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I was invited to participate to the 2015 Athens Photo Walk and it was a great honour.
I feel grateful for I have met very interesting people, shared lovely photography moments and had a blast!
Thank you Thomas!
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
~C. S. Lewis~
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
~Ayn Rand~
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
~Norman Vincent Peale~
HBM!? :-)
My goal when I set out in this snow storm was to practice shutter speeds to see what effect it had on the falling snow and then when I arrived I realized that I'd left the tripod at home and figured I was screwed, but I had spotted this lone bench and then I saw that tree and knew I had to give it a go. when this popped up in Lr I was ecstatic, couldn't wait for Monday!
I feel much better today.
Sometimes we need to be reminded from the outside so that we don't lose sight of our goals.
The wake-up call was loud and strong and encouraged me to stay true to my goals, my views, my ideals, my self.
Dear body, I know what you have done for me over the last 2 years and that is why I will continue to work on more than just the physical level.
All the rubbish stays outside, everything, as far as possible.
When I first got into photography many years back. I thought the goal was to take perfect pictures. Then as time went on, I realized what I wanted. To strive for images that I found the most intriguing. Whether I've done that or not. Can be questioned. But, I'm going to try to keep photographing my way anyways.
It was simplicity that was the goal of this shot. A rock, a cloud, and the ocean. "Less is more", they say when it comes to life. Until it was discovered that a very wealthy individual coined the phrase, attempting to convince the less fortunate to accept their lot in life.
However, this simple phrase is true in photography. eliminating clutter does remove distractions. This is what the phrase is meant to illustrate. These are the simple goals that any photographer desires.
Another shot of what I'm going to call the field goal nest from now on. (Hat tip swbshop1.)
It was by chance that we went to the Homosassa River that day due to the tidal creek we normally go to being too low even at high tide. We spotted this nest, and moved in to watch. Turns out it was a great fishing spot, and that meant I got to linger a little longer while my father landed several Snook while I clicked away. Harsh light, but still a treat. I can't wait to go back and check on their progress this June.
I finally finished, Eastern Hokkaido solo travel ended at Cape-Nosappu. - Nosappu 2017:10:21 05:50:44
Shooting macro is incredible fun
Suddenly things are popping up
I see a person and a ball
What do you see?
(Obviously not easy to say anything here, as I see comments are coming but they keep disappearing all the time....)
I haven't got any grand travel plans for 2025. But that's OK as looking closer to home offers many possibilities. I would like to shoot more Jurassic Coast, Dartmoor and Cornwall.
And Somerset - I will be keeping a close eye on the redevelopment of this pier. I can't believe I have not shot Glastonbury Tor and then there is those skeleton trees near Exmoor.
So lots to think about and hopefully this Twixmas gloomy weather will pass. Please join me if anyone finds themselves down my way.
On another note will this Gavin and Stacey hype ever end? Only mentioning it as this is dead opposite Barry Island.
Pixie has been bored by all this rain and has had to resort to using her imagination. Here she is, after scoring the winner for Catford FC against Doggenham fc.
While the bigger power seen around the system (sort of) reflects the larger, longer and heavier trains, the rule is still the same. Move cars to and from customers. The two SD60M's are seen spotting USG Walworth on train L351. The plan was for these to build a T002 train for Chicago the day before, but plans quickly changed and they were simply used to finish the local work on the Fox Lake subdivison the next morning, seen here.
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I last photographed the Thames Barrier a little over a year ago, but became inspired to revisit the location after coming across an article about the 1953 North Sea Flood, which overwhelmed British sea defences in the Thames Estuary and led to the deaths of more than 300 people across several counties. It was remarkable to read that the gates protect not only the immediate East London borough against tidal surges, but also the infratructure, underground network and power supplies stretching beyond the O2 Arena, the Docklands and Tower Bridge and all the way to Westminster. In addition to this, the barrier now also needs to contend with the impact of climate change and rising sea levels.
With all of this in mind, my aim with this image was a darker, moodier and altogether more sinister alternative to my last take on the location, capturing the formidable size and scale of the barrier's piers at dusk, but also contrasting the peaceful flow of the Thames and the reassuring glow of the piers' evening lights with the foreboding tones of the evening sky.
The final image is a blend of a dozen exposures captured over two hours, starting with a 90-second exposure as the sun was setting and continuing into the evening, at which point the shutter speed had extended to 12 minutes. My intention all along had been to weight the emphasis on the later exposures, but I knew I would also be using the earlier and brighter exposures to enhance the lighting across the roof of the piers and the tones along the Thames. Having created Pen Tool selections in Photoshop for the barrier's piers, the sky and the river, I blended in portions of each of these exposures using a combination of Soft Light, Lighten, Luminosity, Linear Dodge, Colour Dodge and Screen blend modes. The goal at this stage was to bring out the reflective finish and dimensionality along the tip of the piers, to emphasise the glow of the lights inside the barrier, to produce a clean finish in the concrete at the base of each pier, and to brighten the water and darken the sky. After blending the exposures,
I applied a gentle radial blur to the sky and used Silver Efex Pro to lower its midtone structure and soften its texture, creating a subtle contrast between the piers and their surroundings. I then used Colour Efex Pro to add some minor tonal contrast adjustments, with a gentle Detail Extractor to bring out the gritty nuance in the piers. The final touches were a combination of a Gradient Map to emphasise the chilly evening tones and a Colour Lookup set to Bleach Bypass to desaturate the tip of the piers, which helped to bring out their metallic texture and to add some definition to their background.
The end result involved more planning and attention to detail at both the shooting and editing stages than my previous take, but it hopefully brings out the immense feat of engineering behind the barrier's design, as well as the rock-steady industrial strength of the barrier against a sometimes menacing force of nature, which was the aspect that inspired me to revisit the location in the first place.
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On a rainy evening, the "Popradské Pleso" lake in the Tatras mountains, Slovakia.
This shot was taken with a mobile phone, as my camera broke down at the very beginning of this trip. I locked the ISO setting of the phone to 100 ISO to try to get as much as possible out of the camera phone, and then resorted to post-processing to try to get a quality image.
For post-processing, I used darktable. I used non-local means denoising, and adjusted the tone curves to have a strong highlight in the center of the image. I use both the equalizer filter (in clarity mode) and the local contrast filter, with masks selecting the center of the image, to increase the contrast gradually toward the center. My goal was to make more visible the different layers of mountains.
Then, I worked a lot on the lower part of the image, the lake, to enhance the highlights in the reflection. For this, I started with a strong modification of the tone curves. However, this created a lot of noise as the sensor of the phone is not too good in the shadows. To fight this noise, applied a set of filters only on the lower part of the image: I used a stronger non-local means that I combined with a wavelet-based denoising (using the "profiled" denoising filter of darktables) as these have different types of artifacts. To cancel out the artifacts, I added to these a low-pass filter that smooths out the image. On top of this, I added artificial grain, to restore the grain of the image destroyed while smoothing.
Finally, I worked a bit on the clouds. I wanted to crop the top of the image, in order to focus more on the horizon line, but I was interested in the shapes of the cloud. So I used a liquify filter to warp these clouds down. Last, in a minor and classic trick, I created a vignetting-like effect by making the top and left clouds darker with a tone-curve filter.
Another image from a recent visit to Buchanty Spout near Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland. If you go to this location at the right time of year, you can see the Salmon jumping out of the water and up the falls as they try to get up stream to spawn. It certainly is some sight.
So here we are... achievement unlocked: 7000 followers. Thank you all, truly, I'm overwhelmed with the love <3.
Some of us have personal goals that we set for ourselves, long ago, I had descided that this was it, and now that I'm here... I'm not really sure what to do with myself.
A few things are coming to mind: Continue blogging for a few of my long-term sponsors and events, possibly get back into creating some new BOM stuff, or straight out retire.
Maybe it's a ten year itch, a Mid-(second)Life-Crisis... who knows, it will likely pass... just know that I have no more expectations of myself or anyone else, it's super empowering.