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Iceland is one of those places, you really just have to go see the place to believe it. The light is unlike anywhere I've been on the planet. I found long drawn out golden hours that seem to persist for many hours, eventually transcending into something more odd. And then when darkness finally comes, the sky lights up like a green flowing river with purple accents, as if the stars weren't amazing enough.
It's a rough life for a photographer; I was constantly awake as the photographing rarely gets bad, and I always felt the compulsive need to point my camera at something, everything, everywhere, and maximize my stay. Eventually I'd have to go home.
The fact is I could spend nearly a lifetime processing a one month trip to this place, but then there's always the fact that I could have gotten better light. But I'm splitting hairs on the difference between epic once in a lifetime shots, and amazing, spectacular shots that most amateurs would happily tout as one of the pinnacles of their photographic achievements.
Let's be real though, this is a picture of a green hill with black lava/sand as the foreground. And somehow it's beautiful, spectacular and majestic all at the same time. Why? Mostly because this place is unique, and it conjures ideas. Thoughts about how the lighting hit this area while being nearly completely overcast, and how the black came to be, and why the mountain is so green... Questions I cannot begin to answer. Science tries to explain such things, but the reality is, no one can explain creation to us as fact. No one knows how these things came to be, they just are. Nature is beautiful, the world is amazing, and it's important to take a moment in the day to appreciate these facts.
Unfortunately, the month of November is known for its cloudy skies which in turn makes it difficult to get sunny shots. As seen here with this M403.
The morning was blue skies, but as the ground heats up clouds begin to form leading to cloudy skies till sundown.
Here M403 is seen running along route 22 in Newark with a pair of Macs about to enter Hillside, NJ.
I chanced upon this horse sheltering in the woods, it seemed ethereal, our glances for a fleeting moment seemed to open a door into each others lives.
" For our time is the passing of a shadow"
Those buildings should be part of the Vanderbilt University campus.
The redness of the moon was caused not only by moonlight traveling through a longer tangential path at moonrise that filters colors for a redder moon, but also by smoke from Canadian wildfires that had been blown south. I was late by one night for the full Sturgeon Moon, but tonight the sky was clear.
"Dedicated to those who have gone before us, walk beside us, and rise up behind us in their commitment to telling the NASA story and inspiring the world's future explorers." (KSC Press Site mural)
That's the SpaceX IXPE launch in the background. At 1am (ET) Thursday, it launched from LC-39a at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It was a terrific show.
I've had this shot in mind since I first saw this mural, but all of the night launches I've viewed from the Press Site have been on a NE trajectory, so they were arching away from the mural.
I was shooting from an elevated location 60-ish seconds away, so 120-seconds or so of the 365-seconds in this exposure were spent jogging to and from the camera. Big thanks to the people at the Press Site for not disturbing the camera (they even gave me a safety cone for it).
Details: ISO100, 365-seconds at f16 with a Canon 6D and 14mm Sigma lens.
Oh, those moody mountains and elusive peeks at those peaks! This was shot in a wild wind, which had me holding down my tripod and loving every second, even when my fingers became numb from the cold.
What an incredible adventure I had in Alaska! Each trip is better than the last and I always return wanting it to last longer. Although it feels great to sleep in my bed again, I just wish for one more day...
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Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF.2
f/8
100mm
1/320 sec
ISO 64
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Those striations are where send was deposited on the floor of some ancient sea. What great convulsion of the Earth has angled them thus?
The Valley of Fire, Nevada USA.
Have you ever felt, that flowers are smiling to you, whenever you take their portrait in the Summer season?In your garden? Because I have! Such a joyful, bright, tender smile!! ❤️!!!!!Such a heartfelt emotion in my body!
Therefore, I am going now to share with you, some blooming smiles of my garden, in my current photos! Enjoy!!! ❤️
For those of you still starving for color on a wintry spring day, here's a flower that is in bloom right now, and has been for the past month. Fremontodendron californicum, with the common names California flannelbush, California fremontia, and flannel bush, is a flowering shrub native to diverse habitats in southwestern North America.
It's a tal rangy branched shrub, the one at Bancroft Garden anout 18 feet tall and spreading from to based to resting on the top of a wall. Fremontodendron californicum is found in numerous habitats across California at elevations of 1,300–6,500 feet (400–1,980 m), especially California chaparral and woodlands, Yellow Pine Forests, and Pinyon-juniper woodlands along the eastern San Joaquin Valley.
The flowers are from two to almost four inches across, and are very showy. The problem is that almost all were way over my head, but I did find this one at eye level. This is a bush that truly wants to be pollinated. Look at those pistels!
I've never seen it before, or at least I don't think so. Something with as striking flowers as this has would certainly have gotten my notice. But no, and this bush is at least 20 years old and visible one any wallk to the dentist. Aha! That's why I've never noticed. You go to a foot doctor, and you come out feeling better. You go to a chiropractor, and most times, you feel better. But you go to a dentist, and you don't feel good coming or going.
They're all around us, textures, those lines and patterns, seemingly purposeful, sometimes random.
Look closely in nature and you'll find them everywhere, they draw you in, sometimes they are impossibly perpendicular. Here is an example of textures that at a cursory glance make no sense, how could this monolith possibly form naturally with lines that are virtually opposite those a mere few feet below them. Bry will give you the precise explanation, it'll blow your mind, time scales and natural evolution of the landscape which one can barely comprehend. Nature is awesome.
10 exposures went into this image, 4 for the sky and 6 for the foreground, shot with an h-alpha modified Nikon Z6 and Tamron 35mm f1.4 on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. Foreground exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 1600, sky exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 800.
Those that follow this site regularly will know I'am usually uploading sunrise and predawn shots of late , but here's a SOOC sunset from a few days back . No iconic native bird silhouettes sadly included .
The reverse of the day at the start .
Sunset Drive
Kenmore
There is nothing like a warm sunny day to lift the spirits especially when you are feeling pretty with these nails from NKolour Splash of color 3 omega maitreya stiletto long maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cherry%20Isle/170/133/2434
Those columns remind me of soldiers - all standing straight in one row. Luckily, they are just beautiful ornaments to the pleasure of the visitors.
Those skyscrappers, the rounded and triangular one, are 49 and 42 floors respectively, and needless to say I was also shooting from floor 49. The opportunities there for compositions are truly endless.
"Remember the fallen. Honor those who serve. Teach the next generation the value of freedom."
These are the words from Wreaths Across America's (WAA) website noted as "Our Mission". And, it is clearly observed in their commitment to the soldiers buried across the country in the many "national cemetery's" with the wreaths placed against the headstones. However, this is just one of the many ways that WAA remembers, honors, and teaches the next generation about our fallen. Please check out their website for more information about the many ways they accomplish this goal...
Additionally, the location of the photograph above is the Nashville National Cemetery in Madison, Tennessee (just north of Downtown Nashville) which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). More information about this "national cemetery" can be found here:
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/96001516
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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One of those candid photos where people are not really keen to be exposed. I was taking the sequence while I had some hard looks on me. At least I got the picture I wanted and you know how I like the subway. :)
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Reflections On A Question Not Asked (JHWatkins)
I would not worship nature,
but
watch the firestorms
of evening Eden’s
colliding with collars of stars,
bordering the spreading blankets...
flowing......floating on mist.
Here deep spells
speak to rising hearts
of early years... tears...
and beginnings,
failed then
flourishing
in fading light.
Many the meetings in mirrors,
Reflection souls,
Broken and healed,
Sing out, having heard the cry
Wishing, then wondering-
Then washed by
colors of the night.
I would not worship nature
but cry quietly at
whispers of deep dreamy forests
drumming with wooden warmth
lost in caverns,
ascending in autumns,
forsaken in fragments
and
flames of the glowing day.
Come softer than nature,
with wounded revelations,
Waves of somber subtle summers,
winters, and springs-
Come straighter and stronger,
on strict lines of deft decisions
resting by quietest waters
of heart streams
that have come home
to the
fountain of the universe.
James Watkins 12-31-08
We headed down to the Tasmanian east coast last weekend - ostensibly to try out my Nikon F90X film camera. I'll show some of those shots in due course. There is one famous photographer who to this very day absolutely loathes the digital era. But then one can forgive him that prejudice, given that he turns 83 in four days time, and has made a career out of shooting film (over a million and a half photographs) and processing his work with the dye-transfer printing process.
As my title suggests I am talking about the Southern gentleman photographer from Memphis, Tennessee, William Eggleston (born 1939). I would hope Eggleston would forgive my taking this shot with a digital camera rather than my film camera. Being unable to access the processing methods used by Eggleston, I have had to make do with a digital approximation. Believe me the difference in colour is enormous. In film, processing is everything and I'm afraid our local lab is not up to the task of matching Eggleston's colour.
I hope to come back to William Eggleston at a later date, but when I saw this scene in St Mary's I knew immediately it was one of his favourite themes - the rural gas station. Eggleston's aesthetic features ordinary subject matter and the ugliness of modern life. But he does it in such a way that you feel at home looking at his pictures. One pundit has referred to him as "the greatest worst photographer in the world". www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82hTDctWDo&t=74s
William Eggleston grew up in Memphis (and I don't need to tell you how significant this city is in terms of the blues and jazz, not to mention Elvis). And there's a element of jazz-like improvisation in Eggleston's work. He is famous for being the first colour photographer to be given a one-man show at the MoMA in New York in 1976. He is also a rare bird in that he plays piano and has taught at Harvard University (not a combination you expect much from a photographer).
So this is my little tribute to a master and Southern gentleman. I highly recommend you looking at these links about his work:
"William Eggleston | TateShots" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJxRYb57_Y
"The Photography of William Eggleston" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwMIKJBxTw
"William Eggleston - the Musician" www.youtube.com/watch?v=51zDSdq1rI0
... make it look like the olive trees are dancing with their arms in the air. No? It's just me, then... :)
And, as you can see, my macro lens perfectly doubles as a walk around, I love it!
Estes troncos fazem parecer que as oliveiras estão a dançar com os braços no ar. Não? Só me parece a mim, então... :)
E dá para ver que a minha objectiva macro serve perfeitamente para uso genérico, adoro-a!
Oeiras - Portugal
''Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.''
- Roald Dahl
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Those magnificent creatures! At last i had a chance to work on them.
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Rodagon 50mm
Those are not the caterpillar's eyes, but fake eyespots on its thorax, probably intended to resemble a snake's head and deter predation. The head itself is safely tucked beneath.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
see comments for adult butterfly image...
Shape-tailed Grouse all puffed on a -30C morning. Not sure how much actual bird is under all those feathers.
First one to complain leaves with a blood stain
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