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Sunday • December 5, 2010
Just a little bit of sliding rendered a taupe colored pond into a beautiful blue pond! The sunrise just out of frame 'exploded' across the pond so brilliantly (that part really happened)!! And the worm laid out on the ground (safely out of goose range) to get this shot through the dried out weeds (it was also about 20°)!!
I am so sorry I haven't been by to comment the last couple of days ... I did get a few in before my router failed yesterday. Ran out and bought a new one ... and now the connection is as slow as molasses, keeps timing out ... dropping the connection, etc. I post a comment and it just sits there spinning endlessly ... So if any of my comments look weird or are repeated, that is why! If I can't troubleshoot this today; I am going to return the router and get a different brand. Computers are awesome ... when they are working! Been trying to post this since early morning ...
Happy Slider and Happy Worms-eye View Sunday!! :D
These past few days, I’ve been lucky enough to witness some breathtaking sunrises. Of course, I couldn’t resist capturing them and sharing them with you!
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♫ Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun ♫
Even though this is the lake, doesn't that fiery sun make you feel hot? That you are "blistering in the sun?" With a heat dome hovering over the Plains and the Midwest, everyone will be sweltering in triple digit temperatures and extreme humidity this week.
The last time we had a heat wave like this, we were camping in Upper Peninsula, Michigan. It was nice & cool up there on Lake Superior. When we came home, we discovered that all of our poor fish had died! *Many Tears* The house was an oven and smelled awful. We had forgotten to turn the A/C on (it worked back then).
Speaking of A/C, this morning I broke down and called the A/C man. We really don't want to end up like our fish!
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Happy "HOT" Soundtrack Monday and Keep Cool Everyone!
For it being one of my first times shooting this late. I was able to get some pretty good photos. The experience was also very nice.
The Luxury of being yourself
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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I haven't done a bench shot in awhile ... so when I'm with the girls, I always try to grab a few for later! I had a lot of fun chauffeuring Rachel around San Diego and surrounding hamlets ... showing her what she could do, where she go, etc.
At sunset, our path put us near Carlsbad State Beach. We hopped up on the sea wall and enjoyed a gorgeous sunset ... and of course this bench shot! Loved the couple walking together, hand-in-hand and the fabulous sun flare! This looks much better in the lightbox!!
Happy Bench Monday!
Some roads feel like they lead straight into a dream. This one, deep in Olympic National Park, winds through moss-covered giants and glowing green light, captured under the last rays of sunset. Every curve pulls you deeper into the wild heart of the Pacific Northwest — where adventure begins the moment the pavement disappears into the forest...
11/29/09 – Day 333 of 365
Sunrise over the pond. Check out the ice! All I had was the 50mm and no tripod and this was the best I could get. I would have liked the wider angle lens! I had to flatten against a tree to get this view. There was a rowboat in the foreground that would have been a nice addition to this composition.
*Note to self: double check the camera bag!
*Ordered a tripod; a budget model. Should be here tomorrow!
Hope everyone is enjoying their post Christmas recovery. Now it's time to plan the New Year celebrations!!
Happy Thursday!
Captured in Prague 5 — the last golden whisper of autumn before the trees let go of their leaves. 🍂✨
The Luxury of being yourself
We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:
We do wedding photography and videography:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.
Follow us on Instagram!
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www.facebook.com/william.stone.989/
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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ETA: Sorry this disappeared yesterday. I accidentally deleted it while deleting some other photos. Fortunately, the description I had written was still sitting open in a Word Doc!! But not so fortunate on the lens repair estimate. I was just informed that it would cost me $450. *many tears now*. Do I 'buy' a brand new one or cough up the $450? that just feels like robbery!! Thoughts anyone?
I caught a gorgeous sunrise yesterday morning on Tuesday. While setting up my tripod, I chanced to speak to a man walking his dogs. He was standing there with this fabulous goofy grin on his face as he watched the sun rise.
He told me that this was the nicest sunrise in the last two weeks and that I had picked the perfect morning to shoot it. I had to agree! It certainly was, however; it was bone chillingly cold. I was sitting amongst a jumble of giant boulders, the water washing over my boots ... when a huge chunk of ice crashed at my feet. No wonder I was freezing ... I was sitting on that sheet of ice!!
I also suffered a moment of tears. I was jogging up to the beach to catch the first sun rays, and I dropped my backpack (I really do need a padded bag). I whipped out my camera for the first shot and *gasp* -- no autofocus!! *tears begin* If anyone recalls my earlier stories, this lens (18-200mm) took a bad fall about three years ago. Had to use a vice grip to remove the shattered UV filter. But, magically it still worked.
Coincidentally, after shooting the sunrise; I was headed to the Nikon repair shop with my old Nikon D70. Jackie has been begging me to fix it so she could have a 'real' camera. Sadly, I left the lens with the repair shop too; and am waiting on an estimate. Since that lens brand new is $849 on Amazon, when do I call it a wash with this lens?
*leaving now to go mope, cry and rant & rage in a corner*
I slowly strolled around the lake counterclockwise and stopped wherever an interesting sight caught my eye. And this particular sight did just that.
The colorful sculpture shouted for my attention. The pines looked like clumps of moss on sticks. And the old water plants in the foreground.
But, it turned out that this was quite challenging as a huge rock sat right at the spot where I wanted to plant my tripod. And my 24mm prime lens wasn’t helping either. First I placed it right in front of the rock. But it became obvious rather quickly that even with the flip-out screen out and tilted up, it was tricky for me to view what I was composing.
It was one of the rare moments where I found myself contorting my entire body into a ball like an armadillo. I wished there would have been another way, but when I wanted the sculpture in the dead center of the frame along with the water plants and the reflections of them in the foreground while not being cropped.
Then, when it was all ready to go after spending a good 10 minutes constantly shifting the tripod and the camera, I came back up as if the armadillo unspooled itself up and sat down on the rock. I released a huge sigh of relief and stretched my back while watching the lake.
Once the clear reflections were set in as if things came into focus, I pressed the remote shutter release before another whiff of wind would disturb the reflections.
Let the Earth Rejoice
The YEAR is YOURS, WhaT WILL YOU DO WITH IT?
As the new year ends, leaving all the 2015 behind, everything that happened, happened for a reason whether it`s good or a challenge; I call it all blessings after all we are all still here to celebrate the 2016. Just like a writer we will open a new book, It`s pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and it`s fist chapter is New Year`s Day, It`s a new year, which means new beginnings, hopes, and dreams! After all life is good, a good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how BLESSED we are. Happy New Year to all. My year end image for all of you, we crossed our bridges everyday, the sunsets but a new dawn comes and life begins again... our stories continues.
13/52
The only April Fool's trick being played here is the fact that it wasn't as warm as it looks!! The title is from a song sung by Cat Stevens: "a popular and well-known Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and is set to a traditional Gaelic tune known as "Bunessan."
♫ Morning Has Broken – As Sung by Cat Stevens ♫
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word
Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day
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Happy Fence Friday!!
I'm not trying to rush through summer ... really; I'm not! The weather has actually been the best we've had all summer and we have really been enjoying it.
I was digging through my prodigious fence archives; doing some cleaning out and archiving; and found this lovely Autumn fence. I clearly remember the morning I took this ... the sun coming up over the lake ... and me lying on the sidewalk to get this shot! Love that glorious sun!!
♫ Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles ♫
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Happy Fence Friday!
I was amazed, dumbfounded, giddy ... you name it ... to see this sunset, this dream ... unfurl right before my very eyes! This looks very nice ... unfurled in the lightbox! :-)
This sunset was unexpected, to say the least. I thank Char for taking me to her favorite spot at the Berkeley Pier. I took a multitude of shots {naturally} ... and this was 'one' of my favorites. I love how the sun is nestled in the clouds right over a tower. And it got better too: Char's Sliders Sunday Version!
Happy Sliders Sunday! I had to do a 'bit' of sliding ... the RAW image was very, very dark!
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Adventure is normal for me. I've grown up in mountains and woods, learning how to explore before I knew the meaning of the word. But you see, now I've given it my own definition.
Exploring: Wandering. Pondering. Accustomed to, but not taken for granted. Constantly new. Overwhelmingly beautiful. A part of me.
A need to act. To go. To be.
#sweeterpoetry
|| Spent my thanksgiving backpacking in the Patagonian wilderness for a few days. Check that one off the bucket list! It's a gorgeous world out there. ||
The Luxury of being yourself
We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.
Follow us on Instagram!
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/william.stone.989/
500px:
500px.com/p/wsimages?view=photos
Twitter:
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www.linkedin.com/in/william-stone-6bab1a213/
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Smugmug:
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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Back to the beach again ... dreaming of where I wish to be. Don't you wish the same? Press "L" to go there right now!
♫ Regina Spektor – Folding Chair ♫
Come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there’s a breeze
There’s a shadow, you can’t see my eyes
And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies
The rest of the song gets a bit crazy ... but I do love that opening verse!!
Happy Anything Monday!!