Richard’s Notes

The Big Picture: Beijing 2008 Preparations - Three Weeks to Go.
Wow, talk about great use of wide angle lenses. Incredible scale.

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The Big Picture: Recent Volcanic Activity.
The images from space are incredible. If I could go up there without throwing up or becoming claustrophobic these are the views I’d love to have. Absolutely amazing.

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Washington, Connecticut. I guess I have an urge to express my inner Andrew Wyeth with minimalist shots like this.
I like this hay field because I knew it when it was a corn field and have watched it for many years now.

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New Preston, Connecticut. It was so muggy today I felt like I was shooting through mist but I walked up here to scout out this location for shooting the 4th of July fireworks this friday night. Got totally soaked in sweat. Ugh.
The fireworks will come from the first point just left of the center of [...]

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My flickr contact psilver took and processed a very nice image of Niagra Falls. Notice the people in the upper left. Nice addition for scale.

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Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna called again this morning to tell me the fog and morning mist on the Shepaug Reservoir was incredible. We had a thunderstorm last night and it dawned hot, perfect for morning evaporation and burnoff. By the time I got coffee made, got gear packed up and drove over I’d missed [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. I took a walk in the Steep Rock Preserve today and found a new path that led me into a deep forest with a lot of blooming mountain laurel. It was cloudy as I started but just as I entered the densest part of the forest the sun broke through and lit up [...]

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Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This is one stalk of grass from this field. I was on the edge of the field today attempting to take pictures of bugs and thought the grass looked just as good.

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A Remarkable Tornado Photo
Lori Mehmen took an incredible shot. The light makes it, not just the cloud and funnel. Wow.

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Elizabeth Carmel, Fine Art Photography.
Spectacular work. Difficult to navigate web site but worth poking around. Prints are expensive but looking is free. Have fun.
[via Dale Allyn]

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Washington, Connecticut. This field is part of the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. I first knew it as a corn field but this year it’s planted with grass and will be hayed in late summer.
This lone tree is the only one on the entire field and it no doubt either gives the [...]

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Aerial photography of Alex MacLean
Fantastic collection of patterns seen from the air. I see things like this but haven’t found a way to capture them yet. This is wonderful work.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Ooh Lee has a nice collection of these square, monochromes in his stream at flickr. I’m not a huge fan of artificial vignetting but it does help with the effect he’s looking for (age) and supports the impressionist nature of the work. I do love thinking about photography as impressionism.

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What Adams Saw Through His Lens
Don’t miss the interactive feature: Ansel Adams’s Yosemite narrated by Andrea G. Stillman, his former assistant. The narration over the slide show of his images is superb.

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East Litchfield, Connecticut. For each of the twenty years I’ve lived in this area I’ve been going to see the daffodils on a farm in East Litchfield. There are acres of them between rock walls in various fields. Flowers like this on this scale is not something you see every day. Now that I’ve been [...]

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Vincent Laforet looks at Americans commuting using a tilt shift lens: The Long Way There.
Many photographers have done similar things, perspective shift and aperture making objects look toy-like. This example is particular striking and well done.
[via kottke.org]

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Warren, Connecticut. The sun was coming up as I was driving by this swamp and the light was just too good, I had to stop. Light like this changes in minutes so one has to work fast, not to mention the stillness of the water can be disturbed by a leaf, a bird, or a [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. Steep Rock Reservation. The Shepaug river is just over the near trees in what will grow into a ravine off the left edge of this image. Calling this a canyon is sort of like calling the hills around here mountains. Still, it’s a beautiful spot and close enough to my house that I [...]

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The view through a 24-70mm lens at 38mm
Washington, Connecticut. I took another walk in the Steep Rock Preserve, this time loaded for bear, with more camera equipment. There’s something about this bridge and the Shepaug River that it crosses that really captures my imagination. Part of it is that this is a small scale suspension [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. The Hauser Bridge crosses the Shapaug River within The Steep Rock Preserve. It’s a cable suspension bridge with towers and two cables draped between them and attached to the center of the bridge.
The Steep Rock Land Trust is a local version of The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit group that through donations, buys [...]

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