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Abdominal view of a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens tarantula. Taken with a new to me Nikon D750 105mm f/2.8 1/200sec f/11 ISO 100.
Scenes like this one inspire a deep (and sometimes much needed!) sense of quiet and peace within me. The Smokies seem to have that effect on me perhaps more than any place I've traveled to. No matter how many times I go back, I seem to stumble upon images like this that just draw me in.
This view is from one of my favorite spots to see sunsets in the Smokies: Bunches Bald Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway (about 9.6 miles east of the intersection of 441 and the Blue Ridge Parkway).
Have a great holiday season,
Jeff
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Explored on Dec 24, 2013
These clouds are the blow-back upper level clouds from a thunderstorm. The storm is moving away from my position.
Happy "Smile on Saturday" with "Backsides"!
I wish you a nice weekend!
And thank you so much for your views, faves and comments!
Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "a flower's backside".
... and many thanks for your views, faves and comments! :-)
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My goal with this series is to explore every day scenes under the cover of darkness. A street corner, a lamp post, a doorway. Big city, small town, urban, rural. Man-made light versus nature’s darkness–––light and shadow interpreting minimalist settings in black and white. To see more in this series, check out Cover Of Darkness.
Early on in the COVER OF NIGHT series, I shot a couple gas stations. They were not initially the type scene I was looking to capture, but when I came across one late at night, bright and isolated in the darkness, it was impossible for me to resist, so I continue to shoot them. I have now shot enough that they have become a series-within-the-series. For a look at them as a collection, check out, Gas Stations
El tema de esta semana (11 de Marzo) es "Espalda"
The theme for this week (on March 11) is "Backside"
"Like Wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."
Everybody knows that the top side, the sun side, of a flower's bloom is the best face of any particular specimen. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I believe that the bottom side, the ground side of the blossom is just as compelling. Maybe even more so than the top. But, oftentimes, it is only the insects and the mice that can see it.
I made this capture with a viewfinder-and-monitor-blind technique, that is to say not seeing my subject either way but, instead, holding the camera lens at mouse-height and pointing it slightly upward to get this particular view of the dahlia, some distant pines and sky.
My DSLR camera, marvelously proficient in every other way, does not possess a moveable, flip-up LCD monitor on the back of the camera body, as some other models do. That would have been the easy way to take this shot, using an adjustable monitor. I but I had no choice in the matter. Even lying flat to the ground wouldn't have let me see what I was shooting in this situation. So I did things the old-fashioned way. Shoot and check and shoot and check again. Damn! Still missed it! But, eventually,
using the old "shotgun" approach, even the sightless man will hit his target, given enough tries.
Yep. This time, as lovely as the front/top of the dahlia blossom is,
I'm calling the bottom/ground side of it the indisputable winner. Your choice may vary, of course. All perfectly legal.
when you get to an iconic location shot by dozens of great photographers, you always have to think of a perspective that gives you some differentiation, camped for a bit in the freezing cold alone here as i waited for just the right light to hit the middle tufa's. sun was setting on the sierra this opened up for just a couple of minutes before the light faded on the backside of the mountains.
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Sometimes you just have to look at things from the rear. Taken at Hager Park on this past Sunday.