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...what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
- Tom Hiddleston -
Background
I recently discovered Marcel Minnaert's book Light and color in the outdoors, which provides a layperson accessible description of countless optical phenomena (using simple trigonometry). It motivated me to revisit this image, focusing on the developing the shadows. I hadn't previously appreciated the differing reflections from window glass and plate glass.
Technical trivia
After adjustments in lightroom (distortion, EV gradients, straightening) the Restyle preset "Strong BW contrasts" was applied, separating the cars and pedestrian from the shadows.
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For a missed connection in Boulder, CO: “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
...that must happen to you.”
- Walt Whitman -
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Numbers are all around you. Find your favorite number and make a killer photo. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=451
...I’d carry that around instead of a driver’s license for ID. You are what’s named after you.”
- Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title -
Title taken from a book I've been reading for English, Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin.
This was taken flying over the Caribbean at sunset. My favorite part (besides the stunning colors) is how the one cloud looks like a cross. I had been looking out of the window and crying because my family was going through a really tough time, and when I took this shot, I didn't notice the cross-shaped cloud until later. Just a small reminder that God is with us always <33
...of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.”
- Paul Valéry -
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Make a photograph with an emphasis on the sky today. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=641
.ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like
worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
songs never cease."
- John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) -
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
- Tana French, In the Woods -
"“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
- Epictetus -
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Make a photograph that illustrates being inside today. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=293
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...one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”
- Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe -
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“The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.”
― J. Raymond
Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
-Loren Eiseley
For a missed connection in Washington, DC: “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”