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Logic Vision Collective & Digital Alchemists present The Ritual: Gathering of the Tribes @ Chutes de Sainte Agathe Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada August 16-19, 2013
Photos by Kyle Rober
The Ritual: The Xperience 2014:
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Links:
The Ritual 2013:
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Logic Vision Collective:
www.logicvisioncollective.com/
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"How to I anchor these experiences and solidify these changes when I leave the forest?" And that brings me full circle back to my art practice and the question of the art object. Every festival does this for me, but every once in a while there is a festival space that goes so far to the core of my being, that it transcends everything I held to be true, and everything changes for me. This year The Ritual did that for me. '' J.S ((( )))
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The DIGITAL ALCHEMISTS are proud to present:
THE RITUAL: Gathering of the Tribes 2013. Where the paths of Mysticism, Spirituality & Consciousness meet... Let's Bring Back our Sacred Rituals !
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Every year, a number of festivals are celebrated in the world. These festivals are looked forward to, for many, with a lot of enthusiasm.
Although these festivals, different kinds of rituals are performed (with utmost care), and provide you mystical experiences.
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PROLOGUE :
Focused around a central element, throughout the gathering, there is a sacred container being collectively created and held, in collaboration with the Native peoples who have honored us with the use of their land.
We believe in the healing potential of intentional gatherings.
We have dedicated our lives for facilitating these opportunities for a collective evolution.
Our mission : to create the perfect transformation into Peace, Unity and Global Respect...
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4 days Open-Air Festival
International Music acts
International Deco concept
More info coming soon...
Pono Pono
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Logic Vision Collective est fier de vous présenter :
La Réunion des Tribus 2013
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Chaque année, un certain nombre de festivals sont célébrés dans le monde. Ces réunions sont organisés avec beaucoup de respect et sont attendus, pour beaucoup, avec enthousiasme. Ils sont exécutés avec un soin extrême pour vous offrir une expérience psychedelique mystique unique.
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PROLOGUE :
Autour d'un conteneur sacré est centré un élément, créé et collectivement gardé avec les Peuples autochtones, nous ayant honorés de l'usage de leur terre.
Nous croyons aux guérisons et au potentiel des intentions.
Nous consacrons nos vies à faciliter ces réunions, pour l'évolution collective.
Notre mission : créer une transformation parfaite dans la Paix, l'Union et le Respect Global...
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4 Jours de Festival en Plein-Air
Artistes internationaux
Concept Déco international
Bientôt d'autres nouvelles...
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International Artists:
✔ PSYKOVSKY live! (Osom Music - Russia) - Psychedelia
✔ KASHYYYK live! (Kamino recs - Mexico) - Hitech Psychedelic Trance
✔ INSECTOR live! (Kamino recs - Hungary) - Hitech Psychedelic Trance
✔ ENICHKIN live! (Mind Expension - D-A-R-K recs - Russia) - Psychedelic Trance & Psydub
✔ VENSKER Djset! (Kamino recs - D-A-R-K rec | Mexico) ::: Hitech Psytrance
✔ PRIMORDIAL OOZE live+djset (Anti-shanti recs | D-A-R-K recs- USA) ::: Psytrance
✔ LUNECELL live+djset+Vjset (Occulta recs - USA) ::: Psychedelia
✔ AXIS MUNDI live! (Touch Samadhi - USA) :::: Psychedelic trance
✔ DOG OF TEARS live! (Active Meditation Music - USA) ::: Psychedelic trance
✔ MANIPULATION live! (Kinematic recs - USA)) ::: Psychedelic
✔ BRANDON ADAMS (Bom Shanka Music/Free Radical Recs/SYNC/Dreamcatcher - USA)::: Psychedelic
✔ THE HIPPIE DISCO PROJECT live! (D-A-R-K recs - USA)::: Groovadelic Circuit Bending
✔ RICCO MAZZER (Uroborous recs -Brazil) ::: Darkprog
✔ MISSKEY DJSET! (Arkona Creation - United Kingdom) ::: Psygressive
✔ Z3NKAI Djset! (PSYNON records - Switzerland)::: Psychedelic
✔ HARDKOR NATE live+djset ( Spacecamp Psyfari, Denver USA] ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ ASCENSION LIVE+DJSET [Chilluminati, Spacecamp Psyfari, Denver USA] ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ DEFTSPANK live! (D-A-R-K recs - Venezuela)::: Darkpsy
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Local Heros
Live-Acts:
✔ 1,618 live! (Montreal) ::: Progressive Psytrance
✔ ATHERIA live! (Geomagnetic recs - Toronto) ::: Progressive
✔ AURA live! (Aura Music - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ DUGONG LIVE ! (FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS) Tom Lemann & Logan Hollow (BELLYOFTHEWHALECTRONICA inc. - Montreal) ::: Tribal Minimalism
✔ DER DENKER live! (Concepto Hypnotico - Montreal)::: Dark Minimal
✔ Dr STRANGEFUNK live! (Werk It Music - St Jerome) ::: Zenonesque
✔ FLORIAN MSK live! (Concepto Hypnotico - Montreal) ::: Dark Minimal
✔ KLOUD NIN9 live! (Glitchy Tonic - Montreal) ::: ProgDark
✔ SOURSWEET live! (Logic Vision recs - Montreal) ::: Psysufi
✔ SPACEY KOALA live! (Logic Vision recs - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ UBER live! (Indy - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ VIRTUAL LIGHT live (Prism Code - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ ZENTRIX live! (Digital Mind recs - Montreal) ::: Zenonesque
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DJsets
✔ ALAKAZOO (Logic Vision - Samsara Festival) ::: Darkprog
✔ ALIEN RAINFOREST (Ajnavision recs- Ottawa) ::: Psydub
✔ AKSHOBHYA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ ANIMA vs NTSHANTI (OuI-R1 - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ BANJANKRI (Organic Family - Toronto) ::: Forest Le Pendu
✔ BENDALA (Space Gathering - Montreal)
✔ CODE-AMA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Dark Grooves
✔ DIRTY HARRY (St Jerome) ::: Zenonesque
✔ EFFLUX (Montreal) ::: DMTechno
✔ ELVIRA (Osiris Collective - Montreal) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ FIELD EQUATION (Montreal) ::: Chillstep
✔ G-PI (Techno Agricole - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ JOEL MCDUFF (OUIR1 - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ KHALIL (Speakeasy - Montreal) ::: Electroswing Balkan
✔ KOALUNA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Troglodyte Psytrance
✔ KISS of VENUS (New York) ::: Psychedelic Techno
✔ KRIKKITT (Osiris prods - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ MACHINELF (Timewave Productions, Om Reunion Project-Toronto) ::: Progressive Psytrance
✔ MOHINIA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ MYTHROPHAN (Toronto) ::: Progressive
✔ MYKUL ELF (Organic Family - ToMontrealronto) ::: Psybass
✔ NAAZ djset (D.A.R.K recs - Montreal) ::: psychedelic trance
✔ NAINITA (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ NIKOCH (Montreal) ::: Native Tribal Trance
✔ NIKOLI Djset (Outer World Prods, Manifesting Magic festival - Ottawa) ::; Progressive
✔ NISMO (Cyberloft - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ OBSIDIAN (Logic Vision - Ottawa) ::: Psydub
✔ OGICHIDA (Organic Family - Toronto) ::: Forest
✔ OTKUN djset (kamino recs - Montreal) ::: Forest Hitech
✔ PLAN B (Shakti Collective - Toronto) ::: Psytrance
✔ PRANAPAPA (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Ethno Trance
✔ PSYBERTH (Openmind Festival - Can) ::: Psybass
✔ PYROTRICH (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ RED ELECTRIC EARTH (Love Project - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ RON JON (Logic Vision - Ottawa) ::: Psytrance
✔ SABI NON STOP (Tatanka fest - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ SARA DOPSTAR (Kosmic Juice, Toronto) ::: Psyprog
✔ SHANGO (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Dakrpsy
✔ SPOONANI (Pounjah - Quebec) ::: Drum & Bass
✔ SYNTHETIK (Prism Code - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ TRANSISCO (Om Project - Toronto) ::: Morning Psy
✔ WARRIORS (Big Tooth - Montreal) ::: Deep BASS
✔ XONICA (Logic Vision rec - Toronto) ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ YGRIEGA (Sourcecode | OUI R1 - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ ZAGA (Cosmic Juice - Toronto) ::: Progressive
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Deco Artists:
✔ WIZART VISIONS (USA) ::: Decoration
WizArt Visions is a visionary art project of New York based artist Olga Klimova and her team dedicated to creating an intense mind-opening visual environment for events.
www.facebook.com/pages/WizArt-Visions/444814318878170
✔ ORGANIC FAMILY (CAN) ::: DECO
✔ CESAR AR (CAN) ::: Visionnary ARt
✔ MYRKO (CAN) ::: Visionnary ARt
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SERVICES
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- Restaurant végétarien et méditerranéen / Vegetarian and mediterranean restaurant
- Kiosque de jus frais & Tchai / Fresh juice stand & Tchai
- Plage et baignade sur le site / Beach and swimming on the site
- Toilettes / WC
- Camping gratuit / Free camping
- Sécurité professionnelle et amicale sur le site / Professionnal and friendly security on the site.
REGLEMENT / REGULATION
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- Respectez l’environnement / Respect the environment
- Aucun objet en verre sur le site / No glass on the site
- Les feux sont interdits / Fires are forbidden
- Baignade interdite la nuit / No swimming at night
- Aucun animal domestique sur le site / Pets are not allowed on the site
- Aucun système de son indépendant ne sera toléré sur le site / Independant sound systems will be not tolerated on the site.
MERCI DE BIEN VOULOIR RESPECTER CES REGLES ! ...
THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THOSE RULES ! ...
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The INDIAN MARKET !
The Ritual Festival will offer a wide assortment of food/drink, crafts, and other vendors throughout the Festival site.
Le RItuel Festival vous offrira un assortiment très large de restaurants ainsi qu'une variété de kiosques nous proposants des produits d'ici et d'ailleurs
please email us at: theritual.festival@gmail.com
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With open minds and adventurous souls, there will always be sounds to move to and beats to feel.
We hope you are as excited as we are !
Avec l'esprit ouvert et aventureux, il y aura toujours des rythmes pour vous faire bouger et des musiques à ressentir.
Nous espérons que vous êtes aussi enthousiasmés que nous le sommes !
Info Contact : theritual.festival@gmail.com
COLLABORATORS & SPONSORS
Digital-Audio-Records-Kompany
Cybeloft
Kamino records
Tantruum recs
MAIA Brazil records
Osom records
Glitchy Tonic records
Organic FamilyThe DIgital ALchemists
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Timetables
Galactic Portal:
Vendredi / Friday
18:00 XONICA ::: OPENING Ceremony
19:00 Krikkitt djset :: Psychedelic
20:30 Pyrotrich djset ::: Forest Psychedelic Trance
22:00 Mohinia djset ::: Psychedelic
23:30 Shango & Nainita ::: Forest Psy
Samedi / Saturday
01:00 CAUSAI (Vancouver) ::: Psytrance
02:30 PREGAKORE (Portugal) ::: Psychedelic
04:00 VENSKER Djset! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
05:30 AXIS MUNDI live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
07:00 Virtual Light djset ::: Morning Psy
08:30 HIPPIE DISCO live ! (USA) ::: Morning FUnky
10:00 SPACEY KOALA live :::Funky Psytrance
11:00 MISSKEY djset! (UK) ::: Progressive Trance
12:30 ATHERIA live ! (Toronto) ::: Psytrance
01:30 Dr Strangefunk live! ::: Zenonesque
02:30 Zentrix live!::: Zenonesque
03:30 Ygriega ::: Progressive Trance
05:00 KLOUD Nin9 live! ::: darkprog OTEZUKA (France) :::: Progressive
06:00 RICCO MAZZER live! (Brazil) ::: Zenonesque
07:30 FRACTAL PHONO (USA) ::: Zenonesque
09:00 LUNECELL live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
10:30 Otkun (Montreal) ::: Psychedelic Moon
Dimanche / Sunday
00:00 KASHYYYK live! (MEXICO) ::: Hitech
03:00 INSECTOR live! (HUNGARY) ::: Hitech
06:00 PRIMORDIAL OOZE live!(USA) ::: Psychedelic
08:30 BRANDON ADAMS (USA) :: Full Power
10:00 MANIPULATION live (USA) ::: Morning
11:30 HARDKOR NATE djset (USA) ::: Psytrance
13:00 ASCENTION liveset (USA) ::: Psytrance
14:00 A.C. LYON live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
15:30 Dugong live! ::: Dark Tribal Minimalism
17:00 Florian live! ::: Dark Minimal
18:00 Der Denker ::: Dark Minimal
20:00 Anima vs Nt Shanti ::: Psygressive
21:30 Akshobhya ::: Psychedelic
23:00 Plan B ::: Psychedelic
Lundi / Monday
00:30 DEFTSPANK live (Venezuela) ::: Psychedelic
01:30 Ogichida vs Banjankari::: Forest Psytrance
03:00 PSYKOVSKY live ! (Russia)::: Psychedelic
07:30 DOG OF TEARS live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
09:30 NAAZ ::: Psychedelic
11:00 CODE-AMA ::: Psychedelic
12:30 RONJON ::: Psychedelic
14:00 OTEZUKA ::: Psyprog
16:00 The DIGITAL ALCHEMISTS ::: CLOSING
Dream Catcher Portal
Friday / Vendredi:
08:00 Zaga (Toronto) ::: Dark Minimal
10:00 MAJESTER (British COlumbia) ::
Saturday / Samedi:
00:00 Elvira ::: Hitech
01:30 Koaluna ::: forestpsy
03:00 Play Different live! (Toronto) ::: Psytrance
04:30 Synthetik ::: psytrance
06:00 MACHINE ELF (Toronto) ::: Psy trance
08:00 MYTHROPHAN (Toronto) ::: Progressive Trance
10:00 TRANCISCO (Toronto) ::: Progressive Psytrance
12:00 Glitch (Quebec) :: Progressive
01:30 Red ELectric Earth ::: Progresive
03:00 G-Pi ::: Minimal
04:30 Uber live! ::: Progressive
06:00 Nismo & Franky-Owl::: Progressive
07:30 Alakazoo ::: Psyprog
09:00 SARA DOPSTAR (Toronto) ::: Progressive
11:00 1,618 live! :: Psytech
Sunday / Dimanche
00:30 ZENKAI ::: Psytrance
02h30 SPOONANI vs ZENTRIX ::: Progressive
04:00 FLICKER LIGHT (Brazil) ::: Progressive
05:30 Efflux ::: Minimal
07:00 Dirty Harry ::: Zenonesque
08:30 Joel Mac Duff ::: Progressive
10:30 AURA live! (Portugal) ::: Psybient
12:00 KHALIL ::: Gypsy PsyDub
02:00 KATNIP (British Columbia) ::: Psybreaks
03:30 NIKOLI (Ottawa) ::: Temple Step
05:00 SOURSWEET live!::: IDM
07:00 LUNECELL djset! ::: Temple Step
09:00 OBSIDIAN (Ottawa) ::: Temple Step
Monday / Lundi
00:00 SPOONANI (Quebec) ::: DnB
01:30 Pranapapa ::: Progressive Dub
03:00 Psyberth djset :: Progressive Dub
04:30 KISSofVenus (USA) ::: Minimalism
06:00 RED ELECTRICH ::: Zenonesque
07:30 Transurfer ::: Progressive
09:00 Sabi Non STop ::: Psydub
10:30 Bendala ::: Psybass
12:00 MAYA EFF ::: PsyBass
END OF THE VORTEX _/\_ AHO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
This is the backside of a 2013 penny. Notice anything different? Am I the only person who didn't know about/notice this change to our change?? Does it really matter? Probably not, but I'm keeping an eye on you, US Treasury Dept.
The changing face of the Liverpool waterfront, in the setts are old railway lines that would have linked the docks to the warehouses, in the brick wall can be seen some iron supporting columns for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, known as the 'Dockers Umbrella' which opened on the 4th February 1893 and closed on 30th December 1956, now a new era is beginning of expensive high rise appartments with views over the River Mersey.
14th November 2014
...is one of the talents of cuttlefishes. This is the same giant cuttlefish which was red in previous photos.
Changer rapidement de couleur est un des talents des seiches. La seiche gêante photographiée ici était rouge sur les photos précêdentes.
Today we had a change of weather that was quite violent. Nothing unusual after weeks of glorious weather. Especially here in the South-West it comes on full blast with heavy rain showers and thunderstorms. A feast for the eye and the camera - as long as I keep the camera dry, that is.
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My nearly-95 year old grandmother is contemplating a change in direction for her painting: from abstract acrylics (after abandoning oils because of the effect on her lungs) to watercolours, and subjects more peaceful. To that latter end, she brought out a small frame and was examing the possibilities in the view from her backyard.
Taken for Saturday's post on my new blog: How to Clean Like a Man.
howtocleanlikeaman.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/how-to-change...
"SUMMERTIME ESCAPE FROM CROWDED BERLIN SEES THOUSAND ENCAMPED IN CROWDED QUARTERS ALONG NEAR-BY HAVEL RIVER
Colonies of these flimsy week-end huts and tents line river banks and lake shores about Berlin. Open-air dining, sun baths, and the care of tiny flower pots all add to the contentment of city vacationists."
Photograph by Douglas Chandler
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
Whenever I try to voice my opinions, I get laughed at as though I said something funny... Like a clown. But they don't know that I was serious... (No, not really. That's what I see when I look at this picture. Someone unheard...)
Something I did during the 20 minutes I had to spare... I had a ruffle thing that clowns have around the neck, but it didn't exactly ruffle the way it's suppose to. :P
converted to b&w and changed levels in Photoshop 7.0
hands & model: me
None of my work may be used without my given consent.
"NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS FOR AN HOUR, RIVER BOATS TIE UP ALONGSIDE AND FLOATING HOUSEWIVES EXCHANGE GOSSIP
Warehouses and factories are clustered along the Spree to take advantage of cheap transportation by water. Near the river stands the Stadthaus, or Town Hall."
Finlay Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
"MAY DAY MASSES JAM THE BERLIN LUSTGARTEN TO HEAR ADOLF HITLER SPEAK
Decorated with the swastika sign and guarded by troops, the speaker's stand appears in the far background, on the broad speps of the Old Museum. At the right appears a corner of the Berlin Cathedral. The Maypole, decorated with bunting and swastikas, represents a revival of an old folk custom formerly observed chiefly in the rural districts."
Photograph by Wide World
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
1 April 2009
There was a climate change oriented protst by the Excell center in responce to the G20. Protestors wore white in reference to melting polar ice caps.
Changing colours at Perrenporth beach today's track care of a Canadian Band called Great Lake Swimmers www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHI4L79mB4 try it you might be surprised
a little change,
but it does not change
who you are,
or who you have been
as life goes on,
changes are to come
and change you will be
but the real you..
will always be you
"IN THE DAYS OF EMPIRE MANY A ROYAL PRINCESS RODE TO HER WEDDING IN THIS LUXURIOUS COACH
Built in Strasbourg in 1789 for King Frederick William II, the richly carved, gilded state carriage is preserved now in the Hohenzollern Museum. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler makes official trips by motorcar."
Finlay Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
Toronto350.org standing in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline
(Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj, sindark.com)
Although BSC/Corus locomotives had always accessed B.R. metals (Network Rail when this picture was taken in February 2007) it tended to be restricted to coupling up to or depositing wagons on the adjacent down through siding. After the 1984 rationalisation they began to make longer journeys in Workington's now extended yard, as the new freight rail companies severely curtailed their use of class 08 pilot engines.
Here Hunslet 0-6-0, Corus No 403 boldly "trespasses" on the NR sidings, moving to pick up a rake of empties - deposited in the old yard by 66952. At the same time, the freightliner machine is making the opposite move; from NR lines buffering up to a train in the Corus siding alongside the Long Welded Rail plant.
Note: to see the overall theme of photos in this particular Flickr set, click here to see the summary description and thumbnail images of the photos in the set.
Note: this photo was published in a Jul 6, 2012 issue of Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jul 6, 2012.
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This was taken on the southeast corner of Broadway & 96th Street, during the "golden hour" between 6-8 PM a few evenings ago, when the sun drops down over the western horizon and casts its glow up 96th Street…
Crowds of people swirl up and down the street all evening along, and then wait at the corner of 96th Street for the light to change -- so they can cross over to the median strip between the uptown and downtown lanes of Broadway, and then walk into the subway stop of the #1 IRT subway line.
Of all the people in the swirl, I noticed this mop-haired person with the blue shirt and the unruly hair … and I snapped photo after photo after photo as both of them stood on the corner and talked intensely for several minutes.
The traffic light changed, but they didn't walk towards me at all, into the subway station. Instead, they moved even closer and closer and closer to one another ... they kissed, and then they walked away -- one of them heading north across 96th Street, and the other turning east, and walking up the hill towards Amsterdam Avenue.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what was really going on here. I have to admit that I didn't understand it at the time … but one of the other photos that I took (and which I will not be uploading to Flickr) explained the details to me.
By the way, that is not my reflection in the window behind the two subjects of this photo. For photos like this, I am -- and always want to be -- invisible and anonymous.
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Over the past several years, I've grown so accustomed to the "automatic" features in my cameras that I've almost completely forgotten how to do anything manually. I think it was the early 1990s when auto-focus mechanisms began to creep into the point-and-shoot cameras that I used to record birthday parties and other family events; and virtually every DSLR camera I've had provides an "automatic-everything" mode that combines autofocus, auto-aperture, auto-shutter-speed, and even auto-ISO auto-white-balance. Most of the time, it works just fine; and it allows me concentrate on figuring out who (or what) I want to include in the picture. For street photography, that's a full-time job in itself.
But sometimes it doesn't work so well; and sometimes, the photographer wants to override what the camera would do by itself. For example, I normally shoot in "aperture-priority" mode, which means that I'm the one who sets the f-stop; and I'll typically set the ISO (speed), and just let the camera figure out what the appropriate shutter speed would be. That generally works pretty well, especially if I've set the aperture to something like f/8 or f/11 in order to get a reasonably deep depth-of-field (DOF), which results in almost everything being in-focus.
Lately, though, I've been getting more and more obsessed with photos that have a shallow DOF, so that the subject of the photo is in sharp focus, but the background is blurred. Aside from a "prime" 50mm f/1.4 lens that I don't use very much, most of my lenses only "open up" to a f/5.6 aperture ... but sometimes even that is enough to cause some problems if I let the camera do its auto-focus thing. Sometimes the camera decides to focus on something other than the subject that I'm interested in; sometimes it bases its focusing decision on an "average" of everything in the frame; and sometimes it gets so utterly confused that it focuses on nothing at all.
So I decided to spend one evening (when I could take advantage of the "golden hour" sunset lighting) reverting back to manual focusing to see if I could force the camera to focus on what *I* wanted to focus on. Bottom line: it works okay if the subject(s) is/are stationary, and you've got a couple seconds to adjust the focus appropriately. But if the subject(s) is/are in motion, as is often the case with street photography, then it's a disaster. By the time I took this shot, I had given up on the whole manual-focus thing, and switched back to auto-focus. However, I chose a particular form of auto-focus that instructed the camera to base its focusing decision on a very small circular section in the middle of the frame ... and not to worry about anything else. It wasn't quite so crucial on this photo, because my aperture somehow ended up at f/6.3 ... but the camera did focus properly, and the background is just slightly blurred.
Now, if I can just find an affordable f/2.8 telephoto lens that doesn't weigh a ton, it will be interesting to see how this manual-focus/spot-focus thing works out...
First off- hello!
Saturday Matt and I went to the Willows.
I heart Pennsylvania in the fall.
Second this is what's new:
I've been working super hard on my senior (capstone) seminar art class. I have a show coming up in 3 weeks! YAY!
working two jobs and trying to finish school, 2 semesters and 2 classes to go!!
school, work, paint, draw, repeat
OR
work, work, paint, draw repeat
Having a craft show in December as well!
Also, I need your help! Check out my blog post found Here. I'd greatly appreciate it!!!!!!!!
Visit www.climatefriendlybanking.com for more information.
On December 4th, The Rainforest Action Network helped to create an action in downtown Calgary highlighting the impact on climate change of individual investments in the 5 major Canadian banks.
Continued inaction on climate change is impacting communities and ecosystems across the north. One of these affected communities is Santa's workshop.
"I just don't know what to do" said Santa, "the ice is breaking up, the reindeer (caribou) can't find food, and the elves are absolutely distraught."
Members of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition helped Santa, his elves, the caribou and the polar bears reach the federal government by setting up a homeless shelter outside Environment Minister Rona Ambrose's constituency
office.
Happy New Year 2014 everybody!
It's New Years Day in Birmingham's Victoria Square.
It is deserted! It is wet. And the water feature is turned off again (needs repairing again!).
Looking to the Council House. Still says "Happy Christmas Birmingham". Normally they change it to "Birmingham Welcomes" with the new year number! Not changed this time around! (oops!).