It was a very windy day, to the point where looking into the wind was difficult. I had found a spot and was looking for a shot when this runner ran past me. I didn’t think there were any really shots that day, but Flickr picked this one up . Location is doing some work for me here!
This just hit Flickr Explore. This bowl of spark plugs is on the bench at at Geelong Jag mechanic.
Oh look it hit Flickr Explore… Grassland bleached white, no edits, no erasures. Just a Summicron’s honest frame:40 degree heat, and a tree built to outlast us. Close to the solstice on the 21st of December.
This image featured on Flickr Explore but was never intended as anything but a print. This is a 24×36″ Giclée limited edition signed print.
Social media rewards bright, sparkly, and highly saturated images but they are hard to live with. This would look good in a room where you want some calm.
Link to original image on Flickr.
His eyes may not me as bright, he may not be putting on a show for the human but this black and white image shot late in the day on a Leica APO 60mm . Selected for Flickr Explore
![Old Black Dog [Explored]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54461203220_551985bc18.jpg)
APO-MACRO-ELMARIT-TL 1:2.8/60 ASPH.
F/2.8
Focal Length:60.0 mm
Speed 1/60,
ISO 100
It was late, it was wet, and the usual noise of the west had finally gone quiet.
We were walking back from a bowl of pho, and as we hit the street, the stillness of the night completely caught me. The busy road was empty, and the rain had turned the asphalt dark and faintly reflective . The light splashing across the wet tram tracks—this intense, warm glow cutting through the dark, balanced by a sharp red door in the distance and the cold blue of the lights on the wall, then the yellow pouring out of cafe window. The people are still.
I was shooting wide open at f/1.2 on a manual $100 TTartisan lens, dragging the shutter down to 1/30th of a second just to hold onto those bleeding colors.
I wanted the dark. I wanted to capture the exact weight of that late-night silence and the way the light hit the wet steel.
It ended up being on Flickr Explore . But to my eye, it’s just the memory of a quiet walk home in Footscray.
Shot on my Leica on a bright sunny day using a polarizing lens. The full size image in on Flickr
This photo was selected for a curated Flickr Explore top 500 yesterday.
The brief was “street photography and there were over 30,000 submissions. Not every street is photogenic. Sometimes its just grim.
I use Flickr for the feedback of other photographers and for high quality photo storage but there is this thing called “explore” where they select 500 photos from the millions uploaded per day and highlight them to all users. nobody knows how or why a photo is selected but its based on interest in a photo. This photo hit explore last week and currently has 5000 views. Full size image on Flickr below
Ceramic glaze is a shiny coating applied to ceramics before firing. Uranium glaze is a type of ceramic glaze that contains uranium creating various colours and can emit a special glow under UV light. The radioactivity in uranium glazes is generally considered safe.
They were popular in the early to mid-20th century but are less common now. Antique ceramics with uranium glazes are sought after by collectors for their historical value and unique appearance.
![Uranium Orange [Explored]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53047447158_c941911db9_z.jpg)
![It's my stuff [ Explored ]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53319843166_ecc62503c0.jpg)