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member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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December 02, 2009 04:44 PM EST --
Today i decided to walk up the old RR tracks again, with an eye toward seeing what I could do with the several bridges which cross over the tracks. I duly took pictures, and when I got home I sat down . . .
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May 23, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
I went out the door this morning with no clear idea as to where I was going. But after stopping at the Cumberland Farms store for my PowerBall ticket, I figured I'd keep going downtown. Once downtown . . .
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January 11, 2009 04:17 PM EST --
Newport's ancient dead, scattered here and there throughout the town, Jew and gentile, Catholic and Protestant and Quaker, sleep the long sleep in hope of the resurrection. Today they snuggle deeper . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
Walking through Ballard Park today, I noticed groupings of tree trunks. So, being who I am, I made a photo shoot of them. Back home and doing the processing, I found they worked best in black and white. . . .
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May 25, 2009 06:57 PM EDT --
This past Tuesday I went walking up the Old Colony & Newport Railway tracks to take pictures for the current Snap Happy theme of "Trains and Railroads". Yesterday I went farther up the line and . . .
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November 20, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
I posted this on my blog yesterday as part of a weekly Theme Thursday exercise; this week's theme was "Late". I thought I'd share it here, too. The scenes are on Bellevue Ave., home of Newport's famed . . .
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June 01, 2008 05:12 PM EDT --
Our day started out very foggy today, but by noon the fog had burned off. But the fog didn't exactly go away; instead it piled up in the sky to the north of us, giving a dramatic cloudscape for the . . .
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July 16, 2008 03:57 PM EDT --
More still life compositions based on the classical four elements. This time I went for my strength - an almost Zen-like simplicity of composition. I'm still not pleased with the Water shot. I have . . .
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July 19, 2008 09:21 AM EDT --
The four elements of classical Greek philosophy - Fire, Earth, Air, and Water - were described by Plato as the pillars of creation. They have been used throughout over two millenia as the basis for decribing . . .
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February 19, 2009 09:07 PM EST --
On Tuesday I was out shooting for this week's Theme Thursday on Blogger; the theme this week is "library". I've posted all my shots on the article in color because some of the shots . . .
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January 23, 2009 10:34 PM EST --
I went out to the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge today because I'd never been out there with snow on the ground. Unfortunately the wildlife was not up to making an appearance. Lots of little . . .
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August 07, 2009 07:05 PM EDT --
In the course of editing the photos for the post on Island Cemetery I did what I always do with my photos - I converted them to black & white. Adobe Photoshop™ has some really excellent . . .
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August 12, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Despite being the hottest day so far in our Summer, and with the added insult of around 90 - 95% relative humidity, I went out for a walk. I even did a good stretch of the Cliff Walk, which has no shade . . .
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October 18, 2009 02:51 PM EDT --
Here it is Sunday, my usual day to hike down around Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove, and it's pouring rain, windy, and temps in the mid 40s (F, which would be roughly 7º - 8º C). Obviously, . . .
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July 10, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
In the course of coming up with black and white still life photos for the Intense Photography Challenge July contest, I've been wracking my brain for compositional ideas. Last night I came up with . . .
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August 31, 2008 09:31 PM EDT --
I gave myself a task today as I started out on my Sunday hike. I'd go to all my favorite places and take the usual photographs of the usual subjects, but this time it would all be in black and white . . .
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