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Subscribe to my new youtube channel and see how I used the divine section and golden rectangle, spiral, and ratio to get the cover of N-Photo Magazine with my fine-art landscape photo Sunrise at Toroweap in the Grand Canyon! And see how Ansel Adams and the great painters, photographers, and fine art masters all used the golden mean to exalt their compositions:
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The golden section shows up in a lot of my surf and model photos too!
Elliot McGucken Laguna Beach Sunset Fine Art Landcape: Victoria Beach Fine Art Photography!
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Laguna Beach Sunset Fine Art Landcape: Victoria Beach! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography!
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Been hard at work on my books--my physics books on Dynamic Dimensions Theory (dx4/dt=ic) celebrating the hitherto unsung reality of the fourth expanding dimension which all the photons surf across the universe en route to making a photograph! Also working on an art, mythology, and photography book titled The Golden Hero's Odyssey! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey! Always love hearing from y'all! :)
There used to be two trees standing together here at Willow Lake - now there is one.
There used to be eagles who rested in this tree - now there are none.
There used to be many other things in my life - now they are gone.
But as I age, I prefer to keep the memories of what "used to be" - not dwelling on them - but looking forward to "what will be."
We thought this looked like a bakers oven and the Burn looked like a loaf what do you think ?
Hence Use your Loaf
CameraNikon D7000
Exposure24
Aperturef/7.1
Focal Length12 mm
ISO Speed100
I used to know what these were called, but I have forgotten.
(Beautiful) Angry Teeth will have to do for now.
Lamberton Conservatory - Where I purchased another $10 pass for 2019, Best $10 I will ever spend this year.
What's art about if it isn't about learning something? Well I learnt something. Several things actually. Will I use what I've learnt to grow and become wiser? That seems unlikely. So what did I learn?
1) Ice is very cold.
2) Icy water feels even colder.
3) Even kneeling on ice might not spread your weight enough to prevent it cracking.
4) Don't ever admit to doing something stupid. Especially not on the internet. You'll never know who might read it.
I've resigned myself to the fact that I won't ever feel confident enough in my creativity to know what it is I will make ahead of time, and I won't know how, whatever it is, will turn out. It was never an issue when noone ever saw what I make but now, a little self doubt lurks in the back of my mind, that I must make something interesting otherwise I shouldn't have bothered. Often, as I wander around some wild place somewhere (no not a bar in Blackpool on a Saturday night), I am thinking about future land art projects and the potential of different places. But always lurking there is the thought that it better be good when I get round to doing it.
On the face of it, this voice at the back of the room would seem to be a help, always encouraging me to try harder. But the weird thing is, this voice actually seems to be a hindrance. There is a subtle but important difference between "it better be good" and "I wonder if it'll be any good?"
When I listen to those words it seems to be an extra burden, a burden that makes it harder to tap into any creativity. I have no idea what creativity actually is, where it lives or how it operates. But what I do know is that you can plug into it directly if you would just relax and go with the flow. A sense of expectation of how something should be, how it ought to be, if only you tried hard enough is not where it's at. I think this is what I love about land art. As I start, the distractions, the so called "encouraging" voices just fade away and all that matters is the moment. And when enough moments join together, I often end up exactly where I wanted to be had I been thinking about it in the first place. I've said it before but it seems it is a hard lesson to learn. It's about the doing. The thinking, the planning, the expectations. None of this really helps.
So I set off, the frost crunching under my feet and doubting/encouraging voices in my head struggling to help me think of what I could do. I went to a small pool of dark water and tried to chop out some ice. Fun though that was, it didn't inspire me, so I continued to trudge up the hill. On the slopes either side of me, camo jacketed plonkers with shotguns and dogs attempted to shoot, stupid and inbred pheasants. A fitting challenge for the Saturday shotgun warriors. We haven't quite gone to the lengths of fencing in animals for rich (and fat) obnoxious clients to shoot but it isn't far off.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not hypocritical enough to suggest that shooting is completely wrong. I could only occupy the moral highground if I didn't eat industrially farmed animals and didn't ignore the fact that I couldn't kill, what I eat, myself. But I do wonder at the mentality of people who shoot animals for a hobby, as a way to relax, to let off steam on a Saturday morning. Does it make you feel manly to outwit a pheasant with a bunch of beaters, dogs and high powered weaponry? Is it simply target practice and honing a skill?
I always wonder whether they have something missing in their lives and their neuroses drive them to show off, inaudibly shouting "look at me, look at me, LOOK AT ME! I'm really, really important! I demand your attention!" Because what seems to be common amongst this activities is noise. Lots of it and the seemingly willfull need to pee off as many people as possible. Especially people who like peace and quiet!
How many examples can you think of? Here's a few for starters: riding big, powerful motorbikes around country lanes in the summer, riding jet skis across lakes and off shore, off roading on green lanes and shooting things for fun. Why oh why do all these things have to be so loud? And why do you have to do them in beautiful and quiet places and spoil the peace and quiet for so many others? Are you so lacking in empathy that you have no idea how you are spoiling it for everyone else? Or do you have a pathological need to take over places and claim them as yours to make up for your inadaquecies? I think this is one of the biggest splits in our species. The sensitive and the not sensitive. The noisy and the quiet. The considerate and inconsiderate.
So the soundtrack to my sculpturing went like this "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" As the beaters flushed the doomed birds from the undergrowth and "KABOOM! KABOOM!" as another pheasant bit the dust. I expect that if I ever go mad that that will be the soundtrack to my insanity too. I wanted to stand on a rock and shout out "shut the hell up you noisy idiots!" to try and get rid of my frustrated feeling. But I don't think they were going to see the error of their ways so I went back to what I was doing with the frustrated feeling still present.
So what was a I doing I hear you ask?
A bank of fog was sliding in from the south, leaving the tips of the mountains poking through the sea of moisture. Unusually for an inversion, a layer of cloud lay above us too (me and the mountains) and gradually the temperature began to warm.
On another small dark pool I begun to lay out sections of frosted bracken, to make a pattern on the ice. When I leant back I noticed I had left hand prints where my body heat had melted the surface and I liked them and decided to do something along those lines instead. On all fours, I kneeled on the ice, positioning my hands to make prints in the surface, when suddenly cracks spread across the surface like fractured glass and I was about to become more acquainted with this medium than I originally planned. I had one of those Wiley Coyote moments like when he runs over the cliff's edge, only to be found pedalling in mid-air. Just for a split second gravity didn't grab me and then all at once the icey water and me, became intimate. I managed to extricate myself after immersing only one leg and fortunately I was wearing two pairs of trousers for warmth and had some spare socks, so pretty quickly I was dry again. I smirked to myself at being such a fool but soon found that the broken ice was fantastically clear and square edged so my foolishness had served a purpose and revealed to me the beauty of this ice.
I took a section and rounded the edges before trying to melt my hand print into it. I could only manage a little at a time before I had to rewarm my hand, so I challenged myself to count to fifty before I would put on a glove to warm up, only to try and melt some more for another count to fifty.
As the handprint begun to form I started to think about how I would be able to photograph it. The imprint was like a ghost, difficult to pin down, like a fleeting image in the corner of your eye. I put the ice back in the water but the image disappeared so I went searching for another way.
I found a slab with thick frost on it, so I melted another handprint onto it and placed the ice on top, in an effort to put a black background behind the imprint. This didn't work either. I then picked some holly berries thinking that I would squish them up and fill in the mould but that was also a failure. And then it dawned on me, bubbles underwater are very bright, especially against the dark, peaty water!
I went back to the little pool and to its twin with the unbroken ice. I put my handprint on top of it, face down so that air would be trapped and then started to ladle (I didn't actually use a ladle - who carries around a ladle?!) water from the broken pool onto the ice of the intact one. Soon the effect was working and I had learnt something new about contrast and ice.
After taking some more pictures of it set against the sky, I collected my gear and headed off downhill. The cretins were still shooting at anything that moved and the irritation at the noisy buggers still dwelled in the pit of my stomach.
At the bottom of the hill I sat and watched two Buzzards sitting in adjacent trees, one of which kept calling and flying to the other one, perhaps with spring on her mind. For a few minutes I watched transfixed and thought what magnificent creatures they are. As I set off again towards home I noticed that the feeling in my stomach had gone and a few quiet moments observing the wonder of nature had calmed and comforted me. That is all that is required for peace. An open mind and a moment to fill it. Perhaps the Saturday shotgunners should try it one day. They might actually like it and discover that there is another way.
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Used Silver efex pro to add some structure to this geometry. Thankfully I didn't fall into the harbor, I was a foot from the sea wall. Ahhh. :)
Thanks for viewing! Joelle
Brickell City Centre is a $1.05 billion shopping and mixed-use project in Miami, Florida. When finished, it will span up to five blocks to the west of Brickell Avenue and to the south of the Miami River, in the Brickell district of Greater Downtown. It will be anchored by a 107,000 square-foot Saks Fifth Avenue, Cinemex, and Italian food hall. The project is located between 7th and 8th Streets on both sides of South Miami Avenue and east of South Miami Ave on the northside of 7th Street. Additionally, it may expand to develop two more blocks that Swire already owns at 700 Brickell Avenue and SE 6 Street.
The large project was first proposed during the real estate bubble of the 2000s, but then cancelled during the economic downturn. It was revived in 2012 with enough acreage to qualify for Special Area Plan (SAP) zoning with construction beginning by years' end. The hotel and residential towers, as well as some office space, opened in 2016. Phased retail openings started in November 2016. A phase two may begin construction in 2017. Contrary to the name, the development is not in the traditional downtown Miami city centre, but in the more recently redeveloped Brickell financial district.
The project is being developed by Swire Properties Inc (the US subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Swire Properties), and spans slightly over 9 acres. Amenities include a soon to open department store Saks Fifth Avenue, luxury shops, restaurants, hotel, office towers and condominiums. The hotel flag was awarded to EAST, a Swire Hotels brand, which will be their first venture in North America. Currently there are EAST hotels in Hong Kong and Beijing, China. In February 2013, Swire Properties and the owners of Bal Harbour Shops announced that they had come to an agreement to co-develop the retail portion of the development. Later, in 2015, mall developer Simon Property Group also became a retail partner.
Limited portions of the project opened at the end of 2015, while the residential towers began occupancy in mid-2016. The retail section opened at the beginning of November 2016 with a formal ribbon cutting and concert by Miami based pop singer Pitbull. The Eighth Street Metromover station reopened in late 2015, though the third floor connection to the retail component remained locked until December 2016.
The project has been a catalyst for development in the trendy Brickell neighborhood. In the direct vicinity of the project, many luxury hi-rise buildings are under construction as of 2017. Arquitectonica, the architecture firm that designed the project was also chosen to create the Brickell Heights towers which are located between Brickell City Centre and the shops at Mary Brickell Village.
While in Centro we thought we should check out the new pier.
Pier access was controlled by the navy (the naval station is near the pier entrance). At the pier shoreside navy personnel were providing hand sanitizer and making sure pier users were masked.
The sign translates "Mandatory Use of Mask".
Using slide film with medium format is gratifying, especially with 6x9, when one sees the images coming off the reel as large as life. Until recently, I'd forgotten how much I love seeing those images in real color, and how my brother and I used to take rolls of slide film and go downtown in Boston years and years ago, shooting with the used cameras we bought saving up our paper route money. While Portra and Ektar are great, my heart belongs to transparency film with all it's inherent limitations.
Taken using Fuji Velvia 100 and a Ricoh Mirai. I h=bought a Mirai in 1989 and have used one ever since. I find the Mirai works just the way I want a camera to. Its lens makes deep textures 3d looking immages. The camera's controls are intuative to use and everything is accurate.
I had a square of approx. 17 cm left so I thought why not refold a model that I really love... I treated the kozo paper with some MC glue (Ovalit) to make it a bit crips and also used it for a bit of shaping ...after that I will continue with "Spirits of Origami"...
I hope you like it :)
used a water gun to wet the bottle
was testing the triggertrap app/cable to trigger my camera. Had it set on sound trigger.
5d3
ISO400
f1.4
1/200 sec
sigma 85mm
Lights:
two photogenic lights with 60" strip boxes to either side of bottle.
two ad360 with reflector pointe at trees behind bottle. all lights set at lowest power.
In Her Element
Our oldest daughter is the definition of a bookworm (complete with Harley biker boots). When she was in kindergarten, her teacher would let her leave the classroom to read chapter books when the rest of the class was *learning to read*. By age 10, she had read Gone With the Wind...and she read it in four days. And then she read it again. It seems she has quite a knack for losing herself in wonderful adventures on paper and then breezing through them with lightning speed. Libraries and used book stores are our greatest allies when it comes to saving hard-earned money. We own lots of books but if we had purchased every book she has read, there wouldn't be room for anything else in the house and we would be broke. Today we visited a local used book store just a few blocks from her high school. Within 60 seconds she was deep into a novel and, since her nose was still in a book when we left, she had to be led out of the store to the car.
I used the first clear night in more than 3 weeks to get to a lake where I use to go swimming in summer to take pictures of the stars. The glow on the horizon is the city of Feldkirch.
Finalmente usei a fitinha colorida para fazer listras!!! Tava morrendo de vontade desde que comprei mas sempre faltava tempo... bom, agora foi!!! E eu amei!!! :D Já quero fazer de novo no outro sentido também e com várias cores de fundo... ai ai mil idéias! :D
Esmaltes:
OPI Kiss Me on My Tulips (www.flickr.com/photos/suzanads/7211179518/in/photostream)
Colorama Jeans (www.flickr.com/photos/suzanads/6965141459/in/photostream/)
Mike from ASWECRASH from Toledo Ohio. Loved his whole look from the shoot. I plan on using him as a model for a piece im planning in the future
Strobist:
5d mark ii
85mm f1.8
AB1600 w/ beauty dish above
AB800 on background
Used to be a diamond bibbed cart when it was new, somewhere along the way they cut the diamond bib off and put a metal tipper rack on the front for standard semi-auto use. I removed the tipper rack for easier ASL collection. Due to a miscommunication in the office, the WMX Otto Classic was taken away for no reason. So I no longer have it :/
On the 13th May 2022 the 'Arco Dijk' (1992, 9,823DWT) is secured alongside the Hanson operated Johnson's Wharf at Greenhithe, Kent with a cargo of sea dredged aggregates for use in concrtete production.
The wharf formerally served Swanscombe Cement works and some railway track can still be seen at the gate. North Kent is a fascinating area but it is hard to imagine now the hub of industry it was 50 years ago, This map show the mass of industrial railways
Greenhithe is somewhere I have driven past dozen of times but had a few minutes to spare so stopped to see what was left of interest in this historic Tameside village that was home to the famous shipping company Everards. Now mainly residential adjacent to the large Blue Water shopping centre (built in the old chalk quarry that supplied the cement works) it was good to see river still has a role to play.
.. unwanted deity's images garbaged in the holy river narmada.
see more MAHESHWAR images here.
This lovely Common Bulbul busy feeding off a tree stump in the Mara.
Photographed in the Mara Triangle, Transmara, Kenya.
My first use of fiberbased paper, this is 8x10, but have printed one at 12x16 waiting for me to sort out toning.
Foma classic warm tone paper in Agfa warmtone developer, bleached then sepia then selenium. This paper bleaches and tones very quickly compared to the Resin based paper I have been using.
Dodge the background, burnt in the water and a little bleaching of the white water.
4x5 negative taken using Sven (technika 3) hp5 (cooked in pyrohd 2+2+100) @ f6.7 for shallow depth of field, maybe a little too shallow.
Using a mobile phone to capture the funky dance moves of a group of street performers in Hongdae, Seoul, Korea
Used Canon 17-85 f/4.0-5.6
Because there have been so many comments about DoF, I thought I'd explain. I shot this a 3 different DoF settings but liked this one the best because it added to the sense of height.
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Using my cheap-ass +10 macro filter on my Sony 35mm f/1.8 lens, I captured this close-up of the olives in tonight's Bombay Sapphire Gin Martini.
A little re-working of this image of this fellow in the window of the used cat store that was formerly in Lake City, Seattle. The shop became the location of the Shot On Film used camera store.
Olympus E=P5
Olympus 17mm f:1.8