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Near Cayucos, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured Jan 2, 2016. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 55mm, f 11 @ (HDR with 7 images) ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CCLR2015, CCPS2015, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), Viveza 2.0, SilverEfexPro 2.0 and PhotoMatix 5.1.1
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My previous work has won a Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest, Single Image Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 and Excellence Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 Portfolio Contest. I have also been honored with other local, national and international awards.
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Silent Tree
On a small road trip behind Whale Rock Reservoir on Cottontail Creek Road, I find many interesting things to photograph. Whale Rock Reservoir is behind the Central California Coast beach town of Cayucos.
Please view Large on Black. Montana de Oro, Los Osos, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured APR. 14, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 58mm, f 18 @ 11 minutes, ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), SilverEfexPro 2.0, Viveza 2.0 and PhotoMatixPro 5.0.3
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Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 August 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
Single Image Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 Single Image Contest. Pages 92 & 221 Feb. 2014 Single Image Special Edition #101.
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Secluded Cove
A secluded cove along the beautiful coast of Montana de Oro California State Park. The Park, which is located near Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County has many Coastal Coves with many arches, caves and outstanding rock formations. This image was an 11 minute exposure.
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One of the goals for this trip was to find a rolling hillside with a single tree. Good luck!!! We were scanning the scenery for days and found that they are scarcer then hen's teeth. We finally spotted one. After hearing shotgun fire and after walking into this field for approximately a 1/4 of a mile I noticed part of a sign on the ground and on the tree. It read "No Trespassing".
Sand Dune. Pismo Dunes Natural Preserve. Oceano, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured Apr 15, 2015. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 70mm, f 11 @ 1/500 seconds ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), Viveza 2.0 and SilverEfexPro 2.0
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Pyramid
Another Fine Art Black & White Image in my "Cloud Series." Photographing the Pismo Dunes Natural Preserve, Oceano, San Luis Obispo County, California. It was a great day with beautiful weather athough very windy.
Taken at the Nationals vs White Sox game; final score 5 - 2. The Nats are kicking ass and taking names! And Harper hit another home run. That kid is an animal!
The X10 died on me right after the first couple of shots so this was taken with my iPhone.
Processed via Lightoom and Silver Efex Pro 2.
For Our Daily Challenge 2 - Games
Composition with the chairs in the center of the image and processing with SEP 2
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ND110 - 10 stops.
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ISO100
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Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
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Taken just before sunrise while the Spokane River was at flood stage. The flooding wasn't here but other areas along the Spokane Rivers route.
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Die Karrenfelder bei Silberen sind hauptsächlich Bildungen im Schrattenkalk, die vor ca. 125 Millionen Jahren abgelagert wurden.
Es handelt sich dabei um einen hellgrauen, etwas spätigen oder oolithischen Kalk, der oft reich an Austern ist. Der Schrattenkalk bildet hohe hellgraue Steilwände und auf flacheren Abhängen wie auf Silbern, wilde Karrenfelder.
Kalkgesteine (Kalziumkarbonat, CaCO3) wie der Schrattenkalk sind undurchlässig aber löslich, falls sie in Kontakt mit Säuren treten. Wenn Kohlendioxid mit Regenwasser in Berührung kommt, bildet sich Kohlensäure, das die blossliegenden Kalkgesteine zerfrisst und auflöst. Das Kohlendioxid stammt dabei praktisch nur aus der Luft.
Schon an der Oberfläche der Gesteine erkennt man die ersten Symptome der Karstbildung. Das auf dem Karbonatgestein fliessende Regen- und Schneeschmelzwasser verursacht eine Auflösung, besonders entlang feiner Risse und Klüften, die zur Bildung von Karren- oder Schrattenfeldern mit Rinnen und scharfen Rippen führt. Durch die Risse des Gesteins sickert das Wasser in die Tiefe und löst den Kalk weiter auf. Es bilden sich zuerst untiefe Höhlen, die irgendwann einbrechen und konische Sickerlöcher, sogenannte Dolinen, bilden. Mit der Zeit entstehen durchgehende Höhlensysteme und der Wasserverlauf wird zunehmend unterirdisch.
Das grösste bekannte Höhlensystem Europas ist das Hölloch unterhalb der Karstsysteme von Silbern. Es sind bisher über 200 km erkundet worden.
Dedicated to Saint Peter, the abbey church of Champagne is not located, as one would think, in the bubbly-producing hills of northeastern France, but much further south, on the banks of River Rhône, between Lyon and Valence, in the northern part of the département of Ardèche, i.e., in the old province of Vivarais.
Stylistically, this large church, built right next to the busy and noisy thoroughfare that Highway 86 is today, is very homogeneous and was built around 1150, replacing an older, 11th century church of which two capitals have been re-used in the nave. Numerous sculpted fragments from the previous church were also gathered as demolition progressed and reinserted haphazardly in the new one. But built by whom exactly, and for what exact purpose? That is much more mysterious.
From the scant written evidence that has come to us, we can surmise that it was originally built by the Albon family of powerful local lords, probably for regular canons of one or the other obedience. In 1275, it has become a priory of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Chef. In 1172, the canons of the chapter of the Saint Maurice Cathedral in Vienne had given a number of churches to the abbey of Saint-Chef, but the charter doesn’t specify which ones. If we are right in thinking that the Champagne church was originally owned by canons, it is possible that those canons were the ones from the Vienne chapter, and if so, the Champagne church may have been among those turned over to the abbey in 1172. The deal would have been facilitated by the fact that, from 1119, the archbishop of Vienne was also the protector of the abbey of Saint-Chef. Furthermore, it has been noted (in particular in my Zodiaque collection reference book, Vivarais et Gévaudan romans, by Robert Saint-Jean) that the Champagne church offers many similarities with the abbey church of Saint-Chef, in a more accomplished version, as the former came half a century after the latter.
The link between Saint-Chef and Champagne, however, did not last. Because of deep and enduring management problems at Saint-Chef where the monks could not elect a new abbot, the archbishop of Vienne was first appointed as abbot ad perpetuitam by a papal Bull of John XXII in 1320. A second Bull, in 1328, took away from the abbey the Saint Peter Priory, under the pretext that its income was not sufficient to support the prior and his monks. The church then became a simple parish church. However, let’s not forget that, at the time, the Rhône River was the border between the kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire: the archbishop of Vienne had his seat on the left bank, on the Empire side, while the Saint Peter Priory was on the right bank, on the kingdom side; the archbishop may have wanted to be able to take refuge in France in the event things went sour on the Empire side... which would explain why the priory compound was indeed fortified at the same time!
Seriously damaged during the Wars of Religion in the 1560s, the church undertook important repairs during the early 1600s: it is then the the three cupolas on squinches roofing the nave were put in place in lieu of the previous Romanesque barrel vault. The church, much too big for such a small village, continued to degrade over the decades. By 1750, the upper floors of the tower-porch that framed the western entrance were in ruin, and one century later, what was left of that tower-porch was razed to allow for the enlargement of what was then the royal road number 86. This veritable act of vandalism prompted the authorities to protect the monument in 1854 by listing it as a Historic Landmark.
A systematic restoration took place between 1888 and 1894, during which (it is a rare enough occurrence to be duly noted and lauded!) all the add-ons erected after the end of the Romanesque period were eliminated. The original church was saved. In 1968, three regular Augustinian canons from a Swiss convent came and settled in Champagne, reviving the Saint Victor offshoot of the Augustinians which had been dead since the French Revolution. They proved extremely successful and in 1976, Pope Paul VI elevated the priory to abbey status. Today, the church is both canonical and parochial.
However, the very exceptional characteristic of this abbey is that, because the original monastery buildings had been destroyed after the French Revolution and replaced by ordinary village houses, the Augustinians had to build anew where there was space available, i.e., a couple hundred meters away from the church...! Thus, there is no proper enclosure, the canons live in the middle of the village, and walk across it to go attend to their duties. This is much too in sæculum for my taste, and not a proper way to practice the life of a so-called “regular” canon. I understand the appeal that the church may have had, but my opinion is that, owing to the present-day configuration of the village, it should have been deemed unsuitable. Likewise, the liturgy of this congregation does not truly meet with my approval, the same way “reality TV” doesn’t: a floor-heated church, cleverly designed lighting everywhere, a discreet and elaborate sound system... quite a bit too Hollywoodian for me. But obviously, just like reality TV, it does have its appeal.
The altar table and the length of the nave, looking to the West. You can see that all the leafy capitals are similar, and much less elaborate than those around the choir.
Monochrome really fits the mood right now. Even in color everything so gray right now. It's been a very strange January with less than an inch of snow and almost perpetual gray skies. We've have only received about 24 percent of are total possible sunshine this month. Five Exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 and converted to B&W using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
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