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Back to one of my favorite locations. Different time of day, different time of year. Minimal post processing.
Demonstration for the people of Tibet, protesting chinese repression in Lhasa, Montreal, March 22nd.
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Manifestation pour le peuple tibétain, protestant la répression chinoise au Tibet et exprimant un soutien au Dalaï-lama, Montréal, 22 mars.
Trinidadian model Rachelle (aka Elle) on Grafton Beach in Tobago, WI.
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A taste of Trini flavor from 2011: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnH_BtFvfw
EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
0.001 sec (1/1000) @ f/3.2
FL 42 mm, ISO 200
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Playing around with filters on the Canon PowerShot SX40. I was hoping for some nice waterfall pictures, but the weather has been rather dry lately so the flow at Duggars Creek Falls wasn't nearly as impressive as I know it can be after a good spring rain. So I turned around and saw the sunlight filtering through the newly emerged leaves and sparkling on the creek. I figured it was just as well a great opportunity to do some filter testing.
Left: No filter
Middle: Neutral density filter for long exposure (13 seconds) and a smooth, silky water effect
Right: Circular polarizing filter to reduce glare and reflections and make the water more "see-through"
© Jerimias Quadil 2010
I am…. a sucker for love!
Simply love this song!!!!
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For my late summer vacation my girlfriend and I spent some time in Utah in the National Parks - such extraordinary things to see. Here are a few photos from the week. Enjoy!
Definitely a highlight of the trip - Observation Point was well worth the aches and pains of hiking 13km out-and-back from the bottom of the valley to this vantage point, 2200 feet above. Angel's Landing resides a bit right of mid-frame, 500 feet below.
Zion National Park
Utah, USA
An abandoned church, which was built in 1960 has been closed since 2018. There was some talk that after almost three year there might be a new owner.
From the churches Facebook page:
Evergreen Park Presbyterian Church
8859 South Francisco Avenue
Evergreen Park, Illinois.
CLOSED!
December 13, 2018
Dear Friends,
After a great deal of discernment and work over the past year, our Session has decided the most faithful route for us to take is closure. We will continue to hold Sunday evening services at 5:00pm through the end of the year, with our last regular evening service on December 30th.
Due to our dwindling numbers, Session decided not to hold a Christmas Eve service this year. I would encourage you all to seek out a service close to you, or at a congregation you or your loved ones have been or are a part of.
That being said, I am looking forward with anticipation to celebrating our 72 years of faithful service on this corner of Evergreen Park with you this spring. We will hold a concluding service around the end of February / beginning of March, and you are invited! We will invite all of our members, friends, previous members, and pastors as well. Stay tuned for more information. I will update our Facebook page as soon as we have a date established.
It has been my privilege and blessing to serve you as pastor these past four and a half years. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if there is a way I can be a better pastor for you during this time. The Session and I will continue to communicate any new information we have for you as we get it. Thank you for being part of this wonderful community.
Blessings to you,
Jon
208/366: Ponderosa Pine Trees
These tall and skinny Ponderosa Pine Trees live at an elevation of 10,000+ feet. This photograph was taken at Coal Pass Summit. I was in awe at the pure size and stature of the Ponderosa Pine Trees and had to take a moment to soak in their magnificent beauty. After shooting this photograph I wandered through the Ponderosa Pine Trees in hope of seeing some wildlife, but alas, none was seen, So I took a few more moments to just sit in the grand shade these trees make and look up at all they are.
Ponderosa Pines is one of the Southwest’s tallest trees in many parts of its range, growing to incredible heights of over 200 feet, with huge trunks 3-4 feet across. Named for its ponderous (heavy) wood, this pine is the major lumber tree in the Southwest. These woody behemoths grow on dry mountain slopes and mesas. They occur in green, park-like stands on dry, well-drained, and exposed southerly slopes or plateaus. Ponderosa Pines are easily recognized by their tall, straight, thick trunks, clad in scaled, rusty-orange bark that has split into big plates. One can easily identify some trees by smelling their bark. Ponderosa Pine bark smells like vanilla or butterscotch.
Photo was shot with my Lee Filters Circular Polarizer.
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Sun rays over the California coastline, the Golden Gate Bridge making a cameo.
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It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in downtown Chicago so I walked just about everywhere. Here a few favorites from the day!
This is down by pier of Lake Michigan. I found this boat's navy blue hull to be quite an offset to its reddish border and butterscotch interior.
Incan site, Moray, with the Andes in the background, including Apu Veronica (left) and Pumahuanca (right)
Taken by Battery Sullivan. I pulled up as the Sun had set. It was fairly clear but some clouds off the coast SE of Cape Elizabeth were illuminated by the setting Sun.
This is a six second exposure using a stacked circular polarizing filter and a soft gradient filet.
238/366: The Cottonwood Trees
I just want to sit and stare up at these enormously beautiful cottonwood trees for hours. The detail, sharpness and color contrast brings my eye to a place of happiness and calm, examining each line of bark as I follow a path to the top, only to return to the beginning, over and over again. When you look up at them you see an infinity of tree with branches acting as roads which junction into different directions. As in life, we come to different junctions, different turning points – we have to choose wisely – find the branch which fits our life and our happiness and grow in that direction.. reaching for the sun and the stars.
These cottonwood trees are located in downtown Pagosa Springs Colorado. If I had to approximate, I would say they soar 80 feet into the sky which would make them hundreds of years old. These beautiful trees should forever be protected and treasured.
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A single exposure..Non HDR
- www.kevin-palmer.com - In the northern Big Horn Mountains there is a waterfall called Paradise Falls. There are no signs for the trailhead and you won't find it on most maps, it's sort of a local secret. The waterfall is at least 120 feet high, but it's split into several drops and cascades. This shot shows the lowest 3 tiers.
I occasionally go back to edit photos that I have taken in the past; this was from November 2012. This composite image used a photo stacking (or layering) technique in Photoshop. I call it cloud stacking. I used thirty images where only the clouds were in motion during two and a half minutes. Just after sunset, the bottom of the clouds were lit by a break in the clouds at the horizon. These thirty images were selected from the total sequence of 300.
The Point Betsie Lighthouse has occupied a small sand bluff on Lake Michigan since 1858. It has been automated since 1983. As this photo shows, there are substantial anti-erosion protections in place including a concrete skirt directly in front of the building. Even so, the lighthouse is considered at risk and there will need to be substantial upgrades in the coming years.
The Judge Farm, located on Blanchard Road just east of the village of Winn in Isabella County, is a Michigan Centennial Farm. It is under new ownership and now has goats.
Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Guide me towards you
Know something's left
And we're all allowed to dream
Of the next time we touch... (*)
Dreaming of blue skies and mellow seas of yellow.
(*) "Oceans" by Pearl Jam
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The Notch Trail in Badlands National Park is unique because of the steep stairs/ladder.
Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden Greensboro, North Carolina.USA
How ironic, amidst all this color comes a Black & White
Each spring, at some point during the Memorial Day Weekend, a trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens is made. Again, the visit yielded amazing and colorful captures that I'm only too happy to add to the favorites bucket.
I tried this shot with some different aperture settings and decided to keep f/7.1 as it gave a nice balance of some items in the frame well within focus and some others not so much. It lent a bit of a holographic (hopefully faerie-like) feeling.
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Mexican sunrise over the Caribbean. Big sun...it's what people pay to come get, right?
Technical info: Canon 60D, Canon EF-S 15-85mm, Hoya Circular Polarizer, tonemapped in Photomatix Pro, processed through Adobe Lightroom, toned in Alien Skin Exposure, and signature added in Photoshop CS5.
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scans from the archives, reprocessed + reposted. nikon n90s + sigma 24-85mm + fuji velvia RVP. abandoned van embedded in the salt flats.
A dirt road leading off the North Klondike Highway in Southern Yukon. It was a very unsettled day with rain squalls all over the place. We decided to embrace the uncertainty and head out for an explore. A great hike in the morning was followed by a long drive to Fox Lake and more walking about. This photo was taken on the way home.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro. The camera was mounted to a tripod and the resultant image was processed from raw in Adobe Lightroom.
Another view of the beautiful old boathouse in Carton Estate on a glorious autumn morning. You can see the elegant bridge across the Ryewater in the background.
This is the last of the shots I took of the boathouse last October.
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