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I'm still practicing on my focusing, especially on film. I haven't played with these lenses for ages
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Ashtanga Yoga Practice during the 200 hour yoga teacher training at AYM Yoga School in Rishikesh, India
#India #Yoga #Rishikesh
Sears Building
2650 E. Olympic Blvd.
Boyle Heights
East Los Angeles, CA
Pentax Spotmatic, Super Takumar 35mm, Kentmere PAN (ASA 100), Nikon Coolscan V
Contrast, colour, reflection. I liked the fact that the sky looked as if it were on fire and that destruction can be beautiful.
I'm not sure if you all are aware of Zoe's magical skills - she almost never allows me to take pictures of her in action, because I supposedly distract her. This time she made an exception, because the practice was easy enough that my presence didn't bother her. Zoe also told me that she's curently training for something really complex that she's never tried before... I'm really curious what it is, because her skills are quite advanced and I thought she could do all the tricks already!
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I'm not 100% satisfied with how this photo came out but I'm not sure what's wrong, either, so I just left it this way. Any constructive criticism is welcome lol, I still have a lot to improve!
Yoga. It's not for me. I wish it was - I'd love to be more stretchy and bendy and fitter and more spiritual. I really would. But I'd much rather choose a good run over twisting myself into inconceivable positions.
I do, however, love to watch yoga being practiced, seeing the beautiful bodies slowly lift into handstands, rise up into the downward dog, and so on, and on, and on!
Matt
From Wikipedia:
Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग yóga) refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines that originated in India.[1] The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Within Hinduism, it refers to one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal towards which that school directs its practices. In Jainism, yoga is the sum total of all activities — mental, verbal and physical.
Major branches of yoga in Hindu philosophy include Rāja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga. According to the authoritative Indian philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, yoga, based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, comprises one of the six main Hindu schools of philosophy (darshanas), together with Kapila's Samkhya, Gautama's Nyaya, Kanada's Vaisheshika, Jaimini's Purva Mimamsa, and Badarayana's Uttara Mimamsa or Vedanta. Many other Hindu texts discuss aspects of yoga, including the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Shiva Samhita and various Tantras.
The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings, and is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj," meaning "to control," "to yoke" or "to unite." Translations include "joining," "uniting," "union," "conjunction," and "means." It is also possible that the word yoga derives from "yujir samadhau," which means "contemplation" or "absorption." This translation fits better with the dualist Raja Yoga because it is through contemplation that discrimination between prakrti (nature) and purusha (pure consciousness) occurs.
Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy to a high level of attainment is called a yogi or yogini.
EXPLORED - Best Position #471
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) Chicks
This is 26 of the 58 photos that were removed from Flickr. Since I use Flickr to store my favorite photos I am reposting them.
Young man practicing his basketball skills, presumably after he'd hung the washing. Bacolod City, Philippines.
practicing doing some interior shooting with a friend's borrowed wide angle. gonna do a series of my place for an online feature for retro renovation.
A shot from last week's shoot for Golf Monthly in Gran Canaria. Between the 7 of us we shot a year's worth of instruction for the magazine (2 snappers, 2 journalists, 3 Golf pro's). Roughly 500 shots a day, hampered slightly by torrential rain, hurricane force winds, and very grumpy and slow moving German golfers.
With so much to shoot, I generally keep things very simple, and use my patented all-singing-all-dancing double flashgun stand to act as fill for the sun, but now and again I need to get a bit more complex. This is lit with said double flashgun off to camera right to light Paul the golfer, triggered by a pocket wizard, and then an Sb800 with a wide angle diffuser immediately to camera right, also on a pocket wizard to light the balls in the foreground. There's a setup shot here to make it easier.
There's no photoshopping involved, but I'll admit that the ball in the air isn't the one that Paul hit - it was dropped by Neil and I caught it in middair. Camera's never lie, but photographers can't be trusted!
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To be clear, Roxy does not need any practice going after her toy or coming back for the reward (she LOVES Cheerios).
The practice session is for me. Using my new(ish) Voigtlander lens for action shots. It is a manual focus lens so, I need the practice. Been a long time since I have had a manual focus lens so getting in some practice with one of my fav models.
Hey, for Cheerios Roxy will let me practice all day!!!
In case you are wondering, it is an old tried and true technique, prefocus an area where you know the action will be passing through. Continuous high speed and use an f/stop for bigger depth of field. People get too caught up in AF and VR... I grew up with film cameras where Auto Focus and VR were considered science fiction... And VR is just something that will eventually break in a lens...
I finished my place-mat practice. I need to take a small break from quilting and make a dress for my dd who is going to a Father/Daughter Ball. I was working on the last of the quilts when dh asked how the dress was coming and made me feel very guilty. The quicker I finish the dress then the quicker I can get back to this!
(So... I was spring cleaning our account and accidently deleted a bunch of axe throwing shots from last summer, so here they are again!)
Tegann really loves ballet. We take her every Wednesday to "Dance Class" as she calls it. She counts down to "Dance Class" starting every Wednesday night at bedtime!
She's actually a little advanced for her age and was put in an older class this past year.
I'm really hoping we can get her in the local feeder school for the arts. She's really into all of the arts. Visual, musical, and performance...she loves it all.
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