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Macro-Mondays-Cogwheel
Found this on an old can opener. Ha ha, the auto-tag called this food...ewww!
A jumping spider, sometimes called a zebra spider, (less than 5mm long) sitting on the fence of the Confluence nature reserve in Lyon.
This is a single, hand-held shot with a 100-400mm telephoto lens. The Flickr auto-tagging has labelled it a macro. Is it?
You humans will note that the flickr-imposed auto tags "photo border" and "text" are incorrect. Any suggestions about whether to delete them?
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I posted a monochrome version of this last Halloween. This was one of the sets of steps leading up to Kellie's castle which is a mix of Moorish/Indo-Saracenic architecture. It is said that the ghosts of William Kellie Smith and his daughter still haunt the ruined unfinished house. ( It's rather spooky that Flickr's auto tagging has detected people in this pic although there are none visible to me...)
Always fun to see extra-large broods. These goslings, though, could not have come from one nest. There are possibilities for the large number of younglings together in this photo. There were no other adult geese anywhere around when this shot was taken.
First, this could be a mass adoption where adult geese disappeared, leaving goslings unattended.
It could be that both adults here are female, with the males off shooting pool or something. In my experience that would be quite unlikely. Once the goslings are hatched, both parent stay VERY close to them.
It could just be some kind of goose day care...which is pretty amusing if you think about it. In any case, the two adults were shepherding this large group of very young ones all over the lake...including taking them on shore to eat grass.
I've been deleting the absurd auto-tags when I upload photos. I've left one here, though, to show just how stupid a tagging algorithm is. How useless is it for anyone, to have tags applied for searching purposes, if the tags are just WRONG?
Macro view of a mushroom family.
The structure of the underside of this mushroom reminds me also of coral, like the auto-tagging says too ;-))
Wow! This is auto-tagged "cable!" A breakthrough : )
Still trying to make a decent blob in Illustrator.
Maybe if I sketch a blob, photograph it, import it into Illustrator, trace it with the Pen Tool...
helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-pen-pencil-or-f...
This bench has seen it all...
A moody dreary slider for this morning.. Maybe it's the mood caused by being on standby support for work today, or knowing I should go for a run, or work on the front garden - that's exercise, right..?
HSS: Base image from November last year in the local park. Made it into a HDR - turned it black and white and then added silver efex pro film noir and got rid of the border it generates.
I made a few versions of this; some with my two boys pasted in and playing football - these versions I may post up at a later date, but they did not feel right: Far too cheery, lol!!!
An old grumpy face....?
Or a bear, according to the auto-tagging ;-D
Like said before, also an old mushroom has its own personality and beauty ;-))
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Puddle, Sheds and Koehlbrand Bridge
RMC Tokina 24mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/5.6
through Metabones Speedbooster Ultra MD-X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
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Just a little while ago, we had some very slight rain...and I saw this Hover fly actually standing there on the petal of the Spiderwort flower...I think we were both in shock!
The brilliant Flickr auto-tag noted that this is "People"...I had to delete it...
This seven-image set is based on the same setup that I used for Macro Mondays a couple of weeks ago (see flic.kr/p/2ptWG9u) although with a different capture and, mercifully, the right way up.
The marbles were in a wineglass and black foamboard was used as backdrop. The setup was lit from overhead using an LED penlight in a darkened room. It was a long exposure using a tripod and remote trigger - this enabled me to move the torch a little to build the light in the exposure..
I lost my marbles decades ago but, quite astonishingly, some of them turned up in the wine cupboard a while back. Strange…
The marbles, like me, are from the last century and it shows in their battered surfaces. But they’re made for playing with, aren’t they?
The edits are:
1 - Topaz Studio 2. This monochrome rendition uses Smudge and Glow effects to emphasise the lines and shapes and reduce the surface texture.
2 - Topaz Studio 2. This uses a Remix effect that is often interesting and can look very like stained glass.
3 - Topaz Studio 2. This is probably my favourite of the realistic incarnations. I particularly like the way the glass stem has turned out. It uses Smudge, Glow and Bloom filters. Confusingly Bloom is more of a glow and Glow (along with Radiance) is a linear extension filter. Sigh… [I’ll post this on Sliders Sunday]
4 - Topaz Studio 2. This is a straight colour swap with a bit of surface smoothing. Playing with colours is endless (if confusing) fun…
5 - Nik Analog Efex. This is a double exposure effect based around two copies of the image manipulated by the filter (rotated, resized and given a circular blur effect). It reminds me of nascent star clusters in the distant universe. This one was one of the most curiously interesting to my marbleless mind…
6 - Nik Color Efex. A fairly well-trodden path for me with this one: one of the many possible solarisation variations along with a bicolour filter and a vignette.
7 - Nik HDR Efex. I don’t often have much successful fun with this filter but this one worked out OK giving a very realistic effect. I particularly like the blue glass which was a side effect of changing the colour temperature. HDR normally zaps texture but I tried to limit that in the filter options.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started before the basic development and processing and the tidying-up work on all that dust.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Just a quick experiment using Affinity on the iPaddle for Sliders Sunday today.
This is a two image in-camera multiple exposure. The picture is of a bright cloudy sky above fields on the horizon with the camera being turned upside down between exposures ! I then messed around with the colours and tones using various adjustments, added some noise and texturised it a little using a lighting filter (top spotlight in blue).
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday
Two monochromes for Donnerstagmonocrom today, both cooked in Silver Efex and split toned.
The first is of a succulent taken earlier this year at the RHS Rosemoor garden in Devon. I really struggled with this one and gave up twice. It’s been tweaked every which way before I finally abandoned it. It was meant to be a high key for a start…
The second is based on an image I took for this week’s Macro Monday but rejected in favour of a little leaf set that was about the same size but sweeter.
Commentary is the same for both.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Monochrome Thursday :)
The Rose is perhaps my favourite flower. That may not be entirely true: my favourite tends to be whatever flower I happen to be looking at at the time :)
This was taken in the village last month. I thought we could have a change from wobblies so I rooted something for Flower Friday.
A bit of magic, of course, in the processing, but only a little. I’ve also created a brown-toned mono version too - I tend to prefer these because they emphasise the structure and shapes, and they look a little different. Feel free to choose your own favourite though!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Friday, happy flowers, happy weekend :)
RMC Tokina 135mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/5.6
through Quenox Focal Reducer Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
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Sheep on the levee.
Schafe auf dem Deich.
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 50-135 1:3.5 @ ~f/8
through Novoflex Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...
RMC Tokina 24mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/8
on Novoflex MD - X-Mount adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...
77 degrees there now, 55 here and breezy/raw with snow in sight.
Want.
To.
Go.
Back.
(jeez, even flickr's sometimes-dumb auto-tagger tagged this "serene". An unusual tag, maybe the flickr wants to go there too)
I was going to call this Fresh Tendrils but it just seemed a bit abrupt for how beautiful this piece of seaweed really is.
I enjoyed how well this contortion filled the camera screen and the rich colour vignettes of the branches moving from dark to light brown and yellow. Intertwined in the ocean's current or maybe just in those last few hours before it was washed up on the dark sand rocky beach.
Nice to find such natural beauty out there in the world.
Flickr auto tagged this 'tangle', I like tangles and saying tangles!
Moritz Oldendorff sailing from Hamburg while MSC Laurence arrives:
Name: Moritz Oldendorff
Type: Bulk
Built: 2013
LOA: 295.20 m
Beam: 50.00 m
Draft: 18.25 m
Deadweight: 205,000 t
Grain Capacity: 224,000 cbm
Name: MSC Laurence
Type: Container
Built: 2011
LOA: 365 m
Beam: 48 m
Draft: 15.6 m
Deadweight: 139,408 t
Evening in the Port
Container vessel Thalassa Tyhi at Burchardkai terminal, Hamburg
RMC Tokina 135mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/5.6
through Novoflex FUX-MIN adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
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One spring afternoon at Nathan Phillips.
Holy crap, I haven't noticed all this time, that Flickr adds auto tags' that seemingly fit our uploaded photos. They entered a gazillion extra ones lol
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Pattern of squares / Muster aus Quadraten
Detail in staircase A of Chilehaus. / Detail im Treppenhaus A des Chilehauses
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 35-70mm 1:3.5 @ ~f/5.6
through Novoflex FUX/MIN-MC-MD Adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
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It looks like no little cygnets this year. The nest is out in the open. There are six eggs in it...but neither swan is on the nest, or even near it. Other years eggs hatched before Memorial Day.
Swans apparently have some problem getting the eggs fertilized...and some years there just is no hatching. Sad.
On a more humorous note, Flickr auto-tagging thinks this is a dog.
Pilot boat "Lotse 2" and a navigational sign warning of low-flying aircraft crossing the Elbe river in their approach to the Finkenwerder Airbus works.
I may have tried to make a symmetrical composition, but Nature had other ideas. The beach is quite a bit higher to the right of this jetty and pebbles are strewn across it. I liked that a dog trotted into my image too.
Flickr's auto tagging thought this was a railroad track. Interesting. :)
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 35-70mm 1:3.5 @ f/5.6
through Metabones Speedbooster Ultra MD-X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
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According to Flickr's Auto-tagger, a deer is an animal [check], a mammal [check], a pet [depends how rich one is] and a dog [er... no]. Of course, I wonder if auto-tagger just pretends to be incorrect...
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Vintage Mercedes Benz Dashboard
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 35-70mm 1:3.5 @ ~f/5.6
through Metabones Speedbooster Ultra MD-X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...
It's the first time I post four photos in a day, I promise it wouldn't happen again, but now I can't help it :)
An old commercial, priceless :))
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeiBc4BpQI
...and I love the auto-tags, especially "bear", she's almost as huge as one :)
St John's College, University of Cambridge. I'm in a black and white phase. Please suggest titles for this new series of three.
Flickr auto tag: "surreal" !
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 35-70mm 1:3.5 @ ~f/8
through Novoflex Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...