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I miss you
I been thinking about you
sitting on the edge with the pallid
light of the moon
I look at the sky and I hope you are too
I hope you thinking about me
like I'm thinking about you.
Saw this swan thinking about flying to a more warmer place, with sandy beach and cold drinks...
Shot with my new Canon 70-200mm lens. I just love it. It was worth buying it, no question.
Please rate this picture. What do you like, what could I've made better ;)
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God - thank you.
Thank you for blessing me with the most wonderful mother anyone could ever ask for.
She would do anything for me and then do even more than that and ask for nothing in return.
She made me the person I am today. All the good parts parts of me anyway.
Only for my mother would I be up this early on a Sunday morning - lol!
I dedicate this photo to all the great moms in the world.
Happy Mother's Day!
Year 2 - Upload 223
May 9, 2009
I had the privilege of shooting Grace, an aspiring young model (in Texas), for her portfolio. She is available for work in modeling and acting. She just has the most beautiful face, that the camera just loves.
One of my first shots taken with my Canon 5D Mark II using my old workhorse lens, a Tokina 80-200 f2.8 ATX. I was visiting a friend and was showing him my new camera when I noticed his mother-in-law sitting by herself at the island across the room. There were a row of 3 hanging lights above the island with one just making it into the frame. The camera was in P mode and auto ISO selected. Without the EXIF data, I would have never believed that the shot was taken at 3200 ISO.
man seriously thinking - A man seriously thinking and sitting on the sofa. To Download this image without watermarks for Free, visit: www.sourcepics.com/free-stock-photography/24739725-man-se...
A FLASH IN THE FACE!!
I was thinking of giving this years Halloween Parade a miss due to the fact I was wasn’t feeling well. Plus we had a fine rain which is always a downer when it comes to keeping the lens and camera body dry. But I soldered on and ran into photographers I knew and only just met, as we waited on Story Street with everyone else.
Then came the bombshell.
Due to complaints last year. “No names given as to who complained?”
Only two designated photographer, one shooting video would be allowed to follow the parade, so we the Paisley photographers who shoot and promote our town where basically told we would be allowed to take photos as they came out the loading bay paisley centre building then to get behind the barriers.
FUCK OFF is how we all seen it to be!
This never went down well, hell it’s a f#### common law road and you the council aren’t above the fucking law you can push people off the road!!! But why stand there rowing when it’s a parade…
Anyway, one person was straight onto the phone to a well known paisley site that comes up top or very high in a Google Paisley search, due to their selfless promotions of our town. Needless to say people where pissed off the council could do this!!.
“Like I say, I no longer vote or hold any kind of faith in this council or government, not of the people but of the little fascists….”
Now I pointed out last years faults, where the coppers where great, as the stayed ahead of the parade and out the way. I also pointed out it was the security who where shit and remained to close to the performers, which meant they where in shot and no one, even the public wanted them in shot.
This mean photographers where forced to moving up instead of zooming in, trying to work round these people who should have moved up behind the police or down the side and out the f#### way. You should only see security when people are acting like c###.
I also pointed out last year how one security guy by the Abby wouldn’t even move one foot to the side for one f#### second to allow me to take a shot. He was told to stand their and not move….
If that isn’t bad enough!
This year a tall guy with kids kindly let me in front of him with his kids to see the drummers on stage. It was the perfect spot as we all waited for the drummers to arrive and no sooner did the arrive on stage a security guy to another stand there right in front of us and again said when I asked if he could move. He said, he wasn’t allowed to move or crouch down out the way and why he was in front of crash barriers we where behind, again an over use of unneeded security. So he stood their playing with his fucking phone, which has that? to do with security….. F### ALL THAT‘S WHAT!!
Matters where made worse when the photographer and video guys came in and got in front of the kids waiting longer then me. So that meant they had had their view taken and even forced to stand on the ironic crash barriers we where all behind…
Its bad enough the security walked around looking pissed of without them getting in everyone’s way because someone tells them, stand there and don’t move only for the public to ask if they will move, which pisses everyone off when they cant!!!… In my opinion there was way too much security.. I heard one guy say, “Don’t take my photo, I’m on the dole.“ While another said when the zombies slowly came out. “Fuck! Is this how slow the parade in going to move into town”
If I heard it then others heard it and that’s not cool paisley!! Your hiring people who don’t want to be there while excluding those who do and I was while worse for ware in my case!!
Then there was the fact the public themselves weren’t even standing behind the barriers heading up cause side and by the cross. If anything they where walking onto the road and at one point pushing through the parade just to cross the road and NO ONE STOPPED THEM…
It was more than possible for the paisley photographers to walk along the side of the parade instead of being forced to ask the public politely if they can squeeze in for a few minutes to take a photo before pushing on for another shot else where..
In saying that, the turn out was massive and the people who let me push in where fantastic and I thank you all.
All these photos where taken using a Hi ISO and NO FLASH. Some aren’t so sharp while others due to the ISO are noisy, but not a loud as my rant!!
The paisley council need to take into account its we photographers who also promote these events with our photography and its we who see the real faults and time after time you’re the ones at fault!! Plus these performers love play up to everyone’s cameras and don’t need people getting in the way….
Linear Thinking. Rollei 35SE camera with Zeiss 40mm f/2.8 Sonnar lens, Ilford HP5+ film developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 6 minutes @ 20C (thanks for your guidance Andrew Sanderson). Old glass is class glass.
Rollei debuted the 35 line in 1966. The SE is the ultimate and final model, produced 1980-82. Earlier SE models were made in Germany, the latter in Singapore. This one is from the Singapore factory.
It was the smallest full frame 35mm camera of its day and weighs only 12 ounces despite being 99% metal.
For the life of me I can't figure out why the background is pitch black... It was shot in natural light any ideas?
Shot with a canon 100mm f2.8 L IS USM Macro lens.
yeah you.
there are a few of you here who i have corresponded with in a fashion that i would categorize under "friendship". in the past by this point i would've showered you with masses of missives (bidden or not!) because - aside from that having been a large, active, essential part of my expressive nature over the years - it was part of my desire to gift those i liked, cared about with something i could afford: my attention.
fast forward ... these past few days i have fretted over thinking of how anxious & frustrated i've been over not getting back to those of you who have written or vox'd me in recent weeks/months. and you know how it goes - the more time passes, the worse you feel, and then the harder it gets to catch up.
but, in addition to circumstances (enormous family stress, traveling cross-country again, being very very sick for 2 weeks post travel & that recovery, beginning another new period of gradual relocation etc.) i find myself also facing another? life period? something, where all i can come up with is: "i'm not who i used to be anymore. more things are being lost to me. and i can't pretend otherwise."
in this case i can't "catch up" like i used to, keep up, write as much, respond to everyone like i want/need to. i'm tireder, overwhelmed, busier (or so it feels), yet more internal & quiet for longer periods of time, more distracted, less able to concentrate & less often, less motivated, more discouraged, (more heartbroken), less inclined to "get involved" in things, the like.
so. tonight i sat down to try to write at least one of you, and couldn't choose one over another without feeling guilty. and then this came to mind, this photo. you may/may not realize it but i don't post many self-portraits anymore (and i think recent ones have all been back shots, abstractions). yeah this one is highly edited, but it is my face, in glaring light, looking right at you.
because i want you to know, that i may not be able to write, write back, respond to details, at least right now. but i think of you, a lot. when i like someone i think of them a lot, and at least try to keep track of them through whatever means possible. i look at your photos, read what you write, and think of you.
you are deeply appreciated.
love.