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Week 6/52
This week’s theme for my 52 project is “Reflection.” I wanted to do a shot where my reflection didn’t match what was in front of the mirror, but had trouble deciding what the two images could be. I finally thought of the René Magritte painting “Not to be Reproduced,” which you can see here. So this is my homage to that work.
Great reflection of trees starting to color at the park and lakes around the Bärenschlössle in Stuttgart, Germany
[I moved this cabinet card up to the head of the line because somebody favorited it today, and many of my new followers probably haven't seen it. When it comes to pure greatness, here you are. This is just a fabulous cabinet card. I paid a pretty penny for it back in the day, like, a lot of money, but I still think it was money well spent. A relative of Mrs. Robinson contacted me to tell me about her, but thank goodness she didn't want the photo back. I fall in love quite easily. I fell in love with Mrs. Robinson, and though my hopes are unrequited, I am still her eternal slave.]
I bought this card from an Internet dealer (not Ebay). He had posted the card, as he does every two weeks, and put a price on it, and no one had bought it. The photos are posted on Sunday, and the first person who says he will pay the money gets the photo. I told the dealer I was tempted, and he emailed back and urged me to buy it. Naturally, I ended up buying it, even though it was priced very high. I've paid more for a photo, but that was on Ebay. I'm not going to say how much I paid for this, but it was a lot.
On the one hand, you could say I overpaid. I mean, it's just a photo of a woman looking in a mirror. The photo has some fingerprint smudges, it's kind of plain, barren, there's not a lot going on, and though I find this woman attractive enough, she's not a stunning (a favorite Ebay seller's word) beauty. I mean, it's just a nice photograph---why did I waste my money?
I paid that money because the photograph is astonishingly modern. It's like the past leapfrogged the present and jumped into the future. I mean, this woman is dead, and there she is, looking right at us, right now, not a hundred years ago, or however long ago it was.
Did she know that we would be looking at her? Why isn't she smiling? I think she isn't smiling because she's saying "I Lived." She's saying, "I'm Living." She's saying, "I'm Alive." And of course she's not alive. But she is alive.
Perhaps I bought the photograph because it distills into a single artifact so much of what draws me to old photographs (and yes, of course, I find her attractive).
I don't think the seller had done a lot of research on Wirt Robinson. Maybe one of you who has access to genealogical resources could find her first name for me. Perhaps there was more than one "Wirt Robinson." However, I found information on only one, and since the one I found was a good one, I didn't look any further.
Wirt Robinson was in the Army, and he taught at West Point. He wrote a book which seems to be still in print, with the wonderful title "Notes On The Circumstances Of A Moving Projectile." Apparently, when he wasn't teaching at West Point, he was off in the tropics, looking at birds. Somewhere (ART_NAHPRO perhaps will find it for us) there is a book he wrote, or illustrated, about birds in the forests of Venezuela. How he could have borne the absence of Mrs. Wirt Robinson is beyond me. Perhaps the experience of her was so rich, so filling, so extravagant, that he could only take a little bit at a time, like foie gras or something. From the looks of things, I would guess that Mrs. Robinson was extremely sensitive in that little square inch just behind her ear lobe. They say that the universe is so vast that out there somewhere there is another planet where they speak English. If that is so, perhaps there is another planet out there where Mrs. Robinson and mrwaterslide might meet and fall in love (of course, not-wanting her to be Mrs. Robinson, but Amelia Arnold, or whatever her maiden name was.)
I have this idea of what Wirt Robinson was like. He must have been an academic sort of fellow, but, like Mr. Chips, he was that lucky fellow who met the love of his life, and won her heart, as she had won his. Unlike Mr. Chips, I hope his love endured in the earthly realm, and lasted to old age. There would have been fires in the fireplace, and sherry, and croquet perhaps, and the triumphs and sadnesses of students who came and went (it seems that Wirt Robinson lived in to the 20's though I haven't found a date of death.)
One last little tidbit, that I saw once and now can't find again---apparently at West Point there is a little memorial to Wirt Robinson, and it seems, though I haven't been able to find a picture, that it is a statue of a bunch of ducks. I really hope you're allowed to go there and see it.
A part of the fortress wall and canal at Naarden vesting, beautiful in the fog #autumn #travel #Netherlands #foggy #reflections #peaceful #Filmic #LandscapePhotography #Moody #pretty
Two of my favourite elements for photography, bridges and reflections. Throw in some soft yellow post sunrise light and I'm a happy bunny.
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First time ever seeing bees drinking water, this bird bath had a constant flow of bees coming and going.
Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, FL
I hope you don't mind, but I have quite a few more shots from that fantastic early morning at Everglades Nat'l Park. This was the last shot I took with Ivan's UWA lens before he wanted to have it back. I wonder why? Actually I don't. The clouds were so amazing and to capture them in all their glory you needed a wide lens.
Don't believe me? Well here's a shot taken at 24 mm. I took it right after this one. The camera was on a tripod, thus stayed in the same spot and pointed in the same direction. I just switched lenses.
Everywhere you look in Antarctica are dramatic ice vistas. This image is in color but has the drama of black and white. The calm reflection makes it very symmetrical.
Reflections of Brighton
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I am going to bore you with some shots from this Grist Mill located in Babcock State Park in WV over the next few weeks *smile*. When Bill and I arrived there on Friday night the first thing we noticed was how low the water was...sigh. If the water tables had been up the whole right side of that big boulder would've been a waterfall. But if I have said it once, I have said it a 1000 times (ask Bill ~ HA!), you've got to make lemonade out of lemons. Without the huge flow of water the pond in front became a wonderful reflection pool. Ba BAM!
**The colors were nice down there, not brilliant, but enough that if I so chose I could've saturated this whole scene. I chose to leave the colors pretty much as found for my own artistic preference on this shot, but one of this scene a bit more saturated will be coming. ;-)~
Thanks for looking, and be sure to check out my other shots from my Autumn series. :-)
Explore Highest position # 362 on Monday, January 18, 2009
The above photo was taken through the glass window to the night scene of the river in Bangkok tonight. The glass reflected the ceiling of the room blended with the view. Taken using ISO 5000 at 1/8 sec, hand-held. After this shot we had dinner on this boat with our aunt and cousins from the U.S.A.. Photos in the below comments are some examples of scene by the river while having dinner on the boat tonight. All shots were taken using ISO 5000.:)
Also thanks to the very nice and kind friend, the owner of this boat for a wonderful arrangement.:)
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Exposure: 1/8 sec hand-held, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 70 mm, ISO: 5000
Nikon D700, Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Single shot
(No very long multi invitations please.:))
Manchester Oxford road , 10th April 2024. So many reflections, not only the units in the pool of water but the guard and the 185 reflected in the more modern unit
Reflections and Sunset, Allonby Bay, between Mawbray and Allonby on the Cumbrian coast. This is how you can get different compostions by just moving about 10ft and looking the other way. The same rocks as the last shot, but this time looking over the Solway towards Criffel in Galloway.
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Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon 17-40mm, F11, 17mm, ISO50, Exp 0.5 Second
Lee ND 0.9, Lee Hard Grad 0.6
Raw File Processed in Lightroom, Edited in Elements.
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