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The effect is just bizarre here. Ironically, once I started to ignore these they began looking healthier!
Once again, Tassie turned on the weather for our trip to Bruny Island.
This shot was actually part of a panoramic, it wasn't meant to be a shot on its own. I'll eventually process the panorama, but for now I'll just enjoy the strong horizontal lines (which I so purposely set up, of course)
XXII International Cat Show in Wałbrzych (5-6.09.2009)
"I'm talkin' 'bout blue eyes, blue eyes
What's the matter, matter?"
Mika - "Blue Eyes"
Last night I made another excursion to the railroad tracks near where I live... unfortunately, the beautiful weather we'd had all day turned to very cloudy by the time nightfall came, so any shots I might have imagined the night before fell to the wayside.
I left the apartment too late to catch the 8:30 Amtrak arrival, so I missed the shot I wanted of that train. Actually, I hadn't realized it was almost 8:30 when I left the apartment, so I stopped to get something to eat and was about a minute or two late in getting to the tracks. Oops!
I nonetheless waited around the crossing for a train I could photograph, but was only beginning to set up the camera when one passed by. In all the years I've lived in these apartments, I've heard trains go by in what seems like twenty-minute intervals. Last night, not one train passed through once I got the camera set up. Of course, once I decided to call it a night and head to Quality Dairy for an ice cream cone (chocolate chip mint waffle cone... yum!), a freight came through. With ice cream cone in hand, I plopped the camera-on-tripod down along the tracks, pointed it at the Amtrak station boarding area and let it expose for thirty seconds.
So, this, though hardly remarkable, is what I got... as well as an idea for what to do the next time.
SOOC - long-ish exposure with a glowstick beginning to glow - I snapped it and then left it standing up. I was hoping to get some more details of the bubbles but it had to be a longer exposure for the light.
Taken on a 53 year-old lens. Meritar 50mm f/2.9 with an old extension tube and an EF adapter. Mounted on a tripod, against a window with a white piece of paper as the backdrop. Natural lighting, food colouring, a teaspoon and this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvWURUzj3Q
The Blue-throated Barbet (Megalaima asiatica) is an Asian barbet, seen across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a world-wide tropical distribution. The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills; this species eats fruits and insects.