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Place de la République, bent over the windshield of a car to get the reflection and the poster, lol ! Candid, 45mm, full frame.
This is the original shot (no crop). I had plenty of time to compose, so this is the best I could do in terms of framing both the poster and its reflection. However, I wished I could "merge" the two and get rid of the wall completely, but for that, I would have needed another lens, and the ideal format would be a square anyway. Here's the result of the crop. Now the question is: which is "best", and should I crop or not ?!
This is a practical case following up this discussion about street photography and retouching.
Part of "A stroll in Paris"
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It is almost time for Smugmug to close down Flickr for maintenance so that they can perform the mammoth task of transferring every single thing on Flickr to a new server. Hard to imagine, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that the transfer all goes smoothly. There will probably be a few glitches to iron out afterwards, but these will no doubt eventually be fixed.
The day before yesterday, 19 May 2019, I was out for the day with my daughter, to celebrate Mother's Day and yet another birthday for me. I always look forward to a day like this - my favourite way to spend a day! I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did. Unfortunately, the weather was cloudy and windy, especially when we went to Frank Lake after spending time at the Saskatoon Farm. We both still managed to get a few photos and, today, the colourful ones are most welcome, as we have yet another gloomy day. I think it must have rained again last night, as I can see there are puddles out there.
Our day started with a delicious breakfast at the Farm, after which we walked around the grounds. I always enjoy seeing the farm cats and dogs wandering about, inside and outside. Visitors are not allowed to bring dogs, which means that the farm animals can roam in peace.
The gardens have not yet been planted with flowers - just as well, as I noticed that there was a risk of frost on two recent nights. There are flowers blooming in the greenhouses, though.
Our next destination was Frank Lake, where we hoped to see at least a few birds. It was very quiet, with little to photograph - not the best time of the day. Two Eared Grebes were swimming near the blind, but what a challenge they were! Non stop swimming and constantly changing direction, fast. I think I ended up with a couple of photos that might be sharp enough to post - the rest have been deleted. A Yellow-headed Blackbird, perched on a cattail, was swaying in and out of the viewfinder.
It felt really good to get out, as I have been spending so much time going through all the images from our trip to South Texas. It did feel a little strange to be driving, as I have barely been out the last few weeks.
my wife asked me,
where have you been the last three hours ?
I created a picture.
Wow, she said, looks like a Mackintosh.
I didn't think of Charles Rennie ... I was just in a flow ...
I said, pretending to be indignant
and smiled at her ...
:::))) ...
have left the grid several times, that's the only way good things happen ...
grid versus texture versus pattern ...
;-) ...
Because I mentioned Ch.R.Mc ...
I could have also mentioned Oswald Mathias Ungers ...
Mackintosh was contradictory in a contradictory time of upheaval ... he admired the style, Wiki thinks, because of its restraint and economy of means rather than ostentatious accumulation; its simple forms and natural materials rather than elaboration and artifice; and its use of texture and light and shadow rather than pattern and ornament. In the old western style, furniture was seen as ornament that displayed the wealth of its owner; the value of the piece was established according to the length of time spent creating it. In the Japanese arts furniture and design focused on the quality of the space, which was meant to evoke a calming and organic feeling to the interior.
At the same time a new philosophy concerned with creating functional and practical design was emerging throughout Europe: modernism. The central aim in modernism was to develop a purity of expression with designs explicitly responsive to intended building use. Ornament and traditional styles were demoted. Although Mackintosh has been counted as a pioneer of modernism, his work always retained a decorative sensibility and features ornament. Mackintosh took his inspiration from his Scottish upbringing and blended them with the flourish of
Art Nouveau
and the simplicity of Japanese forms.
While working in architecture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed his own style: a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves (for example, the Mackintosh Rose motif), along with some references to traditional Scottish architecture. The project that helped make his international reputation was the Glasgow School of Art (1897–1909). During the early stages of the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh also completed the Queen's Cross Church project in Maryhill, Glasgow. It is the only built Mackintosh church design and is now the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society headquarters. As with his contemporary
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Mackintosh's architectural designs often included extensive specifications for the detailing, decoration, and furnishing of his buildings. The majority, if not all, of this detailing and significant contributions to his architectural drawings were designed and detailed by his wife Margaret Macdonald whom Charles had met when they both attended the Glasgow School of Art. Their work was shown at the eighth
Vienna Secession Exhibition
in 1900.
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Bald Eagles have an amazing eyesight. I have watched them spot small fish from over a 1000 feet away - even when the water's surface was reflecting so much light that it makes it hard to imagine they can see anything, but yes - the eagle will soar off their treetop perch and bee-line straight out & down and catch their meal in one try.
I have witnessed them catching salmon too large for them to lift off the water, forcing the eagle to use its wings to swim to the nearest shore - all the while the salmon is also trying to swim away pulling the eagle with it sideways. During one such incident the eagle was pulled underwater by a very large salmon whose talons were latched into its back! At the same time a seal swam by and dove down too... after what seemed like too long a time the eagle reappeared without its big catch and was so waterlogged she could not fly but was able to swim a shore nearby, and the seal had a big lunch.
[These events, and the photo above took place along the edge of Vancouver Island BC, Canada. A flickr community friend who has witnessed all kinds of these eagle, and many other wildlife encounters along Vancouver Island's shorelines, and who shared his amazing photos and humorous captions, sadly has passed away this morning. Jim Dubois< pictured here posted as Garnite and also has another special eagle photo/story site called The inelegant Eagle] That is why this eagle poster is dedicated to Jim.
Created for theArtistShack Fantasy Contest
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magikstock.deviantart.com/art/Bird-Sneak-peek-317153550
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ABCs and 123s (group & album) T is for Tea
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The *soul and also a bit of story behind this one is I don't even drink tea. But my neighborhood frequently has free things; so I spent hours sorting hundreds of them, (tea bags, not neighbors) one evening, with the mindset of taking some cool photos of the colorful, and sometimes misprinted, tea bags. My thought was I would first take some unique photos, and then give the tea bags away to various people, appropriately placing the amount of tea bags, and flavor with various people who, in turn, might pass on some of what they took to others. By orchestrating the giveaway, I got some unique photo ops and other people got nice gifts of free tea.
Last year I did something similar with seeds (except people didn't eat them right out of the package; rather I hoped they grew them first). I get a fun opportunity to photograph interesting things, in huge amounts, that not everybody would ever get a chance to work with. Photography can occasionally be just so darn fun!
P. S. This photo only shows about 1% of all my tea bags.
(DSCN7758BIGyellowbckgrndLotsTeaBagsWacolFlickr060921)
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see;
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is Jill, my Home Sweet Home Blythe doll. This picture is for the theme "I Love ___" in the Blythe a Day group. I love flowers, spring, and Blythe!
In the name of science - Martyr for the cause.
"Sometimes you're the scientist
Sometimes you're the lab rat
Sometimes it all comes together, baby
Sometimes you're going lose it all" — Just me, covering a song by The Dire Straits: The Bug.
"Dissection. The frog and the rat—that arch-martyrs to science—afford the most convenient subject" — Carl Wedl; 'In Rudiments of Pathological Histology'(1855).
"I could eliminate you in many different ways. But I am neither a murderer, nor a criminal. I am a scientist. You will die in the name of science". — Tchitche; Quote from the film Miss Mend.
"I understand that people become used to anything, eventually, no matter how horrifying. I’ve seen how medical students enter the anatomy lab for the first time. Their cadaver’s hands and face are covered with black plastic and the lower body is draped; all they can see is a torso. Still, they are silent and serious, and their cheeks flush pink. Sometimes people faint or vomit.
But a week later you’ll see them chatting and laughing with their lab partners as they wiggle their fingers around the vessels of the heart. A few months later they’ll dissect the face without any hesitation. They’ll prop the head up on blocks for better access and get to work on the forehead and cheeks and neck, complaining about the number of tiny structures they have to memorize, talking about how much they love to use the bone saw. They act like completely different people than the ones who entered the lab only months before.
Strangely, I’ve had the opposite reaction to animal work. In the beginning the difficulty of the procedures absorbed my thoughts, so it didn’t occur to me to react to what I was doing. Now, the tasks seem simple, so I have plenty of time to observe the crucifixion of a mouse, the insertion of a needle into a heart the size of a jellybean, the blood spreading out beneath the small body like dark angel wings.
Now it seems to me no coincidence that the most famous martyr of all time was not hanged or burned at the stake, but crucified." — Alison Christy; 'Sacrifice. When scientists have to kill' www.lablit.com/article/394
Hero The Band — Lab Rat ♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e43yEbKvMU
EdOne — Dissection ♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkU6hvMu-bA
Report — Scientific purposes (From The Anathema Report Soundtrack) ♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ27FhodaL8
Photo taken with mobile phone (Nokia Lumia 930) and edited with Fotor.
Transport for Wales 67025 seen passing Levenshulme on 1W55 Cardiff Central to Manchester Piccadilly with MK4 set HD07 and DVT 82230 on the rear
Thanks to all my Flickr friends new and old! Not physically old, well you can be if you want. The ones that have been with me from the begining or for a while. Thanks for your support!
I made these cupcakes for my gorgeous Bestie in the world!! She turned 30 today and we all went out for dinner. I really wanted to make her a cake or cupcakes for everyone at the dinner but after talking to Ping the numbers were just getting to big and my hubby said that I shouldn't take it on as it would totally stress me out!! LOL So we (hubby) decide we'd just get her a pressie and leave it at that! Anyhow I was at work today and just felt really stink that I couldn't make her a birthday cake ... anyhow again ... I thought why not just make her a special box of cupcakes just for her!! Oh that totally got me going so I started baking!! I had about 3 hours to bake, make decorations and decorate the cupcakes .... I finished just in time to have a quick shower and take some really bad photos!! So these are very last minute cuppies indeed. To make a long story short... My dearest Pingy LOVED the cupcakes!!! We had a beautiful dinner with family and friends and I just love her to pieces!!!
Happy Birthday Ping Pong!!!
Made Explore 13th April 2010 #195
my brother. today's his 19th birthday! :)
well, you probably won't understand the concept of this picture, but it's okay.
i don't even care if this gets comments. this is just one of my half assed pictures.
AHHAHAHAHLOL "HALF ASSED". i just love my brother a lot. :D he won't even see
this, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY OMFGZZZZZZ!@#!
tomorrow i'm going to the beach with my very best friend serena.
she might sleep over tonight since we're leaving early.
i haven't been anywhere lately except for school and i'm relieved to
be going somwhere tomorrow. i'm really excited, you don't even know.
&&& thank you to of moons, birds, and monsters and kati steiner for the testimonials :D:D<3
Remember when I promised to post my most favorite gerber photo for you?
Well this is the one!
I hope you like it as much as I do?
Remember this one?
Happy beautiful Bokeh Wednesday everyone!
92038 seen at Edinburgh ready for the Highlands sleeper trains to arrive before working them to Euston 13/12/19.
There's nothing more beautiful than a vacation day in the middle of the week. So you can spend the morning like this.
And yes, I am officially in love with my Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 lens. There, I said it. Sharp as a knife, wonderful smooth bokeh, great colors and contrasts.
Takumar 135mm f/3.5 eat your heart out! (I do stage little wars among my lenses, I like to watch them fight)
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
nocache.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/southern/articles/20...
The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
(for ODC - at the top - but not too high!!)
Moss finds his own natural agility courses,
this fallen pine was a bit like walking the greasy pole he reckoned!
More Mossy antics in sequence below :o)
I need to downsize my armies and make some cash. Paypal only, but I'll be at BFNE so we can do something there.
Panzer II- $50
ZiS - 42 - $60
Panzer I (if I were to sell it) - $40
Master Chief - $60
Roaglaan decaled British-$12 each or all 7 for $60
Check my phostream for better pics of each. Are my prices reasonable?
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~ "Day 1152 ~ MONDAY 2/20/23 ~ "IN THE LIFE OF ME" BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS EVERY DAY. I CHALLENGE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO DO A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO EVERY DAY. "IN THE LIFE OF ME" IN BLACK AND WHITE FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE" ~ "The snow melted already.".... ~
looking up at a still greenish tree at Pheonix Park, Dublin ---->
this is for John who likes upside looking trees: www.flickr.com/photos/39265644@N00/
No not me.
One carful owner, low mileage ,paint work a little dull, needs some TLC.
Open to offers (for the tank not me).
After our shopping trip abs and went for a drive and ended up at the imperial war museum north that is in the regenerated docks area of Manchester and as the sun was still shinning we took a wonder along the waterside.
For those of you that have seen episode 114..............you will know the inspiration for this photo.
High Banks Rock Carvings near Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway. This for my good friend Jan Brouwer, High Banks is a special place with so many good memories.
I have kept this photo for quite a while since taking it, waiting for the appropriate time to dedicate it to a wonderful friend I met here on Flickr. My friend is not a photographer, but rather, a painter, who regularly paints and posts the most beautiful and creative works of art one could imagine. My friend is also very modest and scrupulously avoids the spotlight, so I had been worried that I might cause discomfort by making a dedication such as this. We eventually discussed the matter a while back, and I got the go-ahead to post this photograph in the same manner that one of those lovely paintings was dedicated to me.
I chose this particular photo because it looks to me a lot like a watercolour painting. The photo is posted just as it came of the camera; there were no manipulations performed to modify its appearance. The soft, brush-like texture of the stems, leaves, and petals in the background is the result of the magical effect of the f2.8 lens aperture.
I hope my friend receives at least a small fraction of the delight that I feel when I view those intricate and stunningly beautiful paintings!
Photographed at the Descanso Gardens, in L.A.'s San Rafael Hills (near Pasadena).
For the casual tourist, this is quite possibly one of the most popular photography spots of the whole Monument Valley tour.
I was going for a central composition on this but after putting my back out earlier in the evening I was just happy to get any of the cup in the photo...
217.365.2014/1313 days in a row
www.ginoandsharonphotography.co.uk/RACE-FOR-LIFE/
Today our aim was to capture the emotions at this beautiful event. Our thanks to everyone who took part. All our photos sold from this set we will donate all our profits to Cancer Research. Please help us support make a difference so if you see your friends in this album please send them the link. We were at 4 locations and we tried to get everyone who took part so please please please buy a print or download a photo ... Thank you so much... Gino and Sharon
My entry for the Downfallrpg Senator and staff figbarf contest.
Following the death of Emperor Palpatine and the loosening of the Empires grip on the galaxy, the small world of Silla, led by its previous governor, and now senator, Bernon Morillo, seeks to join the New Republic. Hoping to bring new jobs and residents to his small and often overlooked planet, Morillo runs on a campaign of reform and freedom for his people. Having lived under the rule of the tyrannical Empire and having had a whole town kidnapped by the Empire for seeing one of its experiments (Zillo beast in Bad Batch), the people of Silla have bolstered behind Morillo in his attempt to bring them into the New Republic. From its energy independence (solar farms) and precious stone quarries suppling the wealthy of the galaxy, Silla is a planet poised to thrive under the protection of the New Republic.
From left to right
- Pilot
- Silla Royal Guard
- Lucius Sundar: Head of the guard
- Nash Morely: Chief advisor
- Bernon Morillo: Senator of Silla
- Galven Vinjagga: Governor of Silla
- Thalo Barris: Economic advisor
- Amara Verga: Head of PR
- Luca Agosti: Trade advisor
For the TT scale (1:120) model scene in the foreground, I used a part of my Russian tank car collection. The background picture is a modified in-game screenshot from the video game 'Mad Max' provided by virtual reality artist Anthemios (www.flickr.com/photos/83889674@N02). While the dystopian setting is pure fantasy, it's probably not too far away from what is happening today in some parts of the world.
Hope you all had a great 4th of July holiday! Ours was kind of busy with photo sessions and other things. But it was nice to be off work and get a little bit of relaxing in.
There have been a lot of dragonflies around here lately. Spotted these two at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge a week ago.
A female Miner Bee foraging for pollen.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on Kaiser adjustable flash shoes). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I'm holding on to the flower with my left index finger and thumb, and resting the lens on that same hand to keep the scene steady. As the bee moves around the flower I rotate the stem to keep it looking at the camera (helps the viewer to connect with the subject and to maximize my chances of getting a usable image). I pay attention to the area that I want to be in focus, and use my peripheral vision to compose the frame. I'm also twisting the camera in my hand, and the flower's stem, so that I can lay the flat area of acceptable focus over as much of the curves in the scene (the bee's head and the flower).
Conditions: Partly cloudy with temps in the 18C range and a light wind. Due to the breeze I was able to grab onto the stem without the bee noticing. Also when the sun went behind the clouds its metabolism would tank, making it easier to get close.