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I'm following the last months of a traditional clothing store in a small Spanish city that is going to close after more than 50 years of actvity...
That room was full of clothes some months ago and the woman that appears in the window is the owner of the shop... After several visits, she is explaining me the origin of the shop as well as all the social changes that she has to face along the past half century...
Sunset across Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, Scotland, UK.
So, it's been a bit of traumatic time of late for me on the photographic front. A couple of weeks ago I was in British Columbia but exactly one week before I left I was down on the beach at home photographing a heavy sea when I was taken out by a wave. As a result of that one of my two K30's was destroyed, along with my Sigma 10-20mm and Sigma 17-50mm lenses. I loved my K30 and the Sigma 10-20 is what I shoot 90% of my shots with, so all in all it was a bit heart breaking. My second K30 also got a bit wet but survived.
So at v short notice I had to suddenly replace a body and I went for what I thought was the natural replacement the K-S2, which didn't turn out to be the natural replacement I thought it would be. (More on that below)
Anyway, the new K-S2 arrived along with a new Sigma 10-20mm and off I went on holiday.
Now I don't take a lot of photographs with my cell phone but it is useful to have to photograph all sorts of daily things, like where you've parked your car etc. So it was further disappointment when on the second day of my holiday the lens shattered on the phone for no obvious reason.
To cheer myself up I thought I'd go out and take a city skyline shot over Vancouver, only to discover that the head on my Manfrotto BeFree Travel Tripod had broken... (although it was still partially useable)... Anyway trying to put all of this aside I set up for some long exposures over the city skyline. I took out my long exposure cable release and went to plug it in to my new K-S2... nope that's not the socket... not that one either.. and not that one... where the heck is the cable release socket... don't tell me! So to my horror I discovered that this camera doesn't have a cable release socket.... and a significant amount of my photography involves long exposure work... I never even knew cameras came without what I would class as this vital piece of functionality. I've certainly never had a Pentax camera that didn't have this.
It has to be said that by now I was a bit down and a bit irate about all of this. The next morning I got up put my gear in the car, took out my remaining K30 to check the settings were ready to go for the start of the day and I dropped the camera and broke the LCD screen..... aargh!!
Taken from Queen Margaret Bridge just up from the old BBC building, this is the humpback footbridge over the Kelvin that links the Kelvin Walkway and the Botanic Gardens.
The scene was pretty much monochrome already so converting to black and white seemed to make sense. A bit more minimalist than I'm used to, but I thought it looked quite atmospheric.
It was a December morning when thick mist enveloped Glasgow's west end. The visibility was quite a bit worse than this image would suggest, but I find there's something about taking a picture from within mist or fog that tends to add clarity and definition the eye can't quite resolve. Or perhaps it's a failure of technique, I don't know.
The title's a bit of an indulgence, I know, but there's something about the receding clarity of the view upriver that brings to mind that word. The foreground trees and branches are recent events, fresh in the mind, and the faint hint of distant foliage beyond the bridge is a faded old memory you know is there, but can't quite fully recall.
If this is my last night with you
Hold me like I'm more than just a friend
Give me a memory I can use
Take me by the hand while we do what lovers do
It matters how this ends
'Cause what if I never love again?.......
Adele
Somewhere
in that corner
where the light
dissipates
a vault stands
collecting memories
of people's smiles.
The air surrounds it
envelopes the soul
of each
guarding them
with memories
of its own.
Still memories.
~ I Travel East
Somewhere off the Pacific Coast Highway
Big Sur, California
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i found a card containing images that i had taken this past fall...somehow i forgot to donwload them...so here they are!
“Pain does not matter to a man.”
~E.Hemingway, Old man and the sea
Nedostaješ, Stari....23.5.2014. - 23.5.2018.
I couldn't help but notice the sheer pleasure this wonderful lady was having by simply messing about in the sea with her grand (possibly great) children :-)
Location : Punggol Waterpark , Singapore
Sad to learn that this tree 'had is last breath' and it has fallen.
A tribute to this tree which has been a fond subject to many photographer!
This is a shot that I took yesterday during a beautiful warm day .... today, it's miserable and raining!!
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The bombs weaken the structure and this soon collapses. Only the wall lying on the floor remained of the temple. A reflection of the destruction that man is capable of.
Created for EXPLORE Worthy - REMIX THIS PIX 35 (2023 Art)
Trees BG with thanks to Bernard Spragg. (Mirrored)
Woman, from Pexels.
Deer 1, from DS, purchased.
Deer 2, from PD
Frame/Texture - Golden Swirls, mine.
There's NO AI work on this image!
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us.
A year impairs, a luster obliterates.
There is little distinct left without an effort of memory,
then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that
the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
-Lord Byron
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We went out for the first time with our daughter Iyana for a walk around Rotterdam, of course, with the camera in tow. We live relatively close to the city hall where a lot of weddings happen and more often than not, there are usually fancy "wedding" type cars with fancily clad chauffeurs awaiting the impending nuptials. On such an occasion, we noticed an older couple walking by holding hands, looking nostalgically at the ceremony. Made for a nice scene :) managed to catch the driver's red pants sticking out of the car while he was waiting...
On a side note, my love for prime lenses continues to sore...took this with the cheap 50mm...starting to feel like a tilt-shift when opened wide :) loving it!
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Shot details:
3 subsequent bracketed handheld shots using: Canon 5D Mark III; Canon 50mm f/1.8 II
Post processing:
1. Lightroom for initial fixups,
2. Merged in HDRefex
3. Tweaked (colors, sharpness and so forth) in Photoshop CS6
4. Finally did a little more processing (vignetting and temp and so forth again in Lightroom)
“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
Macro Mondays: As long as it ticks
Happy Macro Monday everyone!
My daughter, on walks anywhere, usually finds a stick, reeds, grasses or even seaweed, if on the beach, to carry with her.
This location in this picture is very important to me on a deep personal level. As many of you know I have mental health issues which I am receiving ongoing therapy for. There was a day, just like this one, where I found myself here, all alone with my thoughts. I sat in my car feeling thoroughly hopeless when I accidentally switched on the radio and this song had only just begun, but my oh my, it didn't half strike a chord for me. This song, this location I have discovered brings me a feeling of hope. I hope you like it.
Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight, the withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan
Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
Every streetlamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters, and a streetlamp gutters,
And soon it will be morning.
Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in.
When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Burnt out ends of smokey days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning...
Touch me!
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun...
If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day
Has begun