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Last year, I started Christmas gifts for some friends, and then, with the birth of my first grandson, I didn't have time to finish them. I am happy to say, that only one year late (lol), I have finished Kathy's gift.
Kathy had a Marx Imagination Dollhouse when she was little, so I decided that her Kathy doll needed one, too. I thought it would be fun to reveal the gift here before sending it to her. Now it's onward to finish more gifts! :)
Selinunte (Selinous and Selinus in ancient times) was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
It was destroyed during the First Punic War about 250 BC and never rebuilt. The utter destruction of every building, scarcely a single column being left upright, could also have been due to earthquakes.
The majority of the temples are distinguished by letters as their dedications are still under discussion.
This one, closest to the sea and situated in the ancient Acropolis, is called temple C. It is the oldest in this area, dating from 550 BC. In 1925-7 the fourteen of the north side’s seventeen columns were re-erected, along with part of the entablature.
"Multiple elements show a certain experimentation and divergence from the pattern of the Doric temple which later became the standard: the columns are squat and massive (some are even made from a single stone), lack entasis, show variation in the number of flutes, the width of the intercolumniation varies, the corner columns have a larger diameter than the others, etc.
Temple C probably functioned as an archive, since hundreds of seals have been found here and was dedicated to Apollo, according to epigraphic evidence, or perhaps Heracles."
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018
I wanted to illustrate how I am still a child at heart. I love dinosaurs, and I actually made a few from clay (pictured). For me these pictures show my inner child, my imagination, and a few aspects of my art.
As I took shots on the beach yesterday my youngest son spent his time playing in the sand,building a "river road."
Their imagination is a beautiful thing.
The exterior of the Journey into Imagination pavilion in Future World at EPCOT Center. The image was photographed with a Pentax ZX-50 film camera. The negative was scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner.
Under a canopy of leaves, this field trip was a much appreciated chance to take portraits of children. However, my amateurism also re-entered the scene, as I somehow removed the RAW from the card before saving them on a harddrive. Therefore, I have only some select JPEG's in reduced format to show...Quite sad actually, as they were some of the best outdoor-natural light pictures of kids I'd ever taken. But you learn as a photographer, just like any other human, from your mistakes. So I've bought a card reader and upped my procedures to always save the images I shot.
Imaginations of future world.
photo manipulation
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Took this out the window of my plane (obviously!) and thought the shapes were intriguing. I could easily imagine many things from it and wonder if you do too?
I'm pretty glad to put this week behind me, nearly. Today is the Spring Sing at the Princess's elementary school so we'll naturally be in attendance. Going to be a zoo but will hopefully be fun!
Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
July 2016.
Visit www.TwoLostBoys.com to follow all our travel adventures!
09/05/15 - GameTime Photography of the Imagination Station Playground in Collegedale, TN.
Charlotte Photographer - PatrickSchneiderPhoto.com
Seen at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas
Hit "L" to dim the lights..
Comments and criticism are welcome :)
Illustration (W. E. Terry) aus:
Imagination / Vol. 2 Nr. 5
Greenleaf Publishing Company
(Evanston / USA) November 1951
ex libris MTP
It is now, in the past and in the future.
It is mysterious, dark and secretly.
It´s colorful, tender and beautiful.
It is touching and important.
It can save you.
It´s big and powerful.
It can take you away.
Keep it save!
Illustration (H. W. McCauley) aus:
Imagination / Vol. 2 Nr. 5
Greenleaf Publishing Company
(Evanston / USA) November 1951
ex libris MTP
I wanted to get some Illuminations shots from a non-typical location, so I thought the Imagination pavilion might be a good spot. Next time, I think I'll try to get a different angle that has more of the pyramid in it, or even go to another spot entirely.
This was one of my favorite house floats, since I love the Gene Wilder version of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! SO much creativity and fun here!
Mardi Gras house float - 2022
New Orleans, LA
It's no secret that I absolutely love photographing New York City at night.
City nights create a huge spark in my imagination recalling all of the night sequences in the history of cinema. My love of night shooting is also aided along by the fact that I don't necessarily enjoy shooting the city during the daytime since I have extreme sensitivity to sunlight. And so, I spend a lot of time walking through the neighborhoods of New York City during the late hours of the night and wee hours of the morning. I would say that I spend more time out in the streets of NYC with my cameras more than I do during the daytime.
A little background about gear:
I have been posting my photography online ever since I first knew I was falling hard for photography. It's interesting to look back at posts and articles wrote a few years back opining on the exact moment I knew I was in love with photography. Many of my early posts about photography discussed how being limited with my gear early on helped me to learn about light and work within the constraints of my gear.
I grew up in Queens in a family that skirted the line between lower middle class and just slightly below. We made the most of what we had. When I was 17 years old, due to circumstances that I will write about one day, I moved out on my own in New York City as the rest of my family moved 2500 miles out west. With this context in mind, I think that starting out with limited gear in photography wasn't so much a stretch for me since I had a long pattern of trying to make the most limiting of situations work to my advantage in life.
When I finally had a little money and knew I wanted to upgrade my camera, I chose Sony based on trusted advice from a good friend. I never regretted that choice. And as I moved up with my gear choices due to an eventual partnership with Sony and then, most recently, being chosen to be one of 10 contracted Sony professional photographers, I have had the chance to experiment quite a bit with some of the most innovative cameras in the world.
I never forget where I came from though. I always feel fortunate that I can do what I do now as a career and while I am no longer as limited as I was when I started out with my $79 point-and-shoot camera, I think a lot about what I am able to do now with photography in contrast to what I was unable to do back in those early days. I think that remembering the limitations helps me to appreciate how much I am currently able to make my visual dreams a reality.
My theory about camera gear:
I felt it was necessary to include the above before I start to talk about the Sony A7S. Context is everything. Sony doesn't ask me to make posts about the cameras I use. If I enjoy the experience I have with a camera and love what I create with a camera, I will write and post about the experience. I never feel pressured to create content for the sake of creating content. I love photographing my travel adventures and my New York City adventures and if I come across gear that wows me, it's hard not to share how I feel about said gear.
My theory about camera gear is that camera gear allows me to test the limits of my imagination and vision.
Photographers are dream catchers and moment collectors and anything that lets me catch my dreams and collect the moments that make my heart sing to the best of my ability is going to be something I want to share.
Seeing in the dark:
Right before I attended the American Museum of Natural History's first adult sleepover, I was sent the A7S. It's an unusual camera in the current camera gearscape. The Sony A7S has the unrivaled ability to shoot up to 409,600 ISO, a fact which looks completely ludicrous when you first read that number. While I was at the museum sleepover, I was completely blown away by the fact that I was shooting in extremely low light at 25,000 ISO and ending up with images that had little to no visibly aggravating noise.
This past weekend, I decided to take the camera with me and my friend Spencer as we wandered around the Lower East Side. Spencer is one of the most talented guitarists I know and when we hang out in the summer, he usually brings his guitar to play outside, so I figured I would try to record his playing on the streets of NYC late at night when the light wasn't so great. While I love taking photos at night, I have felt limited in the past when it comes to areas of the city that aren't well lit.
Video's allure:
Anyone who has talked extensively with me over the last few months knows how much I am obsessed with exploring video in terms of creating new media. I have always viewed life as if it is a cinematic sequence. Even as a child, I imagined that every action was a frame in a never-ending film that I am directing. Photography is my way of capturing stills from that never-ending film and exploring shooting video is my way of capturing the sequences as they happen.
Some statements about this video:
1. I have almost no experience shooting video currently. I am still waiting to get a great directional shotgun microphone for my camera, in fact. This is one of the first videos I have shot that I was ok with posting online because I am blown away by the image quality (and I love his guitar playing).
2. I shot this video handheld as an MP4 (I hadn't changed the record settings yet.). There is quite a bit of city noise and my focus was on capturing his playing against that great backdrop.
And so, this was the result of my spur-of-the moment recording.
....This was recorded at 40,000 ISO!
40,000!
It was 1:00 in the morning and we were sitting in a low-lit section of Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. I didn't edit this at all aside from passing it through a noise filter in Premiere to lessen the city noise (minimally). The video does look a bit compressed due to upload to YouTube but other than that, it's hard for me even to fathom that I was able to record at such a high ISO with no issue. I could have pumped it higher as well but then I would have run into over-exposure issues.
The photo that accompanies this video was shot at 32,000 ISO on Clinton Street the next night. You can view it larger here if you wish: New York City - Night - Lower East Side - Clinton Street.
As I mentioned in my museum sleepover photo-set, when I got my first Sony camera (the A55), anything past 800 ISO was unusable due to noise. And when I shot most of my New York Snow photos, it was with the A99 at 4000 ISO which (for me) was the limit for that camera. So, 20,000 ISO and 40,000 ISO just seems like a dream!
Getting back to the beginning of this post, as an avid night shooter who prefers night photography over daytime photography, the implications that this camera has on my own photography is huge since I no longer feel as limited as I can't wait to do more night photography and video (I have a video project in the works currently, will tell more about it in due time) and capture the moments and sequences that make my heart sing.
And that makes me incredibly happy.
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Information about my New York City photography book which is releasing in stores and online in the autumn of 2014 (including where to order it):
NY Through The Lens: A New York Coffee Table Book
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It's freaking amazing that sometimes I would work for hours, days, weeks on a piece in order to get it right and at times you get it done in 15 minutes... this one took me actually 10. I love it.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. --Francis Bacon
photographed in Fox Lake, Wisconsin
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Imagination I understand to be the representation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present.
- Francis Bacon
still very busy at home and work...
lifes a wee bit hectic at the mo have a great new week and ill catch you all up as soon as i can....
andrew xo
09/05/15 - GameTime Photography of the Imagination Station Playground in Collegedale, TN.
Charlotte Photographer - PatrickSchneiderPhoto.com
old used paper for too clean my brushes,postcard format an i painted flowers on the card,Yes Yes Yes we keep on trying
09/05/15 - GameTime Photography of the Imagination Station Playground in Collegedale, TN.
Charlotte Photographer - PatrickSchneiderPhoto.com