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My first attempt at a slot canyon. What a kick. Love my 5D in-camera level. Love Nik's Silver Efex Pro for the black and white conversion.
Please view Large on Black. Windmill. Turri Road, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Captured July. 22, 2013. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 35mm, f 20 @ ISO 100. Tripod. Long Exposure (2 minutes, 2 seconds). 10 stop B+W ND filter plus 3 stop B+W ND filter. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast) and SilverEfexPro 2.0
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Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 June 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
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Windmill on Turri Road
I was out photographing with Stan Yoshinobu, my neighbor and good friend. There were some good clouds out so we decided to drive out to Montana de Oro and as we did we detoured through Turri Road. There is an old windmill and by chance the clouds were just right. By the way, by the time we got to MdO, the fog had come in. So much for photographing a brilliant sunset.
The round building in the center is the Rose Garden. The NBA Portland Trailblazers play their home basketball games here. The towers to the far right is the Portland Convention Center. Working with my wide angle lens this week.
Have a wonderful week, my friends : )
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Meeet-up with Joel Tjintjelaar, photographed architecture series in Amsterdam.
Technical info:
B+W ND110 - 10 stops
f/18
ISO100
22 mm
46s (0min46s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
PS CS5
Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2
Nik Software Dfine 2.0
Please view Large on Black. San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured June 18, 2013. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 45mm, f 20 @ 304 sec (5 min-04 sec.) ISO 100. Long Exposure, Tripod. Stacked ND Filters. B+W 10 stop 110 plus B+W 3 stop 103. Total 13 stops. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), Dfine 2.0, and SilverEfexPro 2.0
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Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 June 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
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All photographs within my flickr account are protected under copyright laws. No photograph shall be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, modified, transmitted, licensed, transferred, sold or distributed or used in any way by any means, without prior written permission from me. This pertains to all my images.
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Just returned from a wonderful trip to WDW. A bit wet, but still magical.
Bouncing along the Safari, we were fortunate to see these two beautiful creatures out and about.
Thanks for looking.
Another shot from my visit to Knole Park in Sevenoaks. So much open space to enjoy.
Hope you like :)
Wonderful tree blooms out in the yard. Not sure what kind of tree this is. If anyone can tell from these blooms it would be much appreciated Used Nik Color Efex Pro 4's Detail Enhancer
Marina Dubai, view from Palm. Cityscape was shot during the sunset of foggy day.
Processed with HDREfex Pro by Niksoftware (3 exposures) Some more adjusment was done also by Niksoftware (Pro Contrast, Detail Extractor, Silver Efex)
Reflection made by new layer in CS6
©2013 Marek Kijevský, all rights reserved
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?
Taken a week ago, converted to B&W with Nik Silver Efex, then adjustments were made with Luminosity Masks in CS6.
Turning 45 last week has made me re think the word old. We go around thinking the elderly are senile, cranky or stupid but they are not. They are in fact, brilliant.
Here are just a few reasons.
1. I don't remember. This is how you get out of trouble for not doing something. We just assume there memory is failing when in fact it is sharp as knife.
2. I am not strong enough anymore. This is how they get us to carry things or move them. The fact is, most could probably beat the crud out of us.
3. Could you run some errands for me? I am sure my grandma drove down the sidewalk on purpose making sure she wouldn't have do the shopping anymore.
4. I'm sorry, I can't hear a thing. They heard you. They are just ignoring you.
5. Cranky. Lets be real, you'll agree with everything to get them back to happy.
6. The power nap. We call it falling down. I'm already at that one.
View on black. I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
Our Daily Challenge: Low
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Inqspired by Tony and his brilliantly funny face down shots. Check them out www.flickr.com/photos/37239103@N06/sets/72157625673163157/
Please view Large on Black. Long Exposure. North Morro Bay, California. Feb. 18, 2013. Captured with Canon EOS5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 28mm, f 20 @ 316 sec., ISO 50. Long exposure, Tripod. Post Processing with CS5. NikSoftware SilverEfexPro 2.0. Stacked ND Filters B+W 10 Stop and B+W 2 Stop.
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On this day, which was overcast and drizzly, I decided to drive north along the coast and capture long exposure images. After getting some good images near San Simeon below Hearst Castle I headed back. I stopped at a vista point to view Morro Rock and maybe capture a long exposure. My eye caught some benches and the light went off in my head. The result was another image to add to my series on “Benches”.
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