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Nice shadows and reflections in the water. The closeup on the veins in the leaf is also unusual.
Sometimes the simplest motif can be captivating, like the oar in the water.
Thanks. I'll try and take 'unusual' as a compliment ;)Quote:
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Oh, I find that simplicity - or rather, clarity - quite often makes for beauty in whatever art form.Quote:
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Some more photos from last winter, see the whole bunch properly (larger, and sharper too) here - including these two.Quote:
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In some of the photos on the website link three rainbow-like images appear. I can't imagine how these are produced, they have me flummoxed. The middle one is obviously the sun, but the other two?
First time I remember seeing halos like that. I think there were 22° halo, Sun dogs aka parhelia, and a light pillar there. Sunlight interacting with the ice crystals in the atmosphere is what produced them.Quote:
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Thats remarkable. I must look out for these Sun dogs, we are at lat 61, and the sun is low on the horizon all day, it must be possible to see them from our position too.
Both of the winter scenes are very nice, North Star. I like the white-black contrast on the light blue and purple backgrounds.
Thanks, YesNo
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I have a feeling that we could all do with a cup of hot chocolate at the moment... and please click the links if you bother to look at the images at all
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I'm drinking tea now. I didn't realize hot chocolate was so bubbly.
I liked this one as well in your recent set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/janace...ream/lightbox/
Definitely looks odd!
It's not that bubbly really, but it sure looks more exciting. I wish I remembered how I managed to make it so bubbly...Quote:
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Thanks.
Referring to the flower image, I assume. I'll take that as a compliment. ;)Quote:
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No it was the bubbly-ness of hot chocolate, I was surprised at. But the other pics of your flickr links were also very interesting. I was amazed at how very simple things like rain on a window could look so strange, or the eye of a perch in a refraction.
Okay. Well, I must have mixed the chocolate rather well with a spoon (and had a lot of chocolate powder in the water) - to make it bubbly, and the lighting and enlargement help to make the bubbles look so prominent. The diameter of the cup the chocolate is in is 8 cm (3.15").Quote:
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Thank you. Well I do like Atget (and Man Ray), and try to adhere to Minor White's advice One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. :)
In a way, that is the art of good photography, seeing things from a different perspective and capturing the moment with a picture.
That is certainly an important part of photography, although there is lots of good photography that doesn't fit the description.Quote:
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Are those footprints that were later filled in or just a drifting process? I liked the spiral in the top one.
A good illustration of simplicity making the picture.
Some human activity has shaped the snowscapes, as far as I recall.Quote:
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Thanks. Simplicity in that the of patterns and shapes have uniformity, certainly. Now, try to recreate the photographs more closely than you could a portrait, for instance. . . (the photos are from last winter)Quote:
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Click the link on the image to see properly, as always.
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Beautiful photo. Mirrored events like these often remind me of Rorschach images. For instance w/my head tilted to left I can see a whiskered creature with its eyes closed.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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The reflection is so precise and the water so still, it almost doesn't seem real.
Thank you both. Yes, those ripples on bottom right aside, the water is indeed extremely still.
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I find the background circles of color interesting in these last two.
But what are those colours? They appear in the first image as well, though even more fuzzy, perhaps because they are under water?
Just light sources (sun, slivers of sky through the trees) which are out of focus.
Yes, in both pictures the greenery in focus throws the background out of focus. Quite mesmeric!
Thanks!Quote:
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A view from Koli, in Northern Karelia, Finland
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Taken today. As always, click the image to see it properly.
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I see you are using 500px now. Are you switching from flickr?
The view from Northern Karelia is very much like the views I get from home at 61 North - wonderful layered effect in midwinter when the sun is so low on the horizon. he streak of sunlight below the clouds and shining on a patch of ground.
I've used both for a long time, although 500px much more inactively as while the site is more pleasing aesthetically, the algorithms are designed in a way that makes it impossible to get your photographs seen by more than fifty people or so unless you already have hundreds or thousands of followers.Quote:
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I post more on Flickr, and will eventually post that there too.
Click the link to see properly, as always.
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Very atmospheric, North Star! The two roughly triangular projections in the sky, one above the other, is where they meet at the bottom of the dark cloud. Is that where the sun is? In the bottom part there are traces of the rainbow-effect. The islands also show a lot of detail, especially of the yellow birch trees.
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I think the sun is behind the camera, though. ;)