Here is another of the special animated creations for the recent drop on OpenSea. Can’t wait to go back here and see the family once NZ opens up again!
Passport Sunday… coming soon! (Monday!)
These very unusual boulders are located over on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. I used to have a double major in Computer Science and Geophysics, so I’ve always been fascinated by weird stuff like this but I don’t actually know why these have this shape. I know I could look it up, but I prefer to wonder. Adults don’t wonder enough… it’s an important muscle to train.
Today you’ll see the fun edit of today’s photo of the Space Shuttle on the launchpad at night. I mean, that is, if you are one of our awesome Passport Members!
Here’s another fun edit where I made it extra moody. I also heavily darkened some of the areas that were ugly or distracting. Enjoy!
I almost called this On the Pad, but that didn’t ring quite right. I noticed that while I was editing this photo that I wasn’t using a tripod. I’m not sure why this is. I’m sure I had one with me, but I took it so long ago that I forgot. Maybe I raised it way over my head to minimize the fence. I mean, honestly, who knows.
Ibiza has an old medieval area that is surrounded by old fortified walls. Inside, there are all sorts of restaurants and cool nooks and crannies. This is my favorite time of night to shoot, when there is a mixture of ambient and artificial light. Unfortunately, it’s also the time when I’m usually eating dinner… which means I spend over 50% of dinner away from the table and wandering about with my camera!
Thanks again to all you awesome Passport Members!
Today you’ll get to see a fairly radical edit and how I pushed this airport photo into an unexpected direction. Enjoy!
I decided to go quite high-key with this one and ramp up the reflection aspect of the photo. There are a few other tiny little tricks I did in here that you can learn for your photos as well!
Man, I wish all airports had these super-reflective floors. Wouldn’t that be amazing? It’s not like I’m spending much time in airports any more… but maybe while no one is in them, it would be cool if all airports swapped out their floors for mirrors.
I love this guy… he always has a fresh perspective on things.
When I was at Disneyland in Anaheim, I thought this would make excellent subject-matter for an HDR shot. This mix of lights and textures usually comes out pretty cool. There was a lack of symmetry in this one, so I did a bit of reflection in the top part. If you look closely, you’ll see the top half is pretty much an exact inverted copy from right to left.
If you’re a Passport Sunday member then you’ll get to see how today’s photo was made. Every Sunday I come to you with a fresh video and we have a huge archive of other videos that you will also enjoy. Thanks!
This was a pretty simple photo to post-process, as you’ll see in the video below. Not everything has to be super difficult, eh?
As I say in the video below, I think bullfighting is one of the more inhumane sports in the world for sure. I certainly don’t endorse it with sharing this photo… but, hey, I was there. And it was kind of a cool visual palette, so I took a photo!
If you’re a rocket enthusiast, then the museums at NASA are a must. I’m a little bit of a rocket nerd so I found it pretty exciting. That, plus being a photo nerd, was a perfect combo. Also, you get a leeway when it comes to using extreme HDR when taking photos of all this epic hardware.
This was quite a fun one to edit because of all the movement. If you’re a Passport Sunday member, then you get full access to see the edit!
This one was a little tricky because of all the movement involved. Most of the technique is in prep by choosing which photo you think is the best as a center of action.
I happened to be in London on a non-dreary day. With the sunset going crazy I decided that I should get out there and shoot as much as possible. I tend to go to the busier areas because there’s a lot more activity and options, as you can see in today’s photo! If you’re a passport member, then you can see a behind-the-scenes edit of the photo below!
Out of boredom in isolation, Harriett and I decided to zoom up some friends from around the world to check on their situations… This one has Clayton Morris in Portugal and Jessica Anne Schwartz who I thought was in New York but made an escape to Virginia. Enjoy!
See Jessica’s art at: http://jessicaanneschwartz.com/
See Clayton Morris at https://morrisinvest.com/
See Harriett in a full hazmat suit at the grocery store.
Mentions:
The Untethered Soul
Odd Mom Out – TV show mentioned by Clayton
Minimalism – Netflix
Masterclass.com
There are areas of Iceland where steam is just busting out of the ground all the time. This is in an area in the south where there are lots of geothermal power plants, but they could build about 100x more. I haven’t looked into it, but I think they have more than enough power there. I did read they have so much free power from the earth that it’s actually cheaper for aluminum companies to ship their aluminum to Iceland for final processing.
