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A pier block leans on the abandoned pier while the sun peaks thru along the shore of Milwaukee.
Please, come follow me:
The Milky Way as seen from Jogashima Island, Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Single exposure.
It was such a magical experience for me to watch this Fox family grow, still so many adorable shots to go through but this one stood out to me as they were both focused on the same thing....getting Mom's attention.
Family is important and just as true when it comes to wildlife. Nice to have someone to lean on, trust and depend that they'll be there when you need it most.
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This is for a very special friend currently going through a very difficult time of change. Thinking of you on your birthday. xxx
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Alas not in the actual physical sense, but I can prop myself up against all sorts of things. Usually the nearest bar, that's not possible at the moment though, so this wall will have to do.
Lean On...Featuring Designer Circle with AsHmOoT, Graffitiwear, Joplino
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Coming back to SL. Not really posting a whole lot of photos like I did before.
I'm planning to post photos whenever I have the time and/or feeling like I want to.
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This is a draft at the moment. You may notice mistakes. I will get to fixing them soon.
Yesterday I took a trip to Wyming Brook in the Peak District with a fellow photographer/friend. It was my first visit here and was amazed at how much there was to capture. I had taken many images, when I came across this composition. Although yes it's gentle cascade of water is beautiful, I however took the image for another reason. My heart skipped a beat when I saw two animals resting, at peace with each other. A large turtle laying flat with it's huge head and foot. And to the left of it another animal leaning its head against it. Kind of ancient horse looking, you can clearly see the head, eye and ear. In my eyes, that was the beauty in this image. Hence why Iv'e called it....Lean on me
This image is part of a long time going project which i started a while ago. I call it „Tamer Animals“.
I will put up a few more images of this project from time to time. Producing images for this project let me so deep immerse with nature, it almost let’s me melt with it. It’s so special for me.
Not a web-builder; rather, it stalks its prey like a hunting feline. Hence the lynx title. I have applied as much "magic" as I can with Topaz to improve the sharpness of the spider, but the identity of the prey is not clear.
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
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 stick sculpture named "Lean on Me", located just outside of St. Joseph, Minnesota, was erected in 2012 by artist Patrick Dougherty in collaboration with the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University. It was completed in 19 days, with many local volunteers assisted Dougherty during its creation. The whimsical structure however may be removed later this year, as it was only planned to be standing for two years. On the day I visited, the weather was a bit foreboding, hence the dark and moody presentation.
Taylor Casas and Ezra LeBank from 'Flight', a children's show at Assembly Roxy.
This is from a shoot we did this afternoon.
You can find out more and book tickets for the show, here:
I leaned on the cinder block wall, sat my camera in front of my face and snapped this photo.
Looking up is always important!
A neat little trick I learned from one of the riders in our pack, but there is a trick, can you spot it? In the background, I will reveal the trick at the end of the day. My bike is the Giant, and Murray's is the magnificent custom Seven.
On another note, we had a great ride, with nice seasonal temps of 15c and light winds.
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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!!
My dear daughter leans on this sea stack at Rialto beach providing some perspective on the height of it. I also presented a similar shot in black and white.
Location: Navarro Beach (Navarro Redwoods State Park) in Mendocino County, California.
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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?