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Photo of a BNSF train captured alongside U.S. Highway 2 via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 50-135mm F/3.5 lens. Snohomish County, Washington. Late October 2015.
Exposure Time: 1/6 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/16 * Bracketing: None
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight landing at Fairford.
Constructed in 1945 but did not see combat service.
To the Air Historical Branch in 1964 for potential display in the proposed RAF Museum.
Transferred to the BBMF in 1973.
This shot is sort of a breakthrough of sorts for me, not that this shot is earth shattering by any means, but from a technical standpoint it marks the tip of an iceberg. I'll explain this a little better in a minute, first the story.
Last weekend I met up with fellow flickr member Jon Blake who has been in Seattle for the past few months for his work. Jon is a colorado based landscape photographer and he had mentioned the skagit valley flowers as being on his list of things to shoot so we decided to go check out the skagit valley flowers. We drove up early and scouted for an east west oriented field and came up with this one. In the dark it appeared that we had the perfect set up, the sun started to come up and we got a nice sunrise, as the color was dying down I finally really surveyed the scene at which time I noticed the sparseness of the daffodils. We got a nice sunrise and a lousy field, I guess one out of two isn't bad lol.
I dont usually get much into talk of technique and processing... to HDR or not, what is the best program, or camera for that matter, but I believe that this shot here really reveals the potential of what a camera and a software program are capable of achieving. When I got my D600 back in late September I also picked up lightroom 4, mainly as a way to play with the raw files before putting them into CS5, but as time has passed I find myself using the raw processing in lightroom way more. The ability to recover the shadow information from the D600 is really quite amazing, you do get some noise, but it isn't really anything that can't be fixed in post. This shot is a single raw from the D600 shot just over 4 stops under exposed. This scene is fairly dynamic and the information off the sensor covers the entire range and lightroom 4 allows one to unlock it. Granted the resulting product is pretty flat and without contrast, it still is much quicker and in a lot of ways more natural than a lot of the photomatix blending modes. Photoshop is still required to rebalance the luminosity values of the image and get the contrast back where it needs to be. This discovery will change the way I start to approach a lot of my shooting in the future, wind and motion will no longer be as big of an issue.
This is what is so great about photography, if you keep working at it you keep having breakthroughs. Now how to utilize this new found information????
Check out Jon's photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/jonblakephotography/
he does some really nice landscape work and is a very knowledgable photographer as well, thanks for all the tips and ideas Jon.
I'll quit blabbing now and just say thanks as always for your time and the visit.
Despite the dirt, missing wheel trims, taped rear lamp cluster, missing rear wiper and a rather worn out front numberplate, this Nexia has plenty of potential to be a neat looking vehicle again, as it didn't have any rust visible, the paintwork still had a certain shine to it, and it only had 33K on the clock at its last MOT. I left a note on it for Rory (R.Gregory), who is looking to buy a Nexia. He hasn't heard anything back from the owner yet, although it doesn't seem that the owner has gone out to their car in a while, so there's a chance that they haven't even seen the note yet, which has got wet in the rain!
Mileage in between MOTs - 4,087 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 33,646 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 4th May 2015
P774 MLY
✓ Taxed
Tax due: 01 May 2019
✓ MOT
Expires: 05 May 2019
Any Great Central railway gala, i always look at the best pace for these types of passing shots. Both locos facing the right way. In reality they were around 45 seconds from passing each other at this location. With the wonders of Photoshop, I have made it happen. Standard 5 No. 73156 and 9F No. 92214 at the A6 roadbridge in Loughborough.
Polaroid in extensions giving an insight into the potential in action as a box is opened…
Extension in order of increase,
1. Lapidoro – Square to light centre and four reversed Squardles
2. Lipodaro - Lapidoro Original Square Squaredly Squared upon itself now with sixteen reversed Squardles
3. Lodiparo – 16.9 Cinema Style Lipodaro Bi-Half-Squaredly Squared with thirty-two reversed Squardles
4. Loopiard – Lipodaro Squaredly Squared giving sixty-four reversed Squardles
Squaredly Squared – a process of squaring I think,
Bi-Half-Squaredly – possibly a reflection, or repetition in extension.
Squardles – same square of four, (or more), in opposite internal reflection to all of the other parts of the square-ish pattern.
Squarish – not quite a square created out of four elements that came together nicely.
Squared Sight Squarish Seeing Squardles and Squaredly Sites EVERYWHERE -SSSSSaSSE – SAsse is shortish term slight infection and by definition the apparent pixel printed grids and lined up light shines on envisioned 90 degrees that are part projection as you seek repetition and reflection.
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i have a studio in my home, and lately, it makes me feel very cooped up. walking around san diego, i happened upon this building with studio space for rent. it seemed like it was calling to me with its charley harper esque front door mural, so i made an appointment to go check out the interior later today.
hoping for the best!
do any of you have studio spaces in or out of your home? i'm finding that at home, sometimes i'm not able to focus or stay motivated & it has become quite frustrating. also, i love the idea of having a space where i do work not related to my shop or business. like, it could be my painting studio only. not my design studio - and definitely not my EMAIL studio. good god.
on a side note, if any creatives in san diego would like to potentially share a studio, please email me at susie[at!]boygirlparty.com -- not sure if the offices here are big enough to share, but i like the idea of sharing.
A car casually stopped at the open section between the two tunnels on the road from Furnas to Ribeira Quente, to check out the waterfall that can be seen from this spot, Cascata da Ribeira Quente. Despite being just 8km from Furnas, this small civil parish was only served by dirt roads, horses or cattle carts until 1935! The construction of the two tunnels seen here, referred to locally as the Tuneis de Liberidade, between 1935 and 1939, marked the end of the community’s isolation. This short drive is wonderful and although one has to go back the way they came from, since the road stops at Ribeira Quente, it is definitely worth it.
How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me.
It's like a book elegantly bound but,
in a language that you can't read.
Just yet.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
There are days when outside your window
I see my reflection as I slowly pass,
and I long for this mirrored perspective
when we'll be lovers, lovers at last.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
You reject my... advances... and desperate pleas...
I won't let you... let me down... so easily.
So easily.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
* I Will Possess Your Heart * ~ Death Cab For Cutie
Well.....our potential "winter event" for 2019 was a total bust. Local meteorologists and iphone weather apps whipped the whole city up into a snow induced frenzy. In reality, we got a light dusting and will get a whole bunch or rain. Alas, I will have to look back on images from last years snow storm and hope the temperatures drop.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
Be bold. Be risky. Innovate. Refuse to be trapped within your mundane concepts. Grab what’s potential and make it a possibility. Take those fluttering ideas and dwell in their greatness. Never underestimate the value of an idea. Seek, find, imagine and create. Do not be discouraged by rejections. It takes time and patience and hard work and endless internal debate for an innovation to be accepted. Work around your doubts. Take the challenge head on.
For someone whose artistic abilities rarely exceed “won't use sharpie on a doll (or at least not w/o knowing it'll potentially ruin said doll)“ I sure do tackle projects sometimes 😂
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In this case, finally painted Kemal's staff or that shit never gets done
I used to play a little chess. Like most of the boys my age at the time, I got caught up in the Bobby Fischer craze when he beat Boris Spasski for the world championship. I bought a set, got a couple of books, learned a couple of cheap tricks, and was set to crush my opponents. At first, my opponents were mostly my friends who knew diddley squat about chess, and were easy pickings for a kid with some book knowledge and a few memorized opening traps.
Full of a false sense of invincibility, I decided to take my skills to the local chess club. I showed up at their meeting on Thursday night and the first thing I noticed was the room was full of old guys. How hard could this be? I'm not going to say anymore about this other than I did have some potential. Just not at chess.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.
Nevada City CA
Kids are amazing. The more time I spend performing for them, the "amazed-er" I get.
A child really can embrace the notion that something can magically appear in a bag that was empty just a moment before. They laugh with abandon. Looking cool isn't all that important to a kid.
I like kids.
When I am on stage doing a show, I look out at the all those little eyes looking back at me in the happy expectation that something wonderful is going to happen.
Do you know what I see? A sea of potential. These little people could become anything: writers or lawyers, serial killers or politicians (same difference, I guess.)
The world hasn't written on their souls with that indelible marker yet.
They could become anything.
Which is something else I find really cool. Who knows? Maybe one or two of them will wind up on flickr.
Thanks to Dianna for the texture. Her excellent Photostream is here: www.flickr.com/photos/dianna1966/
Too many reflections loaded and here I am loading more. These are the end to the reflections as the personal intrusion was the end my friend. No worries about being personally intruded, it is just the way it is, was and hopefully will be. Please step in, out and walk all around my pictures, your pathways are more important than my pictures. When everything else is in balance I try to take an image and create a picture hopefully in harmony.
There are some good links below. My reflected images don’t get many views, here they are though. Some pictures I take I see the reflection opening up the scene. Here the dark cross caught my eye and the potential to extend the original image from a landscape orientation and then from a portrait orientation fired my mind and then, and then someone rose from their lower perspective photography and stood in my scene. Suddenly I was woken from my image making dream. They were a great photography companion and the only reason that I was there and out and about with a camera. No shade on them for elevate themselves from a close-up photography Yoga pose focused on a flower I believe. They can puncture my composed dream frames anytime, also in any place and in all space and none, even if their puncture power means the dream scene has gone.*
The Sun will shine and cast shadows and in inspecting them we can tell the time. We can see line and with a care we can watch the minutes and hours pass as the line moves. If we wish we can look at light as the generative creator of life and we can see shadow as an opposition a place that will not respond to the clarion call of the Sun. Shadow and shade bring about their own distinct wonders and Shadow is created and directed in constant movement by light of varying intensity. We humans have considered good and bad omens from the force of the Sun and from the reaction of shade, shadow and subterranean sunless places as well as the phase of the Moon displaying reflected radiance of the Sun and at times the Moon shrouds the Sun in eclipse of amazing exactness gifting sight of the edge the immediate crown of the star that illuminates us and leaves us to the further distant view of the other stars and planets by night. All this to say Sun and Shadow, direct light and reflection and refraction all the time in world seemingly making and recreating signs and symbols that we divine as the language of light and the symphony of dark. Light is light and lack of light is either less, or even total darkness with no need to try to read the light and to listen to the dark. After this mention of omen and even prediction everything below this is information about the absolutely stunning location.
Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.
Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.
The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.
*The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit is currently available from the Akashic Records at wherever you usually Yoga access them. They can help you achieve stone solid results and icon Sphinx like waking scenes and also avoid all frame puncture at every photographic juncture. Higher State close lens search for Dream Scene Puncture Repair in Khemtastic Pack IV Pharaoh Awakes near potential pyramid lakes. If you have not found The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit then join the rest of us that either have to recompose and take another dream scene, or move on literally figuratively and even spiritually if your dream close to fulfilment was such a wondrous scene.
Number 7 in this series is a crop into the pictures joined there are some amazing eyes and other reflections. The animals outlines perceived here are very small indeed. They black edges are the coat of the very welcome frame intruder.
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Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Nasmyth_-_Hawthornde...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
'Wallace's Cave'
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778
The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings