Photo of the Day November 2018

[Clix Pix]

I've been missing in action for a little while for various reasons but after a couple days at one of my favorite places I've got loads of new images to share over time.....once I process them, that is!

In the meantime, a shot from today with my iPhone:

 

[Susurs]

Vintage motorized bicycle.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

I've been awol for a bit, too busy, too damn busy...

An old church in the middle of an agricultural field, not too far from here. I'm hoping I haven't shared this one before, if I have, let me know & I'll switch it out.

 

[tizeye]

 

[MBAir2010]

ft lee hawk by expo bill, on Flickr

 

[Cheese&Apple]

Success.

 

[Keleko]

Fallen
Edit: Someone just told me they saw a turkey in the image. I didn't see it before, but now I do.

 

[stillcrazyman]

One white feather down in the mangroves...

 

[AllergyDoc]

End of harvest, which in Central California is December.

 

[erayser]

Did this self-port a few weeks ago. I was bored, so I set some light modifiers up and got this shot of me. I photoshopped me playing my 84' Fender P-Bass while sitting on the volume knob of my Fender J-Bass.

Happy Monday!!!! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.

 

[Cheese&Apple]

Did this self-port a few weeks ago. I was bored, so I set some light modifiers up and got this shot of me. I photoshopped me playing my 84' Fender P-Bass while sitting on the volume knob of my Fender J-Bass.

Happy Monday!!!! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.

That is a very cool image and so well done.

 

[redshifted]

XT3 and XF16-55mm at a busy airport yesterday during a "patchy dense fog alert" .
Thanks for looking,
Ed

 

[mpfuchs]

Sandhill Crane colt at Bosque del Apache:
SandhillColt by Martin Fuchs, on Flickr

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Looking through the entry vestibule at the old church I found in the middle of an agricultural field. I will be back for some astrophotography in here one day.

 

[oblomow]

Palermo, Massimo Theatre

 

[malofx]

 

[someoldguy]

 

[mollyc]

I had to take a little bit of a break from shooting everyday. So burnt out on my P365. I did take some phone photos each day, so I didn't actually cheat, but I just needed to not "think" for a couple of days. I am now all caught back up, and here is one of my catch-up photos.

 

[Clix Pix]

I had to take a little bit of a break from shooting everyday. So burnt out on my P365. I did take some phone photos each day, so I didn't actually cheat, but I just needed to not "think" for a couple of days. I am now all caught back up, and here is one of my catch-up photos.

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Molly, I can SO relate to burning out on a POTD!!!! I attempted a POTD back in I think it was 2009 and midway through October I said, "I can't do this any more!" and abruptly stopped. I didn't touch a camera again for a long, long time and when I did it was only briefly for occasional one-off kinds of shots. The POTD thing is a wonderful project to undertake but it can indeed become problematic and cause burnout. There are times in life when it just isn't practical or possible to shoot something everyday, or it may only be a day when one hurriedly fires off an iPhone shot and that's the POTD...... I also learned from my experience that it wasn't necessary or possible for me to strive to come up with a creative, stunning, perfectly executed, interesting image each and every day for public consumption and that actually, it was OK....

I've only since July of this year finally begun shooting with any regularity again and this time it is not within the framework of a formal, stated POTD......I am much more relaxed about the whole thing and when on a particular day I shoot something that is really cool and interesting and which might be of interest to others I share it on here in this POTD thread or sometimes I don't shoot anything at all or something that is really rather boring in terms of sharing for public view and instead some of those days just pluck up something from my archives. I am finding that I'm enjoying picking up the camera or the iPhone much more when I am not feeling compelled to shoot on a daily basis something spectacular for everyone to see and admire..... The whole burnout thing taught me a really good lesson!

One other thing that POTD taught me was to be on the alert for potential photo ops....even in the strangest, most unlikely places. A good example of that is the image I submitted yesterday, which was shot with the iPhone in the public restroom of the hotel where I had been staying over the weekend. I'd already checked out of the hotel and after loading the car for the trip home had spent a little time on the Boardwalk saying goodbye to the ocean..... The camera was packed and I just casually shot a few images with the iPhone. I knew if I went back to the car and got the camera out that I'd be spending much of the day on the Boardwalk again, and I needed to hit the road for home. Before leaving I decided it would be a good idea to make a stop in the hotel's public restroom. When I was ready to wash my hands I was immediately enchanted by that faucet, and once I'd washed up and dried my hands, I turned the water on again and grabbed my iPhone.... Photo ops are everywhere!
[doublepost=1543281144][/doublepost]From the Boardwalk at Ocean City, NJ, shot with the iPhone on the one sunny day we had.....

 

[zagato27]

Ah the mockingbird, the car alarm of the animal kingdom.

Second that. We have them all over the South. Have a pair that have claimed my yard as theirs. They will sit up in my Bradford Pear and just squak at me no end if I'm washing a car. I think that when I'm finished they purposely use the clean car as a target range. They also dive bomb my cats. I like nature and all her critters but these guys push the limits.

 

[mollyc]

Molly, I can SO relate to burning out on a POTD!!!! I attempted a POTD back in I think it was 2009 and midway through October I said, "I can't do this any more!" and abruptly stopped. I didn't touch a camera again for a long, long time and when I did it was only briefly for occasional one-off kinds of shots. The POTD thing is a wonderful project to undertake but it can indeed become problematic and cause burnout. There are times in life when it just isn't practical or possible to shoot something everyday, or it may only be a day when one hurriedly fires off an iPhone shot and that's the POTD...... I also learned from my experience that it wasn't necessary or possible for me to strive to come up with a creative, stunning, perfectly executed, interesting image each and every day for public consumption and that actually, it was OK....

I've only since July of this year finally begun shooting with any regularity again and this time it is not within the framework of a formal, stated POTD......I am much more relaxed about the whole thing and when on a particular day I shoot something that is really cool and interesting and which might be of interest to others I share it on here in this POTD thread or sometimes I don't shoot anything at all or something that is really rather boring in terms of sharing for public view and instead some of those days just pluck up something from my archives. I am finding that I'm enjoying picking up the camera or the iPhone much more when I am not feeling compelled to shoot on a daily basis something spectacular for everyone to see and admire..... The whole burnout thing taught me a really good lesson!

One other thing that POTD taught me was to be on the alert for potential photo ops....even in the strangest, most unlikely places. A good example of that is the image I submitted yesterday, which was shot with the iPhone in the public restroom of the hotel where I had been staying over the weekend. I'd already checked out of the hotel and after loading the car for the trip home had spent a little time on the Boardwalk saying goodbye to the ocean..... The camera was packed and I just casually shot a few images with the iPhone. I knew if I went back to the car and got the camera out that I'd be spending much of the day on the Boardwalk again, and I needed to hit the road for home. Before leaving I decided it would be a good idea to make a stop in the hotel's public restroom. When I was ready to wash my hands I was immediately enchanted by that faucet, and once I'd washed up and dried my hands, I turned the water on again and grabbed my iPhone.... Photo ops are everywhere!
[doublepost=1543281144][/doublepost]From the Boardwalk at Ocean City, NJ, shot with the iPhone on the one sunny day we had.....

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I do hope to shoot most days in 2019 but I plan to do a P52 as my “official” project next year. I’m thinking of doing a series of diptychs so that I am still mindful but overall it will be less intense and give me some more freedom throughout the year. But at this point I’m not quitting with just 35 photos to go.

 

[Clix Pix]

I do hope to shoot most days in 2019 but I plan to do a P52 as my “official” project next year. I’m thinking of doing a series of diptychs so that I am still mindful but overall it will be less intense and give me some more freedom throughout the year. But at this point I’m not quitting with just 35 photos to go.

I still regret that those years ago I suddenly quit in the middle of October with just another couple of months to go with my POTD..... That one day came, though, when I just suddenly really, totally hit the wall, felt that I simply couldn't do this any more, couldn't pick up the camera one more day and find something to shoot, even something quick and simple.....I was so totally burned out. The next day I tried again but to no avail. I'm sad about that, too, giving up so close to the end of the project, something unusual for me. I just hit the wall full-on with no recovery, no bouncing back at that time.....

This said, though, I had found during those nine and a half months that doing a POTD was (sometimes) a fun and (usually) a truly valuable learning experience -- challenging, too! -- and some of my favorite (not always the best) images have come from that time. I definitely learned a lot about being more observant of the world around me and my surroundings, and especially being more aware of potential photo possibilities, thinking of different ways to approach a subject beyond the usual, and being ready to at times either snap off a shot or two quickly in a fast-moving situation or to take some time with a subject, whichever worked best at the moment. Whatever creativity I have definitely was stirred into action during that POTD and kept on alert. That creativity and sense of excitement while shooting photos has been dormant for a long while but now at last it has gradually been reawakening over the past several months and I'm loving this.....

Some people on NikonCafe do a 52 Weeks shoot instead of a Photo of the Day, and this does provide more latitude and flexibility; one can shoot every day during the week or only on just a few days as time permits and then after that make the choice of which image is the best to represent the week..... Years ago I was so burned out by my POTD experience that I couldn't even contemplate doing that. At some point I might give some thought to the possibility of doing a 52-week shoot come January 2019, but right now am still seeing how I'm faring with my casual approach to shooting when the opportunity arises and when I can and not being fussed if I don't shoot on a given day or don't shoot anything worth sharing. This strategy has been working for me so far and I am once again enjoying photography, which is the main point for me, so why mess with a good thing?! Some folks also do just a photo of the month where they shoot throughout a given month and then choose a particular image to represent that month.

I'm really enjoying my casual approach, when there are days when maybe I'm going to only fire off one or two quick shots with the iPhone if I see something interesting and days when I'm going to grab the RX10 and run out on my deck or walk around the neighborhood to try and snag a few photos of the ducks and geese and other days when I am in a wonderful location either close to home or far away where I can spend a couple or three hours wandering around with the RX10 and the RX100 to find something interesting and fun to shoot and have the time to really spend my time with each subject.....

I am absolutely loving my iPhone XS and am finding it to be a dandy little macro camera! Earlier this fall I was thinking that I'd be soon buying a Sony A7R III and the wonderful 90mm macro lens but now I'm thinking that I just very well may wait until spring to do that, as to my surprise and delight in the short time I've had it the iPhone XS has stepped up to the plate time and time again for several macro / closeup shots. During the winter months without the pressure of a POTD I usually don't do a lot of shooting anyway and my main priority for a big budget expenditure in the next month or so is going to be a new 2018 MBP with a few bells and whistles.....

 

[cbautis2]

I am absolutely loving my iPhone XS and am finding it to be a dandy little macro camera! Earlier this fall I was thinking that I'd be soon buying a Sony A7R III and the wonderful 90mm macro lens but now I'm thinking that I just very well may wait until spring to do that, as to my surprise and delight in the short time I've had it the iPhone XS has stepped up to the plate time and time again for several macro / closeup shots. During the winter months without the pressure of a POTD I usually don't do a lot of shooting anyway and my main priority for a big budget expenditure in the next month or so is going to be a new 2018 MBP with a few bells and whistles.....

I like how the physics of sensor being extremely close to the small lens that it allows for closeup shots with very wide depth of field that you won't need focus stacking just to get everything in focus or use a tripod and long exposures for a very small aperture just to get that iPhone/smartphone depth of field shot

 

[MBAir2010]

Workstaion by expo bill, on Flickr

 

[Apple fanboy]

I still regret that those years ago I suddenly quit in the middle of October with just another couple of months to go with my POTD..... That one day came, though, when I just suddenly really, totally hit the wall, felt that I simply couldn't do this any more, couldn't pick up the camera one more day and find something to shoot, even something quick and simple.....I was so totally burned out. The next day I tried again but to no avail. I'm sad about that, too, giving up so close to the end of the project, something unusual for me. I just hit the wall full-on with no recovery, no bouncing back at that time.....

This said, though, I had found during those nine and a half months that doing a POTD was (sometimes) a fun and (usually) a truly valuable learning experience -- challenging, too! -- and some of my favorite (not always the best) images have come from that time. I definitely learned a lot about being more observant of the world around me and my surroundings, and especially being more aware of potential photo possibilities, thinking of different ways to approach a subject beyond the usual, and being ready to at times either snap off a shot or two quickly in a fast-moving situation or to take some time with a subject, whichever worked best at the moment. Whatever creativity I have definitely was stirred into action during that POTD and kept on alert. That creativity and sense of excitement while shooting photos has been dormant for a long while but now at last it has gradually been reawakening over the past several months and I'm loving this.....

Some people on NikonCafe do a 52 Weeks shoot instead of a Photo of the Day, and this does provide more latitude and flexibility; one can shoot every day during the week or only on just a few days as time permits and then after that make the choice of which image is the best to represent the week..... Years ago I was so burned out by my POTD experience that I couldn't even contemplate doing that. At some point I might give some thought to the possibility of doing a 52-week shoot come January 2019, but right now am still seeing how I'm faring with my casual approach to shooting when the opportunity arises and when I can and not being fussed if I don't shoot on a given day or don't shoot anything worth sharing. This strategy has been working for me so far and I am once again enjoying photography, which is the main point for me, so why mess with a good thing?! Some folks also do just a photo of the month where they shoot throughout a given month and then choose a particular image to represent that month.

I'm really enjoying my casual approach, when there are days when maybe I'm going to only fire off one or two quick shots with the iPhone if I see something interesting and days when I'm going to grab the RX10 and run out on my deck or walk around the neighborhood to try and snag a few photos of the ducks and geese and other days when I am in a wonderful location either close to home or far away where I can spend a couple or three hours wandering around with the RX10 and the RX100 to find something interesting and fun to shoot and have the time to really spend my time with each subject.....

I am absolutely loving my iPhone XS and am finding it to be a dandy little macro camera! Earlier this fall I was thinking that I'd be soon buying a Sony A7R III and the wonderful 90mm macro lens but now I'm thinking that I just very well may wait until spring to do that, as to my surprise and delight in the short time I've had it the iPhone XS has stepped up to the plate time and time again for several macro / closeup shots. During the winter months without the pressure of a POTD I usually don't do a lot of shooting anyway and my main priority for a big budget expenditure in the next month or so is going to be a new 2018 MBP with a few bells and whistles.....

But sometimes an iPhone just won't do!

_DSC9170 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr