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The real Iconic Man Ray Image Has A Record-Breaking Reserve Price of $5 Million this is my fun version...
Note the valley fold on the sign.
Always end up with leftover black kami in my packets. I suppose I should be folding penguins with it, but I don't know where the diagrams went to.
PHOTOGRAPHERS THOUGHTS …
Contrast is about light, and photography is painting with light …
When the colours of a scene are just not working, look to creating a B&W. So many times, photographing towards to sun destroys the colour, but creates good B&W.
Here was just that situation, and using my 9mm lens for field-of view, allowed me to capture the drama unfolding in the sky. Remember, getting a black and white image to work requires the image to have black & white elements …
AMBIENT LIGHT
5.30pm pm at the end of January, with light radiating in from top left
COMPOSITION ELEMENTS
B&W, Contrast, Leading lines, Vanishing point, Dramatic, Field-of-view, Scale, Graded light, Light & shade, Texture, Anchoring point (bottom right), Telling a story, Pano crop.
LOCATION
Long Jetty, Central Coast, N.S.W.
SETTINGS
1/1250th, f11 (within sweet spot range of lens), 200 ISO, Manual Exposure based on blinking highlights in viewfinder, exposure meter, and histogram, to expose correctly for the brightest element in the image, EV 0, Manual Focus, RAW, Fuji X-T2, Laowa 9mm Lens (35mm format – 14mm). Note that this is a manual lens and does not record exif data correctly ...
ENHANCEMENT (Lightroom)
Tweaked image using Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Texture, Clarity & Dehaze, sliders, as well as brushing in some Whites & Blacks
These ‘Photographers Thoughts’ are posted to aid photographers to recognise compositional elements, as well as the camera settings used, so you might learn from what worked, or through my mistakes … enjoy Greg
Birds on wires in Paull, East Yorkshire. I can't read music, but if I could would these music notes formed by these birds be Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on a Wire"?
"The flight of Icarus II"
Une balade parisienne en compagnie de mon ami Stephane
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10mm 1/90 s à f/8,0 ISO100
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Kazakhstan Air Force Sukhoi Su-27M2 16 Yellow taxiing out at KADEX-2016, Astana Kazakhstan. Note the tiger symbol on the large airbrake (picture 8235).
Die Schweizer 10er-Note ist der offizielle Flyer der «Volksinitiative für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen»
Foto: Pola Rapatt
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Silvered Sky
Between the boughs I am silvered sky, I am cloud and flock and flare,
I am fox, I am vole, I am badger, mouse, I am otter, stoat and hare.
Minerals aplenty, I am silt and mud and stone,
I am even parts of perished things, I am flesh and blood and bone.
Twisted lines and knotted forms, I am branch and stem and shoot,
Wooded shapes and shadows show I am twig and trunk and root.
Shelter, roost and hideaway, a place to nest and perch,
Texture made of leaf and bark, I am willow, alder, birch.
Beaks and feathers, wings and eyes, I am swoop and brilliant flash,
I am also fin and gill and scales, a twisting, turning dash.
Kingfisher, duck and moorhen, I am swan and heron too,
I am pike and carp and rainbow trout and tench, to name a few.
Come closer and you'll start to see, I am many smaller things,
Fallen leaves and heavy rain, gifts each season brings,
Torrent, trickle, snow and ice, fog and pelting hail,
I am toad and newt and dragonfly, I am beetle, snake and snail.
There’s magic left to show you, a favourite trick of mine,
I’ll flicker bright and beautiful, despite the gloom I’ll shine.
And into dusk we're nearer still, you won’t believe it’s me,
Performance unlike those before, just you wait and see.
I am yellow, orange, pink and red, fluorescent green and blue,
But wait please just a moment, that's not my usual hue.
I think I may be poorly, I am feeling off today,
I am usually quite proud of all my colours on display.
Something’s wrong, I know it now, I am clearly not the same,
And as I swell to ocean, I'll wonder who's to blame.
I am metal and I am plastic, not things I am meant to be,
I should be clean and pure and free, as I become the sea.
Impurities and poisons, no longer just the wild,
I am chemicals and solvents too, it seems I’ve been beguiled.
Ashamed to be pollution, this surely is a crime,
I hope this is reversible, and if so that there’s still time.
When darkness falls and closes in, my midnight show is on,
Ten million lucid stars reborn, I am each and every one.
Between the boughs I am silvered sky, tonight still bold and true,
Consider me is all I ask. Don’t forget I am also you.
David Thackwell
Just read an amazing collection of essays by F. Gonzalez-Cruisi entitled, "Notes of an Anatomist." His experiences within the medical field (autopsy,embalming, etc) as a basis for further thought on subjects ranging from child abuse to the human understanding of monsters. Really brilliant, find yourself a copy.
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
― Charles Dickens
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Here's a story about my mother (and I hope she forgives me for telling it). She heard once on TV that the safest place for something in a house fire is inside the oven, because an oven is insulated to keep the heat in and so it's pretty good at keeping the fire out. If you wanted to salvage something in a house fire -- like say, important financial documents or a family heirloom -- sticking it inside the oven might just work. (I should note: I have no idea if this is true. Do not try this at home.) So one year, before leaving on vacation, my mother put her wedding photo album inside the oven... just in case the house burned down while she was away.
As these things happen, she and my dad returned home from vacation happy but exhausted from the trip, and decided to order pizza for dinner so they wouldn't have to cook. They turned the oven to preheat so they could keep the pizza warm once it arrived. Soon, the whole kitchen smelled of scorched paper. My dad threw open the oven door to discover the wedding album sitting there on the rack, just starting to crinkle and brown around the edges. Luckily, he pulled it out in time (accompanied by much confused shouting and cursing, I imagine), and none of the photos were lost.
Not only does this story capture something exquisitely true about my mother -- her attachment to photographs and mementos of special occasions, her quirky way of problem-solving, her anxiety about fire -- but it seems to me to be deeply human. It's a story about the irony of memory itself. We want to remember things from long ago, but sometimes in trying to salvage those memories we can become distracted and forgetful in the present moment. We might take all the precautions in the world to preserve the past, but nothing can slow the passage of time and the forgetfulness that comes with age.
Pagans like to say, "What is remembered, lives." Memory is re-membering, the act of giving life to the past through rituals of witness. A photograph by itself is not a memory, only a record. Collecting dust in a drawer, it does nothing for anyone. Only when it is brought into the light of the present moment can it become something -- a reawakening of mindfulness, a memory stirred to life -- or perhaps only ever a reimagining, each time slightly different, each time new. But that's life, too, isn't it?
I'm like my mother in my desire to remember the past, I just go about it differently. Instead of sticking my wedding album in the oven, I tell stories. (And share them on the internet, where everything is forever and yet nothing lasts.) But we both face the same irony -- that the act of remembering is the very act by which we might accidentally ruin or replace the past we seek to honor.
I don't even know if this story about my mom is true, at least in all its detail. I only heard it second-hand. But it feels true, it feels like her. It reminds me of her and the things about her that I love and learn from. It almost doesn't matter if the story is "factually" true or not. Like life itself, it's more complicated than that.
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#UULent #truth #memory #altar #meditation #mindfulness
PLEASE TAKE NOTE.....Myself and Wetbag were approached here at this location between Wootton Rivers and New Mill on the Berks & Hants route on Thursday 22 April 2021 by the farmer who does not take kindly to railway photographers on his private land. In the interest of "keeping the peace" with this gentleman, and respecting his request, it might be prudent for anyone else who visits the area to keep away, at least for now? Mark J.
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This is 6M15 07:07 Tytherington - Calvert near Wootton Rivers hauled by 66020.
[Cathedral and castle from the Ness, Inverness, Scotland]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.
Print no. "13056".
Forms part of: Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects:
Scotland--Inverness.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland (DLC) 2001703567
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07612
Call Number: LOT 13407, no. 101 [item]