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The light was too much to resist on my way to work this morning .. I present a frantic 15 minutes of my day :-)
If you see red....SHOOT IT! - Lone Palm
Sunset afterglow ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
(four more photos of this night in the comments)
The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly
But I'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you, dear
'Cause I wish you were here
hmm this song was playing when I uploaded this.♥
I leaned on the cinder block wall, sat my camera in front of my face and snapped this photo.
Looking up is always important!
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- 1st Place, Pictorial, Masters Division, Berkeley Camera Club, 2/3/15 {BCC_CMP:PICT 2/3/15]
Northern Wisconsin Lupine that I saw for the first time this year, for my friend Nick, who posted Lupine for all of us. Thanks Nick for being such a wonderful Flickr friend!
Many, many thanks to my brother-in-law who came and fixed my computer! I had over 350 Trojan viruses and many others. D'oh!!
Posting a series of shots after talking to some of the guys as they landed on the beach, knowing I had been shooting. I'm hoping they'll find these. Merci for a very entertaining and exhilarating couple of hours!
La Plage du Ponteil - Antibes, France
Sadly, this house has now leaned all the way down to the ground, over the course of one year between visits.
Oxyopes macilentus, sometimes known as the lean lynx spider, is a species of lynx spiders from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. They are active predators, hunting invertebrates (including other spiders) among vegetation. They are especially common in grassy areas and rice fields. Their bodies are characteristically long and thin, about four times as long as it is wide. Their body color ranges from pale white to yellow, orange, or green; with a... (Source: Wikipedia)
Location: Navarro Beach (Navarro Redwoods State Park) in Mendocino County, California.
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Royal Jordanian Air Force No.3 Squadron's C-130H Hercules '347' took on a distinct lean as she taxied out to depart Fairford after RIAT 2017
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Was actually sitting very still on a bench along Gordon's Pond walking path a while back and this cutie flew right up behind me. I don't think it really new I was there, I had to turn carefully around to try and get a few before it noticed what it had done and fly off;)
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight
For me this shot is an attempt to come up with something slightly more unique than my conventional way of photographing long exposure waterfalls. I’ve been to this location, in the wonderfully named and spectacularly beautiful “Valley of Desolation”, many times over the years, but this time I wanted to change my approach in order to overcome the slight dissatisfaction from my previous efforts here. which have been either compositionally challenging, (there is an irritating holly bush at the top of this waterfall, that is hard to make work compositionally), or standing in the obvious place does give you good foreground interest, but makes it impossible to take more than one shot, as not surprisingly at the bottom of a waterfall the spray is a nightmare...Interestingly as a friend and I walked up the valley towards the waterfall, my apprehension became further compounded as I was also struggling with my own perceptions of what a waterfall offered in the way of subject originality and desperately wanted to find a new approach.
Now I tentatively make the following comment in the apprehension that it may sound a little arrogant and I honestly do not intend it to offend anybody, but as subjects I feel waterfalls are bordering on the fringes of cliché. Now this obviously doesn’t mean that they are, on the contrary I’ve seen many wonderfully emotive and powerful images of waterfalls that have taken my breath away, but maybe this abundance of quality in itself is part of the problem, as I seem to have become numb to obvious positive elements... It’s kind of like when you over play a favourite song, the track doesn't change, but your perception of it does with over listening. So as Wayne and I walked up the valley to the waterfall I was subconsciously struggling with my very own perception and felt a need to challenge and change it.
Now digressing a little to strengthen my position and to attempt to elevate your growing distaste to my slight arrogance, I sometimes feel the same way about images made at ‘famous’ photographic locations such as , Antelope Canyon, or Bamburgh Castle, or indeed subjects such as sunsets or long exposure coastal shots, (man I do sound like a hypocrite here). There still remains an oversaturated, (excuse the obvious play on words) ever so slightly putrid aftertaste from seeing too many. As I said before, this doesn’t mean that any of the shots are poor pieces of work, or indeed are not well composed and considered, but like the music analogy, you can only listen to a pop music for so long and at some point you end up wanting Nick Cave or PJ Harvey as your taste develops. Funny I have never become tired of ‘Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction’, anyway enough of that...
I think for a large part the oversaturation from photography magazines, personal blogs, social networking sites and massive influx of affordable good quality digital cameras, has produced thousands of images that only 20 years ago would have stood out and shone. Now the competition to be unique, to be fresh and dynamic is much harder especially if you choose a subject or location that have been done many times before, which I’m at paints to reveal I frequently do. I can’t help myself, I just love those locations.
This is why I must keep reminding myself to ‘try’ and avoid the obvious compositions in such subjects or places, as most importantly, there is a greater potential for personal development opportunities when the lean pickings of a location or subject are worked around and eventually found. But with heightened potential comes heightened vulnerability, as the images you make in those locations risk being perceived falling between the cliché and pretentiousness. Don’t worry I’m not advocating becoming a incongruent fine artist that takes shots of dog feces and pretentiously pins some social commentary to it in the hope that others will buy into the junkstaposition of meaninglessness, I’m just trying to challenge my assumptions to stimulate and develop my own vision, within my preferred subjects.
Anyway back to the photograph, this time I clambered up a slippery muddy slope, to the more or less inaccessible side of the waterfall and lodged myself into the thick of the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ type undergrowth. With my tripod firmly wedged in, saving me from slipping down into the pool of icy water and one side of my body wet with a mixture of mud and soggy leaves, I composed this shot with an attempt to gain as much depth and movement I could from the hanging windblown vegetation.
Funny as unpleasant as it is, I don’t feel like I’ve been working hard enough unless I come back with muddy or wet trousers, is this just me?
Sometimes things don't go the way we think they should, people make decisions that we know are not for the best, they disappoint us and hurt us and we have to find strength to face what comes, often with tears and great sorrow. Sometimes we swallow hard and smile when we are dying inside. We want to say so much - to find a way to wake them up - but our words fall on deaf ears. They are oblivious to the damage they cause as they blithely trample people under their selfishness and yes, their silliness too.
That is when you need someone you can lean on. So lean on me.
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." Matthew 11:28-29
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As photographers, professional or amateur, we all strive to capture a moment that tells a story, touches a heart, stirs emotions or simply pleases the eye. This picture, I share with pride, for it was the last taken of a man that fought and lost a short but very difficult battle with cancer. His son sat behind him to help support him while he ate. This picture is love .....