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Photo of the Day - April 2012
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I was surprised today to be notified that one of my photos had received an Editor's Choice award over at 500px. 
Hey, I'll take encouragement wherever I can get it! The photo they chose is this one.
I've already posted that photo here before, so I'll post a companion piece today, one I shot about 15 minutes earlier that same evening. It's an unusual photo for me in some regards, so I decided to sit on it for a while before sharing it. I still like it six months later, so here it is…
Hey, I'll take encouragement wherever I can get it! The photo they chose is this one.I've already posted that photo here before, so I'll post a companion piece today, one I shot about 15 minutes earlier that same evening. It's an unusual photo for me in some regards, so I decided to sit on it for a while before sharing it. I still like it six months later, so here it is…
I was surprised today to be notified that one of my photos had received an Editor's Choice award over at 500px.
I've already posted that photo here before, so I'll post a companion piece today, one I shot about 15 minutes earlier that same evening. It's an unusual photo for me in some regards, so I decided to sit on it for a while before sharing it. I still like it six months later, so here it is
Very nice and congrats. Reminds me of a timelapse video called 'The Unseen Sea' which can be viewed on vimeo.
Crusing my home town at Sunset
I live about 30 min from my home town and love to visit the beach at sunset with my girls.
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Love being in my home town... by cableguy619, on Flickr
I live about 30 min from my home town and love to visit the beach at sunset with my girls.
Love being in my home town... by cableguy619, on Flickr
Well, it's just not a very inspiring composition! With most of the photographers who post here, I can generally understand what excited them about a particular moment or location... but not this shot. What would I have done differently? I wouldn't have pressed the shutter...
After the rain...
I was surprised today to be notified that one of my photos had received an Editor's Choice award over at 500px.
I've already posted that photo here before, so I'll post a companion piece today, one I shot about 15 minutes earlier that same evening. It's an unusual photo for me in some regards, so I decided to sit on it for a while before sharing it. I still like it six months later, so here it is
Congrats, Ms. P! I don't think anyone who frequents this site is surprised, other than what took them so long!!
I've been poking through old files lately getting ready to reorganize everything and found one I wanted to mess with that didn't strike me as...anything, at the time.
I know it's heavy on the processing, but I DO WHAT I WANT!!!
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I know it's heavy on the processing, but I DO WHAT I WANT!!!
comments:
a) jealous & envious- your present location v mine
b) love the composition of this photo with the DOF and the fact that the forground colors match the colors in her bathing suit as well as the blue in the background colors doing the same; framing, etc-- all makes for a great shot
comments:
a) jealous & envious- your present location v mine
b) love the composition of this photo with the DOF and the fact that the forground colors match the colors in her bathing suit as well as the blue in the background colors doing the same; framing, etc-- all makes for a great shot
Thanks for the kind words guys! It sure helps to have some beautiful subjects (or even just different subjects) to take shots of.
Congrats, Ms. P! I don't think anyone who frequents this site is surprised, other than what took them so long!!
Amen to that!
Here's one for today... The famous landmark Divi tree in Aruba...
Preparing for the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum (Monday 23rd April) I'll be off work for the day, playing retro
#spectrum30
I like the layering and colors in the winner, but not as well as this one. It has a better balance. The winner seems to be a bit bottom heavy to me.I was surprised today to be notified that one of my photos had received an Editor's Choice award over at 500px.
I've already posted that photo here before, so I'll post a companion piece today, one I shot about 15 minutes earlier that same evening. It's an unusual photo for me in some regards, so I decided to sit on it for a while before sharing it. I still like it six months later, so here it is
By the way, your Critique of the Week never got posted even though people liked the idea. Mind if I do that Monday?
Dale
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Preparing for the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum (Monday 23rd April) I'll be off work for the day, playing retro
#spectrum30
I miss this. I played mine so much it fried the board beyond repair. Or perhaps that's just what my parents told me.
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Preparing for the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum (Monday 23rd April) I'll be off work for the day, playing retro
#spectrum30
Hard keyboard 48k ftw!
The hours I spent on gauntlet and rebelstar!
I was surprised today to be notified that one of my photos had received an Editor's Choice award over at 500px.
Congrats
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Mine for today, taken last night on the Ottawa river shore.
Many thanks for the congratulations and kind words regarding my last post. It almost makes me think that maybe I should take my lens cap off more often.
Thanks, Dale. That's funny, if anything, I would associate the opposite photo with each point you made, but that kind of difference is what makes talking about photos so much fun. I would explain it by noting that detailed areas have visual weight, but areas with bright colors do as well (anything that attracts the eye has visual weight).
Nonetheless, I'm happy to hear that someone prefers the shot with the sun in it. That one is a risky, rule-breaking kind of photo, much more so than "Kindred Spirits." The latter is a very lucky shot to get, though, which is surely what appealed to the editors who chose it: a concentrated grove of larches in their autumn state set below a sky that momentarily matches them in color, and with the silhouette of a prominent mountain peak echoing their forms--and all of this correspondence cranked up a notch by a sea of fog stretching between these points of interest. In other words: SUPER DUMB LUCK! Hehe. I honestly didn't even know that grove was there before I drove up to that location that evening. Looking through my set in Lightroom, it's funny to see me take interest in the grove, then abandon it and go somewhere else, only to come running back when the sky turned orange. If only I could be so lucky on every outing...::::sigh::::....
Anyway, I had forgotten about Critique of the Week; yes, by all means, post it up on Monday! Friday through Sunday tends to be pretty slow around here, so a new thread like that might get buried if posted before Monday. I think the thread could be a real winner, and I look forward to participating in it.
Thanks, Dale. That's funny, if anything, I would associate the opposite photo with each point you made, but that kind of difference is what makes talking about photos so much fun. I would explain it by noting that detailed areas have visual weight, but areas with bright colors do as well (anything that attracts the eye has visual weight).
Nonetheless, I'm happy to hear that someone prefers the shot with the sun in it. That one is a risky, rule-breaking kind of photo, much more so than "Kindred Spirits." The latter is a very lucky shot to get, though, which is surely what appealed to the editors who chose it: a concentrated grove of larches in their autumn state set below a sky that momentarily matches them in color, and with the silhouette of a prominent mountain peak echoing their forms--and all of this correspondence cranked up a notch by a sea of fog stretching between these points of interest. In other words: SUPER DUMB LUCK!
Hehe. I honestly didn't even know that grove was there before I drove up to that location that evening. Looking through my set in Lightroom, it's funny to see me take interest in the grove, then abandon it and go somewhere else, only to come running back when the sky turned orange. If only I could be so lucky on every outing...::::sigh::::....Anyway, I had forgotten about Critique of the Week; yes, by all means, post it up on Monday! Friday through Sunday tends to be pretty slow around here, so a new thread like that might get buried if posted before Monday. I think the thread could be a real winner, and I look forward to participating in it.
