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I think it would be difficult to make a photo of this bridge without making THIS photo. The identity of the Granville Street Bridge is very tied up with the identity of Granville Island. But it is these sorts of scenes that I like to look for when photographing bridges. I am not trying to make simple architectural documents of these structures but rather reflect bits of their identities, or to make statements toward the broader identities of bridges in general. In that sense, this really is a necessary part of the Granville Street Bridge story.
What isn't a necessary part but one that I am interested in nonetheless is the fact that this bridge is the third Granville Street Bridge to exist. Many bridges aren't original. In Portland where I live, several bridges are on their second or third iteration. Unless you live during that transition though it is easy to think that all bridges are one-offs and permanent. This is not so. Another interesting fact was that when this third version of the Granville Street Bridge opened in 1954, the first civilian to drive across it was the same person who was the first to drive across the second version's opening in 1909.
Hasselblad 500C
Kodak TMAX 400
Brave, courageous, determined, bold.
Being told you have a visual impairment that can't be treated can be difficult to come to terms with.
Some people go through a process similar to bereavement, where they experience a range of emotions including shock, anger, and denial, before eventually coming to accept their condition.
The RNIB is the UK's leading charity for people with vision loss. The RNIB website offers useful information, such as coming to terms with sight loss.
The RNIB's helpline is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and Saturday from 9am to 1pm. The number is 0303 123 9999, with calls costing no more than a standard rate call to an 01 or 02 number. You can also email helpline staff (helpline@rnib.org.uk).
The RNIB's website is specially designed for people with sight loss and provides a wide range of useful information and resources, including an online community and RNIB online shop.
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
At certain points in your life difficult decisions have to be made and your choice can alter your route through life.
Sometimes identifying animals is difficult, but sometimes you catch a break and it becomes much easier.
Here is one of many greyish, almost chalky larvae which I found on some flowers at my mother's summer house.
Sounds like a difficult ID, but first we can see notice the distinct head shape with small round eyes on the side which tells us it is a larvae of a sawfly.
Then we consider the host plant which in this case is the yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) and the location (Sweden) which narrows it down to just one species - the loosestrife sawfly (Monostegia abdominalis).
There is actually a very similar species (though not found in Sweden yet) which could have fit the bill, M. nigra - but that one lacks the black spot on the head which this one has.
For the edit if this one, I'm trying out Topaz AI Sharpening after processing it in Photoshop and so far I am very pleased with the results although I wished that Topaz didn't strip the EXIF metadata from the image so I had to restore it in Photoshop afterwards.
A really tough course, very hilly. It was really difficult for me, specially going downhill (my left knee was giving me problems), but I did it. The weather was very nice! It took me 3 hours 22 minutes and 30 plus seconds to cross the finish line. I brought with me a little camera to document some of the scenery.
Participé en una media maratón (21 km) que se hizo en un parque que se llama Quicksilver. El recorrido fue muy duro: muchas colinas, con subidas bravas y bajadas empinadas. Mi rodilla izquierda sufrió mucho en las bajadas, pero lo hice!! El tiempo estuvo espectacular. Me llevó 3 horas 22 minutos y más de 30 seg cruzar la meta. Llevé una cámara chiquita para poder documentar parte del recorrido y el paisaje.
Difficult life...!!!
Thank you for the comments, my friends and FAV!!! Since I was too busy with work, I couldn't visit and check out your wonderful photo!!!
It is difficult to think about anything philosophical at high altitudes of Ladakh. You can only marvel at the millennia old terrain left as it is by the lack of rainfall and a dry atmosphere of a 15-16000 feet high desert in the rainshadow of the mighty Himalayas.
The only thoughts that do skittle across the mind are about the numbing cold, the squish dry thin air as you labor about survival and you remain in a time warp of cold existential angst that has you wrapped in an uncomfortable embrace.
In the midst of a setting like this, if you ever run up against a
foreboding large lone figure hulking against the distant mountains, you are bound to be suddenly uncomfortable and specially if he flags you down on the road to nowhere.
He only wanted an urgent dash of tobacco at that height. Perhaps the addiction can take care of breathlessness. I have no idea. I could not ask him as there was minimal verbal communication.
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This is a very difficult time for Patrick, last night it was time for a long walk around one of the roughest shorelines of my pet lake.
I miss the company of Vivi-Mari, but the quiet - broken only by the honking of geese and yipping of coyotes - gives me time to clear my mind.
Sometimes, however, I stay out far longer than I wish. The sunset continues to morph and when I see those shades of magenta forming, leaving is not an option until the light show has run its course...
So, this is a first at using a macro lens! In all honesty, I found this very difficult to get the hang of.. I struggle with balancing an appropriate DOF, and making sure that I don't compromise for a slow shutter-speed; all without a tripod! Any help and pointers would be very welcome!
Also, I wouldn't mind some help with recommendations for potential macro lenses for us, Nikon DX-users...
The photo shows a bunch of white cherry blossoms hanging from a tree after a day of rain.
The flowers are damp and covered in water drops.
Some of the petals are fallen, but most of them are still intact.
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Cherry blossoms are known for their delicate and ephemeral beauty.
They only bloom for a few weeks in spring, and their beauty is even more ephemeral after a day of rain.
Water droplets weigh down the petals and can cause them to fall prematurely.
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However, cherry blossoms are also symbols of hope and renewal.
They bloom after winter, signaling the end of the cold season and the beginning of the hottest season of the year.
The water drops on cherry blossoms can be seen as a symbol of new life, which blossoms even after difficult times.
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Cherry blossoms after a rainy day can symbolize:
Ephemeral beauty:
Cherry blossoms are beautiful, but their beauty lasts for a short time.
The water drops on the flowers can be seen as a note that beauty is fleeting.
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Hope and renewal:
Cherry blossoms bloom after winter, signaling the end of the cold season and the beginning of the warmer season of the year.
The water drops on cherry blossoms can be seen as a symbol of new life, which blossoms even after difficult times.
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Resilience:
Cherry blossoms are able to withstand rain and wind.
Water drops on cherry blossoms can be seen as a symbol of nature's resilience.
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Purity and innocence:
Cherry blossoms are usually white, which is a color associated with purity and innocence.
Water drops on cherry blossoms can be seen as a symbol of the purity of nature.
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Cherry blossoms after a rainy day are a beautiful and moving image.
They can symbolize many different things, depending on the perspective of the observer.
However, they all share a common theme: the beauty of nature and the ephemerality of life.
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The photograph is composed of a limited range of colors, which creates an effect of serenity and stillness.
The image composition is simple but effective. The focus is on the cherry blossoms, and the background is blurred.
The image is well lit, which highlights the beauty of the flowers.
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Testo & Photography: ©MárioSilva
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Fast and difficult to photograph (at least for me it is)
Saw hundreds of terns while visiting Cape Cod, really fun to watch them hover and dive for their meals.
Quenching your thirst is a necessity but for some creatures it is a time when they are most vulnerable.
This Reticulated Giraffe is drinking water from the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu National Reserve, whilst a couple of colleagues are on the lookout in case of an ambush from a nearby predator.
It's difficult to explain the incredible beauty of walking in a frozen forest. With a little introspection, perhaps that's the reason for picking up my camera - to convey what I'm unable find the words for.
One of a pair, tho' this one was doing the work!
I was able to watch it collect, what looked like, very particular nesting material, much of which it found difficult to remove.
Difficult to believe that last weekend we were walking in snow...this weekend some are sunbathing locally!
Dunnockshaw Communty Woodland, Cowbridge,Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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There were a few, that reached to the sky, with the abundance so rich filled and regarded as a gift from above ! Planning from hard and difficult winter, learning to be grateful and thankful !
Geminid Meteor Shower
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I'll have a blog post on this trip to follow in the next couple of days!
Dec 14 2012
Appalachian Trail, Cold Mountain Virginia
Milky Way Galaxy
I had a great evening shoot with my friends Jeff Hammond and Darren Barnes on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia last night. The meteor shower peaked nicely about 1 a.m. It was difficult to get meteors in the image that were bright enough to see over the long exposure, but I liked how this one turned out!
Never really understood that term - it's more a near hit
This is a Hoverfly (Syrphidae sp.) swooping in to land on a flower and I just happened to be in the lucky spot with an MPE-65mm. Trying to get a snap shot with those is pretty difficult!
Difficult to imagine a more uncooperative subject other than another dragonfly
They hover briefly then dart away but give no clue as to direction.
An image captures is captured by pure luck.
I deleted dozens of images but decided to keep these few as a record of my time spent 'chasing moonbeams!!
Difficult to be sure about its age and engine size, or even whether it's an Austin.
Got a more unusual Mini to come from later in the day.
Conditions difficiles, peu de lumière, du sport!
Difficult conditions, low light and Sport!
Il y a des monuments qui n'ont pas la place qu'ils devraient avoir dans les guides touristiques sans qu'on puisse savoir ce qui leur vaut ce dédain. Il en est ainsi pour l'église Saint Jean de Dieu ou San Juan de Dios qui pourtant est un des exemples les plus outrés du baroque qu'on connaisse. Elle possède de surcroît un somptueux retable churrigueresque (Le baroque churrigueresque est l'aspect que prend le baroque en Espagne au xviiie siècle et qui se caractérise par une abondance ornementale. Il développe en particulier les valeurs décoratives d’éléments singuliers tels que le retable, le portail, et la façade. Il tient son nom de la famille des Churriguera, sculpteurs à Salamanque, dont les retables sont célèbres pour être des structures spectaculaires, sculptées de manière artisanale, mêlant des motifs décoratifs islamiques, gothiques et plateresques qui sont refondus dans des compositions baroques extravagantes.) Elle se trouve entre l'hôpital toujours en activité et qui cache de belles fresques et d'agréables patios et une institution pour jeune handicapés mentaux, il faut passer par le petit jardin de celui-ci pour accéder à l'église. C'est peut être à cause de cette entrée un peu dissimulée que le monument n'a pas la notoriété qu'il mérite.
Dès que l'on pénètre dans l'église on est submergé d'or. Il n'y a pas un centimètre carré qui ne soit pas ouvragé, ce n'est que tableaux, fresques, stucs et sculptures.
There are monuments that have no place they should have in the tourist guides without being able to know what is their disdain it. This is for the Saint John of God or San Juan de Dios yet is one of the most extravagant examples of the baroque we know. It has moreover a sumptuous Churrigueresque altarpiece (The Churrigueresque baroque is the aspect that makes the Baroque in Spain in the eighteenth century and is characterized by an ornamental abundance. It develops in particular the decorative values of singular elements such as the altarpiece, the portal and the facade. It takes its name from the family Churriguera, sculptors in Salamanca, whose altarpieces are famous for being spectacular structures, carved by craftsmen, combining Islamic decorative motifs, Gothic and Plateresque which are remelted in extravagant baroque compositions.) it is located between the hospital still active and hides beautiful frescoes and pleasant patios and an institution for mentally disabled young, it must pass through the small garden of it to access the 'church. This may be due to this entry somewhat concealed that the monument does not have the recognition it deserves.
As soon as one enters the church one is overwhelmed with gold. There is not a square centimeter that is not carved, it is only paintings, frescoes, stucco and sculptures.
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Difficult to get a decent shot of with the sun behind them, and consequently I had all sorts of trouble working out what they were until I got home with the pictures.
I thought it was difficult to shoot Aspen trees for their fall colors but finding the right composition of these bamboo trees was even more difficult at least to me.
Camera: Sony A7Rii
Lens: Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm F/4 OSS Zeiss lens
This was difficult in the predawn fog. The Bull was interested in us but stayed about 20-25 yards from us. Panning at 1/50 of a sec.
Ok Originaly P-shinobi was going to be an RPG I would make using flash macromedia but the codes are so difficult
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The difficult thing about getting a shot of a Pipevine is to get it to stay still for even a second.
More difficult to distinguish between the Glossy and the Blue Eared when wet but this does appear to have darker blue ear coverts and a blue belly.
I love standing on the path next to this bird bath on a hot day and you can get much better pictures than if you drove around.
Lower Sabie has become one of my least favourite camps. Too many people, too many cars and not what I come to Kruger to experience.
Lower Sabie camp
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga
South Africa
Adding a few more photos from my archives. More free space needed on my computer, so lots of checking and deleting old images. If I wrote a description under other photos taken on the same outing/drive, I will add it to these five shots. Also, after posting a number of winter photos recently, I need to add some colour to my photostream.
"Waterton Lakes National Park is where three friends (Anne B, Janet and Shirley) and I went the last two days, 11 and 12 June 2018. Part of Monday was spent travelling south to Waterton Lakes National Park, stopping at several places en route, including Lundbreck Falls. With no stops, it takes roughly three hours to get there. We stayed on Monday night at the Bear Mountain Motel in Waterton town. Tuesday morning, we drove around the Waterton area, hoping to maybe see more bears, and then made our way back north, reaching Calgary late afternoon/early evening. As it was, we were so lucky to see a gorgeous Cinnamon Black Bear, at first from a great distance and then unexpectedly close. Also spotted a Black Bear in among the blackened, burned trees that were near the edge of the road. It was very difficult to see and impossible to find an open spot through which to take photos - but it was our second bear.
I had been hoping to someday get a chance to get down to Waterton, especially to see how it looked after the devastating Kenow wildfire that damaged or destroyed so much of the park in 2017. Most of the park is still closed, but the whole town site and Chief Mountain Parkway and area are open. To me, the park looked beautiful, with enough green areas to contrast with the dead trees on the mountain sides. Firefighters did such a brilliant job last year of saving the whole town, and a team of firefighters form Calgary had been given the task of doing all they could to save the historic Prince of Wales Hotel. There it still stands, untouched. One can see how close to the town and iconic Hotel the fire had come - right up to the very edge, where a sprinkler system had been set up before the fire got close.
"Built in 1926-27 during one of Waterton’s windiest and snowiest winters, the Prince of Wales Hotel is the park's most recognized landmark.
During its construction the extreme weather conditions and poor access created many problems for contractors Douglas Oland and James Scott, from Cardston, Alberta.
On December 10 1926 hurricane-force winds (estimated at 145 km/hr) blew each of the hotel's wings about 7.5 cm off their foundation. The men managed to winch the sections back in line. Three months later winds reached speeds of over 129 km/hr, again pushing the building off its foundation. This time Oland feared structural damage if they tried to pull back the now fully-framed building so he decided to leave it slightly out of plume.
The hotel is named after Edward, Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VIII, and, like its namesake, it has a colourful history. If its Douglas fir pillars could talk they would tell you a tale of American imagination and money, built with Canadian grit and patience.
Today, many people recognize the Prince of Wales as a railway hotel, but few realize it was built by the Great Northern of United States ... and not the Canadian Pacific.
In February 1993 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board approved the Prince of Wales' designation as a National Historic Site, recognizing its architectural style (rustic design tradition, with peaked roofs, gables, balconies and timber-frame interior that give it an appearance of a giant alpine chalet) and its contribution to tourism in the mountains. On July 23 1995 a commemorative plaque ceremony was held at the hotel." From Parks Canada.
www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul4.aspx
Wild animals, plants and birds were seen. There were plenty of wildflowers, though I suspect we may have been just a little early for many species. I was so pleased to spot a small patch of what I thought might be Mariposa Lilies near the edge of the road that we were driving on. We stopped for me to check and, sure enough, my friends were able to see these unusual flowers for the first time. Chipmunk, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels, Columbian Ground Squirrels and deer were seen. Not a huge variety of birds, but we were only able to look in such a limited space. It was great, though, to see two distant Sandhill Cranes and a distant Common Loon on her nest.
Apart from the most unpleasant, very strong wind all day both days, we were very lucky with the weather for our two days. No rain, thank goodness. The morning was chilly and so was the night. Yesterday, Tuesday, the temperature got up to 20C on our way home."
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I'd never shared this before as I really didn't know what to do with it - I took it in some very weird conditions and have struggled to process it ever since! As you can see, the colour looks off... too green in the foreground and too pink/orange up top. But that's just how it is/was. If I altered one it would make the other (look) worse, so sometimes you just have to accept how unnatural natural light can appear.
This was from my walk around Bamford and Stanage Edges on the same day as that beautiful rainbow... and were the strongest winds I've experienced up there, getting repeatedly blown over before bouncing back... and having to brace yourself and tripod with everything you had just for an attempted snap. Composition almost became impossible to perfect, just a compromise job of getting it as close as possible before being blown metres off. Never mind the rain splattering all over the lens... It was a really fun day though.
The Devil’s Golfcourse in Death Valley National Park is a very difficult place to photograph. It is a large basin of muddy salts, which have jagged spires scattered in clumps. These sharp spires must be good at impaling, I imagine, but not to photograph – they are a dreary stretch of sameness. I have tried my hand here before without much success and it was not my plan to revisit this eroded spiky mudflat currently. However, while driving past, I noticed a small stream flowing through the basin about one-third of a mile away from the road. Rishabh and I carefully walked over to this aqueous anomaly in the desert. Many such streams run the course here temporarily after a rain and leave their regrets behind as washed pearly salt deposits on their banks. From a distance, they resemble a well-crafted vein with a snowy border.
But composition was not my friend this day. My lackluster predisposition for this rugged place must have acted up subconsciously. I was unable to compose a scene to my liking for more than 15-20 minutes. I tried this, and I tried that, but nothing felt like the ‘click’ we photographers hear when the composition locks in with our internal murmurs.
“What do you think of this?”, Rishabh held up the phone. He wanted me to see the image he had just created. I glanced over tepidly only to find his composition to be very engaging. It held harmonies. The empyrean darkness paired well with pearly regrets below. The tortuous convergence of the water bodies –amongst themselves and with the forsaken land– only enhanced the landscape’s loneliness. There was no wind in his composition, but its fervidity remained visible in floating clouds, where it stretched the scene out of the frame into one’s winged imagination. There, one could stand at the edge of possibilities: to merge, or not. To flow, or not. To be a desert, or be its salt.
I loved Rishabh’s composition, and with his permission, recreated it in my camera to share with all of you.
It's so difficult to catch a cormorant with a fish. They pop up to the surface, often some distance away from where they dived, and the fish is swallowed in a second or two - giving very little time to frame a shot, focus and fire the shutter. That's my excuse for this terrible shot.
Roach I think, but others may know better.
Wish this was sharper but I had to post this red pair of Sympetrum vicinum that skirted a pond then flew up in the tree above us. Difficult distance, angle & light but I was thrilled they perched at all! Autumn's have been scarce so far this Fall but it has been hot so their numbers may pick up. And there are just no other dragonflies out there other than the elusive Shadow darner. I had vicinum till almost Christimas last year - very unusual.
After a cool, windy day yesterday we dropped to 42oF this morning. We woke up to a chilly house with the dogs snuggled deep under blankets! I've got the fireplace on for them. At best we'll warm up to 70o today - an abrupt switch after our 80o+ days.
>> Sympetrum vicinum, mating pair @ Gibbs Gardens a few days ago, North Georgia
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