I shot this intriguing window with my Olympus E-M1 while walking along the streets of New York City.

Grand Teton National Park, WY

When I saw the fleeting last light striking these gorgeous aspen-clad mountains along the Silver Thread, I really liked how those last rays amplified the warm colors of the autumn foliage. I went with a simple composition here to help isolate the special light and play off the contrast of the hillside still in shade, it sort of has made me think I need to explore lower-dynamic range/high-contrast compos more often.

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This was used as artwork for a digital single release by musician Joe Hodgson who is launching his latest work and website this summer. All creative and arts folk are having to navigate difficult times this year!

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帰省した際35年ぶりに倉敷に行ってみました。

いや驚きました。数倍に増幅しています。

その増幅ぶりを皆さんにご紹介しましょう。

When I returned to my hometown, I went to Kurashiki for the first time in 35 years.

I was surprised that the town was amplified fairly larger.

Let me introduce you about the amplification of this tourist area.

Once again I used an in camera processed jpeg with increased color, highligt and shadow. Ajusted white balance on kelvin scale.

A chaffinch using extra sound power...

Looking over the gorgeous clear waters of the Allt Coir' A' Mhadaidh towards Sgurr an Fheadain and the cloudy Cuillins.

The dog-day cicada comes out during the dog days of August - typically coinciding with a stretch of very hot and steamy summer weather here in Iowa. The dog days are so-called because Sirius - the Dog Star - appears in the eastern sky just before sunrise now in late summer and sky watchers in ancient times believed the bright light from Sirius amplified the light coming from the sun rising soon after, causing this seasonal searing heat wave. That does sound like a pretty convincing scientific explanation to me. By the way, the "song" of this dog-day cicada is a very loud high-pitched whine sounding like somebody sawing wood with a chain saw. Try sleeping with a hundred noisy cicadas calling from the treetops around your house now.

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If you figured out that I used Foamy The Squirrel as inspiration, you win a hug!

A Great Horned Owl in a black and white portrait.

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New dimension

Constancy hypothesis

Phenomenal field

What I believe was a late-running CP 2-287 with UP SD70ACe 8751 up front, squeals through the curvature of the urban canyon surrounding Seeboth St, Milwaukee, where searchlights still stand. The wet night seemed to amplify the noise of hundreds of flanges fighting the curvature, the cacophony echoing off every building. Meanwhile I was fighting the darkness, and did my best with what the trusty old T3i could handle. I have since upgraded to the 90D, which so far seems much happier in low light conditions.

This beautiful lake is a magical place of fall color when the still water amplifies the streaks of color. Lake Sabrina, located west of Bishop, California, at the end of CA 168, is always a stop I make for taking is the Sierra grandeur. I took this panorama on a crisp fall morning in October 2018.

For "Looking close...on Friday!"s #painting/drawing theme

An amplified extract from a small witch print that i fell in love with but that has been hiding behind my sofa since I bought it. A good time to get her out so she can spread some magic...

(Her broomstick is approximately 3 inches long.)

One of the most famous tourist railways in Japan is the Kurobekeikoku Tetsudo, better known as the Kurobe Gorge Railway.

Starting in Unazuki, this little railway hugs the Kurobe River deep into the Japanese Alps along the Kurobe Gorge, Japan's deepest V-shaped gorge. Along the way it passes by numerous power generating dams. It's a beautiful railway further amplified when the leaves turn in Autumn.

Multiple trains operate a day out of the terminus, each hauled by EDM or EDR boxcab electric locomotives. Here, the day's second to last train for Unazuki crosses over the iconic Shinyamabiko Bridge near the terminus, led by 2 EDR electric locomotives.

Kurobekeikoku Tetsudo. Kurotetsu Type EDR27.

Kurobe, Toyama Pref., Japan

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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. With a pair of Marshall amplifiers delivering her sound I just loved the composition of this shot that presented itself. I am a little concerned about those flip-up sunglasses though, they were never a good look when they were in fashion decades ago! Enjoy.

at Heckscher Park is amazing... if you stand in the middle and whisper, you heard it very loud... I took my grandsons there, they loved screaming and stomping inside... I found this out by luck when I was there with a friend...

Happiness Amplified-Above & Beyond (ft Richard Bedford)

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Le Dressing d'Opale

Atop a rock outcrop ridge overlooking the barren strip mined wastelands significant of the Pennsylvania coal belt region, a faded purple 1970s era, MGB automobile emerged across the horizon, appearing to float above the tree topped hills. A head turner for sure, for upon second glance a red Ford pickup truck could also be spotted, upon which the MGB was ever so precariously balanced. A confusing sight to comprehend, especially while cruising at highway speeds down Interstate 81 while trying to maintain lanes. Soon the highway gently curved in toward the natural topography of the surrounding terrain and with it the hovering automobiles became obscured, lost behind a hill of trees. This all happened so quickly, I at first wondered if the bizarre sight was just a coal country mirage, perhaps my eyes were merely playing tricks upon me, fatigued by the endless expanse of repetitive woodland scenes.

With a desire to investigate further, I took the next exit and soon found myself walking along a railroad bed roughly paralleling the interstate highway I had just exited from. The strong summer sun beat relentlessly across my face, the dry heat amplified further by the coal and ashen laden soil which resonated the suns rays right back at me like a convection oven, evaporating my sweat before it could even form. The seldom used tracks cut along the base of a strip mined mountain, providing little shade. The further I walked the steeper the mountain became and the more I hated myself for leaving my water bottle back in the car. Unprepared to bushwhack up a sheer cliff face where I suspected up top the vehicles to exist, I decided to backtrack toward where I saw a power line cut meander up the mountain face. It became evident that this electric pole right-of-way was also actively used by ATVs and dirt bikes for a well worn trail zig-zagged up toward to my presumed destination.

The trail turned out to be quite treacherous as the loose dry sandy soil and gravel ripped up by barrages of ATVs, resulted in many steps forward actually being three steps backward. Despite the rapid regression at times, progress was made and the terrain began to level out. Atop the summit, a second narrower trail lead off in into the shaded woods. If it weren't for the spray painted sign reading "car totem pole --->" I'd probably have been lost and summited the mountain for no reason. This trail continued for a solid half mile until right before my very eyes the floating MGB appeared yet again. This time however I could be sure it was no mirage. As I walked closer I could see an iron beam had been driven through the center of at least half a dozen vintage automobiles all stacked upon another. Four guy wires anchored the vehicles to the ground below, preventing the vehicles from spinning around the pole like larger then life Christmas decorations. A car shish kebab I thought to myself, until I stopped and realized "no, it's a shish carbab", an automotive effigy that can truly only exist in Pennsylvania, land of abandoned automobiles. And with such a realization, I knew I had a future story and a photo title, but still no water and a steep climb back down a mountain ahead of me.

at Heckscher Park is amazing... if you stand in the middle and whisper, you heard it so loud... I took my grandsons there, they loved screaming and stomping inside... I found this out by luck when I was there with a friend...

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Autoblog Roadtest photoshoot Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 SV, July 2011

I've shot the photo's for the roadtest of autoblog last July in Spain.

Normally they shoot their own photo's but for this occassion, I got the job.

The (Dutch) article and my photo's can be seen HERE!

I flew to Spain with the guys and I helped with the video-shoot by holding people back and driving the second car, the Audi S5.

The HD VIDEO can be seen HERE!!

You can also spot me at 1.19min in this video

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Verlichtende operaties verbazingwekkende doeleinden die drogredenen bedriegen misleiding zekerheid blinde gidsen die gevallen binnendringen die doordringen in kennis hoogste intuïtie bereikt,

مباحثوں کا سروے کرنے والے انتہائی مخلوق کے خلاصہ تصورات,

πρόσφορες προσπάθειες αναπαραστάσεις χώροι γύρω χαρακτήρες ψηλές ιδιότητες φαινόμενο κίνητρα εξηγήσεις περιστάσεις αβάσιμες εντυπώσεις,

גענוי פונקטן קענטיק פּראָפּערטיעס סטימיאַליי ז גלייך אינהאַלט מאַניפעסטאַטיאָנס ומגערן נאַטירלעך געזעצן דיסייפער כוחות אַנייאַלייטיד וועגן,

Pluralität universelle unausführbare Teile Überlegungen Reflexionen eigenartige Hände Weite Ausdrücke mystische Welt reine Zuneigung entsprechende Realität,

原因を理解する認識が現れる避けられない勝利の以前の動機決意意図読者を刺激するさまざまな苦痛かすかな目的が押しつぶされる.

Steve.D.Hammond.

Shot with Polaroid SX-70 Sonar / expired Polaroid SX-70 Time Zero film)

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Fujifilm Instax mini EVO + Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome film

image taken for the upcoming Caledon newcomer's ball

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How does it last the blink of an eye? You could measure it, if you really want to, but the truth is that we are so accustomed to blink our eyes that we are almost entirely unaware of the whole thing. Our brain compensates for it. So, in a way, we could say that a blink of an eye has an infinitesimal duration. The amazing thing I was thinking of while processing this fireflies shot - while recalling the actual experience - is that a whole, huge lot of things happen in the blink of an eye. Proteins in our cells are freshly synthetised; old, worn-out proteins are digested and reduced to aminoacids to be recycled; tiny yet powerful molecules of ATP continually bind to enzymes, allowing them to perform their "unlawful" duties at amazing rates; B lymphocytes produce and refine astronomical quantities and varieties of antibodies to fight some intruding pathogen; neurons alternately fire and rest in what we could envisage as, well, an astoundingly complex network of hyperfast fireflies. In the blink of an eye whole universes are born, and whole worlds are destroyed. We are so bound to our perception of time, to our own timescale, that it is utterly difficult for us to imagine what is happening on different timescales. In a mere hour a bacterial colony can proliferate enormously and, sadly, viruses can get huge hordes of self-copies at the expense of an unwittingly complicit cell.

There are further non-human timescales though, well beyond the microscopic word of cells or molecules. It is not by chance that for centuries people have been believing that the world had truly been created in seven days (well, actually six) and that everything - from geology to animals and plants - have remained basically unchanged since then. And that fossils were either remains of antediluvian creatures or tricks of the devil to test our faith and potentially lead us astray.

Well my friends, somehow this photo has reminded me that the world - both the micro- and the macroscopic - is something unutterably complex, almost beyond our grasp (almost being the key of everything). The quest for its understanding is a collective, neverending adventure. I often feel so small that even these fireflies, with their wonders, humble the feeling of being part of the species who believe to be master of the world. My mind is a minute firefly lost in a vast expanse of darkness. Yet I cannot give up. We cannot give up, since we "were not made to live [our] lives as brutes, / but to be followers of worth and knowledge" (Divine Comedy, Inferno, 26). Maybe our lives are the blink of an eye in the unutterable spatial and temporal vastness of the universe. But they are well worth living.

It has always been one of my unfulfilled dreams to photograph fireflies, which, sadly, are becoming a rarity in our countryside; the positive effects of the lockdown for the environment have probably favoured a blooming this year, so I decided to have a try. I followed the advices of a master of fireflies photography, the Bulgarian photographer Hristo Svinarov. However I will eagerly accept hints and positive criticism from everyone who will be so kind to offer it.

In my second fireflies session I have become a little more confident in my possibilities. I have tried to lower the ISO below 1000, and this is by itself a huge step towards better photos; moreover I have somehow dared more in composition. I am forced to use my Samyang 14 mm, which is the only fast-aperture lens I have in my gear, so I ventured nearer and nearer, until I was literally surrounded by dancing fireflies.

I have stacked 15 5-second photos with the Gimp. As the basic layer I used an image I have obtained by averaging the photos with John Paul ChaCha's Chasys Draw IES Artist: the fireflies themselves were almost obliterated but the landscape were effectively denoised, while the details were improved. In this photo I have processed separately the image which would have been the basic layer, just in the same way as any other photo - luminosity masks, and so on. When I was satisfied with the landscape I faced a new problem: it was just like I wanted it to be, so the 15 layers to be blended (those actually containing the fireflies) should not alter it - they should only add the precious fireflies. After a good bit of trial and error I developed my own workflow: a) duplicate one of the fireflies layers; b) extract LAB L component; c) in the bw image so obtained play with levels to force all the dark tones to black, then lower the light tones slider to better the fireflies signal; d) manually paint out the sky and the trees, and the other unwanted parts still visible (e.g. the water in the ditch); e) use this image showing only the fireflies as the layer mask of the original photo; f) set the blending mode to Addition: at this point the fireflies appear in the scene; g) duplicate 4 times the layer and then merge down the copies to get only one layer with the fireflies signal very naturally amplified; h) proceed in this way for all the (gasp) 15 shots; i) after all this, you can inspect the contribution of every layer to the result and, if needed, you can duplicate it and blend with Addition or Dodge to amplify it.

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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured some time ago with my then broken 50mm f/1.8 lens. Since being knocked on the street my cheap plastic nifty fifty suffered from horrible chromatic aberration and the bokeh in this shot is misshaped away from it's usual beautiful roundness - Just a small knock from a passer-by must have jarred something out of alignment. Still, a slightly imperfect shot but an image that I love. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead.