some of my pictures (and no plants for a change)....

first of all: crazy weather!

And from last weekend: Easter bonfire just after it was lit (it's hard to make out in the picture, but there is a chair on top of the pile, which belonged to our host's mother-in-law... and I'll leave you to guess what that means. ;) )
And I particularly like this one, taken later that night.

More photos!

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/GenisisX … 0904135122

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/GenisisX … 6738709986

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Thankee!

I really like the one of the tree, even if I blatantly stole the idea from another guy >->

:P

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That water looks awesome em. really cool reflections.

Anywho, I was running around the farm earlier snapping some macro pics for a weekend competition on another forum and came away with six good ones.

http://picasaweb.google.com/GenisisX/Ma … dCX3oh4VCY

The one of the sunflower is the bestest I think.

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I went and ordered a digital camera a couple days ago, mostly to document my works for the Blue Tailor thread, but I imagine there'll be an interesting shot now and again worthy of sharing here as well. ;-)

wiked:  Sweet!

I've been taking a couple of pictures of the Traun river on my last biking tour and walk in the forest:
Looking down from the bridge
Looking across the river.
Looking across again.

This sight made me laugh a little.


I also took a few pictures of the forest, but they don't look too great (think I've got some better ones from last year), but the forest was very pretty, the ground covered in flowers, white, yellow and purple.

Time to post some more pics...

Here's some (I thought well-succeeded) flame-thrower pics:

http://picasaweb.google.nl/Libradimple/ … XmlDHLr9jI

and deer


http://diesira.livejournal.com/49875.html

As mentioned in another thread, I had a long, ...special conversation with my father yesterday. One of the topics was his decision to resign from his job (he’s a photographer, but working mostly in development).
And some of his thoughts… well, I just wanted to share them.
“I wanted to learn a craft, I wanted to work with my head and my hands. And as a photographer, I could do that, I could make beautiful pictures. But it’s no longer the profession that I learned. With digital photography, all I do nowadays is sitting in front of the computer. And that’s not what I want to do. I don’t want to spend 8 or 9 hours a day in a windowless room, typing and clicking. What my boss needs, and what he wants me to be, is a printer. And that’s not what I am.”

“I remember a photographer who took a shotgun and fired it at a roll of film. It made amazing pictures, with the light entering through the shot holes and spreading… And now you’ve got people with a digital camera who tell you they’ve shot a picture.”

Even to me, photography has lost its magic. I remember, when I was little, I went to work with him sometimes, and he took me into the darkroom and stuff, and it was all very special and wonderful. He’d take pictures of us, or of special things  and develop them himself, play around with them…(I love the wrong-colour pictures of the orchid he and Mama got at their wedding. I’ve got two of them on my bedroom wall.)
But now? Now I’m taking pictures myself and put them on my computer, and if I want them on paper, I can either print them myself or send them to the shop to have them printed there.  Printed.
No more magic.
(And I'm kind of scared that the same will happen to me one day. There's not much in a market garden that can't be automated. Sowing, watering, potting... there are machines for all these things.)

Magpie - the ability to take pictures with a camera and develop them yourself still exists. Its just the world of photography has been expanded to include digital photography.

My grandfather was a photographer; only worked in black-and-white. Complained the same way about color.

I see it as there are now more choices. The old ones and the new ones. It is up to you to choose.

You do very well with macro photography, Gen. I like the ring picture!


I posted a series of pics @ my blog :)

Last edited by Hiragana (2008-09-24 08:23:54)

Thanks :)

That was actually a smudge on the lens that I kept on purpose. I know it's kinda cheating but I figured that one out when I was in Sydney (not on purpose) and I got the most ethereal lighting from a smudge. Needless to say I cleaned the lens afterwards :D