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Yesterday with Joel Tjintjelaar, Zeeland Netherlands.
Technical info:
B+W ND110 - 10 stops
B+W ND106 - 6 stops
total 16 stops
f/8
ISO100
10 mm
300 (5min00s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
A day out down to Tyntesfield (National Trust) with 'Jeffda2' to get some further images / portraits of the most excellent 'Ragged Victorians' !
A Film Noir heavy contrast black and white edit for this industrial site in North Vancouver. I wanted to bring out the subtle mountain tops in the back rather than a full black sky.
This is a 3 shot HDR of St Cyr's Church in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.
It is a church that is set next to the Stroudwater canel and sits behind a housing estate. I discovered it by accident whilst searching for locations on Flickr groups!
The only downside to the visit was that my car was vandalised whilst I was taking the shots. Hey ho as they say!
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The San Simeon Shore. San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured July 28, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 24mm, f 11 @ 8 minutes, 49 seconds 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 OnOne PhotoTools 2.6
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My previous work has won a 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. I am very pleased to announce that for the third time in a little over a year I will once again be in Black & White Magazine. The internationally known magazine has honored me with a Portfolio Excellence Award and has featured 7 images in a 4-page spread in the 2014 August issue #104. The spread is on pages 28, 29, 30 and 31. As well as many other international awards.
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“The Sea is My Serenity”
The Sea belongs to everyone, all the fish, whales and seabirds. The sailors and fisherman, and I walk the shores, watch the sunsets and sunrises and photograph the wave-pounded rocks. I feel the connection and the Sea calms me. That Ocean music fills my ears, the smells my nostrils and the waters lap at me feet. Where else but the forest of Nature can one feel Serene..!!!
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living in the NYC area, it is easy to forget how rich our city is with beautiful architecture....next stop New York Public Library..
View over the water collected by the Mubazzara Dam, built by the late Sh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan in 1955. Al Ain.UAE
Perfect conditions and a single exposure run through photomatix and a little help from www.niksoftware.com/colorefexpro/usa/entry.php
Another shot taken in Yorkshire.
Visited the Ingleton Falls in Ingleton and witnessed some beautiful waterfalls. Sadly due to over 1000 steps wanted to grab some long exposures of these waterfalls but sadly did not want to carry all my camera equipment with me.
Hope you like :)
Okay fine, it's purple.
I need to have a better assistant, preferably a female, my son should have mentioned the large wrinkle on her dress.
This is probably the most famous walk on the Island and definitely the busiest. The ‘Old Man’ is a large pinnacle of rock that stands high and can be seen for miles around. As part of the Trotternish ridge the Storr was created by a massive ancient landslide, leaving one of the most photographed landscapes in the world.
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Main Gate
Walt Disney World Resort
Just one of those things that caught my eye as I was walking into the park that I had never seen before.
This photo was a PAIN to post process as it was a horrible picture before I started but I am very happy with the final results. Assistance provided by Aperture, Lightzone, NikSoftware, Noise Ninja.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Got a real treat on our flight from Seattle to Frankfurt; the solar index was near 8 and on the South side of the plane the sky was lit up. I spend a good hour jumping row to row to try different things (glad the plane was half empty). This one had some nice colors and shapes.
A few days ago, at the beginning of December 2024, celebrations televised worldwide heralded the coming back to life of the Notre–Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the accidental and disastrous timber roof fire of April 2019. This joyous occasion was an opportunity to vaunt the vastness of the cathedral.
Well, today and over the following days, I invite you to discover a much-less known, but much more surprising, church, the abbey church of Pontigny, in the equally little known département of Yonne (a part of Burgundy), about 150 kilometers southeast of Paris. There, at the edge of a small village and framed by the tall trees of a dark forest, an enormous vessel of stone stands in the middle of wheat fields, towering above everything else, even though it doesn’t have towers nor spire...
It has two things in common with the cathedral of Paris: at 120 meters, the length of its nave almost that of Notre–Dame (130 meters), and in addition to being an abbey church, Pontigny is also a cathedral... It is also the oldest, as when the first stone of Notre–Dame was laid in 1163, Pontigny was already built.
The abbey of Pontigny was founded in 1114 by a group of monks led by Hugues of Mâcon. For the second time after the foundation of La Ferté the year before, monks of the Cîteaux Abbey left the mothership to found a new monastery. Pontigny thus became and will forever remain “the second daughter of Cîteaux”, an important claim in an order than will number more than 2,200 monasteries of monks and nuns.
Donations flow in. Counting more than a dozen Kings of France among its benefactors, not to mention a good half-dozen Kings of England, the abbey will also give refuge to three archbishops of Canterbury, two of them saints: Thomas Becket and Edme (or Edmund) of Abingdon, whose relics are still buried in the choir of the church.
Built largely thanks to generous funding by Thibaut the Great, Earl of Champagne whose daughter Adele will marry King Louis VII, the church we can still admire today is built between 1138 and around 1150, although additions will be made to it as late as the early 1200s. It is mostly Romanesque, but the influence of the Gothic style can be seen in the latest rows of the nave, and of course in the ceiling, which is rib-vaulted —the first time this architecture was ever used in Burgundy.
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the abbey will be one of the richest and most powerful of the Western world, counting more than forty priories, vast lands and assorted properties in many different cities. Its library was also famous.
Listed as a Monument historique (Historic Landmark) on the very first list drawn up in 1840 by Minister Prosper Mérimée, the abbey church is almost all that’s left of the abbey, which was severely damaged during the Hundred Years War, then during the Wars of Religion, and finally during the French Revolution.
Since 1954, the abbey church is also the legal seat and headquarters of the “Mission de France” territorial prelature, which inspired the so-called “worker priests” which are quite well known in France. For that reason, the abbey church was granted by the Pope the status of cathedral of that prelature.
I’ve had the pleasure to visit this grandiose church, the largest ever in the Cistercian order, in late May 2024, within the scope of a photographic mission for the Fondation pour La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the not-for-profit organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer. I was given access to what’s left of the cloister, a part which is normally off-limits.
They praise the light in Notre–Dame of Paris, but what about the Romanesque light in this abbey church-cum-cathedral?
Photo taken at the 2015 New Hampshire Hoptinkton Fair. This was the 100th anniversary of the fair.
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I had a chance to do a Photowalk with Neil Van Niekirk and use his Profoto B1 yesterday at Water Street in Brooklyn. I think I love that light. Very portable and easy to use with High Speed sync. This is a shot I got of the model, Claudia
I do initial processing in Lightroom; followed by a tidy up in Photoshop with a bit of "art work" in Nik Software Color Effects Pro 4 to finish. Over the years I have created various custom presets within the software which I tinker with on a case by case basis to suit the mood I'm looking for. The software helps me express what I might otherwise achieve if I had the talent to draw or paint, which unfortunately I don’t.
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Meet-up with Joel Tjintjelaar, photographed architecture series in Amsterdam.
Technical info:
B+W ND110 - 10 stops
f/18
ISO100
10 mm
60 (1min00s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0