Ben Messick Photography
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-04-29
Last Chance! This account is being deleted. I have moved to @messick@mastodon.social
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-04-03
I am moving to @messick@mastodon.social I can't figure out how to move followers automatically... so FOLLOW ME THERE 😁
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-04-01
I bet things have changed. How far is it from you?
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-04-01
@shannonsays@thecanadian.social somewhere I’d like to visit
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-31
Another section of the Montezuma Castle National Monument is the well. It is not attached to main Monument and requires a 15 minute drive. The "well" is actually a limestone sinkhole feed by an underground spring. The spring produces 1,500,000 gallons of water per day. Unlike many springs, the water from this contains high levels of arsenic and is unsafe to drink. If you look at the top left of the picture, you can see a small dwelling in the side of the cliff.
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-30
#ThrowbackThursday - We have always liked to escape to somewhere warm during the winter. And until this year, it has always been to Florida. A few winters ago, we took the camper down and spent two weeks at Wekiwa Springs State Park. The pool in this picture is the base of the spring and releases 42 million gallons of water per day. The clear water is a constant 72° year around and makes for excellent swimming and kayaking.
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-29
Do you love to take photographs? To capture your memories? To express your creativity? To share with family and friends (or strangers)? Or enjoy the process? I love taking photographs for all these reasons. As memories, my prints and digital files are my prized possessions. I love to creatively work around a camera's limitations to create an image that most represents reality. I love to share. And I just love being out taking pictures.
Prickly Pear Cactus at Sunset
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-29
I got a little obsessed with word games and wrote a solver to show me what words remain. I don't play anymore and am now obsessed with chess. https://wordle-angular.vercel.app/
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-28
In yesterday's post, I said how I liked to turn my camera's viewfinder to black and white... Just as important is remembering to turn it back to normal. Saturday morning, I got up at oh dark 30 and went to my favorite look-out in #Sedona to watch the sun rise. I took a few photos and they looked awful. No shape, no color. I assumed there just wasn't enough color/light to make a good photo. I left shortly thereafter. When I got back and looked at the images on my computer, I realized that I had turned down the contrast and turned off the color on the viewfinder from an earlier shoot, but it was too dark for me to realize. Live & learn or is it shoot & learn? šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-27
Cool. Keep up the creativity.
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-27
Did you create this?
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-27
#MonocromeMonday - I love black and white photography. It simplifies. It focuses. The lack of color can help focus your attention on the shape, form and texture of the subject. I often put my camera's viewfinder in black and white mode. The camera still records all the color information but I can compose images with less distractions.
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"Rights of Spring" is the original piece in the #Rockport Sculpture Garden dedicated in September of 2000. It was created by @kentullbergstudios.. #Texas
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-25
I went out at around 4:30 AM to try for some more Milky Way pictures, but it turned out that some low clouds gave me problems. I stayed out for a couple more hours and the "problematic" clouds made for an interesting sunrise. Have a great weekend! #sedona #arizona #sunrise
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-24
I never heard of Montezuma Castle National Monument before arrival in the area. Theodore Roosevelt preserved this amazing slice of history over 100 years ago by creating the Monument. The Monument preserves a 20 room dwelling built in the side of the limestone cliff. Built and used between AD 1100 and 1400, up to 50 residents accessed it using a ladder system. It was then abandon for unknown reasons. #arizona #travelphotography
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-24
Trying a new browser for the first time in a long time...
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-24
@shannonsays@thecanadian.social Lovely evening šŸ‘
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-23
@Ambivalena@pixelfed.social Amazing that you can see that from your house!
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-23
Rain, rain, rain! So tired of the rain in the desert. We have been here two weeks and only had a couple nice days. Tuesday nights storm was so bad, I couldn't sleep because of the RV rocking. Oh well, I'm glad to be in Arizona.
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-23
#ThrowbackThursday - On our first international trip, we flew to London. On the way home, we volunteered to take a later flight. Our compensation was two tickets to anywhere TWA flew. After we got home, I searched for the most expensive tickets they sold and ended up flying to #Egypt free. Twenty plus years later, this is still the most interesting place we have explored. #travelphotography
Ben Messick Photographymessick@pixelfed.social
2023-03-22
I love the detail!

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