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I spent the last 2 weeks with my son and grandchildren in Illinois. I took my 11 year-old granddaughter to a botanical garden where we played with our cameras. She loved moving her camera around and creating ICM images. This is one of her images. We edited for contrast and color in LR and I removed spots and saved the file in PS.
This is a dahlia that grandson Oscar photographed today. I was helping him learn how to use the camera. He was so thrilled with this photo after we edited it to take out the dead flowers. He wanted to know if I would post it :) Of course, I will post this for my soon to be 10 year old grandson!
welp we edited this on live last week, however stoner brain wins again! 😅but I dont want it to go to waste!
So here's the Olivia outfit from MODA
Everything you see comes with the outfit. Top, Skirt, Tights/Heel Combo. Check them out ^.^
Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, England
Always love reworking an old photo, I really hate the way I edited this image a few years ago compared to this, I suppose our tastes as photographers are always changing from what we photograph to how we edit.
Would you agree with this?
I feel my editing has certainly changed over the last few years to a point where I am happy and am always keen to revisit photos that I took years ago.
This tunnel is very well documented on Flickr but I can see why it is so popular with photographers. I love the grittiness and the mix clean shiny tiles with the dirty worn ones. The converging lines are always appealing to me :-)
Location Information
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel crosses beneath the River Thames in East London, linking Greenwich (Royal Borough of Greenwich) in the south with the Isle of Dogs (London Borough of Tower Hamlets) to the north.
The 'Friends of Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels' (FOGWOFT) was established in September 2013.[1] Following encouragement from FOGWOFT and information from the Institution of Civil Engineers, on 5 July 2016 an interpretative plaque was unveiled near the tunnel's Greenwich entrance by the deputy leader of Royal Borough of Greenwich council.
A photo from early this year, i took this photo with a good friend of mine. We edited and put this setup up together, what do you think.
This image has been in my ‘edited folder’, for some time now. This ‘edited folder’ acts as a stopgap between, leaving the raw file in the original folder, (never to see the light of my laptop again) and deciding to do something with it, postproces and show to you guys. I like to have this middle ground as a reflective space, kind of giving myself some time to digest the images merits. Ironically, leaving the image there for a short time helps distance me from the initial passion that I’ve experienced when making the image, so I’m able to objectively see, (in the cold light of day) if the image transfers the same set of emotive attributes, (that initially brought me to visualise then execute it) are still present when you take ‘me’ out of the equation. This process is a way of attempting to empathically see the image from the viewer’s perspective, to discern if the image in its self, removed from my immediate perception, will catalyse the same emotions I felt for the real experience.
The process of reflection inevitably means that some images, that I consider to be interesting in some way, don’t make it past this self initiated quality control filter. By quality control, I don’t mean technical issues, (they are sifted out when I first view the raw files) but conceptual, compositional, unusual, dramatic, mystical, subtle, merit (I could go on but I won’t).
Now sadly this process, like my mind, is not totally organised, (I do hope I haven’t given a misleading impression of that here). I generally use my gut feeling to guide these exceptionally difficult editing choices, but sometimes for reason it’s often hard to put those choices into words and some images in this folder I’m just not sure about. Now I could just make another folder that is in-between the ‘edited folder’ and call it ‘almost sure this is what I want to show the world, but not quite’ but that would be taking my occasional challenging indecisiveness to a new level of obsession.
now this might not seem like a big problem to some of you out there, and its only myself imposed desire to present a personal vision on the world that is extra special to me, that keeps me worrying about this type of thing, ho yes let’s not forget the rewards from the fascinating learning process I encounter as a pleasant by-product. But I suppose what I’m trying to do here, is attempt to analyse, then organise my own thought processes in order to make stronger emotive photographs.
Some of you may think that I write so much in accompaniment to the imagery I present, because I want to offer my views, or help others learn from my mistakes, or to initiate debate, (and you’d be partly correct). But a significant part of the reason for writing this text is to try and illuminate my own thought processes in order to hone them. I’m attempting to reflect in order to develop. (On a side note I’ve long taken the piss out of people who say they are trying to find themselves, but it appears that I’m now one of those people, so joke away!)
This complex set of personal, often subconscious filters, from where to soot, what time of day, how to compose, what subjects we choose, what equipment, what environment, what season, to what we decide to edit, how we edit, how when then present it and what text goes along with it, (to name a few), all ensure that we present only the imagery that fits our current artistic vision.
Furthermore by analysing this process in depth, I feel that I’m able to feed the reflected ideas back into the subconscious decisions I take whilst on location, to make the subconscious coconscious and artistic vision constructively directed.
Anyway this image was taken at Sandsend a few weeks ago. The conditions were perfect, (for my current artistic vision), as it was very stormy and the low light and heavy clouds, offered a wonderfully dramatic setting. Now as you can imagine I was excited to explore this photographically and quickly began working before the fast moving circumstances changed. Then unusually for this beach, I happened on another photographer, who began to set up his large format camera in my profiroll vision. now because the conditions were so special, I didn’t go over and talk to him, as I usually would have, but continued working and told myself that when the rainbow disappears id go over and reflect on the amazing circumstances. Now as this conflict was working its way thought my mind, it began to rain. I didn’t care, as I was enjoying myself so much that I didn’t want to end the experience, but secondly, I was already wet through from being just that bit too deep in the sea, for the waves to stay beneath my wellies. Anyway when it began spitting, the for mentioned large format photographer, packed up and disappeared before I could break off and have a chat.
Now I respect that camera equipment and water don’t mix, especially sea water, and that due to the very dark clouds, there may have been good reason to assume that the heavens were about to open. So I understand the other photographer’s decision to make for his car, but I don’t understand that in such fantastic conditions, an obviously committed large format photographer (well so I assumed from the size of his expensive gear), not wanting to seize the moment. I wish I could have had a chance to talk to that guy, and who knows it might be you, but if it is, you missed a great opportunity to feel the rawness of nature. Anyway I wonder what you thought of me on that day? Maybe I will one day find out (o:
For a friend's photo stack challenge. She provided a green screen shot of herself, and we edit. Fun little project!
In front of GABRIEL main store
Made for Fantasy Fair 2022
A part of Tenpyo SIM has been relocated.
Please enter to the deck in "regional preferences"sky setting.
On the deck, we edit and play healing music in the original stream.
Suikinkutsu and wind chimes Sounds of water and ryuteki are mixed.
Please enjoy.
GABRIEL-- Full moon lotus
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More than a collaboration.
See that yellow blur? That's Kristin.
We shot this together, we edited this together.
And yes, we are ninjas.
We sometimes forget to stop and just look at what's around us. It's one thing to see with our eyes it is something else to see with our hearts...
This was one of my evening adventures with my husband. We were walking through a park where he used to play as a child.
What else do we do when we wake up at 5::30 in the morning? We edit pictures!
FRAROKKETTI GUITAR DUO //RETURN
Friday 14th December 2007
10 pm
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We edited an original art work: here the original.
Art work by Frarock and me.
I wish you all the best for the New Year to all my Flickr friends and family! I know I have not posted much lately as I am drowning in a sea of photos like the rest of us. The bigger the memory cards, the more we shoot, and the more we edit. Hopefully, I will catch up over the next few months. Much love to all.
My only sunrise trip during our Netherlands/Belgium holliday.
I really had luck with the clouds passing by.
But the editing of this picture wasn't easy.
So together with two friends of mine, I did a "we edit your raw"-Session.
Felix had the idea to give the picture a lot of warmth - more like sunset instead of sunrise.
I always had a black and white conversion in my mind, but this editing really fascinated me - so the final image is "sponsored by Felix" :-)
In front of GABRIEL main store
Made for Fantasy Fair 2022
A part of Tenpyo SIM has been relocated.
Please enter to the deck in "regional preferences"sky setting.
On the deck, we edit and play healing music in the original stream.
Suikinkutsu and wind chimes Sounds of water and ryuteki are mixed.
Please enjoy.
GABRIEL-- Full moon lotus
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GABRIEL/129/120/23
Click here for the youtube version of the video
PLACED: 3/3[ELIMINATED]
Yay! I made it to the final three! This week I am shooting for my third first place photo so I tried my hardest to look edgy and elegant. I hope my hard work payed off!
For this theme, we had to show a shot of our model on a runway. We wanted Kalyna to where a gown so we dyed white fabric and made a dress out of it. We edited the photo with "Ribbet.com". It's exactly like picnik!
Nikon D-810, 28-300mm Nikon at 190mm, 1/160 seg, F/5.6, ISO 400
Street shot. To see how we edited, look at the blog post:
Editing raindrops on a shiny surface
Hecho en la calle. Para ver cómo lo hemos editado, post en el blog
Editar gotas de lluvia sobre una superficie brillante
Our web / Nuestra web Web site Best Photo Edition
Viele Bilder, sind in den drei Stunden entstanden.
Der erste Blick aufs Display, stellt einen zufrieden.
Der Import auf den PC, oh mein Gott. Unscharft, falscher Bildausschnitt und was weiss ich noch.
Bilder aussortiert - Zur Vorauswahl weitergeschickt.
Nein, ich war nicht zufrieden mit mir. Was wird sie sagen?
Sie ist sehr glücklich mit dem Ergebnis. Gestern noch zusammen die Bilder bearbeitet.
Heute nochmal angesehen.
Nein, ich bin nicht mit mir zufrieden.
Mal schauen was der Ehemann zum Ergebnis sagt und ob wir dann noch ein Pärchenshooting machen?
Many pictures were taken in the three hours.
The first glance at the display will satisfy you.
The import to the PC, oh, my God. Blurred, wrong image detail and what else do I know.
Pictures sorted - Forwarded for preselection.
No, I was not happy with myself. What's she gonna say?
She is very happy with the result. We edited the pictures together yesterday.
Looked again today.
No, I'm not happy with myself.
Let's see what the husband says about the result and if we'll do another couple's shooting?
We were walking along Sugar Beach in Toronto when my boyfriend noticed a utility box with a reflective surface. It didn't seem very appealing to me because it had a bunch of dents in it and I didn't know why he wanted me to take a picture of it. So I did and then we edited it together.
The mirror represents the distortions that mirrors give it's viewers and the blue represents the true blue of the photographers great capture! It is the photographer that tells the story through their pictures and what makes a great capture is the feeling or emotion that it can create in the viewer. It is the photographer that reduces the distortions and makes it clear to the viewer why any picture is a great capture. The next time you look in the mirror ask your self, do I look better in the mirror? Or when someone has taken your picture?
Referrences
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Do I have a style ? Difficult to say. I like to think that what appears on my picture do not depend on me. The only part in the process where I am active is deciding to be somewhere at a specific moment, but I can't control what I'll see. This way of thinking describes what happens only to a certain extend, but it's not enough. In fact, the way we capture what's there to see, the way we edit picture and so on participate to a style, whatever the subject-matter. If I have a quick look to my Flickr
page, I can see that I a am a warm colorful kind of photographer. I like slightly saturated tones and sunrise/sunset colors. Whatever shot I take, I'll present it this way. If I speak about it today is because this picture is kind of different of what I do usually with this very kind of topic. I have many pictures of the alps, but most of the time, they looked quite quiet and calm. Sometimes I even used ND filter to accentuate this quite atmosphere. Here I show you something more dramatic, even a little messy, "to-much-information-ish" compared to my standards. When I look at this series, it's as if I wanted them to be more simple. But on the other hand, I like the fact that they are different. Because it's good to have a style, but it's also a little bit scary : will I always stick to it ? Won't it be a prison ? Am I still innovative ? (even regarding myself). With such questions, it's good to create some picture that looks a little bit like it wasn't you that took them, like an invitation to change your style, slightly ...
I'm sure we've all fallen victim to this. We find a subject that really interests us, we take a bazillion pics, we edit them down to half a bazillion, we want to post every head turn or wing flap. Well thats where I'm at here. I came back from a photo trip where we saw hundreds of bald eagles then came home to find the owls. Snowy Owls always trumps eagles.
this is a collaboration photo that I took with my best friend Pamela Bows. I'm uploading it here because I'm farrrrr too lazy to upload it to our collab flickr, and besides nobody will see it there.
I love working with her because shes a painter, and she sees thing that I don't necessarily see. We each have our own parts that come naturally to the collab... shes in charge of sketching out our ideas and then i'm in charge of the photography aspect on shoot. we edit together, and since were basically the same person we usually agree on colors and styling and what not. it makes creating art a not-so-lonely thing. :3
"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke". -Arthur Plotnik, editor and author (b. 1937)
Last week the sign over Auschwitz saying "Arbeit macht frei" was stolen. This morning I see it has been recovered, albeit in three pieces. It is Xmas, a time when we remember those who are no longer with us and rejoice in those who are still here, when we think how we can do things better next year. The image above is a strange happenstance of a Xmas star light made in Sweden (Ikea), in the shape of the star of David (Hannukah) in a cross of suffering which also seems to support, sitting on a hot South African windowsill. Strings and wires are attached. What is light is dark and what light is dark, time has left its mark. I am blessed this year to see Xmas and Hannukah afresh through the eyes of one very special child.
For a closer look at Auschwitz you might like to go to Salzherz's stream. I found it very moving. Rainer is in the German Army.
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Texture is by les brumes
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For a closer look at Auschwitz you might like to go to Salzherz's stream. I found it very moving. Rainer is in the German Army.
(One photo from each month, starting top left. You can read more about these photos and each month of my 2022 below.)
Even though the winter months of 2022 wasn’t as nice for being outdoors as the year before, I’ve had so many great nature experiences, trips and travels the rest of the year, together with both Richard and friends. So many that it was hard to choose just one photo for each month.
But I’ve also had lots of portrait assignments this year, that have made me stay inside editing a lot. Luckily I love that as well, since it has taken most of my spare time since summer. I also got the most adorable great niece this past autumn, who I look forward to watch growing up.
You can read more about each month of my 2022 below if you’d like to:
1. (Top left) Looking for Love
JANUARY: Started with lots of wet and gray weather, and lots of time indoors on my spare time. (As opposite to the beautiful winter last January, when I photographed birds and winter landscapes almost every day.)
Covid spread again, and I didn’t participate in activities with my choir to avoid traveling and staying in larger crowds- even though things were finally going back to normal.
The first photos I took this month wasn’t until the last week, of some seabirds in our neighborhood and a kitten in foster care for The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals. I still like helping them when I have the chance.
The few nice days we had this month were too cold to spend outside, and we even had hurricane winds during the last weekend. When the wind calmed down, we went to Jæren to take some photos of the waves and the seabirds that came close as they sought shelter in the harbours. We only had two days of snow showers this month- the last one on the last day.
FEBRUARY: Started with the new snow raining away, more wind again, and then some thunder as well. I also had a bad cold for a week (but no covid yet, even though several pupils and colleagues were infected). The bad weather lasted for a long time this month as well, and I got really tired of it.
But finally it got better in the end of the month, and I could spend time outdoors again- right before and during my winter break, what a luck! I spent some time together with bird photography friends, and got many nice bird photos both in the forest and by the sea. My favourite moment was to get really close to two common guillemots in a harbour for the first time (lomvi in Norwegian). One of them was the beautiful bridled form. They only come by the shore during winter.
Even though the flocks of migratory birds arrived later than last year, we found the year’s first lapwings and stonechat on the last day of the month (viper og svartstrupe in Norwegian), when a friend visited to photograph birds. I was also happy to get the photos I had dreamed of of the willow tit that day (granmeis in Norwegian, on this month’s photo), and a cute squirrel.
Sadly it was hard to enjoy the signs of spring fully this year, while being worried thinking of all the happenings and refugees in Ukraine.
MARCH: Started with a beautiful week of winter break, and the year’s first period of long-lasting nice weather. It was lovely to photograph the first snowdrops in the garden, in the first rays of sunshine I got to enjoy this year.
I also spent time finding more migratory birds that arrived our island during the winter break. Since Richard sadly got ill that week, I went on road trips together with a friend and my mother-in-law in the Jæren and Dalane districts to photograph birds and landscapes. My favourite moment was (just like the month before) to get common guillemots only a meter away while laying on a jetty, in the golden evening light one quiet evening. It was a wonderful sight, and a lovely sound of their feet paddling. The photos of them turned out great as well.
Back at work, we went on a lovely day trip with our pupils to the snowy mountains of Sirdal, in the lovely sunshine. Everyone had a great time skiing, sledding and grilling, and I also got breaks to take some nice photos of snow-covered cabins and trees. It’s not that often I’m in the snow like that.
I continued photographing birds on our island and on Jæren, and we also had a rare black redstart visit right outside our house (svartrødstjert in Norwegian). That’s the fun part of living this close to the ocean and the bird migration routes!
After a fun weekend of a long-awaited belated Christmas party at work after the covid restrictions, and singing on a fun concert in town, I started feeling ill again. And this time it was covid. I felt really unwell for some days, and sadly we couldn’t go to our niece’s 1st birthday party nor stay at the nice hotel we had looked forward to.
We also bought ourselves a new electric car this month, and took some trips to photograph some of the beautiful foggy sunsets we had that period. I also finally got some great photos of one of the roe deer living by our house. Even though I often see them nearby, they are pretty shy.
In the end of the month, I finally met the adorable long-tailed tit for the first time in many years (stjertmeis in Norwegian). A friend found it in a forest, and luckily it was there when we went to look for it the next day. It came really close for a long time, and I got many photos I only had dreamed of. It even followed us back to the car from tree to tree, singing for us as we left (!) On the last day of the month, I also finally got to photograph the beautiful crested grebes for the first time- one of my 2022 goals. Little did I know, that I would get many more and better chances to do so later that spring and summer.
I also put up 10 bird quiz posters that I made for The Norwegian Ornithological Society's nature trail towards Eigerøy lighthouse where I live, with bird photos from our island. It lasted for six months, and I checked all the answer sheets and bought good bird guide books for three winners when it was over. A fun task!
4. (Top right) Favourite Easter Moment
APRIL: Started with my choir’s Easter tour together with other great choirs, where I spent one night at my sister’s place. I love letting my niece and nephew wake me up in the morningツ I was also photographing for the choir during the weekend.
When Easter break arrived, we had no plans which is unusual. But I ended up doing some singing, go on visits, some little road trips and on bird trips together with a hobby ornithologist. After some gray days we had a memorable Good Friday, with spring’s first warming day. It was also abnormally quiet here by the ocean, so we went by our boat out to the lighthouse- where we boiled eggs in the sun and really enjoyed ourselves (on this month’s photo). I also had a 1 year- and family photoshoot of my neighbours that day, and went to photograph the beautiful crested grebes in the evening. We even saw them building a nest and mating!
Later I joined my ornithologist friend, ringing and photographing tawny owls and owlets, and I took some adorable photos of a colleague’s little girls in their national costumes in a meadow of wood anemones, to use for promoting and in competitions.
The weather stayed great for several weeks, and I was outdoors every day- photographing birds both before and after work. I had so many nice nature experiences, like photographing the stunning black-throated loon for the first time (storlom in Norwegian) in our own municipality (it’s rare here), meeting and photographing several other beautiful bird species for the first time, and suddenly having one of my 2022 goals achieved right in my neighbourhood:
After seeing many horned grebes in their dull winter plumage on our island (horndykker in Norwegian), I really wanted to see them in their beautiful summer plumage. And one day, I suddenly noticed several in their summer plumage out at sea- already before leaving for their nesting places. After sitting a while by the sea, they suddenly came right in front of me. I had never seen them that close to land before, and now in their summer plumage as well!
We spent the last weekend of the month on a lovely hotel in Farsund in southern Norway, where both the weather, room, view and the food were great. We drove to the two known lighthouses nearby at Lista and Lindesnes, to take sunset and night images. I had enjoyed the amazing beams towards the dark sky and stars at Lindesnes before, but I was really amazed doing the same at Lista. It was stunning. The beams, their sound, the dark, the stars.. We also spent a day together with several bird watchers from our town at Lista, which also is a known bird sighting area. The new species to my list that day was the beautiful and rare garganey (knekkand in Norwegian). I also finally bought myself a camouflage pop up tent on the trip.
It was also great to watch my sister and her family move into their first own house that weekend- a brand new one, in my old hometown. I have hoped for so long for them to get the chance to have something bigger and better, on their own.
5. (Middle left) 2022 Highlight: Bluethroat Meetings
MAY: Started with a beautiful last day on our Farsund weekend. We went back to where we spotted lots of birds the day before, and saw a couple of beautiful marsh harriers for the first time (sivhauk in Norwegian). When we got home, we met the year’s first common tern in our neighborhood, and I got great photos of it. They are a wonderful sign (and sound) of summer! It was also my mom’s birthday, who I met the next day when I visited them helping my sister move into their new house.
I had so many nice bird experiences this month as well, and it was hard to pick just one for this month’s photo. But it was awesome to finally photograph the wonderful bluethroat in spring surroundings (blåstrupe in Norwegian). I could also have picked one of the tawny owlet that I watched getting ringed and got to hold, on the evening of our National Day the 17th (after celebrating in town together with pupils, colleagues and friends in the children's parade, and singing for the crows on the scuare afterwords). The owlet's two siblings that had just left the nest and their mom sat in the trees above us (kattugle in Norwegian). I could also have picked a photo of the white-throated dipper I had close for a long time, while feeding its big chicks in the river (fossekall in Norwegian).
For several days, we had both black-throated loons and common loons in their summer plumage making lots of noise at sea in our neighbourhood, before leaving for their nesting places. Even though they didn’t come very close, it is great to watch these stunning birds. The black-throated loon is not that common to see here, but may nest in our district (storlom in Norwegian). The common loon is common here during winter, but nests far away in the Arctic (islom in Norwegian).
I met several new bird species this month, on nice trips in the long period of nice (but not that warm) weather; Like the beautiful and colourful bee-eater that only has rare visits in Norway (bieter in Norwegian). And I started making two more bird quizes, for the Outdoor Council of Jæren’s nature trails, with birds from that area. They gave me the assignment after seeing the one I made on our island. I also started making bird brochures with local birds for a geopark company in town, that turned out great in summer.
I had a 1 year- and sibling photo shoot in a lovely wood anemone forest on Jæren, and also photographed a newborn baby. I should have photographed a 1 year old on our beach on the month’s last day as well, but when we were about to begin, we suddenly had unexpected rain and thunder and had to postpone (!)
I spent some fun time together with my choir as well - both singing on a popular soccer match in Stavanger the night before our National Day, and having a concert. I also sang in a wedding on a weeks’ notice, since their first singer had cancelled.
JUNE: A very rare woodchat shrike visited our island in the start of the month (rødhodevarsler in Norwegian). Of course I spent the whole day at work and at the hairdresser, so I couldn’t go when Richard and all other birdwatchers in the county went to see it ツBut luckily it still showed up for me the next day.
I had two fun confirmand photo shoots and one with a 1 year old and his family. And I took some trips to Jæren to get even better photos than before of the beautiful crested grebes and horned grebes (toppdykker og horndykker in Norwegian). They came very close in some little lakes where they are used to people hiking.
I also had a fun weekend visiting my parents with my sister-in-law, showing her the island I’m from for the first time. We didn’t get that nice summer weather until the last week of work before the summer holiday.
I started my 7.5 weeks long summer vacation by having a fun summer concert with my choir, and spending a wonderful day in our neighborhood- cycling and walking around by the sea, enjoying the nature and summer weather. I found all the birds I hoped for (and more) before going on holiday (and not returning until they start migrating). I got many nice photos up close of busy bird parents or chicks checking out the world. And to my surprise, I also found a little roe deer calf hiding in the grass on our neighbouring field. We have them here all year, but I have never found a calf that little before, and have always hoped finding one some day.
On the 21st we went on a three weeks long road trip towards Northern Norway. First we spent some days in our favourite municipality Stryn in western Norway, then Geiranger and the beautiful mountains of Romsdal, where we tried an amazing landscape hotel by the river for the first time (on this month’s photo). The weather was almost too hot and nice all the time, which is not guaranteed at all up here. Especially since we used our old (but bigger) car without a functioning air condition.
When entering Northern Norway, we finally had time to hike to the “Marble Castle” by a beautiful river in Rana. I’ve hoped to visit that place for a long time. It was beautiful, but too much water to see all of the marble, and too hot to have a comfortable hike 😉 Then we went to another favourite place- wonderful Tranøy lighthouse with its fantastic view towards the Lofoten wall, and fantastic food and hospitality. Due to the hot temperatures during our days in the mountains (30-33°C), we hoped for a milder climate here by the sea. But of course- it was the first time in at least 80 years they could remember to have had 30°C there as well. (And the first time in 50 years they had a tropical night in Bodø nearby.) We spent more time enjoying and photographing the midninght sun, than sleeping on this magical place. Then we had some fantastic days in the Lofoten islands, visiting some friends and taking photos.
JULY: I entered the new month by taking the Lofoten midnight sun selfie on the collage, just past midnight. Then we left Lofoten to visit the Vesterålen islands and Sortland for the first time, still in a wonderful and warm weather. After lots of road trips and landscape-, seascape- and bird photography, we went on to explore the beautiful Andøya island, and then Senja island where we had been before. Even though neither of us can go on long hikes, we were glad when we managed to walk to the popular photography spot by the stunning Segla mountain during the midninght sun. I also won a contest on national TV with a nice prize for the third time this year, with a photo I took of Richard by Segla. The rain and bad weather didn’t come until we packed for going back home. We were happy getting all the experiences and photos we hoped for, and so much more than that.
Back in western Norway, I stopped at my parents’ place for a week together with my siblings, nieces and nephew. The weather shifted between sunshine and rain throughout the days, but we had a nice time together at home and at sea. I also got to take my youngest niece’s cute 1 year photos out on a field, and some photos of the three little cousins, my hearts, together. I also visited a good friend and attended a big family party, before going home to my place together with my parents.
At home I spent time editing photos, photographing some babies, and cats for The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals. I also attended and photographed Richard’s nephew’s wedding on a wonderful summer day in the end of the month. It was the first of four weddings in a row.
AUGUST: I started the month with a great day on Jæren- first together with a friend, photographing landscapes and birds on several nice spots. We also got some good photos of the rare greater sand plover, that I met for the first time (ørkenlo in Norwegian). It rarely visits Norway. The same evening, I also spent time with my sister-in-law who lives on Jæren as well. We had fun photographing her in nice surroundings and in different outfits by a waterfall, out in a river, by some old buildings, in an avenue and by some nice trees (as seen in the collage).
I photographed weddings the three first weekends of the month, and I also sang in one of them. The weather was great in all weddings, and we got almost too many great shots- both by a waterfall, a fountain, at a nice bridge, at the beach, in a horse-drawn carriage, on a cereal field, by a nice summer house, among purple heather, by nice large trees and so on. One of them were my brother-in-law’s sister’s wedding, so I also got to photograph and spend time together with my niece and nephew in their nice clothes and my sister and her husband who sang on the ceremony.
I had a confirmand photo shoot that I just loved, with a girl who looked like a fairytale princess in her national costume among nice trees in great light. And I also photographed a 1 year old at the beach, a 2 year old in a really nice park, engagement photos at a beach, a newborn, and some beautiful Maine Coon cats for a breeder in her garden. We often had nice visits of a roe deer with two calves outside our kitchen for a couple of months, that I also got some photos of.
Of course we got a long period of nice weather when I started working again. But it was fun starting up with my choir at the same time, and having concerts. One of them were held on a cruise ship every Monday for a period, by only a group of singers each time. It was special and great! I also spent three both fun and hectical days on a school camp on Jæren, together with lots of pupils and colleagues in lovely weather. The pupils were surfing, golfing and on a science- and farm museum.
The last day of the month, it still didn’ feel like autumn was approaching. People sunbathed at the beach in our neighborhood, and several wading birds that rarely come here were there the same day. I photographed some of them in the morning sun before work, and after work two red knots came very close when I sat still on the beach (polarsniper in Norwegian). So close that the camera couldn’t focus in the end. It was such a lovely day just enjoying the sun and the birds, and even though I looked forward to go to Finland to photograph wildlife the next day, I wished that I still could have some more days at home before going to a colder place.
9. (Bottom left) Big Bears
SEPTEMBER: Started with me going to Finland together with 3 other photographers from Jæren. We met with 6 more later on. We had so much fun together, and it was inspiring to spend time together with great photographers. We stayed in a cosy cabin deep in the forest at Wildlife Safaris Finland, 8 hours by car from Helsinki and close to the Russian border (we were photographing only 1300 meters from it at the closest). We got great food every day- beyond all expectations.
At daytime we edited photos, talked, and photographed birds and squirrels by the cabins. In the evenings we went in hides on three different places, where we also could spend the night if we wanted to; on a bogland, by a lake and in a pine forest. The weather was very varied and cold, but all conditions were nice and interesting for photographing animals and birds- at least when we had 5 evenings and just as many chances for varied photos. I photographed bears all five evenings, wolves two of them (three together both times), and a wolverine one time. I also photographed eagles and other birds that hoped for some of the animals’ food. It was really exciting watching and listening to them, especially the noisy bears. And extra exiting in the pine forest where the animals came only 2.5 meters away.
When we were in the cold in Finland, the weather was still nice and warm at home. But I couldn’t enjoy it that much when I got home, since I traveled home with a high fever and a flu (the worst travel I’ve ever had). It lasted for a long time, and I guess it was covid for the second time.
When I got better, I photographed a newborn, took pregnant photos in the sunset that I only had dreamed of, and had 4 beautiful confirmands both at the beach, by boathouses and a barn, in a boat and in a nice park. I also had the year’s actually only visit at the center of The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals, and photographed 24 cats and 4 rabbits.
We still had wading birds at our beach in the nice weather, and I got some great photos and videos of a young bar-tailed godwit that stayed for a week, searching for food at the beach (lappspove in Norwegian). It came only 1 meter away, if not closer, several times when I layed on the kelp and sand.
My choir had two exciting concerts together with known artists, where also the Crown Prince of Norway listened to one of them. I attended for the fun of it, but was without a singing voice and had to mime for 8 weeks after my flu.
10. ♤ København ♤
OCTOBER: Started with going to the island I’m from, to photograph a beautiful autumn wedding and a golden wedding couple afterwards, and spend an evening with my parents. It was my first wedding in my beautiful home area and the church I “grew up in”, and I was really excited. The forecast said lots of rain and we had some plan B’s, but to our surprise it started perfectly partly cloudy, but soon turned into full sunshine. So we got an opposite problem- we couldn’t take photos al the places we hoped for, we had to find shadow instead. Luckily there were lots of nice yellow trees with shadow by the lake by the church, to get the autumn photos they wanted. We also took some by the sea.
In the autumn break one week later, I went to Copenhagen (the capital of Denmark) for 9 days. I hadn’t been to Denmark for more than 20 years, and never in this beautiful city. At first, I spent some days together with a childhood friend- shopping, sightseeing and eating lots of delicious food. It was beautiful walking around in the autumn dressed city. At the end of the week I did the same together with my choir, in addition to having concerts. The weather was great the whole week.
In the middle of the week I had some days by myself, where I went back to nice places in the city with my camera. I also took the train to a forest park, after suddenly remembering someone mentioned it on my Finland trip one month earlier. That turned into a big highlight! It was so beautiful there, and I walked around for hours. I met hundreds of wild red-, sika- and fallow deer among the nice autumn colours, and they came really close. I was glad to have brought my 70-200mm!
After getting home, my first great niece was born (feeling old!). She is so beautiful, and I rather feel like her aunt than her father’s aunt (on Richard’s side). My choir also had a concert together with the famous singer Christian Ingebrigtsen (known from the boyband A1). What a nice and great guy!
On Richard’s birthday in the end of the month, we attended a fun 70 years jubilee party together with friends in our photography club, and got great food and cakes without making it ourselves for his birthday ツ We also watched an adorable black little Pomeranian dog for a week while the owners were on holiday. He was great at posing, and on the last day of the month I took some adorable photos of him among the autumn leaves.
NOVEMBER: We still watched the cute pomeranian dog, and it was nice having a four legged friend in our house again, three years after losing Tessi. We had some more photo shoots together, in autumn landscape and at the beach. I think he had great fun staying with us.
I also got to take my adorable great niece’s newborn photos. And just like last year, I spent most of my spare time indoors this month, editing all the portrait assignments since summer.
But the second weekend, lots of exciting things happened. It started with me noticing a flock of beautiful Bohemian waxwings right outside work (sidensvans in Norwegian, on this month’s photo). I had only seen them once, when I was new in town, and never photographed them. I started the weekend by bringing my camera to photograph them after work. I got many nice photos of them up close, among the autumn leaves and red berries.
I also sang at an annual party in town and showed them a film I made of nature photos from the municipality with some nice music, at their request. Both the organizers and guests seemed very satisfied. I ended that weekend by having a really fun photo shoot for my hairdresser. The models (friends and employees) were great, and we got many nice photos for advertising.
The autumn was abnormally mild, and it was only wind and not low temperatures that could make cyckling to work difficult. On the First Sunday of Advent, we had so much wind and rain that I didn’t travel to Stavanger to join my choir singing on the outdoor Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
But I went the next day, for our final rehearsal for our Christmas concerts together with the famous and great person Ole Edvard Antonsen- one of the world’s leading trumpet soloists. We also recorded a new Christmas song together with him, written by people in my choir. It’s called “Lys” (Lights), and is found where you listen to music. I also made a music video for the song, published on my choir SGCompany’s page on Facebook.
DECEMBER: Started with my choir’s Christmas concerts on 3 of the 4 first days. A wonderful experience, first together with the world-famous trumpeter Ole Edvard Antonsen, and then together with some other great Norwegian artists. Later I also attended a Christmas concert where I live.
At the same time, we got long lasting cold and nice weather for the first time this season. The second week we had snow as well that stayed for a couple of weeks. It was really atmospheric walking through the snow covered Christmas market in town (“Julebyen”) on my way from the bus to work. I brought my camera and took some photos, like the one on the collage. The town management have actually ordered that photo and some of Richard’s photos for the town hall ツI also spent a nice afternoon on the Christmas market together with my aunt from southern Norway, who I only see a couple of times a year. I bought too many delights, and already look forward to next year, to buy them again ツ
The snow typically rained away right before Christmas, and we didn’t get those sunny days like last year. The weather made us spend the holiday indoors, watching Christmas movies and editing the rest of my portrait assignments. We had a nice Christmas Eve celebration together with Richard’s family, at our newborn great niece’s family’s place. Our nephew had made a delicious Christmas dinner.
We also watched a cute cobberdog one day, and had another Christmas dinner at my mother-in-law’s place. My mom and dad came to celebrate New Year’s Eve together with us. I made lots of good food both for that evening and for my sister, niece and nephew visiting as well on New Year’s Day. It was my first time not going to the island I’m from at all during the holidays, but this year I found it the most relaxing to just stay at home.
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I am grateful for all the nice experiences, trips and travels this year (none of them planned until a little while in advance), and for all the nice people I’ve got to share them with. I am excited for all that I expect will happen the coming year as well, that I haven’t planned yet.
I hope to see and photograph even more new bird species, and get even better ones of some of the beautiful creatures I’ve met before. We have also talked about going back to Finnmark in the north- to the eastern part of the county, which is the only part of Norway we haven’t visited yet. And my choir will maybe go abroad for the autumn break.
One thing I hope to be better at the coming year, is to say no to things even though I find it fun. I have had too many portrait assignments the past six months, so that I’ve used more spare time than I’d like to,, sitting indoors editing photos. Even though I like it, I would like to have even more time for nature photography end editing those photos, and being with friends. But all in all a luxury problem.
I hope that the world will turn into a better place again this year, for the people of Ukraine, for the ones struggling with the high prices now, and everyone else who think that the times are hard.
If you’d like to see more of all my photos from 2022, you can do so by scrolling down my page here on Flickr, or on Ranveig Marie Photography on Instagram and Facebook.
Thanks to all who wanted to read about my year, and to all my photography followers!
I hope your 2023 will be great!
✨* Hɣ ቢēⴓ ɣēaṛ! *✨
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Going through some old shots, teaching my assistant how to edit. We edited this photo from the McLaren shoot from last year.
Please do not use/post elsewhere without my prior consent. Please leave a comment/fave if you like it.
The more I look at the shots I got of various resorts, the more excited I get to go back down. I'm sure we all get new ideas as we edit photos from past trips. After reading Ryan Pastorino's post on Disney Photography Blog about leveling ultra wide shots, I definitely want to pay a little more attention to my leveling next trip, especially with my ultra wide. This was taken from one end of the Grand Floridian resort lobby and is a 3 bracket HDR.
Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.
Enjoy!
Be sure to press L to view this large on black.
(Theme music plays)
Mysterious by Tom Aldrich
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Soul Sleuths intro, voice over plays over intro montage of explorations.
Paranormal. Supernatural. Otherworldly. Mysterious.
Unexplained.
There are those who shrug off these words.
There are those who find these words irresistible.
If you are watching, then you are among the latter. You are people with
inquisitive minds, adventurous hearts, and courageous souls.
Together, we will explore places some say are inhabited by restless
spirits, demons, and creatures of unknown origin.
Our team of believers and skeptics seek to unite science and mysticism
in our quest to produce empirical evidence that some things may exist on
the boundaries of what we regard as reality.
Welcome to Soul Sleuths, where "investigation is just the beginning."
LIVE - ONE - ENTRY
(dissolves to exterior scene where Nica, Hammer, Edi, Philly, and Rebus sit in a half circle, facing the camera, on camping chairs, while behind them looms a dark building)
Nica: Welcome fellow sleuths of the supernatural. As you can see, we are not in the studio. That's because we are live!
Hammer: You requested a live Halloween show, and you're going to get it.
Nica: Let's hope this doesn't end up as a found footage episode.
Philly: Let's hope. So grim, girl.
Nica: Grim is exactly what this is. Behind us is what remains of the Samish Asylum, named after Samish Bay, which is named for the Samish Tribe. Tonight, we will explore one of the most haunted places on Earth, to determine whether or not restless spirits still roam the halls of this notorious asylum for the criminally insane.
Edi: OHhh. (nods) So, I was thinking of a completely different kind of asylum, and wondering why it'd be a Halloween situation. I get it, now. Not sanctuary. (the others smile, shake their heads, Philly pats her arm)
Hammer: Tonight, we will be armed with phones. (holds up her phone) We will be keeping an eye on your questions, observations, and comments as we explore. You will literally be participating in tonight's investigation. So, stay alert. The life you save may be ours.
Philly: You're absolutely morbid. Have you considered adding one or two bright colors to your wardrobe? Look at Edi, her clothes shout, "I'm alive and I'm not afraid!"
Edi: Of colors? Why would I be? That's weird, Philly.
Rebus: Ghosts.
Edi: Where?! (turns violently, tipping over her chair, squeaks)
Hammer: While Rebus and Philly rescue Edi from the camping equipment, why don't you tell our viewers about Samish Asylum? (to Nica)
Nica: Samish Asylum for the criminally insane was constructed in 1940, the location selected for its remoteness from populated areas. From the beginning, the asylum was rumored to be cursed due to being built on former tribal land.
Hammer: Here we go.
Nica: I didn't make this up. The Samish people were displaced, and the asylum was built on what used to be their land.
Hammer: Ancient burial grounds? That's a trope.
Nica: I have no idea if any of it was built on burial grounds. It's just part of an area where they lived. But at least seven construction workers died during construction--
Hammer: That could be sheer clumsiness. Right, Edi?
Edi: (brightly) Right! (frowns) Wait. (everyone chuckles)
Nica: And two vanished during construction. Rumor is that they were entombed in the building, accidentally or intentionally.
Rebus: Why? I mean, seven other guys died while it was being built so who cares if a couple other guys did?
Philly: You sounded like a pirate just then. (to Rebus) I like it.
Rebus: (grins) I just meant, if seven guys died, why hide two more?
Hammer: It's more likely they just quit and took off since people were dropping dead left and right.
Nica: They might have. There's another rumor that they were causing the fatal accidents, to prevent the building from going up, because after they vanished, there were no more fatal accidents.
Hammer: That's an interesting theory. Very "Goodfellas" vibe, there.
Philly: I just love Joe Pesci in that. (all look at him) What? He's a talented actor.
Rebus: No, we're surprised you watched Goodfellas.
Nica: All you talk about are Meryl Streep, and Downton Abbey.
Philly: You just don't listen to everything I say. I have depth.
Rebus: And a full length mink coat.
Philly: It's faux fur, and you wish you could pimp this coat. (he preens, and Rebus grins at that)
Hammer: (to the camera) This is the sort of stuff we edit out of what you see.
Nica: The asylum opened in the spring of '42 and was considered to be state-of-the-art in treating the criminally insane.
Hammer: So, nightmare kind of stuff?
Nica: (nods) Oh, definitely a horror trope all by itself. One of the buildings are apartments intended for staff, so that they wouldn't have to commute the distance to the nearest town, but they were rarely used. Apparently, the almost constant screams from those undergoing "treatment" were unbearable.
Edi: Hang on, Nica. Are you about to describe stuff?
Nica: Yes.
Edi: (puts on a headset) Wave at me when you're done, 'cause I can't hear you.
Nica: "Treatments" included ice baths. electro-shock, the usual kind plus genital, anal. (Rebus and Philly cross their legs) Various drugs, lobotomies, and if a criminal bit, or tried to bite, their teeth were pulled. No anesthesia was used.
Philly: Well, that explains the waves of pain and rage I've been feeling.
Hammer: Are you sure your shoes aren't too tight? (Nica and Rebus chuckle, Edi's eyes are closed and she's head-bobbing to whatever tune she's listening to)
Nica: There were amputations, and also stories about experimental surgeries.
Philly: It sounds like a Nazi concentration camp.
Rebus: Well, World War Two was going on. Maybe somebody sneaked into our country?
Nica: Well,
Hammer: Here we go.
Nica: (snort/laughs) I'm not making this up. There were rumors that Director Hoffer, who ran the asylum, was actually a Nazi doctor named, Haufmann. He was apparently right up there with Dr. Mengele as far as grotesque experimentations on humans.
Hammer: Rumors.
Nica: Well, yeah.
Hammer: I'm ready to go inside.
Rebus: And, this place is empty, right?
Philly: Not at all. I sense many dark entities within.
Rebus: I'm talking about living humans. Nobody's squatting in there, are they?
Nica: No, they have a security company that routinely patrols the grounds to keep people out. The city doesn't want a lawsuit for injuries.
Hammer: What if Edi trips?
Edi: (nods) Bound to happen.
Nica: We signed your life away, Edi. It was the only way to get inside.
Edi: (brightly) Sounds good. (jumps up, chair topples over)
Hammer: (takes Edi's arm) Someone else can pick it up. Why don't we go over here until everybody is ready? (leads her off to the side)
Rebus: I'll grab the camera. (exits the viewing area)
The Soul Sleuths assemble, with their gear, and we can even see Rebus with his camera, in the shot.
Nica: Okay, looks like we're ready to face The Sinister Spirits of Samish Asylum.
(view changes to Rebus' camera angle, as he follows the others into the dark asylum)
Edi: (turns on her Spectre Detectre) All right, let's do some boo!
Hammer: No.
Edi: I need a catchphrase.
Hammer: No.
Nica: This first room used to be an extremely secure. (camera pans decrepit room) But the various holding areas, check in desk, etc. were removed after a fire. This was after the asylum was closed, so there was no reason to replace any of it. (continues down corridor) The first room is the exam room, where inmates were physically and mentally evaluated, categorized, then sent to whichever wing their "type" was incarcerated.
Hammer: Stranglers with stranglers, axe murderers with axe murders?
Nica: (snort/laughs) I don't think it was--
Hammer: Guys who like to leave little sprigs of rosemary stuffed up their victims' nostrils with other guys who like to leave little sprigs of rosemary stuffed up their victims' nostrils. (all chuckle)
Nica: I think it was more about raving lunatics in one ward, and more easily controlled in another. I mean, they were all kept in separate cells. There was absolutely no common time. If they were taken out of their cells it was shackled, under heavy guard, and often under sedation.
Philly: (moans and leans against the wall near a door) No, I can't. I can't go in there.
Edi: (turns her flashlight above the door) It's an office. It's not the exam room.
Philly: (moans) I can't go inside.
Hammer: (pats Philly's arm) Hang in there, Handsome. You don't have to go in that room.
Edi: (opens the office door and peeks inside) Gross. (draws back and closes the door)
Nica: What's gross? Did you see a gross ghost?
Edi: No, there's just a jumble of flashes. I think there's a bug swarm in there.
Nica: Gross. Okay, let's move on.
The group moves to the next room, Philly leaning against Hammer and walking as far around the office door as the hallway allows.
Hammer: You okay, here? (to Philly)
Philly: (straightens) Yes, there's...maybe something here. I'm not sure. But it's not like--
Edi: (helpfully) The bug room?
Hammer shakes her head at Edi as the group goes into the exam room which is littered with retro equipment, an examination table, a couple of chairs, and a lot of dust and cobwebs.
Nica: People have reported objects moving in this room, and the feeling that someone--
Philly: (interrupts) --Is standing in that corner! (points, they all look, nothing's there)
Edi: No, that corner! (points, and they all look, nothing's there)
Hammer: Settle down, it's just our shadows.
Nica: Or is it? As I was about to say; people get the feeling that someone, or something, is standing in the corners of this room, always just out of direct sight.
Rebus: (voice from direction of camera) So, what happens if everybody picks a corner, and stares at it?
Hammer; That's a good idea, Rebus. Let's do it. (points her flashlight at one corner) I've got this one.
Edi: (turns her head so the Spectre Detectre is aimed at a corner) I call dibs on this one!
Philly: I've got this one.
Nica: Sure, make me go last so I piss it off. (they all chuckle and she sighs) Okay, last--
As she's turning her flashlight into the last corner, a rat scampers across the floor, and she shrieks, Philly shrieks, Edi squeaks loudly, steps back, falls over a chair, the rat runs across her back, disappearing into a cabinet. Flashlights wave and shrieks continue until Hammer cuts in.
Hammer: (laughing) It's just a rat! Stop turning this place into a disco, already. We're live, here. Edi, you okay? (helping her up)
Edi: A rat used me like the Narrows Bridge! (they all chuckle at that) Hope it wasn't rabid. (looking around)
Rebus: (voice from direction of camera) That's not how rabies is spread.
Nica: Let's move on to the operation theater.
Edi: Oo, movies? (clearly forgets about the rat and bounces out of the room)
Nica: She's going to be disappointed.
Hammer: Did you get the rat action? (smirking)
Rebus: (voice from direction of camera) Got it. Should be a great edit. (they chuckle)
Philly: (as he passes them, exiting) I could have sworn all the cabinet doors were shut.
Nica: Bailey
Hammer: Arc
Edi: Teddi
Philly: Seth
Rebus: Erebus
CANCELLED - It can happen, and it's happened to us. Perhaps this episode will be aired another time, but for now, Soul Sleuths is off the air.
Best wishes to one of our sleuths.
WATCH - youtu.be/WgdcwZiyYVo
The Nikon Z9 is people's hands! Nikon announces a big new lens & Canon will make 2022 the year of the camera. Glenn and I also share some recent images we took in tricky conditions and how we edited them. We both have not used flash much at all, but sometimes you just need it!
Glenn also shares how one can quickly sort through tens of thousands of images and pick the right ones to edit. That and much more in this episode of the Bird Photography Show!
Something a little different today:
Behind the scenes pics from a music video project recorded for ZAZ (Zack and Abby Zak) entitled "Loom."
Mike (audio), Abby Zak (guitar), Zack (percussion), Maggie (video/animation), and myself (video/editor)
Shot in the northwoods of Wisconsin last summer, we edited through autumn and winter and released the video today. Check it out here: youtu.be/fb1GtpUJCWw
Bulletin board display in our junior high school library computer lab. Printable versions of these banners, headers, and signs may be found here.
Please forgive the bad editing of this photo. We were unable to take a new photo (display has been dismantled) but Creative Commons did not allow the decorative green border we had around the symbols (viewed as a modification of the symbol) so we edited them out as best we could.
Something a little different today:
Behind the scenes pics from a music video project recorded for ZAZ (Zack and Abby Zak) entitled "Loom."
Shot in the northwoods of Wisconsin last summer, we edited through autumn and winter and released the video today. Check it out here: youtu.be/fb1GtpUJCWw
gosh this is so old. Like 3 years old. taken by my sister Jenna on our shoot and we edited together. This is like the moment I decided I wanted to be a photographer. I found it on my computer and thought I would upload it. It's rare that I found a photo from so long ago that I actually like. Usually i get sick of my work. I look back and think how i could have made it so much better. I guess thats what we do as photographers we grow and our style evolves.
Something a little different today:
Behind the scenes pics from a music video project recorded for ZAZ (Zack and Abby Zak) entitled "Loom."
Shot in the northwoods of Wisconsin last summer, we edited through autumn and winter and released the video today. Check it out here: youtu.be/fb1GtpUJCWw
www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2010/07/26/a-new-fish/
Yesterday I took a long overdue holiday from journaling daily. I let my compulsion go and worked on other things. A family portrait session for friends took up most of the morning. I came back and worked on some editing projects in the afternoon, fully intending to read for a while and maybe take a nap. The nap would follow naturally after about fifteen minutes of reading. Neither the reading or the nap eventuated. I ended up working on images for our friend Ush's article for Niugini Blue called A New Fish. Ush came over to the house and we edited her text and Photoshopped images for the article.
One of the images was from Saturday's dive on The Henry Leith near Wongat Island. Here is Ush half-way down in the cargo hold:
I asked Ush to write a short article about her experiences while completing her PADI Open Water Diver course. This course covers all the training and knowledge required to allow one to dive safely down to eighteen metres.
The dive on The Henry Leith was Ush's second dive since finishing the course. I was happy to see that she had been well instructed. She did very well on the dive. I did note that she was fascinated by this Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis):
It and a friend are almost always hanging around the bow area of the Henry. They are very shy. I was lucky to get the shot above when the fish was moving from one bit of cover to another.
They are nearly a half-metre long, so it's impossible to get fine details in one shot. You have to take a picture of the head:
As you can see, it has a very unusual mouth.
The tail is just an unusual as the head.
The Henry Leith is covered with life. This is a large sponge with colonies of coral on each side:
One could probably complete a Doctoral degree by describing the life on this one wreck. I've been photographing it for almost twenty-five years and I still find new thing on every dive.
There are some familiar friends, however. This Golden Damsel (Amblyglyphidodon aureus) has been haning around just aft of the cargo hold for several years:
Every time I stop to photograph it, it tries to bite me, sometimes successfully. The red stain on my fingers is not blood. Blood appears green underwater. The colour comes from touching bits of corroded iron while I steady myself for taking shots.
This photo is a joint effort for sure! I had the idea, and Novak (N0vk) took the picture with my direction (and his suggestions). Then he taught me a lot about photoshop as we edited the photo together. I thought it was a fun picture project!
One of the layers is my underwater shot of flowers, the other is sophie_of_delusion 's picture of me. We edited together (with pizza and beer) and this is the result. Good times are finally here :)
Miss M came in to get back to feeling herself. Two kids, divorce, born with diabetes and some other health issues left her with a lot of self doubt to overcome. You'll see in some photos we edited out her insulin port, and in some it is there at her request.
Recovered from the LR previews of a damaged drive. Taken in 2017.
so fear not.
Chiquimula, Guatemala.
01.10.2008.
6 of 6.
(note: as we edited through my guatemala photos, many of the photos i took of david seemed to be a bit strange. we half-jokingly said it looked like he was going insane photo by photo. so this is that edit. all tongue in cheek. this edit neither confirms nor denies mr. banks' sanity or lack thereof.)
look at this crazy man's take in guatemala: www.davidwalterbanks.com
Something a little different today:
Behind the scenes pics from a music video project recorded for ZAZ (Zack and Abby Zak) entitled "Loom."
Shot in the northwoods of Wisconsin last summer, we edited through autumn and winter and released the video today. Check it out here: youtu.be/fb1GtpUJCWw
What do I say about a shot like this. It's a little old, but, what is a photograph besides a memory.
No matter what we do, how we capture, how we edit after, how we develop, no matter what they are simple memories.
I think that's kind of cool. I like the fact that with photography, we can catalog our lives, and look back at our own memories.
It's important to live I suppose, and move forward, but I like looking back sometimes.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 Song of the day: Arcade Fire “The Suburbs”
WOW, I think my heart experienced more than it could handle today. I had the hugest adrenaline rush ever, followed by about 10 more. Here’s the story.
I go outside and walk towards the golf course to take my day 18 picture. I come back in, lock my sliding door and put the pole back in place (to keep intruders out). Something moves. I scream at the top of my lungs (I’m so fearful of running into those sun spiders). Turns out it was a gecko. I want to see it. I move the pole again. It squirms and gets stuck in the corner towards the door. I grab a glass. I scare it out onto the carpet. It has a hard time walking on the carpet. I put the glass over it. BAM. I have a trapped gecko. It’s so cute. I call Bethany. Tell her to get her butt down here because I have a trapped gecko. She comes down. We gawk at it. Adore it. Take pictures of it (see day 18 photo). We decide we want to bring it back outside. We slide a piece of paper under it to trap it. It freaks out. Its tail starts wiggling like a madman. Its tail is still wiggling like a madman. Bethany and I start screaming because it’s creepy. Its tail starts breaking. Bethany yells, “OH MY GOD, IS HIS TAIL COMING OFF?!?!” We continue to scream. And screech. And get grossed out. We have to walk away for a minute because we are so freaked out. We walk back towards him. His tail is completely detached from his body. We scream more. And more. And more. I google “gecko tail falls off.” Find out it’s a defense mechanism when they get frightened to distract its predator. We feel guilty for scaring it. And for making it think we’re predators. We don’t want to hurt it. We want to help it. Damage had been done. We pick up the cup/paper and walk outside. Set it back down on the ground. Shout, “1...2...3...” and flip the cup over. We run away. Fast. Screaming. We wait 30 seconds then go back to see if it got away. It’s slowly trying to escape. The TAIL is still stuck to the glass. We want to vomit. And we can’t stop screaming. We flick the tail off with the paper. We go inside and wash our hands. Over. And over. And over. We upload the photos onto my computer. We look at them. Screaming. The whole time. Our hearts are racing. I’m having a hard time breathing. We pick a picture. We edit a picture. We upload it to flickr and attach this story. This was a true story. Of two girls. Horrified by a tail-less gecko.
We go pick up my lens at UPS. My heart is racing again. I need to go to sleep. So my heart doesn’t explode. Will practice taking photos with new lens tomorrow. Emily is coming to visit! I will take photos of her pregnant belly. She will be beautiful!
(Listen to Arcade Fire’s new album and then go and buy it cause it rocks: www.myspace.com/arcadefireofficial)
Just for fun: we edited our original Wordle uploaded to Flickr in Flickr to add some free image shapes and rounded edges.
Wordle image made at www.wordle.net/ using some of our Flickr tags.
Images of Wordles are licensed with Creative Commons License Attribution 3.0 United States, "Approved for Free Cultural Works"
OK, now go to the library!
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well this is the photo for yesterday because from 9-6 i was at work experience and then when i got home i had to rest my back because we edited the whole day so my back was aching so much. i'm so inspired by her though, she has done so much. i guess i'll talk about it more after the three days.
i tried taking a photo for today but it's pouring with rain right now and i was planning on going for a walk but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
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Hot Tub Time
I went to TC's today and we edited Eric's podcast all day long. I literally arrived around 7:30am and departed around 7pm. We talked for an hour or so before we got into editing. And we got in his hot tub twice through the day as well as stopped for lunch. In all that time we only got through about 30 minutes of his 1 hour and 42 minute interview. We are getting back together Wednesday to finish it.
March 11, 2017 weight: 158.7 lbs (Garmin) (159.0 lbs Tanita)
March 11, 2016 weight: 179.3 lbs (Garmin)
[07/30/11] Vidcon was once again incredibly overwhelming. I spent the morning doing things like filming an autotuned music video (I did the macarena for 2 minutes in the music video, and we edited it to make it look like I was dancing at locations all around the world.) I got a ton of sweet schwag, including youtube tube socks and a USB drive that looks like a key that you can stick on your keychain. I met a number of youtubers I respect and I ended up acting in a few random youtube web series simply because I was passing by in the hallway.
In the finale, Charlie McDonnell (youtube celebrity from Britain) took off his pants while dancing. Tumblr promptly broke with people uploading animated gifs of the experience.
I didn't eat a real meal until 7 in the evening, when I went to a nearby grocery store and concocted tacos in their microwaves. The concert went well, though I was tired and sore from 2 days of conference. Dayyyyum.
Vidcon 2012 here I come!
Mood: 9
Health: 9
Hours of Sleep: 7
# of Drinks of Caffeine: 0
# of Drinks of Alcohol: 1
Miles Biked: 6
Weather: Still LA!
Miss M came in to get back to feeling herself. Two kids, divorce, born with diabetes and some other health issues left her with a lot of self doubt to overcome. You'll see in some photos we edited out her insulin port, and in some it is there at her request.
Recovered from the LR previews of a damaged drive. Taken in 2017.
تم تعديل هذه الصورة التي عمرها اكثر من ٣٠ سنة في مدة اسبوعين تقريبا وقمنا بتحديثها باضافة الوان زاهية وانعاشها مرة اخرى وذلك بهذف ابقاء الذكريات الجميلة لفترات اطول فما اجمل هذه اللحظات .
This photo is more than 30 yrs old and we edit and renew it with in 2 weeks with pro. Works with some touch colors in the pic. It gives the nice memories life again and keep it for long time in your mind.