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Sophisticated photo Double exposure or voluntary out of focus The woman in the foreground and In the background, a nocturnal landscape with lights reflected on the water works on visual layering, the near scene is obscured, the distant scene is sharp.
The photo has two competing centers And in that competition there is poetry.
Wood Duck drakes, Suamico, Wisconsin USA.
The bird in the foreground being driven off by the other male who is paired with a nesting female on the pond.
Irises compete with new spring weeds along a fence line in Coloma. My money is on the weeds. They play the long game.
A block away from this scene James Marshall discovered gold along the American River, setting off one the greatest migrations of people in history.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Coloma CA
Credits:
Truckers Hat: Rebellion
Shade, shirt and necklace: Legal Insanity
Ears: Andore
Beard/hair applier: Volkstone
Lighting: LUMIPro
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
[Ayrton Senna]
This is the Rose from my garden that I promised yesterday, to post today. It is competing with the yellow dahlia but will lose out for longevity as the dahlias stay longer. Still, it’s not bad for the middle of November!
Another image from my photo walk earlier this week to North Greenwich. This was the entrance area to an apartment complex but viewed side on. I liked the way the different shapes all imposed their way into the image with rectangles, horizontal lines, vertical lines, all of them competing for attention within the frame.
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Two Common Carder Bumble bees for a heart is one too many : the one on the right was genly but firmly pushed away :)
Zoom in for more detail, mainly the proboscis of the right Bumblebee being inserted behind the small petal.
My SL~Amazing! Art Expo competion entry - presented at www.flickr.com/groups/14870065@N21/ - The SL~Amazing Art Expo competition
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This cowgirl is 72 years old and still competing in barrel racing at the Russian River Rodeo. Looking closely, it appears that the horse is blind in its left eye.
Competing with the Dlugi Targ as the major tourist draw for the city is the riverbank of the Matlawa River. Alas at the moment there is a huge amount of regeneration work ongoing so the West Bank isn’t seen at its best.
The two key subjects here are the Zuraw (the Crane) which dates back to the 15th century. It was hand powered, the largest such example in Europe and capable of lifting 2 tonne (I thought it might have been more than that). At the end of WW2 it was blown up, but has since been rebuilt, like much of Gdansk.
Also seen at the other side on the photo is the MV Soldek, a coal and ore freighter which holds the distinction of being the first cargo boat of note built in Poland after the conclusion of WW2.
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a flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. it just blooms.
♬ girl, just let me buy you flowers ♬
[SHIFUKU] - Tweed look @ Cupid inc.
♡ taken @ Zaanse Schans
Shoalhaven Heads Sunset - Panorama
Pentax K1 w DFA 15-30/2.8
ISO 100 f/11 -3.3 and -0.7ev
30 frames (15 x 2 exposures) HDR stitched in Lightroom, bit of levelling in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5, tweaked in Topaz Denoise and finished off in DxO PhotoLab 6
About the 1934 LaSalle
In the 1920’s, General Motors (GM) competed against Ford’s “one size fits all” approach by building “a car for every purse and purpose.” GM’s Cadillac had become the market leader in both prestige and price. The LaSalle, first designed in 1927 by the talented Harley Earl, was the model to fit between the Cadillac and Oldsmobile brands. Following the success of the early LaSalle, Alfred P. Sloan, head of GM, promoted Earl to head a new design office: GM’s “Art and Color Section.” However, success began to wane as the Great Depression wreaked havoc on LaSalle sales.
In 1933 the LaSalle was scheduled for termination. Earl spotted an aircraft-inspired design on the drawing board of Jules Agramonte, a member of the Art and Color team. Immediately motivated, Earl and his team redesigned the LaSalle with new Art Deco features such as the tall, narrow front grill, pontoon fenders, biplane bumpers, portholes, chevrons, and chrome accents. Earl had a full-scale mockup built, and presented it to GM executives, proclaiming, “Gentlemen, if you decide to discontinue the LaSalle, this is the car you are not going to build.” GM quickly agreed to manufacture the beautiful new LaSalle, convinced it would revive sales and add excitement to their product line.
The 1934 LaSalle shared many aspects of its build with the Oldsmobile including, straight-8 engine components, frame, and transmission. Both cars also featured new, hydraulic brakes and a revolutionary independent front suspension, which Cadillac did not yet have. The LaSalle team was tasked with reducing production costs by 1/3 — a feat they achieved by sharing parts across model lines. The LaSalle was a design masterpiece, advertised as “the newest car in the world,” and was the pace car for the 1934 Indianapolis 500. LaSalle sales doubled for 1934 and continued to grow through 1936; however, as the US began to rise from the depths of the Depression, consumer demand trended away from such cars, toward smaller, less expensive brand models. By 1940, GM had finally conceded, cancelling production of the LaSalle.
The birch wants the last word.
The aspens chatter in the breeze.
Fighting to the last
for all the glory of
saying the last thing
until next spring.
With the moonlight over my shoulder highlighting the rocks in the foreground the predawn glow made for interesting lighting overall ...
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO400 f/8 30s (+1.7ev - sometimes the light meter struggles with the ultra wide lens in competing conditions).
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked/aligned in Affinity Photo 2, luminosity blended in ON1 Photo Raw 2023, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
David Piper competed in the Formula One World Championship in 1959, and then went on to race sports cars when he lost interest in single seaters. From 1962 until 1970, he often competed in his own cars at sports car events, incluidng 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Perhaps most famous for racing a multitude of Ferrari's, including the 250 GTO, 250 LM and the 512S, he also competed using his own Porsche 917K, and was involved in the filming of the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, where he crashed the 917K and lost part of his leg.
He also competed using the Lola T70 seen here with the Sandeman sponsorship livery and its original British Petroleum Green colour (the colour is impregnated into the bodywork itself). This Lola is chassis number SL76/150, delivered new to the David Piper Autoracing Modena team on the 7th March 1969, and was fitted with a 5ltr Bartz Chevrolet engine.
David Piper described the Lola as "such good value for a long distance sports racing coupe at that time. It was a big step forward in all areas over the Ford GT40 against which it was measured. The car was comfortable and east to drive with no vices at all."
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Two major players competing for traffic in the viable transportation corridor that is the Columbia River Gorge momentarily roll past one another on the river's Washington banks at Dallesport in a side-by-side appearance made possible by some unbelievable luck. The 11,249 foot snow-capped peak of Mt. Hood looks down at eastbound garbage traversing both their respective playing fields as a 60-car H INBROO1 26A, fresh out of the siding following a meet with a Pasco to Longview freight, hustles on rails above while a much slower "Crown Point" tug painstakingly pushes its short barge toward the locks at The Dalles Dam in this region's never-ending "Dash for Trash." BNSF collects garbage from terminals all throughout the Pacific Northwest via a handful of local jobs that shuttle the loaded containers of waste to yards at both Interbay and Everett where several of these unit trash trains per day are assembled for forwarding to a landfill site at Republic Services in Roosevelt, WA. These moves closely resemble your normal intermodal trains, however with a rather distinct and unpleasant odor attached with them. Upon arrival, the containers are removed from their railcars and loaded onto trucks where rubber wheels bring the garbage its last few miles uphill to Republic's large dump site, which has the capacity for over 120 million tons of trash, fourth largest of its kind in the United States. Empties are then loaded back onto a waiting train and promptly sent back west to the cities for another load of stinky cargo, continuing the cycle. Union Pacific runs almost an identical operation of their own for Waste Management on the Oregon side of the river to and from a dump site near the town Arlington.
Some of railroad's EMD SD75Ms that often run these trash trains would've been the icing on the cake for this shot, but hard to complain here.
This was shot at Brookgreen Gardens, near Murell's Inlet, South Carolina, as was a very similar image posted in late 2019 or so. This is a brick walkway, shadowed by the lattice structure above it and the trees above that. What I like here is the way the different patterns compete for my attention, making me feel a bit nuttier than usual: the virtually black shadow, the bricks and their different types and colors, and the variable colors of sunlight on the bricks caused by trees overhead letting different amounts of sunlight through. Just as I manage to focus on one pattern, another grabs my attention and the former is lost.
The history of Brookgreen Gardens is pretty interesting. Anna Hyatt Huntington was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century, when female artists generally garnered little respect. With her husband, Archer Huntington, they bought four old plantations around 1929, totaling over 9,000 acres, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic coast, in order to showcase her sculptures. Over time, they acquired works by a few dozen other American figurative sculptors, with a total of some 1400 works. The sculpture garden takes up about 550 acres; there is also a zoo, and several nature trails. For me, the gardens were a little more interesting than the sculpture, but enjoying it all together was pretty wonderful. The coastal areas have been leased to the state of North Carolina, forming Huntington Beach State Park. If you ever get down that way, check it out; otherwise, Google it. (They're not paying me anything for this brief review.)
The used App Hypocam has a few Filters preinstalled and here I used the Filter HC-01.
About the series
I was in Berlin for a few days and of course I wanted to shoot some Photos. My normal Camera was a little too big and unhandy for my business-trip and so I gave a Chance to my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11) and a free B&W-App called “Hypocam”. I would like to share a few impressions, but it will not be a detailed test of the smartphone-camera or the software. For me it was more about the question: can my Smartphone compete with my normal Camera? And can I create a nice & appealing b&w-Series with this equipment?
I will try to answer it primarily by showing the final results and I want to add only a little Text to every Photo. I hope you like the photos and if you want to leave a comment: What experiences have you had so far? Can a smartphone compete with or even replace expensive equipment in some situations?
This is the very first shot I took at Cala de la Vinyeta, in Calella, Catalunya (Spain).
It was well before dawn - the faintest light of the sun was struggling her way above the horizon as the stars were trying to keep asserting their supremacy.
Unluckily the darkest thing within the range of a kilometer was the screen of my camera. The focus is soft, but I think that the image has a remote atmosphere I like very much, so at last I have decided to upload it.
Apart from a bit of denoising and a delicate glowing touch, this shot is essentially SOOC. I would like very much to receive some useful advice about shooting in those light conditions and processing the resulting images :-)
Back to the processing of the following upload now - a picture of the lighthouse of Calella :-)
Loved how the tree and sunset worked with each other ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW
I've been running late today, really late. Will catch up tomorrow. Meanwhile, this was on the "upload list," and it will be a semicolon in a string of avian photos. I found him and six of his friends scampering and chirping on and around two boulders near the HQ at Sequoia NP. This one just happened to find something to eat, stopped, and for at least 20 seconds, ate. On a 24" monitor, it may appear life size, not exactly my first intent.
The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in British Columbia and Alberta through the western United States to California, Arizona, and New Mexico. This species occurs in forests, chaparral, meadow margins, and sagebrush, especially in areas with many rocks or forest litter that provides shelter. It is associated with many kinds of coniferous trees, aspen, and manzanita, and it is a manzanita bud that this little guy is munching.
Most adults are independent, rarely cooperating, and usually competing for resources. They may assemble at sites with abundant food but develop a group hierarchy. Adults reside alone in burrows, creating nests for hibernation or rearing of young. his species becomes vocal when it feels threatened, making squeaking noises or growling. However, it is generally not a very vocal species.
It may carry the Rocky Mountain wood tick, a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other diseases. There is no mention of the effect that the Western Fence Lizard has against those diseases, but I don't think the lizard is found at 5-8,000 feet.