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9-28-12 Looking Up
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their...
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11-3-12 Exposed!
I do love what a few simple adjustments of subject and shutter speed can do to an image. I think my favorite shot of the day… Tagged: Clouds, exposure, Helicopter, Hudson River, New York, postaday2012,...
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11- 8 -12 Travel Theme: Soft
Ailsa’s theme for the week: Soft I think the hardness of the helicopter nicely sets off the softness of the clouds over the river. Tagged: Clouds, Helicopter, Hudson River, New York City, Photo...
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11-13-12 Travel Theme: Soft (Take 2)
Decided to take a second pass at Ailsa’s Travel theme of soft (other entries may be seen here). This is not my usual style but I like it. Shot at 6:45 AM on October 21, 2011. Tech Talk Time: Lens...
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11-14-12 A Year Is Not Enough Time
I took this picture on 11/14/11. The deserted power plant in Yonkers. I really liked the image but when I took it of my memory card, it wasn’t quite what I had seen/shot So I started to work on it....
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11-18-12 Snapseed Effect
Took a long walk on the river yesterday. It was a nice day. I took a number of shots with my DSLR but also a few with the iPhone. I ran this one through Snapseed. I really like that little app. Tagged:...
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11-29-12 A Year Ago Today
“I never considered a difference of opinion, in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” Thomas Jefferson (Thanks to Seasweetie’s Pages for the quote) Tagged:...
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1-1-13 (Cont) Looking At The World Through Different Lenses
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world” J.R.R. Tolkien Went to the eye doctor today. Had been feeling like I needed a new prescription especially...
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1-19-13 Travel Theme: UP
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is up. I had hoped to go deep into the files for this one but, no such luck. I know I have prints of many places and ideas that fit the theme but I could not find them....
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3-29-13 A Quiet Start To The Weekend
A few days ago I was in Riverside Park and down by the river looking for spring. I didn’t find it but I did find these. Tall and Tan and Young and Handsome Love is in the concrete Looking over the...
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6-10-13 No Accounting For Taste
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies — thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.” D.H. Lawrence I have a photograph that I took on...
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10-4-13 Travel Theme: Height
I borrowed an Olympus OM-D E-M5 from a friend and spent much of the day playing with it. I have never shot with a mirrorless camera before and wanted to get a sense of how they perform. Do they reach...
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11-18-13 Spring HDR Phone Urge Go
I get the urge for going But I never seem to go I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in Joni Mitchell Even though we are on...
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3-21-14 egnellahC otohP ylkeeW: Reflections
The photo challenge this week is reflections. “A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”...
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3-31-14 Made It 25% Around The Sun, Again
Yes, indeed we did. I needed to prepare a portfolio for the last class with Amy Arbus tomorrow, 50% work from the class and 50% work of our own. While putting it together I fell back in love with this...
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4-29-14 Looking
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.” George Bernard Shaw Filed under: Photography Tagged: Clouds, cod, George Bernard Shaw, George...
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4-30-14 We All Say Stupid Things (I Got Rambling On My Mind)
I think now, even Kid Rock would admit he had things backwards. “I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let’s...
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Travel Theme: Close Up (Far Away)
Close Up “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and...
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9-8-14 Come Fly With Me
Over the Hudson River 7/31/10 between Beacon and Newburgh Filed under: Photography Tagged: Beacon_NY, Blue Sky, Clouds, Flying, Frank Sinatra, postaday2014, seagull, Summer, The Hudson River
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9-09-14 I’ve Stolen Your Words (Western Cloud Tributary)
I’VE STOLEN YOUR WORDS After Shelomo Ibn Gabiriol I’ve stolen your words, I don’t deny it— I ate them and broke teeth on the liberation wall;did I think I could soar with your songs or use them...
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