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The cyclist sits quiet and still,
Beside his dark bike on the hill,
As the city bus glides,
On its mid-afternoon rides,
And the street loses all of its thrill.
He pauses to ponder the day,
While shadows and light softly play,
By the high street and bank,
In a solitary rank,
Watching daily routine slip away.
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
Coffee and nature this morning.
A bright crisp autumn morning at "The Basins" in Wellington Somerset, UK.
Taken with my smallest camera, the Lumix LF1 it's even smaller than my LX7 and it actually fits in a shirt pocket. Old and solid with a metal body that has a substantial feel in the hand.
Matthew Crabb is an award winning artist based in Exeter. I was visiting the craft fair at Sandringham in Norfolk when I took this picture. Matthew had been asked by a local farmer if he could make use of an enormous tree trunk and he jumped at the opportunity. A tractor then brought the trunk to the arena for Matthew to work on. He walked round and round the trunk clearly working out in his head what he could create. It was difficult to take any good images because the background was a scruffy tent and I only had my Lumix point and shoot camera. But I went back every hour to photograph the artwork as it changed. Unfortunately Matthew said it wouldn't be finished till the end of the next day so I didn't get any shots of the finished piece.
www.exmoorchainsawcarving.co.uk
Steyning Camera Club - Open Print Comp. 2016 - 17
Round 1 - Judge Ann Smith ARPS
Score: 15/20
Poznan, Poland
Kind of a wet and rainy, but warm day around the city. School is beginning again and I do enjoy seeing the students dressed to impress around this time of the year. Had the luxury of being alone in the back today...nice view.
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we met this fisherman in the morning at the beach of el arenal where he had just finished his nightly shift
A fisherman doing one of his daily chores at Sabak Fishing Village Kelantan. Work hardened but nimble hands. This man was working so fast it took about 20 photos to get his fingers from blurring in the dim light. B&W version for comparison. I don't know what happened to the EXIF information on this sorry.
Marion is one of the crofters who will feature in my forthcoming exhibition - Crofting Life - in Stoer, Assynt from 2nd - 6th July. I'm not going to use this picture, although I'm really fond of it. All of my pictures will be monochrome, but obviously this has to be in colour. Marion is shown here with her pet sheep, Morag, and sitting outside her gift shop on her croft.
A peak trading season for dried fish and marine catches has brought immense hustle and bustle to Chattogram's traditional fish landing station (Fishery Ghat). Every day, tons of fish are unloaded from trawlers and boats, packed into large sacks, and loaded onto trucks for distribution across the country. However, behind this booming economic activity, the surrounding environment and the banks of the Karnaphuli River are facing a severe threat.
Full CONFUSION article here:
www.confuzine.com/2015/01/18/kiel-diy-northern-germany/
Canon 15mm/2.8f
Kodak BW-400
Canon T90
James and I on my last week hiking Gran Canaria.
I`ll miss our campfires and 24/7 philosophy.
10 sec delayed-action shutter release
SOLIGOR 35-70mm/2.5-3.5f
Kodak T-Max 100 (expired)
Canon A1
This is the Bangkok BTS SkyTrain, cutting across its elevated concrete line near King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Ratchadamri, one of the busiest transit corridors in the city. A fully wrapped red train slides past a modern skyscraper with a rippling, gridded glass facade, while six floors below, taxis and traffic work their way around Lumphini Park's manicured lawn. Two layers of Bangkok running at once — the transit system carrying the city forward, and the street-level chaos that never really slows down, day or night.
Here's why I set the camera the way I did. Shooting a moving train at night from a distance meant working with very little usable light and no room for a tripod at this angle. 1/80 sec was the compromise — slow enough to keep the ISO from climbing even further, but still fast enough to hold the train's shape without it turning into a total blur. I wanted just enough motion in the frame to read as speed, not so much that the SkyTrain became unrecognizable. f/3.2 let in as much light as I could get without giving up all my depth of field, since I still needed the train and the tower behind it reasonably sharp together. That left ISO to absorb what the aperture and shutter speed couldn't — ISO 6400 was the price of shooting handheld, at night, at a real distance from the subject. Noise at that level is a fair trade for a shot that would've been impossible to get any other way.
70mm on the Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II gave me the reach to compress the train against the skyscraper behind it, making the two feel like they belong in the same frame even though they're worlds apart in scale.
That's the calculation behind most of my night transit shots in Bangkok: protect the motion, hold just enough depth, let ISO take the hit.
Part of my ongoing series on Bangkok street and transit photography
Technical details:
Bangkok BTS SkyTrain, elevated track near King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Ratchadamri, Bangkok, Thailand. 1/80 sec, f/3.2, ISO 6400, 70mm — Sony Alpha 7 IV with Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II.
www.strangphotography.com/behind-the-lens-frame-by-frame#...
Canon T90
50mm &
15mm
Guys, you can`t belief how relieved I am to be back on my beloved board. After 12 years of usuall minor skateinjuries something big happened: I broke my spine about two months ago. Two vortexes were badly injured after I took of over the hip in our local pool -haha- I call this art of stupidity: neckbreaker attempt. Hearing your spine break is such an ugly, at the same time most scary, sound. Instant breathlessness, thoughts of paraplegia ... That`s what I call being shattered!! Killing pain like a stuck dagger between those vortexes was my best friend for the past months. Physiotherapy. I turned felt 80, no sports, no adrenalin, no moshpit, mostly laying around reading or watching shit. A fine way to start the summer, huh?!
But thank god and my catlike reflexes everything`s fine again. No long-term damages, just a slight pain left. Time to please my first love again! <3 Like Grosso said: "If you wanna play, you gotta pay!" Stay healthy, worship your health and keep up the fun in Skatebaord & Punkrock making!! It`s all about the feeling.
Like this highspeed last shot:
Earlygrab Transfer Cooping Petter
Tired from too much shopping? French Connection provides a stool to rest on which normally gets occupied by the male partner of the shopper. Oxford Street, London. It was during the duration of the Crossrail based book project 'The Elizabethan Progress' for RPS lead by Brian Steptoe back in July 2017 (Grab shot with Iphone5) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mejansKcDHI
This is Sukhumvit 11 after dark, one of Bangkok's busiest nightlife corners, caught mid-traffic jam at a packed intersection. A hand-painted local bus, riders leaning out the open windows and packed shoulder to shoulder, sits stopped dead next to a wall of motorbikes — riders and passengers checking phones, watching the road, waiting for a gap in the gridlock that isn't coming any time soon. Every kind of transport Bangkok runs on is stacked into this one frame: the old-school bus, the scooters, a taxi's tail lights glowing red in the corner. This is what a Sukhumvit night actually looks like once the neon signs and the bar crowds spill out onto the street.
Here's why I set the camera the way I did. At night, in a crush of vehicles and neon signage with almost no clean light source, I opened up to f/2.8 to pull in as much light as the lens could gather — I needed that just to get a workable exposure without pushing ISO through the roof. 1/80 sec was as slow as I could go handheld at 70mm without risking blur, and even then it's right at the edge — any slower and the moving riders would have smeared. That combination still needed ISO 5000 to balance out, which in mixed streetlight and headlight glow like this is a completely reasonable trade-off — clean enough to hold detail in faces and signage, without needing to compromise on shutter speed or aperture.
70mm on the Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II let me isolate the riders and the bus passengers from across the street, compressing the whole gridlocked scene into one tight, layered frame without me having to wade into the traffic myself.
Part of my ongoing series on Bangkok street photography and Southeast Asia nightlife — the traffic, the chaos, the everyday grind of getting around this city after dark. More Thailand travel photography on my page
www.strangphotography.com/behind-the-lens-frame-by-frame#...
Yeeee guys, I opened up new grounds by fulfilling a longer termed desire. Starting an own darkroom. This is a piece of my second red-light-bathroom-session. Actually far from perfection cuz I`m testing really old paper which came along with my used bought enlanger BUT it`s incredibly trippy to develop your own creations. See, smell and hear how chemicals and silver react. So dope. I`m extremly hyped and excited to explore more.
PEACE!!
Enlanger: Kaiser VC 35
Paper: Agfa BROVIRA BH 1 - expired// Dec. 1983
Developer: Agfa Neutol plus 1:4
Stop: Adox ADOSTOP 1:9
Fixer: Agfa AGEFIX 1:9
15sec x 5.6f
35mm Negative:
Flower - Pivot Grind to fakie
Canon 15mm/2.8f
Kodak BW-400
Canon T90
Original Link:
www.flickr.com/photos/127986533@N08/15825729020/in/datepo...
"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind." ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The SOOC photo is dedicated to Dakilang Ginoo aka Magnus D'Great, who recently encountered the hauteur, chutzpah, insolence, hubris, pomposity of a wannabe queen. "Life is all about ASS. Everyone's either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, trying to get a piece of it, or simply, JUST BEING ONE." Ano yan ba't pumuputok ang mga muffler?
To DG: 1st... you're talented, 2nd... you're cute, 3rd... we love your style -- that TATAK MAGNUS! Grandslam ka in our hearts. Di ba, Ganda?