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Dear Flickr fans,
There are 14 series to share with you today, I paid nearly two weeks and a half to observe, daily 6am ~ 8:30 am. (29-06 ~ 16-07-2013)
Mostly don't have comment box, really want to save everyone's time.
Of course, finally give a some photo by comment box, please continue to support Aberlin. Thanks a lot.
This is my first time so observed, very excited to have this wonderful opportunity,please believe Aber will keep the best safe distance.(Broken shell and day 2)
Wish I going with you together and touch nature and ecological protection,
( I know you should be better than me, but you and I strength is insignificant, we live and we learn.)
Need to tell a key point with all Flickr fans,
Whether for a contact or not, when you have comment to me, absolutely will must reply, but could be and delay.
If you just added to favorites, perhaps I'm ignored, anyway in principle, should be well to give attention to comments friends, am I right?
All best wish,
Aber
My tribute to Kent MacDonald's "A World Between Worlds" series. I noticed one of his photos on the Flickr Blog last week and felt inspired to try my hand at making something similar.
You can view his photo series here: www.flickr.com/photos/kent-macdonald/sets/72157650314035922/
I was going to post something else, but I think it can wait until next week. I'm getting really excited about this project and all the ideas I'm having for future photos, I can't wait to share them!
The game is Trivia and we're pretty darned good at it!
Trivia
noun
1. Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information.
2. A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
3. Plural form of trivium.
We were sitting outside the Explorers Lounge on the Coral Princess, waiting for the room to clear out. They were having an art auction then Afternoon Trivia. I really liked the way the light was hitting on Niccy so I took a shot, in Manual!
We've discovered in all our years of cruising that we've learned a lot of useless facts and statistics, making us naturals for playing trivia. The cruise ship hosts always have some good questions and it's always fun to learn something new.
On our last Transatlantic we actually joined up with some other folks and formed a team (Maximum of 6 players per team). We had 2 retired Veterinarians, a retired Microbiologist, a retired Research Scientist, Niccy (for all things medical) and myself for most things music related. Everyone got along with so well that we all scheduled another Transatlantic cruise for next year, from Cape Canaveral to SouthHampton.
Yeah, we might take our trivia a bit too seriously but only when we're cruising!
My first foray into using Ilford Delta 400 ... I have to say I like it !
I also change up my developing workflow a bit as I added a minute wash wish Hypo after my fixer and a final rinse with distilled water. It seem to have helped as my negatives, at least for this first roll, seem to be consistently clear of any particles.
"The Unexceptional" series
Bessa R3a + Voigtlander Ultron 35mm f1.7 + Delta 400 @ 320 iso + HC-110 B @ 7.5 mins (30 sec agitation)
Decided to beat the heat of the southwest for a couple of days and visit the northwest... This is one of my favorite falls in the area
Or perhaps, just asleep on the job! (ツ)
Only joking! - Actually, she was simply waiting for the flower to open! ;-) It's another one of those really minute bees - even smaller than Leo - about 5mm long!!!
Best viewed in lightbox and on full screen (F11), of course!
The gear! Shh!!! Mum's the word!
★ Food for thought :
The bee is fast becoming an endangered species in many parts of the world. In France, the newly arrived Asian hornet is just another nail in the coffin. Without the bee, we too could well become an endangered species! :-(( - Love thy neighbour and thy bee however small and insignificant it may appear to be.
"If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live" - Albert Einstein
God slay the Asian queens and save our noble bees!
(to the tune of God Save the Queen)
Take care and many thanks for calling,
Colin ... (ツ)
Back to photo page : Macrosoft ©
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Pont y Pandy - Slate Mill or Ynysypandy and Nant y Pandy, near Porthmadog . The most impressive and best location visited on the trip to North Wales was this glorious building. The light from the sun going down gave great colous and a perfectly clear night made for a spectacular display of stars as well as the Milky way. I felt quite insignificant when I looked in to the sky that night.
"The Unexceptional" series
Leica M3 + Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 640 iso + HC-110 B @ 6 1/4 mins (30 sec initial agitation followed by 3 turns on each minute)
You can disregard all of those bubbles on the surface of the water. They are really insignificant….but you might want to check again oh great bayou breath.
The truth is that I have no idea what causes those bubbles and they can disappear as quickly as they appear. The bayou changes day to day and can change hour by hour. I’m sure there’s an explanation, but I don’t have the answer.
A capture of one of our lumpy lizards making his way through the duck weed and such that is floating on the surface of the water of Horsepen Bayou. This particular gator is roughly ten feet long.
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"The Unexceptional" series
Leica M3 + Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 640 iso + HC-110 B @ 6 1/4 mins (30 sec initial agitation followed by 3 turns on each minute)
Back to the HC-110 after giving D-76 a run
At the Canadian War Memorial I was suprised at how emotional I felt. Today we are involved in wars which a lot of us think we shouldn't be. Another news bulletin comes on informing us that yet another solider has been killed and I do not stop to even think for one moment about it.........afterall it happens all the time, right?. As I looked at the photograph today it became very real to me that a smiling boy fighting somewhere in the world, for a cause he may not even believe in will never return home and all that will be left is a photograph of him somewhere smiling.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? (Eleanor Roosevelt)
I know that sometimes there are just no alternatives.......but (Me)
Bessa R3a rangefinder & Color-Skopar 21mm f4.0 lens
Neopan 1600 developed in HC-110 dilution B for 7 minutes
Some expressions are just so good that they make the obvious technical mistakes insignificant. This is one of those expressions... and this is full of technical mistakes... and I love it.
Taken in Bahrain!
Lighting: One AD-360 in an 80cm Jinbei BD w/ diffusion.
Hom sap que les discussions més absurdes pels detalls més insignificants, per les coses més nímies, es poden trobar en una comunitat de veïns.
En aquest cas, però, sigui per imposició de l'urbanisme municipal o per un exercici elogiable d'entesa veïnal, el resultat és d'una harmonia excepcional.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
"Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained."
~ Woody Allen
Another image from Historic Long Branch in Millwood, Virginia.
Like re-visiting an old friend. I will never forget the first time I stepped up to the rim and looked over. It was one of those rare times in nature when you realize how insignificant you are in the big picture. Crater Lake National Park. April 2017.
The Pink-eared Duck is named after an insignificant spot of pink feathers on the side of the drake’s head. More striking are the bold black-and-white stripes which dominate the ducks’ neck, breast and underparts, giving rise to its vernacular name of Zebra Duck or Zebra Teal. Pink-eared Ducks have odd-shaped bills, evolved to feed in a specialised manner: water is sucked through the bill-tip, then expelled through grooves along the side of the bill, filtering out tiny invertebrates in the process.
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One of the things that I love about photography is how it changes your entire perspective. Suddenly, I find myself enthralled in the beautiful details of things I used to think were insignificant and even ugly. On my walk, I saw these branches that were stripped away by winter's brutality and left with nothing but thorns. Not the most beautiful sight but the way the light hit the thorns really made them illuminate. Of course the light wasn't pink, that was processed :P. Anyway, I thought it was a good example of how beauty doesn't necessarily lie only in perfection but in everything around us...we just have to look :).
~ Explored highest position #13 ~
Last week I got a notice from 500px that someone wanted to licence this photo that I took and uploaded almost 3 years ago. A little investigation revealed that, if there is a logo on a private building, I would either require a waiver from the owner or I would have to remove the logos. Well there were logos of a sort, but they were very insignificant (look in Comments, clickable, to see them), so would I really have to comply? Yes.
I wasn't going to be bothered since it seemed to be too much to ask for what I assumed would amount to 10 bucks. However, it turned out that it was more like 10x10 bucks, so I began to rethink my reluctance.
There was much more back and forth with 500px than I want to go into here, which included me having lost my original higher res version of the photo, but at the last minute I capitulated, removed the logos on the lower res version (so silly because they are so benign) and figured out how to get the amended version back to 500px. It took about a dozen emails to sort it all out. There are many twists and turns that I am leaving out, and I am only telling you half of the rigmarole, but it was quite a frustrating process, especially since it was happening when we were preparing for and then actually receiving company. I was in quite a dither at times.
BTW, I don't really do 500px and just uploaded a few photos as an experiment in the past. Maybe I should rethink that however.
I don't know who purchased the photo or why as that information is kept confidential for some reason. I mean to say that I always thought it was a nice photo, but the world is full of nice photos. I just wish I knew who the buyer was and where, but that's life.
Anyway, the original upload is below in the Comment section, the only difference being that it contains the logos. I still can't understand why they presented a problem when they were so obscure (one is just a flag and the other is pretty blurred), especially since the buyer obviously didn't mind them in the first place.
...In everthing, even in things simple and "insignificant" for the others.
It's up to you to choose how to see this world...
+2 in comments.
On Explore, thank you! ♥
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... I know ... I know ... how could I see this seen and see a set of balls ? Maybe there is something seriously wrong with me !!!!
Oh go to hell ... you were thinking it to !!!
"The Unexceptional" series
Bessa R3a + Ultron 35mm f1.7 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 800 + HC-110 B @ 7 1/4 minutes
Legacy Pro 400 (Apparently Neopan 400)
Dear Flickr fans,
There are 14 series to share with you today, I paid nearly two weeks and a half to observe, daily 6am ~ 8:30 am. (29-06 ~ 16-07-2013)
Mostly don't have comment box, really want to save everyone's time.
Of course, finally give a some photo by comment box, please continue to support Aberlin. Thanks a lot.
This is my first time so observed, very excited to have this wonderful opportunity,please believe Aber will keep the best safe distance.(Broken shell and day 2)
Wish I going with you together and touch nature and ecological protection,
( I know you should be better than me, but you and I strength is insignificant, we live and we learn.)
Need to tell a key point with all Flickr fans,
Whether for a contact or not, when you have comment to me, absolutely will must reply, but could be and delay.
If you just added to favorites, perhaps I'm ignored, anyway in principle, should be well to give attention to comments friends, am I right?
All best wish,
Aber
Final de trajecte. Final del meu Camí dels Monjos. Així ho assumia a la sortida de l'església del vell monestir de Sant Llorenç del Munt, a frec de capvespre, a punt d'emprendre el retorn cap a la plana. Però encara vaig tenir temps d'asseure'm una estona al replà de la Mola tot intentant de fer-me presents alguns dels regals que m'havia proporcionat aquest recorregut iniciat al monestir de Sant Cugat. I vaig tenir la gosadia, la barra, de recordar-me del mític viatge cap a Ítaca, de què ens parlava fa més d'un segle el poeta grec Kavafis... "Quan surtis per fer / el viatge cap a Ítaca, / has de pregar que el camí sigui llarg, / ple d'aventures, ple de coneixences... (...) / No forcis gens la travessia. / És preferible que duri molts anys, / que siguis vell quan fondegis l'illa, / ric de tot el que hauràs guanyat fent el camí. / Ítaca t'ha donat el bell viatge. " Però sí: el modest Camí dels Monjos, insignificant en temps i extensió, també m'havia regalat -més enllà d'haver arribat al punt de destí- petits grans tresors que m'anaven revenint a la memòria, entre els quals les persones que m'havien acompanyat resseguint les fotos que han testimoniejat el meu recorregut a través de l'antic camí carener... I sí: fent camí cap a la Mola, he après molt de camins tradicionals, de restauracions d'indrets, de monjos i monestirs, de carrers i vials per on passa el Camí, d' edificis i monuments, de masies i camps encara sembrats. I he après una mica -ben poc--de fotografia (que per això som aquí...)
the last moments of the sunset when the sun itself becomes insignificant....and all that matters is the color...
Have a great Labor Day everyone...
Thrilled as ever to find another couple last Sunday!
The one in comments is with a 7-spot Ladybird for comparison.
Sheinton - Shropshire
"The Unexceptional" series
Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss Planar T* 80mm f2.8 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 + D76 1:1 @ 10 minutes
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Most days I have no faith in humanity. I feel myself wondering how it is that we have survived for so long when we are so cruel, selfish and destructive. But there are some days - and these days are few and far between - when something happens, an act of kindness, and for those brief few moments, my hope is restored. That happened twice today. My heart clenched twice in gratefulness.
I have spent a lot of time over the past few days sketching out concepts for photos that are going to be difficult to pull off, but I want to give them ago. I have a whole series of four planned out at the moment, and I have a couple more ideas, but there are a couple of things I need first, like an articulated skeleton (adult-sized ones are not cheap - I might have to try and borrow one for a week or so). I think I might wait until the weather becomes slightly more reliable and possibly even until I have finally saved enough for a new camera, but at this rate that will be this time next year...
Did you know that if we compressed the whole existence of the earth into one year, the oldest direct human ancestor is born on the 31st of December at 11:02 pm and the first anatomically modern human appears at 11:36 pm? The Roman empire falls at 11:59:50 pm and the industrial revolution occurs at 11:59:58 pm. We have not been around all that long, really. We are quite insignificant.