Twisted craps and gendered cropped crops, love how this twisted conversation is going
Nice work everyone!
It looks like IŽll miss the perseid shower this year. Hopefully there will be more alike events before next year. In the meantime hereŽs a few more from my trip to Indonesia (the last ones I think...).
Monkey in the holy Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali. The Leighton lens. Monkey by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
Lieutenant Z wrote:
I didn't know that you know better than I what the true Provence is.... what a trauma for me : it's the land of my chilhood indeed....
Of course I don't know Provence better than you. I've never been there. Nor do I know that woman sitting on the wall but I venture to guess that was not her most flattering pose.
In all the years I've followed you I've seen lots of your holiday pics. I well remember pictures of castles, villages, fields, mountains, lakes. OK, I obviously need to adjust my expectations. It's not your fault that I have preconceptions about holidays in Provence - you've clearly opted on a grittier approach and I applaud you!.......keep em coming ....
bobbelbob wrote:
Twisted craps and gendered cropped crops, love how this twisted conversation is going
Nice work everyone!
It looks like IŽll miss the perseid shower this year. Hopefully there will be more alike events before next year. In the meantime hereŽs a few more from my trip to Indonesia (the last ones I think...).
F90x + Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ais ED hand held + SB-28 as fill flash, Fujichrome Provia RDP III ISO 100.
Digital dupe using D610 + PB-6 bellows + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 ai @f/8 + PS-6 slide copying adapter + SC-17 cable/SB 400 flash behind slide. Some cropping.
It sure is, Samy. Usually they play that gig in November to close it out for the season. For some reason it was bumped up to August this year. Love watching them play, no matter where.
saph wrote:
Laura must be fun to shoot at your friendly jazz group's performances!
cadman342001 wrote:
In my quest to purchase a telescope to capture images of nebulae I'm afraid I have had to thin the herd some.
The 180ED has gone, the minty 28/2 pre-ai is next on the chopping block ! Such is life, kit building is forever etc.
I still have Mr.Fishy (16/2.8), 20UD, 28/3.5HC, 50/1.4SC, 85/1.4 ais and 200/4QC
Great shot of the tattooed beardy fella Philippe
Nice shot of stone stack Billy, we have a beach nearby that is covered with hundreds of them, must get a shot sometime.
Kristian - shame about the Persids, yes night photography is tough !
Steve - you got a "like" from me for the set up, the stamen wasn't sharp. stop that lens down and let's see what it can do !!!
Samy - we have termite mounds taller than people here !
I should post a pic taken with the 180 while I'm here
In all of Provence, in summer, all you could find to photograph was that woman glaring at you and a beggar outside an ice cream shop? That's not reality - you're doing it on purpose - I should report you to the tourist board .
ben
and you've misconstrued my point about that tip. The eye expects a sharp point but this is a photo, and it's interesting that when you get there it isn't quite what you'd expected, it's irregular and unexpected, ......you know.....like life
leighton w wrote:
Yes, I do feel fine. Which is one reason this was such a shock.
Thanks for filling us in Leighton. Since we appear to have created a cyber family with this thread that doesn't seem about to end any time soon, it is quite natural that we would share with one another both life's joys AND tribulations. I'm glad to hear you're feeling well but even happier that you are attending to your health and whatever lingering problems remain following your surgery. I recall a woman who spoke about her journey who used the phrase "do the next obvious thing." That has always struck me as excellent advice since it keeps us focused on the here and now. So "meeting life on life's terms" is really the best we can do.
Well its been over a week since I've posted since my bride has had the flooring in our house removed after twenty-five years. Tile, carpet now all gone and replaced with wood. Did not enjoy the mess but the floor is nice and after what she has put up with me on the mend .... deserves it.
Couple of comments from seeing the thread from an iPad in the past week.
Samy what a great capture of the market, done in B&W but captures the moment exactly.
Ben I'm confused at the acceptance of an imperfect shadow in Oz but the insistence of perfection in Provence. Confounding people ALWAYS highlight Philippe's photos.
Andy the snap of the sunset of set by the car is perfection.
Billy the rocks piled in Hawaii bear resemblance to the shot I am posting today taken on Lake Superior ... Coincidence?
Kristian I am posting a shot of a stone face that lives in the rocks on the shores of Lake Superior. Sculptured in 1820 and without protection from the public since then it still survives.
Ken Hill wrote:
Well its been over a week since I've posted since my bride has had the flooring in our house removed after twenty-five years. Tile, carpet now all gone and replaced with wood. Did not enjoy the mess but the floor is nice and after what she has put up with me on the mend .... deserves it.
Couple of comments from seeing the thread from an iPad in the past week.
Ben I'm confused at the acceptance of an imperfect shadow in Oz but the insistence of perfection in Provence. Confounding people ALWAYS highlight Philippe's photos.
Ken - I've realised and acknowledged my mistake in my preconceptions about holidays in Provence. I was intending to pull my head in and enjoy the pics........but I see you have a mischievous streak and decided to weigh in. OK......I'll bite......
I'm not on holidays - mine was a street shot from the CBD. I had cropped it until Philippe commented it would have been better to show the tip of the triangle. But the triangle shadow didn't come to a point, it came to a half circle. Perfection, or regularity, is something we expect of geometry, but not something most of us expect from life. Which brings me to holidays in Provence. I was not expecting 'perfection', as you well know, nor did my comments address that. I congratulated Philippe on his pics but I registered some surprise at the choice of subjects. I was wrong to do that - but not entirely off base - in the past Philippe has said that there is a difference between his holiday pics and his urban work, that he photographs different things, eg, one year there was lots of pics of horses, something one normally doesn't see in an LtZ pic (see, one of us is paying attention).
But anyway, I appreciate you stirring the pot, always like a good stir.
Laura - sorry to hear about your irregularity - there are things you can try for that.
bruni wrote:
Ken - I've realised and acknowledged my mistake in my preconceptions about holidays in Provence. I was intending to pull my head in and enjoy the pics........but I see you have a mischievous streak and decided to weigh in. OK......I'll bite......
I'm not on holidays - mine was a street shot from the CBD. I had cropped it until Philippe commented it would have been better to show the tip of the triangle. But the triangle shadow didn't come to a point, it came to a half circle. Perfection, or regularity, is something we expect of geometry, but not something most of us expect from life. Which brings me to holidays in Provence. I was not expecting 'perfection', as you well know, nor did my comments address that. I congratulated Philippe on his pics but I registered some surprise at the choice of subjects. I was wrong to do that - but not entirely off base - in the past Philippe has said that there is a difference between his holiday pics and his urban work, that he photographs different things, eg, one year there was lots of pics of horses, something one normally doesn't see in an LtZ pic (see, one of us is paying attention).
But anyway, I appreciate you stirring the pot, always like a good stir.
Laura - sorry to hear about your irregularity - there are things you can try for that.
Not at all! All I pointed out was Philippe's tendency to include in images people that
amaze, astonish, dumbfound, surprise, startle, stun, throw, shake, discompose, bewilder, bedazzle, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse; all synonyms for confounding. I thought the discourse of the triangle shadow amusing. 🍻
