Mental Health Day and this image is one that to me speaks to my own approach to my mental health. Some days it can be difficult to feel that light that burns brightly inside, I wrestle with a persistent negative voice in my mind that tries to convince me that I'm a burden to others, that my voice isn't important and that the world would be better with less of me in it. I fight that each day because I know it's not true, it's a balance each day of reaching for the light and allowing myself to trust that it's there.
To me this image expresses this, that I'm a balance of these two, that they meet in the middle to make me who I am and that some days it might be more of a climb to get to that light but I always get there and I always will.
Take time today to take care of your mental health, go for a walk outdoors or listen to your favourite music. Drink some water and reach out to a friend. Get some sleep, enjoy a treat. Take care of yourself today.