Angel of Pain Photo Contest 2024: Loneliness

Loneliness - Echoes in the Mist

I stood there, letting the rain blur the lines between me and the world around me. The quiet of Angel of Pain Island felt like it was breathing with me—each step, each thought dissolving into the mist. For a moment, I wasn’t sure where I ended and the landscape began..

When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.

I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way

* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.

I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.

This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.

RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).

I thought this executive type portrait was appropriate for the hawk today, so here it is. Reminds me of the corporate portraits I have seen hanging at various corporate headquarters.

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Aux Techniques Réunies ( Peinture à eau/Pastel sec )

Sur papier

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...about posing with this gentleman?

Um, maybe.

Seen at the Michigan Renaissance Festival a few years ago

Thought we both...?

But, I may have made a mistake / about the place / or date...

"We're only young and naive still

We require certain skills

The mood it changes like the wind

Hard to control when it begins

The bittersweet between my teeth

Trying to find the in-between

Fall back in love eventually

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Can't help myself but count the flaws

Claw my way out through these walls

One temporary escape

Feel it start to permeate

We lie beneath the stars at night

Our hands gripping each other tight

You keep my secrets hope to die

Promises, swear them to the sky

The bittersweet between my teeth

Trying to find the in-between

Fall back in love eventually

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"

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I thought there were some interesting lines and angles in this image.

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Deep in thought.

He stood there alone his only companion was the sea.

It was as if he was sharing his silent thoughts with the waves as they rolled in and perhaps in is mind the receding waves would wash away his thoughts.

North Coast, New South Wales, Australia.

I thought in these dire times, a bit of humour might be in order...

My heart goes out to all those affected...

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with coffee :)

Food for thought, a really interesting article in the New York Times with big and true questions, an interesting read!

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A shot from my archive of photos that I never uploaded for one reason or another... Spring is on my mind!

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Yellow daffodils with pink hyacinth flowers in the background

Taken during the Lytham 1940s Weekend 2024 (Lytham, Lancashire, August 2024)

Full album: Lytham 1940s Weekend (August 2024)

The Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend took place between Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18, 2024.

The two day spectacle saw thousands of people re-live the 1940s wartime era with a weekend of forties singing, dancing, weapons displays, historic vehicles, military charities, vintage traders and more.

I dont own the printed cockpit glass part :(

A B&W analog picture of my Great Uncle I took over 40 years ago. He actually used to process color film and print at home.

Nikon F2SB with Nikkor 55mm f1.2

Evening scene taken near mountain of "Djebel Boukornine" from the lake of tunis.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I thought I'd upload a picture of the girls taking a rest on the sofa in The Cabin after their long East egg hunt. Only Bonnie had other ideas and decided to jump up and down on the sofa getting herself entangled in the bunny garland which just got her even more excited. I know the girls are wishing that all the other children out there are having as much fun as them this Easter.

...let your ideas flow.........

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