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Call the cops on the Breedloves
bring a bible and a rope
and a whole box of rebel
and a bar of soap
make a pile of trunk tires
and burn 'em all down
bring a dollar with you baby
in the cold cold ground
cold cold ground
take a weathervane rooster
throw rocks at his head
stop talking to the neighbors
til we all go dead
beware of my temper
and the dog that I've found
break all the windows in the
cold cold ground
cold cold ground
-Tom Waits
A former Church of Scotland building, now sold for residential use pending conversion, and quite a well-known scene amongst landscape photographers with its undulating ground and strong lines and shapes.
It's still quite a peaceful place to be, too - near the East Neuk coast, surrounded by farmland even if it is just beside the A917 to St Andrews.
A pleasant waterfall in the Allt na Drochaide burn, a tributary to the Water of Ruchill, Glen Artney.
This was the first, and so far only, time I've felt the urge to invert the tripod's centre-column and dangle the camera millimetres above the water. In the process, I discovered a bug with the Pentax K-1: if you use live-view upside-down, the image inverts itself correctly but all the settings controls (histogram, etc) do not. It's tricky enough wondering where the control dials have gone, let alone where the numbers they control are to be found on screen. D'oh!
Last in this series with twin light sources this time, lifting the little station out of the darkness.
A fun little project to experiment with night time shooting.
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The eight images I posted today were taken at Ventura Harbor prior to and after Boarding the Island Packers Company catamaran cruiser "The Island Adventure" for a day voyage to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park. I will be posting those images as a complete set "Springtime on Santa Cruz Island" shortly. However, the morning in the harbor with mixed light and fog and a close up view of pinnipeds and diving cormorants rerquired posting these images as a separate and unique set. This is one of my favorites showing the mixed light of the sun attempting to break through a low marine fog and creating a mystical mood reminiscent of New England or foggy Northern California.
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Channeling the ghost of Edward Weston. I figure that if no one is around to shoot nudes with, then go for the next best thing and shoot peppers.
Northfield, OH USA
An 'Anniversary Clock'. German, 'Urania', just a bit later than 1905, the year of publication of Einstein's Special Relativity paper, which had a bit to say about clocks. But time is not slowing, it's speeding up! The internet radio behind it is about a century younger.
These torsion pendulum clocks could run for a year or more on a single wind, hence the name. The were often given as wedding presents from husband to wife. Only eighty windups to a Ruby anniversary. But many more adjustments -- more pretty than precise. Watching their dawdling oscillations has the same calming effect as fish in a bowl...
I haven't played around yet with ISO overrides, neutral density filters, or time exposure settings on my digital camera. So I failed at first attempt to do what I wanted here (and would have easily done with my old analogue cameras), to blur the rotating pendulum. The camera had an extra degree of freedom and aims beyond mine. It did the equivalent of push processing by upping the ISO to 6400. But the pseudo grain seems to me OK for the context.
Within the (1/80)s exposure, the pendulum would have rotated around a third of a degree. This model has a relatively unusual cylindrical inertial base, so not much blur could be expected to show up on that part in any case. Maybe I'll have another go with different settings in another few million oscillations or so...
Flashdance…What a Feeling comes to mind for this shoot. The natural light in this old church loft is perfect. Off camera flash used to fill.
Strath Fionan runs along the lower slopes of Schiehallion, with a few shapely hills of its own - here, Cnoc an Fhithich and An Catachan straddling the strath.
The geology of the area is complicated: a melting-pot of psammite and semipelite,metadiamictite, pale and dark limestone, dolostone, quartzite, amphibolite with microdiorite dykes and many fault-lines.
Small trumpet lichens Cladonia fimbriata (Lecanorales, Cladoniaceae) surrounded by moss, found during the search of snow scorpionflies.
Handheld stack of 14 exposures with the Canon MP-E65 lens at 1:1 magnification. Light was mixed, I used a diffused flash with reduced power to get more colors.
Chrysura cuprea (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) feeding on a spurge flower.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + MP-E65/2.8 + diffused Speedlite 270EX. Single handheld shot, settings: ƒ/9, 1/100 sec., ISO 400, 2.2x magnification. Slightly cropped.
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Anyone familiar with the paintings of the great Dutch master Johanness Vermeer will recognise many of his themes and memes in this (unplanned) shot -- a woman caught in a static pose of mental pre-occupation, windows and window lighting, tables, backs of chairs, floors, textile coverings, drinking and pouring vessels, mirrors, pictures on walls...
A major difference is that, while there is convincing evidence that Vermeer used a camera obscura to help him, this took me 1/50 of a second plus a few minutes of post-process tinkering, whereas Vermeer produced his images at less than one per year. Also, although his studio was north facing, as this room is, it was in the opposite hemisphere -- Vermeer never had such strong direct sunlight. Other differences are that his lighting was almost invariably from the left and there was no additional electric lamp, that his subjects were younger, and that there were no iPhones in his works (as far as I can recall)...
A view both local and favourable: Strathearn, mostly Glen Artney, in the distance, looking round to Crieff and Glen Turret.
Lesley in a big hair pose at Sepulveda Dam. Late afternoon natural light and PTDPF500N through diffuser to camera left.
The spectacle that is Major League Baseball! Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers at beautiful Progressive Field on a warm summer evening.
Cleveland, OH USA
Taken during my natural light workshop in Haugesund, Norway last weekend. Model is beautiful Hanna :)
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Ray of Dark series feat. Tina Petrovskaya
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After breakfast on our last day in Austria, I paused to photograph my mother as I left her to settle the hotel bill while I had a final walk around the lakeside village and then on up Odinstein, where I took what was to become one of my most satisfying photographs Odins einäugige Ausblick.
We then drove back to Vienna to catch a plane home to Melbourne. (I admit that after re-fuelling the car on the way, and winding our way back onto the autobahn, we had a brief period heading back towards Salzburg, owing to the confusing part of the sky they put the sun in the northern hemisphere!)
My mother had long wanted to show me over the land of her birth, and we had an opportunity in 1996. What has driven me to post this soft image is the realisation that I am about to hit the birthday that will take me to the age she was when I took this shot in the dining room of the Hotel Post in Traunkirchen in the Salzkammergut! She had a framed copy of Odin's One-eyed Outlook on her wall for the rest of her life until she died two years ago in 2020, aged 102. Bleib ruhig Mutti.
Kodak Gold 200-5, Pentax Espio 928. The conditions were perhaps asking a lot of my little travelling camera, and the commercial film results were as usual disappointing. Decades on, after scanning it, I have been able to bring this image up to the point where it works for me at least. The charming young waitress was caught, side-on and mirror-inverted, in close to the pose that Vermeer universalised in his painting The Milkmaid...
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How super when it is still light and yet, the lights come on... mixed light in photography terms.
Often great for imageries.
No matter where you are, or what time of year, always moody, even a little nostalgic.
Have a lovely day and thanks for viewing, Magda, (*_*)
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