This took longer to capture than I'm willing to admit

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This was taken at the intersection of Spring St. & Sixth Ave in the SoHo district of Manhattan.

Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for May 22, 2015.

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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.

That's all there is to it …

Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.

Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.

As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"

A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."

As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"

So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".

Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"

Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.

If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com

Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...

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Location: Puri Sea Beach, Orissa. India.

He just sat there without a care in the world...

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'roid week spring 2014 - day 1

-- Foreigner --

you're willing to sacrifice

our Lov...

you never take advice

someday you'll pay the price ... I know ...

sorry...got a little carried away there...but

because I'm still doing everything I can think of

to get 'Dancing in the Moonlight' out of my head...hahaha

(this image is kinda reposted but the previous use was

quite small in a collage - I like it much better on it's own)

a little (MondayMood) hope you'll Enjoy this awkward

lead up into Valentine's Day week! {that's my cold♡^up there ;)}

This was taken Inside Tompkins Sq Park.

I've restarted my photography blog on Tumblr. To see the latest blg posting, click on this URL:

eyourdon.tumblr.com/post/126054181003/photographing-thing...

(more details later, as time permits)

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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.

That's all there is to it …

Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.

Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.

As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"

A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."

As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"

So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".

Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"

Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.

If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com

Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...

Copyright © Dave DiCello 2011 All Rights Reserved.

“Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”

~Anonymous

Well, today's the day! New website up and running, with a new blog post too. I want to tahnk everyone who gave their input an advice and also those of you who answered some questions for me along the way. I still have a lot of work to do on it, but I am pretty happy with the way that it has turned out so far!

This is a shot a few weeks ago from Mt. Washington, just looking the other way, opposite of the city. If you were to turn around, you would see the Pittsburgh skyline below.

Also, I am now on 500px! Follow me over there as well! It's a pretty cool site, but I am definitely still getting used to it!

As always, you can read about the processing I've done on this shot and all my images on on my website.

New blog post today, Down a new path! Check it out if you have a chance!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

I don't mind invitations, but please no big, shiny, flashing, glitter graphics, they will be deleted. Also, please contact me if you would like to use my pictures for any reason, as all rights are reserved. Thanks!

My website: HDR Exposed Photography

My zenfolio: HDR Exposed - Zenfolio

Post Processing Workflow

Sun flare tutorial

Regular HDR tutorial

HDR Efex tutorial

Follow me on Twitter and 500px

My Facebook Page - HDR Exposed Become a fan!!!

"If you're willing to look with your heart,

Inner Beauty can be found everywhere."

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Dressed and ready for all her perverse pleasures.

Disclaimer, pink is still my favourite colour, but this is my new favourite dress❤️❤️ Plus, no face app used for these, just really happy with my makeup 💋💋

This was taken on Wooster, between Spring and Prince St.

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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.

That's all there is to it …

Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.

Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.

As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"

A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."

As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"

So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".

Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"

Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.

If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com

Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...

This girl was so helpful to us at check out. Her buttons and pins caught my attention because I have an extensive collection going back to the early 80’s.

Editing some of my older shots!

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Andrew, www.flickr.com/photos/ajhaysom/, certainly entertained us when he danced to the sky and it surely did change, see previous photo!

Also see Greenstone Girl's photo...

www.flickr.com/photos/greenstonegirlpix/47655548142/in/da...

Female Northern Cardinal

“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard... is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

(Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet)

Steffi was willing and able to help with todays POTD. Of course, one of her favorite treats helped seal the deal.

Of course, predictably, after yesterday's picture, a PocketWizard lighting solution would follow.

This image is inspired by Zack Arias amazing work.

Explored, highest position #12 for 4/15/09!!

Made it to Front Page too!

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Lighting

540EZ @ 1/128 power, with blue gell, inside the dryer. Triggered with PocketWizard.

I was willing to visit this place since I saw a photograph featuring this landscape. Looking at what I thought to be a little church surrounded by water, I fell in love with the views.

However, It was not a little hermitage! Instead, what you can see at the top of the hill is Sant Pere de Casserres, a prominent Benedictine Monastery from the 11th century ⛪️ .

The monastery is a Romanesque-style building located in Les Masies de Roda, the only one in Osona, and also one of the most relevant Romanic architectural ensembles in Catalonia. Best of all? it is not far from Barcelona; easy to get there by car in an hour or so. It was a pleasant surprise to find out how close it is from my home.

⏩ ⏩ You can download an HD wallpaper of this photo for free from my website.

When you're out shooting on the street, most people either ignore you, act indifferent, or obviously don't want you taking their photo. But every once in a while there's someone who really, really wants their picture taken...

Shot with Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

This is another shot from the location I am planning to document over a long-term period.

I am still looking for a sidekick during my Budapest Trip. Are you in Budapest between 21st and 28 January and willing to shoot with me for one day? Shoot me a mail!

Free Print Anyone?

Sometimes sunflare in a photo can be distracting, and I'm even willing to admit that it might be distracting here. Still, I feel like the flares add drama to the image even if they're seen as technical flaws.

I either believe that or am compensating for a lens that doesn't create a beautiful 18-point sunstar. =)

Young lady not looking that enthusiastic about her cleaning duties at a local restaurant. Bacolod City, Philippines.

So hi. o/

This month is my RL birthday month. And I want to do something really good with all the people I know. And so I started a month long FB donation campaign for the charity Player vs. Hunger. It's a Charity that harnesses the power of the gaming community to help food banks and pantries have the food and resources they need to help their communities.

My hope is that everyone I know will donate only $5 (I wanted to do a dollar but FB makes you do a minimum of $5. sadness.). That's it. You can do more if you want, but that's entirely optional. And, if you're willing, to share it with your own groups and friends.

If all of us donated the bare minimum....imagine how much money we could raise in a single month, and how many kids, families, and other people struggling with hunger we could help.

This does have my RL name though, so please be kind. Anyway, here's the link. Thanks for reading this, and I hope you'll help me create something extraordinary this month. ♥

As my way if saying thanks, if you want it, and you are on SL, IMVU or play FFXIV, I'll do a picture for you.

*Side note, if any other amazing artists want to donate their talents, that'd be awesome too*

www.facebook.com/donate/1874690495941031/

Allah willing, these three will go directly to the fiery pits of whatever Muslims believe is hell.

Love to meet you :)

Tel Aviv exercises

“Have you modeled before?”

“No. Well, I had to do this self portrait assignment for my studies, once. It didn't turn out well.”

Finding a willing stranger at this location was tough. In the busy center of the city people just wanted to grab something for lunch and quickly return to work.

Also, there were people sitting at restaurant tables right next to me, watching me - with growing amusement, it seemed - waiting, searching, asking and getting one rejection after the other. Not the most comfortable situation to be in.

Not giving up was rewarded by the privilege of capturing Yasmine's amazing smile!

For the first time in this project I got to use a tiny reflector that fits into my bag, so I can always carry it around. It made a huge difference to create a more even light on Yasmine's face, with the strong sunlight coming through the glass roof. (I rarely took my big reflector with me for this project and strangers sometimes seemed to feel uncomfortable with it, as it attracts a lot of attention)

Hopefully, Yasmine is at least as happy with her portrait as I am (and hopefully I got the spelling of your name right!).

This picture is # 84 in my 100 strangers project. To find out more about the project and to find photos of other photographers go to www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/.

To discover my stranger set go here.

If I could give one thing,

something,

if I could trade, I would lace my fingers or offer my open, upturned palms.

If I could trade something for that sound in your voice that I could never describe, it would be this: willingness.

It would be protection.

I would catch up your sound, everything it holds because it says so much, that almost reluctant but reverent, vulnerable peace;

that not quite tortured longing that is more like how it feels to finally slip between clean bedsheets than to be teased or taunted...

I would catch it up in a jar:

not to keep it. Oh, my love, I would never keep you unless you choose to stay, my small, nimble fingers would unscrew the lid at the softest sound of your sigh. But I would catch it to protect it from the world-

not because you are not the strongest thing I have ever seen, but because you are such a gift to me

and the very atmosphere that

you should never be fussed

or encroached upon,

unless it is the weight of me, pressing and retreating.

I'll be oh, so careful.

Since I cannot invite you to place your hands on such a thing, instead, I will meet your sound, something I imagine you have ever only shared with me,

as lovers string delicate, beautiful delusions for themselves.

I will meet it in kind. I offer,

I offer you the slightest space between my knees and this floor;

the warm flush between my pressed wrists,

the space between my lips and...

Forgive me this little promise, I know you will, this whisper, this gift, that no one else has ever seen.

Let me be willing,

as you are,

as we long to be.

01.03.22

It is so hot in Seville there is a statue of a catholic officer who blesses those who are willing to withstand the heat while waiting in line for the different downtown attractions!

Have you seen the outrageous prices of housing in Aspen, Colorado? High prices are one thing but high prices and no local wildwood weed to carry you through, is something entirely different. On the other hand, the ski hill is free with any lease. Well, the clock is running on this prestige aspen short people housing in a grove of Colorado's orange autumn but some commutors, willing to pay the rent, can smoke and grope right here in Colorado. Even the light reflected around this grove is orange... and full of sensitive perfumes. What a life for the lucky residents! There is instant access to Front Range commuting corridors. There is no better place to homestead and plant a few rows of the sweet sensimilla with support from the Rowan Brothers Free Colorado Airforce. Of course, snow loads could never be ignored but if you laid plenty of venison and the odd grizz aside in a shady snow bank... and plenty of tokes, you could make it through the winters. I suppose there are deer always laying about in the surrounding woods. No doubt that renters also would lay plenty of firewood away for the dead season. If they didn't prepare well enough, we would have to dig out their decomposing remains in spring. We could also find their remaining stash. This is yet another shamelessly stolen title but this time from Beverly Hills, California. Oh, is there no justice left in America? Why do we always have to suffer these titles and descriptions? If this continues, it could disgust even me! Sheesh!

eDDie and I parked just off the Peak to Peak Highway, north of Nederland and Caribou Ranch where eDDie wanted star bursts in aspen groves. I took some here too as well as general aspen shots I liked. A week earlier, we walked through an aspen grove and all of the way down to the grade of the Southern Division of the Denver, Boulder & Western narrow gauge RR where we slogged through the soggy bottoms. The grade hugged the highway north to hold altitude until it could swing west for its big loop back south to Cardinal - Caribou and Eldora. It nearly cut through this aspen ringed meadow on its big loop. The grade? The grade used to be visible from the highway while the aspen used to mark the route through the pines and made it visible from Peak to Peak; vegetation, we found no sensimillia, is creeping and creeping onto the fill. It's still a good spot to grow your sensimilla. The north end of this loop can only be seen with feets on the grade and a well trained sniffling eye, ear, nose and throat service dog.

This day started as a foray into the hills looking aspen cloaked in showy fall coats and the best railroad venues. We reached for the mountain-bound mining camps where the aspen color could yet be grand on the day. The color we found was generally wonderbar in this glade on our second foray. This housing is not so much code any more but there still are takers; county code and regs be damned. Further, this image certainly qualifies to extend my series of autumn aspen and avoid my reaching into my autumn dregs.

Disclaimer, pink is still my favourite colour, but this is my new favourite dress❤️❤️ Plus, no face app used for these, just really happy with my makeup 💋💋

I'm taking my right in destiny, willing to play my part

Living with painful memories, loving with all my heart

Made in heaven made in heaven it was all meant to be yeah

Made in heaven made in heaven

That's what they say can't you see

That's what everybody says to me can't you see, oh

I know I know I know that it's true

Yes it's really meant to be deep in my heart

I'm having to learn to pay the price, they're turning me upside down

Waiting for possibilities, don't see too many around

Made in heaven made in heaven it's for all to see

Made in heaven made in heaven

That's what everybody says everybody says to me

It was really meant to be oh can't you see

Yeah everybody everybody says yes it was meant to be

Yeah yeah

When stormy weather comes around it was made in heaven

When sunny skies break through behind the clouds

I wish it could last forever yeah

Wish it could last forever for ever

Made in heaven

I'm playing my role in history, looking to find my goal

Taking in all this misery but giving it all my soul

Made in heaven made in heaven it was all meant to be

Made in heaven made in heaven

That's what everybody says wait and see

It was really meant to be so plain to see, yeah

Everybody everybody everybody tells me so

Yes it was plain to see yes it was meant to be

Written in the stars ...

(Mirador de la "Fuente de la Cierva", Sot de Chera, Valencia)

I need to be filled with Your peace.

Its been a little while since I've done a boudoir photo of myself.

The remain of the port willing jetty at sunset.

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) SE sector, Thomson Marsh, Kelowna, BC.

Okay! I know! I know! I know!

I WILL remove any of the shots in this series that receive no faves or comments (or views)!

I just found her so willing to be photographed and a little different from most of the Mallard hens I keep and eye on....