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I've been a bit amiss with my posting and will try to catch up a bit (again) but staying rather busy this Fall and now with the leaves just about at peak color I thought it time to head out and enjoy the scenery. High Point State Park has always been a popular destination in New Jersey and I've been here many, many times but this year may very well be the first time the monument was actually open! I brought my camera and wasn't disappointed with the inner stairway and its 291 steps. I should have run back to the car and got my tripod but I didn't. Then again, if I got the perfect stairway shot that I had in mind I probably wouldn't have come up with this Fall slider of sorts. So it goes and I'm happy on this fine Sunday! Created for the Slider Sunday group - HSS!
Looking a little bit tacky here but this Robin is over two years old now which is a good age for a Robin. Always hanging around in the same area in one of my nature reserves I often go to visit. Ever since I first spotted this as a juvenile there has always been a dark patch below the right eye that is still there to this day. My little friend here has become very tame and always so very photogenic and hopefully will be around a bit longer yet. In the 1400's when the Robin was named the colour orange had not been classified and this is why we say that the Robin has a red breast and not orange. America has an eagle so it's about time the UK had the Robin as its national bird !!!!!!
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... or is it a bit of Paradise in the Swiss Italy?
In Ticino's Canton, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland.
@ Lugano, Switzerland
Small Skipper | Thymelicus sylvestris | Hesperiidaee On Orange Hawk Bit | Pilosella aurantiaca | Asteraceae
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Bit of a special evening yesterday! Popped up to one of my favourite local places after work, Healey Dell nature reserve near Rochdale, a little hidden gem of a place right near the town, kinda hidden away.
It's the kinda place that if it was in the Lake District it would be swamped by visitors and you'd have to pay £10 to park, but as it is, there's virtually never anybody around, even locals don't know what they have there :)
This is the 2nd of a series of 5 or 6 big waterfalls that run through the place.
But when I got there my eyes nearly popped out at how beautiful it had become with the golden leaves carpeting the rocks.
One of those special moments that makes you feel good to be alive :)
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Happy Friday all :)
Still a bit of white ⛄️ Christmas, although it is from the archive.
Toch een beetje witte ⛄️ Kerst al is het uit het archief
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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Regards, Bram van Broekhoven (BraCom)
It's a good thing foil came up as a theme for Macro Mondays because now I have a reason for keeping a bag of multicolored foil bits! Perhaps they'll make it into ice cubes some day but for now it's a foil abstract.
The image area measures about 1.5 inches X 1.5 inches.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 9 image photo stack shot at f/11.
Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus). This wood pigeon was trying to keep cool by oscillating his throat. However, he just looked a bit deranged to me!
Knowing a bit more about photography makes it easier to understand how and why some oil paintings, say the impressionist, abstract or even watercolour paintings, came into being.
"A beautiful closeup of delicate orchid blossoms and a kaleidoscope of background colors. Great depth and soft light."
A review by Flickr friend/Connoisseur Gertrud Klopp
Finally home! not that my summer so far has been boring (the last 2 months involved quite a bit of traveling), however there is no place like home. I took this one at the port of Aigina island in Greece, and I will say that it was a very challenging shot. I had with me only my small tripod, so I was pretty much layed on the ground and my camera wouldn't focus so I had to switch it to manual focus and tried to do it via the screen and not through the viewfinder. It was a lovely night, the blue hour more specifically, and the waterfront promenade at Aigina's port was quite busy. After the last ferry of the day departs from the island, they shut down the main street to pedestrians only so it's really nice for families to walk without being worried about traffic.
Bjarno - Factor 30
This male bufflehead had been diving recently, and had the evidence in drops all over. At Commonwealth Lake.
A bit of Sliders Sunday fun with a dose of detail/contrast boosting and a pinch of desaturation to make this shot of the backside of Durdle Door pop a little. The stairs I posted a week or so ago can be seen here on the very right side of the shot.
I'm still mostly off Flickr, visiting irregularly and not commenting much myself so I'll leave commenting off on this one as well. BTW, I found out why, when comments are turned off, some people can still leave comments. Apparently if you post to groups the other members of those groups are still able to comment. Who knew...
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These are mini bottles, each 2,5 cm in diameter, glued together, for tiny flowers like daisies. The different colors of the little bottles seemed to be a good start for this week's macro theme. Some light added a bit atmosphere.
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Feeling a bit off lately but i just had to add a picture this week..i truly hate to fall silent here. I do hope that the picture is liked and hope to get my head a bit more clear again soon as well..
This is from my archives. It is a previously unposted image. A long exposure sunset shot at Iluka Beach. One of my favourite little coves along the coast here in Perth. Every sunset is different. Aways changing. I did a bit of light painting on the rocks in the foreground to give some detail.
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Spot the two birds :)
For a change, this is a new (outside!) photo, taken just a few days ago at the wonderful Britzer Garten, one of Berlin's biggest and most beautiful public parks (please check my album for more "Britz bliss", if you like).
For better dynamic range, I've used exposure bracketing (three images), pre-processed the images in DXO PhotoLab (sharpness and DeepPrime denoising only), from which I directly went into HDR Efex Pro to combine the images. I'm trying to get away from the annual Adobe subscription, and combining images from an exposure bracketing series in HDR Efex instead of Lightroom is one step into that direction. Unfortunately, whenever I think I can finally leave Adobe behind for good they come up with improvements such as the new "supersize" function (now also available in LR), a ton of new presets for LR, and other interesting stuff (and I'm still used to the LR/PS workflow, and the layers in PS). Well, maybe I'll be ready next year ;)
Extra sliding was done in Color Efex, where I added some "Brilliance and Warmth" and a tiny bit of "Contrast Color Range".
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and have a nice week ahead!
With a bit of an influx going on at the moment with Painted Lady butterflies, it reminded me of this encounter from last Summer, when a similar Spring influx led to some rather nice specimens later in the year when the eggs laid by the early arrivals became British hatched butterflies in immaculate condition.
I had to wait nearly 30 minutes for this one to nectar on the Bramble stem away from the main bush. The background was a field some distance away and after watching the butterfly for the 30 odd minutes feeding in the centre of the bush I very nearly decided it wasn't going to use this stem at the edge of the bush. As it was it was only showing on this stem for a few seconds before it headed back to the jungle of the main part of the bush.
One of two very memorable Painted Lady sessions in 2021.
Think I will have a "Bit of Something on Blue week" (bound to be fairly minimal so no offence if you decide to pop back when it's all over :-)
I tried something a bit different with this photo. It's a hand blended 3 exposure HDR. Rather than let Lightroom do it for me, I chose to blend the photo using a series of masks in Photoshop. I wasn't happy with the colours, so B&W was an easy choice. Rather than using the standard, high contrast B&W, I lifted the black-point to about 20 to get a nice vintage film look.
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— J.K. Rowling
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Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8
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she had bits of soul
in everything. from
her laugh to her
tears and in a world
of plastic smiles
and corrugated
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Since taking the challenge of learning a bit about high key for macro Mondays I think it will be a good idea to learn more about low key as well. I believe this image qualifies as a low key shot. However, it does not count as learning about low key, it was an accident :) The flower was highlighted by the sun and there were deep shadows all around it.
I'm not really sure what I would use low key images for on a regular basis but the high key images will be handy when I have something to sell.
Regardless, I never want to stop learning, even if it is just for the sake of learning.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
Would have gone out today, it was fine enough, but other things got in the way. So took a photo of some ribbon I found, while sorting out something else. It looked OK, but I decided to play around with it a bit.
Today is : National Garlic Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-garlic-day-april-19/
And for Some Other News it's : National Hanging Out Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-hanging-out-day-april-19/
I would have done, but didn't have anything to hang out. 😂
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Credit @ Dimi's in RFL in Home&Garden Expo 2020 Hope4
Backdrop : DiMi's - Tuscany (Rez - 120 LI) *Rezzing by Rezzar
Credit @ Little branch
LB_WildShingleOak{Animated}*4Seasons
LB_WildGrass.v1{4Seasons}*Animated
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GOOSE - Echo chair BROWN
GOOSE - Echo table BROWN
GOOSE - Echo chair GREEN
GOOSE - Echo table GREEN
GOOSE - Lavendel pot light
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1. Refuge - Sweets Shop Counter Pink RARE
5. Refuge - Sweets Shop Ice Cream Machine Pink
8. Refuge - Sweets Shop Cupcake Single Blue
11. Refuge - Sweets Shop Cupcake Box Blue
6. Refuge - Sweets Shop Ice Cream Machine Blue
9. Refuge - Sweets Shop Neon Sign Blue
3. Refuge - Sweets Shop Marquee Sign Pink
13. Refuge - Sweets Shop Sundae A