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Sometimes the moment paints itself and I'm just happy to have the holga's way of remembering when my own fails.
This is a shell that I borrowed from my sister to exploit. Because the shell was so thin I wanted to backlight it and bring out its translucent qualities.
Lighting stuff: I placed the shell on a mirror because I wanted the added dimension that the reflection provides. Back lighting was done with a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind and to camera right. The main light was a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox in front and at camera left pointing towards the center of the shell. Both strobes in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I find sea shells to be beautiful objects from nature, and have photographed quite a few of them over the years. Other shells that I have photographed are in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
Tree branches dipped in icicles, twisting into makeshift stars within reach of my fingertips. The streetlamp cast a faint, orange glow through the translucent frost and the sky mixed a palette of violet and blue acrylics. I stopped several feet from the end of that pathway and looked up. And if it were not for my face absorbed by the heavens, tears would have spilled and melted the snow beneath my feet.
(from my journal)
Thoughts still cling
Rainy day interface
Look out the window
HDR tonemapped, Nikon 55mm f1.2 on Canon 5D
On a sluggish weekend when it is foggy and overcast, the sun seems elusive and colours in the outer world look dull. All I could do was borrow a few colours from nature, put them on the coffee table, and indulge myself in observing the effects of light. The translucence and vividness of these little vegs were so pleasing and rewarding that for a moment I forgot that it is still foggy outside 😊
Translucent red berries on low-growing shrubs. Growing along lake bank at Cardinia Lakes, Pakenham, Victoria, Australia.
My new translucent canes
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Pentacon 50/1.8 reversed on a Jupiter 37A 135/3.5 with an extended helicoid adapter. Gotta remember to clean the specks of crud off my lens first with these kind of shots.
A macro shot I took of this strange butterfly I came across while imaging insects and flowers in the mountains of the Philippines in Baguio City.
This is my commended image from the British waters macro category for the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2017 #upy2017
Its certainly not a water paint, but a shot straight from the camera. I tell you the story behind it.
It was a cyclonic weather at Gangasagar Island, West Bengal India. We got trapped in a seaside cafe for hours. The sky was overcast with clouds and it was raining cats and dogs. A wet clothe was flapping in the wind through which I could see some enthusiastic people were taking their bathe. The whole thing seemed so dramatic to me. I thought how it could be if I take some shots through the wet clothe? It was looking like a water paint on a canvas. I took some shots and this is how it came out. I share a few with you my friends. Wish you will like it.
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Ripening Honesty seed pod standing sideways to the sun.
Once the sun starts hugging the horizon there's a street in Malacca, Malaysia, that closes to traffic and becomes a pedestrian food fair. It is called yonkers walk. This picture is along yonkers walk taken of the many different food stalls, enough to activate any salivary gland.
#2 in a series of 6 images
(artist's statement)
organic:inorganic
Organic (adjective)
1.Natural matter or compounds with a carbon base
2.Characterised by gradual or natural development
Inorganic (adjective)
1.Inanimate, not living
2.Not arising from natural growth
The natural world is filled with beautiful and intricate designs, shapes and patterns. It’s a true wonder to me that these designs are not crafted by hand, but instead by a series of complex mechanisms that occur at the cellular, and even more amazingly, the molecular level.
Increasingly I’ve been contemplating the similarities of the designs of nature compared with the designs of the architectural, constructed world - the organic and the inorganic.
Both worlds are highly structured and organised, each to suit their intended purpose.
The patterns and intricate forms of the organic world are inherently functional while beautiful: large leaves are stiffened with pleats, flowers radiate to attract pollinators. In a similar way, human structures are also created for function alongside form: our cylindrical columns support heavy structures above, our vaulted rooves keep us warm and dry.
But one world, the organic, is shaped by the interactions of the forces of nature - continually growing, gradually changing. Grown, not placed.
The other world, the inorganic, is shaped by human force for deliberate function - purposefully static and unchanging. Placed, not grown.
organic:inorganic explores the relationship between the grown and the placed, exposing similarities between worlds that seem unlike on first impression, but share many elements of design when looking closely.