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At first sight of this structure, I was struck by the hypnotic pattern of parallel lines flowing through space. The contrast between light and dark, combined with the graceful curve, created an almost abstract composition. I chose black and white to emphasize the geometric purity of the design.
Even Flow
Pearl Jam
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little better, set a days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Life again, life again...
A shot from this mornings shoot at Gaire Beach in ther RNP. Cheers Ant and Paul for a great start to the day...
As a new day was rising, of course, I was trying to capture its enchantment.
It was a glorious, quiet sunrise, rich in colours and sensations, and the fringes of the clouds were telling the story of the endless ebbs & flows of light and darkness, the rhythm of days and nights which is the heartbeat of our beautiful, living planet - its tactus, if you happen to love early polyphony. Alternating waves of light and darkness. But the sad, hushed voices of the two towers (yes, there are two - one being out of the framing on the left), simply called Les Torretes, were telling the story of other ebbs & flows - those of human history, governed by different rhythms and forces. The rise and demise of ideas, technologies, civilizations, empires. It dawned upon me that one could envision the whole history of our planet as a wonderful, intricately intertwined superposition of ebbs & flows - some slow, some fast, some regular, some syncopated, yet all underpinning the vast, awesome symphony of life on Earth.
This shot is from my still partly unfathomed archives of summer 2015, Catalunya. If you are curious about the location and the ruined tower, please refer to my Gone with the wind.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and some very selected touches with Nik Viveza 2.
I have been working on this picture for quite a long time - you know, thoughts, second thoughts, afterthoughts, and so on - an ebb time for my life. I like very much the overall effect, but I must confess that when I look at it more closely there are many things I would have liked to do better - but was not able to. Maybe this reflects the very ebbs of my soul. However I hope you would take the good things this picture has to offer and simply neglect the bad ones :-)
Set up in the water below this nice 5 foot drop that is about 50 to 60 feet beyond Delaware Falls there in Ricketts Glen. Liked the view from this "shelf" there as you get a couple nice stairsteps view here but are still nice and close this beauty of a 5 foot drop.
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Ice flow covering the East River facing the New York Skyline.
Shot with the Koni-OmegaRapid. February 2015.
This photo was shot during the Dolomites West June 2014 photo workshop. See workshops here www.hanskrusephotography.com/Hans-Kruse-Photo-Workshops/W...
...not "the Don". but Scalaber Beck, near Settle, in N. Yorkshire! I don't know why, but I feel this straight-on shot from mid-stream, with foreground rocks, slows the pace somewhat from the previous 3/4 angles, which convey movement.
(And Quiet flows the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov, was published in 1928. It sounds so pastoral with that title, but is actually about the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace and war around the time of the Russian Revolution! I remember it from my Grandad's bookshelf, but I don't think I've ever read it. Perhaps I should!)
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"Portant sa plus belle toilette au gracieux spectacle de la nature, il sera souverain du jardin."
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a little Sunday abstract - who knows if some composition ideas of abstract painters, artists were not inspired by distortions seen through glass...
Glad I wore shorts this day! Getting a little wet in the name of capturing good water flow :-)
Very low swell this time but an occasional set did come in.
5 stop ND and 3 stop grad ND
Our neighbour put up an orange hammock to enjoy gentle breezes as our temperatures head to the upper 20's C (70 F). Fortunately not the 45C predicted in parts of Australia though!
The passage of time is most likely an illusion even though our senses tell us that time flows.
Consciousness may involve thermodynamic or quantum processes that lend the impression of living moment by moment. According to a certain physicist, time is not real and what we regard as the time is no more than changes that lead to the illusion of time.
8s exposure, liked this angle with the water falling on the moss covered rocks like white silk and the warm light streaming in from the right.
In a rather strange move, Nikon just released a rebranded 1st Gen Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens in Z mount at $1,199.95, the lens diagrams for the mirrorless Z and E mount versions are identical with identical MTF and minimum focus distance.
Like some Matrix “black cat” deja vu, Olympus (after being spun off from the Olympus Parent Co) did the same thing previously with the remounted 100-400mm f5-6.3 IS which was derived from Sigma’s older DSLR version of the same lens rather than the newer mirrorless 100-400mm DN version while asking for a price way in excess of the original Sigma DSLR lens!
The newer Sony E mount Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 G2 is currently available for $899 and the superseded version (now rebranded Z version) was released back in 2018 at $800. This makes the rebranded Z mount version 50% (+$400!) more expensive than the 2018 E mount version! Heck, the rebranded Z version is even ⅓ more expensive than the newest 2021 Tamron G2 version! Adding insult to injury, the remounted Z lens won’t get Tamron’s much longer 5 years warranty.
More choice is great but it’s not good to fleece one’s loyal customers so blatantly. The issue is not about who actually made the lens but rather Nikon charging 50% more for a lens that has already been replaced by a newer G2 version which is way, way too much just for native AF compatibility!!
As expected, the usual Nikon Z-ealot fanbois shills are out in full force with hyperbolic rationalization and attempts to warp space-time by suggesting that the Z mount version has some magical secret Nikon sauce for better performance, steering discussions well away from the ridiculous 50% premium for a superseded model! Ludicrous mental gymnastics such as outright denial that it’s the same lens, hallucinating possible addition of Nikon lens coatings or AF motors or that Leica does the same with rebranding Sigma lenses hence this is kosher…..
Nikon Z-ealots were already trying to spin that the Z 24-120mm f4 S is optically superior just because the VR mechanism was omitted! Tamron typically leaves out VR in their mirrorless lenses, perhaps the new Z 24-120mm f4.0 S was also designed by Tamron since this was also announced at the same time as the rebranded Z 28-75mm f2.8!?
Really odd behaviour that we seldom see in folks using other brands, perhaps Z-ealot shills live in the Matrix and hence lost all capacity to discern reality from fiction!
When the equivalent Z lens is markedly larger than other brands’ versions, Z-ealots will tell you that Nikon optimized performance over size! Nikon’s largest Z mount diameter supposedly allows for more efficient lens designs but yet they end up with larger, heavier and more expensive lenses, why?
The likely reason is all about financials. Nikon’s market share has been shrinking for years, their mirrorless market share is even smaller and continues to shrink in a shrinking market. In order to generate enough revenue to offset their higher fixed costs (esp R&D) over diminishing unit sales, they have to charge ever higher margins. As such even if the bigger mount diameter hypothetically does allow for more efficient lens designs, whatever design benefits derived must 1st go towards bolstering the Nikon imaging division’s bottomline hence their Z mount lenses ended up bigger, heavier and more expensive at the expense of the consumer! The Z system does not offer value to the consumer; www.flickr.com/photos/86145600@N07/51134617306/in/datepos...
Nikon has always been behind in releasing and updating lenses as well. This is also a direct consequence of a smaller market share even during the DSLR era. Canon will have version III lenses out when Nikon in many cases never even manage to update to version II.
In the UWA category, Canon had EF 16-35mm f2.8L III while Nikon was stuck with their 1st version at f4 from 2010! Fixed aperture standard zoom Canon EF 24-105mm f4 got version II updates vs Nikon’s single generation AF-S 24-120mm f4. Same for Prime lenses, Canon EF 35mm f1.4II while Nikon never went beyond AF-S 35mm f1.4G from 2010. Canon’s superb variable aperture EF 100-400mm II while Nikon never got beyond their disappointing 1st version 80-400mm zoom from 1996. Even with supertele exotics, Canon EF 400mm f2.8, 500mm f4 and 600mm f4 all reached 3rd generation updates while Nikon only managed 2 generations. Now in the mirrorless age, Nikon’s market share is even smaller, very small in fact. No wonder the Nikon shills have been so frantically spewing misinformation in the gear forums!
The Z 800mm f6.3 PF VR announcement is however much more exciting! This is the area where Nikon appears to have real competitive advantage over others.
Detail of a painting, somewhat tweaked, seen at SF MOMA. I thought was interesting how similar this image is to some abstracts that I did of water reflections. www.flickr.com/photos/booksin/50875184712/in/dateposted-p...
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