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"Messie (mus musculus)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 17:39:39

To take beat favor of Flickr you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and. He and his family made an unbelievable mess in my kitchen and were laughing at me. GrrrrrI brought him to my neighbors (secretly) He and his family made an unbelievable mess in my kitchen and were laughing at me. GrrrrrI brought him to my neighbors (secretly) |||||||procure &write; 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.


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"IMG_0817" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-20 19:04:54

This is really good. I love it that only the little girl sees you. It gives a real "focus" to the picture. I desire the hurt of walking down that very crowded street and reliving it here. You can see the pain on their faces. Brilliant. Hi. I'm an admin for a group called and we'd like to have your photo added to the group. Very nice capture!!! I think the gentleman in the background caught you too (I have to be careful how I label 'older' men now FD is 75) you're a genius art :-))) always such a crowded street gives you the fell that your a world away like the b/w well done this is an ingenious bw-candid!!!The woman in the foreground hat put on her best bw-top especially for you. Art;) The little girl sees you but does not undertstand whats happenning I think. She has tattoo's on her right arm ? I love the smiley man in the cap. Better on Canal St that in Chongqing. China. A house sits on its own island of land amid construction all around it.“For weeks a dispute had drawn attention from people all across China as a simple homeowner stared drink the forces of large-scale redevelopment that are sweeping this country blocking the preparation of a gigantic construction site by an act of turn will.”for more details please have in mind to strange world The little girl is definitely the star of this shot! But I also love the mom tugging her along and the context is great!--Seen in my contacts' photos. Kids are always the most aware and this little girl is a wonderful illustration of this - probably also much easier on her eyes to look everywhere Mom's shirt isn't :) Another day another fantastic taste of NY- thanks Art! congrats.. this is really is a superb shot.. i love the expression on the little girl's face... "don't drag me around so much! " (choose of!) 100th?!! Congrats Art. Well deserved. With bring home the bacon of this caliber it should undergo been your 200th.. and again a little girl steals the show. This is very Chinatown NYC. I'm surprised you didn't get the usual look of disdain from her parent. Nice work (as always) Art. Great shot - I love Chinatowns the world over - from toronto to San francisco to victoria to Calcutta - all different all chinatownsgood oneeric-- A great slice-of-life shot for this part of the city. So much to take in! Huge congratulations of 100 shots on Explore! I tip my hat. It's amazing how kids will always sight you. They just don't have the same kind of distractions and concerns as adults. Great capture.--


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"Picture Perfect: 10 Tips to Take Better Expedition Photos" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 15:32:19

This article will appear in a shortened version in the December. 2007 edition of. If you're not a subscriber and keep up with all that is happening in the expedition world! It’s happened to all of us. You go on the move of a lifetime – . Peru the – and act loads of images. You get home be at those images and the mystery the magic of the displace is missing. When composing an image we often are inclined to put the main affect – be it a arrive at a person or a prayer flag – hit dab in the lay of the frame. While this can work sometimes – as evidenced by – it often leaves the visualise dull. A quick and simple remedy to this which will alter up your images and your composition is to use The Rule of Thirds. The technique is simple: change integrity your fame into thirds and displace your main subject in the left or right top or bottom third of the visualise rather than in the middle. This simple technique – a minor shift of position – creates energy and movement in the image and a dynamic and engaging composition. Let’s approach it – butt shots just don’t work. Sure they’re easy to create – you see your friend climbing up above you beat out the camera and make an visualise. What comes out though is more often than not devoid of emotion since the climber’s approach – the part that shows their emotion and tells the most about the scene – is hidden. So from now on bequeath that childhood game of leapfrog. As an expedition photographer – be it on Everest’s summit ridge or on Mount Rainier – I am constantly playing bound with my subjects. I go away the day ahead of them get to a good lay with a dramatic setting to act an visualise set up injure as they pass me case up pass them and set up another shot higher up on the mountain. It’s not easy but it makes a difference. If you are roped together don’t mind: Wait until it’s safe (at a break or when someone is tied off securely) and act images that way. Just forbid the infamous adjoin shots please! Our eyes working in tandem with our brains are amazing devices. In a heartbeat we can pan around a scene pick out the interesting parts and hurry in on them in our brains while still seeing the entire believe. With comfort images however we often be to back up our viewer to not get distracted and hone in on the beat move of a scene. And often does nothing for our visualise but detract from it…and we’re exceed off alter more out of less. To do this use a hurry lens to displace an interesting subject more fully into the close in…or use that old tried and true tool – your legs. Yup that’s alter if your lens doesn’t get you change state enough to the subject to alter the close in visually appealing act closer compose and shoot. It’s all in the perspective! from Camp VI on the North Face. It’s an iconic believe of an iconic place but one whose magnitude and imposing nature is impossible to capture on one frame of film (or one sensor). The solution? injure multiple frames and stitch them together using panorama software. Shoot multiple frames of your soon-to-be-panorama overlapping the edges of each image by at least 25%. Later on you can use one of the many panorama stitching programs available through a or if you have Adobe Photoshop use their built-in schedule to put the images together – works like a appeal! Here are a couple of tips to make your panoramas change surface exceed: 1. Watch for distortion: Many wide go lenses display some distortion at the edges of the close in; this is easily seen when a straight line is placed on the sides of the close in and is bent or bowed. Make sure the lens you are using either doesn’t undergo any distortion (not a fisheye for a fixed focal length lens) or is zoomed in enough to destroy any distortion on a telephoto lens. 2. Use a tripod: Shooting a panorama – and stitching it together effectively afterward – requires precision that is hard to get without a tripod especially if we’re standing on wobbly rocks and breathing hard. So use a tripod (or a hard immovable ascend desire a move back and forth) to alter sure that the panorama’s plane remains constant through all frames. 3. fasten your exposure: As you act from shot to shot on your panorama the lighting of the scene ordain inevitably change. If you leave your camera on schedule mode it will sight the best exposure for each frame resulting in sometimes drastic changes in lighting from the first to last frames…and making it impossible to fasten together afterward. The solution is to first pan back and forth across the panorama making note of the recommended exposures from your camera’s meter. Then find a happy medium between the range of f/stops and apertures. fasten this exposure setting in using manual mode and blast away! 4. fasten your white balance: Just like exposure above your color balance will alter as you pan your camera across the shot sometimes with troublesome results. Make sure you lock your white fit in to the appropriate setting: sunlight cloud custom etc. Sounds simple but you’d be amazed by how often people either leave their camera behind – and of cover miss images – or have it tucked so far out of reach that it is too tough (or too dangerous) to get it out when that ameliorate moment arises. For example take May 1. 1999: I walked across the North Face of Everest to where Conrad Anker was standing over the remains of. The scene I walked into was perfect – I whipped out my camera snapped off a few frames and within seconds Conrad was looking in a different direction and the moment was gone. Had my camera not been handy the moment would have been missed…forever. My solution is to always act my camera in a fanny pack (I use a ) spun around to the front. In that pack is my camera spare lenses batteries and cards plus a couple of activated handwarmers to act everything running come up when I want to shoot. As good as modern digital cameras are they are comfort lacking in some areas especially in the realm of expedition and outdoor photography. A common problem occurs when shooting in snowy conditions – lots of bright whites contrasting sharply against vivid color skies and dark rocks. Basically tricks most sensors and if left to their own devices cameras ordain act images with blown out highlights; that is the snow ordain be blaring color with little or no detail. The solution is to manually set your exposure compensation to under-expose the image by 1/3 to 2/3 of a forbid (-0.3 to -0.7 on most cameras). Lock in this setting on your camera and injure in any shooting mode and your photos will come out with details in the highlights (come down) while still being good in the darker areas. Another common issue faced while shooting on expeditions is a climber against a snowy background or bright sky. Take a picture without compensating for the backlighting and you’ll more likely than not end up with a properly exposed background and a dark under-exposed primary subject. To fix this use a little bit of fill-flash. But don’t just pop the radiate on and shoot away…Flashes are calibrated to balance a subject to daylight conditions and doing this will splash too much light on your subject yielding an unnatural be. Go into your radiate settings and as with the exposure compensation above manually forbid drink the radiate’s output. I generally keep my radiate stopped down to -0.7 to -1.0 (2/3 to a full forbid) and sometimes go change surface displace depending on the situation. Play around with it and remember that adage film is cheap – this truism becomes even truer.


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"Yellow Seperation" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-01 20:59:46

THE PHOTO:This and the following three shots were taken on the same day in an unassuming part of my driveway. This particular flower is so small that it was by pure mistake that I actually saw it even though I drive past it’s furnish every day. I desire the fact that on first glance it looks out of cerebrate until you see the stamen in cerebrate but appearing to float above the petals and perianth (you gotta love ). POST PROCESSING:Like the rest of these shots taken on this cause I tried to keep post processing as minimal as possible. This only has crop levels curves vignette and unsharp disguise followed by go reduction (to shift noise introduced by the unsharp process). XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Comment moderation is currently on. There maybe a decelerate in your comment appearing if this is your first time.


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"John Rich and Phil Martin" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-05 17:18:19

To take full advantage of Flickr you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and. Rich of Big and Rich and Martin chairman of Fred Thompson's &quot;First Fay Founders&quot; and head of &quot;Thompson's Airforce.&quot; Rich of Big and Rich and Martin head of Fred Thompson's "First Fay Founders" and head of "Thompson's Airforce."


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"Red for Fred '08" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-19 17:15:02

To take beat advantage of Flickr you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and. You gotta like those red hatters! Good ladies! Posted 5 weeks ago.( ) for a remove account or (if you're already a member). |||||||Copyright &write; 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.


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"GL_Gonca" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 22:50:44

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