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Taken for an assignment in Take a Class with Dave & Dave. Theme was Bodyscape.
I uploaded three but I think this is the best of the three. Take a look at my account if you want to see the others. Enjoyed the assignment and took 35-40 pictures but then had to edit out the blurry, the "shows too much", the boring...
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Props to Sick Little Monkey for his straw shot. I had to come up with something different to his, even though I'd bought the straws specially to do this before I saw his version
KABUL, Afghanistan (Feb. 1, 2011) -- A young Afghan girl from Kandahar Province is treated for burns on approximately 30 percent of her body by Afghan doctors and U.S. military nurse mentors. According to her father, the girl and her younger brother and sister were burnt by a lamp that exploded in their house a week ago. Her brother and sister were unable to survive their burns and infections and passed away last night. Although the girl has only a small chance of surviving her injuries and infection, U.S. military doctors are hoping to save her by transporting her to Bagram's Craig Joint Theater Hospital tomorrow morning, so she can receive surgery and post operation care. The children's father expressed thanks to the U.S. military for assisting his children when other Afghan hospitals were not equipped to care for them. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Stacey Haga/released)
playing games with lighting and framing to distort perspectives on simple concentric circles - for Take a Class With Dave and Dave assignment: Circle
stobist stuff - key is red strobe at top left corner (about 1' above circular wire vase) - onboard flash powered 2 stops below key.
Kitayama Brothers, Inc. (KBI) hydroponic greenhouses with micro irrigation have been in use for years in their 40 acres of green houses on Thursday, August 27, 2015, in Watsonville, CA. Sterile reclaimed and recharge water is used all or in part from the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA) and flows through micro irrigation tubes and emitters at each plant. This is one of the water saving systems the family uses. KBI are active members of the commercial agricultural community in Pajaro Valley and Santa Cruz County, exploring new ways to improve their quality and business efficiencies.
Agriculture has been a part of the Kitayama family for three generations, since before WWII, when the founding grandfather Takeshi Kitayama began growing flowers and vegetables in Washington. In 1945, after internment, his sons Tom and Ray Kitayama, started a nursery and the business grew. They became leaders in the wholesale flower industry. in the mid-90’s, the business continued to grow, and a third generation of family members joined and formed Kitayama Brothers, Inc. Today, the business grows a variety of lisianthus, lily, Gerbera, snapdragon and others, additionally; land is leased to other growers for strawberries and a variety of other crops. Located ¼ mile from the Pacific Ocean (Monterey Bay) Kitayama Brothers, Inc., employs 100 - 300 people depending on the time of year. To water all the flowers, the business uses a combination of irrigation water sources that include ground water wells; sterile reclaimed and recharge water, rainwater harvesting, hydroponics and micro irrigation system. Over the past 15 years, the amount of water from PVWMA has been reduced by 2/3s, making onsite ground water wells ever more important, and a factor in groundwater deletion. Today, there is a high demand on well; this has been a factor in (seawater) salt intrusion in all of their wells, one having to be shutdown, because of the salty water harms plants. There must to be enough fresh water in aquifers to fill the underground basin to resist the inland migration of coastal seawater through the land in between.
About this time, during 2007-2008, KBI turned to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and talks began about a green house roof drainage system that harvests rainwater. Through a system of pipes, water collects in a plastic lined pond for immediate indoor micro irrigation. KBI were active members of the agricultural community and sought water supply development and filtration solutions to improve efficiency and lower operating costs years before the current drought conditions.
Financial incentive cost shares from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and technical support from an USDA NRCS engineer to help design and plan the pond lining and other system improvements and additions.
The system has been in operation for one and a half years and has captured 12 acre/feet of water in its first year. It not only captures the water from the greenhouse roofs, it also allows water to be blended with water from well systems and/or reclaimed water from the PVWMA. The pond also allows the business to save money by running electrical pumps during low demand periods of the power grid, when electricity costs are lower. As refinements are made, greater levels of efficiency and cost savings are expected.
An additional system captures water from their hydroponic nursery systems that uses filters and UV light to clean and sterilize the water for in-ground plants. Water used in those fields; percolate down through the soil, helping to recharge the subsurface water basin; help resist salt intrusion, and return as a water resource for their irrigation wells.
Through discussions with the local Community Water Dialogue (CWD,) and equipment loan from the Resource Conservation Districts (RCD), he learned about the use and potential benefits of wireless soil tensiometer and completed a trial use. As they learn to use the recorded data, they see a possible 10-15% reduction in water use by eliminating overwatering on the sandy soil in this area.
Kitayama Brothers, Inc. strives for quality and efficiency and report that the clean water sources they are harvesting and using provides better quality and yields. For more information, please see www.usda.gov and www.nrcs.usda.gov. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
a maybe for assignment 3. Swirl. I think there are some very fun possibilities here. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Tag with cwd543.
cwd182: Perspective - Things that are close are big. Things that are far away are little. Yes -- that's an over-simplification. But you get the idea, right?
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This is an experiment with perspective. It's also an indication of how diverging verticals can screw up your shot ;¬)
Possible Class With Dave submission for the "smoke" assignment.
Shot on a black background with a strobe placed to one side. I inverted in PS, and then played with the Hue/Saturation sliders till I got something I liked.
for Take a Class with Dave and Dave assignment: surveillance
FWIW: I have no idea who this guy is. In the spirit of the assignment, I stood at the top of a parking garage with a telephoto lens and waited until someone "suspicious" came along.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries wildlife biologists sample hunter-killed deer and gather brief information from hunters in the active CWD surveillance area.
Slow down you crazy child
Take the phone off the hook
And disappear for a while... - Billy Joel
Was in Explore very briefly. Oh well!
Ink assignment @_@ How can I do this?
I remembered that I had bought my printer ink several weeks ago. So lucky eh?
With a little bit adjustment in ACD See, here it is.
CWD #661: Ink
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
cwd1012 - Hair This is one of those ones that would be really easy to make extremely uninteresting. That's not your goal! Come up with an interesting photograph that focuses on hair.
The vignette is to at least partially de-emphasize the shoulder in the right corner of the shot, as this was one of the better full length images I got of this re-enactor. Not sure that it works very well. Maybe I'll try to 'shop it out instead.
cwd 2762 ~ Squares (redux) We've framed with squares, had a square foot, and square crops, but here your subject should be squares. A square isn't just four right angles, it's a frame of mind (pun intended). We want you to run with this subject and show us the most interesting squares in your world.
This is the grill for an old truck seen at the AEC convention at the Newark Showground. Lots of old buses on show and loads of magnificent, old vehicles
A gorilla, a nun, and santa claus walk into a bar and order a round of beers.
The bartender looks up and says, "what is this?"
"Some kinda joke?"
- assignment for Take a Class With Dave and Dave
2. Visual Joke or Pun.
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I hope you enjoy my work and thanks for viewing.
NO use of this image is allowed without my express prior permission and subject to compensation/payment.
I do not want my images linked in Facebook groups.
It is an offence, under law, if you remove my copyright marking, and/or post this image anywhere else without my express written permission.
If you do, and I find out, you will be reported for copyright infringement action to the host platform and/or group applicable and you will be barred by me from social media platforms I use.
The same applies to all of my images.
My ownership & copyright is also embedded in the image metadata.
Okay, I took these for the CWD Group assignment of "spring" But I'm having trouble choosing... anybody got an opinon?
I've been seeing these little guys on my way home for a week now... so cute!
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries wildlife biologists sample hunter-killed deer and gather brief information from hunters in the active CWD surveillance area.
cwd373 Shadows. Sometimes photo-lighting seems designed to strip interesting shadows right out of the shot. Instead, play with them. Use shadows to enhance the photo, or to frame the subject in an interesting way, or use the shadows AS a subject. (suggestion taken word-for-word from Chronicity)