#photographs
It has been a fine #winter #day today and the #Sun has been out for almost all of it. As it came to set, I took some #photographs of it but in the first one, I think the #Gull steals the scene.
In this second one, I think the #aeroplane and its short #contrail draw one's attention.
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These are #photographs from the 1800's. The first #picture was taken in 1826 & the first uploaded image on the internet was in 1992.
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08/17/20 (2:08)
Two #photographs taken at #dusk. The first is just before #sunset with a #house and #trees in the #foreground in #silhouette. I like the #LensFlare in this #image.
The next was taken about a quarter of an hour later when the #Sun had passed over the #horizon. This illuminates to #clouds nicely. You can also see an #aeroplane and its short #contrail too.
Today is the penultimate full day of #summer in the #northern #hemisphere if, like the majority of the population on the planet, you live in or east of #Europe or #Africa. The #equinox will occur a little after 02:00Z on Friday 23 September. With today's #sunset, I present two #photographs but each both in #greyscale (or #BlackAndWhite) and #colour.
I think the contrast is better in black and white #image and you can more clearly see the #birds flying about. The colour one is of course richer and has that extra dimension.
This wider shot shows a greater expanse of #sky with more variation in colour (only for the colour image, of course).
Today was again a #sunny end to the #day and I decided to take #portrait #photographs of the #sunset. This shows a greater portion of #sky away from the #horizon and so you can gauge the #colour gradients better.
This first one gives a wider (taller) field of view without the window frame encroaching into the #image.
The second one is slightly more zoomed in.
I got some of my #photographs printed out on proper photographic paper and the results are spectacular. The #colours are so sharp and the #images are crisp. My laptop monitor is #HD standard but, at full resolution, these pictures are so much better. But there is little point in showing them on an image as it would be impossible to show the quality.
Approximately a day apart, these two #photographs around #sunset show a marked difference owing to #clouds. In the first, from yesterday, there were some undulations present at height.
Today has been sunnier as the clouds have have been more dispersed but there was an interesting interaction of #light and #dark, and #greys, #blues, #golds and #oranges today. A few #birds can also be seen #photobombing the #image.
It has mostly dull and #cloudy today with only short periods of #sunshine. Even just a few minutes ago, it was rather overcast but suddenly, a #clouds broke and #sunight filtered through the layers and there was even some blue #sky during the #sunset.
Then, when I was about to post the above image, I noticed some #pink light in the drawing room and so went and took another set of #photographs. As I've said before, every moment is different and this has much deeper #reds. Take your pick as to which you prefer.
‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world
The Guardian
Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think.
Governments tend to define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows: you vote; the majority party takes office; you leave it to govern on your behalf for the next four or five years. (...)
We have seen what happens if we leave politics to governments. Fairly elected or not, they will, without effective public pressure, abuse their power. (...)
Trust in governments destroys democracy, which survives only through constant challenge. It requires endless disruption of the cosy relationship between our representatives and powerful forces: the billionaire press, plutocrats, political donors, friends in high places. What challenge and disruption mean, above all, is protest. (...)
A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.
Such governments are becoming a global norm. In the UK, two policing bills in quick succession seek to shut down all effective forms of protest. (...)
In the US, state legislatures have been undermining the federal right to protest, empowering the police to use catch-all offences such as “trespass” or “disrupting the peace” to break up demonstrations and make arrests. (...) In Russia, a new law against “discrediting the armed forces” has been used to prosecute dissenters engaging in actions as mild as writing “no to war” in the snow. Similar draconian laws are being imposed by governments in many other nations.
Why do governments want to ban protest? Because it’s effective. Why do they want us to accept their narrow vision of democracy? Because it makes our power ineffective. (...)
The extraordinary people in these images understand this – from suffragettes picketing the White House in 1917 to Patsy Stevenson being manhandled by police at last year’s Sarah Everard vigil; from relatives of those killed at Amritsar in India in 1919 to those taking to the streets after George Floyd’s murder in the US.
Almost everything of importance is disintegrating fast: ecosystems, the health system, standards in public life, equality, human rights, terms of employment. (...) Business as usual is a threat to life on Earth. Disrupting it is the greatest civic duty of all. (...)
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More #DramaInTheClouds. The #picture changes minute by minute and I think these #photographs show the interaction of #AirPressure, #Moisture and #Light.
First, a #panorama, looking #west.
Next, zooming in to see layered #clouds in #greys and #PaleGolds. You can see the cellular structure of the clouds.
Finally, here's the interplay between #foreground #silhouetted #roofs and #background clouds on the #horizon.
Today's a holiday in the #UK (Bank Holiday), an extra weekday off for Easter. My wife wanted to go on a slightly longer #bike trip and also somewhere new. So I chose #BictonPark. The total trip was just over a Marathon distance (it was 42.8 km) and mostly over some rural roads without a huge volume of traffic. The destination is quite nice though perhaps a bit too manicured. I'll post a few interesting #photographs.
There are several #GlassHouses dating back to the 19th century in which are kept plants from various climates. It reminded me of #KewGardens in London but on a smaller scale.
In this one, the plants are of tropical origin.
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In #1890 #Jacob_Riis's impressive #photo_collection of "New York's immigrant poor and the tenements, sweatshops, streets, docks, dumps, and factories that they called home", that he started circa 1880, was published on an book titled "How the Other Half Lives".
Often shot at night with the newly-available #flash function—a #photographic tool that enabled Riis to capture legible #photos of dimly lit living conditions—the #photographs presented a grim peek into life in #poverty to an oblivious public. Jacob Riis: ...
- photo 1: Street children sleep near a grate for warmth on Mulberry Street. Circa 1890-1895
- photo 2: Lodgers rest in a crowded Bayard Street tenement that rents rooms for five cents a night and holds 12 people in a room just 13 feet long. Circa 1889-1890.
- photo 3: unknown description, NYC, 1889-90(?)
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One #Moon, three #exposures. These #photographs were taken seconds apart this #afternoon, around #sunset, and yet look quite different simply because of shutter speed. The most striking difference to me is the #colour of the #sky.
The first one has an exposure time of 1/160 s.
The next one has an exposure time of 1/320 s.
And the last one has an exposure time of 1/640 s.
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I printed out my #calendar for #2022 today. Here are some #images of it.
It is available here if you're on the lookout for a calendar for next year. If you don't like my #photographs, you can of course just print out the months!
