A Captain’s Log [GC]

A hurricane smashed the hull of a ship called Dreamsong. The boat broke apart on a coral reef near the island of Borneo. They were carrying precious cargo—one thousand cellos and a herd of Asian elephants. From the shore, the orangutans watched from high up in the tree canopy. The captain remained with the elephants while the crew abandoned ship. As the boat rocked and listed to one side, the elephants carefully removed the cellos from their cases and nimbly plucked the strings with their trunks. They began playing a cello suite called One Thousand Rivers.

The orangutans signaled to a pod of whales who soon gathered round the ship. Enraptured, the whales silenced their blows and listened. They lined up end to end on the water’s surface and invited the elephants to cross.

The elephants continued playing as they walked across the bridge of whales. When they touched shore their last note kept resonating on the water.

#Caturday

Trying to Perfect the Black and White

I have a pretty good set of processing techniques for using Photoshop's Camera RAW, but recently started playing with Lightroom 4 (as you probably already know). I'm still trying to replicate how I would process in photoshop in LR4, but it's difficult. There definitely isn't a 1:1 mapping of controls from the Camera RAW in Photoshop CS3 and LR4.

I'm not too happy with the dark details here. Something's just off. I will probably take a stab at processing this same photo with CS3 tomorrow to see if I can do any better.

The latest image in my Portfolio - still night photography for me - http://harvestinglight.net/category/ebooks/seeing-the-unseen/

Walkers.

A couple of walkers in an autumn landscape of the Montseny

My contributión to:
#ForestFriday +forestfriday curated by +Rudolf Vlček
#PlusPhotoExtract Curated by +Jarek Klimek

This image comes from the last Christmas Eve session.

Conditions were perfect for Long Exposures, and I really enjoyed the hours spent there connecting with the place.

This is the first upload from the (many) images in my personal project on trees; I don't think it will be included in the final series, but it's one of my favorite of late 2011.

I'm currently pretty stuck with my main tree project (I'm actually taking a break from it); I can't wait for the new leaves and grass to arrive and bring new life to my infrared images.

In case you have missed this, I will be teaching a free introductory lesson on Infrared Photography at the upcoming 2012 Europe Photowalk in Berlin. More info on the Official Page: +GPlus Euro Photowalk


#BWFineArtLE by +Joel Tjintjelaar
#PlusPhotoExtract
#FineArtPls by +Marina Chen

http://photo-pazdera.com/blog/nejen-za-motyly-do-nemeckeho-jonsdorfu-51.html

Hanging out at the Pan Pacific... flying out in the AM.

Here is a shot I got earlier this week...

www.shootsingapore.com

Harmony

This shot is from Dunsany forest and my shot for #ForestFriday. This shot has had a fair amount of processing done to it, more then I ever do, more then I usually have patience to do!haha But I had the day off so I decided to mix it up a bit, keep things fresh whuch is always good I think!
Hope everyone is having a great friday!! :)