Looking at – and seeing – the world
October 23, 2019 2 Comments
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After an early shower, the sun rises above a children’s playground and autumn is just around the corner.
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Technique: TG-5 at 80mm (equiv); 100 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 29 Aug 2019.
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October 19, 2019 7 Comments
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Due to my carelessness, this picture is most probably not sharp. Thinking of other things (Full English Breakfasts … probably …) I loosed off at 1/13th second when using a 100mm equivalent telephoto >>> and later could only hope that the camera image stabilisation would make it all right. Anyway, whether said stabilisation has done the job or not, this is my only shot of the scene and here it is!
So >>> walking beside a blaring main road and glancing eastwards, I liked the contrasts between the first faint pinks of the sunrise and the various colours of the house lights. The Outer Suburbs were awake and preparing to take on whatever the day might throw at them!
Other images in this Early Morning series – from both rural and urban settings, and from Kenya too – are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 3 Oct 2019.
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October 16, 2019 9 Comments
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Sunrise glances across a trim front garden in the outer suburbs. The baby bushes, all in a row, are lit by its welcome radiance.
And there is a little fence too which, while hopefully not bereft of any hint of the ornamental, is basically the symbolic barrier between two privately owned residences. The fence casts a long shadow, as well it might in this materialistic world.
There are earlier Modern Housing posts here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 49mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 03 profile; south Bristol; 18 Sept 2019.
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October 11, 2019 6 Comments
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Landscape – mostly vertical – with streetlights, traffic signs, trees, telegraph pole and early morning murk.
Other images in this Early Morning series – from both rural and urban settings, and from Kenya too – are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 26 Aug 2019.
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October 10, 2019 8 Comments
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Front gardens >>> tasteful modern Minimalism perhaps >>> or yet another example of the ongoing subjugation of All Things Green to convenience and The Age of the Car?
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 250 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 19 Aug 2019.
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October 9, 2019 16 Comments
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Parked, claustrophobically; hemmed in by the blank, looming masses of the built environment, within which – we can only hope – warm domesticity universally prevails.
There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 22 Aug 2019.
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October 8, 2019 6 Comments
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In hardly the most visually pleasing of surroundings, a low angle beam of autumn sunlight still manages to conjure a moment of magic as it sneaks in between the scarred walls of old garages and illuminates the single natural and visually appealing thing there.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spotmetering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 17 Sept 2019.
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September 24, 2019 18 Comments
1: loved the plants! What do they add – patina / character / a touch of Life???
Walking down to the city centre on a sunny morning. Walking northwards, and so keeping to the right hand side of the roaring main road to watch the glare of the low angle sunlight striking the buildings opposite and also, where the view to the east is uninterrupted, to watch the glare interacting with the ground around my feet.
And so to a series of random photos: little scenes seen during a walk down to the city … to buy a loaf of (very special and simple) bread as it happens …
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Technique: TG-5; Lightroom; south Bristol; 14 Sept 2019.
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2: part-shaded by buildings and trees on the opposite side of the road
3: the roof of a sports pavilion, with floodlights and a street light
4: loved the gulls!
5: bridge with red railings, and a white line to keep walkers safe from cyclists …
6: roadside shadows
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September 22, 2019 10 Comments
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Out for lunch, and lunch taking awhile to appear. Well, it was a Monday, the school holidays are over, and maybe the restaurant hadn’t expected such a tide of (mostly) oldies. Anyway, the TG-5 camera was in my pocket, as it often is, and so to looking around at the things on the table in front of me. When you’re into photography, there’s always something to look at …
But when it eventually appeared, the large mixed grill couldn’t be faulted – a carnivore’s dream, accompanied by tomato, onion rings, mushroom and (an inexhaustible supply of) chips, and probably with more than a whole day’s quota of calories. In fact it was almost more than I could eat; must be getting old …
And, as always, the Olympus TOUGH TG-5 camera was wonderfully compact, and very capable and adaptable. I used spot metering; and also the Microscope Mode, which enables extreme close up shots with illumination from the camera; 1600 ISO; processing in Lightroom. Each picture can be enlarged by clicking onto it to open a larger version in a separate window, and clicking onto that image to further enlarge it.
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3 >>> COMPETITION!!! BIG PRIZES!!! QUESTION: WHAT DOES THIS ARTWORK SHOW??? >>> First prize: a night out in the Outer Suburbs with The FATman!!! Second prize: two nights out in Outer Suburbs with The FATman!!!!!! And furthermore, really entering into the spirit of the thing, The FATman will on this occasion lower his usual standards and dress code so that black tie will NOT be de rigueur!
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September 18, 2019 4 Comments
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Every picture tells a story, but here the two words tell the whole story.
So really, now, its just a case of whether I accept the offer of the hard-hitting assignment in social commentary photojournalism or become a lensman with Visit Bristol!
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Technique: strong stomach, almost averted gaze, and TG-5 at 25mm (equivalent); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 14 Sept 2019.
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