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Taken at Desolation Nowhere Halloween Sim: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deadlands/135/159/23
Taken by Drew Drakul-Blackheart, Co-Owner of Drakul-Blackheart Imagery Studios.
Along the Enchanted Highway, we saw a few abandoned buildings that I was excited to be able to photograph. Most of the ones we see on trips are not accessible, so I have to admire them from afar. This one was quite the beauty.
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Desolation Wilderness, Ca.
Just off the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) in the Desolation Wilderness you'll find an area called Desolation valley. A gorgeous watershed area with tons of lakes scattered across a bouldery valley floor. It's easy to see where they got the name desolation from too with more rocks than trees.
Lake Aloha, which is a short hike over the small ridge in this image, is a popular day hike and can get pretty crowded. But We found that by taking a short cross country hike over the ridge there's a magical place with very little to no people at all. And with the late afternoon July weather we got a heck of a sunset this day!
This is a two exposure manual blend.
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Polaroid One 600 camera
Automatic
P. O. Originals 600 B&W film color frames edition
Production date: 09/ 17
Here are the last two shots that i'll post from my summer backpacking trip. It's almost impossible to tell, but the whole sky was filled with clouds an hour before this shot was taken...I guess you win some and you lose some!
still there, and not much change in the 2 or 3 years I've been keeping an occasional eye on the place
"Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row"
-- Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row"
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.. in more ways than one. There were tons of such scenes on our drive down South.
View on black, it makes a hell lot of difference.
Explored! #10
I have been tagged by Jayashree and Madhu, so here are 16 things about me.
1. I think 16 is way too big a number.
2. I just watched a crappy movie and am watching another one now - my 10th movie this week. I'm quite a movie buff, but this series of crappy movies is something I've never done.
3. I don't usually like making lists, but am compelled to write this after seeing other flickr friends do it :-)
4. I like reading - anything. After reading the extremely influential Ayn Rand's works, I have hugely cut short on reading nonsense fiction.
5. I don't really "play" piano, but I like "playing with" my piano (well, keyboard, actually).
6. I've spent a TON of time on photography in the last 6 months.
7. I'm a vegetarian.
8. I hated Social Studies as a kid, but now am quite interested in History and Economics. And I've always liked Geography anyway.
9. I like dark chocolate. I am not much into sweets or even ordinary milk chocolate.
10. Cricket is my favorite sport. I spent so much time on it as a kid that my dad threatened to disown me if he saw me with the bat again. (of course, he didn't :P)
11. I like Philosophy and Psychology, and to think about the "why/how" of things.
12. I have a list of 'places to visit' (Peru to Turkey to Ireland to.. ), and I hope I get a chance to visit all of them.
13. I like music, all kinds of them. I sometimes tend to completely ignore the lyrics and just let the music/tune stick in my head.
14. I keep wishing that people looked at the bigger picture, stopped fighting about religion, money, gas etc., and worried about more important things instead.
15. While growing up, I wanted to be an astronomer, cricketer, and a doctor - ended up designing/writing software.
16. I once bought 'Learn Tamil in 30 days' book so that I could watch the following episode of Marma Desam in Tamil right after the one in Telugu. I managed to learn only a few words, but can now read/write Tamil. :D
17. And oh, I'm a *HUGEEEE* fan of Matrix.
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Sometimes it's nice to go through archives and get back in time for that special moment moment. This was one of those moments. The light was so gorgeous backed up by an infinitely awesome landscape: Vatnajökull glacier. Shot handheld. Have a nice day, folks! ;-)
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Taken at Desolation Nowhere Halloween Sim: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deadlands/135/159/23
Taken by Drew Drakul-Blackheart, Co-Owner of Drakul-Blackheart Imagery Studios.
An Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) seen in a sandstorm in an area of very desolate Sahelian wasteland within Djoudj National Park, Senegal.
Sunrise at the Valley of Desolation, Camdeboo National Park, sorroundings of Graff-Reinet, South Africa.
You don't often see the Tidal Basin this desolate. But this was the scene Friday, March 6, 2015 a few minutes before sunset. The snow from the storm the day before was still fresh, with the Basin totally frozen over (Washington D.C.) [DSC_3136-C]
This is a photo for this weeks photo assignment, themed Dusk till Dawn.
I realised yesterday evening that I had yet to take a photo for this week's photo assignment, so at about 10:30pm I ran outside into the rain and jumped into my car as this would be my last opportunity to capture a suitable photo. I drove around for about twenty minutes with no real inspiration but just hoping something would catch my eye. Eventually I came across this petrol station hidden away in the middle of a an industrial park. I think that it has something to do with Sunseeker yachts as it is not open to the public and there was security guard in a hut nearby.
I particularly liked the slightly retro look and the fact that it had been raining so there was sections of reflection within the puddles. It is the first time I have ever seen this subject having lived in this area for over 30 years, it just goes to show that a camera can help you to see so much more. :)
With time quickly running out I decided to try and capture a shot. I took a few shots but initially wasn't very happy with them. I wanted to move back further but there was a wall behind me and a spotlight beaming down exactly where I wanted the camera to be so it would completely ruin the shot. In the end I decided to take three shots at different exposures with the intention of creating a monochromatic HDR shot, which is what I have ended up with. I used Photoshop to create the HDR and then I applied a slight vignette in Lightroom to make the edges slightly darker and give the image a more desolate feeling.
In the larger view you can just about make out the trees and the sky in the background, but in the smaller shot it all looks black.
EDIT:
I was pleased to find that this photo features in Explore for June 14th, thank you to everybody for your feedback! :)
Note: This is a reupload due to some sync errors in Adobe Lightroom Classic which unfortunately caused some photos that were uploaded previously to be deleted as well.
With Tanjong Pagar Railway Station being open during a public holiday, I took the opportunity to take as many photos as I could before its original look is soon lost to redevelopment. That also meant a lot of people at the station that day, so that meant some form of creativity was needed to make the best of every limited space.