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Title: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 14, 2018, 01:00:16 pm: Here are a few shots taken within the past few days within one mile of my home. I invite others to post images similarly close to home, any subject or genre.

We had severe cold (-7 degrees F), then 15" of snow, then heat (+60 degrees F), then torrential rains. These snaps were on the warm day, snow melt flowing on city streets, plus a dam on a local pond. Enjoy!
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Post by: David Eckels on January 14, 2018, 01:32:04 pm: Nice series Eric! I have a hard time deciding which of the last two is my favorite. Ripples, like shadows, are intriguing aren't they?
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Post by: Jeremy Roussak on January 14, 2018, 01:39:24 pm: Good set, Eric. I think my favourite is probably the third, although the red streak is distracting.

Jeremy
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Post by: Patricia Sheley on January 14, 2018, 02:32:30 pm: Would love to see you work your magic on the first. It is wonderful small which suggests to me that your beautifully spare tar series processing would be time well spent. I don't want to understand the details... greedy me. You hooked me on that beautiful series years ago.
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Post by: petermfiore on January 14, 2018, 04:37:08 pm: Frame hanging on a tree behind my studio...

Peter
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: churly on January 14, 2018, 04:52:16 pm: From an open window in our dining room. Can't get much closer than that. It was a bitter day and complaints about open windows arose quickly.
Chuck
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: pegelli on January 14, 2018, 05:09:30 pm: In my back yard, so very close to home
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 14, 2018, 07:21:17 pm: Thanks, everybody, for the comments and contributions.

Patricia,
Yes, while photographing the wet pavement, I felt that it was an extension of my tar series. Flowing snow melt doesn't stay around as long as tar drips do, so I have to grab it quick, before it dries.

Eric
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Alskoj on January 15, 2018, 11:08:46 am: Testing a new IR filter in my back yard.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: petermfiore on January 15, 2018, 11:16:12 am: Quote from: Patricia Sheley on January 14, 2018, 02:32:30 pm
Would love to see you work your magic on the first. It is wonderful small which suggests to me that your beautifully spare tar series processing would be time well spent. I don't want to understand the details... greedy me. You hooked me on that beautiful series years ago.

Me Too!!

Peter
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Chairman Bill on January 15, 2018, 12:14:59 pm: From this afternoon's walk around the lanes
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Post by: Michael West on January 15, 2018, 02:10:19 pm: (https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4683/39153735802_9e57ceb30c_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Michael West on January 15, 2018, 02:12:19 pm: same "mountain" slightly different Point of View.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4532/26796257689_57e5a29368_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 15, 2018, 02:44:41 pm: A few more from my local pond, after the big thaw and another deep freeze.
(Click on each thumbnail for a larger image.)
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 15, 2018, 02:46:36 pm: And one more.
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Post by: RSL on January 15, 2018, 03:57:39 pm: Since you've shown me yours, I'll show you mine. Made this shot an hour ago right in front of my house, over the bank and shooting upriver toward the sun.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: BobDavid on January 15, 2018, 04:27:50 pm: Quote from: Chairman Bill on January 15, 2018, 12:14:59 pm
From this afternoon's walk around the lanes

+1!
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Bruce Cox on January 16, 2018, 10:16:32 am: This is from the damm of the local pond.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: John R on January 16, 2018, 10:30:56 am: Was shoveling snow in the driveway and wishing that I was somewhere else taking photos when I espied the snow on the side door.

JR

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-cCv669r/1/3a048a3c/M/Dec%2015-%202013%20High%20Park%20004%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: John R on January 16, 2018, 11:06:06 am: Eighty percent of all my photos are taken within 1-2 kilometres of my home. I did the lamp series. But now I will show you my dust. When I moved into the house there were these cheap black plastic window blinds and wine coloured walls with a grape motif over the doorways. Tried to clean everything, but gave up, painted it all and changed the blinds! Amazing how much dust there really is when you get close enough.

JR

(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-tHMQP7x/0/44413340/M/Oct%2020-12%20Home%20windows%20011%20copy1000-M.jpg)

(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-3FVD6gw/0/d1f45c96/M/Oct%2020-12%20Home%20windows%20009%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Post by: 32BT on January 16, 2018, 11:28:10 am: Quote from: John R on January 16, 2018, 11:06:06 am
Eighty percent of all my photos are taken within 1-2 kilometres of my home. I did the lamp series. But now I will show you my dust. When I moved into the house there were these cheap black plastic window blinds and wine coloured walls with a grape motif over the doorways. Tried to clean everything, but gave up, painted it all and changed the blinds! Amazing how much dust there really is when you get close enough.

You're familiar with the colloquial: "too much info!" ?

;-)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Bruce Cox on January 16, 2018, 02:35:14 pm: more suburban landscape
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Post by: Telecaster on January 16, 2018, 04:23:24 pm: Here's one from earlier this afternoon, after some new snow, taken from just off my front porch.

-Dave-
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: John R on March 04, 2018, 09:11:16 pm: Visited an old age home. Found this on way out and took it with my cell phone. Looks much cooler in person.

JR

(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZvDNRmG/0/e06f3dd7/L/20180304_173916%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: petermfiore on March 04, 2018, 09:44:26 pm: Across the river from me...1/2 mile.

Peter
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: John R on March 05, 2018, 10:20:47 pm: Man in his subterranean environment. Look how small he looks.

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-RJF75XH/0/e95979cd/L/Feb%204-%202018%20New%20Subways_0003-2%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Post by: Two23 on March 05, 2018, 10:31:50 pm: A mile from my house. I didn't feel like driving very far that night. :)

Kent in SD
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Post by: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 12:29:55 am: This is from my porch. 8)
2 image stitch
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/395/20049147321_3973f05100_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wxF7ZP)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 06, 2018, 12:30:48 am: Thanks for reviving this thread, folks.
Good stuff.

Eric

P.S. My house doesn't have a porch. Maybe that's why I've never gotten such a good double rainbow? ;)
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Post by: farbschlurf on March 06, 2018, 02:17:25 am: Berlin chic?
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: BobDavid on March 06, 2018, 03:29:45 am: Quote from: Two23 on March 05, 2018, 10:31:50 pm
A mile from my house. I didn't feel like driving very far that night. :)

Kent in SD

So you prefer taking pictures at night too.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 03:34:54 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 06, 2018, 12:30:48 am
My house doesn't have a porch. Maybe that's why I've never gotten such a good double rainbow? ;)

That has to be it! It certainly helps with all sorts of atmospheric phenomenon photography. :)

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/413/19126046868_2c45982d50_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/v96ZoL)
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Post by: James Clark on March 06, 2018, 03:44:24 pm: On my semi-regular running route
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Post by: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 03:49:41 pm: Quote from: James Clark on March 06, 2018, 03:44:24 pm
On my semi-regular running route

That's nice. The telescoping effect is kind of mesmerizing.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: armand on March 06, 2018, 11:01:28 pm: Quote from: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 12:29:55 am
This is from my porch. 8)
2 image stitch
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/395/20049147321_3973f05100_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wxF7ZP)

Nice, reminds of this one that I took in my neighborhood (I think it was a 5 frames stitch)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 11:29:36 pm: Quote from: armand on March 06, 2018, 11:01:28 pm
Nice, reminds of this one that I took in my neighborhood (I think it was a 5 frames stitch)

Yes, impressive! Have you ever had difficult stitching a rainbow? Sometimes they will just not line up.
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Post by: DougJ on March 07, 2018, 02:30:09 am: WOXOF on Porpoise Bay. With fog as heavy as this, there would be no flying that day.
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Post by: Peter McLennan on March 07, 2018, 10:35:34 am: Last week. From my livingroom window. In my bathrobe.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4621/39963886694_6653b0d7b6_o.jpg)

I know, I know. Haloes in the sky. WTF, I'm new at Topaz Clarity. :)
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: armand on March 07, 2018, 10:37:08 am: Quote from: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 11:29:36 pm
Yes, impressive! Have you ever had difficult stitching a rainbow? Sometimes they will just not line up.

I rarely experienced rainbows and I didn’t get to shoot panoramas of them either.
This particular one was challenging because of my framing (was in the car stopped at the entrance in the neighborhood and was trying to be done fast before other cars show up) and the camera. It was a Panasonic FZ1000 with a 1” sensor which was shot at iso 800, borderline for quality. Being a larger photo though I could probably get around with a 13x19 or so. I’ll probably play with it again in PTGui.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: armand on March 07, 2018, 01:04:30 pm: Quote from: armand on March 07, 2018, 10:37:08 am
I rarely experienced rainbows and I didn’t get to shoot panoramas of them either.
This particular one was challenging because of my framing (was in the car stopped at the entrance in the neighborhood and was trying to be done fast before other cars show up) and the camera. It was a Panasonic FZ1000 with a 1” sensor which was shot at iso 800, borderline for quality. Being a larger photo though I could probably get around with a 13x19 or so. I’ll probably play with it again in PTGui.

Looking back I see this was actually at ISO 400 but I pushed it in postprocessing that it looks like ISO 800.

Here are few more from the same time
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: MattBurt on March 07, 2018, 01:16:33 pm: I get a lot of chances to photograph rainbows (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=20816374%40N04&sort=date-taken-desc&text=rainbow&view_all=1).
They seem pretty common here and my porch faces East so in monsoon season the afternoon storms and low sun to the west do their thing.
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Post by: petermfiore on March 07, 2018, 05:30:52 pm: Very close to home...

Peter
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 07, 2018, 06:09:18 pm: Is that your darkroom, Peter?
Or it could be your painting studio, if we are looking at it from the South. :D

Eric
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: petermfiore on March 07, 2018, 06:24:17 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 07, 2018, 06:09:18 pm
Is that your darkroom, Peter?
Or it could be your painting studio, if we are looking at it from the South. :D

Eric

No, a local barn down the road...I'd be afraid to do either endeavor in that space.

Peter
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: petermfiore on March 07, 2018, 06:40:52 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 07, 2018, 06:09:18 pm

Or it could be your painting studio

Eric
Eric,
Here you go...my studio on this snowy night.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: James Clark on March 07, 2018, 07:05:38 pm: Quote from: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 03:49:41 pm
That's nice. The telescoping effect is kind of mesmerizing.

Thanks :) I must have passed that spot hundreds of times before I had a tripod and a camera with me.

On another topic, love the rainbows!
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Two23 on March 07, 2018, 07:07:00 pm: Quote from: BobDavid on March 06, 2018, 03:29:45 am
So you prefer taking pictures at night too.

Yes, it's much easier. At night I control the most important thing--the light!

Kent in SD

Below photo: x5 WL X3200 monolights.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 07, 2018, 07:38:45 pm: Quote from: MattBurt on March 06, 2018, 03:49:41 pm
That's nice. The telescoping effect is kind of mesmerizing.
I quite agree.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: John R on March 08, 2018, 11:16:45 am: Looking forward to another walk in my local conservation area now that the snow is receded.

JR

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-2V6q9gQ/0/cf354773/L/Oct%2011-11%20GH-Gore%20Rd%20771%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Post by: muntanela on March 08, 2018, 07:21:45 pm: During my daily rehabilitation walk (13-15 pm) at the foot of Mount San Martino (Lecco, Lake Como), I took my first post (primam) mortem shots.
Vinca minor L and unidentified Viola sp.
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Post by: John R on March 12, 2018, 02:52:17 am: I played with this image a bit to bolster the unusual perspective.

JR

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-bnws7TD/0/2cca4010/L/March%2011-%202018%20Downtown%20Toronto_0017%20copy2-small-L.jpg)
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Post by: pegelli on March 12, 2018, 06:43:43 am: About 5 min by bicycle from my home

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201712/i-hWsJHSL/0/d8fe6819/O/PEG_A7_1_2441_20171216.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201712/i-hWsJHSL/A)

Had to cycle back fast to avoid the rain
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: MattBurt on March 12, 2018, 12:49:22 pm: I shot this last night at the local creek while taking the dog for a walk (< 2 Miles from home). Seemed like a good one for a mono image.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4771/25889284287_5e7323bae8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FrKmft)IMGP9686-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/FrKmft) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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Post by: John R on March 12, 2018, 01:51:57 pm: Quote from: MattBurt on March 12, 2018, 12:49:22 pm
I shot this last night at the local creek while taking the dog for a walk (< 2 Miles from home). Seemed like a good one for a mono image.

Excellent mono image. There is movement throughout.

JR
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Post by: MattBurt on March 12, 2018, 01:58:03 pm: Quote from: John R on March 12, 2018, 01:51:57 pm
Excellent mono image. There is movement throughout.

JR

Thank you John! I liked how the sky and water sort of mimicked each other and tried to bring that out with the composition and processing.
Title: Re: Close to Home: Show us yours
Post by: pegelli on March 13, 2018, 11:55:27 am: Just over one block from my front door
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Post by: muntanela on March 19, 2018, 08:41:10 pm: From my rehab walks. Viola odorata (maybe) and Hepatica nobilis (there was nothing else except Vinca minor).