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When PTC upgrades had to be made in Durand, part of the project included putting the CP Durand main bungalow in between the Port Huron wye and the Flint sub, which happens to lie directly in front of the Durand Union Station. This requires one to get creative when you want to shoot a NB train passing the depot while not blocking everything. I think I did alright with the extra GLC empty grain train coming north into Durand.
A 40-meter statue of José MarÃa Morelos, a great hero of Mexico's independence, started in 1933, is found on the island's highest point. Visitors can climb to the top of the statue by way of a staircase that spirals up the inside. Along the interior walls, the life of Morelos is depicted in murals painted by Ramón Alba de la Canal and other Mexican muralists. At the top, visitors can look through peepholes in the giant raised fist of Morelos, with views of the island, lake and surroundings.
The people of Janitzio and the towns surrounding Lake Pátzcuaro are of indigenous descent and are known as Purépecha. Available in Janitzio are regional handicrafts. A variety of handmade textiles and artwork are sold.
In the foreground, a large skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) enjoying the sweet rewards of a thistle and in the background a very old and tattered painted lady (Vanessa cardui) doing the same.
I actually have separate shots of these two. Check out the skipper here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48266869891/ and see how pretty the painted lady looks even though it is so old here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48275244422/
I knew there must be something more in this photograph than the water and the sky and the trees in the distance and the curve of the dead tree in the foreground and the shadow of the fragment of the dead tree towards the right bottom corner of the photograph.
There had to be something more: a naked woman, perhaps (best). a raccoon gnawing on a carp (better), a cat gazing off into the distance, dreaming of killing a warbler (awful). Yet for the life of me, even with my glasses on (cheap drugstore reading glasses), even with my glasses freshly-cleaned with soap and tap water, I couldn't find it, the hidden figure. I needed a magnifying glass.
I didn't know where my magnifying glass was (I actually have two). But I knew there was a magnifier on my iPhone. It took me half-an-hour to find Magnifier, pull it out of my App Library, and place it on one of my app screens. I am one of those old white males the great writer Clare Vaye Watkins, one of the freshest faces in American fiction (I highly recommend her, especially her book of short stories, Battleborn, which she has pretty much disowned, because she says it panders to old white males, like me). She says she is done pandering. I felt I needed someone, anyone, to pander to me long enough to help me find and install the Magnifier icon.
Only when I finally found Magnifier and got it installed did I find the boy. The very well camouflaged boy. The indavertantly camouflaged boy.
In an infinitude of universes, in an infinitude of time, this boy has an infinitude of existences. Some of them are best. Some of them are better. Some of them are good. Some of them, alas, are awful.
But here there is only one existence for this boy, in this photograph. Perhaps this is the last trace of him. Perhaps somewhere his body lies mouldering in the ground. But that is not him. Perhaps as living breathing human being he lives only here.
Perhaps that is enough.
This was taken 3 years ago with my old point&shoot camera
DAYUMM I was good ;)
I love the flare and composition
I've done some landscape photography lately. I have learnt that it is really important to compose Your landscape shots with some interest in the foreground that would lead the viewers eye into the picture.
Of course, it takes some practice, but I think I'm doing progress. What do You think?
BTW, This shot was taken in Hanko
Original Caption: The Atlas Chemical Company Belches Smoke across Pasture Land in Foreground. The Plant Is Referred to as "Old Darky" in the Community Because Black Soot from the Plant Covers Everything Near-By. One Farmer Claims He Lost Several Cows Due to Soot and Chemicals from Atlas, 06/1972
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-3643
Photographer: St. Gil, Marc, 1924-1992
Subjects:
Marshall (Harrison county, Texas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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Helios 44-2 58mm f/2
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Foreground figures are thrown out of focus, on Newgale.
Tripod-mounted finger-triggered greyscaled telephoto.
Nights draw in at Pelcomb Portraits.
This past weekend I made a trip out to Bellevue Beach to photograph the shorebirds out on the mussel bed.
Here is a shot of a Semipalmated Plover where I positioned the camera at a very low angle to blur out the foreground mussels to create a more pleasing image.
Read more about this in my recent blog post.
www.bradjameswildlifephotography.com/blog
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Foreground: Fenton satin rosalene vase with old Imperial clambroth carnival bowl behind it, Imperial doeskin milk glass Loganberry vase, Imperial doeskin blue Loganberry vase.
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Foreground 5min exposure
ISO 650
F5
Stars tracked 2min exposure
ISO 1250
F4
Blended in PS/LR
Nikon D810
Samyang 14mm f2.8
Ioptron skytracker pro
Snapped from the roadside near Aberfoyle, Scotland. I darkened the sky and reduced shadows in the foreground. Don't know if I'm doing the right thing, but I just tweaked until I liked it. via 500px ift.tt/1U4dNzF
DDC-Foreground
Shizandra, the loveliest flower in the garden!
I thought doing this in black and white with the flowers in the foreground would make a nice photo for today's challenge. I know I've said it many times, but I really should do more black and white photography!