"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly."
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
* Pentax K20D and Samsung D-Xenon 50-200mm Lens
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Southsea Sunset Seagull
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Winking Out
"Sometimes I say to a poem,
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table:
Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall."
— شمسالدّین محمّد حافظِ شیرازی - Hafiz (The Gift)
* Pentax K20D and Samsung D-Xenon 50-200mm Lens
More at my blog A Raven Image
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Pining for the Past
What I am laying before you is my whole soul; otherwise I would rather have kept silent, as I do not like to lose words over things that everyone knows as little about as I do. What else is it but human destiny to suffer out one's measure, drink up one's cup?--And if the chalice was too bitter for the God from heaven on His human lips, why should I boast and pretend that it tastes sweet to me? And why should I be ashamed in the terrible moment when my entire being trembles between being and nothingness, since the past flashes like lightning above the dark abyss of the future and everything around me is swallowed up, and the world perishes with me?
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
One from the archives today (for I have thousands of unposted shots)... I do miss my beach!
* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA-18-55mm Lens
More to come... watch this space!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The House
"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America nor, for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ... [V]oice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
— Hermann Göring
The Palace of Westminster otherwise known as the Houses of Parliament in London - the statue of the guy on horseback is Richard The Lionheart
The Samsung EX1 comes into its own in bright sunlight and at low ISO - this shot was taken handheld at ISO200, in fact three bracketed exposure shots were taken and then I used Photoshop CS5 to combine them into a single HDR image. Very little other post processing has been done to this image with the exception of using the Smart Sharpen function to improve the sharpness and bring out the amazing detail in this iconic piece of architecture.
Postcards From London Series #4
*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR (-1, 0, +1 EV)
More political musings at at Tom's Mog
— Hermann Göring
The Palace of Westminster otherwise known as the Houses of Parliament in London - the statue of the guy on horseback is Richard The Lionheart
The Samsung EX1 comes into its own in bright sunlight and at low ISO - this shot was taken handheld at ISO200, in fact three bracketed exposure shots were taken and then I used Photoshop CS5 to combine them into a single HDR image. Very little other post processing has been done to this image with the exception of using the Smart Sharpen function to improve the sharpness and bring out the amazing detail in this iconic piece of architecture.
Postcards From London Series #4
*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR (-1, 0, +1 EV)
More political musings at at Tom's Mog
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Bleeding Hearts
"..we wear the mask that grins and lies,
it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes-
this debt we pay to human guile;
with torn and bleeding hearts we smile."
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lamprocapnos spectabilis formerly Dicentra spectabilis; old-fashioned bleeding-heart, Venus's car, Lady in a bath, Dutchman's trousers, or Lyre-flower
* Pentax K20D and Samsung D-Xenon 50-200mm Lens
Monday, April 18, 2011
Bluebell Monday
"Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man? "
— Oscar Wilde
The perfect Spring this year... long sunny days, burgeoning blossoms on every tree and the woods full of Bluebells
* Pentax K20D and Samsung D-Xenon 50-200mm Lens
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