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A man casually digs for gold as the public observes in disgust.
The city oft brings such diverse group of individuals, this man was homeless though. He talked of his childhood dream that didn't come to fruition. He now lives to feed the pigeons in Circular Quay, Sydney Australia.
This photo was shot from the hip.
TIP 1: Don't be scared to take a hip shot, experiment a little. There is no need to be a cookie cut photographer.
TIP 2: Get to know your subject, even if you pretend to be a passing tourist.
I went to bed our last night in Lake Tahoe knowing that if the storm that had just rolled in continued the entire night, there would be a lot of snow to shovel in the morning. I woke up the next morning to the sound of a snow plow clearing our driveway which luckily saved me a lot of work. For some reason the plow piled all the snow at the end of the driveway so there was still a bit of shoveling to do but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
This concludes the Lake Tahoe Winter 2010 series.
ABOUT THE SERIES
My family loves Lake Tahoe. It's about an 8 hour drive from where we live but it's well worth it. This Christmas holiday, I traveled up there with my family and my fiance for my first winter trip there in 5 years.
This year my parents gave us snow shoes as a gift so we spent a lot of time snowshoeing. Unfortunately (for photography sake), it snowed a lot so I wasn't able to shoot every day but on the plus side, I love the snow and it makes for great landscapes.
I've always struggled with getting correct exposure in the snow. My first year all I had was a point and shoot and my photos actually came out pretty well. The following trip I brought my Canon Digital Rebel and to my surprise, my exposures were off. After much reading I learned that you should generally use exposure compensation since the camera's metering system is usually thrown off by all the white (your camera meters assuming objects are grey). I did a little better with my 7D this time around but I still don't think I've nailed metering in the snow.
Sketched from inside the community center in my development. We had a lot of snow for the Blizzard of 2015.
Digging through some past images taken at Newcastle International Airport, to show I haven't forgotten my other love - aircraft. An aircraft type that was once so regular at Newcastle lifts off runway 25 en route Larnaca, Cyprus.
We play prospectors for an hour or so in the Queenstown area, New Zealand. The guide in these shots showed us how to chose the site, dig the sand, wash the sand in the river and ... find gold. Lots of messy work for a few flakes of gold.
The wind blew peacefully through the trees. Birds chirped, squirrels chattered, and the sound of leaves falling could be heard in the thick, beautiful forest of southern Lenfald. Bits of red and orange were beginning to appear in the treetops. The forest was changing, green was giving way to red.
Sir Glennian reflected on this as he and his companions treaded, almost silently, on the old forest road. So many things had happened recently, the once peaceful land of Roawia was now aching with the pains of conflict and turmoil, and the only plausible outcome seemed to be war. Loreos, only few miles walk southward, was now threatening invasion. Green did indeed seem to be giving way to red.
Sounds of people now reached Sir Glennian’s ears, and he saw they had almost reached their destination. As he came around a bend in the path, he saw it, not a hundred yards ahead of him. A deep hole had been dug in the center of the path, nearly fifteen feet deep, and men could be seen swarming around it.
“Foreman!” Sir Glennian shouted.
All the workers turned and noticed their visitors, and a stout man in a green cloak turned to greet them. He had a thick, curly, brown beard covering his smiling face, which was topped with thick, curly, brown hair.
“Ah, you are here at last!” He greeted them. “We have made much progress on the work. As you can see, the hole is over a dozen feet deep. Just an hour ago the blacksmith arrived with the spikes that will be stuck in the bottom. Then we will cover it with branches spread over with dirt, and the next Loreesi scum who comes through here-”
He broke off with a large wave of his hand, indicating the destruction the Loreesi would face.
Glennian nodded. “Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
He looked forlornly down the path. Somewhere in that direction was a great desert…one in which war was brewing, a war that, he feared, Lenfald could never be completely ready for.
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Well, I was going to enter this into the last Lenfald LC, but I obviously didn’t finish it in time. Congrats to Gary and Paul on the wins! ;)
Soli Deo Gloria! :)
Marine Pfc. Michael Richardson, a heavy equipment operator with Engineer Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, Regional Command (Southwest), operates a 850JR John Deere Dozer at Camp Dwyer, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2013. Richardson collected dirt to assist in area improvements at the Camp. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz / Released)
Oh, how I want to go back to Monterey!
Completely unedited (as should be obvious). Just wanted to share :)
Greenback Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki somias) fans her tail digging a redd or nest. She selects this redd in a place where the current will not scour her roe downstream. Once deep enough to her satisfaction she discharges roe where the then lurking male discharges his milt, thus fertilizing the eggs. The female or hen then covers the eggs and depending on water temperature, 60-90 days later small fish emerge. This nest is selected among rocks that are close by so the newly emerged fish can seek shelter. She already has selected a site with the protection of an overhanging limb and cutbank. Image taken in the Neota Wilderness Area of Northern Colorado.
For years the DMIR #400 has escaped my glass in good light and leading, but I finally shot the class unit of the Missabe SD40-3's as #400 and sister #406 lug tac empties back to U-Tac for loading.
45596 'Bahamas' digs into the climb past Blea Moor box with it's second railtour to Carlisle on 16th February 2019
Bucket-wheel excavator in the Hambach surface mine,
digging lignite, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Schaufelradbagger im Tagebau Hambach beim Abbau der Braunkohle. Wenn man bedenkt, daß diese mächtige Braunkohleschicht bis 2050 als CO2 in die Atmosphäre gelangen wird, fängt man doch an zu grübeln ...
Where I live now, we don't seem to have very many windmills so I've had to go digging into the archives!
In Suttons Bay, Michigan. After being pounded by high winds and snow for days, the sun came out this morning and all is well.
I am now back in Australia and after digging deep into my wardrobe here (and it is very deep!) I found this dress from years ago and would you believe it fits better now than it did then. Time for another airing!
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Winter Scene
It had been a long hard winter. The snow had fallen early in the autumn and the mid thaw during the winter had barely happened.
On the main land the winter had given both sides in the war a break and the usual opportunity to call for reinforcements. The king had called on his nobles to send more archers and knights in the spring, with the Earl of Léonas in command of the army.
With spring coming the Earl needed to have his horses ready. The winter supplies were running low, so the Earl had his knights dig the snow in the fields by the river Tigelfáh, outside his castle providing fresh grazing for his destriers. With Earl, like each knight, having four destriers there was a lot of digging.
As for one of the knights, Gregory, he always thought outside the box and had taken himself of to the frozen river, with his theory that if they could get to the water it would help. His fellow knights were not convinced…..