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This image is from a commissioned shoot I did for choreographer Sara Silken and her dance group. View her work on youtube at www.youtube.com/user/ssilkin
Sara is the one in this photo. I have about 7 more that I did for her and I might be posting one other to flickr at some point. And a bit later next week I'll put all of them on my fb fan page. We had lots of good fun with levitating that day :-)
In other news...the Linda Vista abandoned hospital shoot is just under a week away on July 3rd. I still have a couple slots for people to join in if you'd like, or if you know someone who lives here who wants to. The cost is $50 per shooter to come along for a 14 hour day of shooting in the hospital. This is not a group thing, we are all shooting individually.
Panos: www.flickr.com/photos/113407236@N08/ , Kostas: www.flickr.com/photos/kpoulakos and Christos: www.flickr.com/photos/126676966@N03, are my Photo-coWalkers. We discover and explore new spots together. Thank you guys!!
Happy week-end everyone and happy shootings!!
Thank you for your visits and sweet comments always! :-)))
This is Trebarwith Strand in Cornwall. Where we had high hopes of a sunset but it was not to be, the cloud rolled in and that was it. I went into the pub to get us a pint and when I came out this sky greeted me so I quickly shot a few frames so that I had something in the bag.
If you look down onto the rocks below you can see some people, they were the start of a van load of photographers who then all stood in a line across the rock where these people were standing, I guess they were all shooting the same shot. I thought about going down on the rock as well but thought better of it rather than rub elbows in a row of tripods, I enjoyed my pint though.
The stunning Glen Strathconon,My self and 2 other photographers were driving along this tiny single track rd. when we saw this, the car stopped nothing was said and within minutes we were all shooting down by the Loch
Flickr Journal March 30th, 2020
We live in the Era of the Coronavirus. Just found out today that there are now two confirmed cases within a half mile of where I live in RL. Both people are apparently out of public circulation but before this they were working as bartenders in an extremely active location. Yes, it's hard not to think about it. For me though I can take a little vacation from it all shooting pictures of my beautiful vixen Kwai. Hard not to put a little love in each shot, hard for her to not put a little sass into each shot.
this huge beautiful storm cell started out as an anvil cloud looming over the hills to the east of Hood River, Oregon, and as it dropped into the valley It developed into this amazing cell and turned a bit traveling north down the valley and into Washington.
I was on my way to the pharmacy to get ear drops for an infected ear, but somehow my lil old red truck just went right on past and chased the clouds! Guess I will have to get by tonight and get the medicine tomorrow instead. Somehow that totally seems just fine :D and I am thrilled with what I got... even if most of the bigger strikes happened between camera clicks at least I caught a couple smaller ones... all shooting out sideways.
This has been getting shared like wildfire on Facebook!
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The often photographed Mormon Row at Grand Teton National Park. In fact, I would say that this scene is one of the most photographed in the western United States. I have at least 4 different photos of these barns in my photostream, including two slightly different panoramas. So why keep shooting this scene?
Because it's a lot of fun!
To begin, it's very beautiful. The Tetons are absolutely majestic and such impressive mountains, the the dilapidated barns in front of the Tetons are so Americana it's almost appropriate to eat cherry pie while shooting this scene. The spring was very wet and the lush grasses and trees compliment everything so well.
Yes, there were other photographers there. There is almost always going to be. Yes, we were all shooting the same scene that morning. But who cares? The minute I'm too good for a beautiful but "cliche" landscape scene, that's the minute I'll give up photography. Shoot cliche scenes! Do your best and use your creativity to try to do something new with those scenes! Go shoot Tunnel View, or Maroon Lake, or The Golden Gate bridge from the Marin Highlands!
All shooting sessions have their own momentum. My mood, the conditions, the Models mood, all are effective that made each shoot different than the other. I was in a quiet mood, Masha my model was very young ( only 16) very fragile very quiet so instead of going on dramatic, dark experimental , the conditions took us into smoother , calmer grounds..
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Bien de interés cultural, catalogado como Monumento.
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Victorian Home..
Yesterday we went for a walk downtown Brampton to get a few shots of some of the older buildings in town. I decided to take my 85mm lens; to push me out of my comfort zone. My 24-70 is and always has been my favorite lens for all shooting situations. I have a bag full of lenses that get ignored.
This is one of the many Victorian style homes in downtown Brampton built in the late 1800's. many with an external wrought iron staircase on the outside of the building. I find these old homes so charming and many are well kjept and have been fully restored by the new owners.
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Witnessing Yosemite Valley from aboard a tiny Cessna 206 with the doors off was an opportunity too good to pass up, and allowed us to see the park’s familiar granite icons from a whole new perspective, including all sides of “Half Dome” which doesn’t resemble a dome from the air at all! Shooting handheld from a vibrating plane as the light was waning most certainly necessitated a fast shutter speed and high ISO, but the R5 did pretty well needing only slight tweaks in Topaz DeNoise. Dense haze in the Valley from prescribed Forest Service burns lent an unexpected soft diffuseness over the landscape. A shoutout to Yosemite Flights in Groveland for an amazing experience not soon forgotten!!
Scaneei essa foto, tirada por volta de 1964, da minha mãe... a Iris ! Homenagem a uma mulher maravilhosa... nos deixou há 5 anos !
Saudade !
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Borrowed Heaven
The Corrs
All beauty all fade away, borrowed
All moonlight return today, borrowed
All sunrise all shooting stars, borrowed
All earth bound bare feet in clay
you know we're standing on
Borrowed borrowed heaven
Borrowed borrowed heaven
All heartache all rivers cried, borrowed
Don't stay out too late tonight, borrowed
I love you don't wanna die, borrowed
You taste like paradise, I know I'm breathing in
Borrowed borrowed heaven
Borrowed borrowed heaven
Borrowed borrowed heaven
Borrowed borrowed heaven
You gave me life and I will give it back
But before I do, I'm gonna hold it tight
This is my prayer
All body, All skin all bone, borrowed
All silky, all smooth and warm, borrowed
All Pleasure, all pain are one, borrowed
Almighty I stand alone
I know I'm living in
Borrowed borrowed heaven
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Bom domingo a todos !
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The last stop on my nostalgia tour of some of my personal favorite images over the last six years.
I joined Flickr in November, 2004 and it has been a wonderful experience for me throughout those many, many months.
This photo was taken at Oxbow Bend in September of 2009. I was headed back to Jackson in the mid-afternoon and I glanced over and saw this big bull moose perfectly framed in a notch created by the landscape.
I immediately pulled over and snapped this shot that nobody else seemed to notice, since I was shooting to the south and they were all shooting to the west with the classic Mt Moran shot as their target.
I didn't have a long zoom lens on the camera, since I'd been shooting landscape shots, but after I got home and checked the image on the monitor, I was glad that the focus was on the overall scene, and not just the moose.
I imagine this scene could have occured last month, last year, ten years or even a 100 years ago.
© Copyright John C. House, Everyday Miracles Photography. All Rights Reserved. Please do not use in any way without my express consent. As always, this is better viewed large.
Every Spring the Muscari bloom, and every year I shoot them. So do a good many other photographers. This is true of most flowers. We shoot them over and over. It seems to me that while the flowers do not change, what changes is how they are captured. A rose is a rose is a rose, and it is only the interpretation of that rose that makes it an expression of the artist. This is the nature of floral photography. We all shoot the same things, but we all shoot them differently. It is the interpretation, the vision, that is what we have to offer. I suppose the same is true for other kinds of photography as well, but it seems especially so with floral photography.
As for my vision, I like to look closely at things. Not just flowers, but most things. When I shoot flowers, I like the details, colors and shapes and I try to make those features prominent in my work. This is the biggest reason that I tend to employ depth of field stacking, so that I can get more depth and thus more detail, when I get close. When I look at something closely with my eyes, I see a great deal of detail and when I look at a photograph I want to see the same thing. The optics of the lenses we use do not allow us to capture what we actually see when we look closely. So, I take a number of images of the same flower taken with different focal planes and combine them in software to create more depth and more detail. To better match what I see when I look.
So every Spring I shoot the Muscari again. I do not know what I will see next year, but I'll probably shoot them then as well. Here's one for this year. I like to share with you what things look like to me. I appreciate your taking the time to look.
Another Tree...
Tony's tree, Tones River, Middlehurst Station.
Phase One XF, 80mm Schneider f2.8 lens, f11 @ 30 seconds/1/80 second, ISO 50
Is this one or two shots? I love posing questions like this! Up front, it's two shots, but two shots of the same subject (camera locked off on a tripod), taken a few minutes apart.
Why?
A couple of days earlier, Tony Hewitt and I had been at this location with Barbara, Gary and Jim on our Middlehurst Art Photography workshop. Middlehurst is an amazing Tolkein landscape tucked away in New Zealand's South Island (and we're repeating the workshop next June if you're interested...).
We started well before dawn and were enjoying our time, exploring the area. Tony disappeared 'somewhere', but as we were all heavily engrossed in our own little worlds, it didn't worry us.
At some stage, I looked around from my camera to see the top of the tree above just catching the brilliant sunlight! Even better, from certain angles the background was in shadow. However, the worst part was seeing Tony in position with his camera, nailing a great shot as the light got better and better.
This bugged the hell out of me. How did he know? Was he just lucky? Or smart? Or just smarter than me?
Over the next couple of days, I dropped hints to everyone that we should go back to this location and all shoot the tree - I mean, I couldn't have Tony not sharing such a great location!
However, my version of the tree is more of a grand landscape, but I took two photos to make it happen!
Click through to the website to see the two images I used.
www.betterphotography.com/peter-eastways-blogs-sp-19033/p...
Festiniog Railway no. 4 Palmerston approaches Campbell's Platform at the head of a short passenger train. Taken during a David Williams photo charter.
After spending a little over two hours on the hillside near the southern end of Moelwyn Tunnel, we walked back to Dduallt to rejoin the train and travel to the next location. As forecast, the cloud had filled in completely but it was supposed to break up again early in the afternoon. So we took the opportunity for some shots of the train coming into Dduallt station from the Tan-y-bwlch direction, which would be looking directly into the sun if it were out, as well as a few posed shots in the station with the crew.
We spent about twenty minutes doing that before reboarding the train for the short journey to Campbell's Platform. There are some brilliant shots from the halt itself of trains coming round the curve, but the railway does not own the land (other than a small strip beside the line) and the owner of the nearby house (and surrounding land) does not entertain railway photographers; indeed, as soon as our train stopped and we all alighted onto the platform, he was out of the house asking what was going on! The plan was actually to access the land on the other side of the line (where there is a public footpath), which meant walking back along the track to a footpath crossing. From there we'd take the path beside the railway boundary.
But we quickly found this path was blocked by gorse bushes, and we had to take a different path - part of the way up the hill and then back down: actually walking half way back to Dduallt in the process (we could see the station and the spiral)! The sun had come back out again as we'd set off from the train and, of course, went behind a big cloud as we arrived in position... Thankfully we didn't have to wait too long for the sun to reappear and we managed three run-pasts in sun in about ten minutes before having to wait five minutes or so for the next cloud to clear. There were a number of different angles to try, all shooting across from the outside of the curve, although many of us (including me) didn't initially realise that at one of the better ones (from a lower position than this) the telegraph wires on the nearer part of the curve were right across the train.
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Je ne vais pas vous apprendre que les meilleures heures pour la photo sont le matin et le soir, lors comme tous les jours, je profite du matin, pour aller shooter la nature avec ma compagne de jeu. Je suis admiratif de sa patience, faut dire qu’elle compte des heures et des heures de pratiques. Alors quoi de plus logique de lui rendre hommage dans se lever de soleil d’Automne.
No te diré que las mejores horas para la foto son en la mañana y en la tarde, como todos los días, disfruto de la mañana, para ir a fotografiar la naturaleza con mi novia. Admiro su paciencia, debo decir que cuenta horas y horas de práctica. Entonces, ¿qué es más lógico rendirle homenaje en el amanecer de otoño?
I will not tell you that the best hours for the photo are in the morning and evening, like every day, I enjoy the morning, to go shoot nature with my girlfriend play. I am admiring of his patience, must to say that it counts hours and hours of practice. So what's more logical to pay tribute to him in the autumn sunrise.
Hi all, images sit on my drives for a bit, I go back and forward to them, as I progress with my own photography path I feel the draw to feel free with my images not to go down the road of others. Yes we all shoot the same locations at times and I feel drawn to one more than others, like that huge black rock calling to me. I also feel now that I need to process in my style and how I feel an image should sit in the limits of my own imagination.
It's a simple thing to do, just turn around!
Saw this young lady taking a shot of the setting sun and it reminded me of another shot I got:
www.flickr.com/photos/nyalr/52519570950/in/photolist-2o5S...
I'd give her the same advice I would've given this other fellow which is turn around and look behind you. There's a plethora of light and color in the setting sun and it's all shooting right past you, reflecting on the scenery behind. Now if you want a shot of a bright blazing star that's disappearing over the horizon then carry on. It's not going to be a shot that reminds you of a great time had in a foreign land, it will remind you that staring into the sun really isn't the best idea!
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Last Sunday I thought there was going to be this wonderful sunrise it didn't happen so this is what I got. I meet up with Gullfeather while I was there thanks for the company Stan. We all shoot what we like and I just happen to like THE CAPE.
I picked up a book the other day at Chapters it gave a list of the 500 places on the face of the earth that you should see and Cape Spear is one of them.
Standing on an old playground earlier this week reminded me of my younger years, shooting basketball for endless hours at the “tire park.” It was called that because of the adjacent playground made from old tires. It also reminds me of a childhood TV favorite: “In West Philadelphia born and raised.
On the playground is where I spent most of my days.
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool.
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school.”
Flying around Denali... I'm speechless
No matter how many times I shoot this landscape around Denali, each time is a personal victory. I get horribly airsick.
I mean HORRIBLY.
I don't eat the entire day, except Dramamine or Bonine tablets, nibble on graham crackers since we fly as late in the day as possible, and use compression bands on my wrists to help with the airsickness. My favorite thing of all---shooting out the open window---helps more than anything. Most pilots will oblige knowing I'm far less likely to get airsick with fresh air and my shots are WAY better. ;) If I'm not too green, I am able to go out for a post-flight dinner with friends, old and new. My first flight was a huge mistake, as I had an elk burger in Healy before the flight. Yep. Clueless. I barfed for 45 of the 60 minute flight and thought I would die. I swore I'd never fly again.
My personal best was on this particular flight. It's the first time I didn't throw up, although I came pretty close. I did throw up in the heli a couple of days earlier just as we were landing on a glacier, but we usually have the doors off. This time the doors were on and I was overheated in my down coat and life vest since we were flying over open water.
Photography also helped me get over my intense fear of heights. It's amazing what being focused can do for you.
So, now you know my back story. Feel free to share yours! :D
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one more of Jenna...
she, anna, and her friend and I are all shooting at the beach tomorrow :)
thinking I'd really like to do a video!
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Portrait of Helen shot on Wednesday. All shoot was only an hour long but I absolutely adore working with children.
I've shot with Helen about a year ago and wanted to do it again.
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A small group of photographers from our photography club were on an outing to a local Provincial Park. I had wandered off to photograph ice on a river. As I returned I saw several of the group trying to photograph something on the ground, so I preserved the scene for posterity. By coincidence they were all shooting with Canon equipment. The shot was not posed, and I never found out what their subject was.
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If I were smarter, I'd set all shoots for right around sundown.
That's what the pros do! You wonder why they always have these amazing shoots? They wait! I've been working in Hollywood for...sheesh, 14 years? Can't count the number of times we've all just sat around on set, waiting for The Right Light.
But me, I know that waiting until around sunset, that can mean more traffic for my subject, if they're coming to me. More traffic for me, if I'm going to them. LA...we've got traffic, you might've heard.
Easier to shoot mid-day, but then you got alllllll that sunlight.
Sure sure, it's all about building rapport with your subject, and that decisive moment...but I gotta think about traffic and dinner and TOO MUCH SUNLIGHT, too.
But this is the cross I bear...FOR ART.
From a Leica sponsored shoot at B&C camera, hosted by Rock and Roll photographer Ray Olson, who also gets all credit for the lighting set up. Unfortunately I don't know the models name, but she was from TNG models.
You'll notice a little blurring at the bottom. Just a function of ~20 photographers all shooting at once :-)
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Well past sunset wispy clouds seemingly point to the illuminated Golden Gate Bridge and the City by the Bay. The San Francisco skyline begins to sparkle with lights as the Bay Bridge celebrates Bay Lights, the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge's sister bridge on the bay.
Both the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay Bridge were build at about the same time both using a suspension design. Last year the Golden Gate celebrated its 75th birthday and this year the celebration continues with the Bay Bridge.
While filming the bridge I have been asked why it's called the Golden Gate Bridge while it is clearly a bright orange? The answer is actually quite simple, the opening to San Francisco Bay is surrounded by hills covered in Golden Grass during much of the summer and fall months. The Golden Gate existed long before the Bridge. The Bridge was named after the straight that it spans and not the color of the bridge itself. You can see some of that golden grass in the foreground but the hills behind the camera are covered in it and often covered with California Poppies.
The famous Art Deco design of the bridge was not the first choice and there were many objects to the construction. A dislike of the cantilever design that was originally planned let to the more elegant replacement that we see today. Many of the elements of the bridge are more for ascetic effect rather than structural support. The bridge is illuminated by a number of spot lights that are directed at the two towers. Street lights, matching the Art Deco design line both sides of the bridge. The near side is restricted to bicycle traffic while the far side allows for both pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Both walkways are protected by a low rail which make it easy to view the city no matter your height as you walk across the span. It was reported this was due to the small stature of the designer who wanted a clear view. That consideration would later come in to criticism given the bridge is often used by those wishing to end it all.
Shooting the bridge and getting a unique shot is tricky and knowing the right times is key. The area is swept by high winds most of the year due the nature of the landscape around the bridge. During summer months fog blows in off the Pacific shrouding the bridge in the clouds. On a rare morning you may be lucky to see the fog down on the water so the top of the bridge and perhaps even the deck are visible from the Marin Headlands near Hawk Hill. To get this shot takes sheer luck or a lot of tries as it is fairly rare when the elements come together just right to create the proper effect. I've tried many of times but was only successful just this last year.
© Darvin Atkeson
SOOC except for resizing & sharpening. Now I know why it's called the golden hour. Can I do all shoots 20 mins before sunset from now on please?
The entire “beauty” industry (e.g. body-shaping, cosmetics, cosmetic surgery etc) is trying to make the subjects matching with the standard or models set by the other party such as fashion industry or entertainment and movies industry.
Photography on the other hand (as well as other arts media) is guiding us to discover the beauty around us or beauty within ourselves, and actually asking us to create our own ideal and model in beauty.
Are these so different and even opposite philosophies?
This is the cosmetics advertisement I saw at Aberdeen Shopping Mall.
Have a great Thursday!
PS. Sometimes we, as photographers, have to be careful that we might fall into traps of those stereotypes too. When everyone thinks sunsets are beautiful, we all shoot sunsets. And HDR, and birds, and flowers, and bokeh, and reflections ......
Workshop Fun!
We are just starting an amazing HDR workshop down here in Austin. It won't be the same as being there, but a DVD will be available soon after, so be sure to sign up for the free newsletter so you can find out first!
The Austin workshop ended up being a fairly exclusive event, and we priced it at $1,000 per attendee. I knew it would be popular and that there was an enthusiastic group of people out there, but I did not expect the whole thing to sell out in 11 minutes (after crashing the StuckInCustoms server for 30 minutes after it became available!)! I'm excited the date has finally arrived and I am very excited to teach people, make new friends, and do my best to take their photography to the next level.
My other workshop next weekend with Scott Bourne in Florida is also sold out! There may be last-min cancellations, so watch for that. That will be a fun event and I look forward to meeting a bunch more people and sharing this new sport with them.
People always ask about potentially doing other workshops. I have no immediate plans, except perhaps one in New Zealand next month.
Appearance on Sunday night at BookPeople
On Sunday evening, come to BookPeople before 7 PM to the Austin Photography Group. Feel free to come by and hear my little talk on HDR. I'm also happy to meet people, sign books, and this sort of thing. Come to the presentation hall on the third floor. See you there!
Daily Photo - Getting a Bottle at the Bar
What a cool place! This is another one of those photos that just has amazing detail of the incredible decor. It is an underground bar in Kuala Lumpur that I could not stop taking photos inside! As you can see, there are no bad angles in a place like this, so it is very fun to compose.
I'll have a little challenge that I will give out at the workshop where we all shoot the same subject matter to see who can get the most interesting composition. This bar is a very cool place because there are a ton of interesting compositions, but also some bad compositions. I'm not sure one can actually "teach" composition... but I suppose I can try!
Chair
This extreme wide-angle pinhole camera presents some exposure challenges. The exposure at the edges is about one stop darker than the center, The chair was white and reflected a lot of the blue light to which the ortho paper is extra sensitive. The ortho emulsion also has a limited range and no forgiveness at all. Shooting as if the aperture was 1/3 stop smaller seems to offer the best balance. Ahh, pinhole.
Our Daily Challenge - Feb 21, 2019: "Metaphor"
Pretty sure that poor Cookie has reached... "the point of no return"!
Daily Dog Challenge 2663.
"What a Treat"
The is Toby's first "Catching Cookies" shoot, and the pup did pretty good!
He already knew how to catch treats, but this is the first time I've tried doing it when I'm on the floor.
Plus he needed to stay where I put him and wait patiently for me to toss the Cookie.
Neither of those things caused him the slightest problem.
I'd say he thinks "Catching Cookies" is the way all shoots should be!
Stop on by Henry and Toby's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog
Mama Little Blue Heron with mouths to feed...
Hey everyone! I returned this evening from the greatest nature experience of my life and it was like a dream...I traveled to Louisiana to join my dear friends Cajun Snapper and his lovely wife Aliparis for a trip to Jefferson Island...it was phenomenal to witness my first rookery in action, with various nesting birds filling the trees in countless numbers, some still building nests, while others had eggs or chicks...what an ultimate thrill for me!
We were joined by a wonderful assembly of Louisiana nature photographers like Darlene Boucher (Amaw), Larry Daugherty, Gary (Image Hunter1), Josh Brown (Bayou Josh),
Shelby Townsend and his lovely wife Toni (Backyardbella), and Mark Steve Guillory...it was awesome to meet them all, although I didn't get as much opportunity to visit with them as I would've liked, but we were all shooting furiously as there were hundreds of subjects keeping us focused on their activities all day!
Around 2,500 shots in one day is definitely a record for me, but it was all so amazing...so tonight, I begin a rather long continuing series chronicling this remarkable day at Jefferson Island...
A whole lot of "Why not!" infused this shoot, which was really just an excuse to see Tarren, who'd left town a few months previously. Short Christmas visit, asked if I wanted to come downtown, where she was staying with some friends, we could all shoot some pictures together.
Which turned into me shooting them in a hot tub, up on a roof.
Which then turned into me shooting them in a bathtub...and I still have no idea where they got all those flowers from, or how Meghan ended up naked (which, according to the photographic evidence, actually happened back up on the roof).
And that all sounds wilder than it actually was. Some folks, I get the camera out and it's a process, a dance, getting them to relax. Some folks see the camera and just...bloom.
Like a flower, see.