Photo of the day- March 2023

[Darmok N Jalad]

Delightful as ever @mollyc


A fabulous glimpse of spring and in all her vigour, with the most glorious light to convey that! Autumn's somewhere around the corner for us, still the odd 31/32C days here..


Wonderfully awe inspiring; we had some reach us recently in areas that normally never see them this far north due to a combination of atmospherics and solar flares! Not that I captured any or saw them personally..


I'm absolutely loving the composition of this, and how those clouds are in their own subtle way mimicking the rocks in reverse!


Be still my beating heart, those eyes!


The scale and form of these are sublime with that subdued but dramatic lighting and the perfectly placed and silhouetted human form! I could stare at this for days..


Thank you so much, @Clix Pix Whilst I have been more than happy in my own company, there's still from prowling around this forum again just now for the last while a special sense of supportive community here that admires and enjoys the photographic form. It's good to be back again. And, it's lovely to see so many of you still here, sharing and commenting so regularly.

Good to see you posting again!

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

More signs of spring. If you weren't looking closely, yesterday's photo had a similar feathered friend in it.

 

[someoldguy]

Knock, knock.. An image from around the time I last visited these hallowed halls of photographic community. Captured late November of 2020.

I have been very 'inward' I guess is the best way I can describe my being since then. September '21 to not quite a year ago I had the great good fortune to spend just over six months on the Wildlife Sanctuary documenting in still and moving image forms the flora and fauna of that amazing place. I managed to capture some incredibly intimate details of a Little Eagle family as they reared their sole bubba, and it learnt to fly, when they all left the nest. They then proceed to stay in the vicinty, but are not a nest based bird species, apart from at breeding and fledgling raising time.

Since returning to the big smoke almost eleven months ago I have been living a very simple and light impact life, focusing on my wellness of living with CPTSD. The Boof (Fenna) is doing well and is still a huge part of my life.

The voluntary Mindful Photography groups I had held until Rona came visiting have fallen by the wayside, apart from one that has resurrected itself and become what I wanted for them all; in that it is a self-directed entity, run and shaped by the participants! The photographic gear I had collected along the way has been passed on to members of the group and they have had a few exhibitions since they reformed mid last year.

I now live on the opposite side of town from this group and am establishing a simpler form of group in conjunction with a local mental health community centre based on the International Club House model; this group will just use their own mobile phones or cameras if they have them, and should launch mid-year.

Here's to hoping that you've all been traveling well through these times I was away, and that you all still get as much benefit, enjoyment and awe from sticking a viewfinder to your eye, or framing up a shot with your phone. 👍

The following image is much more representative of where my own photography has headed. Telling visual narratives through use of caricatures in places of abandon, decrepitude and ruin. It's something I am slowly exploring the ability to have a social narrative within, and is something I am absolutely loving the processes of from initial inspiration and planning of lighting, posing, costuming, and prop's to the actual capture and presentation of them.

This image was captured at a small stadium styled church that sat maybe 500 members of their faith in an almost fully surrounding audience style. It has recently been bulldozed in readiness for a new development of unknown type in a highly desirable location just out of the CBD.

The Godmaker Cometh..
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Welcome Back!!

 

[fcortese]

One more

 

[sparksd]

Beautiful, truly beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

 

[AZhappyjack]

Community park last week after the storm...

 

[rjjacobson]

Blue sky, wispy clouds over the prairie late winter/early spring Meadow Brook Park Urbana IL

 

[jazz1]

 

[svish]

 

[OldMacs4Me]

I may have posted this 1975 shot of McDonald Falls on the West Side of Glacier National park previously, if so I have since reworked it. Would love to get back over there for an extended visit but I don't see the Ottawa Puppet letting that happen before my passport expires.

Ilford FP-4, 4x5 film
Schneider Xenar 127mm Lens, ƒ22, 1/25sec, D-23 2-step

 

[DanteHicks79]

 

[macguru212]

iPhone 13 f/1.6, 5.1mm 1/172s exposure

 

[CK Williams]

 

[Apple fanboy]

Knock, knock.. An image from around the time I last visited these hallowed halls of photographic community. Captured late November of 2020.

I have been very 'inward' I guess is the best way I can describe my being since then. September '21 to not quite a year ago I had the great good fortune to spend just over six months on the Wildlife Sanctuary documenting in still and moving image forms the flora and fauna of that amazing place. I managed to capture some incredibly intimate details of a Little Eagle family as they reared their sole bubba, and it learnt to fly, when they all left the nest. They then proceed to stay in the vicinty, but are not a nest based bird species, apart from at breeding and fledgling raising time.

Since returning to the big smoke almost eleven months ago I have been living a very simple and light impact life, focusing on my wellness of living with CPTSD. The Boof (Fenna) is doing well and is still a huge part of my life.

The voluntary Mindful Photography groups I had held until Rona came visiting have fallen by the wayside, apart from one that has resurrected itself and become what I wanted for them all; in that it is a self-directed entity, run and shaped by the participants! The photographic gear I had collected along the way has been passed on to members of the group and they have had a few exhibitions since they reformed mid last year.

I now live on the opposite side of town from this group and am establishing a simpler form of group in conjunction with a local mental health community centre based on the International Club House model; this group will just use their own mobile phones or cameras if they have them, and should launch mid-year.

Here's to hoping that you've all been traveling well through these times I was away, and that you all still get as much benefit, enjoyment and awe from sticking a viewfinder to your eye, or framing up a shot with your phone. 👍

The following image is much more representative of where my own photography has headed. Telling visual narratives through use of caricatures in places of abandon, decrepitude and ruin. It's something I am slowly exploring the ability to have a social narrative within, and is something I am absolutely loving the processes of from initial inspiration and planning of lighting, posing, costuming, and prop's to the actual capture and presentation of them.

This image was captured at a small stadium styled church that sat maybe 500 members of their faith in an almost fully surrounding audience style. It has recently been bulldozed in readiness for a new development of unknown type in a highly desirable location just out of the CBD.

The Godmaker Cometh..
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Hello stranger!

 

[katbel]

More shadows

 

[Matsamoto]

From southwest coast of Sweden, 28 March 2020.

Nikon D3300 - 200 mm, f/10, iso 400, 1/250s

 

[AlixSPQR]

View from Korpebo, Marbäck, Sweden. May 6, 2016.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Thank you folks for the warm welcome back, this really is a special corner of the world in here!

Here's a more recent creation with my stepson in costume for this particular scene as we explored an amazing block of land with all manner of storytelling potentials thanks to the random collections of things on-site there. The random error message screens were found by my stepson, apologies if any offense is taken by any of them. 😇

Simply titled "Ooh, control, alt, delete never did this before." Inspired by my brief foray to the dark-side for a couple of months in 2020!

Lumix S5 and adapted Pentax Asahi 135mm f/3.5
Godox AD200 in 120cm octabox with grid above and behind Sam, Godox AD100 with dome diffuser above left of the CRT monitor stack.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Thank you folks for the warm welcome back, this really is a special corner of the world in here!

Here's a more recent creation with my stepson in costume for this particular scene as we explored an amazing block of land with all manner of storytelling potentials thanks to the random collections of things on-site there. The random error message screens were found by my stepson, apologies if any offense is taken by any of them. 😇

Simply titled "Ooh, control, alt, delete never did this before." Inspired by my brief foray to the dark-side for a couple of months in 2020!

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Lumix S5 and adapted Pentax Asahi 135mm f/3.5

I see you have the S5. At another forum I visit, one member shoots with it too, and he spoke quite highly about the amount of flexibility in the RAW files, especially shadow recovery. He does some great landscapes with his.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

I see you have the S5. At another forum I visit, one member shoots with it too, and he spoke quite highly about the amount of flexibility in the RAW files, especially shadow recovery. He does some great landscapes with his.

Had it until last week, when I did a major reshuffle of my gear as I no longer do any video captures for community groups. Mid last year I got rid of my Blackmagic cinema cameras, downsizing to the S1H, but it was too big and heavy for me and didn't have some key photographic features I needed, so I went with the S5 as a remarkable hybrid camera.

Last week my S5 and native lenses were swapped out for a Sony a7RIII, an EF-Sony adapter, and the holy trinity of MkI version f/2.8 Tamron glass in the 15-30, the 24-70 and the 70-200, all with VC/IS and constant f/2.8 throughout the focal range. They are slightly slow to focus, but as I'm not doing any moving subjects apart from Fenna, they are superb for the end results produced! Even the animal eye focus and true live phase detect focus works with the Fotodiox adapter! I tried a Metabones MkIV adapter and it couldn't achieve this because of the glass being MkI versions.

 

[mollyc]

Had it until last week, when I did a major reshuffle of my gear as I no longer do any video captures for community groups. Mid last year I got rid of my Blackmagic cinema cameras, downsizing to the S1H, but it was too big and heavy for me and didn't have some key photographic features I needed, so I went with the S5 as a remarkable hybrid camera.

Last week my S5 and native lenses were swapped out for a Sony a7RIII, an EF-Sony adapter, and the holy trinity of MkI version f/2.8 Tamron glass in the 15-30, the 24-70 and the 70-200, all with VC/IS and constant f/2.8 throughout the focal range. They are slightly slow to focus, but as I'm not doing any moving subjects apart from Fenna, they are superb for the end results produced! Even the animal eye focus and true live phase detect focus works with the Fotodiox adapter! I tried a Metabones MkIV adapter and it couldn't achieve this because of the glass being MkI versions.

I'm happy to see your work evolving and you doing new stuff, but please post a photo or two of Fenna soon. 🙂

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Had it until last week, when I did a major reshuffle of my gear as I no longer do any video captures for community groups. Mid last year I got rid of my Blackmagic cinema cameras, downsizing to the S1H, but it was too big and heavy for me and didn't have some key photographic features I needed, so I went with the S5 as a remarkable hybrid camera.

Last week my S5 and native lenses were swapped out for a Sony a7RIII, an EF-Sony adapter, and the holy trinity of MkI version f/2.8 Tamron glass in the 15-30, the 24-70 and the 70-200, all with VC/IS and constant f/2.8 throughout the focal range. They are slightly slow to focus, but as I'm not doing any moving subjects apart from Fenna, they are superb for the end results produced! Even the animal eye focus and true live phase detect focus works with the Fotodiox adapter! I tried a Metabones MkIV adapter and it couldn't achieve this because of the glass being MkI versions.

Yeah, the S1H (and GH6) are chunky buggers. If Panasonic decided to release a G9 successor that was just a bit smaller than a G9, I’d give them a lot of consideration.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

I'm happy to see your work evolving and you doing new stuff, but please post a photo or two of Fenna soon. 🙂

Have thrown a few in the Pet Photo's sub-forum for you. 👍

The Boof

 

[dimme]

San Francisco from the south


20221204-_DSC0049.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[fcortese]

A delightful rendering of colour and light, you'd have to be happy with that as a result?! The sign in the background made me chuckle..

Good to see you back,Alexander!