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Four of us stood here on Isthmus Bay contemplating the scene. It was gloomy but pretty! I had been here 10 days previously for a very nice sunrise and the water levels were a good 3 foot lower and this old concrete jetty was high and dry!
What a difference a week or so can make to the water levels in the Lake District. I know we will probably have 4 versions of shots from this spot and "Andy Rouse" posted the colour version I had planned yesterday, so I've gone for a grainy, moody, square crop in black and white.
The square crop was a forced choice really as the Magician Pete Rowbottam was strategically placed just in the right sector of the full shot and I've just managed to clone out his tripod leg to get this. The other member "Muddy Boots" was agitating over to the left playing with his video head and metallic lens cap, quite tuneful to listen too really, if you like "timpany".
This is a classic shot across Derwent Water with the shapely Cat Bells ridge to the left and Causey Pike to the right of the jetty in the distance. There is a swish new boathouse directly opposite too.
Back to my local for a bit of angular slate. I liked the colours, the sheen, and the ambiguous scale.
The village of St Germans lies on the River Tiddy, part of the beautiful estuary of the Lynher which joins the River Tamar close to Saltash in S.E. Cornwall.
The 106 ft high St Germans Viaduct carries the train over the River Tiddy and on to Plymouth.
Fractured Highway, Route 190out of Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA - Copyright 2015 Martyn Phillips, M4Photo.
Heading out on the road one morning, Paul pulled the car over at the side of the road and we dodged cars and trucks to get this image looking back down the way that we had come. Paul’s choice of location was perfect and I just love the colours in the sky and the location of the elevation sign at the side of the road. Mixed with the repairs in the road’s surface, this image is full of interest and it is one that I have come back to time and time again.
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This is from one of the less photographed areas of Badwater. Taken well after sunset.
During this 90 second exposure, I briefly used my headlamp to highlight the main area of this photo. It provided a light source of a completely different white balance than the ambient light. I then used some layering methods in photoshop to tone down the light-I found that I liked just a subtle effect. Another photoshop trick I used was to process another version of the image at a higher white balance. I then used "color" blending method and a mask to paint some of the color into the clouds.
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I loved the recursive experience of having the Fracture crowd together in real life and gathering in Second Life simultaneously.
As the human person loses conscious touch with the sacred, the capacity to appreciate and respond to the way the sacred is expressed through symbol is inevitably lost. Religiously and theologically, the loss of the symbolic leads to the pathology of literalism. When the religious story is read literally, its true power and meaning are lost. As a consequence, access to the depths from which the story arises is also lost.
-The Not-Yet God Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin,
and the Relational Whole Ilia Delio, OSF
After waiting for the right conditions that never came, we decided to call it a night. The walk back to the car turned into a race to find compositions, as the light that we had been waiting for had arrived.
I trudged silently through the thick foliage, thinking about what was to come. Albornian forces had been spotted to the north, planning an attack on our ports. Without access to the water are situation would be at considerable risk - if the invasion was to be a success, an evacuation would be much harder to organize on land. The lack of access to the sea would also make it harder to contact the other kingdoms - not like there was any need. Neither Melikroth nor Kader had shown any sign if willingness to aid Isloriel.
With these unpleasant thoughts I wandered the Elkmire, searching for signs of the enemy. My captain had ordered me to retrace our steps and try to determine how far away were the Albornians. My observations would determine if our platoon would stay behind and defend the Elkmire or instead march to the sea and defend Zorthan.
After reaching a point about 20 kilometers away from our camp, I retuned and recounted to my captain that there were no Albornian soldiers in sight...
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A free build For the Fractured Kingdoms RPG. If you think there's too much greenery, I believe you may be right.
A local falls in the Gargunnock area which seemed to take nearly an hour to get through up the Brae and the dense undergrowth. Was raining heavily but was worth it!
After Misha turned the wheel she paused to listen... then she heard the fracture.
It shouldn't have been so easy...
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Iplehouse Cordelia wearing an amazing beaded dress by EtherealACreations
A macro view of a shattered crystal candle holder. I was going to use this as a prop for another image when I dropped it on my tile floor while cleaning it. It has now become the subject. The frame represents a span of 5⁄8-inch.
Strobist info:
One Nikon SB900 speedlight was placed 90° CL, two-feet away from and one-foot above the subject. It was fired through a 24" x 24" Neewer soft box in Manual mode @ ½ power.
The blue LED of a Coast TX10 Quad Color flashlight was shown from CL and exposed for 1.6s to provide added texture for B/W conversion.
The SB900 was triggered by two PocketWizard Plus X's.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D (AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 36mm and 12mm extension tubes attached.
The origin of the 'black hole' in the following image (previous post). Sorry, there's nothing to indicate the scale of this. This fracture is about four feet in diameter, produced by ice settling onto a tree stump that causes the break. The ice is about a foot thick. The black section with the suspended bubbles is less opaque, and more translucent than the surrounding ice. It might have something to do with the rapid refreezing of the water after the fracture.
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Explore @357, Jan. 21, 2015.
So many compositions to be had at Southerscales limestone pavement near Ribblehead. I thoroughly enjoyed my time capturing these various scenes.
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The boulders here are hard enough that the scavengers who have taken over the abandoned quarry south of downtown prefer not to strike them directly with their hammers.They heat the rocks first — with flaming tires, scrap plastic, even old rubber boots — so that the stones will fracture more easily. At dusk, when three or four blazes spew choking black clouds across the huge pit, the quarry looks like a woodcut out of Dante.
At the mouth of this stone quarry in Pune Maharashtra, diminutive women in saris toil 14 hour shifts breaking boulders into cricket-ball sized chunks of stone. Sledgehammers cut through to the air to the sound of splintering stone. Just behind them roared large machines that chewed up stone only to spit out construction gravel. Almost everybodies face was smeared with a white dust. A dust, heavy and suffocating, floating in the air like mist covering everything.