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Photo of the Day: June 2011

gameface said:
... We had some pretty crazy electrical storms here in MA today ...

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I'm glad you are safe. I'm about 35 miles due north of you, and 100 miles east of Springfield. We had tornado watches for hours, and watched each storm cell pass either north or south of us, but never over us. Had a few wind bursts, saw lightening too far away to try to shoot :(, but never had rain. Had our power fluctuate briefly, but that was it.

I think you have the base for a pretty decent shot here, but the walls are distracting. Perhaps a crop like this would work for you? It looked much better in the Flicker lightbox, so I also added a black border to give it more "punch."

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What do you think?

Also: Did you get back to get the flag shot at the Common? Have been looking forward to it!
 
Drunk Fly

Found this little chap on the window sill - thought he looked like he was staggering home after too many drinks
 

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gameface said:
DOH! posted this in the May thread by accident. :eek:

We had some pretty crazy electrical storms here in MA today so I spent some time trying to grab my first lightning shots. Until the sky opened up and I had to retreat inside of course. :D

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Nice capture! I wish we had storms like that so I could give that a try. Here, it just rains! :(

Here's one of the BC coast...

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Keleko said:
If it weren't for the cellphone, this could have been a much older photograph. The bike looks old, and the guy's look could have been from decades ago, too. I like the processing on it.
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Thanks.

Too bad I'm not good enough to photoshop in a book or a moleskin notepad. :p
 
Waybo said:
I'm glad you are safe. I'm about 35 miles due north of you, and 100 miles east of Springfield. We had tornado watches for hours, and watched each storm cell pass either north or south of us, but never over us. Had a few wind bursts, saw lightening too far away to try to shoot :(, but never had rain. Had our power fluctuate briefly, but that was it.

I think you have the base for a pretty decent shot here, but the walls are distracting. Perhaps a crop like this would work for you? It looked much better in the Flicker lightbox, so I also added a black border to give it more "punch."

5791043170_e8cc16729d_z.jpg

What do you think?

Also: Did you get back to get the flag shot at the Common? Have been looking forward to it!
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Thanks!

Yes I do like your crop. I did a few similar but I kinda liked the foreground safety of the original. It reminds me of the close proximity of the event. I do like your version though!

Unfortunately I didn't get better pics of the flags. That night I lost a close friend and spent my night drinking and crying thinking about him and couldn't wake up for pre-sunrise. He was my mentor in video editing, was younger than me and died too young at 32 with rarer cancer. It was a hard weekend. Then work got it the way and again I missed my opportunity. :(

VirtualRain said:
Nice capture! I wish we had storms like that so I could give that a try. Here, it just rains! :(
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Thanks! It was my first capture of lightning. A lot of the captures I got I didn't realize I got until I started processing them due to over exposure, they just looked light lighted skies, but with shooting raw allowed me to pull a few back.

Here's another from last night.

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I finally got around to working on some of my photos from vacation. Here are some of the gloves used in the Apollo space missions on display at the Kennedy Space Center.

 
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Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Aperture: f/2.8
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I saw this picture and immediately thought of Mario Savio's "Body Upon the Gears" speech. Great shot.

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
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