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A dull and snowy day, lots of white on white, and using the Nikon p610, which isn’t the most low light friendly camera in the world (though it does have ungodly reach).
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| Then two of these flew by and the flock launched… |
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| We came back through a couple of hours later and the big flock was gone, but this couple and an odd duck were enjoying the winter-runoff pond in the middle of the farmer’s field. |
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Variations on a theme, doing some graphic design and digital art work around the Fireblade project I’m working on over the winter. It’s a pretty thing…
I usually change the header of Tim’s Motorcycle Diaries when I get a new bike. The Fireblade isn’t quite ready for the road yet, but it makes for some interesting design opportunities…
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The winter closed in on us quickly and relentlessly, but that means macro ice! All photos taken with a Canon T6i digital SLR using the Canon STM macro lens.
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Taken using a Ricoh Theta V 360° camera attached to a flexible gripper tripod on an extended threaded rod. The Theta V lets you take a remote 360° photo every 4 seconds, so you’ve got a good chance of catching something good. When I get back I plug in the camera and look through the shots for something catchy. Here is a how-to if you want to capture your own 360° on-bike photos.
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The kingfisher logo comes from a tatoo I designed way back in the Naughties and got put on my leg. I did it shortly after returning to England for the first time since I’d immigrated when I was eight years old. It’s a European kingfisher of the kind I used to see when I was little. It reminds me of where I came from.
I took a photo of the tatoo and then photoshopped it into the logo as it is now. Kingfishers are a triple threat: they can fly like missiles, swim like a fish and move about on land. A good metaphor for the kind of photography and art I like to do (the technically difficult kind).
| I took the glow from the original photo out of the middle of the bird… |
The headers for all my blogs are made in Photoshop from images I’ve created…
| Tim’s Motorcycle Diaries (my Triumph Tiger photoshopped into colour matched text) |
Previous TMD logos went through a series of evolutions, as did the Mechanical Sympathy logo…
The Dusty World logo (my oldest blog) has been stable for a number of years…
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From a ten day stay over in Iceland on our way to the UK this past summer (July, 2017). We travelled for three days around the south east travelling as far as Vik and then did a week with family friends up and over the north coast to Akureyri and beyond and then back to Reykjavik. All in all it was well over 2500kms in ten days.
Photos shot with the shiny new Canon T6i Rebel with a variety of lenses. 360 photos done with a Ricoh Theta. The full album is here.
| The black sands of Vik. |
| A sea of puffins. |
| Seljarlandsfoss. |
| Gulfoss. |
| The mid-Atlantic ridge. Þingvellir, the viking parliament. |
| Viking Rafting on a glacial river (taken with a little, old waterproof Fuji camera that died shortly thereafter due to the incredibly cold water). |
| 12:35am (half an hour after mid-night – this was as dark as it ever got) |
| Hverarönd |
| Climbing Hverfjall |
| Reykjavik street art |
| Humpbacks in the Arctic Circle by HúsavÃk |
| Þjóðgarðurinn Snæfellsjökull |
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With winter reluctantly letting go of our necks, I’ve been able to sneak the odd ride in amidst the ongoing ice rain and snow. I recently got a Ricoh Theta V. This has the same camera and resolution as the previous (and much cheaper) Theta S, but has much better in camera processing that allows it to take 4k video and make photos without as much lag. What that means for the ongoing on-bike photography experiment is that I’m able to capture photos faster and catch moments that might have been missed before. I mainly focus on still photos doing this, but I’ll eventually get around to taking some 4k video as well.
For the past month or so I’ve been able to sneak out between wintery blasts and catch some early on-bike shots using the mounting rig I built last year (a flexible octopus gripping tripod and an extended threaded rod that allows me to place the camera further away from the bike). Here are some shots from the ThetaV:
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| Perhaps telling, I thought I’d grabbed the ThetaV but realized after I has the ThetaSC. No real difference in photo or lens quality. For on-bike shooting I’d suggest the cheaper and lighter SC, unless you’re big into 4k video. |
Photos in this set run from March 24th to April 13th. Even last weekend I was still seeing patches of snow in ditches, though last Saturday was the first time I got back from a ride and didn’t have to wash all the salt and crud off the bike before putting it away. It’s still fleece and leathers season if you’re riding in Canada in early spring.
As always, Photoshop and Lightroom do a good job of picking out details that can often be quite dark when they come off the Theta. I typically screen grab images at about 1080p after framing them in the Ricoh software, which lets you move around within the image and find the best angle. I’ve been able to collect higher resolution images off a 4k monitor. The software for the Theta is very screen focused. It’d be nice to have a maximum resolution option for print.
In addition to the photos, I’ve got some more digitally abstracted shots that head more into art than photography. I still think this is a great way to catch the dynamics and immediacy of riding. I’d love to be able to test the process in more extreme riding conditions, like at a track day.
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From three short days spent in Yellowstone in August of 2018. At over seven thousand feet elevation, there was frost on the ground the day we left (hence the atmospheric, morning fog in the sunrise photos which have been worked over in Adobe Lightroom). Â
Life inside the caldera of the super volcano is odd. The grass has a strange hue and the animal life in the world’s oldest national park is wonderfully shocking.
Photos taken with the Canon T6i. Some of the snapshots and gifs were done with the OnePlus5 smarphone. Variations can be found on my Instagram account and in Google photo albums.
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