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Insulator
Thunderbolt…
Melting snow stuck on a telephone pole. I’m glad I took the picture when I did; ten minutes later it was gone… It goes to show that a photographer must have a keen attention for details that are not obvious to other people.
Feria de Tristán Narvaja
I just found this one in my “picture vault”. It is an old one but I love it. The colors are just perfect. I was younger and even more disrespectful than I am now. The sign behind the lady says in Spanish: “Taking pictures is prohibited”… So much for that…
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Update!, 01/12/06!
I recently bought Geoff Dyer’s latest book, The Ongoing Moment, book I recommend to all photography lovers, and I found that photographing blind people is one of the subjects that almost all photographers have cherish at one time or another. I know for a fact that this picture I took fourteen years ago is one of my main inspirations to become a photographer. I wasn’t aware of that fact. Glad that Mr. Dyer was sharp enough to have noticed the pattern.
Finn’s Point Cemetery, Two
Exposure on this one was about 1.0sec. I love the difference that a few shades of green can make on a IR filter. The little dots from the center to the right of the picture are grave markers.
Finn’s Point Cemetery
Interesting ghosting effect I discovered to the right, alongside the monument. This was only visible after I adjusted the “Levels” in Photoshop. I guess it was a bounce reflection from the IR filter to the lens due to the long exposure (2.0 Sec).
Picture was taken in color, converted to LAB color space, deleted the A and B channels, adjusted Levels, and used “Shadow/Highlight” adjustment to fine tune the midtones and final contrast.
Marching Band, Four
Marching Band, Three
Color guards are one of my favorite subjects in Marching Band pictures…
Marching Band, Two
Marching Band, One
I have thousands of Marching Band pictures, from my son’s school and from other competing schools. The richness of expressions in some of them are, for me, amazing. I’ll post them as I have time to select play with them.
