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The glow of colorful stained glass windows as seen in the Germany pavilion at EPCOT.
Walt Disney World | EPCOT Center | World Showcase | Germany
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I was shooting a gig for a band and came across this huge window in the Mens' toilet. For security reasons, my camera stayed with me so how could I not shoot such an odd scenario? :-)
I'm loving the feel of the Ricoh GRD III's square format... just loving it. Takes me back to my film days with the Rollei...
I wanted to state that this is not my house; although I wish it were. When we were kicking around the idea to move to Massachusetts, we flew out during Thanksgiving week to make sure we wanted Massachusetts to become our new home. I had been drooling over this house on a real estate website so we decided to drive out and take a look during an open house. First of all, the house is PINK! I loved the idea of living in a pink house. This house felt so right to me; the owner was selling because his girlfriend (I don't think they were married) had passed away and I believe he wanted to get away and start over. She was an artist and the walls were covered with her art. I will confess, I teared up when I walked inside. It was built in the late 1800's and had charm oozing out of its walls. We weren't in the position to buy at that time (we still had a house in Seattle to sell), but I'll never forget this house. So glad I took photos that day.
Taken with natural, available light, this is a shot of toiletries in my medicine cabinet as seen through the privacy glass door.
"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom". ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We all need a little private space now and then!!
About 30 years ago when we were first landscaping our property, I wanted a privacy hedge. I then saw an article in the Los Angeles Times recommending the pineapple guava plant as one of the most rewarding plants that we could grown in our area. Attractive shrubbery, beautiful blossoms great tasting fruit in the fall, and fairly fast growing. It's also reasonable drought tolerant. It's now an 8 foot hedge with wonderful fruit that we eat in the fall. It is neither in the pineapple or guava family
I lit this with a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox hand held at camera left. The flash was in manual mode, and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant album. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422.
This was taken at the northwest corner of Broadway and 96th Street
(more details later, as time permits)
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009-2014 (as shown in this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set), this Flickr set), and this Flickr set): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project six years ago, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep my camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are plenty of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past six years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... unfortunately, there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
Corsa Prova
Genova Sestri Ponente Aeroporto - Vado Ligure Zona Industriale
Scalo merci di Savona Parco Doria, 16/04/2015
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66764 trundles over the ungated Thorpe crossing with 6D16 West Burton power station to Ferrybridge conveying gypsum for the Siniat Drywall factory.
The last thing Arthur wanted anyone to know is that he prefers to treat his hemorrhoids with apple cider vinegar. Just a little dab on the affected area three or four times a day brings him relief. Unfortunately, Arthur's online searches for information on hemorrhoids and apple cider resulted in targeted ads which allowed all of Camelot to put two and two together. Now, even Lancelot rubs his butt every time Arthur walks by.
Bakersfield, California 2013