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New Englander here. What do you mean?
@Kent… Thank you., sir.
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“… The 2019 Great American Mountain Rally Revivial will likely be capped at 25-30 cars. Registration is expected to open in May, and the finalized cost for the 2019 event is pending at press time. As in 2018, the rally is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America, held as a New England Region event. Additional information will appear on the SCCA’s New England Region road rally schedule page, and can be obtained via email at gamrrrally@gmail.com.
We’ll update this article with additional details as they are released.”
I will work on this. It suggests a new (and very necessary) need for the tool called a “selfie” stick.
Lenny, the issue may be how many photos you have. The story can be told and the background noted in some photos with a tight crop focused on the individual and a much wider crop brionging in more and, as you note, perhaps other members of the family/community. Hoqw much can we ask a single photo to do?
The issue of “snappers” (amateurs?) versus professionals (those who pay their mortage through their work) — perhaps also an issue of degree of formal training (even if self-taught) — is one described in two books: Eric Booth’s “The Everyday Work of Art” and Stephen Pressfield’s “The War of Art”. Both links go to a site which gives the option of where and how to acquire, including dog-eared used copies for limited expenditure:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244639.The_Everyday_Work_of_Art.
If you want a gift to give to someone you know ages 16-22 , you can’t go wrong with Booth. He’s a Broadway impresario, on the faculty at Julliard, and a CEO of a trans forecasting company whose clients are Fortune 500 companies.
It does make it look like artwork. I work for photos that get up on walls.
Thanks, Jasenka. It is old. I took it so long ago I don’t even remember what I was shooting. I’m guessing a film/slide product and I’m pretty sure it was with my old Minolta, a rig that I loved. I used to live just down the road; it’s a stretch of river that is heavily used by powerboats, used to be used by clipper ships, still has a boat shop that makes genuine bona fide rowing dories. The very large trees at the edge of the river have nesting bald eagles. The river was heavily polluted but has been cleaned up. I was insomniac, depressed, and this just caught my mood. [I was pretty grainy then too.] It’s a pic that you can turn upside down and inside out and it won’t change. I did not do my own developing or post-production and I’m sure this has lost a good degree of sharpness but there is an ‘imperfection’ in the sky which can be seen on some copies which is actually the sun glinting off of an early overseas flight out of Boston.
I pined and moped… I had no yellow and blue to add to this collection of great photography and then I got up to let my dog out amd discovered that spring had sprung and the forsythia was forsooth and there was a young male cardinal sitting at the top so I grabbed my Flickr clickr and got out on my back deck where that was lots of yellow and a patch of sky (the necessary blue) but the bird had flown. I am still playing at learning and so the post-production was an exercise in strengthening color. and ignoring for the most part the automatic straightening tool inside “crop”.
Michael, when I see something like this, I want to see it in a greatly-enlarged format, maybe printed on white stainless steel or glass. I think of landscape photography as the opportunity to capture the play of light off water in the air as well as on the ground. Some sharpening, a bigger image, an accentuation of the foreground in a way that brings out the band of subtle yellow/pink/gold, a darker tree. But I’m happy with the wya it is.
@ Anne: Yes, as s student of communicatins and media production back in the late 60’s, I worked on a video project about all of the informaiton that we are asked to absorb when we go out into the world from street signs, murals, billboards, and a dozen other sources. Some of it is aesthetic, some of it is cultural, some of it is commercial, and often it is fascinating and photogenic. The Saint-Gobain company on the north side of Worcester, MA https://saint-gobain-northamerica.com is now almost defunct and is a huge ceramics-production facility involved in the production of abrasives, “performance plastics” and the like. The work is dangerous, one assumes, and hence the poster about well-being and safety below the logo. So when I went to Worcester to do some “street” photography, some of this gets in. Since both my wife and myself visits doctors in the town regularly, there will be more from the second largest city in the Commonwealth/
Well, this worked. It is a very large wall-sized mural in the Grid District overlooking an empty loy on a street whoae poarking meters I did not crop out so I could add the “title”: “Wanna Go Parking?”
Thanks, Robert and Tersha. I’ve gone back to the original instructions I was given when I asked (I copied them to a file), and I’ve tried it every which way. It used to work just fine; I wouild open the image on flickr with me logeed in, click on the arrow (“share photos) in the middle of the three icons to the extreme right under the picture, cut and paste the coded link under “share”, and put that into the post here.
I have had continued troubles with my “vintage” 10.13.6 High Sierra Mac OS. for reasons that are unclear to me. I do not have the $$ to upgrade. I have had previous troubles getting Apple’s OS to work with Canon (since resolved), and now I am getting somewhat regular and annoying “freezes” when I am online. The post-production software from Apple works fine, I can upload to Flickr without difficulty, and I am online a good deal of the day.
Am I supposed to put that data into the link box? the picture box? I have also tried the upload protocol with the embed link and process, and every other variable I can think of. Maybe it’s because I am in the Northern Hemisphere and the magnetic properties are reversed? This too will pass.
