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I absolutely love trees. They are truly living monuments, they catalyse my feelings of nature’s strength, they help me feel humble in their majesty, they remind me of childhood and they encapsulate all the very best feelings I have towards nature. But, they are so ‘very’ hard to photograph! Not the solitary one in a field, that’s moderately straightforward, or the one growing out of something that it shouldn’t, that generates interest, but the ones sounded by others. Well that’s a real pain to make work photographically. So to be fair I should change my opening statement to, ‘I absolutely love trees, but when their hanging out together, I find them hard to photograph!’
Now forests are wonderful places that generate such strong emotions for me. It’s a mixture of child hood fun, nature’s majesty, even an evolutionary resource and security. But can I tap into those feelings and transpose them into a photograph, can I buggery! The problem is composition.
Good composition tends to balance the viewing process, placing subjects, often strong graphical shapes in equal proximity around the frame, to offer an overall balance that is pleasing to the mind’s eye. This then is useful at guide the viewers eye around the image and if done well securing their attention, keeping it there as long as possible. (On a momentary side note truly ‘great composition’, for me, tends to have overall balance and good control over the viewers eye movements, but deliberately leaves elements of tension, to challenge the viewer. But I shall probably explore this in a further post.)
Anyway to my point, trees (or should I say the ones in forests) don’t fall into this formula, as they are unordered. It’s incredibly hard and often frustrating to find order in such a complicated environment, and balancing the viewer’s eye is near impossible. Now conceptually speaking this is wonderful, why should we find order in kayos, why should a composition formula make nature fit to our artistic desires? But our photographic desire to seek out and capture order, to simplify nature into component elements that balance the viewers eye is contradictory to how most forests actually are. They are unorganised, tangled, complex gnarled, wonderful, joyous, protective, natural places! Photographic paradoxes.
Note: this shot is the result of a 45 second exposure in heavy wind. The wonderful thing about the silver birch trees here is that they move evenly down the trunk (unlike more solid trees) and this gives a surreal feeling to the movement as some trees are protected by others and don’t move much, and others get gusts and move allot.
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spotted along PPW, Brooklyn
He got his shirt during protest:
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Amelia leads, I try and keep up. Too bad I can't show the 150 foot drop straight down about a foot to her left that this trail skirts. Headed back after #4 Amelia geocache find. Good news, bad news, she almost never asks for help navigating a tough section of trail anymore.
Oil drilling in the Artic is against the constitution the sign says. A quiet protest in the city centre of Stavanger today.
Boerderijen, laantjes, weilanden, boomgaarden en een kerkje.
En dan dit gebouw, met deze opvallende gevel.
Boven de voordeur prijkt een paardekop — vermoedelijk een verwijzing naar de oorspronkelijke functie.
Het torent overal bovenuit. De torenspits van het kerkje is misschien net iets hoger, maar het gebouw trekt alle aandacht. Het kerkje valt er bijna bij in het niets.
Een architectonisch statement, midden in het stille dorp.
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Location: Ressen, the Netherlands
Farms, country lanes, meadows, orchards — and a little village church.
And then this building, with its striking façade.
Above the entrance, a sculpted horse’s head — likely a clue to its original function.
It rises above everything around it. The church spire might be slightly taller, but this house commands all the attention. The church almost disappears in comparison.
A bold architectural statement in the heart of a quiet village.
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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
I drove out southwest of town and past a lot of repaired flood destruction on Oxford Road west of Niwot past their cemetery. I caught this well west from the cemetery and Haystack, a pointy hill that always leaves me wondering. In this shot, NOAA Table Mountain is in the background with government experiment stations atop. I don't suppose any of the experiments trickled over the hill and wiped out this farm. This does not look like it happened overnight. This is certainly NFL - not for long. It looks like someone set up a slab of cottonwood trunk for axe throwing practice.
Although still in September and suffering August heat, I'd say summer grasses were done but the cottonwoods and shrubs are still green. It often seems agricultural has been sucked from this area. Fortunately, we can buy food from the Sam n' Ella's farm in Mexico. The area is learning how valuable water in the west really is but have yet to learn the true value of watered land and soil that doesn't need paving.
Strangely, we had a summer that was closer to normal, if high in humidity, but I don't think ignoring climate change or pumping petroleum will make rougher weather go away. This was a summer that was hotter than any on record. This August was hotter then any on record. This September was the hottest on record, all set world wide. perhaps you see a trend. That is at least until the looming petroleum wars are settled and the Koch Brothers and their political tea purchases are put away in their place. Until then CO2 levels in the atmosphere which are at an 850 million year high, will not be turned around. Actually, anti-fracking proposals passed in Colorado.
After our mall walk, we went home for Daisy to change shoes and then went to lunch. (Yeah, we should have brought them with us...) Afterward, we stopped at a couple of shoe stores and then popped by the ABC store to resupply our liquor shelf. Hmmm...I wonder if Daisy is trying to tell me something with her choice of whiskey? One for the old crow, perhaps? 😜
Drinking is our way of life.
Another old shot from 2008.
I wonder what she'll say today, - 12 years later.
Captive bird at Muncaster Castle Hawk and Owl Centre.
A yellow-billed Kite.
Canon R with 70-200mm f/2.8L lens as I didnt have anything with longer reach with me.
Made a few mistakes - should have gone for shorter exposures (1/2000 as minimum) and probably should have switched off IS. Had a dreadfully slow memory card so buffered frequently which didnt help.
Probably should use a bit of exposure compensation as well!
But I'm getting there!
Until now, Ive mostly captured perched birds - I want to work at birds in flight. Hopefully, this is just the start!
Not just in town, or on this street, or even in England. Simply "the best."
(Sadly the shop in the background seemed to have sold out of rainbows.)
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Abused, Abandoned Jungle Dogs..
Photo #3 of #4.
Mr Tri-Pod on his way to see the Dog Doctor.
He'll make three trips in total for inoculations.
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My third Statement Dress is this skintight lycra LBD. I hope you like it! It really hugs my body tight, and would feel very snug to wear while gathering around the Christmas Tree for something bubbly to drink! It also seems to have been designed especially to be worn with my favourite chrome-heeled five-inch black patent Pleasers!
Lots more to come soon, but bye bye for now!
Sweet kisses under the mistletoe for all my lovely friends!
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Rebecca
It seems that some of the geese have adopted the Duckie Bowtie fashion!
Better on black & larger : )
It really is a leaf! lol!
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A real Gem of a photo from Derek Chaplin with gratitude to the Chaplin family. A London Underground scrap train running west from London to Swansea at St Mellons east of Cardiff on the mainline. The steam loco is a GWR Grange class most probably 6821 Leaton Grange. LU sources tell me the train left Ruislip on 16/8/60 to Birds of Morriston for scrap. The four motor cars (3457, 3459, 3467, 3478) are all 1923 Cammell Laird and the three trailers at the back (7332, 7336, 7347) are all 1923 Birmingham-built. The car numbers may not be in the order of the photo, of course, but these are they. They are all ex-Central Line service.
Great excuse now for modellers to reproduce this train for BR western 1960 era layouts. First one to do so send me a photograph.
Due to recent unauthorized publication of my images in a magazine. newspaper and two published books without payment I have to now make this statement. I keep attending online Railway Soc events where speakers brazenly show my images without acknowledgement. Hence I have been forced to add a copyright sign in the corner.
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