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Liverpool Street - near the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The abandoned gloves are just par for the course. Color Efex Pro: Fuji Superia 400 and a Viveza 2 tweak
Single frame daylight shot of the moon at an elevation of about 1150m (approx. 3800 feet) above sea level.
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I love poppies and enjoyed seeing this single red Asian poppy in a garden in Pierrefonds, near Montreal, QC
Fujifilm Single Use Camera
ISO 400
This series was taken using single use cameras; the scanned photos were edited in Lightroom, though I left many aspects of the original film images intact (e.g., the grain/unsharpness, and lens defects). It is often said that a photographer should be able to create effective images with any camera, but one rarely puts oneself to the test. One function of this exercise was thus to force myself to practice seeing using a very humble instrument: a camera for which the ISO is fixed, the aperture is fixed, the focal length is fixed, and even the point of focus is fixed (and, at that, often of poor calibration). Like the image of an object underwater, the subject through the viewfinder on such a camera is not quite where it appears, and one must guess at the true field of view. A far cry from a modern digital camera, though an echo of the sorts of cameras I had access to as a child! To be effective with such an instrument demands that one's craft transcend the limits of the tool. Different audiences may or may not agree on whether I accomplished that, but it is a task worth attempting every now and again.
In all honesty, another - more petty - reason for this series was fatigue with the endless cycle of hardware critique. I love tools, and the distinctive affordances of different tools, but tools suffice for neither craft nor art. As wonderful as it is to have fancier lenses, better sensors, and other modern conveniences, the great photographers of earlier decades did amazing work with technology that is in some ways eclipsed by a modern cell phone camera. To tell eager new photographers that they need $20,000 worth of the latest gear to make acceptable art is at best a cruel hoax, and at worst a way of keeping them from realizing their potential. Being of perverse bent, such debates motivated me to see what I could do with the worst possible equipment. I hope that the results reinforce the eternal point that the camera does not make the image, and that art can be done with whatever instrument is at hand.
Something a little different. The Dunbar lifeboat escorts the fishing vessel, "Incentive", with an over heated engine through the TINY harbour entrance. This was a wickedly cold day in early March 2006. The temperature was 1 degree, there was snow everywhere - at this stage Aberdeen was cut off by drifts, and it was blowing a good NE 6-7 all the way from the arctic...bbbrrrrrr!! The engine on this fishing boat had overheated and she had been left drifting just to the south of this in big seas. The lifeboat towed her back to here but this entrance is too narrow for a safe tow so the fishing boat fired up her engine for a quick blast through. The engine was so dicey that they reconnected the tow immediately on passing through to safely dock her.
Three more images in the comments.
(PS this lifeboat has since had an unhappy ending when she broke her mooring here. www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/news/news_detail?articleid=...
Metroline DE1165 (LK11CWX) is seen at St John's Wood, War Memorial on route 274.
This route will soon gain a full double deck allocation once low trees have been cut down.
single exposure; natural light
Nikon D7100
Sigma 105 mm Macro ƒ/2.8
Manfrotto MT190XPRO3
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I’ve finished applying the conductive tape & electrical wires to these crossovers. I left a gap in the middle to allow for current isolation between the two lines.
I’m contemplating on doing another pair of singles w/o isolation, or at least one double crossover.