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This was taken February 25th, 2007.
The point? It's to bring you in and surround you for a moment in simple grace and beauty. I've no doubt that, in and of itself, this may in fact seem pointless to you. It doesn't change the world outside. Wars continue, capitalism and politics still deal in false hopes and real tragedies. There are still a billion ways to suffer and more than a billion people who are intimately familiar with too many of them on a daily basis ...
That's all very true, but here is something else that is also very true: a group of young girls with dreams of being ballerinas dancing on a Sunday afternoon. And it's there, if you want to look for it: the gracefulness and beauty and power of human expression. It is in these, gifts that art is always willing to give us, that I find the point of it all.
It was evening by the time I made it to the end of the Point Reyes Peninsula. The wind was blowing a major hoolie. I could barely stand in place much less hold the camera steady. I persevered--somewhat miserably, but I persevered.
Point Reyes is the windiest spot on the California Coast and the second most foggiest in the continental U.S. Quite an appropriate place for a lighthouse me thinks. The old lighthouse was built in 1870. Lord knows what they did before that. The fog can become almost a solid along this part of the coast.
The lighthouse was closed when I arrived but other than the wind, that worked just fine for me. The lighthouse is hard to photograph during business hours as it's usually swarming with people. The 308 step descent doesn't seem to deter them either--and that's the other reason I was glad the place was closed.
Point Reyes, CA
Originally built in 1954, a almost 64 year old (body at least) GP9r, 4619 leads L50060 15 as it doubles up its pick up in Durand Yard in the driving snow. The advanced (extra) section is in the process of picking up 45 cars for Flint Bristol Yard. The train is passing the old GTW cab that stands guard of the old railroad town. Durand is a shell of what it used to be but is still an important point on the CN map where the Holly and Flint Subs cross and also the presence of the GLC and HESR into town.
I've not been taking photos with my Leica M-E for some time as it suffers from the sensor corrosion problem which affects many of these camera (M9/M-E). I'm not entitled to a free sensor replacement so if I want the job done it will cost me in excess of £1000 which is a sore bite. However, today I went for a drive and took the Leica outfit for a rare outing. The M-E is a wonderful camera and a small bag contains the camera and five lenses.
I was a bit late setting off so the light wasn't great at my chosen location. I abandoned that idea and decided to return home the scenic route and encountered some decent light near Ardtreck Point. Here are two different treatments of the view.
The lens used was a Leica Tele-Elmar 135mm f4 which is at least 50 years old. It took me ages to clone out all the corrosion spots but I think it was worth it.
Today was a challenging aerial filming day but I'll get into that on a later post. I did manage to take a regular photo from the ground in between some serious sky surfing.
Neist point located on the north west coast of the stunning Isle of Skye. This was my first trip to Skye and loved every minute of it. I had one shot at getting a good image from this location due to time restrictions. The weather was unpredictable to say the least but when mother nature played ball this place comes to life. A re-visit is in the pipeline.
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DJI Mini 3: ISO 100 f1.7 1/500 AEB
Cape Vincent is a place I will always be extra careful with my camera gear, because it is where I dropped and broke the first camera I ever had. RIP to my Sony DSC-H3.
Luckily, there was no wind, and I didn't see a soul here, so nothing to mess with the drone. Just a nice afternoon to fly around and snap some shots of a familiar place from new angles!
Apologies, not uploaded anything for a few days due to illness, but kind of back with an edited image from last week.
Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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Long exposure taken in dorset whilst on a workshop with David Noton. One of the few average shots I captured whilst the rain held off.
Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 10-22mm lens, Lee Big Stopper and 0.6ND Grad.
exposure: 140secs @ f/7.1 (ISO:100)
Bishop Ranch Open Space Regional Preserve, San Ramon, CA. Leucistic acorn woodpecker. I removed the branching on the margins of the photo.
The annoyingly-not-quite-vertical lighthouse!
More on my blog
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Working on the principle that I will start as I mean to carry on. My @2021 folder is now open!
3 species of wader are often present and we're today.
This one seems to have a white feather in its flights.
A panoramic view of the lighthouse off Penmon Point on the island of Anglesey at dawn in Wales.
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Start Point, South Hams, Devon.
I think this is my favourite shot from my recent trip to Start Point.
It was blowing a gale and I had to crouch over my camera to stop it being buffeted by the wind, I had to go for a low angle on the tripod to keep any movement to an absolute minimum. This was a 20 second exposure, I took about 20 shots just hoping that one would be in focus, I just about got lucky. I like the foreground interest with the wild flowers and the way the headland leads your eye to the lighthouse and the blurred skies, cant wait to go back again. Incidentally in between shots I was kept amused by a seal who seemed quite interested in what I was doing and kept coming up real close, a stunning place to be.