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A very modern design of stucture atop Moiwayama Observation Deck. Looks like a time machine that travels back and forth the time stream.
Low light shot taken just after dusk. JPG image taken straight from the camera. This was taken using the special pre-programmed mode "night mode using tripod".
The brief few minutes when the clouds opened up just enough to allow these rays of light into this valley were pretty magical.
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Cliffs, Morning Light. Zion National Park, Utah. October 22, 2012. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Immense cliffs in the Pine Creek Canyon area of Zion National Park.
This was an interesting morning, as much for its place in the sequence of events on this trip to photograph in Utah as for the actual photographic opportunities. I have noticed, and other photographers I've spoken with about this seem to agree to at least some extent, that there is sometimes a sort of "getting up to speed" element to certain types of shooting when you are getting started. I recall mentioning this to one photographer friend in the context of a discussion about the idea that you should always have a clear vision for your photograph before you make it - a theoretical concept that most photographers I know acknowledge to be unrealistic and perhaps even a bad idea. (This is not to say that thinking about what your "capture" may look like as a photograph is unimportant, but rather an acknowledgement that things are often more complex than the simplistic notion suggests and that sometimes we, quite honestly, don't really know for sure which images will work or why.) When the idea of waiting for a really good image before making a photograph came up, I shared the observation that I sometimes have to "prime the pump" but simply starting to make some photographs, even if I'm not convinced that the first ones will be great. (One friend then referred to this as "photographic foreplay." ;-)
The previous day we had driven to St. George, Utah from the San Francisco Bay Area - a LONG drive - and finally stumbled into a motel in St. George close to midnight. (As I recall, the motel advertised something like "The Cheapest Rooms in St. George!") Up in the morning for precisely the free breakfast that you might expect in such a place - I resisted and instead walked across the street to a Starbucks - we left early and headed into Zion. As I recall we did not spend much, if any, time in Zion Canyon, and we were soon heading up the Mount Carmel highway, still having made no photographs. Finally, as we turned a few switchbacks on the initial climb, we saw some interesting light on the cliffs across the canyon, pulled over, got our cameras and lenses and tripods and made some photographs. I'm not sure that any of them were exactly remarkable, but with this first "shoot" (priming the pump) our work was now underway.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Urban Light (2008). Chris Burden, (U.S. born 1931): Sculpture, (Two-hundred and two) restored cast iron antique street lamps. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (Sept. 6, 2010)
Looking down at low tide at the Kyle of Durness, the northern most tip of north west Scotland's mainland on a very dull day with soft light..
The ship was built in 1927 and served for 48 years as a navigation aid in the approaches of the Humber Estuary, were it was stationed 4½ miles east of Spurn Point. The light ship was decommissioned in 1975 and bought/restored by Hull City Council in 1983 before being moved to Hull Marina as a museum in 1987
From the TMA exhibit Between Light and Shadow, by Anila Quayyum Agha, this portion of the show is entitled The Greys in Between.
Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) is a prickly wildflower native of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. It was introduced to the U.S. in the early 1800s and is now very common. A member of the Sunflower family, Bull Thistles can be found growing in fields, gardens, and roadsides.
The Bull Thistle is a biennial plant, which means it lives for two years and then dies. The first year it grows a rosette, a cluster of leaves near the ground. The second year it produces purple to pink flowers from July to September. The resulting fruits produce "thistledown," small seeds with fluffy material. These type of seeds (achenes) are transported by the wind.
Despite the fact the Bull Thistle is distasteful to most grazing animals, and is considered a noxious weed in nine states, the plants remain a good food source for many wild animals. Eastern Cottontails and White-tailed Deer eat the leaves and stems. Flower nectar is consumed by hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. The seeds are popular with many birds, such as American Goldfinches and Juncos, as well as mice and other small mammals.
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
(Götz von Berlichingen)
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The trail of headlights left as an LMP car (white) passes at GTE car (yellow) through the esses at Circuit de la Sarthe during the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Part of my Light Painting (Set)
As my comment to Jane says below, I'm not totally sure if I can remember how I did this one (I took around 300 photos in the same session so my memory could well be playing tricks on me) - what I am sure about is that I used an LED colour changing unit and a turntable - and (I believe) a glass paper weight.
Here's a kaleidoscope based on this shot called Light Painting #6 kaleidoscope
Thanks to Jane in Colour for encouragement and guidance.
Please check out her wonderful photos here: Light in Motion.