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As mentioned in the previous pic: Chizuko and the boys went back to Japan during Spring Break whilst I stayed back in SoCal to do absolutely *nothing* ;-)
They got to experience the Cherry Blossom season and I didn't :-(
So...best I can do is live through my photo history of such times...History Redux pic of Cherry Blossoms ten (10) years ago at Komazawa Park (adjacent where we lived).
Tokyo, Japan.
It's winter and nothing is going on ... delving into the files and playing with old shots. Looking forward to spring as I'm counting down the remaining days until the winter solstice. I don't look forward to the 'holidays' as much as I do the end of short periods of daylight. Rough Blazing Star on the prairie at Quincy Bluff in Adams County, Wisconsin, USA
Front of the Agfa Trolix box camera , with aperture opening and selection of long time exposure .
For "Macro Mondays" ; theme : "Redux 2021" ; Circles and Holes .
Did some funky Photoshopping on this, a bit more (or maybe less) than the usual supersaturated, hyperreal HDR fad that seems to be catching on like wildfire. It's kind of a little bit HDR, a little bit toned, a bit of layer fun.
ABOUT THE REDUX: OK, it's not REALLY a redux. This was actually the first-go at processing this image (and I think maybe the one I prefer). The one earlier in the stream I did after, with a more 'conventional' treatment for the F64 group.
ABOUT THE WACKY COMP: Yeah, it's a bit odd, though deliberate. :) I wanted to use the ropes to divide the frame in three, with the left-most third as pure negative space. I wanted the model to be on the line of the right third as a point of interest, with most of her to the right with the hopes that the line dividing her would sort of give the feel of how, internally, we all often feel 'divided', 'torn', or have different aspects to ourselves. I wanted the line to cross her face, eye, nose and corner of her mouth in that way to give it a slight, subtle, uncomfortable feeling. It was an experiment. I don't know if it worked. I'm sure there were probably better ways to express that mood or feeling, but I like to experiment, for me it's an important part of how I learn!! :D
Wishing everyone a great Sunday!
I decided to redo my 'urban pellucidity' project using my 4x5 film camera. This was a test shot done on Fuji instant film to gauge the lighting and exposure settings. The final photographs were made on color negative film which I will be mailing out for processing later this week.
Body: Shen-Hao 4X5 TZ45-IIB
Lens: Schnieder-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 90mm f/8
Film: Fujifilm FP-100C45
Metering: Sekonic 308s
Scanner: CanoScan 9000F
Palouse Falls in Washington State with some surrealism applied after being inflicted pain from the dentist.
The G'taari Hover Scorpion is a bit of a misnomer. Although the scorpion's lightweight body contains many hydrogen-filled cavities, it cannot actually hover. Extremely fine, hairlike tentacles extend from the underside of the cephalothorax, propping the featherweight arthropod up and allowing it to grasp and pull itself at an astonishing rate to silently ambush prey. The Hover Scorpion also has an excellent defense from higher predators: when threatened, the microtentacles will bunch up and launch it in an astonishingly high jump; up to a dozen meters. Due to its minimal weight, the scorpion can stay airborne for several minutes if it stretches out its feathery microtentacles to increase air resistance. While an effective tactic against ground predators, it leaves the Hover Scorpion helplessly floating in plain sight for quite a while, a perfect target...
Hello all.
Seem familiar?
Prompted by Mike Doyle's Beautiful Lego 3, I've redone my mantoid wyvern with new pieces and over a year's worth of reflection. It is mostly unedited per contest rules, but I couldn't help removing the support. (I can certainly provide a completely unedited version if you wish, Mike.)
The changes aren't massive, but I do feel it's been improved, mostly structurally. The old one was much flimsier. I'll list the modifications for anyone who cares:
1.) A new base, obviously. The old one was effective enough, I think, but not really a base. Anyway, I tried out the newfangled rockwork that everyone seems to be raving about these days.
2.) The tail has been redesigned with purple SNOT bricks from the Cinderella carriage set. A bit chubbier than the old tail, but far less inconsistent colorwise.
3.) I implemented purple tooth pieces from the Jaw beast set where I saw fit.
4.) Four prongs per wing, and a restructuring of the connections in the wings to the body using mixel joints to strengthen it. Way, way stronger connection.
5.) 1x2 purple slopes for the wings and crest, 1x2 purple plates for the face and other areas, and 1x2 purple jumpers for the midsection.
6.) Trans-neon-green eyes. I didn't really want to change them, but when they're trans-green they show up very, very dark and desaturated in photos, which requires extensive editing to fix. However, I'm actually liking it better now. The 1x2 plates give the illusion of an iris, which I think gives old mandible mouth a bit more character. :D
I'd also like to take this opportunity to apologize for being such a n00bish, self-promotional idiot on the old photo. I haven't changed the description because if I was stupid enough to post that when I had all the time in the world to think about whether it was professional or not, I deserve to reap eternal embarrassment.
Keith Goldman of The Brothers Brick bestowed a fittingly ironic punishment by referencing my n00bishness when he blogged it. I'm very grateful to him for helping pound a bit of narcissism out of me.
Finally, you may notice that Brick Productions has recently commented on the old photo, calling me a "w00b". He's right, and I've called him that enough times to deserve it. XD
I realized that I wasn't particularly happy with the processing of the previous photo. I dont know if anyone will look at it, but do you prefer the larger size?
In the myth, Apollo falls madly in love with Daphne, a woman sworn to remain a virgin. Apollo hunts Daphne who refuses to accept his advances. Right at the moment he catches her, she turns into a laurel tree, a scene famously depicted in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne sculpture. . . thecollector.com
I got the idea for this minifig when the CMF winged warrior (and his helmet) came out. Once I made this, I got the idea to make a proper Vercingetorix which I posted recently :)
This one represents a romantic/renaissance version of the Gaul Chieftain. I personally like my other version much more but wanted to post this one anyway :) This was further compounded by the fact that I later realised why this minifg looked so familiar - the body is pretty much the same as the avatar of a prominent (and great) lego/flickr master... except this fig is more rugged and manly than that one... ;)
Yet another HISTORY REDUX picture taken 17 years ago in Chiba, Japan of three buds about to enter the surf (my surfboard is furthest right).
JAPAN.
Summertime along the picturesque ramparts of Óbidos, on Portugal's Atlantic coast.
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Bought the Metro Redux for PS4 a few days ago, finally got to play.
Everything is just so damn beautiful.
The World Renowned Frazier Studio
Elgin, Illinois, USA - Near 42.0109, -88.3477
December 30, 2007
Recropped, enhancement of tones, sharpening, etc. Also, combination of two images - one exposed for the candle, and one exposed for the glass.
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I originally found and shot this particular composition in Colorado's San Juan Mountains some eight years ago with my Canon 5D and decided it was time to revisit it with a my current, higher resolution equipment. The title of the original image was Red Dawn...thus this current title. This was taken near the Dallas Divide along County Road 9 near the town of Ridgway. The fall colors were spectacular in the San Juans this year.
Reprocess of image previously posted April 09, 2018. A contrast of centuries and styles: old Colborne Street in Toronto's St Lawrence Market district. Two blocks to the south, the signature curve of architect Daniel Libeskind's eponymously named "L Tower" rises 58 storeys in the background. (Processed in Nik Color Efex Pro4 and PS: toning, perspective altered, sky/contrail added from the cloud file.)
There are prescription drugs which have the side effects of changing your sexuality and inducing a desire for gambling.
Yes, really.
I recently inadvertently deleted many recent photos from my photostream. I've been trying to retrieve as many of them as I could - it hasn't been easy... Like this one, I've marked the 'deleted' photos as 'redux'. I lost all of the information that goes with a photo, including the faves and comments I received. I'm merely putting them back in my photostream so they are not lost forever. I've turned off the comments for each of them.
It was way back in 2003 that I started digital photography with the Canon 300D — a toy by today's standard. After a few test (and wasted) exposures, this was one of the first "serious" photos I took — IMG_0012.jpg. I wish I was smart enough to take photos in RAW at that time. But, back then, I didn't quite know (or even understood) what that was, and I did not trust anything other than JPG.
Of course, this image is post-processed. But, had it been a RAW image, just imagine how much better the post processing could have been. ;-)
USS Midway Museum
San Diego, California 32.713541, -117.173519
March 2006
That's the USS Nimitz on the other side of the bay.
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This is the original image
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I've lightened the shadows so more detail is visible in the blacks, and slammed the sliders on the sunset.
I liked the original - I REALLY like this one.
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Revisiting the previous year's Keystone outfit where I surprised myself to learn that I could actually work with sequins.
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