252 - Yonder - April 8-14, 2017
Darin-
This is a shot of five vintage, fighter planes that I shot during the March Air Reserve Base Air Show. I was on my bicycle so this was shot on the move with a Kodak EasyShare M1063. A little pixelated, as the airplanes were WAY out yonder, so I wanted to bring them in and crop out an annoying cyclone fence in the foreground.
This is a shot of five vintage, fighter planes that I shot during the March Air Reserve Base Air Show. I was on my bicycle so this was shot on the move with a Kodak EasyShare M1063. A little pixelated, as the airplanes were WAY out yonder, so I wanted to bring them in and crop out an annoying cyclone fence in the foreground.
Kevin-
The Yonder theme resulted in inspiration and big ideas! I was driving to Phoenix for a few days to see my friend Ed Lacroix. Many times on previous back and forth trips I have been lucky enough to see Dust Devils but I have never really tried to photograph one, as they were never close enough. In other words they were too yonder. (Sorry 🤣). But I was certain I would be able to photograph one this time, especially as there were really high winds predicted for my return trip. The winds happened. The dust devils didn’t.
So I was left scrambling for an alternative on Friday morning after my return. Ideas of depicting Romeo (“Hark, what light through yonder window breaks”) climbing the wall to Juliet didn’t last long. Accurately depicting that would mean finding people far below today’s age of consent, and legally safer alternatives like having Christopher Plummer climb up to Betty White seemed far outside of Shakespeare’s original intent.
So I headed off to Whitewater Preserve which is a wonderful place, but one that I also find to be a challenge to photograph. Why? It seems as if every landscape scene winds up with wind turbines in the background. My photo is an example. A nice Brittlebush in the foreground, yellow with flowers. Rugged mountains in the background. Beautiful, just after sunrise light. And a flock of white birds flying over the lower mountain range.
Wait, look closer, those aren’t birds, they are wind turbines, which seem to be a yonder presence in most Whitewater scenes. Recompose, and the magic of a scene is likely gone. Retouch, and the scene is no longer real. Leave them in like this, and it’s no longer a classic landscape image.
Well, it could be worse. Nicer to have wind turbines than a coal-fired or natural gas electric plant, or a future Three Mile Island nuke plant. Sigh.
Nikon D850, handheld, 24-120mm f/4 Nikkor zoom set to 66mm, a circular polarizing filter to make the colors pop, ISO 1600, 1/200th of a second at f/22 to make certain the nearby brittlebush and the yonder wind turbines were both in focus.
The Yonder theme resulted in inspiration and big ideas! I was driving to Phoenix for a few days to see my friend Ed Lacroix. Many times on previous back and forth trips I have been lucky enough to see Dust Devils but I have never really tried to photograph one, as they were never close enough. In other words they were too yonder. (Sorry 🤣). But I was certain I would be able to photograph one this time, especially as there were really high winds predicted for my return trip. The winds happened. The dust devils didn’t.
So I was left scrambling for an alternative on Friday morning after my return. Ideas of depicting Romeo (“Hark, what light through yonder window breaks”) climbing the wall to Juliet didn’t last long. Accurately depicting that would mean finding people far below today’s age of consent, and legally safer alternatives like having Christopher Plummer climb up to Betty White seemed far outside of Shakespeare’s original intent.
So I headed off to Whitewater Preserve which is a wonderful place, but one that I also find to be a challenge to photograph. Why? It seems as if every landscape scene winds up with wind turbines in the background. My photo is an example. A nice Brittlebush in the foreground, yellow with flowers. Rugged mountains in the background. Beautiful, just after sunrise light. And a flock of white birds flying over the lower mountain range.
Wait, look closer, those aren’t birds, they are wind turbines, which seem to be a yonder presence in most Whitewater scenes. Recompose, and the magic of a scene is likely gone. Retouch, and the scene is no longer real. Leave them in like this, and it’s no longer a classic landscape image.
Well, it could be worse. Nicer to have wind turbines than a coal-fired or natural gas electric plant, or a future Three Mile Island nuke plant. Sigh.
Nikon D850, handheld, 24-120mm f/4 Nikkor zoom set to 66mm, a circular polarizing filter to make the colors pop, ISO 1600, 1/200th of a second at f/22 to make certain the nearby brittlebush and the yonder wind turbines were both in focus.
Paul-
I’m proud to say I was not run over while getting this (and other) shots this week. I’ll explain. I’ve paged through quite a few photography manuals over the years. While their numbers are legion in the techniques and creative processes they cover, I’m not aware of any that caution you about remembering to watch for cars when you’re lying down in the street. Granted, most everyone doesn’t need that kind of reminder. But my camera was focused on this street-level shot, and I was focused on my camera. That left me in a state of what Highway Patrol officers probably call “pre-tenderization.” I’ll be more careful (or less stupid) next time.
Yonder, due east in this case, is the Nebraska State Capitol building. It’s an architectural and artistic marvel that has had…well, thrust upon it all sorts of puerile comparisons to a specify part of the male anatomy—especially when seen driving in from a distance. We’ll leave it at that. The picture was taken from Pioneers Park on the outskirts of Lincoln. The bike trail in the middle ground is a part of a pretty impressive network of trails that spider web our fair city and beyond.
It was a cloudy day, but the visibility was fairly good for drivers looking for smallish photographers prostrate in front of them.
Taking the Long View: (10:28AM) Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 55-200mm lens focused at 55mm; ISO 200 (?)*; 1/250 sec at f/10; and matrix metering. All post-work was done in Lightroom 4, including playing with a few pre-sets I had not used before. I opted for a vertical format (which came from cropping), but wonder if I should have used the original wider, horizontal perspective. That picture is attached, too.
I wonder if I shot this in Program mode by mistake. I'm pretty sure I had dialed in f/16 and set the ISO at 1250.
I’m proud to say I was not run over while getting this (and other) shots this week. I’ll explain. I’ve paged through quite a few photography manuals over the years. While their numbers are legion in the techniques and creative processes they cover, I’m not aware of any that caution you about remembering to watch for cars when you’re lying down in the street. Granted, most everyone doesn’t need that kind of reminder. But my camera was focused on this street-level shot, and I was focused on my camera. That left me in a state of what Highway Patrol officers probably call “pre-tenderization.” I’ll be more careful (or less stupid) next time.
Yonder, due east in this case, is the Nebraska State Capitol building. It’s an architectural and artistic marvel that has had…well, thrust upon it all sorts of puerile comparisons to a specify part of the male anatomy—especially when seen driving in from a distance. We’ll leave it at that. The picture was taken from Pioneers Park on the outskirts of Lincoln. The bike trail in the middle ground is a part of a pretty impressive network of trails that spider web our fair city and beyond.
It was a cloudy day, but the visibility was fairly good for drivers looking for smallish photographers prostrate in front of them.
Taking the Long View: (10:28AM) Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 55-200mm lens focused at 55mm; ISO 200 (?)*; 1/250 sec at f/10; and matrix metering. All post-work was done in Lightroom 4, including playing with a few pre-sets I had not used before. I opted for a vertical format (which came from cropping), but wonder if I should have used the original wider, horizontal perspective. That picture is attached, too.
I wonder if I shot this in Program mode by mistake. I'm pretty sure I had dialed in f/16 and set the ISO at 1250.
Jerry-
Yonder what, eh? Mountain, hill, city, how about crow? So here is yonder crow that I photographed while in Three Ponds Park, a tiny spot in Plymouth just a mile or so west of our house. It was a dull day while there, trees bare of leaves, the path muddy with melting snow, and hardly any wild life other than two crows. I did try some high contrast versions in Photoshop but like this one with a bit of gray. Camera was the Sony A6300 with 55-210 zoomed to 210. Exposure was f8 @ 1/1250, ISO 200.
Yonder what, eh? Mountain, hill, city, how about crow? So here is yonder crow that I photographed while in Three Ponds Park, a tiny spot in Plymouth just a mile or so west of our house. It was a dull day while there, trees bare of leaves, the path muddy with melting snow, and hardly any wild life other than two crows. I did try some high contrast versions in Photoshop but like this one with a bit of gray. Camera was the Sony A6300 with 55-210 zoomed to 210. Exposure was f8 @ 1/1250, ISO 200.
Don-
Over yonder is a piece of sandstone about 10 feet high with a date carved into it, 1936 and a name. Yonder to the west is a narrow gully
with some charcoal that may be parts of a burned old mine entrance that caved in.
The focal is 14 to 24 mm shot at 15 mm
The exposure is 1/500 sec; f/8; and an ISO of 100.
Over yonder is a piece of sandstone about 10 feet high with a date carved into it, 1936 and a name. Yonder to the west is a narrow gully
with some charcoal that may be parts of a burned old mine entrance that caved in.
The focal is 14 to 24 mm shot at 15 mm
The exposure is 1/500 sec; f/8; and an ISO of 100.
Elroy-
This photo was taken with a iPhone 5s. I was unable to determine the photo settings. I liked shape of the building and the location. I framed it between two trees so it looked out yonder.
This photo was taken with a iPhone 5s. I was unable to determine the photo settings. I liked shape of the building and the location. I framed it between two trees so it looked out yonder.
Byron-
As I crept along on hands and knees, barely alive, wearing my jungle fatigues and a pith helmet, I was looking for signs of civilization in the weeds of Maple Grove. I held up my binoculars and behold, Civilization yonder! It may a few more days journey before I arrive at the site of these magnificent edifices.
Actually I was on the top floor of a parking garage in Maple Grove. I had my telescope (Meade ETX 90) attached to a tripod with my Sony A7 attached to the back. The distance from my location to downtown is about 17 miles.
1250mm, f13.8, 1/250 sec. ISO 1600
As I crept along on hands and knees, barely alive, wearing my jungle fatigues and a pith helmet, I was looking for signs of civilization in the weeds of Maple Grove. I held up my binoculars and behold, Civilization yonder! It may a few more days journey before I arrive at the site of these magnificent edifices.
Actually I was on the top floor of a parking garage in Maple Grove. I had my telescope (Meade ETX 90) attached to a tripod with my Sony A7 attached to the back. The distance from my location to downtown is about 17 miles.
1250mm, f13.8, 1/250 sec. ISO 1600