Screw through the bracket, 3/4 inch frame or 19mm square frame.

26 december 2019

#sliderssunday

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!

Taken on our few days in South Yorkshire

I like the colours, textures and variety of tree brackets

Thank you all who fave and comment on my photo'/video's,much appreciated.And thank you all for looking.

Darmstadt - Oberfeld

Even on rainy days there are still interesting objects to photograph.

Can anyone identify this bracket fungus? It's on a dead spruce stump.

Sextenstein is a small mountain (2539 m) of the Dolomites located in the Three Peaks Nature Park in South Tyrol.

During World War I it served the Italian army in fighting the Austro-Hungarian troops who were on the top of the nearby Torre di Toblin. This picture shows the southern side of the mountain, the tunnels built by the Italian troops are still visible.

In spite of that, today those tunnels seem to serve fellow photographers in need of shelter for the night so that they can take lots of nice pictures 😉

Great egret Miami, Florida, USA.

No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com

Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus. Architects McLaughlin & Harvey.

All rights reserved - © Judith A. Taylor

More architectural fragments on my web site : Fine Art Mono Photography

College Park, MD

Darmstadt - Vorgarten

Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica Lower (fertile) surface with tubes and pores; watery droplets are exuded mainly from margin region and from the pores. Very bitter taste. It may turn ochre-brown when old. Usually on felled trunks and large fallen branches of conifers; very occasionally on the timber of hardwood trees.

From my archives.

Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. I very much appreciate it.

in the forest of Oftersheim

Wat Tyler Country Park

Snowy Egret meets itself on the surface of Horsepen Bayou as it prepares for another strike on the hapless baitfish.

Misty scene at Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

Took another trip to Savernake Forest last weekend as fog/mist was forecast. I decided I'd try a different bit of the forest from where I've been snapping the veteran oak trees. There was a bit of mist around first thing but not as much as was forecast and it seemed to disappear by about 2 hours after sunrise. I had just packed away and was walking back to the car when the sun rose above the the tree canopy and suddenly there were light beams coming through catching a bit of mist that wasn't visible until then. Couldn't pass that up so out came the gear and I snapped away for a few mins. I quite liked this one and although I did take some bracketed shots just in case this is a single exposure.

Thanks for viewing and hope you all have a great day/weekend.

© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.

Usually in woodland I try to eliminate as the sky or as much of it from the frame. The obvious reason for this is that inevitability the sky, no mater what the day is like will blow out the highlights, as the dynamic range is too much. Sometimes to capture a scene you need to include a big lump of sky. You can’t really use a ND grad as it will darken the intruding branches and foliage, so you need to either bracket the scene or reduce the exposure. Given the great DR latitude of our modern camera more often than not from a 3 frame bracket I only use 2 or in the end go with the darkest one.

Couple of days back I came across this tall tree covered with lots of bracket fungi. Interesting!!! This is only a portion of the tree. Recommend large view.

Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. I very much appreciate it.

B&P RISI heads North through the Mt. Jewett control point in Mt. Jewett, PA.

Was glad to finally be able to photograph these signals in clouds, as under normal operating times, this shot would be completely backlit,

Taken at Victoria Park, which is located in the town of Truro, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

my thoughts on the laowa 65mm:

www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

66108 heads 4D47, the 13.40 Inverness Freight Sidings DRS to Mossend Up Yard around the curves and past the bracket signal just south of Dunkeld and Birnham Station, on the Highland Line, Tuesday 18.4.23

Edition 2 of the Phoenix Journal is now available to view via the following link:

issuu.com/phoenix-rpc/docs/prpc_journal_issue_2_winter_2023

On a log on the trial to Pam's Grotto

Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.

The appropriately named “Scarlet Bracket” Pycnoporus coccineus (garden fungi) is one of the most common and colourful brackets that can be found even in dry weather growing on sticks and wood. Orange scarlet in colour, these fan shaped, firm bracket mushrooms attach themselves along the straight edge to wood. Their size is very variable. Juveniles are a lovely scarlet colour; the underside is a deeper colour and consists of fine pores. As this fungus ages, the bracket gets larger. The surface colour also tends to fade with age and exposure to strong sunlight – in fact some old specimens are bleached to white, but usually the pores retain some colour.

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 23rd of October is “mushrooms”. On one of my walks a few months ago when the weather had begun to change from winter to warmer spring, I chanced across these Scarlet Bracket mushrooms attached to the dead branch of an old prunus tree which had been heavily pruned. I was only photographing the prunus blooms and then I noticed this colourful survivor clinging to a branch. I was so taken with the colour in contrast to the pink of the blossom, the grey of the wood and azure sky that I decided to take a photograph of it. Now I’m glad I did, as I feel that it is perfect for this week’s theme. I do hope that you like my choice, and that it makes you smile.

-2, 0, +2 EV.

Use right-arrow to see the combination (HDR), the left-arrow to return.

Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)

29 August 2018, Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall

www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/cuttle-pool

Sous l'œil attentif,

Fleurs révèlent leurs secrets,

Beauté infinie.

Under attentive gaze,

Flowers unveil their secrets,

Infinite beauty.

View from underneath showing the pores. Not sure of the ID of this species? See photo (1) also. Spotted at the JFK Arboretum.

Part of a bracket fungus (I think) growing out, in the vicinity of a large tree that we had to have taken down a few years ago. Apparently there's still tree material down there in the soil. This was about as large as a plate. I like the colors.

This is probably Ganoderma.

Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

on a tree in Abbey Park, Pershore

A St Joe local works west past the bracket at Riverside about four miles west of Cincy.

NS 127 is southbound on Nº2 Track by Spring at Atlanta, Georgia with CBFX SD60M 6023 followed by a NS C44-9W and LTEX SD60M in October 2018.