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Photo of the Day: November, 2010
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Courtyard of Caernarfon...
Site of the investiture of Charles as the Prince of Wales by the Queen in 1969
Site of the investiture of Charles as the Prince of Wales by the Queen in 1969
Call and Response
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Beautiful image. I'd also love to see it focus stacked- this looks like the sort of landscape where that might be an effective technique.
Paul
Thanks, Doylem. And Paul, though I'm missing what you would gain from focus stacking on a shot like this, where it's already as sharp as can be from the nearest tree all the way back to the mountains.
Chinese Reconciliation Park
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My final post of this series.
The central part of Reconciliation Park is a pagoda that is a gift from Fuzhou, China. The pagoda was built by hand in China and shipped to Tacoma in 72 packages totaling 7,354 parts. An advisory crew from China worked with the local construction guys for part of the job. The Chinese were used to using large amounts of brute force and manual labor, while the Americans relied on machines. Neither crew spoke the other's language, and they developed a hand signal vocabulary to communicate.
The pagoda is still under construction and fenced in so this is the best shot I could manage under the circumstances. All should be finished during the winter. The people responsible for this project have made great use of limited space with a spiral path and stone sculptures.
Here is a link to more "official" construction photos Chinese Reconciliation Park Foundation.
Dale
My final post of this series.
The central part of Reconciliation Park is a pagoda that is a gift from Fuzhou, China. The pagoda was built by hand in China and shipped to Tacoma in 72 packages totaling 7,354 parts. An advisory crew from China worked with the local construction guys for part of the job. The Chinese were used to using large amounts of brute force and manual labor, while the Americans relied on machines. Neither crew spoke the other's language, and they developed a hand signal vocabulary to communicate.
The pagoda is still under construction and fenced in so this is the best shot I could manage under the circumstances. All should be finished during the winter. The people responsible for this project have made great use of limited space with a spiral path and stone sculptures.
Here is a link to more "official" construction photos Chinese Reconciliation Park Foundation.
Dale
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I was just going back through some of my old photos and decided to try editing some in iPhoto. I always liked this one. Not because its technically a good photo (it isn't), but there is just something about the candid nature of it that makes it almost look like a picture from a catalog. Oh, and please forgive me for having the date stamp in there. This was taken over a year ago before I had any clue what I was doing when it came to photography 
This was taken at sunrise at Myrtle Point on top of Mt. Leconte in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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This was taken at sunrise at Myrtle Point on top of Mt. Leconte in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
I was thinking of the mountains, which don't look sharp to my eye- I'm pretty sure the lack of edge definition isn't just atmospherics.
Paul
You've been posting some really compelling images lately. I particularly liked the marathon runner. This one also got me to stop and ponder it for a while, wondering what might have caught the attention of all these people...marathon runners, perhaps?
I know you don't shoot landscapes much, but there really is no need for focus stacking with most of them. Here the subject was 2 miles away, and the hyperfocal distance was a mere 97 feet in front of the camera. Focusing on the subject itself in this case (100mm, f/11, 5D Mark II) gives a depth of field of 95 feet to infinity. So yeah, those mountains are very much in focus. I don't know about where you live, but even in relatively unpolluted Slovenia, 45 miles of atmosphere is a lot of particulate matter to shoot through. Focus stacking is ordinarily employed with macro shots, or anything where it's very difficult to get most of your image in focus without resorting to gross amounts of diffraction.
8 point rack!! Taken 11/8 7:30 am from my porch. It's been a while since a buck showed up around here.
My dog was in the backyard so he's looking that way for this shot.
My sons Owen and Luke came outside to watch with me, we had a staredown for 15-20 seconds, then he bolted.
I put the camera down momentarily, wished I had those prancing shots.
My dog was in the backyard so he's looking that way for this shot.
My sons Owen and Luke came outside to watch with me, we had a staredown for 15-20 seconds, then he bolted.
I put the camera down momentarily, wished I had those prancing shots.
I blame the lens hood
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Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 100
Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZE
Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 100
Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZE
Beautiful, I love the warm colours and many points of interest, it's very well executed.
It's one of those pictures I can sit back and stare at for a while
A bit of a shame about the power lines, it's a stunning location and picture nonetheless.
Call and Response
Very nice Phrasikleia, I really like the layering in many of your shots like this.
I don't have any issue with mountain definition, looks fine imo.
2 weeks ago I saw this Raccoon cross a road near our home, followed him at a distance, and watched him climb into his tree home.
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Thanks, Reef. I hadn't thought about how many of my images have layering like that until you mentioned it. There are quite a number of them. Perhaps it's something I've been looking for without realizing it.
1/2000 sec - f/8.0 - ISO800 - 300mm (450mm equiv)
You've been posting such a wonderful variety of images. I didn't get a chance to comment on the one with the seaweed visible in the foreground, but I did see it. Super shot. And you caught a great composition here with the surfer. Does this photo maybe have a slight green cast to it?
2 weeks ago I saw this Raccoon cross a road near our home, followed him at a distance, and watched him climb into his tree home.
Adorable! Good job on getting us so close to the animal and on getting everything so sharp, even through some foliage like that. Well done.