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Jamie wanted a few pictures to give her husband, so we set up at one of the best spots in Cookeville to capture the beautiful blue sky that the morning provided. This was my favorite image from our shoot.
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strobist: 1 White Lightning x2400, camera right, 1/4 CTS gelled, diffused by a 22" Paul C. Buff HOBD (High Output Beauty Dish). 1 White Lightning Ultrazap 1600, camera left, diffused by a 64" Paul C. Buff PLM (Parabolic Light Modifier). Strobes triggered via Cybersyncs and Cyber Commander; powered via Vagabond II & Innovatronix Explorer XT. A CPL (circular polarizer) was used. Setup shot here.
The first of many nice waterfalls on Sulphur Springs, a tributary of the Chagrin River in the South Chagrin Reservation.
After buying a new car a month ago, I thought it time to take a one-day road trip - 15 hours in total. I headed around the southern bend of Lake Michigan and followed the coast of the lake up some 300 miles into Michigan. The Blue Star Highway was absolutely gorgeous to drive. Here are my favorite pics of the day.
I tossed all of the other visitors in the water, so I'd have a shot of the lighthouse with no one else around. Kidding, there are a bunch of people on the opposite side and it was good timing!
Pinheads / Jeffery Lanes Bowling
100 N Wolf Road
Wheeling, Illinois.
Cook & Lake County, USA.
Sign Manufacturer - Northshore Neon – Waukegan,
IL.
This vintage eight lane bowling alley opened in the 50's. And best of all, no automatic score keeping - hope you know how to add.
Its 14° out today.
A green Bee Eater spotted on the rocks.. :) 20x zoom on SX10 enabled to get a closer catch revealing the bright red eyes of this little creature.
Though seen by many as no more than a means to an end, this track had a heart of gold.
This photo was taken with the Canon EOS R and RF24-105mm f/4.0L. It is not an AI generated image.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - This is one of the most beautiful times of year in Wyoming. The valleys are green and the mountains are filled with colorful wildflowers. This was taken near Red Grade Road.
When I created Part 1 it was too long for Flikr as it was over 10 mins. I reset the Flickr edit to HD and cut it to less than 10mins. Here is the extra footage that made it to the UHD on YouTube. You can see Part 1 and Part 1 A here on Flickr, or take a peek at Part 1 in one piece on YouTube
I wanted to share the video with Flickr users and so I was happy to cut down the original.
“The Duet Filter Kit 1Peak
Our entry-level Duet Filter Kit includes a UV Filter to protect your lens and sharpen your photos, and a Polarizing Filter to cut glare and boost colours.”
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The GOBE Duet Filter Kit 1Peak is listed as having the following Ingredients, Optical Glass, Aluminium, Magnalium, cotton, microfibre and paper.
The metal front and rear caps to the glass and metal filter set come with a microfibre cleaning cloth, a cotton bag and a desiccant envelope all contained in cardboard tube.
The Filters with front and end caps look work superbly well. The Microfibre Lens Cloth and the
Cotton Drawstring Bag are excellent bonus items. There are 3 levels of quality with corresponding prices. Photography involves costs and photographers expect value and performance. I went for the cheapest as I cannot afford the more expensive ones especially if my increasing clumsy digits drop and scratch the filters. There is debate about how much a filter can detract from the quality of a photograph. The simple answer is to try for yourself. For me I am desperate to protect the lens from myself and I am overjoyed to have a screw on glass protector. More debate still on the Circular Polarizing filter. The Ultra Violet filter has no visible effect on photographs taken with it, though it does reduce the amount of light entering the lens. Overall Ultra Violet filters reduce light by around one third of a stop an ʄ stop. Circular Polarizing filters are said to reduce the amount of light by anywhere 1 and 2 ʄ stops. Above the issue of loss of light Circular Polarizing filters change the image produced through the filter. Circular Polarizing filters are renowned for reducing ad even removing reflection. They also take away highlights and so reduce the brightness of reflection whilst at the same time offer some more, or deeper shadow renditions. The deep blue of polarized skies gives a signature look to the filters when used outside. With care and attention Circular Polarizing filters can bring qualities to pictures. To some perception and on certain images Circular Polarizing filters are seen as detracting from the image this includes on certain lenses such as extreme wide angles outside as the sky scenes captured can include too much difference for the Circular Polarizing filter to give the required effect. The easiest way is to try a Circular Polarizing filters and to judge the results yourself. If you remember to take some pictures with Circular Polarizing filter on and some without of people and scenes then you will always have the comparison available. The effects of a Circular Polarizing filters cannot be easily if at all created in post production. Whether to use filters and whether, or not to use a Circular Polarizing filter is great debate. If you can buy some filters and join the debate using your images and perceptions to as a great lifelong work in progress towards some excellent productions.
This is part of a series of films that I have made to record my decline in mind and body. I am fighting physical and mental challenges that are taking over me in many ways. As a user and fan of technology I am thrilled when some of the medications and therapies I am working with have virtual and online features. I have decided to record some films for me and I happy to share them with others. My aim is to see if there is anything useful to me, or to others in the recordings as they progress. My life outlook is changes day to day and through the climatic conditions of the seasons. My decline and decrepitude in Winter is longer and harder each year. Something in these records might give me hope, insight, a nudge along a path towards a better life. Currently I am failing terribly to make good life choices and to care for my worsening condition as I am not able to monitor, or to realise them.
This film was made on a good day. It was edited over several good days. The out cuts include many mistakes. On bad days filming and editing are not possible. I am very happy to share my perceptions with anyone else battling dementia, arthritis, diabetes, glandular fever, Central Nervous System Diseases & Nerve Disorders, immune deficiency and all the lovely and less than lovely allied complications. Please do send any suggestions you have to further this project. Hopefully this series of films will bring forth some good.
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Canon G1X mark 1, exposure bracketing to make HDR and a circular polarizer
I've grouped all my panoramas in my Panoramas album.
i think there was a lot of photographers in disguise and no real nudists on the ride
i think neil was taking the concept a little to fare here:
- www.kevin-palmer.com - This is one of the middle tiers of Paradise Falls cascading into a round pool.
Went down to the coast for a going-away party for yet another friend who is leaving Kenya. On our last day there, the sun behaved and chased the nasty rain clouds away. That's Curro in the corner. He's leaving too. Sick of people leaving!
Nikon N8008s
Nikkor AF 50mm 1:1.8D lens
Hoya 52mm circular polarizer
Fujichrome Provia 100F (Cross-processed in C-41 chemistry)
Fujifilm minilab film processor
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner (Digital ICE)
Photoshop for levels
I can’t say enough good things about the group of guys with whom I spent the last few days in Baja. Our host, Erwan, has a little Airstream on a cliff above a pristine beach, right next to some of the best wind surfing and kite boarding water on the Sea of Cortez. I had met Erwan once before at one of James and Ashley’s famous pizza parties up in Saint Francisville. But, only after I went on some rant about economics did Erwan recall that we had sat by the pizza oven and shared a few beers. What can I say? I guess I am most memorable when I am rambling about some subject that I probably have no business speaking on.
The tip of the Baja peninsula was socked in with the same cold front that had Dallas and the rest of the south in its teeth when we landed in San Jose de Cabo at around 10:30PM on Thursday. We rented two small cars to accommodate all of the kite boarding gear and then set out for a two hour drive, late-night drive through the Mexican desert. Only when the sun rose on our frosty sleeping bags the next morning did I get a full picture of what the fuss was about. The landscape and sea were stunning. The water varied from deep turquoise to the faintest blue-green. The saguaro needled desert ran straight down to the water, sometimes in dramatic cliffs and sometimes along the bed on dry arroyos. Erwan had found himself an acre or two of paradise. The area is unspoiled, largely owing to its isolation. A good, paved road had just been put in a few year back. So, the little bungalows and palapa toped cabanas there had been constructed by folks who truly wanted to be in that spot. One did not accidentally find themselves in La Ventana. A person had to make a point of seeking out this windy bay near the point where the Sea of Cortez flows into the Pacific.
Those that had found these beaches and waves just a few miles north of the Tropic of Cancer had come for the wind. Being a rather poor swimmer, I am not a kite boarder or wind surfer or much of one for water sports in general, but those who apparently know say the conditions around La Ventana are ideal. You can find a spotty internet connection, there are few roadside, fish taco stands and the occasional tiendita selling Pacifico beer in large, bomb-like brown bottles. But, this area is most certainly not geared toward the idle tourist. I could not even locate any postcards to send to the friends who are accustomed to my regular mailings. It just isn’t that sort of spot. And so much the better.
Down the road a bit, some enterprising soul has but in a high-end cabana hotel where the little outbuildings rent for around $400 a day but the folks you see flying along the water, attached to the lunatic combination of a parachute and a surfboard, are more likely to be living out of a camper or renting a bit of thatch for $45. The slow-growing saguaro cactus, a visual icon of the American southwest but now largely gone because of development, abound here. The salty flat between Los Barilles and La Ventana is a forest of these alien looking monoliths. Raptors and vultures rides the thermal winds cooked up by the combination of sand and sun. Laughing gulls and pelicans bob on the cresting waves. In short, its is about as un-spoiled an area as you can find that also provides running water. The throbbing clubs and all-inclusive resorts of Cabo san Lucas feel about a million miles away.
I could go on about how precious this spot seemed to me or about how much I enjoyed sharing coffee with Bob, Erwan and James as the sun rose, orange and purple, over these little fingers of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains. But, I think you get the idea. I’ll just close by thanking Erwan for his hospitality and for putting it all together, Bob for his endlessly positive embrace of life and its questions and to James for introducing me to these fine folks and this lovely part of the world. It was a trip I won’t forget.
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- www.kevin-palmer.com - The entrance to Cascade Canyon can be seen on the north side of Jenny Lake. I wish I had more time to spend here, I'll have to hike the canyon next time.
a black and white conversion of the north block Crown Fountain in Millenium Park....pls. View On Black
Even when its late afternoon you can't beat being on the beach, not so many holiday makers here at the moment, must be the cold weather.
The fall colors enhance this already picturesque location.
Taken in the Napa Valley, California
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I seem to spend a lot of time walking up down the banks of this little stream. A little palace of peace.
This is a rather old photo, but I needed a break from those hippy dreamy hills, so here you go :-)
No, I didn't see any eagle. Only 4 flying kangaroos, 2 talking teapots, one useless hippy photographer and 7 giant pink bunnies.
In four trips to Hawaii, I've seen a lot of beautiful places, but I think Hanalei Bay takes first place. One day we'll make it back...
For those who hate Mondays.
For the children of the Sun.
Stay with me...
Let's just breathe... (*)
There's more hippy spring hills coming soon, so stand by (but breathe slowly, or the killer rabbits will find you).
(*) "Just Breathe" by Pearl Jam
One of the many small lakes along the Denali Highway near Paxson Alaska. The Gakona glacier is in the upper center of the photo; the Gulkana glacier is on the far left. The tiny community above summit Lake is on the extreme right center of the photo.
I've swallowed mouthfulls of sea.
They gladdened me more
Than the best wine or mead.
The sea sings like a girl over my half-drowned feet.
With shivering mouth
I draw the hammered snake-ring from my finger.
I pledge myself to Our Lady Of The Waves.
George Mackay Brown
This is a popular shot in Grand Teton National Park, but it's still fun to shoot anyway. Every sunrise is different. I really liked the patches of grass and the stick in the water.
Winter hike on the Falls Trail with my hiking and photography companion, Lori Deiter.
We hiked Glen Leigh (up to Shawnee Falls) and Ganoga Glen (up to Ganoga Falls). I quick-checked Adams Falls, but only snapped an iPhone pic of it.
Ricketts Glen State Park
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
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See.. I can take a single frame!
Walking on the Tuncurry side of the bridge I came across these seat assembled like a little court outside the Fishermen's Co-op.
I love the intentionality of those seats all lined up like that and would just love to have met the people who occupy these thrones ;-)
Enjoy this little bit of someone else's working world..