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Steve Sir puts on quite a fireworks display once every term. When he asked me to take some pics, my first thought was it was going to be 4-5 shots and that's it. I asked him: "How many shots you going to do?"(intonating that I thought it would be a few), his response was: "15 minutes"! It was quite the performance with several thousand dollars of pyrotechnics all going up in a spectacular display! I obviously had forgotten that this is TEXAS and they do things BIGGER and BETTER there; especially at Camp Champions!
3xp internal HDR shot taken near the grand-finale. Each shot took 45 seconds to complete and another 45 seconds to process for the internal HDR. I couldn't get the finale, because the bursts were even *bigger* and *above* the range of my camera (had it on a tripod and couldn't adjust quickly)!
Camp Champions, Texas.
Late addition (Oct30/16) : can someone please tell me how this photo has had over 24,000 views when it didn't make Explore, and was only in 13 groups? I'd really like to know.
Original commentary:
I 've been looking at this photo on my dining room wall, where I have a tapestry with dozens of photos ~ a tradition started by my Mom years ago. I used various techniques to get all the pinholes out of this, because I have no idea where the negative is. My friend Gerry & I had camped on a nearby island for 3 years, wishing we could camp on this group of 7 islands surrounding a sheltered lagoon. We finally got it, and I have to say camping here was like being in Eden. Except the water is cold. After this shot was taken, I took off all my clothes and hid them behind a rock, hoping for a true Garden of Eden shot. Joni MItchell has an album cover where she stands naked at the seashore. (Altho she's facing away form the camera) However, since I had 7 rolls of film (this was before I had a digital), I decided to get them developed at Costco, which was less expensive. I was looking forward to seeing how they turned out . But....when I picked the photos up ~shock ~ the nude ones had been removed. Staff said they took them out because of the way photos are in bins on the floor for people to pick out their own. But they're in packages with the photographers' name on them, so I didn't think other people would take mine. I made the store clerk take me to their lunchroom to make sure there were no photos of me in my BD suit on their bulletin board! I've never seen any of the nude shots from this trip....I think there were 4 or 5. Bet that would never happen in Europe!
Anyway, in this one, I like the texture of the rocks contrasted with the smoothness of the ocean, and the vastness of the scene, with only one person ~me~ to be seen. We named the wonderful tree The Joshua Tree, even tho it doesn't look like one, and hiked across a couple of small islands and up some rocks to have our morning coffee in this powerful place.
PS......altho this pic was taken with my camera, I didn't take it.....thanks Gerry! I did doctor it with various Picnik techniques, tho, so it's partly my work.
© Copyright notice: this photo belongs solely to me, and may not be used by any person, organization or entity without my full written permission
"Il disegno ed il colore non sono affatto distinti. Man mano che si dipinge, si disegna. Più il colore diventa armonioso, più il disegno si fa preciso."
(Paul Cézanne)
Salvation Army camp, Collaroy
Call Number: Home and Away - 22400
Format: film photonegative
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Africa - Marocco - Telouet (Atlas Mountain) 1820 mt slm - Campo base Base Camp.
Night long exposure - Please View On Black
For the benefit of all those Penrith Flickr members who will be going to Newnes next weekend 30th April, I have posted this panoramic view of the camping ground I took when I was last there. You will notice the amenities shed way back in the right of the photo. In the foreground you will also notice the ad-hoc fireplace.
If I cant make it with you guys next weekend, I wish you all happy camping and take lots of photos.
1st Camping this year, this was suppose to be the special one. Drove all the way up to Algonquin Provincial Park, the first and biggest Park in all of Ontario! Drive took way longer ( instead of 3 - 4 , 5 - 6 hours ) then we anticipated and the girls were amazing!! Halfway driving into the park we noticed that the gas light went on. No idea how we missed it that we were nearing empty but I guess we were all to excited. No gas station for miles ahead, so no other way but to turn around and drive back out of the park ( we are talking about a 2,955 sq mi park here ). Girls were already at the end of their patient but we said, ok let's not make that ruin our trip. Get there, register, come to the campsite, step out of the car and get hit by a wall of mosquito's! And not the usual stuff that we are used to when we go camping. It's as if they weren't fed for weeks and we were the bait!! At any given moment there were at least 5 of them sucking your blood. I couldn't even get our camping supplies off the roof because I was smacking my arms and legs to get rid of them. The poor girls of course didn't know better and just let them bite their poor little bodies. So Laura was hovering over them and trying to smack them all dead while I was trying to setup everything as fast as I could so we could hide behind the mosquito nets! Then we got everyone dressed into long sleeve clothes and started a fire, lid on all the candles and sprayed everyone and they still had no mercy! Barely managed to roast 2 marshmallows and then we ran back inside the tent. :(
If that wasn't enough I also forgot the mattress pump, so I took Charlie and we went running around the campsites asking if anyone could borrow us a mattress pump. There was this young couple that did have one and was kind enough to borrow theirs. I also asked them if they have been here before and if it always has been this bad. They said that they have been coming here every year at this time and it has never been so bad.
At least that confirmed that I am not just crazy!!
So we finally got everything pumped up and setup and went to sleep, hoping for a better day the next day!
CAMP EYE
In her essay, Susan Sontag observed that “Camp taste has an affinity for certain arts rather than others,” citing fashion as one of those arts. Yet Sontag offers only two examples: “women’s clothes of the twenties” and “a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.” More critical to appreciating fashion as a key expression of the camp sensibility is Sontag’s analysis of its formal characteristics: irony, humor, parody, pastiche, naïveté, duplicity, ambiguity, artificiality, theatricality, extravagance, exaggeration, and aestheticism. All of these characteristics—either singly or jointly—are apparent in the fashions shown here.
While the first section of the exhibition functions as a series of “whispering” galleries, as befits camp’s clandestine status before its “outing,” the second presents an “echo chamber.” Although Sontag’s voice can be heard the loudest, she is joined by other voices of camp criticism that come afterward, including those of Mark Booth, Fabio Cleto, Philip Core, and Karl Keller—their assertions bouncing off one another as was well as off fashions.
The designs are organized under eighteen statements that communicate key aspects of the camp sensibility. Within these groupings, each ensemble is accompanied by a comment that speaks to the complicated and multi-faceted nature of camp. While experienced as a cacophony, these remarks, which are spoken aloud by designers in the exhibition, together point to the essential spirit of the camp sensibility: its all-inclusive, all embracing magnanimity.
(Hats and headdresses by Stephen Jones)
From the wall display: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/camp-notes-on...
Camping at Weobley Castle on the Gower. This is two seperate wide angle exposures of around 8 minutes each that have been stacked to bring out longer star trails whilst minimising unwanted hues from street lights etc that longer exposures would exagerate. The illumination on the side of the van is from our camp fire and a small interia vehicle light.
Mahahual está situado en la costa del Mar Caribe. Forma parte de la reserva de Xcalak junto con Río Huach, Bacalar y Chetumal.
Uno de los principales atractivos de Mahahual es su cercanía con el Banco Chinchorro ,un atolón coralino declarado reserva natural, y la segunda barrera de arrecife más grande del mundo.
Este arrecife se sitúa en el Mar Caribe frente a las costas de Quintana Roo y Belice, teniendo una enorme biodiversidad sumamente atrativa para bucear en ella. Así mismo se encuentra rodeada por grandes extensiones de selva virgen.
El 21 de agosto de 2007, el Huracán Dean, con categoría 5 y vientos de 270 km/h tocó tierra en Mahahual, alrededor de las 04:00 horas, siendo la localidad mas seriamente afectada por su impacto.
Resultado: Destruidos el 80% de sus edificios e infraestructura.