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

You know once I start I cannot help myself

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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• Paris is an iconic destination for photoshoots, especially for women, due to its timeless elegance and romantic atmosphere. The city’s historic landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Notre-Dame, create stunning backdrops that exude sophistication. Parisian streets, with their charming cafés, cobblestones, and Haussmann-style architecture, offer a blend of classic and modern aesthetics. The city’s association with high fashion and luxury enhances its allure, drawing top photographers inspired by its artistic heritage. Paris also offers soft natural light, ideal for portraits, and a vibrant creative culture that fosters innovative and breathtaking photography.

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13 Catalan independence leaders, including Carles Puigdemont will charged for rebellion by Spain's Supreme court. Peacefully politicians are being jailed in the EU for representing their voters. Absolutely shameful!

Facism is back in Europe! This is another black day for the democracy in whole Europe.

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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the rites of punishment, of a certain mechanism of power: of a power that not only did not hesitate to exert itself directly on bodies, but was exalted and strengthened by its visible manifestations; of a power that asserted itself as an armed power whose functions of maintaining order were not entirely unconnected with the functions of war; of a power that presented rules and obligations as personal bonds, a breach of which constituted an offence and called for vengeance; of a power for which disobedience was an act of hostility, the first sign of rebellion, which is not in principle different from civil war; of a power that had to demonstrate not why it enforced its laws, but who were its enemies, and what unleashing of force threatened them; of a power which, in the absence of continual supervision, sought a renewal of its effect in the spectacle of its individual manifestations; of a power that was recharged in the ritual display of its reality as 'super-power'.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Around 4 p.m., she would be returning from school. But school would be far from over. Home work takes another two to three hours. I am just imagining how "childhood" would have panned out, say, 20 000 years ago. What the human cost of discipline is. And what lifestyle might be preferable.

I remember Ancient History in my sophomore year of college and reading about the Spartans. So disciplined, they would even chew sand to help keep themselves awake to study hour after hour. What steel-like wills!

Not me. So often I trick Chandler by telling him I need to lick the edges of the cone to prevent the messy drips. Yum. And not a Spartan in sight.

Hope you're having a wonderful summer with family and friends.

K9 Kennedy K2 Keep Watch Lookout On Neighbor Family’s Home Near Midnight - IMRAN™

Kennedy & K2 love my neighbors across the cul de sac like family. At home they’re thankfully not the kind to bark at every sound of traffic. Last night they suddenly barked and rushed to the door. I went to check.

They always and only do that when they sense someone near the home of these neighbors whom they also got taken care of two years ago when I had to be away unexpectedly for three days. Even though it was the family back from a party but another vehicle was there too.

So these two just sat outside my door not coming back inside until they saw everyone and were satisfied that everyone was safely inside. They do the same thing even when I’m upstairs and the doors are all open downstairs. Good dogs. 🐕🐕🏡

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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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• Paris is an iconic destination for photoshoots, especially for women, due to its timeless elegance and romantic atmosphere. The city’s historic landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Notre-Dame, create stunning backdrops that exude sophistication. Parisian streets, with their charming cafés, cobblestones, and Haussmann-style architecture, offer a blend of classic and modern aesthetics. The city’s association with high fashion and luxury enhances its allure, drawing top photographers inspired by its artistic heritage. Paris also offers soft natural light, ideal for portraits, and a vibrant creative culture that fosters innovative and breathtaking photography.

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Huey Lewis was very disciplined and patient while I dangled St. Patty's Day corned beef leftovers to the left of my camera. Great job!

Strobist info - YN560 in the back, SB-700 left, B800 w/ beauty dish center. Triggered with Pocket Wizards

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Whisper of Elegance

Her presence whispers of ancient tales,

Like a breeze that through time sails.

Elegant, poised, a gentle might,

In her shadow, day turns to night.

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

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The discipline and training applied by decathletes have always been regarded by me as the ultimate in athletic dedication. Whilst it is of course always a huge honour for any decathlete to achieve the ultimate status of World Champion, I cannot help but regard all those who dedicate themselves to this most gruelling of athletic disciplines as Champions.

Russian Decathlete Aleksey Drozdov at the European Cup Combined Event (ECCE) Super League June 2009, Szczecin, Poland. (Thanks for permission for the use of this image from Trackpic at www.trackpic.net).

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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.

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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.

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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,

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