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On ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark, we are treated with a spectacularly colored vision. Created by Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, a rainbow colored ring sits on top of the museum's roof, revealing a beautifully colored panorama of the city.
I like marbles. I like macro photography. And thus . . .
UPDATE: This was Photo of the Day (PotD) on Bostonist.com (r.i.p, which was a Boston-focused blog in the Gothamist universe before it folded in 2011). And it was featured on the Flickr blog in 2014 for the Flickr 10th Anniversary post (quite an honor !)
Long exposure of Portland Bill Lighthouse at the tip of the Isle of Portland on the Dorset coast. I wanted to capture the 4 separate beams that rotate every 20 seconds which helps to identify the lighthouse to mariners. So I had to trade that off against a longer exposure which would have given more detail in the night sky....
Panorama of Walsh Bay at sunset. Taken from the Dawes Point piers in Sydney, Australia. Composite of 24 images.
I have not formally studied Architecture and have not successfully identified this type with internet searches. Will someone share their knowledge about this style?
I thought it was beautiful and had to walk in the middle of the intersection for a few minutes to get the angle I wanted. I did my best to not impede the traffic flow in downtown Kansas City too much. Luckily it was a quiet weekday afternoon and I was successful in getting the shot I wanted.
A cold and rainy April morning in Maine but perfect for small little slices of life in picturesque Perkins Cove
The pumping engine house of Hind's Shaft, Wheal Uny, at Trewirgie Downs on the edge of Redruth, Cornwall. This engine house was built around 1870 and was in use until the mine closed in 1893. It is grade II listed.
This photo has been taken on beautiful but a bit cold morning at end of August. At the beginning the mist was so dense that the barn was almost invisible. Gradually the sun cleared partly the air and created a mystical atmosphere.
Dog Night - 4 (of 17) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Michael 1.6 35mm Movie Prime (C-Mount) with Cine to MFT Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
on Jackson Ave & S 4th St-developed in 2017 to house small businesses. The Containery was foreclosed in the beginning of June 2021. There is still no word on what the bank might do with this property or if there are any potential buyers
After backtracking to the highway from Arcadia, the race was on to Glasgow - and we were too slow, just barely a minute more and we'd have gotten it. Fortunately, there were more signals to get to, and by virtue of skipping Glasgow, we instead blasted north to Buena Vista, and boy am I glad we did.
Buena Vista is home to most of the signal maintenance for the line, from what I understand anyway, and as a result we find many, many PTC supports sitting beside the vintage N&W CPL. These and the concrete posts behind them won't necessarily replace the CPLs themselves, but they will likely go in alongside the replacements for the old signals. A scene like this certainly won't look quite as nice without the N&W signals on either side of the tracks whenever they do come down, that's for sure.
Inspired by a challenge to incorporate the B&W techniques of world famous photographer Ansel Adams into my color photography.
HOW I DID THIS
To do so, this photo contains every B&W shade from pitch black to pitch white (look carefully). Likewise with the limited number of colors present following a similar gradient along their respective color scales.
COLOR PERSPECTIVE IN ANSEL ADAMS' TECHNIQUE
The Ansel Adams technique does not require employing every color in the rainbow because, after all, he worked in two monotones with unlimited shading and rich tones. His work inspires me to do this in color photography with one or more colors - or all if one can capture it.
THE RULE OF THIRDS
The Rule of Thirds is followed, beginning in the lower right and progressing along a diagonal to the upper left third. In those sectors the pitch black / pitch yellow BEGIN and traverse a gradient of scale to pitch white / beige-brown as an extreme of yellow hue, saturation, and gradient. Although the traditional Rule only requires focused subject in one 1/3 sector, it may serve to balance busy subjects by using two 1/3 sectors.
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2022 kickoff! Just spent a week in Sydney, exploring the city and it's awesome coastline, including the beautiful ocean pools like this one at Bronte Beach.
I have a tendency to go slightly overboard with some things. Write too much, play music too loudly, and more importantly, chase for too long. I had been planning to only shoot A408 down until Effingham, but when my friend suggested traveling further south, it was hard to say no - especially given how starved for photo opportunities I've been lately (thanks work & weather alike).
So, the farthest south on the IC I've ever gone, I found myself at the Alma grain elevator and bringing my camera down to the railhead while class leader IC1000, plus its younger partner IC1026, come barreling down the main at 47mph with just 156 axles on their train total. Funny how despite where I go, some things just don't change... like how I always stay too long during and after chasing something down. You know, the usual.
I think it was worth it, though.
In appreciation of the World Photo Day a historicizing shot that symbolizes for me how every innovation sooner or later becomes history: Two engines of the most successful aircraft of all time at their final resting place in the far west of Iceland.
One of the most versatile musical instruments, that easily puts a smile on the face or tear in the eye. Whether its a fiddle or a violin its all up to the hands of the master that holds it.
7DOS Music Texture Tuesday
This is the pepper bacon purchased from Durand Smokehouse out of Durand Wisconsin. This turned out to be a very delicious bacon, but I had a lot of people comment that they can see different things in the bacon
I've had people tell me that it looks like ducks, ponies, seahorses and even Viking ships
Not in this window reflection but while walking down the stairs to the beach. Many times I’ve watched the horizon as the sun drops away, always hoping to see it but only imagining it. This was for sure! I wonder if video would catch it?
Exhausted by the heat, my dearest Charlotte enjoys a bit of fresh air inside a lovely courtyard in Porto (Portugal).
#85 in Explore on Nov.12, 2021.
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One thing my friends and I agreed on was that we simply had to take night exposures of the signals on the Roanoke District. Such imposing sights as these CPLs are, it was a must-do. The difficulty, of course, was finding one suitable for it, and getting lucky with traffic.
As night fell, we ventured north to see a few we had skipped in the day and went between two: Lithia and Ellis Run. Lithia was pretty neat, but there being houses all around plus some not too happy dogs made us try the north end of the siding, Ellis Run, which treated us much better.
We got lucky, too - NS 12Z was taking off north out of Roanoke once we started taking some photos of the massive N&W signal. It became a waiting game.
Of course, there was little light left by the time we arrived at Ellis Run, so setting up the shot was going to become a bit of a task, not to mention just getting photos of the signal itself. Then I remembered I keep an absurdly bright flashlight in my camera bag, so some careful placement of that on the side of the road - where it dips down for drainage - gave us perfect illumination on the signal heads, and the opportunity to focus and prep our shots for the train.
Wouldn't it be cool if having green, yellow, and red, was all one frame? Truth is, it's multiple - this shot takes a few frames from the night and has them stacked together. NS 12Z came barreling past eventually, dropping the signal from green to red, and with a shot from a few minutes prior giving us yellow, all three colours were now in our hands. This was very much the shot I was looking forward to the most on our first day, and now I could say it was done!
If it hadn't been nearly midnight already, I would've opted to set up to try star trails, but all of us were plenty exhausted and we had an early day the next morning, so we called it and returned to Roanoke for the night.