On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
Comments (18)
T.Rex
You got a fine view of the inside. Now, just WHAT is hiding in there? The ferns and leaves give a good idea of how large this is. Nice work with the colors. Keep up the good work! :-)
MagikUnicorn
Beautiful shot... whos in there :)
bmac62
Who's in there? Maybe I can get RodS to send the girls over there for a look-see:-)
jayfar
A brilliant image and a wonderful habitat Bill.
jendellas
Super shot, I think its a fairy place. Although I have just watched Stranger Things, there was something like this on there where the baddies were
xx
npauling
Ooh I love magical places like this. I can imagine all sorts of people living in there lol. A beautiful clear capture. 😀
durleybeachbum
What a delight! I can imagine a whole family of beings in there.
awjay
nice one
blinkings
Very enchanting.
Faemike55
This looks like a portal to Fae Valley
great find
goodoleboy
Nice maelstrom of patterns and textures here in this cool Fuji foto, replete with fronds and leaves. Reminds me of a waterfall towards the left. And, a troll definitely lives in that deep dark hollow.
wysiwig
Well that does it. I just have to start commenting earlier. Everyone already took all my lines! If this were a movie of a certain genre this would be a portal to another world. A really well done image. Great color, light and texture.
helanker
Looks like an exciting place to take some shots. Love this capture.
kgb224
Superb capture Bill. God bless.
Richardphotos
it is supporting so much life. nature does a better job of reclaiming decaying things.
RodS
I think I see one of Mike's Faes peeking out! A wonderful shot, Bill!
flavia49
beautiful
anahata.c
You wrote "Our old stump is a mere shell of its old self". Is this in LARC? Is this on your grounds? You said "our" like this was on your property...Well wherever it is, the contrast of bright light on the 'frames' of this opening, with the deep dark in the hollow, is beautiful. You really caught the feeling of looking into a deep, dark cavern. A hollow. The detail inside is beautiful. And you captured/cropped it so that some branches are hanging down into the pic, from above: Beautiful; like several bangs on a human. (Gang bangs. I just thought of that...god I'm witty!) And the 'frames' for the hollow---ie, the two big chunks of wood, far left and right, make a grand doorway to this mysterious recessed space. You caught its essence. A beautiful, rich photo of a mini-world. With wonderful light. Gives life to the myth of the forest primeval...
(Bill, I'm skipping around in your gallery: s I told Tara, I write long and slow, and the slow part is as inhibiting as the long, because it takes me a long time to do one of these comments. So covering every image I haven't commented on, during an absence, is impossible. So I try to get a representative sample. Just know that I see everything, and sit with everything. I don't miss an upload, despite my less thorough commenting.