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The city, who is alive and never sleeps, is always under construction, always a work in progress. Just like me, I think.
I discovered the subtlety in this image when I was searching for those droplets.
Have a sensational Sunday people.
One of the fun aspects of photographing the eclipse is playing around with processing a new type of image. There's a lot more there than initially meets the eye, and it takes a little experimentation in Lightroom to pull out some of the subtleties. I'm not sure what other folks do, but I found some settings that I like; I'll do some searching later to see what other folks have done. One approach that I've tried and not had much success with so far is HDR-- for some reason Photoshop has issues auto-aligning the images, which messes up everything downstream, and I don't yet have the skills to do it manually. I'll need some time on that one...
El Jardín del administrador humilde (chino: 拙政园|t=拙政園; pinyin: Zhuōzhèng Yuán) es un destacado jardín chino de la ciudad de Suzhou. El jardín se encuentra en el número 178 de la calle Dongbei (东北街178号). Con 51 950 m², es el mayor jardín de Suzhou y muchos lo consideran uno de los más bellos del sur de China. En 1997, Zhuozheng Yuan, junto con otros jardines clásicos de Suzhou, fue proclamado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
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Los jardines clásicos de Suzhou son un conjunto de jardines en la ciudad de Suzhou de la provincia de Jiangsu (China), están considerados como Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco desde el año 1997 y fueron ampliados en el 2000.
En 1997, el Jardín del administrador humilde, Jardín Liuyuan, Parque y jardín Wangshi Yuan, el más famoso de Suzhou, y la Villa de la montaña abrazada por la belleza fueron incluidos en la lista de la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad. En 2000, el Pabellón Canglang, el Jardín de los leones, el Jardín de cultivo, el Jardín Ouyuan y el Jardín Tuisiyuan fueron añadidos a la lista.
Suzhou es la ciudad de China que más jardines conserva. La mayoría de estos jardines pertenecían a casas particulares. La arquitectura clásica de los jardines chinos incluye siempre cuatro elementos: rocas, agua, pabellones y plantas.
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The Humble Administrator's Garden (Chinese: 拙政园; pinyin: Zhuōzhèng yuán; Suzhou Wu: Wu Chinese: [tsoʔ tsen ɦyø]) is a Chinese garden in Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous of the gardens of Suzhou. The garden is located at 178 Northeast Street (东北街178号), Gusu District. At 78 mu (亩) (5.2 ha; 13 acres), it is the largest garden in Suzhou and is considered by some to be the finest garden in all of southern China.
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The Classical Gardens of Suzhou (Chinese: 苏州园林; pinyin: Sūzhōu yuánlín; Suzhounese (Wugniu): sou-tseuyoe-lin) are a group of gardens in the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu, China, which have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located pavilions and pagodas.
The elegant aesthetics and subtlety of these scholars' gardens and their delicate style and features are often imitated by various gardens in other parts of China, including the various Imperial Gardens, such as those in the Chengde Mountain Resort. According to UNESCO, the gardens of Suzhou "represent the development of Chinese landscape garden design over more than two thousand years," and they are the "most refined form" of garden art.
These landscape gardens flourished in the mid-Ming to early-Qing dynasties, resulting in as much as 200 private gardens. Today, there are 69 preserved gardens in Suzhou, and all of them are designated as protected "National Heritage Sites." In 1997 and 2000, eight of the finest gardens in Suzhou along with one in the nearby ancient town of Tongli were selected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site to represent the art of Suzhou-style classical gardens.
Famous Suzhou garden designers include Zhang Liang, Ji Cheng, Ge Yuliang, and Chen Congzhou.
One of the most recognized landmarks in Zion National Park, Court of the Patriarchs reach into the Utah sky. These three photogenic peaks bear the biblical names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Towering above Birch Creek Canyon almost 2000 feet, the Court of the Patriarchs represents nearly a full layer of Navajo Sandstone. This exposed sandstone is one of nine Zion rock layers that together span 150 million years of sediment deposits. The Patriarch cliffs represent one of the thickest layers of sediment, making up some of the tallest cliffs in the world. Occasional flash floods in the Virgin River increase water volume by 100 times and bring down tons of loose rock and sand, scouring out new side canyons and re-channeling the river. Here in Zion Canyon this magnificent scenery is always experiencing change, but its subtleties are seldom recognized in such an immense canyon.
I'm enjoying shooting in black and white for a while. It kind of goes with the January mood, but more than that I like the drama, the subtleties and detail that monochrome captures that gives the image a particular mood.
I watched this pigeon for some time, balancing precariously while foraging for Ivy berries. Edited for added drama.
Jethro Tull ~ Watching Me Watching You
Upon reviewing this shot it occurred to me that it would have looked even more striking taken in Kodachrome. Along with many 'old timers', I regret its passing but, to be fair, I also recall its absurdly low speed (25 ASA) and unsuitability for anything requiring subtlety.
Shhh. Having roots in Virginia, she only thinks of herself as a Southern Belle. Don't tell her she's got a bit of midwestern. Truth be told, she is a nexus of south and midwest, modesty and flare. She has a knack for manual work but loves the limelight.
Off stage, she is a shy one, with hidden subtleties to discover. For example, Ol' Fred Olmsted, architect of New York City's Central Park, designed her lovely parks – naturally landscaped but not fancifully ostentatious. Who knew?
That long white building in front of downtown Louisville is Churchill Downs, home of horse racing's world renown Kentucky Derby. Mint Julep anyone, or would you prefer a beer?
Lake Biwa Torri have revisited this image and reprocessed it with a little more subtlety in the gradients and more detail in the Torri I feel this does work better and more in keeping with the other image that was taken straight on.
It's been a fairly hot summer here in Ohio, punctuated with bouts of heavy thunderstorms and extreme rain. And every once in a while an odd cold front drops down from the north, spilling cool Canadian air over the landscape. The cold air rushing over the warm water of Lake Erie always stirs up intense cloud activity. It happens year round, and has proven to be a photographer's delight. But it's especially interesting in summer when suddenly the sky is filled with clouds that are more characteristic of late autumn and early winter. That's precisely the condition I stumbled into recently just as I was passing one of the older local burial grounds. This one dates back to the town founders, their graves marked with archaic, mostly antebellum stones. As sometimes happens, the perfect location coincides with the perfect sky backdrop. A big part of my learning curve as a photographer is not technical, rather learning to take advantage of moments like this.
Walking here this day provided a sensory disconnect. It's full on summer, yet I needed a hoodie to ward off the chill (I lose all of my cold weather conditioning in summer; even a slight cool down causes me shivers). Visually the world was full of leaves, plants, flowers and brilliant green grass. Yet above the horizon was a sky from another season. Even the light and shadow seemed in conflict. I absolutely love days like this when normal becomes abnormal. It's a subtlety probably lost to non-photographers, but one that proverbially screams at me. The chill persisted for about one day, and the clouds for even less. Yet this brief interlude will linger as a highpoint a couple of months from now when I reflect on summer. Life always seems to boil down to the small moments.
Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. It is the home of the Fiennes family (in full, Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes), Barons Saye and Sele. The castle sits on an artificial island in pastureland and is surrounded by a wide moat.
The castle was built as a manor house by Sir John de Broughton in 1300 at a location where the confluence of three streams created a natural site for a moated manor. The house was sold in 1377 to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, and has remained in the same family since that time. The original house was crenellated in 1406 by Sir Thomas Wykeham. In 1451, it passed by inheritance to the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele. Beginning in 1550, Richard Fiennes transformed the medieval manor into a house in the Tudor style, significantly expanding the building. James I stayed at Broughton Castle on several occasions.
In the 17th century, The 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, known as "Old Subtlety", was one of the leading activists against Charles I. As a result, the castle was used by Parliamentarian sympathisers, such as John Pym and John Hampden, as a meeting place in the decade leading up to the Civil War. The 1st Viscount raised troops to fight against the king at the inconclusive Battle of Edgehill in 1642. In the following days, Royalist troops besieged the castle, quickly overcoming the defenders and occupying the castle for a time. Following the end of hostilities, reconstruction work needed to be undertaken to repair damage inflicted by Royalist cannon. Lord Saye and Sele had evaded signing Charles I's Death Warrant and was able to make his peace with the Crown after the English Restoration.
A shot from a quiet morning on the lake.
***sometimes in a landscape image the finer subtleties speak the greatest volume.
An old image from 2014 which I've never used before... My biggest decision was mono or colour but I like the subtlety of the colour so that won - well, except for the plastic container! :)
To live in the shadows is to exist in a space of duality—a realm where invisibility offers both solace and isolation. It is a life marked by subtlety, where one navigates the world with deliberate caution, their footsteps muffled against the roar of a society obsessed with visibility.
Living in the shadows can mean many things. For some, it is a choice—a deliberate retreat from the glare of public scrutiny. For others, it is a necessity, imposed by circumstance, identity, or fear. In either case, the shadow becomes both a refuge and a prison. It shelters, offering protection from judgment and harm, but it also conceals, leaving those who dwell there yearning for connection and recognition.
There is power in the shadows, however. It is a place of quiet observation, where one can see the world more clearly than those blinded by the light of attention. To exist here is to be a keeper of secrets, a witness to truths often overlooked. In the shadows, authenticity flourishes in ways that the spotlight cannot allow. Without the pressure to perform or conform, one can explore the depths of their identity, discovering strength in their solitude.
Wood anemones close-up from the many at Thorndon CP, UK - such subtlety and variation of colour. Thank you all for such kind comments.
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Being a fan of urban nature and wildlife one just can't get around the internet without stumbling across some very inspiring night time work by incredibly talented photographers (interestingly mainly from the UK) using wide angle lenses, city lights and clever flash work to tell their stories of trash bin looting foxes, highway crossing toads and badgers on the patio.
I deeply admire their work but never tried it myself, having no fancy synchronised external flash units and no idea how to go about it in the first place. Working with my pop-up flash, even dialed down and using a diffusor, doesn't achieve much subtlety, putting object and close surroundings awash in light and starkly seperated from a mostly black background. While playing around a few nights ago with bulb exposures I had the idea that for the time being it might be better to leave the flash out of it alltogether. Using only ambiance and some LEDs admittedly took the possibility to freeze movement away, but opened up some creative space too.
So I planned out my first night time shoot and went out on friday evening for the brownfields of a coal mining complex beautifully illuminated at night, looking for my darling natterjack toads. October however marks the limit of their activity phase and so late in the month chances were that most of them had already hidden away in their winter quarters. After hours of unsuccesful searching I was in fact already on my way home, when finally I heard one of those little critters rustling through the vegetation...
I'm actually quite proud of my first attempt at urban wildlife at night. If you have a shot that fits the genre, why not share the link in the comment section?
Industriebrache in Essen.
Doe_Eilid
Subtlety, Grace, Femininity
"Eilid brings us the kindness and grace of the feminine principle. ... Suspended in the light of the sun, or the moon, Eilid invites us to begin the exploration of the Otherworld, of the spiritual dimension of life."
Cerbiatta_Eilid
Sottigliezza, Grazia, Femminilità
"Eilid ci porta la gentilezza e la grazia del principio femminile. ... Sospesa nella luce del sole, o della luna, Eilid ci invita a iniziare l'esplorazione dell'Altromondo, della dimensione spirituale della vita."
Testo tratto da L'oracolo dei Druidi. Lavorare con gli Animali Sacri della Tradizione Celtica. Text taken from The Oracle of the Druids. Working with the Sacred Animals of the Celtic Tradition.
www.edizionilpuntodincontro.it/libri/l-oracolo-dei-druidi...
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Sometimes I think the subtleties of nature photography on social media go right over some people's heads. Flashy pictures are the most popular. Lots of colour and locations to die for.
The reason for this is obvious. Unless a picture acts like a sugar hit, the casual viewer won't even bother (the purveyors of AI know this and that's why it is so popular on social media). In fact I'd suggest most people don't even take the time to open up the photograph from their activities feed, so they never enlarge it and explore what the photographer is trying to do. My guess is most photos are looked at with the attention span of less than a second. So many more pictures to fave in order to entice more people to our pages.
The pity of all this is two-fold:
(1) We miss seeing how beautiful ordinary scenes in nature can be. I defy anyone to suggest this little wild flower is anything less than a marvel of creation.
(2) We fail to learn. I'm always on the lookout for something innovative that a photographer is doing. It doesn't mean I want to copy it, but it is all part of the process of learning to be a photographer. We must always be learning.
[If you don't enlarge this you won't even see the flower.]
Wren_Drui-en
Humility, Cunning, God
"Drui-en gives us the opportunity to glimpse the beauty of God or Goddess in everything. Its lesson is that "small is beautiful" and that self-realization does not rest on grandeur or apparent power , but on humility, on kindness, on subtlety. ... Of all the birds revered by the Druids, the wren is considered the most sacred Dryw means both druid and wren."
Scricciolo
Umiltà, Astuzia, Dio
"Drui-en ci dà l'opportunità di dare un'occhiata alla bellezza di Dio o della Dea in ogni cosa. La sua lezione è che "piccolo è bello" e che la realizzazione del sé non si appoggia sulla grandiosità o sul potere apparente, ma sull'umiltà, sulla gentilezza, sulla sottigliezza. ... Di tutti gli uccelli riveriti dai Druidi, lo scricciolo è considerato il più sacro. In Irlanda era chiamato il Drui-en, o l'Uccello Druido; nel galles la parola Dryw significa sia druido che scricciolo."
Testo tratto da L'oracolo dei Druidi. Lavorare con gli Animali Sacri della Tradizione Celtica. Text taken from The Oracle of the Druids. Working with the Sacred Animals of the Celtic Tradition.
www.edizionilpuntodincontro.it/libri/l-oracolo-dei-druidi...
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This youngster was standing on a bullrush head at Dungeness RSPB when he noticed a mating pair of Red Cardinal beetles on a reed in front of him he watched them for a while and then with no subtlety at all he ate them .
As a photographer, there are a slew of details, minutia and subtleties I always internalize in composing a scene. A checklist of the trivial if you will. Where I stand, the settings I decide, the position of my reliable pairing of glass, shutter, and sensor - all these things have purpose and meaning. Everything from placement of subject matter, to lighting and tones build a scene.
Photography, as with any of the arts however, allows interpretation. Failure and success are not defined. Users can interpret a story via pixels as it frames their own life and experiences.
This capture is one of those oddities for me. Occasionally, all of the aforementioned - the trivial, the minutia, the finite; they pass to the wayside. Sometimes, its refreshing to simply envelop a scene with the senses, and let the camera do what it does.
If you've ever captured a moment in time, and adored it for no logical reason, you understand where I'm coming from. For me, it is this Overhead Acquiescence.
On a tranquil morning in Puerto Nariño, Colombia, I captured the elusive beauty of the White-eared Jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis). This photograph is a culmination of the natural synchrony between light and shadow, a moment where the sun’s rays illuminated the jacamar's chestnut plumage against the backdrop of the Amazon’s rich foliage. It's these conditions that create a vivid tableau, highlighting the intricate details of the bird’s feathers and the subtleties of its habitat. The challenge was to encapsulate the jacamar’s stillness amidst the dynamic life of the jungle, requiring a balance between anticipation and the spontaneous nature of wildlife photography.
To my fellow photographers on Flickr, this image showcases the power of ambient light and composition in revealing the story of a subject. The jacamar, with its intense gaze and strikingly colored bill, stands as a vibrant sentinel in the frame. It’s a dance of patience and respect, allowing the scene to unfold naturally, with a keen eye for that decisive moment that feels both serendipitous and inevitable. This is where the art of photography lies—not just in the technical mastery, but in the ability to convey the spirit of a place and its inhabitants.
©2023 Adam Rainoff
Billie Eilish & Khalid - lovely (HOPEX Remix) 🎵
Bon les montagnes ça va, je crois qu'on a compris.
Je commence à avoir envie de m'écarter des paysages pour partir sur de l'artistique. C'est encore très flou, mais je ressens parfois des choses que j'aimerais pouvoir exprimer.
Mon monde intérieur a toujours été beaucoup plus important que celui extérieur pour moi. Par exemple toutes les plus belles choses que j'ai pu vivre ont été vécus dans des rêves ou dans mon imagination. Cette "réalité" à toujours eu un côté fade, grossier, vulgaire, extrêmement loin de la profondeur et de la subtilité des ressentis et émotions que j'ai pu vivre dans d'autres réalités.
Avec le temps j'ai fini par me rendre compte que l'on ne pouvait pas tout vivre et ressentir ici ou plutôt pour être plus juste que le spectre d'expression était bien plus court et limitant qu'ailleurs. J'ai l'impression que nous sommes comme des boiteux, borgne à moitié sourd et quasi muet qui avons de grandes difficultés à communiquer justement avec l'autre.
Nous peignons mais nos couleurs sont fades,
Nous chantons mais nos mélodies sonnent faux,
Nous écrivons mais sans réelle inspiration.
Nous sommes limités et c'est voulu, cela fait parti intégrante de notre expérience éphémère terrestre.
J'a vécu des instants d'amour où j'aurais voulu m'y fondre pour toujours. Où le simple geste ou regard exprimait bien plus que les plus beaux poèmes jamais écrit sur le sujet. Ou les connexions entre les êtres étaient sans limite et où les mots n'avaient plus d'importance supplanté par ce que nous irradions à l'instant.
L'ego est une armure puis une prison. C'est une cage sans concession qui nous exhorte à se retrouver face à nos propres faiblesses sans pouvoir les fuir. Car il est trop facile de donner quand on a trop, aimer quand on en manque est une gageure qui pousseront nos cœurs jusque dans leurs derniers retranchements.
Bref tout ça pour dire que la montagne ça va deux minutes hein !
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Well, the mountains are fine, I think we understood.
I'm starting to feel like moving away from landscapes and going for the artistic. It's still very vague, but I sometimes feel things that I would like to show.
My inner world has always been much more important than the outer one for me. For example, all the most beautiful things I have ever experienced have been lived in dreams or in my imagination. This "reality" has always had a bland, coarse, vulgar side to it, extremely far from the depth and subtlety of the feelings and emotions I have experienced in other realities.
With time, I came to realize that one could not live and feel everything here, or rather, to be more accurate, that the spectrum of expression was much shorter and more limiting than elsewhere. I have the impression that we are like lame, one-eyed, half-deaf and almost dumb people who have great difficulty in communicating with each other.
We paint but our colors are bland,
We sing but our melodies sound false,
We write but without real inspiration.
We are limited and this is intentional, it is part of our ephemeral earthly experience.
I have lived moments of love where I would have liked to melt into it forever. Where the simple gesture or look expressed much more than the most beautiful poems ever written on the subject. Where the connections between beings were limitless and where words were no longer important, supplanted by what we radiate at the moment.
The ego is an armor then a prison. It is a cage without concession which exhorts us to face our own weaknesses without being able to escape them. For it is too easy to give when we have too much, to love when we lack is a challenge that will push our hearts to their limits.
In short, all this to say that the mountain is fine for two minutes!
In a world that’s increasingly dependent on and impacted by computer technology and Artificial Intelligence, we’re easily tempted to take advantage of those innovations. And I do too. Also, and perhaps especially in the world of photography. We swap skies, clone in desirable and clone out less desirable elements, and we use software ‘filters’ for quicker results without any effort. And we’re led to believe that it is all an improvement and permitted for the sake of art. And maybe it is - I just can’t judge as that implies a higher insight. I doubt I have.
What I know is that I like to use AI too. AI as in Artistic Intelligence. The beauty and power of art is that it is a human experience and an expression of the human spirit. It can move, excite, sadden or lift up, exactly because it is coming directly from the human experience, not from an algorithm. I can be moved by an expression of a human experience. I can’t be moved by a machine, no matter how smart it is. At best, it makes life easier and software can give you faster results.
But I don’t desire quick results in creative expressions. I prefer the challenge and the longer road because time, effort, dedication and perspiration are at the same time opportunities for contemplation and consideration - exercises for the human mind. Furthermore, time has always been a great leveler of emotions and expressions. It adds subtlety and nuance to what you express. Nuance is what I seek, it’s a sign of empathy, but perhaps that’s not always the wise thing to do. Being nuanced, I mean.
This is a photo I took in 2013 in Chicago, representing the Aqua building and neighbouring buildings. I finished processing the photo 2 days ago, exactly 8 years and 8 days after I took it on September 8, 2013. The creative process from the physical and mental inception to final execution started on that day in 2013 and ended 8 years and 8 days later. Not that it is a guarantee for exceptional results - it just took me that long. I’m not referring to the actual steps of processing it on the computer, that perhaps only took a couple of weeks. I’m referring to the inception and formation of the image in my head. I’ve always been carrying this image in my head, together with many other images. Sometimes it just takes that long to make up one’s mind on subtleties that only the artist sees and to make the right decisions. And no matter how long it takes, once it's conceived in my head, I will carry it out. That artistic process is a metaphor of my own life.
This artistic process is exactly what I describe in the video I released earlier in July, a 9-hr video on the Artistic Thought and Decision Process
and an honest reflection of how I decide artistically, where to find and how to translate inspiration to my own images. And it’s processed with my Artisan Pro X panel. And no, it’s not software built around Artificial Intelligence, but around Artistic Intelligence, and I believe that becomes clear when you use it.
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I'm slowly but surely recovering from this extremely unpleasant cold. Yesterday I changed from pajamas to real clothes, painted my snotty face and was taken out, tottered bleery-eyed through Homesense with my camera, I'm always fascinated by the wall of glassware at the front display window, so many shapes and colours catching and refracting the light, but I decided to render this image in monochrome, it was difficult, I do love colour but subtlety is an art I'm attempting to master :)
One of the most recognized landmarks in Zion National Park, Court of the Patriarchs reach into the Utah sky. These three photogenic peaks bear the biblical names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Towering above Birch Creek Canyon almost 2000 feet, the Court of the Patriarchs represents nearly a full layer of Navajo Sandstone. This exposed sandstone is one of nine Zion rock layers that together span 150 million years of sediment deposits. The Patriarch cliffs represent one of the thickest layers of sediment, making up some of the tallest cliffs in the world. Occasional flash floods in the Virgin River increase water volume by 100 times and bring down tons of loose rock and sand, scouring out new side canyons and re-channeling the river. Here in Zion Canyon this magnificent scenery is always experiencing change, but its subtleties are seldom recognized in such an immense canyon.
In this close-up capture of the Togarna Hairstreak (Arawacus togarna), I aimed to showcase the delicate beauty and intricate patterns of this lesser-known butterfly species. Photographed at the Emerald Valley Nature Center near Lake Yojoa, Honduras, the image highlights the unique coloration and fine details of the hairstreak's wings. The butterfly is perched on a vibrant green leaf, with its wings slightly closed, revealing the distinctive black-and-white zebra-like stripes with a hint of warm orange along the edges. The soft, diffused natural light accentuates the textures without harsh shadows, allowing the subtleties of the butterfly’s patterns to stand out against the blurred, lush green background.
From a technical perspective, I used a Canon R5 with an RF 100-400mm lens, paired with a 1.4x extender to achieve a focal length of 560mm. The shot was taken at 1/90 second, f/16, and ISO 3200 to ensure a deep depth of field and sharp focus on the butterfly while managing the challenging lighting conditions. The shallow depth of field isolates the subject, drawing the viewer's eye directly to the intricate wing patterns and the delicate antennae. This image was captured with the intention of not just documenting the species but conveying a sense of intimacy and connection with this fragile creature, inviting others to appreciate the often-overlooked beauty of the natural world.
©2022 Adam Rainoff Photographer
Manipulating "TumbleWorld" imagery through effects and colour, but the structure and composition have been unaltered by effects.
Taken on one of those stratospherically crystalline, clear, September days. The haze of humidity has left the air thus rolling back its veils leaving a kind of light-intensifying clarity that's seen at no other time of the year. A beauty typical of the month.
Music Link: "From the Same Hill" - Brian Eno, from his album, "Music for Films". A simple but lush piece of ambient beauty that seems to reflect that clarity of air and subtlety of September light that I love so much. One of my favourite ambient pieces of Eno's, even still.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-poG-DiCp6U
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2014. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
The neck and head of the Black Guillemot is actually a very dark hunter green...the color of the seaweed around them. It's only visible at close range and in good light. I think I've captured that subtlety here.
Black Guillemot Portrait -_MG_0761-Edit
Dørålen, NE Rondane Nasjonalpark. October 2010.
Frosted birches in front of Stygghøin Mountain (1721 m./5646 ft.)
in the beautiful subtlety of dawn light, before the sun rises.
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One of the most recognized landmarks in Zion National Park, Court of the Patriarchs reach into the Utah sky. These three photogenic peaks bear the biblical names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Towering above Birch Creek Canyon almost 2000 feet, the Court of the Patriarchs represents nearly a full layer of Navajo Sandstone. This exposed sandstone is one of nine Zion rock layers that together span 150 million years of sediment deposits. The Patriarch cliffs represent one of the thickest layers of sediment, making up some of the tallest cliffs in the world. Occasional flash floods in the Virgin River increase water volume by 100 times and bring down tons of loose rock and sand, scouring out new side canyons and re-channeling the river. Here in Zion Canyon this magnificent scenery is always experiencing change, but its subtleties are seldom recognized in such an immense canyon.
See www.flickr.com/photos/99947827@N03/23242297030/in/datepos...
Really amazing gown that's wonderfully crafted.
Lately I've been playing around with the idea of recreating studio type model shots in SL and playing around with that subtlety of artificial reality.
I decided that I want to work a bit on more subtle lighting (i.e., instead of just blasting away with the softbox, I want to be more directional and selective). So, this is attempt one at subtlety with a portrait. I looked around for a volunteer, but Ava was sleeping and Jodi wasn't home, so I had to play the roles of photographer and model. Looking at the results, I kind of like the lighting, but I think I overpaid the model. The word's still out on the photographer.
Setup Info: (1) SB-600 flash camera right and low (around waist level and 45 degrees in front of me). This flash was focused tight and had a 1/8" grid spot on it (to keep the beam tight and prevent too much spill). It was aimed at my face as the primary light source. (2) SB-600 flash camera left and high. This flash was focused tight, high and just out of the frame. It was slightly behind me. Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 Micro lens on the D700.
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El Jardín del administrador humilde (chino: 拙政园|t=拙政園; pinyin: Zhuōzhèng Yuán) es un destacado jardín chino de la ciudad de Suzhou. El jardín se encuentra en el número 178 de la calle Dongbei (东北街178号). Con 51 950 m², es el mayor jardín de Suzhou y muchos lo consideran uno de los más bellos del sur de China. En 1997, Zhuozheng Yuan, junto con otros jardines clásicos de Suzhou, fue proclamado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
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Los jardines clásicos de Suzhou son un conjunto de jardines en la ciudad de Suzhou de la provincia de Jiangsu (China), están considerados como Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco desde el año 1997 y fueron ampliados en el 2000.
En 1997, el Jardín del administrador humilde, Jardín Liuyuan, Parque y jardín Wangshi Yuan, el más famoso de Suzhou, y la Villa de la montaña abrazada por la belleza fueron incluidos en la lista de la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad. En 2000, el Pabellón Canglang, el Jardín de los leones, el Jardín de cultivo, el Jardín Ouyuan y el Jardín Tuisiyuan fueron añadidos a la lista.
Suzhou es la ciudad de China que más jardines conserva. La mayoría de estos jardines pertenecían a casas particulares. La arquitectura clásica de los jardines chinos incluye siempre cuatro elementos: rocas, agua, pabellones y plantas.
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The Humble Administrator's Garden (Chinese: 拙政园; pinyin: Zhuōzhèng yuán; Suzhou Wu: Wu Chinese: [tsoʔ tsen ɦyø]) is a Chinese garden in Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous of the gardens of Suzhou. The garden is located at 178 Northeast Street (东北街178号), Gusu District. At 78 mu (亩) (5.2 ha; 13 acres), it is the largest garden in Suzhou and is considered by some to be the finest garden in all of southern China.
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The Classical Gardens of Suzhou (Chinese: 苏州园林; pinyin: Sūzhōu yuánlín; Suzhounese (Wugniu): sou-tseuyoe-lin) are a group of gardens in the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu, China, which have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located pavilions and pagodas.
The elegant aesthetics and subtlety of these scholars' gardens and their delicate style and features are often imitated by various gardens in other parts of China, including the various Imperial Gardens, such as those in the Chengde Mountain Resort. According to UNESCO, the gardens of Suzhou "represent the development of Chinese landscape garden design over more than two thousand years," and they are the "most refined form" of garden art.
These landscape gardens flourished in the mid-Ming to early-Qing dynasties, resulting in as much as 200 private gardens. Today, there are 69 preserved gardens in Suzhou, and all of them are designated as protected "National Heritage Sites." In 1997 and 2000, eight of the finest gardens in Suzhou along with one in the nearby ancient town of Tongli were selected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site to represent the art of Suzhou-style classical gardens.
Famous Suzhou garden designers include Zhang Liang, Ji Cheng, Ge Yuliang, and Chen Congzhou.