Masovia, Poland

Bit “soot and whitewash” I know - but I quite like the effect.

Bit of a blow out this morning.

Turned up, got this shot quite quickly. Then the heavens opened and it became clear very quickly that I was totally unprepared for it. Wet camera, wet lenses, wet filters and wet me.

To top the morning off as I was walking back to the car I dropped my camera on concrete. Surprisingly its mostly fine. A little dent/chip of paint lost. Certainly could have been much worse.

But anyway, at least I got one shot.

Bit of play in the studio and then with photoshop.

Bits and bobs of blue

Somewhere on the west coast of the Olympic peninsula.

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photography tip 01: Flip your photo

Flipping your photo horizontally when working on the post processing phase of a photo allows your eye to constantly seek and spot the best framing possible, as well as remove anything that might alter the composition. It's a technique i use a LOT whenever i work on a concept art piece in photoshop too. to the point where i took the habit of flipping my canvas every 40 seconds or so. It's a bit like giving your eyes a fresh start on your image, every several seconds. the best way is to bind a key or create a shortcut in order to have a permanent easy access to the horizontal flip. i actually use the vertical one too!

Bit of a sombre tone today, not well and really not enjoying being stuck at home for the next 7 days but at least I have company unlike this little guy.

After the first frost of the season. The flowers are still hanging on but barely and then a frost comes through.

Another bit of flash photography due to our recent inclement weather, I caught this Great Tit in such a position that it looks as if its hiding behind its wing...now you see me, now you don't! ;)

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Bit of a grab shot , but amazing to see .RSPB Strumpshaw Fen

A peaceful evening of rattlesnake encounters and lovesick meadowlarks.

Went for a wander in Abbeyford Woods with my friend Fran (who managed to get us lost ... which was rather amusing) ... the light wasn't great and avoiding copious amounts of dog poop meant I didn't get a great deal of interesting images ... but I love this one :D

Think I used the Takumar 55mm ... but to be honest I forget :D

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large, antique drill bit

IMG_5565: A bit of frost on the window at sunset. I would have got a better photo but it was cold! The temperature was around 0° F.

Happy Slider Sunday

When you get fed up being there for hours and a couple of days on the trot taking photos of the Golden Gate Bridge and look for inspiration, nature is a real tonic. I just looked left and the sea was making its feelings known. The Pacific Ocean wasn't really pacified 😂😂

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A bit of fun , well he was asking for it posing like that ! Thanks to my son Robin for the photoshopping.

This younger more subordinate ram to a bigger, probably older male, shows quite a bit of wear on his horns.

This is the view of the top floor of the structure next to Wind Tree in the Winyard Quarter on Auckland's waterfront.

It is a strange structure but certainly has some nice lines. I watched the Matariki lights on the bridge from up here. I totally expected there to be lots of people, I was mistaken.

Most the time it was arches, stacks, cliffs, but this valley was a bit different.

The weekend before the last I was really mad at myself for being too lazy to get out in the cold in the morning, and by the time I was motivated, I didn’t have much time. Nevertheless, I thought I could take a short walk with my camera at lunchtime, so I was going to drive to a specific place in my hometown from which I knew that it had potential for some nice images. However, there was quite a layer of snow on the road and so I couldn’t drive up the hill, mostly because I had to slow down to get around the only tight turn. I really regret not getting out sooner because then I could have walked up there, but that’s the way it was. So I spent the following week hoping for some snow the next weekend.

Fortunately, it snowed the next Friday and this time I was sure to get out, no matter what the weather conditions are. The next morning, we woke up, put on several layers to protect ourselves from the cold and started our hike up the local mountain. Since not a single person had hiked up there that morning, we had to fight our way through a calf-high layer of snow resulting in a hike that took us more than two hours instead of the 45 minutes it takes us to get up there in summer. Of course we stopped a few time to take some images, but mostly with our smartphones as the snow was beautiful, but I found the scenes were lacking some mist that reduces the chaos and typically drastically simplifies such forest scenery.

Once we reached the top, we were very happy that the hut was open and we could warm up and get something to drink and eat. After a fairly substantial lunch, we decided to start our descent, but before I really wanted to walk up the last few steps to the summit cross, especially since a bit of mist was rolling in. I knew that I had once taken a quite nice image at this spot, but I noticed that my girlfriend wasn’t really in the mood to wait long for me since it was really cold and windy out there. So I hurried up, took out my camera and snapped a few handheld shots, and I was really glad I did when I looked at them on the laptop. Even though it was not exactly what I had imagined, I really like how this image turned out. I hope you like it too!

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enjoyed a couple of hours strolling along the shores of loch Awe, in Wester Ross, Scotland. the light was nothing special, so I had to work hard to get a composition. quite liked the grasses in the water, and the reflection of the clouds.

Several Song sparrows have continued along with the Yellow Breasted Chat in St John's throughout the winter. For the past week or so they have broken into spring song - they too enjoy the suet

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A bit of an experiment. I joined a group called The Weekend Ruiner founded by Mr Vanmoer (frenchbloke.vanmoer). Every week you get random items. Some of them are like movie sets in a way -- like a long hallway missing one wall so you can do a photoshoot. This week I got this house. It's awesome. A cartoon neon house.

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I had a body I never wore from the Meta-Body experiment of 2011 called Frame Girl which was all lines. I've always wanted to use that body but it's not exactly something you wear out to dinner. It needed the perfect occasion.

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And the umbrella? It's raining in Norway. Nope, I'm not in Norway. I'm in Arizona where the sun is beating down on us. It's just one of those random things that worked for me.

Camera and lighting:

Firestorm, as is

Additional lighting by Lumipro

Also I added a light on the umbrella

Location: Nykus

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wr special - 80LII glowing wireframe house thing with stool by Doctor Zimberman

Me:

{ Poppins } White Umbrella by Belle Epoque

Frame Girl shape and skin by Meiló (meilo.minotaur)

A bit of Sunday trivia

Daisy Bell" was composed by British composer Harry Dacre in 1892. When Dacre first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged import duty. His friend William Jerome, another songwriter, remarked lightly: "It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty." Dacre was so taken with the phrase "bicycle built for two" that he soon used it in a song. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall.

In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis. This recording has been included in the United States National Recording Registry.

Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 7094 demonstration during a trip to Bell Labs in 1962 and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.

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Bit of a challenge - these are 20 feet up a tree!

Hand held........

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A bit of a failed experiment here. We walked so far to get to the waterfall, but facing a hairy descent, Jules and Antonio decided to turn back. That was a good decision, as the going got very, very hairy thereafter. By the time I'd clambered to the falls, it was actually a bit disappointing, and I'd really scared myself with some of the journey on my own with no phone signal. As such,, I tried my hardest to get a composition and do it justice, so this is a stitch of 32, yes 32, images to try to get a shot worthy of the adventure I'd inadvertently set myself. It'll do I guess...

Bit's n Bob's at the edge of the Harbour Walkway near the water's edge.

At Bunhill Fields Burial Ground