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Unless they are finding a good source of food, they don't always stay very long on one tree. They move around a lot and about the time you wait for a better shot, they move on to another tree or a spot that you can't photograph them. Today they posed nicely on just about every tree they landed on. The lighting was good, and that made things even better. It isn't often that everything comes together this way.
The snowy season is finally wrapping up (unless you live on the upside-down part of the planet). Hopefully some of you folks got out shooting this past winter and got frostbite on your hands or feet to prove how hardcore you are… that’s important in nature photography.
If you you’ve actually got some winter images to work on you can check out a tutorial I released a few days ago where I show how I process snowy scenes and muse on topics that I think are worth thinking about with these types of images. You can check it out at www.ryandyar.com if you’d like. Or don’t check it out, it’s cool, it’s not like you’re gonna make me sad and feel insecure then start crying as I over-analyze my entire life and then start doubling up on my Zoloft thinking that it will cure me and give me the confidence of *insert a name of any annoying politician here* like it’s magic. But uhh, yeah, check it out if you’re into that type of thing. ♂️❤️
Another low ISO, slow shutter speed capture - ISO 250 and 1/320th sec... handheld with the RF600/f4. I rarely use a monopod or tripod now unless shooting video with manual focus.
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Putting "Ranch" or "Western" into a business name seems popular around these parts.
For god knows what reason, they covered this sign with plywood, so unless it falls down, you won't see it anymore.
When you see what this sign looked like fully working, it makes you sad.
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Don't call me brother unless you know it's meaning, don't call me brother unless we are brothers. Just because we might have a few things in common, doesn't mean we are brothers from another mother. Brothers have simple rules to live by. We don't lie to or steal from a brother. We will never leave a brother behind. We constantly watch out for each other. If I know you have my back, rest assured I will always have yours. Call upon anytime that you might be in need. I will never mess with your old lady or family. They will be as safe as if they are my own. I will fight for you or even give up my own life. There is no greater love to be known. Those that say you can't choose family, doesn't understand the meaning of brotherhood. These are my brothers for life through the bad and the good...
Real brotherhood can't be roleplayed it's not something you just say because you think it's cool or you want to fit in. It's something you have to actually live...
9:00am, I had to get up and out of my bed today. I've been feeling already better the past few days. I was kind of weak but I was getting better. Yet I knew deep inside, that I wouldn't recover ever, unless I would finally tell Mister C the truth about what had happened that night on that ship. It was haunting me. I knew the truth would set me free and it was as important for him too, as it was for me. He spent the better part of last week, staying up all nights, trying to find out what was going on, in order to help me recover. I owe him that much at least. Truth be told, I owe him way more than just that, but I had an obligation and a promise to keep...
The thing is, Mister C doesn't believe in ghosts, so there was no other way to make him understand. I knew deep down, that he would keep an open mind or he would try at least, for me. But still, all things considered, even so, it was too much for both of us, I know that now. It all started when I got this crazy idea to go play the surveillance camera game. It was an innocent idea that turned out bad. But who would have known? I didn't. Anyway, how can I tell him that while I was running around, I stumbled upon "Her". And I was truly scared for the first time in my battery life. She looked so otherworldly and worst part is I couldn't see her eyes. I tried to focus from afar, I even opened up my aperture and set my ISO to the max, but still couldn't for there weren't any eyes. Only darkness. Her face was covered under a dark veil at all times. I run away although she hadn't done anything to me. I was terrified. I run fast and tried to lose her going up and down the decks of that ship. I even managed to get into the engines room, but apparently that was not enough... She finally caught up with me and then I fell. Alone in that damn forsaken room, almost broke. I thought everything was over and I wouldn't live to see another day. This was it. No one would ever find me there, not till it was too late anyway. Then the most unexpected thing happened.
She passed through the locked steel door like it was open, came and picked me up gently and started whispering to me! I was lost in my fear, so I didn't hear everything she said, nor could I understand it. Like it was from another reality, another age, another era. She told me little cameras shouldn't run around ships like I did, cause that could prove to be dangerous. Yeah, tell me all about it I thought to myself. Spare me the irony. I already could not move after my fall. She left me a message for her husband and her kids, to let them know she was well, despite the fall. What fall she meant, how can a ghost fall I wondered. Then she revealed to me a little secret of hers. She said "Ghosts are invisible to people, because they don't want to be seen". She must have sensed my bewilderment and continued. "Unless they feel their help is needed, like you need my help now my dear Sonia. That's why you can see me. I'm here to help and get you back to safety"
Wait, how did she know that name? Even Mr C didn't know that name yet. How could She? I was almost ready to pass out when I felt her carrying me up those stairs. We were passing through walls of steel like they weren't there. I felt like flowing in the air. I can vaguely remember Her, hanging me from my strap on a ceiling of a corridor. Then she told me one last thing, turned away and vanished into the thin air. I managed to gather whatever strength my battery had left and took a picture of her before she disappears completely. Next thing I know, is being in the hands of Mr C. I remember feeling relieved and then I passed out. When I woke up, we were back to the deck we had settled for the night and I could not remember anything yet. It must have been from the shock I guess.
But I had this crazy phrase stuck in my head all that time. It was only later that I remembered. Those were the last words of Lady ghost to me. And they still remain in my head till this very day. It was a promise. She made me promise. She had told me it was time to meet my destiny. Actually she said "Now that you are safe little Sonia, it's time for me to go. But before I go I need you to promise me something. I need you to fulfill your destiny and teach Mister C how to see without you. You were meant to be his camera, that will teach him to see without a camera". And then she left before I even get to thank her. "Teach Mr C to see without a camera". But I'm a camera! And "fulfill my destiny"? Whatever that meant. I think Mr C will know better and maybe he can help me understand what was this all about.
Yes, today is the perfect day to tell him the truth and show him the photo of that Lady ghost, who saved me that night...
-Hey Sonia, are you awake dear?
Ohhh that's Mr C, calling me. I need to be strong and not hide the truth from him this time. I can't avoid it anymore. He deserves better and I want what's best for him after all.
-Yes, I'm feeling better now. Need anything MrC?
Be strong Sonia, be yourself. Keep it together and have no fear, no hesitation. You need to tell him. He needs to know. He needs to see.
-Can you come up here dear? I need to ask you something...
Where's my hidden photo with that Lady ghost. Ok got it. This hopefully will make him see and understand. He needs to understand, I need to understand, we both need to understand. Time's up. I have to go upstairs. Mrs Lady ghost, this is me, Sonia, keeping my promise to you. I'm a camera of my word.
-Coming right up Mr C...
~The End~
The good season is all to quickly coming to an end, unless by some happy miracle we get a nice dump of snow and the temps take another dive. It's hard to believe winter can go by so quickly.
We ran today and while the temps were well below freezing the sun was high and hot at mid-day and the dogs didn't much like running in it. Pickle's breathing was a bit labored even though I let him run free for most of the time. I worried a bit about him and cut his run short. The rest of us went out again but nobody seemed very motivated, so we bagged it.
It's a reminder to me that the long runs are over for Pickle, a bit hard for me to accept, but it's amazing he is so healthy just two months shy of his 14th birthday. He was really happy today and tonight. He'll still run I'm sure, but not when it's too warm, and not when it's too cold and not for the long miles. This shot was made just over 8 miles into the run, and near the end of it for Pickle.
Turkey
During a rain storm..every time the thunder would sound off the turkey would extend it's neck and gobble (Cute)
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Well, it is has taken me way to long this morning to figure this new Flickr out. I am not sure at this point if I have missed anyone and if I did, I am sorry. I sure hope they change it back!
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“We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.”
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Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile)
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LAKE MEAD
From the overlook at Sunset View. You won't see this view unless you pay to go through the park. This is the first time I've been back here. ;) I'm coming back again on my first day off to do a sunrise here. Now that I know it exists. =)
I don't shoot GO trains that often unless its the summer weekend GO trains to Niagara Falls. But I had a Friday off earlier this summer and I spent the early morning hours on the pedestrian bridge east of Bayview. It's a good thing GO was running trains, this is the only train I shot that morning!
Sunset in Plutonia
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
I was starting to relax and enjoy the moment in front of a magnificent sunset view on the planet Plutonia. I remember feeling very lucky when I took this photo. Actually, I was lucky. I was the first person to be chosen for interplanetary travel on planet Earth. And this made me feel lucky and privileged. I saw the depths of space that no human had ever seen before. I have set foot on planets suitable for life, where no human has ever set foot before. I witnessed unique landscapes of space that no human had ever seen. I became the first human and even the first earth creature to be able to get this far from the earth. I say Earth creature, because a cat sent into space before me was the first creature to travel to the furthest point from Earth and return. I went hundreds of times further than that cat went in space. And that made me unique. The cat that was sent into space was able to return to earth. The space cat must still be living on earth. Definitely a lucky cat. To be selected for a space mission among thousands of cats and to be able to successfully complete this mission and return to planet earth. I didn't know whether it was a luckier situation to be selected for a space mission or to be able to return to Earth. I guess it's not a very lucky situation unless you can go back to the world.
I still have an infinite distance to go. I'm tired and weary. My excitement is more than less than my initial excitement. My thoughts are quite different from when I first embarked on this space journey. At first, my thoughts were busy with the exploration of new planets that I was going to do, while my current thoughts are purely about myself. I keep asking myself. I keep arguing with myself about the thought of returning to Earth. I still don't know what to decide.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn; then always be a unicorn!
Photos take at Imaginaria - Paradise of Eden (SLurl to follow)
Unless you have seen the full sculpture on Aldeburgh beach then you probably have no idea what you are looking at. The morning sun was shining nicely on the sculpture so I thought I would make a feature of the shininess!
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The 100 Bicycles project: 100 different bicycles photographed in detail. This is bicycle number #40To learn more about this project see 100 bicycles group
Unless the dogs are extremely well trained, I seldom create a group portrait from a group photo. It's simply too difficult getting all the dogs to sit nicely together and say 'Cheese'. Instead I take several individual shots with the dogs in a variety of poses but ensuring the light is always coming from the same direction so that I can put them together as a group afterwards. The hard part is making the group look credible, like they are actually sitting together, and not just a random set of shots pasted into one image.
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valley of fire state park, nevada
Explore #195, February 17, 2012
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So today is not officially my wedding anniversary unless in your part of the world it is August 15th then it is.
That being said...today GP had his appointment at the dr. to check his blood pressure so I decided to meet up with him at the main branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library saving me having to go back to get him. While there, I grabbed a couple of magazines and a couple of books on photoshop. I still had time to kill so figured I would go take a load off and grab a cold drink at the little cafe they have there. While sitting there, I happen to notice this older gentleman at the counter being helped by one of the staff.
"Please, can you watch my drink and books" I say to the lady operating the cash..."I think I know that gentleman and I would love to go say hi because I have not seen him for twenty years [tomorrow]".
I go up and see that he has finished being helped to find his book and reach down and say "John, is that you?". Wondering of course if it was my very good family friend Judge John Mattheson. The same John Ross Matheson, OC , CD , QC , LL.M. , LL.D. (born November 14, 1917) who is a retired Officer of the Canadian Armed Forces, a veteran, an Honourary Colonel in numerous regiments (that's where I knew him from), a Canadian lawyer, a judge, and politician who helped develop both the maple leaf flag and the Order of Canada as well as how my kids know him as "the nice man who officiated at mum and dad's wedding" Twenty years ago on August 15th in Perth Ontario when he was still at sitting judge in the Court.
I remember calling his secretary at the Court House..."I would like to have Judge Matheson marry my fiance and me if possible"...Secretary.."no, he doesn't marry people"..."oh..well I am a good friend so perhaps I could talk to him so he could recommend someone"...next thing a few week later, I am standing in front of my good friend in his Chambers at the Perth Court House telling him "now no need to use my middle name John...just do you Sharon will be fine" and when it came time to say "Do you Sharon (he enunciated GLADYS....knowing that (a) I didnt' like my middle name but more importantly because (b) it was my mum's so he said it for her)....take Michael Robert..."....
I could not believe it! it was like something from the twilight zone running into him exactly twenty years later!
We talked about alot of things...about General McNaughton and the fact that I have photos of the funeral in Ottawa ...my mum had them as my dad's best friend was a pall bearer....about General Leslie...about his [John's] family and grandkids, about his wife of 63 years Edith...about the war... I always loved hearing his stories from World War II at mess dinners that we attended and, I got to hear a few while we had our visit in the library. I asked him about his famous skydive that he took a few years back at CFB Trenton...he said he wanted to go up again but alas DND would not allow him to go up..."liabilities and all"..we laughed...I told him about Lucy (a gal who also knew John from the Regiment) that she was teaching skydiving and flying but I had lost touch with her years ago as well. He said he wished he could buy us [GP and I] a gift for our anniversary and I told him that the best gift I could have would be if he would wait and his photo taken with me so I could show GP. "Always carry a camera" ... good advice from my daughter jaunty_spider.
So, I run to the car, grab the camera from my back pack and run back across the street to see if one of the librarians would do me the favour of taking a photo of John and I. We talked some more of the book he had in his hand that he was hoping to read.
We were just getting ready for a photo when who comes in but GP!! GP was as blown away as I was to run into him of all days! John was concerned if his hair looked okay...me I was concerned that I have gained a gagillion pounds in twenty years but what the heck I think the three of us look none too shabby for a chance meeting in the library.
I could not have asked for a better gift!! A Photo of John Matheson, GP and I twenty years later! Of course, now I have to "root through the boxes" of photos to find the ones of us then with John because we want to put one up on the wall of "then and "now"...but for now I will be happy with this one of "then and now".
And for GP and the rest of you... Two Awesome Voices - the late Pavarotti and the late Barry White !
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all know that I appreciate your comments, awards and invites however, they are not necessary....just sharing this with you is enough.
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As a general rule, I don't shoot color unless the sun is shining on the subject. Sometimes I'll break this rule, but it depends upon the emulsion.
Expired Vericolor (of any variety, but usually III or HC) can be counted upon for good color even when it's not sunny *if* it's developed in ECN-2 chemicals.
It also helps to have some kind of red somewhere in the shot. In this, the cabin provided the red, as did the mountains beyond and the yellow grasses. Quiet a lot of red here that your eye wouldn't really notice unless you're looking for it specifically.
Of course, expired film varies from roll to roll, pack to pack depending upon how it was stored. All the light and all the chems in the world can't fix bad emulsion.
But this stuff isn't getting any younger. Shoot it while you can because in a few years, it will all be gone (or in my fridge).
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'The Jump'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Vericolor HC; x-04/1992; 25iso
Process: DIY ECN-2
Idaho
Julyl 2023
Bald Eagle
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If you are someone inclined to look at exif data you would notice that after 6 years there is a camera change here. I am not one who needs to keep up with the "latest and greatest". My little D610 has served me well and given me many images that I love. However, my eyesight which has been poor since childhood has taken a nosedive over the last couple of years due to retina complications. I found it harder and harder to focus my manual lenses...especially my favorite old 135mm. Even on auto focus I couldn't really see whether my images were acceptable unless I was tethered to my computer and that was rare since I only do a little studio shooting.
For many months I deliberated over whether I could justify the expense...and which Nikon to go for. The D850 images had crazy awesome megapixel stats...but it is heavy and pricey. Then Nikon ran a sale on the D780 and I bit. I am so glad I made the leap...I can see so clearly through the viewfinder, and the live view option as well as the tilting screen have made the chore of shooting into a delight again.
So just as these fresh new ferns signal a new beginning with summer, so my camera switch is providing a fresh approach in my photographic journey.
OH and PS...if anyone with decent eyesight is looking for a perfectly good used D610 cheap, just let me know.
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(Unless there is the iPhone icon, all photos were taken with a Nikon or more recently, with a Sony Mirrorless. I ioften import the images to a 12.9 inch iPad for editing.)
The stone house is most fascinating because it has stones only on three sides. Back side is wood shingles. Wonder why they would do this unless they ran out of stones. Sure would like the story here on this.
In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds.
Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time.
Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954.
The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question.
When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth…and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.