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Farwell Canyon – June 2017 (see Farwell Canyon and the Chilcotin River)

 

 

Bella Coola and Tallheo Cannery (see Bella Coola and Tallheo Cannery)

Ancient Forest Field Trip

We are just returned from a photographic field trip which took us from Bridge Lake to Little Fort, Clearwater, Vavenby, Avola, Little Hell’s Gate, Blue River, Valemount, Mt Robson area, McBride and the Ancient Forest.  Here are few photos:

Included in the field trip were side visits, not only to Mount Robson, but also to Rearguard Falls and Overlander Falls, which, because they are in the midst of a very young Fraser River that has yet to pass through the clay country of the Cariboo, run a delicate blue green instead of the muddy brown which marks the majority of its length.

Overlander Falls

 

Palouse Abstract Panorama

South Bank and City of London – By Day and By Night

By Day

By Night

More by night

City of London: As Evening Falls

Highgate Cemetery

Building Activity in London

Much was written, post Brexit referendum, about the likely negative effect on the British economy, particularly construction in London.  To date the over-whelming evidence seems to be that there has been no effect.  Perhaps it is too early for conclusions, or changes in plans which took years to come to fruition, but, at least at present,  new construction in Greater London continues at a frenetic pace.  Cranes are everywhere.  Here are a few scenes of this activity:

The juxtaposition of the old and new in London is striking.  Yes there are examples of characterless concrete forts designed by unimaginative architects for unambitious clients.  But elsewhere the new is striking and the merging of the old and new speaks to a sensitivity and understanding of the value of the old even while the new supersedes it.  This is what makes London such an interesting walking city – around almost every corner is another wonderful find.

THEME: Movement

The challenge is to use a still photo to imply movement.  One way to picture movement is by showing a subject being subjected to a force that cannot be resisted so that moments after the image is captured the subject will have been forced to move.  Here’s an example – a candle flame deflected at an angle that cannot hold.

Another way to depict movement in a still photograph is to take a long exposure of a moving subject.  Here are two examples: lighting a candle with a match; and, a spinning bicycle wheel.

Finally, instead of having the subject move, we can move the camera.  Here are two forest shots showing movement:

Kootenay Plains

The scenic Kootenay Plains are located between Jasper and Banff, where the South Saskatchewan river passes through a gap in the Rocky Mountains’.  An artificial glacial fed lake, Abraham Lake, is formed by the Bighorn Dam.

Kootenay Plains, Abraham Lake and Area, June 2016

Eakin Creek Canyon Provincial Park, May 2016

Kauai

Polar Coordinates Combined With Hyperbolic Geometrical Tiling

Fun With Polar Coordinates

Each of the circular designs below began as one of my photos.  It was passed through a simple action in Adobe Photoshop, resized to a square, and placed on a black background.

The mosaic was assembled from 28 processed images.

Each of the circular designs above appears in the image below, which was created by applying the process described above to the above image.

Simplify

I have reworked some images from the Palouse and elsewhere by “simplifying” their processing, blurring details and changing exposure, shadows and highlights, in order to present softer, more abstract compositions.

A gallery of others:

Textured

Some Impressions of Autumn

Eye of the Beast

Eakin Creek Canyon

Near Carcross, Yukon

Bullrushes and Speargrass

At A Chris Harris Workshop

Farwell Canyon on the Chilcotin River

The Palouse

Iceland

Kaua’i

More Kaua’i Images

Layered Textured Images

Eakin Creek Canyon Provincial Park in Winter

Fire and Ice Workshop

Gallery