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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
Boerderijen, laantjes, weilanden, boomgaarden en een kerkje.
En dan dit gebouw, met deze opvallende gevel.
Boven de voordeur prijkt een paardekop — vermoedelijk een verwijzing naar de oorspronkelijke functie.
Het torent overal bovenuit. De torenspits van het kerkje is misschien net iets hoger, maar het gebouw trekt alle aandacht. Het kerkje valt er bijna bij in het niets.
Een architectonisch statement, midden in het stille dorp.
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Location: Ressen, the Netherlands
Farms, country lanes, meadows, orchards — and a little village church.
And then this building, with its striking façade.
Above the entrance, a sculpted horse’s head — likely a clue to its original function.
It rises above everything around it. The church spire might be slightly taller, but this house commands all the attention. The church almost disappears in comparison.
A bold architectural statement in the heart of a quiet village.
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7152 wide and goog res...
Planet Earth Landscapes etc
Here is a wonderful quote from the back of David Attenborough's new (2020) book:
"A Life on Our Planet; my witness statement and a vision for the future":
"We share Earth with the living world - the most
remarkable life-support system imaginable,
constructed over billions of years. The planet's
stability has wavered just as its biodiversity has
declined - the two things are bound together.
To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world."
Captive bird at Muncaster Castle Hawk and Owl Centre.
A yellow-billed Kite.
Canon R with 70-200mm f/2.8L lens as I didnt have anything with longer reach with me.
Made a few mistakes - should have gone for shorter exposures (1/2000 as minimum) and probably should have switched off IS. Had a dreadfully slow memory card so buffered frequently which didnt help.
Probably should use a bit of exposure compensation as well!
But I'm getting there!
Until now, Ive mostly captured perched birds - I want to work at birds in flight. Hopefully, this is just the start!
This is more or less an indirect response to a few statements made on a popular forum here on the Internet. It was said that anyone shooting an excessive amount of digital images in a given day was ridiculous and most likely unskilled.
When I was in Iraq during 2005 I met a soldier who was interested in photography and had come up to me because he had noticed my Leicas around my neck after returning from a mission. We talked about gear, photography, our backgrounds and he had asked how I managed to take images outside the wire during missions. I explained to him to just shoot, worry about that later and to basically photograph whatever and however he wanted.
He returned a day later and had explained to me that he took some images and wanted me to have a look at them... all 800 images he took in three hours. I was a little skeptical about this daunting task. After going through about a couple hundred I had learned something, and something that would have stayed with me to this day, far more than anything else.
These very simple to the point images had clearly shown what the typical day was like to be a soldier in Iraq. There was nothing imposing to them. It was what it was and as a viewer I was free to choose little moments here and there. This was a process that wasn't possible in film but had seen others try in the past (see Gary Winogrand). I'll even go the distance to say that it was the most accurate depiction of the Iraq War that I had seen. Why? Well, photojournalists will only pick a few images that will engage the audience or viewer.
99% of this war or any war for that matter is ridiculously boring and nothing happens. So why would a photographer come home and show moments that rarely happen? Is that truly accurate? No.
During my second deployment I took that little lesson and shot over 22,000 images. Do you know how many I shot during my first deployment? A measly 700. With the aid of digital I would just shoot and shoot and left the intellectual sorting for later editing. It was a free form embrace with my intuition and the world around me. Just about all of the good images on here of Iraq I don't remember shooting. And to this day I still photograph the same way. I shoot from the gut instinct and edit later.
So, you can shoot a million images a day or you can shoot two. The fact remains that if you have the time and ability to edit them, then why not. If you feel that you want to show all of them by then all means, you can do that with digital.
There's an understanding that I only have a few images of my immense amount here on Flickr. Well, that's how I wanted it. They are nothing more than my visual diary. If you want a more complete story to my life there, then you'd need to see the other twenty some odd thousand. There's usually a hot pot of coffee on or a cold beer in the fridge. Have at it.
I go through these images often and always find an image that didn't stand out earlier. Our memory of a particular moment in life changes throughout time; it seasons. This is why shooting more is and can be a good thing. What's funny is that I shoot film like I do digital nowadays, which is a lot.
So back to this image..
I shot this because I liked the composition of it, nothing special, nothing memorable at the time. It was of a soldier that had gone out with with us on missions frequently. I remember he was quite young, excited about what he was doing and always joking about something. Just before coming to Iraq he and his wife gave birth to a newborn baby, and was very much in love with the both of them.
Later on that day I had found out that his wife had cheated on him and he had found out the previous day. The image didn't mean anything until I noticed he wasn't wearing his wedding ring.
Every waking moment of your life means something. Photograph it.
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I drove out southwest of town and past a lot of repaired flood destruction on Oxford Road west of Niwot past their cemetery. I caught this well west from the cemetery and Haystack, a pointy hill that always leaves me wondering. In this shot, NOAA Table Mountain is in the background with government experiment stations atop. I don't suppose any of the experiments trickled over the hill and wiped out this farm. This does not look like it happened overnight. This is certainly NFL - not for long. It looks like someone set up a slab of cottonwood trunk for axe throwing practice.
Although still in September and suffering August heat, I'd say summer grasses were done but the cottonwoods and shrubs are still green. It often seems agricultural has been sucked from this area. Fortunately, we can buy food from the Sam n' Ella's farm in Mexico. The area is learning how valuable water in the west really is but have yet to learn the true value of watered land and soil that doesn't need paving.
Strangely, we had a summer that was closer to normal, if high in humidity, but I don't think ignoring climate change or pumping petroleum will make rougher weather go away. This was a summer that was hotter than any on record. This August was hotter then any on record. This September was the hottest on record, all set world wide. perhaps you see a trend. That is at least until the looming petroleum wars are settled and the Koch Brothers and their political tea purchases are put away in their place. Until then CO2 levels in the atmosphere which are at an 850 million year high, will not be turned around. Actually, anti-fracking proposals passed in Colorado.
Drinking is our way of life.
Another old shot from 2008.
I wonder what she'll say today, - 12 years later.
A tiny Earth Day beauty along the riverfront at Blakeley, yesterday...
It didn't seem so much like Earth Day this year, with the local observances and celebrations cancelled for the first time in 50 years...so it had to be individually observed!
My third Statement Dress is this skintight lycra LBD. I hope you like it! It really hugs my body tight, and would feel very snug to wear while gathering around the Christmas Tree for something bubbly to drink! It also seems to have been designed especially to be worn with my favourite chrome-heeled five-inch black patent Pleasers!
Lots more to come soon, but bye bye for now!
Sweet kisses under the mistletoe for all my lovely friends!
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Rebecca
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Composite image of Hurricane Lorenzo near the Western Azores, from 12:00 UTC on Monday, 30 September 2019.
Updates and advisories on this storm can be found on the GDACS website.
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In this photo Margaret C was on a mission. We all need to be on a mission from time to time. With her athleticism she mounted on the 5 ft high cement obstacle with the US Capitol behind her, she turned to look at it, looked back at me and seemed exhilarated. I proposed a rare posed shot, envisioning her representing strength, determination, and the ability to surmount any obstacle. Well, she took if from there and struck the pose and I took the shot. You can surmount your obstacles whatever they may be. Sometimes you have to make a statement! Washington DC, 1 October 2017.
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There are just some photographs that need to be in monochrome or black and white. It gives a more powerful statement to the photo and what the photo is depicting. Such as the case here, when Ella came to visit today.
After a long debate, all sides considered, here is Woody the cat's official statement on what the EU debate all boils down to for him...
Got to see this image on white it’s really cool. This is a vertorama of a road under path alley near my girlfriend’s home. I was driving home last night from hers about 8 for pancakes (yummy) and I remembered this alley. I had me gear in the car. I down a quick u turn on the roundabout and shot into the local shops were this is located. Got out and took this HDR vertorama. I was getting some really strange looks for people passing by. Oh well, what you do in the name of Art.
The image to me is quite interesting. The detail along each wall, the difference in the art between old and modern, a transition between the social histories of the local area. What they used to do on the left and what they do now on the right (farming and graffiti art). I love the monochrome on the left and the very bright colours on the right, and right in the distance at the vanishing point is the commercial shops. Post modernism at is finest. Lol.
The shot is a three section vertorama created from 15 images. 5 Bracketed images for top, middle and the bottom. Processed in photmatix and then DRI treated on the lights, shop and coloured wall, and final treatment was all done in photoshop.
Taken on a Nikon d300 using a 10-20mm sigma.
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