“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
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I saw this door without a step while in Belize last year and had to make a photo of it.
Panasonic Lumix FZ200| Lexar Professional Digital Film
This door is also part of Norm 2.0’s Thursday Doors. To see all the images posted this week or add your own click here.
More to come…
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Alex and I met downtown at City Hall early enough to catch any evening color, and we hoped there might be some because there were clouds on this evening. We called it right, but missed the best color. That was behind us further North. After this we passed the time taking images of the Rotunda, and Tower as the light faded, changing our angles and views while waiting for the Moon to rise.
Plus one more from my little hike earlier in the week-taken with my Lensbaby Composer Pro w/Double Glass & macro converters
I won’t be on the internet too much beginning tomorrow I’m spending a long week-end of imaging with a couple of friends. I hope you all have a great week-end!
Image at the top| Nikon D700| AF-S 24-70mmGTripod
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My friend Anne and I shot from up here a couple of years ago hoping for a big, fluffy layer of fog, but we didn’t have any fog that time, so we’ve been planning since to return to try again. Finally we both were free, and the Marine layer or fog is returning to the Bay Area. Summer’s can be foggy and cold.Mark Twain wasn’t kidding when he said, “The coldest Winter I ever spent was the Summer I spent in San Francisco.” Or something like that.
So, I got up at 3AM and left the house at 4:45AM and drove an hour north to meet Anne in Marin Headlands.
While we were making images during the Blue Period there was a man who sang a wonderful Summer Solstice Sun Greeting song (The song sounded Native American. ) accompanied by a flutist. They were above and behind me so I couldn’t see him, but his voice carried over the ridge strong and passionate; it was lovely and gave me Goosebumps!
Driving down the mountain Anne and I pulled over in one of the turnouts to check out the color and just then the light of the rising sun hit the North Tower, and the grasses on the ridge. I had to pull out my camera. This is the image I made from that stop.
We didn’t get the shot we’ve envisioned because the fog wasn’t quite thick enough, but it was a lovely morning spent with Anne, some fog, a little color, and a Welcome song to greet and ring in the new season. It doesn’t get much better than that.
Happy Summer Solstice!
Nikon D700| AF-S Nikkor 24-70@ f14| 1/60s| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Tripod
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…the State Fair!
There are a lot more Spinning rides than when I was a kid, but the energy, sounds of the Arcade barkers trying to entice you to try your hand at their game to “Win the big prize!”, the clicking, and clanging of gears and tracks, the lights flashing, and whizzing by, the screams of delight and terror echoing from the tops of rides by children young and old, the sweet smell of Cotton Candy, and the rich buttery smell of fresh popped popcorn wafting through the air all were the same.
Starship 3000, Ferris Wheel, and arcade.
“Let the Spinning wheel spin”~Blood, Sweat, and Tears- Spinning Wheel
My goal on this evening was to have a lot fun slowing down my shutter speed to show the spinning of the many spinning rides.
The Carousel was pretty all lit up so I took two images one to stop action showing its detail, and another with a slow shutter speed.
All the images in this post were taken at the California State Fair July 2012. I missed last year, and hope to get to this year’s State Fair which starts in just about a month. With a little luck #1 Grandson will be with me and experience his first Fair.
I’ll leave you with an image of the gorgeous sunset we had on that evening.
All images were taken with a Nikon D700 w/ AF-D 24mm f/2.8 lens| Tripod
Hope you have a great week-end!
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Here’s one from my archives; from a trip to Yellowstone National Park in September 2013. I woke up to snow on this morning. On the way to Lamar Valley we spotted a herd of Buffalo grazing near the road so we pulled over to take photos. It was just one of many delightful sights on this day.
Nikon D300s| AF-S Nikkor 300mm f4@ f5| 1/320s| ISO 2000| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Hand-held
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I ventured North-east to look for Wildflowers then went into Yosemite National Park to photograph the river, and waterfalls, but couldn’t be in the park and not go up to Tunnel View. I swung by here earlier in the day to see how it looked and thought it would be a good place to shoot the sunset since the clouds were getting thicker by the hour and by 3PM Half Dome was covered in clouds.
I made two images up here a cool version using my Singh Ray LB Color filter then removed the filter and made the warmer image you see here. I’ll share the cooler image soon since I like them both.
This is all the color we got this evening. More clouds rolled in obscuring the sun and blocking any more color. By 7:40pm I was in Pearl (my car) with the heater on thawing out my very cold fingers still hoping the color would come. There were only 3 photographers set up waiting and hoping outside on the observation deck; everyone else had left. Shortly after that all the color faded completely and He-Man and I headed home relaxed, and very content.
Nikon D700| AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm @ f11| 1/30s| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Met| tripod
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The Lion Fish shows us how to do it.
This is an image I made while at the Monterey Bay Aquarium last Saturday. I think he looks lovely in this royal blue watery background. I am going to look for these patterns, and colors to add to my wardrobe this summer.
Nikon D700| AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8@ f4| 1/320s| ISO 2000| Matrix Metering| Hand-held
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