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Project 365
Tuesday • March 30, 2010
The last day of my trip! No way was I leaving Pensacola Beach without one last sunrise! Grabbed my camera, a tall cup of coffee and headed to the beach. I laid in the sand for this glorious rising! *heavy sigh* I don't want to go home!
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For slow shutter and long exposure, the 7d's exposure simulation was a great help. It can compensate with the hoya nd400x -9 stops pitch. AWB was used on most of the photos and as same with the XXd and Xd series it presented the same results.
Sisiman Bay is found in mariveles bataan, it presented a different foreground/ middleground with the presence of the beacon/light house.
The 7d handled highlights similar to 40-50d, its a bit below the 5d mk1, it would blow highlights from the sky even with a -3 stop nd grad. The photo below showed some of this flaw. But the shadow details are excellent as expected from the 10-22 lens.
“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in the universal beauty.
And notwithstanding the scene is so impressively spiritual, and you seem dissolved in it, yet everything about you is beating with warm, terrestrial, human love, delightfully substantial and familiar.”
— John Muir, The Glacier Meadows of the Sierra
"The truth is, your lifestyle is not defined by the things you live with, but by the way you live and the happiness it brings to yourself and others." 🌟 🌈 ⋅
I will not give up, slow down, compromise, sit back, or be turned away from that to which I am called ever onward. This beautiful surrender to an adventure - something dangerous. Something worth living for. Something that demands all of me.
I crave this.
My heart cannot be put into a limiting box of either your expectations or mine. It's far too wild.
But I'm not afraid of that.
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn.
Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow."
— Paulo Coelho
Fall is beautiful. The golden sunsets and crisp air are perfect for getting ready for the holidays. This little field is right on my way home. I just missed the most beautful sunset. The tail end of it is in the distance... :(
Project 365
Sunday • September 5, 2010
Finding an image for "Push the Sliders" was very easy for me! I am guilty of this and proud of it! SOOC is rarely what I 'thought' I saw!!
Jackie and I raced to where we could get the sunset before it was gone. The best spot we found was naturally taken by two other photographers sitting up on a peak, with camp chairs, tripods and beverages. Don't you hate how others are always prepared? We considered knocking them out and stealing their spot ... and beverages ... but settled for a spot off to the side. It really was a spectacular sunset!!
Happy Slider Sunday!
LARGE View On White
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SEASCAPES #1
Every time I visit Lacanau-Océan, France,
the atlantic ocean with all of his fantastic facets repeatedly fascinates me. Well worth of showing some photos I took this time. This is No. 1.
Shot with the Sony Deutschland A7R3, 24-105 G lens, Rollei C5i tripod.
New photographic workshop online on my web page!
Prints for sale!
Cheers
Michael
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"It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.
The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way."
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically introduces viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will, that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
This is the lesson written into the stones of the desert and the ice fields of the poles. So grandly is it written there that we may come away from such places not crushed but inspired by what lies beyond us, privileged to be subject to such majestic necessities. The sense of awe may even shade into a desire to worship.”
—from The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Nature's Own Sculpture
A strong vertical line anchors the image and lets my eye luxuriate in textures, shapes and details. Curls and curves give a feel of motion and the neutral color palette lets each nuance have its moment of attention. A tree makes art.
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Combined two images of the clouds. Darkened the right side and lightened the left side with Dodge and Burn in Photoshop. Used an Infrared Preset in Lightroom to add the dramatic infrared look.
"We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity.
When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything" 🍃💦💚 —Jonah Lehrer, Why We Travel: The San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney’s, scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/10/why-we-travel)
Remove individualism and dehumanize; sever connections, provide basic necessities, assume responsibility; control their habitat and restrict their movement; divide.
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