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This is more of a rant than a description, but if you use Lightroom you may want to read this in it’s entirety.
I have spent a lot of time processing thousands of photos in Lightroom and found myself in quite a pickle last week.
There is an option in the catalog setting that allows you to embed your develop settings into your Jpeg, Tif, Png and Psd files. Unfortunatley, this option doesn’t work!!!! As plain as the wording is, this option is faulty. Here’s what happened. When I went to copy my files to my Lightroom drive I found that there wasn’t enough space on the drive. So I copied the files to my desktop and I processed 25 photos from my last trip to Escalante. Later I cleared some of my older trips files to my backup drive and then copied this new trips files to the Lightroom drive. I opened Lightroom and assigned the location to the Lightroom drive, then when I relaunched Lightroom to my dismay all of my develop edits where lost. After spending several hours on the phone with Adobe tech support, I was told that the function didn’t work because I have an older version(5)of Lightroom and that I would need to update Lightroom for the function to work properly. What a cop out!!! Why would I need to update my LR? didn’t the function work when it was released. If it wasn’t, why did Adobe release it to the public. It’s simply deplorable that a function this important was overlooked upon release!!!!! SHAME ON YOU ADOBE!!!!!!!!!
OK, I feel better now. Haha :)
Luckily there is a workaround that has taken me about a week to fix. You can right click a folder in the Lightroom library and select save metadata, which is what the option in the catalog settings is supposed to do. There is another option that says “Automatically write metadata to XMP” which creates a sidecar file that rides along with the original RAW file. I suggest that if you use Lightroom, you should select this option which for some reason is off by default. This process is quite time consuming especially when you have 200,000 photos to update.
I have written this commentary In hopes that this doesn’t happened to you. ;-(
OK, Now, on to the "Tale of the Take" ☜ Coined by Phil Kuntz. Thanks Phil. You da man. :)
This is a shot taken at Dance Hall Rock. Bill and I really wanted to see the pothole with the cottonwood tree growing out of it, and timed it so that the tree would be peaking with fall color. We were a little too late for full fall color and after spending an hour and a half combing the area we were unable to locate the exact spot. We did however find some other interesting spots and planned to return later that night to shoot the Milky Way over it. That night the sky clouded over and we had to abandon our plan for a cool nightscape here, we did however find a couple of other cool potholes. :(
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The world is in such turmoil, and sadly it is only a few powerful men who are causing wars worldwide. It is time to END all wars. War only creates pain physically and mentally and is no way to bring our darling children into the world!
Surely the masses can overpower the rich and powerful who apparently have no heart. It is time for love, friendship, compassion, unity and harmony. Please my dear Flickr friends join me in promoting love and peace. All of our families need unity and diversity. We don't need to agree about everything, but there is absolutely NO NEED for violence, we CAN reach mutual solutions. We do it in our families and with our friends and associates so why can we not do it in villages, towns, cities, counties, states, provinces, countries? We can achieve happiness this way by getting together in solidarity for a real purpose. One which will improve our children's lives. We learn so much through sharing and caring and can achieve the miracle of living in peace! Let's give it a try! ❤️💛💚💙💜❣️💓💗🇳🇺 💖💝💟♥️💞💕😘😍🙏
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
Un jardin Japonais est toujours un moment de grâce....
(A Japanese garden is always a moment of grace)
Toulouse, France.
A voir en grand, better in large, click L.
The river Kinso thunders down over 103 meters in Tveitafossen with an enormous power, the first one (downstream) of its amazing 4 waterfalls.
www.europeanwaterfalls.com/waterfalls/tveitafossen/
Near Kinsarvik (municipality Ullensvang in Hordaland, Norway.
This Porthcawl Lighthouse scene is a bit "soft focus" not anything intentional on my part, just a wet lens from sea spray.
In Explore. Highest position: 7
This is one of the first shots I ever took of a storm at Porthcawl Lighthouse, it's taken me more than eight years to get around to posting it, I think I've concentrated more on close-ups so far and I've been ignoring the more expansive views generally.
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Being a relatively normal human being, I gravitated to the biggest waves when I originally (and subsequently) checked out my storm shots and dumped sub par waves in a separate folder. Well I just went through that folder and there are some shots with the most amazing lighting that I ignored because of the "small" waves, what a complete donut I must have been back then!
Here is one that I particularly liked. I should mention that I have in no way desaturated this image, just the colour of the day - grey.
Porthcawl Lighthouse in stormy weather.
In Explore.
The sun really caught this wave and there's a lot more colour than my usual offerings. Porthcawl lighthouse during a storm.
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Pre-storm light show, Sunday, dusk.
Roiling skies and turmoil below...
Deceptively calm evening over my house on Sunday - huge rains and wind all day on Monday!
2020’s summer of Sturm und Drang/Storm and Stress.
From my yard
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
In this image the sea has pulled back giving a better view of the seawall at Porthcawl, in most of my photos the wall is completely covered by waves.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W
In Explore.
I thought I'd better stop dipping into the archives all the time, so this is the last wave photo I'm uploading until I've got some new storm images to post. Roll on Winter!
Porthcawl Lighthouse during storm Imogen.
51°28'23.19"N 3°41'59.15"W
In Explore. Highest position: 15
Another in my Wave series, this one has mostly crashed back into the sea, with a large amount of spray still lingering at a great height.
I know it seems I post a lot of these images, but to date I have only shown 64 in 9 years on Flickr. I have taken over 3700 photos of storms so far, so the success rate is very low indeed. The biggest problem I have is spotting any with potential among so many, hence the constant revisiting of my work at Porthcawl Lighthouse and the trickle feed to my Photostream, in fact I have another tomorrow.
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In Explore.
Not the biggest wave I've photographed at Porthcawl Lighthouse, but I thought what little sunlight there was caught this one very nicely.
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In Explore.
More stormy weather down our way, beats me how the Porthcawl Lighthouse survives this constant battering.
Also, thought I'd mention that there is in fact three lighthouses in this picture, that's correct, three and I'm not going mad! If you follow the far horizon to its furthest right you can just make out the two Nash Point towers.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W
In Explore.
Just thought I'd mention that this Wednesday morning (30-12-15) from about 8:30 to 10:30 looks like being good for storm photos at Porthcawl Lighthouse. Sunrise is 08:20, High tide is 09:19 and the forecast is for strong winds. There are no guarantees, it may not be the strongest storm of recent years, but if the forecast doesn't change it should be worth a visit - oh, and be careful out there!
Any excuse to post a Porthcawl photo, eh? This is a crop of a photo I held back on previously as I thought people would not see the lighthouse in the wave. On reflection you lot are more observant than that, so I may post the full version later today for you to compare.
If any of you go down on Wednesday please feel free to share any photos you post with me, I'd love to check them out. Me? I've got to work
The word linked is often used in reference to a connection between two items or situations. In this case, the notion that rail connects us through transportation. Or more literally, as a connector from one point to another such as a landmass.
With the turmoil caused by recent events, the movement of goods across our nation stands waiting while negotiations complete. An age old story of those with, and those disgruntled who want. Somewhere in between is that which is linked; that also completes the flow.
In Explore.
Another in my Porthcawl Storm series, in this one the wave has picked up loads of sand giving it a golden hue.
51°28'23.24"N 3°41'59.19"W
In Explore.
Hi folks, been away on a cycling holiday in Spain, didn't do much in the way of photography as I was to busy knackering myself on mountains.
I was a bit low after the theft of my photos and thanks to "karavann" from Flickr for giving me a boot up the rear to get me going again.
This image is of the coast of Santander, well worth a visit!
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This is the first of two shots from Porthcawl I'm uploading today which are literally only a couple of seconds apart, this one has the wave at full height, whilst the next shows how quickly it disintegrates into a mass of spray.
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Lake Michigan was not in a good mood when I shot this, the waves reached 20ft and the winds gusted near 60mph.
In Explore.
This wave shot is different from the others in that most of the waves are taken between me and the Lighthouse. This one though, seemed to just clip the end of the seawall giving a very slender upright discharge directly in front of the structure.
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Inspiration --> Tune....♪
D'you breathe the name
Of your saviour
In your hour of need
And taste the blame
If the flavor
Should remind you of greed
Of implication, insinuation and ill-will
Till you cannot lie still
In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil
Come closing in for a kill
Come feed the rain
'Cause I'm thirsty for your love
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
'Cause without your love, my life
Ain't nothing but this carnival of rust
Frogmore ♥
2020 , is a year of turmoil and suffering , but also a year of tremendous realization of personal growth ...
I hope year 2021 will be better for each and everyone of us .. may we experience the peace of the season, the healing of our country and the love in our heart ! 2021 will be a better year !!! Happy New Year to all my Flickr friend ....
In Explore. Highest position: 9
In this image half of an incoming wave is stopped dead in it's tracks by the previous one reflected off the seawall, whilst the remainder carries on to impact against the masonry. Storm at Porthcawl Lighthouse
In Explore. Highest position: 11
More stormy weather from the Porthcawl Lighthouse. Been keeping this one back to post on my birthday, happy birthday to me!
Once again there are three lighthouses in this picture, that's correct, three and I'm not going mad! If you follow the far horizon to its furthest right you can just make out the two Nash Point towers.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W
In Explore. Highest position: 14
With all this windy weather from storm Henry, I thought I'd post another of my Porthcawl Lighthouse photos. Once again in this one, if you follow the far horizon to its furthest right you can just make out the two Nash Point lighthouse towers.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W
In Explore. Highest position: 15
With storm Katie heading this way on Monday, I thought I'd let you see a second stormy Porthcawl Lighthouse photo today, this one from a time before we Brits started naming our storms - 2014.
I can't get get there myself, but being Easter Monday I'm sure lots of folks will be able to make it, so here is some info that might help:
Sunrise = 06:56
High tide = 08:54 (9.1m)
As always, be careful out there, storm photography has the potential to be very dangerous.
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Tuesday October 5th - Turmoil
Complete with an atmosphere laden with spray & the next gale-driven rain shower just arriving (soaking me on the way back to the car).
The clifftop village is Craster and the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle can just be seen in the far distance centre shot
If many of you are like me, you are tired of all of the political turmoil. I am so glad it will be over today, no matter the outcome. Stay safe everyone!!
I Love these woods, takes my mind off the political turmoil.
Finally got a little SUN!! Thanks for looking!
I have taken the unusual step of re-releasing my picture alongside another that is not mine, bear with me whilst I explain. The first picture is by someone else of me taking the second picture. Their photo is a few tenths of a second later and at a more acute angle so the lighthouse is not in view, I'm a lot closer and looking along the seawall and have a great view, I just hope you will be as fascinated by this coincidence as I was and forgive me for re-posting.
First image © Joe Giddens
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Going back through some shots this year and her is another I got at the end of April of that fantastic storm cloud down at St Mary's Lighthouse
Chosen by Flickr as the best UK photo of 2016! Thank you, I am honoured by the accolade.
In Explore. Highest position: 9
Another in my Porthcawl Lighthouse series.
51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W