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Cleland Wildlife Park
Hold a koala, roam the grassland enclosures with some of the largest kangaroos in Australia or watch a Bilby emerge from its burrow. Just twenty minutes from the Adelaide city centre, you can explore some of South Australia's diverse landscapes and meet some of their inhabitants. Visitors can feed and wander at their leisure among kangaroos, wallabies, Emus and waterfowl. Displays of Dingoes, reptiles, Tasmanian Devils and Koalas allow easy viewing access, or stroll through the aviaries and marvel at the diversity of South Australian wildlife.
Taken with a Canon EOS 10D in Auto mode, Tamron 200-500 mm.
2009
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It's important to have moments of silence to yourself everyday. It's a goal of mine to spend at the very least 5 or 10 minutes to meditate each day. So far, I'm not doing so well, lol.
...all my thoughts come to light.
For the SELF REFLECTIONS challenge, taken for Flickr Group Roulette.
This was done on A2 paper, with acrylic and ink. The task for this project was to create a self portrait, but without actually doing a self portrait. When thinking of myself, I thought of the isolation I felt at the time, knowing I'm the only one I have. I tried to show how that feeling can be scary, but also calming and even beautiful. I used the vibrant blues to reflect that calm feeling, and intentionally made the girl in the centre appear ghostly and luminous. I feel this portrays her confidence in herself and her surroundings, and her contentment in her solitude.
The sad thing about acrylic paint, is that the darker the colour, the more reflective the paint becomes, making paintings like these remarkably difficult to photograph accurately. The actual painting is quite a bit more detailed, and reads a lot more accurate. Ah well.
This took me about 6 hours to paint.
Done November 2016
Photographed my boyfriend's eye using my macro rings on a standard kit lens (18-55mm) - I am reflected in his eye for a self reflection brief.
How many continents or countries are represented here? The batique is from Uganda, from when Mom and Paula went to visit Bryn there. I bought the water bottle there to bring to Tijuana with me. And the box in the foreground is from Bangladesh or India, from Karen for a Secret Santa present.
As a bonus, the top book on the stack of books is about map coloring!
Photographed my boyfriend's eye using my macro rings on a standard kit lens (18-55mm) - I am reflected in his eye for a self reflection brief.
Just a random shot from today while measuring flows. I was trying to capture a flock of swallows that were flying along that looked more like a school of fish. Birds are a real skill builder. You have got to be ready to get the shots on them. Needless to say, I wasn't. I had put the camera away with some waked out settings and did not get back to my usual Aperture mode at f16.
I took a self portrait at sunrise at our Killarney Lake campsite. I had to set it on the 10s timer and I didn't have time to fix my hair. It does look strange, but I didn't notice it until I uploaded the picture...oh well.
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re_he: Very cool Dirk !! 👍👌
macenzo: @re_he 😃 thx! My favorite selfportrait!-)
re_he: Yes !!! Very cool portrait ! U look very handsome 😎😎
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macenzo: 😃😃😃😃 @re_he are you always that funny? I like!!
re_he: haha ! To tell the truth (fortunately or unfortunately) YES ! My mind play with "things" unconsciously 🙊☺🙊
Today was the last Wine and Art show of the season. I decided to commit to old manual focus prime lenses for the day. I used a Nikkor 24mm f2.8 and 85mm f2. Damn sharp glass. I didn't think it they would make a difference in the pictures, but they actually do. It also forces me to work differently. I have to look for pictures that match the lens I'm using at the moment and switch lenses when the flow changes.
Sticking with this fire truck subject for a while was also interesting. I tried getting close, far, pre-focusing and staying in one spot, and waiting . I could have stayed with it from morning until evening and gotten a good story out of it.
For "The Influence of Cinema" class at Photographic Center NW.
I was struck by an image from the classic Bengali movie "Nayak" where the protagonist reclines upon his train bunk, reflecting upon his life, before falling headlong into a revealing dream. I tried to replicate the lighting and post in a self-portrait.
Today, as I was zooming back and forth around the house feeling stressed and in a hurry, I decided to take a minute and look at my turtles. They often give me a little reminder to slow down. So I put some bunny ears in him.. Who was faster?? The turtle or the rabbit? Happy Thursday!
Couldn't resist this mirror while walking the streets of San Francisco.
Be sure to check out my Reflection project by viewing my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/scottosmith/sets/72157643375558274/