Pictures Taken By you...

Love the images of the wind blown snow, Northstar. It looks like the surface of the moon or something. And nary a symmetrical line to be seen. ;)

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Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar

Those pictures of that crystal forest are so spectacular, North Star, they seem fantastic.

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Originally Posted by Danik 2016

Yes, that´s it! They look great, all together!

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Originally Posted by qimissung

Love the images of the wind blown snow, Northstar. It looks like the surface of the moon or something. And nary a symmetrical line to be seen. ;)

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Thanks, all.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/432/1...6d8c6e97_k.jpgmotel hotel in "south of the border" south carolina by Tony Walton, on Flickr

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7761/...ea8f7a9f_k.jpgcoke on the beach coca-cola cayman islands beach ocean sky clouds hdr by Tony Walton, on Flickr

In this last sequence. Tony, I specially like the way you use windows and bulldozer to frame the landscape. And also the dogish looks of the dog.

And here I was going to ask Tony which varieties of lysergic acid he favors. ;-) Here are my own colors, again a fall shot capturing a portion of the view from the front of my house.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1473/...c4176b36_c.jpgAutumn by Robert Marks, on Flickr

That's the front of your house, and the back overlooks a lake or the sea. Beautiful.

Tony: the close-up of the hand brings out the grains of sand very clearly.

There are some huge and beautiful lakes just down the road from me and all around this area, but no, the back of my house doesn't overlook one. No complaints on my part, mind you. I consider myself have lucked into paradise. ;-) Meanwhile, speaking of, here's the old wood stove, wot I used extensively this winter.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1483/...2ff4f410_c.jpgwood stove by Robert Marks, on Flickr

That's how I feel about our house. Every day when I look out across a field to the ridge of wooded hils beyond I think how lucky I am. Nice roaring fire you have there.

As you can see, and much to my chagrin, these photos I've posted have identifying information attached to them. Now I took them on my phone, which automatically backed them up on Google Photos, then I downloaded them to my laptop, then uploaded them to Flickr. I don't know at which point in that chain my name was attached to the pics, but I would like to strip that info from them. Does anyone know how? Thanks.

You should be able to manually remove the second line of the url link that puts the identifying information there.

You can still click on the photo to go to the album. I didn't see location info there, but maybe I'm not looking at the right place. Perhaps you don't have that turned on. I normally want to know where I took the photo so it can be automatically mapped, but many don't want to show that information.

Perhaps the lesson is to keep it simple. Put the photos on photobucket and cut out all the in between stuff.

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Originally Posted by YesNo

You should be able to manually remove the second line of the url link that puts the identifying information there.

You can still click on the photo to go to the album. I didn't see location info there, but maybe I'm not looking at the right place. Perhaps you don't have that turned on. I normally want to know where I took the photo so it can be automatically mapped, but many don't want to show that information.

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Thanks. I changed the privacy settings on Flickr to hide that sort of info, like location, so maybe it worked. I'm going to try removing that second line of the URL. By the way, I still l haven't figured out how to delete a post, and I've read the FAQ. That would be useful information, too.

Here's a test:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1574/...fb9c7c73_b.jpgBuds, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar

Thanks. I changed the privacy settings on Flickr to hide that sort of info, like location, so maybe it worked. I'm going to try removing that second line of the URL. By the way, I still l haven't figured out how to delete a post, and I've read the FAQ. That would be useful information, too.

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I haven't tried to delete a post, but what I have seen people do is edit a post and replace it with some text like "....." or "deleted" since the post can't be empty.

Excellent! That worked, thanks for your input, all. I would still like to know how to delete a post, though. Also that name you saw wasn't actually my real name. It was my nom du plume. I'm actually a Lebanese political prisoner named Gordo Gordon, jailed for writing Batman vs. Superman erotica fanfic.

Notice that in this next shot, you get not only the fire but the privilege of my feet.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1638/...c1461552_b.jpgWood Stove 2, on Flickr

LOL! I noticed all along that the people that were transfering their pictures from Flickr, not only Tyrion, where identified. But as I don´t know any one here I thought this is no business of mine.

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Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar

Notice that in this next shot, you get not only the fire but the privilege of my feet.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1638/...c1461552_b.jpgWood Stove 2, on Flickr

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Love this shot.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8783/...30c413f0_k.jpgbulldozer on the beach in cayman islands beach sky clouds ocean by Tony Walton, on Flickr

Nice juxtaposition of a heavy duty machine and the beach. Seems like he is building a coastway road?

And now for some local color, a few of the wild turkeys who come and go round these parts, strutting across my property like they own the place.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1595/...64391036_c.jpgTurkeys, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1503/...c0925ccf_z.jpgnight photography nikon long exposure cayman islands art capture bed televison by Tony Walton, on Flickr

Those long exposures are a nice way to make the contrast between the colors stand out. I'm surprised how uniformly dark the black is or did you touch it up somehow? It's not the normal way I would imagine a bed and television to look at night.

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Originally Posted by YesNo

Those long exposures are a nice way to make the contrast between the colors stand out. I'm surprised how uniformly dark the black is or did you touch it up somehow? It's not the normal way I would imagine a bed and television to look at night.

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It's underexposed around the tv.

[ATTACH]9722Vegetation in Campos do Jordão (Brazil). I like its unkempt look.

That does look rather unkempt.

I puzzled a lot about this picture yesterday. What looks like a pane of glass (from the window?) on the bed doesn't look the right size. The pale blue bedclothes also have a luminosity about them.

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Originally Posted by Dreamwoven

I puzzled a lot about this picture yesterday. What looks like a pane of glass (from the window?) on the bed doesn't look the right size. The pale blue bedclothes also have a luminosity about them.

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It's a book or a magazine, not a pane of glass. The 'luminosity' of the bed results from the light of the TV reflecting from it.

There you go, it fooled me. I see now that you can use the light from a TV to create some interesting photography.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1625/...e388086e_c.jpg

My brother (left) and dad getting a taste of the first ham out of the recently finished food smoker, basically a wood-heated sauna stove with a cabinet on top.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/...d52c748f_h.jpgLittle Cayman Brac by Tony Walton, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Dreamwoven

There you go, it fooled me. I see now that you can use the light from a TV to create some interesting photography.

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Thanks, I'm really attracted to the surreal. I like landscapes, and they are easier to conceptualize - but my favourite photographers/photos are surreal or unusual. Ideally, psychological. diane arbus, gregory crewdson, todd hido

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Originally Posted by tonywalt

Thanks, I'm really attracted to the surreal. I like landscapes, and they are easier to conceptualize - but my favourite photographers/photos are surreal or unusual. Ideally, psychological. diane arbus, gregory crewdson, todd hido

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Interesting. I think I have an inkling of what you mean by psychological here, Tony, but I'm not sure. Something where the photograph shows people or something affected by people, or perhaps evidence of the lack of people's influence. Trouble is, though, that just about all photographs can fit under that description. Not all realize that, though, and that can make a difference in the photographs.

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Originally Posted by North Star

Interesting. I think I have an inkling of what you mean by psychological here, Tony, but I'm not sure. Something where the photograph shows people or something affected by people, or perhaps evidence of the lack of people's influence. Trouble is, though, that just about all photographs can fit under that description. Not all realize that, though, and that can make a difference in the photographs.

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True, true.

Great stuff, guys. These next two, taken at sunrise out front, you might call my Dawn of Creation series.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1560/...a4e7c467_c.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/FwCqQc]Dawn of Creation, on Flickr

And there's always psychology involved in the making of a photograph, as well as in seeing one, by definition. This sunlit daytime scene didn't quite look like this to the naked eyes, for instance.


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/...ef061cc9_h.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1707/...367acce3_c.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/Ez4PaB]Dawn of Creation 2, on Flickr

Lovely photos, Tyrion, wonderful light. I'm always a sucker for those layers of shadows with different tones in landscapes. That green dot in the road is quite a strange looking artifact indeed.