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Ocean View. Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured Sep 25, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 24mm, f 9 @ 11 minutes, 18 seconds, ISO 100. Tripod. B+W 10stop ND Filter plus B+W 6stop ND Filter for a total of 16 stops. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), SilverEfexPro 2.0, Viveza 2.0, Dfine 2.0 and PhotoTools 2.6.
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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 local, national and international awards.
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Morning Serenity
As I sat there while my camera was exposing for 11 minutes and 18 seconds, I ate in my surroundings and enjoyed the air, birds and the sounds of the ocean. I breathed in deeply and serenity engulfed me.
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Sea Grass on the Rocks. Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured July 14, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 16mm, f 11 @ (7 images HDR), ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), SilverEfexPro 2.0, Viveza 2.0, Dfine 2.0 and PhotoMatixPro 5.0.4
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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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Sea Grass on the Rocks
Finding a new location it was a minus 1.2 foot low tide. A dry tropical storm was approaching from the south and the clouds were growing. For me it was a perfect time to enjoy the outdoors, the ocean and most important, to make an image. I have to acknowledge two very good friends, Stan who told me about Beachcomber (Stan, When I went there I remembered that I had been there before. Thank you). To Bob, who was my partner in crime that day and photo buddy who makes my images better when we photograph together and who also made the weather much better that day. Thanks for the clouds, Bob..!!!
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Neon Welcome Sign. San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured June 9, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 105mm, f 11 @ (HDR 9 images), ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 4.0, SilverEfexPro 2.0 and PhotoMatixPro 5.0.4
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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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You're Welcome, San Luis Obspo, California
This image was made on a Meet Up in Downtown San Luis Obispo, California. I usually make B&W Daylight Long Exposure images, but this Meet Up brought me out of my comfort zone and into the realm of night photography. I found that I enjoyed myself and came away with what I felt were a few “keepers.” This image itself posed some problems. The range of light was extreme and I found myself having to expose for HDR from 6 seconds to ¼ seconds. Other images, not this one, were exposed at either 25 or 30 seconds in a single exposure.
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I definitely did not take many photos in Colorado over Christmas, while I was there. Ended up getting sick, so decided to stay in and rest most the trip. Need to stay healthy for my upcoming Hawaii trip!
I did get out one day though. My buddy Matt and I met up and decided to rush to a spot for sunset. We were in a terrible spot and had no time to think about relocating, so we made due. Now that I actually have had time to process this shot, I am way happier then I thought it was going to be. This is Capital Peak, with an incredible cloud forming over it.
Back in SF for a week then off to Hawaii for some warm weather and lots of shooting! Going to have to make the drive back to Colorado end of January though. Definitely did not get to shoot snow like I wanted to. Have so many ideas and shots I want to do there in the winter.
Slow shutter image from a dance rehearsal, used Lightroom, Nik software and picmonkey for edits. Thank you for your appreciation, Gail
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops
f/25
ISO100
14 mm
120s (2min00s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
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Love watching the moon during the day and into evening. It was accompanied by fluffy clouds the other day.
I think hummingbirds are so much fun to watch, but terribly frustrating to photograph. For every "good" photo I've taken of them, I've probably shot dozens of bad ones because they are so fast and hard to focus on. Even using a flash or high shutter speeds do not guarantee a tack-sharp image.
Högsbohöjd, Gothenburg.
This is an old photo re-edited. I wanted to create something a little bit more sinister.
The quote is the famous last words of Emily Dickinson.
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A day out down to Tyntesfield (National Trust) with 'Jeffda2' to get some further images / portraits of the most excellent 'Ragged Victorians' !
This 2-½ story gray fieldstone house, circa 1790, is the former home of Judge Hugh M. Morris, a Delaware native, respected attorney and distinguished federal judge. Delaware's Division of Parks and Recreation acquired the property in 1998 and made it a part of White Clay Creek State Park.
A view of Freddy Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland.
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Radio Kootwijk Netherlands series: image # 1
Radio Kootwijk is a small town in the Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn, with ca. 120 inhabitants. It is situated in a heather- and forest-rich territory in the Veluwe region, east of the sandhills of the Kootwijkerzand and the town of Kootwijk.
The housing accommodations of Radio Kootwijk arose as a result of the building of a shortwave transmitter site with the same name, starting in 1918. The transmitters played an important role in the 20th century as a communication facility between the Netherlands and its then colony of Dutch East Indies. In 1923 Dutch PTT started trans-oceanic telegraphy using a longwave transmitter (a 400KW high frequency alternator) from the German Telefunken company under the callsign PCG, in the 24 kHz and 48 kHz. By 1925 the longwave transmitter was changed by a shortwave tube based, electronic transmitter which had a much better performance due to the better propagation of shortwaves. With this new technology, in 1928 a radio-telephonic connection was established. At the end of World War II, the German occupying forces blew up the transmitter. Afterward some of the radio towers were rebuilt.[1]
Due to the development of new technologies like satellite communication, Radio Kootwijk lost its position as main overseas wireless connection point of the Netherlands. In 1980, the last transmission mast was blown up. In 2004 the park lost its last transmitter functions, and was transferred from the KPN company (successor to PTT) to the State Forestry Commission, which started attracting new buyers. The main building of the former transmitter park, designed by Dutch architect Jules Maria Luthmann and named 'Building A' or 'The Sfynx' (journalist refer to it as a cathedral, which it is not), was officially appointed as a monument. It was used as scenery for the American film Mindhunters in 2004.
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
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Yesterday (10/15) was my 17th birthday! A lot of you probably thought i was an adult, but I'm actually only 17. So now you know ! :)
This is a wider version of my most popular shot ever (46k views) that i posted last week, so i figured you wouldn't mind. Can't get over this sunset!
Poppies
Technical info:
f/5
ISO200
10 mm
1/320s exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Dfine 2.0
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A small, broken seashell reflected on a gloss black floor tile and split toned. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something about this composition that makes me feel uneasy. But I decided to go with it and see what reaction it generates in others.
13 image focus stack processed in Helicon Focus. Dust and speck removal in Photoshop. Conversion to mono in Silver Efex Pro. Cropping, split toning and sharpening in Lightroom.
HMM to everyone and thanks for viewing.
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.
One of the lovely capitals in the upper chapel in the southern arm of the transept.
Happy Easter everyone!