Early morning, February – one of the last times that Mike and I photographed the city together. We met in Millenium Park and did a few images of the bean and then grabbed a coffee at Intelligentsia on Randolph. The sky was gray, the light was interesting, but we were a bit too wrapped up in chatting to get any real photography done. After all, this was probably the first time we’d met to put something interesting in front of our cameras for three or four months. It was one of the first clues that the three that had set out in starting tWp had drifted fundamentally onto separate paths. We caught up over a cup of coffee and both headed home, just a few frames on our memory cards and far earlier than we had done on so many previous photowalks. What did Ferris Bueller say? “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.” If I don’t say anything else about tWp and the people with whom I ran it for so long, I’ll say this – we stopped and looked around and the sights were all the better for the people with whom I looked.
Somewhere on Mike’s HD there is some HD video of me explaining this photograph and the process of capturing it. I hope to pair it with an exposition of how to process those frames into the image below.
I am getting close to launching The Golden Sieve and I wanted to do just a couple more posts here on tWp as pieces of reflection on the blog and on times past. I’d like to have those published sometime over the weekend or early next week and then launch the blog afterward. I’m a bit busy at the moment and whether or not I can hold onto this schedule or not is questionable. Your patience is always appreciated.
UPDATE: People are emailing me asking for prints. Since I don’t much care for Imagekind anymore, I’ve gone to a custom – one-to-one interaction system for selling prints (i.e. email me if you want a print).
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Here we are on the extreme west end of Golden Gate Park at the restored north windmill. Two windmills like the one you see here were once used to pump water throughout the park. We came here shortly after sundown to catch a few moments of beautiful light before heading back down the peninsula. The windmill is no longer functional but is now adorned with a beautiful flower garden, the gift of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
I can’t wait to see this garden in the winter when the tulips come in! The grass is thick and carefully kept, soft yet firm, like a great green carpet. Families and tourists came and went, taking pictures and absorbing the abundant peace.
I’ve been thinking a lot about image processing and HDR methods recently (on account of my writing a new “What Is”/”How to” post for The Golden Sieve) and I rather like the effect achieved here. The trick is to manage each essential component of the image differently. The Queen’s garden needs a different treatment than the sky in order to achieve the proper look. This requires manual adjustment across the frame and takes a lot more time to process than typical high-throughput methods – which is one of the reasons I will likely not post every day on The Golden Sieve – I’d rather publish fewer, higher quality images than post every day for the sake of posting.
Tags: abundant peace, beautiful flower, beautiful light, few moments, flower garden, golden gate, golden gate park, hdr, high throughput, image processing, north windmill, peninsula, quality images, queen wilhelmina, sieve, sundown, throughput methods, tulips, west end, windmills
Monday, August 30, 2010 Posted in New York
Photos by Annie Elmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission.
Today’s photograph is an oldie from between Fullerton and North Avenue on the Lake Michigan waterfront during January. A fresh snow storm was just starting and I got some images of the frozen beach. I posted this image yesterday to the RSS feed of The Golden Sieve – subscribe here. I know a lot of you wonderful people have already subscribed to that feed and I’ll try to keep it interesting and updated both here on tWp and on tGs until I am fully migrated over to that blog. Happy Sunday.
by Justin
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