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Found this at The Needles Viewpoint near The Battery.
Didn't take my Nikons on holiday this year just my little Panasonic TZ70. Shot everything in Jpeg on Intelligent Auto just for the convenience of it. This was not a "photographic" holiday !
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The huge complex of Dumbarton Castle ramparts sits on top of one of the River Clyde's most famous landmarks Dumbarton Rock
This view gives you an impression of how difficult it would have been to invade such a powerful stronghold
Getting to the top of this rock through the castle's rocky complex could be strenuous will need a certain level of fitness and not really condusive to the severely disabled
Our Daily Challenge 14--20 Oct : Seasonal Weather.
From the Argyll Gardens. at Alum Chine, Bournemouth'
Cliff Design Awards today...this one won first place. "I want to thank all the photons that participated"
Despite my absolute love for stormchasing, lightning and severe weather...a simple drive out to the Superstition Mountains before dawn when there is only a bit of rainy clouds in the forecast...can be just as beautiful and inspiring.
I love the awesomeness of a lightning storm. The adrenaline when I'm trying to get to a good spot for a tripod setup.
The morning I took this photograph wasn't like that. It was relaxing. Lazy. Rolling clouds, some rain in the distance...but nothing thrilling or exciting. Yet I ended up having just as much fun as I usually do. I don't believe I have ever been out on the Apache Trail before as the sun comes up. It was magical.
With a day predicted to have rain, you don't even know for sure if the drive out there will reward you with a sunrise because the clouds could definitely block out any light. But not on this day. The clouds kind of rolled in after the sun was up...and the light and shadows were magnificent.
On a total side topic...this was my first day out with the 5D Mark II. I only had a 2gb card because the others I ordered hadn't arrived yet. The RAW size is around 21-25mb, so the card could only hold around 60 images. Since most of the time I shoot six brackets per scene...I only had roughly 10 total shots I could take.
So of course I took my laptop with so I could dump photos to it as the morning progressed. Solution to the problem.
And of course I left the USB cable at home...so I couldn't do anything. Problem remained.
I have to say...it ended up being an interesting experiment. What brackets were actually not worth keeping in exchange for a new scene I just found? Was the new scene better or worse than what I already had? Was I going to cry because I deleted one road shot for another?
I was a nice exercise in self-control. Usually we just fire off millions of shots during a photowalk or excursion like this (and I'm not saying we shouldn't, I certainly wont stop), but it did teach me to take a bit of pause and make absolutely certain this was a shot I wanted.
ON YET ANOTHER NOTE, check out my guest blog post over on Justin Balog's blog, Light as Magic! Thanks for asking me Justin to be a part of your Out the Front Door series...was a blast to write!
(exif: canon eos 5d mark ii, 50mm 1.4, iso100, f/10)
Cliffs, Morning Light. Zion National Park, Utah. October 22, 2012. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Immense cliffs in the Pine Creek Canyon area of Zion National Park.
This was an interesting morning, as much for its place in the sequence of events on this trip to photograph in Utah as for the actual photographic opportunities. I have noticed, and other photographers I've spoken with about this seem to agree to at least some extent, that there is sometimes a sort of "getting up to speed" element to certain types of shooting when you are getting started. I recall mentioning this to one photographer friend in the context of a discussion about the idea that you should always have a clear vision for your photograph before you make it - a theoretical concept that most photographers I know acknowledge to be unrealistic and perhaps even a bad idea. (This is not to say that thinking about what your "capture" may look like as a photograph is unimportant, but rather an acknowledgement that things are often more complex than the simplistic notion suggests and that sometimes we, quite honestly, don't really know for sure which images will work or why.) When the idea of waiting for a really good image before making a photograph came up, I shared the observation that I sometimes have to "prime the pump" but simply starting to make some photographs, even if I'm not convinced that the first ones will be great. (One friend then referred to this as "photographic foreplay." ;-)
The previous day we had driven to St. George, Utah from the San Francisco Bay Area - a LONG drive - and finally stumbled into a motel in St. George close to midnight. (As I recall, the motel advertised something like "The Cheapest Rooms in St. George!") Up in the morning for precisely the free breakfast that you might expect in such a place - I resisted and instead walked across the street to a Starbucks - we left early and headed into Zion. As I recall we did not spend much, if any, time in Zion Canyon, and we were soon heading up the Mount Carmel highway, still having made no photographs. Finally, as we turned a few switchbacks on the initial climb, we saw some interesting light on the cliffs across the canyon, pulled over, got our cameras and lenses and tripods and made some photographs. I'm not sure that any of them were exactly remarkable, but with this first "shoot" (priming the pump) our work was now underway.
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Shortly after 4:00pm County Fire was dispatched to a report of a subject over the cliff. Upon arrival, Engine 17 found a male trapped approximately 35 feet over the side with his dog. Using a County Sheriff's pickup as an anchor point, a firefighter was lowered down. After attaching a harness to the victim, both dog and owner were lower safely to the beach. AMR was also on scene but neither dog nor owner required any medical attention.
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Here is a composite from the burst of this shot. It's not all of the frames, but the ones that made it turned out quite nice.
Title: Visit Oak Cliff
Creator: Dallas Lithograph Company
Date: ca. 1870s-1910s
Part Of: George W. Cook Dallas-Texas Image Collection
Place: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Physical Description: 1 print; 7 x 14 cm
File: a2014_0020_4_13_a_0035_c_oakcliff.jpg
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Special thanks to Shirley Goetz and Rouvaishyana for taking us to Avila to see the swallows and the Peregrines. They were pretty high up on the cliff. The light was challenging but the birds were certainly more so as they are so fast.
This was shot during a fundraising event for Headway Somerset.
Headway Somerset is an independent charity, affiliated to Headway UK. They provide social and cognitive rehabilitation for adults with brain injury and support and respite for their families through their three Brain Injury Outreach Units based in Bridgwater, Henton and Yeovil.
A great cause and one close to my heart, having a child that's suffered a brain injury myself as the result of an accident he was involved in...
28 Sixth Street, New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Cliff Building is a four-storey plus lower level Edwardian-era masonry commerical structure located on a steeply sloped site at the corner of Sixth and Clarkson Streets, in New Westminster's historic downtown core.
Heritage Value:
The Cliff Building is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of downtown New Westminster, which dates from 1898 to 1913, when the city was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area.
Built in 1910, the Cliff Building is valued for its construction history. This prominent structure was built at the extraordinary pace of one floor per week. The building was composed of B.C. Douglas fir girders, covered with plasterboard in the interests of fireproofing. The pressed tan bricks used for the exterior cladding came from the Clayburn brick factory in Matsqui. Other construction brick was manufactured at the Westminster Brick Works. Typical of commercial buildings of the Edwardian era, the facade has elements of the Classical Revival style. The double-hung windows cover a great deal of the wall surface, illustrating the desire for ever greater amounts of glazing and light, and the gradual shift toward a lighter appearance of buildings. It was built during the Edwardian era building boom for an investment group headed by Ronald Lorraine Cliff (1881-1953), a lumber manufacturer.
The Cliff Building is valued for its association with its architect Henry Sandham Griffith (1865-1943), a prominent architect with successful offices in both Victoria and Vancouver, known for designing all types and styles of buildings, from skyscrapers to palatial residences. He executed several commissions in New Westminster including the Coulthard-Sutherland Building.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Cliff Building include its:
- location on a steeply sloping site at the corner of Sixth and Clarkson Streets, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- form and scale as expressed by its four-storey plus lower level height, recessed central entry on Sixth Street, flat roof and cubic massing
- smooth dressed sandstone foundation with exterior cladding of pressed tan bricks
- Classical Revival influence, as demonstrated in: the tripartite facade articulation; vertical brick pilasters with a solid base, shaft and detailed capital; and intermediate cornices with dentils above the storefronts
- side entry on Clarkson Street with horizontal metal sign above "Cliff Building - 1910"
- regular fenestration, with double-hung wooden-sash windows
- rectangular storefront windows of varied size due to the slope of the hill, with wooden profiles and transoms
- mosaic floor tiles at main entry
- interior elements such as wooden window trim
- interior heavy timber frame structure of Douglas fir beams