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An illuminated blue hour view of Marina bay waterfront featuring Marina Bay Sands, Art Science Museum and the shopping center. Boats are cruising with tourists enjoying the scene.
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I don't blame you if you think I have gone off the deep end. Capturing a copy of reality is not compelling to me at this time. As a jumping off point, I adore the beauty of nature, but in terms of inner exploration, I want to delve deeper. I am on a journey.
Thanks to Charlotte for her comment below. Of course, we are all on a journey. I can only speak for myself. :)))
Thanks to all of you who comment and fave these exploratory images. You keep me going. :)))
OBSERVED these in November last, and was so thrilled as they are in a very steep decline, a small partie of them, feeding in an open grassed field. They are so very wary because it is heavily persecuted in many parts of the region, and they prefer to run from danger rather than fly. .
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LOVE NEVER FAILS
Even in the darkest moments, love gives hope.
Love compels us to fight against Coronavirus
Love compels us to stand together in Prayer
Love compels us to give and act as one
As we pray in our individual homes around the world, we are united as one family. In this moment of hope and peace, thank God for all he has done and is doing..............Amen.
I was looking through some old images and this one caught my eye. I love the mysteries of Maine's landscape and felt compelled to post this one:)
As I was walking down the sidewalk, I couldn't believe how red this day lily was and felt compelled to take its picture. I promise you, I didn't saturate the colours.
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can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
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narcissus, daffodil, 'Kassels Gold', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
An evening thunder storm after a very hot day...
The fog is rising and creates a mysterious mood.
Captured near Gusterath / Germany.
have some breakfast first :-)
“Rules for the Preservation of Health,” The London Journal, 1864
HGGT!!
dahlia and guest, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
I was wandering a field one day and saw a clump of clover flowers....for some lizard brain reason I felt compelled to eat them...they were very sugary. How did my brain know that? Then I thought about all the squirrels that probably peed on them...ugh...my brain can be so mean.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosvTUxyRZE&list=PL5LvBPqDIE4...
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give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure :-)
Lord Sandwich
HPPT!! apparently Lord Sandwich was an advocate of the "KISS" principle...keep it short and sweet ;-)
echinacea, coneflower, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Another beautiful lighthouse at Frogmore. I don't know what it is about lighthouses, but they compel me to photograph them.
A most lovely and serene place to spend some time....here is your TP ♥
Photo taken @ Elysion
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Due to current events, I feel compelled to interrupt my series on Morocco. Because after almost exactly a year, I managed to visit my favorite tree on the small mt. Winter in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains again this morning.
The decision was made relatively spontaneously last night. And since it was already too late to go to bed, I just stayed awake and set off at 1:30 a.m. When I got back at 7:30 a.m. I had to get some sleep. That's why I'm a little late today.
It wasn't until I was there that I really realized how much I missed standing up here alone, watching the changes in the light, listening to the birds (and watching them, because a couple of very curious blackbirds were hopping constantly around me) and watch the day as it was born.
I really hope that it won't be too long before I return to this beautiful place.
Aus aktuellem Anlass fühle ich mich genötigt, meine Serie über Marokko zu unterbrechen. Denn nach so ziemlich genau einem Jahr ist es mir heute früh wieder einmal gelungen meinen Lieblingsbaum auf dem kleinen Winterberg im Elbsandsteingebirge zu besuchen.
Die Entscheidung fiel relativ spontan gestern Abend. Und da es schon zu spät war noch ins Bett zu gehen, bin ich einfach wach geblieben und habe mich 1:30 Uhr auf den Weg gemacht. Als ich dann 7:30 Uhr wieder zurück war musste ich erst einmal etwas schlafen. Darum bin ich heute auch etwas später dran.
Erst als ich vor Ort war wurde mir richtig bewusst, wie sehr es mir gefehlt hat allein hier oben zu stehen, die Veränderungen des Lichts zu beobachten, den Vögeln zu lauschen (und Ihnen zuzusehen, denn ein paar sehr neugierige Amseln sind permanent um mich herum gehopst) und dem Tag bei seiner Geburt zuzusehen.
Ich hoffe sehr, dass nicht wieder so viel Zeit vergehen wird, bis ich an diesem wunderschönen Ort zurück kehre.
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Affectionately known to bird watchers as "butterbutts," yellow-rumped warblers are abundant migrants that pass through North America each spring and fall in most of Canada and in every state except Hawaii. Summer finds the gray and yellow birds in the evergreen forests of Canada, the mountainous western U.S. and the Northeast. They spend winters farther north than most warblers, in the southern U.S. as well as in Mexico and Central America. The yellow-rumped-warbler is a species that is familiar to just about every birder in North America. It has has four distinct forms, and compelling evidence that three of them are full species. It is not the first time these 5-inch-long, half-once birds have prompted debate among ornithologists. For most of the last century the yellow-rumped warbler was known to bird watchers as two species, the myrtle warbler of the East (and far north) and the Audubon's warbler of the West. However, in 1973, evidence the two species routinely hybridize in a narrow zone in western Canada led scientists to reclassify them as a single species. (news.cornell.edu) I saw this lovely warbler sitting amongst the cherry blossoms in Huntington Beach Library in Huntington Beach, California.
With a hint of texture (flypaper). The sky was so perfectly blue I felt compelled to add some structure to it.
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Abstracting anything meaningful to focus on, we are compelled to consider the landscape free from narrative bonds. To imagine what might have been, in the space between reality and dreams. Nothing physical is eternal.
Canon fd 50mm f1.2L @ f1.5 (Zeiss b-speed mod)
This is a lens I bought cheaply due to a damaged and non-working aperture. I'd previously removed the aperture blades and used the lens in some early shots as a fixed f1.2 to nice effect, though decided to add a fixed reuleaux triangle aperture to emulate the look of the early Zeiss b-speed cine lenses used by Stanley Kubrick. I may create a blog about how I did this, as the improvement from f1.2 and against my Canon fd 50mm f1.4 with regards to sharpness, aberrations, optical vignetting, bokeh and transition is quite something.
Some people may find the triangles distracting, but I like it, and Kubrick chose to use the Zeiss stopped down, where he could have used the lens wide open and had circular bokeh. So maybe he liked it too.
Worth noting, the lens focuses perfectly well. I'm deliberately defocusing here with an eye toward abstract art, and look forward to posting more photos taken with it.
Picture taken at Bronte Beach, Sydney Australia. The colours and reflection caught my attention and compelled me to take a shot. Sometimes the Australian summer is simply magical!
David Mach, one of Britain’s leading sculptors and a big name in international art, now has his monumental sculpture ‘Golgotha’ installed in Chester Cathedral.
Handheld iso 5000 !
Mach’s compelling depiction of the crucifixion is situated in the 14th century South Transept chester april 2016
Notwithstanding the allure of Crater Lake we were compelled to look the other direction towards a developing forest fire. We shared our vantage point with the fire chief who said that despite the constant aerial waterbombing the fire wouldn't be under control until the next morning and it would be a week before it would finally be declared out. All started, of course, by human hand.
rather than to make men happy :-)
Bertrand Russell, "Icarus: or, The Future of Science," 1924
HMM!!
iris tectorum, teresa's garden, cary, north carolina
HIS PAINTINGS IN MOTION, PROJECTED ON SURROUNDING WALLS, SPILLING ONTO THE FLOOR.
A 40 MINUTE SHOW ACCOMPANIED BY SOME VERY COMPELLING MUSIC.
This was the first significant snowfall this year and the sun was shining so I felt compelled to grab my camera and enjoy the morning! I hope that you will enjoy it with me, my Friends!
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
For wrong, wrong and right...
The term “B-roll” comes from the world of film where editors used to use an “A” and a “B” roll of footage, before the digital age changed everything. It is alternative footage intercut with the main shot. B-roll shots are similar to cutaways in that they help break up the static interview shots.
It can make telling a story much easier and compelling with added footage. As a general rule B-Roll can include animation, graphical elements, photographs and extra footage.
Wiki sheds some more light on the term and it's usage.
"The term B-roll originates from a particular solution to the problem of visible splices in the narrow film stock used in 16 mm film. 35 mm film was wide enough to hide splices, but 16 mm film revealed the splices as flaws in the picture.
Until the mid-1970s, teams shot both main A-roll and secondary B-roll footage on 16 mm film. Sound was integrated onto the film by way of a magnetic stripe at the edge of the film. The A-roll and B-roll scenes, shot at 24 frames per second, were converted to the television frame rate of 30 fps using a telecine system consisting of two film projectors, one showing the main A-roll footage and the other showing the B-roll. The sound from the A-roll footage was used, or sound from narration or voiceover, while images without sound from the B-roll were intercut as desired.
In the 1980s, the term B-roll was adopted for linear video editing using at least two video tape machines. Traditionally, the tape decks in an edit suite were labeled by letter, with the 'A' deck being the one containing the main tape upon which the main action material was shot. The 'B' deck was used to run tapes that held additional footage such as establishing shots, cutaway shots, and any other supporting footage. The sound was usually taken from the A deck alone, so that the B deck provided video without sound. As linear editing systems were unable to dissolve between clips on the same tape, an edit decision list (EDL) was used to mark clips as "A-roll" and "B-roll" to indicate source machines."
Im so LOST
So compelled
So confused
My heart is screaming at me
But I cant hear whats its saying
I scream back "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO"
Falling back
Sliding down a wall
I weep
For what reasons I DONT KNOW
The pain I feel deep down inside is unknown to me..
Poem by ~Summer-Skye~
I had no idea the center of a dahlia could be so compelling. Thank you, world, for your gifts of nature.
Wanderlust consumed her
Foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her
She had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown...
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Fog is something that fascinates me every time I am amidst of it. As the clouds roll and the winds start to pick up, the fog gently lifting and the sun's rays beaming through all makes for a compelling wintry morning...
As we gear up to it, I was reminiscing with one I had shot a few years ago in Kerala, India. Munnar is one of the most renowned hill stations in Southern India. It brims with vast expanses of tea estates and the tea plantation is something that generates a lot of revenue for the country.
The name Munnar is believed to mean "three rivers", referring to its location at the confluence of the Mudhirapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundaly rivers.
This was shot from one of the locations up in the mountains and would you believe at 10 AM in the morning! It was that foggy that morning.
If you see it for a while, your eyes could start discerning the other trees amidst the fog...
EXIF - f/8 1/800 ISO 200 @16mm
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Something a bit different for me, a woodland image! It was sort of compelled on me by the weather. I had left home just before 3 am to catch a sunrise with the promise of mist around the Peak District. So, 4.15 am saw me sat on the top of the cliffs at Winnats Pass in what I can only describe as a dense drizzle. I was hoping to give the new Zii and the 14-30 lens a work out but after 4 frames of grey murk, I decided to head back to the car and try Cavedale and Peveril Castle instead. That was similarly dreich although I managed to have a nice chat with a fellow TOG stood in the gloom, hoping! So I cut my losses and headed to Padley Gorge and tried my 24-200 lens in the damp woodland.
I don't have an educated eye for woodland, I confess! (I leave this to fellow Flickr "woodsman", Barry Noon). But this scene seemed to offer some hope. I saw what appeared to be a face in the middle trunk and it looked quite content. So I framed up this shot and the heavens really did open, so I headed to Hope for a bit of breakfast, before chancing my arm on more familiar territory up on Derwent Edge as the weather improved.
... the unlawfulness of the powers that rule the world appears in full light: since they have lost any possibility of configuring themselves in a recognizable symbolic order, they are compelled to interrupt the constitutional laws and principles which could specify it ... [GA]
Maybe this was the lull during Super Saturday. Remember Super Saturday? It was the day when the Snaefellsnes peninsula was our world and we explored it royally. From mid morning at Grundarfoss until after sunset under an enormous pink swirling cloud at the black church of Budir we stopped here there and everywhere on a day of maximum input and an output that will have me reaching into the archives for months, possibly years to come. I have no less than eighteen separate folders full of RAW files from that finest of days, some of which contain large numbers of images to pore over, while a few, such as the group I took from a layby on the road to Hellnar have just two or three files, little more than handheld snapshots.
By the time we arrived here, we’d already had a very agreeable few hours at the lesser known Svodufoss on the northwest corner of the peninsula, where we’d bathed in autumnal sunshine under the majestic white peak of Snaefellsjokull. We’d paused briefly to photograph the church of Ingjaldsholl in front of the glacier, before sauntering happily along the remote and empty Utnesvegur, passing a discarded landscape of twisted forms. A crater here, a lava field there. For now we were just driving through the landscape, enjoying the privilege of witnessing this extraordinary peninsula. We’d stop at Arnarstapi and photograph the white house again next, we decided. But for a moment we’d take that side road to Hellnar and pause in the layby for a snack, from where we could gaze down at the church we’d abandoned all intentions of photographing twenty-four hours earlier. I’d seen some very agreeable images of the subject in these pages, but from wherever you looked it was surrounded by clutter, and the most compelling pictures I’d found for reference had been simplified by a blanket of snow. Reluctantly we’d agreed that there probably wasn’t a shot here for this trip. I took a couple of snaps with the long lens and duly filed the results, instantly forgetting the episode as we moved on to the next stop where there was an already tried and tested composition to revisit. The lull was over, and the feeding frenzy of Super Saturday had resumed.
It was only much later, in one of those moments when I decided that while I wanted to play around with some shots in the editing suite, I wasn’t in the mood for sifting through a large number of candidates. I wanted simple, and simple didn’t come easier than a folder with only three RAW files, two of which appeared to be almost identical. The shortlisting would take approximately zero seconds. Maybe I could declutter the space around the church? Another monochrome conversion with a bit of contrast would help to simplify the scene, and perhaps there was an image hidden in plain sight that was worth persevering for. Just a quick half hour before I moved away from the computer and did something else with my Sunday afternoon, I thought to myself. And so I started to tinker, gradually removing one distraction after another with varying degrees of success, until the white church stood alone in its space against the quiet ocean. A dodge, a burn or several, a pair of levels and curves adjustments and the shapes of distant mountains somewhere closer to Reykjavik appeared across the water. Now an image that initially offered little promise began to take shape. It still wasn’t one I planned to share – at least not until the moment that I began to rather like what I was looking at. Somehow, an image had evolved from a messy starting point and I was happy.
It makes me wonder what else I’ve got lying around in my saved files; what images are hovering one step away from the dustbin of eternity that might have a hidden promise just waiting to be hatched from chaos. When there are so many fantastic moments still waiting to be captured, it may be a while before any more of the lesser lights appear, but anything is possible. “Never delete anything – just in case,” seems to be the lesson I’ve learned, not that I often do. You never know when you might see something in an unloved snapshot that you overlooked in the first place.
Extreme awareness combined with unobtrusiveness becomes the contest the photographer must work within :-)
Ken Ruth
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contorted flowering quince, 'Contorta', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Sedona, Arizona is a stunning destination offering all types of activities for adventure seekers, spiritual searchers, and photographers alike.
From the vantage of Chicken Point looking south, the non-motorized Little Horse Trail wends its way through the Coconino National Forest along the edge of the Munds Mountain Wilderness, seen here. Although the red rock is spectacular, and the blue green of the pinion pines and junipers contrasts nicely, I felt that the textures of the forest, geology and the heavy clouds made a more compelling image.
Penmon point taking a battering at high tide last Saturday morning. Always ignored these cottages in past visits but the fantastic moody light and high tide made for some compelling shots
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This is my personal "Best Shot of 2020". Taken during a visit at the Olympiastadion Berlin in September which also had been my only real photowalk in 2020. While the image in the first comment might be a little more compelling, because it shows the historical Olympic cauldron of the Olympic Summer Games of 1936 and also the interesting-looking open part of the roof of the Olympic stadium, this image includes the two things that made an already wonderful day special – and one of them also is a symbol for the changes the Corona pandemic has brought to our lives. The image of the Olympic cauldron was taken from the exact opposite position of this photo; while we were at the Olympic cauldron (here you can't see it, but you can see the marathon gate below the tall, slim bell tower), I noticed that all of a sudden a larger group of teenagers and children appeared at the opposite entrance of the stadium. I wondered what was going on, because I couldn't imagine that in those pandemic times there would be any school field trips. And soon it became clear what this was all about, because once the children had taken their places, they started to warm up by singing scales: This was a choir practice :) Of course I tried to find out which choir it was that got the marvellous opportunity to practice in the empty stadium, with enough, safe distance to each other, so I searched for "choir practice at the Olympiastadion" later and learned that this was the youth and children's choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (STRG/CTRL+ www.berlin-buehnen.de/en/theatres/deutsche-oper-berlin/). Here you can read more about this unusual collaboration if you like: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/en/news/children-choir/.
And so the rest of our photowalk was accompanied by beautiful singing which tremendously added to the elated, relaxed, literally free mood of that day :) What a wonderful, unexpected gift which was made even better by that wonderful sunset we saw when we went back into the stadium for a few last shots: This was my personal "Wow moment" of 2020 :)
Dear Flickr, friends, I wish you a Happy and Healthy 2021! Let's hope that, step by step, the "new normal" will eventually be replaced by our old normal, at least a little bit :)
Für mich mein schönstes Foto des Jahres 2020. Aufgenommen im September im Berliner Olympastadion, das herrlich leer gewesen war an jenem Tag, sodass wir unbeschwert nach Fotomotiven suchen konnten. Das Foto im ersten Kommentar, das die Original-Feuerschale der Sommerspiele von 1936 und den interessanten offenen Teil der Dachkonstruktion zeigt, ist vielleicht das spannendere Bild, aber es zeigt nicht die zwei Dinge, die diesen ohnehin schon tollen Spätsommer-Tag zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht haben: Als wir bei der Feuerschale waren, die sich exakt gegenüber von dem Stadion-Eingang befindet, von dem ich später dieses Foto gemacht habe, sah ich auf einmal eine ziemlich große Grupper Kinder und Jugendlicher ins Stadion kommen, was mich doch wunderte, weil ich mir kaum vorstellen konnte, dass in Pandemie-Zeiten größere Schulausflüge möglich sein würden. Des Rätsels Lösung: Sobald die Kinder alle ihre Plätze eingenommen hatten, fingen sie auch schon an, sich einzusingen. Und nicht etwa mit Fußballgesängen ;) Es fand eine Chorprobe im Olympiastadion statt, dem zu normalen Zeiten wohl unwahrscheinlichsten Ort zumindest für klassische Chorgesänge, zu Corona-Zeiten aber wie dafür gemacht: mit recht guter Akustik und genügend freier Fläche, um mit Abstand und dennoch gemeinsam singen zu können. Ich habe dann später recherchiert, welcher Chor das wohl gewesen sein könnte; es handelte sich um den Kinder- und Jugendchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/de/neuigkeiten/kinderchor/.
Was für eine tolle, fast schon surreale Atmosphäre das war, der dann zum Schluss auch noch der herrliche Sonnenuntergang mit diesem typisch goldenen Septemberlicht die Krone aufsetzte :) Mein persönlicher "Wow-Moment" des daran gewiss nicht reichen Jahres 2020 :)
Ich wünsche Euch allen ein gesundes und, trotz aller Ein- und Beschränkungen, die uns wohl noch eine ganze Weile begleiten werden, schönes Jahr 2021!