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Preparing the class 50, 50.3648 at BW. Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf for an excursion the following day. Sadly, the loco had problems early in the programme and we never saw it performing.
Saxony, Germany, February 2023. © David Hill
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup.
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she is lit only with backlight, her face is lit from the bounce off her shoulder... simple always works... :-)
silverlake, los angeles oct 2008
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Day 6 of Corona-related state of emergency, Day 1 of lockdown. The latter one became necessary because there are stupid and ignorant people like my neighbors who continue to have friends over for parties to celebrate their time off work :-(
Anyway, I found a great video on youtube that shows very vividly how germs spread: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-dI74zxPg
I can't recommend enough watching this (although I disagree on the somewhat cheerful, positive vibe towards the end of the video).
I see lots of people now doing their groceries wearing gloves. This is all for nothing though when they start touching their phones, keys, credit cards, etc. with these gloves. As soon as you touch these things with your bare fingers at home you start spreading all the pathogens you picked up with your gloves. So remember to wipe down (no disinfectant needed! Dish soap and water are just fine!) things you often touch like cell phones, tablets, light switches, door handles, all sorts of handles in your bathroom and kitchen, keys, steering wheel, wallet and so on. And btw most probably these gloves are permeable for viruses, so do wash your hands after you take them off anyway.
Have a happy and healthy weekend!
Another cool but short evening out with Chris T and my mate Paul. Returning to last weeks location for some light waving.
All the usual suspects here cobbled together mainly with guestimates.
Camera rotated using a drill attached to the crt for the orange form around the silhouette. Tripod swap for 10 seconds of backlight. Cap on and an 8 way rotation of the black fibers from www.lightpaintingbrushes.com zoom pulled for every 45 degrees of rotation.
F/11 @ 75 secs.
ISO 100
Lee .75ND Hard Grad
Lee ND110
The sky was quite dramatic when I arrived at Bamburgh on Saturday afternoon and for a few minutes the castle was shrouded in mist. I have tried sharpening this image twice. Once when first processed and again after reducing the size using lab mode. A contact of mine,Steve Walden uses this technique and his images always look pin sharp so I thought I would give it a go.
This evening Ruse and a few of her sisters escaped outside to see a beautiful sunset. The Owls are out and about putting on a show for us...as too are the Mosquitoes -yuk!
The two appeared yesterday to define the word 'purity' in a fragrant language.
[Perfect Radiating Purity
Nothing escapes its action.
Gardenia augusta [Jasminoides]
Jasmine, Cape jessamine
Medium to large highly fragrant double white salverform flower with
curling irregularly shaped petal-like lobes that radiate horizontally
from the sturdy corolla tube; borne singly among the leaves. A medium
to large shrub with attractive glossy foliage.---The Mother]
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Like many a teen, this young Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata) is getting to know himself. After all, he is only 13 years old and could easily have another hundred years of life ahead of him! At almost 15" long, he is basically full-grown at this point. And he's spends much of his time running about, flexing his muscles, and looking for ladies. Sometimes, he gets so excited by this search, he has to remind himself to eat.
Interestingly, this captively-cared for tortoise is a smart fellow who recognizes his keepers and will come up for head and shell scratches when they are within eye shot!
I haven't been shooting conceptual photos almost at all. This is probably one of the first since I've been back home in Calvert. We had a blizzard out here on the east coast so I wanted to make the best of it.
This was supposed to be a remake of one of my older photos I hated. Last night I was sprung into a bad mood for whatever reason so I looked back on some unedited photos I had taken and never got to. After getting lost in editing for 5 hours, this is what I came up with.
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The Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata) is one of the most protected species of tortoise in the world. Within the reptile world, it is something of a poster child for environmental conservation. In the U.S., this means that--in order to keep them legally--one must obtain a USFWS captive bred wildlife permit, and many states require their own licenses atop this U.S. one!
The protection is helping. Today, it is likely that over 3,000 of these tortoises are living and breeding in the U.S., while civilization continues to encroach on their homelands in Madagascar.
The captively-cared for juvenile photographed here is approximately four years old and could have well more than 100 years to go!
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Going though my archives these days...
Hope you enjoy those impressions that are far beyond the current wintertime.
All the best to you...
Namasté,
Lars.
Yuba doing his best to radiate heat on a hot, humid day. Given his unfortunately weight and shape, he does this a lot on hot days. The kitchen is probably the coolest spot in the house (being in the north east corner) so this is a good spot for him to try to cool off.
One of the many curved hallways in the main building at the old santiarium. From above, the building looks somewhat like a handlebar mustache.
Our original plan was to spend the last night of the High Sierra Trail (HST) backpacking trip at Trail Camp at the bottom of the ninety-nine switchbacks. But, it was still quite early when we arrived there. So, we decided to hike farther down to shorten the distance to Whitney Port when exiting next day (because we still had to hitch a ride to Lone Pine Campground). It would’ve been cool to camp at Consultation Lake but in the end we settled farther down at the top of this giant granite slab, higher than both Mirror Lake and Outpost Camp. The view of Inyo Mountains across Owens Valley in the far distance through the narrow valley was quite a treat. And we were still high enough to see Lone Pine Lake as well. The nicely flowing Lone Pine Creek about 20 feet below us made this campsite an ideal spot to spend the night. Next morning we got up early and found a perfect spot a bit down the slab to catch the sunrise. The sun was not visible because of the ridgeline on the right, but on our left the east end of the jagged Pinnacle Ridgeline was radiating in insane orange once the sun rose! After a few minutes, it was gone. And it was time for us to get ready to descend the last section of Mt. Whitney Trail.