Weekend Reflections 01.02.10
James, over at Newton Area Photo
hosts a fun meme called Weekend Reflections.
Grab a camera and play along.
And even if you don’t join us,
be sure to check out James’ dazzling photos.
Reflections in a City Park
This is a pond at the east entrance to Ala Moana Beach Park — which is right beside the marina. Those are buildings and sailboat masts you see reflected in the water above.
This is one of the bridges that spans the canal in the park. This bridge makes it easy for pedestrians to get to the park from Ala Moana Mall — or maybe it makes it easy for folks visiting the park to run to the mall for whatever picnic stuff they might have forgotten. Alan Moana Mall has both a grocery store and a Long’s Drug.
Here is a bit more of the canal. I loved the reflection of the cooling shade trees and the bright blue sky.
More of the canal — with one of the local denizens contemplating fresh fish for supper.
The Night Heron up close. I rendered it black and white for Nicole B.’s, January Photo Challenge. When I first changed this photo to B&W, I was disappointed by the lack of definition. The feather texture was completely lost. I returned to the colorized version of the photo, slide the color slide (Picasa) as far to the cool side as possible — which horribly distorted the colors — then I clicked on B&W and created the photo above.
O’Ceallaigh & The Quill
Wonderful reflections. The bridge is one of my favorites.
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Eileen — thanks. Those bridges charm me.
Terrific photography, as ever. Someone should buy that Night Heron a watch, though.
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Doug — when you live in downtown Honolulu there’s not much difference between night and day ….
Love the 3rd one.
but what are those trees? there seems to be some long tendril like things hanging?
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Violet — I’ll see if I can’t find a better shot of that tree for you — along with it’s name.
Don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Night Heron. He’s a pretty cool dude, ain’t he? Your reflections are spectacular, my dear!
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Melissa — scroll down and you’ll see a whole series of shots with that Night Heron and a couple of his buddies.
Great set of photos Quilly. I second the bridge shot as my favorite. Strong composition. Thanks for dropping by. Your comments are always welcome.
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Thank you, John. I worked hard getting that just so.
I love the picture of the bridge!
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Mama Zen – -that’s a growing consensus!
Those are the kind of reflection pictures that I really like.
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Thank you, Dr. John — I like to be able to identify what I’m looking at!
These are great!
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Thanks, Cherie!
Fun photos! You sure do enjoy your camera and it shows in your photos.
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Thanks, Gigi! I was extra proud of these!
Beautiful!
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Linda – -thanks!
Verrrrrrrrrry niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! I like that bridge shot a LOT! And the B/W bird! Good goin!
Nicole B. has a January PHOTO CHALLENGE? I’m in! I don’t care what it is! I’m off to check it out! My reflection will post around midnight!
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Melli — I love the bridges in this park. And yep, Nicole has a B&W photo challenge!
Grin, glad you join up, Melli
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These are such beautiful, clear reflections. And the blue is so intense, just lovely. I really like the bridge shot, nice contrast and composition. And the bird is really interesting, very pretty!
Kathy — thank you. I am very fond of the photos I took of that Heron. I can’t believe he hung out like he did and obliged me.
I think that bird and I have about the same look to our legs. Mine with a bit more hair though.
Nice collection of pics.
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The reflection in the first shot looks like a watercolour painting.
Beautiful!
And hey, your good looking friend’s back.
Cool that you got that great detail in the b&w shot by playing with the coloured one first!
Neat idea!
I see that at the end of the month we will probably have a really cool collection of b&w tips
Thanks!
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I swear you make those places look even nicer than they are.
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Great photos Q. I love them. I wanna do Nicoles B&W because I love B&W photos but I don’t know how to make it B&W LOL. Oh well. What can ya say
Your reflections are so wonderful. The bridge is awesome 
BTW Lisa is going to dinner with us next Sunday 
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you can download picasa for free. it is easy to use and allows some basic processing, including B&W
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Fabulous shots Quilly!
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Beautiful reflections Quilly, it looks so lovely and warm there.
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First class photo shots,
I love the first one the best,
unbelievably beautiful.
Thank you for brighten up my day, your day, and their days…
Have Pride in yourself…
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These are very nice. I think my favorite one is just above the bottom. I like the layers of colors and the bird.
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i admire the vivid colours in all these reflection photos.
as for B&W conversion, i quite like picasa. you have an option filtered B&W in Effects sheet which sometimes gives interesting results (you can get different shades of grey through different colour channels). and you can always play with slides in Tuning sheet to increase contrasts etc
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All lovely! There is something so beautiful about reflections.
BTW, I don’t think I have said so yet, but I’ve enjoyed seeing Comment Luv (or whatever it is called) back.
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That fourth one’s my favourite; I’d put it on the wall blown up BIG.
Thanks for the tips on converting to B/W—I love the way the heron turned out. The feathers, the concrete, and the grass are such different textures in the picture but together are lovely.
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