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Well, there is no escaping the fact that fall is here...
The material of music
is sound and silence.
Integrating these is composing.
I have nothing to say
and I am saying it.
(John Cage)
View on black
And "listen".....
This Great Blue Heron is regaining its composure after a gull chased it off the breakwater levee.
(The former) Alameda Naval Air Base, Alameda, CA
England's James Anderson prepares to bowl during his final spell as an international cricketer. Third Day of the First Test, England versus West Indies at Lord's.
Thinking about the stars in the upcoming feature film, 'The Astronot' (www.TheAstronot.com). Photography by Dan Jackson of Manifest Photography in Vancouver, BC.
Just look at those glorious textures, the result of time and city life.
I wonder if the sculpture based her on a woman they knew. When I was taking the photo I couldn't help but imagine her. A girl with puffed sleeves standing on Bothwell Street looking up at the stone version of herself. Soot might have begun swallowing the building, creeping over that ever youthful face. Or perhaps she was there as an ancient, bent woman, when the city blew away the decades of smoke, to leave only the fire beneath. I wonder what she thought.
One of my bird feeders is right outside my window. This cardinal is on the ground directly below the feeder. Eating the seed that squirrels knock off the feeder above. At night, possums like to feed here on seed, fruit bits and digging under for hidden larva & grubs.
Male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Garland, Texas
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Kiah strikes a yoga pose on top of a sea of hoodos at Goblin Valley. Such a fantastically magical place. And we had it all to ourselves, not another soul around.
So, once again, I dip a little toe into the deep waters of the Flickr group (We’re Here) daily theme image creation. Today’s theme seemed a simple one although given recent activities South of the border, the temptation was there to get political. I resisted, plunked a styrofoam head on the table and steeled my nerve, then grabbed a small knife and thrust it into an unsuspecting banana. It did not end well for the banana (but it was a tasty one, although I did entertain a brief Hannibal Lector moment). A depiction of banana violence and a complete lack of a conscience. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-01-07
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm 1:4.0 lense set to 50mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Spot metering, Aperture Priority mode, f/13.0, 1/3 sec with an EV+1.00 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, brighten the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV+0.35, set colour balance to 5200K to reduce a bit of a blue cast on the foam head, enable Tone Mapping at the default levels, boost black level to get a good dark background, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to tame the highlights on the head and also brighten the shadows a bit, apply sharpening (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the tone curve to darken he top 20% of the curve and retain detail in the head highlight areas, while holding the remainder at default levels, use the colour balance tool to remove a slight residual green colour cast, duplicate the image to a new layer n top and then add a mask and paint in the banana (using white/opaque paint) on the mask, use the Hue/Saturation/Brightness tool on the yellow channel only to brighten the banana and also boost its saturation, create new working layer from the visible result, make small increase to the overall contrast, slightly desaturate the cyan channel and further reduce the colour cast in the head, sharpen slightly, save, scale to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.