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Blog: Something About Autumn
I see you left a mark
Up and down my skin
I don't know where I end
And where you begin
I need your discipline
I need your help
I need your discipline
You know once I start I cannot help myself
The cat is distasteful to ordinary people.
Magnetic and mysterious, it wearies their
frivolous minds; nor do they place any
value on its charming manners.
But the soul of a cat is its lordly pride.
Liberty, its blood and its nerves.
Its gaze is never cast down.
In the constant concealment of its passions,
in the clarity, the serenity
and beauty of its stances, the discipline
of its movements, how delicate a purity of feeling
may be found. When cats day dream or slumber
a spectral chill surrounds them.
Then, perhaps, the ghost of olden times
roam around them. Perhaps this vision
leads them to Bubastis; where their holy places
flourished once, and Ramesside ritual crowned them,
and their every movement was an augury for the priests.
C.P. CAVAFY (translated by D. Mendelsohn)
This was the photo before the next photo. You can see that Dad is not happy about something. They are not close to 'fighting', just expressing anger, I guess. I checked, there is one second difference between this shot and the next one.
I'm rarely disciplined enough to follow through on these kinds of projects, but I've somehow managed to go a full year of shooting at least one photo a day.
This started out as just a small therapeutic project to keep myself sane in the winter, mostly to give me some reason to get outside every day. But I've enjoyed it way more than I expected I would. I feel like I've grown a lot, especially technically. And most importantly, I've gotten to know Hyde Park and other parts of Chicago a lot better than I would've otherwise.
Thanks to everybody who's commented and offered encouragement and feedback. And thanks to Chicagoist and Explore Chicago and Chicago Public Radio and Gapers Block and Chi-Town Daily News and Chicago Reader and Grub Street and Gourmet for the occasional confidence boost.
I'll probably keep shooting daily shots out of sheer inertia, but I'm not sure yet if I'm going to commit to keeping it up for another year.
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"The Holly and the Ivy" is a traditional Christmas carol, which is among the most lightly Christianised carols of the Yuletide, the holly and the ivy being among the most familiar Druidic plants.
"Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they are mentioned regularly in churchwardens accounts" (Roud 2004).
I'm not surprised that they are so popular, they are fresh, green, with the jolly berries AND plentiful in the garden, this time of year, and also, so very decorative. But ooohhh so prickly too!
I am trying to use as little light and dof as possible, a challenge that I love.
I find it necessary and refreshing to regularly go back to the basics of photography.
As a discipline, I used to go out with my Nikon F4, a 50mm lens, b&w or colour film.
Now of course it is much more with the 'ease' of digital, however, I do NOT take hundreds of photos, the discipline is, I use my camera as a 'film' camera, each push of the button COSTS! So, I compose carefully, wait, look, ... if I AM SURE, pleased... then, I click!
Or like here, I'll preconceive a scenario, go in the studio, set it up and photograph it when I am happy that I have the result in front of my eyes that I had in my head.
I wish you a day full of peace and goodness, thanx, M, (*_*)
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K2 & Kennedy Sit At Front Door Watching Dogs Nearby They Would Love To Chase - IMRAN ™.
Even without any professional training both my German Shepherd Dogs, K2, the 11 months old already taller puppy on the left, and Kennedy, the probably 4-5 years old rescued darker dog on the right, seem to be so well-trained. Well, most of the time. 😄
I took this photo from outside the house after I told them to go up the steps and sit at the front door. There were people in the cul-de-sac walking their dogs right past my driveway, neighborhood dogs that my dogs would have loved to chase and play with. But the self-discipline of this breed in general, and my two beautiful dogs in particular, is often seen in moments like this.
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Nikon F3, Nikkor 35/2.8 AI, Arista EDU 100@800, push +3 development, HC-110/dil. B, 15min. Negative digitized with Nikon D700, AF Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 D, ES-2, CS-LITE
Une promenade urbaine insolite dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris. Cette partie de l'ancienne voie ferrée de la Petite Ceinture, aménagée sur environ 1 km, est entièrement en tranchée : la végétation est une végétation de talus, naturelle, disciplinée mais point trop pour laisser la plus grande place à la biodiversité. Murs, ponts et tunnels sont autant d'espaces d'expression pour taggers et artistes urbains. Seuls quelques immeubles viennent rappeler qu'on est en ville, dans la Capitale.
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Early morning in the Dragon Dojo of Cocoon Station, Tav Nitram goes through his Tai Chi movements.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
To take a photograph means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second– both the fact itself and the rigorous organisation of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.
It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Candor had problems with his stomach last week – nothing serious but it still worried us, so out of pity we loosened the reins a little bit.
Although he has grown much more calm, his German Shepherd heritage still clearly shows when he's allowed to do whatever he wants over a prolonged period of time ;)
So this week we had to brush up on discipline a little bit. Candor being Candor, he loved every bit of the training <3
Mom was digging for grubs or something and the little guy came up and was helping to dig. All of a sudden mom nudged him away with her head and warned him about getting to close to those claws when they are working.
Canoe freestyle is a whitewater discipline and competitions take place on stationary river features. These can be breaking or partially breaking standing waves, holes and stoppers typically formed at the bottom of small drops or weirs where the water flows back on itself, or eddy lines on the boundary of slow moving water at the river edge and faster water. In International Canoe Federation (ICF) events, athletes have a set time to perform as many different moves as possible, scoring additional points for style. Finals are judged on three 45-second runs.
Canoe freestyle is a constantly evolving discipline, with new tricks being developed to complement and improve on existing moves. These moves fall into three categories, entry moves, basic moves and bonuses, and are similar to those performed in freestyle snowboarding, surfing and skating. Spins, flips and turns are accompanied with names including roundhouse, donkey flip and the mcnasty.
Canoe freestyle is contested by four types of boat, kayak (K), canoe decked (C), open canoe (OC) and squirt. In kayak, competitors are seated with their legs out in front using a double-bladed paddle, in contrast to the single-bladed paddle used in a kneeling position in canoe decked. Open canoes also use the single-bladed paddle in a kneeling position, but are slightly larger boats with no spray-deck to enclose the cockpit. Squirt boats have no restrictions but a greater emphasis is placed on smooth control and graceful moves. Points are awarded for each different rotation during a 60-second choreographed routine, and bonus points can be gained for how deep and how long the boat can be kept under water during a mystery move.
(Explore #11)
When I started taking photographs in earnest, to further my understanding I bought and digested a lot of books and magazines on the subject. I admit thinking of myself now as largely self-taught, although I suppose that's not strictly true given a lot of my knowledge has been filtered down through that of others, albeit in their absence. One of the earliest pieces of advice I can remember reading (alongside the beginner's stumbling block about a small aperture having a large F-number - someone didn't want me in this club), was to take time to explore the subject before deciding on a composition. I've stuck to this diligently to this day, and believe it's one of the fundamental disciplines that marks out a skilled photographer.
Often though, a landscape has multiple possibilities each of which have the potential to offer a great result. This may depend on conditions at the time, or even the photographer's relationship with and appreciation for the subject - not too mention the characteristics of the lens he chooses to shoot with. I'd seen this simple building (actually an old coastguard's lookout post) shot once or twice from close up and directly in front, and on arriving could understand why. To my eye, there were actually two key point's of view of the building once at the summit - the one I'd already seen and another from the right hand-side slightly below the plateau, taking into account a little section of diagonal fence that drops down nicely to form a pleasing angle with the intersecting sea. I must have spent well over an hour crouched down in the long grass at this second vantage point, waiting for the light to come good and pick out the white-washed surfaces amidst brooding cloud. Two other photographers came and went while I was there (both shot from the front), along with the usual dog walkers - one of whom told me a little about the history of the place. Eventually deciding I'd got the shot, I packed up and started to head back down the steady incline, intent on heading elsewhere. It was then that I turned around. I nearly always do this when walking away from a subject, it's almost like saying goodbye to somewhere I've forged a brief connection with and may never visit again. Suddenly I realised this was perhaps 'my' composition, the one that separated it from those I'd already seen and perhaps incorporated best a sense of the place for me. Moving just a few paces further down the track I set up and took just the one shot before the light faded, rendering the building a dull gray. As is typical for me, I shot vertically, and despite originally intending to include more of the sky in my envisaged square crop this is the frame that I feel works best. Luckily I made a reasonable attempt at hyperfocus taking into account the foreground low in the frame, which allowed me to crop as here without losing too much.
Is this the 'best' composition? No, there's no such thing - it's just the one that worked best for me this time round. I still have the unedited RAW's from the other two spots I mentioned, and always have the option of processing those should I so choose. Even with this one, there are subtle changes I could have made had I so wished - for instance the little hut could have been placed directly on intersecting thirds (perhaps a little obvious, but I like forming squares within squares so went with near-intersecting quarters here), or I could have shot really low and thrown out the focus of the stony path altogether. The point is there are compositional choices with most subjects, and it really is worth taking the time to consider just what they may be...
On a separate note, my gratitude goes to Andrew Gibson for interviewing me again for his current excellent series on long exposure photographers.
www.andrewsgibson.com/blog/2012/12/long-exposure-photogra...
We must be a pretty tight-knit community as I've recognised all but one of those so far interviewed - each of which have made for fascinating reading - so if unacquainted I'd encourage you to check out the links to some of the others too. There are some very talented people offering insight!
kirstentacular.blogspot.com/2015/08/snowy-discipline.html anc, Fantasy Gacha, Luas, Maitreya, Pink Fuel, Truth, Zenith,