A freindly fellow

Was upin one of the local cemetaries, an old and largely disused one I suspect, photographing the graves for reference for the local council website and had just finished the current part of the assignment when this freindly fellow decided to stay still long enough to enable me to get a shot of him.   No sooner had I pressed the trigger than FLIT he was off again .... so pure luck but  it was nice of him to help me .... near a decade since I had a similar chance and with my slow digital of those days I didn't get a shot.

Tone Mapping

Recently came across this term and not sure what is happening aprt from the obvious compression of tones to suit the limited range of the display buit tried it on the previosyu street photo and think it somewhat better than the previous treatment which took much longer :-( LOL

The Photographic Society

Last night was a monthly meeting and we started off with print of the month and first up were the ones which didn't get placed and the fist was interesting. Cannot show you here becuase not mine. The lower part of the screen was a vivid bed of flowers with an early eveing shot of a street behind. The judge commented that it was two picture becuase there was nothing to link the two 'halves' together. I am sure that there could have been a lampost or something to do this in the conventional way. But what struct me about the shot, and it might be my imagination, was the way the myriad of colours, tail lines of cars, neon signs, street lights had a similar colourful presence in the top halve similar to the bed of flowers ....so I am left with a feeling that there are more ways than one to connect elements of a photograph together.
As for my entry, not selected for a place, which I didn't expect but of course hoped :-), I found it interesting that the elements of the composition which act IMO as a frame around the [picture were slammed and were too dark, judge didn't like the black. See for yourself ....

Actually it was an accident, like often happens with me in editing, that the background was burnt out and I used the curved tool to try and fix. Brought the top right hand end of the line downwards with little or no effect until it reached the bottom and I liked, I think, what I saw :-)
You can see a bigger version on my website
http://jcuknz-photos.com/PHOTOS2012/PHOTOS_2012.html

nearly a year has gone by

Due to computer problems and other reasons I lost this page and access to it. Just found it and sadly the BOSS is no longer with us but some ashes in my rose box guarded by a beautiful and sleek white cat satuette.

Credit for photos in previous post

So I missed this info out of e-mail I got .. tremendous sequence :-)
Centurion in Pilanesberg game reserve, South Africa

Road Rage -- African style

SHE ...Madam! .... is still with us

An update on Smudge who is still eating me out of house and home bless her and spending most of the day sleeping on my bed and only moving over a bit so I can fit down beside her. SHE must always be on the outside, the bed is against a wall, and on only one occasion did she spend more than five seconds on the inside. Animals a strange. Around breakfast time she goes out and sits in the old picnic box made of polystyrene next the the door. She is fairly safe there back away from the gateway to the footpath. Then evening time she seems to like to spend time out there in the box, which is under a flower box on stilts even when it is pouring cats and dogs ... then she comes in once it has got dark.
I do wonder what she can see, if she knows when it is dark, or else tells by the lack of traffic along the stae Highway I live beside.