CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
PLEASE POST YOUR CREATIVE EFFORTS.
IF YOU HAVE A PAINTING, A DRAWING, A PHOTOGRAPH, OR YOU HAVE WRITTEN A POEM, OR RECORDED AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF MUSIC, POST THEM!
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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Still Life With Glasses & Pitcher (© G.Gam)
Good one. Did you submit it to the LensCulture B&W contest that's happening now?
Thanks. Yes, it is one of the photos I submitted.
Had i bothered I would have submitted this one, but I knew it would never have been chosen by those judges.
It's sailing on the Ottawa River, just behind Canada's Parliament buildings.
Very nice!
Thank you very much.
Something old...an item at the museum in Zhengzhou, Henan Province
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Something new...emerging from an old tree
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Something borrowed...my stepdaughter's guitar
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Something blue...the base of the Radio and TV Tower in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue... Are you getting married?
LOL. No. Twice is enough.
It was actually just a theme to match with photos.
The dragon doesn't look very happy being photographed. (It seems to be a universal pose.)
I like the last one of the radio tower base. That one draws me into the scene.
I thought the dragon's pose was more like that of a payful dog. The tower base photo was a prize winner, but the prize was just a flash drive.
I took these when I was learning about depth of field.
The dominoes are very small - using a dime for scale.
Smallest dominos I've ever seen.
These days my eyes are getting our of focus.
Interesting set of photos.
These types of photos are always fun. I especially like the 2nd one; very ethereal.
Here's a flat bed scan of a Compur shutter I was repairing.
This is a composite of flat bed scans of a computer chip.
This is a photograph of a tube anemone flattened against the aquarium glass.
VERY unusual and interestng.
My theme this week is 'flat'.
I thought your postings were quite a variety. Oh, you mean your PHOTO theme. LOL
I like your photos. Good creative efforts. Unique. Thanks for posting them.
My morning smoko down by the harbour..almost warm enough to get the surf mat out..
One toasted ham cheese and tomato sanga with a cappuccino...
when do the crocs migrate down to infest every body of water?
Huh they don't..crocs don't like the great whites that live here..
a bit like chewing a boot or piece of luggage stuffed with meat I reckon ...
Do you live within walking distance of the beach?
Morning G...yes I can it's about 3ks away but if I want to hit the waves with the surf mat, that's about 15 ks away in the car..
But it is certainly worth the drive..
Breakfast in the pilothouse? Is that an oyster farm in the 2nd image?
It's great having that scenery. There must be lots to see at low tide.
Arvo..no oyster farms here as it's to cold..find them along the New South Wales coast is prime location..
Yes the coast line is very rugged and treacherous lots of ship wrecks from the olden days..
We have large numbers of seals which come right up to you and rock pools..
Pulteney Bridge and Weir on the River Avon, Bath, England (© G.Gam)
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it kinda looks like it really was a bath at one time, although it's hard to imagine the weather getting warm enough there more than 3 months out of a year ...
The city of Bath was named after Roman baths and a temple first built starting around 60 A.D. The Roman name was Aquae Sulis (the waters of Sulis). It's a beautiful town. We stayed there for several days a few years ago, and also took day trips out of town to places like Stonehenge, Salisbury and the Cotswolds. I'm not so sure the weather is ever very warm. People would ask us where we were from and when we said Los Angeles, they always commented on it being warm in L.A.
(Photo from the Internet)
(Two images © G.Gam)
it's been awhile since I've seen green bath water ...
But not green reflecting pool water...
The Roman baths are a few blocks away from the river and the weir. The scene in the photo in Comment 6 is not part of the baths.
Morning..yes I remember those baths well..managed to trip over one of the uneven pavers and went a gutser...
My Kiwi travel friend killed herself laughing and we still talk about it even now..
Translate, please - what's a "gutser"?
Trip over, fall over, face plant..
How can anyone not love engineering? It's a civil profession.
You caught the water just right. That couldn't have been a hand held shot.
Which photo are you referring to?
The 1st photo, Pulteney Bridge and Weir on the River Avon, Bath, England.
It was a hand held shot. All of my photos are. I just wasn't sure if you might have been referring to the photo of the Roman bath from the internet, but I see now you were responding to Comment 6, not Comment 6.1.3. My confusion. The internet photo of the Roman bath may well have not been a hand held shot.
I didn't know hand held vs not was even a thing ...
I'm assuming he is referring to using a tripod which would stabilize things. I do not use a tripod.
with the tech built into cameras and even cell phones available today, with the exception of time lapse or professional interior studio shots, what's the point? I really like the idea of a random spontaneous shot. something in the moment that changes it from a picture to a piece of art. just walking by and seeing the shot and taking it versus knowing that it's there and setting up for it. I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference by looking in most cases, but to me it loses something artistically and drifts a bit towards commercial.
The blurred water flowing through the weir (@6) requires a slower shutter speed. It is very difficult to avoid camera movement during the longer exposure at slower shutter speeds.
A hand held shot at slower shutter speeds shows the skill of the photographer.
I think you know that I am not really into the technical aspect of things too much. I'm just trying (sometimes not so successfully, I'm afraid) to create art.
So far, I have never dealt with things like shutter speeds. If I see something I like, I take a picture of it. I do occasionally, but not often, use an app that allows me to take multiple images, which has nothing to so with the photos posted on here this week, and I will often use various basic effects tools on my phone and computer (cropping, contrast, saturation, etc.) to enhance an image. At times I use layering to create something.
The only time I can remember being concerned about, and specificallly adjusting the shutter speed was for this photo, where I set it at 1/2000 sec to stop the ball in midair after it was hit. It was a Blue Jays game in the Skydome, Toronto.
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LOL. Having fun?
Thanks everyone. See you next time.