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Looking over the Grund into Luxembourg city with its many spires.
Sony NEX-5R
Helios 85-210mm F3.8
210mm 1/320sec F8.0 ISO100
Taken last Saturday at Loughor underneath the road bridge. Just liked the many vanishing points in the image
Yesterday I demolished a fence.
It wasn't enormous. Three big posts and maybe 30 linear feet of cedar boards and lattice. I used a crowbar, a hammer and a saw... and a whole lot of sheer brute force and determination.
There was a time when I liked the fence. I liked the way it divided a section of yard into "rooms"... and the way it guided the eye through the garden on a sort of voyage of horticultural discovery.
Lately, though, I had grown to hate it. Every time I saw it, I felt restricted... hemmed in... obstructed, frustrated, bent on destruction. I can't count how many times I sat with Mike... looking at the fence and telling him my plans to tear it down; to open up the yard; to re-do the garden with a new set of vantage points; design a whole new (and much improved) visual journey.
And so there was great satisfaction... and anticipation... in my act of destruction. Along with the fence, I took out countless armloads of plantlife... blackberries, ivy, mint, ornamental grasses... asters, strawberries, things I cannot name or spell... and, through it all, I sort of averted my eyes.... saving myself for the big reveal once all the work was done.
And when it was... when I'd hauled away and swept up the last of the fence debris and plant detritus... I stood back... surveyed the brand new scene... and realized, "Oh, crap. I think I should've left it."
If you've read my stuff before, you can probably feel that this where I'm going to shift into metaphor. We all have barriers of sorts in our lives... and, with hard work and determination, we can break them down. The question is... Should we? Will the new, wider-open reality be what we imagined? Will it be a genuine improvement? Or will we... in the aftermath of tearing down that barrier... only come to realize that... *cough cough*... it really did serve a constructive purpose?
I don't know. I only know that I am in that awkward mid-transition place.
I've destroyed the old, but I'm not quite sure what the hell I'm going to create as the "new"... or whether it will prove to be, with time, an improvement.
So yeah... this is me adrift. Like these calendulas. They grow wild in cracks along the road. Yesterday, I picked some and put them in ocean... just to see what it would do with them. It tossed them around a bit... separated them from each other... and ultimately put them back on shore. In a different place. Much the worse for wear. I hope my drifting is a little more productive.
young alpaca... very curious of the camera. I had to keep backing up so as to not get a nose print on my lens...
The Sage Gateshead is one of my favourite buildings and I’m grateful to have so many opportunities to shoot it.
For a while now I’ve been trying to capture interesting angles of selected parts of the building rather than just shooting it in its’ entirety and surrounding setting. We all know about the beautiful curves of the building but it also has some nice sharp angles which work in great contrast to the curves.
Yesterday was really bright with some pretty quick moving clouds so for the vast majority of the shots I used the Lee Big Stopper so I could leave the shutter open for much longer and capture some cloud movement. I actually also used a 0.9 neutral density hard grad filter across the entire scene just to give me even more length on the shutter speed.
It’s really good to get up close because you get to see how the building is ageing and you can see some great detail.
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Same scene as my other Mirror Lake but HDR'd.
07:00 in the morning. Very tranquil.. Peaceful and beautiful..
This piece was originally intended as a starting point for the Batik Guild's 'Patterns of Change' exhibition submission for the Naples Botanical Gardens, Florida, USA.
I worked on three pieces over the Christmas period and finally submitted one (Energy Flows) which was jury selected and is now in Florida.
This one is a collage of mostly paper and I had originally intended to layer it with wax resist/discharged dyed tissue, with some torn and exposed areas highlighting newspaper text with a climate theme.
This is very much a mixed media piece now with only a few small pieces of silk batik incorporated.
I've used hole punched paper pieces for the mosaic effect.
70cm x 90cm
Still Corners ~ Today is the Day
Box Beach
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Couldn't decide between this one and the painted texture one, so uploaded both.
Artwork ©jackiecrossley
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This pic made it to Explore with the Highest position: 138 on Sunday, August 20, 2006.
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instead of going to a mall and being overwhelmed by shoppers, i visited a local donation store looking for some light-weight small ornaments for DD's little tree. and i think i should get kudos for *not* buying these towels which are obviously in my colors ~grin~
Linhof Technikardan S45
Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar L 5.6/150
20mm front rise
2.5° front left swing
f32
1/2 second
Ilford FP4+ (EI 80)
Lee Orange 21 filter
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Self developed in Pyrocat-HD 1:1:100 at 22 °C for 14 mins (minimal agitation) using a modified Paterson Orbital
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Toned
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