Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322 – There’s a crack in everything

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Happy Sunday! What a fun theme Ritva has presented us this week with Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322 – There’s a crack in everything!

This was the first picture I thought of when I saw the prompt. I shot this picture in Antelope Canyon, I can’t recall whether it was the lower or the upper canyon. I signed up for the photography tour, which allowed me to bring a tripod. It’s unfortunate that someone screwed up that opportunity because after 2020, tripods were no longer allowed, even for the photography package.

The best part about the photography tour was that the guide blocked the entire area off from other tours and helped us amateur hobby photographers get the best shot possible. He said, “the best way to capture the canyon is to use the lowest ISO possible.” Thus, require a tripod because the exposure speed will be around 1/10 or 1/20 of a second – in another word – long.

We stayed at this spot the longest. The guide wanted to give us the longest possible time to capture the light streaming into the canyon. I took one after another, trying to capture it from every angle and then judging them in Lightroom later. This picture was the best.

I was here a few weeks ago, after my aunt kept begging to go out for a walk and must be somewhere with water. The first place I thought of was not here, it was a reservoir near my house, which I’ve never been. Turned out that reservoir was just that – a reservoir with nothing much special about it.

This is Canada Goose Island, and due to construction (of something nearby), I haven’t been here since early 2019. The place hasn’t changed much except the foliage seemed much denser.

I did not have my camera with me at the time, only my phone. If I did have my camera, I would’ve zoomed past the reeds and get the beautiful reflections in the water.

I thought this shot was magical when it was taken. I remember it had been cold and snowy and it’s been a few days since I’ve been out of the house so I decided to go to the park.

When I arrived, I saw this hole in the sky with the sun shining through the hole.

Yikes!

46 thoughts on “Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #322 – There’s a crack in everything”

  1. Thanks for joining, your first shot is amazing. The last one I can so relate to, during the winter darkness that we get here in the north, the sudden flash of light behind the clouds is heaven sent. We are now heading the dark months, so I will be looking for the crack in the clouds.

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    1. Thank you. I was glad tripod was allowed on the tour. It would had been difficult without a tripod. I’ve seen some of the photos that were taken on a phone and it was very blurry and shakey.

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  6. Then, there’s this from Mary Chapin Carpenter

    Could there be healing instead Instead of breaking, I’m hoping That the cracks beginning to spread Is me breaking open And if I let everything in The shadows as well as the light How else could I know I’m alright? How else would I know?

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      1. Try her last studio album, Dirt and the Stars. It’s very personal. Then Try One Night Lonely, which is a live review of her career. She recorded it during lock down by herself with some techs at the closed Wolf Trap. It was nominated for a Grammy.

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      3. She’s very soothing. During lockdown, she played Songs From Home every Sunday. She did the same thing James Taylor does for me. She brought me great peace. Oh yeah, she lives across the road from us.

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      7. I listened to that album – Dirt and the Stars. Not for me, too slow. I see myself listening to this one right before bed or something but not in the car heading somewhere. I still like her earlier stuff.

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      10. Oh, I agree. Dirt and Stars is for being home. I can’t even work at home and listen to it because I stop what I’m doing and listen. Can’t get much done.

        For people like us (Musical Miss and I) awards give us leverage. During contract renegotiation time, or tour booking time I use awards to get what she needs.

        Since you’re listening to recommendations, maybe try Norah Jones’ “Visions.” She wrote it to inject some color into our current;ly gray world.

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      11. I haven’t listened to Norah Jones for about 2 decades and to be honest, most of the artists in my playlist are male. Not to be gender discriminatory but I find I like music by male artists than female artists. My current favorite is Zac Brown Band.

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      12. You like what you like. I’m not a big fan of Zac Brown. I don’t know what kind of music he plays. We crossed tours with him this last summer and traded passes. He certainly has an energetic show. If you like male country singers try The Highwaymen who are Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Find one of their live albums. Their tours must have been a blast.

        So, you gave up on Norah after Come Away With Me. There are nine more studio albums and a couple of live ones.

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      13. I don’t think anyone can like every song an artist plays. There are good songs, bad songs, and the kind of song that get stuck in your head. I like that kind of music because it keeps me coming back like a repeating customer. I think it’s what I look for when I’m searching for new music. My taste in music is currently stuck in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. There are very few songs from the last decade that appeals to me the same way as old music.
        I recently heard an audiobook about the Highwaymen but haven’t explored their music yet.

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      14. The Highwaymen have come up a lot lately because of Kristofferson’s passing. That was a fun band. Of course you can’t like every song a musician makes. Sheesh, a few years back I hated an entire album that musical miss made. She still grumbles at me for that. We’ve been listening to a lot of Beatles music which always makes me smile… 50-60 year old music. What really makes me smile is that “Now and Then,” the very last Beatles song ever, released last year is nominated for two Grammys. The song was assembled from an old demo using AI to pop Lennon’s voice out of the mix. Musical miss and I cannot listen to it without fighting back tears.

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      17. I wasn’t introduced to the Beatles until recently when I listened to a podcast about them. Before then, the only song I knew by them was Let It Be.

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      19. I’ve started to in the last few months but nothing’s popped out at me yet. They like to keep their music short (most are around 2 minutes), so it’s easy to listen to.

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      22. I forgot one consideration, technical reproduction. Back in those days, musicians ordered songs by best to least on both sides of the record. The further you got toward the center the worse the quality became. Because of the songwriting relationship between John, Paul and sometimes George, they tried to keep song lengths and quality equals so the songs were two minutes long. Today, that doesn’t matter. Record cutting technology has improved.

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      23. That’s true even for albums in the 2000’s, at least before collecting CDs are no longer a thing. I remember I used to listen to CDs and only listened to the first half a lot of the times. These days, with all the music on Amazon Music, I can only listen to 1 or 2 songs before I had to move on. The ones that keep me going are the okay ones.

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      24. I’m not sure that I understand.

        CD technology is very different from vinyl technology. By the middle 2000s, let’s say 2010, record pressing technology had improved so much that you no longer had to worry about song length.

        CDs are 72 minutes long. All one side. Put what you want on it which leads to some bad music as musicians try to fill up the space rather than make a normal 45 minute recording. The problem with early CDs is that they sounded “thin.” Eventually engineers realized that just like digital photography finds the darkest areas and opens them up. In music, digital production digs out the deeper notes and opens them up.

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    1. I absolutely agree – the best camera is the one in my hands – although I do have my preference but sometimes, one cannot carry so many cameras when heading out for a walk.

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