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Playing around in home studio with no horizon set up. Goal was to garner a minimalist image.

Table setting for formal evening dinner presents a detailed still life in the dining room of Coral Princess during Panama Canal cruise.

Champagne cocktail served at Princess Cruise reception aboard Coral Princess.

No other words necessary. This mug says it all! ☕️

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Whilst waiting at the car dealership today for service work on my car, I downloaded the latest film and lens from Hipstamatic. I was sitting at one end of this counter and shot the other end. I like the result.

I made these 20+ years ago for my kids. Nothing like homemade wooden toys.

Old type of confinement

Take with iPhone 6 Plus using the native camera and the only lighting was a CFL bulb offside.

I've been using Photoshop Elements for over 10 years. I started with version 2 that my wife bought me for my birthday...I do have CS6 but most of my editing is in Elements only because I'm so used to it..

Everytime I viewed this photo the shadow was similar to an Angel guiding my eyes to the flower

This is what's left over in the bag when I eat my morning Freezer Pop

Bored at home so was setting up some shots to do..no pun intended lol.

I collect Snow Babies for many reason, one is how I can always relate to them about my own babies (who are adults). There is always one to the back that has a Star to represent my angel in heaven Star.

More therapy - Keep swinging in heaven

Our art is often our therapy. As we approach the birthday of a beautiful young lady who was taken from this world due to senseless violence and a system that will ignore things at the cost of other, I can not help but do something to remember her. Hannah Elizabeth Graham, you touched so many lives, you helped save the next girl, you will always be remembered.

Still life for class. Simple rock - beauty of nature

This mixed bowl of wax and stone, artificial fruits has been in my wife's family for decades. Some pieces are South American and others European and were collected during my father-in-laws Army tours to Brazil and Portugal.

Two week old cut flowers portend a successful Super Bowl 50 campaign, do they not?

Gilded, spring loaded doorstop holds the main, passenger, locking glass door way open for passengers to disembark from Coral Princess for local, on shore excursions.

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Taken @ painted chapel

Other candle dots mark the location of other parishioners across the sanctuary of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Aurora, CO, on Christmas Eve.

Hallelujah! Unto us a Child is born! Unto us a Son is given!
The central candle of the Advent wreath remains lit to symbolize the arrival of Jesus, the Christ, the Light of the World, on Christmas Eve.

Taken @ London Christmas market Hyde park

Took this at a friends house...there is no editing in this one. Shot with a Nikon D7100 with a 50mm 1.8 lens 100/sec wide open.

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The Green Table

The Red Table

The White Table

Gold Table

I plan on retaking this image this year and using what I have learned to improve, but wanted to share

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An ornament hangs in a window at a shopping mall in Denver, Colorado.

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Another contribution to this week's challenge, #bwstilllifechallenge and this weeks assignment, "#aroundthehouse

This challenge has brought me into the b&w side. Not something that I have experience with, but thought I would participate. Chose to start with the vanity of my bathroom. Was torn between keeping color, but think this works.

Shot with 2 Alien Bees B800 and 2 White Lightning UltraZap 800's. Two bare reflectors on the backdrop, exposure at +2, Photek diffuserkey light and white umbrella in front at neutral exposure. Remaining deets in Exif.

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My contribution to the benches assignment... Pretty late in the running. Sorry guys :P

A blast from the past

Fine leather suitcases and travel accessories.

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A rather pricey but posh leather travel bag. Split toned and vignetted in LR, with a touch of central, radial mask with increased clarity and contrast.

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Pull up a chair and grab a cup...it's Halloween Tea Party Time!

The Kingfisher is a bird I've always wanted to shoot, but never had the opportunity. The other night, I was served this beer in an Indian restaurant in South Kensington, and I thought "why the hell not?" Lighting was pretty cool and funky, but I think I got it balanced.

Life is a journey...find joy in the journey.

Sheer boredom has forced me to don my hat, coat and boots and brave the deluge
Went out and collected and assortment of Autumn bounty, set up on the bedroom floor
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The sunset hit this gate beautifully. I could not resist this shot.

An old spinning wheel, shot in Castle Menzies in Scotland.

This was an experiment using my new strobe lights. The more I look at this image the more I find I need to clean up.

After spending most of my morning playing around with lost passwords and old accounts for photography, I decided to make use of those old accounts and snap some photos. I've been in a still life frame of mind for a bit. I like the fact this shot had leading lines, bokeh, textures and a golden hue.

NIKON D750 + Nikon 24-70 f2.8 @ 50mm
1/6 SEC @ f5.6 ISO 100

Gotta get that smoke.
I quit a few years back...

Teal sparkles in the sunlight and a breeze moves my mother's curtains.

Something a little surreal for this Halloween, inspired by Hans Bellmer and the desire to break the mould given to us by others.

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focal length 50
f number 4.5
exposure time 1/6