The Weekly Photo (Week 15)

Rivalry

Ah, spring! Not only the trees and flowers are blooming, so is … rivalry!

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

The Weekly Photo (week 14)

Dogwood Blossoms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is all too short. So enjoy the dogwoods in bloom. In reality as I post this the blossoms have already largely faded away. So take a look at a couple of my other interpretations of dogwood blossoms – as posted in my other blogs:

 

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

The Weekly Photo (week 13)

Home Building

Ah, Spring! The trees are blossoming and the green buds are breaking open, the flowers are blooming, and creatures large and small are building nests and homes …

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

The Weekly Photo (week12)

You may have noticed my signature on the photo above. When I edit, manipulate, or other wise transform a photo beyond a self-imposed limit, I consider it “art” and sign it.

Since the inception of photography, photos have been retouched, dodged, burned and cropped. Indeed, much of the creative process was accomplished in the darkroom. Master photographers were proud of their printing skills.

Then came Kodachrome and slides. Everything changed. When you clicked the shutter the photo was finished, there was no cropping, no correcting the exposure. You either got it all right, or there was nothing worth showing. Not only did you have to get the composition and exposure right, the cost was such that shooting a whole role of 36 photos was a luxury. I have said it before: Kodachrome was a stern taskmaster – you learned your craft or else!

Digital photography brought another revolution, even more so in recent years as the cameras have became increasingly powerful and sophisticated. We are almost at the point where the camera points itself – indeed some already record images before you press the shutter release. If the exposure is not right on, post-processing can take care of it. If the composition is off, just crop it. If you missed part of the subject, stitch some frames together. It is easy for anyone, even newbies, to fit a part of one photo seamlessly into another.

Yes, quickly I have become sloppy. Just point the camera in the general direction of an interesting subject and let the camera take care of the details. With a little bit of post-processing we can all achieve images that match our minds eye and our memory.

Here are a couple of images as actually recorded:

And here the are they way I thought I saw them.

Isn’t technology marvelous?

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Photo of the week

Over at Gallery Ludwig I have been posting my “photo of the week” for a while now – some nice photos, some just playful and fun. Once you get started doing this it is really a good motivator to carry your camera everywhere and to look for picture opportunities.

Doing a “photo of the week” also takes the pressure off thinking that you should only present masterworks to the world. Actually, I learned that from my friend Vern who does a much more ambitious “photo-a-day”. He presents a delightful view of the world around him. It helps, of course, that he is a master in the craft of photography.

That brings me back to my on attempts. Since I present my POWs in my other gallery, I will not repeat those here, but want to share a few that did not make the grade. Enjoy!

 

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“What?? I am a bird – this is how we do it. We don’t have restrooms, you know.”

 

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Security detail

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Aim – focus – track – shoo… how did that tree get in the way?!

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Testing Blogger photo handling

Google has made a number of changes recently in the way photos are stored and presented. This has brought up the question of what is different in the way photos are handled in a Blogger blog post.

Here is a test image:

The details of what was tested as well as the results of this test will be presented in a follow-on post.

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Links in Google+ posts

We all like to put our best foot, er, pictures, forward, but sometimes the best laid plans … alright enough, here is my point: When including a hyperlink in a Google+ post that contains a bookmark to a specific place on the page, the bookmark is removed from the illustration and link.

Here is an example. A post on my Google+ page shows this:

Note that in the link text I included the bookmark part “#A1209”. The text link works as expected. The link on the image and the link immediately above it, however, have the bookmark portion stripped off, and consequently do not go to the desired location.

At first I thought I had not inserted it correctly, that was not the case, though.

Moral: Be careful, things don’t always work the way you expect, and not always as advertised.

Here is the text link: http://silvercanvas.wordpress.com/pow-a2012q1/#A1209

Google Chrome also does not like “https” links as they come from SkyDrive, so edit out the “s” before inserting such links. That is not actually required, but will look better in the Chrome address bar.

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

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