119. Sand - September 20-26, 2015
Don-
While traveling across the desert the tired thirsty pilgrim searches for water. Only to discover
a Coors Beer stand. Well, for a small fee the icy cold beer is purchased. As one usually finds
in the desert the beer is consumed, the can is crunched in a exhibition of manliness and dropped
to be consumed by the ever moving sands of the desert. At least we hope the sand wins.
Back to reality. I shoot a lot of desert trash and there is so much of it. The sad passing of humans
leaving their tracks and trash.
Shot in a local arroyo with my wife Val and dogs Angel and Spike using the Nikon D810. The rest of the
story is an ISO of 100 with an f/stop of 16 and a shutter doing 1/124 sec.
While traveling across the desert the tired thirsty pilgrim searches for water. Only to discover
a Coors Beer stand. Well, for a small fee the icy cold beer is purchased. As one usually finds
in the desert the beer is consumed, the can is crunched in a exhibition of manliness and dropped
to be consumed by the ever moving sands of the desert. At least we hope the sand wins.
Back to reality. I shoot a lot of desert trash and there is so much of it. The sad passing of humans
leaving their tracks and trash.
Shot in a local arroyo with my wife Val and dogs Angel and Spike using the Nikon D810. The rest of the
story is an ISO of 100 with an f/stop of 16 and a shutter doing 1/124 sec.
Byron-
Sand is abundant where you go but I struggled with the topic for several days. It finally occurred to me that I have a small quantity of sand captured and sitting on a shelf. Instead of sand sitting in a pile or simply in a jar it is in a device that is useful. Sand is used to measure time. According The American Institute of New York: The clepsammia or sand-glass was invented at Alexandria about 150 BC. It's demise came about as the premiere time keeper because of the invention of a dependable mechanical clock.
ISO 100, -1EV, 50mm lens, f8, 1/160
Sand is abundant where you go but I struggled with the topic for several days. It finally occurred to me that I have a small quantity of sand captured and sitting on a shelf. Instead of sand sitting in a pile or simply in a jar it is in a device that is useful. Sand is used to measure time. According The American Institute of New York: The clepsammia or sand-glass was invented at Alexandria about 150 BC. It's demise came about as the premiere time keeper because of the invention of a dependable mechanical clock.
ISO 100, -1EV, 50mm lens, f8, 1/160
Deron-
As a golfer, this is not where you usually want to be. The Sand Trap! Here, you see my friend, Bobby blasting his way out of the bunker, trying to save par.
Notice, Bobby is wearing his 'Sunday Red', much like Tiger Woods... who hasn't worn his 'Sunday Red' on too many Sundays.
As a golfer, this is not where you usually want to be. The Sand Trap! Here, you see my friend, Bobby blasting his way out of the bunker, trying to save par.
Notice, Bobby is wearing his 'Sunday Red', much like Tiger Woods... who hasn't worn his 'Sunday Red' on too many Sundays.
Kevin-
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Sand huh? Well, I contemplated all sorts of images that would involve travel to beach sand, sand dunes, etc. But there wasn’t time this week for that. I also thought about buying a bag of sand and pouring or arranging it on various creative ways. Nope. Build a sandbox and fill it with Tonka Toys, or beach toys? Sure, great, but - no. So this sort of became a throw-away week for me I guess. Found a board game with a small hourglass sort of timer. Set it up on a background, and made certain the flash duration from the two Nikon flash units was short enough to freeze the sand particles tumbling down. The rear flash unit had a green filter on it, just because.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 105mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens. 1/250th of a second (flash sync) at f/8, ISO 100.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Sand huh? Well, I contemplated all sorts of images that would involve travel to beach sand, sand dunes, etc. But there wasn’t time this week for that. I also thought about buying a bag of sand and pouring or arranging it on various creative ways. Nope. Build a sandbox and fill it with Tonka Toys, or beach toys? Sure, great, but - no. So this sort of became a throw-away week for me I guess. Found a board game with a small hourglass sort of timer. Set it up on a background, and made certain the flash duration from the two Nikon flash units was short enough to freeze the sand particles tumbling down. The rear flash unit had a green filter on it, just because.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 105mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens. 1/250th of a second (flash sync) at f/8, ISO 100.
Paul-
Sand? Yikes...
This theme was a little challenging. I wanted to shoot something that included beach sand. However, I didn’t have a lot of travel time to head out of town for some of the larger lakes in this part of the state. (And Lincoln is not exactly rife with tropical beaches.*) So I drove out to inner-city Holmes Lake which—based on bodies of water in your locales—probably weighs in as an extremely large pond, or perhaps a gargantuan puddle. But this is Nebraska. And the theme was: Sand. You work with what you’ve got.
I wasn’t feeling too creative as evidenced by my original intent: sticking a dollar bill halfway out of the sand and taking a close-up picture. Wait for it…
However, Kodakus, that most ancient of photography demi-gods graced me with her beneficence—presenting me with the opportunity to get two shots that I liked equally well. Admittedly, sand is not really a central element in either of photo, but you can see some sand so no legal or procedural action can be taken against me. (Check the by-laws. I did.)
The image I am submitting for this week is Sand01.
The reason I like it is that, as I was composing the picture, I realized I was capturing (for lack of a better phrase) elemental strata…and on a fairly horizontal plane. Water. Earth. Sky. This was cool to me, but would have made for a pretty sterile image without something to give it scale, purpose, shape, and human interest. Hence the…well, humans.
Our story so far: 1/100 sec.; f/25; aperture priority; ISO 400; 55-200mm lens set at 117mm;1/3 EV bracketing; the camera was hand-held.
* However (paraphrasing from Wikipedia): A few hundred miles west of where I am typing lies the Nebraska Sand Hills. Much of west and central Nebraska is covered by these ancient mostly transverse dunes, left over from when the Rocky Mountains formed. Agriculture can be difficult so ranching is the predominant land use in the area. The sand hills are a blessing in disguise as they helped form the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides water for much of the Great Plains and central North America. By far, the largest concentration of the Aquifer exists due straight down from the Nebraska surface. By any sane measure—unless you’re a climate change denier, I suppose—we Great Plains yokels are sitting atop a natural cache of inestimable wealth.
Sand? Yikes...
This theme was a little challenging. I wanted to shoot something that included beach sand. However, I didn’t have a lot of travel time to head out of town for some of the larger lakes in this part of the state. (And Lincoln is not exactly rife with tropical beaches.*) So I drove out to inner-city Holmes Lake which—based on bodies of water in your locales—probably weighs in as an extremely large pond, or perhaps a gargantuan puddle. But this is Nebraska. And the theme was: Sand. You work with what you’ve got.
I wasn’t feeling too creative as evidenced by my original intent: sticking a dollar bill halfway out of the sand and taking a close-up picture. Wait for it…
However, Kodakus, that most ancient of photography demi-gods graced me with her beneficence—presenting me with the opportunity to get two shots that I liked equally well. Admittedly, sand is not really a central element in either of photo, but you can see some sand so no legal or procedural action can be taken against me. (Check the by-laws. I did.)
The image I am submitting for this week is Sand01.
The reason I like it is that, as I was composing the picture, I realized I was capturing (for lack of a better phrase) elemental strata…and on a fairly horizontal plane. Water. Earth. Sky. This was cool to me, but would have made for a pretty sterile image without something to give it scale, purpose, shape, and human interest. Hence the…well, humans.
Our story so far: 1/100 sec.; f/25; aperture priority; ISO 400; 55-200mm lens set at 117mm;1/3 EV bracketing; the camera was hand-held.
* However (paraphrasing from Wikipedia): A few hundred miles west of where I am typing lies the Nebraska Sand Hills. Much of west and central Nebraska is covered by these ancient mostly transverse dunes, left over from when the Rocky Mountains formed. Agriculture can be difficult so ranching is the predominant land use in the area. The sand hills are a blessing in disguise as they helped form the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides water for much of the Great Plains and central North America. By far, the largest concentration of the Aquifer exists due straight down from the Nebraska surface. By any sane measure—unless you’re a climate change denier, I suppose—we Great Plains yokels are sitting atop a natural cache of inestimable wealth.
Jerry-
Right across the street from our house is a great playground with loads of sand. So over the course of a few days I would go over with various thingamajigs (pocket watch, agate, old camera, HTC logo) and took some photos that were ok but not as exciting as I wished. Eventually I went to the Mississippi and got some interesting (to me) photos of the sandy edge of the water with leaves and what not. But after seeing this $5 Halloween skull at Target, I went pack to the playground and took this photo, my favorite.
Right across the street from our house is a great playground with loads of sand. So over the course of a few days I would go over with various thingamajigs (pocket watch, agate, old camera, HTC logo) and took some photos that were ok but not as exciting as I wished. Eventually I went to the Mississippi and got some interesting (to me) photos of the sandy edge of the water with leaves and what not. But after seeing this $5 Halloween skull at Target, I went pack to the playground and took this photo, my favorite.