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Week 17 Urbainscape / Cityscape
For this week's challenge I went down to Bristol Docks armed with a tripod and an ND filter with a particular photo in mind. I got the picture I wanted, but decided to wander down the dockside for a bit before going home. Then I saw this, and felt that it suited this week's theme even better.
Let me introduce you to the Hotwells in of Bristol: The area takes its name from the hot wells (who'd have guessed) in the area, which have been likened to those of the much more famous baths in nearby Bath. In fact during the Georgian era, Bristol had its very own hot spa in an attempt to rival Bath, although they never quite made the cut, despite holding laughing gas parties in the Pneumatic Institution.
Technical info:
CameraCanon EOS 5D IV
Lens Canon 100-400mm II @ 200mm
ModeShutter Speed Priority
Shutter Speed1/320
Aperturef/10
ISO100
WBCloudy
Minimal post processing in Photoshop CS5
Back in Week 24 I posted a shot of the Member’s Banking at the Brooklands Museum, all that remained of the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit. This week, at the Kop Hill Climb Festival just outside Princes Risborough, I had the opportunity to photograph a car that is synonymous with that old racetrack; this car, the 1933 Napier-Railton with it’s 24-litre W12 580bhp engine that was designed to power aircraft in the 1920s, holds the all-time lap record for Brooklands. It was spectacular to see it running the hill climb, a snapshot of the prestigious history of British motorsports.
One of the only pics I took during Week 17...a locker room selfie after doing the bike and run legs of the Brookings I'm Ready for Summer Triathlon
It's a week late, I know blah blah blah
Week 5 was busy. It was the 2nd to last week before I leave. I was thinking that whole week about my future and how it's not so scary anymore.
I found this in Warren County while driving around. There is a sign on the peak which reads Weeks School, June 30, 1888. In recent years, most of the outer siding has been scavenged. I spoke with the Warren County Historical Society and they told me this school replaced a log one about 1/4 mile to the southwest. The land was donated by George Weeks and the school was built in 1888. It was used as a school until 1952. In 1972 it was given new life briefly as a community center.
One of my resolutions for this year is to take more photos, improve and find my style. To achieve this I'm going to use the same lens for a while to learn how to work with it more efficiently.
In other words I'm starting a 52 weeks projects! First I wanted to do a 365 days project but that seemed a bit too much to start with, maybe next year.
So here's my first photo. This week was quite boring. Exams are around the corner and there's still much stuff I have to learn. Basically I just sat inside studying and ate way too much. No worries, I went jogging too :p !
Seeing as this was the final week of my 52-week photo challenge, I felt a lot of pressure to go above and beyond and take an incredible picture.
I first attempted a pretty challenging concept. But to my dismay, I wasn't successful. I then tried another... but that didn't work out either. HAHA frown emoticon I was pretty bummed.
But you know what? I'm okay with it. Over this past year, I've tried quite a few cool, quirky concepts and I think I've gotten some neat shots out of it. And while I think I've learned a lot, my two setbacks from this week only show how much more I can still grow as a photographer. While I won't be partaking in another 52-week challenge this year (this was tiring to be honest haha), I'm proud to say I've accomplished this goal. I look forward to seeing what shots I take moving forward.
Thanks for following me on this journey!
P.S. Here's my piano.
Well I've decided to do a fifty two weeks project for 2011. This is going to be a huge year for me and I want to make sure that I preserve it well. At this point I intend for it to be all self portraits, but that may change. I don't (yet) have a remote, which makes taking self portraits exceedingly difficult, but I do want to challenge myself. I feel that this project will give me something to strive to accomplish, while also giving me room for creativity. Here's to 2011!
{Oh and I actually don't really particularly like this photo either, but it was the best one I got. If I take a better one later in the week I may replace it. I need a remote. Badly.}
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Olive and her daddy are pretty cute together. She lights up when she sees him. He makes her laugh easily. She peers around my shoulder to catch a glimpse of him passing through the room. I can tell they're going to be good friends.
Finn is no longer a licking, furry stranger to Olive. Though he is no more friendlier to her, she LOVES Finn and laughs at the mere sight of him. I'm pretty sure that Finn still hopes that we will drop Olive off at a farm but I think she'll win him over eventually.
The moment that we never thought would happen has come: we can put Olive down in her crib awake and she'll roll around and play until she falls asleep. It's such a nice treat that she's decided that she'll grant us this small miracle.
My sweet dog, Diesel
Waiting for a tasty treat
Only time he sits.
I am going to try and create a haiku to go with my photo each week. :-)
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My submission for Week 4 of the Dogwood 52 Week Photography Challenge. Portrait: Headshot.
Nikon D3200 with Nikon 35mm f/1.8 1/400 ISO400.
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had a lovely week off work this week :o) spent a lot of time relaxing and not doing much ;o)
we took slaine for lots of long walks, went for yummy pub lunchs, got rained on while trying to eat our chips in the park, luckily the weather took up and we've had a few beautiful days :o)
thursday me and sarah went to ilkley, we did soooo much walking!! she also fell while i stood laughing and taking photos hehe :o)
well, last relaxing day before going back to work, urgh!!!
Human Rights Week at the University of Essex, organised by our Human Rights Society, The week starts on 1 December with the students’ annual ‘chalking of the steps’ event where they write the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in numerous languages, on the concrete steps of the University’s Colchester Campus. More information here: www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=7125
The Black Heart
Week 15 of my 50 Weeks Project.
Strobist: Main strobe on the right, slightly above camera with snoot pointing at my hand (at 1/16th power). Two additional strobes at sides pointing at me, slightly from behind (1/4th power).
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It's a week of Christmas and preparing to New Year's Eve's trip :)
and virgin trip to Ikea :)
a while of freedom ;)
I thought I'd actually attempt to make an image this week, rather than getting to Sunday and thinking, 'oh sh!t'. I got hold of Photomatrix 3 a few weeks back, but hadn't really got my head around it, nor properly attempted to use it if I'm to be fair. Having seen so many truly, truly awful HDR images I knew that I didn't want to push the boundaries of reality, but rather try to recreate something that the eye can see, yet the sensor cannot.
So, this is the end result. Clearly the depth of field is unrealistic, for the eye to exposure every section properly we'll naturally throw out the focus of other portions of the image, but I wanted to maintain a constant focus. All of this is the result of 8 bracketed images, which served as a learning curve both as to the power of the software, and also the importance of putting in a wide range of potential variations in dynamic range.
The view is something that is my weekend, as I sit at the dining room table looking out into the world, on the rare occasion my head is not stuck in text books or typing up notes. All of this changes in five weeks time, which will be most bizarre to begin with. The fear is pretty much gone; although I generally fear change this is something that not only needs to be done, but something that I want to do. The latter portion of the statement being the higher ranking one, I hasten to add (honest dear Cat, if you're reading this!).
It has been a stressful week at work, and I can safely conclude that I made a good number of mistakes, that I'm attributing partially due to poor organisation. On management's part, not my own. The mistakes I made, the underlying cause being stretched too thin. All of which continues to serve as a purposeful reminder of the reason that I am, indeed, spending my weekends with the above as a view.
During the week Cat and I went to see The Adjustment Bureau, which gets a rather positive thumbs up from the both of us. Although the theological leanings were not at all clear from the trailers, they were very tongue in cheek, and non-dedicated in their nature. Contrary to Team America, Matt Damon was not mentally challenged; I'm sure one day I'll see a film when he lives up to that.
However, I cannot wait until next weekend when we get to have a short break away. It'll be good to have a proper break from the real world, get blown around at a North Sea beach resort, and to spend a few days in an environment similar in scale to which we'll be living.
Which, naturally, means I'll have some holiday snaps next week.