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Scanned Kallitype print
Digital negative
Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 8x10" exposed for 2,5 min in UV-box, developed in Sodium Citrate, cleared in Citric Acid and fixed in Hypo.
Testing adjustments of the curve to avoid burned out highlights. Resulted in decreased contrast...
But good detail and pleasing tone with this "sepia-developer" :-)
Untoned
White PS border
Not as colourful as nudibranchs but still lovely are the Candy-stripped Flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus).
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On Sunday evening I was lucky to witness a very unusual sunset over Beeston Rylands. My usual view would be to photograph the setting sun over the River Trent, which is out of view to the right of this photograph, but the clouds in the direction of the setting sun were relatively flat and dull. Looking in the opposite direction, however, was this view of stunning pink clouds. The only down side, perhaps, was the lack of foreground interest, so I gave greater prominence to the sky, using the path to the right and muddy field for context.
Whites, reds, golds, yellows and greens on the salt flats near Whitehorse in southern Yukon. This is a low lying area of mud flat/salt flat not far from the Takhini river. I wasn’t sure what the red plant growing from the mud was while I was there, but on my return home, I did some research and discovered that it is called Boreal Saltwort (Salicornia borealis), and that it is considered critically imperilled in Canada. This makes me think that hiking around the Takhini Salt Flats should only be done with great care so as to avoid disturbing these amazing plants. All of that said, perhaps it is the erosion caused by animal and human activity in the area that keeps the grasses from overrunning the Saltwort altogether. Who knows? It would be nice to see some work done on this, and signs posted accordingly.
Photo taken with the Canon EOS R and RF 24-105mm f/4.0 L. Image processed from raw in Adobe Lightroom. The image was straightened slightly and cropped in just a little from the left. Otherwise, it has not been modified except for basic adjustments to exposure, colour, and light to make it as natural as possible. Like a couple of my other images from the day's outing, this would have been a wonderful photo to process as a focus stack, but in the end, it is a single exposure shot at f/8 to maximize depth of field without inducing diffraction.
This sculpture by Judy Millar is called Call Me Snake.
The sculpture is made of five intersecting flat planes of wood on a steel frame. The panels are clad in printed photographs of brushstrokes created by Millar and magnified by ten. It is Millar's first public artwork and will be on the city centre site for two years.
Saw the sun rising over Flat Iron Mountain at Lost Dutchman State Park this morning and knew I needed a shot. Or 12. Went monochrome because the colors were just not working out.
This is why they consider the Netherlands as flat. You can see the church tower from miles ahead / Het vlakke Nederland. Blik op Reeuwijk vanaf Tempel.
Under beautiful late evening skies, muted hues predominate among speckles of gold on the willow flats looking toward Jackson Lake and the famous peaks of the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
More evenings than not it seems, I encounter stunning vivid sunsets simply when hanging out on my porch at home in Raleigh or walking the dog with my wife around our neighborhood. Enjoyable though those sunsets are, I have been mildly bemused at times that such sunsets often seem so scarce when I am traveling in areas with access to many more grand and varied vistas than we have available near my home on the flat piedmont of North Carolina. Nature took great care of us though on my trip last fall with family to Grand Teton National Park. On that outing, almost every golden hour ended up gracing us with some sort of a beautiful display--even if it usually wasn't what I thought was going to happen based on the conditions leading up to sunrise or sunset.
The night I took this shot was par for the course as I wandered along some trails overlooking the Willow Flats not far from Jackson Lake Lodge. What a short while earlier had looked like a cluster of clouds over the Tetons thick enough to block any sunset color, thinned then to permit this beautiful orange light to fill the skies above the iconic range shortly after the sun had dipped behind the peaks. I thought the late light might reach even further to illuminate the dark, wispy leading edge of the clouds in this image--likely in a brilliant pink I imagined--but those foremost clouds stayed charcoal throughout. Even so, I found myself really liking the dark cloud band in conjunction with the bright orange below, all spaced serendipitously in composition with the Tetons' picture-perfect alpine forms.
I also thought the more subtle autumn palette here was beautiful in its own right and very well met the mood of the rest of the scene. It was still nice, though, to have that one little aspen in the frame, glowing ever so slightly in the diminishing light.
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A little late in my processing of this 'Flat-Lay' style image, (recent fall, injury to head, knee, and ribs prevented me !), but better late than never eh ?
5 x images taken at different exposures, combined in Aurora HDR software, then run through Luminar AI, and finally, Photoshop CC 2022.
Image inspired by the 3 x companies I buy my photography 'props' from ...
1) Oh Curio
2) Photo Boards
3) Wyld Home
Here's the result.
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