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Saturday 12 November 2011

Grey London in Color

Grey London in Color:

Another From the Class


We worked on this one during the class (see the Photography Course) as an exercise in composition. Students took their images and saw how many different photos they could make out of it. I saw lots of very nice new compositions that I never though of! When done, they posted their versions to the Clubhouse… and it is still fun to go through there and look at the various versions that are made!


Daily Photo – Grey London in Color


It’s so hard to carry a tripod with a big camera AND an umbrella. The number of ways you can severely pinch yourself must be in the thousands.


There is the right-hand-hold-the-umbrella-and-camera-together method. This keeps the left hand free to zoom, but there is no hand left to secure the ballhead. So, that only kinda works, but you have to do the strange reach-around. It’s about as much fun as using your left hand to get exactly 45 cents out of your right pocket.


Another method is using your neck to secure the umbrella, but that gets out of control very very quickly in the wind.


The last method is usually the one I do — and that is just to let myself get soaked. I feel only a tiny bit miserable, but I can sometimes be so focused that I can push that discomfort away while I’m focused on the photography bit.


Giant schools of swarming squid surround fishing photographer

Giant schools of swarming squid surround fishing photographer: squid.photo.giant.schwartz.1.jpg


Photographer Jon Schwartz [blog] writes in:


"I was kayaking in La Jolla last week and saw a red frothing ball of squid on the surface. I jumped in with my underwater camera and had an incredible, surreal encounter with the huge swarm of squid."


Jon shares photographs from that encounter with Boing Boing, below, and he has a blog post with details here.


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More otters

Otters

Baby pandas need a nap

Baby pandas need a nap:


Giant panda cubs lie in a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province September 26, 2011. (REUTERS/China Daily)


Baby Photo Bombs Its Own Photo

Baby Photo Bombs Its Own Photo:

Via Das Otterhaus

Via Das Otterhaus:

Via Das Otterhaus

Target: Epicurean Encephalitis!

Target: Epicurean Encephalitis!:

Not only are you the most beautiful woman on the face of the Earth, but your cooking knows no rival! Your voice is angelic, you smell like jasmine, and you… uh… oh, dear!





Startling photo of volcanic lightning

Startling photo of volcanic lightning:




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No, this is not a still from the Radiers of the Lost Ark scene when the ark is opened, but an absolutely magnificent image of southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano spewing lightning-topped ash. Wow. Ricardo Mohr's photo was selected as one of National Geographic's "Pictures We Love: Best of October."


And why aren’t the deer reading the sign?

And why aren’t the deer reading the sign?: