!DAILY UPDATES! January. 366 days: your 2016 in photographs

[Gary]

Good stuff Peter.

[Gary]

#6- Rain Again
iPhone image

[John Geerts]

Nice contrast and colors, Gary.  So you have your 'raining-season' at last?   

[Øivind Tøien]

A BIF today - a raven in the low sun.

[Frank Fremerey]

Rain Again

It is not the amount of rain that makes the soil fertile and the land rich. It is the amount of rain that is effective, soaks into the soil, feeds the plants and animals, the mushrooms and micro organisms. Runoff and puddles which erode and compact the soil are wasted rain (an wasted sunlight later).

Any soil that receives between 2 and 200 inches of rain per year can be managed effectively, can be managed to thrive or can be managed into desertification:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=allan+savory

[Frank Fremerey]

Øivind Tøien: I like the energy of this bird shot!

[John Geerts]

January 7

Again a grey and rainy day.  The only thing worth mentioning are the garbage containers being emptied today   

[Anirban Halder]

January 7

Again a grey and rainy day.  The only thing worth mentioning are the garbage containers being emptied today   

+ quite a balancing act on a bicycle. 

[Frank Fremerey]

John. I am not sure whether I like your decision
to focus on the twig and the garbage bin.

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I carried the camera today from one appointment
to the other but I did not take a shot although my
camera is waterproof.

This thread is good for discipline.

[John Geerts]

I am not sure what's your point, Frank?

[John Geerts]

+ quite a balancing act on a bicycle. 

haha, yes it is.  He obviously also wanted to check if he wasn't photographed in the same time 

[Frank Fremerey]

I am not sure what's your point, Frank?

I feel the bicycle rider should somehow be the "main course" of the picture. You decided otherwise. I am ambigious if this is a good decision. I personally like the mood of the picture and the colors.

[Frank Fremerey]

"Für Elite"

[John Geerts]

I feel the bicycle rider should somehow be the "main course" of the picture. You decided otherwise. I am ambigious if this is a good decision. I personally like the mood of the picture and the colors.

I see.   Yes I had my reasons to do it this way. I publish my photo's and this one will go into an article about the weather as illustration. In order to prevent claims or negative remarks (Tilburg is a relative small city and with more than 5.000 daily viewers it  happened more than once that someone recognized someone)  I make sure they are not recognizable (enough) so I let the biker in the bokeh. (more or less, it's always a bit of a gamble).   

It's not really the most preferable way in many cases, but on the other hand, it's part of my day, of my calendar. 

[Frank Fremerey]

John: In Germany we have a lot of trouble with street photos. Even this biker might still be to "recognizable" when it comes to our current law. As a photojournalist you might have some more freedom though. Where can we see your daily work?