Pictures

My kids leave the most interesting still life photo ops...

This may look like a bad film scan but the 'dust' is actually in the water.

I wanted to ask you your opinions on this.

This was taken in Canberra in May last year. I couldn't believe how cold it was.

I've been practicing my copyright on images ;-)

A mistake that I ended up liking better than the original. Thoughts?

'MMM didn't get my levels right!'

I've finally downloaded my CF card.

Let me know what you think of this one.

Hi everyone. I'm back from the land of the Pharoahs. But this photo was not taken in Egypt. What do you think of the effect I have created?

From the Jindaiji Temple area near Mitaka City, Tokyo. If you ever go there, check out the Yukari onsen (hot springs) and try some of the local soba noodles...

The family went for a short drive today and cooled off in the ocean, now sporting a burnt nose.

Hi everyone, long time now.

I have really enjoyed participating here, but since I just kind of disappeared, I think I owe you an explanation.
I haven't done much photography lately, and there is a couple of reasons for that. First of all, my day time job has changed a bit, and I am in the process of learning a lot of new stuff, and it's fun, so I prioritize it. Secondly there is something happening in the near future that also will take much of my attention. We're expecting our first child in the beginning of April.

I know the rules, that everyone should be active and participate, but right now I am not able to do that. So Robert, if the place gets crowded, and someone knocks on the door and wants to participate, I will step down. But if it's not a problem, I would appreciate if I could remain in a less active mode for a while. I will probably have some bursts of time to participate now and then.

Thanks,
Kjell

Sorry about the HUGE photo. I've emailed Robert to delete it for me. So now I have posted it again, but it is the correct size now.

Merry Christmas everyone ;-)

I had the pleasure of shooting a school formal, the night was a blur and my arm is still aching from carrying a new 24-70 f2.8 zoom. I'm glad I usually shoot with primes, there is nothing discreet about that zoom.

Greetings, All, and Happy Holidays!

I've been a bit distracted from my photography lately, and only now just starting to feel my "pulse" again. Feeling a bit sluggish still. Here's one from today. I don't usually go for the artistic filters, but somehow it felt right here, as the geometry and pattern were what drew me in. Let me know what you think.

I'll just have a peep around the latest posts here, as well...

--Eric

This is the photo I meant to upload. The building was a mistake but I don't know how to delete it. Robert, how do I get rid of a photo when I accidently upload it?

Hi everyone. Things are very quiet out there at the moment. I hope this picture will shake off the cobwebs.

It has become quiet here.

Taken through a glass jug

Working with out of focus views where nothing is sharp.

This is an old composite I did and a few friends have already seen it. I enjoyed the creative process in this image with the nude and the tree bark.

Don't look too hard to figure out a grand theme besides night yet. I'm still trying to figure out where to go myself.

I would like to thank Robert for the invitation to join the group. The weekend has been spent going over the old images and critiques and I already feel like I know a few of you after having read so many of your writings in the past (Colin and Paul especially). I was going to spend the week critiquing before I uploaded one of my own images, but realized you may wonder who this new guy was commenting on the images so here we go....

My name is Jeremy and I spend way too much time on online photographic forums and the Vintage section of eBay. Though I am a reformed gearhead I still have too many cameras, which I now put to use by giving weekend workshops in large format and alternative processes. My work has recently been focused on (excuse the pun) suburban/rural sprawl in North Texas and taking walks with my new puppy, Maia. She is given her head and follows her nose like the flaneur was said to follow his eye; I make photographs where she leads me.

The above image is from neither of those projects, though, and was taken during a recent weekend excursion to Santa Fe for breakfast burritos at Tia Sophia's. This trip was also a reawakening for me in the use of the 4x5 as I had packed it up for a bit due to time restraints, but since it has been unpacked it hasn't been shuttered up again so expect more sheet film images in the future.

It is rapidly getting darker here up north these days. For those of us having a normal daytime job, there is almost no chance at all to catch daylight outside normal office hours. Only weekends left, or do the best of the nights. I was planning a project on outdoor lighting for he SoFoBoMo, but I forgot (silly me), that there are practically no more dark evenings in May. Therefor I put it on hold until now. I don't know if I can manage to pull of a project on this, but I will at least try and see what happens.

Yes, moments before, she too was kissing the squid. That's his father in the middle, the fisherman, who is laughing and pointing.

UPDATE: edited to reduce the size. I had pasted the wrong link.

Lots of nature shots here lately. I thought I'd throw in something a little bit different.

Good to be back. Something in this picture fascinates me and yet I know it is high contrast and just a touch perculiar.

I don't normally take these type of shots so comments are all welcome on how to improve this image.

I'm submitting a set of 9 pictures from a pack of 10 polaroids, do they work together? Or is my connection of them coloured by the fact that they came from a restricted shoot size and family subject matter?

I just have to show this before the current flower theme wears off. It's an old one that I shot about a month after I got my first dSLR. One the I have been very happy with ever since, but I haven't shown it to anyone who is not too polite to tell me the truth, so don't hold back :-)

Back from a short holiday.

This photo represents how I was feeling this week, 'dying' ;-) Sore throat, blocked sinuses and now I have a cough...but..I am getting better LOL.

Seeing there is a flora theme going on at the moment I thought I'd go with the flow.

Leaf and Pod

Playing around with a flash in the dark, this is something I must try again.

I seem to have lost my muse, my pictures of the last 2 weeks do nothing for me. This is a picture from the not to distant past.

TIGER POWER!

Not quite as sharp as I wanted

This is a reshoot of the previous picture I posted. I managed to move the branches a bit closer to each other, and the highlights shining through the leaves are more around the edges. Whether it is for the good or not ....

This shot also has a slight technical advantage that is not that obvious on this small web version. It has a greater depth of field, which makes all the illuminated leaves tack sharp.

My visual explanation of suggestion.

Hi Alia,

This was what I was suggesting for the composition. Please pardon the mess, just wanted to illustrate what I thought would make a stronger composition. Mind, I'm not suggesting trying to piece it into something like I did. But if it was possible to snap a few different versions... Then again, perhaps that wouldn't have been possible if there were distracting elements to the right and below.

(Robert: can we turn on posting of images in comments? I'd have rather posted this in a comment to the earlier post).

Is that better?

Hi everyone. I'm Alia and I am a friend of Robert and Irena. This is my first upload of a photo, so I chose something very simple to get started.
This was taken on a beach at Port Macquarie which is on the north coast of NSW.

The lone seagull having his morning drink appealed to me as the man was walking past.

Another early shot from the series following my re-edit.

Ok, how's this one? Made it a little darker and got rid of the few hot spots.

The Path Less Followed

Not a new shot - I've been re-editing some of the early shots from the yellow lines series.

Apologies for the gap in posting and commenting. I'm just beginning to catch up now.

The Grevillia is flowering and we have these chattering chaps in our backyard daily having a feed.

I've been playing with this shot for two years now, never really satisfied with the result. I find it very difficult to get the tonality and colors right. So when LightRoom 2 came, I gave it another try, and this time I'm closing in on something. I still have to work a little more on some details, but I think I'm getting there. I think this version may be a bit oversharpened, but my eyes are a bit tired right now so I don't really see it.

Anyone recognize it?

Umm....my little accident shot, but I kinda like it :-)

This was the shot that got me started on this project last summer. Between this and the one in my previous post, there is loads of pictures, and very few that are worth showing, if any. I think I will have to go on for a while before I get enough to assemble a series.

Greetings All,

Nice to get an invite to join the group (Thanks, Robert!). Have people done introductions at all? I'm familiar with a couple of the member's blogs...

Seeing as I'm just returned from a couple weeks in Europe, I'll start with one of my vacation shots from Munchen. A lovely city. This was taken in the Englisher Garten, a large, very pleasant city park running through the city along two rivers. There are a couple of delightful beer gardens in it--this one is by the "chinesischer turm" (chinese tower). The fellow with the hat is the driver of a tourist carriage, and he's posing with one of the passengers. I believe her husband was taking their photo. The horse looked like he wanted some of what the driver was drinking, thus the title. I don't like the way I caught the van behind her head, but the whole thing happened in a few seconds, so it was basically a street-type grab. Still, I'm pleased with the overall lighthearted feel of the image that so captured the way the place felt. Germans sometimes call Munich the "village of 1 million".

It was very calm when I snapped this, a lazy Friday. A week before when I showed up here it was the night of the Germany-Spain European cup final and the place was a madhouse. All the youth of Munich turned out, faces painted, patriotic songs, horns, mugs crashing together,... quite the contrast.

In a recent post at my own blog, I mentioned a small surprise suggestion that might be something for this group. I don't know.
Have a look here.

http://blog.lentic.net/2008/07/11/print-swap-group/

I conceived the idea long before I became part of this group, and I don't know if this is something the members here would like to do. After all, it consumes more time, effort, and money than just an online discussion. And I guess it is most interesting for those who run their own printer.

Anyway, the idea is out, and I'm open for discussion. And no hard feelings if you don't think the idea is applicable here. There is always room for a parallel special interest group.

regards,
Kjell

I wasn't going to join in the water series but what the heck. Like Colin, my 2008 eyes have changed, dramatically.

Not quite 'running water' but fits the theme of water and rocks.

Much power in the water pictures so far. How about something a little bit more quiet. I personally like this one very much. If you want to form your own opinion first, I'll hold any further comments until later.

This is back from 2006. Looking at this with my 2008 eyes I'm probably still happy with the water, but would change the processing on the rocks to make them less stark.

This is from a series I did quite a while ago. More of the series can be found here

I just thought it might be interesting to see another photographer's approach to a similar theme.

Running water is well used theme, by many labeled a cliche they won't even come close. I just like it, and enjoy photographing it very much.

Haven't done much street photography at all, what lens should I be using for this type of photography?

Michael Naples will not be posting anymore as he and his wife have recently had a daughter, http://michaelnaples.blogspot.com/2008/05/solitaire-pear.html and does not have the time on his hands he used to. Congratulations Michael.

Hi everyone, first image posted and I just want to thank Robert for inviting me to join this group. I see a few familiar names on the member list, and some I haven't heard of before. Very interesting to see a painter represented.

This picture is one I am a bit uncertain about. Any thoughtful comments is welcome.

cheers,
Kjell

My 84 year old father-in-law recently fell out of a mango tree he was pruning, I hope he gives up on these younger person activities soon.

I am hoping on some new members soon, not holding my breathe though. And to get a breathe of life back into this site here is a picture from me.

This is the first of a series. The series will become clear with time, but to start you off here are a few words.

'At any time' refers to a parking restriction. There are a couple of ways that it is denoted on the street and these double yellow lines are one of them.

My idea is to see if I can produce interesting pictures that are of fairly mundane things which are linked by the thread of the 'at any time' restriction. I'm reasonably sure that I wouldn't have taken this picture if it wasn't for the idea behind this series, so to that extent I'm already pleased with the idea. Whether the pic is good or not is irrelevant...the idea has led to me seeing different things.

This is an outtake from my SoFoBoMo effort. I apologize for the overcompression, it was the only way to get it under the 200kb limit.

With ANZAC commemorations coming up this Friday in Australia I thought this was a fitting picture. This is a part of a statue at the start of a short tree lined avenue commemorating the sacrifices made by the men from this area during WWI.

Not as appropriate as Robert's chain.

My thanks to Robert for organising this venture. Let's have fun.

The closest picture I had of an offical opening ribbon.