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Once again I was out to capture an image I have put off taking for far too long. This one is a set of mailboxes located atop the Niagara Escarpment Southwest of Grimsby, Ontario in a village called Grassie (now part of greater Grimsby) on a short road, Bawslaugh Road. These are getting harder to find as they are replaced with modern plastic mailboxes or a cluster of modern, metal community mailbox clusters, in what are claimed to be ‘convenient’ locations in the rural areas. I wanted the mailboxes to stand out against a fairly plain background to I opted for a longer lense, wide open to get the desired look. A modern take on the old rural sport of shooting at mailboxes. Shoot ‘em while you can. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-06-27
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture priority mode, f/3.0, 1/640 sec with an EV+0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final width to be 9000px, correct vignetting, set exposure compensation to EV+0.15 to slightly darken the image overall, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight details especially the white mailboxes, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight detail, use Tone Curve 2 tool in parametric mode to darken the lightest/highlight areas (for the white mailboxes) only, in L-A-B mode reduce lightness slightly, slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Curves tool to slightly brighten the bottom three-quarters of the curve while leaving the top portion at default level, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
We seem to have new decorated mailboxes outside each year. They look very nice and show some lovely designs instead of the old red mailboxes.
In 2019 my mailbox was duct taped in place and the post was leaning a number of degrees away from the road (see comments). So I hired somebody to install a new post and put up this new mailbox that I had purchased. I wasn't entirely happy with the job he did as it is not perpendicular to the road, but it's cemented in place so I didn't make him start over. Then last summer some juvenile delinquent shot a couple of bb's into it. I'd fix it, but I don't have any paint to match it. (Also, the weed wacker died and my son hasn't seen fit to trim around it another way.) End of rant!
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #5 - Mailbox.
Done for the "We're Here!" group's visit to the "disappear" group.
(Not responsible for poor spelling.)
Found in Petaluma, just off US 101.
No road trip is complete without passing a bank of rusty mailboxes! Another Roadside Americana shot! I tweak the pictures in this album on Photoshop, as I'm going for a style thing.
Along a street not far from the seashore, Porter's Neck, NC. Pentax P3n, Fujifilm ISO 200, SMC Pentax-A 35/2.8, @f8 - 1/125.
Hoping to start a new little series about mailboxes. Once upon a time the mailboxes in the US were sooo unique so special, every house no matter where had it's own. Now what do the new big towns and houses get? Community mailboxes..lame..boring.. ! I hate it...if there was any way i could have our own unique box I would ..heck we might make one just for decoration purposes :)))
We will see how many |unique| mailboxes i will find, they are really a rare find in the suburbs...
Happy SS !
86.6 Degrees of rectilinear madness. My extreme wide-angle pinhole camera is easier to aim with trigonometry and a giant protractor than it is by line of sight.
Un buzón en una zona rural de Prince Edward Island para la búsqueda del tesoro de La Vuelta al Mundo. En esta casa a la orilla de la carretera debe vivir una persona feliz ♥
(Aún de vacaciones pero tratando de publicar el tesoro!)
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f/2.8 1/400, ISO 100, 10-20mm, Canon 7D
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We finally made it to our destination of Marion Virginia and not far from town the Hungry Mother state park where we had booked a cabin for our "Glam Camping" experience. But somehow and very true to form, between registration and our cabin we got "turned around" and wound up driving Miles in the wrong direction. OK.... I'm the navigator and co-pilot for all our travels so I fully take the credit for this one. But if we hadn't gone the wrong way, we many never have seen this awesome mailbox. I think it is made of an old...what? Missile head? torpedo? Something, but it was pretty awesome. :) We found out the next day that the road we traveled on is called the Back of the Dragon which boasts thirty-two miles with over three hundred curves. Motorcyclist come from all over the country to ride this road. Still.... it might have been a bit much after an already long day of driving! LOL
A little low light work... Three rural mailboxes are dappled with early morning light through the trees. Seem to be stuck on BW this week. ;-)
Shabby mailboxes. Decorative versions are 3 prims, working versions are 6 prims. Mail script with options for email notifcations and access list so others can open the mail too. Letters rezz automatically when you have mail. (needs mesh viewer).
Mailboxes - Homemade mini magnifying glass camera obscura. Click here to see how I made this camera: youtu.be/Z4tb0YZWSQo
Taken just outside of Edmonton, Alberta. By the looks of it, these mailboxes are probably the original farmers' mailboxes. It appears that they are no longer in use.
For the record, these mailboxes may be my favorite subject that I've ever photographed to date. I love the cartoony, or claymation-like feel that they naturally have. Stay tuned for more photos of them in the near future!
(Made Explore July 7, 2007)