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Unfortunately, my good lens had a slight malfunction so it’s in the repair shop so I had to use another lens – one without a polarizing filter! My sunglasses working surprisingly well but I put them one after most all of the lightning had passed. I’ve learned you really need a filter to cut down on the sky brightness when photographing lightning (especially when it is afternoon), or the bolts hardly show up.
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I am obsessed with catching lightning. I got about 20 bolts today in about 1,000 frames.
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These shoes were lined up in the window of a big house in the botanical gardens in Kunming. It looked like a lot of workers lived there. A lot of the gardens themselves were very dry and not in bloom, but I think this photo made the trip out there worth it!
This year I am going to do a photography book. It will be “52 Weeks, 52 Streets.” (or something similar.) Each week, I’m going to take photos of a small street in Shanghai. I just went out and did Anhua Lu. Next will be Anfu Lu or Anren Lu. I’ll go down the alphabet and concentrate on streets in the Jing’An, Old Town and French Concession areas. At the end of the year I should have a nice coffee-table book!
Tags: 52 Streets, 52 Weeks
The day Dan left for Australia, we agreed to meet for a burger and milkshake. I figured he wouldn’t be done packing, so I headed to his place. He thought we were meeting at Johnny Moo’s… so I waited for a while until he came back to his apartment. I amused myself by taking some photos. The “quality” of jobs here is just amazing. They just slop the paint everywhere (like on the electric boxes and window sills) and just left a paint brush in a bucket of paint (now dried.) My dad would have been very upset at me if I’d done that….
I did take one semi-creative self-portrait though!
Tags: construction, self-portrait, waiting
I thought it was special to get lightning shots before, but it’s actually not that hard. Basically, you keep the shutter open and hope a bolt appears in at least a few photos.
This one hit really close. This photo is not Photoshopped (well, basic levels and cloning out some dust.)
Close up, lightning looks just awesome! You can see little white particles of energy all around in the air.
Tags: cool photos, lightning, Weather
Last week it poured rain every afternoon. Along with the rain came a few huge lightning storms! I took a couple hundred photos, and captured about eight different strikes.
Who said lightning never strikes in the same place twice? I have two photos of it hitting the Pearl TV Tower now, and saw it happen close-up another time.
This is a composite of five different photos.
You can see that each one is hitting a building!
More lightning photos to be posted tomorrow.
Tags: cool photos, lightning, Weather
Yes, this is really Emily’s Escapades!
I’ve moved my blog to WordPress. It is supposed to be a much more robust program. I think I’ll like it!
Please check back in a couple days. I don’t have everything moved over and linked correctly and formatted how I want it just yet. Do let me know if you like the new look though!
Jon is a pretty good photographer too! He has learned a lot about composition and tricks to get good photos with his point and shoot. All of these photos are his.
It was nice to have Mr. Fan take some photos of us together… we almost never have photos together! We’re too busy taking photos ourselves.
One rainy day we went to Örebro. We walked through Wadköping, which is an open-air museum. They moved in old buildings to create Wadköping, which was a fictional place created by an author.
I decided to enter this at the last moment… at least it will be a lot different than all of the cute kids at the beach! This is in Thailand – a local is pulling up the anchor from a boat full of tourists.
This was taken at 10 PM on the day we arrived in Sweden. We were driving to the cabin and we just had to pull over to take a photo – it was beautiful!
| I think I like this one better. The city looks a lot more “shiny” and less gloomy.
What do you think? |
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What is really crazy is that you can see it HITTING the Pearl TV tower!
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| Mom just told me that I won a photo contest!
It was called “Between Fences” and it went along with a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition that was at the Miner County Rural Life Museum in Howard (my hometown in South Dakota.) Above is the news article about the contest. I won the adult category with this photo I’d taken when I was back home and fixed fence with Dad. Someone involved in the contest told mom that the judge picked my photo as 1st right away, then had a harder time picking out the 2nd and 3rd places. It’s not a huge prize or lots of fame, but I’m happy! |
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This is my favorite silhouette photo – it’s Hanna and Henrik in the Badlands!
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Tags: I Heart Faces
Shanghai Xingguang Photo Gear Mall, No. 288, Luban Road, at the corner of LuBan Lu and XieTu Lu 上海市泸湾区鲁班路288号上海星光摄影器材城
Jon’s old camera had a sensor that went bad. Almost every other line of pixels was white.
150 RMB and an hour and a half later, everything worked perfectly again! We are amazed at what people can fix over here. In the US no one would have suggested to attempt to fix it; just throw it out.
Before – the black dots are where all of the dust was.
After – nothing!!
This is probably the best pout I have.
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