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Why does an insignificant landscape feature such as Jug Rock call to me? That is one of the mysteries of the universe. Once I receive such a call, I am obligated to answer it by examining the feature up close.
Taken from near the end of the trail to Delicate
Arch, where the trail has a drop-off on one side.
Taken at St Mary's lighthouse from the cliffs at Old Hartley 7/3/10.
Huge expanse of sky and not a cloud in this morning.
and yes, I've now got a name. More to do with impending coomon license laws than the need to self promote but it doesn't hurt!
Chicago looking practically insignificant in the expanse of lake and prairie.
Chicagoist "Around Town" October 20, 2010
Thanks, Chuck!
And WBEZ "Cook County's air quality gets an "F" from the American Lung Association April 24, 2013..
Thanks, Chris!
Day 150 - self portrait of sorts... taken inside the Ray House - an insignificant little farm house that matters to no one but me. I daydream about it - cant stop photographing, and often change my route to drive by it. Today was the first day I ventured inside...
Travis just appeared behind the glass while I was shooting through the front windows and smiled like the devil. Yes! He got in somehow! - I thought to myself. This guy is like me, he is just as adventurous in nature, he hears my radio station. God Bless this boy and whoever sent him to me to be my friend! :D
One day when I grow up and become rich, I will buy this house and live out the rest of my days. :)
'Such things we bury within us. Such fears, voices, seeming insignificancies, memories and scars.
Imagine an internal strobe light that flashes the detritus of a life lived endlessly. Imagine there might be a code, a purpose, a line through the very heart of all the events and shadows of your life. Imagine sewing and stiching every element of your personal history together in an attempt to understand the present so obsessively that the past becomes your every waking moment.
Loud, bright and clear. In focus. Imagine you can remember everything, every detail of every experience. Imagine these are the thoughts that occupy you, inhabit you and you can't turn their volume down.'
Read the full blog post here : jamortram.posterous.com/100088425
part of the existing project ; insignificant.
All photos taken on iPhone 6
Macro x15
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Having a hard time with this assignment in my Photography Class. Every time I thought I found something insignificant -- a small puddle, a raindrop, a plant -- I had to ponder what is insignificant. One drop of water is nothing but with millions of others, it can carve out the Grand Canyon. One plant is nothing, but it can crack through concrete.
Finally came up with this weed, which is called "Mule Ears". It grows out in fields and, while it's a weed, our landscaper, who is fanatical about eradicating non-native and destructive plants, said, "Oh don't bother about that one. It doesn't reproduce that fast. It doesn't really do any harm. It's just kind of there." I guess that's insignificance.
My dilemma now: should I have photographed it this way? By zooming in close and letting it fill the picture, have I made it somehow significant? Should I have photographed this in such a way that it truly seemed insignificant?
Well, as I said, my assignment portfolio grows with placeholders that I'll hopefully be able to replace with something better when the panic of getting something for every single one of the forty assignments is over.
No detail too insignificant!
I never really understood why you weren't supposed to flush "while the train was standing in the station." Then, when I finally figured it out, it became even more fascinating to do it!!
Humbermouth Train Display
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
"Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low', 2018 photo, fragrant sumac, , USDA Hardiness Zone 3-9, Tiny insignificant greenish-yellow flowers, Michigan Bloom Month 6-7, In Garden Bed K2 for 261 DAYS (Lowe). Planted in 2017.
Rhus aromatica (fragrant sumac), is a deciduous shrub which occurs in open woods, glades and thickets. A dense, low-growing, rambling shrub which spreads by root suckers to form thickets in the wild. 'Gro-Low' is a dense, low-growing, cultivar which spreads by root suckers and typically grows only to 1-2' tall but spreads to 8' wide. Not good for wet soils. Full sun to part shade.
#Rhus #fragrantsumac
(And a not insignificant degree of my trademark chaos)
The vertical tiles on the tub surround will also be changed to the creamy marble to match the shower and integrate that new color into the whole bath.
The drawer is up on the counter because the electrical outlet the crews need is located behind the cabinet it belongs in. The white pole is a tension rod to hang a shower curtain temporarily when the tile and fixture are installed while we wait for the glass to be cut and installed. And the big fans are hepa filters to protect everyone's lungs from the construction dust.
Meanwhile, the cats have to eat up on the counter so the dogs don't get their food.
"All of this is so insignificant. In the grand scale of things, there have been so many before who have been in this position. I'm just another one. Life is so short. It's like we're already gone, really, in retrospect."
~ (Heath Ledger on fame and celebrity - New York Daily News, June 2000)
"Once every 50 years a guy like that comes along. For his age, Heath has an incredible manliness about him. I think he has a strong sense of himself, but it's especially amazing in someone so young, because usually male stars don't develop that kind of thing until their thirties."
~ (Brian Helgeland, director of A Knight's Tale starring Heath - Vanity Fair, Aug 2000)
"I think Heath has a natural screen presence, he has a focus that distinguishes him from a lot of young actors. There's a depth and intelligence that is operating that's not only there, but also focused into what he is doing, being clear in what the role is, about what he's trying to achieve with it, this brings a balance with the other cast who are considerably more experienced than him in most cases, that's very important for the story to work. Without that, we would lose center, he brings that focus."
~ (Marian Macgowan, producer of Two Hands starring Heath (1999))
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The picture is of the stunning Bank Robber version of the HOT TOYS Joker action figure that I've pre-ordered back in August and which finally arrived. What a great Christmas present it is! :)
It's good to have both the first and this Bank Robber version because not only does the new figure sport a new and improved headmold with an even closer resemblance to Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight than before, it's also masterfully painted and detailed in the face unlike any Joker figure on the market. His smudgy and running make-up, the puffy facial scars, the realistic wetness of his eyes (so life-like!), the movie accurate outfit and shoes and not to mention the goodies like the clown mask, bag, gun, shot gun, wad of cash and other extras, are all beautiful and little works of art.
Just looking at the figure makes me relive the movie's 6 min prologue sequence that I've been obsessing over with other fans since it aired before the premiere of I Am Legend back in December 2007. It was a great idea on The Dark Knight director Nolan's part to promote his movie this way and to build up the unbelievable hype that will be talked about for many years to come.
When the movie was released half a year later, the fans who've seen the prologue already, as well as anyone who did a little research online in the months before the premiere, knew of the surprise reveal at the end of the sequence... One of the masked clowns robbing the bank is the Joker himself and he's not sharing his money with anyone! Bang, bang, bang!
HEATH ♥.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and
weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, a Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
An island in Indrefjorden, small in contrast with the high mountain that raises its head into the clouds. Small, but not insignificant.
Kilauea Iki at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
This particular trail allows visitors to hike 400' down from the rim of the caldera to the floor of the lava lake, across the crater, and back up and around. It was definitely a fun time and made you feel totally insignificant.
Note the people in the center of the image.
There was an insignificant puddle on King George Square when I walked across it after my first visit to the renovated City Hall. The puddle gained significance when I realised I could capture a reflection of the building in the little puddle. Photo taken with Samyang 8mm fisheye.
"I adore seeing each individual, seemingly insignificant branch; knowing that Jesus uniquely crafted each one."
What is the one thing you appreciate about the world around you?
Life is still as wonderful as ever. And so is Halle, pictured here. I don't have much to say but a huge thank you; especially to those who have helped me achieve my goals so far. I would not be here without everyone in my life and that's something to acknowledge.
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my grandma's
pretty insignificant. but I like the light in this one. and it's SOOC!(I think it's the first time I post something not-modified xD)
I've been veery busy today...a relative's aunt died 2 days ago and my family went to the funeral, so I went to grandma's (does this sentence have a sense?)...and I spent the all day studying until my parents came back.
Soooo I didn't have much time to take a photo and I stole this one from the ikea's cataloue (I'm obviuosly joking).
BUT! I have an idea for tomorrow's shot, I hope you'll like it :)
'gnight flickers!
post scriptum: I played rugby today. Do you get that? ME PLAYING RUGBY, I never thought this could be possible, but man it's SO FUNNY! Pushing, plating, running...I've never been so tired and unburden!
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
Ginkgo biloba 'Troll' 7/2021 Ginkgo- (Jeddeloh Nursery, Germany) Dwarf Ginkgo, Size at 10 years: 3x3’, Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-10, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed D3,08 for 22 MONTHS (Duvall). Planted in 2019.
Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery: A deciduous dwarf, arguably the slowest and most compact of all ginkgo dwarf forms growing only about 1" per year. Troll is a witches'-broom found in Norway but introduced by Jeddeloh Nursery in Germany around 15 years ago. Leaves are typically fan shaped and representative of the species except for being about half the size. Light gray to brown stems are distinctly stubby and thickened. A male form meaning no smelly fruit. Good for Bonsai or rock gardens.
Missouri Botanical Garden: 'Troll' is a dwarf shrubby cultivar that matures over time to only 3' tall and as wide. It typically grows in a bushy mound, although it can be trained to grow as a small pyramidal tree. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves (biloba means two-lobed) are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to bright yellow in fall.
2020 Note: trimmed off some bottom branches to improve the shape and make it easier to manage nearby weeds.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2019, 20, 21:
Welcome to Stagedoor,
Useless, Insignificant and Poetic....Enter and you will be delighted to meet Rita Saiz the producer of Amazing People Tv.
John Decker painted this door and you can visit his GALLERY.
CHECK OUT JOHN DECKER ON THE INTERNET....SEE HIS PAINTINGS FROM THE 1940'S FAMOUS STARS FROM EARL FLYNN, JOHN BARRYMORE ETC.
i remember feeling so insignificant as i stood looking out at New York on a clear evening in march. you really feel so small up there.
today's photo is on film
Is it an insignificant tad softer with the converter? Im not sure? The change in contrast is caused by the shifting clouded sun light. The change in DoF is actually visible even at this short macro distance.
These photos where taken at ISO100 and are the most precise of the set. I realize, that I should go over the other photos, because I found, that even though I took them focussing with Live View and a 12sec delay, there is some micro shake present, when closely inspected (None on these two). Also they where taken at ISO200.
On the other hand, the set goes to show a true picture of the RC 67 2X as a great and convenient converter, that adds 2 f-stops of DoF, which is great for some landscape and macro photos.
See the ‘Original‘ size here: www.flickr.com/photos/32108329@N08/16774121105/sizes/o/
My glass needs cleaning!
In these few insignificant clichés that for me are the result of my self-taught amateur work I want to be able to be what I am living with my passion to show the world what I can offer
"Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing."
-Grace Slick
The secret life of plants / Stevie Wonder
I can't conceive the nucleus of all
Begins inside a tiny seed
And what we think as insignificant
Provides the purest air we breathe
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
A species smaller than the eye can see
Or larger than most living things
And yet we take from it without consent
Our shelter, food, habilment
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
Wwe find inside the Secret Life of Plants
But far too many give them in return
A stomp, cut, drown, or burn
As is they're nothing
But if you ask yourself where would you be
Without them you will find you would not
And some believe antennas are their leaves
That spans beyond our galaxy
They've been, they are and probably will be
Who are the mediocrity
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
Stevieb Wonder
No puedo concebir el significado de todo
Comienza dentro de unas diminutas semillas
Y lo que nosotros pensamos insignificante
proporciona el más puro aire que respiramos
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
Especies más pequeñas que lo que el ojo puede ver
O más grande que la mayoría de las cosas vivientes
Y con todo disponemos de eso sin consentimiento
Ya sea como refugio, alimento, o vestimenta
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
Pero pronto muchos los dan a cambio
Un pisotón, en pedazos, ahogados o quemados
Como si no fueran nada
Pero si te preguntas donde estarías
Sin ellos tu descubrirás que no serías nada
Y algunos creen que las antenas hacen brotar sus hojas
Eso cruza más allá de nuestra galaxia
Han sido, son y probablemente serán
Quien es la mediocridad?
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
Por estos aunque pequeños descubrimientos
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas.
(Not this particular man but man in general!) This one is a kind gentle soul who told a couple of unruly little girls that they should leave alpine and subalpine wildflowers alone as the plants take years to grow. Their parents didn't care. And that explains so much of why the world is in the state it is in. It's so easy to take everything for granted and just not care.
This was taken at 10,870ft in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, very near treeline, just before Pawnee Pass Trail heads off to the right and Isabelle Glacier Trail continues to the lake and beyond. That splotch of brown is a slowly melting glacier. It was a very bright afternoon and it was difficult to not blow out the sky the way it is has been, without fancy expensive filters, of which I obviously own none.