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Nature always amazes me. For instance the rain splashed on the ground made the woods debris bounce up and make shapes and forms as they attached to just a blade of grass beside
a mushroom. On top of the mushroom you can see the grains of sand on top of it that were there when the mushroom was raising itself out of the ground. Love nature! Macro photography gives a way to see this
Halation: The scattering of light. To surround, as if with a halo. The instance where light disperses while hitting film emulsions, especially around highlights.
I try to keep my geeky, technical side in check with photography. I am a bit wary of it, truth be told. I try to make my photography less technical and more creatively by chance. But I do enjoy geeking out now and again while learning the technical nuts and bolts of how film emulsions work and why certain films do certain things that other films don't. When pursued properly, such technical information can inform the less formal creative exploration of film photography. As long as I don't get too fixated on it, or too narrow-visioned, I find it can open possible avenues of exploration.
Anyhow, I was reminded of this general philosophy recently while researching the characteristics of Fomapan 400, which is kind of a unique film among black and white negative films. There are two things it does kind of strangely. The first is that it has a very uncharacteristic spectral sensitivity chart. While most black and white films kind of balance out in their sensitivity to the visible spectrum, Fomapan 400 starts out with relatively low blue sensitivity and progressively gains sensitivity as it moves to the red end of the spectrum. It makes the film behave almost as if it has a built-in red filter in terms of how it renders tonality and translates color into shades of gray. The other thing it does is exhibit frequent halation, especially in 120. I am guessing this is because the 120 format is coated onto a polyester base instead of the more usual triacetate base, and polyester bases are prone to "light piping". Fomapan 400 has an anti-halation layer added to it to help prevent this but apparently it is not super effective, as evidenced by this and other images I have made.
Anyhow, I dig this kind of thing and just wanted to share a little bit of it. I don't think I was aware of all these qualities while making this image, so they were a bit of a surprise... but a good one.
Hasselblad 500C
Fomapan 400
Great Crested Flycatcher, in this instance, dragonfly catcher; Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly to be more exact.
Plantation Preserve
Plantation, FL
8/16/25
Stieglitz would never say that certain objects of the world were more or less beautiful than others...telegraph poles, for instance, compared with oak trees. He would accept them for what they are, and use the most appropriate objects to express his thoughts and convey his vision. -- Ansel Adams
I picked up this vintage chair at a garage sale, several years ago, and it's been rusting away in the back corner of the yard ever since. My intentions were to remove the rust and repaint it as no one wants to sit in it as it is. Well, along came flickr and now who's got time to de-rust an old patio chair. Oh well, I've gotten some great texture shots off the seat so it's still functional for something and maybe I'll take a day off from flickr someday soon, grease my elbows, and get this old timer cleaned up.
I will be driving to our mountain cabin today and won't be back on the computer until later this even. Yippee...fall color coming up...I hope!
Always a balance. Each instance is only one moment, one idea, one event. At the same time, each instance is a reflection of and part of the overall.
May your Friday be full of peace and reflection.
There are several wasps that induce gall formation around their grubs but few quite as well formed as those of the Knopper wasp. These little critters lay their eggs in the buds of oak trees and the larvae hatch out into the forming acorns. The galls provide the protective shield for one or many larva(e). In this instance the residual acorn is still visible but in most cases it is engulfed by the gall.
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus hunting insects on the dry Nossob riverbed in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. These powerful flyers look quite comical when they rush and run after insects - big black ants, in this instance.
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I finally got around to processing some of my twilight shots from a recent trip to Cape Kiwanda.
Sorry I haven't been very active on here recently. My life has been a mad scramble for the past couple weeks, and the way the summer's going it probably won't stop anytime soon. This morning, for instance, I found myself crawling around in the attic trying to figure out why the furnace's blower isn't working (which means we have no AC at the moment). And we have guests visiting tomorrow.
I hope your summer's just as busy as you want it to be. Until next time!
The hawklet is usually the last one to be fed, but in this instance, the eagle “parent” flew in and fed him first while the eaglets looked on.
A very different approach to the crocus shot from yesterday. In that instance, I isolated two on a hillside, shooting upslope and trying for as clean a look as possible. Here, in contrast, a beautiful cluster buried in a tangle of old and new grasses. I did think of doing some grooming, ie. removal of dead material, but two things stopped me: 1. the grasses provided some insulation - protection from wind and cold - and removing them would expose the plant and maybe damage it; 2. this is how we often see wildflowers, in context, as part of their habitat, not neat and clean, not calendar-worthy... so why not show them like this? Perhaps the pattern of blue splashes is enough to cut through the chaos of criss-crossing lines.
The two photos were made minutes apart. Are they equally successful? I don't know; probably not. But there's no point in endlessly repeating what I know will work.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Other than the stray cats and trees, the other living thing in significant numbers at Dakota Crescent happen to be the pigeons, which can be seen hanging in the most unusual places sometimes. Like for in this instance, hanging on a clothes drying pole.
Chandeshvara Nayanar
The South Indian legend, narrated, for instance, in the Periyapuranam, states that he was born into a Brahmin family and was called Visarasarman. When he was a young boy, he found that cows remain uncared for, and hence he himself commenced tendering and caring for the cows. While doing so, he would pour some milk on a lingam, which he made of sand. The news of this wastage of milk reached the ear of his father, Datta; and he himself came to the field to scold his son. Chandesha was deep in meditation in front of the sand lingam, and he did not see his father. The enraged father kicked the sand lingam. At this Chnadesha’s meditation was interrupted, and he struck his father’s leg with a staff. The staff turned into an axe and his father’s leg was severed. At this point, Shiva manifested himself, and blessed Chandesha, declared that he would become a father to Chandesha; and restored the severed leg of Datta to normal state.
First manned fligh.The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first tethered balloon flight with humans on board took place on October 19, 1783 with the scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, the manufacture manager, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and Giroud de Villette, at the Folie Titon in Paris. The first free flight with human passengers was on November 21, 1783. King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but de Rozier, along with Marquis Francois d'Arlandes, successfully petitioned for the honor. - Wikipedia
detail from a time-zero photograph... for the love of time-zero.
Signed print on 8"x8" Kodak Endura metallic paper
Lab printed from a high resolution, lossless Portable Network Graphics file
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Parc Rosoux Ohey - Namur
www.out.be/fr/lieux/56773/parc-rosoux/list/
www.cesewallonie.be/instances/pole-environnement
walloniebelgiquetourisme.be/fr-be/content/syndicat-diniti...
Another instance where patience paid off in Patagonia as we waited for storm clouds to disperse around the peaks of the southern Andes looming over Lake Viedma outside El Chalten, Argentina.
One of the reason's I haven't been doing anything SL wise is in part due to this game I've been sucked into -- here is one of the things you can do, its an instance set to 400% difficulty - but this character I have is somewhat "broken" and just melts everything (so fun) - plus trying a new video capture that gives no lag when recording. The game is also free if anyone is interested and I can help you with whatever you need.
Supplemental irrigation is a must in the arid west and wheel-lines are among the most efficient way to get needed water to crops in the field. Primarily, very large fields.
I also find it nearly impossible to pass by a beautiful, back-lit wheel-line when the conditions for a compelling photograph are rather extraordinary, as they were in this particular instance near
Corvallis, Montana in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley.
This shot is similar to some others I have added over the years but I love the many shots I took of this lion after he mated. It is quite difficult to always get a picture of an animal's soul while on safari, but in this instance, I think he looks quite vulnerable. No processing here. The colors are from nature!
I am continuing this series of endangered or threatened wildlife species by adding another picture of each one of the previous animals. This image corresponds with # 6. That way you can go back and read information on the animal if you missed it before. They are all in the album titled "Endangered"
There are 9 animals in the series. Count them again, the number is huge and of course there are many more species I don't have pictures of. Many of the animals are ones that we all love and when they are gone they will be greatly missed.
A reminder that all of my images are copyrighted and are not for your use in any way unless you contact me.
My take on a local land mark. In this instance we have eclipsed our neighbours I think.
eclipse
ɪˈklɪps/Submit
verb
past tense: eclipsed; past participle: eclipsed
(of a celestial body) obscure the light from or to (another celestial body).
"Jupiter was eclipsed by the Moon"
deprive (someone or something) of significance or power.
"the economy has eclipsed the environment as the main issue"
synonyms:outshine, overshadow, put in the shade, surpass, exceed, excel, be superior to, outclass, outstrip, outdistance, outdo, top, cap, trump, transcend, tower above/over, dwarf, upstage, shame, put to shame; More
literary
obscure or block out (light).
"a sea of blue sky violently eclipsed by showers"
synonyms:blot out, block, cover, obscure, veil, shroud, hide, conceal, obliterate, darken, dim;
Sometimes, fireworks don't explode where you expect them... Thanks to photoshop, I develop my own technique to put them where I want them to be plus combining this with my DRI technique.
Parfois les feux d'artifices n'explosent pas toujours là où on voudrait... Grâce à photoshop, j'ai développé ma technique qui me permet de les mettre là où je les veux en la combinant à ma technique DRI.
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My technique is alway the same:
Three exposures -2EV, 0, +2EV and then temperature adjustement using Lightroom and layering with luminosity mask using photoshop. Removal of distracting stuff with the stamp tool or patch tool. High pass filter to enhance details. Then saturation, contrast selectively control, dodge and burn where need...
DRI stand for Dynamic Range Increase. Three RAW files are used to achieve this. Rather than using a software like Photomatix for instance, I simply use mask to blend, my own way, the light, dark and normal shot with Photoshop and Lightroom.. To me, It looks more natural than the usual HDR treatment that I would normally applied.
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Ma technique est toujours la même:
Trois prises de vue -2EV, 0, +2EV. Ensuite ajustement de la température de couleur avec Lightroom et usage de calques et masques de luminosités avec Photoshop. Retrait d'éléments de distraction avec l'outil tampon. Filtre High pass pour le rehaussement des détails. Ensuite saturation et contraste ajustés de façon sélectives et locales. Dodge and burn là où requis...
DRI vient de l'anglais Dynmic Range Increase, qui pourrait se traduire par étendue dynamique améliorée. Les même 3 fichiers RAW entrent dans la composition d'un DRI. Plutôt que de se servir d'un logiciel comme Photomatix qui fait tout le travail, je me sers plutôt de masques pour filtrer l'éclairage dans photoshop et Lightroom. De mon point de vue, cette façon de faire donne une image plus naturel que le traitement HDR que j'employais auparavant.
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Compared to the old days when freight locos never (or very rarely) got a wash and that includes BR it was notable that the trio of shadow freight companies in the late 90s did keep their expensively repainted charges in reasonable external nick in order to present a good image to their customers - a lesson well learned by GBRf for instance. It was always a good day when a Loadhaul liveried loco appeared before the camera and even better when it was a Grid! This location was great as there was no hint of a shadow even in the depths of winter thanks to the expanse of the former goods yard.
“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”
Oscar Wilde
SOOC
i miss fresh time-zero. here's an old shot that i have never scanned until now for polaroid week.
time-zero
polaroid sx-70
In my case I have been here many times......perhaps I should take an image with me coming back to meet myself.....although in this particular instance this shot is of my son James.
the turtle that lives in the courtyard. michelle and I can't stop feeding it. pomegranite, in this instance. also tomato, arugala, cherry, whatever is at hand!! :)
A rare instance of a Sea Otter attacking and eating a bird. Normally Sea Otters feast on shellfish not birds. More on this encounter can be found on my blog entry Sea Otter Attacking a Western Grebe
©2008 Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved
This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
This picture is a reproduction of one I first saw in the Athleta catalog (for instance athleta.gap.com/browse/outfit.do?cid=1047782&oid=OUT-...), which seems to arrive at our house once a week. The landscape in the Athleta photo looked at lot like Utah and the signs on the trailhead board offered some clues for a location but it took using a magnifying glass to make out the words. I discovered this is Faux Falls right outside of Moab, Utah. Coincidentally, we were going to be traveling through Moab on our way back from New Mexico and so I got the directions on the internet and we made the slight detour and then the hike to the falls. It was extremely hot. Jessica complained about hiking from the car being the worst experience of her life. When it came to recreating the Athleta picture, as you can see, only one of my models, Kellie, was cooperative while the other one was only looking for shade. Faux Falls got its name because although the water looks like it is coming right out of the desert rock, this is actually a man-made waterfall build by diverting a water source with pipes. Still beautiful!
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This was an instance where I just wanted to satisfy the image that had popped into my brain...
Texture by SkeletalMess
Birds by Shadowhouse Creations
Trees by MidnightsTouch
Not perfect, but a big improvement on other attempts to catch a White-Faced Heron in flight. In this instance, the bird was swooping across the upper reaches of the Pauatahanui Estuary on "Finals" for a fast-approaching sandbar!
My apologies for Absence; I've been "down" with a "Dreaded Lurgy" but hope to be back up and running tomorrow!
A rare instance of a Sea Otter attacking and eating a bird. Normally Sea Otters feast on shellfish not birds. More on this encounter can be found on my blog entry Sea Otter Attacking a Western Grebe
©2008 Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved
This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
A million housewives every day pick up a tin of beans and say beanz, meanz, Heinz.
That was their little ditty in the UK TV adverts back in the 60's.
I read this week Heinz has just had a commercial banned in the UK because it allegedly encourages dangerous behaviour in children. A few people complained to the ASA* I suppose you could say those people spilled the beans :))
The 60's www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3Hdugq1Dw and now adage.com/article/agency-news/u-k-heinz-baked-beans-ad-ba...
I am in heaven as I've found my favourite baked beans at The World Market and I guarantee I won't cut myself.
*The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation. However, its code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances. The ASA is not funded by the British government, but by a levy on the advertising industry. Its role is to "regulate the content of advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing in the UK" by investigating "complaints made about ads, sales promotions or direct marketing", and deciding whether such advertising complies with its advertising standards codes.
Here's an instance where I really could've used a different focal length. Sometimes I really wish the G617 had the ability to zoom or switch lenses. In this case, I would've loved to zoom out just a little so the top of McGown Peak wasn't so close to the edge of the frame.
Fuji G617
Velvia 50
This is a common sight when one takes a boat in Yamuna, Allahabad. One such instance during ardh kumbh on Mauni Amavasya day.
Original Image
4 months and 12 days ago I met a lovely and generous lady named Rose. For the first instance I thought she would be the most show-off person ever, since she were very luxury and recognized. But after some time chatting with her I noticed the opposite, people know her due to honesty, loyalty & many others. I know we spent some hours having fun and making fun of each other, taking pictures however I honestly loved each second & milliseconds. Thank you so much for been this lovely and kind lady to everyone. Still, the main purpose of why am I writing is to thank you for opening and changing my way of thinking regarding to the Friendship World. We all know and may have a lot of friends, the main problem is that many cannot recognise the real ones. And she, made me do it! Got from a list of 4k to 58, quite a reasonable number...
Now, you may be thinking what is the relation of that with this piece of art. Here it is, people may look sometimes and create an image of something, but the same image can be changed according to each individual perspective. If you take a look on the Original Image, it was something totally clean, summer, an image that brought happiness for many, while the other, the final one is totally the opposite within a shadowy version. That can be the same in the Friendship scene, people may say bad things about you at your back but a few will be truly, thanks Rose.
PS: Happy Birth Day!
All of the items, unless the shark were drawn from scratch or edited over a version of an image.Hope you all enjoy this transformation...
yesterday we passed through many flower meadows with lots of wildflowers. So that made it worth to get the macro lenses out :) The flower depicted is a tiny blue wildflower, not larger than than a thumbnail and I still don't know the name of this bewitchingly beautiful wildflower but I had to showcase it in proper manner in a triptych.
In this instance, the title is factual as what appears to be a misty day at the reservoir was in fact somebody burning a lot of stuff nearby and the smoke was drifting over the water at Trenchford reservoir.
Well taken care of multi time participant in the Caramulo Motorfestival, of which i have better pics of. Unfortunately in this instance some 'thing' took a key to the metallic green paintwork.
Lomography Hydrochrome | Kodak 400TX
Because of my inexperience as a film photographer I apparently didn't quite get the film inserted into the take-up spindle and in a few instances the film did not advance as I rotated the dial. As a consequence I got three images that were double-exposures. These images created imaginary worlds that remind me of the city spaces in my dreams: places that don't exist but are built from my mind's understanding of what cities and towns are supposed to look like.
A very rare instance of a car that had previously looked abandoned, but for one reason or another was brought back into use. Currently taxed and MOT'd until September 2022. A few more new photos in this upload, but I'm determined not to forget about the stuff from the last couple of years that I keep meaning to upload.
“The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn't require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.”
Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
and dream well,
To find the conclusion to his chaos, The Reverse Flash has but one final goal. To end his opposite. Toiling and tormenting Barry since he was a young boy, Murdering Allen's Mother had only been the beginning of his torture. Getting to watch as Barry saw his world crumble and friends fight and die around him was the ultimate victory for Eobard.
Luckily for Barry, with help, re-created the instance that gave him his powers, thus, regaining his connection with the Speed-Force. Now back at full potential, The Flash Races off to London to try and keep Diana and Aurthur from a world wide war of ages. Only then does he find out who was really behind all of this. ...But will he be able to change things back to what they were before Thawne?
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Okay let's be honest, this is hands down, my finest work to date.
I am so incredibly proud to be able to share this with you all. Like I had mentioned in the previous upload, with the post production of the six images you see before me, took nearly three hours on this piece alone.
Now I know it's odd to have a builder/photographer really really really enjoy his own work, but hey, I'm gonna at least pat myself on the back for this one :)
This scene at Disneyland is a small tribute to Día de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday that pays tribute to friends and relatives that have died with costumes, celebrations and alters erected in the honor of the deceased. Día de los Muertos occurs simultaneously with Halloween. (please google it, it is too much to include here...)
while beautifully lit at night, the scene is extremely detailed and crowded with objects, making it difficult to determine a subject from the clutter. Closeup on the skeletons or wide angle on the entire scene? I chose wide angle this time, but here is a shot from my flickr page showing a daytime closeup: flic.kr/p/oXdWgi
The challenge for me when photographing night scenes at Disney Parks is to keep the scene looking like "night" when long exposures are nescessary...Long exposures can make a scene look like daytime. Also, most lighting at night is incandescent and warm, and I like my scenes to reflect that. It is easy to correct the warm tones to daytime hues that our brains know are propper for the scene, but to me it looks weird in a night scene. Lilly Belle or Mark Twain for instance are white, but night lighting makes them warmer...however, our brains tell us "white" so naturaly we color correct the boat to "white" and it looks weird...so I like to let it be a little warm at night. However, some things just NEED to pop sometimes, such as the skeletons here, which needed to be "white" in order to sepparate them from the scene. Sky is subjective, but for me, night skies look better in cooler tones...
I perfom color corrections on separate layers in photoshop targeted for individual areas (such as the skeletons, the sky, and a little bit of the greenery and decorations) followed by layer masking the corrected area back into the original. Layer masking is essential to my entire process as I never make a modification that is "global". Instead, I make targeted adjustments throughout that encompas more than just color changes, such as contrast and textures. Luminosity masks are a modification of a layer mask based on light values that protects certain desired elements from being effected, such as sepparating foreground from sky, midtones from shadows or brights, or even stars in the sky, allowing ONLY these elements to be adjusted. I use them extensively. Sometimes this process is tedious and time consuming but worth it to me in order to make the scene the way I remeber it to be or even how I WANT it to be...
I include a unedited version in the comments that shows the color washout and includes a vertical plant in the middle of the scene that required removal...
A rare instance of a Sea Otter attacking and eating a bird. Normally Sea Otters feast on shellfish not birds. More on this encounter can be found on my blog entry Sea Otter Attacking a Western Grebe
©2008 Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved
This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.