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Kentmere 400 120 B&W film.
Mamiya 645 1000s with a 45mm Mamiya Sekor lens.
Developed in a 1:25 Rodinal solution at 68 degrees.
Epson V600 scan.
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This is from my first outing with a camera after I broke my right humerus in March. It felt nice to be able to handle the photo gear again, though it sure was a struggle at times. I decided to visit several small waterfalls and cascades that are relatively close to home (none of which I've been to before). LPF is by far the most impressive of them. Even though it was a weekday, the place was quite busy, so I wound up scrambling gingerly onto some rocks for a bit of solitude. I took a bunch of shots at different focal lengths and exposures, none of which struck me as particularly pleasing. Nonetheless, I came home with a big smile on my face. I’m slowly getting my life back (there was a time I thought I never would).
If you have a lost soul, possibly I will find it, it will wander through purgatory,
I will help you to fight it...
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The reason for posting this image is more related to my wish to convey the meaning of Araf (Purgatory).
But this time, it won't be straight forward as before... ;)
I could do it, because I am sure there are great friends among you, who care enough to do something interactive too and are not scared of diving deeper... ;)
Just feel!
ADDITION: Google Translate sucks as hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I will translate it soon, after you give it a try yourself... ;) Hugs :) )
Some help :) :
Kalbin işine bak yüzüne bakamaz,
Ağlar durur sen uyurken,
Yalnız olamayan böylemi yapar,
Dersen anlarım
Aşkın içine bak en güzeline,
Hem var hem yokmu bile bile,
Adalet yok ya canımı yakar,
Bu sessizlik
Yerimi bilmem,
Bilmem ne taraftayım,
Sesimi duymam,
Ne zamandır araftayım
Kimler varmış içimde,
Yoklama yaptım,
Deliler çıktı cellatlar,
Birde şeytanlar
Yerimi bilmem,
Bilmem ne taraftayım,
Sesimi duymam,
Ne zamandır araftayım
Kalbin işine bak yüzüne bakamaz,
Ağlar durur sen uyurken...
Background taken at Innsmouth - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Innsmouth/13/241/13
Ghosts by selficide-stock.deviantart.com/
Thnx to www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/ for the textures
End of the line in a narrow canyon. I reckon that a more agile person could have spider-crawled over the water and further upstream, but I was happy to just watch the low winter sun pass overhead and light up my life here.
Mo' better larger and on black.
This very old cemetery just north of Henry,IL. seems to have been forgotten.In the woods outside a small,crudely walled in section,are headstones and markers buried in debris,laying against trees,and just plain desecrated.Almost all date from the mid to late 1800's.It is a tragic and kind of puzzling situation that deserves attention...and correcting.
This is not what I call eternal rest....
I am in somehow in between state of my previous chapter and a new era I want to enter. I am neither in both sides yet. I have some ideas in my head, I have already started a ''lay out'' in my instagram, as a sort of an experiment. In that ''in-between-phase'' I want to move on with both sides: partly with previous concept, partly with the new concept-which has not formet yet..So this one, is neither a portrait nor any other concept- it is a ''hybrid'' experimental.
I still see my images as songs, rather than photos- so this more about ''going into the pschochosis of self-being'' where I want to play with our senses of how we observe life- and outside world- depending on our ''inner '' consciousness.
I have been to the Purgatory Falls (Lower and Upper) a couple of times before, but I had no idea what I signed up myself for this time. The mile and a half to get to the Middle Purgatory Falls took over an hour and felt like descending into Hell! Steep slopes, tree roots and rocks of every size, snow and ice. At one point the trail was blocked by a 20 foot wide swath of ice (remnants of previous melts and freezes after the abundant rains and cold nights we had in the prior weeks), below which there was nothing but a steep drop into the gully’s gut. I was scared sh!tless, but I was resolved to press on, one step at a time. After all, I came here to take photos, not to turn around empty-handed and go home with tail between legs!
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"Purgatory Line" by Drive-By Truckers
Sometimes I can laugh.
Other times I cry.
It ain't exactly funny.
My feet are both on fire.
I guess they'll just burn for a while waitin' in this purgatory line.
Lovin' you is so easy, but waitin' here just ain't.
I know I can be patient, but please don't hesitate to cross my mind.
That's all I've got for a while.
Waitin' in this purgatory line.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Cheat Table by Jim2Point0 and One3rd
• Captured on PC with ReShade 5.3.0
• Edited in Lightroom Classic
Plenty of seats available at the old greyhound track.
A partly cloudy morning, a new camera and a subtle hand on the HDR sliders finally brought out the broken glass in a way I couldn't capture it several months earlier.
That is some really thick glass, by the way, it must have taken some effort to smash.
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Tell me I brought it on myself
All of this decay
Tell me that God will always love me
And can wash it all away
Tell me that you know how I feel
And it makes you love me more
Tell me that you understand me
And you've seen it all before
"Purgatory " - A Covenant of Thorns
"It is consummated. And bowing
his head, he gave up the ghost."
- John 19:30
Life is the door to doom, dark angels awaiting
Blood was shed, the red moon arises
In lust I live, in hate I trust
Lead the way to the gates of hell
My name is Blasphemy and my name is Pain
My name is Vengeance and my name is Insane
My name bears relevance as my name is Fear
My name is Bringer of Harlotry, Bloodshed and Tears
Serve the masses, serve the sheep
Serve the darkness and the demons within
Demons, my skin is scarred by the hands of God
Demons, I will bow to no one, I am my own faith
With no fear in heart, with passion for suffering
I re-create Armageddon and all of the sins
Life is the door to doom
Alive...
See me feed the new revelation
See me bleed rivers of wrath
See me bleed eternal damnation
See me feed of the flesh of your Christ
You are of proud looks and lying tongues
You're born of hands that shed innocent blood
You are a witness that uttereth lies
You soweth discord among your brethren
Bind them furiously upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck
Scorch the Earth with burning fear and turn it into ash
Dawn of retribution, day of mourning, Lucifer and the feast
Reap the seed that we have sown, purgatory unleashed
Hear me call for hell and its legions, unleash hate, vengeance and pride
See me burn the pillars of heaven, see me crush your book of lies
Watch me burn heavenly creatures, unleash hate, vengeance and pride
See me light the candles of darkness, I am the destroyer of lies
My skin is scarred by the hands of God
I will bow to no one, I am my own faith
With passion for suffering, with no fear in heart
I re-create Armageddon and all of the sins
Life is the door to doom
Alive...
I am Pride, I am Envy
I am Gluttony, I am Sloth
I am Lust, I am Greed
I am Wrath perfected!
Returning to the trove of vantage points to shoot from inside Ely Cathedral, this image was captured from the top of the building's octagonal tower, more than 100ft up. The view encompasses the seats in the north transept, the choir stalls and presbytery to the east, and the stained-glass windows surrounding the central podium directly below. The opportunity to photograph this perspective came during an hour-long tour of the Cathedral, which included a visit to the rooftop around the tower, as well as a glimpse behind the tower's wooden panel walls, which open out and allow a dizzying view both upwards towards the roof and downwards to the ground below.
The tour was moving at a swift pace so this image was captured handheld, resting the camera on the ledge of the tower and using a wide aperture and high ISO to ensure a fast shutter speed and sharp finish. I shot nine bracketed exposures, manually aligning these in Photoshop before using luminosity masks to blend the exposures, which allowed for a balanced finish between the mid-morning light streaming through the windows and the deep shadows in the Cathedral's corners. I then used the Pen Tool to isolate the windows, the arches and the ground, which enabled me to colour-grade the various segments of the scene individually, as well as to target and blend in my bracketed exposures. I used a darker exposure for the lower-left arch, where the intensity of the sunlight was slightly distracting, and brighter exposures (using a combination of radial and reflective gradient masks) to add emphasis to the seats in the north transept, the memorial brass between the choir stalls, the panelling along the tip of the arch above the choir, and the striking timber fan-vaulting on top of the stone pillars.
My aim with this image was to convey the immense scale and magnificence of the building, but I was eager for the look and tone to be consistent with my previous two images from the location, and also wary of a very busy image because of the sheer amount of detail in the frame. For these reasons, I opted for a more muted palette, retaining the vibrant colours in the Cathedral's windows while desaturating much of the rest of the image and focusing on a cold shade of cyan along the tower's stone pillars and a warm mixture of orange and magenta along the timber. This was achieved by using Hue/Saturation and Selective Colour adjustments, as well as Apply Image to layer-mask two Colour Balance adjustments, and finally two low-opacity Colour Lookups set to Soft Light and using the Crisp Warm preset for the highlights and Futuristic Bleak for the shadows.
Using Nik's Silver Efex Pro set to Luminosity, I lowered the overall midtone exposure and increased the Soft Contrast, which helped to draw emphasis to the stunning light striking the stone pillars and casting a glow across the ground of the building, and then used Control Points to selectively add structure to the timber in order to bring out its texture. In Colour Efex Pro, I applied a very small amount of the Dark Contrasts filter to mute the highlights along the stone pillars, as well as a sparing amount of Tonal Contrast to lower the structure of the shadows and tighten the contrast in the highlights.
Having photographed Ely Cathedral at ground level, I was excited to try to convey something of the exhilarating experience of standing at the top of what is rightly described as one of the wonders of the medieval world. Aside from the artistry of the building's architecture and the remarkable attention to detail in its carvings, taking in the Cathedral from this viewpoint seemed to highlight what an extraordinary engineering feat it was to construct something so vast nearly 800 years ago.
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Mist of Purgatory
The recent rains may have brought some leaves down, but who could resist such a great time to capture the eerie mood. Here is the final cascade on Purgatory Brook just as a light fog bank rolled over.
This is a picture that almost made it to the scrap bin. I had visited the lower falls earlier this summer in Milford, NH. The water level was pretty high which is great for pictures, however I didn't realize how crowded this place gets these days!
No more than a minute after I found a good composition and set my tripod down, a family showed up and started climbing all over the rocks. Then a wave of people kept coming after that and I packed up.
I had managed to grab a couple shots before all the chaos but I was so rushed that none of them were even properly exposed. So I completely forgot about them until yesterday when I decided to resurrect them. Using photoshop, I was able to blend a few of the bad shots together to get a final picture that looked fairly well exposed. I'm glad I got to save it, because the long exposure motion of the water and the leading lines are great!
Wat Rong Khun more well-known as the White Temple, is a contemporary unconventional Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. These sculptures represent the souls of Buddhist Purgatory, the Narakas. The Narakas differs from the hell of Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment or punishment; and secondly, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal. Shot in August 2014
Frankfurt's Vespa Club on their Sunday ride. I'm pretty sure a Vespa won't qualify for hell, but purgatory, you can try.
Asahi Optical Co. Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax 50mm f/1.4, badly expired Kodak Elite Chrome of some sort (I think) developed at DM and digitalized using the kit lens with extension rings. The original has a strong violet cast to it, I corrected it in DxO.
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