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A green-winged teal lifts from the winter marsh, its wings briefly mirrored in the still water below. For a moment, sky and reflection become one — motion suspended between what is and what is remembered.
This was taken at sundown on my memorable trip to Venice at the end of October when I found myself alone on the beach. It had been an incredibly overcast day and until I arrived, I still didn't know whether I'd need an umbrella or not. The people that showed up, like me, kept waiting for something to happen and despite a few moments when the sun broke through the clouds, the sky remained primarily gray until shifting to blue as night fell. The bursts of bright, golden light during the late afternoon attracted some off the boardwalk and down to the shore and others stuck around for a few minutes to watch the reflections but by sundown, I was pretty much the only person left.
While the sunset left much to be desired--and I don't fault all the people that left early--the reflections were the highlight for me and I couldn't go anywhere on the shore without being part of the them. With the exception of a handful of shots that showed just that sailboat coasting along the horizon, every single photo I took included that reflection. It seemed like every few minutes, the surf would carry a bit further towards me and bring back any shine that might have faded. I was able to basically lower the tripod as far down as it can go which is about 6 inches off the ground and at no time did I worry about my camera getting wet.
If this looks at all familiar, that's the same boat in a few other posts but right as it came into frame from the direction of Santa Monica. This is a 2 frame panorama to show a little perspective and with my focus still mainly on the immediate foreground and being so far back from the waves, it took far fewer shots than usual to get a good match. I still had ample time after this series of shots to track the boat as it continued past me and I stuck around until it was too dark to see the reflections.
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
2 frame panorama
@18mm
ISO 100
f/10
1/25th second
CPL
A very tricky location to take a photo from. Firstly, you have to wade through the river, secondly, there is just very little space to set up a tripod and the spray from the waterfall mists up the lens almost instantly. This was my best attempt, including erasing many water droplets from the image.
Seen from below, a New York tower narrows toward a pale, streaked sky. Repeating windows and stepped edges draw the eye upward, while soft tonal contrasts give the stone and glass a quiet, distant presence.
View showing wooden single composite architecture and sheet metal-clad annex with Moon near the gable roofed cupola.
The Alberta Wheat Pool emblem was commissioned in 1967 in celebration with Canada's centennial.
Elevator built: 1966
Annex built: 1940
Closed: 2000
Designated as a Historic Place: 2007
Reference: hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID...
it stepped forward without hesitation, as if the world owed it an answer. ears wide, eyes locked, breath quiet — the leash barely mattered. there’s a kind of confidence that only dogs and poets have, the kind that doesn't wait for permission to be seen.
she carries the light on her shoulders. or perhaps it is the light that carries her. we see the basket, the steps, the sun. we see the shadow, long and thin, stretching back into the darkness from which she came. in the end, it is all just movement. a brief moment, caught between the pavement and the sky. a simple walk. a life.
She moved through the shrub for nearly an hour. Most part I could not see her, but I saw and heard the sparrows. Time to time, she will cross an open field, then she checked out all the other fallen trees.
The other photographer asked me can you see the bobcat and I nodded yes. He did not see anything and would not believe me. But I stayed put beside the bush you see in this image.
Finally, when she decided enough patrolling, she headed exactly the way I imagined. So, I moved just across the trail, laid down and sure in two minutes she crossed the road.
The light was nearly gone for high shutter speeds, so I stopped down to f/4 and clicked on. She looked at me briefly, cross the road, suddenly saw a third photographer on the other side, and instead of going home, sprinted away up the hill. Her path to home was blocked.
I put my camera in the bag, watch the two other photographers follow her tail going directly up the way she went, and kept chasing her all the way to other side. I started walking back as the light was non-existent and a question came in my mind; what they were trying to photograph at that point.
And there my friends, the best evening with a bobcat ends.
A striking sculpture of Lord Ganesha standing proud on the rolling green grounds of the Khao Yai Art Museum. The intricate bronze work against the moody greens of the tree canopy felt incredibly serene.
Nikon Z f | Voigtländer 28mm f/2 Ultron ASPH Vintage Line II
A look-up fisheye angle of green aurora dancing during a solar storm over Michigan, as seen from Black River Harbor on Lake Superior.
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This bright, male yellowhammer was feeding in a dip in the snowy ground and only paused occasionally to pop his head up.
Image was taken from Buntzen Lake in Anmore, BC.
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I often try to get a novel viewpoint of classic London scenes and buildings, or at least a view I have not happened upon before. The morning I took this one the air was clear with some winter sun and the reflection of St Paul's in a puddle was impossible to resist.
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It had been raining heavily in Hoi-An prior to my arrival in this beautiful little town, in fact I was lucky to avoid some floods. However that rain did afford some nice photographic opportunities like this amazing reflection.
everything's in flow, waterfall, clouds, time ... :) A different angle on Iceland's great Gullfoss waterfall.