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This is an example of how not being able to sleep can be an advantage.
We stayed whilst we were in in Quebec on the Rue Pierre in the heart of the Quartier Petit-Champlain. It was difficult walking round the area not to think you had been transported back to Europe rather than in North America. The only drawback was it did become very crowded during the day. I decided to get up before sunrise use my tripod and take a few shots without people. This shot is of the absurdly beautiful Place Royale.
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When you think of exotic travel destinations, usually you think about turqoise water, white sand and palm trees. Bambarra beach in Middle Caicos has all of that. What it doesn't have is a ton of tourists as the beach is almost at the end of the island and very remote. Aside from these though, you will find a ton of conch and sponges. You have only one option for beach bar and most times you will have the beach to yourself. Ideal, if you ask me. Unless you want cruise ship crowds, in which case, I would not recommend this place. The only drawback is that it faces the north/northeast side of the island. That's where the ocean winds blow and the waves might not make it very family friendly.
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The Milky Way rises over Wayne Pinkston standing on his jeep at Hunts Mesa in Monument Valley, Utah.
Dejected, I head back to the car. I'm sure it was on my camera when I left the motel? I have been wanting to venture up onto Hunt's Mesa for some three years now and what happens, I lose my tripod plate. One of the drawbacks of shooting with 2 bodies and only having one tripod. Luckily, Wayne had a backup tripod that he was willing to lend me so that I would stop crying, Haha.
Please take a moment and head over to Wayne's website for a visit here.
This is the penultimate picture from my trip to Slovenia last year. The final phjoto will come tomorrow. At some point it has to come to an end.
This shot here is from Vintag Gorge in Triglav National Park, a beautiful place worth visiting in any weather. I had pouring rain. So I can judge that quite well.
The only drawback here is that the paths are all very narrow and as a photographer with a tripod you are actually constantly in someone's way. That doesn't make it any easier to concentrate on the composition.
Das ist das vorletzte Bild von meiner Reise nach Slowenien im letzten Jahr. Morgen kommt dann der Abschluß. Irgendwann muss es ja mal ein Ende haben.
Diese Aufnahme hier stammt von der Vintag Schlucht im Triglav Nationalpark, einem wunderschönen Ort der bei jedem Wetter einen Besuch wert ist. Bei mir war ströhmender Regen. Ich kann das also ganz gut beurteilen.
Das einzige Manko hier ist, dass die Wege alle sehr schmal sind und man somit als Fotograf mit Stativ eigentlich ständig jemandem im Weg steht. Das macht es nicht gerade einfacher sich auf die Komposition zu konzentrieren.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Today is the day of experiment. I never did any charcoal art, so I thought why not try. I am a person who always seeks knowledge when it comes to art. Its mixed media.
I had bought charcoal powder and sticks long time back. It was time to splash that charcoal powder and create an image. My first baby step to clearly understand the art of charcoal. So that I can confidently use it on big canvas.
From past one week, I am trying to wake up early, but in vain. It’s my drawback. I have to visit an architect to know how much he has quoted for my paintings he has bought, so that I can receive the cheque. I hope tomorrow I will get up early. Hehe.
Problem with me is I cannot control the vibrancy when it comes to my art. I add more colors. Some people like it and some don’t. But I cannot help it.
Before I go to sleep I thought of posting this art.
“Don’t depend on any one
Too much in this world.
Because even your own shadow leaves you
When you are in Darkness”
Shadow Days - John Mayer
One of the drawbacks of my job. With 2 feet of snow on the ground and more coming, I can expect to see more of this as I try to get out of my little valley. I love my job and the adventure it brings me.
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
-- Glen Cook
Water Rail (Greater Manchester)
0611.25.10.2020
A few years back I was invited to a private site to photograph water rails which have a reputation for being shy and elusive. I did the easy bit, my friends had done the hard work in finding and developing the site. I was treated to exceptionally close views at eye-level and even slightly lower perspectives! The site has to remain undisclosed and with good reason.
The image is full-frame.
I loved photographing the rails but there is one slight drawback and that is, they don't tend to do much other than feed and disappear. Getting a rail backlit was about as unusual or different shot as I was ever going to get. However, there was a pose that I indicated to my friends I was keen to get and I got it...it reminds me of a pose similar to one struck by a ballerina which I will show below. I hope one day I can get them on ice. They are great birds and I enjoyed photographing them immensely. I will show one more image from this session then I will present another, from another session, of a kind you will be unlikely to ever see again...that's if I can find it!
Taken in Brockham, Surrey, a small village not too far from where I live. Quintessentially English, a village church, a village green, a village pub, some independently owned village shops, lots of old cottages surrounding the green. Nice place to live I'm sure. The only drawback is that you'd need a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a home there. Ah well, it was a nice place for a walk.
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Not the same photo as the previous one. The texture is my own. The original was shot in RAW mode which leaves processing wide open, but has the drawback of slowing down my old camera.
Had a great day out at the coast with Terry yesterday.
Spent a fabulous couple of hours here, so much to photograph, only drawback is its to hilly lol....and the traffic parking in background of a short I was seconds from capturing.
Long abandoned farmhouse decays in its final years south of DeKalb,IL. It seems even the trees have given up all hope....
The hope in this area would be the new windfarm being built.But windfarms have there drawbacks,and the abandonment of nearby distressed properties are one of them.Its cheaper to sell the land than to spend a bunch of money improving it...
The human race will always be besieged by plagues. It is one of the drawbacks of being in these human vehicles. Try to find some happiness in each day. It's all one can do, when in a pandemic, or in more normal times.
Much respect to all medical workers, all doctors, nurses, Emergency Response workers, pharmacy staff, i wish them all the best, Bless them.
Doctors from Pixabay and Wikipedia.
Plague mask, rat, yellow beak, circles and virus are pd png's.
Text from Pixlr app.
*VIVID VIRUS ART* Challenge 22.0
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It was hard to describe the feeling, as I stood taking frame after frame of the Aurora Borealis dancing above the Fjord here in Northern Norway.
You get a much better idea of the activity looking at the screen on the back of the camera, because with the naked eye the colours are less intense. Nonetheless, the drama of the dancing lights is breathtaking to witness and I don't recall ever feeling the cold as I stood here transfixed.
We saw the aurora on the following two nights as well and those displays were much easier to see with the naked eye, they were that intense. The only drawback with those nights was that the images were taken whilst cruising on the Fjords and the results were not as sharp as standing here on the shore at Lyfjord.
Some days can be bumpy
Drawbacks will always come
Yes
I know
Like you are moving back to Start
But then I take a deep breath
Puts on my EvaTude
Gets support from a loved one
And I'm back on track
Thank you for being there
My love
I'm lucky to have precious beings around me
So this day ended in an EvaVision
Who would imagined
😍
Last insect shot for now: a Checkered White butterfly works a huge patch of Prairie Sunflowers. The wildflower bloom here on the northern prairie is almost done for another summer, but a few late-flowering species are now making their appearance - and with them, pollinators such as butterflies, bumblebees, and beetles.
I used the 500mm + 1.4x teleconverter for this. Its advantage is working distance. The drawback is that focusing can be less precise, and depth of field is very limited. But I'll try anything. I went back a few days later and used a macro lens, and I also got out the Rokinon 8mm fisheye for a very different view. Stay tuned...
Photographed at the edge of Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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I just realised I uploaded the wrong photo, that's one of the drawbacks of multi-tasking. The other one was a much lighter version.
Sometimes you just couldn't make it up!
Each eye contains around 4000 lenses giving the fly an almost 360-degree view of the world
And the mosaic effect is quite stunning
Sounds and looks impressive but it has its drawbacks...
Because fly eyes have no pupils they cannot control how much light enters the eye. With no control over how much light passes through the lenses, the fly cannot focus on the image it sees
i.e. it has permanent blurred vision
Doesn't seem to stop them finding the most irritating places to land though!
Corfe Castle at sunrise, captured bank holiday just gone.
Having got to Corfe with the car park fuller than usual presumably cars full of photographers heading for the hill. And on passing a fair few lights on the hill. Deciding to be different or wanting a different perspective than the usual I have seen headed for the common where as it happened I was alone amongst some superb mist which at times was so thick nothing else could be seen. As I arrived very early that morning had the time to setup and think things though more, this image was captured a couple of minutes before 6.00am around 20 minutes before sunrise where the sky turned to a sky of many shades of pastel colours.
Having been here on many occasions never have I been able to get this type of image for me this is what I enjoy about early mornings in Dorset and being a solitude photographer on a hill surrounded by mist was so peaceful.
Having to revert to my backup camera for the last week as the new lens for my new camera had stopped focussing on the first day of my weeks holiday and not having another lens to fit. Having seen the weather reports the night before and hopeful the mist would be even better than a couple of days before decided to use the one camera that got me so interested in photography in the first place and has captured more mist and foggy mornings than any other.
No filters used here this like a few other of my images that morning forgot the adjustments needed for fog and mist as a few of my images were under exposed by around a stop and a bit and noise levels were high which is one of the drawbacks of this camera plus a dirty sensor didn't help . Using a double processing technique recovery in Light room combined with Photoshop as a smart object helped, with the finishing processing in Light room.
The sun casts its early morning light over the Temple of the Moon in Capitol Reef, Utah.
Here's a photo I grabbed down in Capitol Reef while on a trip out with David Swindler of ActionPhotoTours and his buddy Dennis Maisel. I was fortunate enough via David's magnanimous spirit to spent all last week scouting and exploring the desert southwest with he and his buddy. What an adventure that was, exploring some of the most remote locations in the southwest with amazing photographers and friends. While scouting this area the day before I noticed a butte across from the temple, so in the early morning I climbed up there to get a view out over the valley. I knew I would be doing a bit of hiking around this morning so I went to grab a bottle of water from my ice chest which sat out all night while we were out nightscaping. When I opened the lid I couldn't believe my eyes, the whole contents of the ice chest was frozen solid, Humm... I guess they only work from the inside out. Hehe. I pulled out my buck knife and started to chisel one away quietly as not to alarm the others, That's all I need for a first impression is of me going "Psycho" on my ice chest for a bottle of water. It's so great to shoot the southwest in the winter, that is if you can stand the cold mornings and bone chilling wind. I found the southwest in the winter is eerily like a ghost town, not a soul around, except for some locals and ranchers going about their daily business and the roads are wide open, no need for a passing lane at this time of year, and the Christmas decorations in all the little towns along the way really helped to boost my holiday spirit. Only drawback is that "ALL" campgrounds are closed during the winter, so you have to camp primitive style in BLM areas. The only campground I found open was the Goblin Valley campground which was convenient since I was planning to do some nightscapes there. :-)
Warning!!! I like my scenes to depict a lack of humanity so I have removed the roads and signs from the shot so don't expect it to looks exactly like this if you show up there looking for this same shot. :-)
For a great photography adventure at the best times of the day or night, look no further than Action Photo Tours, David is an award winning, excellent guide and accomplished landscape photographer, and all around super nice guy.
Click the link below to book your tour today!!
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Winter is a slow time for taking photos in Alaska, the days are short and cold. So going through older photos that were never processed.
This is of a fox kit resting on top of its den. I was sitting about 20 feet away, the entire fox family have allowed my presence. The whole experience was memorable, I can sit for hours with wildlife nearby and just soak in their wildness. The added benefit of relaxing with wildlife, the photos taken. The only drawback, millions of mosquitoes call the Arctic home too, and they love to make their presence known as well.
One drawback of using high megapixel cameras is that your hard drives are filling up very fast and you will quickly find yourself being out of space. So one day I found myself going through the archives after files I should have discarded a long time ago. I know I have many of them I will never use but I hate the tedious decision making goin through every file. During this process, which by the way is a neverendig story, I stumbled on a pic from a visit to my family in Austria some years ago. Somehow I never bothered to do anything about it. So I found the perfect excuse to postpone the boring search and plunge into a much more pleasing pursuit reminding me of times long ago when I would try to find any excuse to postpone studying for an exam. even cleaning the dorm would suffice. www.ludwigriml.com
I was glad he finally took off. I like to photograph birds when they are actually doing something rather than sitting and looking around. I had to wait a long time for him to go.
This 800mm lens is lightweight and not very big, especially compared to my 600mm and 500mm that is. The biggest drawback is the fixed f11.
I haven't had a chance to try it on a day with good light. This is cropped some. Not a ton but a little bit
These backdrops that Astralia has been making are great for capturing images. The items and textures are high quality and well laid out. They would also be great for portrait photographers in world to use. The only drawback would be that sometimes they are too small and/or have a shallow depth of field which can be hard to use for those who do not shoot square images or full frame, however, they are modifiable so they can be resized and a second copy (as in this image) can be placed next to it to extend the scene. I've had a few people write and ask how I was able to make the background fit a rectangle format, so I wanted to share that tidbit with you. Also experiment with your camera controls ........
Read the rest and grab the designer and event info on Threads & Tuneage
When vintage lens doesn't quench your thirst for bokeh, the next step is to mod the lens or filter :)
The motion blur background you see is straight out of camera and not photoshopped. It was done by using a custom lens filter (paper) with a narrow slit in the middle and positioned tilted. Only drawback is that you lose the sharpness heavily.
Credit for creativeness goes to Flickr fellow member Rod,
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzrod/27510720580/in/photostream/ . Thanks for sharing Rod!
These shots I took in the ..not yet gentrified :))) area of Düsseldorf ..where we enjoy living.
The city, a huge park and the university are within easy walking distance and we have the best infrastructure in the town!
We have people living here from many places in the world and we love living here.
The only drawback are the sixty five stairs to our apartment... which when you get there...is big and beautiful, always light, and often sun filled.
The renovated building in which we live was built around the turn of the century
The best way to get what you want in life is to go after it with all you've got
Be a grizzly :-))
that's what a grizzly says, LOL
Sorry if I've missed commenting on some of your photos. My internet right now is just plain awful. Agonizingly slow. Once I have used up my data allotment for the month, Hughes Net degrades my service and it becomes as slow as cold molasses. Just a horrible company. Why punish your customers for using the internet. That's the drawback to where I live. High speed and real good internet is just not available and probably never will be.
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
.. this was taken by a field where mom cows and their young would graze.. sort of a nursery field, I guess. I'm obviously not a cow person but I love to watch the mothers with their young.. and sometimes the friendships that developed between different youngsters. One big drawback to shooting right here was the numbers of fire ant nests. You wind up hopping around a bit.. lol.
The Red Arrows Flypast and the only drawback for me being need a 400mm zoom. So here has to improvise with what I had with me.
Sedona, Arizona, USA
May 2022
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." (Psalm 19:1 NKJV)
This is my first post of the milky way on my photostream, and it is probably a good time to address a few things here as fellow photographers may be curious. Multiple exposures and stacking or tracking, is the gold standard especially in astrophotography; this results in clean images with excellent clarity and balanced exposure. I acknowledge that, and have the highest respect for photographers who use these techniques. This image however, is a single exposure capture of the milky way. My photographs, so far, are all single exposures, including this one. There are obvious drawbacks in single exposure photography but I also see advantages. For me, I am prepared to work within the limits of single exposure work and accept the trade-offs. I prefer a simpler workflow in photography - both on-site and in post-production.
While it was really challenging trying to photograph the night sky in pitch blackness, I enjoyed the process and it is truly amazing standing beneath a canopy of stars.
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Just spent the last week in Menorca witnessing some incredible sunsets. The only drawback from a photography perspective, was the heatwave temperatures reaching 42C at times.
Waking up early has its benefits, despite the drawbacks! Saturday morning walk through a nearby park was enough for quite some nice photos!
Taken with my ancient Pentax K20D digital camera, with even more ancient smc Pentax-DA 18–55mm F3.5–5.6 AL kit lens. Taken as a monochrome JPEG and a raw file, although monochrome photos were great, these colours are even better looking, I'd say.
Taken yesterday morning on a 10km circular route of part of the Wicklow Way. Its hard to believe that it was the second day of Winter though it was a little cold but Im always well prepared as you need to be. I used to hike in England with a crazy ex British army Para who, before a hike, would empty you bag out on the ground and tear strips off you for not having the correct gear and not packing it in the correct order, just in case there was an emergency. He was right though and what he thought me, has stood to me over the years!
I sat up here on a little cliff looking at this view while having tea and a soggy ham and cheese sandwich, which always seems to taste wonderful in places like this! The only sound were the calling of the Ravens riding on the thermals in front of me and keeping an eye on my food which I always share with them as the are totally loyal and mate for life, and are wonderfully intelligent birds. We all could learn a lesson!
Ive discovered a wonderful, crystal clear mountain spring here. It tumbles out from under a rock and the icy cold water tastes like fine wine! I dragged a container full home with me and its sitting in my fridge but not for long? Bottled water? No! Ive never bought it!
The mountain directly in front, with the cliff is Lugallaw [595m] and the one behind it is the majestic Mullaghcleevaun [842m] which is the second highest mountain in the County. A wild and dangerous place. Ive only climbed it twice as had to turn back on two other occasions as the weather changed. People have met their end up there. Looking at it from here, I can see how big it looks!
I did take my time up there yesterday as I was on my own and it was nice for a change. I met 3 people and had a nice conversation with them . I discovered I knew a brother of one of them! Its a small country and you wouldnt want to " be doing anything you`d be ashamed of " as they say here! Not that I ever would, well, Maybe, Sometimes, Often! Well I havent been caught so far anyway!!! lol!
I hope you like my bit of an effort and the banter,
and Ill catch you all soon!
Im off to England in the morning to see my kids and grandkids but Ill be back on Friday, as its just a flying visit!
Do keep putting up all your inspirational photographs and stay safe,
Pat.
I took this with my Nikon D90 and an 18-135 mm, F3.5-5.6.
I dont use it often when in the mountains as I find it a bit heavy and cumbersome. However it is a great camera.
Unfortunately, the camera doesnt have a Panorama function which is a drawback in my opinion, so I stitched two pics together . Pat.
Update;
I decide to update this photo as a lot of people havent seen it. I think it may be the best Ive ever taken.
Do Pllllllllllleasssssse listen to the song and watch the video as its jaw droppingly awesome!!!
P@t.
Floating or non-floating?
Those who are old enough to remember, restaurants in the UK used to ask diners if they wanted a seat in smoking or non smoking. Somehow, if sat on the edge of the non-smoking section, the smoke was magically supposed to respect your wishes and not trangress the non-existent boundary between the two sections. Reminds me of something today - can't quite think what.
The UK government-backed 'Eat out to help out' scheme ends today and as often happens with government interference, it created 'unforeseen' drawbacks such as too much demand for the reduced staff to cope with and a drop off in demand over the key weekend period.
Now it feels like no matter how buoyant the mood of any given restaurant, many will go under... unless we support them.
Please support restaurants that are small businesses.
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The pose pack from Black Sand was available during the Happy Weekend sale which is available every weekend from Saturday to Monday which is my favorite sale of all time as it features high quality items for your mesh/photography needs. The pose pack came with some couple poses which were equally delicious in my opinion but this one stood out to me the most as it had been a while since I did a Solo shot. I chose a mix and match of Purple and Green for aesthetic purposes as they are my favorite colors, this was the end result with the pose including the prop skateboard in the pack. The only drawback of the pose was that the hands were not calibrated correctly as my hand was sliding into the skateboard but if you have animare then it's not a problem which I highly suggest you buy for your photos.
Pose pack location: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//154/77/1777
Animare: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Animare-Plus-Pose-Animation-...
“Hello, is that Mr Bezos?”
“Ah yes, good. Glad I caught you. It’s me again. You know me - the one who’s always buying coffee and cat food from you. I bought a new compost bin last January, remember?”
“Yes, that's the one. Now I wonder whether you can help me. I’m in a bit of a spot you see. I need a new polarising filter pretty quickly. One of the circular magnetic ones, seventy-seven millimetres. Have you got any in stock?”
“Brilliant. Could you rush one over to me please? This afternoon if you can. Preferably before the golden hour.”
“Oh you can? For an additional postage and packing fee, well that’s ok in the circumstances I suppose. Yes, two hours is quite short notice I’ll admit.”
“Well yes, the only thing is that I’m not home to sign for delivery right now you see. I’m standing on top of a sand dune in Iceland.”
“Yes I did say Iceland. Can I put that down as a temporary address please? Nice compost bin by the way. The fruit flies love it.”
Ok so that conversation didn’t happen. I believe Mr Bezos doesn’t take sales orders in person - well not mine anyway - and they have an app for this sort of thing. The app that I was browsing as I stood on top of said dune, cursing myself for having failed to learn from past errors. You see the trouble is I’m forever stuffing my filter case into a coat pocket and then forgetting about it as I crouch and stoop to examine compositions from different heights in an attempt to work out what to do with the tripod. And now for a second time in recent months, the polarising filter at the front of the pack had taken the strain one too many times, bruising and fracturing inside the case without me realising. Without a backup, I was going to have to manage the final six days of our trip without one. Not ideal. If any of the ND filters had succumbed, I could have worked my way around whatever shutter speed I was after, but you can’t replicate a polarising filter.
It didn’t take me long to find a replacement that was in stock, and I felt slightly happier in the knowledge that it was currently on sale at a ten percent discount. An order was rapidly placed, and Mr Bezos duly trousered another few pounds. The new filter would be lying on the doormat the next morning - over a thousand miles away. Maybe I should have bought two for when I repeat my blunder, as I inevitably will. But for now I had a problem. And maybe a solution too. Not a very good solution, but worth a try at any rate. Shooting at the sort of aperture I’d normally select here was out of the question, but perhaps if I opened up wide I might just get away with it. And so I tried a focus stack at f5 with a broken polariser. Desperate moments sometimes call for daft measures. And when the golden dunes are doing their thing, you really need a polariser. A large rake to smooth away the footprints in the sand wouldn’t go amiss too, but I didn’t have one of those with me either. Maybe we’re all missing a trick there. Especially us coast dwelling togs. Essential photography accessory number four hundred and sixty-five - a garden rake. I don’t suppose Easyjet would allow that in the cabin would they?
If it were somewhere I could get back to easily, this picture would never have seen the light of day. It’s as flawed as the process taken to create it was. Soft corners, areas out of focus because three exposures evidently weren't enough. If I called a recent image “Best Viewed Large,” this one should be named “Best Viewed Tiny.” But the golden glow on those dunes was worth the effort as far as I was concerned. Just don’t go pixel peeping into this one, or you’ll be hitting the “unfollow” button about four seconds later. I didn’t even have the sense to take one without the polariser at f11. Brain failure on a scale as grand as the vista in front of me. Just allow your eye to wander across the glow to Vestrahorn if you will. Despite the drawbacks, it’s still an image that makes me stop and smile at the memory. Far from a special image, but a very special time at a place that’s never too distant from my thoughts.
Nowadays I mostly do exactly what I should always have done, especially bearing in mind that the tripod has a ring onto which the filter case is easily clipped. Why did I never do this before? And of course at times I still find myself casting around for the filters before feeling for and finding them in my coat pocket. Absent-mindedness often comes at a cost. So far the latest polariser has remained intact, but you can be sure that at some point it will happen again and I’ll be wishing I’d bought that spare in the event of emergencies. With fools like me around who are too lazy to look anywhere else when the app does it all in a couple of minutes, Mr Bezos won't starve in his dotage, even if he doesn’t yet deliver to sand dunes in Iceland.
Utuana Reserve, Loja Ecuador, Jan 2022. © C.S. Wood
One of the prettiest hummers on this trip. Not uncommon, but limited range of southern Ecuador and northwest Peru. Note that the flight feathers lack any iridescence because the mechanics of iridescence weakens feathers, obviously a drawback to efficient flight.
Read about our birding adventures in Ecuador: woodysecuadorbirding.blogspot.com
Cameras such as this one (seen in the Centro Portugues de Fotografia, Porto) were available in the 1950s - light, portable and able to produce "3D" images. The drawback was that one needed a pair of special glasses in order to see the two images as one and in stereo. But my question is: what prevents digital technology today from catching up with the 1950s?
The moment I saw this scene of sheep grazing in a wild paddock, with a very moody sky and those iconic gum trees, I was excited. My mind immediately reflected on the school of nationalist Australian Impressionists, and in particular Tom Roberts (1856-1931) who is buried near Longford in Tasmania.
It was almost like I'd seen this scene before. Well not quite, but the painting that came immediately to mind (I am very grateful for my art education) was Tom Roberts' "Breakway" (1891). www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insi...
Now it is not the actual scene that makes me think of Roberts, but the spirit of the work. I believe this photograph catches a glimpse of the inner world of the Australia landscape (if there can be such a thing): The spirit of place. In short, I am saying this photograph could only ever be taken in Australia.
Black and white photography and Australian Impressionist colour. Is there a link? Well let me say that over the next few days you'll get plenty of naturalist colour from me in my rural landscapes. And I have taken my cue for that from the Australian colonialist painters a generation before the Australian Impressionists.
But this one shot for the moment is my tribute to Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin, Condor, Withers www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/3252/ , and let's not forget (although he was a generation later), the South Australian Hans Heysen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Heysen
When the Impressionists applied colour to the canvas it was in ways that reminded you of the natural landscape, but more particularly conveyed something of the verve and drama lying beneath the surface of the image.
Colour photography is wonderful, but its greatest drawback is that it often robs us of distance from the work. We see a colour picture and we immediately think "snapshot". We are so used to it we are conditioned by it. When our brain thinks "snapshot" it takes the easy way out and says, "That's nice." But we don't really see!
Black and white photography is so great for dramatic landscapes - that's why we remember Ansel Adams' photographs of Yosemite and not the myriad of beautiful colour photographs of the same vistas. Black and white engages our brains because we have to decode the scene without our usual (expected) colour.
So we actually take more time examining a black and white photograph. It means we also notice the subtly of shades in the clouds, the structure of those trees, and the attitude of the grazing sheep. That's why a monochrome is more memorable.
It looks as though this Razorbill has chosen a rather messy ledge on which to live on in the seabird colony at Bempton.
Este año he conocido tres rincones preciosos de la provincia de Murcia. En la primera visita que hice a Fuente Caputa, me llevó mi amigo Pipa, pude hacer esta foto a esta hembra joven.
Estábamos en mayo y el calor ya no se soportaba, el único inconveniente de este rincón.
Fotograma completo, recortado un poco por arriba para convertirlo en panorámica.
Fuente Caputa. Yéchar (Murcia) España
This year I have met three beautiful corners of the province of Murcia. On the first visit I made to Caputa Fountain, my friend Pipa took me, I was able to take this photo to this young female.
We were in May and the heat was no longer supported, the only drawback of this corner.
Full frame, cropped a little above to make it panoramic.
Caputa fountain. Yéchar (Murcia) Spain
Another shot from our trip up High Cup Nick earlier this year. We had descended down into the Valley floor, rather than retrace our steps back to Dufton and we were rewarded with a fabulous golden late light show.
The moody sky and sunset light created a great sight, the only drawback was the much longer walk back to the car at Dufton. But it was well worth it.
It finally looked like a decent winter in the Netherlands, a whole week with temperatures below zero (in celcius) and during the nights even below -10c and as a treat a decent amount of snow.
But next week the temperatures will be going up again and all the snow will be gone. That meant this weekend would be our last opportunity to enjoy the snow and some nice weather.
We went to the Strubben Kniphorstbosch area and hiked for a few hours. Hiking in snowy conditions is nice when the sun shines. And even better with no clouds at all.
Only drawback the snow made hiking a bit more strenuous.
That one is from among the early photos taken using the new EF 50mm f/1.4 lens. I was advised of its high advantages and knew it is recommended for the portrait photography, but I wasn't quite aware of what big an asset I was going to have in my shooting armamentarium. While I was trying out its possibilities, I came up with a series of shots that might be interesting due to a slightly longer exposure than usual teamed with the largest aperture setting as well as the white backdrop and background lighting. The fact that this lens have no built-in image stabilization, something I would normally consider a drawback, turned out to be a welcomed addition to creativity because of further blurring sharpnes a little bit while isolating the subject from the background.
For those who are interested, this shot has undergone some editing, ie. image cropping for that matter, so here is a full disclosure about the settings as follows: f/1.4, exposure time 0.4 focal length 50.0mm ISO 100, flash off as always when I decide to adjust the settings manually because I'm very much interested in using the natural light whenever possible.
I hope you enjoy it.