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I am delighted that I can now post some contemporary photographs. The conditions of my permits for South Bay kite aerial photography include a hiatus each year from the end of February to the start of September to avoid disturbing nesting birds. Thus, I eagerly await the start of fall and with it the chance to do some fieldwork.
On this occasion, I made a Saturday trip to the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) near Hayward, California. I launched the kite from the west end of Salt Pond E13 and walked its northern perimeter to the Oliver Salt Works ruins. After hanging out at the new observation platform there, I then walked the levee separating E13 from E12. When I first started photographing at ELER this area was a dusty plain, the disused remnants of a former salt operation. Several years ago, as part of ELER’s Phase I Project, the restoration managers built a series of new levees and flow control structures so that the area could be tuned to serve as wildlife habitat. The levees created small sub-ponds, which have slightly different salinities and thus different colors.
After making my way down the levee to the pumphouse at the eastern end of the ponds, I paused to swap kites. The Sutton 30 I was using became painfully overpowered as the afternoon breeze freshened. Up went the Sutton 16, which was much more pleasant to handle and had ample lifting capacity. I then retraced my steps back up the levee and around Oliver Salt while shooting from a lower altitude. Altogether it was a pleasant day.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit.
shooting data :
Panasonic DMC-LX1
lens : 28-112 mm ( 16:9 ) : 28 mm
program auto exposure : - 1.33 EV
manual focussing : 3-6 feet zone setting, 6-15 feet zone setting
shooting mode : continuously
ISO : 80
date : Wed. 23 Aug. 2006
place : the upper deck of my junction station, JR Higashi-Kanagawa station south-east area, Yokohama canal, on the road of Route 15
JR --- Japan Railroad or something
higashi --- east
note :
I used my LX1 on 28 mm with 3-6 feet zone setting and 6-15 feet zone setting.
I used 3-6 feet zone setting for the person.
and I used 6-15 feet zone setting for the canal mainly.
and naturally,
LX1's battery was dead in 2 hours usually.
That was the place just near the main road to my Dai-koku Pier.
...
my frivolities
I went shooting with LX1 and W5.
W5 was using for the evening and night.
my W5 has f 2.8 and f 5.6.
and my W5 still had made stains on f 5.6 at that night.
but in the night, it is very hard to get f 5.6 naturally.
so I could use my W5 in my Dai-koku Pier with manual exposure for the evening and with auto exposure for the night.
I had to use my W5 by manual focussing with f 2.8.
but I did the normal mistake naturally again.
at first,
I had been shooting my W5 by manual focussing with f 2.8.
and soon I had been shooting my W5 by manual focussing with f 5.6.
and soon later I had been shooting my W5 with auto exposure entirely.
I found it on my Dai-koku Oo-hashi ( big bridge ) in the night.
I had already been shooting over 200 jpgs until then.
My memory stick pro could accept only around 250 jpgs plainly.
I couldn't do my shooting from the evening again.
It had already all been passing.
All the causes had been hidden in my W5's tiny little pushing buttons.
It comes from my frivolities.
...
Leica M8
my W5 had already come back from SONY for repairing with no cost.
so,
I don't have a need to use my frivolities any more.
the manual exposure setting was not my shooting style naturally.
I had been shooting by manual exposure in my film lording type camera days.
The film lording type camera days could not be coming any more for me probably.
That has two simply reasons,
One is from my monetary reason.
and the other,
Leica had released Leica M8 already.
The most of all someone had been saying like this.
" I only shoot film ! "
The monetary reason person had been using the plastic digital cameras.
With no monetary reason person would be soon using Leica M8 naturally.
I have been simply loved Leica since 1978.
M8 is my too much more more far away dreaming still now.
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Mon. 23 Oct. 04:13 PM 2006
edited : added ISO 80
Mon. 23 Oct. 07:15 PM 2006
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
I’m not 100% certain, but I “think” they are clematis seeds.
Regardless, I love the structure of them.
Beautiful lines and great structures, lovely details to photograph. Kerbstones laying ready to be used.
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Shot for my first photography course assignment, Light and Shadows.
This was my favorite one of the bunch I think. I happened upon this early in the morning at a local park gazebo.
This is one of those situations where I was hoping there wasn't any morning joggers going by to see me laying down flat on my stomach, hanging off the gazebo with a camera. Would have been a bit weird.
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Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
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A second perspective of Birds on a Wire. I cropped this shot after comments on my first posting. Good suggestions become motivation to look harder. I really like the mix of the electrical structures and evenly spaced birds. Hope you do as well.