[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 19, 2010 at 11:05 am

thanks Dave and Austin
Dave:I used 16-35mm to get the full view.

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 18, 2010 at 12:52 pm

thanks Paul and “Call me Vee” ( ;

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 15, 2010 at 6:42 pm

MMX: yes you could ( ; – it would be another possible image. I had a longterm exposure of the water but decided to go with the sharp version as the clouds reflected beautifully on the surface for the colour version. monsters and more ha – I didn’t bring out the detail as my eyes did already the impossible to balance the harsh light. However i saw black there but you may have another pair of eyes ( ;

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm

thanks for your lovely comments

miki: yes the B&W supports the structure of the slate – but i was also very attracted to the loud blue sky and the silent cave – I guess both images work in different invironments.

liam: you will be surprised but the green was screaming and i loved the contrast with the blue reflexion on the watersurface. your eyes and brain are master of harsh contrast. Did you ever notice that the eye layers a kind of grey over white areas in dark surrounding – human beings think they see white- but it is rarely white. on my screen the green looks very dark and has nearly no oversaturated areas.

mick: thanks – this is a monsterfile – something about 300mb in 8bit.

brendan: thanks

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 15, 2010 at 12:17 am

Great set of images – dreamlike with a surreal touch. The green looks so tasty – I wished i could eat colours. I do adore the skylines in the first image although i cant undestand how the right pink goes with the white left part. The power of the first image…(and thats why i think it is the strongest one of both)… it literally SHOWS the dynamic of wind in a very beautiful way. Congrats. the sky was with you… mh the pink
( I actually wanted to place a smiley but i jsut realized that the smileys changed and they all look like zombies). So here is the old school

mhhh the pink… (-ó

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

June 15, 2010 at 12:09 am

wonderful series Andy. I am also a big fan a capturing the same location in different light – i just makes the power of light so clear!
AND each of them are strong images by itself. The movement in the foreground gives a playful softness to balance out the strong straigh lines of the lighthouse – great stuff.

M*

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

March 11, 2010 at 8:38 pm

I am happy to announce that “majesty carrauntuohill” won gold (swpp). Happy – A golden moment of Nature it was- for sure.

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

March 3, 2010 at 1:58 pm

thank you very much for your kind comments – loads of love for nature in me….that makes it look easy.

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

February 26, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Hi Ras,

this is a double exposure – see technical details in the main entry. The night was very bright so just few stars were visible. However, i had to limit the sky exposure to 30 seconds to avoid startrails, and gave the landscape about 4 min to get fine details in it.

I can see your point but my goal was to reflect the magic night close as possible and i can remember that that few stars stand out. the file reduction may cause some distractions and make them look like white dots – they are more subtile in the highresolution file.

Yes it is a little cottage: the true see experience was more impressiv than the image as the cottage is reduced to a little spot. It was such a contrast: the cold high mountains and the little cottage with warm orange light, glowing like a little star ( :

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

February 26, 2010 at 9:23 pm

Alan – that was an elegant way out of it ( ;

Robert – I thought so

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

February 25, 2010 at 4:32 pm

Thank you all for your lovely comments. There is no other way than being touched by this stunning mountain as it happened to me as well.

Joseph: yes the reduction ate many pixels but we hadn’t many stars at this night because the bright moon was interfearing their performance. KERRY BLUE ( ;

Robert: yes yes my english… but it makes people laugh. the best english accident i’ve ever had was this: went to the butcher and asked for “chickentits”. The butcher disappeared and couldn’t work for 2 hours.

Alan: luckily and obsessed photographer doesn’t see himself/herself “working” but it was pretty dangerous down the hill. I asked my bodyguard why he had to drive so fast down the hill. He answered: I don’t drive, we are slipping aaaaahhhhhhh”…but I had the picture already in the camera ( ;

Ok Alan i think it is important to tell me the title of the documentary- somehow i have the feeling it will be a strange title B)

Peter and John: i think one can split the result of a landscape photograper in
1) “blessed accidentally captured moments”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calaido/4348111116/

2) “using all intelligence to be at the right place at the right time based on hardcore calculation”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calaido/4375955356/

3) “being brave but not stupid (a little bit) to get the unseen moments”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calaido/4383580624/

But overall you can say: there is nothing you can do when mother nature is having a bad hair day or you just click the button when nature is creating a new masterpiece, © earth and sky. ( ;

Brendan: when we returned from the mountains, we had trouble to pass the drunken crowed fighting with each other – I think it was a good choice.

John: ( ;

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

January 6, 2010 at 7:49 pm

Hi alan, hope you drifted happily into the new year.

Regarding your image and question: i would prefer bw as the colours doesn’t tell a special story. I understand the desire to catch the “last snow” – i drove through a magical snowlandscape one night, everything covered , unreal, WIHTOUT my camera – next day WITH my camera the snow was gone ) ; – crap However: for the purpose of having a snowimages it is o k. for the pupose of having a great and exciting images with a story….mmmmhhh not sure.

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

January 6, 2010 at 7:44 pm

miki: thanks for the explanation – i was searching for it as i never saw that before. This was a bitter cold night – so many ice crystals for creating magic in the air ( ;

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

January 6, 2010 at 7:43 pm

sorry guys, i messed with my flickr account- just noticed now that the image went missing. so back on track.

Regarding the crop – yes i think the same – usually i see more than 1 cropotions for an image. I decided this version because i am quite attached to the tree shadows which tell the story of night and also support the mystical “scary” mood of this place. I defenetly will crop the image as suggested for my gallery. thanks for your lovely feedback and wishes!

[MadeleineCalaidoWeber]

January 4, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Great series of images! Love the third one most of all!