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As Union Pacific's branch line train to Troy Grove approaches University Road near Shabbona, IL, it encounters a long fill that had been drifted in over the weekend...
This is the interior ring of a sunflower. My goal was show the texture at the end of each stamen as the primary focus of the shot. Normally, this can be done using a cooler light to draw out detail. But that would take away the rich color of the flower. So I used a few light sources in different locations running different color temps. Pretty happy with the result. Amazing what is found inside a sunflower. The geometry and detail is striking.
I rarely use Photoshop other than to adjust exposure in the RAW editor. No recoloring, painting, cloning, or anything else was used in this pic. The flower is beautiful and interesting enough to stand on its own.
The new leaves of the Ponga Fern Tree unfolding.
The Maori term for this unfolding spiral shape is Koru.
These are an irresistible cliche in this part of the world.
Call it cheesy - I don't care!!! ;-)
f5.7; 1/160; ISO 80; Flash.
A little work with levels.
Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind
Wrinkles and slides. I am here
Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
A new beginning requires a need to burn the past
And how we burn the past can be different for every person
Most often you must deal with it in some way
There are no quick fixes
You need to make plans
You need to go through with them
Sometimes you need to change the plans
They didn't work
Perhaps you must take ten steps back and evaluate
Start all over again with new plans
Are there feelings involved
Yes of course
There are always feelings involved
That's why we often don't want to go through with the changes in life, because we know we will hurt others and we will be hurt ourselves
If you feel deep inside that this change is something you must do, then it's your intuition that talks to you - and you are actually listening
Hurray
Keep up the good work
Follow your path
Burn down the past
Do it properly
But in a good way
With your well thought words, I know you have them
Use them
Remember we have a responsibility for our own life
And so do they
Taking responsibility for others must always be done with caution
They have a growth too you know, and you might slow them down if you take too much responsibility
Be Safe
Love you
Always
xxx
The end of the beginning of a life together? A bride and groom after a wander around the streets at night. The bride was in full veil and white wedding dress walking towards the old cars dressed with ribbons.
Outside the Windsor Hotel as the evening fell. A lensbaby Sweet 50 shot.
A few of the FFM met up for a late afternoon, evening photoshoot in Melbourne CBD. It was good to see photography friends again.
It is just about time for the Northern folks to head down here to sunny Florida for the season. The bridge is down, awaiting the traffic to come swirling down into the neighborhood...
Over time I discovered that, with the passage of time, every form of art, whether writing, painting, music, sculpture, becomes simpler by the hand of its author.
It is as if from birth, each of us, self complicates life with restlessness, anger, unhappiness. As if it were so difficult to understand who knows who or who knows what. Then, as a lighting in the mind and, as we age, the words become simple, the linear signs, the stylized figures ... everything takes the essential form ....
But will it be an arrival or a surrender?
Who knows, in any case, if it makes us feel better, let it be....
PS Maybe it's better when I work incessantly and I do not have time to think : ))
I find the piece of music I found very beautiful, I do not know, I think I started from this piece, and then I get to this image, I hope you like it as a beginning for a new year together.
Good new beginning to all of you
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A heavy UP manifest with 3 in the front and 1 in the middle, slowly climbs the 2.2% grade of cajon pass rounding the horseshoe shaped Sullivan's curve. The tracks in the foreground are the former SP now UP Palmdale cutoff.
E/B UP Mixed Freight
UP 7689 / UP 5404 / UP 6389 / UP 8310
BNSF Cajon Sub
The start of a new day on the beach at Stonehaven, Scotland.
● Sony a6000
● Rokinon/Samyang 12mm
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January 3, 2021
Our hike begins at the top of a high sand embankment. Trodden paths lead down on both North and South sides. It's our first beach hike of the New Year, on a New beach for us. A New Beginning.
EXPLORED: January 9. 2021
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Longnook Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Truro, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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the start of this season's fall colours...
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The beginnings of my cranberry-apple casserole...... that I am asked ,politely, to make for all our holiday meals. :0)
Recipe: CRANBERRY-APPLE CASSEROLE
2-3 large cubed Granny Smith apples
1 bag (12 oz.) of cranberries
Add the two into a large mixing bowl and add....
lemon juice sprinkled over the mixture and
one cup of sugar, mix thoroughly, then place in a greased casserole dish.
In a small mixing bowl...add
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of quick oats (not instant) and
1-2 sticks of melted butter
Mix well and spread over the cranberry/apple mixture. Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes.
This is wonderful served as a side with turkey and dressing or served as a dessert. If you try it....let me know how it turned out and if you enjoyed it. :0)
CP 470 wraps around the frost covered landscape on the last leg of its overnight journey from Tracy, MN to Waseca, MN. CSXT 8236, a familiar face to this photographer, has the honors on this sunny Minnesota morning. A very nice start to 2013 for me.
I am thinking this is the perfect way to begin a new day...
...and the perfect way to begin the New year.
Think I'll give it a try!
For my friends Patrick (Kansas Poetry) and Nancy on the celebration of their marriage. The happy couple hosted a wonderful reception this evening at the old Lawrence Train Depot. We had a great time helping them mark the beginning of their life of love together.
365/365.
can´t believe i actually made it. i wish i had something really special to say. but i don´t. this project has been just a diary of my life. my ups and downs, my emotions. there´s more in those pictures than anyone could ever think. to be honest, i don´t think i will ever do 365 project again, but at least i tried.
i´ve definitely grown more than i could ever think since the beginning of this project. when i look at the first pictures i don´t even recognize it anymore. so much has changed. and God thought me a lot.
yesterday i was thinking about finishing this project. and i took the time and went through my entire tumblr that only two of my friends from real life have link to. and as i went through it and i realized that if someone looked through the entire blog they would see myself. it´s my heart. everything i needed to vent somehow just for myself. though it´s pictures and quotes and mostly reblogged stuff there´s nothing without a reason behind it. it´s all so real. for some reason i´m sharing it now. as i´m beginning new chapter of my life. i´m not afraid of being real anymore, of being honest and sharing my struggles. it does not define me. Christ does. and i know it now more than ever. my life with Him starts all over again, every single morning. i finally feel like i gave it all to Him. i was made clean. His wounds cover mine. every day is a new beginning of life He offers me.
I'd bring you along
We'd go to New York to Tampa too
But truly I'm set right here
In dennys drinking coffee
And sharing a cigarette
I am disgusted by my lack or self control sometimes.
If you are someone inclined to look at exif data you would notice that after 6 years there is a camera change here. I am not one who needs to keep up with the "latest and greatest". My little D610 has served me well and given me many images that I love. However, my eyesight which has been poor since childhood has taken a nosedive over the last couple of years due to retina complications. I found it harder and harder to focus my manual lenses...especially my favorite old 135mm. Even on auto focus I couldn't really see whether my images were acceptable unless I was tethered to my computer and that was rare since I only do a little studio shooting.
For many months I deliberated over whether I could justify the expense...and which Nikon to go for. The D850 images had crazy awesome megapixel stats...but it is heavy and pricey. Then Nikon ran a sale on the D780 and I bit. I am so glad I made the leap...I can see so clearly through the viewfinder, and the live view option as well as the tilting screen have made the chore of shooting into a delight again.
So just as these fresh new ferns signal a new beginning with summer, so my camera switch is providing a fresh approach in my photographic journey.
OH and PS...if anyone with decent eyesight is looking for a perfectly good used D610 cheap, just let me know.
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