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Miniature Christmas lights in macro. /
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Just because we’re broken or somehow not quite perfect, doesn’t mean we don’t contain something fascinating on the inside. / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / The more verbose version follows, at “ginny’s” request: / / People look at us, and indeed we look at others, with some expectations. We are judged too often by the appearance of our external, physical selves, and I believe less so for our deeper appearance. Are we programmed to be this way or are we just too lazy to really look? I think we are a lot of both. More and more, at least in America, we’re fed the media-driven definition of beauty, which, incidentally is defined almost exclusively as it applies to women, even when it applies to men. You are not allowed to have your own idea of what constitutes an attractive person. It doesn’t sell you stuff you don’t need or make you watch some mindless entertainment that does nothing to improve your life, other than to brainwash you into buying more of the stuff you don’t need. In the USA we love it. Give us more “reality” programs, and make sure they’re mean-spirited and feature loads of “attractive” people. We feel better when we see someone else getting treated as poorly as we feel that we ourselves are, and we like being reminded that we’re not yet perfect; we need to go and buy some more stuff that will make us attractive, too. No need to think, feel or develop our own ideas and opinions. Life is so much easier that way. I wish people would spend more time worrying about who they are instead of what they look like. In fact, I wish people would spend more time wondering who WE are and what we’re about more than what we look like. And this is the fundamental concept behind my picture of the bulbs; what this composition means to me. Some give the appearance of being whole and mostly perfect, while others fractured or somehow less perfect. But until we put them to the test, give them some attention, what do we really know about them other than what we see at first glance? Which of these two bulbs would provide the light that is their intended purpose? You cannot know until you take the time to gently screw them into a socket and give them power. You must interract with them to prove their worth. Perhaps the one that appears least perfect is the one that provides you with a moment or two of warm light. Beauty surrounds us, though only when we have the desire to find it and only when we have the courage to define it ourselves will we actually see it.
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To see the detail zoom in / Looks better when you see it close up… / xXxOoO
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On a recent expedition, Magoo2 and I discovered this old rail tunnel in the Lincolnshire Wolds – which was no mean feat,- we had the nettle stings, mud scrapes and bruises [from being whacked by various tree branches during our ‘controlled descent’ of the overgrown gulley] to prove it! The tunnel seems to be Victorian, from the steeply vaulted roof, and is ‘faced and lined’ with higher grade materials [for show] at each end but bellies out to a larger bore built of red brick further in. There’s no trickery with this one, only ambient light and a ‘star effect’ courtesy of an f8 aperture.
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Four lovely tulips are displayed in this red vase with soft lighting. / Thank you for viewing my work. ANIMALS / BUTTERFLY / CHRISTMAS / EASTER / FLOWERS / IMAGES WITH / MESSAGES / RELIGIOUS / SPORTS Images copyright ©Sheryl Kasper. / Copying, displaying, manipulating or redistribution of any image from this portfolio without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
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Photo composite of old light bulb and Oaxaca, Mexico wood texture.
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This an old picture of mine. Whenever it is shown it has always been a point of discussion. Most people that I have shown it to often see one of two images. Many see a question mark but more interestingly most view a boxing skull emerging from the broken light globe. Anyway I hope you enjoy it and thanks for dropping by.
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I felt this had a very alien feel, with the veins in the petals…
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From within, everything shines with its own little light. You just have to stop, pay attention, and look closely sometimes.
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Click to view by category / / Fractal Images / Images from Nature HDR Images Flower Portraits Night/Low Light Images Architectural Images Landscape Images Infrared Images / / / Random Images / /
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All artwork is © Rhonda L. Hall, All Rights Reserved. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent.
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Discovered close to a harbour in Denmark. / This street lamp might have been deformed by strong winds which led to a unique look.
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Simple, fun..self deprecation. ;) / / / / / / / / / / sold!
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A simple and random thought that / popped into my sleep deprived mind.
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Created with the help of dragonfly and snails from Edith Kangas, (Through My Eyes)
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I’ve driven past this fountain for over 7 years and twice before attempted to take photographs of it – once during the day and once at night. The daytime shots were OK and basically showed the fountain in its setting: a large and pretty golf course. I tried to isolate the fountain but its location pretty much prevented that. The nighttime shots were a bit different and hid the greens and fairways of the golf course well while actuating the fountain. Unfortunately, I wasn’t anywhere near up to the challenge of capturing the shot until last week. The difference this time was the combined usage of NO ISO boosting, proper aperture, and much slower shutter speeds. I pulled up the shutter time to a full 29.1 seconds by using the “BULB” setting instead of a preset shutter speed. The D80 will make a 30 second open shutter but I tried it for about 30 minutes and was never satisfied until I found the “sweet spot” at a touch over 29 seconds manually. To offset that much light coming into my Nikkor 18-35 kit lens, I set the exposure bias (what I always call the ‘offset’) to -5 and the camera automatically upped that to -6, tho I don’t know why or how. LOL! Finally, the aperture was set at f/36, much smaller than I’d ever tried before. But the slower shutter speed mandated constant light for a long time so I shrunk the lens opening quite the opposite as I would have with shooting the moon or nighttime buildings. It took a bit over 1 hour for me to eventually get the settings the way I wanted them, lock the tripod down as securely as possible, and use the remote trigger to trip the shutter release. (Using my hand, no matter how carefully, caused shake that blurred the image enough to see.) One other important thing of note: my focal length was 42 mm because I used the kit lens, the wide angle Nikkor that came with the camera. This made the fountain a LOT smaller in the finished shot instead of filling the frame as I used to do using a telephoto lens. The difference there was the PhotoShop Elements program I used to make the shot large enough for Red Bubble but do absolutely nothing else. I had been trying to get the largest shot out of the camera and enlarge less in post-shoot processing. I now know that putting a smaller but better image into the software is far preferable to putting in a large image that sucks anyway. LOL! I hope some of this makes sense to the budding photographers new to DSLR shooting. And as usual, I give enormous credit to the work and comments of oastudios, a master of getting the balance between water and light perfectly. SEE HIS STUFF!
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I chose to take the bottom of the 10,000 lb Blockbuster Bomb that was used in the earlier wars. And was the beginning design for the atom bomb. The light bulb represents Idea :) Hope you like and thank you for taking time to look Chris
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