Dec 24, 2018. Sonoma County Coast, California.
Hidden in the Archives, waiting to be coaxed into being. Took some coaxing, but I believe the pixels are happy. (This is exactly what I said in the June 8, 2020 post. This shot was taken 54 seconds later. The technical info is corrected here, though.)
(Nikon D850; Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 DI VC USD Zoom. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.3; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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I guess you could say this was sitting and maturing because it is gorgeous. The smooth layers in the foreground are so pleasing as it the soft gradient in the sky. A winner.
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Thank you very much. This whole shoot was sort of a sleeper. Hiding in plain sight.
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Beautiful – love the blurred, misty quality and all those soft greys and blues and the slightest tinge of pink. 🙂
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Thank you. I had attention on that shoot earlier today and went back for another look. Good job I did.
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The pixels are happy indeed….not feeling any worse for have been pummeled a little.
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Thank you. Good to have happy pixels. If I’m kind to them, they’ll be kind to me.
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“Waiting to be coaxed into being”–what a perfect description, Michael, of the way that you are able to see and bring to life the hidden potential in some of your images, like a sculptor chipping away the excess material to reveal the sculpture hidden within the block of marble.
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Thank you, Mike. What a marvelous compliment!
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This is very much a summer sea in the Gulf. There are times when the wind lays and only smooth swells stir the surface of the water. From that perspective, this is a wonderfully evocative photo; aesthetically, it’s pure pleasure.
I don’t know why it’s taken so long for this thought to cross my mind, but I wondered this morning if or how ‘pixels’ and ‘pixies’ are related. The short answer is they’re not, since ‘pixel’ is a portmanteau of ‘picture’ and ‘element.’ (No, I didn’t know that.)
But pixies? I grinned when I read that the word’s “of obscure origin,” perhaps from Cornwall. The earliest printed references are in pixy-path — “path on which one is led astray by pixies” — and pixie-led, or “lost, bewildered.” If there were any pixel-pixies lurking about while you were working on this one, they surely didn’t lead you astray.
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Thank you. I have seen the summer see you in the golf and I know exactly what you mean. Very often the original image speaks to me and suggests what I should do in the final editing to bring out what I consider to be the essential vision. In that sense there are pixel pixies leading me down the path. Thank you for your acknowledgment that they were kind to me. In turn, I tried to be kind to them.
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Some very cool coaxing, a swell picture.
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Thank you very much, Robert.
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How very smooth. In addition to gray, you have pastels of blue and pink. And look how the biggest patch of the blue alternates with the darkest gray.
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Thanks very much, Steve. The part you are talking about is where the biggest bit of coaxing took place.
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You know what they say: different coax for different folks (the word used to be spelled cokes and it originally meant ‘to fool’). You sure fooled some of those pixels.
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No kidding. If you saw what I actually did in Photoshop, you would see that the ones who thought they were simply along for the ride ended up doing a lot of the hard work. I did fool ‘em.
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I hope you don’t mind me slipping under that soft blanket!
No words! 🙂
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Thank you very much! But I must say that the soft blanket is pretty cold.
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Well, it’s all in the mind! 😉
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Pixel-whisperer. (Sorry, that was totally corny!).
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Thank you. Corny or not, I’ll take it.
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🙂
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😊
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After reading Marina’s comment, it does remind me of a silky blanket.
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Thank you. It does have a silky quality. One of the things I like about ICM.
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Really really good
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Thank you very much.
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