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RKO_5493. Early morning meeting with a beautiful Kgalagadi Queen! She kept calling for her cubs who had been killed the other day by a male lion (that is at least what they told us)! So sad to see and hear this lion in search for her cubs!
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I'm clinging to you, Lord, because I know you won't forget me, because I know you'll send peace to my soul.
Explored.
The story behind the photo can now be seen on the Really Right Stuff blog.
Hey Pomj, with who you made those?!? Here public-ally I state those are not mine... that I have been always using good quality... 'protections' so you can't blame me!
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"My husband is the mayor of a booming metropolis and is always away on business, my two sons are spoiled, arrogant brats, I have had more "plastic" surgery than Melissa Rivers, my kitchen is kept spotless but nobody cares, and I do the dishes, every damned day. If this is the American Dream, wake me up!" says Cindy
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I was looking through Suburbia, by Bill Owens and felt inspired to put my own spin on the subject. This particular photo is my modern slash retro take on one of Owen's photos. This one to be precise.
And if you've never heard of Bill Owens, you can check out his website or go to your local library and check out some of his photo books. ;)
Soundtrack // Bande-son: A PERFECT CIRCLE ("Weak And Powerless"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GsLh6dazI
"DESPERATE AND RAVENOUS... I'm so weak and powerless..."
I've decided to move to mesh for modelling from now on. Because when you're that one lumpy system guy amongst the sleek... yeah. It's not a good look, and I've always prided myself with being the best I can be at this game. Let me call it levelling up to myself in desperate assurance and be done with it, okay?
Plus, look how well I can wear lipstick now!! Look Ma, no bleeds!
I'm casting to join .PENUMBRA. which I have wanted to do for a long time. They asked for a headshot as part of the application package so I snapped then messed around with this for a bit. YES I ACTUALLY PROCESSED A PICTURE DON'T DIE OF SHOCK. I was happy with the bling bling action that I got even on my teeth - my fangs are retracted when I model because I'm totally a professional, like don't even ask - so I decided to post it.
Special thanks for this goes to my loving and patient wife Magenta. She knows why.
The day before yesterday (6 February 2014) was a day of huge responsibility! My youngest daughter wanted (i.e. desperately wanted!) to see her very first Snowy Owl. So, off we went, SE of the city. I took her to various areas where Snowy Owls had been seen on 25 January, when I went there with friends and we saw 8 Snowy Owls and 8 Great Horned Owls. Nothing, absolutely nothing! All we managed to find was a flock of Horned Larks and a handful of Ravens. If nothing else, my daughter has now seen just how difficult it usually is to find a Snowy : ) Of course, we were happy to stop and photograph a number of old barns and homesteads during the day, including this very distant one, that we couldn't get closer to, so I had to use 48x zoom. The very distant, magnificent Rocky Mountains were always in view over the golden stubble fields. Four or five hours later, we called in at the Saskatoon Farm on the way home and drowned our disappointment in a delicious meal, ha. Their food is so good! A most enjoyable day, even if we didn't see a Snowy.
I've always associated sunset with a certain level of anxiety. Funny thing is it comes and goes. Most days I don't give it much thought. But I'm very keen on it when out with the camera. I suppose everything is more nuanced when I'm contemplating it through a lens. Light and shadow, style and form. There's no detail too minute to consider. By comparison none of this plays out when I'm safe at home, indoors, away from scenes like this. I might look wistfully from a window and imagine myself outside, but that's a long way from putting oneself out there. This isn't all just in my mind. Many evenings, light simply gives way to dark without a fight. Other times it feels as if daylight goes down swinging. And last night was one of those times. The twilight transition played out with a tremendous sense of sky drama, reaching from heavens above right down to the horizon. These are the times that primordial anxiety comes for me. Nightfall isn't something you are observing so much as experiencing. The darkness literally envelopes you, and the turbulent sky adds a feeling of frantic energy. It's the desperate hour. Another day is tolled in the book of life. Accounts are due in full. Was it a day wasted? Was it lost to anger? Do you have anything good to show for it? Hope so because this is the time you pay up. It will be dark soon, and a new day is already lining up. But you'll never get this one back. Desperate. Goosebumps on my arms, happy only that I have come here and am experiencing this moment. For me it makes this day a keeper. I raise the camera, shooting only on the basis of how this all makes me feel. It's all that really matters.
Taken a few weeks ago of a rare red maple leaf laying of some weathered wood at a train crossing. Approximately 75% of the leaves have fallen without having turned there full autumn colour due to a lack of frost.
Between heavy showers, a very late-in-the-season Red Admiral unexpectedly appeared. The insect was trying to get some warmth on the window frame.
Man showing signs of sheer anguish as he sits outside the cathedral in Bacolod City, Philippines. Although he wasn't the main focus of my shot the sadness of the scene was a stark reminder that there are many people throughout the world in this situation. Some people did actually help this man.
Snowy woods.
This is a manual stack of seven images taken on my phone, blended together. All the images were of the same view, more or less (it was handheld out of the window of the stationary car).
We only have snow for about 2% of the year here these days so it was rather opportunistic shooting on the way back from an abandoned journey (also known as desperately trying to take something becore it melted :) ).
Sadly the individual pictures turned out to lack any useful composition so I thought I might just use them for a play. I was trying to get the feeling of walking through snowy woods...
I quite like the result, and the feeling it creates. The stack and the blur effectively created a multi-exposure ICM look but using processing. Still no compositional focus though: I guess we'll have to pay more for that filter :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image (but keep warm ;) )
[One-hand held phone out the window in snowy daylight.
Seven images stacked manually as layers blended with reduced opacity with various blend modes from Soft Light to Colour Dodge, anything that made the stack look more interesting.
Converted to B&W.
Two copies made on top each with different amounts of vertical motion blur and reduced opacity.
Split toned the result with dark blue/ dark red.
Coloured the whole with dark blue Lens Filter adjustment.
Frame made out of wide inside Outline layer effect with gradient and reduced opacity.
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In 2011, horn poaching reached record levels, mostly due to demand from China and Vietnam.In March 2013, some researchers suggested that the only way to reduce poaching would be to establish a regulated trade based on humane and renewable harvesting from live rhinos. The WWF however opposes legalization of the horn trade, as it may increase demand, while IFAW released a report by EcoLarge, suggesting that more thorough knowledge of economic factors is required in order to justify the pro-trade option.
I am not sure if making this trade legal is right or wrong, but other efforts have not really worked to be honest.
This is the only time I have photographed a Wild Rhino. I am not sure If I will ever see them again in the wild. But who ever reads this and you believe that Rhino horn helps with whatever is that you think it helps with, imagine if your fingers were cut for your nails cause that is all this is...Stop killing Rhinos!!!