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This shot was taken at Presidio,CA right below the Golden Gate Bridge about an 1/8 of a second before getting sprayed then soaked up to the ankle in water. Having a rain-jacket draped over the camera helped... a bit. It's shortly after dawn, but the light never really hit the bridge.
This shot was inspired by Patrick Smith... If you like this image at all, go check out his stuff its really amazing and he is extremely helpful in his posts!
On that note, if you do go down to this spot when the surf is 10-20ft at high tide consider bringing the following items I neglected to bring: Shorts, water shoes, towel.
No HDR this time.
Canon 5D mark II
17-40 L @ 25mm
1/4sec @ f11
Lee soft edge ND grad filter .6 (I think)
Post processing done in Photoshop
*Hit #46 on explore on Jan 15th... whewt! My first photo on explore! lol Thanks to everyone who viewed this image!
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A bus line runs from Petaluma (where I had just done a show at the This Week In Tech studios) back to San Francisco. As it neared the Golden Gate Bridge, I realized that sunset was only a half an hour away.
So I got off WAY before my destination and double-timed it down to Marshall's Beach. It's on the west side of the bridge, at the end of what can only be termed "an assload" of stairs. No, let's call it "a series of assload-sized runs of stairs."
I made it to the shore in time to scope out a couple of spots and quickly decided on this one. It wasn't just luck that I had the Good Camera with me, but I could just as easily left the tripod at my lodgings, and all of this happened on a clear day. All in all, I felt the reassuring hand of Divine Providence on my shoulder and under the circumstances, I'd feel like a colossal dope if I hemmed and hawed and dithered, and missed the sunset.
Anyways. I wanted to get the orange light _of_ the sunset on my subject. This meant that I had to forego photos of the sunset itself, even though it was bloody spectacular. I kept sneaking looks behind me and I got a few photos with my phone before the battery went phhhht.
Speaking of "phhhht," this was one of the last shots I took before the sun slipped below the horizon. Sunsets are tricky. You'll get gorgeous light but it only lasts for a few moments.
As with the Brooklyn Bridge shot I got a few months ago, I think I'll be tweaking this image a lot over the next few weeks and experiment with a bunch of different looks. I'm pretty happy with it. I did a good enough job while at the beach that I've nothing but options now that it's on my Mac. The exposure is right, the focus is right, the composition is what I wanted…I don't see any technical errors that I need to correct or obscure.
Which isn't to say there isn't room for improvement. I felt an urgent need to commit to a composition and then get the camera and the tripod locked down and set properly. If I'd made a special trip to get this photo, I'd have tried to show up an hour earlier. It'll be nice to come back to Marshall Beach. I'll spend the whole afternoon just hiking and being a tourist. And then at 15 minutes before sunset, I'll return to what I decided was going to be the very best spot for photos.
Experience is the best ally I have. I'd visited the Golden Gate twice -- three times? -- before I was even aware that it was possible to cross under the 101 freeway and see it from the sunset side. And then to find that there was a trail that wound its way all the way to the ocean.
I died twice during the climb back up to street level (thank heavens I was able to jury-rig a defibrillator out of my Anker 21,000 mAh phone charger and a microUSB cable). A small price to pay for such a fine little creative adventure. This shot represents why I enjoy photography. Whether the photos are any good or not, the burst of physical, mental, and creative effort is a lot of fun.
Long time no volcano image, so here you have another image of our once-in-a-lifetime experience at the Fagradasfjall in Iceland. For the full story behind our first adventure right after our arrival in Iceland, please have a look at the caption of my previous images When the Earth Cracks Open and Bursting. Somehow I regret not having experimented more with different compositions, getting closer to the lava for more abstract shots (which was not recommended as toxic gases are heavier than air and therefore gather above the ground) and taking a longer exposure with my filters, but we were just so stoked and time flew by so fast. Nevertheless, I really like this image because it also shows the surrounding hills in the background as well as the pool of lava in the foreground. I hope you like it too!
Jacob's Ladder refers to a ladder to heaven described in the Book of Genesis (28:11-19) which the biblical patriarch Jacob envisioned during his flight from his brother Esau:
Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it [or "beside him"] and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it." And he was afraid, and said, "This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
This is a close-up photo of a rusty metal gate and its reflection on the back of a stainless steel sign.
For more images of the Golden Gate Bridge, please visit my Golden Bay Bridges set. Where you will also be able to find images of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Explore: Highest position #417, February 5th, 2008.
A picture I took last week in Gosford Forest park, Northern Ireland. Loved the colours behind the gate and thought it looked quite symbolic.
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Spookzilla Hunt 2018 by Toxxic Rhiannyr
▨ Hunt Dates: October 22nd-31st, 2018
▨ Costume Party: October 28th at 6pm
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This lovely fence and gate are one half of the entrance to an area I like to call the Secret Garden. It's an area used for private functions...such as weddings...at a local botanical gardens.
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"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?"
Gatehouse next to St. Albans Cathedral. Even the peasants' army of 1381 could not get through. The uprising achieved none of its aims. Church and nobility continued to exploit, control and humiliate the majority. But not forever. Not anymore.
Golden Gate Bridge emerging from the fog. Unlike a lot of my images, this one is straight out of camera. It was a magical morning full of the fog that makes San Francisco so intriguing.
Taken in The Adršpach Rocks. This is an incredibly beautiful Czech Rock Town literally taken out of fairy tale pages. Built of sandstone, with spiers reaching 100 meters high, complemented by an emerald lake, a waterfall and breathtaking landscapes.