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Mamiya M645 Pro. Kodak Portra 800
Those Mamiya lenses, tho.. Bam! Straight into the sun. Yes there's a dull red patch opposite the full midday sun but no loss of contrast, no weird ghosts, no funny business. Amazing glass, amazing film, beautiful place and time.
Challenge #16
Make a picture entirely for yourself.
— Jim Naughten
Jim adds...
“Imagine its going to hang in a gallery and you are the only person who will ever see it. No peers, friends, family, or anyone else will see it. I often use this process to visualise a project or story, free of any outside influence or judgement. You may just find your voice.”
. . . it could just be Crosville.
Another shot of freshly released Bristol Lodekka EOO 590 at work on the Bala Lake Railway's steam gala free shuttle last weekend. The bus had been new to Eastern National but for the purposes of its entering the Welsh village of Llanuwchllyn here, it takes on a slight Crosville feel.
Tiny people with big heads invade my house. They make no noise and don't empty the fridge, but they do take over just about any object here, even my coffee machine or slippers ...
squinting at my screen. i had the camera set up next to the computer ready to upload photos and triggered the remote one more time.
Today's eBay piece is 'The Golden Squint' check it out! (Click blue link to follow to eBay)
It is said that if you gaze at the sunset and squint just so you can see Mount Olympus - home to the entire pantheon of Greek gods. Trying to achieve this so called 'Golden Squint' has led many a scholar to his doom but this lady seems to have nailed it without really trying. I wonder what she can see up there?
Cheers
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Title: The Golden Squint
Media: Pencil, gold leaf, pastel and acrylic
Size: A4
Some jumping spiders' visual acuity exceeds by a factor of ten that of dragonflies, which have by far the best vision among insects; in fact the human eye is only about five times sharper than a jumping spider's. They achieve this by a telephoto-like series of lenses, a four-layer retina and the ability to swivel their eyes and integrate images from different stages in the scan. The downside is that the scanning and integrating processes are relatively slow.
Something I learned today.
Apo-Gerogon 300mm F9 EL
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
This Northern Flicker peeks out from his tree and squints at the morning sun.
Taken Saturday 1/29/11 at Bombay Hook, NWR.
Day 15 of the virtual Advent calendar shared with my bokehlicious friend crittrs! =)
Have I mentioned that i love Christmas lights, especially the multicolored variety? And the Christmas light bokeh is one of my very favorites? Maybe once or twice, eh? ;)
I love the fact that when you squint at Christmas lights you can create your very own "live and in person" bokehlicious lights. I really, really like the big old glass lights that got way too hot, especially the way they would heat up and make a real Christmas tree smell so piney. Now I'm contented with the small plastic lights that are brightly colored; they are so easy to drape across windows, the tree, anything that will stand still...
Probably is TMI to say that all through college I had these lights strung up in my dorm room, year round. And, that I am not averse to keeping a set around even now, just because they make me happy. Hey, it's the little things. These beautiful, happy, colorful lights bring me so much joy it would be a shame not to enjoy them as much as possible!
Hope each of you have parts of your life that create small joys throughout, "just because." =) And, hope you're all having a great week, my friends!
Trailside on the way back from Macomb Canyon - doing a good job of blending.
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Summer 2019: Snakes & Lakes
We looped up through Utah into and across Idaho, then back down across the northeast corner of Nevada.
June 3: Canyon Rims Recreation Area: Rone Bailey Mesa.