Swell Festival
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South Stack Lighthouse in Anglesey, marking the hazards on the approach to Holyhead, North Wales.
Following strong winds the night before there was a heavy swell on the Irish Sea.
Les "vagues" de l'Aqua Tower à Chicago: Architecte Jeanne Gang. Prix "Emporis Skyscraper Award 2009".
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Weather forecast on a knife blade. On a Damascus steel knife blade, to be precise. Not what I initially had in mind, but that so often is the case when it's one of the "MM themes of the 1000 possibilities". Usually, for such a wide theme, I only have a few vague ideas what I could do for it, and the end result is pretty much a random surprise of what looks, firstly, most interesting through the macro lens, and, secondly, best as a photo, of course. Also, what is easy when it's not asked for - such as finding interesting patterns - becomes nearly impossible when it's required: patterns positively seemed to escape me as I went looking for them around the apartment ;-) And when I saw the knife in the kitchen (I hadn't even considered it as a possibility) I just thought "OK, that's probably very boring, but I'll give it a try." As for the "macro lens surprise", that was that not only did the banding typical for Damascus steel looked like waves (often an intended effect, but I only learned about that when I did my research on Damascus steel for the description and the tags), but those scratches from sharpening the knife that you can see in the upper part of the image also looked like heavy rain. And here it was, unfolding before my eyes: the high seas tempest.
The setup for the photo was as simple as it gets: I simply propped the knife, sharp side of the blade up, against a jar of sugar (my photo studio also doubles as breakfast and dinner table), both of it sitting on top of a heavy book to give it the same height as my camera on its small table top tripod, positioned one LED lamp (warm light) at the side of the table and grabbed my LED torch (cold light) to illuminate the blade from above (which also added the ever so slight 3D effect on the upper part of the blade), enabled the in-camera focus-stacking function, and hit the shutter button. I shot three focus stacking sequences of different parts of the knife of which this looked best.
Processing steps: The cold / warm light effect is something I get quite often when I use different light sources as above mentioned. It even works with one artificial light source (provided it gives warm light) and daylight from the window. Here I liked the split tone effect very much because I think it adds more depth to image. I wish I could have achieved the vivid colours you see here entirely by the use of light and the use of a colour filter (warm-cold or a combination of a cooling and a warming filter), but I've only recently considered to buy a few photo filters to improve my landscape photography, and since a good filter is expensive, I think I will buy one or two more versatile filters first before checking out the more exotic colour filters. So the colour enhancement here was done in Lightroom, where I tweaked the saturation and luminance of the blue, yellow and orange tones, and then in Nik's Color Efex, where, as final touch, I applied a Bi-color filter. I hope that these processing steps are deemed OK according to the new MM rules regarding the editing of an MM shot. I also did some sharpening and de-noising in Topaz Sharpen AI ("Focus" yielded the best result).
HMM, Everyone, and have a beautiful and safe week ahead!
A view of the Punakaiki coast in New Zealand reveals a section of its distinctive rock formations. (Postcard series)
Sometimes the sea looks grey or with an assortment of blues and adding a touch of white foam or sea diamonds. Pastels, reflections ripples, patterns and the intensity of the sun add to the variety of sea artwork to be appreciated.
In the words of Thomas Frank, "Ding Dong the Jerk is Gone"! Well, not quite, but very soon. The orange menace has lost this election to a man of wisdom, compassion, and character, President-elect, Joe Biden. Words cannot express the joy and relief that I feel as I type these words! After days of anxiety, obsessively checking the news, and inability to focus on anything, the news came yesterday that the worst president in American history will, hopefully, soon be yesterday's news - Hallelujah!!!
Words can't adequately express my joy and relief, so I took an iPhone photo of a coneflower on my porch through a journey to Deep Dream Generator, then to Topaz Studio to add some brush strokes and a texture. An end to the last four years of daily nightmare is at hand!
Here's to Kamala Harris, our first woman Vice-President, one hundred years after women got the right to vote in this country!🌻
"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes."
~ Maya Angelou
"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
~ Abraham Lincoln
A big swell day in the low afternoon sun, A wave breaks just as it reaches the old outfall and as the previous wave starts to flow back down the shingle, then the cycle repeats wave flow Wave flow back just hit that shutter button at the right moment. This old outfall runs under the main coast road from the old boating lake, there is a stream which feeds the lake so when there is a lot of water from the hills the amount of water can be very forceful. Been out this morning to shoot my monthly fave tree, conditions are very bright at the moment with high pressure in place.
An image l have loaded before but a different file and north bay scarborough looking lovely in monochrome.
Waves breaking near shore in evening. This was after a storm when were still getting good sized swells and was almost completly dark. Altered from color version.
The conductor climbs aboard swell power after lining the switch as VIA train #77 heads to the shop in Windsor, Ontario - May 19, 1981.
at SWELL. "Sway" is by Shiloh Perry (Qld). An installation with a thousand paper cranes on wooden stakes.
The good news, my MRi shows no shoulder impingement, bad news, got a considerable tear in my Rotator Cuff that needs fixing, conservative treatment not going to cut the mustard in this case! All my bloods and ob's are good so in on Monday for initially, endoscopic repair of a torn rotator cuff and then a few weeks of physio before I can consider cycling and basketball again........and now a little interlude, an Atlantic swell, Coverack, Cornwall