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An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet…!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach…!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés…!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau…!!!
- Henry David Thoreau.
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The most imitated shot of Zion Canyon national park. The two times I have been to this location, it's been raining and I get dirty muddy water rather than the pristine clear water the virgin river is famous for. I think I need to comeback in winter to get some clean nice weather and clear water.
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All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
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-Henry David Thoreau
Finally got a post up. Lately Ive been really busy catching up with my classes so I haven't been able to do much shooting. It seems like I'm starting to get sick again... right after I was beginning to feel better. I hope its just a stomach flu or something... got exams and presentations over the next few days.
On the up side Ive been getting a lot of wonderful comments from my flickr friends! I really appreciate all of it! Your kind words always helps me get through my day! : )
- Henry David Thoreau.
When I first set up my bird feeder in our backyard, I looked up the common birds that visit feeders in this part of the country. The tufted titmouse was a common name in the resources I found on this subject. But after two years and attracting almost every other bird on the list, I can safely say that we never had a tufted titmouse visit our backyard. Because I have seen cooper’s and red-winged hawks and an American Kestrel visit my backyard, it’s a mystery why the titmice avoid our feeders.
While they are not a common sight at our feeder, I only have to walk or drive a few miles to see them. The forests and trees around this area have a lot of them. On my recent visit to Lake Fayetteville, one landed a few feet away from me. It was so close that I had to take the teleconverter off. In the end, that worked well as the extra stop of light allowed better background blur, and believe me, this scene could use all the help with bokeh. The light coming through the foliage did an excellent job of showcasing the details on the bird. One of my favorite images from the trail.
“I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.”
— Henry David Thoreau (American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher)
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‧ Focal Length – 34mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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Going into the woods at any time is an amazing and memorable experience, and precious together.
(Henry David Thoreau)
- Henry David Thoreau.
It's been a while since we planned a landscape photography trip. So when we planned a road trip to Richland creek, I was genuinely excited and had all the waterfalls I was interested in photographing marked in google maps. With so many waterfalls on the stream, I was reasonably confident that I would get a decent waterfall shot with some good foliage. The main waterfall on this road is called the falling waterfalls, and I hoped to get a good picture there. Then disaster struck. In its infinite wisdom, google maps decided to refresh the map in a spot with no mobile coverage and presented me with a blank screen. This road has no markings for any waterfalls, and neither is there any marked lots for parking.
Thankfully just before sunset, we managed to find the parking spot for six finger falls. Six Finger Falls has to be the second most famous waterfall on this route after falling water falls, and it’s a genuinely unique waterfall. I posted a photo earlier from the standard viewpoint. While taking that shot, I noticed a better viewpoint and scrambled myself over to the spot. The water level looked low from the main viewpoint, but from here, I could get the cascading water to fill the frame and use the bright part as a leading line to beautiful fall colors present on the other side of the creek. This image turned out to be one of the best shots I took at this location. I will post my other favorite picture soon.
A few months ago a friend of mine loaned me a book I had always heard of but never read. The book is the well-known "Walden; or life in the woods" written by Henry David Thoreau and published in 1854.
Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days (1845–47) in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. It is considered Thoreau’s masterwork.
Struck by the history and inspired by the cover of the book, in the few past weeks I built Thoreau's cabin in the wood. It´s the first time that I made a woods-themed creation and I really had a lot fun building it. Thanks for stopping by.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
Blue Jays in the tree outside my living room window this morning. Shooting between the blinds and thru a window didn't help. There were two of them - but I never got both to sit still at the same time, thus "A Single Bluebird".
- Henry David Thoreau.
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Foggy afternoon at McWay falls in the Big Sur area of Southern California. This was taken at the last leg of our Fourth of July road trip. We got a thick fog cover by the afternoon and some really dim light instead of the usually brilliant afternoon light. I didn’t have a clue how temperamental the Pacific can be in the West coast. So I tried some interesting framing tryouts to make the pics a bit interesting and used a Lee Big Stopper to get water to have some blurry motion.
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- Henry David Thoreau.
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Stone Lagoon is part of the Humboldt lagoons state park and, in my opinion, the most exciting spot of the three lagoons that makes up the park. While it’s a gorgeous location, I struggled to take a good picture of it on the day we visited. I even walked the entire trail, all the way to Sharp Point, to see if I could find some inspiration without much luck. There were a few points where I thought I had something good, but I found all of them lacking a little bit.
For this panorama composition, I intended to balance the sharp point rock formation with the small plant on the opposite end. I am unsure what exactly is off with this image, but the rock formation managed little prominence while the reef in the middle of the frame is too bright and distracting. It might not be what I intended, but it is still a good one to learn from.
Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau by Calvin R. Greene, 1856
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist. His philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
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A couple of days ago I came upon this quote of Henry David Thoreau and somehow I found it rather relevant...
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Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;
Drifting meadow of the air,
Where bloom the dasied banks and violets,
And in whose fenny labyrinth
The bittern booms and heron wades;
Spirit of the lake and seas and rivers,
Bear only purfumes and the scent
Of healing herbs to just men's fields!
Henry David Thoreau
Explore @ 278, 25/6/13.
Explosion sousmarine...!!!
My wild river reflection…!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet…!!! A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach…!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage…!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés…!!! Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau…!!!
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.
~ Henry David Thoreau
~Henry David Thoreau
It's Forbidden Fruit Week! A week-long dedication to those naturally sweet treats that are tasty any time of day!
Strawberries: OK, they're not really forbidden--but finding a flawless strawberry was driving me bananas! But I wasn't going to let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch...because life isn't always a bowl of cherries. Should I stop now? OK, sorry.
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- Henry David Thoreau.
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The Jonsurd point, near Sandy, OR is a short drive from Portland and has a stunning view of the majestic Mount Hood. I had planned this location for a sunrise shot and we managed to get out on time from our hotel. I had marked the spot on m map app but as we were driving we could see the sun coming up behind and were in a hurry to get to the marked spot. When the app finally said we are at the spot I was a bit taken aback by the fact there literally was no place to park. Since I didn’t have much time I put hazard lights on and made sure my wife was in the driver's seat while I set up for the shot. It felt weird as from my location I couldn’t really see the Sandy river as I have seen from other shots in this location. But I didn’t have much time before the morning light faded, so I went ahead with my shots.
Only after we started back we noticed that the marked point was a bit off to the south. Google failed me by wrongly locating the spot I marked on the app. Anyways it was a decent shot even though I didn’t get the location correct. I'd hope to return here again and get a proper sunrise.
Near my wild river...!!!
Like the stars, our light bathes in the dark ...!!! Ü
A philosophical and impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
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Bain de Lumière...!!! Ü
Près de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Comme les étoiles, notre lumière baigne dans l'obscurité ...!!! Ü
Un safari photo philosophique et impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself... The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
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All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
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Thoreau, NM (McKinley County)
A World Heritage Site (whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/us).
For all the wild beauty of Chaco Canyon's high-desert landscape, its long winters, short growing seasons, and marginal rainfall create an unlikely place for a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture to take root and flourish. Yet this valley was the center of a thriving culture a thousand years ago. The monumental scale of its architecture, the complexity of its community life, the high level of its community social organization, and its far-reaching commerce created a cultural vision unlike any other seen before or since.
The cultural flowering of the Chacoan people began in the mid 800s and lasted more than 300 years. We can see it clearly in the grand scale of the architecture. Using masonry techniques unique for their time, they constructed massive stone buildings (Great Houses) of multiple stories containing hundreds of rooms much larger than any they had previously built. The buildings were planned from the start, in contrast to the usual practiced of adding rooms to existing structures as needed. Constructions on some of these buildings spanned decades and even centuries. Although each is unique, all great houses share architectural features that make them recognizable as Chacoan. (1)
References (1) Chaco Culture NPS www.nps.gov/chcu/learn/historyculture/index.htm
- Henry David Thoreau.
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Smith Rock near Bend, Oregon is a rock-climbing hot spot, and it’s also one of our favorite places to visit while we are in the area. While we were on our road trip to Washington last year, an unexpected snow storm caused us to abandon our plans for Mt Adams. A quick search while driving down got us a hotel room in Bend for a couple of days. We knew what our first destination would be and headed Straight for it well before sunrise.
The challenge with Smith Rock is the distance between interesting viewpoints. None of them are close together, and the view changes quite dramatically from one spot to the other. During my first visit here, we had a fantastic sunrise, but we didn’t have a place nailed down, so ended up taking a tremendous sunrise shot of the parking lot. I didn’t want that to happen during this visit and did some research on the best possible spot for sunrise and added sufficient time to walk there very slowly. The morning was fantastic, with stunning colors and dramatic cloud formations.
I’d have gone with the HDR route in the past but thankfully learned a bit about exposure blending and tried with this image. I loved how much more realistic the outcome is, and I am glad I invested the time in learning about it. I usually am very reluctant to learn more about photoshop, but I think every landscape photographer should spend some time exploring the possibilities of exposure blending.
- Henry David Thoreau.
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Morro Bay at sunset. We went to Morro Bay last Saturday for quick day trip and had the opportunity to watch a pretty foggy sunset. I took this shot at the marina south of the Morro Rock. I used a Lee Big Stopper to smooth out the water. The sea was a bit choppy so there was a bit of movement among the boats.
I was not entirely satisfied with the sunset and I am hoping to convince my wife for another weekend trip next winter. Thanks for visiting, hope y'all like the image..
My wild river reflexion…!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet…!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach…!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage…!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés…!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau…!!!
A couple of months ago I built the Walden Cabin inspired by the the book "Walden; or life in the woods" written by Henry David Thoreau.
Walden and others books of authors like Leo Tolstoy and Jack London were the inspiration for Chris McCandless's journey back in early nineties.
My latest work is the most rapresentative scene of the movie Into the Wild that is an adaptation of the book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer, and tells the story of Christopher McCandless indeed, a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.
McCandless's intention was to live in harmony with nature, being self-sufficient, and rejecting the excess of material wealth and societal pressure. Unluckily his story ended differently than that of his predecessor Thoreau...
I saw the movie many years ago and recently I saw it again and I found it very inspirational and a little bit sad.
I recreated the "Magic Bus" that became the home for Alexander Supertramp, that's the new name of Chris, in the middle of the wild nature, as you can see in the movie and as it really was back in those years.
I could tell you many stories related to the film but I don't want to reveal anything to you, since maybe you haven't seen the film or read the book yet...
Today would be Chris's 52nd birthday and I think it's the right day to share my Magic Bus. Happy birthday Chris!
Few years ago another builder built the Magic Bus but his one was in Minifig scale. Credit to Serge Las for the bus roof, perfectly recreated using "brick round corner dome top".
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One of six photos taken while on a walk in Humber Bay Park East yesterday. Best seen large by clicking on the photo
" Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke, part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park consists of two landspits situated at the mouth of Mimico Creek'
" The Mimico watershed is a completely urbanized watershed within Toronto and Region Conservation’s jurisdiction, with over 30% of its landmass featuring industrial land-uses and over 60% of its reach artificially channelized."
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day. #BeKind
Growth...!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
My wild river reflection …!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
Mi Vida en los Bosques.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately; to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what life had to teach me...Henry David Thoreau. Walden,
"Fui a los bosques porque quería vivir conscientemente; enfrentar sólo los hechos esenciales de la vida, y ver si podía aprender lo que ella tenía que enseñarme...Henry David Thoreau. Walden.
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual
to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright,
he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Lio is a male name, originally from the Greek 'leon', meaning 'lion'.
In Flanders (the northern part of Belgium, where we live) 'Lio' is pronounced the same way as 'Leo' in English.
Looking close... on Friday! - First Name
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- Henry David Thoreau.
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In my previous two posts on Flickr, I mentioned some of the elements of landscape photography in the desert environment. One the first post, I talked about eliminating distractions from the compositions, and in the second post, I talked about the quality of light. Today, I want to talk about embracing the shadows. I do not think that this tip is relevant only for desert landscapes. When I started photographing landscapes, I used to push my shadows a lot. I suspect this is something a lot of landscape and nature photographers are guilty of when they start.
The problem with this approach came to light when I got a chance to visit the mountain light gallery in Bishop. I saw some of Galen Rowell's magnificent shots up close and noticed how much depth his photos had. In large prints, they almost looked 3D. His spring on Mount Diablo is an excellent example of how much shadows can contribute to a picture. I ended up spending a lot of time at the gallery and walked away with a realization. Pioneers of landscape photography genres were not afraid of the shadows. They embraced it and used it to give depth to the image and to direct the viewer's eye to the subject. I decided to follow this approach and bought drastic changes to my editing and photography. I immediately felt an improvement in the overall quality of my output.
Today’s post is another shot from the Valley of Fire SP, taken during an evening hike just as the sun was setting. This being a first trip to the park, I did not have a particular destination in mind. While on the trail, we noticed this striking fin formation and the way the evening light was giving it a warm glow. In the past, I would have tried to bracket the image and make an HDR out of it. But as you can see from the results letting the picture have the lighter and darker parts gives it more of a balance and dimension to the composition.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
Listen Early in the morning... ;-)
See where this picture was taken. [?]
One final redo using Topaz Adjust. Now it's time to get out of the library and to find some new images.
"Rise free from care before the dawn,
And seek adventures,
Let the noon find thee by other lakes,
And the night overtake thee everywhere at home."
Henry David Thoreau
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Another shot from the wonderful silver falls, this little waterfall is located at the end of a 0.3-mile long hike and provides some excellent views from a wooden bridge that crosses the creek downstream. Because of the fantastic forest canopy, you can come here pretty much anytime to shoot. We visited during a sunny time when the clouds were playing hide and seek with the sun. Unfortunately, we had to wait quite a bit for the clouds to diffuse the sun so as to not get any hot spots in the frame.
This shot was taken directly from the bridge and I didn’t include the falls as it was under direct sunlight and was messing up my long exposure. Instead, I wanted to emphasize the way the water was getting molded into the chasm that was downstream from the falls. Hope Y'all like it.
My wild river reflection...!!!
Everything that exists is imperfection ...!!! Ü
A philosophical and impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
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Imperfection...!!! Ü
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Tout ce qui existe est imperfection...!!! Ü
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
My wild river reflexion…!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet…!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach…!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage…!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés…!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau…!!!
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Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.