This was taken a few years ago in downtown Toronto.
When I came upon this scene the title for the picture immediately came to mind and I grabbed this shot.
Nikon S3 rangefinder
Cosina Voigtlander 25 f4 in Nikon S-mount
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
probably 5.6 @ 1/125th
The Great 36” Refractor telescope at Lick Observatory. Was the largest in the world when installed in about 1886 and still the second largest refractor in the world. Leica M10 with Voigtlander 15mm vIII.
This church was a normal little church with the usual amount of local history attached to it until it was hit by a fleeing German bomber in WW2.
Once rebuilt, the stained glass was not replaced – instead a series of spectacular engraved glass windows were created by Laurence Whistler. Not only are the windows themselves world famous and a sight to see in their own right but the transformation of the inside into a place of light and space is magical.
But with the gentrification of the downtown area, the market is now filling up with specialty food stands that appeal to a younger, more anglo crowd. This is an egg sandwich place. There's a fancy sausage vendor, expresso bar, barbecue, and coming soon, Oyster Bar.
Continuing the photo walk at Central Market. This is a dull shot - but the only wide one I managed to shoot. This market used to be filled with raw food stalls - meat, fish, everything else - that catered to the Latino community nearby.
I heard some kids shouting and running down one of the platform tunnels. My camera was slung over my head and shoulder and it took some time to get it up. Missed shot… but I moved to the other side of the stairway and...
This is the Metro station at Hollywood & Highland. Looks like something out of "Alien". Will continue the post tomorrow, as we descend into the bowels of LA and take the train.
Example of swerve filter on a picture that was mirrored and part of it mirrored top to bottom. Three layers used and parts of each layer erased to make the composite. Flaming Pear Filter applied in CS. sRGB Color embedded into the file.
This picture goes well with a song I created. Open the link in another browser window, so you can still see the picture. https://soundcloud.com/glen-charles-1/columbus-avenue
This is the start of a couple of posts. This weekend we helped organize a video workshop at a school -- these shots are from one of the four groups making the music videos. I'm posting in color for obvious reasons.
While the regulators allow animals to play in the perfectly safe recycled water, they require that for drinking purposes, a potable water supply be provided.
Obviously, Diane is my muse. I think this shot is interesting, in that the cinematic thing is lost when she looks into the lens. Framing is good. Just doesn't have the mood as opposed to when I catch her thinking. That's all...
(Jersey County, IL) A young girl looks into a large aquarium that is part of a yearly fishing fair at Pere Marquette State park near Grafton, IL. The mobile aquarium is stocked with fish native to the local area rivers and lakes.
(Jerseyville, IL) Barber Jimi Hill cuts the hair of Alex Weaver at 11:15 AM on the Monday morning following Alex's high school graduation. Jimi previously worked in the shop of Elmer Heafner which is located two blocks away. Jimi is only the third barber in the location since the early 1930's. The leather covered seating and art deco fixtures date from that period. His shop is lit by plate glass windows and a door facing east with some fluorescent lamps above the stations and the ceiling.
(Elsah, IL USA) CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan onstage as part of the Principia College Speaker Series. Logan was the 2011 Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage speaker. On the night of Feb. 11, 2011, as the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak was falling, Logan joined the more than 100,000 people celebrating in Tahrir Square, where a mob turned on her and sexually assaulted her. She now speaks out to help end the code of silence surrounding sex assaults on female journalists as well as others.
(Brighton, IL USA) A boy and his dad warm themselves near a fire surrounded by bales of straw. In rural areas of the US, people host annual outdoor parties that include a roaring fire, some sort of food that can be cooked over the fire and drinks of some kind. There is also a wagon lined with straw pulled by a farm tractor that takes partygoers on the gravel backroads. This boy and his dad arrived early and were trap shooting at clay shotgun targets before darkness fell.
(Brighton, IL USA) Three friends sit on a bale of straw during an annual fall bonfire and hayride. Many rural US residents host annual outdoor fall parties that generally include a large outdoor fire, some sort of food that can be cooked over the fire, beer and a ride on a straw filled farm wagon pulled by a tractor Sometimes partygoers in the wagon will stop at rural mailboxes and fill them full of straw from the wagon. L to R Bill Huebener, Bob Sancamper, Art Tunnicliff.
1 of 8, of a private home photographed for a national property magazine. Seven images combined in Photoshop to try to create a full exposure range displaying the lounge plus a hint of the garden.
(Virginia, IL) A crowd waits at night at the courthouse square in Virginia Illinois at the 2011 annual BBQ to see country music entertainer Marty Stuart and his Superlatives. A storm had just passed that almost destroyed the stage and tents.
(Jerseyville, IL) While sitting in Elmer Heafner's barber shop, I watched as three young boys had their hair cut. Their mother makes a monthly trip to the shop with all three of them.
I ran out to my car as Elmer was almost finished on the last boy to get a camera. I estimated the focus, stood up, shot 3 frames and got this image. The boy looked my way as Elmer finished.
A few days later I gave Elmer a print of this image and his response was, "I look old."
(Carlinville, IL) Pitcher Sam Coonrod sits on the bench and tries to cool off on an extremely hot day during a sectional Baseball game held at Blackburn College. Coonrod was a member of the Carrollton IL Hawks team that eventually won the Illinois High School Class A Championship.
Coonrod will attend Southern Illinois University in Carbondale as of the fall semester of 2011.
I shot this as I walked by him in the dugout. He was stripped to his underwear trying to get cooled off.
(Jerseyville, IL) This is the color guard of the 2010 Jersey County Veteran's Day parade getting prepared to march down State Street. There are very few WWII veterans that participate now and most are Vietnam era vets although Middle East vets are becoming more common.
(Elsah, IL) A woman plays the piano inside the Christian Science Church during Elsah's annual holiday celebration. Elsah is the home of Principia College.
(Jerseyville, IL) A member of the Staunton Bulldog track team starts to jump a hurdle at a spring 2011 co-ed track meet at the Snyder sports complex. I was so close to the track I could have reached out and touched her as she jumped.
(Jerseyville, IL) Runners are coming off the starting blocks for a race at a spring track event at the Snyder sports complex. The look of the image reminded me of something from the 1930's.
the photo is from 4 shots hand held (2 shots in 2 rows) stitched with Microsoft ICE stitcher program (free for Windows) and PP with LR 3<br />
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an ideal solution with static objects, when you need more wide angle, than you have on the camera or more resolution.<br />
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M9 set to manual exposure! don't forget to fix the ISO, I forgot on this one and on close inspection you see some boundaries between the shots.
JT
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Bill Blackwell
