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Trying to do a portrait shot of a girl in Greenwich, London, when a third person interrupted. The result, though not intended, is actually quite charming. Raw conversion in Mojave's photo editor and refined in Luminar 4.
On a quiet gray Pear Harbor day, the late morning solitude of rural Columbia County is momentarily interrupted by the passage CSXT train M426 (Selkirk to Rigby manifest) wheeling around the curve at MP 170 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Sub, the former Boston and Albany Railroad mainline near the village of East Chatham.
Canaan, New York
Saturday December 7, 2024
The cheetah mum managed to bring down a Steenbok, and she gave her three cubs first go at the carcass... They ate till their little bellies were round, leaving very little for mum...
A seemingly insignificant piece of driftwood makes a dramatic change in the windblown ripples in a large sand dune.
I was trying to get a little bolder, trying to get the feel for hardcore street photography when I spotted my subject standing on the sidewalk across from me. There were lots of people walking around and traffic going by so I thought I was safe. I shifted around trying to get a feel for the focus I needed thinking this would make me look less obvious and I saw my moment to shoot and then.. Bam! He spotted me!
He stopped eating that pizza for a second and when you see the large size of this you will see he wasn't too happy. But I got the shot and moved on.
This red-tailed hawk had a rabbit dinner but wasn't able to enjoy it—chased from one perch by a red-winged blackbird, it flew to a power pole, where it was scolded and harassed by a pair of blue jays, and then a male Bulllock's oriole joined the attack. Even after the hawk flew away with its rabbit, I could hear continued clamor from wherever the hawk had moved to!
Marseille, France, Le Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée. Detail of the reflecting pool
This little guy has taken up residence in our backyard for that past few weeks. He's kind of cute and so far the only thing he seems to be munching on is the grass.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Temppeliaukio Church (Finnish: Temppeliaukion kirkko, Swedish: Tempelplatsens kyrka) is a Lutheran church in the Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki. The church was designed by architects and brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and opened in 1969. Built directly into solid rock, it is also known as the Church of the Rock and Rock Church.
Plans for the Temppeliaukio/Tempelplatsen (Temple square) began as early as the 1930s when a plot of land was selected for the building and a competition for the design was held. The plan by J. S. Siren, the winner of the second competition to design the architecture of the church, was interrupted in its early stages when World War II began in 1939. After the war, there was another architectural competition, subsequently won by Timo Suomalainen and Tuomo Suomalainen in 1961. For economic reasons, the suggested plan was scaled back and the interior space of the church then reduced to about one-quarter of its original plan.
Construction finally began in February 1968, and the rock-temple was completed for consecration in September 1969.
The interior was excavated and built directly out of solid rock and is bathed in natural light which enters through the skylight surrounding the center copper dome. The church is used frequently as a concert venue due to its excellent acoustics. The acoustic quality is created by the rough, virtually unworked rock surfaces. The iconic rock walls were not included in the original competition entry, even though the Suomalainen brothers had considered the idea, because they believed that it was too radical for the competition jury. But when conductor Paavo Berglund shared his knowledge of acoustics from some of the best music halls and the acoustical engineer Mauri Parjo gave requirements for the wall surfaces, the Suomalainen brothers discovered that they could fulfill all the requirements for the acoustics by leaving the rock walls exposed in the Church Hall.
The Temppeliaukio church is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city; half a million people visit it annually. The stone-hewn church is located in the heart of Helsinki. Maintaining the original character of the square is the fundamental concept behind the building. The idiosyncratic choice of form has made it a favorite with professionals and aficionados of architecture.
The church furnishings were designed by the architects. Organ builder Veikko Virtanen manufactured the church organ, which has 43 stops and 3001 pipes.
There are no bells at the church; a recording of bells composed by Taneli Kuusisto is played via loudspeakers on the exterior wall.
One visitor never asks if I'm busy. She just jumps right in, with a habit of treading on the "delete" key. I don't mind: she's friendly to the extreme.
A wake of turkey vultures scatter as Norfolk Southern train 851 interrupts their roadkill feast in Circleville, Ohio.
The angle of the shadow against all the other lines caught my attention. This was an older shot on which I did a little work...
A quiet, cloudy afternoon in Tamaqua is interrupted by the passing of Reading & Northern's train NRFF, powered by five SD50s as it passes the ex-Reading station in town. This was the first time catching one R&N's SD50s in the gray "Fast Freight Service" in the lead.
A single poplar leaf is released after its summer mission of making chlorophyll is complete. It drifts down until its fall is interrupted on the sharp green needles of a young fir, where it dries and curls before a gust of wind lifts it again and carries it to the welcome embrace of the gentle earth. There it will join thousands more in the ancient cycles of life and death.
Taken at Mineral Lake, East Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
In search of some new spots I finally stranded where I've been several times before. Actually no new view, or something, but still an interesting one.
Prypjat, in der Sperrzone von Tschernobyl
Found in Prypjat, chernobyl
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Skippy Interrupted chewing on a peanut when I interrupted his breakfast
in this fence shot in North Carolina.
Amstelveen, Netherlands. Amsterdamse Bos after a cold night. Sunrisebeams highlighting the high trees filled with hoarfrost. The earth below is still in the shade. A very peaceful landscape.
Seen at a stall at an outdoor arts festival, Mt. Dora, Florida.
A white coiled fabric hanging in front, high contrast shot.
I'm back today from the weekend, and will tonight start playing catch up with comments and photos.
Being off line was a break, and an interruption for this girl, who needed it. Too obsessed with what's going on in my country and needed a break to clear my head and gear up for resistance to what I see as harmful.
Hope you are all well, and l'm looking forward to getting back in touch..
Penelope was watching, with fascination, the wonderful Turkish film about street cats, Kedi, when I rudely interrupted her. She normally finds films boring, but since this one featured truly interesting actors, she was mesmerized.
I have no idea what was going on here, and certainly did not want to interrupt this man ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Oct 5, 2015.
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I spent the first two weeks of September 2015 on a river cruise down the Rhine River, with daily visits to ancient (German) castles and small (German) villages along the way. Our trip culminated in Berlin (pictures forthcoming over the next week or so), where we stayed in a terrific hotel in what was once East Berlin … but was no longer distinguishable from any other part of Berlin …
Anyway, I thought it might be helpful to know a few German words and phrases besides what little I remembered from four years of high-school German, taken a lifetime ago… so I signed up for a one-week intensive one-on-one German class at the Berlitz school in mid-town Manhattan. I’m not sure how much I really learned, and I doubt that I’ll remember very much at all in a month or two … but I do think it was a worthwhile exercise.
The “exercise” involved daily trips, via subway, from Manhattan's Upper West Side to the IRT station at 50th Street and Seventh Avenue — from which I walked a couple blocks east to the Berlitz location near Rockefeller Center. When the class was over each day, I retraced my steps to get back home.
Naturally, I had my camera with me while I made this daily journey; and I couldn’t help snapping a few photos along the way. Most of the people that I saw were tourists … but there were a few “native” New Yorkers, and a few others of dubious origin.
Not the greatest photos in the world, I’m sure … but it shows you another “slice of life” in the Big Apple.