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Stitched shot taken in the kids area of GoMA. Pedro had relinquished his dSLR to Rachel and was explaining the finer points of camera grip, while Ana took an opportunity to capture the moment.
Taken during the GoMA Flickr Meet, 3rd March 2007.
I needed to post something pretty and bright this evening to cheer me up. My old pc crashed big time today, along with a ton of recent shots. I hadn't backed up for over two weeks!
Yeah, yeah, I know! :-(
Please cross your fingers for me in the hope that those geeky guys coming tomorrow can retrieve them!
Life is like dancing
You decide if you want to live it by dancing alone, with one partner or several, as long as you dance nice, happy and with respect for the other dancers.
It has been ten years since our first dance, and I am so happy and enthusiastic about more decades of dances
Do you want to keep taking dancing lessons with me?
Happy anniversary, my love
La vida es como bailar
Tú decides si quieres vivirla al bailar solo, con un compañero o varios, mientras bailes bien, feliz y respetes a los demás.
En cuanto a mí, han sido diez años desde nuestro primer baile, y estoy tan feliz y entusiasta acerca de más décadas de bailes.
¿quieres seguir tomando clases de baile conmigo?
Feliz aniversario, mi cielo
"And on this journey may the good Lord guide us
And may the goddess dance beside us
When you wrap your arms around me
When you take me close and say
That you're so happy and so glad you've found me
You take my rainy days and make 'em go away
When you wrap your arms around me
When you take me close and say
That you're so happy and so glad you've found me
You take my rainy days and make them go away"
Sinead O'Connor: youtu.be/xA1Eyhr6qsk
“How are you doing this?” screams the guy on the roof, “tell me, tell me!”
Some of you artsier folk out there are really into negative space. Being not quite so artsy I never know what to do with negative space. Actually, truth be told, I had so much negative space in this shot, well, it really turned out to be quite negative. Solution? Since I am a detail kind of guy who gets actually quite lost in the detail and never appreciates the bigger picture – you know the saying about the forest and the trees, well my world actually consists of tiny little twigs, great for starting a fire. So I decided to get rid of the negative …. space. Translation of all this: this is really quite heavily cropped to bring into focus what I thought was the important aspect of this image – the actual levitation lesson.
This is also my tribute to hummingbird shots since I don’t get that many up here. This picture was taken in the dead north.
I was walking down the street and heard organ music in a church which is usually closed...an organ lesson was going on...
A Lesson's motmot (Momotus lessonii) was seen at the Aracari & Birding Deck near Kinkara Luxury Retreat at Santa Elena in southern Costa Rica.
Dancing Lessons
Apparently, if you boil a hydrangea blossom in a water/laundry detergent solution for about 5 minutes, and very carefully rub the blossom with a soft paintbrush, the pigmented flesh rubs off, and you're left with a little blossom skeleton. Well, maybe 10 blossoms later, or 20, you may have one that you haven't torn. :) But, i'm patient, otherwise known as Stubborn!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwgZetada8
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When a Bird is alive... it eats Ants,
When the Bird is Dead... Ants eat the Bird!
Time & Circumstances can change at any time...!
Don't devalue or Hurt anyone in life.
You may be powerful today.. But Remember,
Time is more powerfull than you!!!
one tree makes a million match sticks...
but when time comes..
only one match stick is needed... to burn million of trees!!
So be Good and do Good...
A thought occurred to me yesterday:
If you get to paradise but those who made the most inhospitable of places home are not there with you... are you there yet?
Inspired by British Columbia's flag, the early morning sun, and blood orange juice...
It goes without saying its about time something were dedicated to Phil.
When I drew this year in the sand on Jan. 1st, posted it here in Flickr on Jan. 3rd, I thought it was the most beautifully symmetrical looking year we'd ever had. It appealed to my "Beethoven Brain" that likes to know things are in order.
2 months later this is what I learned: nothing is predictable, life can change with reports of a ship being quarantined for a new strange virus, and that what really matters are:
Family, (2 and 4 legged), Shelter, Food, Friends.
That we can survive if we have these four and also there will ALWAYS be joy if we just take the time to look, even in a pandemic.
Dad, I thought just landing on this thing was good enough!
Son, we haven't even started-gonna be a long day!
It is my responsibility to teach her that
• physical beauty does not define you.
• the house we live in nor the cars we drive say anything about us
• our actions and how we treat others says the most about who we are
• never let anyone tell you how to feel
• no one can make you feel unworthy unless you let them
• this is the only earth we have, and we need to be nice to it. even if it means walking out of jcpenney with boy Jockey undies and socks in hand because you don't want the plastic bag.
• you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else.
• one person can make a difference.
• some people believe in God and some people may not necessarily believe in God, but have a belief in a higher power, some don’t believe in any higher being and that is ok. it is up to you to decide which you choose to believe in.
• you don’t always have to forgive, but sometimes you just have to let go.
• hate is like giving someone free rent in your heart.
• no one is perfect, even the best of people make mistakes.
• not all friendships last forever
• bad things happen to good people, there is no reason why.
• sometimes abortion is not a choice, but a heartbreaking necessity.
• never ever judge someone’s actions until you have been in their shoes, because it is easy to judge if you have never been there.
• not everyone has to believe what you believe, that is what makes this world interesting
• when to use who vs. whom
• make “throw like a girl” a positive statement.
and this is just a few random thoughts... more later
I guess we all make mistakes, I would normally bin an image if I thought it was below standard and this one nearly went in the bin. The lesson is put all your settings back to the correct position before you leave for your chosen photography spot. When I got to this spot I dragged out of my bag the 16-35, when I last used it I had it on my tripod so switched off the stabalizer, I took a couple of shots with polarizer in place which looked fine on the LCD, I had walked a fair distance when I noticed I had not pushed that switch.
Having loaded that days shoot onto my computer I then could see how effective eight stops of camera and lens stabilization is and how you miss it when it is not there.
So here is the first shot the other has bitten the dust. Check everything.
This is Sandgate park near Storrington in Sussex, the little stream looked lovely with leaves floating in this one, the fairy bridge looked lovely over the stream too , the sky was a bland grey and light levels low. I made the best of this image it sure is not the best so a return visit will be made to make another go of it.
A young bait shop owner tries out new fishing lures on Lake Michigan. Meanwhile, boats gather from the big lake, to begin passage through the channel to Muskegon Lake. While an astute listener takes it all in, for a Fishing Lesson.
Setup: 2 striplights left and right each containing a Speedlite to highlight the outline of the bottle. 1 Speedlite through diffused Rogue Grid for the label and 1 speedlite bounced off a Rogue Flashbender for the neck and spray. Bottle was sprayed with a matt coating, then the condensation added using Glycerin/water mix. All Speedlites fired at 1/32 power.
Lessons.
1. Reduce flash duration to 1/64th power to freeze the liquid.
2. Clean bottle properly before applying matt coating.
3. Centre the bottle around the label.
4. Neck lighting does not extend down enough
5. Waterproof the label to prevent damp patches.