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After a rather difficult winter, we saw this bud last night; the plant is sheltered in the entryway from harsh north and south winds.
Dashed out today with makeshift plastic raincoat over the camera--the tripod tolerates rain more readily.
FOS! Not of a bird in the rain, but our first flower. Don't generally photograph flowers, but so good to see a bloom in the rain.
1/400 sec; f/8; ISO 320
Manual exposure, tripod
Many thanks for looking.
Please forgive my grumpiness of late.
So this shot was difficult for a few reasons. First and foremost. PEOPLE! And not just any people, rude and/or oblivious people. Now, for the most part, most places I go, I run into people. Most are wonderful and have the common sense not to stand directly in front of someone when they are taking pictures. Most will ask if it is alright for them to past through your shots or they will simply say something like "Hey we are going this way, are we gonna mess you up?" At which point you can politely asked them wait a few seconds. Now, I'm not talking about the people who are climbing over the rocks from the opposite side of this structure. They pop up from time to time and you simply wait for them to come down the rocks. That is to be expected. What I'm talking about is the couple who walks up from behind you, then proceeds to stand on this structure about 4 feet in front of my lens and cuddle while staring out at the ocean. ??? Or the best was the two girls who placed their handbags right next to me and then without saying a word. Jump up upon this same structure in front on my lens and start their own little fashion shoot right in front of me. Then when I ask them how long they might be and if they could please move because I've been shooting here for the past hour and I'm trying to get a shot, one of them looks at me and says "you don't own this beach". ??? I was at a loss for words. I truly don't understand some people.
Anyhow, on to more technical subjects. The biggest problem with getting this shot was the bright reflections I was getting off the clouds. I tried various ND grads, but the ones that made the bright glow go away in the clouds made the top right portion of my stairs way to dark. So I ended up using a 2 stop filter angled in the top left corner to miss the rocks and taking shots at exposure comp -4,-3,-2,-1, 0. And I took a lot of shots constantly switching these. But, I still did not get what I was looking for, which was what I just posted above. In the end I had to use a composite of two shots. One at -4 and one at -1 to get this shot which I like, but is not the shot that I saw in my head when looking at this landscape yesterday evening. Well, I hope everyone likes it.
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For the Techies :-)
Canon 5D Mark II
Exposure: (1/2 sec for -4)&(3sec for -1)
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 50 (to smooth out the shoot a little)
Lens: Canon EF24-70mm f2.8L
Tripod Gitzo G 026
Head Gitzo G1178M
Filters: Lee .6 to try to control the bright reflection on the clouds on top left
It’s windy
Portraits are difficult in windy conditions. Hair and clothing blow in unflattering directions.
Hace viento! In the original Mary Poppins, a neighbor fires a cannon from the roof every morning and evening, prompting the women of the house to brace vulnerable decor. I do the same thing in my backyard every time hace viento. I refer to the wind-proof arrangement of plants, lanterns, and the hammock chair as “battle positions.”
Jacket, Jessica Simpson (thrifted). Sweater, Gibson (thifted). Tunic, Wet Seal (thrifted). Leggings, J2 Love. Boots, Vionic.
My Dear Friends in this difficult time we need so much Hope, Light, Love, Warmth...
Here is I would love to share " Moving stories of the people from Japan", which I received from my Dearest hearty friend - Bridgy, you can see her photostream, full of light and love here: www.flickr.com/photos/10334788@N02/
Thank you, Bridgy, very much for your support!
°Moving stories of the people from Japan. °
I translated some from @prayforjapan, some are from TV news I am hearing. There is so much love and hope and beautiful stories even in such devastated times.
A high school boy was saved because he climbed up on top of the roof of a department store during the flood. The flood came so suddenly, that he saw people just below him.. trying to climb up the roof … being taken by the flood. But he knew that he had to leave something that showed that he and these others were alive… so he kept filming that situation. He still cant reach his parents but he says, its no body’s fault. There is no one to blame. So I know we have to stay strong and be positive. That is the mission of those who are alive.
I saw a little boy thanking the station staff saying “thank you so much for trying hard to run the train last night” the staff had tears in his eyes, and I was crying…
In the super market where all the things fell, people were picking up things so neatly together, and then quietly stand in line to buy food. I was glad to be a Japanese.
A foreign friend told me, they were shocked to see a looong queu form so neatly behind one public phone. Everyone waited so patiently to use the phone even though everyone must have been eager to call their families.
The traffic was horrible!! Only one car can move forward at green light. But everyone was driving so calmly. During the 10 hour drive (which would only take 30 minutes normally) the only horns I heard was a horn of thank you. It was a fearful time … but then again a time of warmth and it made me love Japan more.
Last night when I was walking home (cause all traffic stopped) an old lady from the bakery shop which was totally passed their closing time was giving out free bread. Even at times like this, people were trying to find what they can do and it made my heart warm.
When I was waiting at the plat form, so tired and exhausted… a homeless person came to us and gave a cardboard to sit on… even though we usually ignored them in our daily life… it was so warm
Suntory (juice company) are giving out free drinks, phone company creating more wi-fi spots, 1000000 noodles given from food company… everyone is helping the best they can. We have to do our best too, to stand up.
When I was walking home for 4 hours… there was a lady holding a sign that said “please use our toilet” they were opening their house for people to go to the restroom. When I saw that, it made me cry feeling the warmth of people
At Disneyland, they were giving out candies. High school girls were taking so many so I was thinking “what???” but then the next minute, they ran to the children in the evacuation place and handed it to them. That was a sweet gesture.
When there is a black out, there are people working to fix it. When the water stops there are people working to fix that too.. and when there is problem with nuclear energy there are people going there to fix that. It doesn’t fix automatically. While we are waiting for things to be fixed saying we are cold.. there are people risking their life to fix it.
An old man at the evacuation shelter was saying “whats going to happen now..” and then a young high school boy sitting next to him said “don’t worry!! When we grow up, we will promise to fix it back !!” and was rubbing the old mans back. And when I was listening to that conversation, I felt hope. There is a bright future
Okay, so we experienced the world biggest… M9.0 Then we got to make the world biggest energy and love too… to build back our life.
See @prayforjapan for more…
It is difficult to describe just how uncomfortable I feel when out in public with my camera. It is with great reluctance that I pulled the camera from my bag at slung it around my neck on the way home from work. But I knew that I had an opportunity to take some images of the journey home, images I have kept in my mind's eye for a good while now. It has been a good exercise, although I am still very self-conscious and do not like to draw attention to myself. Thank goodness for M4/3 cameras and the Panny 20mm pancake lens. And yet, as you can see, I was observed.
Since its difficult to take new pictures during the Corona virus lockdown, here are some old ones from 2005.
Spot-billed pelican
Location:Mandya.karanataka,india
The spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) or grey pelican, is a member of the pelican family. It breeds in southern Asia from southern Pakistan across India east to Indonesia. It is a bird of large inland and coastal waters, especially large lakes. At a distance they are difficult to differentiate from other pelicans in the region although it is smaller but at close range the spots on the upper mandible, the lack of bright colours and the greyer plumage are distinctive. In some areas these birds nest in large colonies close to human habitations
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It was quite challenging to get a halfway acceptable shot with this lens (300mm) on a windy day
- Sometimes I find it difficult to distinguish the real things that they are not ........
Sometimes I am not interested differentiate ...
- En ocasiones se me hace complicado distinguir las cosas reales de las que no lo son........
En ocasiones tampoco me interesa diferenciarlas...
It is difficult to show all the power and "impressive" impressions from those waterfalls in such images.
The guy on the first was attracting me in way. His outfit was too unusual for this location.
(Just a tip how to travel to the waterfalls: Public transport works well in Foz do iguacu and Puerto Iguazú. Some other offers such as transport to the waterfalls are the usual tourist traps)
difficult to fit the tallest building ever built in your camera ;)
the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m - Dubai, UAE
Silver Spray Falls, Sussex County, within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Often called Hidden Falls because of its remote, little-known location. An unblazed trail leads to the falls from Mountain Road south of Walpack Center (about 1.4 miles past the Walpack Cemetery). The stream, an unnamed tributary of Flat Brook, forms a deep, narrow, rhododendron- and hemlock-filled ravine through the west slope of Kittatinny Mountain.
There are additional large waterfalls upstream; however, access is difficult. The trail all but disappears, and the ravine steepens sharply.
i love you because you are so colorful to look at...
i hate you because you are so difficult to solve...
- Difficult is to match, at the same time, in one place and also, also ...., in the same plane .........Difficult, but not impossible .......
- Difícil es coincidir, en el mismo momento, en mismo lugar, y además, además...., en el mismo plano.........Dificil, pero no imposible.......
Taken under the Georgetown Pike bridge crossing Difficult Run in Great Falls, Virginia. This was a very good test of the exposure latitude of the Monochrom with everything from bright sunlight to deep shadows in frame.
Leica M11 Monochrom, 18mm Zeiss ZM
ISO 125, f/11 at 1/60 second
Winter sunset in Kos island ... all tourist has gone at their homes and i, still here to do my life interesting by shooting moments in the nature, away from humanity!
My first gown. Its three pieces and difficult to get them all aligned. I like the off the shoulder look. First time in a hoop.
Very difficult picture to get. 5 minutes of us riding up and down the road being followed with a car with a driver and photographer. After riding at high rates of speed during the day during this photo shoot we finally had to drop our speed to 25mph to get this shot. Out of tens and tens of pics of us attempting to fist bump, only 3 were any good, this was just one of them.
A difficult day as the owls were only active for a short time and only once the good light had gone.
Ed Seagraves dei The Beat Barons al Raindogs House di Savona in concerto il 18 Marzo 2017.
Eccovi un pezzo della serata: "Twenty Flight Rock", un bel rock'n'roll di Eddie Cochran.
La band:
Ed Seagraves: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Dominic Turner: guitar, vocals
Anthony Henriquez: bass, vocals
Francesco Rivabene: drums
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PS: Mi scuso con gli amici e i visitatori, ma sono costretta a venirvi a trovare solo un po' per volta...
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Sorry, to me is very difficult to visit people that always only leave a fav without commenting...
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Difficult to re-motivate me for this project.
I lost around thirty my original photos of strangers during the theft of my computer and a large part of my motivation with that. The last two strangers whom I had photographed will never be presented in this project because I had no saving of the images, taken a few days before the theft.
It is an blog post about Street Photography written by Thibaudd, an amateur photographer and Belgian blogger, in whom it presented my project which urged me to return to the street.
And it is Thursday evening, on the way back to the club photo that I found the courage to ask a young man of whom I crossed the road and which was kind enough to play the game.
Augustin is a student in first year of communication at the Catholic University of Lille. He does not know where it is going to lead him yet but he is interrested by the journalism.
By wishing all the best to him!
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Fujifilm X100 | Natural Light
Find the french description soon on my portfolio
Digital ID: 833043. Hirsch, William A. -- Photographer. 1902
Notes: Written on mount: 'LOC duplicate' 'Dec 17, 1902'
Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / Music -- violin (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Mid-Manhattan Library. Picture Collection.
See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?833043
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
Hispaniolan Eyespotted Geckolet, Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero, Difficult Least Geckko (Sphaerodactylus difficilis)
Sphaerodactylus difficilis, also known as the Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero or difficult least gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae . It is endemic to Hispaniola
Dorsal pattern sexually dichromatic and variable; dorsum (males) pinkish gray, gray, tan, brown, usually with scattered dark brown scales giving a coarse "salt-and-pepper" effect; dark scapular patch usually absent, but if present, usually very restricted and diffusely edged; a pair of small, pale ocelli present or absent (by population); head pattern trilineate but obsolescent and usually absent; head, chin, and throat often with small to large, dark brown to black dots; throat ground-color yellow to orange; venter gray to flesh; dorsum (females) colored and patterned like males, although distinctly lineate in some populations; head with prominent, trilineate, brown pattern on buffy to tan ground; head scales dotted; scapular patch variable (by population) from relatively large, brown, black, with an associated pair of white, buffy, gray ocelli, to small with a single, included ocellus, or both patch and ocelli entirely absent; venter as in males; juveniles with more intense female pattern; iris yellow, tan, brown (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 487).
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Reserva Científica Loma Quita Espuela, República Dominicana.
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Sphaerodactylus
Species: S. difficilis
Binomial name
Sphaerodactylus difficilis
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As you may have noticed, I'm starting to become more and more interested in self-portraits. Here is another one I made yesterday, it was kinda difficult, because that is actually the top of a tree, and I don't have a remote :P Anyway, it was really fun, hope you like it!
Sunlight pierces though a heavy sky to create a rainbow over Hopperstad Stave Church in Vik, Norway.
From Wiki: This church was built around the year 1130. The Stave churches are constructions of high quality, richly decorated with carvings. In virtually all of them the door frames are decorated from top to bottom with carvings. This tradition of rich ornamentation appears to go back to the animal carvings of the Viking Age. The stave church doorways are among the most distinctive works of art to be found in Norway. However, it is difficult to connect them with the Christian gospel.
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Difficult shot as he remained in the shadows, feeding. Note the blue wattles at his throat.
Taken Tiritiri Matangi
It is often difficult to find green herons, let alone see them fishing. In my observation over several days along the shoreline of a nearby small lake, I found green herons to be highly successful in their attempts than all other herons and egrets.
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The idea of self portraiture has been quite difficult for me over the past few months. I’ve been slowly working through some mental blocks with showing my body through my work and coming to terms with it ever changing. I spoke about this back in 2020 and I knew I had to take the time to work on this without the world seeing so that I wasn’t being performative with my views. I wanted to really believe that I was OK the way that I am and that it’s OK to change. I knew this deep down but with the noise from others it became a challenge.
I received some hurtful comments over on my TikTok about my art and body again last year. Hence why I had to take myself away to work on overcoming the insecurities I had with myself. It felt like the comments approved my insecurities and that all the hateful things I thought about myself were true. It’s only now I realise how wrong I was to let those comments cut me so deep.
For the past few months, although I’ve been slowly working on the yellow project, I started to avoid the idea of self portraiture because I didn’t want to put myself back in that vulnerable position. It’s hard when you put so much of yourself into these to not let it affect you.
A couple of weeks ago I had a long conversation with Jack about desperately wanting to create properly again, like I used to. It made me realise how much I had been missing out on. How much I’d let the opinions of others dictate my creative process and outlet. Since then I’ve picked up my camera, put on my creative hat and finally started to accept myself again.
During the times where I’ve felt so out of control about my self worth, the act of building these projects has been a constant. It’s shown me that I can’t let those who don’t understand me, take away the art that I love doing the most.
The Yellow Project started out on a different path, but as I’ve been working on it I’ve evolved into a new space of empowerment. This is MY outlet, this is MY way of living, and that is more than OK. 💛
Near U.K., Winequarter, Lower Austria.
August 28th, 2018:
This photo has been selected to be the cover photo of the group "Sunday Lights - only your Best !":
www.flickr.com/groups/sunday-lights/
Thanks a lot (;-))) !
I would find it difficult to live without TJ in my life every day. I am so THANKFUL to have his love and silliness and friendship. He is a special boy, and I know it!
My flashlight went dead and it became difficult to see in the muddy gloom of the overcast night, much less focus my lens. I was forced to give up before I made my destination.
This shot is proof that a 25mph wind doesn't budge a big old yard oak.
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Strobist:
1 YN 560 at Full Power in 60cm Diffusor
1D III - 28 - 80mm - 36mm - ISO 50 - 1/100s - f/13
Kodak Portra 400. I am still learning to focus my OM1. It's not necessarily difficult it's just different to what I'm used to. But I always think, when I have photographs that are technically incorrect, I've taken them, I've paid for them to be processed, may as well post them somewhere! ;-) Model: Sian. Find me elsewhere! Website Blog Twitter Instagram & please like Millie Clinton Photography on Facebook! Email: enquiries@millieclinton.com These images are protected by copyright, please do not use them for any commercial or non-commercial purposes without permission. For licensing queries (or any other questions!) please email: enquiries@millieclinton.com
Difficult conditions for photography but I always think of this as a challenge!
This is taken on top of the Quantock Hills in Somerset ... it was very misty but the dark outline of this small copse of weathered trees really stood out against the grey mist
Not sure if it works?
Large gives a better feel for the atmosphere