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At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a very emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector). I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course.
My second (and last, for now) session was at the Lake Alserio, a small, rather shallow one (its average depth is 5,4 m (17,7 ft)). Yet it is a very fascinating lake, completely surrounded by a variety of natural habitats that has always hindered urban development in the close vicinity of the lake. Its placid waters are rich in waterlilies and birds of all kinds. The sky was crowded with clouds, again, and the vaguest hints of a light rain had tried to deter me from my purpose. I realised quite soon that the apparent compactness of the clouds was not real, so I hoped that the sunrise would have gifted me with something interesting.
Then lo, the whole world tinted in pink. The amazing effect lasted a handful of minutes, just enough to shoot two or three exposure bracketings: the sky was imbued with a rosy light, and everything under it as well. This magic moment was the first gift of that morning and I have done my best to capture its beauty as a gift for everyone who will enjoy it.
Explored on 2022/09/07 #19
As for the title, I must confess that in my mind echoes Satchmo's 1950 version rather than Edith Piaf's... However, feel free to love whatever version you like best!
For those of you who were a bit offended by my references to the out-of-the-frame Resegone* in the text of my previous post, The calm after the storm: here the sun is rising just over that mountain - you can make out its distinctive, saw-like long line of summits partially shrouded with clouds.
* This strange name means "the great saw", the word "resega" meaning "saw" in the Lombard dialects. It is a mountain towering over the city of Lecco and the southern end of Lake Como, characterised by a long line of Triassic dolomite summits, the teeth of the saw). It is featured in Manzoni's renowned historical novel, The Bethroted, most prominently in the famous passage from chapter 8 known as Farewell to the mountains.
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to the reflections. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
Wat Phra Prang was founded in 1237, when the area was still under control of the Khmer empire ruled from Angkor. The temple with its prominent corncob shaped prang were expanded and adapted during later Sukhothai and Ayutthaya periods. Today the temple is an active monastery. On this day here the monks placed candles and oil lights in preparation for a special evening ceremony. Wat Phra Prang is part of the Si Satchanalai Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Handheld shot f9 1/160, with my back squeezed into a niche in the stupa behind me to get as much as possible of the palm trees into the frame at 16mm. The view is supposed to be slightly downwards, hence no correction on verticals, but what a struggle with lens correction to make it look reasonably horizontal. But then, there are no precisely straight lines in the over 700 year old temple :)
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Juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird in flight. A nice dark background to show off your copy on the right side of the frame. Thanks for visiting.
She had disappeared out of view behind a bramble bush before she quickly reappeared, flying up & away. I just managed to get this in the right hand side of the frame.
This is only about my second attempt at waterfall photography because there are not many down this way. This is a lovely spot called Osmington Mills on the Jurassic Coast. We were in Weymouth yesterday for an event. I knew it was going to be a cloudless sunset so I had an idea of coming here and filling the frame with the waterfall with some early evening light.
And I think its paid off with the help of my KASE circular polariser/6 stop filter.
I will definatly return on a more atmospheric day, lots of interesting rock ledges too.
I was rushing to get to the other side of the viaduct as the scene was lit with golden light. On the way I noticed a solitary person walking towards me and took this grab shot. At the time I thought it was one for the recycle bin. Although the shots from the other side turned out okay I preferred this one as the light shone nicely on the arches. The iced light path weaved nicely in the frame against the shadowed landscape and the result surprised me.
I like the framing i was getting at 19mm so yes again combination of 2 exposures -2 and +2 and Blending in Photoshop and lightroom.
Second picture of the series Hat Stone.
(Yes, believe it or not it is the same place, but from a different point of view towards the East and the great stone to the backlight. As explained in the previous picture, the place is very difficult to control light)
Dawn on the El Sombrerico Beach, several minutes before sunrise.
The name of this amazing beach is due to the huge rock shaped like a magician's hat that juts into the sea.
There are not many photographs of the area, may be because access to this beach is a little difficult, so after driving about 20 minutes fully night by a bad gravel road, you reach this cove by small cliffs headlamp in my head.
For this shot, I was lucky clouds drew lines in the sky and I could compose from that angle.
Moon also appears to the center-right of the frame due to missing several minutes for the sun to make his way out on the horizon.
To reach this picture in one unique Raw, I combined a four steps neutral filter and black card technique.
I hope you like it. Have a nice Tuesday. :)
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I had to work hard on the different elements of this composition. The focal point is the rising mist in the distance, which was my starting point for the rest of the image. The framing of the trees and the sweep of the shoreline, in particular, formed crucial elements. The branches on the left compete a little with the background vegetation and I am slightly unsatisfied about not being able to see the vanishing point of the river. However, I think the mood of the image does go some way towards compensating for some of these shortcomings.
It is spring 1984, and 50038 'Formidable' rolls into Par station with 1M85, the 0740 Penzance to Liverpool Lime Street.
Par is the nearest station to Carylon Bay golf course, a 72 par course which is situated on the clifftop overlooking St Austell Bay, and through which this train will just have passed.
Par is the branch station for the Newquay branch: the signal gantry on the right of the frame provides access onto the Newquay branch which curves off to the right.
In 2022 the signal box and manual signals survive, although the Newquay branch bracket signal has been disfigured by safety-related railings.
Photograph by the late Roger Siviter, now part of my collection. Thanks to the RailgenArchive for information allowing me to identify the working.
I enjoy shooting from the hip...I do it even when there is not a challenge from the group. BUT I have to say, I almost gasped when I saw what I had captured in the frame. It might be my fav photo of Owen, ever.
A record shot uploaded for interest purposes, and more particularly for enthusiasts of a certain age.
I'd travelled down to Devon and Cornwall for a long weekend of rail photography intent on bagging a few Westerns, and any other diesel hydraulics that came my way.
After spending the Friday evening at a B&B in Penzance, I made my way back up to Plymouth for the next B&B and where I took the opportunity to walk out to Laira Depot for a few shots. I can't remember whether I asked permission to walk around (something you only tended to do if you were about to be confronted!), but do recall things were pretty relaxed there on this Saturday night. Not surprisingly there were plenty of locos on shed too.
In the frame here is class 52, D1071 'Western Renown' sporting a headcode of 1C63. With headcodes still seeing regular use at the time you'd be inclined to think this was its last working down to the West Country, however my (admittedly, limited) research suggests 1C63 was the 1.15pm Paddington - Cardiff instead. Hmm.....
In addition to 1071, there were six other Westerns present: 1009, 1013, 1014, 1027, 1030, and 1041. In a sign of the times there were also five class 08 and two class 03 shunters stabled too, plus the usual assortment of other main-line locomotives.
The shot was taken on a Zenit E so edge sharpness isn't the best. That said, I did think it worth investing fifty minutes or so of my life removing the worst of the dust marks, but frankly lost the will for anything more. I did scan it at high-res so it should comfortably display full screen, dust marks and all.
Kodak Ektachrome 64
Evening of 29th June 1974
The physical presence of Shoreham seemed the same when I took this shot on October 7, 1990 but it looked far from the SOO I was used to. We have 325 sitting with stacks capped with MILW 2009 resting behind. Off to the left is either 701 or 705 one of the pair of GP30's WC didn't want, both had been out of service since early-mid 1987. To the right of 2009's rear end you can make out one of the EMD leasing SD35's commonly called "bricks" by local fans resting in the roundhouse and just in the frame to the right is one of a couple ex BN SD45's that SOO had bought for parts but then upon finding them in better condition then expected returned them to service for relatively short while due to a power shortage.
Are you in for a tip? It was really cloudy this past weekend and we were out early in the morning trying to capture some wintry landscapes. At 5am it was cold but I really wanted to capture one image showing the sun and the moonlight collide over this old barn while covered in snow. The sun glow was already showing on the horizon but the barn was in complete darkness. To mimic the moonlight in the frame I attached the lights on the drone and I positioned it on the few spots to light paint the barn. Camera was fixed while capturing these frames so I can blend that light in post. What do you think?
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This photo was taken on the day of that epic sunset afterglow at Porth Nanven, Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, a month ago.
I shot this as the sun set - just as the light show started kick off to the right of the frame. I bagged this one, then re-composed to take what would be my "2021 Cornwall Calendar" cover image!
This one has been sat on my hard drive collecting dust (that can happen, right?) It was only until I made myself process it (mostly in Lightroom) that it came to life. It turns out that I very much like this one - maybe it'll feature in the 2022 edition!
On one of my previous posts from this shoot, someone commented that the water looked like smoke (due to the slow shutter speed to capture the movement in the sea). So, I incorporated that into the title for this image!
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 28mm | ƒ/16 | 0.8 sec | ISO 160 | Tripod | No filters | Taken 14-07-2020 at Porth Nanven
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2020
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June 13, 2016
Traipse:
[treyps]
verb (used without object)
1. to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal
verb (used with object), traipsed, traipsing.
2. to walk over; tramp
noun
3. a tiring walk.
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I'm not entirely sure why this caught my eye today, maybe it's the way the tree the framed the path or perhaps it was the lines from the window frames and bricks.
Whatever it was, it stood out enough that I pulled my camera out of my bag and fired a couple shots.
Nothing else really caught my eye today, so looks like this is the winner.
Hope everyone has had a good Monday.
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When I went out to get the paper this morning this flower was open on one of our cacti so I brought it inside to photograph where it's easier to control the light.
The main light was a Yongnuo manaul flash in an 8.5 inch Lastolite soft box positioned at camera left and just out of the frame. Fill light is from a hand held mirror at camera right. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album. For each image in the set, and there are over 2000 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Not exactly a toy... but she had to make her appearance too!
Happy Toy in The Frame Thursday!
And if you havn't already join the new group Three Traveling Doll Heads... this doll head is already making her way around the world if you like to have a turn taking her around your city join the group!
This guy just barely made it into the frame, but I'll take it. Red-tailed Hawk near Gazelle in far northern California.
A 5-image focus stack composite of a macro view of the top glass portion of an elaborate award trophy; the frame measures 1 5⁄8-inches across.
This image is the last in a series of three on this subject. The other two images are:
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights positioned 120° CL/CR, three-feet away from and 18-inches above the subject. They were fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄8 power (CL) and 1⁄4 power(CR) through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes.
The red LED of a Coast TX10 Quad Color flashlight was used to create the red color tones in the image; it was placed directly on top of the glass pointing down and exposed for 3s.
The SB900's were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X's.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D (AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro).
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. This lovely lady waved me over after I took the shot. She told me that she hated having her photograph taken but when I showed her this capture she said that it was lovely. We had a nice little natter for a few minutes and although I face confrontation very, very rarely, it was wonderful to have such a friendly encounter from a complete stranger. Enjoy!
Rose petals.
Many thanks for all views and fav's - and particularly
comments.
All are greatly appreciated!
Happy Macro Mondays to you all!
7DWF, Crazy Tuesday: #FillTheFrame
And dust ;-) Detail of an old Opel Kapitän, taken at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. This model is either a P 2,5 or a P 2,6 (sorry, as usual I forgot to photograph - or even look - at the description) and was built between 1958 and 1963. It looked very shiny and polished at the museum, nonetheless I wasn't surprised to see so many scratches and lints when I viewed it on the monitor. Well, dust is everywhere, isn't it ;-)
Detail eines Opel Kapitäns, es müsste wohl ein P 2,5 oder 2,6 sein, diese Modelle wurden von 1958 bis 1963 gebaut. Im Museum (Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin-Kreuzberg) sah er hochglanzpoliert aus, aber Staub ist nun mal überall, so auch hier auf der Motorhaube ;-), und mit den Jahren kommen auch feine Kratzer hinzu.
This is similar to a previous image, but with the bird positioned closer to the right side of the frame. I like this composition.
Klamath Falls, Oregon. 4/2019
... dear Mare! 💗
(birthday on January 12)
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Weekly Theme Challenge - Fill the Frame
(photo by Freya)
Thanks for views, faves and comments! ;-)
I was looking for subjects to light today when I found this old sea shell that I'd brought back from Baja California Mexico at least five years ago.
Lighting stuff: I placed the shell on a piece of black Perspex and then lit it with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 Lastolite soft box on a light stand at camera right. Fill light is from a mirror hand held at camera left and just out of the frame. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1600 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other pictures that I've taken of Sea Shells can be seen in my creatively titled "Shells" album. If you like that kind of thing, it has over 200 images in it.
I'm a bit battled: I could have stopped down a bit and gain some sharpness and DoF in the farther trees, but I would have lost most of the very little light I was working with (this is ISO 6400, already).
In hindsight, my regret is how I framed: I gave too much of the frame to the ground. It now takes more than half of the space and takes away from the lines of trees.
Oh well, learn by doing, they say
lens used - cyclop-m1 85mm f1.2
no aperture blades, so it's always shot wide open.
optics from soviet night vision device. it's allegedly helios-40 in different corpus with additional elongated rear element making the frame smaller than full and adding weird character, quite different than helios has. rear element is scary close few mm from sony a7 sensor. if you want sharpness to infinity (not great) and in close up , helicoid is necessary because provided parody of focus ring is very short. the overall construction doesn't make a remotely reliable impression. chromatic aberration is horrible, so bw only, perhaps coating is different than h40 had, suited for night vision. in a sunny summer day it's 1-2 stops too fast. a tendency of banding. sharpness is very good for f1.2, but only focus zoom more or less secures it where planned. the washed out blur and weird highlights are excellent. one of my favorite lenses now.