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I'm working on a conceptual interpretation of one question from a story in Scripture. In 1 Kings 18:21, Elijah confronts the people's desire to worship both God and a group of agricultural gods, collectively referred to as Ba-al. He asks them: "How long will you go limping with two different opinions?"
The question has potency for us, as well. I found an old crutch in storage at the church and played with it. I leaned it against the church's red doors, photographed its shadow, and made other attempts. Here are three shots from the collection. "How long?"
Although it assumes you already have a few bits to play with ;)
1. Is an Opteka 0.45x wide angle converter for a Fuji S5500 (and probably many other big zoom compacts). The wide front element unscrews to leave you with a single positive element which can be used as a macro adaptor (for which it's crap, but that's by the by). The threaded retaining ring on this can be undone to give you a naked glass element about 40mm across.
2 and 3. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz lenses have a conical adaptor to M42 thread that can be unscrewed (and replaced with a similar attachment to use them with other mounts like Exakta or Praktica B bayonets).
4. The single glass element sits loosely inside the female M42 front end of the BPM bellows unit.
5. The Meyer cone screws into the M42 BPM piece, and holds the glass element in lace while acting as a lenshood.
6. It all gets attached to the front of the bellows.
7. The bellows attached to the 30D (via another adaptor, this time M42-Canon EF). Bellows is racked out to about 3 or 4", which is somewhere near the focal length of the glass element.
Now all you do is go out and point it at things, focus with the bellows rack, and enjoy minimalist, lo-fi, ultra-soft and distorted photography!
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Nikon D200, 50mm, f/2,8, 1/50s, ISO 640, 04:14 hrs, flash fired.
EXPLORED 10/03/08 #5
Found this friendly froggy on a friend's country house in Morretes/Paraná/Brazil. This big-eyed voyeur was starying at me, hanging on a leaf, just above my head, while I was (don't laugh at me) taking a piss on a bush (it was 4 a.m, I was a bit drunk and the bathroom was too far away LOL).
I hate to shoot with the built-in flash, but I didn't had other option, so I cranked the ISO a bit and reduced the flash to the minimum power. I took at least 10 pictures with diferent perspectives, but only saved 4 of them. The 50mm I used has only manual focus, so the lack of available lights cumulated with the high ingestion of alcohol created an insurmountable barrier to achieve a perfect shot.
Post-processing info: a 5X5 square crop to get more details of the subject and improve the composition, Noise Ninja and Kodak Digital Airbush Professional on the background to reduce the grains, a bit of unsharp mask on the froggy, some color balance changing to make it more natural due to the flash fired. That's it!
Better sky today than at Langdale yesterday, Tarn Hows ,the National Trust tarn that was owned by Beatrix Potter and given to the Trust. At one time it was three smaller tarns . Good access to and from and around the tarn make it very popular. It was packed with people today until about seven pm.
I went looking for some cute cropped pants today. I wanted some that fit tight around the leg and had cuffs. I’ve lost weight so most of my pants don’t fit (YAY).I wore my black jeggings, black and gray lacy tank top, gray light cover jacket, wide black belt and my grey strappy flats. As soon as I entered Lane Bryant the SA told me how cute she thought my outfit was. We chatted and I tried on a bunch of stuff. I fell in love with the Capri jeggings. They fit great and looked good. I came out to see them in the 3 way mirror out side the dressing room and the SA said she loved that and the flowered T shirt. Bonus they were on sale $15. I decided to wear them out. Great outing.
Finally i do this compare with all the Lilee Dolls! The 4 pictures as taken with fake light from right.
She is my favorite bratz ever, you know, and now i can show you the little differences between all the variants of her!
1) Sweet Heart C.E. Lilee ver.1
You can see (sorry for the haircut, she was one of my first dolls) her eyes are blue/grey, her make up is gray/bluish and her lips are intense pink (with thin line).
She have left-to-right hai direction and regular hair line. Platinum Blonde wavy hair with red steaks.
I think this one is the "regular" s.h.c.e. one, more similar to the original prototype.
2) Sweet Heart C.E. Lilee ver.2
You can see how the lips are very LIGHT compared with the other variant of S.W.C.E..
The line of lips is more bold (ever pink) and the make up is a little "lighter" (the bluish part) .
The eyes have less "lines" inside compared with the first one.
She have left-to-right hai direction and regular hair line.
Platinum Blonde wavy hair with red steaks (less than the first).
Personally my FAVE one. Lovely color for the lips. She look so sweet and pure.
3) Play Sportz! Snowboard
You can see the eyes are just grey, the make up is "lighter" (the bluish part is like white) and the lips are colored by very hot and strong pink and DARK bold line. (i dont like this one for these lips).
She have straight platinum hair with red steaks (just on the line) and right-to-left side and "zig-zag" hair line.
4) Sweet Heart Basic
She had blue/grey eyes (like the 2 collectors) and the same make up but the lips are "little different" in form and in color: is a hot pink (similar to the first one) with thinner line but with more "cold" pink color and shiny glitter inside.
Platinum blonde wavy hair with right-to-left direction and regular hair line.
Enjoy this one! i LOVE her!!!
Part of "MY BEST" Set, a collection of Images that I feel represent my skill as a Photographer, as well as reveal my eye for picking good quality Images. View more of MY BEST here.
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EXPLORED ON 14 APRIL 2009 - # 269
While searching for coconut water to quench our thirst, I spotted this elderly man on East Coast Road this Sunday. He was sitting on a stone that had a milestone mark. It was 86 Kilometers away from Chennai. My car came to a screeching halt, as I wanted to try and photograph him.
It was late morning, and very sunny. This man sat there looking into the horizon with a very deep and intensely reflective look in his eyes. He reminded me a lot of my grandfather.
I asked him if I could photograph him, and he readily obliged. We started talking as my fingers started applying pressure on my camera's shutter. He told me that he had come a long way in life from being a businessman, owning a very successful shop, to becoming a recluse. He had handed over his business to his children, and was now waiting his time. I told him there is much to look forward to in life. He smiled and said, "the only thing I look forward to is to be with my wife, who I lost a few years ago. I wonder how much longer I have to wait?"
I asked him how old he was. He pointed to the milestone with a smile. He was 86.
Photographed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, and Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 IS USM L Lens and Canon EF 2X Extender. Handheld. Again a lot of you may think its a macro shot done with a macro lens. It was shot from about 10 feet away from the subject, at 400mm.
Photograph © Kausthub Desikachar
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Another shot from my first maternity session. Sarah was the perfect subject because she was willing to try whatever I wanted to do. She brought a few ideas of her own too, which was handy since I'd never shot pregnancy pictures before.
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Howards Travel
F17 HOW (PM03 EHZ)
DAF SDB250 East Lancs Myllennium
Sankey Street, Warrington.
New to Bus Vannin, Isle-of-Man as GMN-71-E
One of the coolest toys I have ever seen.The Nightfury dragon from the movie 'How to train your dragon'.
The dragon breathes fire,makes noise,can move its wings up and down creating cool sound effects - this was just too good. Wish I had such toys as a kid! :)