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Ah, back to my beloved monochrome. I'm slowly getting to a place where I can be consistently satisfied with my colour work, but when photographing with black and white film everything from choosing a subject to editing the final images just seems to flow. Though I know I still have a lot to learn, being comfortable with the process is incredibly satisfying.
Committed to Kodak TMAX 100 using a Mamiya 6 with a 75 mm lens. Developed in Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) at a dilution of 1:49. Negatives digitised with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and initial contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final tweaks in Photoshop.
There is this tea
I have sometimes,
Pan Long Ying Hao,
so tightly curled
it looks like tiny roots
gnarled, a greenish-gray.
When it steeps, it opens
the way you woke this morning,
stretching, your hands behind
your head, back arched,
toes pointing, a smile steeped
in ceremony, a celebration,
the reaching of your arms.
- "Green Tea" by Dale Ritterbusch
For MacroMondays theme "Comforting"
The most important thing that gives me comfort is my family. It is wonderful to have people around who love me as I am, which probably isn't always so easy :)
And sorry, I went little overboard with red, but Christmas is coming and i can't help myself, I'm a Christmas addict!
Have a nice MacroMonday!
Image from Second Life @ Mystical Fae Forest -- image is unedited, using Reshade and Bandicam camera tool to capture.
visit here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sweet%20Tooth/170/63/1004
Macro Mondays ~ Bread
The bread theme provided a good excuse to make some
homemade chili and cornbread!
HMM :)
Black and White Edition
"Comfort" is one of my favorite captures and the 1st photograph I posted when I started my Flickr page this year. In the Black and White edition I have returned to the un-cropped original image.
I would like to thank you all for your comments and favorites. As well as being afforded acceptance into such a talented creative community.
All the best as this year ends and into the next! Happy New Year!!
Gregory James
During my foggy hike, I came across this egret (I think its an egret), and as I got closer, he (or she) took off flying and landed on the shore several feet behind me. I turned around and starting walking towards him again and when he looked nervous, I stopped and just watched him. He would keep an eye on me, but every once in a while, he would dart for a fish in the water. He got a small one at one point. I moved in closer and again, when he got nervous about me being there, I stopped and just watched.
After several attempts to get a bit closer, he took off again, and landed about 20 feet away along the shore. I walked towards him and the same song and dance happened all over again. This time, I got closer.
And he took off again, 20 feet further, I walked towards him, he got nervous, I stopped, he took off, yaddi yaddi yaddi.
This went on for quite some time. I actually impressed myself that I remained patient enough to play this silly game. He was probably getting totally frustrated with me because all he wanted to do was "fish" like birds fish and eat some breakfast.
But there I was. Being all up in his business snapping photos. When I shot this one, at this point, he really was getting used to me. I was only about 10 feet away from him. He didnt mind too much that I was there. He fished. I shot photos. We got along just fine.
And then, enough was enough.................
He flew away.
I got several shots but this was my favorite of the bunch. The fog was so heavy at times and this particular frame had the least amount of fog in the scene. The fog did make for a nice backdrop though.
Have a great week everyone :-)
"is it safe to come out yet?"
Inspired partially by Brooke Shaden's/ many squeezing into tight places like ovens and freezer freezer shots lol. They are awesome. This here is the main one that inspired me though...
“In the silent shades of night, while others were slumbering upon their pillows, I often retired to some secret place in the lonely fields or solitary wilderness, and bowed before the Lord, and prayed for hours with a broken heart and contrite spirit - this was my comfort and delight.”
Orson Pratt
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have “learned in suffering what they taught in song.” In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim’s Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire. - George MacDonald
My kids are grown, but I still have some things that brought them comfort when they were young. There is a well loved but tattered security blanket, Pooh Bear, and some of their favorite books.
Funny how you see things in an environment that you have passed by many times and not even considered to be there. Its happened to me recently, where I've managed to squeeze a new perspective out of a familiar place. Its almost like the more you look the more you see, but paradoxically the more you see, makes it harder to see anything. And or make the choices harder. (Am I making any sense?)
It’s a greater challenge to attempt a new perspective on a similar place, than to go to a new (photogenic location), because it forces you to push your creativity into new areas, ironically taking you out of your comfort zone. We learn most from our challenges!
It’s a little bit like life, when your 21 you really believe that you have the world sorted. And as you get older you realise that what you thought when you were 21 is in fact naive and that life is ‘a lot’ more complex than that. So extrapolating this what I'm writing now, what I'm producing photographically now, is indeed off its time and I shall develop (hopefully in the positive direction). So those locations visited many times will keep being productive ‘if’ i keep developing.
Anyway getting to the synthesis here, I feel that only a few months ago I wouldn’t have seen this shot, something has inspired me, challenged me to explore this composition. I will give credit to many of you out there in flickr land because some of you guys have both inspired and challenged my thoughts. Cheers guys!
Composing a shot, forces you to select only a small part of an environment, which you choose to present. And this shot to me particularly demonstrates that. When I saw the whole scene I liked it but it was only when I began to frame elements of it, did this part begin to work, (for me at least). I feel the opposing curves here are cut into by the framing, which creates a kind of tension and forces your eye back along to the other side. My eye moves back and forth horizontally, flowing around the curves in a figure of eight. I did consider taking the tree out to the right, (and when I shot this I planned as much), but after some reflection it has grown on me, as a kind of contrast against the smooth, something to break the flow. Something prickly to add tension.
mixed media on 10"x11" stretched canvas
The painting was a little too big for my scanner and could not lie flat so it is cut off and a bit blurry.
Sometimes, you just need someone to be in your corner and be there for you when no one else will be.