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Surè Joubert
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La Rue Obscure is the oldest street in the old town of Villefranche sur Mer on the French Riviera, between Nice and Monaco. It was built on virgin soil at the beginning of the 13th century. La Rue Obscure formed the basis of the rest of the town’s construction on the slopes rising from this coastal lane. It gave inhabitants of the town certain refuge against possible attacks. The ship captains who were forced by storms to anchor in the bay, could make necessary repairs in safety. La Rue Obscure also welcomed precious merchandise, such as wine, in its cellars.
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Tube Chic by Karin Taylor / Mixed Media Production / / I used ink, pastel, acrylic and charcoal to create the original Tube Chic / So many women have taken up surfing in our area / I admit, I always wanted to, and a few years ago / lept on a mal and caught my first wave / with lots of yahooing / yeah it was the / best feeling :) Although I don’t surf much on a board these days, i prefer a body surf or some fun on a shark cookie (body board) lol….......a lot of my family do still surf…husband, son, daughter, brother .... heck my bro Tim was pretty famous once ….they called him Twister, for his amazing manouvres in the surf and sharp flix…and of course, they all nicknamed me ‘Twister’s Sister’ which was pretty cool at the time…..since then my bro actually has snapped both his ankles doing his cool trix in the surf…..once he had to swim in and drag himself up the beach trying to get help…...no-one was around…..eventually a 4wd came to the rescue down on the beach….loaded Tim up on the truck and got him some ambulance attention…...i took him to the hospital and passed out :)) / can’t handles hospital smells!! or is it the thought of blood….both!!
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Found this beach very near the coastal rocks near Big Sur.
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Another shot of the absolutely stunning sunset from the Big Sur coast. This shot isn’t enhanced so the colours should be about as accurate as eyes would have seen if looking at the scene from the beach. The camera’s exposure setting wasn’t particularly long but the ISO was up there a bit, tho Nikon says there shouldn’t be much noise until it get a LOT higher up than I had it. I did have a rather wide aperture tho. I could have used the camera’s PROGRAM setting to control shutter speed and aperture but I was experimenting with my own ability to make the settings on MANUAL, tho this was the first shot of a three-shot (shutter speed) bracket. The other two shots were far too light with my boosted ISO setting. PS The horizon is level but you’ll have to trust me on this. I used the leveling tool on the tripod and matched it with the guide lines I always leave showing in the camera’s display. But between the non-level fog bank, the fading light from left to right, the semi-curved waves, and the completely angled beach, the eye can get quite confused as to what was the deciding factor.
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Go on sing it – you know you are humming it!
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A cabin in Big Sur. / .
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Just north of Big Sur in Calif. the fog cleared enough that I stopped the car and walked a short distance to see this view.
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Oil on Canvas / Big Sur, along the California Coast, Dawn Sky / I was living in the Big Sur redwood forests bordering the coast, and skies like this were the substance of every dawn. On those mountains, the Santa Lucia range, golden eagles nest and swoop the sea cliffs, hunting fish. Big Sur is extraordinary, raw and primitive in nature, very rough, wild. It’s almost too much to take in. The forests contain giant ancient redwoods that touch the clouds, fern bowering streams, right up to the ocean’s sand. There is a bay tree there, notorious for it’s powerful odor, crushing a leaf in your fingers is like a hit of ayml nitrate and you feel it for hours. The colors are all heightened by the wet air. Everything seems exaggerated, all your senses fight to curtail implosion. Email: hawk@hawksperch.com / Website: The Hawks Perch, www.hawksperch.com
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This image was taken along the California coast from a few miles south of Big Sur pointing north along the coast.
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© 2007 agardnas / All rights reserved
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Oil on Linen / Detail, Portrait of Frederick L. Gregory / Rick Gregory is one of the few granite sculptors in America – I’m not sure more than five artists work in this very tough, formidable rock. California has a good stock of it, especially around Fresno and Yosemite. I thought Rick looked a bit Apollo-ish; I added a fist full of blueprints. We had some very artsy adventures, one at the height of a blinding record-setting rain and wind a few years back on the Central Coast. We drove to Big Sur dodging collapsing cliffs and boulders on Highway One, to tie down twenty-five and thirty foot blocks of Rick’s granite sculpture against the tempest. The best I can say about that thrilling day was that nobody died. Years ago, this expert sailor was on the winning America’s Cup team before hitting dry land in Brazil where he stayed to study rock building with a Japanese master, marry Miss Brazil, and start a family. He’s gone back and forth ever since between Brazil and California, making extraordinary monolithic granite sculptures, many interplaying with water. His work is shown at the Hawthorne Gallery in Big Sur, and installed all over the world in public and private collections.
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Accrington, there’s a name redolent in history, a place famous for textiles, Nori* bricks, a footy team called Stanley and the Pals brigades ( ill fated volunteers in WW1). Oh and the local museum has one of the best collections of Tiffany glass outside of the US. There’s nothing over sentimental or consciously beautiful about the town, it wears its Edwardian dress with a swagger that once policed an empire, public buildings have a certain pomp, but underneath the facade and round the back alleys things are often a little more Dickensian, less sure. This is a picture of an unremarkable litte ginnel as they call them in the North of England, a passage way between two blocks of buildings, under a huge railway viaduct. It might be a tourist attraction in years to come…. If you are ever in the area try Garth Dawson’s camera shop, it still sells film cameras and you can buy a good second hand Nikon or Canon for a cool price. I was tempted. And they have a great technician on the premises. My Nikon D70 was full of dust, they cleaned it within an hour of dropping it in, and it only cost me fifteen quid… bargain This picture was taken on a Fuji 602Z whilst the D70 was getting spruced up. / / *NORI Bricks, there’s a funny story behind this,probably not true but one often told in neighbouring Rossendale. In the nineteenth century the town had many brick works which supplied the raw material to construct the dark Satanic mills of places like Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham, Wigan and the dank insanitary boarding houses and cheap hotels of Blackpool and Lytham. One maunufacturer was called the IRON brickworks and they had a huge chimney a few hundred feet high and naturally it was made of brick. The plan was to write “Iron” in white faced bricks against the red of the chimney. Yes you guessed it the brick layers worked from the base up and began to spell out I.R.O.N. they laid the I first, then the R and so on to the N, but when they stood back it read NORI from top to bottom!
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The plants dotted around the cliffs in Tenerife just seem to be clinging to the volcanic rock. All the Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted or Uploaded In Anyway Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain Sector. Please just ask Me for my Permission. © Anthony Hedger 2008. Using this image for any purpose and in anyway, without prior permission, will lead to legal action or worse.
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Villefranche-sur-Mer in the South of France. Best viewed Larger.
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from the parking lot series
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Taken at Pebble Beach, California. October, 2007.
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Getting Close, Pyrotechnics, Smoke, & Night Fires
by Barbara SparhawkAmazing night. You can now see flames leaping hundreds of feet into the air on the first visible range in Cachagua, from the hill in fron…
Amazing night. You can now see flames leaping hundreds of feet into the air on the first visible range in Cachagua, from the hill in front of the post office. That’s about 25 miles from town. Worry about the skillful jump ability of flame. / The sun was setting, a massive cloud of smoke over the valley lit bright pink, totally astounding. It’s getting closer. / We now have a full tent camp for the firefighters set up in the old Carmel Valley airstrip, 500 tents, men, equipment, kitchens, engines. Awesome. They’re great guys. Signs are appearing on fences “Thank you Fire Fighters!” / I went up at sunset. As it grew dark, lights on the camp grounds popped on illuminating the field. Neighbors drove and walked up with their dogs and kids. We looked at maps and got updates. People pointed, talked old stories, asked over and over if the guys needed anything. The community response universally so far is WE ARE SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE!! Zero sense of invasion or imposition. We may be getting national guard or army here too. It’s pretty intense. / So much of Big Sur burned, you just want to cry and cry. And so much saved too, very few houses went considering the size and ferocity of the fires. It sounds like all the resorts and beautiful places in Big Sur got saved, like Ventana, Nepenthe, Esalen, Deetjens, H Miller. Mostly from people refusing to leave and stamping out cinders falling from the sky with their feet! I know it’s going to be hard to look at again. They’ve let people go back to their homes and land, lifted the evacuations from there and Palo Colorado, which did not get burnt after all from what I understand. It’s a bit like hearing gossip and fiction with a bit of truth. All of it drama, some of it actually happening. / Regina and Pat on Tassajara Road have not evacuated yet. They watch the flames shooting off the ridges from their bed at night. Ty is holding firm in Trampa Canyon. Mike’s posting wonderful blogs on his Cachagua Store site with pretty much daily updates, news of crews coming in, feeding the fire guys, songs and beer and attaboys. We’re apparently getting about fifty volunteers from Australia and New Zealand. THANK YOU!! Guys here from Minnesota and New York and Oregon. It’s a thoroughly remarkable experience on every level. / Zero sense so far we’ll get evacuated from the Village, it’s still far from us. Depending on wind direction, you’re scared one day and calm the next. / Late afternoon and into the evening yesterday a huge wet fog moved in from the coast, and by nightfall had covered Carmel Valley. Good news, we were all glad to see it. The weathermen are all fucked up. Predicting heat waves and cooling spells simultaneously, reigning hysteria. Middays out here are hot, in the 100’s. / There’s a kind of stimulated kinship when you meet folks, everybody on a high of adrenalin and emotion, nobody knowing where this damn thing is going to move. Some said the shooting ridge flames last night were from the backfires being lit. They talk about our mountains as the place to hold the line, that ridge is where we make our stand, this canyon may go, that point is in danger, using names unfamiliar to locals….it’s like being in a general’s tent with warfare plotted out on maps. As Mike Jones said in one of his blogs, you get an intimacy and new respect for the land with the google terrain maps you haven’t had from living here. / We’re all in pretty good spirits it seems to me. While it’s frightening to think of the damn thing raging out of control and sweeping the whole central coast, it seems unlikely. I think they’re getting a handle on it, figuring out how to fight it. It’s rough terrain. But we’re strong. And, of course, you knew that. / Best to you all, and heartfelt thanks for your good wishes. / Barbara
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Taken at the ‘Super Secret Sunset Site’, this is a touch of one of the less spectacular Big Sur sunsets. The sun didn’t set on the true horizon; it set on a fog bank well offshore that was so thick it acted as solid as mountain. Obviously, fog isn’t flat so instead of getting a relatively level horizon, I got a weird blend of level and humpy, solid and semi-transparent. But the thrill was in the chase… This location is one of the most photographed sites in Big Sur, tho not as easily recognizable in this framing. The beach is pristine, the rock formations stunning and dramatic, and the sunsets… Well, for a few weeks of the year, the sun sets in a way that creates an extremely artistic vision that one MUST see to truly appreciate. The trick is to know when and how to find this place. It’s clearly unmarked. LOL! For it being as fantastic as it is and not to have even the hint of a sign telling you where it is has to be indicative of very protective residents and a tourist industry that doesn’t need this site’s exact location well known. And the season for seeing the visual miracle is short and rare on a foggy coastline. If you get it all to come together just once tho, you will know exactly what Henry Miller meant when he commented that this was what God intended for a coastline to be. About the shot – There were numerous photographer in this spot because they all knew what was possibly coming and not the sound of a casual tourist to be found. (My guide knew; I didn’t). The area closes at sunset so your window of opportunity is a bit slim to say the least. So getting set up for one of four events is the hard part and getting set up for ALL four possible events is a challenge for the serious photographers only. You need to be able to aim four ways in seconds, know the timing of the waves, know how to get your camera’s ISO adjusted to catch what you want four different ways, deal with sand so thick that the vital tripod will ruin your composition so subtly you won’t know it was lost, and juggle noise reduction (on the digital cameras). In other words, catching all four events is a task for a Master Photographer because luck won’t cut it. I gave up after about 30 minutes of flicking back and forth between shots, copying what the experts did who were standing next to me but hopelessly outgunned with gear and technique. I was missing the two shots I had a chance for and fouling up the timing on the third. The forth wasn’t gonna happen and the pros knew that but didn’t let on. The sunset was the only “easy” shot and it required ISO changes, shutter speed changes, and a great eye for colour. I knew how to do the first with the D80, I bracketed exposures for the second, and I had my guide for the third so I got the sunset and waves fairly well a number of times. The tide rushing in over the huge rocks and thru the tunnels and caves took timing I couldn’t figure out so I just shot a couple hundred shots and hoped for the best, using changes in shutter speed to capture the waves or blend them into cream. Unfortunately, the slower the shot, the brighter it gets so one must work with aperture quickly or get burned out shots between completely black ones as you over-adjust both ways since bracketing doesn’t give enough options. If you’re a professional photographer, this is your location. If you’re an amature wanting to try your hand at the really hard stuff, this is your location. If you love seeing God’s Glory exploding at you in three directions at once, enough to make you gasp from sensory overload, this is your location. If you’re a guy like me who wants it all, this location is where you will see what you’ve got to capture what the REAL MASTER laid out before you. Let it be a challenge to you.
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Southwestern Elephant Butte Lake State Park New Mexico near Truth or Consequences, NM the old town that used to be called Hot Springs. This lake has a green color near the shallows when observed from the lookout point on the road where this painting was completed from. Original watercolor southwest painting. Marina del sur is located in this image. This lake is the largest and most popular lake in New Mexico. Around 100 million years ago the lake a was part of a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried the area was the favorite hunting ground of the tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur. Original mountain and lake painting 11×15 inches on Arches archival professional watercolor paper
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What more can be said for the beauty of Big Sur’s beaches and ocean’s waves? The horizon may seen unleveled but it’s actually perfectly level. What’s slanted is the fog bank; that makes the waves and shoreline seem to add to an off-kilter photograph. After reading some contest reviews, I thought I’d better make sure I cleared that one up in advance. :-D
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