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My artistic flower display in my office. The lavender is actually real, but dried.
I love how the contrast colours came out in this one. From the deep purples and blues, to the browns in the background -- it all compliments each other.
All natural lighting.
For edwin Land, the goal was more than gadgets, more than cameras and film, more than just an artistic medium. Polaroid represented a democratic vision, and this was the impetus for the countless pieces of equipment created. In December 1957, Polaroid researchers took their first official colour pictures. Land shared the results with colleagues at Kodak who agreed to collaborate with Polaroid to help bring the film to market. Taking 15 years and the testing of 5,000 compounds to create, Polaroid's new Polacolor film was a marvel of modern chemistry. When Polacolor was first introduced in February 1963, the public response was so overwhelming that it took Polaroid almost five months to supply the demand.
That same year, Polaroid introduced its first pack film (or peel-apart film) cameras, beginning with the famous Model 100. Not surprisingly, 1964 was the year that the company made more money on film than on camera sales. That switch meant Polaroid could now consider selling inexpensive cameras, competing with Kodak for the low end of the market. The Model 20 Swinger debuted in 1965, proving widly popular with teens and young adults and extending instant photography into mass consciousness. Thanks to exceptional marketing campaigns, the company estimated that at least half of American households acquired a Polaroid in the 1960s.
I was out and about not long after sunrise on the recent May bank holiday weekend. As usual I was chasing the light with a view to landscapes, I was on my usual patch on the hilltops west of Huddersfield, above Meltham and Marsden. I’m still getting over foot surgery so my walking is restricted a bit and I was sat in the pickup watching the light when I noticed three hares chasing around, occasionally stopping to box. I decided to go back after breakfast with a longer lens and see if I could catch up with them again. Initially I used a 300mm 2.8 with 1.4 and 2x convertors. I had some success over the next few days with this. I ended up spending the rest of the short holiday weekend in the sun photographing lapwings, their chicks, curlew and hares. I’ve ended up on a bit of a mission, it looks like this will be this summer’s challenge.
Within days I had seen deer, owls, heron as well as the lapwings and curlews etc. I wasn’t always able to get a decent shot as I was often driving at the time. I’m on a learning curve now and the results are getting better. I’ve learnt a lot about the birds and animals that I’m stalking and I’ve had to start and study the camera autofocus choices available and experiment with them. Fortunately the weather has been ok for a couple of weeks, which is unusual these days. There are hundreds of lapwings guarding their eggs and some with chicks, oystercatchers, a variety of ducks and of course grouse seeing as these moors are shooting moors. The grouse are favoured at the expense of everything else, anything that is a threat or competition won’t be treated favourably by the shooting fraternity, they certainly don’t like scrutiny and over the years have made entry to the moors in certain parts as difficult as is legal-or perhaps that’s just the perception of some of the rest of us who watch these things from a distance.
As a 54 year old "Creative", I am quite amazed at how long it takes the "obvious" to impact my consciousness. All these dear friends on LinkedIn have taken the trouble to endorse me for these skills. Don't you think it would be a great idea to play to these strengths? Ha ha, only realised that yesterday! Doh!
I enjoyed walking around the Farmers Market today with Michael, Missy, and Peter. I caught Michael taking a shot, and thought it would be neat to catch the same shot but have him not as my focal point. Very pleased with how this came out!
Different transparency reviles some portions of already known stimulations that we saw in the beginning . But in the previous image, the stimuli was so obvious.
In the following image, the fuzzy perception will enriched with the use of a text message. Could a simple message or a simple word guide our thoughts and dominate our perception to a specific area of our knowledge? What would be the exact word which is connected with the visual stimuli? Why?