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Photo of the Day August 2020
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Before this pandemic, I went to Europe for 2 weeks in November. Visiting "The Basílica de la Sagrada Família" was one of my top highlights in Barcelona Spain.
I could use wide lenses to try to capture all the details, I could spend time in photoshop, adjusting white, blacks, contrast, dehaze, vibrance, saturate colors, enhance lighting, crop unwanted subjects/objects... making it pleasing for others. But it still doesn't compare to walking inside... seeing and experiencing the beauty of the Sagrada Familia with your own eyes. Even if we had one bad experience in Spain... we still loved the beauty of Barcelona. We went to most of Antoni Gaudí's buidings and creations. He was a brilliant architect... and his work was way ahead of its time.
Have a great weekend everyone...
I could use wide lenses to try to capture all the details, I could spend time in photoshop, adjusting white, blacks, contrast, dehaze, vibrance, saturate colors, enhance lighting, crop unwanted subjects/objects... making it pleasing for others. But it still doesn't compare to walking inside... seeing and experiencing the beauty of the Sagrada Familia with your own eyes. Even if we had one bad experience in Spain... we still loved the beauty of Barcelona. We went to most of Antoni Gaudí's buidings and creations. He was a brilliant architect... and his work was way ahead of its time.
Have a great weekend everyone...
Ah, you have made it pleasing to others - nice perspectiveBefore this pandemic, I went to Europe for 2 weeks in November. Visiting "The Basílica de la Sagrada Família" was one of my top highlights in Barcelona Spain.
I could use wide lenses to try to capture all the details, I could spend time in photoshop, adjusting white, blacks, contrast, dehaze, vibrance, saturate colors, enhance lighting, crop unwanted subjects/objects... making it pleasing for others. But it still doesn't compare to walking inside... seeing and experiencing the beauty of the Sagrada Familia with your own eyes. Even if we had one bad experience in Spain... we still loved the beauty of Barcelona. We went to most of Antoni Gaudí's buidings and creations. He was a brilliant architect... and his work was way ahead of its time.
Have a great weekend everyone...
Tree Green
X100T f2.8 - Lightroom - listening to Audible - coffee
Elm?
What did the ID tag say?
Regards, splifingate
I didn't read the lawn tag - I will check next outing and inform back.
Some 1890's style graffiti at the church ruin from my previous couple of shares.
What is interesting about this for me is that through a particular facebook group I am a member of I was able to trace who wrote it and then find their heritage details and it interwove with my own upcoming explorations of a particular area I am visiting in a months time! The surname is common for that region I am heading off to soon and it turns out this fella is the brother in-law of a pastoralist out there. This fella headed off on a journey across the state of some 1000 km's to help his sister's husband establish their huge pastoral property, then toddled off home again when done. Not an easy journey back in the 1880's and exhibiting the fortitude of our founders in exemplary fashion!
Turns out this church ruin is in the town of their birth and they would have been about my age (just over 50) at the time they etched their name here! They were probably visiting and helping family some 500 km's from where they lived. Just a short journey across town on the light rail system, huh!
The etching says
What is interesting about this for me is that through a particular facebook group I am a member of I was able to trace who wrote it and then find their heritage details and it interwove with my own upcoming explorations of a particular area I am visiting in a months time! The surname is common for that region I am heading off to soon and it turns out this fella is the brother in-law of a pastoralist out there. This fella headed off on a journey across the state of some 1000 km's to help his sister's husband establish their huge pastoral property, then toddled off home again when done. Not an easy journey back in the 1880's and exhibiting the fortitude of our founders in exemplary fashion!
Turns out this church ruin is in the town of their birth and they would have been about my age (just over 50) at the time they etched their name here! They were probably visiting and helping family some 500 km's from where they lived. Just a short journey across town on the light rail system, huh!
The etching says
turns out it is John McCallum. A friend that is quite expert on linguistics says it was not uncommon for people to do such things with their names for a variety of reasons, including illiteracy and trying to dodge the law!
Wow! and I just talk to trees.Some 1890's style graffiti at the church ruin from my previous couple of shares.
What is interesting about this for me is that through a particular facebook group I am a member of I was able to trace who wrote it and then find their heritage details and it interwove with my own upcoming explorations of a particular area I am visiting in a months time! The surname is common for that region I am heading off to soon and it turns out this fella is the brother in-law of a pastoralist out there. This fella headed off on a journey across the state of some 1000 km's to help his sister's husband establish their huge pastoral property, then toddled off home again when done. Not an easy journey back in the 1880's and exhibiting the fortitude of our founders in exemplary fashion!
Turns out this church ruin is in the town of their birth and they would have been about my age (just over 50) at the time they etched their name here! They were probably visiting and helping family some 500 km's from where they lived. Just a short journey across town on the light rail system, huh!
The etching says
turns out it is John McCallum. A friend that is quite expert on linguistics says it was not uncommon for people to do such things with their names for a variety of reasons, including illiteracy and trying to dodge the law!
Finally have some showing up? We're getting more of them here now. They are quite feisty.
My new butterfly favorite is the tiger swallowtail. They are big and look very powerful, yet still graceful.
This might be my feature creature tomorrow. Came across one in a parking lot where the kids were riding bikes. I tried to shoe him into the grass so he wouldn't get squished, and he was not very happy with me doing so! I used a stick, so no painful bites here!
I don't know why... but I took these pics in November last year. Looked at them when I got back home, I didn't enjoy them as much as seeing it in person. Thought I would work on this pic in photoshop to see if I can at least make it look interesting to me.
As I was editing, I was thinking back to what stood out for me when I looking at details in person. I remembered the stained glass, the lighting on the ceiling, the colors of the columns reflected the stained glass on the sides. I pushed dehazing to darken and add contrast, adjusted highlights, adjust whites to make the internal light stand out. Saturated vibrance to make the stained glass standout more. Added layers to desaturate color bleed from saturating. All this to make a picture interesting that I was blown away seeing in person. My story of this picture is... even if I make this pic more interesting by editing... it doesn't match the beauty of seeing it in person.
Plus, I'm always editing portraits... changing colors, making things disappear, replacing skies, adding objects, taking out wrinkles from dresses, trimming fat.. lol... all my work is fake... do people here consider that wrong??? I love editing in LR and Photoshop... that's where I have fun in photography. During the "Stay at Home" orders, I've even photoshopped my subjects in shoots into another backdrop so they have new content to post on IG... that was fun... hahaha
Me too and I hug them! 😍
My Nana taught me as a young child to talk to the trees and plants in the garden, especially before pruning or removal, so they could prepare for it a few days ahead. I touch them all quite regularly, showing my appreciation and affection for them. More recent scientific studies have been showing the responses of such affections! I love this. Not that it's a new idea really, Bird & Tompkins explored this back in the early 70's and were torn to shreds by conventional scientists and botanists at the time! How far we've come.
When I was exploring long exposure photography in a serious way and following the crowd as to how to do it 'properly' I got to a point of hating Photoshop as a result of the convoluted layers of masking and blending involved, if I was to conform to doing it 'properly', so I stopped for a couple of years and never touched my 16 and 20 stop ND's!
That actually killed me in some ways, but also got me thinking about what I was doing with my photography. Did I want to be chained to a workstation editing for countless hours on an image, when in reality, I could use Lightroom Classic to achieve an image that was maybe 95% of the way there, thanks to their newer and much quicker masking and selection abilities? The other major thought and shift I had was to learn how to capture in the camera better imagery that expressed my feeling or experience at a place.
We are all different, I have no grand illusions that everyone should be doing things as I do because I am some egomaniac or anything, quite the contrary actually! I don't see there being a right or wrong way to do anything in life apart from cookery, where chemistry is at play and all matters regarding respect of others. Oh and making good coffee and that milk and white chocolate are blasphemies on humanity...
I guess where I'm trying to get to with this comment is this, if what you experienced at this place is not captured in this frame, look to other frames you have captured here to find it because you can't just go back there right now. Even if it means looking to the separate parts of the place and how they affected you.
My main suggestion when trying to capture what moves you at a place is to not even have the camera in hand for as long as you can, just be in the place, just be in awe and take notice of what elicits that response within you. Then and only then get the camera out! You'll already have been moved by the place and will know what to explore.
Sometimes, as I feel with this frame, you have tried to capture it all in the one frame! You mentioned the stained glass being a highlight for you, but they are lost in proportion to the overall image and busyness of it! This is not an insult or belittling of you, it is something I have done many times too.
& thus endeth todays sermon from the top of a lofty mound of empty hand gel boxes and used toilet roll cylinders!
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Photo editing is such a personal adventure. I initially used Photoshop 15-years back, lots of online Google queries, lots of convoluted edits. Now I have started doing photography again after over a decade hiatus. Using Lightroom (lite) and keeping the edits as clean as needed. I am always learning - thank you YouTube.
I actually haven’t seen a ton of monarchs but my daughter and I have collected 20 caterpillars so far and gotten 12 to chrysalis stage in our tent. We have six more caterpillars inside and had one egg hatch today (we had one caterpillar die). We have a bunch more eggs outside. We decided to leave the rest of the eggs outside to hatch and just bring caterpillars inside. It is hard to keep up with them!!
So agree. It’s a wonderful place.Before this pandemic, I went to Europe for 2 weeks in November. Visiting "The Basílica de la Sagrada Família" was one of my top highlights in Barcelona Spain.
I could use wide lenses to try to capture all the details, I could spend time in photoshop, adjusting white, blacks, contrast, dehaze, vibrance, saturate colors, enhance lighting, crop unwanted subjects/objects... making it pleasing for others. But it still doesn't compare to walking inside... seeing and experiencing the beauty of the Sagrada Familia with your own eyes. Even if we had one bad experience in Spain... we still loved the beauty of Barcelona. We went to most of Antoni Gaudí's buidings and creations. He was a brilliant architect... and his work was way ahead of its time.
Have a great weekend everyone...
I love photography. But I hate editing. I’m always behind and I spend too long sat at a computer screen all week already.When I was exploring long exposure photography in a serious way and following the crowd as to how to do it 'properly' I got to a point of hating Photoshop as a result of the convoluted layers of masking and blending involved, if I was to conform to doing it 'properly', so I stopped for a couple of years and never touched my 16 and 20 stop ND's!
That actually killed me in some ways, but also got me thinking about what I was doing with my photography. Did I want to be chained to a workstation editing for countless hours on an image, when in reality, I could use Lightroom Classic to achieve an image that was maybe 95% of the way there, thanks to their newer and much quicker masking and selection abilities? The other major thought and shift I had was to learn how to capture in the camera better imagery that expressed my feeling or experience at a place.
We are all different, I have no grand illusions that everyone should be doing things as I do because I am some egomaniac or anything, quite the contrary actually! I don't see there being a right or wrong way to do anything in life apart from cookery, where chemistry is at play and all matters regarding respect of others. Oh and making good coffee and that milk and white chocolate are blasphemies on humanity...
I guess where I'm trying to get to with this comment is this, if what you experienced at this place is not captured in this frame, look to other frames you have captured here to find it because you can't just go back there right now. Even if it means looking to the separate parts of the place and how they affected you.
My main suggestion when trying to capture what moves you at a place is to not even have the camera in hand for as long as you can, just be in the place, just be in awe of what elicits that response within you. Then and only then get the camera out! You'll already have been moved by the place and will know what to explore.
Sometimes, as I feel with this frame, you have tried to capture it all in the one frame! You mentioned the stained glass being a highlight for you, but they are lost in proportion to the overall image and busyness of it! This is not an insult or belittling of you, it is something I have done many times too.
& thus endeth todays sermon from the top of a lofty mound of empty hand gel boxes and used toilet roll cylinders!
MTB trails at Michigan Tech University...
One year my wife and I rented a flat on the Thames just outside London. It was fun to watch river activities like the “party boats” full of very drunk people, the coast guard/police rounding up miscreants and best of all, the wildlife. Looking at some of your great images over the last few days with the cormorant having his snacks reminded me of watching one eat a very long eel in the middle of the river. It took maybe 10 minutes to adjust the eel (dropping and retrieving several times) and ultimately slide it down his gullet like a long piece of spaghetti. Amazing! And after all that, he had to take off to fly away and that took some doing as well, as nicely fed as he was. Fantastic birds.
I guess that makes two types of wildlife ...
There’s something about being on the water that seems to make folks want to drink! Maybe because it’s tied to recreation, but our local lakes always caution against the dangers of drinking and boating.
The mantis I mentioned yesterday. They are peculiar in the insect world in that they seem particularly interested in humans when we pay attention to them. This one didn’t like me trying to shoo him away into the grass and was actually a little standoffish. Just trying to keep you from getting squished, bud!
