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Actually a different image.
I have limited post-processing options now and they are less than satisfactory. Still, I'm compelled to post.
Actually, they’re my favorite decorative pins, but I imagine that in the tiny hands of woodland sprites, they’d make beautiful scepters for the smallest of royal families.
I wish I could claim that it was my idea to photograph the pins this way, but I was inspired by this lovely image www.flickr.com/photos/hummmlan/3441956984/in/faves-409804...
A heartfelt thanks to Bsandtana for the lovely testimony. Be sure to visit her magical stream filled with florals and interesting insects!
Textures by www.flickr.com/photos/my_key_in_the_pocket/3881005524/in/... and
Actually the birds flying over the pass are NOT photoshopped. I didn't know they were there until I uploaded.
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future."
-Into The Wild
Actually, I'm not nearly as frazzled as this suggests. Things are going very smoothly, and I'm on number 5 of 8.
Late night last night, but tonight I should be able to get some sleep while the computer does the hard work.
Huzzah!
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and here...
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and here... digital-era.org/blog/?p=3901
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and here... blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2013/04/12/ncbi-rofl...
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Actually just a few days afterwards... since an unedited version was encored quite a bit I have hurried up and by popular acclaim upload this version, which I'm sure I don't thing has anything too special about it. But hope you like seeing the comparisons, and I'm so busy it will take a little bit to get to the close ups, please be patient.
Actually broke out the 18-200 for the first time with a selfie. Converted this to B/W and used the TRA "Beer goggles" for the blur.
Explored Highest #134
West Somerset Railway - Autumn Steam gala - October 2014 (DSC 3517)
Images from my three days there can be seen on the Smugmug link below
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Actually there weren't any snakes involved in this image, just an unusual leaf formation on my indoor palm. Just occasionally this pam produces new fronds which aren't able to emerge normally and the embryo leaves get folded like a concertina. The image is turned 90 degrees. I thought it then looked similar to a human hand stroking a green snake's head.
Actually when this was posted I was seeing white. We were in the midst of another strong winter storm that dropped another foot or more of snow before it is finished.
Just a hint of a rough canvas texture applied to this one.
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Spearfish Falls was actually one of the most popular tourist stops in the northern Black Hills around the beginning of the 19th century when a Burlington Railroad line took passengers directly over it, parts of which can still be found on the trail today. The trail to this 47 ft waterfall starts at the parking lot for the Latchstring Restaurant and is roughly 3/4 in length. Note that while the path to the left is easy, the one to the right of the restaurant is more difficult but does include a sweet traverse over an old metal walking bridge. Interestingly enough, in 1917, this waterfall was actually turned off for awhile as water was diverted from Spearfish Creek to a nearby hydroelectric plant that helped power operations at Homestake Gold Mine until November 17, 2003. For this reason, Spearfish Falls is one of the lesser-known waterfalls that often gets passed by even today.
Source: www.blackhillsbadlands.com/places/spearfish-falls
If you don’t have much time to hike while you are visiting Spearfish Canyon, I would encourage you to put this one high on your list. The trail is rated as moderate. The total hike is 1.5 miles. I love hiking this any time of year. The trail is pretty easy to find. The path is right behind the Latchstring Inn. The trail has been reworked recently. It is no longer a loop trail, the only access point is just north of the restaurant. The path is nice and wide and should be manageable by most people that can walk moderate inclines. Just take your time and soak in the beauty of the canyon floor. The waterfall is so beautiful, you’ll want to hangout and enjoy it for awhile. This is just one of the waterfalls of Spearfish Canyon worth visiting. There is plenty of hiking in the area. Just on the other side of the road is Roughlock Falls Nature Trail. While I like hiking this area all year long, it is definitely one of my favorite fall hikes in the Black Hills. And, if you are staying in Spearfish, be sure to checkout the Lookout Mountain Hiking trails if you want a longer hike.
Source: enjoyingsouthdakota.com/spearfish-canyon/spearfish-falls-...
Actually many rivers run through it as it gets a lot of run off from the mountains behind it.
As I not a Welsh speaker it took me many attempts to even try to pronounce the town the river runs through: Dolgellau
Actually there were wonderfully healthy looking Cormorants down there. But only one in this photograph.
There's a trick I use to check my long exposure quickly. Once the dark ND filters are on the lens I set the ISO to 6400 and make a shot (in this instance the exposure time was half a second). Have a look. Exposure ok? Focus fine? If good, then turn your seconds into minutes; return ISO to base; and let it go. So the next shot, at ISO100, could be 0.5 x 6400/100 (basically just simplify it to 0.5 x 60) = 30s (basically half a second turns into half a minute*).
But sometimes I discover I quite like the shot at ISO6400. Here I caught a nice wave rolling through and half a second worked quite well. That sucks because ISO6400 is noisy, isn't it. Or, maybe it doesn't suck that much these days. The noise isn't as serious as it used to be. And the pic next door was shot at ISO64 and ended up looking ancient since I've added noise in "to taste"!
* assuming your cameras base ISO is 100 or close enough to that. If your base ISO is 200 then, in this example, 0.5s would turn into 15s, not 30s. Or to make it sound so confusing, each second would turn into half a minute.
We actually returned to the same site not too long later. More of the area had been flattened at this point but we were still able to access the 'block' that we had before.
So, all good, right? The way in was the same, still no meaningful security on site... what could go wrong? Well, boy was it cold. Layered up in jumpers and coats, we had climbed the internal stairs without any trouble. The conditions on the roof were... worse. A layer of incredibly slippery ice had formed on the surface - typical considering on this visit I wanted to venture further down the rooftop...
Venture forward we did though: me, clutching onto the railing for dear life and Michael stepping forwards unaided without any fuss (could we be more different?). It certainly felt like one of the more dangerous things we'd done over the years.
I actually finished this build around the beginning of June, but haven't gotten around to posting it until now. This was just a build for fun to mess around with the dark blue/white colorscheme and to finally do something for Kaliphlin over in Guilds of Historica again. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, though unfortunately the pictures are rather poor.
Located on the Eastern outskirts of Katoren, this monastery survived the Kaliphlin civil war better than most. A natural spring was the reason for the monastery's location, and the spring continues to provide fresh water for all the inhabitants, as well as make the surrounding area very lush compared to much of the Kaliphlin landscape.
Well actually it’s not a fungus at all, meet Badass* utricularis who is a rather fetching Slime mold.
Slime moulds are a group of single-celled amoeba-like organisms that hunt bacteria and form a commune to reproduce. They then produce plasmodia (the caramel sauce) which can grow to quite a large size. When food supplies become scarce they produce the fruiting bodies that we see here and release spores which hatch into amoeba, starting the cycle all over again.
They are not part of the fungi kingdom but their fruiting bodies might suggest they are related.
If you want to know more, (which of course you do, how could you not be fascinated by this amazing organism), then watch this rather entertaining video.
I’ll be asking questions at the end just to make sure you’re behaving and doing your homework.
* It's actually Badhamia but Badass sounds much better.
Actually Tuesday and the Ruddy didn't have to pay for parking either.
Ocean City Inlet Beach, Maryland.
Actually, it's good fishing in the Wisconsin river so this juvenile great blue heron was having a good day while I paddled by. The fires in Minnesota & Ontario made the air smell like a giant campfire and the light really strange.
Actually, I wanted to shoot the wolves in the wild park of Silz this morning. It was very foggy, and that's why I was taking a walk through the Wildlife Park and met this gorgeous guy. He was just a few meters from me on a meadow, no fence. I had very great respect, being yet mating. Other pictures will follow...
Eigentlich wollte ich an diesem Morgen die Wölfe im Wildpark Silz fotografieren. Es war sehr neblig und deswegen spazierte ich durch den Wildpark und traf auf diesen prächtigen Kerl. Er lag nur wenige Meter von mir auf einer Wiese, ohne Zaun. Ich hatte sehr großen Respekt, da ja noch Brunftzeit ist. Es werden noch andere Bilder folgen...
Actually not found exactly there but right underneath. Still like it.
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Actually blue Stilton and digestives but the strongest flavour comes from the bacteria so let’s be honest about what we’re eating.
Actually, it's just a glass teapot in twilight with flashlight behind.
You can find Another Worlds in any place... ^____^
This juvenile has not yet attained its adult markings and has just a soaking when it misjudged its landing .
The Bearded Tit is resident in small breeding areas throughout Europe and in the South East of the UK where there are around 600 breeding pairs . They are not actually a Tit at all but they are the only bird in a family called Panuridae.
Actually really like these, in photos i wasn't a fan but spotting it in person it looks alot nicer!
This was the best selling car in Ireland in 2021 and these only came out in January!
Executive Plus is the highest spec you can get in lreland which costs around €40,000
Actually I wanted to take some photos of a cup filled with nice, hot tea. But honestly the photos without tea turned out much cooler… so here is my tea photo without tea. Enjoy :)
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Kim actually took a day off from work! We were up early and went out to the Ojito Wilderness near San Ysidro. We were there by 0800 under a low ceiling of cloud and wildfire haze. The haze wasn't as bad there as it was in ABQ.
We had a great time walking around and ran into this fellow on one of the rocks. He had lots to tell us, when he'd stop dancing, but mostly it had to do with events in the Jurassic.
We didn't listen to him when he advised going back to US 550 the way we had come in. After all, his info is a bit dated.
We continued on the dirt road after leaving the parking area. Two hours later after traveling across pretty heavily unmaintained roads, and having to turn back one time not being able to cross the Rio Puerco in our non-amphibious vehicle and finding another road, we made it back to US 550 about half way to Cuba (NM not the island).
Kim thought it was marvelous, being away from work and not having to wear a mask. She wears one all day long in the OR.
Tomorrow we might go up to Fenton Lake and come back by way of Bandelier.
Actually it is a light post illuminating on the point at Royal Military College reflecting into the waters of Lake Ontario.
It reminded me of what you would see on a really bad Sci Fi B Movie of how the aliens would transport poor unknowing people up to their craft to take them on an intergalactic journey.
I think I'm tired if I see this.... :-) Tell me what you see!
Nite all :-)
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I actually took this (and a few other ornaments) to the beach on Monday, but it was so overcast that I decided not to take photos. So they got a trip out, and a walk along the beach lol!
When I got back to town it was nicer, so I went to a park and had a little photo shoot there instead :-)
All shells found and carefully collected by me from beautiful NZ beaches.
>More of my beach finds on flickr :-D
Actually, not really THAT seedy
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www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/23317230/ from 2005. Slightly different perspective.
There will probably be another attempt on a day when there are absolutely no cars. This was on a Sunday morning and there was still a van out of the frame. Maybe Christmas or Easter?
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Or as it's actually called, a "Consular-class cruiser (Charger c70 retrofit)".
No idea what possessed me to build this, but here it is. I've a sneaking suspicion that these kinda cruisers weren't actually used much by the end of the Clone War, but we'll just ignore that.
Full transparency, the reason for this being an imperial Frigate, and not a Republic one was because I'd built it blank, and I felt giving it a Republic paint job would make it look a bit cluttered, as it'd be difficult to get all the colours where they needed to go in the small space provided.
So it's an Imperial vessel, probably used for escorting Military officials and Senators around the Galaxy to do political stuff. So basically what they were used for during the age of the Republic, just without the Jedi crashing them every five minutes.
I am gonna have a go at building it irl, though it'll probably have a different colour scheme, either Pre-Clone War Republic, or something else. So keep an eye out for that I guess.
And as usual, you can find more pics on my Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/ClMG2IIIB8V/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
It's actually been a little while since I've shot a red ACu leader. They feel common enough now that there's no urgency to shoot them. I've definitely gotta change that mindset, these emds are a great catch.
I actually had (still have) another shot for PaD and already thought up a blurb for it and all, and than I had this one of Charlie staring at me like "what? you gonna post this other one? really? you kidding right?" and I was like "hmmm, I've prepared the blurb and all for the other one" and Charlie was like "you are not serious are you?" and I was like "hmmm, I think I am, I kinda like the other one and the blurb is good" and Charlie was like "I am not saying anything, you wanna post the other one knock yourself out" and kept staring ...
ok Charles , you win, the other one can wait
Actually an Arapamia or "Pirarachu" fish that hails from the Amazon river basin. These fish can grow to be 10 feet long and weigh over 400lbs. They are very impressive to see up close in an aquarium. This animal was probably 5 feet long.
Enjoy the day!
Actually this magnificent male lion was keeping an eye on the vultures that were circling overhead. He was worried they would eat his kill which lay at the bottom of the kopje he was resting on. Did he manage to keep them away? See tomorrow's posting for the next thrilling instalment.
There are actually three female cycad plants producing new leaves right now. I'm fascinated with their process! I think they are gorgeous! I never knew before the way cycad leaves unfurled with all these tiny spirals!
This is the oldest plant and the sixth and last image of the series.
Cycas revoluta. The most common cycad, and the one most people have heard of, is the Sago Palm. Cycas revoluta is NOT a palm despite what its common name suggests, but is a classic cycad. Cycads are non-flowering plants that are actually more closely related to conifers than to palms or any other flowering plants. They reproduce by making cones and seeds. All cycads are dioecious, which means they are either male or female, and never both.
Cycads evolved 280 to 250 million years ago. Imagine ~ 220 million years ago many species of cycads covered Pangea, when all the continents had coalesced into one, and dinosaurs roamed, ran, and fought among them. The dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago in a great extinction. Cycads survived!
This Wikipedia article is very interesting!
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I actually remembered it was Friday! I love California Quail, but it is hard to get a picture of them standing still....sorry for the blur. Would be fun to see a race between them and a roadrunner....beep, beep. This couple was seen at the Railroad Bridge Audubon Center in Sequim, WA., where they live, on both sides of the fence, with seemingly hundreds of their friends.
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