Further playings with the PointyThing drawing with LEDs and long exposure.

Last Saturday I went to the Bastille Day Festival in Northern Liberties. Apparently its been going on for 16 years now, and I never even knew!!! The blocks in front of the Eastern State Penitentiary are closed off for a festival celebrating all things French. The festival culminates in a "mock" storming of the castle after Marie Antoinette and soldiers attack the crowd with twinkies a la "Let them eat Tastycake"! It was a fun event to cover, and I'm glad I went. And the cliché? Well, come one, Storm Troopers zapped by some lens flare from other space? Come one!!!

You can see more pictures from my Bastille Day Festival gallery at Metromix Philadelphia:

philadelphia.metromix.com/entertainment/2729781

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The light from the rock illuminates the beauty of the rock.

Playing with the afternoon sunlight today.

... more playing with kaleidoscopes. We have two of those kids kaleidoscopes (see kaleidoscope food pic), so what happens if you put one in front of the other? This was looking at the sky. The patterns you get are fantastic.

Another plumeria shot. (One of the Happy Plumerias.)

corrugated neon

the placement of the rings is all wrong but as somebody once wrote, its "too dark in dem tunnels"

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Another old shot I haven't had a chance to go and take pictures recently. I like the editing I did on this.

come on in

Still life

Late to the sunset party. I was able to "rescue" this photo, the second frame taken in a series.

Saw the sunset and clouds while riding my bike south from the Music Harry's Place. I wanted to get into a position to put the gazebo in the foreground, knowing all the while that the light and sunset was failing fast, and I might not make it. Once I got into position, I had to move around to partially "cover" the commercial buildings and neon signs across the river; all the while wondering if I could even handhold this low light shot with 80-200mm beast. Cropped some sky and grass off top and bottom and also cloned/healed out a jet contrail. Used a gradient mask to bring out the foreground.

#Sunset #RockRiver #Gazebo #Beloit #PlayingWithLight

Version 2: Noticed a problem with the gradient mask I used to bring out the foreground. Do you see it in the first version? Added a radial mask to balance things out on this second version of the photo.

38mm Nordic Spruce, Part paint, Part stain and dragged straight off memory card.

Nat is mesmerised by a min min light.

Slow shutter speed = 15sec

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The sun flare adds a bit of a heavenly touch I think

ya twistin me melon man..... its like the lens cap trick but without the lens cap.

inspiration old and new, most recently though it came from the Captain so thanks for that hungover morning viewing that rekindled old flames and renewed old idea`s.

getting friendly with my new lens,

good to see some of the NELP heads today as well as meeting mccullin4 for the first time, twas good to hook up!

While going through some old stuff I came across this Vauxhall Astra VXR folder...30 shots to play with, this is 7 combined... Version 2! ;)

the off centre spin amongst other things gave me the hump with this shot for over a fortnight but i got over it eventually..;-)

a revisit and edit in picnik, with increased exposure, contrast and rotated 180.

from the archives

growing light pears is fun, especially on plum trees

A mix of local birch, American cherry, Pine and unknown driftwood.

playing with the window light in our dining room... and capturing the last of my yellow roses.

hoping your day is lovely.

xo

Sorry for my flickr absence everyone - I"m currently staying busy with side projects and working on an upcoming HDR series and web blog. But I do hope to be back to my regular flickr appearances very soon.

As for the shot above it was done at an abandoned retirement home. It was a collaborative effort w/ Jeremy aka tackyshack who is a light painting genius.

275sec f8 ISO100

Fall is coming to Montréal.

Got Milk?

Met misschien nog wel mooier licht? Ambachten fotograferen in opdracht. Het kan niet leuker en mooier.

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Nothing is pure

Anymore

But solitude

It's hard to make sense

Feels as if I'm sensing you through a lens

If someone else comes

I'll just sit here listening to the drums

Tried to get the blossoms in focus while letting the trade winds blow the ferns in the background.

i think i like this one best.

Not much but pleasantly suprised

no real idea for tonight and i didn't want to spend too long, so i was just playing around with flashes.

d200, nikkor 18-200mm, 2 x SB600 on same power and the white balance changed to tungsten in LightRoom

A bird sculpture on our balcony after much rain, massively underexposed to get rid of the background.

Model:Jaclyn

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Hand cut ply board

Playing with flashes at sunset, was setting up the shot, getting a couple of test images, and this one I liked, because of the flare from the flash.. (I know simple things)

Sparklers in our garden