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Funny how you see things in an environment that you have passed by many times and not even considered to be there. Its happened to me recently, where I've managed to squeeze a new perspective out of a familiar place. Its almost like the more you look the more you see, but paradoxically the more you see, makes it harder to see anything. And or make the choices harder. (Am I making any sense?)
It’s a greater challenge to attempt a new perspective on a similar place, than to go to a new (photogenic location), because it forces you to push your creativity into new areas, ironically taking you out of your comfort zone. We learn most from our challenges!
It’s a little bit like life, when your 21 you really believe that you have the world sorted. And as you get older you realise that what you thought when you were 21 is in fact naive and that life is ‘a lot’ more complex than that. So extrapolating this what I'm writing now, what I'm producing photographically now, is indeed off its time and I shall develop (hopefully in the positive direction). So those locations visited many times will keep being productive ‘if’ i keep developing.
Anyway getting to the synthesis here, I feel that only a few months ago I wouldn’t have seen this shot, something has inspired me, challenged me to explore this composition. I will give credit to many of you out there in flickr land because some of you guys have both inspired and challenged my thoughts. Cheers guys!
Composing a shot, forces you to select only a small part of an environment, which you choose to present. And this shot to me particularly demonstrates that. When I saw the whole scene I liked it but it was only when I began to frame elements of it, did this part begin to work, (for me at least). I feel the opposing curves here are cut into by the framing, which creates a kind of tension and forces your eye back along to the other side. My eye moves back and forth horizontally, flowing around the curves in a figure of eight. I did consider taking the tree out to the right, (and when I shot this I planned as much), but after some reflection it has grown on me, as a kind of contrast against the smooth, something to break the flow. Something prickly to add tension.
After the beautiful kingfishers, this guy decided to stroll into the picture, a big male, I will have to defer to Hemraj Meena for the identification as i carelessly forgot to note it down.
A nice backlit image (slight rim light) through the flora, he was walking to the watering hole to cool off in the late morning sun...
Zona wifi en el Parque Céspedes, Santiago de Cuba (Cuba). Toda una historia conectarse a una red wifi en Cuba. Aquí no sale gratis nada. Primero comprar una tarjeta (entre 1'5 y 5 €, según el lugar donde se adquiera), por una hora de conexión. No hace falta que sea ininterrumpida, pero en ocasiones te conectas unos minutos, cortas, al rato vuelves a conectar y resulta que tu tarjeta siguió conectada como por arte de magia y ves que el saldo se ha agotado, gana la banca!! A comprar otra tarjeta!! Y encontrar una zona de conexión a la wifi es otra historia, normalmente en las plazas principales de las grandes ciudades y junto a los hoteles importantes, en donde se puede observar a numerosas personas con sus móviles en la mano intentando conectarse. Por supuesto los cubanos pagan menos por las citadas tarjetas wifi, aquí el turista paga más por todo, por el simple hecho de ser turista, de hecho el cubano y el turista manejan obligatoriamente una moneda diferente, increíble. y ni se le ocurra viajar con dólares, le penalizarán con un 20% a la hora de cambiar a pesos.
Some trees and garden shrubs mark the boundaries of former residential properties in the New Brighton Red Zone, one of several areas where earthquake induced liquefaction destroyed many thousands of homes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Affected properties have been replaced with grassland that is slowly being rebirthed into community parklands.
HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm f2.8-4 Limited.
The Mesopelagic zone or the twilight zone allows just enough sunlight to pass and almost reaching the bathypelagic zone or the abyss. H O M E Foundation can provide habitable conditions through the depths and beyond.
Build made with Bricklink Studio 2.0 with existing parts and image enhanced and edited in Photoshop.
Die leuchtend roten Kelchbecherlinge scheinen auch gut zu schmecken.
Einer von mehreren, die ich gesehen habe, in denen ein ziemlich wohlgenährter Hundertfüßler steckte.
At the Shoreline. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A peninsula of fractured and worn rocks next to the tidal zone.
As I wrote in another recent post, what I thought would be a quick visit to this cove turned into a rather longer one. As I started my visit I wasn’t sure that I would photograph here, but once I started looking around I found plenty of interesting subjects. After well over an hour I finally tore myself away to go photograph something else!
The location encompasses a shallow cove lined with rocks, some of which are flat and gradually head under the water, and others that are part of a small peninsula blocking the area from the open ocean. The intertidal zone is full of fascinating things — living creatures, pebbles left behind by the surf, and a pavement of upended strata. In this photograph I backed off some distance and put a long lens on the camera so that I could include the foreground boulders along with a small portion of the flat area and the rocky wall of the peninsula beyond.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Indigenous Man in Profile against Colourful Glass with a Bell on a stick. Not sure why.
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Bald eagle heading down quickly on this spotted stunned fish there (after it came through the dam's turbine) ... easy pickings in this case.
This image was taken near the community of Diablo Grande, California. This fire is part of the Del Puerto Canyon fire. Image made near the gaurd shack gate in Diablo Grande.
41/365 … a quick trip into Sainsbury’s on the way back from the gym for, as it turned out, not quite enough top up bits of shopping … ah ha … maybe it’s because I stopped to take this shot of the ‘Zone B’ (can you tell??) avenue of lights … just getting to the point that they’re not needed ?? :-) xx