Happy Valentine's Day

This Jay takes a pause at a seasonal feeder.

單燈人像：預視現場，用一支閃燈打出各種可能

博客來連結：http://www.books.com.tw/products/0010767307

隔了幾年，終於推出了第二本個人著作，這次內容偏重在單燈的運用，如果對我平常拍攝人像使用的單燈技巧有興趣，可以參考這本新作喔 :)

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[London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press.

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The newspaper published my letter to the editor today (2020-07-04).

There is a bit of my letter at the bottom of column 2 that is outside of the image. Here is a link to today's entire Letters to the Editor on the Globe and Mail.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/letters/article-july-4-it...

To provide some background information, every spring, summer and autumn, Canadian farms hire thousands of temporary migrant workers from Mexico, the rest of South America and the Caribbean to do back-breaking farm work -- sow the seeds, prune the plants and harvest the vegetables and fruits. We DEPEND on the migrant workers for our FOOD SUPPLY. Their living conditions are crammed and undesirable at the best of times, and downright deplorable and dangerous during a global pandemic. So far in the short three months between April and the end of June, over 1,000 farm workers have been infected with the COVID-19 virus in the province of Ontario alone, and three young migrant workers from Mexico have died from it. This should not happen in Canada that speaks of human rights and kindness all the time. Really shameful.

Published: National Geographic - Your Shot, Sep 2009

London - Midnight in Trafalgar Square, postcard published by Raphael Tuck and Sons. Midnight London Series 953, postmarked 24 September 1908.

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PLEASE

• Do not post animated gifs or pictures in your comments. Especially the "awards". These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked. Unless it's an interesting other picture, for comparison or reference.

• No invitations to groups where one must comment and/or invite and/or give award and no group icon without any comment. These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked.

Nothing personal here, I simply don't see the usefulness of such actions. On the other hand I encourage you to critic my work as I believe that is the best way to improve my photography. Thank you!

POR FAVOR

-No pongas gifs animados, logos o premios (awards) en tu comentario. A no ser que la imagen que incluyas esté para compararla con la mía o para ilustrar un punto de vista borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.

-No me envíes invitaciones a grupos donde exista la obligación de comentar o premiar fotos, ni a aquellos donde existe un comentario preformateado con el logo del grupo. Borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.

Nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!

the image of the two girls running down the path is mine...

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This will be published in the Dec.- Jan. issue of Our Canada This will by my 3rd time in the magazine and several times featured in their blog and on facebook

Online mapping website decided to use one of my picture.

All my photographs are under copyright and my property and shall not be published, reproduced and/or used in any way whatsoever without my explicit written permission.

Any unauthorized use is a violation of copyright law and illegal. If you are interested in buying any of my pictures please contact me by flickr mail.

Submission published in dominante magazine

See one more "live" image below.

My image, Water Art: A spring poplar canvas, (View On Black) is on the cover of the 2014 Zen Mountain Monastery Retreat Calendar. Yes, it is always a thrill!

I am very excited to inform you my photo "Violin" is published in the winter issue of the "Photo News" Magazine. This is my first publication. Above is the page from the electronic edition of the magazine. The flickr group of the magazine can be found over here, if you would want to check it out.

I would like to thank you the Photo News Editor for giving me the opportunity to be the part of this wonderful magazine. I would like to thank you all of you for constant support of my work. Thank you!

it's always nice to see your own work published. you can find it here in better quality.

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Making a run for it in the middle of a downpour.

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My abstract work was published last week in Advanced Images Travelution.

Advanced Images Issue 75 with theme of the month ABSTRACT UNLIMITED is ready for download via this link

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A smoking shot from the previous Stockholm Zombie Walk. I publish this photo in celebration of my 9 year anniversary on Flickr.

Since October 1st 2009, I've been publishing 1 new photo every day. And every year on this day, I record a snapshot of my Flickr stats for you. Admittedly, some of these numbers became askew after I did a few fine art nude sessions...

2018: 13 820 863

2017: 10 917 806

2016: 7 984 555

2015: 4 673 535

2014: 2 253 883

2013: 780 541

2012: 418 694

2011: 209 294

2010: 066 318

You see that? Several years in a row, I experienced exponential growth, but I fear those days are forever gone. It's okay. I don't do photography to get views, but they are a neat bonus. Without further ado, here are the most viewed and so on:

Most interesting

1. Sunset Rock Lake I

2. Marina Street Sunset

3. An Empty Platform

4. Dream of Star Bursts

5. Stora Sundby Castle

6. A Trendy Lighthouse

7. Grand Hotel Sunset

8. A Misty Field

9. Red Bridge Peninsula I

10. Burn the Forest II

Most views

1. Nude Swinger Girl (82 823)

2. Nude Field Day 71 838)

3. A Liberated Nude (70 967)

4. Smile of a Nymph (65 688)

5. Hourglass in the Jungle (62 793)

6. A Nude Rejoice (58 131)

7. A Summer Nude (57 326)

8. In Painful Extacy (50 357)

9. A Nude in Pursuit (49 170)

10. City Hall Bar I (48 962)

Most favorites

1. Hourglass in the Jungle (201)

2. Marina Bay Skyline (198)

3. A Tentative Nude (184)

4. Lonely Tree Sunset (183)

5. A Jungle Nude (175)

6. A Spirit of Sorrow (174)

7. A Liberated Nude (170)

8. Grit of Quarry Bay (168)

9. Sunbeams in the Dark (165)

10. A Dancing Nude (162)

Most commented

1. Old Town Clouds IX (82)

2. Great Rainbow Arch (68)

3. Marina Bay Skyline (66)

4. Lonely Tree Sunset (64)

5. Fors Church at Sunset (64)

6. Cobblestone Alley Night (63)

7. Victoria Peak Night (58)

8. Late Sunset Island (57)

9. Kallang Sunset Skyline (56)

10. Lake of Fiery Clouds (56)

Published in "Living the Photoartistic Life" magazine, Issue No. 47, pg. 101. (issuu.com/thephotoartisticlife/docs/issue47-final?e=15580...) Image Resources: woman, lily pads and goldfish from Adobe Stock. Lotus flower from Pixabay; lophelia coral from noaa.com;

Samples of the diverse colours and textures of the Mojave Desert.

I was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles when I was treated to this never ending and amazingly varied view of the desert. With no vegetation to speak of the nartural contours and fine textures are visible, and the colours of the soil were starkly visible.

The colours are strongly emphasised for effect and artistic licence, but they are taken from the landscape itself.

my peep photo of Hanna Beth in DIFUSE mag

Have you seen the new 2016 R.M. Williams Outback Magazine calendar guys?

My shot of Sheringa on the remote west coast of SA scores January, while my photo of the Sturt's Desert Pea in the Gawler Ranges National Park takes out June!

Cheers n beers,

Rob

a cadre of climbers on the bridge.

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August 7, 2011 - North of Riverdale Nebraska

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Taken just days after I had smashed my Nikon D50. Strong Gust front took out best camera. Another night storm with outflow came a calling. Even with a sand bag attached to the tripod it still blew it straight over. I was only about a foot away but the wind when the storm hit was nasty bad and I wasn't able to make a saving grab.

So this set of images were taken with 5mp LG phone that I simply hated. I had no other means of taking pics. Weird how this set of images would become one of my most viewed here on Flickr.

Now for the rest of the story....

Seriously, I wasn't even going to chase that afternoon. I was bummed out about my camera and lens. Now in a few unfix able pieces. My daughter Alyssa & I were heading over to good friends to BBQ, and have some Fresh Nebraska Sweet Corn & other yummies...

Just leaving my pad, we had looked out to the Northwest, and my jaw about dropped. It was still 20+ Miles away, I just knew she was coming our way... due to radar and warnings out for western counties... but the outskirts of city limits the clouds told the tale... She was going to be a photographic beauty.

My Daughter was hungry for the BBQ but she also wanted to see this storm up close and personal. I gave her a choice... BBQ or Storm.....she wanted to see the storm and we were off to our storm adventure! It was one of the best photographic shelf clouds of 2011! Glad we were there to capture this!

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Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography

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Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences.

Edinburgh [etc.] :Published for the proprietor [etc.],1835-1840.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33665589

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Interior of the Narima Hotel - they have fantastic furniture unique pieces, all of massive wood.

taken in Koh Lanta, Thailand. June 2008

Thanks to the owners of the Narima for the great welcome, and especially thanks to Dr. Nopawan who has been ever so kind with us.

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Striding toards the entance.

Straight lines from the 17mm Tilt Shift lens. Thanks to Scott for running the #canoncollective Tilt Shift workshop.

Published by La Selva, Brazil

Artist Jayme Cortez

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Lesser Redpoll

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( Carduelis cabaret )

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This tiny finch, only slightly bigger than a blue tit perched on high showing off his patches of red on its head and breast.

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Featured in the British Garden Birds Calendar 2016.

Spain, Valencia. The City of Arts and Sciences - Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (CAC) covers a large area just outside the old town of Valencia. The Valencian architect Calatrava has drawn most of the spectacular buildings.

PICTURED: Hemisfèric opened in 1998 as the first building on the site. There's a gigantic IMAX cinema inside. The roof is 100 meters long.

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For my old Flickr friend @Tony Gálvez - who's photos of the CAC years ago surely was part of the reason why we went to Valencia last year. And of course, the city has so much more to show. The photo has been published in a travel article about Valencia I had published in several Norwegian newspapers earlier this year.

Note: this photo was published in a Nov 1, 2011 issue of Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "90012."

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After visiting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest gathering in Zuccotti Park last week (which you can see in this Flickr site), I thought I would have a good idea of what to expect when I decided to visit the Occupy Los Angeles gathering outside City Hall in Los Angeles early Saturday morning. And to some extent, I was right: the protest was still focused on the excesses of the richest and most powerful 1% of the population, as well as corruption and paralysis in Washington.

But New York and Los Angeles are obviously on opposite sides of the country -- and in some respects, the two protests were completely different. It was already pleasantly warm when I showed up at 8:30 in the morning, and the previous evening had been seasonably mild; by contrast, it wet and freezing cold in New York City, with the earliest snow-fall in over 150 years making life somewhat miserable for the hundreds of shivering protesters who squatted under a long blue tarp that had been stretched over the food kitchen.

The mild weather may explain the first visible difference that I saw between the two "occupy" gatherings: there were many more tents in Los Angeles, each one seeming to hold three or four people who were just beginning to poke their heads out, sniffing the air for the presence of coffee or food that they could use to break their overnight fast. There was no need for heavy coats or hats or mittens; all I saw in Los Angeles was a few sweaters and light jackets. A visitor to my Flickr site jokingly asked why I had not photographed one of the (female) protesters in a topless outfit, and why none of the people were nude. Well, if that was going to happen, it would have happened in Los Angeles, not New York; and as for Los Angeles, the most extreme clothing I saw was one woman wearing a fairly un-revealing bikini top. Hardly the stuff of Woodstock; so much for the idea of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll at these gatherings.

Speaking of rock-n-roll: there was none. But in Los Angeles, there were a lot more people with guitars. And mandolins, and fiddles, and even someone with a flute. Some of them played quietly, for their own amusement; but several of them drifted together beneath a statue that led up the stairs to the front entrance of City Hall, and jammed extemporaneously, with several simple, but enjoyable songs. I video-recorded several of these musical efforts, and I'll combine all of them together into a "composite" music-video on YouTube.

Another difference between Los Angeles and New YOrk involved the presence of cameras. Quite simply, there were many more in New York, and while I did not see any major-media journalists or reporters, there did seem to be a number of quasi-professional independent journalists who were not only photographing and recording everything they could see, but also interviewing everyone who looked interesting. Not so, in Los Angeles; yes, there were a few people with video cameras and DSLR still cameras (including me), but I only saw one or two interviews taking place. Ironically, I was one of the people interviewed: an earnest young man told me he was taking a class that required him to interview photographers at the protest gathering, and he wanted to know what I thought of the whole scene.

So I told him, in a summary fashion, what I had already written in the notes accompanying my OWS Flickr set, and I told him that I thought the Los Angeles gathering was quieter, with less energy, and more people just wandering around somewhat aimlessly. There were no speeches, there was no shouting, and there was almost no police presence. I did see two cops standing at the top of the stairs leading to the front entrance of of City Hall, but they vanished about half an hour after I arrived.

One last note, which may strike some readers as biased or unfair -- but I saw what I saw: several people wandered down the various sidewalks leading out of City Hall Park ... and then returned via the same sidewalks, ten or fifteen minutes later, carrying a large cup of Starbucks coffee. The revolution, it seems, runs on Starbucks.

That's when I began focusing on the clothing worn by the protesters. As noted above, it was obviously much warmer than it was in New York City, so perhaps I should not have been surprised to see half a dozen or more people wandering around barefoot. But the other thing that struck me was how carefully several of the people were dressed, and how much attention they seemed to have spent to make their physical appearance look appropriately fashionable, while simultaneously being disheveled and hippy. Like I said, I might be biased: you can look at the pictures and judge for yourself.

I spent more time here than I did in New York -- roughly three hours before I decided that I had seen everything there was to see. But as a result, I got a lot more pictures - some 700+ still pictures, and a dozen video clips. I've winnowed it down, as best I could, to 200 keepers. Enjoy!

I'm not one for bragging, but I just can't help it with this one!

I got the front page and also an 8 page article inside the magazine. What a great start to 2014!

Huge thanks to everyone who follows and supports me, and to everyone that's helped and inspired me along the way in the light painting world :)

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I posted a few of my Monarch migration photos on a local facebook site and they were spotted by the local newspaper ! Over 350 people liked my photos and I got to meet a few of them at Lakeland Park ! Some days you just get lucky !!