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This time of year in the American midwest, if your shoot outdoors, you take what the season (and the weather) gives you. I spend 20 minutes wondering through pretty deep snow in the woods just across the road, looking for something seasonal. Some texture and detail in the limited winter tones. This was the very last shot... a small clearing in an otherwise tangled mess of thorn branches, underbrush and fallen tree limbs.
Who knows when this small branch with leaves fell from a nearby oak and got caught up in the base of a thorn stock... but for however long it was, it waited there patiently until the snow piled up and I came along. And for that, I'm grateful.
Taken at Boundary Bay, BC, Canada - September 2016.
While birding last weekend at Boundary Bay, I spotted some golden plovers mixed in with the abundant Black-bellied Plovers. There were 4 Pacific Golden-Plovers and 2 American Golden-Plovers. Approaching plover flocks is usually extremely difficult, and the tide was also very high, which meant that if I was going to approach the birds, I would get soaking wet. I decided to go for it, since it is very rare to see such a large group of golden-plovers in this area. The water was about 5 inches deep, meaning I got soaking wet as a crawled towards the birds, holding my camera above the surface, keeping it dry. Thankfully, the mud was hard and there was no wind or waves, so I felt my gear was very safe. After a very slow approach for a long time, I found myself around 4 metres away from these beautiful birds. In the years I have photographed shorebirds at Boundary Bay I have had many amazing moments, but this was definitely one of my favorite ones ever. I got the shots I had hoped for of Pacific-Golden, American-Golden, and Black-bellied Plovers. I got soaking wet, but it was undoubtedly worth it! After some time with the birds I moved off, leaving them to their resting and feeding.
After the snowstorm a rising moon revealed that the Rebel Alliance's presence on Hoth was over, with only piles of destroyed Snowspeeders left behind.
The Snowtroopers were to return to their base for a good cup of hot coffee after a freezing overnight patrol shift searching for survivors.
(Explored #72)
Note: The original is a morning sun shot. There were problems with shadows and such during the shoot and I shot a lot of frames just in case. I went thru the shots from the session once more and found this. A lower key leftover that works fine as a nightshot.
The Boss (aka Glynis my wife) seems to think that she's got me where she wants me. She was immediately drawn to this masterchair in the Château de Murol in the Massif Central. I'm saying nothing.
Well, there you go, I’ve done it: the subject is in the middle of the frame. The composition police will not be pleased. Yet I like it as it is. Sure, I could have shot it as a vertical with less dead space on both sides, but then I would have lost the interesting clouds and the sense of space.
Anyway, after months of running tours we’re finally back home, and home means office work. The good news for me is that office work often equates to image processing, so I guess it’s not so bad. I’m currently going through my archives for several reasons, and this image of a meerkat is one of many that I found in my Botswana folder.
If you’ve never been to Botswana, then you absolutely should. It’s wildlife photography heaven. We’re running two tours there in April/May, and due to a cancellation we now have three openings on the 25 April - 4 May trip. I hope you haven’t spent your Christmas bonus yet!
If you’re interested, and of course you are, then please check out our website for more information on this trip:
Squiver Photo Tours & Workshops
Hope to see you there!
Marsel
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L A 40 dal set "From the ground" (Low Angle)
Un impiegato attraversa i giardini di porta venezia con la sua borsa, a Milano al tramonto
Set "From The ground" LA 27
"quando ho visto le sue scarpe io ho capito tutto di lei....." Bianca - Nanni Moretti
Giving my new, Sirui ST-124 travel tripod a workout.Great piece of kit. Rigid but very light. Folds up to a very portable size.
Den 1. Mai nutzen wir heute mit Begeisterung als freien Tag zum Tanz in den Mai und für Ausflüge.
Doch eigentlich beruht der Feiertag auf einem blutigem Protest.
Er geht auf den 1. Mai 1886 zurück, an dem in den USA ein mehrtägiger Generalstreik begann. Das Ziel der Arbeiter war es, einen Achtstundentag durchzusetzen. Doch die Lage eskalierte. Sowohl Demonstranten als auch Polizisten starben.
Am 4. Mai warf ein Teilnehmer der Proteste eine Bombe, die einen Polizist tötete. Bei den folgenden Kämpfen starben sieben Polizisten und wohl über 20 Arbeiter. 300 Demonstranten wurden verletzt.
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Most of the portraits I've taken of Scotch have been in darker settings, whether in a room with the lights dimmed or off or outside in the middle of the night. He's also usually sleeping or close to it during them which helps me with slower shutter speeds, spot shadowing and the ability to take the same shot with varying points of focus. While I like the style I'm developing with him and anticipate using that style if and when I ever photograph people, it probably doesn't give a full idea of what he actually looks like.
Scotch is a roan American Brittany Spanie and will be 13 in a month. I'd never seen a Brittany in person before taking him home the Sunday before Christmas in 2003. Since then, I've probably only seen 10 others in my life and he's been the only roan one I've come across. Most Brittanys are white with liver or white with orange. He's basically all orange with a bit of white. His colors started to fade a bit a few years ago and while his coat hasn't changed much, his face has gotten very white over the last two or three years.
He's always prefered being outdoors and often when I had bad insomnia, we'd just outside on the porch until I'd get tired enough. These days, we spend a lot of time on the balcony where he can watch people and animals on the side street below and get a good breeze in his face. This was shot in the middle of the afternoon on the last day of August using my mini tripod. We get a lot of sun at that time of day and this allowed me to use very quick shutter speeds and get a lot more detail than even while he's asleep and completely still. I usually end up in the 1/8th to 1/13th second range on a lot of those dark portraits at f/2.8 and ISO100-400 and this was 1/250th second at f/4.5.
It's almost 3 am here in LA but after I post this, we will probably sit out there until one of us has to wake the other to go back in :)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Hollywood, California
August 31st, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF40mm f/2.8 STM
ISO 100
f/4.5
1/250th second