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This is my first photo series here on Flickr. Welcome to the "Theatre of Glass".
I will be uploading more to this collection as time goes on.
All comments welcome and thank you! :)
From Left edge tiny Comet Catalina, Venus, Mars, Moon Jupiter top Right. If you zoom in 100% there is tiny star on the left of Venus that is Comet Catalina
This was taken last month. Seen here during civil twilight and only partially eclipsed. Shot w good friend Joshua Crites. Two frames taken 1 second apart and focus stacked for optimal viewing.
The Oculus was positioned as part of the World Trade Center masterplan by Daniel Libeskind and designed by Santiago Calatrava. The structure’s white metal-clad steel ribs reach up and out in a monumental move symbolic of a hand releasing a dove.
The structure's orientation serves as a lasting reminder of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It is in alignment with the sun’s solar angles on each September 11, from 8:46 am, when the first plane struck, until 10:28 am, when the second tower collapsed. Its central skylight fits this alignment and washes the Oculus floor with a beam of light.
New York
A very brief break in the weather this afternoon ... made it to one of my 'go to' locations - Boonerah Point on Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, Wollongong. I'd checked and the sun was due to set pretty much due in line with the pier, didn't quite get the blast of light I was hoping for but a couple of rays made my day .. :-)
In order to create an authentically powerful life, you need to align your personality with your soul. ~ GZ and there it was..few years later and the alignment has happened in front of my eyes. Just like that..
The sun rises over the distant peaks of the Lake District lighting up the clouds above in an array of beautiful colours, on a calm morning at the Point of Ayre. Captured with my telephoto lens, the alignment with Winkie Lighthouse only really works for a few short weeks each year. A wonderful way to start the day 👌
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"For beautiful eyes,
look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness;
and for poise,
walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone. "
~Audrey Hepburn~
It's Sliders Sunday!
... and what could be more fun that playing with a pic from my daughter, modeling her mask which I sent off earlier this week to thank her for some hard to find items she had shipped to me via the internet!
She actually would LOVE to be a professional personal shopper, which is something she didn't get from me! So I'm thrilled this is a win win for both of us!
A short southbound LO39 job is rolling 12 cars toward Massena, NY passing milepost 200 of CSX Montreal subdivision on a glorious winter day.
The lead unit is about to take a sharp steer toward the right, passing in fact from the former New York Central alignment to the former CN route toward the New York State. A diamond crossing between the two roads once occupied the vacant lot just behind me.
The grain mill in background, Dundee Feeds, was still a railroad customer and was shunted by one of the Beauharnois - Québec based job.
CSX LO39-24
7305 7277
Milepost 200 Montreal subdivision
Huntingdon,QC
January 24th 2025
Self portrait in one of the car parks of the University of Tasmania.
I love these trees - at night the dominance of the bright light is hard to adjust to - I took a few different angles and found that flaring and rotten exposure were big issues. Then I thought i'd work with the flare and while I was setting up a man walked through the frame. I thought - yep this shot needs a peron in it, so self timer on and in I walked.
The crescent moon finds a gap in the clouds as a magnificent sunset lights up over the darkly looming heights of the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. My youngest son requested a trip to the Dunes in a rented RV for his birthday present a couple of years ago when this photo was made. Bless him for having the prescience to get us all here for this moment.
Back to the current day, a number of wildfires are roiling the typically blue Colorado skies with smoke that is almost as pretty at sunset as the clouds you see here. The downside, of course, is the loss of forest, life, and livelihood. Today the humidity finally increased and it began to rain in some small measure. After the latest conflagration leaped over the Continental Divide, perhaps the forest on the eastern side of Rocky Mountain National Park will not burn too severely, but who can be sure. It is troubling to know that years like this are but the harbinger of what is to come if we do not act quickly to reduce our economic dependence on fossil fuels. Forests have a hard time absorbing carbon from the atmosphere when they are incinerated and become a source of carbon themselves.
Low Fog Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge, taken from small airplane.
The sunset burn w/low fog was predicted by Yiupai sunrise/sunset forecast service.
I was not overly hopeful of taking a decent shot of the Sturgeon Full Moon (Supermoon) a few days ago. I had pinpointed a good spot on a hill 2.5 miles away, to photograph the National Wallace Monument at 600mm, but not a place I had ever visited before. However as the bright red moon made an appearance we were standing on exactly the right spot.
Remastered 2/16/2011:
Increased size, rebalanced color, brightened and sharpened trees, slightly increased contrast, slightly recropped
This panorama was a complete and utter nightmare to put together, in every way conceivable. The lighting in the scene itself was constantly changing between shots, leading to many different lighting inconsistencies between different sectors of the scene. Painstaking post editing was required to remove these without leaving a seam. Then, Photoshop failed to auto-blend some of the parts of the panorama, requiring me to do a significant amount of tweaking to get the alignment detection to work. Then I had issue getting the color from the top half to work with the bottom half, requiring more manual editing and layer tweaking.
Since all of this was done at 60 megapixels, Photoshop would take 15 seconds or so to process many of the requests I would send it.
It took about 8 hours to wind up with this result. Hopefully the rest of this shoot will not turn out to be this irritating.
I am satisfied with the result. I just wish the process wasn't such a headache.