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My contribution for this week's theme «in the periphery»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «i periferin».
Parkway with lonely bench at the periphery of my hometown
Novemberstimmung auf dem "Schanzen" am Stadtrand meiner Heimatstadt Hofgeismar
This picture was made with the Agfa Clack, a primitive camera with a one-element lens (monocle) and one, quite slow, shutterspeed.
But I like it so much! The pictures it can produce have something extra; a nice level of unsharpness, especially in the periphery.
Film: Fuji Neopan Acros II
Development: Diafine 4+4, 22C
Portrait of a good friend from Texas wearing his arch-American belt (cowboys etc.) where it fits best. And he is not happy. What? You didn't know? You didn't know that Copenhagen has suggested to annex the territory of the USA as its hinterland or, as the news has it, its "Danish Periphery". The rationale given was that what formerly were US citizens now, as Danish citizens, would be given a proper education. First come good table manners and then matters such as civility and general decency. The Danish Prime Minister also said that Copenhagen would deal responsibly with the natural and human resources of that territory as Denmark has done for centuries in Greenland, the Caribbean, West Africa and Tamil Nadu (India). In the end, it is hoped, my friend from Texas will see things in a more positive light for the Danish are the most lenient kind of masters. Fuji X-Pro3.
A transfer run of shipping containers between Ogden and Salt Lake City arrives at Buena Vista en route to SLCIT. 1.21.2018
At the periphery of leaf fall season and with only a couple more days until becoming surplus to requirements, a work stained 66848, along with workmate 66849, are seen "jetting" through the small hamlet of Hewish on the approaches to Weston-super-Mare with the 3S13 21.03 (Fri) Swindon Transfer-Swindon Transfer, via the world, RHTT. The nearby Bristol Channel created a fish bowl effect and while wall-to-wall cloud was visible in all other directions, sunshine remained dominant for the majority of my visit.
I have been wanting to try this place out since major tree clearance took place earlier in the year, and is within easy reach of the M5. One that also doesn’t win any special prizes due to the lengthy shadows from the adjacent bridge which creates a challenge around the winter solstice (the worst of which I have removed), so perhaps another visit is required in the spring. The house in the background, which is the centrepiece of this location, is a Grade II listed farmhouse. Situated on a business park, this impressive building is now utilised for weddings and events, amongst other uses.
All kinds of classic cars in the Classic Remise in Düsseldorf
In der "Classic Remise" findet man alle Arten von Automobil-Gechichte. Alles sehr hochpreisig und in bestem Zustand. Dafür sorgen Spezialwerkstätten die im Haus untergebracht sind. Wer möchte kann sich auch gleich stilgerecht einkleiden. Auch diese Geschäfte befinden sich in der Peripherie des alten Ringlok-Schuppens.
In the "Classic Remise" you will find all kinds of automobile history. Everything is very expensive and in excellent condition. This is ensured by special workshops housed in the building. If you want, you can also dress up in style. These shops are also located on the periphery of the old railway roundhouse.
Dome periphery
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Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna UNESCO World Heritage site
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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Have you ever been so busy that the periphery has to take a backseat? Oh, yeah! Yet, there are motivators that have us going after those things that seem just beyond reach. With just such an influence, I left my house in Durham at 9pm after a hectic day. Arriving at an open spot across from the Hawksbill Mountain trailhead some 3 hours later, I covered up and attempted a few hours of sleep. My plan is to waken by 4:30, but at 4:15, I’m fired up, geared up, and headed up the trail, motivated by expectations of beauty. I would not be disappointed.
Beauty, it has always seemed to me, is one of the great arguments for the existence of God. If we are all only to engage in a pitiless struggle to ensure our DNA survives (as Richard Dawkins suggests), why does beauty matter so much to so many of us?
It was the beauty contained in the Gospel (“good news”) that moved me so profoundly that I became a Christian… I was baptized 50 years ago today, Easter Sunday.
With the help of C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell, both of whom I could relate to, as well as the Bible, I was awestruck. To summarize: God had an apparently insoluble conundrum between his justice and his love. He cannot turn a blind eye to human rebellion and failure without compromising his perfect justice. He had gone before His chosen people evidenced as a pillar of cloud by day and of light by night, directing their steps through the wilderness. Yet, while Moses was gone 40 days and nights to receive the Ten Commandments, the children of Israel fell into abject debauchery. We're not like that, are we? A good look around now shows that little has changed of the human condition over these thousands of years. A term now identifies that condition, “HPtFTU” or “the human propensity to foul things up.” For all that, God’s perfect love means he cannot remain alienated from those he has created and loves.
How could one resolve such a conflict without compromising one of these twin absolutes? By human logic, it is impossible! But, as Jesus taught his disciples, our logic is not the last word. The Gospel of Matthew records that Jesus told his disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” The astonished disciples ask, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replies: “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
God’s solution is not to sacrifice his perfect standards of either morality or love, but to maintain both by sacrificing himself. That is the heart of what Christians commemorate at Easter: that God himself intervened in human history, humiliating himself by taking the form of a helpless infant, living a life in perfect conformity with his moral law, and dying an excruciating and shameful death on the Cross.
I know that some consider this a vile doctrine, that what God allows to happen to Jesus makes him a moral monster. They fail to grasp the importance of the understanding that Jesus was fully human and fully divine. It is in that way that God himself pays the price for restoring humanity.
Or, as the Apostle John more poetically puts it: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
I love chasing beauty with the camera as much as circumstances allow. But I’ve found that the greatest beauty is moral beauty – compassion, generosity, self-sacrifice – and the most beautiful expression of it that I have found or could conceive of is what Christians celebrate at Easter in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ.
One of the most beautiful and inspirational verses in all of God's word I’ve found is John 20:16 where you begin to realize the restraints to Jesus’ “divine capacity” were off in a most wonderful way… Jesus called a very bereaved Mary by her name. That's literally all there is to the verse... Jesus said, “Mary.” She thought He was the gardener, and she wasn't far off in that assessment. He did create it. That's what makes this verse so powerful; Jesus is the Word that was there from the beginning (John 1:1). He had just proved Himself through the resurrection. He was victorious over death and sin… in that moment, there was nothing in Nature over which He didn't prevail. The very Universe would snap at His command, yet He cared enough for Mary, not even a mere speck in that Universe, to reach out to her with heartfelt compassion. She had gone in search of Him, but He found her. In this, Jesus set a precedent that differentiates Christianity from all other religions… because He cares for us all no less than He did Mary. That’s why He went to the cross! God wants us to know Him. God not only allows, but also encourages such a relationship. That’s because Christianity in its truest sense isn’t a religion; it’s a relationship, plain and simple… and it's a relationship that's available to us all.
Thank God, Jesus is risen… He is risen indeed!
«le coin de Terre», community garden in Nivelles, Belgium, a typical example of this type of organisation born on the periphery of industrial cities.
Le «Coin de Terre», jardin communautaire à Nivelles, témoin exemplaire de l'ancienne vocation ouvrière de la ville.
Composition spontanée de framboisiers.
Ilford HP5+ 800iso Adonal 1+25 8'
Still early enough for that much-prized deep shadow to still be in evidence.
I did have reservations about consigning the two jewels of Crummock & Buttermere to the periphery, but the very obvious implied symmetry couldn't be ignored.
It’s a paeony and… [he checks briefly] … it’s not wet :)
Another experiment. I’d seen an image of a rose which I really liked. It had been processed in high key with a white vignette. I thought I’d have a go.
When the paeony flowers are coming out the buds are tight balls of convoluted petals. All the petals seem to have random edges which I find really quite interesting.
When I started this Flickr account I posted a similar image of a paeony bud (in pink) and it has proved my most popular image. I have no idea why. It’s not one of my particular favourites. And I certainly have no idea why it as invited to an erotic photography group - I didn’t like to ask :)
This is a macro covering about an inch in the centre of a paeony flower bud. The result of the processing wasn’t quite what I expected, but then it never is.
For the Thursday monochrome group.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Monochrome Thursday!
[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One for tonal range.
Rotated and cropped to a 16:9 ratio to tweak the composition and get the widescreen aspect, in Affinity Photo.
Sharpened using Unsharp Mask and clarity. A balancing act to get a bit of detail but to retain the emphasis on the form of the edges.
Converted to B&W in Nik Silver Efex, with no toning or vignette. More balancing.
Back into Photo and then a curves layer to play with the tone and get a more high key look. More fiddling.
A very subtle recolouring (4% saturation) to add a little pink back in which warms and softens the image though you are not meant to notice :) (I tend to find pure B&W very austere and you lose a lot of the tonal smoothness because of the technical shortcomings in the digital format, which is why I like to tint a bit.)
A final teeter on the edge of everything with a bold white vignette to take out the detail on the edges.]