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Last month I went to see the 'Enchanted Christmas' display at Westonbirt Arboretum. It's on every year for four weekends in the lead up to Christmas. We had tickets to go in December 2010 but the big snow happened, and the road to the Arboretum was closed on the day we were going. This year the weather was much kinder and we finally got there.
I have a LOT of shots from that evening - but will just post the most interesting ones here at Flickr: Some today and some more tomorrow.
There is no need for Photoshop on these shots - this is really how the trees looked with the various light effects shining on them against the backdrop of the dark night sky.
photo from xmas markets so beautiful I love all the bokeh opportunity around xmas time
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One of those days when I only had my phone with me. Explore November 23, first #69, then #9, at best #7, at the time of updating #15, 13 and now 9 again. Thank you very much for the overwhelming amount of kind & generous comments & faves. Thanks also for the group invitations, even if I only accepted some - I prefer words to standard awards in the form of an animation or banner. Nothing wrong with your preferences, I just have my own.
There are other pictures in my stream that I've really thought about - which manual settings, which angle, whether to post-process and if so, how, and so on. Here I was simply in the right place at the right time and pulled out my phone. The only thing I did was a little footwork to position the sun behind the tree to get the rays to fall like this. No more than that. All the credit goes to nature. Had I anticipated the amount of attention this picture got, I would have cropped the left edge.
As pointed out by one of you, best seen on black.
(In a spell of wanting to regain privacy I lost all the faves, except those by contacts.)
I'm sure I have posted this before but I couldn't find it so here it is again so I can post it in an album.
The peace of this place was indescribable. It was our second day here and we'd been out exploring the flower-filled country lanes fanning out from our tiny studio cottage..a delight. We wandered in here and it was like being transported back in time.....again..wild flowers spilling out over and between graves, low trailing trees..crumbling dry-stone walls, rooks cawing..and everywhere..the welsh language on headstones. Meandering and lost in it all I settled to draw on a hummock of stubby grass backing onto the boundary wall....wonderful... More recent sketch, this..April 09...
not much of a self portrait but if i don't start somewhere and upload it, i'll not practice ... so, first impromptu self portrait :)
I see a female face that's terribly distorted, probably from some kind of anguish ... it's truly a spooky tree!
I stared at this for a moment, and saw a pointed face, eyes, nose, arms outstretched.....
Kodak Bantam 828 f/4.5 (1938-1948).
Pre-cut Tri-X 400 to fit 828 format, developed in Rodinal, 1+25, 7 minutes.
The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.
Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m x 140 m), it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medicis had the Gothic pile demolished, and she removed to the Louvre.
The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is the prototype of all the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the housefronts were all built to the same design, probably by Baptiste du Cerceau, of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices.
Only the north range was built with the vaulted ceilings that the "galleries" were meant to have. Two pavilions that rise higher than the unified roofline of the square center the north and south faces and offer access to the square through triple arches. Though they are designated the Pavilion of the King and of the Queen, no royal personage has ever lived in the aristocratic square. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy.
Within a mere five-year period, King Henri IV oversaw an unmatched building scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre, the Pont Neuf, Place Dauphine and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares.
Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). The original was melted down in the Revolution; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825.
Cortot also erected four fountains in 1825.
The square was renamed in 1799 when the département of the Vosges became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army. The Restoration returned the old royal name, but the short-lived Second Republic restored the revolutionary one in 1848.
Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens.
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Even in winter, there are shades of gray!
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This is my favourite tree of the forest in winter as I love the bendy and gnarled looking bare branches.
Finally we got to see a real winter landscape. And the light... Oh, I really do like this blue light in the sky.
I took this photo with my iPhone 11 Pro and I think the phone did a pretty good job.
In downtown Akron, Ohio, on March 13th, 2021, Three Cascade Plaza (built in 1969, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz) at the southeast corner of Quaker and Ash Street, as viewed from West Bowery Street and Quaker Street.
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Spring has yet to bring the leaves back to a partially pruned tree in West Wales, near Haverfordwest.
Winter, 2020.
Camera: Canon FT QL 35mm SLR.
Lens: Canon 58mm FL f/1.2.
Film: Kodak Pro Image 100 ISO 100 35mm colour negative.
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The creek.
The start of a wood-anemone?
Daisies.
Xylaria hypoxylon - fungi.
Fungi on branch.
Snowdrops.
Small creek.
What is comming up?
Soon Daffodils.
The air is damp and still on this chilly morning and the sky is a mottled grey. Days like this make me notice how beautiful the trees are in winter.
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