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I know there is a raging debate on this topic. I fall on both sides. Do you change the image to make the image all it can be, or do you represent what was actually there when you shot it?
Normally I tend to allow myself some latitude for manipulation. When I shot this, the core of the Milky Way was behind the church. I did not realize that until I got home. I could have put in a sky from another image, but maybe because this was a church, I felt like I better just leave it as it was.
This is my first Milky Way of the season. While I was shooting this I was struck by the fact that every YouTube video that tries to teach landscape photography gets the first and most important rule wrong. The most important thing to know in landscape photography? Tuck in your shirt when its cold! Seriously, that wind tunnel up your shirt will freeze you out and make you run for the car seeking warmth. If you are not comfortable shooting, you probably won't shoot long. The same goes for standing in streams, or the surf, or anything else. It was below freezing when I shot this, and I was bundled.
This is the Locust Grove Church in Oregon. The last service here was held in 1914. This was shot with low level lighting, which I actually think was silly because i used a Move-Shoot-Move star tracker. So why shoot with low light? Not sure, force of habit I guess. I should also note that I did not enter the church in any way. That light inside was shot through the window behind the other side of the church with my light on a tripod, sitting in the dirt. Beyond the no-trespassing signs, I also have a huge degree of respect for places like this.
Oh, by the way, I am trying to get a Move-Shoot-Move Flickr group off the ground, so if you shoot with this great little star tracker, please join the group and add lots of images! You can find the group here
And guess who helped with the gear and especially the tripod? -short note from Wilson (Matt's son)
Let me know what you think of the image,
People just decide that their boat isn't worth it anymore, they dump it or maybe it breaks down. According to CJ a local boat captain it costs they county about 15k to remove these boats and they only have a budget each year of 85K. So, when these owners determine enough is enough for them, they remove the VIN numbers and anything of value and let the rest of us pick up the mess. I really dislike people like that. Best part.... If you look at the name of the boat close up... Integrity.
A twofer at the Split Rock Lighthouse yielded the Philip R Clarke and American Integrity gliding through the icy cold waters of Lake Superior, which was evidently warmer than the surrounding air tempature.
Well worth the frozen toes and feet!
ONE OF THE TRUEST TESTS ON INTEGRITY IS YOUR BLUNT REFUSAL TO BE COMPROMISED INTO DOING WHAT IS WRONG.
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Docked at the Holcim Toledo Terminal
Articulated Barge, Self-Unloading Cement Carrier; Paired with Tugboat G. L. Ostrander, Length Overall [Combined Tug & Barge]: 544′ , Home Port: Cleveland, OH
Busy day of boat traffic in the St. Joseph River. Minutes later, the barge sounded a long blast and sailed into Lake Michigan on the way to Green Bay.
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Sunset, Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, NY.
How many evenings have I waited through, watching my exposure drop with each passing minute. Sunset has no integrity. What may have been spectacular last night, with the same type of day as today, won't necessarily happen again. Clouds are always a help, but not an absolute. Sometimes there's a glow that just keeps intensifying, with a perfectly clear sky. Then there are days with the right combination of cloud cover proportionate to sky and horizon to light the world on fire. If conditions look right, expectations rise. But there is no honesty. I have been set up so many times with what looked like perfection, only to see it fizzle at the last. Too often, the sky can go neutral in an instant, the clouds turning white to gray without a hint that color ever even existed. It's not exactly lying. It is more like someone pretending to be one thing, and not being who you thought she was at all. You wonder, when she's holding out that promise, what pleasure she takes in deserting you, in being unfaithful. On this night, though, she has my back. As the ridgelines become erotic silhouettes, I ache at the colors of desire thrown up--the heat of the yellows, the warmth of the oranges, the passion of the pinks. And sadden at how quickly they fade into that vault of ice above. After so many disappointments, I shake my head at how easily I am seduced by the fulfillment. I've learned not to trust anything, except that there will be a sunrise, and there will be a sunset, even if there is nothing to be seen. Sunset has no integrity, but I do. I keep returning, every time it calls for the lust of it, I guess. But tomorrow, I will be in a different place, with a different feeling in my heart. And maybe I'll find a sunset that doesn't fade to blue.
A 1,000 foot ship, American Integrity, coming into Muskegon Channel tonight.
To all of my flickr friends and contacts, I am trying to catch up with your photostreams, but I am way behind and it will take awhile. I have been enjoying the fleeting good weather with my camera whenever possible. Please forgive my absence recently, life got unexpectedly crazy. : )
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Decided this girl needed some photo time and the opportunity to wear a new dress/blouse by YokoDolls @ etsy.
Doll: Checking in Colette (from Supermodel Convention)
Jewelry: by me
Fashion Royalty Dolls by Jason Wu, Integrity Toys, Designer of Michelle Obama's Inaugural Inauguration Ballgown