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I was fortunate enough to have the time free to be able to return to Yosemite for another chance of seeing Horsetail Fall light up on Thurs. Feb. 23, 2012. I’m in several Photography related Meet-up groups and I went up with several photographers from one of these groups.
This event though possible each year isn't guaranteed. All the elements and conditions must come together to see it.
On Tues. there were clouds in the sky and the sky got really gray about 40 minutes before sunset. On Thurs. the sky was blue and clear. I hoped it stayed that way right up until sunset.
This trip was an encore to the trip here February 18, 2010 to see Horsetail Fall light up.
14 photographers from a Bay Area Meet-up made it this year. I rose at 12:01AM on Thurs the 23rd then dressed, ate a light snack, got my gear in the car and left at 2:30AM to meet 2 companions 30 minutes away. From there we were to car-pool to Livermore an hour away to meet several more photographers. Then we car-a-vanned to Yosemite. We arrived at our first shooting location in the park before 8 A.M.
There we started photographing in the cold 32 degree morning at Swinging Bridge. We weren't alone. Down on the river we ran into Michael Frye and 3 of his students.
From here we went to several well known and wonderful spots in the park.
Mid afternoon we made our way over to our "spot" to photograph the sun hitting Horsetail Fall.
We didn't expect anyone to be in this spot. It's not well known. We arrived to find it as expected empty. We fanned out and set up our cameras, tripods, trail stools, and some stretched out on the soft pine needles and took a nap.
About an hour later a lone man slowly walked by nodded and kept walking. 20 minutes later he came back with his camera and tripod.
20 minutes later out of the trees came Michael Frye and his 3 students. His face was full of surprise to find us there.
A little later another lone man emerged from the trees with his camera and tripod. There were about 20 people there by then.
Right on time the light on the cliff face began to change and the show was on. All joking and talking stopped as we jumped into action and soon all you heard was the soft beeps of camera AF motors, and shutters clicking. Once in awhile I heard Michael giving his students a direction or making a comment. Then right before the color reached its peak a couple came walking up and sat down to watch the last few minutes of the phenomenon.
At the peak there was a spray of mist or perhaps evaporation that could be seen fanning out from the cliff face that added to the glow.
As you see there's very little snow up there. We were really lucky this year to see this.
Because the sky was clear the whole mountain had a glow so I framed more of El Capitan to capture it all. In less than 10 minutes it faded completely so it was time to pack up.
Isn’t it wonderful how something can look so different from day to day.
It was a Marathon day filled with laughter, adventure, good people to hang out with, and at the end of the day Mother Nature’s light show was the Pièce de résistance.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 80-200@ 105mm| f16| 0.4 sec| ISO 160| Manual Mode| Tripod| Self Timer| Circular Polarizer
Sony ILCE-7R
Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.4 T* mmj
Metropolis II is a very engaging art installation by Chris Burden currently installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From LACMA’s website:
Chris Burden's Metropolis II is an intense kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one six lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. According to Burden, "The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st century city."
The woman in the installation sat there and corrected any fender benders between the 100,000 cars that are constantly careering around this piece. Amazingly she did not have to do very much, though she did look miserable... it was loud.
(Dioctria rufipes / Höcker-Habichtsfliege)
A close portrait at 3,3X magnification of the robber-fly shown in the previous post.
Stacked image from 37 natural light exposures,
1/4 sec. Æ’/5.6 - ISO 100,
Canon EOS 5D Mark II,
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Lens
Olympus E-PL3, Pixco Focalreducer, Canon FD 28mm/2.8.
Rawentwicklung Rawtherapee, Nachbearbeitung GIMP.
1965 Chevy II brochure: www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/chevy/65nova/65nova.html
1965 Chevy II handbook: www.gmheritagecenter.com/docs/gm-heritage-archive/vehicle...
Fashion shooting published in Umbigo Magazine
Credits:
Model: Laura Tollesson (Francine Models)
Art direction and Stylist: Gemma Malé
MUA & Hair Stylist: LucÃa Hernandez Calderón
Assistant: Isma Guirado
Dress: Valentina Bcn
Jewelery: Luz Vargas Exclusive Jewelery
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This is a scan of a picture taken in the early 80's of the Carthaginian II. It served as a whaling museum in Lahaina, Maui from 1973 to 2005 and due to the hull rusting out, was sunk and made into an artificial reef.
On the day of my stalking photo ops in the bars along Hennepin Avenue, this opportunity presented itself.
I couldn't decide on the mono or color, so I leave it to the Flickr folks. The light was wonderful that day and the tongue-in-groove walls looked lustrous in the sunlight, IMO as well as providing some nice highlights on the subject.
I have no idea what she was doing. I think she was playing on her phone.
I was a bit hesitant in putting this up thinking some may take offense that I was implying something about the character of the young woman. Nothing of the kind.
The way I took it was the woman was so engrossed that she couldn't be disturbed by some guy with a pick-up line. So, the "No Sale" sign seemed appropriate.
Regulus II was a well developed supersonic cruiser missile by Chance Vought but failed to enter into service in 1950s. It was intended for launching from submarines with a nuclear warhead.