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A moment of perfect stillness on a frigid morning. A magnificent male Gadwall duck confronts the viewer with a direct, unwavering gaze as it floats on the icy water. A delicate dusting of frost on its head and the thick mist rolling in the background speak to the deep chill in the air. This intimate, eye-level perspective reveals the breathtakingly intricate, lace-like patterns of its feathers, creating a powerful portrait of serene resilience against the cold.
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Week 3/52: Get Low
This week is going to be all about low angles. This year, though, is going to be about not trying so hard. Shooting from a low angle, especially with a wide lens, will inevitably produce a good bit of lens distortion. I spent a good bit of time fighting it in Lightroom, before deciding that the best thing to do was embrace it. It's only photography, after all~
Atypical bay bolete which I found in the forest :)
The Bay bolete (Boletus badius), is a common edible pored mushroom from Europe and North America. Often considered a poor relation of the Cep (Boletus edulis). The Bay Bolete is common in mixed woodlands in Europe and North America.
Boletus badius derives its common name (The Bay Boletus) from the bay or chestnut coloured cap, which is almost spherical in young specimens before broadening and flattening out to 18 cm (7 in). The pores are cream to pale yellow, but stain blue when bruised or cut. The flesh is white and stains pale blue. The stem is up to 12.5 cm (5 in) and similar in colour to the cap but paler. It appears less affected by maggots than other boletes.
Polish name: podgrzybek brunatny
Shot during an otherwise dreary day at the Duisburg Nord landscape park - a former steelworks. The intricacy of the interplay of beams, pipes and concrete structures makes for scenery that is always interesting.
I had to get low for this one. I really wanted the grasses to frame the bottom of the shot . I felt like the sky needed some color on the foreground to balance out the image. Alaska is Beautiful!
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lignes carrés abstrait formes noir et blanc minimalisme contre-plongée
Ant's eye view of a pesky human thundering by for the Crazy Tuesdays group, challenge: Ant's Eye View.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
A group of fungi in the shade of some shrubs near the car park at Killerton Estate, Devon. Got my trousers dirty for this one ;-)
A bit of google research suggests that those were 'magic mushrooms', known as Liberty cap (Psilocybe semilanceata)!!
:-O
Mushrooms in Denali National Park.
I wish I had spent more time looking at all the nuances in the terrain then going for the big pictures.
Italy - Air Force AgustaWestland HH-139A (AW-139M) MM81824 15-52 at Malta International Airport on Apron 7 (6-12-2019) 🚁📷
The weather here in Los Angeles now feels a lot like autumn back in DC...it just doesn't look like it. It's currently in the upper 40's and breezy thanks to the Santa Ana winds and while there's been some gloominess and rain, there are no colorful falling leaves anywhere.
I will get back to sunsets and reflections tomorrow but I wanted to post an autumn shot I took last November back in Maryland when the dog and I were out on a road trip to Pennsylvania. I remember this day pretty vividly actually, even a year later. I must have passed over this bridge in Rocky Ridge, Maryland dozens of times over the previous 6 months on my way out to explore with the camera and dog and for whatever reason, decided to stop this time and finally see what the view looked like into the water below. I had found what became my favorite waterfall only a few days earlier and now I was focused mostly on finding other sources of water for daytime long exposures with the neutral density filters. We were actually headed there after this but i pulled off the road and took a handful of low perspective shots while Scotch nervously looked on. He hates bridges and probably wasn't fond of me sitting in the middle of one with my camera and tripod.
My abilities and understanding of photography have improved greatly over the last year which is what I hoped would happen moving across the country. Part of it is the natural progression from learning through trial and error but I've also studied a lot of techniques and put in a ton of practice. What frustrates me most is when I take a shot I really love and have zero clue how to properly edit it. I try over and over and then give up, thinking I'll come back to it later when my editing skills improve more. Learning lightroom and photoshop from scratch is like learning a foreign language from scratch. Often, what looked great to me a year ago is now basically unacceptable and I often find myself rummaging through some of my old favorites and trying to edit them with a fresh set of eyes and new abilities.
At the time I shot this, I didn't have lightroom or photoshop, relying only on iphoto software and further, I edited them on my old tiny macbook with a really dark, cracked screen. The computer was so bad, I had to make small changes one at a time and then post them in a flickr folder to view on my iphone or ipad since they looked completely different on my laptop. I had previously posted a version of this a year ago but re-edited it from scratch using the methods and techniques I use now and am really glad I did. It's funny, I loved the original post of this but now looking back, I can't say I still feel the same way at all. It was way too dark, far too much contrast and missing a substantial amount of the details it had out of the camera. I kept meaning to redo it but kept getting sidetracked by newer and newer sets of images I'd take.
Tomorrow I will start posting some new images I took this past weekend on a very weird, rainy evening on Venice Beach but tonight I'm thinking about autumn, especially as it's now shifting to winter back in DC, where temperatures are in the low 30's at night. I always loved fall weather and some of the gloominess that came with it but really didn't appreciate it until I got into photography and then moved here. I do plan to mix in some more autumn shots from back home as well over the the next couple months, at least until I no longer miss it. There's almost nothing to complain about living in Los Angeles but I do wish Autumn was more like what I was used to and real trees were everywhere. To me, a palm tree is basically just a really strong, resilient weed. it grows in any conditions, doesn't need much water, and I think they're ugly :)
WHEN & WHERE
Monocacy River Bridge
Rocky Ridge, Maryland
November 1st, 2015
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/8th second
she cuts through light and shadow like a ship through fog — quiet, unsmiling, unstoppable — a rhythm carved in sun and terrazzo beneath the old porticos.
I don't know a ton about how the weather works but I have come to recognize that I generally see a nice sunset the day after it rains or when haze lifts in the afternoon. This trip fell under the latter category, as early morning fog shifted to haze before finally vanishing in the early afternoon. It's still hard to predict weather beyond that out here and nearly every day reads the same on the extended forecast: sunny and clear or sunny and hazy. Clouds creep in after dark and disappear by morning.
I headed out a bit late and well after the haze had already lifted. By the time I arrived and parked at Venice Beach, the sunset had already started so I found a clean area of beach and set up there quickly. I really intended to arrive in the late afternoon to take advantage of the 10 stop ND filter and maximize the short winter days but I hadn't quite realized yet how unpredictable LA traffic can be from one area to the next.
The first few trips to Venice had been beyond memorable (the third as well since I took Scotch down to the water on a crowded sunday afternoon) and I spent maybe 6 hours and taken roughly 500 long and short exposure shots on those days. I was a bit worried after the first sunset back in january that I'd only be disappointed by comparison so I tried to stay away from Venice for a little and explore further. By the end of February though, I was back at Venice and while the sunset above wasn't as intense as the previous 2, it did offer a really nice pinkish orange sky with a matching hue on the surf and shoreline.
Like the other trips, Venice as a whole was fairly quiet and the beach was mostly empty. In fact, I think there were more boats out at sea than people on the shore. I imagine it's possible to get used to the winter sunsets out here if you live in the area long enough, but I'll certainly never tire of them. The wind was calm and with the light fading, I mostly focused on the great patterns in the foreground along the beach and the break in the waves and used primarily just a CPL on my lens. It was one of those sunsets that lingers a bit after the sun has gone down and the sky and water remained this color until it slowly faded into night.
I haven't shot many sunsets the last few months in part due to weather not cooperating but also so I could spend a lot more time with my rapidly aging dog and get as many portraits of him while he's still willing and able. As I've mentioned numerous times, he's the main reason I got into photography in the first place and though I love taking his portrait, I'm beyond ready for fall weather and the return of some big, memorable sunsets. Hopefully Scotch will join me a few times whenever these sunsets return.
Venice Beach
Venice, California
February 28th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/3.5
1/13th second
CPL