Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

I came across this one the other night for Bingo.  I actually walked past two Bingo memorials, but only took a picture of the one at the mural (although it was by far the smaller of the two).  Turns out he was also known as the Mayor of Silverlake.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

I'd never seen this model until then, anyone know what the model type is called?

I hope no one has dial-up.... if so, sorry....

If the mods want to impose a limit per diary to keep me in line, I'd understand.

I tried to pare down the number of photos, so I did.... this is pared down!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

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A bar in Indiana with a bunch of people I was in 1st grade with about 1959.

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"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

For a moving picture version (with musical soundtrack) have a look at the last part of this video taken recently on my way back to London from Rome, on a BA flight about to land in Heathrow.
Sorry, but you'll have to sit through the beginning and the middle before you get to the end.

Everyone's photos on this Friday blog are terrific. Must get into this.

Blaugustine

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Villefranche

Cool guys, Villefranche

After Eugene Boudin, Villefranche

Beaulieu-sur-mer

Beaulieu-sur-mer

"You want us to swim to where?!"  

Nice


Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

closed wingspan around 3", anyone recognise it?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

You can see the annoying backfocus here:





It was supposed to focus on the police officers.


I took some weird motion pictures just for fun.





and decided to try making good photographs some other time. :-p

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

The other is getting suitable DOF such that the foreground is sharp but so too is the landscape, especially if I wanted to get a really big print out of a shot.

So, I've ditched my friends, what do I do next to improve shots like these?

If you must shoot during a rain shower, it helps to show the rain.  

This is not much of a picture, but it is as much flower as we have around here during this late spring.  These are daffodil buds.  But notice how nice the green turned out.



"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

For the past 100 years, much of what the world considers fine art photography has been bestowed upon us by a very small handful of influential gatekeepers. Literally, at any given time, probably less than 100 people control 95% of what the world is told to consider fine art. These are a few major museum curators, select gallery owners, and other influencers. These individuals not only control the prices that fine art photography will fetch, they quite literally control what is considered the best fine art in the world today. They tell people what photography ought to be deemed great and what ought to be deemed amateurish.

With the advent of the web much of this is changing. In the past without the cooperation of the art elite most photographers saw their work fade into obscurity. Sure, they might win a bronze sticker at the local county fair for their photograph, but really nobody would ever see it.

Today the web is allowing a new breed of photographer as artist. An artist that is increasingly able to bypass the fine art elite and promote their work directly to the public. Although the fine art prices have not yet been attached to today's new "Flickr Famous" photographer, this too will come in time. Step one is simply getting the exposure.