What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.

— Jennifer Price

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.

I have included both color and BW.

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.

Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” –

—– Muhammad Ali

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. It was a hotter than hell day with humidity that you felt that you could swim in the air. I always make it a point to shoot boxers after I shoot ballet dancers.

Prepares me for the elegance of the randomness of the ring.

I shot this with the 85mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul.

– Mimi Novac

Image 3 & triptic

There is an Italian saying ‘at the dinner table none gets old’ wjhe you are listening music it is a banquet for the ears and a meal for the heart and soul.

This image is of Osmel Fernandez playing Clave and sing a smile in the key of joyious laughter.

This is my latest workshop to Cuba.. I shot this image withe new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 50mm f1.2 lens. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot.

I am so looking forward to going back to Cuba March 07-14 2024 for my Photography and Music workshop.

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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You never lose until you actually give up.― Mike Tyson

Cuba when comes to the arts from visual to extremely athletic Cuba is a very, very focused and dedicated place. Sports and dance are pursued with a drive rarely seen elsewhere. People from around the world come to Cuba to learn ballet and boxing. Both are full contact pursuits, both require the agility of of a butterfly one a bit more focused on the “contact” and take it to being able to sting like a bee.

This is an image of the boxer Davide Molinarida. He was so focused it did not register to him I was capturing him fighting until after the round was over.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was.I shot this image of the trumpet player Rolando Lara. When I was young I played trumpet. Not like Rolando. Like I said Bokeh is my thing.This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the 135mm f1.8 Plena Nikkot. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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Black and white are the colors of photography. They symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

– Robert Frank

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I have never met an image that I have shot the I did not know from the get go it was meant to be a black and white. The reason is simple when color becomes a distraction the the gesture the color needs to be removed and the black and white image needs to be abstracted out.

An image’s intention can hide in color, but in black and white all there is is the true intent of the moment.

I shot this with the 55mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2000 of a second ISO 1100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the week after my students went back to the US. This time I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5. If Dominoes is the national pastime, and you can't find enough peeps to play, then Checkers is the go to game. I shot this whilst riding in a bicycle cab. Talk about fast focus capabilities.

So you want to know why I choose to light with a thermonuclear device instead do a battery powered light source? Now you know.

Because of the D5- I AM: A Super Hero.

There is no image I cannot capture. The ability of this camera to shoot in lighting conditions so dark you just have to image the word "light" to provide illumination. Spot on color, no noise at high ISO, touch screen focus in live view. Whoa.....

Nikon D5 camera, 28-300mm lens. Recorded to Lexar XQD media Post processed in Photoshop CC 2015. File raw processed in Capture NX-D.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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I shot this image during my Palm Beach Photographic Workshop to Cuba in 2015. This image was shot in Havana in a class room at 4500iso. I brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras: the Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 80-400mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 28-300mm and the D750. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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People are more what they hide than what they show

– John Spence

Boxing or another way to put it full contact ballet. The pain, suffering, training and injuries are the same. The passion for each is also the same. I love to create images in which the subject hides in my camera. Just like an actor is trained to hide in the audience.

This image is of the boxer Reiner Kindelan Santoya. Lost in thought just before he goes in to spar.

This is my latest trip to Cuba. WHAT A BLAST that was. I shot this image withe new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 Plena lens. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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"Light gesture and color are the key components of any photograph. Light and color are obvious but it is gesture that is the most important. There is gesture in everything, the key is to find the gesture that is the most telling"

-Jay Maisel

This is image was shot at sunset in Trinidad Cuba. What caught my eye was the gesture of the dog, what made me choose to post process it was the picture in the picture. This is an great example of the fourth element of a photograph, timelessness.

This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book series titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."

The camera was the fabulous Nikon D5. The lens was 28-300mm "streetsweeper" To make sure we are all on the same page, there are always two aspects to every shoot. "The Shoot" itself and the post processing to final art. This image contains both aspects and is the outcome of the post processing this is a copy of that final file.

For "the shoot" aspect of this project no artificial light, no make-up on the subjects, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject

My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest linkn the entire project.

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When asked what is the best light W. Eugene Smith said "Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available."..... This approach to lighting Works for me.

I have always held that the lens is the brush, the camera sensor is the canvas. I have also held the that the beauty of a lens is not in how well it handles focus but rather how well it handles from in focus to blur.

There is no image I cannot capture. There is no image in which my vision of the image and the beauty of moment that took me that is not enhanced by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the Nikon system.

So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.

Because of my Nikon camera- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the Nikkor lenses I AM: A Super Hero with tack sharpnes at point of focus and beautiful Bokeh every place else in the image.

NOTE: I do indeed use Photoshop. It's true. Have been since version 1. when it fit on a single floppy disc. Most inspired piece of software ever written. I was employee number 2 of Niksoftware ( Colorefex, SilverEfex) and employee number 6 of Altamira Group (the inventor of Genuine Fractals) so yes I do also use plug-ins. So if you are viewing an image (unless otherwise noted) on my personal pages, website and sundry feeds they are all post processed if I put them up.

To be very crystal clear ALL of my images that I post on my personal web feeds are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue these are my "FINAL" versions on my PERSONAL sites. Because it is my personal page I do reserve the right to delete comments from angry photographic charlatan internet trolls.

I always make it a point, If you read the full description of any of my images, to always list the software and hardware used to produce an image.

Nikon D5 28`300 lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW320 4k ARGB monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

—Edward Weston

I shoot my portraits as landscapes and my landscapers as portraits.

I did this early morning in the Vinalas valley, Cuba.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was. I shot this images with the new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 lens Plena at f5.0. Yup this is a wide angle image shot with a telephoto lens. I also used the in camera BW mode to create the base image did the raw conversion in NX Studio using control points. The Zf is now the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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This image was taken during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Viet Nam workshop and was captured with a Nikon D200 camera modified to shoot infrared by lifepixel.com.

All images post processed with captureNX, and Photoshop CS3, Shot on Lexar 300 gigabyte UDMA Flash media.

© Vincent Versace 2008

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Morning walk after breakfast central Havana. The dance of reflections.

Shot with a Nikon D750 , recorded to Lexar flash media, 28-300mm Nikkor lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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"If you want to take better picture stand in front of more intersting stuff "

-Joe McNally

The secret to doing great portraits is to shoot your porteaits like landscapes. The secret to doing great landscapes is to shoot your landscapes like portraits.

You are only as good as the subject taht is in front of you.

This image is of the singerr player Dennis Francia Urbano of Stepteto Habanero.

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant and has a frame rat faster than your nervous system can register.

You can truly create a place when and where the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera.

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The BW version.

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This image was shot in Havana. (There are two spots left for my March 21-29 workshop. www.workshop.org/travel.php) I only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 24-120mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 80-400mm and my modified D800 infrared camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

This image was shot in Havana. I only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 24-120mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 80-400mm and my modified D800 infrared camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

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Sunset boat trip around the Apostle islands on day three of my Madeline Island School of The Arts workshop on Madeline Island Wisconsin.

Image wast taken with a D610 with a 24-120mm Nano coated VR lens recorded to a 128GB Lexar flash card used post processing with Capture NX 2 then Photoshop CC and Nik Colorefex 4.0, Induro C414 carbon fiber tripod and BH3 ball head.

© Vincent Versace 2014

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Trust me I shot other things... but a promise is a promise to the dancers and musicians (from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)

This image is of the trumpet player Jose Gomez Rodreguez of Stepteto Habanero.

When the D850. was released it hand facial recognition follow focus (not sure if that's the "official" name for it) in Live view. It also could shoot in silent mode in live view. So I hooked up a remote and with te 70-200mm f2.8 I shot "conversational portraits" in which the subject had no idea that I was or when I was taking a picture.

Cook to the Z9-

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera/

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The Color Version.

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This image was captured during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop walking back to the hotel at sunset in Trinidad, Cuba. The image was captured by a Nikon D-800 camera modified for infrared. Super Enhanced color conversion done by LifePixel with a 24-120 mm Nano coated VR II lens

using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 32 gigabyte 1000 speed UDMA Flash media. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

© Vincent Versace 2014

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"If you want to take better picture stand in front of more intersting stuff "

-Joe McNally

The secret to doing great portraits is to shoot your porteaits like landscapes. The secret to doing great landscapes is to shoot your landscapes like portraits.

You are only as good as the subject taht is in front of you.

This image is of the singerr player Dennis Francia Urbano of Stepteto Habanero.

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant and has a frame rat faster than your nervous system can register.

You can truly create a place when and where the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera.

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The color version.

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Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

– George Gershwin

It is the absolute spontaneity of the moment that gives a photograph that it is the moment between moments on the way to the next moment that creates the sensation of motion that is frozen time.

This is another image of the trumpet player Rolando Lara.

This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the 135mm f1.8 Plena Nikkor. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop to Cuba was.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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This image is from the third day of my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. Just walking the streets of Havana.

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I shot this image whilst on assignment for American Photo Magazine to shoot and write an article about the opening up of Myanmar. I shot this image 4;30am Nyaung Chaungtha along the Irrawadddy river. The plan was to travel up river during monsoon season to a remote village. The trip took three days. D3 auto Iso and the 28-300mm lens. This is another from the review process of my server and and trying get to all the files I have decided to work on during the first edit but have never gotten to. Usually the amount of time I have to do any post on a gig is the flight back home and maybe there days after I hit stateside before the next adventure takes me. I decided to take this summer to try and catch up on images I have always wanted to process.

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

And now back to my latest trip to Cuba….. A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject is not in motion, The mission should you decide to accept it is to stop motion with stillness. So what makes one 1/25 of a second more decisive than the other 124 parts of the the second? When dit that second actually begin? In actuality photographs are captured at the speed of life. Which is neither fast or slow it is exactly in the middle. It is half-fast. So I alway recommend that you be a half-fast photographer.

These images of the ballerina Kamila Quinones Ruiz were shot at 1/4000 of a second at 2000iso using the electronic shutter feature with the 135mm Plena. The reason for these choices is that the electronic shutter is soundless, so the subject is unaware that an image is being captured and what I get is the absolute spontaneous response, 1/4000 of second afforded me the ability to record the moment from eyes closed to open and capture the lack of registration that I was pointing a camera at my subject. The Plena was chosen because of the way the lens handles tack sharp at f1.8 to smooth and creamy Bokeh. 2000iso is what allowed 1/4000 of second to happen with the available light of the moment.

The new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 lens Plena. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph.

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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This image was captured during my Palm Beach Photographic Workshops India workshop. with a Nikon D-200 camera modified for infrared. Enhanced color conversion done by LifePixel with a 28-300 mm VR II I lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 16 gigabyte UDMA Flash media. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software.

Black and White conversion was done in Photoshop CS5 using a combination of NiK Silverefex and the Versace multi channel mixer conversion technique. .

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

© Vincent Versace 2010

The camera conversion was done by lifepixel. Enhanced Color Filter Their URL is www.lifepixel.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=158

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This image was taken during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Viet Nam workshop and was captured with a Nikon D200 camera modified to shoot infrared by lifepixel.com.

All images post processed with captureNX, and Photoshop CS3, Shot on Lexar 300 gigabyte UDMA Flash media.

© Vincent Versace 2008

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I shot this image on my fifth day of my February 2015 Palm Beach Photographic Workshop to Cuba in Havana. (There are two spots left for my March 21-29 workshop. www.workshop.org/travel.php) I only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 24-120mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper) my go to lens with my go to camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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This is a "cleaning out my storage found a box of negatives I thought were some place else Sunday" imagine. I had the opportunity to photograph Ryan towards the beginning of his career. One of the nicest, down to earth people I have ever shot in Hollywood.

This image was captured with a Nikon F5 camera with a 70-210mm D-series lens. Film was Ilford HP5 rated at 200iso. Film was scanned using an Epson V750 scanner and Silverfast scanning software. Post processing was done in Photoshop. Lighting was with a thermonuclear device and a 30" Westcott Sunlight reflector.

© Vincent Versace 2000

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Visiting a classroom in Havana.

Shot with a Nikon D750, during my Palmbeach Photo Center Cuba Workshop., recorded to Lexar flash media, 28-300mm Nikkor lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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SO I walk up to this woman and as "Torta Cubano Por Favor?" She said back in English "Which one" I said " A Cuban sand which" she said "You are in Cuba...ALL the sandwiches are Cuban. Which sandwich do you want?"

This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book serries titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."

The camera was the fabulous Nikon D5. The lens was 28-300mm "Street Sweeper" lens. To make sure we are all on the same page, there are always two aspects to every shoot. "The Shoot" itself and the post processing to final art. This image contains both aspects and is the outcome of the post processing this is a copy of that final file.

For "the shoot" aspect of this project no artificial light, no make-up on the subjects, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject

My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest linkn the entire project.

.

When asked what is the best light W. Eugene Smith said "Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available."..... This approach to lighting Works for me.

I have always held that the lens is the brush, the camera sensor is the canvas. I have also held the that the beauty of a lens is not in how well it handles focus but rather how well it handles from in focus to blur.

There is no image I cannot capture. There is no image in which my vision of the image and the beauty of moment that took me that is not enhanced by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the Nikon system.

So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.

Because of my Nikon camera- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the Nikkor lenses I AM: A Super Hero with tack sharpnes at point of focus and beautiful Bokeh every place else in the image.

NOTE: I do indeed use Photoshop. It's true. Have been since version 1. when it fit on a single floppy disc. Most inspired piece of software ever written. I was employee number 2 of Niksoftware ( Colorefex, SilverEfex) and employee number 6 of Altamira Group (the inventor of Genuine Fractals) so yes I do also use plug-ins. So if you are viewing an image (unless otherwise noted) on my personal pages, website and sundry feeds they are all post processed if I put them up.

To be very crystal clear ALL of my images that I post on my personal web feeds are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue these are my "FINAL" versions on my PERSONAL sites. Because it is my personal page I do reserve the right to delete comments from angry photographic charlatan internet trolls.

I always make it a point, If you read the full description of any of my images, to always list the software and hardware used to produce an image.

Nikon D5 28-300mm lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW3200 monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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This is from a fashion shoot I shot a few weeks back.

I have a very tough life... I know....I know.....

Shot with Nikon D7200 an 28-300mm lens. Lit with two Westcott icelights and a westcott fliex light. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book serries titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."

The camera was the fabulous Nikon D5. The lens was 105mm f 1.4. Arguably the best lens Nikon has ever made. Certainly the best lens I have ever shot with.

To make sure we are all on the same page, there are always two aspects to every shoot. "The Shoot" itself and the post processing to final art. This image contains both aspects and is the outcome of the post processing this is a copy of that final file.

For "the shoot" aspect of this project no artificial light, no make-up on the subjects, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject

My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest linkn the entire project.

This image was shot insde an inclosed market, the only light is sunlight coming through a few partially opened slats. The fruit vendorr is lost in thought. That is the moment that took me, the remberace of the moment that he is lost in and is taking him.

When asked what is the best light W. Eugene Smith said "Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available."..... This approach to lighting Works for me.

I have always held that the lens is the brush, the camera sensor is the canvas. I have also held the that the beauty of a lens is not in how well it handles focus but rather how well it handles from in focus to blur.

There is no image I cannot capture. There is no image in which my vision of the image and the beauty of moment that took me that is not enhanced by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the Nikon system.

This has to be the sharpest lens I have ever used. It is also has the most beautiful Bokeh of any lens I have ever shot with as well.

So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.

Because of my Nikon camera- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the Nikkor lenses I AM: A Super Hero with tack sharpnes at point of focus and beautiful Bokeh every place else in the image.

NOTE: I do indeed use Photoshop. It's true. Have been since version 1. when it fit on a single floppy disc. Most inspired piece of software ever written. I was employee number 2 of Niksoftware ( Colorefex, SilverEfex) and employee number 6 of Altamira Group (the inventor of Genuine Fractals) so yes I do also use plug-ins. So if you are viewing an image (unless otherwise noted) on my personal pages, website and sundry feeds they are all post processed if I put them up.

To be very crystal clear ALL of my images that I post on my personal web feeds are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue these are my "FINAL" versions on my PERSONAL sites. Because it is my personal page I do reserve the right to delete comments from angry photographic charlatan internet trolls.

I always make it a point, If you read the full description of any of my images, to always list the software and hardware used to produce an image.

Nikon D5 camera,105mm f1.4 lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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I shot this a few years back in Began, Myanmar. Just after the sun had set. Nikon D3 I believe the 28-300mm. Chances are that was the lens, it is my go to lens out in the field.

Capture NX-D for Raw Processing, Niksoftware collection by Good, Mcphun & onOne with Photoshop CC 2017 for image editing.

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This image was captured during my Palm Beach Photographic Workshops India workshop. with a Nikon D-200 camera modified for infrared. Enhanced color conversion done by LifePixel with a 24-120 mm VR II I lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 16 gigabyte UDMA Flash media. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software.

Black and White conversion was done in Photoshop CC using a combination of NiK Silverefex and the Versace multi channel mixer conversion technique. .

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

he camera conversion was done by lifepixel. Enhanced Color Filter Their URL is www.lifepixel.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=158

© Vincent Versace 2013

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

—Edward Weston

I shoot my portraits as landscapes and my landscapers as portraits.

I did this early morning in the Vinalas valley, Cuba.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was. I shot this images with the new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 lens Plena at f5.0. Yup this is a wide angle image shot with a telephoto lens. I also used the in camera BW mode to create the base image did the raw conversion in NX Studio using control points. The Zf is now the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph.

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nikon Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting images. That said…

I approach shooting my portraits as if they were landscapes and my landscapes as if they were portraits.

The film direct Irvin Kershner said “There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.” My goal in a portrait is to be seen through by the subject, not looked at, so I can see the entire landscape of the silence within them. For me there is nothing more satisfying photographically knowing I heard that silence and photographed the entire landscape of it. The initial observance of the elusive breath held expectant moment of time, frozen for all time.

I shot this image just before the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez started her series of leaps for me at sunset. Hence the shutter speed of 1/16000. I need that to freeze the motion. To capture motion with stillness. I chose the Z6III because of the amazing low to no noise at higher ISO.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR S85mm f/1.2 lens. 1/400 of a second ISO 2800. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection and Silver efex 7.

This is the color version

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There is a market I have ben going to for the past several years where the stall owners have given up an slow sorta look forward to me photographing them. Needless to say I have bought a lot of produce that I give a way along my walks through Havana... This image is of the only bean counter I look forward to seeing...

I fall in love a 1000 times a day usually for about a 125th of a sec. I don't believe in long relationships or long exposures.

This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book serries titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."

The camera was the fabulous Nikon D5. The lens was 105mm f 1,4 lens. To make sure we are all on the same page, there are always two aspects to every shoot. "The Shoot" itself and the post processing to final art. This image contains both aspects and is the outcome of the post processing this is a copy of that final file.

For "the shoot" aspect of this project no artificial light, no make-up on the subjects, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject

My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest link in the entire project.

When asked what is the best light W. Eugene Smith said "Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available."..... This approach to lighting Works for me.

I have always held that the lens is the brush, the camera sensor is the canvas. I have also held the that the beauty of a lens is not in how well it handles focus but rather how well it handles from in focus to blur.

There is no image I cannot capture. There is no image in which my vision of the image and the beauty of moment that took me that is not enhanced by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the Nikon system.

So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.

Because of my Nikon camera- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the Nikkor lenses I AM: A Super Hero with tack sharpnes at point of focus and beautiful Bokeh every place else in the image.

NOTE: I do indeed use Photoshop. It's true. Have been since version 1. when it fit on a single floppy disc. Most inspired piece of software ever written. I was employee number 2 of Niksoftware ( Colorefex, SilverEfex) and employee number 6 of Altamira Group (the inventor of Genuine Fractals) so yes I do also use plug-ins. So if you are viewing an image (unless otherwise noted) on my personal pages, website and sundry feeds they are all post processed if I put them up.

To be very crystal clear ALL of my images that I post on my personal web feeds are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue these are my "FINAL" versions on my PERSONAL sites. Because it is my personal page I do reserve the right to delete comments from angry photographic charlatan internet trolls.

I always make it a point, If you read the full description of any of my images, to always list the software and hardware used to produce an image.

Nikon D5 camera,28-300mm lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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This image is from my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. We snuck up to the top floor of a very old building in the city centre. This was shot just beneath a 30 foot tall statue of the Greek God Hermes. Even the rain could not taint the view.

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the second day I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5. Just waling the street in Santiago de Cuba. Not because it is the home of the greatest Rum in the world, which is nice, but because the the sweetest nicest people live there.

There is no image I cannot capture. The ability of this camera to shoot in lighting conditions so dark that you have to to image that there is light to provide illumination. Spot on color, speed touch screen focus in live view. Whoa.....

Because of the D5 I AM: A Super Hero.

Nikon D5 camera, 28-300mm lens. Post processed in Photoshop CC 2015. File raw processed in Capture NX-D.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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Sunset in Trinidad, playing dominoes in the street. I am fascinated by the passion and intensity that dominoes is played. Like it is an olympic event.

Shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens.

For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.

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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

And now back to my latest trip to Cuba….. A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject is not in motion, The mission should you decide to accept it is to stop motion with stillness. So what makes one 1/25 of a second more decisive than the other 124 parts of the the second? When dit that second actually begin? In actuality photographs are captured at the speed of life. Which is neither fast or slow it is exactly in the middle. It is half-fast. So I alway recommend that you be a half-fast photographer.

These images of the ballerina Kamila Quinones Ruiz were shot at 1/4000 of a second at 2000iso using the electronic shutter feature with the 135mm Plena. The reason for these choices is that the electronic shutter is soundless, so the subject is unaware that an image is being captured and what I get is the absolute spontaneous response, 1/4000 of second afforded me the ability to record the moment from eyes closed to open and capture the lack of registration that I was pointing a camera at my subject. The Plena was chosen because of the way the lens handles tack sharp at f1.8 to smooth and creamy Bokeh. 2000iso is what allowed 1/4000 of second to happen with the available light of the moment.

The new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 lens Plena. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph.

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Nikonzf #135mm #plena #NikonNoFilter #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson

#wacom #xritephoto #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H #PhotogenicbyBenQ

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I shot this image during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's FotoFusion flower workshop. This image was captured with a Nikon D750 and a 70-200 f2.8 VRII lens. 100 ISO.

© Vincent Versace 2014

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. Some more Chromatic Grayscale.

One of the things I got to do whilst I was in Havana was sit in the Orchestra pit while the Cuban National Symphony played at the Newly renovated Opera house in Havana. This is lit by the light off the Musician's light stand next to the the Violinist being photographed

© Vincent Versace 2016

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There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.

–-Vicki Baum

From my latest trip to Cuba…..

I love ballet. When was in undergraduate & graduate school I did bleat or or some form of movement class 3 hours day. I was never ver technically good at it, but if passion was the driver then I was….. ‘noun sad. I love ballet. What is truly amazing to me is the absolute without any thought of it technical perfection of the pirouette from the “are you ready?” look to “you better be ready because here I go” look to the blissed out smile mid twirl to the end landing walking away with “attitude”

Cuban Ballet dancers are the bees knees of perfection.

This is the ballerina Kamila Quinones Ruiz

The new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 50mm f1.2 lensa. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

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All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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This is an image of Diane Perrotta one of the producers of the tv show "Lip Sync Battle" shot with the Amazing Nikon D850, 105mm f1.4 lit by a lume cube with the small grid auto natural light portrait picture control.

Westscott 30" 6-in-1 reflector as a flag. To be exact I bounced a Lume cube into a Westcott slight reflector and then used a the black surface of the 30" 6-in01 to absorb some unwanted light.

The D850 is the most impressive camera on earth! The 105 is the prettiest lens I have ever shot

Post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC, Niksoftware OnOnesoftware.

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I shot this image on my last day of my February 2015 Palm Beach Photographic Workshop to Cuba in Havana. (There are two spots left for my March 21-29 workshop. www.workshop.org/travel.php) I only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 24-120mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper) my go to lens with my go to camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the second day I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5.These are the hands of an 86 year old man. The road map of is his life etched there. BW

There is no image I cannot capture. The ability of this camera to shoot in lighting conditions so dark that you have to to image that there is light to provide illumination. Spot on color, speed touch screen focus in live view. Whoa.....

Because of the D5 I AM: A Super Hero.

Nikon D5 camera, 28-300mm lens. Post processed in Photoshop CC 2015. File raw processed in Capture NX-D.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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This image is of the Chef Eric Ripert at his restaurant "Blue" att the Ritz Carlton on Grand Cayman island. I had been invited to speak at the Grand Cayman International Festival (Cayfilm). Chef Ripert prepared a mel on the last night for presenters and other celebrities that had flown in for the event. As the sun was setting, about an hour before the guests were to arrive, the light streamed into his empt soon to be completely full restaurant. I asked hi m to sit, he mentioned he was about to be a little busy.. I said but he light is beautiful, he smiled, sat I took this image and then off we went o kitchen.

This image was captured with a D500, 105mm f1.4 nano coated lens. Captured to a 128 Lexar 2933x XQD card. Lit with diffused sunlight through a window.

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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Shot sunset after Dinner with Bert Monroy and Zosia.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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CHROMATIC GRAYSCALE VERSION

Seventh post processed image from my “Marilyn Monroe” shoot with Stephanie Stuart arguably the Best Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the country.

What I wanted to do was celebrate the shoot using the tech of today. Soooooo you will be seeing a lot of images from the shoot we did on the deck of my studio.

I am a big believer in getting it as close to completely right in the camera as reality allows. What I was able to do with the combo of the sunbounce cage and hive lights was magic. We shot video during the shoot to discuss how to do

conversational portraiture using the D850.First post processed image from my “Marilyn Monroe” shoot with Stephanie Stuart arguably the Best Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the country. I am a big believer in getting it as close to completely right in the camera as reality allows. What I was able to do with the combo of the sunbounce cage and hive lights was magic. We shot video during the shoot to discuss how to do conversational portraiture using the D850.

I used Hive light led wasps lights with a leko lens an a fresnel. Sunbounce cage and Sunbounce reflectors.

Nikon D850 and Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8

Post processing: Capture NX-D, Photoshop CC 2018, NiK Collection by DxO's Silver Efex Pro and Viveza.

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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " sectionThis is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival.

I am frequently asked "how do you get away with getting so close to people?" and "How do you get people to ope up to you? Do you speak the language?" My language skills are akin to someone saying they are a musician because the instrument they play is the stereo. I n other words I barely speak English. That said I do do speak fluent silly. The ability to play and the willingness to make a complete fool of myself in public has served my photography career well.

For every action there is a reaction... So this warrior gave me his best "death stare" and I lowered my camera and gave him my best "silly death stare" and he gave me his best impersonation of me impersonating him.

There are approximately 95 Naga Tribes in Nagaland. They are a hunter gatherer / slash and burn culture. Up to 1985 they were headhunters and and practiced cannibalism. Which would give me pause if I was told they want me over for lunch. The New year's festival is in part a celebration to comrade the ending of those practices and the embracing of a more spiritual path. This a warrior form Kyal Yar village

Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified for Infrared 24-70mm f4 s series lens at 160iso. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC

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There is more to life than increasing its speed.

– Mahatma Gandhi

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

I had the opportunity many many many years ago to do weeklong Shakespeare workshop in San Francisco with Ian Mckellen (he wasn’t Sir Ian at the time) something he said at the workshop that has stuck with me was “Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.” It was in the context of acting and character development in context of your part of the whole in a play. I checked for the exact quote to make sure I had it correct. Memory is a fickle thing. But I digress.

As I discussed in the previous post all creativity comes from the same place from within us. Understanding what part of the whole yo play in things is the first step. In the sequence of moments of life you find yourself traveling in. Its is not at the speed of light but rather at the speed of life you should be moving. If you move t that speed you will come to discover there is more to this moments of life than you know and it's all happening 360 degrees all around you. It is easy to have a keen eye for the obvious, but only seeing the “big picture of the obvious makes you oblivious to the bigger picture of all of the parts that make up the whole of the moment you are in with a camera. Every moment tells a story, and in every moment here are inline stories that can be told.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR S Plena 135mm f/1.8 lens. 1/640 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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