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And unfortunately she still hasn’t learnt her lessons, despite of being rewarded with disappointments, every single time…
Looks like some people just don’t learn…
In that case, it serves the damned fool rightly to be lonely even after scaling such heights…
(Btw - Only pp: saturation up by 15... else, pretty much OOC...)
Expectation goes along with disappointment. The more you expect, the more likely you'll be disappointed. So make yourself a favor and forget about it. Enjoy the journey, that's all that matters.
Have a good day everyone,
-Alessandro
Verticality Set (3/5)
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Near Bennet, Nebraska
This was my third try at getting a photo of NEOWISE. The previous morning had a much clearer sky. But I started out too late. When I was leaving the house I could see the comet without the help of any magnification. But I thought I needed to get away from light pollution and when I arrived at a place I thought was suitable I could only see the comet through binoculars because the morning sky was blotting it out. Last evening I tried again but the comet was barely above the horizon and could barely be seen with binoculars. When I started out this morning I could see clouds on the horizon where the comet was plus the location app indicated that the comet was directly in the light pollution over Omaha. I didn't have much expectation that I would see anything but decided to drive out of the worst of Lincoln's light pollution hoping that may be the clouds might clear. When I stopped I was delighted to see that the comet was lying above the clouds.
Wrapped in expectation
Penelope was the daughter of Icarius and a first cousin of Helen of Troy. She was the wife of Odysseus and was famous for her cleverness and for her faithfulness to her husband.
When Odysseus failed to return from the Trojan War (he was delayed for ten years on his way home), Penelope was beset by suitors who wanted her to remarry. In order to delay them, she insisted that she could not remarry until she had finished weaving a shroud for Odysseus' father, Laertes. She worked each day at her loom, and then unravelled the cloth each night. After three years of successful delay, one of her servants revealed her deception, and the impatient suitors angrily demanded that she choose one of them for her husband immediately. At the prompting of Athene, Penelope said that she would marry the man who could string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axes. By this time, Odysseus himself had secretly returned, disguised as a beggar; he passed the test of the bow, and then proceeded to slaughter the suitors who had tormented his wife.
In expectation of next weekend… another one of the beautiful @carla_sonre from previous session @paul_meulemans. Hopefully Covid-19 will contain itself in the Wroclaw area…
Shot taken with the Fuji X-T3 / Fujinon XF16-55mm/F2.8
Elinchrom ELX 1000
Godox 120cm dodecabox
For best view: Press L
Capture One 20 / Photoshop CS6 Mac
©2020 Leon Harting - Credit MUST be given AT ALL TIMES
Despite of my expectation, the weather was quite bad when I arrived to the famous Jokulsarlon in Iceland. Low clouds, iceberg entirely surrounded by the fog, rain and poor visibility (Basic icelandic weather so…). After waiting 2 hours, the visibility improved a little bit, with sometimes a very shy sunray to warm the place and create a foggy atmosphere at the surface around the floating iceberg
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III + EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM @28mm, 39s, ISO50, f/13 (Lee filter Bigstopper)
Inside Tompkins Sq Park, near the northeastern corner (in case you're thinking of sunbathing there)
I've restarted my photography blog on Tumblr. To see the latest blg posting, click on this URL:
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(more details later, as time permits)
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Quintana
21-10-1996
MADRID VIDA MÍA SERIES
MADRID MY LIFE SERIES
Please, do not use this photo without permission
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if you want to see more pictures, visit my website:
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This is a reportage, on the long Syrian Border, showing the consequences of the war, refugees and lifestyle of the city.
Thanks for your comments and favs!
The anticipation, a 'Duchess' at Retford after dark; the expectation of an arrival into the well lit Platform 1; the satisfaction, a late start from York resulting in a full bore charge through the station on the Up Fast. The attraction of No. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' heading The Railway Touring Company's 'The York Yule Tide Express', 1Z43 1633 York - London Kings Cross, brought out the crowds, and they were not disappointed as due to late running and a Retford stopper following, the train was routed through the Up Fast. The reason for the late departure from York was reported as being due to turntable problems at the NRM, resulting in a long turning move via Church Fenton. Copyright Photograph john Whitehouse - all rights reserved
“The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.” Sophocles.
Having to suspend a two-week photo trip is not very pleasant. But I like to believe that things happen for something, and if I can not be where I had planned, there are always alternatives. In my case I have the immense fortune of being from a province that hides wonderful corners. So yesterday, although the sky did not promise much, I took my gear and I went with some friends to the always charming coves of the Cape of Roche.
I have seen some of the most incredible sunsets of my life on these small beaches surrounded by cliffs. This time I was not disappointed again, and although it was quite difficult to find a good composition, in the end everything was aligned. The result is this photograph full of that special light that seems to exist only in Cadiz.
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"La alegría que viene más allá de la esperanza y más allá de la expectativa es como ningún otro placer en extensión." Sófocles.
Tener que suspender un viaje fotográfico de dos semanas no es muy agradable. Pero me gusta creer que las cosas suceden por algo, y si no puedo estar donde había planeado siempre existen alternativas. En mi caso tengo la inmensa fortuna de ser de una provincia que esconde rincones maravillosos. Así que ayer, a pesar de que el cielo no prometía mucho, cogí mi equipo fotográfico y me dirigí con unos amigos a las siempre encantadoras calas del Cabo de Roche.
Algunos de los atardeceres más increíbles de mi vida los he visto en estas pequeñas playas rodeadas de acantilados. En esta ocasión no me volvieron a defraudar, y aunque me resultó bastante complicado encontrar una buena composición, al final todo se alineó. El resultado es esta fotografía llena de esa luz especial que parece existir solo en Cádiz.