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Liked this exposure catching the trucks that were all there lined up and racing down the interstate.
The storm begins ... with some traffic still out there.
This was couple hours ago before the snow got heavier and higher winds ... about 4 inches on the ground in about 4 hours ... and the snow is now falling at a much higher clip. We'll see what it looks like come morning.
Kosmonavtlar Metro Station, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Sony A7 + SMC Pentax-M 28mm F2.8
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Has the nights are getting long and the rush hour begins. I head to a motorway (highway) bridge to create light trails.
Light trails, why do we like them so much? My guess is because they give us opportunity to see something we know exist, but is not observable with our eyes. A glimpse into the unseen ;)
This shot capped off a week of crazy shooting on a recent photography jaunt with Eric Gail between Zion and Bryce. Eric is an accomplished landscape photographer who had been spending an inordinate amount of time shooting the Milky Way lately, and after his shots caught my eye, I approached him to see if he wanted to head out together as he lives about 40 miles away in the Inland Empire. Eric agreed and I have spent the last couple of weeks bugging him for information on both the Milky Way and for spots throughout the Southwest that I needed to add to my growing bucket list. The man is also a guru when it comes to using Google Earth and a number of other scouting apps and was very generous with his time, so huge kudos to Eric for helping me out.
On our first night, we set up camp in Zion hoping for good Milky Way conditions but we were nailed by a pretty intense thunderstorm which brought branches crashing down around our campsite. On the following night, we camped up at Bryce but were again shut out by thunderstorms and clouds. The above shot was taken on the following Saturday evening in a last ditch effort to grab more Milky Way shooting before the moon returned killing off our opportunities for another month. As I set off for Zion at 4 AM, the forecast was for clear skies, but of course, by the time I arrived, clouds were already beginning to billow up again from the South.
Although I got shut out again for the Milky Way from this location, it turned out to be one of my most memorable nights of landscape shooting thus far. Starting down near the junction bridge, I managed to climb up and out onto this particular outcropping of rock, which pushed me pretty far out of my comfort zone. While I was inching my way out there, the wind picked up and lighting began flashing around me, lighting up the spectacular peaks across the canyon. As Eric took off to find his Bonzai tree on the other side of the tunnel, I was suddenly sitting alone with that spectacular view before me. I took several images from up there, but this was one of my favorites. The peaks are lit by a combination of a 20% moon, which was setting in the West, some light pollution from nearby Springdale, and lightning. I paid for this particular spot by getting gouged by some creepy venomous desert spiky plant while I was scouting (which left a nice baseball sized welt on my leg) and by getting a handful of cactus needles as I slipped on my way down, but it is now one of my favorite spots and one that I plan on visiting again soon.
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So after a thrilling day walking for miles around this beautiful city, soaking up art and enjoying the weekend feel in lovely parks we came back to see the Eiffel Tower in its nightime glory.
Unlike at sunrise the riverbank and bridges were bustling and my husband offered to act as safety officer as I blocked part of the bridge with my tripod!
Sadly I'd left my remote at home, so couldn't manage more than a 30 second exposure, but after a few attempts managed to make half decent light trails from the many tourist boats going up and down the river.
A long exposure of the Taxi Rank at Kyoto Station, as seen from the observation deck of Kyoto Tower.
Soriani & Moser: Top Star Tour.
This one is run under the name Transoformer by Schmidt.
One of my favourite attractions at the Volksfest for photofraphy. I gave my tripod to Anja, so no lighttrails for me :)
The hulking great steel bridge above me was contrasted by the big stone arched bridge just down the road. The wide-angle and relative distance make that second bridge look tiny when in reality it was about three floors high. It had a character and volume to it that the newer, steel construction simply didn't.
A car drove past as I took the shot. I wondered what they would think about me. My disordered brain quickly inferred lots of negative things. I tried to think about something else.
I handed my camera to my photography and art student son while I was driving on the motorway. This is the start of the M9 where it splits from the M8. He was pleasantly surprised by the result and so started experimenting with Intentional Camera Movement, but I'm taking the creative credit for this first shot, which I've cropped and adjusted slightly.
I have been avoiding London over the summer both because of the heatwave temperatures and the crowds. This is one from the archives from June. Highgate is close to the northern end of the Northern Line so not many people about both for being a ways out and also in the middle of the day on a weekday. I liked the nice shiny seats and made them a feature in the composition
The picture was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 10mm. 3 images for HDR. The image was first processed with Photomatix 6 using Contrast Optimiser for a natural look. I used brightness adjustment layers to darken and lighten different areas of the image with layer masks to get it just right. Duplicate layer and Topaz Clarity applied for more detail.
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