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Central, Hong Kong
Yashica A, Yashikor 80mm f/3.5, Fuji Velvia 50
"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world." ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
...♪♫♪♪ ( Gloomy Sunday )
i dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed,
and that simply by blinking my eyes, i shall make pictures
then, i think, i shall really have become a photographer.
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sueño con que un dia el paso entre mi mente y mi dedo deje de ser necesario
y que simplemente con pestañear tome una foto,
entonces, creo, realmente me habré convertido en fotografo
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(alfred eisenstaedt )
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
Oscar Wilde
©Copyright 2022 Karlton Huber Photography - all rights reserved.
Heading north on California’s Highway 395 in the eastern Sierra just past the southern turnoff to the June Lake Loop there is a section of landscape that always draws my attention. I have stopped many times, allowing my mind and eyes the freedom to investigate this unusual attraction. I rarely make photographs here. This stop usually manifests into an opportunity to simply stretch my legs, make room for more coffee and the opportunity to refill my mug.
Subconsciously, I know there are many photographs to be discovered and created here. But I rarely can decipher the clues.
On this recent stop something was different. Maybe it was the soft diffused light. Maybe it was the sensual perfume of the approaching rain. Maybe it was just the overall relaxing feeling of this moment in time. Or maybe it was a combination of the previous and or other influencers that lingered unnoticed. Leaning back against the driver’s side door sipping strong black coffee I once again found myself studying the complexity of this familiar landscape. Then without warning, I discovered this rather simplistic composition. It had been there all along. Many years. Countless stops. Waiting to be discovered.
Ceremoniously I set up my tripod and carefully attached my camera. It took a few attempts to work out my desired composition and exposure. I made this photograph as a light refreshing rain began to fall.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity
~ Plato
Detail of the beautifully simple staircase at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
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A simple straightforward shot of a Barley Ear, used in this case as a still life subject. Very heavily diffused light to give the overall soft feel.
This piece of ice rock disappeared into the ocean after a few minutes on shore. It is a reminiscent of life. Our time here is just a short stopover and then we move on.
taken using Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 (Di) Macro 1:1 lens and handheld camera.
B&W post processing using BW styler plug-in
I originally planned to shoot something completely different for my upload this week. It was going to be a rather complex conceptual image with various elements participating within it. For the creation of it I required a cold, frosty, typical winters day but the weather where I live never bows down to your wishes and so instead of frost and fog, I got sunshine and blue skies. Thus, I had to quickly think of something else to shoot. I debated what to do for a while until I stumbled upon this beautiful collection of ivy. The green of the leaves seemed so inviting and I became transfixed with them. I gathered my pure essentials and I simply laid down in the evergreen with its leaves curling around me, enveloping me in their embrace and I looked to my camera, pressed one button and my image was created. I captured three elements in this image; the ivy, the flowers and me. Three simple elements which created an entire image.
What I realised as I shot this image was that many a times within our lives we over dress things. We take something simple and we make it into something complex, we decorate it until it is hardly even recognizable, even to ourselves. We over think certain things, things which require no thinking at all. We take far too much time stressing about things that may or may not happen and as a result we lose vital time in which we could purely be enjoying the moment. I had an intricate idea which I had thought about for days and yet something out of my control prevented me from creating it. Instead, I adopted a new concept on the spot. I let the idea grow there and then as I was shooting. I guess what I realised during that moment was that sometimes we can’t plan everything. Sometimes we have to let life take us where it wants us to go. Sometimes, the simple things are the most important.
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
Copyright © 2014 Amy Morris. All Rights Reserved.
Near Kühlungsborn, Baltic Sea, Germany. - Set up my tent at the beach last Sunday, only a few steps from the sea and this location, and stayed there alone. While this was very comfortable for shooting and brought me a friendly invitation by two gorgeous girls to a beach party at 1 am, the truly relevant experience has been the simplicity there in relation to my everyday life.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication : Leonardo Da Vinci
Things i wanted to include in this shot
- Simplicity (as the title says)
- Parallel Lines (Tilted)
- Negative Space
- Bright Green Color (slightly high saturation to elevate the empty space in the photo)
- Water Drop at one of the corners
Saintmartin, Bangladesh, 2014
Life you had, is the life we have
The time you were, is the time we are
Simplicity of life which we are enjoying, is what you lost.
On our way to Big Hill Springs we stumbled across this field. At first there was a shadow cast directly on the house and flowers in the distance. However by the time we got out of the car and got the camera ready the light was gone. I took some of this scene with my F100 as well. We shal see later how those turn out!
How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn’t care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity
Emily Dickinson
Pentax 67
Pentax SMC 105mm 2.4
Kodak Ektar 100
This is the first opportunity I've had to shoot this lens wide open and from this roll it's safe to say I'm simply in love this is one of the few that just blew me away from a bokeh standpoint...more to come and hope you enjoy
Horsetails and their reflections, seen in someone's back garden pond on our recent May Species Count in the Priddis area, south west of Calgary.
Strobist info:
YN560II to background CL (trig. via RF603's)
Black cardboards on left and right of subject.
Painted ads from an era gone by cling to the aging brick of this building in a small town in Arkansas. The irony of the title follows the abundant patterns and tones throughout this photograph. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
Photo # KS4_4394bw3.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.
Inspired by John Barratt
www.flickr.com/photos/jbarratt/6479059879/
This was my very first try, I broke the glass into pieces right after this single shot.
So this is the only Version, I corrected the tilt and the white point and black point in Gimp.
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inspiriert durch ein Bild von John Barratt
www.flickr.com/photos/jbarratt/6479059879/
Das war mein erster Versuch mit einem neuen Tabletop-Aufbau, keine 2 Minuten später lag das Glas auch schon in Scherben, es existiert keine weitere Version des Bildes.
Ich habe die Schieflage korrigiert und eine Tonwertkorrektur in Gimp vorgenommen.