Archive for Street Photos

Lonely Figure

{ September 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am } · { Candid, Street Photos, Urban }
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Greetings~

Been digging through the archive again for the last couple days and came upon this candid of my buddy Roald returning to work from lunch. Full dosclosure: I did, in fact, kick up the fore/background blur on this one in post.

CAMERA INFO
Hand held Canon 20D; Quantaray 70-300mm f/4-5.6 LD Tele-Macro Lens @ 300mm; Program Mode; 1/250s @ f/5.6; ISO 400.

LISTENING TO
“Sheep” from the 1997 album Animals by Pink Floyd
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Grape Street Piano Bar

{ September 8, 2009 @ 9:10 am } · { Grape Street Piano Bar, Street Photos, Urban }
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Greetings~

It was a gorgeous morning; I was walking over to Lake Michigan on my recent Chicago getaway when I noticed a place that I had never heard of or seen before: The Grape Street Piano Bar. A little hole in the wall type of place by all accounts above ground level in an older building that had a glass facade/lobby built onto it. I’d love to tell you more about it, but apparently the don’t have a website … at least not one that I can find. Suffice to say I’ll be checking this place out for myself real soon.

CAMERA INFO
Hand held Canon 20D; Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens; Shutter Priority Mode; 1/400s @ f/6.3; ISO 100.

LISTENING TO
“Mr. Lonely” from the 2006 album Retro by Rick Wakeman
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Supposed Larque (ironic)

{ August 11, 2009 @ 9:39 am } · { Black and White, Evanston, Street Photos }
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Greetings~

What you would see (if you were me) everyday as you get off the train.

CAMERA INFO
Canon 20D; Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro lens; Aperture Priority Mode; 1/2000s @ f/2.5; ISO 100.

LISTENING TO
“High Hopes” from the 2007 album Remember That Night by David Gilmour
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Automatic Self of Sorrow

{ August 5, 2009 @ 9:33 am } · { Abstract, Reflection, Street Photos }
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Greetings~

I have come into the city
Because my soul is adrift
Noises that strive to fear
I saw you hunched and
Shivering on the curb
Are you alive?

Today’s photo is dedicated to Arlene Radasky in honor of those, “What did I just do?” moments.

CAMERA INFO
Canon 20D; Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro lens; Aperture Priority Mode; 1/200s @ f/5.0; ISO 400.

LISTENING TO
“The King Will Come” from the 1972 album Argus by Wishbone Ash
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Three-Way Intensity

{ July 27, 2009 @ 9:24 am } · { Black and White, Chicago, Illinois, Street Photos, Urban }
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Greetings~

Just a quick little scene that caught my eye in Chicago, on Ontario St. just west of LSD.

CAMERA INFO
Canon 20D; Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro lens; Shutter Priority Mode; 1/1200s @ f/3.2; ISO 100.

LISTENING TO
“King Of Twilight” from the 1972 album A Tab in the Ocean by Nektar
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Sketch of Restricted Information

{ July 7, 2009 @ 1:01 pm } · { Chicago, HDR Merge, Illinois, Motion, Street Photos, Urban, Urban Landscape }
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Greetings~

With the onset of dusk
I have to say good-night
Look back with longing eyes
And know that I will follow
I wonder where you live
As the darkness rolls upward

A view of Michigan Ave. & Ontario St. in Chicago from seven stories high. I love it when a plan comes together. Well, okay … I was hoping for a shot like this and I managed to put myself in a position to get it but, let’s face it, it was pure luck to get off three shots for an HDR image while one lady remained motionless as all around her swirled with movement.

CAMERA INFO
Canon 20D; Canon EF 70-200m f/2.8 L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens @ 100mm; Aperture Priority Mode; Three image bracketed shutter speed HDR merge @ f/20.0; ISO 100.

LISTENING TO
“Coolsville” from the 1989 album Strange Angels by Laurie Anderson
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

Slainte,
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

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Manufactured Variation – Third Attempt

{ April 26, 2009 @ 12:12 pm } · { Black and White, Kenosha, Street Photos, Urban Landscape }
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Greetings~

As we head into our third day of steady, drenching rain and dreary conditions, I thought today would be a good time to share some good links I’ve discovered around the web lately.

Wouter Brandsma, my buddy from the Netherlands, has been busy lately. Besides his own wonderful blog, he’s now a contributor for “Serious Compacts” which is:

…a photography site focused on the “serious” use of compact cameras.

These days it seems that many people associate serious photography with the use of large, heavy gear. Our site features testing and discussion of the remarkable compact tools available to photographers. We also highlight some of the outstanding work being done with this gear.

Here’s an interesting idea:

Creative Photography [...] aims to be a complete online book on photography. There are many web sites on photography which consist of collections of articles and tutorials on different aspects – but we felt that something a little more structured would be useful, and therefore set about writing a complete online book.

Tutorial9 is one of the better one-stop-shops I’ve run into in a while:

We are Tutorial9 – a collection of teachers, experts, and caring folk from around the world, all gathered in one place to pass along our knowledge to absolutely anyone interested in learning.

And for some down-and-dirty Photoshop tips, stop over to Julieanne Kost – Digital Imaging Evangelist.

Harold Davis of Photoblog 2.0 fame has a new home for his stunning night photography called, “Digital Night.”

“Wildshots” by Paul Burwell is quickly becoming a must read.

As I’m getting into Lightroom more and more, “The Lightroom Lab” has become indispensable.

Finally, a quick word from Dave Seeram:

Hello to our fellow readers and PhotographyBB’ers! This is just a quick notice to let you all know that our April edition is just finishing up production, and will be released this coming Wednesday (April 29th).

Our team would like to thank our loyal readers for their patience as we finalize our most exciting issue to date! In the meantime, grab your cameras and don’t forget to take some photos which show “Signs of Spring” for our current photography assignment challenge going on in the forums. Have a fantastic weekend and Happy Photographing!

This is important, as I’m contributing an article on Urban Landscape this month … shameless self promotion!

One last thought: GO BLACKHAWKS!

Slainte
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

Deep Experience – Number 8

{ January 26, 2009 @ 3:01 pm } · { Kenosha, Snow, Street Photos, Urban, Weather, Winter }
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Greetings~

This should give you an idea of how much snow we received back on and around the 10th of this month. That’s my oldest son standing there … he’s 6′-2″ tall and I was 2 steps up on our front porch when I snapped this. It was nuts, I tell you. 14″ of the white stuff in a little over 24 hours.

Technical Info:
Canon 20D; Canon EF 70-200m f/2.8 IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens @ 70mm; Tv priority; 1/250; f/5.6; ISO 100

Slainte
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

LISTENING TO
“Waveform” – Rick Wakeman
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

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Conscious Limitations

{ January 21, 2009 @ 10:46 am } · { Street Photos }
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Greetings~

I don’t know what it was, but something really struck me in this scene … the sign on the door, the bell with the handicapped sign next to it. Call it what you will, it just screamed out to me.

Technical Info:
Canon 20D; Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens; Av priority; 1/200; f/1.8; ISO 100

Slainte
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

LISTENING TO
“Aim To Please” – Gavity Tree
(STREAM: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio)

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Scene with Modest Brushstroke

{ January 12, 2009 @ 11:27 am } · { Fog, Kenosha, Street Photos, Urban Landscape, Weather, Winter }
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Greetings~

Fog, warm weather and rain. These conditions melted our first big snow of the season. This was around 11:00PM and the temperature was almost sixty degrees … in December!

Slainte
Gareth — The Celtic Camera Photography

LISTENING TO
“Cobra” – Miles Davis
(STREAM: Aural Moon – The Net’s Progressive Rock Garden)

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