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祝大家連假假期愉快~
Climbing the stairway to a hilltop of green grassy meadow & beautiful cherry blossom trees (Sakura) in springtime, in Saitama, Japan ~ Spring scenery of idyllic Japanese countryside ( Low angel view )
MC 2009, an EMD GP28 rests in the yard at Hyannis, MA. Thanks to the folks at the shop here for letting me walk around and take some photos.
Taken at Boundary Bay, Delta, BC, Canada on April 18 2015.
The northbound shorebird migration is beginning, so I decided to check out Boundary Bay today. It still is very early for migrant shorebirds and not surprisingly only the wintering Dunlin and Black-bellied Plovers were to be seen. This particular Dunlin was very cooperative, and I spent a while photographing it. The tide was far out, so I walked over 1.1 kilometers out on the mudflats before stopping to photograph this guy, according to the GPS in my camera! After a while of slithering around in the mud on my belly, I left this bird to feed and headed back to shore, soaking wet!
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Jane has found a new spot for napping. She is on a box on some model trains on a table. Thus, she is not technically breaking the rule about not being allowed on the table, and she's in a box. To her, this is a win-win. Plus, this gets her up high, and she loves that aspect, too.
Captured with a late 19-teens lens from a VPK: Vest Pocket Kodak. Based on the patent info on the lens, mine appears to be from the later series called: Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak (1915-1926), and this was known as "The Soldier's Camera" due to its use in WWI. Selling nearly 2M units in that decade of production it was a very popular compact camera. This "Autographic" version sported a small door on the rear of the camera that allowed the photographer to scribble a little onto the reverse of the film thus making for effectively the first "data back" camera. They effectively scraped off some of the emulsion on the film.
My lens has been removed from the VPK camera and installed into a M42-mount lens shell. The lens shell happens to be from an Asahi prime and retains its aperture. The original Kodak lens has its aperture, too.
The lens is somewhere in the 70mm range and is somewhere around an f/7.7, so a lot of light is needed for decent exposure.
The lens was never meant to be a close-focus lens, but with the new mount, I am able to focus this close to the cat.
This is what you see when you eat the wrong kind of mushrooms. A fanciful take on this week's Looking Close... On Friday Challenge, Mushrooms.
With a pair of EMD SD40-2s for power and 51 cars on the drawbar, Wisconsin & Southern train no. L863 winds along scenic Devils Lake on its way to Madison, WI.
Goose, ducks and swans around the shore by Lake Windermere. I had great fun photographing them as they where used to the people, giving me opportunities to capture some urban habitat. I used a shallow Dof to isolate the Goose in the foreground. I also like the mood giving with the Dof. I took lots of this and there's more to come. Happy weekend to you all!
A good friend and former baseball teammate of mine (who's a diehard Boston Red Sox fan) texted me from Baltimore Monday night with the message "first row behind home. Camden". For the better part of my life, baseball was my passion and obsession, both as a fan and a player. My dad and I had 2 tickets about 15 rows behind home plate for the Baltimore Orioles even for a couple seasons after he retired and moved 1,200 miles away. They had a losing record for 14 straight seasons until 2012 and during that time, I often ended up going alone--unable to convince anyone to devote 5 hours to see a lousy team play--but I really didn't mind. The sounds of the game always relaxed me and for a long time, I didn't think there was much better than a evening of baseball with nice weather.
When I got into photography a couple years ago, my interests began to shift a bit. I started to spend more and more evenings away from baseball, often in the middle of the Maryland countryside shooting the sunset with the game broadcast playing on my phone and Scotch by my side.I've been in California for nearly the entire baseball season now and I went to just 1 Dodgers game all summer though I've spent probably 40 nights standing by the ocean's edge with my camera and tripod.
The sounds of the ocean have now supplanted the roar of the crowd and the crack of the bat though I always seem to have a radio broadcast of the Orioles playing on my phone or if it's sundown, Vin Scully telling his amazing stories during the Dodgers games. This shot was right after arriving when it was just beginning to get dark but well before the rich colors of the sunset appeared. There wasn't much wind at all which is another reason I mostly skipped long exposures until after sunset. I would've wasted a ton of time to get very little cloud blur. These cloud formations barely moved at all it seemed until it was too dark to tell otherwise. I'm angled more South here than West which accounts for the color of the sky. Once I turned and saw the sunset, my direction of focus changed immediately.
I texted him back tuesday with yesterday's sunset panorama post and the message that while he was at the game, I was at Venice Beach shooting this sky. I think we both were probably a little jealous of how the other got to spend their Monday night :)
Venice Beach
Venice, California
September 19th, 2016
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/5th second
CPL
Beautiful old chapel in an abandoned house.
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Panorama of the Eiffel Tower
This was quite an interesting idea of me. There are thousands of photos on the internet of the Eiffel tower taken frontally. So I had this idea to flip my camera 45° from its vertical position to create an interesting angle of the tower. But in order to fit in the whole construction from its foot to the top, there was no other way but to shoot it in 3 steps.
The 3 photos where then merged together in Photoshop.
Personally I believe it worked out well.
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American bullfrog. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Views nice full screen. L then F11
Here's another 2 shot panorama from my last visit to Venice Beach when huge gray and blue clouds smothered most of the skyline over the Pacific. I've written a lot about the day I had there and will try not to repeat too many things but there's always that chance haha. I took about 360 shots on the day covering the hour before sunset until about an hour after and so far I've tried to mix up the posts to show all the different aspects I saw while there. There's been some examples of the waves, the reflections, the dark sky with patches of incredibly bright sunlight pouring through, a few 2-4 shot panoramas and some color in the opposite directions but I guess this is the first post that shows the tiny strip of sunset I've described briefly.
When I was driving there, I fully expected cloudy conditions since the view outside the windshield is the same I'd eventually see at Venice. When I leave the apartment, I can see bits of sky in all directions from around Sunset Blvd and in the event I have time to choose my destination, I'll pull up the street view GPS and see if any locations I've visited head in the direction of the most interesting clouds or color. On this day however, I made up my mind to go to Venice. The only question would be whether the sky would allow any color to come through. For the most part, the answer was no and generally, all the photos I shot are primarily blue or gray from the heavy cloud cover.
The reflections were pretty amazing even though I expected the tide to be higher from some of the rain the few days prior and the waves were fairly impressive. It seems that when I'm here on the flat, straight shore, my default is becoming panoramas even though there's less margin for error and more work to get them to fit. I can get so close to the water and the view between the pier and the the rocks by the lifeguard headquarters is completely unobstructed, so it always feels like even 18mm from that close doesn't get the full feel of what I'm seeing with my own eyes. I think I prefer 2 frames at 18mm since it's easier to get the perspective right but I can pull off 3 frames if I crop a bit at the ends. There's always this weird optical illusion to me that the horizon is crooked mainly because the surf isn't always exactly parallel to it and this shot to some degree shows that. The horizon is straight and the angle of the breaking waves broke left to right leaving it slightly askew.
I still have a lot of interesting shots and views to show from here but I will try to mix in some other, less gloomy captures from elsewhere and also some new panoramas of downtown LA from different much different angles than I've done in the past. Oh, and of course I'll still be giving you the occasional Scotch portrait as he continues to mend from his surgery. Today started badly with us waiting at the vet for it to open but since getting back around 10AM, he's been feeling well, is happy and about as quiet as I can remember since he was 11 or so. I'm still really optimistic that the surgery will be a success and can't wait to remove the sutures in about 2 weeks and let him get back to the activities he used to love and that kept him young for so many years :)
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
2 shot panorama
ISO 100
f/9
1/13th second
CPL
Sad to see Mexico go out despite that great second half performance
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Shadowtime
I have so many heron pictures lol. Found 3 separate herons this past Saturday. I particularly liked the background foliage in these ones.
A tightly closed poppy bud rises from a low angle, its fine hairs catching the light as it prepares to enter its next stage of life.
Behind it, a fully opened red poppy fills the frame in a soft blur — the mature phase glowing like a preview of what is to come. The image captures two life stages side by side: the tension of becoming and the fullness of being.
The theme on June 2, 2026 is: "LOW ANGLE”