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I find the process of processing images to be very fascinating, one can impart a totally different vision on any given photo, and for me that is an essential part of making an image, and one of the huge differences digital photography has made possible. I can spend a fair bit of time on any photo, some for just minor adjustments of contrast, others get transformed completely. this was in the later category, it has very little resemblance with the original, even though I liked that one as well with the blue green waters ... I didn't do too much, converted to mono, but then getting just the right tone and bringing out the details of the reflections took some tweaking ...
this is an image I had in mind even before I traveled to the Rockies, the forests and their mirror like reflection on a crystal clear glacial lake .. the monochrome version emerged after I looked at the images
... better on black (press L)
So it’s supposed to be autumn, or at least the weather has suggested it to be so for several weeks now with this continued rain. A brief dry period over the weekend enabled me to look at what was worth taking a photo of in the garden. To my surprise I found several strawberries, yes I know! They are unlikely to ripen to eat but they make an interesting subject in my books at least to photograph.
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On a misty afternoon on Wimbledon common my eye was drawn to these curving tree trunks and murky depths.
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The day before midsummer, the queen bee used to fly the enormous distance to a far-off ocean. She plunged to its depths in search of the rare sea flower: Neptune’s Clover. No other bee in all history could accomplish such a feat. For two thousand years, this same queen had gathered the rejuvenating and curative pollen from Neptune’s Clover.
As the days rolled on, the queen still had not returned. The colony was besides itself in worry and set forth to find her. They all latched their feet onto the hive, which was as large as a hill, and flapped their wings for lift off. When finally, they arrived to what they believed to be the area of Neptune’s Clover, their exhausted wings failed. The queen bee was nowhere to be seen. The hive, heavy with honey, and all its pilots fell into the sea. The two-thousand-year-old colony perished on a beautiful, calm afternoon, beneath the impartial waves.
Nowadays, bees might construct their hives in the nooks and crannies of human architecture. Unbeknownst to the people, their floating civilization is built right over the site of the sunken hive. Perhaps the bees of this century instinctively feel its presence, and so we find them in profusion adding their honeycombs to the present architecture.
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The water is so blue, so deep, it’s no surprise it’s the deepest lake in America, and one of the deepest on earth. That’s why it’s one of the 7 Wonders of Oregon.
Crater Lake was formed from the collapse of Mount Mazama, a volcano in southern Oregon that once stood about 11,000 feet tall. A series of destructive eruptions around 5000 BC caused the mountain's peak to collapse into its lava chamber, resulting in a caldera nearly six miles wide. Over time, snowmelt and rain collected in the crater to form the lake, which at 1,949 feet deep, is presently the deepest in the USA, 2nd in North America, and 9th in the world. Based on a comparison of average depths, however, Crater Lake at 1148 feet, is the deepest in the Western Hemisphere and third deepest in the world
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Isn't that in Vanuatu, a world away from Nigg Bay. Just off the shores of the pretty seaside village of Cromarty lie a long line of various drilling rigs. Nearest is Transocean Leader, a semi submersible rig witha deadweight of almost 45,000 tonnes and capability to drill down 25,000 feet. It can operate in water depths up to about 4,500 feet which is nothing compared to many that can operate in oceans 12,000 feet deep. We came here, whilst waiting to help pick up the latest addition to the family for the 3 hour journey home, and hoped to see some dolphins, but only saw drilling rigs and some country side I have never seen before on the Black Isle.
There will be many more of these rigs standing idle off our shores as new oilfields are cancelled and we switch to electric cars and 'greener' energy.
When I got to the Tore roundabout I was just itching to get on the A9 and run up to 'home' another 103 miles further to the north, but I wasn't allowed. And it would have been silly of me, late on a Sunday afternoon.
From the depths of my archives surfaced this pic of a Black-crowned Night Heron perched in a tree and singin' a song... so to speak. : )
Made me think of the film “Saturday Night Fever” so I put on the Bee Gees and reminisced as I processed this image : )
"Night Fever" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees. It first appeared on the soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” a 1977 American dance drama film starring John Travolta.
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Black-crowned Night Heron:
Black-crowned Night-Herons are small herons with rather squat, thick proportions. They have thick necks, large, flat heads, and heavy, pointed bills. The legs are short and, in flight, barely reach the end of the tail. The wings are broad and rounded.
They are common in wetlands across North America, including saltmarshes, freshwater marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, lagoons, tidal mudflats, canals, reservoirs, and wet agricultural fields. They require aquatic habitat for foraging and terrestrial vegetation for cover. They spend the winter in southern and coastal portions of their breeding range as well as across Mexico and Central America.
Black-crowned Night-Herons are opportunists feeders that eat many kinds of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals. Their diet includes leeches, earthworms, insects, crayfish, clams, mussels, fish, amphibians, lizards, snakes, turtles, rodents, birds, and eggs. Black-crowned Night-Herons normally feed between evening and early morning, avoiding competition with other heron species that use the same habitat during the day.
Black-crowned Night-Herons nest colonially and behave socially all year long. Both males and females vigorously defend feeding and nesting territories, sometimes striking with their bills and grabbing each other’s bills or wings.
Night-herons are monogamous. The male advertises for a mate with displays that involve bowing and raising the long plume on his head. Both the male and the female incubate the eggs and brood the chicks, greeting each other with calls and raised feathers when switching over duties. The young leave the nest at the age of one month and move through the vegetation on foot, forming nocturnal flocks in feeding areas. They learn to fly when they are six weeks old, and then disperse widely.
(200-600, 1/500 @ f/7.1, ISO 800, edited to taste)
I'll seek you out
Flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
I'm taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze
And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace
~ Blue Foundation
Song: Eyes On Fire
Vulcano is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands (Aeolian). It covers an area of 21 square kilometers and is inhabited by about 700 people.
The center and the northern part of the island is the volcano with the crater Fossa Gran Cratere (See photo), which is still active. The last strong eruption took place in the years 1888-1890.
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Vulcano jest wyspą wulkaniczną na Morzu Tyrreńskim, w archipelagu Wysp Liparyjskich (Eolskich). Zajmuje powierzchnię 21 km², a zamieszkuje ją około 700 mieszkańców.
Centrum i północną część wyspy zajmuje wulkan Fossa z kraterem Gran Cratere (widoczny na zdjęciu), który jest nadal czynnym. Ostatnia silna erupcja miała miejsce w latach 1888-1890.
As things slowly emerge from the depths of what is hopefully the final lockdown, I was reflecting on the last 12 months. Looking back it all seems a bit of a disjointed haze of confinement and pandemic scenario speculation!
Photographically it has been a strange year too, with numerous enforced trawls through the archives. That in itself has been a mixed bag, with some decent images found that were sadly ignored in the first instance. How many such shots do we overlook from the first pass, in the constant pursuit of new images and new locations, in a time when we were free to roam. There were also opportunities to critically review old files and think, I would do this differently if I had the chance again!
Well we are almost at the stage where those fresh opportunities are almost within our grasp and I'm looking forward to getting back out there and revisiting some old haunts and have some plans for new ones too.
Anyway enough of this reminiscent rambling. This shot is of a lane about 10 minutes walk from my house and as you can see it presents a lovely autumnal scene. Lets hope by the time Autumn 2021 arrives we are back to some sort of normality in the world!
i occupy my lonely post,
hover above the ebb and flow,
watchful eye, rarely sleeping,
casting light against the darkness,
face aglow;
wondrous, warm illumination
to penetrate the night,
cold, uncertain certainty,
tidal pull,
siren song,
lonely sound that lulls me
into everlasting endlessness,
the bells,
the hours,
the horns of boats,
the 'oe' echoes,
the ancient rhythms,
pluff mud empire,
gone to seed;
i wait here in this tiny space,
unprotected, face the cold,
touched by stellar movements, waning,
timeless intervention
held at bay for more than just a moment;
and now i feel the icy breath,
and now i understand the depths,
the chill of nothing left to tell,
the vastness of the sea's betrayal;
i loved the sea,
i love the sea,
i occupy my lonely post.
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This shot makes me think of some giant creature rising out of the depths to take a bite out of the lighthouse. Not too sure which creature though.
The Met Office in the UK has started to give names to especially bad storms and last Saturday 9th February it was the tail end of Storm Eric. In the North Atlantic storms are nothing near a Hurricane but strong enough with gusts of 60mph to bring down trees. The last time I took pictures at Newhaven was Storm Brian in October 2017. Conditions then were far more severe with twice the sustained wind speed. For Storm Eric the main track of the storm was across the north rather than the south as it was in 2017. The main part of the storm was on the previous day but then it was far too dull for decent images and winds were forecast to remain strong Saturday morning when it was far brighter.
The location at Newhaven on the South Coast also had the advantage of a wide and high shingle beach providing a safe location to take pictures even in a fierce storm. The wall is a breakwater for the harbor and with a serious storm massive waves come in from the SW and hit the breakwater also creating a lot of backwash and turbulence. For this shot I had moved from a hill to the closer shingle bank so the waterproof cover for the camera was in place to deal with salt spray. I was also using an old camera with an intermittent fault.. During the 3 hours I was there I took 640 images.
The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Minolta 75-300mm zoom at 140mm. The image was taken handheld with no chance of a steady tripod in those conditions. The image was processed first in Capture One Raw Editor. Then it was Topaz Denoise followed by Topaz Clarity and Topaz Adjust for more detail. Next I added a brightness adjustment layer for an increase in brightness in the light in the lighthouse to improve that additional focal point using a layer mask. Mono conversion was with Nik Efex Silver.
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Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths--and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
Robert Frost
A Royal Gorge Route Railroad (then, Canon City and Royal Gorge) passenger train pauses near Hanging Bridge west of Gorge siding in the depths of Royal Gorge, west of Canon City, Colorado, on May 14, 1999. One of the world's highest suspension bridges, Royal Gorge Bridge, which spans the Arkansas River at a height of nearly 1000 feet, soars over the train. This locomotive is former Chicago and North Western Executive F7 No. 402, and lives on today pulling popular excursions through the Royal Gorge. (Update—No. 402 now as a “retirement job” of being on display at Canon City…)
From the depths she called home,
the scaled-she ascended her realm.
She saw blood, bones and skin;
fell in love, forgetting he is without fins.
He loved her not and of air he'll stay.
She whispered in an almost mournful way
"I'll make the way you drown beautiful"
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