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Young snowdrops. They will be blooming very soon. I found them in a small garden by the street in my hometown, where I walk almost every day :)
A furrowed field with a fresh sprinkling of snow
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I thought it would be a good idea to capture one of the last few farms in our neighbourhood before they're all sold to yet another home developer...
Photograph of passing bus taken with the camera sitting on the sidewalk. One man sleeping by window.
A ruined 16th century tower house near Kilmartin. It was built by reforming churchman John Carswell, who was Rector of Kilmartin, Chancellor of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, and later titular Bishop of the Isles. Although he notionally built the castle for his patron, the Earl of Argyll, Carswell actually intended it as a personal residence. On Carswell's death it passed to his patron. The castle was blown up by Royalist forces in 1685 following the 9th Earl's failed uprising in support of the Monmouth Rebellion against James VII.
Spotted on a walk in the lovely alpine village of Hanmer Springs.
Many and varied flypapers used in processing. A before after and texture recipe is now on the Flypaper blog.
When I go back through a lot of my photos in the archives, there's a few things I look for each time, like photos I may have overlooked, shots I didn't know how to edit or shots I've posted that I always wanted a do-over on. When I figured out how to color correct and fix noise better and practiced editing enough to get the most out of a shot, there suddenly became a large group of shots that I wanted to revisit and see if my current style could fix the issues I disliked or turn a shot I had set aside into something I could share.
This is not uncommon for me since I've only really been learning to shoot manual for 2 or so years and there's still plenty of things I don't know how to do or do correctly which is frustrating. Whether it's a particular type of photography or editing skills I haven't yet figured out or something technical which I probably skipped over or never knew about in the first place.
I took this a year ago and when I shot it, it was one of those perfect type of moments that I still remember quite vividly even now. This was my first Venice sunset, my first chance to shoot reflections, and happened to be one of the very best sunsets I've ever seen in my life. I was there for hours and stayed from well before sundown to well after getting skies that constantly changed color. I spent so much time trying to edit this to reflect what I saw that day because I made a lot of mistakes with settings and technique and had trouble getting the color corrected. I also didn't have any color noise software and in my attempts to get rid of the problems, it often led to really saturated and high contrast images that had lost a lot of the detail along the way. The photo was well received on here and I was so happy with it when I posted it and for months after, it was really was one of my very favorite shots. However, as my editing skills improved, I began to like it less and less and so a year later, I gave it another chance from scratch and this was the result. It still might not be perfect, but it's a much more accurate representation and I'm much happier with it.
This day was extremely memorable, as I mentioned. The sky was colorful and overcast all afternoon and I was there long enough to shoot just about every type of photography I could think of--long exposures, faster shutter speeds, silhouettes, reflections, panoramas, night photos and of course an amazing sunset. I had been in California about a month and had mostly hovered around Malibu and the large views from the scenic overlooks up and down Mulholland Drive. I don't remember what made me come here that afternoon, but it led to Venice becoming my most photographed and default location in California.
LOCATION
Venice Beach
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
SETTINGS
18mm
ISO 100
f/4.5
1/160th second
CPL
On a day trip to London with my 14mm lens I came across some lovely gardens on the north bank of The River Thames. This lens gets really close so I could fill the frame. Hope you like the wide angel of this image.
Here's another photo from probably the last nice evening I had at Venice Beach. This was shot about 35 minutes after my previous post and rather than facing the pier, I'm angled towards the setting sun. For some reason, I never went around to the other side of Venice Pier. The sun would've been setting behind it and instead I stayed between the pier and the jetty that separates it from Santa Monica Beach. Of the 500 or so photos i've taken here, precisely zero come from the side of the pier near Marina Del Dey. There's a good chance it's due entirely to laziness or a severe aversion turning left.
There was something about this day that made both my regular and long exposures seem very much like oil paintings. The light was a very saturated pink and orange and the small waves and low tide gave off a vibrant reflection. I dealt with wind and blank hazy skies each subsequent visit but I left here that day thinking Venice Beach was the perfect place to shoot and that every night in Southern California would give me a special sunset. Just a few evening clouds is all I'm asking for these days...
Venice Beach
Venice, California
February 23rd, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/20th second
CPL
I don't belive... Someone tried to eat it?! ;-)))
In EXPLORE - 13 September 2006, # 450
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. It's a symbiont with pine plantations. Deep red mushroom is one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture.
Polish name: muchomor czerwony