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Many photographers are now refusing to geotag their landscape photographs. That has it downside, of course, but this photo shows why they have made that choice.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park in Michigan's upper peninsula is not convenient to get to. Most visitors have driven at least 4-5 hours out of their way to get here. The park has two main parking lots about 4-5 miles apart for the upper falls and the lower falls. The volume of water flowing over the upper falls is said to be second only to Niagara Falls of all waterfalls east of the Mississippi and the visitor is able to view it right at the brink. But now there has been a game changer at the lower group of falls (just one of those falls is shown here).
In the past, at the lower falls, visitors were required to row a boat out to the island shown here in the middle of the Tahquamenon River. Too much work for most visitors. A couple of years ago the park service constructed a footbridge over the river to the island. Now any of us can walk down a boardwalk trail for about 1/2 mile to the bridge and walk over to the island (this photograph was taken from one of the observation decks along the boardwalk to the bridge). Once on the island, the visitor has access to about 4 or 5 separate small falls that are collectively call the "lower falls". And believe me when I say they are magical. The loop trail around the perimeter of the island is about 1/4 mile long and is awesome because now you can see all these individual lower falls up close, instead of from a distance. But this photo shows a problem that is developing. The island, the falls, and the river are being overrun by all of us visitors, who are showing little respect for the terrain . . . and this is just at one section of the trail around the island, at one moment in time, as observed from the boardwalk.
Tahquamenon Fall State Park is not a secret location, so now when photographers find a special lesser-known spot, some are declining to geotag to avoid the sort of result shown here.
Being with a number of family members, I did not bring my camera because I did not want to slow our group down. But I did have my trusty cellphone and couldn't resist this one. If you visit during the summer, get here early in the morning for your best chance of enjoying the true magic.
Mr Spock has a way of positioning himself to stetch out different muscles at different times, including upside down and propping his feet against the back of the chair
As I came across this scene, several options to immortalize it sprang to mind. I could invert myself and the camera and thus obtain the right-side-up version of this White-breasted Nuthatch. Intriguing, but given my advanced age and continually decreasing agility, I decided against this. Another, equally important, reason against this approach was that I did not want anybody to get the idea that it would be a good thing to come up with a new helmet law for photographers out in the field. Yes, you are welcome. The other option, naturally, was to just take the shot and then invert the image in Lightroom or similar software. Much more appealing. Well, I did end up using this option but decided to leave things in their natural state, mostly for documentation purposes. The advantage here would be that if I ever decided to join a group, the image would be less likely to be rejected due to my obsessively fiddling with the settings in Lightroom. This just recently happened to a bird photographer Down Under and has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since :-)
This image was taken in March this year at Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse. It’s a relatively modern, beautiful Gothic church built to serve the abbey and the school. It’s a photographer’s dream kind of place.
This image was of one of the long side aisles with the font right at the end and some tombs on the near right. Like most church designs, the font is by the entrance and signifies the start of the Christian life, leading forward towards the altar (and tombs and crypt).
It was quite tricky to process. First, the perspective was corrected using DxO's Viewpoint to make the verticals parallel, and then it was denoised in Topaz AI (the lighting was difficult, so it stretched the camera, especially when shooting handheld).
The rest of the effect was achieved in Nik Silver Efex to increase the sense of light and contrast and emphasise the aisle flagstones. The original was much plainer, though it had a good basic structure. Silver Efex is magic at this sort of thing…
The monochrome conversion was toned in blue to give a cooler, contemplative feel. The main downside to the Downside image was the narrow crop, which buys you very little real estate on Flickr. I hope you can see it OK. Ah well…
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Donnerstagsmonochrom :)
The downside of not having a garden is that I can't easily photograph the more common birds but I've found a spot to go to, that's regularly fed by someone. By this spot is a stone wall and I first glimpsed something moving last year but it was too quick for me to see what it was. I assumed a bank vole. Recently, I put down a little bit of seed by the 'entrance' and continued watching/photographing the birds. After a while, I noticed the food had gone, so I placed a bit more and waited. After a while, this still hungry woodmouse cautiously crept out to nibble on the offerings. At least I think its a woodmouse from the more pointy ears.
The only downside of the 500pf is the longer min focus at 3metre though i would not trade an inch for any loss of quality of focusing speed. This a little cropped still fills the frame quite well at 3m though smaller medium size butterflies i may still use my 200-500 and a good reason to keep it. Plus the flexibly of a zoom can be handy :-)
Tripod mounted downside. Focusing rail. Self made 3d printed feeding unit with embedded adjusting screw. Feeding steps of round about 0,05mm can be achieved. Tamron 90mm Macro lens is mounted. But also my old lenses are usable for the focus stacking purpose. Sony A7II is used.
Photos shot with this lens can be found here --> Mushroom - Focus Stacking or here --> Tiny Tree Fungis - Focus Stacking Details
Mittens in her usual upside down pose, makes me happy because I think she’s happy. Posted for Happy Caturday’s theme of “happy.” Happy Caturday!
A brisk morning walk led me into a tree that was absolutely covered in spiders! I didn't realise that until I'd jigged about for a few minutes trying to take a photo of this particular spider silhouetted against the sun. I'm not scared of them, but what appeared to be quite a few dozen above my head was a little disconcerting. Taken with my trusty Minolta Rokkor.
That is the downside-up flower that intrigued me to do the moist garden umbrella macro session in the first place.
After not having used the 55mm Micro-NIKKOR for a while, it still, once again, amazes me how sharp this vintage gem is, distortion free with this natural and consistent color rendering. No wonder that the latest AI-S version from 1979 is still manufactured today (as far as I know; new copies are available at least), unmodified in it's original formular, for 45 years. 😳
I understand that companies want to sell new gear, but to break with backwards compatibility in the Z system, not having a native adapter with mechanical aperture coupling for all the stellar AI and AI-S lenses? But hey, at least the SLR design still does it, which I am personally preferring anyway.
This lens has been and will be around for a long time to come, for photo people to enjoy, which I find great. 😊
Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8 AI-S prime
(thus ~82mm full frame equivalent)
ISO100, 55mm, f/8, 1/250sec
single shot, extension tubes, flash, DIY
medium size paper diffusor, umbrella :)
Youtube street photography videos...
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Street photography book...
www.amazon.co.uk/Fine-Street-Photography-Rupert-Vandervel...
The Nuthatches are busy, quite a few around now and some of the males are nice and dark in their color
Downside of shooting ICM at incredibly small apertures is the number of dust spots you see for the first time. Got rid of about 20 - if I decide to print it I'll have to get rid of the other 200.
The Thunderbird pilots are amazing! However, sometimes they don't know which side is up or which side is down!
to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away :-)
― Stephen Hawking
fothergilla, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Upside down, downside up
Reflected beauty in natures cup
That all eyes, see and look
At the mirrored page, of life's wild book
Where the water shines like glass
Reflecting the trees, plants and grass
Placing beauty in natures cup
That's upside down, downside up
downside up
PRESS L YO!
I entered a photography competition!! The prize is a mk ii so I REALLY want to win. That would be nice, right about now. Anyway, the theme was umbrella, so I went with this. I'll let everyone know when the voting opens :D
The Fall color was on the downside.
St. James Farm Forest Preserve
In 1920, Chauncey and Marion McCormick purchased St. James Farm as a private retreat to accommodate their interests in horses and dairy farming. The McCormicks' son, Brooks, later transformed St. James Farm into a renowned equestrian facility. Brooks McCormick sold St. James Farm as a life estate to the Forest Preserve District in 2000. The Forest Preserve District officially took possession of the 607-acre property in 2007. Today, visitors can explore the forest preserve via scenic trails, tree-lined allees and guided quail-wagon tours or enjoy one of its inviting fishing or picnic spots. A series of permanent informational signs presents the history of the property, including its stables, barns, indoor and outdoor riding arenas, and artwork.