Tethering Rings
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Morning at Aberdyfi pier. The boats tethered, waiting for their chance to sail, while the gulls wheel around looking just as graceful as they always do.
Put me in mind of this song ... I'm pretty sure you know it ! I couldn't find a good 'live' version of this song, showing the magnificent Freddie Mercury 'doing his stuff' on stage (he was always so magnetic) so this is the official video when it was first released.
THANK YOU to my Partner in all our groups, Tony (Guy@Fawkes) for obliterating a great big mast inadvertently caught on my photo which I hadn't even realised was there until I began to process this !! See his photostream here:
~ Processed in PicMonkey with one texture of my own applied ~
Thank YOU, all my great Flickr friends, for every fave, comment and all your support over the years... you are all really appreciated. Thank you for everything.
I think we've all had this experience during a holiday abroad. We are hundreds, maybe even thousands of miles away from home, and all of a sudden you notice a car with your hometown's license plate or hear someone speak in your hometown's or region's dialect or slang. Maybe you will engage in a small chat with those people you have never met at home because they live in a different part of town, but here, at your holiday destination, they are like neighbours, and a remark like "It's a small world!" won't be surprising. One of those holidays was one from my childhood, we were camping in France, first in Brittany, but the weather was horrid, so we moved on to the Atlantic coast, somewhere near Bordeaux, where we stayed at a beautiful, very well-kept, very clean pine forest campsite nearby a huge, sunny, pleasantly empty beach. And boy, there were so many cars with a capital "B" for Berlin (and "B" for West Berlin only at that time) on the license plates at that campsite :)
Quite obviously one reason I remembered that anecdote in connection with this photo is the tiny-looking Earth globe balloon that you can see on the right behind the Tempodrom's roof. The "World balloon", as it's officially called, is a 150 m/ 492 ft. high viewing platform on a tethered balloon located at Checkpoint Charlie. Have I been up there myself already? To be honest: no. It sure is tempting, especially because on a clear day the view from the platform reaches as far as the outskirts of Berlin, but I'm a little bit afraid of heights, I don't like flying, and the thought of being up there in a flying object only secured by a steel cable, even if it's only for 15 minutes, is quite intimidating. But maybe I'll do it one day :) The imprint on the balloon says "DIE WELT" (The World) which is the name of one of the biggest German national newspapers and the balloon's sponsor.
For more info on the Tempodrom's history, an event location originally founded in a circus tent in West Berlin in 1980, please check the description for the photo in the first comment. There, I'd also remarked that the Tempodrom, depending on the point of view, sometimes looks like a starship, a circus tent (intended), or a crown. This zoomed-in view reminds me of a crown or even a mountaintop. You'll get this particular view, with the World balloon rising next to the "crown", when you approach the Tempodrom from its backside, through a small park located between the German Museum of Technology and the site of Anhalter Bahnhof.
Regarding the image's processing, I can only tell you as much as that I did quite a bit of "sliding", this and that, but with long breaks in between, so I can't remember the single steps except for the last finishing touches which where: 1) "Reflector Efex (Silver)" filter in Color Efex to brighten the foreground, and 2): adjustments with the primary colour sliders in LR.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
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Took a risk with this one and decided to super crop a photo of some bent metal against the yellow background. Something is definitely drawing me to the art of the image and not the capture in itself. Please leave your thoughts if any :)
Now be good and stay and I'll be back soon.
A Royal Mail high capacity trolley awaits the return of the postie.
Another shot from Meols Beach last weekend. Slightly more colour in the sky and a different crop compared to the previous long exposure from this spot.
Low tide on the beach a perfect opportunity to try and take some photos of the boats at sunrise(5am). We got there about an hour before sunrise and eventually we had a bit of colour.
Wings over wings as the sun sets in Elora Ontario. I was taking shots of this unique art piece as the sun set when a flock of geese decided to fly down the river at just the right moment.
I have wanted to do something different for a while, then one gets lost in what can only be described as "Photographers Block", akin to "Writers Block" same thing yet different tool of creativity. I even deleted a photo I put up yesterday as I hated it, simply because experimental change is sometimes difficult, in the enigmatic paradigm of remaining as was, yet contradicted by the yearn for change, albeit lost for choice yet unable to see the forest for the trees! If you catch my convoluted drift?!
I think the criteria of assumed "change" is tethered to the idea of realising that ,change, in one's self cannot therefore be abridged to the same/similar ideas of others, it is a struggle then to remain original. I am still trying to conquer it whilst trying to not to lose my perspective to the idea of absolutes!
So this photo I took along the A100 with the Westhafen Canal running parallel, in which there are three or four barges moored along the walkway, I had been meaning to get to them since the weather has since started to slowly improve. They are basically big floating elongated buckets of either nothing or asphalt, earth and what have you. But they are interesting for the very old mechanical presence, compositional offerings and overall differing of imagery from nature and anything else that has been done to death so far. The clouds were thin and wonderfully striated offering a bokeh contradiction of composition's directional flow. It was tricky getting the angle as I wanted to get the motorway out of the focus completely.
That's all my waffle for today, I hope everyone's' week has gotten off well and so as always, thank you! :)
I see a lot of spiders webs when walking my dog through the woods early in the morning, like the spiders are connecting every plant with another.
Classic one third shot, rope leading you into the image, many of these to be had on this vast sandy beach
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Boo and the other raptors, though injured, were always on the look out for both food and other predators.
Birds sculpture on Griffith Island, Port Fairy with added processing.
We saw some lovely sea birds in this area. HSS
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