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I find landscapes easiest to photograph. They don't run off, fly off, or get tired posing. And they sit perfectly still.
Keeping with the theme of juvenile snowflakes, this one had just begun to grow its branches before was sent out of the clouds. Even though the branches are tiny, there’s a lot to discover here! view large!
This snowflake also harbours three-fold symmetry, albeit much less obvious than yesterday’s snowflake. The best place to see it is in the central bubbles; notice how every other “trapezoid” has roughly the same pattern? This even-odd symmetry is quite common, you’d be surprised how often you find it when you go looking!
Most of the surface details of this snowflake are on the opposite side of the crystal. They can be seen through the ice (ice is transparent) with a little less detail. I enjoy this look better of certain snowflakes, revealing stronger lines around the outside edges and allowing internal features to become more prominent. While nature creates these beauties, the photographer has a lot of control for how to present them to the world!
Snowflakes are all about lighting and angles. If I can photograph the snowflake on an angle where the light from the ring flash partially reflects back off the surface of the crystal into the lens (like glare), the surface lights up. Multiple surfaces make certain parts of the snowflake brighter, which is most often caused by bubbles in the ice. The brighter central area? It’s just ice like the other parts, but because the bubble creates multiple layers of ice, there are now multiple reflective surfaces and more light coming back to the camera.
This is also true along the branches. A very bright feature in most snowflakes, one or two running lines through the center of the branch reflect a ton of light. If the image is severely under-exposed, these regions reveal solid rainbows of colour. At normal exposures, you can still see the bleeding of colour away from their bright white centers. These bright areas could be caused by ridges above the surface of the ice (in this case, on the opposite side) that can evoke the prism effect. Alternative they could be bubbles in the ice, but something would need to be special about them to be so much brighter than other bubbles.
Photography is the melding of art and physics, and snowflake photography is a great example of that. If you want to know all the photographic (artistic) techniques, as well as all the physics of snowflakes, you need to own a copy of Sky Crystals: skycrystals.ca/book/ - you won’t be disappointed, it’ll make winter much more tolerable!
If you enjoy this series of images, your eyes might light up when you see “The Snowflake” print – consisting of over 400 snowflakes put together over 5 years with 2500 hours of work… all into a single image: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - do me a favour and take a look!
I keep going through phases of what I am after in terms of style... One day I'm into tons of colors and effects, the next I'm into really limited colors with a stripped-down style. At the moment I am in a "less is more" mindset. I always like pieces best when they are sketches before all the glitter, smoke and mirrors. This chrome & black was supposed to be even simpler than it is, and more graphic looking than it ended up. I never intended to use any other colors besides chrome, black, and white, but the green in my bag kept nagging me. Only had a couple hours, so it doesn't have all the effects and tricks a "piece" normally does, but like I said, that's kind of the point.
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Process shots: www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/07/06/geser-burne...
Less than a year old, Vectron 193935 was accepted into service in March 2023 for owner European Locomotive Leasing and went straight to work with LTE Logistik. Seen here leaving the yard at Devínska Nová Ves heading towards Bratislava.
St Stephen’s Church dominates the eastern half of Bournemouth town centre, and is one of the finest Gothic Revival structures in the West Country. Designed by John Loughborough Pearson, architect of Truro Cathedral with which it shares similarities, the main body was built 1881 to 1897.
Designed, like Truro, in the Early English style with French influences, it was created as a memorial to the first vicar of St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth’s other splendid Gothic Revival church, designed by George Edmund Street.
The exterior is dominated by the huge, but incomplete, north west tower, completed by Pearson’s son Frank to the original design, from 1907 to 1908. A planned slender spire to rival that at St Peter’s was planned, but never finished, and subsequently the tower is capped by a low pyramidal roof.
The building has notable French influences, with a flèche over the crossing and several conical towers. The interior is no less splendid, with large lancet and rose windows, purbeck marble columns and ribbed stone vaulting. Open most days, it is a masterpiece, but because it is located away from the main shopping area, is not so heavily visited as St Peter’s.
Love taking photos like this, a solitary cloud peeping out from behind the modern, contemporary architecture of the new Showcase cinema in Southampton, UK.
This photo got to #252 in Explore on Monday, May 21, 2018
a not so touristy spot on the Danube - at the Brigittenauer Sporn at the mouth of Vienna's Danube Channel.
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."
Lord Byron
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Café Prag Mannheim
Ein Eiskalter Wind fegt durch Mannheim, da werden die Stühle zusammen gestellt. Man sitzt lieber im Warmen
Huawei P20 Pro
With no less than two Lighthouses in one scene, captured from Keet car park, Dale. Skokholm light is situated on the Western edges of Skokholm island at a distance of 3.5 nautical miles from Keet, the other Lighthouse is only visible with exceptionally good visibility in the West, as above with a distant view of the Smalls pictured to the right of the setting sun, the Smalls is 20 nautical miles from this location.
A previous image includes the mountain to the left while this one emphasizes the sun and it's brilliant arrival.
On the other side of the fence, Mr. Zoom and I crossed the street to get a better look at the building from which we'd just escaped. I was happy to see that Mr. Z's eyes were clear again. He asked if I still had the paper I'd pulled out of the one-fingered hand. I patted the pockets of my pants. Yes! But only part of it.
We stood huddled together, trying to find a clue in the words. If we were to believe the Statue of Liberty, Demi only had to look for the signs to find her other half. Originally we were just humoring Demi, helping her with her quest. But now we felt that if we followed the signs we might find her.
Part of a headline remained. We read it together at the same time...out loud.
ines Contribute to City's Demi (and the paper was torn here)
Huh? City's Demise was a good guess as to the rest of the headline. But what about the beginning?
A bit of wind ruffled the paper in my hand and my eyes were struck by the words etched in the sidewalk.
IN DIRECT LINE WITH ANOTHER and THE NEXT.
Mr. Zoom and I looked at each other, puzzled, and in a way, more frightened than we were with the Bruce Lee look-alike bearing down on us. Could the partial headline and these odd words have a connection to each other....and to Demi?
(L)ines Contribute to City's Demi(se?)
In Direct Line With Another And The Next
Does anyone else's head hurt?
This is the continuing story of Demi Less and her quest to find her other half. The quest has led her...and us, from Virginia to New York City. If you are just joining us, you might want to read Part 1. Start at the last photo and move forward.
Part 1 of the Demi Story) www.flickr.com/photos/zoom-in-tight/sets/72157607664503789/
A pair of former Rio Grande GP40s, 302 and 303 sit too far away for a decent roster shot in Canton Yard.
Number: CT-1024-52
Name: "Titus"
Rank: ARC Sergeant Grade 1
3rd Regiment of the 253rd Elite Legion
|||[Log entry]|||
" We had new orders ! Destroy the A-series assassin droids, before they could kill some Jedi. I kinda failed. Kinda. For me it is okay, but less for command. I destroyed every assassin droids I met , but some of them found some Jedis, and Padawans before me. Not even able to protect themselves from a droid. I have the feeling that we, from the 253rd, are the babysitters of these Jedis. I had to take care of a Padawan who's master was lost. By lost, I mean he was killed. The Jedi, his apprentice and a couple of clone attacked a trench held by Nationalists. Most of the clone died. Well, all of them in fact. The Jedis made it into the trench, and started to cut some arms. And head. Stuffs like that. But then the assassin droid I was tracking found them. He shot the Jedi in the back, and was about to do the same to the Padawan, but I killed it before it could do that regrettable act . Then the Padawan get shot by one of the few Nationalists who were remaining. I finished what the Jedis started in the trench. Only one Nationalist was alive. He was yelling in pain, as the Jedi, before he died, cut his leg.
/CT-1024-52, Me/ Hey, Padawan. Achieve this man. He's suffering.
/Padawan/ .. No ! I ... I can't ! I can't ! No !! Help me to get out of there !
/CT-1024-52, Me/ Not until you achieve him.
/Padawan/ Why don't you do it yourself ?
/CT-1024-52, Me/ Always the clones who have to do the dirty work right ? No, I don't want to.
/Padawan/ You said he was suffering. Do it
/CT-1024-52, Me/ No. I don't give a fuck if he's suffering. I don't want to. You should be happy that I'm not mutilating him right now. But, you don't like to see him suffer. You're a Jedi after all. Well, sort of.
He stabbed the men in is heart
/Padawan/ Now help to get out of here. I'm wounded.
/CT-1024-52, Me/ I don't care. Get out that trench alone. I already saved your life. Twice.
/Padawan/ Twice ?
/CT-1024-52, Me/ The A-serie droid first, then the Nationalists. Twice. Now get out of there, we're moving. The command, unlike me, would be happy to see a Jedi alive. Even if you're not really a Jedi.
/Padawan/ You're completly insane.
/CT-1024-52, Me/ Yeap, I know. I'm fucked up. I'm a bit of a psychopath... But adapted to this war.
Indeed I was. Jabiim is an hell. I liked it at first, but now, I just want to get out of there. Because of the wrong decisions from command, we will lost. It's sure. Alpha, Kenobi, and most of the Jedis generals are missing. Or dead. I think that none of us will leave this planet alive."
|||[Log end]|||
Scuderia Hanseat October 2011,
Nordschleife, Bünnchen
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Highest position: #034 on Friday, October 28, 2011
A ranch road winds its way through rugged country.
As we bounced along over rocks in a truck with air-filled tires and shock absorbers, it was easy to understand how much harder on a body this must have been in the days of stage coaches and wagons with metal-rimmed wooden wheels.
They were less sour than most cranberries - I enjoyed eating the ripest ones raw. And the sauce my wife made was sooo good!
88010 "Aurora", adorning Keeping It Cool, Less CO2 livery, alongside 68002 "Intrepid" in DRS Compass colours reach journey's end with the 6V74 01.58 Crewe Coal Sidings-Bridgwater FD empty nuclear flasks. The pairing paused for no more than a minute before reversing into the flask terminal for loading later in the morning, although one of the flasks was left behind for collection after Christmas.
A trip that took 4 and a half hours, the return corresponding working was only to reach Yatton Loop due to a hot axle box on one of the flasks; it eventually was able to leave well over 6 hours late; the journey itself taking 12 hours!
Whilst it's often tempting to include the whole of an interesting tree, filling the frame with the details can also work well. Sometimes less is more!
Taken in the freezing fog back in January (21/01/2023)
It is often a matter of minutes whether you get the picture or not. After all, it has proven many times that the moment is not waiting for you. This morning the weather had been a bit gloomy so I did not expect anything, I was just going to be calm and do less than nothing if that was possible.
Suddenly I saw where the morning sun crept from under the thick cloud and gave off a beautiful red-yellow light. I looked out the window towards Krikjubæjarklaustur and saw that there was a sun stripe over the town.
The drone was quickly assembled, put in the air and boom. After a few shots, the sun disappeared again and was not seen again that day.
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