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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:
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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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"It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.
The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way."
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
We are passionate about bringing a relaxed approach while creating beautiful, natural and vibrant images.
26 March 2014: Took some of our guests to Abisko for 2 nights to get away from the bad weather around Tromsø and was rewarded with this beautiful, colorful display!
Today is my birthday! The big 51!
In celebration of my return home ... and my birthday ... I give you this: one of my favorite images from a fantastic morning sunrise. Usually, sunsets are the 'thing' to shoot when on the West Coast.
But sometimes, if you are out and about in the early morning hours (like I usually am), turning your back on the sea will reward you with a sight such as this. I've already given you a taste of this exact scene with an iPhone photo {in comments}. I had initially thought that the phone shot was way better than my Nikon shot. What do you think? It is interesting to compare images shot of the same scene from a DSLR and a Camera Phone!
I would really like to thank EVERYONE who kept up with my rare and random posts while I was away. I appreciate those that commented and those that inquired. It was a wonderful trip. Becoming a grandmother is something I had never put much though into! It is a wonderful experience and I highly recommend it!!!
So here I am at home ... 8,000+ miles later and one year older, celebrating yet another birthday ... and thinking how much cooler 51 is than turning 50!!!
Happy Cliche Saturday!!! Aren't all sunrises a cliche?
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A simple self portrait with a simple message 4/52
~No matter the darkness,shine your light.Even if you are the only thing shining for miles~
She was wild and brave. She shone her light so others could find theirs. Shine my lovelies, Shine xx
“Nietzsche also proposed a second kind of tourism, whereby we may learn how our societies and identities have been formed by the past and so acquire a sense of continuity and belonging.
The person practising this kind of tourism ‘looks beyond his own individual transitory existence and feels himself to be the spirit of his house, his race, his city’.
He can gaze at old buildings and feel ‘the happiness of knowing that he is not wholly accidental and arbitrary but grown out of a past as its heir, flower, and fruit, and that his existence is thus excused and indeed justified'.”
—The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
"Love is the most important thing in life, and it happens when you least expect it" ❤️ —Diane Kruger
⋅ (Article reading www.townandcountrymag.com/a6656)
sakura (桜) cherry blossom air さくら 🌸🍃
Time after time
Alone in the city of whirling blossoms
Those petals fly in the whirling wind
The miracle of meeting you
In a city where the wind whispered through
The hanamidou tells of the end of spring
One petal from this misty flower.
Time After Time (花舞う街で) // In the Street of Dancing Flowers — Mai Kuraki
[theme song for Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]
“What interests me is not the destination, but the attitude [traveling with new eyes and an open mind].” — Giampiero Bodino
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." —John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
Good things come to those who BELIEVE, better things come to those who are PATIENT, & the best things come to those who NEVER GIVE UP!
My outlook to my inner compassion & outer tolerance, can easily make a new world a better world, this is my experience in becoming a Light Chaser & a Chasing Light family. My first step to my new, old world in a better version I should say.
Practice, practice & more practice, to make it perfect, I promise my self to never give up, no one can stop me but myself, God has given me so many talents and I would like to share it to you all.
"Landscape Photography is not for the lazy, it does not reward excuses" CL Motto
My first experience to see the aurora borealis, amazing! My husband acccompany me for the night, I want him to see the spontaneous life of a photographer, where you have to be ready in a battle. Gears ready, set ups, message comes & you have to go & run :-)
Run to succeed in the outer world, become to proceed in the inner world, even in the abysmal abyss, hope knows no fear, trust God and BELIEVE.
This is the first step of my journey and it will be miles & miles to go, join me in my walk!
Thank you to the master of Landscape Photography Instructor: Mr. Edwin Martinez
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
― Brian Andreas
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” ~ George Eastman
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We all know that light is the key to photography. It is always about the light. I am always 'chasing it down' ... but I don't think I know it for all its worth yet! That is a good thing because that means the search is still on!!
For this image, I bracketed the shot ... really detested two of the images [delete delete] and picked the underexposed image [because the areas with light interested me the most]. My favorite Photoshop plugin: Nik's Viveza. I love the 'localized editing' approach to image editing. By the time I finished sliding, this is what I ended up with [SOOC in Comments].
I started out with an inspirational quote and I'll end with this one:
There are 3 key things for good photography: the camera, lighting, and... photoshop ~ Tyra Banks
That gave me a good laugh on this early Sliders Sunday morning!! I thought my fellow sliders would agree!
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Happy Sliders Sunday Folks!
“Learning became her.
She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place.
Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.”
— Robert Goolrick
Light will always be the first and last estate in landscape photography. It is very essential in composition when the sky is used as background for which it is the only source of light. Positioning, getting the details, patiently waiting for that moment.
f/20, 5secs, ISO100
CPL, ND grad 0.6 SE, ND8
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20
9 January 2014: The predicted aurora display sparked from the geomagnetic storm on 9 January was so much weaker and shorter than we'd expected that we stayed out in the cold till 3am convinced that a bigger show was coming. It didn't.
Still, we did get a beautiful display early in the night when the CME hit earth producing some of the most swirly lights.
Early morning walk with my Nikon F3HP & a fresh rol of Kodak TriX400 on Thanksgiving morning after heavy snow all night. 2019
We arrived at 11:00 PM. There are so many riders, that we are released in waves. We were in the fourth wave (orange), so we had to wait until 1:30!! AAARGHH! We just wanted to get ridin'!! We rode until the sun came up (frustratingly slow at times due to the density of the 'pack' ... it was humid with nary a breeze) ... but we still had a blast. Jackie's sense of humor is always a bonus!!
Riding through the hoods (Chinatown, Greektown, etc.) is always a rich cultural experience. You'd be amazed (or not) at how many people were out. Folks were pouring out of the bars, drunk ... and cheering us on and high-fiving us ... all of this at 3:00 in the morning!! The City was Alive! Or the City Never Sleeps!
The sunrise wasn't as spectacular as we hoped, in fact we didn't even see the sun till it came up over the clouds. We waited for that (so I could get my photo) ... and then flew out of the city and straight to our beds. In all total, I was up for 28 hours straight!!
William Stone Images - Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
Our presence on flickr is to showcase our catalogue, we have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we receive:
We do wedding photography and videography:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
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. Any image seen on flickr can be printed in museum grade quality, use the unique reference at the bottom of the photo description when contacting us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones:
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.
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:
We 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 and 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.
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.
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
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Haruki Murakami's— "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" #💕☔#🌿☁
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One beautiful April morning, in search of a cup of coffee to start the day, the boy was walking from west to east, while the girl, intending to send a special-delivery letter, was walking from east to west, but along the same narrow street in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. They passed each other in the very center of the street. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Each felt a rumbling in their chest. And they knew:
She is the 100% perfect girl for me.
He is the 100% perfect boy for me.
But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever.
A sad story, don’t you think?
Yes, that’s it, that is what I should have said to her. .
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Source: Gravitytrope | On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning — Haruki Murakami