Sometimes Tone and Form are as Effective as Full Color
Sycamore Tree in Early Spring
© A. Mac/A.G.
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First things first.
Check the article at the link below.
nice shot.
Thank you for the link. Actually, the Creative Arts group RED BOX RULES have to do with taking care to obey legal copyright rules.
In the meantime your opening image is a good example of the title of this article.
If members want to learn more about the use of sepia, the "Pages" of this group has an excellent article on the subject. LINK ->
Sepia used to provide a mood or vintage effect to colour photos:
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Actually the second photo, the loggers' trail into the forest, and the 4th photo, the countryside in Wales, were B&W photos originally.
Evening Buzz.. must admit never been a big fan of Sepia but these photos are really quite stunning..
Thanks, shona.
Where is the fourth photo from, Buzz? The one with the house and stone fences?
I took that photo while we were travelling across north Wales about half a century ago. We had just had a medieval Christmas dinner at Ruthin Castle the night before.
Ah, thanks. With the stone fences I thought it looked "British-ish," or maybe Irish. So many of your photos are from China I figured I'd ask.
The trail in the forest photo was taken in rural Ontario, but the other three were in China.
I love the contrast between the third photo "old age and despair" and the fifth photo "young age and beauty" !!!
An interesting technical point. Notice that although both the sky in the forest trail and the shoes on the woman in mourning were sepia toned they both retained the same light blue colour. Maybe A.Mac can explain why that is.
Not sure those images are truly sepia tone, rather, containing both areas of muted color & simultaneously heightened saturation. Each makes for an effective moodiness.
Thanks, A.Mac, for your suggestion.
Another possibility is that the images were converted to TRI-TONE …
I don't think I'm able to do that. There is no doubt that the forest trail photo and the Wales photo were properly sepia-toned because they were B&W film photos I processed and toned myself in my home darkroom. The others were done by using digital website editing programs.
The lilies on the side of the house are finally blooming.
That's a damn good lily. I just wish they wouldn't smell so bad.
Come on... they can't smell at all - they don't have noses. Hahahaha Sorry I can't help myself sometimes. I don't bring them into the house, I just like them out in front.
Do lilies smell bad? I know marigolds can at times, but I've never noticed it with lilies. I wish I could go check, but all of mine are done and gone now. I'm sure the purple ones that get brought into the house for flower arrangements don't, but I don't know if I've ever bothered to check the other ones.
Some lilies have a strong unpleasant smell. Not all of them do. I like our hydrangeas, but they don't last long and make such a mess.
I didn't know that about lilies. I guess I've never had any of the smelly ones.
Yeah, hydrangeas are nice.
Totally agree, Buzz. I love their looks, but, their high chemical odor would put me in the hospital with serious non-allergic rhinitis, which can be fatal. When I see one even a ways from me I make a run in the other direction. Roses and Gardenias have the same effect on me. But, they are beautiful flowers.
I won't have them in the house either.
I tasted durian for the first time yesterday. It is quite common here but for all these years I've never had a taste. When opened they are said to smell awful, and in fact I now agree, but damn it all, just hold your nose because they actually taste delicious. Here is an image of one:
Thanks Buzz. I have heard of them, but, I have never tasted one. The extensive chemotherapy treatments I had to under go for the first 6 months of this year had a bad effect on my taste buds, so I am just now getting some of my sense of taste back. However, some things just don't taste to same. Some of the things I really liked before don't appeal to me now. I don't know if now is a good time for me to try a durian now.
The photo was taken in 1907 by Roland Reed on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation (Miskwaagamiiwi Zaagaiganing) in Northern Minnesota, it is entitled Every Wind and the woman's name is Evangeline:
Thanks! I just looked him up. At The Spring is one of my favorites. The Wooing, Nature's Mirror and The Eagle are also some of my favs. He's a fantastic artist at a time where photographers weren't expected to be artists.
He actually lived on the Red Lake Reservation for a couple of years.
The book of his photos entitled: Alone With The Past, is well worth purchasing.
I saw that he lived next to the Reservation and in Bemidji before that. His father was a Civil War vet in Wisconsin.
I'll check out the book. Thanks!
He had a studio in Bemidji as well.
Translation for Bemidji is “Crossing Waters”
Incredible photo. Just great.
I purchased a copy of this photo and had it framed and it is in my den.
The interesting part of this is that my nookomis (grandmother) was living in Red Lake when this was taken and remembers Roland Reed being there, she was born around 1880 give or take a couple of years.
That is interesting.
Scenes from the deck.
Those photos are really great, Hal.
Fabulous and fantastic. And so big.
Ryoan-Ji, Kyoto © G. Gam
Tour Guide © G. Gam
Girl in a Kimono © G. Gam
These are quite special.
Thank you!
Very nice, G.
Thanks, Kavika.
Great pics, excellent editing technique.
Thank you very much, B.o.t.O. I appreciate it.
Restored Magic Lantern Photograph
© A. Mac/A.G.
I would guess that that train never went very fast or a lot of those people would have lost their hats.
Jaws over Stone Creek.
Needs bigger teeth 🤣🤣🦈
Morning... thought I would do something nice for the cat. So bought her some mince steak... only $12 a kilo..😬😬 and the result...
Do you expect me to eat peasant food..🤢..Slave I want something else...
Your reply to your cat: "Yes, Your Highness, your command will be fulfilled. I'll feed you some Yokoshima fish."
My cat is also spoiled to death. She gets white meat chicken every day, doesn’t care for dark meat. The funny thing is that it’s actually cheaper than buying canned cat food, just a little more work - but she’s worth it. She also will indulge beef, pork, and fish, and she has her own catnip plants.
My cat survived on dry cat food and water, never complained about it and lived 17 years.
My Yoda Girl kitty likes only dry food. She will turn her nose up at any wet food I have given her. She also likes to share my cold water was well, which I found curious as I understood that cats don't like cold stuff. I keep a small bowl on my desk for her when she says she wants cold water by tapping on the little bowl.
Spoiled? Not my Yoda Girl....ME =
Your cat didn’t know what it didn’t know. Mine also likes dry food so she’s got a bowl that gets filled every day. She’s too boujee to touch canned cat food though.
Street Scene, Kyoto © G. Gam
Untitled, 1369 (Japan) © G. Gam
nice
Muchas gracias, compadre
Too good, so they wouldn't qualify for the LensCulture Street Photo contest.
Last night's sunset, Stone Creek, Ocala FL.
This little bastard is a Spotted Lanternfly. They are an invasive species that feed on Tree of Heaven (also invasive). We have a large Tree of Heaven that is currently suffering an infestation. They have an interesting and colorful life cycle, but if you see one you should kill it and report the sighting.
They're invading here in Virginia, and have been devastating our local vineyards. They seem to be somewhat resistant to common insecticides. We have been asked to stomp on them whenever we see them, but I doubt that will do very much to stop the invasion.
Never saw one. Never saw a Tree of Heaven either. More apt to see a tree in the other direction I think.
That’s interesting since they are both invasive species from China.
China is a pretty big country and if I ever saw a Tree of Heaven I wouldn't have known what it was, but I know I've never seen a bug like that.
Here in Florida, we have a number of invasive critters.
This is the Burmese python and one was just captured at measured a bit over 19 feet.
They have just discovered nesting/breeding Green Anaconda in central Florida. They get even bigger than the Burmese python. They are the largest snake in the world and can reach 30 feet long and weigh 550 lbs.
Like the native alligators aren't enough to worry about.
Why in the world would anybody move to Florida?
I hate cold/winter love hot and don't mind humid. I love horses and live in the Horse Capital of the World. The beach in December is 80 degrees and lots of bikinis and thongs (not that I noticed, my neighbor told me about it.)
Morning Kavika..uhhh huhhh...so down at the beach you and your neighbour spend all day looking at people's feet checking out their thongs...I really believe that one..🐨
LMAO, wrong type of thongs, shona.
Nahhh you mob have got it wrong..again.. least it's better than Kiwi speak..jandles..🤣🤣🤣
Hey shona.... I learned a good lesson about the different meanings of American English and British English, when I happened to mention to one of my British MS MVP colleagues that I bought a fanny pack to use at the next MVP world meeting in Seattle.
Their very prompt reply was full of laughing emojis, and I was informed that the term 'fanny' had a much different meaning in the British language. I quickly learned to check out the meaning of a word I wanted to use in the language of the people I was speaking with. The difference can sometimes be a bit hilarious, to say nothing of being embarrassing.
Morning Raven..you are not wrong..when I worked with Alcoa I was in an office full of Americans..
Anyway I knocked an article off the desk and it bounced and ended up under a chair..
I asked Steve could he pick up the rubber and throw it back to me..well there was stunned silence, shocked looks...and he didn't move..
I asked what the problem was and that's when it came out in America it's called contraception...
I just burst out laughing and said you mob have a lot to learn here...
Australian English is very different to British English...we confuse the crap out of them to but with the greatest delight..
LOL! I had an MS Access Database Guru who was helping me with creating a very complicated database, who lived in Bendigo. Along with working together on the project, we both engaged in learning the difference in our home languages, and the lingo. We laughed so hard with each new word. It was one of the most enjoyable learning experiences on both subjects.
if I showed up to the beach in a speedo, I have the beach to myself in short order...
My Dawg Gracie in Sepia Tone
© A. Mac/A.G.
As I've said before, I love to see photos of the most beautiful dog in the world.
hey amac, I noticed that there's a few people participating here that have yet to vote up your article. why is that?
No idea; I’m not sure that doesn’t happen every article, it’s not something I ever monitored but going forward, I’ll be curious to see.
sorry, I'm a bit OCD about it in my efforts to keep certain trash off the front page...
Oops...
Whatever can be done to assure that.
At the ''Gathering of Nations'' in Albuquerque the littlest of the ''Fancy Dancers'' carry on the tradition of his tribe.
Every time that I see the photo I think of Elton John's song ''Tiny Dancer''.
I used to attend a lot of the POW WOWs in Calif, and some while in Virginia, and my favorite part of the dancers were the littlest 'Warriors'. I was amazed at how well they performed all the dances so precisely. And knew just how to use their regalia to achieve the best effect of the dance they did. Even the smallest of the little ones performed the dances so well, in spite of a misstep now and then.
The expertise of the grown-ups was truly fascinating, but, that of the little ones was just amazing. I even learned some of the dances when I was very young, and had fun dancing along with the other youngest ones at the POW WOWs. I learned the dances from my adopted Cherokee Grandmother when we lived in Pawhuska OK when I was 6 y/o. I never felt so free in my life as when I was dancing with the rest of the young ones. It was a lot of work learning the steps and body movements, but, I so loved it.
I've been asked to leave or pulled off a dance floor more than once...
Morning sunrise over the Stone Creek golf course.
Just another day at work
Very pastoral.
Thanks to all; back on Thursday.