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Evening Light, Winter Woodland

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As we were going on a walk through the woods a couple of weeks ago, the sun was going down and casting a low, slanting light that seemed to undulate through the drifts of snow. Each time I have passed this group of trees the same effect has caught my eye. I can't imagine how it looks now, after our heavy snowfall and high winds, but probably almost the same, just a lot deeper. It's a very peaceful place and even quieter in the snow.

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#hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome​ curated by +Luis Vivanco S.​ +Оксана Крысюкова​ +Nader El Assy​ +Howard Salmon​ and +tri rini nuringtyas​

#treetuesday +Tree Tuesday​ by +Christina Lawrie​ +Allan Cabrera​ +Ralph Mendoza​ +Kim Troutman​ +David R Robinson​

#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography​ +Margaret Tompkins​ +Kevin Rowe​ +Toshi Nakamura​ +Tony Phillips​ +Jeff Beddow​ +Kevin O'Connell Fine Art​ +Krzysztof Hanusiak​ +Dennis Hoffbuhr​ +Dave Gaylord​ +Doug Hagadorn​ +Eric Drumm​ +RJ Wilner​

#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape​ curated by +Michael Garza​ +Leo Schubert​ +David D​ +Jesse Martineau​ +Mike Hankey​ +Peter Marbaise​

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Focus and Concentration

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I took this portrait of +Ben Proudfoot Film Director and Producer and +David Bolen cinematographer at work last week in Steven's workshop. It was enlightening to see such a professional team at work and so focused on their vision.

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#hqspportraits +HQSP Portraits curated by +Heiko Köster +Ryan Ottaway Martin
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#portraitgallery +Portrait gallery by +Aamir Shahzad
#portraittuesday +PortraitTuesday by +Laura Balc

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Dusty Saddles

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Week 3/26: Tools of the Trade

In the '90's I was living in France and at one point found myself out of my regular seasonal employment. The ASSEDIC (Unemployment Office) offered me a chance to go for retraining. They said that I could pretty much do any course I wanted and asked me if there was something that particularly interested me.

Of all of the options in that book of courses they gave me to peruse, there was only one choice for me. I had always loved horses. I asked if I could go to agricultural college to train in horse management, breeding and nutrition. I could not believe it when they agreed. So I was paid to attend the college in Montmorillon, my lodgings were paid for as was my weekly travel home on the train. The course was intense, far more than I expected and the material covered was in depth and developed and approved by the state performance horse breeding program, and the agronomic research program INRA. As a part of this course we were given riding lessons. Although I had ridden, mostly self taught, this was where I learned to jump horses.

Although I was never employed in this field, I did own and breed a couple of Hafflinger mares in France and was self-employed as a horse nutrition consultant briefly in Canada. These saddles are now dusty and unused for a number of years. But at one time they were among the tools of my trade.

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#BWProject26 | Curated by +Tisha Montgomery​ +Brandon Luk​ +Lauri Novak​ +Alison Christensen​

#equinetuesday +#EquineTuesday​ by +Jillian Chilson​

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Up Close and Tiny

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02/26 – Macro

The 'macro' theme of this part of our B&W project got me thinking – macro (to me) = tiny or very close. Over the two weeks I took a close up look at lots of things by way of my macro lens and converter – parts of animals, vegetables and … minerals! Curly hairs and outstretched claws on our cats, a finely chopped onion, many other objects came under the ruthless scrutiny of my lens.Because a macro lens is brutal in what it will reveal. Do you know how much it might put you off your food if you saw a tiny hair in the chopped onion? Or can you imagine just how many specs of dust are on the claw of a cat?

My submission today is something that caught my eye yesterday, in our kitchen which is still transformed into a building site during the day. I had to ask what it was as it was obvious that each of these tiny objects would be separated from the strip. They are (for those non builders among us) nails for a nail gun. And I was told that they make them in sizes as long as this but as thin as a needle. The pencil and nail punch are there to give an idea of scale.

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HQSP Macro
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro curated by +Terrie Gray +Stefanie Schächtel +Igor Schevchenko +Ernest Fdez. +Thies Groden

HQSP Monochrome
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