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Where are the Washington Post's editors, let alone the journalists with a command of Eeengleesh? In a front-page story on Biden's Supreme Court reform proposals, this gem: "Since becoming President, the Supreme Court has veered sharply to the right . . . " š¤
Shooting and reporting in India for the Indian Govāt. Tourist Office in 1985, we were taken to a silk āfactoryā in the south of the country, and saw the whole fascinating process. Hereās a mini-documentary Iāve just put together showing how it happens.
Step-by-step documentary of silk production in southern India.
Just put a couple of old images of Sydney on a stormy evening on FineArtAmerica.com. They don't reflect today's skyline, but are still dramatic "storm over a city" pics.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/stormy-sydney-skyline-david-halperin.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-stormy-sydney-skyline-david-halperin.html
Stormy Sydney skyline #1 Photograph by David Halperin
Safer health care! Join the TakeCHARGE Campaign. It's easy: just five basic steps to help reduce your risk. This month we're pushing infection prevention in medical facilities. How? Ensure caregivers wash their hands before touching patients! Yes, they're all told to do it, but when things get busy . . .
My picture 'Lake Jindabyne at Dawn' was among this month's featured images in the FineArtAmerica 'Australia in Pictures' group. My picture 'Lake Jindabyne at Dawn' was among this month's featured images in the FineArtAmerica 'Australia in Pictures' group. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lake-jindabyne-at-dawn-david-halperin.html.When I lived in OZ we used to ski near here. When I lived in OZ we used to ski near here.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lake-jindabyne-at-dawn-david-halperin.html?newartwork=true
Now available on FineArtAmerica.com; also Picfair (https://davidhalperin.picfair.com/images/020486429-lake-jindabyne-at-dawn) and soon on Artflakes.com (https://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/david-halperin/c/photography-nature-slash-landscape?page=2&per_page=48&sort_by=new&)
Lake Jindabyne at dawn Photograph by David Halperin
Nature-study day. I found and photographed these curious collections of tiny sand-balls on the beach at Sawtell, a little south of Coffs Harbour on the Australian coast. I figured they had something to do with crabs, but only yesterday learned what kind: the "Sand Bubbler Crab". Here's a link to a video of them doing what they do. š
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Had fun yesterday helping out Nancy Brier's Synergy Dance Collective with some drone footage of the troupe's 'Summer Solstice' performance at the Cedarmere historic property just up the road.
At the bottom of this page (https://davidhalperin.picfair.com/albums/91613-uk-england) are a small selection of what I shot on my recent stay in England. Chichester & nearby village of Bosham.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/medieval-thoughts-david-halperin.html?newartwork=true
Medieval thoughts Photograph by David Halperin
My main image editing application is Luminar Neo, which makes some use of AI technologies. I used its "GenErase" to remove the parked cars beside Chichester Cathedral. It calls on an online database to understand what's needed. The result is quite amazing. I love it at full view but if you zoom in, you can see that the replaced areas are slightly out of focus. Trying to find out how to avoid or work around that.
Does a shot like this also raise an ethics question? Apart from two small AI areas, most of the Ai-generated material is - or is probably - very close to what actually was behind those cars. So, should one offer the work acknowledging it as having been modified by AI? Or not, since the only *real* difference is the absence of cars?
Sunday - time for some little graphic games. The original, and a kind of mandala I made from it.
Rainy, misty meadows, southern NSW, digital downloads and prints available from 28.0
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The TakeCHARGE Patient Safety Campaign Re-Launches, Marking Patient Safety Awareness Week. The TakeCHARGE Campaign: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care is back this month for its fifth year, re-launching to coincide with Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024 (March 10-16). - PR13010197
I've occasionally done a little industrial photography over my career. I quite like it. I like the scale, and how it lends itself to classic black-and-white.
Ran across this yesterday. It was 1979, for an article I wrote in "Oceans" magazine about the Netherlands' "Delta Works" - a flood control plan that at the time was the world's largest civil engineering project. You can see the sheer size by the parked cars in foreground. When these dam base sections were ready, the berm was opened, the sea flooded in, and they were floated out to their final positions across the river mouth.
This really needs to be seen big for full effect - alas not an internet strength. It shows how there's no substitute for larger capture area: this was shot on medium format 6x6cm film, and every little cable is sharp and clear.
Bases of giant dam under construction in The Netherlands in 1979, part of the enormous Delta Project to prevent flooding in the Rhine delta. When complete, the dry area was flooded and the sections floated to their final positions across the river mouth., digital downloads and prints available from....
Photo editing software is great but ever since Photoshop debuted in 1988 we can't trust an image wasn't created artificially (never mind AI). So an image like this, which I made fully in-camera, will always be suspect without a disclaimer. This is it: no montaging, just a very long lens. Boronia House, in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. Classic Australian Victorian (1887) architecture complete with wrought-iron balconies. In recent decades it has housed restaurants - including when we lived there in the 80s, an upmarket Italian called Fiorentino where we'd go for special occasions.
This one's called, "Seen Too Much"
Been fooling around trying to capture birds in flight from my window with my Nikon Z fc mirrorless. Red-headed woodpecker confronts incoming mourning dove. RAW file edited in Luminar Neo.
This is fun. There's an app called Graphic Converter; it's very technical, written by and for boffins, so I rarely use it, but I was exploring the menus and found "Kaleidoscope". I grabbed the nearest photo I could find (a snap I did of structural rot in a nearby multilevel parking garage), fed it in, and. . . . look at the rather beautiful result - like a mosaic of rust and peeling paint.
In fact Graphic Converter left the corners white, so I used the AI-driven "GenErase" tool in Luminar Neo to fill them in.
Shot an hour ago. On a sunny winter day, Roslyn Harbor looks better from above with snow.
While controversy about "big AI" rages (quite properly), forms of the technology have quietly taken a role in photo editing apps. My main editing tool, Luminar Neo, has a tool called "GenErase", an AI-based process that happens in the cloud. It will sample the areas around something you want to get rid of, and try to build a plausible replacement.
Have a look at this pretty amazing example. The first problem with this unedited pic is the ugly, out-of-focus branch circled in photo #1.
Compare with the edited second image. The trunk would have been the easy part, but GenErase even extended existing cracks and streaks. To the left, it reconstructed the lichen-patched branches believably, even extending the light-colored twig down to the left. To the right of the trunk, where there's just distant background and and few twigs, it actually inserted dry yellow leaves similar to those it "saw" in other parts of the image.
Potential for abuse? Sure, but valuable nonetheless.
On a recent trip to New York City, came across this unusual building, on the corner of Broadway and Broome St. Turns out it was built starting in 1894 - one of the earliest skyscrapers - and its offices were mainly filled by firms in the silk trade; it became known as The Silk Exchange. The Broadway frontage is only 28 feet/8.5+meters, but it goes back 200 ft/61m. It's a wonder they even had room for a set of stairs. The elaborate decorations on the upper floors are terra cotta. See See https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/12/silk-exchange-buildling-no-487-broadway.html
Another reframe and re-edit with better tools, of a fairly recent shot: New York's Hudson Yards complex under low cloud.
All of it built by humans, but in this glowering metropolis only three tiny lights indicate any kind of life.
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Here's one I did with the drone the other day that's probably interesting only to locals from this area: the outer half of Hempstead Harbor looking north towards the Sound, from an altitude of 350 feet/107m. In the foreground, Motts Cove and the Swan Club. Further, the Glenwood Landing shore with the new "Residences at Glen Harbor" condos (yours for just $2 million each), and Bar Beach beyond.
A few weeks back there was a brief exchange about jacaranda trees. They abound in Australia and I shot quite a few over the 20 years I lived there, but film - all films - had trouble rendering the almost neon blueish lavender of the flowers. With some editing on this scan, however, I cracked it.
https://www.artflakes.com/en/products/mourning-dove-in-morning-light
Made yesterday. Nikon Z fc, Nikon DX 55-200mm @ 200mm, editing in Luminar Neo. Also on my Picfair and FineArtAmerica sites.
"Mourning Dove in Morning Light" Photography by David Halperin buy now as poster, art print and greeting card..
Happy New Year/Gulukkig Nieuwjaar/Ī§ĻĻĪ½Ī¹Ī± ĻĪæĪ»Ī»Ī¬ to all. Let's be nice and not like these two I shot this morning. I call it "The Quarrel". ;-)
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Iāve been working up a short series I originally did on film around Mt. Cook and flying up the Tasman Glacier in New Zealandās South Island. Hereās a little slideshow demo. The real ones are here: https://davidhalperin.picfair.com/albums/90731-new-zealand. For tourism and travel photo buyers, Picfairā licensing is simple: one price for editorial and commercial use, another for advertising.
For no particular reason, except I got interested, a short series on rock pools and pond life. Life-forms visible in the Australian rock pools include Turban and Zebra Snails, Green Chitons, a sea anemone, Red Waratah Anemonies, limpets, & "Neptune's Necklace" algae. The frogs are American Bullfrogs. The blowholes are on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. The stone geometries are all in Sydney and Gary Beach, and the big lotuses in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens.
