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Yellow-rumpted Warbler (Myrtle) in for a brief visit.
Common migrant though rare visitor to my suburban woodlot.
Print size 4' x 11'.
Stacked and stitched using pixel shift on the Panasonic G9.
There was another moth but it walked off, pretty hit and miss with live subjects but sometimes it works out.
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Distagon 4/50 T* CFi
f13
1/2 second
Ilford FP4+ (EI 80)
B+W Orange filter
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Developed in Pyrocat-HD 95:5:1:1 water:IPA:A:B at 22 C for 14 mins with minimal agitation
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Toned
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Brumley Preserve, Orange County NC
Pentax K-1
Pixel-shift super-resolution mode
SMC Pentax 1:1.8 85mm
Iridient Developer
I was lucky to have 2.5 glorious days driving through the Dolomites in Northern Italy over a long weekend between business trips in Europe back in May. I chose to spend most of that time in the iconic Val Di Funes where this little postcard scene unfolds. Everyone has seen this UNESCO world heritage site snapped a zillion times. Other big name landscape photographers have incredible photos with the clouds and mist hovering just so around the peaks, and those images were dancing in my mind as I rode the train from Munich to Bolzano. Sadly, I didn't see a single cloud in the sky until driving back to the train station on my final day. So, I drove through some beautiful villages, ate some great food, got a lot of beautiful postcard shots, and wished my family was with me.
Normally, I don't even post my postcard shots any more, I have grand and egotistical aspirations of moving beyond (though I would be very happy to sell some postcard images if I could). I tried lots of different shots at different times of day from different angles. I had one of the classic wide angle shots selected and all ready to post here, but I also had this one tighter on the church just as the first splash of morning light is hitting a grassy hill behind it. When I showed the two versions to my wife, she preferred this one. And she's right, this one is the more interesting shot with the splash of light drawing the eye, and then some distinct layers to structure the image a bit better. It's still not what I'd ideally like to have, and I wish I'd kept a bit more of the highest peaks in frame, but it's still an epic location and a good memory.
One of these days, time permitting, I’ll go back and get those damned cloud and mist-covered peaks!! It was certainly an area I'd go back to in a heartbeat, and spend more time exploring. Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to! It was a perfect time to visit, too, as it was between ski season and summer season, so there were not many tourists. I was surprised to find I was the only photographer out shooting this scene in the morning. Something one can rarely say about most of the other well-known photography locations.
Shot with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 24-70mm, using Pixel Shift feature.
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi
f16
3 seconds
Rollei IR400 (effective EI 25)
Hoya R72
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Self developed in DD-X 1:4 at 20.5 °C for 8 minutes
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Toned
Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.
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We all make footprints in life. Both physically and metaphorically. Sometimes those footprints last for a lifetime, and sometimes they get wiped away by the next strong breeze.
I want to dedicate this picture to my wonderful and amazing younger daughter. She's now 16 and entering the stage in life where she gets to choose her own path and take steps independently. It is hellishly hard as a parent to let go and let her walk alone, not knowing where those steps might lead, or what unknown terrors or wonders lurk behind the next sand dune. I'd like my most lasting footprints to be not mine at all, but hers (and her sister's). It doesn't matter at all to me how big, or how small, those prints are. Only that they are hers, of her own choosing, not feeling as if she is forced to follow anyone else's path. And I hope more than anything that they may lead to more joy than sadness along the way.
Teenage life in the 21st century is way more difficult than I think mine was, and I didn't think mine was easy at all. The competition is much tougher, the pressure seems higher, the outside influences are unquestionably more constant and more magnetic. At that age it's almost impossible to see life as anything but a straight line competition, first to this or that achievement, fastest to that milestone or another. The pressure to excel, to stand out and to achieve success seems overwhelming. Only once we get older do we realize that life's path is *never* straight, and that what looks like the top of the hill from one's younger perspective, turns out to be just one shifting sand dune among thousands. With the benefit of hindsight we see there was no "best" or "fastest" path. Each one of has to slog through their own quicksand at one point or another and ultimately find our own measure of success. Hopefully we find out along the way which of the multitude of hills has meaning to us. And we discover that the things that end up imprinted on our mental film turn out largely to have nothing to do with achievement and accomplishment, but rather who we met and what songs we sang together along the way, and how we responded when the going got tough.
I enjoy photos and captions that have multiple levels of meaning, and this one has a whole other level of meaning to me as well. The lone figure at the top of the dune is my esteemed friend and fellow photographer Kevin Benedict. We had walked together in to Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley National Park, and were hoping for a spectacular sunrise. As you can tell by the clouds above, that looked increasingly unlikely, but there was still a hope that the sun would break below and light all this cloud cover up in a glorious sheet of fire. Kevin had determinedly picked out his spot and had a vision for that sunrise shot over the dunes. I didn't want to just copy Kevin's vision, and I also had some teleconference with colleagues in Europe and China to deal with and didn't want to annoy Kevin with the chatter so I decided to walk off on my own and find something else to shoot. So the footprints are mine and as I turned around to take a look at the sky I saw the surreal cloud texture along with the sand texture and the line of fresh prints and decided that was kind of cool so I took the shot not thinking too much of it. Of course, the sunrise did not pan out as hoped (or I would probably have posted some other big sunrise-over-dunes shot), and the conference call kinda got in the way of my ability to get more shots.
EDIT: I originally posted a monochrome version of the shot, but then decided I liked the color version better so I swapped it out.
52 Weeks of 2017
Week 42
Theme: Pixel Sort
Category: Creative
This week's challenge was certainly an interesting exercise... I had never heard of this technique before, and, since I don't have full version Photoshop to upload actions into, I went searching for a web-based alternative. Luckily I found one here: pixlshift.owlmoth.net
Also for Sliders Sunday - HSS!
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi
f13
1/4th second
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Agfa Copex Rapid / SPUR DSX (Rated EI 25)
Self developed in SPUR Dokuspeed SL-N, 24:12:564mL A:B:deionised water at 20 C for 10.5 mins.
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Toned
Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.
(best viewed fullscreen in the lightbox)
Most unusually, I only had one visit to the Eno in 2023.
Birch (I think) with Resurrection Fern, Eno River State Park.
Pentax K-1 (pixel-shift super-resolution mode, composited with second image in normal mode for the moving water)
SMC Pentax 1:1.8 85mm
Iridient Developer
Affinity Photo
I have to jump ahead a few weeks in my timeline here to post my first shot with my new camera, the Pentax K-1. I've been a Pentax user for many years, starting with a hand-me-down Pentax Spotmatic 1000 in 1995, I learned a little with that and then got away from photography for almost 15 years.
To cut a long story short-ish, I went in with Pentax digital when I first started getting back in to photography 5 or 6 years ago and Pentax has served me well with good build quality and value for $. But my photographer friends all seemed to be getting outstanding results with their Nikon D800s and Canon 5Ds, etc. and I'm starting to suffer some pixel envy. Finally I'm starting to think about switching systems because Pentax had no full frame camera. Then last year Pentax announced they were working on a full frame, but no release date and in Pentax circles the mythical full frame has been rumored for so long it's become a unicorn. At this point my K3ii and various tricks I've learned are tiding me over but the writing is on the wall. 2016 is BIG upgrade year. If Pentax has a full frame, great I'll check it out. Otherwise it's over to Sony A7RII or Nikon D810 most likely. February rolls around and Pentax announces a release date and full specs for the K-1, a 36MP full frame camera based on the same Sony sensor in the D800. Looks pretty good and price is great so I put in a pre-order.
After a long, agonizing wait, the K-1 is now in my hands in time for a planned trip to Washington state and Oregon with friend and top-notch fellow photographer Kevin Benedict. We spent a couple of days in the Palouse area and then drove down along the Columbia river to Portland stopping at various spectacular waterfalls that Oregon is overly blessed with. This one is Bridal Veil falls. While the comp is pretty straight forward I liked the slightly dreamy atmosphere and the darker forest edges. Using the K-1's "Pixel Shift" feature I found the camera captured tremendous detail while still being able to maintain that dreamy quality. Also used a B+W circular polarizer to bring out the lush green tones.
I know that few outside of the Pentax faithful will care about my backstory here, but it required a big leap in confidence for me to feel finally justified in laying out the expense of a semi-pro system with full frame camera and new full frame compatible lenses, so I felt the need to capture it.
Decided to make a stop on my way home to see how this waterfall was doing. Glad that I did! The shutter therapy did me some good, and I got a few keepers out of it.
Pentax K-70, 20-40mm Limited
It was too good an opportunity to miss: with covid restrictions suggested keeping within Perthshire, but weather forecast suggesting oodles of thick fog around the time of sunrise around Rannoch, I just had to get up and go.
For once, the weather didn't disappoint. The fog was indeed thick, the sunlight came with a first flush of red to the east and pink to the west, then faded obscured by mist, returning golden around sunrise itself.
The low cloud was so thick and consistent I never even saw the favoured mountain, Schiehallion, all morning; but the views across the loch to the trees on the opposite shore were awesomely atmospheric.
Prints, cards, masks and things are available via the website: Misty Morning Loch Rannoch 5.