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Newcastle Brown Ale has a nearly 100 year history, but is no longer independently brewed and is part of the Heineken empire. "The One and Only" slogan remains though.
For this shot, I had to sort through a few bottles in the supermarket to find ones where the slogan embossed on the bottle matched up with the labelling - they seem a bit random. The lettering on the bottles isn't very clear, so I then had the idea of using candles behind the bottles to highlight it (which made it necessary to remove the back labels from the bottles too). By the time I'd done all that, it was blue hour outside, so the combination of candlelight and blue twilight from the window gives the contrast seen in the composition.
I tried a few shots with different depths of field, but my choice is this one at f/2.
Cramer's Great Musical Depot.
My middle child has just started piano lessons, like me, my brother and sister when we were kids. So the old Blüthner is back in action. It's been in the family as long as I can remember and has survived all our bashings and dismantlings; a wonderful old friend is back in daily use. It has lived here Dublin, and in Stourbridge, West Midlands and was made in Lepizig, former East Germany. Funny thing about it is it has a very particular aroma of old wood and must. As a kid, I used to take the bottom panel off and yell at the strings with the sustain pedal down. We still do it thirty five years later.
I went on learn the bassoon.
My mother, Enid, responds with a bit more history ...
I just love these. Make me all sentimental. The photos are just beautiful. The piano must now be a museum piece but its special to me. I bought it with money from Grandpa Bell from an ad I'd seen in the paper. I looked at it in a house on the north side and when I played it I knew that it should belong to me.
It has had a lot of hard practise done on it over the years, and Liz (my sister) always says that because of it she really learned how to make a good tone. It wasn't the easiest to play but you had to work at it - and the dividends paid off.
What was really hard on it was when it was moved from Stourbridge back to this country. The movers didn't know where Dublin was and left it languishing in a warehouse in Belfast until it was traced - and this didnt do it any good .
Your photos are so good and your captions are often quite brilliant. Where did I get you ? !!
My sister, Liz, adds even more ...
Just to add to the history of this dear old friend which has been with me my entire life bar about the last five years, when it went to live with Hugh.
‘The Bluthner’, as it is generally called in the family, was bought in Dublin in the mid-fifties by our mother for £100; their house was bought at the same time for £2,200. You can do the math – but I reckon that it represents roughly 4.5% of the cost of the house. At today’s prices, the same house would be worth, give or take, €1,000,000 – can you imagine spending 4.5% of that on an upright piano nowadays? I didn’t when I went to replace it about five years ago and am now paying the price!
This piano travelled with me when I emigrated to the UK twice and returned to Ireland twice. It spent two years of its life in the late seventies in a house I shared in south London in the bedroom of a friend of mine, Tony Curtis, now a well known Irish poet.
On its second return to the UK (to Stourbridge in the West Midlands) in the early 80s, not only had it been diverted to a damp warehouse in Northern Ireland due to the (lack of) geographical skills of the removers, but it had become host to a family of moths which had been living on its felts in the said warehouse. It never really recovered from this in spite of the replacement of the felts, the addition of new pins, and the judicious placing of lavender and rosemary bags in its innards to ward off prospective families of moths.
It is hard to describe one’s attachment to an instrument which has been such a key part of one’s life, in which music plays such a key part. I have probably spent more hours in the company of this piano than with anything else, animal, vegetable or mineral. It was my principal source of income as a student when I gave piano lessons to reluctant students with enthusiastic parents; it has been the vehicle for the expression of many an emotion, both for me as a player and for me as audience to my two children’s music-making; it has provided the means of diversion when only concentration on learning a Bach fugue could expel other thoughts…
‘The Bluthner’ has now been replaced in our house by a new Boston upright piano, and although it has been in my family for five years now, it still seems an imposter, a sort of ‘step’ relation, not quite the real thing.
I hope Hugh’s children will love making music on this old piano. I am reconciled to the fact that, just like everything else in life, its days are numbered, its departure inevitable.
- Candlelit Light Painting Still Life-
Another Still life study with soft macro at candle's light, in the style of the antique Master Painters.
Shot in darkness and painted by highlighting portions of the composition moving a handheld candle in a long exposure.
Light study for a soft tone macro still life with some autumnal crop from my garden, from my neighbors and the woods in the neighborhood. My photography is unmanipulated, no retouching and no post-processure but just a slight routine editing.
I have tried to approach as much as possible the effect of the paintings of a time when the electric light didn't exist yet and, when darkness fell, the painters were used to illuminate the subjects to paint with candles and/or natural torches.
I'd just like to add, once for all, that I don't use any filters, neither on lenses nor in post-production: it's my exigency to reach the "essence", the pure artistic effect via the sole use of my display, the footage setting preparation and shooting ability. Although I am very picky and stubborn, I don't always reach the result expected, sometimes I do beyond my expectations and in any case I like to experiment until I reach something that may be interesting to me.
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Chestnuts/castagne, hazelnuts/nocciole, pomegranates/ melograni, one persimmon/cako and one medlar/nespola at soft candlelight in darkness with no artificial light spots.
The black background is a physical "limbo" allowing to create a sort of transparency or absence of the background, saving the macro image from any retouching artifact or manipulation in post-processure and enlightening to emphasize the subjects photographed, depicting them with a good three-dimensionality and even a certain deep of field, notwithstanding the limits of the 2D photography.
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Word of Mouth Bar
I peeked inside during my daily walk down Franklin Avenue, and I was pleasantly surprised.
For me the ambience was everything. The decor, the candlelit tables, art and photography lining the walls--as well as bookshelves for the intellectuals. Creating an atmosphere for conversation as well as drinks.
Crown Heights,BK
Scorched my fingers a few times positioning the candles whilst taking this, a theme that did actually come with a safety warning!
(Not sure if everyone else is have 'Bad Pandas' today, but they've been bugging my commenting all day!)
HMM!
The challenge today was a great one. I have discovered that the heat from two candles is enough to make a Christmas decoration move. Thank goodness for blu tack! HMM everyone.
Kelly can't believe she's there, billions of miles from home, at Outpost Alpha, having dinner with Benny by candlelight and with Robbie playing a serenade for her with a violin (that in space is definitely complicated). And a six-course dinner, furthermore... CHEF-A-TRON was at its best: he made Kuybos waffles, delicious, but a little heavy.
Looking close... on Friday! theme: PLUSH TOYS
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Where the forest comes alive with light.
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After the traditional excess of Christmas, it's nice to unwind with some delicious home made mince pies with marzipan star tops. Instead of closing the 'pie' with a pastry top, the marzipan adds extra flavour. Coffee and a tipple because — well — Christmas! The dark winter evenings lend themselves to candlelight and warm, rich photos which set the perfect ambience.
Practicing photography at night, experimenting with different types of lighting. This is candle light.
The Church Carol Service was a candle-lit-hit this year with over 100 people along to sing carols, drink mulled Ashcombe Cider, and listen to some talented musicians.
The theme for this week is Festive Feels
Light Painting
I shot in my in-door studio the last of the 3 Iris flowers which blossomed for the first time in my garden (see previous up-loads shot out-door). Here I handheld a candle to paint and highlight some parts of the flower and photographed it during a long exposure.
My conclusive work of the lil series
'Complexity and elegance of the Iris flower'. (Looking inside a Bearded Iris IV).
I'd have many more photos on Iris but 'Parcae, quòd minime parcant' :-)
More in my Album in progress 'Callas, Iris & Amaryllis studies'
Further Light Paintings in my Album LIGHT Painting & Design (always in progress)
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" - the motto of Amnesty International UK which campaigns worldwide on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
Last night, I joined Mum for a candlelit vigil in her back garden, along with a half dozen other Amnesty volunteers.
You can find out more about Amnesty's work at: www.amnesty.org.uk/
A romantic, candlelit scene with antique hand-painted Japanese Satsuma porcelain. The warm tones of the copper complement the soft creamy porcelain - I love how some antique glazes develop a complex crackle texture as they've aged.
The Harvest Home altar in the evening.
Photos taken at the 2009 Chiltern Kindred Harvest Home Ceremony at which Olga celebrated her 80th birthday.
Kept this from last Xmas. A supplier sent it as part of their Christmas Card. Knew it would come useful this Xmas.
Candle Light Macro Monday theme.
I got into this creative zone while trying to come up with a photo for Macro Mondays and this is one of the results. These are 2 small snail shells with two candles on the right and one more larger one on the left.
This is a square format version of the image I posted a week or so ago. I'm undecided on which format I prefer for this.
At the end of the candle festival in Nikko in February. Fireworks with the backdrop of a full moon, surrounded by a candlelit snow-scape -- perfect holiday spot!
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Every Saturday evening until October, it is candlelit evening! 2000 candles in the garden and around the château. The evening ends with fireworks at 23:00 hours.
Macro Mondays theme:Lit by Candlelight
#macromondays #litbycandlelight
Miniature snowman nutcracker with crumpled up tinfoil as background to create the candlelight bokeh.
- Candlelit Light Painting -
Another shot of the last calla that was not yet withered, among those gifted to me, painted with the light of a handheld candle
at the feeble morning twilight, just before dawn, hence the slight bluish hue.
'Accarezzami, Madre' ! 'Caress me, Mother' !
Freely inspired at a beautiful, very educational book: the auto biographic novel by Diego della Palma (2008 issue Sperling & Kupfer).
My work is especially dedicated to all those who suffered of lack of tenderness from their parents. Among all the bad things that can occur in a family relationship, the lack of affection and cuddling is maybe not the most terrible issue but, probably, the most miserable one and can provoke deep unspeakable griefs that may survive the same sufferer...
To all of them,
a pure white flower,
out of the dark,
into the Light.
White Angel
More in my Candlelight Painting Album and in the Callas & Amaryllis Studies.
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I got home late from the pictures tonight. I went to see Hot Fuzz for the second time and Ghost Rider...Ghost Rider was good. It was much better than I expected.
Anyway I just did another of these candlelit photos and set my head on fire...I was in the mood :oP
I just had a thought....beard on fire...that's Hot Face Fuzz.
- Light Painting -
Magic 6" long exposure and unusual perspective, from beyond, taken in darkness with the natural illumination of candle lights.
In this framing, the 4 pink Hippeastrum flowers compose a Greek Cross shape that may also look like a suspended glass chandelier or a light applique.
I've made me some special candle torches and painted over the flowers during the entire long exposure, insisting in the spots that I wanted highlighted.
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This is the originary colour version on a real blue backdrop of my previous monochrome up-load.
The second stem of my Hippeastrum plant recently flourished and I joined the occasion to organize a second (and third) shooting with the Light Painting technique but with my innovative (or antique?) approach of using just candles instead of battery torches or spot lights/reflectors.
Notwithstanding the complexity of my technique, the textures of the flowers and the colours brightened by the fire are very vivid and may result particularly detailed with a great chiaroscuro plus.
The magenta component of these pink Hippeastrum flowers results warmed by the light of the candles, turning a little more yellowish, exactly how I could see them illuminated by the natural light of the flames.
Let's see how my Light Painting Album in progress will develop...
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