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Bit of a stitched panorama of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. I kind of like the central composition of the tree here, I did consider not stitching as many images together, but even with the panorama it works for me…
Bit of a struggle to get here for sunrise, but at least I got lucky with some clearing in the sky for a few minutes... Old man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland
This is Tree Monster.
I made him out of black pipe cleaners while choosing to stay indoors because of frigid temps.
I had tried making several backgrounds for this but decided to make an AI generated picture of scary twisted trees.
I used my laptop to do several shots.
The eyes are Lego bits and the Monster is holding a stick with Borax Crystals on it!
-19 this morning and there was a windchill.
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At least there was a bit of warmth on the Nisqually River at dusk although no big sunset. I was actually happy to see this since I had seen a lot of rain previously. It's a 3 shot HDR, all raw, in Lightroom and then exported as a tiff to CNX2. A small amount of Nik's Pastel was applied to the sky area using a Control Point, and a bit of Tonal Contrast on the middle foreground applied the same way. I use Nik in Nikon's CNX2 software since it shows up seamlessly in the edit list and no need to jump around like when you use Nik as a regular plug in with Lr, PS, etc. The jumping in and out of plug ins drives me crazy, and many times there are no brushes handy. Sharpening was done on the lower middle area only using a brush. Sharpening shadows or sky is a no-no for me. You should have seen all the dust spots in the sky from my sensor.
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A bit different for me. Sort of streetscene meets minimalist. Or more accurately a 'minimal streetscene'! I think it works but you say what you think - I've no problem with criticism or advice as long as its constructive! We don't learn if we don't listen and allow others their opinions. Some sections of society could do well to realise that their views aren't the only ones in town before they throw the toys out of the pram. But that's not a topic for here really - I'm just waffling on.
Rainy and miserable today after such a gorgeous day yesterday. The forecast however said it would clear up later in the afternoon, so I held off until around teatime.
Yes, the clouds cleared, the sun came out for all of about 5 minutes. But I did like the way the sky looked from the garden.
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
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See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
Shot at Craigo is salvageable, tiny bit more zoom than required previously. Making a solum change, again. 66 instead of a 70, all be, should be down for 6R38 to Irvine Cale. 10 tanks in tow, reasonable for S48 these days. For future shots in mind for northbounds, ideally sit on the guardrail to eliminate the telegraph wires and extra fencing (off picture, to the left)
A young Great Blue Heron making its way across the mud flats on Horsepen Bayou pauses to think things over before making its next move.
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I am trying to spread the images from Porthcawl out a bit, as you can imagine, i have rather a lot to go through, it will certainly keep me busy for a while.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas
Think a bit of beach therapy is always needed.. but as we can't or shouldn't be hitting the beaches anywhere with whats going on in our world all I can say is thank goodness for SL..but even here some of the stores are closed ..oh well nice to get out if nothing more...
I get the chance to show you these clothes and hit some of SL's beauty spots..
Today I'm at St Martins and am wearing ~ZFG~ that you can find at ~The Gacha Life Event~
It opened its doors yesterday and is on until the 31st of August..
Go try your luck
Wearing:
ZFG BAMA White
ZFG BAMA Denim Dark
Truth Hair Polly
Reign September Sneakers
Catwa Catya
Ikon Triumph Eyes Electric
Maitreya Body Tweaked by me
Event
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ZFG Main Entrance
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It's been a fairly lean period for me lately, not able to get out much for one reason or another and when I could get out conditions were a bit of a battle.
This is a picture I made a couple of days ago during a bleak and miserable spell in the weather.
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Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
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From Rerik I drove to Kühlungsborn. Another one of the old sea side resorts.
And like in the other towns with that kind of reputation I had difficulties adapting to them. I prefer smaller places with less people. Of course it was really nice just not really my type of place. At least not in direct comparison.
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.
A sheeps bit scabious holding its own momentarily in a swirling sea of dandelion ,clover and wild grasses
Canon EOS 5DS with a Canon EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM lens.
I want to thank you for taking the time to visit my little space here on Fickr and will apologize in advance if I don't get to see your images as quickly as possible for the next week as we are super busy with routine medical appts.
Although I could see him hiding behind the clump of Marram grass, the Snow Buntings couldn't.
Fortunately for the SBs the male Kestrel didn't manage to grab one - bit unfortunate for my chances of an award winning photo though - but I don't mind :-).
I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
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Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
Iowa Northern Railway train BUWA has IANR 4100, 3809, 3802, and 3803 for power on this December Sunday to make the run from Butler Yard near Shell Rock, Iowa to Bryant Yard in Waterloo. The train had 75 cars out of Butler, but have brought the head 15 into the CN Waterloo Yard for interchange. In the background EJE 667, still in orange, is paused in between it's duties as the yard switch engine, and a few other motors are laying around at the engine facility including EJE 658 in CN paint.
The CN is in the process of purchasing the IANR but is still awaiting STB approval, and so this is perhaps a bit of a look into the future. Meanwhile the past is well represented in this view too, as the Illinois Central Roundhouse here in the background has been present in at least in some form, (it's had stalls added and removed over the years) back to as far as 1901 (and possibly longer, it was hard to pin down a good date for the roundhouse construction from just some quick online research).
The Iowa Northern Railway uses the CN Mainline in Waterloo and Cedar Falls for a few miles from Waterloo West to Cedar Falls Junction as part of an arrangement going back to the 1980s and a highway project that saw the consolidation of some lines in Waterloo to make room for US 218. Normally from what I've seen the interchange work is typically done by the IANR in either direction at some siding tracks just west of Waterloo West and so they don't come into the yard like this. But occasionally when traffic warrants the CN will have the IANR come directly into the "A Yard" here at the Waterloo Terminal to make their setout and pickup as seen here. They would tie onto a cut of cars and shove back out of the yard to the rest of their train waiting on the mainline.
I had gone out after this BUWA even though it was likely to be a cloudy day because IANR 4100 on the point is one of the road's newest units (arrived to the IANR in August 2023 per some online notes, though it's originally a C&O unit) and still looks pretty sharp. But it was a nice bonus to get them making this less-common move, and this angle normally would be a heavily backlit-view if the sun were present.