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A storefront photo of a wonderful giftshop in 'downtown' Earlham, Iowa. All the flower arrangements by the entrance make it quite inviting.
Developed and color-graded with Darktable 3.6.0 using two vintage LUTS.
A sailor in a sailboat sits atop this gift store that is located inside a float home at Fisherman's Wharf, Victoria.
Happy Window Wednesday!
I won't disclose which store window I found this. All I'm saying is it was discreetly displayed on the corner of Southwest 10th & Morrison in Downtown Portland.
I don't need to tell any of you about all of the different places where this could be sooo fitting, either. You can use your imagination.
Interesting name for a book store. I was thinking it maybe should be 'No Hard Feelings' :)
Both me and the hockey team I play on could sure use some low-cost counselling! We got thumped 8-1 last night, and 6-0 the game before! Yikes!!
That sounds like an interesting book... How to Do Nothing. :))
I went back to my archives for Sign Sunday and found this abandoned gas station and store in Holbrook, Arizona. The grunge is quite a contrast to the apartment complex in the distance. HSS
More than two years ago i.e. 2012, I had this little discussion about photographic gear going with this bokeh picture.
You may not need the golden umbrella for a great picture.
Surprisingly now I found that the gear you used does have an impact on your style or approach to your photography after all these years with different cameras or lenses.
What do you think?
Have a great Friday!
The umbrella is used as the shelter from the rain. So is a golden one practical for such purpose?
I have a story here.
Years ago I just picked up this photography hobby. I was then shooting with my little consumer camera Nikon F80. One day I went to camera store again browsing the lenses. I saw the salesperson showing the big flagship camera Nikon F5 to a gentleman. The salesperson tried hard to explain what is aperture and shutter speed etc to the man and showed different modes on the camera. The man looked very puzzled and said anyways I would shoot in auto mode just to be easy. How much is it? He asked. I did not follow up on the ending of the story.
There is rain outside. Will you take a golden umbrella out? Some people will choose golden umbrella because they want to get attention from others.
Do you need D4 or 1Dx for shooting? Or do you want a golden umbrella? :o)
This is another shot of Steveston in bokeh taken outside a gift store on Moncton Street.
Have a great Friday and weekend my friends!
Macro of Book Ends bought in Washington, DC over 30 years ago. This was a special gift from my Mother and I have enjoyed them all of this time. They were bought in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
Back Atom's Cosmic Curios on 66, along Route 66/E 11th Street in the Meadow Gold District.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wednesday morning 10 April 2024
When there is hope, joy is close and almost visible.
Wish all my friends a happy holiday season with hope and joy!
These are angels found in Steveston gift store.
Bokeh is an important feature in modern day cameras or lenses in specific.
Therefore it is important to have an assessment of the boekeh in Fuji X100.
The specification says the lens aperture contains 9-blade diaphragm. This is supposed to give you and all the bokeh obsessed photographers the visual pleasures by means of smooth and round shaped bokeh.
Is it good enough? I think it is better to let you be the judge.
I had a walk in Gastown this morning and did more test shots on the X100.
Have a Merry Christmas!
spring street, new york, ny, 2002, 31"w x 49"h, combine painting: mixed media on found kitchen cabinet frame.
Giorgio Armani pouch, Shopping Bag from Jacques Carcanagues Gallery (Spring Street in New York City); Ben & Tournesol (Montreal) Gift Store Shopping Bag; ripped ti-shirt; burlap; Heineken Beer Carton (opened up); political party outdoor advertisement (which I confiscated); dictionary page; mylar; all on an old kitchen cabinet frame found in the garbage near my house.
What it's about for me: compartmentalizing of art; slotting ourselves into the different parts of ourselves. Tight arthritic, framing of the spirit. Against designer consumerism.
In contrast to the carefree spirit at the bottom... earthy colors, expressive, gestural markings in crayon... a release. Anger and optimism.
The piece is slightly skewed. Leaning to the right.
- wegway magazine and exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 2005, refused.
Taken at the entrance of another store in New Westminster showing off some holiday and seasonal gifts, Christmas items. The all white decor with silver accents was fascinating.
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Canon 70D and Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM lens with circular polarizer.
Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Wagoneer_(SJ)
The Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sunday, September 14, 2014.
Buck Atom's Cosmic Curios on 66, along Route 66/E 11th Street in the Meadow Gold District.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Friday afternoon 27 December 2019
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Canon 70D and Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM lens with circular polarizer.
Tuesday, 3 March 2020: our temperature this morning is +2C (windchill +2C). Sun and cloud. Sunrise is at 7:14 am, and sunset is at 6:22 pm.
Back to a few more Texas photos today. All six of the photos posted this morning were taken towards the end of Day 10 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas in March 2019. The Birding and Nature Centre on South Padre Island was our last stop of the day, made because we found we had time to call in. We spent about two hours there on this first visit, seeing 29 species of bird. As usual, I did not see every one of these on the list. The following morning, we returned for our planned visit. This is such an amazing place to visit!
www.theworldbirdingcenter.com/Spi.html
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the nearby SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.