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My goal with this series is to explore every day scenes under the cover of darkness. A street corner, a lamp post, a doorway. Big city, small town, urban, rural. Man-made light versus nature’s darkness–––light and shadow interpreting minimalist settings in black and white. To see more in this series, check out Cover Of Darkness
Early on in the COVER OF DARKNESS series, I shot a couple gas stations. They were not initially the type scene I was looking to capture, but when I came across one late at night, bright and isolated in the darkness, it was impossible for me to resist, so I continue to shoot them. I have now shot enough that they have become a series-within-the-series. For a look at them as a collection, check out, Gas Stations
Good morning everyone. Sorry about the late posting today. Lots of thunderstorms moving through the area and I couldn't post earlier. Still pretty active weather, which is expected to last all weekend so I might be offline more than on.
Interesting story about these in-flight shots of a Prince Baskettail (Epicordulia princeps) so please bear with me while I share it.
With most dragonflies species that spend hours feeding on wing such as Saddlebags, Green Darners and Wandering Gliders, over a season you eventually find/see some perched. Not the case for me when it comes to Prince Baskettails. Since I began photographing dragonflies I've only seen one perched in three years and it was for a brief moment. Not long enough to get even one quick shot before it spooked and flew away.
When out & about in search of dragonflies about a week ago I came upon this Prince Baskettail cruising behind a tall stand of reeds out of the wind. Since it was flying so low I assumed it was getting ready to land. No such luck. After about 15 minutes of waiting I figured my only chance of a pic was going to be an in-flight one...something I'm not very good at. In the past I've only managed one decent in-flight pic, that being of a male Common Pondhawk. Very rarely do I even attempt in-flight shots because I'm so bad at it. But I figured with this male doing its thing about chest high seemingly oblivious to my presence it wouldn't hurt to try.
In the end I took about 50 pics of which 12 were half way decent. I committed two Cardinals sins when taking these photos...I used a tripod and auto focus. But in spite of that I felt these turned out pretty well...well enough to share. More importantly I now have some photos of a Prince Baskettail to add to my collection, although my goal still is to find and photograph one perched.
I hope you enjoy this series...and I hope you have a truly nice weekend. Before I forget, and since I might be offline tomorrow, I want to wish all you flickr dads a very Happy Father's Day. Enjoy!
Lacey
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A Tricolored Heron with a small fish in his beak. He was really fun to watch as he danced around chasing the small fish.
Sugarloaf Mountain / Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
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“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. A parable” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Being this close to the end of the project brings this quote into perspective. Although the melody will end on Monday that was never the goal, I feel I have learned a great deal about photography and about myself along this journey. Hopefully you have enjoyed the ride as much as I have.
I just couldn’t resist one more shot of me under the tree in Concord Park.
Below is a tilted image just to be a little different.
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Great Blue Heron on a sunken ice hockey net in the pond at Exton Park
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My son's teammate celebrating his goal save this morning. Fun was had by all. We never pay attention to the score and as long as the kids are running, we're happy...
OSR's Saint Thomas Job works the CN yard building their outbound while using the bridge as headroom. The mainline becomes OOSR just after the bridge ends and is used only for this purpose any more.
During the month of August Nottingham played host to the seniors international hockey World Cup. A fantastic event run over a two week period and I made a number of trips their to watch the games. Free admission, plenty of photographic opportunities and a fast moving sport. I took far too many images and I am still processing a selection.
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I spent a lot longer on this than I probably should have...it was really the post processing that was driving me nuts. No matter what I did, the left half of the image was overexposed and blown out. And the colors/tones just weren't...right.
But I achieved the end goal and I'm 80% on it. But I have chocolate molten lava cake and chicken nuggets to make. I also have a bathroom and bedroom to clean. But it feels good to get pictures out!
Before & After found on my blog
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