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Reflections on Loch Garry, Wester Ross, Scotland
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Sometimes simple is better.
Super frustrated with this long blade-like leaf not able retain the water droplets and not able to keep them as perfect round spheres. I would have it all set and then the droplets would shift and morph into each other and change right as I was about to start shooting.. And that's after a lot of other setup work had been done. I think the upper part of the leaf must have just gotten saturated with too much water and lost its ability to hold a ball of water the way I wanted it to.
But then sometimes it just works. Something very simple and plain is often better. Still working to understand the how and why of the way this works. Its science, but it can also be pretty!
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens with a Canon FD 25 U extension tube.
This was a 9 image stack, each shot at f5.6
Another shot of the Osaka Castle, this time with a reflection. I'm very grateful that there was such a great sky with clouds to compliment the view.
These colorful reflections were photographed in a droplet of water dangling from a leaf at The Sweetbay Natural Area in northern Palm Beach County, Florida.
Reflections of autumn color and mighty El Capitan in the calm water of the Merced River. www.optimalfocusphotography.com
Reflections Of Sunrise, Castle Point, near Rockcliffe, Dumfries & Galloway, looking over to the mountains of the Lake District, Cumbria
Sony Alpha A700, Tamron 17-50mm, F16, 30mm, ISO200, Exp 1/30 Seconds
Hitech Reverse Grad 0.9,Hitech Soft Grad 0.6,
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“Though we see the same world,
we see it through different eyes.”
~ Virginia Woolf
Have a great week. I am going to be super busy for the next few days but I will catch up with you all, as and when.
4/13/2010:
Manayunk's development is greatly attributed to its canal, since it was a stable waterway that provided transportation and water for the town's mills and enabled the shipment of goods within a 108-mile span of navigable waters. The Schuylkill Navigation Company was fully incorporated in 1815 to provide safe transportation of goods along the Schuylkill River. At the time, horses pulling carts of goods for long distances on dirt roads did not meet the demands of industry, so the Company began its work in 1817 from Fairmount Dam in Philadelphia (which had already been built as part of Philadelphia's drinking water system). The system would include; 51 miles of canals, 114 locks and a tunnel and 32 dams ranging in height of 3 to 23 feet, overcoming a total fall of 610 feet. The Manayunk canal was completed in 1819 along with Flat Rock Dam (since Manayunk at the time was called "Flat Rock").
I've visited this scene so often, it keeps dragging me back to the Lake District at least once every year as I"m obsessed with getting the perfect conditions, but will need to visit again!
I arrived at 4.30am expecting piece and tranquility, but picked the worst morning of the year for that. When I began walking through Hassness Wood I shuddered in horror at the scene in front of my eyes. All I could see were loads of mobile homes, camper vans, 4x4s, cars and tents erected in the field alongside the shoreline and in the field (next to Hassness Wood). For anyone from outside the UK, wild camping in England is illegal, but one rule of law amongst wild campers is to arrive at dusk and depart at dawn. Anyway I walked on to my location determined to not let it spoil the experience thinking it was after all 4.45am, so everyone will be sound asleep.
At 4.55am the tranquility was turned completely upside down when a helicopter appeared and decided to fly up and down Buttermere for the next hour. This awoke everyone from their tents and mobile homes, who came out to see what was going on. The whole of Buttermere was more akin to an FBI crime scene - at 5am on a Monday morning!
The helicopter must have been filming as it had a massive camera on the front but it didn't disappear till well over an hour later. Over the other side of the lake people were further compounding the loud noise by riding quad bikes up and down the lake shore path. Inside my head I was seething as it's such an effort to reach this location as it's about 350 miles from my home and I get crowds of people, a helicopter and quad bikes at 5am!!!
Part of the reasoning for visiting Buttermere is also for peace and tranquility. I hung around for 2 hours in hope for the lake to become mirror like and couldn't wait to get out of the place after taking this photograph.
I later discovered all the tents and motor homes parked by the lake (behind where this shot was taken) is a once per year festival called the "Buttermere Bash" where people from any walks of life pay a fee so they can camp for 5 days and park up lakeside to have a festival (like a mini Glastonbury).
For anyone visiting Buttermere for photography, the best time of year is probably autumn as the light is less harsh and you can't beat the autumnal colours. Just remember the sun doesn't appear over the high surrounding fells till at least one hour after sunrise time.