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Our Daily Challenge - Take a Risk
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Wow - what a challenge (wiping the sweat off my brow)
Again, not quite what I wanted, but pretty chuffed with the overall result
This inspirational message is located on one of the buildings in the heart of downtown Edmonton. Great advice for everyone.
... Nearly! Monster tide on sunset in Darwin, last night. This was around 7pm, at 7.5m! The high was 7.8m, around 40 minutes later. I couldn't hang around - I was running out of beach to stand on!
I composed this one from last night with no horizon - a bit different for me - a bit closer rather than the usual wide angle! I usually go colour, but I intended this to be black and white at the time I was composing - a first for me!
For Our Daily Challenge, "take a risk" - maybe not really risky, as I have still stuck with my beachy/landscape stuff, but definitely different for me in this genre :)
Risk
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.
Anais Nin
Photo Mirna Bronić © All rights reserved
"You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”
~ Jim Rohn
Please, View On Black
This one Would be fun to see full size. 49 inches wide by 19 tall. This is from an older image. That I worked on that was risky to mess with as it was not like many I did be for. 2Echo was the image. It was the unsymmetrical that now is very symmetrical. I would really like to get out of my box and reinvent my self as a art photographer in some ways. So Id like to find some ways to take new risks in what I do. But just what that would be is not getting in to my mind yet. My kids told me on my berth day over the weekend that I was one year form being over the hill. next year I will be 50. As a kid I thought that was very old. I look in the mirror and don't know who is in the mirror. On the inside of me is a 10 to 14 year old kid. this kid has dreams of a bigger life in my art life. The man in the mirror is only a refection of what time did to my body. I like to play and have fun. But few people I know seem to like to just play any more and it seems to rub off on me to much. So it is time to make some fun risks in what I do with my art. what is joy? How about the payoff from fun right. Life should be fun. We should live the way that works for us. I like to dream a bigger dream now. One that will fill up my mind even more then the dream im having now. One that can change all I know. So lets take a risk in this art here.
Mike
Michael and Albert (AJ) Patnode - Artist Statement
Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM
AJ'S blog:
Abstract set:
www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...
Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge: Take a Risk
And 113 Pictures in 2013 #53 Long Exposure
I went out in the early morning, with my camera and tripod, to take a long exposure shot from a freeway overpass, something I had never done before. On returning home, I experimented for the first time, with the Hand Tinted effect in Ribbet.
'Take a risk' is the ODC challenge which prompted me to push the red button and record -
yeah I know, I should have read the manual first ;o)
but I thought this might raise a chuckle or two if I managed to upload it...!
tried twice through Lr4 and failed, reverted to my old flickr uploader...
The good news is that I have now set the microphone to off
and the focus to tracking.... but it eats battery power so don't worry I won't be doing it too often ;o)
1/10/2013
Background texture from here:
Daedalus Texture Pack by `cloaks
This is for the Our Daily Challenge Group
Today's theme is "Take A Risk"
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“He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. “– Herodotus
Quite an exhilarating feeling standing on the 5” beam with my watch on, phone, wallet, keys, and remote in my pocket while thinking there is a reason my wife calls me “Grace”. I am nothing if not Bold.
“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.” - Voltaire
This makes my photograph not better, but worse!My son says that he is disappointed by my recent photos. But I hate to give up.....
(ODC take a risk. Ugly location)
Our Daily Challenge: Take a Risk. I put camera on monochrome and went for it this morning. I never use this setting. It's interesting, tho, that when I loaded the shots in LIghtroom, they a showed up in color. What's with that? View L.
ODC2 - Our Daily Challenge - Take a Risk
I recently had to do a challenge for Scavenge Challenge which required us to "Create a still life using a mix of 3-7 metal AND glass items. Watch overblown highlights!"
(My original submission is in comments!) The feedback in comments was so useful, especially regarding the composition (which I had ignored in favour of concentrating on getting no highlights).
My challenges with this are:
I only have natural light
I don't have a long tripod just a tabletop one, but there wasn't enough top to stand it on!!
My studio is a kitchen counter which divides the kitchen and dining rooms and has windows on all four sides, lovely for normal photography but not when you don't want any light to shine off objects.
First I drew all the curtains and hung a piece of black fabric behind the items. But the light still penetrated the fabric - it is a lovely hot, bright, sunny day!! So I put a piece of cardboard behind the fabric! I also used a piece of black foam board on the counter top. I then arranged the items and took lots of shots on my point and shoot using the auto and macro settings because it is a faster shutter speed (hand held!) But in the low light I couldn't hold the camera steady enough so the focus was not good!! I wasn't happy with the arrangement and altered it some more. Then tried using the manual macro setting - no better!
Then I tried just the "Scene" setting where the camera decides what to use to see what it chose for the conditions! But nothing was well in focus. So I decided I would have to try and use something as a tripod, in about 2" of space!! Found a plastic container but had to hold it in one hand and press the shutter with the other! Guess what ... that didn't work so good either!
Eventually I used my table top tripod with just two legs on the counter and held the third leg in my hand and the camera set for night landscapes and at last a reasonably clear picture. But hang on .... there is still a highlight on the one glass - where is that coming from? So I shuffled myself over to the right until I was blocking the light out and stretched to the left to press the camera shutter. This is the best shot!!
I think I got it!!
This has to be Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour!! LOL
And absolutely this now goes to replace my submission to
Scavenge Challenge - Scavchal #6 - Create a still life using a mix of 3-7 metal AND glass items. Watch overblown highlights.
The Flickr Lounge - Monthly Daily Theme - Thursday: Tabletop
(Note to self: Wear black next time! :-))
For those of you who do not have time to read the saga - the condensed version of this is: "Oh boy this was a real challenge!" :-))
Have a great day!
Hello my Flickr friends!!! Hope your all doing great!
I thought this went well with the challenge, to play sports you have to take risk you won't always win the game. Also to be a street photographer you have to take risks!!!
ODC~ 1/10/13 - take a risk
© 2012 Teresa Escamilla, All rights reserved.
~ William G.T. Shedd
Taking my "ship" out of the harbor this morning and doing something I've never done before.
For the 100 Quotes Project - #83
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Last Monday, a colleague told the bad news that his son will probably loose some of his fingers, because of a fireworks accident on New Years Eve. He had been experimenting with making a fireworks bomb. I cannot understand why people would take such a risk.
The idea of losing some fingers kept spinning through my mind. I wonder how I would react to something that irreversible, to the idea that using these fingers will never happen again.
When I read about the Friday challenge this morning I couldn't think about anything else. And I tried to capture my anxiety in this picture, perhaps as a kind of therapy (also coming up with the title already helped).
I am sorry for this morbid twist. I am aware that it doesn't look nice (though it is based only on suggestion). I take the risk of not getting many comments :-)
ODC - Theme (10-01-2013): Take a risk
ODC - Theme (11-01-2013): Something that can never happen again
ODC - Take a risk
Week 20/52
take a risk if you run fast :-D
Thank you for your comments and nice words, I'm very appreciate this:-)
In the interest of trying to meet this challenge I decided to shoot the subject I most avoid. Still not sure about this, but preferred the triptych to individual shots as it's less "in your face", haha. What's particularly unnerving is that I feel like my mother is looking at me from the 3rd image - how the heck did that happen?
Need to sort out a clean background for future portrait and selfie shots - and get my remote control working again.
I've also posted a B&W version of the middle picture - www.flickr.com/photos/globalnomad01/8366803007/
Oh, and I've actually learned a little about portraits today, mostly that I prefer natural light as it's kinder and being outdoors helps the subject relax in my experience.
This is 1 of 3 images posted for this challenge
ODC Take A Risk
Well, I've never done this before, shooting a hockey game that is. What a hoot. Had lots of fun and the action was terrific. Home team lost 5-3, but they played their hearts out to one of the top teams in the local junior league.
Today I attempted a few risks, but one that I enjoyed taking and processing was this 'abstract' shot of Verona Lake. The upper right corner is iced over. Below that is a reflection of a tree where the ice has melted and turned back to water. My favorite part is the branch touching the ice. Good or not, this is about as abstract as I think I can get.
Daily challenge
10th January 2013: Take A Risk: So fresh snow! I took my new 18-300 zoom lens, out into the snow, and got many images: www.facebook.com/keris.s.swaden/posts/286527691470653?ref... and more on iwitness24.
January 11th 2013: Something That Can Never Happen Again: I doubt i would be able to take thing image again! With the snow in the same place etc.
January 12th 2013: Modern: If it wasn't for modern tech I wouldn't have my 18-300 zoom lens.
January 14th 2013:Framed: I frammed the image.
Also a Happy New Year to everyone! Sorry it'd been a whiile busy busy. But I thought I'd let you all know, I now have a 18-300 zoom lens!! SO SOOO happy with it!! Can't wait to use it at horse shows! Used it on animals already see on my photography page above!
Scavenge Challenge - Jan2013 - Scavchal #24 - Education Centre - Horizontal VISUAL lines.
I really hope I cracked this challenge with this shot! My eyes tend to keep travelling backwards and forwards along the bottles and are not really distracted in other directions!! But ... is the shelf line too obviously a "line"?
ODT - Take a Risk.
This year I have several photographic challenges I have set myself with my Point and Shoot camera! The main one is to try to get much better focus - I would really like to get sharper images and even though the little green box in the camera tells me it is OK when I look on the computer it is not sharply focused. Another challenge is to work with glass, which I love, and recently I have been trying to capture things inside glass! I took many pictures and tried many settings and eventually discovered that I got the best focus when I used the ' scene' setting with multiple focus points. I still wish it was tack sharp though! (sigh) But it is getting better!
The Flickr Lounge - Monthly Daily Theme - Thursday: Tabletop
LOL! It was taken primarily for Scavenge Challenge and now I see I didn't upload to the group!! Duh. Over +40C again today - think the brain is starting to melt! :-
The Monthly Scavenger Hunt - Jan2013 - TMSH #6 - Frugal. Reuse, recycle, repurpose everything I can!
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Our Daily Challenge: "Take a Risk"
When I found this little Android figurine about a week ago, little did I know that I would be ordering some more. Turns out there are several series of customized figurines. I ordered 4 additional boxes, but they were "blind boxes," meaning I didn't know which 4 from the current series I would receive. I knew what they more or less could look like, but I was taking a risk that I could either get 4 that I absolutely wanted, or 4 that I didn't particularly care for, and I didn't feel like I could justify buying an entire set. So here, my Android friend is pondering who his new friend might be.
As for what was in those boxes? I ended up getting one I really wanted, two that would have been in my second tier of choices, and one that I am not too crazy about, but I think I can find opportunities for it with the others.
This kind of sums how I was feeling about this challenge - unable to focus and definitely uncertain, but a challenge is a challenge and being photographed at all is discomforting for me, let alone taking a Selfie. In fact, a Selfie is the one photographic challenge I've been avoiding, everything else I am working on, albeit slowly. This was made more challenging by the fact that my remote just wouldn't work so these shots were done with the timer with extremely mixed results, lol!
I realise I could have worked on this over a few days and perfected lighting, etc, but I do approach the daily challenges set as just that - my challenge for that day (on top of all the other things life throws at me :-) )
This is 1 of 3 images posted for this challenge.
ODC Take A Risk
Any day that includes a moose is a great day. Her Calf was in the bushes, couldn't get him to come out and pose.
ODC-3 Take a Risk.
It may not seem like much of a risk, but Moose are mean and she had a yearling calf hidden in the willows. I made sure I was safe though. I'm not a big risk taker. This challenge is tough for me. My husband's truck was at greater risk than I was.
Camera Labs is a website that has a monthly competition for fun..so come join us!
Also have categories for submissions of all types for feedback and information on all aspects of photography. Reviews of all camera systems are available as well as coupon information. Gordon Laing, the host, can also be found on youtube demonstrating how to operate your camera. Check us out. There's still time to enter your shot in the January on assignment thread. This month's topic is "Resolution"..since it's the time of year some people make resolutions. Mine is "take a risk"...don't play it so safe all the time...like waiting until you have a royal straight to go "all in". That's maple syrup in the CC glass though, so maybe risky behavior will never be my forte'.
We took a risk last night:
we´ve rebuilt her bed. I don´t know what it´s called in english, but we removed all the sticks so that she´s free to stand up now.
And after she came out seven or eight times untill 10 pm, it was a good night and she also took a nap today after lunch :).
for ODC - TAKE A RISK (read the description after shooting, I hope it´s okay...)