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Harder to count than tree rings!
"Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written,
I am not done with my changes."
Stanley Kunitz
Owens Lake, California. Taken with a Tamron 300mm telephoto; no tripod. Postproduction in Photoshop.
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Listen to a post-punk classic Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Storm clouds have always that photogenic look and we had a few doozies this past week. All these clouds are gathering over Edmonton, as seen from Spruce Grove, Alberta.
Kollmorgen Cinelux 35 (old cinema projector lens)
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Was trying to get a sunset from the Turoa skifeild on Ruapehu but that turned to custard so started making my way down the access road but when i got under the cloud layer Mount Taranaki came into view with a wicked sunset going on behind. A very quick stop on a hairpin bend , find a gap between the trees on the roadside and get up close with a 200mm lens got the shot. Yeha...such a magical feeling when you get a shot that you have been chasing for so so long and probably never to be repeated again.
Just love the layers running up to and also above Taranaki in the clouds. Just had to say thanks for that hard won shot...
#taranaki #sunset
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Autumn Color Layers. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Layers of autumn color from aspen groves ascending an eastern Sierra Nevada slope.
This is one of those “rediscovered” photographs that I had originally left behind a couple of years ago. I found it again during the last few months while doing a review of some older raw files. I originally made several exposures of this group of trees with autumn foliage in the eastern Sierra Nevada, and I initially went with something framed a bit differently and using the landscape (horizontal) format. But coming back to the set of images, I noticed that layered effect of these trees and thought it might be a worthy photograph, too.
This grove is somewhat characteristic of the sorts of aspen trees we find in the Sierra Nevada. As friends often remind me (usually after retiring from visits to these other places), in places like Colorado and Utah and similar locations you can find seemingly endless groves of tall, thick, and straight trees. That’s quite rare here in my state. It isn’t impossible to find large groves, nor is it impossible to find thick and tall trees — but that’s not the most common situation. Often the trees are smaller and with distinct “personalities” — which is another way of saying that they many be twisted in interesting ways rather than straight and tall. But in this grove, we get a bit of (almost) everything. Behind that first line of small trees, which are likely encroaching on the foreground meadow, there is a grove of tall aspens. Beyond that, as the slope becomes steeper and more rocky, the trees once again begin to have that… “personality.”
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
(New water droplet refraction workshop dates listed! Check them out here to learn exactly how to make a shot like this, in 2D or 3D!): www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/ - 3 spots left for the March 25th date, and new dates opened up through April!
This 3D image might mess with your head a little, but I encourage you to give it a shot! It’s loaded up as a cross-view image for you to cross your eyes to see. Viewed on a smartphone or tablet is best from a comfortable distance, or get farther away from a computer screen viewing large – it can’t take up too much of your field of view or you have to cross your eyes too much!
Cross just enough until you see three images, where the middle one is an overlap of the left and right. Voila – 3D! If you have a stereo viewer designed for standard “side-by-side” viewing, you can load up this image here: donkom.ca/stereo/DKP_8430.jpg - Funny enough, I find that these images look great when displayed on a smartphone and then placed into an antique stereoscope. I have one here that’s 150 years old, and it performs better than the optics in cheap VR headsets!
This is a portion of a seed head from some unknown flower growing in my neighbour’s front yard. I asked if I could take some of them in the fall, and they have been a great source of photographic intrigue over the winter months! In the summer, I need to figure out exactly what they species of flower is. The background is a chunk of colourful mineral called chalcopyrite. Normally I use flowers but I didn’t have any handy and through I’d try something different, giving a splash of colour to the background and showing up as an abstract blob of colour inside the droplets through refraction.
This was shot with my most extreme magnification 3D lens, which is a little more than 2:1 magnification. It was cropped square for the traditional stereoview feel, and most of my stereoscopic images will be in this format. The lens has a fixed aperture of F/80, which makes it very difficult to see through the viewfinder so this is one of the rare instances where I will shoot handheld but with LiveView activated. Usually having your face smushed up against the back of the camera is a great way to keep the camera stable, but unless I’m in bright sunlight it’s impossible to compose and focus the image. The small aperture does soften the image slightly due to diffraction, but the overlapping effect of viewing in 3D adds far more depth and detail than is taken away by this.
When shooting in 3D, you need to consider “depth” as a very important variable. You need to compose with layers of detail and these kinds of compositions work best when one layer leads into another. We’ve got some of that happening here, maybe a little too much as the layers of seeds fall off out of focus completely and as the fine “hairs” overlap and interact just out of focus, it can be a bit confusing. I think the image survives that, and personally this image serves as a spark for at least a dozen ideas that will build on this image.
For more of these musings on photography, perception, and creating outside-the-box imagery, you should absolutely consider attending the CanAm Photo Expo held from March 31 through April 2 in Buffalo NY! I’m one of the presenters with a full line-up of talks from extreme macro and “mad scientist” photography, through down-to-earth techniques for making great compositions and feeling like you’re a part of your images. It would be great to shake your hand in person if you can make it, and I promise you won’t be disappointed! Check it out here: canamphotoexpo.com/ - I’ll be around after the presentations for a glass of beer and some geeky photo conversations too!
Love the layers all around you as you visit Sunrise on Mt. Rainier. The flowers are out and the layers were blue.
Turimetta Beach
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DDC-Colourful Layers
Stu likes red, and often wears this in the morning when we go out to play ball with Shizandra.
"Winter Layers:" I remember during winters in Indiana as a kid, my Dad would always make sure before I headed outside, that I had been bundled in so many layers of warmth that pretty much only my eyes were exposed! Nature can help showcase its own form of winter layers, as evidenced through the depth of snow-dotted ranges at the Grand Canyon. The altitude discrepancy between the top and bottom of this great canyon also become more apparent in how the snow only sticks to the colder, higher elevations. I can also attest to how bitterly cold it was at the top, especially with that fiercely blowing wind.
Foggy coast, I liked the various layers of the fog to the coastline. Taken near Bodega Bay California.
Rose is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful flower but when it comes to taking pictures of Roses, I run out of ideas. I just can't decide which angle, view etc. and mostly end up with tight crops.
Have been away from Flickr lately as work has been very demanding. Just hoping that life will be back to normal in the coming weeks.
Wishing you all a great weekend!
"Do you not see that Allah drives along the clouds, then gathers them together, then piles them up, so that you see the rain coming forth from their midst? And He sends down of the clouds that are (like) mountains wherein is hail, afflicting therewith whom He pleases and turning it away from whom He pleases; the flash of His lightning almost takes away the sight" (Quran 24:43)