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Nikon D810 HDR Photos Malibu Sea Cave, Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography!
Nikon D810 HDR Photos Malibu Sunset through a Sea Cave! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography!
Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" which is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
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I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Odyssey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D8010 with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes Shot with Nikon D810: Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Three-Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's odyssey of your own making!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
All the best on your epic hero's odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!
Nikon D810 Sunset Photos of Malibu Sea Cave! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography
Homer's Odyssey: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide. . . Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; --Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler
Nikon D810 HDR Photos Malibu Sea Cave Sunset, Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography! 14-24mm Nikkor Wide Angle F/2.8 Lens!
This is the view through one of the 'keyhole' windows of the Polruan Blockhouse. This stands on the opposite side of the mouth of the Fowey river from the Fowey Blockhouse.
The following, ( from www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/south_west/polruan_blockhou... ) refers mainly to Fowey but gives a good background history of the blockhouses.
The small town of Fowey was established when Tywardreath Priory granted a charter formally recognising the town in 1300. Positioned on the River Fowey at the point where it flows into the English Channel, the natural harbour made it a superb location for shipping and a flourishing maritime trade emerged with Europe. As with other coastal towns, such as Dartmouth, the sailors that operated out of the port had a reputation for aggressive, almost piratical practises. Such behaviour saw Fowey become a wealth town during the Hundred Years War as its sailors turned to privateering - effectively government sanctioned piracy. The privateers called themselves the "Fowey Gallants".
By the 1380s the Hundred Years War was turning against the English and the residents of Fowey feared they would become a target of French raids. Initially hiring a force of 160 archers equipped with the English Longbow - a formidable weapon that had recently won major engagements on land at Crecy and sea at Slurs - the town eventually built substantive defences in the form of two rectangular Blockhouses. These structures, which had thick walls and internal gun positions firing through key-hole penetrations, were positioned at Fowey and on the other bank at Polruan. Small calibre cannon were installed on both towers. Unfortunately they proved insufficient to stop a French attack in 1457 which led to the upgrading of the defences with a boom barrier - a thick chain that blocked access to enemy ships but which was dropped to the seabed for allied vessels. This chain was confiscated in 1478 by Edward IV - who had been offended by the behaviour of two Fowey locals, Treffry and Michelstow - and given to Dartmouth Castle where a similar defensive arrangement existed.
The defences around Fowey were upgraded in the sixteenth century as part of fortifications built along the south coast by Henry VIII to protect the Kingdom against invasion following the English Reformation. Fowey was deemed particularly vulnerable and accordingly St Catherine's Castle was built on the cliffs overlooking the estuary entrance. Thomas Treffry, a descendant of the individual who had upset Edward IV resulting in the confiscation of the defensive chain, oversaw construction of St Catherine’s Castle.
The invasion Henry VIII feared never came but Fowey did see action during the Civil War between King Charles I and Parliament. The town, along with much of the South West, was under Royalist control. However, in 1644 a Parliamentary force under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex attempted to wrest control of the area to deny the King the valuable income from the local tin mining that was sustaining the Royalist war machine. The attempted incursion failed spectacularly resulting in Essex’s forces being encircled by a much larger Royalist army near Bodmin. The subsequent fight – the Battle of Lostwithiel (1644) – was an attempt by Essex to keep the road to Fowey open so he could evacuate his forces by sea. He had high hopes given Parliament's control of the navy but ultimately his plan failed as the Royalists secured full control of the Polruan Blockhouse and the high ground opposite the harbour denying its use to the Parliamentarians. Although Essex himself escaped, the greater part of his infantry was forced to surrender.
The two blockhouses continued to be manned after the war and, in conjunction with St Catherine's Castle, repelled an attempted Dutch attack in 1667. Time and coastal erosion has not been kind to the Fowey Blockhouse but the one at Polruan remains well preserved.
Rear of an old vehicle, seen through an alleyway at the Black Country Living Museum
Nikon FE | Voigtlander 58mm f1.4 SL-IIs Nokton | Eastman Kodak 5222 Double-X 200
Digitized with Nikon Z7 / 60mm Micro Nikkor | Raleno LED Light Panel | Nikon ES-2
Home developed in 510 Pyro 1:100 | 6m 30s at 21c | Compensated Rotary Processing
Negative Lab Pro v2.4.2 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Frontier
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Central Maine & Quebec job 210 twists through the curves at Prospect, with three engines, and eighteen cars. They're running pretty late on this day, but it worked out well for Don Marson and I, as it gave the light enough time to swing around completely, although this would be the last spot in sun for the trip. With the rumors that the CMQ is looking to replace their inherited fleet of B23s with GP38s, it made it especially nice to get one of the two BNSF painted ones on the point, since the paint is much better looking than the ones still in Santa Fe bluebonnet.
Signs of Fall were finally beginning to show up in Northwest Georgia in Mid-October as TVRM 325, the Autumn Leaf Special, heads south for Summerville, GA. 10-19-19
Exploring along the coastline in search for some hidden creative possibilities I found this jagged opening. I sat and watched how the cerulean blue water navigated through the large dark cracked opening. Pushing and swirling against the edges until finding a dead end, crashing, splashing, spraying violently, and finally washing backward through the jagged rocks back into the ocean.
© Christopher Johnson
We are living through unprecedented times of collective suffering; this is a line in the sand where events after the crease will have little resemblance to those before. The streets outside are in turmoil from old human follies and new viral adversaries. Trying to explain these soul-stirring days to myself has been excruciatingly hard. Harder has it been to explain them to my ten-year-old –– and here I was, comically worried about the big sex-ed talk I would need to have with him someday! The world is boiling like the primitive cosmos where the darkness remains unpunctuated; it appears as if there are no beacons in sight.
So, where does one find solace during such malevolent turbulence? Gretel Ehrlich says (in her renowned book), one could find it in open spaces. Well, if one knows where to look, there are plenty of open spaces in a park near us – Yosemite. As you may know, Yosemite is a mental health asylum of some world-class repute. Since obscure times, it has cured numerous suffering souls, including a few luminaries who were primarily lunatics: Charles Weed, John Muir, Ansel Adams, and Fred Olmsted to name a few. It is located geographically in California's heart and spiritually in hearts of million other human beings who could be taxonomized as naturalists, activists, artists, environmentalists, visionaries, or, plain ordinary people, like, yours truly. When I am in Yosemite – or, find Yosemite in me – I perceive peace. You could say, Yosemite's wilderness is my totem of solitude, solace, and hope.
To most, Yosemite’s totem is the Half Dome – a giant granite monolith that stands in congruent humility with its surrounding rocks and clouds. It is unique among all Yosemite domes in having a sheer cliff and a steep vertical face (northwest side), which actually displays a human face in blockprint (a story for another day). Glaciers, time, and light have ebbed and flowed over the humpbacked dome for millions of years, but ‘Tis-sa-ack’ stands proud in deft defiance. The oft-pictured image of Half Dome – the one with the helmet curve, as Ansel put it – is from the West (Glacier point area). From our vantage point the other day, the iconic steward of the park displayed its unglamorous hind side, which features a prominent hump, the eastern sub-dome. In his National Geographic article, William Least Heat-Moon described this view of Half Dome as, “… watching a Shakespearean play from backstage, where old and familiar lines seem different, strange, new”.
Our contemporary times are somewhat similar... old and familiar ways of life now appear ‘different, strange, new’. In his letter to Ansel Adams in 1953, art historian Beaumont Newhall wrote, “In the face of all the present turmoil and unrest and unhappiness… what can a photographer, a writer, a curator do? …To make people aware of the eternal things, or show the relationship of man to nature… is a task that no one should consider insignificant… These are days when eloquent statements are needed”.
Eloquence is not my thing, but here above, you have my statement against everything that attempts to stir darkness in our societies, lives, minds, and hearts.
PS: The title is borrowed from Sylvia Plath’s sonnet Ennui, which was written in 1950s and published in 2006:
“The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump,
compelling hero’s dull career to crisis;
and when insouciant angels play God’s trump,
while bored arena crowds for once look eager,
hoping toward havoc, neither pleas nor prizes
shall coax from doom’s blank door lady or tiger.”
"Break-through"
The galactic centre of the Milky Way rising into the night sky viewed from Dunraven bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast in south Wales, with only a 4 minute break in the clouds my patience paid off in getting this awesome shot.
Quickly rising through the ranks of the Galactic Knights,Alabrax P'aardal was given the rank of Lord and an army to command after the valor and dedication he showed at the Battle of the Six Scythes in 1287 P.L. Still regarded as one of the most formidable scythes-men of the galaxy, his unfortunate death at the hands of Sir Zavius Festal marked the end of the Ages of Chilvalry and the beginning of a more modern style of combat and knighthood.
-Excerpt from "A History of the Alabrax Family"
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Although I'm a bit late, here's my contribution to the alien-in-spacesuit fad started by Legohaulic. I liked how this guys came out, though I wish I had some tan hands....
If anyone's curious as to why I designed this guy to be a space-knight, I was listening to A Game of Thrones audiobook while building this. I highly
recommend the book :)
Enjoy!
Shot on a frosty walk through the Warwickshire countryside. I used my Nikon F65 SLR with my 50mm F1.8D lens. Ilford XP2 was the film I used.