Monday, July 25, 2011
Pier 83
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Windoor
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Friday, July 22, 2011
Invisible
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Are You in a Photography Rut? 11 Tips to Get Out of It! Every photographer hits a wall at one point or another. Here are a few tips to keep things fresh and new. 1. Try something new, get out of your comfort zone. You’ve been photographing nature for years? Try some street photography! 2. Meet other photographers and go on photo walks. It doesn’t have to be a large group. Get together with two or three other people who share the same passion and experiment with different photography genres. Meet regularly and choose a different theme each time: Street photography one week, landscape photography the next! You will learn something new from fellow photographers and getting together will help keep the passion for photography alive. 3. If you own a DSLR, try renting a new lens for a weekend to experiment with something totally different. It can be a fisheye or a macro lens, a special effect lens or a super telephoto. They are big investments and renting for a weekend or a few days is quite affordable and the best way to know if you are ready to make the investment. Try your local camera store or any reputable online rental services such as borrowlenses.com. Check for special deals. 4. Write a list of things you’ve never photographed before and make it a point to learn the techniques to achieve those shots. I’ve been doing this for a while and my list still includes a lot of interesting things to discover such as panoramic photography or time lapse. I recently discovered macro photography and it opened a whole new world of possibilities in my own backyard. I discover something new every time I put the macro lens on my camera! There are many techniques you can learn that don’t require any new equipment and such as light trails, light painting, etc. Just be open to trying new things. 5. Get you hands on a film camera and a roll of film and limit yourself to 36 exposures for a day. You will learn the importance of getting it right in camera. If nothing else, you will realize how incredibly flexible digital really is! 6. Pick a theme and get out on your own. You can pick to only shoot things that are yellow, just feet, people with hats, dogs… The sky is the limit. This exercise will help you see things differently and the results may surprise you. 7. Mentor someone. Give a camera to a child. Take them out to shoot. You may spark a life-long passion and you may learn a thing or two about yourself in the process. 8. Give back to your community, volunteer to photograph a local event for a charity for example. 9. If you can afford it, sign up for a photography workshop in a field you are passionate about or to learn something completely new. 10. Start a project that will force you to shoot more, such as a 365 day project. Share your project through social media or a blog. The more you shoot, the more you are going to want to shoot. Push yourself and set a goal to put all those images in a book when you are done. Pat yourself in the back, it’s a big accomplishment! 11. Look at the work of others. They may be famous or unknown, the goal is not to copy their work but to draw inspiration from it. This list is non exhaustive, please add some suggestions in the comments. Happy shooting! And Happy Weekend! |
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Games
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks." Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The Party
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“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre |
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
No Expectations
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Light of New York
Friday, July 15, 2011
Lines and Talks
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." Ambrose Bierce |
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Inner Voyage
A warrior-hunter deals intimately with his world, and yet he is inaccessible to that same world. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away, leaving hardly a mark.
For an average man, the world is weird because if he's not bored with it, he's at odds with it.
For a warrior, the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable.
For a warrior, the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable.
A warrior must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous time.
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
Acts have power. Especially when the warrior acting knows that those acts are his last battle. There is a strange consuming happiness in acting with the full knowledge that whatever he is doing may very well be his last act on earth.
A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death. Without remorse or sadness or worrying, he must focus his attention on the fact that he does not have time and let his acts flow accordingly. He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth.
Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.
Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.
Otherwise they will be for as long as he lives, the acts of a fool.
~Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda.
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| Travelers of Eternity or The Cosmic Ape |
Corner Stop
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." Dorothea Lange |
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday At La Condesa
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| Delivering |
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| Pipes |
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| Lessons |
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| Tango |
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| Games |
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| Musicians |
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| Kiss Me Without Lips |
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| No Comments |
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| Portrait of a Duck |
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| Angry Man With A Bible On His Hands |
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
Robert Doisneau
Friday, July 8, 2011
Moving Umbrella
Fri Jul 08, 2011
This week's challenge:
'Gloomy'.
'Gloomy'.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Bored
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"I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice." Minor White |
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Glimpse
Monday, July 4, 2011
Inner Circuit
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Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (Ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) Lyrics: [deGrasse Tyson] We are all connected; To each other, biologically To the earth, chemically To the rest of the universe atomically [Feynman] I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's She's never going to let us relax [Sagan] We live in an in-between universe Where things change all right But according to patterns, rules, Or as we call them, laws of nature [Nye] I'm this guy standing on a planet Really I'm just a speck Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck To think about all of this To think about the vast emptiness of space There's billions and billions of stars Billions and billions of specks [Sagan] The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it But the way those atoms are put together The cosmos is also within us We're made of star stuff We are a way for the cosmos to know itself Across the sea of space The stars are other suns We have traveled this way before And there is much to be learned I find it elevating and exhilarating To discover that we live in a universe Which permits the evolution of molecular machines As intricate and subtle as we [deGrasse Tyson] I know that the molecules in my body are traceable To phenomena in the cosmos That makes me want to grab people in the street And say, have you heard this?? (Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting) [Feynman] There's this tremendous mess Of waves all over in space Which is the light bouncing around the room And going from one thing to the other And it's all really there But you gotta stop and think about it About the complexity to really get the pleasure And it's all really there The inconceivable nature of nature |
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| Happy 4th of July! |
Friday, July 1, 2011
Skyline of New York
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| Views from The Hudson River |
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
Lewis Hine
"Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well."
Lewis Carroll"The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same."
Wynn Bullock
"The pictures are there, and you just take them."
Robert CapaThursday, June 30, 2011
Light and Textures
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| Atrium |
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| Cuernavaca Cathedral (1552) "A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety" Ansel Adams |
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Heat
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| American Museum of Natural History. NYC |
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| Chapultepec Park. Mexico City |
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Oops!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Beauty of Nature
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-- Previously posted -- "So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful." Susan Sontag |
Friday, June 24, 2011
Sunset
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~Ansel Adams |
'Wilderness'.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Borda Gardens
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The Borda Gardens is one of the most famous monuments in Cuernavaca, it was the residence of rich families since the colonial times, it was chosen by its location beside the Cathedral of Cuernavaca and by its main road (now Morelos Avenue); this road comes from Acapulco, crosses Cuernavaca, Mexico City and ends in Veracruz. By this road passed the richness the Nao of the Orient brought to New Spain and also was the residence where many famous travelers were lodged. Don Jose Borda was the builder of the residence, he also donated to Taxco the beautiful Santa Prisca church and its Parvis Square. Don Jose de la Borda used this residence such as rest home and rest of silver caravans that came from Taxco to Mexico City. Manuel de la Borda, his son, was appointed priest and was the first person in charge of the Santa Prisca church, at the death of his father, he already lived in the residence. Don Manuel made the gardens that in that time was extended until the ravine. The gardens received the name of Botanical Gardens, by its varieties of fruit trees and ornamental plants that were brought from all over the world. The mangos were brought by the travelers priest that came from the Spanish Philippines. In the same way Manuel built the fountains and the paths, and in 1783 he inaugurated the ornamental lake, to water the Botanic Gardens. Manuel de la Borda also built the Chapel of Guadalupe in 1784, near the gardens and the residence; this church originally had two beautiful towers. It was also famous by the books and articles that the important visitors who were lodged here, wrote about the same. The residence never lost its attraction for the rich and important persons and in 1865 the Emperors Maximilian of Hapsburg and Carlota Amalia, chosen this place as their summer residence, and then it took again a category of simple elegance. The Emperors offered spectacular Gala Receptions in the Gardens and in the ornamental lake. The rooms were decorated with luxury as the Chapel of Guadalupe; you can still see the personal shield of the Austria Emperors, in the reception room, the residence is know as "The Borda Gardens". Nowadays the morelenses celebrate great receptions, popular feasts, cultural events among others. [Tour by Mexico.com] Sculptures by Gabriel Ponzanelli |
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Flag
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Saturday, June 18, 2011
The Other Reality
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| Gulf of California. México The Wit and Wisdom of George Bernard Shaw “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'” “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul” “We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.” “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” “The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get” “The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.” “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.” “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one” “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.” “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” “Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.” “Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.” |
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