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The Shangri la is still under construction and is now Vancouver's tallest building.
Posted for the "Guess Where Vancouver" pool
That's all - just a strange icicle. I have no idea how this would form that way.
You know how I pick on people for skewed horizons, so you might ask why I left the eve on an angle. I tried is the other way, but that made it so that the straight icicle (outlined above) was crooked and it just didn't look right to me. It made the "strange" icicle look less strange by comparison. The texture that you see is the porch screen. The verticla lines are not so terribly far off from perpendicular to the frame. I was not looking dead straight out at the icicles when I took the shot.
The depth of field is intersting in this shot. I took it through a porch screen, but that didn't show up until I sharpened the image to death to bring out the detail in the ice. The screen looks like a texture applied in Photoshop.
I decided to mat this one and toss it into the show, just because everyone will know it's from the recent storm and they will kind of get a kick out of it. The "screen texture" and bokeh will give them something to talk about.
Yes, the highlights in the ice are blown out, but it sort of looked this way in person. The real reason for this is because I uploaded my "print" version. I have to goose up the highlights and oversharped anything that will go in the newspaper to compensate for the thirsty grey paper.
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.4
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
I really love the angle of this! This is SOOC! I love this because I figured out what SOOC means!! :D YAY!! xP
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All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
Sometimes called the ‘Cobblers Pose’, this is a fabulous groin opener with a strong lift on the central trunk. Folks with very tight hips and upper legs will most likely find the pose challenging, so would benefit by sitting up on a yoga brick or rolled blanket. Using a strap to reach the feet may also be beneficial. Also sitting against a wall with the sitting bones (head of Femurs) tucked as close in as possible. When initially learning the pose, relax the big toe edge of the feet away from each other. Later you can learn to join the feet fully.
Breathing should be steady and connected to the stretches. Make sure you lift the sternum bone and drop & broaden the shoulder blades at the back
Doing general leg work will help, especially outward rotations in the hip joints – Tree Pose, Leg Stretching Out to the sides. Triangle Pose, Lateral Right Angle Pose. Hip Openers.
Placing the soles of the feet together connects the central Cakras in the feet, as does placing the palms together in a prayer position. These Mudras contain the outward flow of intrinsic energy in the body and therefore are useful for inward practices – meditation and possibly to calm nervous conditions. Can also be used as part of a relaxation program in the reclining version.
Variations
•Turn the posture into a full forward bend by extending the chest up over the feet. Try to rest the chin on the mat in front of you.
•Recline back with the shoulders & head supported on a blanket or Yoga Bricks. Arms are relaxed out to the sides.
I wanted to try more wide angle Puffins whilst on a Skomer this year. This is the first of a couple that worked out ok. There is still room for improvement, I found wide angles more difficult as it's practically impossible to get a clean background.
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Nikon D810 HDR Photos Window Rock on Pfeiffer Beach Big Sur Sunset Sea Cave Sunset, Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography! 14-24mm Nikkor Wide Angle F/2.8 Lens!
The sun sets right through the sea cave at window rock in Big Sur in the winter time! It was stormy all day, but then the sun burst through as it cleared abit, before clouding over again!
Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" which is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
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I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Odyssey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D8010 with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes Shot with Nikon D810: Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Three-Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
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Nikon D810 Sunset Photos of Malibu Sea Cave! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
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Homer's Odyssey: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide. . . Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; --Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler
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Whenever I feel down, I always remember that there is still a HOPE hidden up there.
I just need to pray hard tonight
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The Anglers' Tavern is a bar and bistro located on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in the Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia.
HDR photo taken on a Canon EOS 350D and merged using 3 exposures 2.0 EV apart.
(http://www.photologium.com/melbourne_buildings_night/anglers_tavern.html)
Spring Time in the Malibu Canyons! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
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DITA Dancer Hannah in a rendering of the skirt piece, at SiTE:LAB, during one of the final exhibitions of "Angle of Repose" - the Dance in the Annex (DITA) juror-nominated ArtPrize entry.
Strobist 102 2011 Unit 1.1 - Position (Angle).
1308 - reference shot ie exposure selected.
1309 - 1312 - moving the flash from straight on to 90 degrees camera left.
1314 - same position as 1312 but flash raised and aiming downwards.
1315 - flash at 45deg, camera at 0deg.
1316 - flash and camera at 45deg.
Strobist: 580EXII @ 1/16 power, ASA200, f6.7