*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2020.05.16 ***

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From the past week or so. We have had snow, heavy frost and cold weather until yesterday. No snow on the ground but not much like spring.

Andrew




red breasted grosbeak, male, shot through the dirty kitchen window






yellow magnolia, it is just beginning to bloom






liberties taken in processing, the actual flower has a much softer appearance






not much of an image but I liked the colour
 
Ha! Reminds me of that thing Steve McQueen used to get locked in in Papillon.
 
They must have a very sweet tooth. Good title.
 
That's a fine outfit in #1. But my fav is #3.
 
OK, Russell Crowe nowhere to be seen but when I used to walk back to my accommodation through the long wheat I would trail my hand through it as he did in the movie. Taken a year ago this week in Tuscany, Italy.

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Pleasant.
 
An interesting set Nigel. It has been a very long time since I made perspective drawings, 1966! The pain has long since been forgotten! I think I likely still have the pens, drawing sets, etc along with the yellow scaled slide rule with leather holster.

I think the third is not quite fully corrected, noticeable on the left side. It is also darker which I think adds to the vast preference for the fourth. The 45 deg view does make a difference but I suspect its appeal varies by subject matter, at least for me. When I shoot cars I mostly use angled shots which show both the front and a side. The angle chosen varies by car and for me depends upon the details I wish to emphasize. I suspect that would also be applicable in architectural photography but since I don't do a lot of that it is just a guess.

Andrew
 
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If you bring a large bag of those back in your luggage through customs someone opens your luggage to make sure that they are not something else! Our grandson found that out on a trip back from Florida John. It looks like two of those people talking have lowered their face masks.

Andrew
 
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An interesting set Nigel. It has been a very long time since I made perspective drawings, 1966! The pain has long since been forgotten! I think I likely still have the pens, drawing sets, etc along with the yellow scaled slide rule with leather holster.
I still have all my "gear" from the 70's. I still make 3D pencil sketches to illustrate ideas.

Adrian Newey, still works at a drawing board with pencil and paper for concept design in the highly technological world of F1.
I think the third is not quite fully corrected, noticeable on the left side. It is also darker which I think adds to the vast preference for the fourth. The 45 deg view does make a difference but I suspect its appeal varies by subject matter, at least for me. When I shoot cars I mostly use angled shots which show both the front and a side. The angle chosen varies by car and for me depends upon the details I wish to emphasize. I suspect that would also be applicable in architectural photography but since I don't do a lot of that it is just a guess.

Andrew
Yes, you are right, the third is a bit off.

I have been using the level in the camera which gives a false sense of accuracy. Back to the bubble level which is better.
 
I like the delicacy of the light and colour in the third shot.

The first bird shot is very pretty.
 
Well, its a bit better than getting buried in a "Super Max" perhaps from what I have read.

By the size it looks like it served an almost crime free area.
 
On a somewhat grander scale this week, for some reason.

the only thing more brutal than the architecture is my first attempt at using content-aware fill to eliminate the three annoying cars from the scene. pixel peepers, scroll on!

the only thing more brutal than the architecture is my first attempt at using content-aware fill to eliminate the three annoying cars from the scene. pixel peepers, scroll on!

blue door

blue door

empty, as far as I can tell

empty, as far as I can tell

behind a market in Winters, CA

behind a market in Winters, CA

shuttered bakery

shuttered bakery

dumpsters

dumpsters

mini-excavator waits patiently behind a brand new grocery store

mini-excavator waits patiently behind a brand new grocery store

cheers to all!

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Pixels are for peepers.
 
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Well, its a bit better than getting buried in a "Super Max" perhaps from what I have read.

By the size it looks like it served an almost crime free area.
Oh they had crime. Just not many repeat offenders.
 

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