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Tag: Photography
Bell UH-1D Iroquois Huey at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas Texas
This is a picture I took at sundown of a Bell UH-1D Iroquois Huey Helicopter on static display. Because of the fading light, I was able to capture a nice, silhouetted image of its iconic shape contrasted against a muted gradient of transitioning sky colors at twilight. For those interested, this aircraft is on permanent static display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas Texas. There is a wonderful history behind this particular helicopter and it is a story worth checking out. You can find it in the link below.
One Easy Tip To Know Which Pictures Make Good Black and Whites – Photofocus
The Psychology of Photography
This is an excellent article on how photographic images are both perceived and preconceived, as well as the depth of creative and technical skills it takes to bring them into existence and be noticed.
https://outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/photo-tip-of-week/the-psychology-of-photography/
Retouched Photos – Disclosure Law in Norway
https://petapixel.com/2021/07/02/not-disclosing-that-a-photo-was-retouched-is-now-illegal-in-norway/
Photography and Images Rediscovered
Photographs Rediscovered
I have often said that when capturing images, as soon as the camera shutter closes one has visually captured the past. It may not feel that way while in the moment, but it will become increasingly apparent as time passes and the captured image is revisited.
Shooting Photographs sometimes begins and ends in one day for me with a 2 step process of capturing images, then downloading them to my computer. Once downloaded, unless I am time-limited, it may be some time before I get around to revisiting some of those images. It is later, when going through my tens of thousands of images, that I often “rediscover” images that I had forgotten about and depending on how much time has passed, may have taken on some level of historical significance. This picture was taken the last (and 20th) time the Trinity River crested above 40ft, a literal “high water mark” that has only been exceeded 22 times since the flood of 1908, before the Dallas levee system was built. Only time will tell if this image will gain any real historical significance, but for me, it created an opportunity to experience a nice morning at daybreak in order to capture a rare image of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge with the Dallas skyline reflected in a body of water that is the flooded Trinity River. I am not sure when an opportunity like that will arise again but was happy to recently “rediscover” this image.
A Statue at Fair Park and the Ever Changing Light
The statues along the Esplanade are some of my favorite photo subjects at Fair Park in Dallas. I went to the State Fair of Texas yesterday and took the picture below. I usually go when the weather is nice and sunny, but it was overcast yesterday and the first time I have taken a picture of the statues in the flat natural light that a cloudy day provides. It is much different than all my past photos of the statues I have taken in high contrast sunlight. These statues have stood in the virtually the same place since the Fair Grounds opened in 1936, but the natural and artificial light sources that illuminate their surfaces have been changing ever since and with that how they are perceived visually. I first saw these statues as a child, and see them differently today as an older adult than I did then. All this reminds me of the quote below from the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. It is a quote that increasingly comes to mind as the years pass for me.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
This statue is the work of Lawrence Tenney Stevens and was created for the first State Fair of Texas when it opened in 1936.