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Liencres - Bay of Biscay - Spain
Another shot from the great adventure in the company of the usual suspects Paulo Dias , Rolhas e Sergio Luis Silva .
This time in search of the North with the precious help and total collaboration of Joserra Irusta's from the North Photo Tours team.
For him, his wife Raquel Castro a huge thank you !
And for those wishing to explore the North of Spain, the answer is North Photo Tours !
Canon EOS 5D MKII + Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L @ 17 mm
ISO 100 - f/16- 129s
Lee ProGlass ND 0.9 + Lee GND 0.9 HE + Lee GND 0.3 SE
Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre/proto-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as 4500 BC.
2015 07 27 151700 France Brittany Carnac 1HDR
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As 2011 winds down, I want to thank all of you who have supported me and my photography. I couldn't have done it without you!
This year saw fellow photographer Joshua Cripps and I teach many full workshops to groups of great and enthusiastic photographers. What a blast! Another sold out workshop this past Saturday was our last outing of the year, but hopefully soon, we will have some new dates and new locations for 2012.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm
0.8 sec, f13, ISO 100
Lee .9 and .75 Soft GND filters
This is another take on the same Cuban Lily that I posted a few weeks back. Taken at Longwood Gardens with the Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens.
The prospect of a perfect alignment of the lowest tide of the month, at sunset, with a clearing storm and the sun setting furthest south (to the left) to light up the Marin Headlands (on the right) was too good to pass up, so I headed out for some shooting! No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @24
0.5-second exposure @F14
LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm) 0.9 + 0.75
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer.
ISO 50
Small Slik tripod with Manfrotto pistol grip ball head
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
No shoes so I don't have to worry about getting wet.
Resources:
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
When I got here, the sky was dark and heavy, and the tide was about a foot higher, so this scene was hard to imagine at that point. But I noticed on the satellite website that the storm might break right at sunset. So I thought I had a chance.
Eventually the light got better. So while I waited for the right light over the bridge, I did some long exposures of a pier to the right of the frame that came out really well. I'll show those later. Then I took off my shoes and headed out. Fortunately it has warmed back up to normal so the water was fine. Then, the sky opened up and I made about 20 versions of this scene as the clouds and waves rolled by.
It was hard to believe that every single element I had hoped for could possibly come together like this, but never say never! I have some with a glossy surface with a reflected bridge but this version had some nice dynamic motion so I'm going with this one. It is moments like this that make me glad that I took up photography.
The map shows exactly where this is, even though it shows no beach. The beach is only there during a VERY low tide. No hiking required but you must climb down slippery rocks to get here.
See my Flickr profile for a link to my newly designed website.
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Corbin, KY
I love these old "Bear" signs -- they're cute and fun. The typo on the one sign ("alinement") does irk me. I worked for years as an editor so it's just natural that typos bug the heck out of me lol
UPDATE: So "alinement" is an alternative spelling. Perhaps it's regional, as I've never seen it spelled that way here in Canada.
Visiting Kungsträdgården metro station was the first stop on our guided city tour of Stockholm. While the station is known for its unique and artistic design, part of Stockholm's "art gallery" metro system, I tried to capture some pictures that could potentially fit into my monochrome project: "Urban Serendipity." Kungsträdgården, opened in 1977, is located near Kungsträdgården Park, close to the Grand Hotel. The station’s design reflects the area’s history, featuring plant motifs, sculptures, and relics from the baroque gardens that once existed nearby. It’s designed to resemble an archaeological dig site, with columns and other elements from the park’s past. As a central station on the blue line, it offers easy access to key attractions like the Royal Palace and Gamla Stan and is very close to the Grand Hotel Stockholm - Stockholm, Sweden.
Blossom is starting to appear on some of the trees in our back yard. Spring should be here, but it definitely feels like winter still ... Taken with a vintage Soviet Helios 44-2 58mm lens coupled to my DSLR.
While searching through Google maps looking for a good object facing north for a star trails composition. It dawned on me, I have something in my very own back-garden that not only points north, with an accurate polar alignment it points true north. So out I went and this is the result. I still wanted the use of my telescope being a very clear night with good seeing. So I light painted the scope, took 3 images. Then moved the camera back and up, centred Polaris and took a further 150x 60sec images for the star trails. I then combined the 2 in Photoshop. I thought it represents perfectly the work of an equatorial mount, and what it’s designed to do. Taken with a Canon 6D and Samyang 135 f2 lens @ f2.8
of two red Tulips / Tulpen (Tulipa)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
If you love tulips, have a look at my personal Tulip Collection.
There were no photo, last week. Not that I didn't take any, but I decided to test the Kodak Ektar film. So I won't have them back until I get them developped. Regarding this week, "framed" would probably be a better theme. However this will do! Also, this was the occasion to test my new camera...full frame, at last !!
Thanks for viewing !
Street light, waxing crescent Moon and Venus
Slight distortion due to being hand held and with minimal processing
Reality gets into a spin, as seen in Pembrokeshire.
Hand-held. AF. Double exposure.
Take a break at Pelcomb Portraits.
** Geeks **
I was interested to note that in my attempt to align the second frame to the first, using the overlay in the EVF and focusing on the rails, I twisted the camera rather than simply dropping / raising it. Psshh; such an amateur... I also deployed the focus-near-then-far technique, which is turning in some nice results. ;-)