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Our Daily Challenge - "Beginning":
So thankful for the beginning of our fall weather. Yay for acorns!
Nikon D5000
The time has come again to appreciate the cute little animals of .banana peel. for @The Warehouse. Look at those chubby, happy faces! They\'re just too adorable!
.banana peel. Shiba-pan!
@The Warehouse
.Banana peel. // Psuedo // MOMOCHUU // Kibitz // E.marie
Also I want to thank my dear Dybie for taking the time to take and help me with this picture, I had a moment of stress and you did not hesitate to help me and I LOVE what you did with this picture, thank you very much and I love you.
Hilly Haalan Nika outfit, Cute wedges included!!
Check it out in world
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or its at MP
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Hair is from Stealthic
Head Catwa Lona
Pose by Fox City
It happened here:
maps.google.com/maps?q=italian+bar+road,+columbia+ca+9531...
Click the little map button to see the layout of the road.
A bunch of us, men and women, had been up at French Camp Ranch for cocktails with Scott and a little racing on the track Scott built.
As usual everyone, and I mean EVERYONE had kicked my ass on the track and on the way home.
I was not a particularly accomplished go-fast rider, and my bike was a big heavy powerful single cylinder dirt bike really well suited to tearing along smooth dirt roads, slogging through mud or climbing hills. Neither the bike nor I was well suited for nimble turning or close maneuvering.
It had rained recently so being tail end Charlie, I had been subjected to a shower of mud and stones all the way.
The group up ahead comes around the bend onto a long flat straightaway.
Midway through the straight, they enter a twenty yard long stretch of deep thick sticky mud. Their peaky little 2-stroke racing bikes didn't have the gut slammin' torque required to power through the mud-hole and one by one each and every one of them comes to a stop, hopelessly mired in the muck.
They're all pulling their helmets off cursing the mud when along I come around the corner and on to the straight.
Now, I'm pretty toasted, and seeing a chance to show everybody what a 500-cc Honda thumper could do in its own element, MUD!, I dropped a couple of gears, wicked that bad boy wide open and brrRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAP! I blew through that mud hole like Moses parting the Red Sea, showering my friends with a blast of rich fecund mud.
Laughing big, I looked over my shoulder to see everyone shaking their fists and screaming epithets in my direction. I waved jauntily, and returned my attention to the road ahead of me. Only there was no road ahead of me. The road was passing by to my immediate left, then to my rear and above my head and receding rapidly. I had been scraped off my bike by the rock at the road's edge that had intercepted my knee cap.
Well, I had gone over the cliff. But it was not a sheer drop and it tapered off at the bottom and except for the hit my knee took at launch, I had not been injured by the fall, the tumble and the gradual stop at the bottom.
After a while heads and shoulders appeared up along the horizon that marked the top of the cliff. I could hear them discussing among themselves what their course of action should be. On one point there seemed to be unanimous assent. I had gotten what was coming to me. They were all furious, especially the women.
With the help of a couple of the guys, I managed to get back up to the road. I looked and felt fine, except for the split in my pants. They were split from my left knee all the way down the leg, and upon closer inspection my knee was split down to the downey white of the knee cap.
When I took this all in, I got a feeling like the worse thing in the world was happening to me (think Israeli soldier being captured by Hamas, or vice versa).
In other words I went into shock.
Someone went up to town and brought back a van. Then they loaded me up and took me to the ER. You know the rest, except for this.
I have revisited this injury many times but only after reaching forty, each time with excruciating results.
I sincerely hope my recanting of this tale is not so charming as to divert your attention from the true morals of this story. Don't drink and drive/ride. Don't mess with your friends. Don't think you will never reach forty. And don't think you're superman/superwoman and can do all kinds of physically extreme shit. There's a lot of Kryptonite out there people!
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Since it's pouring rain, why not look at a pretty sunny fall evening from a couple of days ago at Elk Island...
Though the tree has no leaves left, he is still colourful. This must be a kind of magic ;-)
The technique: I come from the analogue era so i use double exposures. I make one manual exposure for the sky ( a little underexposed, hence i loose no details in the sky) and one manual exposure for the foreground. In cases like this where the element from the foreground reaches into the sky i use luminance masks to combine the two images.
I use my own camera profile which i created with the gretagmacbeth colour chart to get the exact colours i saw. The other presets in Photoshop or lightroom are far off the reality, only the neutral adobe preset comes closeset to my preset. Then i check the wb and the contrast, and thats it.
One thing i learned for photos that were shot into the sun or show a lot of sky is NOT to USE CLARITY. Clarity destroys the glow of the sun and makes clouds look weird. You can use it when shooting architecture, cars or something with structure (bricks etc.), but not for clouds or when you shoot directly into the sun or show a large portion of the sky. Or you can use it when you a clarity addict and want to get a cartoon look for your image.
If you are interested in luminance masks, here is a good tutorial
iso.500px.com/luminosity-masks-in-digital-blending/
www.redbubble.com/people/delfino/works/23537767-colour-vi...
watercolor - small Kansas schoolhouse on a fall evening.
Watercolor is such a humbling medium and I felt it on this painting. I seemed to fight this one the entire way. Worked and re-worked several areas on this one which I really don't like to do . . .
The light was great at the time of day with fall trees & colors all around.
Image made close to my home in a forest some 30 minutes drive. One of my favorite spots for the fall colors around. This year however it is quickly coming to an end. This weekend might be the last one of the prime colors. Take the time and have a walk this weekend.