Old downtown seen by night from a church's frontyard.

Lightpost in the Captiol building.

Jacksonville, IL

Every time there is a strong windstorm, one or more of these lightposts gets blown over.

Shot with Canon A1 and Kodak Tri-X400

perched on a lightpost in Flamingo marina, Everglades National Park, FL.

GeoTagged

Throw back Thursday

I was recently shown a social media post that went something along these lines….

Going outdoors – not cancelled

Music - not cancelled

Family - not cancelled

Reading - not cancelled

Singing - not cancelled

Laughing - not cancelled

Hope - not cancelled

Let’s remember what we have

Rather than going out and creating new images, it seems appropriate to look back at past collections of beautiful things our area has to offer during these difficult times and that will still be here when we are done with the current conditions….

Stay safe, stay supportive

Photography by Craig McCLure

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We were putting the finishing touches on a new cooling tower installation at work. 4 new units on the 6 floor level with an impressive crane doing the lifting. I managed to get a couple of shots on the way to the parking lot.

Lightpost is in the foreground.

Beach garden bird is seen on lightpost in Santos, Brazil.

Pedestrians on the Cass Street Mississippi River Bridge in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

sunrise at the bus stop

I just did some editing to evaluate how it looks on Flickr and judge of what I can do to improve.

Shooting the lightpost at about 4:30pm made it possible to illustrate (1) early evening daylight - note, the lights are not on yet and (2) the winter clouds of Texas. This photograph was shot in Kemah, Texas on Saturday, January 29th, 2011.

Getting to know my new camera (Nikon D3100). So I went to a few local parks to take some shots.

Napolean III lightpost on the Pont Alexander III, Paris, France ( n'est pas le deco d'art. Mon erreur. merci de la correction)

Photographed at London Bridge Lake Havasu City, Arizona, U.S.A.

This is an oldie.

An excellent page explaining the science behind that age-old rule of thumb about sailors and red sky can be found here. The basic idea is that high pressure areas of the atmosphere tend to contain a lot of "dirty" air (soot, dust, other particles), and low angle sunlight passing through dirty air experiences scattering such that mainly reddish wavelengths arrive at the observer. As a result: "Since it is morning you are looking east, and the red sky indicates that there is high pressure there. Because you are in the mid-latitudes, the high is moving eastward--away from you. That could only mean that a low, and very likely an associated storm, is moving toward you from the west. Sailor take warning!"

in Praha

Sullivans Pub

Erie's Oldest Irish Pub

Located in Downtown Erie

A popular place especially on St. Patricks Day

This is a cool peice of wood that holds up a light. It is a lightpost

Iceland is windy 90% of the time. When the wind stops, time stops.

Along the Tower of London, I literally had a fraction of a second to frame it, focus, adjust my settings and capture the photo before throngs of tourists blocked my view. It was incredibly crowded this day in London.

Notice the purple lightpost...

29 May 09, Laukathi Bridge, Patuakhali

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That lightpost is actually bulging due to the amount of flyers on it. Crazy.

I don't always shoot black & white, but when I do...

I usually create my b&w tones using a Black and White Adjustment Layer in Photoshop, and Curves. But I really like the options in Silver Efex Pro 2. I started with a preset and gave it some tweaks, then added my own ND Graduated filter to darken the top of the sky. lightpost at the end of a cloudy bridge 205

I don't always shoot black & white, but when I do...

I usually create my b&w tones using a Black and White Adjustment Layer in Photoshop, and Curves. But I really like the options in Silver Efex Pro 2. I started with a preset and gave it some tweaks, then added my own ND Graduated filter to darken the top of the sky. Funny how Lightroom has presets for graduated filters, but Photoshop doesn't.

24mm, f/9.5, 0.3 sec (varies), ISO 100

9x HDR, Photomatix, ACR, Photoshop, Nik Silver Efex Pro 2