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Last one from a long weekend in Blackpool. Such rich ground to plunder! Until the next time...
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Stack and stitch using 16x Pixelshift on the A7r4. Makes for a big file, the biggest problem is it doesn't take much to fill a 256gb card. I upgraded my computer after almost ten years with the last one and a Ryzen 3900xt with twelve cores and 64gigs of ram churns through the files really well.
Zoom in and look around, seeds look a lot different close up than in the hand.
A well-known view across the small Lochan Urr in the depths of Glen Etive, looking to Buachaille Etive Beag and Buachaille Etive Mòr in the distance, the flanks of Stob Dubh to the right and Stob Coire Sgreamhach to the left.
I spent quite a while here, watching the light coming and going, waiting until all the mountains were illuminated beautifully.
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The well-known monument atop the hills at Fyrish overlooking the Cromarty Firth and Black Isle beyond.
Normally I'd think a folly was a rich person's waste of time - and this is only partly an exception, in that it was constructed to keep the locals in labour instead of suffering in the Clearances, with Sir Hector rolling the stones back down the hill to give them extra (payable) work to do.
The lyrics from Jimi Hendrick's classic blues song "Red House" seemed perfect to fit this image. One of my favorite songs by a musician whose music I didn't much care for early on in my musical experience but have since grown to love. He was a very talented song writer and incredibly innovative musician, and I love to hear the progression in his music over time. Interestingly his record company was not keen to release the song in the US, although they had already released it in the UK, saying "America doesn't like the blues". I think they have since been proven very wrong.
Reaching back to the archives again for this one, from a trip through the Palouse and Columbia River Gorge in 2016. Not really a lot to say about the image other than obviously it's not actually a house it's a barn. Just trying to find some closeups that showed the beautiful rolling farmland terrain but also provided some other visual anchor. This little red barn must be one of the most photographed residential structures on the planet. I'm playing a bit of catch up here so posting a little more frequently lately. Taken with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 150-450mm lens, using "Pixel Shift" feature as usual.
One of my favorite parts of posting a photo is getting the right title for it. This is of course, a pretty typical fall foliage shot, so the usual titles involving words like color, mirror, fall, etc. all come to mind but all felt a little dull and cliched to me. I've been leaning on song titles a lot lately so I searched around for appropriate song titles. I came across a few that were cool but not right for the scene (I'll have to save "Couldn't Stand the Weather" by Stevie Ray Vaughan for a future post! dibs!! stamps it, no erasies!). Anyway, I was leaning towards "Even in the Quietest Moments" by Supertramp, a fine song to be sure. But I've now reached the age where I learn new and cool music from my daughters. I often use them as a test audience to help select from different shots, so this time I decided to consult with my eldest on the title. We've both been listening to the Seattle Folk band "The Head and The Heart" lately, and I commented that their song titled "Another Story" had become one of my favorites, so she suggested I use that for my title. So there we have it!
Now for the actual story behind the photo. Believe it or not, I've been trying for over 2 years to get the right shot of fall colors reflected in a lake, and just haven't been able to get the right colors, the right lighting or the right comp. I can think of many things that would make this more cool, like fog, or some interesting rocks or leaves in the foreground, but this had enough elements to satisfy me. I had several trips over the last few weeks to the Hudson Valley in NY, and had been monitoring the colors. They seemed slow to emerge, but finally I found them at just about peak a couple of weeks ago. This was taken at the Kensico reservoir, off Route 22 just after sunrise using Pentax K3ii and Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 "Art" lens. Fortunately it was very still which allowed for a great mirror surface in the lake, and also allowed me to use the 'pixel shift' feature of the K3ii, which takes 4 photos each offset by a pixel. The 4 shots are merged in Lightroom, and I find this helps not only with improved detail but also greater dynamic range and more vibrant colors.
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This photo shows the old toll house at the gates of the municipality of Zolling. It stands right on the edge of a busy road and is slowly falling into disrepair, which is a great pity. Yet it was of great importance in the 18th century. Back then, the Electorate of Bavaria took care of the road between Freising and Mainburg. A "customs, road and water inspector" was appointed, who was based in the toll house in Erlau. An extremely impressive building for the time. But the building is privately owned and generations have tried in vain to preserve it.
I chose the early morning of Easter Sunday for my photo, which was also the day of the time change to summer time so as not to be disturbed by too much traffic. I also used the Pixelshift technique to achieve particularly good resolution and detail.
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Mt. Si/Lake Borst. Washington State. USA.
October 2023.
We've had the first bit of snow in the Cascades and it's gotten real cold.
My first attempt at using the Nikon Z f pixelshift mode. The produced image needed sharpening which Topaz Sharpen did without much problem. Happy with the result. The final image size is 12096x8064 pixels.
It's very easy to let negative feelings from this "year of suck" overwhelm and drag me down. But this Thanksgiving has given me pause to appreciate all the great things I have to be grateful for. The greatest of which is my family, and with my oldest arriving back from her all-to-brief respite from the virus in the Maritime Bubble of Atlantic Canada, we are all back together again. As both my girls stretch their wings and prepare to fly, I feel sad for them being grounded and forced to put all their dreams on hold. But I'm also so grateful and happy to be able to spend that little bit of extra time with them, to see with fatherly pride the young women they've become.
I'm also thankful that photography has taught me to better appreciate the magical moments that life grants us. Like walking along a mountain trail on a gentle morning at that special time of year when nature unfolds her dazzling cloak of colors. I wish I'd found it sooner. I feel like I spent my twenties behind a computer screen, unaware of how incredible the outside world is, and unappreciative of how much my mind craved the soothing touch of nature. At least I figured it out eventually, and for that I am sincerely grateful.
Shot at South Mountains State Park on a brief visit with Kevin Benedict. Credit to Kevin, as usual, for this off-the-beaten-path discovery. This is Jacob Fork creek, flowing down from High Shoals falls, taken at dawn with just a hint of an early morning mist hanging in the trees. Shot as a 3 frame pano and then cropped. We scouted the area the evening before and then decided to sample a few beers at Fonta Flora Brewery, known for some very interesting and unique brews, in Morganton NC. There was some debate about the wisdom of getting up early in the morning but we managed to shake off the beer haze and get moving again.
Here’s hoping everyone had a good thanksgiving despite whatever challenges you were facing this year.
Part of the Daily In Challenge on Pentax Forums, Day 17
Shot with in camera Pixel Shift for high resolution
3/16 bottom crop
Water, rocks and trees: these are a few of my favourite things.
The river runs for a few miles out of Wester Camghouran into the Rannoch Forest uplands; the gorge accompanies the path for an impressively long stretch of waterfalls and cascades.
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A photo from a short side trip to the Alabama Hills early in the year. I was nicely rewarded for a long drive from Vegas followed by an early morning excursion as the sun illuminated Mt Whitney and the Sierra Nevada rising over the crazy rock formations of the Alabama Hills. Though they look completely different, apparently these two features are part of the same geologic formation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills).
The "Space Lobster" is my interpretation of the interesting cloud formation appearing on the right side of the image, with one cloud having a particularly ribbed underside and extending a long lobster claw to the right of the image. It was just the first thing that popped in to my head as I edited this on the bigger screen. Besides, Space Lobsters just seemed totally on-brand for 2020.
Shot as a 5 shot pano sequence with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 70-200mm using Pixel Shift. This post is only 1/4 size the original.
I've already written much about the pandemic and my feelings throughout the year so I won't belabor it more here other than to say that, like many, I'm growing weary of this and looking forward to getting back towards some version of normal, and especially getting out in to the field for some more photography later in 2021.
I'm fortunate to have a good backlog of stuff to go through for posting this year when I haven't been able to shoot as much. In fact, I was absolutely gobsmacked (to use my favorite Brit term) to receive a nod in Flickr's Best of 2020: blog.flickr.net/en/2020/12/15/flickrs-top-25-photos-in-2020/
Much appreciation to Flickr/SmugMug staff and to the Flickr community for that! Was feeling kinda down on my photography for a bit this summer, so that was a nice pick-me-up.
Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season and looking forward as much as I am to flipping the clock on 2020 on New Years.
Seasonally, wave action and cold temperatures form ice shelves along the shores of the Great Lakes. They are a curiosity that some cant resist. When people climb on the shelves, the fragile structures can collapse, crashing into the frigid waters where Hypothermia sets in quickly. Be safe.
A nice early spring evening in Manhattan and I decided to venture down to my favorite spot, the old pier pilings beside Brooklyn Bridge park. Sadly, the sunset didn't amount to much but the nice thing about this spot is that a good blue hour reflection is still very colorful here. I've done this shot before, but this time I decided to get the rocks in the foreground in to the picture. The green on the rocks is pretty vivid, especially lit from behind by the big lights in the park. I toned down the vivid green tones a bit, but even still, I'm not sure whether the foreground works or distracts with its brightness.
I tried using my new Pentax 24-70mm lens here for a closer shot, but it didn't look as good to me so I went back to the 12-24mm (@14mm). This is a 30s exposure with the Pixel Shift feature (meaning it's actually 4 images).
"Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'til I reach you"
-Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart
As I said in my last post I want to dedicate my next couple of posts to my family. This image is dedicated to my daughter Avery. Rivers and Roads is the title of a song by the band The Head and The Heart that my daughter happens to be learning to play on the guitar. I am very proud of her for her many talents and spirit, and am very glad that she is sticking to her guitar lessons. The song is beautiful and perfectly captures the heartache associated with constantly traveling away from my family. I was very excited when I found this spot, as it had this perfect intersection of a glacier-fed river, a mountain road and the stunning Swiss alps, and the song title immediately popped in my head. So my dearest Avery, this is for you, I miss you terribly and think about you always when I am away.
As to the image itself, this is the unmistakable Matterhorn as reflected in the river Findelbach that flows off the Findelgleischer (glacier). I had a weekend stay over in Switzerland during a business trip in September so I took the train from Zurich to Zermatt, with the intention of hiking up to the Stellisee lake to get a photo of the reflection of the Matterhorn in the lake. If you search Matterhorn on flickr, this is the classic shot you will find most often. In a nutshell, I underestimated the intensity of the hike and I didn't quite make it there. This shot of the Matterhorn peak bathed in the alpenglow and reflected in the Findelbach is unique as far as I can find. Judge for yourself whether that makes it interesting. It is clearly not the shot I really wanted, and the original composition had several issues. It's one of those images that doesn't quite work at first and you have to step away from it for a while and then patiently work with it to improve. After removing some unsightly gondola wires and cropping it I was more satisfied.
Of course, the intended shot had to be a sunrise or sunset shot. Unfortunately the gondola and funicular train that both go up from Zermatt (at 4,000ft) to the 5 lakes (at 6,000ft) start running after sunrise and stop before sunset. So if one wants a sunrise/sunset shot one has two choices: overnight on the mountain-side, or hike up/down from Zermatt. I chose the hike option because I wasn’t prepared to camp out. To skip straight to today’s lesson: it was the wrong choice. Or rather, I didn’t have the time to properly prepare and half-assing my way up there at 3am cost me my chance at a reflection shot in the lake. Now, that may not be such a disaster because without some decent cloud lighting I don’t think the lake reflection would be any more satisfying to me than this shot. But that hike!! Very nearly did me in. It's about 12km walking at a fairly good incline from Zermatt. But the main reason is actually right in the middle of the frame of this shot. The bridge in the center is the connection between the path up from Zermatt to this particular spot and the road that continues up to the Stellisee. And I was so busy trying to find a composition during the few minutes of pre-sunrise Alpenglow that I missed the sign where the road up to Stellisee forks from the path that follows the river.
I continued to follow that path along the river as it started to slope upward and got increasingly difficult, until I was almost at the foot of the glacier. I was now hemmed in by steep slopes of loose rock on either side and decided I'd clearly misread the map or missed a fork, and it was just too stupid to go any further.
I turned back down and eventually discovered the sign to Stelligsee. The funicular was also up this path just beyond Stelligsee. I summoned my last bit of drive to follow the path (back uphill) until I reached the Grindjisee lake, a few hundred meters before Stelligsee, just to stubbornly say I'd made it (mostly). I took my reflection shot in the Grindjisee for posterity, even though it was well past sunrise and the light quality was bad by that point, so I'll never post it.
At this point my legs were so tired that I just didn’t have it in me to keep climbing, even though it was a 2 hour descent back down to Zermatt instead of a 30 minute hike further uphill. At least I could claim some form of masochistic victory; I had made it to the 5 lakes and had the route scoped out for a future visit. Hiked 20 miles (32km) that day at 4,000-6,000 feet (2000 meters). Climbed and then descended the equivalent of 200 flights of stairs. And lived to write the tale for my wonderful daughter Avery :-)
My second attempt at shooting the famous Jaoanese Maple tree at the Portland Japanese Garden. Last year I was here a few days too early and the tree was just starting to turn colors, with a lot of green and yellow. I posted a shot from that visit, which I confess was significantly color-shifted and never looked quite right to my eyes, so I've been wanting another go at it. This time I managed to get to the garden a few days later, almost exactly at peak color time, so no color shift required (but definitely some vibrancy and light/shadow enhancement).
I really love the shape of the tree of course but also the range of colors you end up with in the image from the deep greens of the moss to the bright greens of the bushes in background to the bright yellow, orange, and deep reds of the maple leaves. It makes for an eye-popping image and deeply satisfies the inner need for grabbing those fall colors. I sacrificed some time in the NC mountains for a trip out west where I managed to grab some color in a few different locations. I did notice that last year's image had a lot of moss covering all over the tree which adds some lovely texture and catches the light, and the tree is nearly 'bald' this year, having somehow lost its moss covering off the branches (if anyone knows what happened to the moss - please drop a note in the comments! I'm curious).
I was delighted to meet several other photographers there in line to shoot the maple, including the talented Bruce Omori, whom I met in Hawaii a couple of years ago and who I can say with fair certainty is the world's pre-eminent lava photographer and an all-around terrific guy. Bruce runs the Extreme Exposures Gallery in Hilo HI, if you are ever in the vicinity I strongly urge you to drop in and say Hi (www.extremeexposure.com/About).