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One of my indispensable tools is the canadian made Picquic Multi-bit. This has been my go-to screwdriver for years. If you don’t need a full set this is a great option.

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Shot with the Vivitar Series-1 90/2.5 Macro lens , who shared the honor with the illustrious Leitz Dual Range Summicron of having the highest resolution of any lenses tested by (now defunct) Modern Photography Magazine.

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Bit of a challenge getting the Christmas tree home....

Some of you a bit west, say in Texas and Oklahoma, may be used to seeing scissor-tailed flycatchers. For Indiana, they are a rare visitor--rarer still to find one nesting! This bird is about 20 minutes from my home, but birders from all over the state have come to see it. Yesterday it would leave the nest for varying lengths of time, then return to and stay in the nest (nest not in photo). There have been sightings of a male, but no documentary photos. This photo was shot at quite a distance, hand held, and highly cropped.

Even though there is a little bit of blue sky, it was pretty dark (for afternoon), very dim light. The weather was coming from behind, super dark low clouds and it was just minutes before it started raining. That's one of those 'just do it' panoramas, but I took the chance despite the light cause it's not the old days anymore, this is besides a well-trodden path and so when the weather is nice, it's ..touristy by now. 😕 Would like to do this location with better conditions one day, the lake takes on all sorts of beautiful green tones (at least on the visible spectrum) due to the forest around.

Source for this is a 4 piece panorama, 12567 x 5520px, ~69,4MP, but cropped a little, to give the lake center stage.

There is some fringing going on against the sky (not a huge fan), which is in part due to the lens I think, but I'll spare you the rant.

It was also the time when I (finally) decided to jump on AdobeRGB as long as I'm lossless with the D3300, ran the D90 with an sRGB chain for IR.

Monochrome conversions turned out nice, did not offer anything distinct however, were just like regular b&w. Overall, field of view is about 180°. 👀

Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

heliopan SH-PMC deep yellow 4x (15, G) filter

ISO100, 13mm, f/8, 1/160sec

(therefore ~20mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

For a bit of fun and because it's Sliders Sunday, I added an effect and slightly saturated the colours to the columbine in Topaz Studio 2. Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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This isn't velvet, or a fine silky dress, or some strange sun storm, or a complicated fractal graph. This is simple sand, and it is absolutely unbelievable how the water and the wind are able to transform the sand. Day after day, year after year, age after age. Here, in a detail of the famous Antelope Canyon in Arizona, it is possible to see all the five elements gathered in a single image: the earth describes a wave, molded along the time by the wind and burned by the sun.

Worthing walkabouts

A bit of a dreamy effect from a bloom between us.

I was happy to look out the window and see a tiny skipper enjoying our lantana, first one in a while. Had to grab a few photos. Really like this little butterflies and their perky personalities for some reason. :)

Bit more recent than the previous couple of photos, also on a ferry in Istanbul, longer exposure with a tripod.

A bit of luck the otter surfaced and looked right down the lens before its next dive. Taken at Figgate Pond Edinburgh

Chinese Goose.

Bit of an odd one, but I just loved the dogs expressions.

Bit of attitude for something not much bigger than your thumb

A sheeps bit scabious holding its own momentarily in a swirling sea of dandelion ,clover and wild grasses

Bit lively!!

this is the first page I've made for Dutchy!! My big puppy is 9 months old now, and she's huge! I need to take some photos of her and Hopey together when the heat subsides a bit :)

and the roof may be leaking..

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Bit of help from lightroom

I was a bit surprised to see this Sedge Warbler at the fen, normally they have left by now to return to Africa.

It is quite yellow so is probably a youngster.

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love bits of old wood

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and sky reflected in the harbour at St Monans.

This is a bit of an optical illusion. Can you "see" the plane headed in two different directions?

One of the lowest tides this year revealed a lot of the bits that had fallen off the West Pier, which are usually under the water.

Bit early to be seeing this driving around!

Bit of a Marmite shot I would think.

the bokeh has not been added in post - shot though a dew covered branch in the foreground.,

bit of flight practice a week or so back, crow on fly past . oly 100-400 handheld

Rough weather at West Bay in Dorset,.

I drove down from Perth to Busselton today. After checking in to my accommodation for the next two days I headed out to check out Sugarloaf Rock for sunset. This was my first time to this location, I got there early to have a bit of a scout around, the sky was looking promising for a colourful sunset early on, but then the clouds closed in. There wasn't much colour, but I think the overcast sky suited the location just as well.

And shy!

Here's a bit of a special shot. For starters, the size. It's 11200x5875 pixels, ie 65.8 megapixel! But not only that, this also happen to be a species which I have been hoping to find for quite a while now. It's the caterpillar of the pale tussock moth (Calliteara pudibunda) and I think you have no problems figuring out why I wanted to find it. ;)

I came across this one while out at my mom's summer house packing up for winter and when my mom picked up a plastic water barrel to put it away - this one was there on the side of the barrel!

It wasn't interested in moving at all so I laid the barrel over my legs and began trying to get a good photo (my mom took a behind the scenes shot of me here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52421247963/). But that's when I realised I had a problem. I only brought the MP-E65mm lens as it is the best lens I own (in fact, best I know of) and I usually end up with that one on the camera anyways. The peculiar thing about the MP-E65mm however, is that it does 1:1 to 5:1 magnification. Minimum magnification is 1:1 (ie the typical max magnification of regular macro lenses) which means you can't capture things in frame which are larger than the width of the camera's sensor.

Now my Canon 5Ds has a fullframe sensor, ie it's 36x24 mm (1.41"x0.95") but including the fuzzy hairs, this caterpillar was well above 40 mm. It didn't fit in a shot straight from the side! As I was cursing myself for not bothering to bring the "regular" macro lens, I decided to try doing a panorama - and this is the result. I simply took two overlapping shots and fed them into Kolor Autopano Giga and it worked just as well as it does with landscape shots. And since this was made from two 50 megapixel shots, we end up with such a massive size - and I couldn't be more pleased.

As a bonus, the black plastic of the water barrel created this really cool reflection - it kind of looks like it produces its own light to be honest.

in a small moment ..

Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro

ISO200 f/11 7mm -2 and 0ev

Two frames raw developed in DxO PhtotoLab 8, stacked and blended in Affinity Photo 2.6, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.

The Shallows, Bass Point, Shellharbour, NSW

Bit of a challenge, this one, but I am fairly pleased with the result!

Always things to watch at the Landguard Nature Reserve at Felixstowe - as well as the beach and the birds, watching the container ships come in takes up a bit of time - we watched this monster come in and wondered exactly how many containers there must be on it, what's in them and who they're going to. We wondered where it could possibly fit in up there, but then another, just as big started to come out.

This shot of Wahclella Falls in the Columbia River Gorge is a bit different. It is a panorama of the waterfall consisting of four horizontal images stitched together to make a big vertical image about 33 megapixels in resolution.

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When we stand in awe, our lips do not demand speech; we know that if we spoke, we would deprave ourselves. In such moments talk is an abomination. All we want is to pause, to be still, that the moment may last. It is like listening to great music; how it reaps the yield from the fertile soil of stillness; we are swept by it without being able to appraise it. The meaning of the things we revere is overwhelming and beyond the grasp of our understanding. We possess no categories for it and would distort it if we tried to appraise it by our standard of values; it essentially surpasses our criteria.

-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel

The heavens opened and most folk took shelter as it didn't look to be improving Stu and myself retired to the pub, just to get out of the rain, honest...........

A nice bit of Santa Fe heritage is found on the foamer MoPac iron of the Fort Smith Railroad tucked in a little parcel between Riverfront Drive and B Street adjacent to the infamous Miss Laura's that has looked upon the yards for a century and a quarter and undoubtedly entertained many a railroad man in the first half of the 20th century.

PREX 2031 is a rebuilt GP20U blt. Dec. 1961 by EMD as a GP20 numbered ATSF 1167. It was renumbered 3167 in 1970 and then 3067 after being rebuilt in Jan. 1980. Lasting into the BNSF era its final number was BNSF 2031 assigned Aug. 1999. I'm unsure when it was retired and picked up by Pioneer Railcorp but it doesn't look half bad for 60 years old.

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Friday September 3, 2021

I lifted the lid

But saw before sit I did

There the spider hid

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A bit of beauty leftover from last season.

A Knockout rose, no fragrance, designed to fill in tough spots in a landscape.

a bit of cheating with the fill flash

Looks a bit like old derelict castle walls, eh? Bell Canyon falls, from early October. In Spring the falls are like a geyser, but this time of year they are very subdued, without the feed from snow melt.

This day was overcast, with occasional breaks allowing beams of light through; you can see a couple of patches on the lower stretch of that rock face just right of center. This vantage point is heavily treed, to further darken the mood.

Feeling a bit blond, feeling a bit mean girl.

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