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Here’s an old photo of my little girl converted to b&w..It was a hot summers evening with an approaching storm.
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” – Maxim Gorky. My sons hand in mine. © 2007.
© Simone Byrne Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. 8th November, 2008 Freshly bailed paddock under a brooding sky. I was driving out to the ‘Tree Graveyard’ for a sunset shoot when I noticed this paddock scene and just had to stop and take advantage of the amazing light. Strathfieldsaye, Victoria, Australia Camera: Canon EOS 350D Lens: Canon 18-55mm @ focal length 18mm Exposure: 1/160 sec, f5.6, ISO 100 Filters: Hoya UV, Cokin 121S Grad ND8 HDR: AEB (-1, 0, +1) Tone Mapping: Photomatix Pro Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS More Images @ SimoneByrne.com.au Thanks for looking, all comments greatly appreciated, Simone.
Dyin’ Alone the shade may hide you / the light may guide you / your friends may find you / and don’t think twice but / everyone dies alone —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- Location: Loch Lomond, Trossachs National Park, Scotland © Donald Cameron 2009 / Monophotography.co.uk This image was featured on the Redbubble homepage, / Friday 5th June 2009 /
/ Taken early one foggy morning in Northern France
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot. / . / Meningie, South Australia. / © 2007.
On a recent trip to Bodie we caught a sunset at Mono Lake.
Please check out this awesome bubbler Yvonne
One Single Tear is never enough. (c) Sarah Moore Stock Image
Bubbles of water just above the water surface, taken through a cylindric glass bowl. Choose a cylindric shaped bowl to get mid sharpness and edge out of focus. Taken hand held with a 60W lamp and daylight as light source. / Daylight for back light and lamp for front light to bring strong highlights to the bubbles Voyage: an act of traveling by water – a journey to some distant place
Original graphic was derived from the MONO Octo Skateboard Deck Series initiated in the Fall of 2008. The Octopus adorns both canvas and skateboard as well as these tees. www.ponshopstudio.com
Kim has kindly nominated this image in Pay it Forward. She said “I would like to Pay it Forward, by nominating Sharon Hammond, who has a wonderful sense of humour and great artistic talent. Sharon has many beautiful images but this one in particular strikes a chord and pulls the heartstrings! / Thanks so much much for your friendship and encouragement Sharon!” / What a lovely gesture Kim, I’m honoured. Thank you so much & ditto right back at you. /
In 2003 I experienced a life changing event when I travelled to Tanna in Vanuatu in the Melanesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean with two friends. Tanna is populated by about 10,000 Ni Vans who mostly live in subsistence farming communities. Tourism infrastructure and foreign investment have been limited to less than 50% which has largely preserved their way of life from too much foreign influence. The last time foreigners descended on mass was in WWII when the American soldiers practically took over a few of the islands. This overwhelming influx of the modern world on a traditional culture permanently altered it when a number of cargo cults started up fashioning themselves on American military camps. Many Ni-Vans so overcome with the amazing technology and physical power of these soldiers decided being American must be pretty good so henceforth considered themselves adopted Americans. To show how American they were they rebuilt their villages in the style of the military camps, saluted the stars and strips and even made planes and jeeps out of bamboo. Mixed into this infatuation was aspects of ‘Kustom’ (native) religion and Christianity into a cult called the John Frum cult (short for ‘John from America’). Ever since WWII the John Frum followers have been waiting for the second coming of John Frum with his ship full of cargo for the faithful. Just before my trip the cult had become so troublsome that the army had been called in to disperse them. They did this by simply burning the village down so people would be forced to go home to their native villages (the village happened to be constructed on the side of an active volcano as well which didn’t impress the authorities much either). On their previous trip my two companions were invited to go and speak in the John Frum Village and meet their leader the prophet Fred a rare privilege for an outsider. I spent two weeks in Tanna climbed an active volcano and spent time getting to know the locals who kindly put us up in their village while we ministered to the local church. Two of the people I got to know the best were Jeremy a boy who took me under his wing and Willie an inspirationally spiritual man who was a church leader down there. I took this shot of my friends on the second last day I was there in the local river just below the village of Lonimilo. Having never been out of a western culture before experiencing village life, food, water (yuck), music (with no radio or TV the sound of acoustic guitars and singing were almost constantly in the background, yum) and living with such beautiful family oriented people profoundly effected my whole way of seeing the world. Jeremy and Willie’s smiles kind of sum the whole thing up. P.S. I don’t really see myself as a portrait/ people photographer but the bubble is such a great place to try out new things I thought I’d post it and see what people think. The shot was taken with my first ever SLR camera that I bought duty free on this trip. To get this shot I got into the river with Jeremy and Willie paranoid I would slip on the sloping bottom with my new baby, fortunately I kept my feet and got the shot, a precious memory. I’ve also been really inspired by Melinda Kerrs work too. To my great surprise this shot won the ‘B&W – Character – People Shots’ groups Indigenous People Competition in August 2008. It was also a finalist in the Black and White groups Emotion competition back in May 2008.
I sold a laminated print through Redbubble – August 2008 This is the coloured version Tank traps on Stockton bight, a series of sand dunes north of Newcastle. Recent visitors have discovered they are mostly all covered in sand now. OTHER BEACH SHOTS / REAL ESTATE SERIES / NEW ZEALAND / FROGS / LENSBABY / INFRARED / INDUSTRIAL / SPAM / PANORAMAS / LANDSCAPES
www.eyelightsphotography.com Taken wth the K200D
The first time ever that no one else was on the jetty. © 2007.
I took this on a recent trip to Brighton, and got up early so I could catch some cool light, and the dynamics of what was a very rough sea… well… comparitively. Brighton Pier is one of the classic 19th century piers in the UK, amusements on the end, kiss me quick hats for sale and so on… Black and white has given the picture an edge over the colour version….
Queensland Secondary School 100m final – Brisbane / 200 1.8 EF lense handheld with EOS 1d / shot at 1/400th 2.8 800 asa / Only photoshop used was slight buring of edges /
Silence Lane / I love cemeteries. / For some people, cemeteries are places of dread. For me, they are places of wonderful quiet and peace. A place of resting, whatever your religion, if any. Memories wrapped in stone and tree shadows. A place to reflect, and wonder about life. Perhaps our lives are just perfect – loved ones all around, financial independence; maybe fame and fortune. / In the end, we all wind up here. / / One life, one chance to feel good about it. / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I certainly appreciate your taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. / / / / Writings (or ramblings) / Come, Dark / Chandelier Brain / Eat Me / The 10th / You’re Strange, Rick / Ever-Queen / Sleeping / Beauty / The Black, White & Grey / / / / Hope / / / One / / / Reap what you Sow / / / Trust / / / Directions / / / Unconditional Love / / / The Long Road / / / Silence Lane
I think I’m bored…....... / Nikon D200 / 18-200mm lens with macro ring converter / processed in RAW
Mt. Asahi Dake – Northern Hokaido – Japan. For lovers of powder snow, you may appreciate that this is my version of heaven! Sun bursting through during a heavy snowstorm amongst a forest of ancient birch trees..Taken during a snowboarding journey through Japan in 2006. Thanks for looking and comments much appreciated….. / rgs, Rob
I was having my coffee this morning on the balcony while watching the rain and it gave me an idea so here it is! This was taken of the rain coming down on the balcony balustrade with the clouds in the background. I know that there are lots of amazing captures of splashes here on RB but this image really wasn’t about the splash, to me, it was more about the capture of morning rain. Best viewed large :o) Nikon D200 / 18-200mm lens, 5.6f / exposure 1/320 / processed in RAW
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