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Whether you celebrate today's Winter Solstice, Christmas, New Year or all three, this one is for you....cheers! Thanks you for your photos, your faves and your always interesting comments during 2021.
Best wishes, Bryan.
Sometimes the public, whether it'd be the public at large or just your friends and family, will try to lend you new eyes in some attempt to enhance your art. That's not a bad thing! But you know what's constructive criticism and what isn't. It's our thriving thoughts and our own little world that we create that make us who we are, and no one should try to change that. It's the most important thing to stay true to yourself and your thoughts because they're the most delicate, unstable part about our daily lives that are just so easily manipulated with every new struggle we come across. It's too easy to try to cut our roots, it's cowardly. I've learned that people will always try to get involved in what you're doing if they see it's going well for you. The public may not always understand what story you're trying to tell, but you eventually find the public that does.
inspired by Silverstein's illustration.
(before/after on my facebook page!)
Whether a Purple or a Rock Sandpiper....
this 'rockpiper' will be a lifer for me.
UPDATE::
So the Verdict as such at this point is that it is a Purple Sandpiper!!!
Purple Sandpiper PUSA (Calidris maritima)
photo doc.
"Purplish"
Kitty Islet
Victoria BC
Initially on Islet
shown here
with SURF & DUNL
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Whether shooting from the Cruise Ship or on one of the Tours offered there was plenty of sights to see!
"Whether it's a crossword, jigsaw, trivia, word searches, brain teasers or Sudoku, puzzles put our minds to work. Studies have found that when we work on a jigsaw puzzle, we use both sides of the brain. And spending time daily working on puzzles improves memory, cognitive function, and problem-solving skills." From the National Holiday Calendar website.
I finally got out for a drive SW of the city yesterday, 21 March 2025, just driving up and down familiar roads. I hadn't been SW for quite a long time. The day started off nice and sunny with some cloud and then turned overcast and very windy with light snow falling (snow squall?). When I reached the most distant area, it was almost a white-out for a while.
Passed the usual old barns, saw several Common Ravens feeding on a carcass that, judging by the fur, belonged to a coyote, and was happy to see three Bald Eagles. Hadn't seen one of these majestic birds for a while. I almost missed three very distant Trumpeter Swans, that looked rather like a few remaining spots of snow in the field. Also saw a huge bird of prey flying far away. Judging by the wing shape, I am thinking that it was most likely a Turkey Vulture. Two years ago, (on 22 or 23 March of that year), I had been so thrilled to see one perched on a power pole in roughly the same area. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a quick shot before yesterday's bird flew over a rolling hill and disappeared.
Hopefully, I will get a few photos from yesterday edited and posted.
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book,
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
fernando pessoa english poems
I often wonder whether wet lion smells as bad as wet dog but I wasn't going to climb out to find out as this lion did not look very happy.
On Monday 16th January we drove from Satara up to the Makuleke concession and the rain hammered down all the way making both driving and visibility a challenge.
Also a challenge is sticking a very long and expensive lens out of the window to take photos whilst remaining mindful of the R12,000 excess on the hire should I damage it or allow water ingress!
He eventually walked towards us (whilst I scrambled around looking for my other camera with a wider angle lens) and then crossed the road behind the car to join his equally wet and bedraggled companion on the other side.
Mopani Camp area
Kruger National Park
Limpopo
South Africa
Contemplated for a while whether or not I should upload this to flickr, and since I haven't shown you guys anything new recently, I figured, "Why not?"
This was shot on my twentieth birthday on a particularly warm day on the beautiful Oregon coast, arguably the best way to spend a birthday.
In regards to my current life, the latest issue of BokehOnline came out recently, and my first interview with Sarah Ann Loreth is featured in it. In school, I'm working on the yearbook, frantically trying to get photos, articles, and interviews done in time. I recently got an internship with a wedding photographer, and I am shooting a wedding this summer! Life is busy and weird right now, but it is very good.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Model is Amy.
Whether it's the end of summer travels and its freedom or the return to an uncertain dystopian world… the feeling is nostalgic.
Lichen on a weeping cherry twig.
I was wondering whether I’d manage the Smile on Saturday group’s them One Single Drop this week. It was a busy time and a successful outcome was looking less and less likely…
The first attempt was Friday morning about half an hour after a downpour. Out I went. All the drops had dripped :(
Then the sun shone ...
And suddenly a bit later it started to rain again. Yey!!!
Abandoning work I dashed outside in the deluging wet and started clicking away for attempt number two…
I discovered three things from this exercise. First was that drops tend to drip just after you have got them lined up and focused but before you click the shutter.
Second was that it was a very good way for you, and your camera, and your lens to get really quite dreadfully thoroughly awfully wet. Very quickly.
Third was that I wasn’t really very good a droplet photography, well not handheld in the dying light of a wet afternoon sense of the genre.
Yesterday I went out in optimism; 53 shots later I retreated from the garden, unbowed but hopeful. Then this afternoon reviewed them on the big screen and disappointment bloomed. Of all the shots only a couple were worth working on. This was the best of the whole lot.
I found out the hard way that it’s tricky getting the background right and get the world in the drop to be something meaningful and in focus.
I also discovered that drops hang downwards! You’d think and a very ex-physicist would have known that intuitively lol. So my clever rotating of the camera so that the twig was strongly composed along a diagonal produced some very odd looking pictures :)
But I did think that the lichen looked a bit like rain hats...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image from the warm dry comfort of your favourite chair :) Happy Smile on Saturday!!!
[Handheld in dull light; continuous autofocus, VR on with in-camera stabilisation.
Developed in Capture One mainly for colour correction.
Used a long slanting oval mask centred on the twig to de-emphasise and darken the surround.
Cropped so drop was on the thirds. Flipped horizontally as it gave a better visual flow through the image.
Warmed the colour temperature a bit.
Sharpened in Affinity Photo.
Sharpened with mix of Unsharp Mask, and High Pass/ Linear blend techniques.
Used steeper curves on the AB channels in LAB mode at reduced opacity (30%) to give a slight colour enhancement.
Hues shifted very slightly with an HSL layer to improve colour balance slightly.
Mild soft dark vignette and we’re done. Quite a lot of work to retrieve a reasonable look. Hope you enjoy it anyway :)]
Whether you are gifted with the talent give it a go when young ...
Centralmarket.com.my: "Central Market Kuala Lumpur’s emphasis on art is also evident with the transformation of Central Market Annexe to house a variety of eclectic art galleries.
Located behind the main building, Central Market Annexe features an Illusion 3D Art Museum, Art House Gallery, and the Central Market Art Lane, an art corner comprising of 10 unique studios that features exciting works of art by local artists.
From contemporary art to caricature, architectural art, portraits of country premiers as well as a DIY batik workshop, the Art Lane retains a special charm offering art lovers an exciting and friendly place for both browsing and buying."
Whether you refer to it as the bearcat or the binturong, this elusive, shaggy-coated mammal native to Southeast Asia is renowned for its distinctive scent. Numerous individuals who have encountered this creature have been struck by the same observation: its odor reminiscent of a movie theatre snack bar.
Many liken its aroma to that of hot buttered popcorn, and there's a compelling reason behind it - the primary fragrance found in freshly made popcorn is the same chemical compound prominent in the urine of the binturong.
There’s long been a philosophical question of whether art is more likely to imitate life (mimesis) or life is more likely to imitate art (anti-mimesis).
Oscar Wilde a champion of anti-mimesis, opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy.
The title of this portrait arose from the evolution of the piece itself. I've been coming to cat-sit in London since 2015 and this is my third stay. I noticed this graffiti in Crouch End the very first time I came, but somehow all the best intention of pulling together a portrait dissolved during the trip and once again it was left an unrealised idea.
This year I promised myself I would attempt it, even if it didn't work, I would at least try. It took 30 mins of trying to find something I liked. This composition is something I have done before several times during this project.
Originally I wasn't wearing my yellow coat, but after 30 mins of shooting it was getting cold and starting to rain so I didn't care. It was then I realised that I was actually dressed to match the graffiti which has happened before in the past :) Sometimes Art can imitate life :)
Whether wind changes.
Whether ocean dries.
I still love you...
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Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not
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The bar in the 1893 building at 1658 W. Barry Ave. had its license revoked at the end of 2019. It's unclear whether it will reopen.
It is often a matter of minutes whether you get the picture or not. After all, it has proven many times that the moment is not waiting for you. This morning the weather had been a bit gloomy so I did not expect anything, I was just going to be calm and do less than nothing if that was possible.
Suddenly I saw where the morning sun crept from under the thick cloud and gave off a beautiful red-yellow light. I looked out the window towards Krikjubæjarklaustur and saw that there was a sun stripe over the town.
The drone was quickly assembled, put in the air and boom. After a few shots, the sun disappeared again and was not seen again that day.
Kirkjubæjarklaustur or Klaustur is a rural village in . . . all info at: www.patreon.com/RafnSig
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'Antique Furniture 101'
To distinguish whether a chair with turned legs is an antique simply position a caliper over one of the turnings and close until each end touches the wood. Remove the caliper in the same open position it is in and then place it 90 degrees on the same turning.
Did your notice that there was a gap?
Wood looses its moisture and shrinks. It takes a good 100 years for for a caliper to show a gap if used in the manner presented here.
*For this photo composition I used:
My circa 1820 Country American Tiger Maple Side Chair.
For a background a rosewood sewing box from about the same period.
The brass caliper is also antique.
I love the hardness and clatter of wood this age! All the years come a talking...
"Darlings, it's all a circle from the ring of wire that keeps the raccoons from the corn to the gouged pine table that we lounge around, distressed before any of you was born."
~ Family Reunion
Maxine Kumin
Our Daily Challenge
WOOD
Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Omar Khayyam
“Whether talking or remaining silent,
Whether moving or standing quiet,
The Essence itself is ever at ease".
~ Kōbō-Daishi
Original image of hovering gull taken at the pier at Hermosa Beach, California. Photo-painted on my iPad using Artist’s Touch. Fine-tuned with Corel Painter X.
Whether it's a Chicago Streets & San. Crew-
or these Municipal Workers on a Street Upgrade project
in Porto's Balhao neighborhood- there's always
many more "Supervisors", than
guys actually doin' The Job.
The dude in the truck, was out of camera range.
Whether you need to get new energocrystals for work or take your girl to holiday - this is you daily spaceship.
Although the Ladybug is a compact design, it is equipped with powerful sensor array, ordinary and FTL engines, cargo ramp and utility vehicle. In the interior you find facilities for long travels.
I always wanted a "personal" spaceship with proper equipment and a sleek shape, that would take care of its crew on long missions. I had thad brick-built M_Tron logo on my table for some time and finally, this is where it ended. The U.F.O. panels pretty much dictate the shape and also Ebon Hawk (SW:KotOR) was on my mind when I was drawing the sketches.
Whether it's helping wrap gifts, listening to carols or even keeping an eye on the outdoor decorations Sole loves it all.
Tessa? Well, for her this is SLEEPING season.
I'm not sure whether or not this one will do well on social media, but I like it and enjoyed the walk I was on when I took it, so I'm posting it!
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I debated whether or not to give this a smidge of a crop, and then decided to leave as is. Just to show how relatively close this gannet flew by me. Of course, I was wishing that I had my 100-400mm lens with me, but that's a heavy lens to haul to New Zealand if you aren't expecting to photograph wildlife.
We took the bus tour out to the end of Farewell Spit. It was well worth doing, as there is no other way of getting out there. On certain days, you can pay a little more when the tour includes the gannet colony. In the end, I'm not sure it was necessary, when these birds flew right by you to cross the spit to the ocean.
Wanted to post something that celebrates mothers, whether our own or that of the animal world. Bears of all species have the most amazing mothers. There's something so special with the patience that they exhibit with their young and the life lessons they share with them, which is so important to the young cubs if they want to have their best chance at survival. The moms will keep a careful eye on them for 2-3 years and will defend them against harm, especially against boars in the area. However, when the time is appropriate, they kick their young out, so that they may continue on their course of life independently. These sows are not only great educators, but they are quite nurturing and playful as well.
My favorite place to observe and photograph brown bears is Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska, There the bears roam freely over a vast landscape filled with lakes, rivers, glaciers, mountains, waterfalls, and other stunning features. In Katmai, the bears see humans as a thing of curiosity and most humans there, whether fishing or observing, mostly treat them with the upmost respect. It's a wonderful example of how bears and humans can co-exist peacefully.
This gorgeous blonde brown bear sow takes her young cubs on a walk along the rivers edge in search for salmon that are on their own journey as well. You can see how closely she keeps them by her side and how they obediently follow. That's not to say that they can't go astray momentarily and run off together to play or investigate something they haven't seen before or is of particular interest to them. :-)
Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there ... no matter the species. I was fortunate to have my daughter and son-in-law visit us this weekend and we celebrated, with my own mother, last night. I'm blessed indeed. <3
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Whether it is the humble egg-timer or the position of the sun on sacred sites, mankind has always tried to define time and regardless, time marches on...
For Macro Mondays theme 'Time'.
Whether you are a fan of Windpower or not there is no doubt that more and more they disrupt the beauty of some of our best landscapes in PA.
Somerset County is currently home to the most active wind farms (8) and the most wind turbines (198) in the State.
Keystone Viaduct
910 feet long, Pennsylvania through truss bridge/deck-plated girder viaduct. Outfitted with I-beam supports.
Original Construction: completed in 1911
Rebuilt for GAP Use: September of 2003, raised 18” for CSX National Gateway Project in 2009.
Scotland
Whether you ride a bike or scooter this pass should be on your bucket list, my tip would be to do it south to north first and if you have time, ride the road to the end, then do the route in reverse and see all the views you haven't seen.
Second tip, For those with a small tank or fuel range carry spare and plan your fuel stops.
No excuses there probably more Europeans do this route then people from the UK.
Whether it is big format or mobile phone he brings good results admirable by one and all. It may be any branches of photo art like street photography, snap shots, social life, heritage culture, architectural beauty, portraits, landscape, wild life and what not. He firmly believes in himself and says that he is the boss and the equipments are his subordinates.
Whether it's hiking, rambling or running you fancy, the estate is a fabulous place to enjoy the outdoors. You can follow one of our three waymarked routes, or design your own route with the different public footpaths, including the long distance path, the Greensand Way.
whether my friend here owns indeed the key to the door behind him is not the issue; the picture, taken in Viterbo near Rome, is an allegory of the extremely turbulent papal conclave (stemming from the italian 'con ciave' and referring to Saint Peter's key to heaven, the papal symbol) that went on between 1268 and 1272 in that town.
This, too, was a common pattern -- and one that I saw repeated over and over again, especially on this corner. It's hard to tell whether the adult is a man or a woman, and it's impossible to tell anything about the child that he/she is hugging. But it's safe to assume that it's a parent, and it's reasonably safe to assume that the child is on her way to school somewhere in the neighborhood.
As it turns out, there are several school buses that stop briefly at the corner where I was sitting -- so perhaps the girl was waiting for such a bus. There's a public bus-stop, too, but it's on the other side of the street (where you can see a NYC bus that has stopped momentarily), so you wouldn't expect the parent-child hug/farewell to be taking place right here.
What did happen, on several occasions, was that a parent would say goodbye on this particular corner, and then continue heading south to the 96th Street IRT subway station. Meanwhile, the child would turn left, and start walking up the hill toward Amsterdam Avenue, where there happens to be a school. (And there were also some occasions when a spouse, with a baby in a stroller, would turn around at this spot, and start heading back north on Broadway.)
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As I’ve mentioned in a couple of recent Tumblr blog postings, I’m working on an exercise for a new class that I’ve started taking at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in the fall of 2015.( You can see the earlier Tumblr postings here. and here.).
In addition to taking a bunch of photos (see the other Tumblr postings for details and descriptions of what the photos are supposed to illustrate), we also have the task of editing our images down to a maximum of 10 “presentation images” that we will share with the ICP class next week. When our instructor, Joanne Dugan, asked me last week if I anticipated having any problems with this aspect of the assignment, I shrugged and said, “No, I do this all the time …”
Well, yes and no: I do do a lot of editing/winnowing of my photos before deciding which ones should be shared with anyone else. But I had forgotten that I also do a lot of cropping, color-adjustment, tweaking, and general post-processing before I upload my photos to Flickr, Facebook, or even Instagram. For this particular ICP exercise, we were also told not to crop the photos, and not to do any post-processing. That makes things a lot more difficult …
On the other hand, part of the exercise is to assemble and share a maximum of ten photos that collectively tell a “story” of some kind – and to “tell” that story with anywhere from a word, to a sentence, to a paragraph for each of the photos. That makes things a lot easier … after all, if a photo has to be presented in isolation, then it truly stands alone. And it is intended to be viewed without any accompanying text, then it really stands alone. There’s nothing wrong with that; indeed, one might argue that that’s the whole point of photography: a picture should “tell” a story all by itself, without any extraneous verbiage to “explain” what might not be obvious to the viewer.
But not very many things exist in complete isolation of the rest of the universe, especially in today’s interconnected world. I suppose some people would debate that point quite vigorously; and some people might argue that a photograph of a person, place, or thing should be able to “stand alone” without anything else. I certainly have seen photos that fall into this category, and I suppose I’ve taken a few like that, too. Or, maybe if I never intended my photos to be considered in complete isolation from one another, perhaps that’s how some people prefer to look at them …
But for me, that’s a pretty rare phenomenon. Almost always, I find myself telling a story. The photographs obviously present one “dimension” of the story, in a visual form; and I’ve been trying to remind myself lately that videos can present can present one, and sometimes two, additional dimensions (motion and sound) that can add enormously to the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of the underlying story.
But even if one uses only traditional photos, I find that it’s almost impossible for me to crate (or make, or take) one photo by itself; invariably, I take dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, which collectively tell a story. It may be a story about someplace I’ve been, or some event in which I’ve participated, or some individual (or group of individuals) that I want the viewer to know and appreciate in more detail than would be possible to communicate in a single photo.
And then there are the words … maybe it’s because I spend part of my time as a writer and teacher that I find it almost impossible not to augment my photos with words. Lots of words. Indeed, sometimes far too many words; and sometimes clumsy words, or the wrong words. And I do realize that there are times when the situation would be improved if I would just shut up, and let the photograph do all of the communication. But for better or worse, I guess I’m a photojournalist.
With that in mind, I began the process of editing the photos for my recent ICP assignment. Here’s what I found:
1. It’s not as easy as one might think, when you start with a large number. I began winnowing the original images when I had 2,700 (after 9 days of shooting), and I still had 5 days of shooting left).
2. It’s much more difficult than I had imagined, given the constraints of my ICP class: no cropping, no post-processing, and a maximum of only 10 images. I’ve worked within those constraints for the final images that I’m submitting to the ICP class; but for these Flickr uploads, I’ve ended up with 40-45 images – and they have been heavily cropped, tilted, color-corrected, noise-dusted, and tweaked in various other ways. C’est la vie…
3. Using the collection of photos to “tell a story” is both easier and harder than I thought it would be. I’m including these background notes in all of the photos that get uploaded to Flickr … because I’ve learned (form past experience) that some visitor will zoom in on just one particular photo, without necessarily looking at all of them, and/or without seeing the overall notes for the entire album. And I don’t think I’ll find it difficult to write a few sentences to provide the background details for each photo … but whether they “flow” and create one overall, coherent “story” remains to be seen.
4. Aside from a narrative “story,” there are some “themes” that I noticed throughout this entire two-week exercise. The most significant one was exactly what I had anticipated: patterns. If you are lucky enough to sit in the same spot at the same time, day after day, you see the same rhythms, the same people, the same repetitions of life’s little actions and emotions. Many people have the opportunity to see these patterns, because they do follow the same schedule, day after day, on their way to their job or their school. But some of us have irregular routines, and any, most of us don’t pay any attention. If you slow down, and pay attention, you’ll see the patterns.
But sometimes the pattern involves uniqueness – i.e. strange and unusual people or events that seem to happen only once. But I have to keep reminding myself that my visits have lasted only two weeks; if I was here for a month, or a full season, or perhaps an entire year – then perhaps I would see these strange incidents repeating themselves
5. Another theme – which I did not anticipate, but was delighted to see – was the pervasive sense of affection and caring between and among everyone on the street. Mostly it was apparent in the interactions between parents and children; but sometimes it was between dog-owners and the dogs they were walking; sometimes it was between friends who happened to be walking along together; and sometimes it was between complete strangers and me, as the strangers would smile and nod and say “hello” if they noticed I was watching them. It was a great experience.
The wilds hold many dangers. Whether you're predator or prey depends on a combination of skill, tenacity, and luck.
Whether you're on your way up or going down into the dark, the handrail is always there to support you.
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Whether it's called Ovoca or Avoca or even Ballykissangel the little village remains a charming and beautiful place in the heart of Co. Wicklow. Mr. French chose a nice quiet time to visit with traffic down to the minimum, just Neddy and his driver as a little bit of local colour. I brought some American visitors there once who wanted to see Ballykissangel and they had binge watched the entire series several times. For them the visit was a highlight!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_04417
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Whether you love it or loathe it, there's no denying that GB Railfreight's 'Rainbow Shed', No. 66720, adds some vibrant colour to a winter's day as it approaches the Blackbush Drove level crossing, at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, with the late-running 4L02 Hams Hall to Felixstowe intermodal working on Thursday 17th January 2013.
This image was first published in the April 2013 issue of the magazine Railways Illustrated.