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I'd just sat down to lunch, when I noticed the shadow cast by the lamp. I ran up stairs, grabbed a camera, ran back down, and already half the shadow had gone. But it'll do.
And for the 365 treasure hunt, number 45 Masonry.
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Funny lens tricks here. I don't know how it is even possble but there are inverted and not inverted shadows of the in-focus subject in the blokens and bokeh around it. Any optics experts out there? How is this possible. I've never seen it in a lifetime of taking photos. No flash was used here.
Hay umbrella in a bar near the Black sea beach.
Photo taken with Canon 450D, Tamron SP AF28-300/3.5-6.3
Shadow and Wall. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The ephemeral shadow of a passing figure on a wall in Manhattan.
One evening in Manhattan, we were out for a walk along the Highline Park. As always, I was carrying a camera. (Yes, I think I drive my family crazy that way.) I’ve been there a number of times, and I’m usually intrigued by the buildings that line this park — their textures, their windows and rooftops, the glimpses of what goes on in them as the life of the park moves past. I think I was trying to think of a way to photograph the texture of this concrete wall when I came upon this bit of light coming across the walkway and casting shadows.
It is hard to recall too many more specifics of the scene, though I have a series of perhaps a half dozen or more photographs, made as various people moved through the lower part of the scene or, more accurately, their vague shadows moved through the scene. When people ask what sort of camera I carry to places like this, my answer is that it is usually a small camera equipped with small prime lenses. This photograph perhaps illustrates why that is. I can always have such a camera with me, I can use it quickly and without much fuss, and it even works in very low light.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Thanks to Joy Division for the fitting photo title.
Beautiful autumn trees dance and wave in the gorgeous light of the setting sun on a crisp Thursday evening.
Just after midday, the sun is overhead the engineer's house - creating a crazy interplay between light and shadow.
Kolmanskop
In 1908, Luderitz was plunged into diamond fever. The railway worker Zacharias Lewala had found a strangely sparkling stone in the sand which he showed his foreman August Stauch. Soon it was confirmed that it was indeed a diamond.
Although Stauch at first managed to keep the find a secret, soon people rushed into the Namib Desert hoping to make an easy fortune A diamond protection zone was proclaimed and claims were staked off. Within two years, the town Kolmanskop, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, had been established in the barren sandy desert.
When it got too difficult to find diamonds on the surface, some 30 kilometres south of Kolmanskop a new site named Elizabeth Bay was opened. Here the diamond production was done at a large industrial scale in huge factory plants. Many waggon loads of diamond-bearing sand and gravel had to be brought in to the recovery facilities. The material was then screened and washed in huge drums. The neccessary water was pumped up from the sea. About 1000 carats, that is around 200 grams, of raw diamonds were extracted daily. 10 tons of sand normally contain only 1 to 2 carat raw diamond.
Over 1000 kg of diamonds were extracted before World War I. However, the amount of gemstones greatly diminished after the war. Furthermore, considerably larger diamonds were found to the south near Oranjemund, causing Kolmanskop to become a ghost town, just like Elizabeth Bay a little later.
The Namib Desert between the B4 (Luederitz - Keetmanshoop) in the north and the Orange river mouth in the south still today is a diamond protection zone. It stretches parallel to the coast at a width of some 100 kilometres. It is exploited exclusively by the Namibian-South African mining company Namdeb, which mines diamonds on a large scale mainly in Oranjemund and in the vicinity of Elizabeth Bay. The plants are closed to the public. Only the ghost town of Kolmanskop – and with extra restrictions also Elizabeth Bay – can be visited.
Credit:
www.namibia-travel.net/travelguide/southern-namibia/kolma...
Long shadows of late afternoon light, a carpet of fallen leaves, the Cypress knees that jut up from the pooling water, all this makes for an autumnal scene that had me stop and try to capture the magic in the moment.
I took over 30 images, overlapping them with care, to try to have enough for input into my stitching program, AutopanoPro. I still am working on my technique with this method. I should have stood farther back and stayed rock solid as I swept the overlapping rows. I twisted my upper body a time or two, and that was enough to give me much more work to do in post processing than I usually need. It turned out fine, but not as fine as I would like.
The magic is in each moment. This spot is no longer as it appears here, and never again will be exactly the same. I'll try again, at this place, but it will be different, as will I be different.
Colorado
The Great Sand Dunes
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park located in the easternmost parts of Alamosa County and Saguache County, Colorado, United States. Originally created as Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was established by an act of the United States Congress on September 13, 2004.[3] The park includes 44,246 acres (17,906 ha) and the preserve protects an additional 41,686 acres (16,870 ha).[1]
I segni della mancanza si segno: osservare, sentire, ricostruire l'immaginazione tramite l'Arte per dar forma a ciò che sfugge.
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The signs of the lack of sign: observe, feel, rebuild the imagination through art to give form to that which escapes.
So I got married. I have moved. And this is from the honeymoon. The light was perfect and the shadows are jumbled and perfect too :)
Am hopefully back on Flickr for good depending on how quick my house set up is going to be. Wish me luck guys.
Shadows of a perfect weekend. Nothing to complicated this week, just a shot of the view we had over a very relaxing easter weekend ( complete with shadows and a pelican)