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One of the younger hens was walking along the sidewalk when I grabbed the shot from the front deck.
Canon EF 70-300 f4-5.6 IS USM on a Canon EOS 1DS Mark III.
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A pretty bit of shoreline along Buntzen Lake.
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"And the sky is full of dreams
But you don't know how to fly
I don't have a simple answer
But I know that I could answer
Something better
This feeling won't go
Wait for it"
[This is Your Life - The Killers]
I have been listening to The Killers non-stop lately. I'm so in love. But I also bought an old Kings of Leon album and a couple Spoon albums... As well as a ton of other ones. I've spent too much money in the last little while... All on music. But I'm okay with that xD
Also, my photos have been extremely dark lately, mainly because I haven't been in a very good mood. But I'm starting to feel a bit better, so they should be getting a little brighter in no time :)
+Some in comments :)
"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
~Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
We got a hot tip about the White-eyed Vireo. (Top row photo, next to the King of Snakes.) Drive here, park there, walk a block or two.... Ca-Ching! New bird! And for the brief time it commanded the limelight, we were all mesmerized.
A smallish clot of polite birders gathered off the path. Everyone watching. Vigilantly listening and waiting. We compare equipment and notes. Who has seen what and where they saw it. We are envious of the Orange County birders. We meet Gabriel, a Santa Monica College professor and a Herpetologist. His wife jogs by us with their new baby in a stroller. I like this Gabriel and a smidgen of hope swells in my heart. This new baby will grow up to be a gifted scientist.
homepage.smc.edu/gartner_gabriel/AboutMe.html (Guess who’s holding the snake?)
We all get a little punchy after explaining to person after person what we are looking for. People walk by with whatever the current version of a boom box is called. Loud-music-to-go because the world without continuous or constant noise is obviously unbearable.
We take turns ignoring people. We size up the curious folk before we talk. Carrying binoculars or a camera gets you in. Clownish loudly patterned yoga wear merits a dumb answer. "We are watching squirrels." Gabriel snorts but I know I could have been kinder. I make myself a promise to be less mean. Maybe Gabriel's child will develop a cure for meanness.
W9 and Jerry got the Chat as a life bird at Malibu Creek State Park. We were on the lookout for the chat after using the ebird Explore the Hot Spot tool. He put on a song and dance show for us. Thrilling, but be quick if you want a photo.
And have a gander at the red crustacean deal in the second row. How can you scream and focus a camera at the same time??? Asking for a friend.
The green landscape we experienced a few months ago is rapidly fading. Birds have disappeared. Migration and nesting. They have left or they're hiding.
Slowly my bird list is growing.
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like "Get more clay. Make better oven." David Viscot
Die Liste der alten Leute war vermutlich in Stein gemeißelt und vertreten längere Zeiträume. Sie enthielten Dinge wie "Holen Sie sich mehr Lehm. Machen Sie besseren Ofen."
La liste des personnes anciennes était probablement sculptée en pierre et représentait des périodes plus longues. Ils contiennent des choses comme "Obtenez plus d'argile. Faites un meilleur four".
고대 사람들의 명단은 돌로 새겨 졌을 것이고 오랜 기간을 대표 할 것입니다. 그들은 "더 많은 찰흙을 얻으십시오. 더 나은 오븐을 만드십시오."
La lista de personas antiguas probablemente estaba tallada en piedra y representaba períodos de tiempo más largos. Contienen cosas como "Obtener más arcilla, hacer horno mejor".
Český ráj National Park, Czech Republic. Shot "in answer" to an image shot by Ming Thein, and then paid homage to by Gerner Christensen. I felt it might be difficult to tred the same path and somehow find an equal image...fortunately Mother Nature provided the inspiration...
Ming's image: www.flickr.com/photos/mingthein/16342571311/in/set-721576...
Gerner's homage: www.flickr.com/photos/125313758@N02/16667073857/
This is one of the most unexpected things I have seen in a long time. I was on a dirt road at Oneida Narrows in Idaho near the power plant of a hydroelectric dam when I found what appears to be a home-made phone booth. The enclosure is some kind of tank with a hatch on top. It looks like the opening was cut out with a welding torch. There is still an ancient phone book, but someone has smashed the handset. A ghostly Halloween leftover from the era of wired communication devices
Looking a little worse for wear, with many a scratch and blemish on the brass.
Objective from an old Prior microscope. I also took a shot of the lens as a possible Macro Monday (in photostream), but decided on this one instead (mostly because it is 42!).
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If you lost the fight between wrong and right
You can call on love to guide you!!
..............
Love will answer!!
It's not so easy to make a decent photo of two fairly large models, when you have a) limited space, b) limited size of the landing pad and c) limited size of the background sheet.
After shooting the Delmarva Central train HA-1 in the clouds all morning, dad and I were excited to see the skies clear out for the afternoon southbound chase. DCR train HA-1 with SWP SD40-2's 3501-3503 are shown departing the Norfolk Southern interchange at Clayton, DE passing the Calvary Baptist Church en-route back to the road headquarters at Harrington, DE on February 19, 2017. Photo by Zach Carlson
he walked, occupied by the simple mechanics of a meal. a green shirt, chosen without thought. behind him, a metal curtain held a question and an answer painted in the same shade of green. a face looked on, frozen in contemplation. it was a perfect, accidental harmony of color and code, a random variable in the city's vast equation that, for a single, unobserved second, produced a solution. then he was gone, and it was just a wall again.
We’re Here! -- Photoshopped, unusual, and off-kilter portraits and alter egos.
My collage is made up of the following photographs, somewhat or heavily altered with Paint Shop Pro and Nik Color Efex Pro 4:
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DeadBen01, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Nadar, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Skokloster Castle / Margareta Gaik / CC BY-SA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Tania Saiz, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
They fought for us, they died for our freedom... They defeated evil in the face of great odds. Evil, today, is checked by their presence... Remove the American Soldier from history - from the South Pacific, from Normandy, from backwaters around the globe - and you aren't on the back-deck flipping burgers and drinking beer... Stop and think what the world would be like absent the stones in Arlington Cemetery... Better, ask your child, your son or daughter... They live in a country in which soldiers shield them. If they can't answer the question, the American Soldier succeeded, he quietly did his job... History repeats because lessons fade -- wither and die in the wake of spilt blood... But rest assured, the American Soldier knows history -- and he will be ready when the time comes again, when the world needs him, because the world, saved by him, advanced.... And forgot.
~ @GHalv
Why your answering machine still on?
It's the oddest feeling since you're gone
A part of me drift away with you
And will never return
"Lay to Rest" [7/52]
So, to answer the question... no I didn't get a deer to lay down for us. The other night, this poor little thing was hit right in front of our house. The person just pulled her over into our yard and left her there. I have high hopes that she passed quickly but there were a lot of signs of internal bleeding, so I can only assume it took her some time to go. Usually when someone sees "roadkill" they think of ways to get rid of it. When I saw her, I thought of ways to make her beautiful again and to remember her. Yes, I did remove the flies, some of the scuff marks, and even removed her little tongue that was sticking out. I did however keep her bloat and her eyes.
People don't see the things I see. In person, she smelled awful, was stiff, swollen, bleeding and was covered in ants and flies. She was gone. A part of me is extremely afraid of how I will die. Could I die this way too? By a car? A hit and run... The older I get, the more I have to start facing death. Not just my own but other people around me as well. It's something I get extreme anxiety over and in person I tried to make a lot of jokes about the situation but I was really sad for this beautiful life.
People passed by, slowing down, staring, giving us really strange looks. I'm used to them all by now but when I feel strongly about something or taking photos, it melts away and I go into my own little world. Right here wasn't about me, it was about making this little woodland creature beautiful one last time before we buried her in our back yard. We have a field and woods if you're wondering why the back yard, which is where she came from in the first place. I keep wondering if she was the one I spotted last week close to our house.
So thankful for Liana to come out on such a short notice, put up with the smell, her leg fell asleep, and for everything else. She couldn't see what I could but she knew I had a vision.
Rest in Peace and I hope this photo did you some sort of justice. You couldn't of passed in a better place than in my front yard so you could be remembered forever in a piece of art.
Lost my hard drive while I was uploading these photos on the 9th, with years of photos on it... until my husband found the program from Wondershare "recoverit". Highly recommended. If you ever lose a drive, use this before you do anything else. As far as I can see ALL photos where recovered! He bought the full version, in my opinion, well worth it!
recoverit.wondershare.com/computer-recovery/free-download...
Reenactors in the Continental Army answer questions from spectators after landing on the New Jersey side of the river in the annual Christmas morning crossing of the Delaware.
Many of the wonderful reenactors pictured here are of the 3rd New Jersey Grays, who can be found here: www.jerseygreys.org/
"George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian (German auxiliaries in service of the British) forces in Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26. Planned in partial secrecy, Washington led a column of Continental Army troops across the icy Delaware River in a logistically challenging and dangerous operation. Other planned crossings in support of the operation were either called off or ineffective, but this did not prevent Washington from [marching his troops 19 miles through the night, ultimately] surprising and defeating the troops of Johann Rall quartered in Trenton. The army crossed the river back to Pennsylvania, this time laden with prisoners and military stores taken as a result of the battle.
Of the Hessians quartered in Trenton, 22 were killed, 92 wounded, and and 918 captured. The Colonials suffered 2 frozen to death, and 5 wounded.
Washington's army then crossed the river a third time at the end of the year, under conditions made more difficult by the uncertain thickness of the ice on the river. They defeated British reinforcements under Lord Cornwallis at Trenton on January 2, 1777, and defeated his rear guard at Princeton on January 3, before retreating to winter quarters in Morristown, New Jersey.
The unincorporated communities of Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, and Washington Crossing, New Jersey, are named in honor of this event." (Wikipedia, and History.com)
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Can you teach someone to make a stunning photograph? I have always thought the answer was yes. You teach them about simplifying the image. To shoot in good light and to understand all light. The guidelines of composition. How form and colors and textures can work with you or against you. How to let your subjects “in” and truly “feel” what your shooting. How the camera “sees” the world differently then the human eye. How to think like an artist, be more creative......and to shoot with passion.
I just returned from the Imaging USA photo expo in San Antonio yesterday, and I had the opportunity to do some shooting on the way down. As I was looking at the photos on my computer last night I was very much aware of the quality of the images compared with my horrible photos from a few years back. It was a battle, but what a difference!! I truly believe that anyone with dedication and an open mind can learn to be a better photographer. I have never heard of anyone who was great when they started out. But through hours of hard work and time behind the lens learning everything they could from every possible source they slowly became master of their art. I would like to start spending more time sharing knowledge and tips on flickr and my new blog (link coming soon) that I have learned and continue to learn to help with that long process. These images inspired me to begin that journey. No, they are not my best images. They won't stun the world with their beauty, and power. Yet they are strong images despite the fact that they were not taken in the most incredible places on earth. They are strong because of light, form, composition, texture, story, perspective, scale, and in the case of the bottom image, an amazing sunrise and breaking every “rule” in the book. I believe they encompass the ideas I mentioned above and many more. The BW's where taken with a LEE Big Stopper near Corpus Christi (South Texas). The windmill shots and the sunrise shot were taken about an hour from where I live in Southeast Colorado. (I stopped for a few minutes while it was still dark to see what would happen if I took a long exposure and used my Nikon Speedlight {flash} to light the moving blade {thrid image in comments.} As the sun came up I got a pretty good light show behind me {bottom image} and the light from the sunrise was reflecting off the clouds and lighting the windmills {second image in comments} to create that amazing pink glow).
I will be spending time in coming posts explaining in depth the ideas I mentioned above, as well as more concepts and techniques to take better photographs. I have a six month photo trip starting in March to SE Asia, however I will still be posting and active on flickr. (I was recently offered a major book deal, so if I choose to accept it, I may not have as much time, but I will still post as much as possible. {why would you even consider turning down a book deal from a major publisher? Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Not something you want to live by when your trying to create a powerful image in Tibet;})
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Above image
LEE Big Stopper
30 sec
F 11
ISO 200
Nikon 20mm
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Pure symmetry is often an illusion – our perception of complex objects tends to “even out” the differences, unless they are overtly obvious, like the top branch of this snowflake. But why is that one different from the rest?
There’s a “scar” on this snowflake, a diagonal line right before the changes in symmetry occur. In most cases, this happens when something gets stuck on the surface of the snowflake during formation – another crystal or fragment of a snowflake is most likely, affecting the way the rest of the branch formed. There’s nothing that links the growth of the six branches of a snowflake – there’s no architect’s drawings to follow; there is, however, near-identical growing environments. Change the variables even slightly, and you can see the change in the pattern.
This particular snowflake has two additional fun features: a clue into the mysteries of “spoke” formations, and inward crystal growth. The inward growth is easy to see, with the lines radiating from/to the center. These are on the reverse side of the crystal, backfilling in the snowflake towards the center, increasing the thickness in waves.
Those spokes – the thicker lines pointing to each branch tip – carry with them some very interesting details. It’s easiest to see at the bottom and bottom-right branches, and here’s a close-up of what I’m talking about: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_8192-BTS.jpg . It appears as if this heightened feature might actually begin forming as two separate ridges, which then get filled in with molecular accumulation between them. This process is not always solid, allowing for bubbles to occasionally form as it fills in. On these two lower branches, it’s easy to see the pockets of air forming on the edges of this growth.
I don’t like this. This doesn’t follow the standard model of how snowflakes grow. I do not have the knowledge to explain why two separate ridges form and then fill in the gap, all the while happening internally compared to the outer footprint. These two separate ridges, however, would explain the often-seen parallel bubble lines which this crystal also features; they must be related. I don’t like it because I can’t explain it. There’s an answer, obviously, but it escapes me. Maybe I should just embrace the fact that no matter how much we understand about one of the basic elements of life – water – some things are still a mystery.
Want to explore these mysteries yourself? Grab a copy of my latest edition of Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet: www.routledge.com/Macro-Photography-The-Universe-at-Our-F... - they gave me a special code for 20% off if ordered direct: 25SMA4