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They carried their guns low, against the regulations. They were special that way.
I photograph these guys in a place where there is not possible to shoot eye-level compositions without having trees in frame. I don't mind though.
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May 1, 2018
A herring is working its way upstream to spawn. The herring (alewives and bluebacks) have several small falls that they must negotiate during their return to their ancestral spawning grounds.
Selected for Flickr's FlickrFriday gallery: "Low Angle"
May 3, 2018
(a "Flickr Friday" submission, theme "Low Angle. ")
Stony Brook Herring Run
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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Crappy Face Down Tuesday
I almost trashed this one, but then that would leave me with nothing to post for today.
We're Here: crap or brilliant ? or brilliant crap ?
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Już są! Wreszcie dziś wypatrzyłam pierwsze krokusy! :) Malutkie jeszcze, ale cieszę się, że wreszcie się pojawiły :)
First crocuses, which I've seen in this year. They are very small yet, but I've been very happy when I saw them :)
mpauliks This is for you Mike!!! Happy Birthday!!!!! ♥
I was going to give you a watch, but ...
Part of the reason I've been somewhat absent here is due to the time I've spent either preparing photos for printing, re-editing some from scratch that I no longer liked and also re-examining the vast archives of untouched photos shot over the last 15 or so months. While it feels like a much longer time to me, I've been shooting manual photography for less than 2 years and only started using lightroom and photoshop a bit more than a year ago...both being learned solely through trial and error and the use of google.
I almost believe learning to edit properly--or at least to your own satisfaction--is more difficult from scratch than photography. There's only so many setting choices and concepts you do with a camera but with editing, even simple fixes are difficult without previous knowledge of the basics. When I left for California in mid December, 2015, I *thought* I had learned a ton in the previous 6 months shooting mostly long exposures, waterfalls, and sunsets in the Maryland/Pennsylvania/West Virginia countryside but during the 4,000+ mile trip and then in the month or two after arriving, I realized I needed to advance a lot more in both editing and photography, particularly with no familiarity to shooting beaches, cityscapes and night photos. Each time out to shoot, I ended up with hundreds of images, varying in settings, shutter speeds and focal points hoping I could pick out the winners and figure out why they were better or stood out. Sometimes I'd have one aspect fine and screw up another and often I'd have an extremely hard time pulling out the best of the similar sets.
A roadblock for me as well was when I'd have an image that I simply couldn't edit properly...couldn't get it to look like what I saw in person or if a shot had poor setting choices and I didn't have the skills necessary to correct things. Each time I'd finally figure something out or learn a new method, I'd go back to some of these images on hold and see if I could now get the image right. Frustratingly, many times these images would be improved but still not quite there and so they'd go back in Lightroom limbo until another breakthrough in editing.
This shot came on one of my most memorable shoots to date and was also my first trip to Venice with the camera. I've probably posted more photos from this particular day than any other and I was almost overwhelmed trying to capture everything I wanted on the fly. It was my first time shooting a pier from the shoreline, first time shooting reflections, first time trying panoramas, first time including people in the scene, and first time seeing a concentrated crimson sunset. I shot here from late afternoon through nightfall and over the course of those several hours, finished the day with about 300 or so images ranging in exposure from fractions of a second to several minutes in length.
Many were overexposed to get that good detail in the sky and shore but it didn't help much with the rocks on the right side. Back in January of 2016 when I shot this, I didn't know how to balance the scene well (or deal with fading light and the ND1000 filter) or the best ways to compose the shot. I'd often focus either on the reflective shoreline right in front of me or right on the horizon. I often neglected these rocks in the early months of my time here, both in terms of focus and exposure.
While a few of the longer exposures turned out pretty well, I really got the best results from quicker shutters that required no filter, no guesswork on open bulb settings and kept those ripples of clouds fairly detailed. Most of the people left after the main portion of the sunset and only a few of us stuck around to see the sky change over to this. Those still there wandered around staring but I stayed right where I had been all along joined now by these birds. This evening was the first time I really felt like I belonged here in Los Angeles (especially with snow and freezing temperatures at the same time back around DC) and also began my obsession with Venice Beach...mostly from this exact same spot. As I'm sure you all have noticed, this is what I consider the sweet spot of Venice Beach and it's all mine (i'm sure I'll run into another photographer here some day...)
LOCATION
Venice Beach
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
SETTINGS
@18mm
ISO 200
f/5
1/40th second
CPL
Afternoon light falls across a tiled mosaic floor, with blue gold evening colors and an abstract geometric pattern
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Getting low is just part of dogtography, it's just what you do when you land.
~Ted Striker
Huh?
~Elaine Dickerson
Out with a friend and trying to capture light streaks. This was a shot of a random car going by of the Fernwood Inn.
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” - Ansel Adams
......or in my case, where to lay on the ground....
I crawled army-style on my stomach, about 30 feet through mud and water, to get a close up, low angle view of this Dunlin and a few of his buddies. Carrying the 500mm + extender + camera, plus wearing thick and heavy waders with steel shank boots, was physically exhausting. While I was hand-holding the rig, I was wishing I had my skimmer pod. I’m a bit sore, but it was worth it!
These Dunlin are really cute, and I enjoyed watching them chase the waves back and forth, especially when a splash caught them off guard. Good times!
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[Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948]
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This ice carving should represent the Viking sailing and what not. For me, though, it looks like small crocodile from animation movies. You can see the skin structure carved, nose stretching from the viewer and small hands on the sides.
What crocodile is doing in Sweden and even worse in winter, I don't know :)
I have posted numerous photos of London's famous bridge but here is one from almost right underneath it for a slight change.
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.
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.