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The beautiful blue-poppies, native to the Himalayan Mountains, are on display at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.
Another of my 13-year-old daughter's images; she took this one with her iPhone 6. Wish I'd sent my DSLR with her!
Her flickr account is Old Crow's Daughter
another piece in my new body of work entitled "A Slender Thread"
une autre oeuvre de mon nouveau projet entité "Un Fil Maigre"
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Archival pigment prints on bamboo washi paper, hand-torn, hand-embroidered, hand-painted with coffee. 6"x9"
As I told you all a coupe of weeks ago (see my Where the thoughts have no name) I have recently unearthed a folder with an Autumn sunrise session taken at a precious location in November 2017 - a magic place I love very much. To give a contest of the situation I am quoting below from the text accompanying my A wordless dialogue, the only photo from that session I uploaded at that time.
[... At last] I resorted to my favourite enchanted garden - a small, peaceful corner of land along the valley of the river Adda: just downstream Lake Como, just before the river enters the Padan Plain - a handful of meanders and a plot of wetlands where secret, ancient words spiral in the air along with the breaths of the river and the earth.
As the sky was slowly brightening a dense, shapeless mist rose from the river - a precious feature of the location, but... well, it looked too dense that morning. Every hint of detail was engulfed and nullified by that milky, glowing nothingness. However I shot a lot of bracketings, faintly hoping that in post-processing (thanks to the raw magic of RAW files) I would be able to make something emerge from that apparent nothingness. But, believe me, it was a bit frustrating - quite a poor day to seize, as an impudent voice kept repeating in the back of my mind.
The sun was already climbing above the horizon, largely ignoring both the frustrating blanket of fog hovering over the river and my little feelings about it - and lo!, suddenly the world was emerging all around me, like the restored backup of a long-forgotten dream. [etc.]
This bracketing has been captured as I was merely trusting the magic of raw files; silent ghosts of mist were wandering all around me, whispering secret words, and only the faintest glow was suggesting that the sun was rising, after all.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot). Raw files processed with Darktable.
As to Darktable... It is a really wonderful piece of software, but I am aware of my being still a novice; so I hope that somenone experienced in Darktable reads these words and can help me. When processing these raw files I have seen something emerge from a milky nearnothingness and all was perfect. I have exported the raw files, as usual, in TIFF 16-bits uncompressed format and... and now there were bands through the mist - especially in the underexposed shot; nothing like that in Darktable, though, just in the exported TIFFs... Any suggestion about this?
I went for a wander around Potsdam there a couple of weeks ago, I found this tiny wooded area and decided on going Macro with the Tamron 70-300.
This pine cone, amongst other things, was on the ground in sat in so many colours that spoke about time, history, old age and new life. It struck a chord with me and so snapped it.
Sometimes you can get a shot and still be in a state of not knowing quite how you achieved it, such is the magic of being still a novice at this. Learning is a wonderment in itself.
Still hot days, too bloody hot to be honest and Germany is sweltering. Hope you are all surviving and so as always thank you! :)
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I like this moment when tons of water crash back down into the sea with that bubbling effect as the lighthouse reappears behind a curtain of spray.
J'aime cet instant où des tonnes d'eau s'effondrent dans la mer alors que la tête du phare émerge derrière un rideau d'embruns.
Haystack, Canon Beach Oregon. Even the name is iconic, people travel the globe to see it and folks like us put it on our list as must haves.
I had always assumed erosion had caused this, but I was mostly wrong. Haystack and it's fellow marvels here on the west coast were sent here via the Yellowstone hot spot. That's right kids, lava millions of years ago was sent to the sea and the movement of the tectonic plates are lifting the basalt towers up to once again bask in the sun. Erosion of the weaker elements gives them their unique and wonderful shapes, this one being the most famous of them all.
Seeing it is worth the trip and Pelican Brewery is within walking distance if your travels were dry...... :-)
I believe this maybe a Whitebell still developing and about emerge in a cascade of beautiful white flowers.
I went out to shoot the sunrise this morning over the Adur valley and how lovely it was to be out again too,i`ll have the first image possibly tomorrow.
One from back in Autumn 2016 during a rare cloud/fog inversion. Just the tip of a favourite hill visible thru the dense layers of mist.
Considered cloning the birds out, but I actually quite like them so they got to stay, even if they do look like dust bunnies.
#52 - Explored 27/2/17
So yesterday started out as being cold, foggy and very, very frosty. The frost was a heavy hoar frost (possibly a soft rime frost), so everything was well coated. My plan had been to go to Ely and wander around the cathedral, but the opportunity of the fog and frost was to good to miss. I did get the train to Ely anyway, and just wandered along the river for a few miles.
It was cold mind you, by jings it was cold.
The fog lasted for a little while, than the sun managed to break through leaving everything crisp and white.
I've got a good few days worth of postable material, so prepare yourselves :-)
My variegated Hosta is just emerging from its winter slumber, showing off its beautiful color on this day, March 29, 2024. Happy Easter and Passover, all!
Another shot from the inversion on Christmas day. I waited around for the Wallace Monument to emerge from the mist and fog and from this location the Ochills' gave a lovely back drop.
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An early morning, autumnal view across Grasmere in the English Lakes as the mist begins to lift. Thanks for viewing.
#Holga 120 GTLR w/ #8 yellow filter
T-Max 400
Semi-stand in Rodinal 1+100
V600 scan
Silver FX Pro 2 & Lr6
This was a pretty thin negative so I used Silver FX to rescue the image.
The interesting thing about darkness is that once your eyes become adjusted to it, you can see well enough to move around. Once you start moving around, you'll eventually find a light source that beckons you out of the black.
The secret is to not hold still.
~ Bryce Fields
For Me Again Monday - something new, a photo processed in a new way.