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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, Inyo California
This shot was taken a few night's ago during my visit to Death Valley National Park. Death Valley is one of the darkest places in the USA and the sky was clear this night. Although the core of the Milky Way is up yet, you can still see it as shown here.
Although it was 12:43am, it was 90º degrees (32º C). It was dry with a light breeze which made the night very comfortable. However, it was hot and dry during the day (which chapped my lips). This place is no joke when it comes to the weather. You must take precautions and stay hydrated. But it's simply beautiful.
No light painting.
Technical:
Canon 5DIII
Canon EF16-35mm 2.8L II USM
Vixen Polarie
Processed in PS and LR
Sunrise at the docks in Savannah Georgia.
A contre-jour shot.
Shot with a Canon 16-35mm 2.8 L II USM lens using a Commlite EF-NEX adapter.
Weekend life around the District of Columbia. With Spring right around the corner, DC streets are coming alive.
Thanks for the views, faves, invitations, and comments are welcome.
Gear:
Canon 7D
Rokinon 8mm 3.5
Rokinon 14mm 2.8
Canon 28-135mm 3.5-5.6
The August Supermoon over Washington DC
Canon 7D
Rokinon 500mm 6.3
Vixen Polarie
Registax - 75 frames stacked
Although Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica has no connection with the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral, it is just as impressive.
Sunset on the horizon as seen from Naples Florida.
This is a still from a time lapse I took of this amazing sunset.
Great Meadows@The Plains, VA USA
Compare this photo to the next one. A $300.00USD lens (used for this photo) vs. a $1500.00USD (used for the next photo). You be the judge.
By the way, let me now which one you favor with a fave. Thanks.
Notre Dame Basilica, the crown jewel of Montreal - Much of the interior structure of this cathedral is wood. When the church was renovated, metal rods were driven down the hollow columns to strengthen fatiguing wood.
Found this older shot that caught my attention. Interesting how you see something different in a shot when you go back to it after some time.
Test shot using my Vixen Polarie at Big Meadows, Shenandoah VA (about 8 20 second exposures)
Equipment:
Canon 5D Mark III
Rokinon 14mm f2.8 @ f2.8
Vixen Polarie
Processed using Registax 6
Note: Because the Vixen Polarie is tracking the stars (using Polaris as the axis to rotate around), the ground will start to blur due to the rotation of the camera on the motor of the Polarie. The trees on the horizon are starting to look blurry. But the sky is sharp with no star trailing or coma. This the opposite of star trails where the camera is fixed (not moving) and the stars appear to rotate with every shot.
The Washington Monument in the foreground (the white obelisk) and the Old Post Office Pavilion (aka Trump International Hotel) in the background - the brown-yellow smaller clock tower just off center right.
Inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in NYC, protest organizers decided to set up camp on 16th Street and H St. NW. The camp was named "Occupy H St.". This area would be the backdrop for Metropolitan Police, Federal police, and military raids. This is the area that was cleared out for Trump's famous photoshoot in front of St. John's Church.
The scaffolding over the walkway on next to the Hayes-Adams Hotel on H Street provided the ultimate venue to express and promote messages that related to the protest. Protest organizer's transformed this area into a makeshift memorial/museum. I heard that all of the signage, art, and posters were collected by the Smithsonian for safe keep and will be displayed on day in one of its museums My guess is the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
Tech note: I really like the way the #Power sign was backlit and waited until someone walked by it. Fortunately, this young lady was taking a video as she walked down the wall. [Honestly, I didn't realized she was taking a video until I processed this photo. All the better...]
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#blacklivesmatter
Twice a year the Library of Congress in Washington DC opens the Main Reading Room to photographers. Although the Great Hall (shown here) is open all of the time, I can never resist shooting this pano.
Pano shot hand held - no tripods allowed. I tried to set up my Gorilla Pod to do a time-lapse but was quickly busted by a guard.
Taken with Canon 5D3 & Rokinon 14mm 2.8 (@ f8 - I think)
8 shots stitched into a pano & cropped in PS CC.
Only applied luminance masking and sharpening.
A strategic point in both battles at Manassas, the Stone Bridge provided a crossing above this creek that has steep banks, making it very difficult to move horses and artillery across.
Stone Bridge crosses Bull Run at the eastern entrance of the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia. The original bridge, built in 1825, was destroyed when Confederate forces evacuated Northern Virginia in March, 1862. In 1884, a new bridge, apparently similar to the original design, was built on the site of the old bridge. Modern day U.S. Route 29 crosses Bull Run on a bridge built in the late 1960s downstream of this one. - Wikpedia.
Note: I was at the very edge of the water when I shot this scene - actually my feet were wet because I was slipped into some water. I didn't notice a juvenile Copperhead snake swimming directly at me. A boy scout, who was near by at the bank of the creek, noticed it and pointed it out to me. I had already got my shots, so we looked at it for a couple of minutes but it was determined to come our way. So we got the heck out of there.
Copperhead snakes are common throughout the eastern part of the USA and they are poisonous. They can be aggressive as well - I had an encounter with an adult Copperhead as a young boy when mowing my grandmother's lawn in south New Jersey. But I hear the juveniles are more venomous than the adults.
As I walked down 16th St. and got closer to the White House, this was the scene.
I know what I see, but, I will let you surmise what you can from the photo.
[My perspective: As a child of the 60s and remember the events that turned the nation, I vividly remember the protests, commotion, and the energy all around the civil rights movement growing up in South Philadelphia - the hood.]
For more photos I shot that day, go to the album.
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
Instagram: @tbfotography
After I shot Georgetown, I decide to venture a little closer towards the White House - the epicenter of the protest because the protesters want to irk and vent there frustrations directly at the them sitting president - Donald J. Trump.
As I walked down Connecticut Ave NW toward the White House, you can see all of the graffiti in black, red, white, and other colors of spray paint on street signs, statues, and monuments, walls, everywhere.
In the background I can hear the chants and roars of crowds towards the White House and Lafayette Park on 16th St, NW,
I decide to try my luck - I lost control of my curiosity. I had to document this. [Note: I am inspired by Devin Allen, a reknowned street photographer who adopted Gordon Park's style of photography. Check him out on Flickr (bydevinallen) and on Instagram.]
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
Instagram: @tbfotography
I will be posting a series of photos recounting the historic protests in Washington DC that gripped and polarized the country. I will be begin with the protest that erupted after the death of George Floyd.
The next week after the after the massive protest on May 31, 2020 I was in Arlington, VA just across the river from Washington DC. I felt the gravity of DC pulling me and my curiosity got the best of me. I watched the melee unfold on the local news the prior weekend and wanted to see with my own two eyes what the area looked like. However, I was very, very concerned about catching COVID because we were right in the middle of a pandemic and there was no vaccine at that time.
But I felt the need to document what I could so that I could share the story from a local's eyes.
So I eased into DC starting in Georgetown - the popular shopping and night life area, not the mention the prestigious university. This photo shows a restaurant boarded up with BLM posters on it hoping to ward off any destruction. Shades of the protests and destruction that happened on U St NW Washington DC after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in April of 1968.
History repeats.
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
Instagram: @tbfotography
Eiffel Tower at the Paris Casino Resort, Las Vegas. This is a half sized replica of the actual Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. It's over 400 ft overlooking the Vegas Strip and the Bellagio Lago. The tower was but first and then came along the building (hotel and casino). Three of the legs can be seen in the casino.
Capture Equipment:
Canon 5D3 in Bulb mode
Formatt-HiTech IRND 16
Time of day captured: 18:26:55
Processing note: I used the iGSM workflow to process this long exposure.