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Windows Wednesday
My Simple Pleasures set: Simple Pleasures
My PA set here: Prompt Addicts set
My windows set here: Elisa Windows set
After sifting through and editing 600-odd images from Saturday night I'm all photo-ed out today!
For some reason Toby finds the name of this plant hilarious ;)
It was simplicity that was the goal of this shot. A rock, a cloud, and the ocean. "Less is more", they say when it comes to life. Until it was discovered that a very wealthy individual coined the phrase, attempting to convince the less fortunate to accept their lot in life.
However, this simple phrase is true in photography. eliminating clutter does remove distractions. This is what the phrase is meant to illustrate. These are the simple goals that any photographer desires.
Detail shot of Pavilion House, Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
This handsome 1970s building replaced the much loved Pavilion Hotel, demolished in 1973.
I get the impression that Pavilion House has never been popular. It has been voted by the people of Scarborough as the town's ugliest building.
Plans have been put forward to remove the concrete facade and replace it with full height windows.
I understand that the building was designed by Robert Matthew, Johnson Marshall.
Photo taken in October 2025.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
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Explore 108. Thank you everyone for your continuous support.
It isn't every day that my wife and I get to collaborate on a project. When my sister in Indiana and her (now) husband asked if we could help to arrange a simple beach wedding for them, we were all too happy to accommodate.
I sourced and built the archway and Dina came up with the idea for the flameless candles to fashion an approach to the archway.
I build things and Dina made them look pretty. :)
With only four of us, a friend handling photography and a wedding officiant, the bride and groom were happy with their simple sunset ceremony on the Gulf.
A square version of my previous photo.
Detail of the Torre Glòries residential building in the Poblenou district of Barcelona. It was originally known as Torre Agbar and it was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm 'b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos'. The builders were Dragados.
Photo taken in June 2018.
Some more South London cloud reflections.
This is the Blue Fin Building. Completed 2007.
Architects: Allies and Morrison.
Somehow I bypassed this simple, single rose in favour of more colourful blooms but I think that sometimes, less is more.
Plants have to be pretty hardy to survive the hot dry air of California summer weather. Jade plants rank right up at the top as being up to the task. I have had this plant for 40 years.
Towards the light. Stratosphere, a new East London residential development designed by Stockwool for Telford Homes,
A slightly different version to Simple Abstract 121 (flic.kr/p/2dRyxr4).
Corner detail of new Hackney Wick Station in East London.
Architects: Landolt + Brown