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Sophisticated photo Double exposure or voluntary out of focus The woman in the foreground and In the background, a nocturnal landscape with lights reflected on the water works on visual layering, the near scene is obscured, the distant scene is sharp.
The photo has two competing centers And in that competition there is poetry.
"The hummingbird competes with the stillness of the air."
Chogyam Trungpa
White-throated hummingbird (Leucochloris albicollis)
Portuguese ID: Beija flor de papo branco
Measures about 10 centimeters.
A species without sexual dimorphism, it feeds on the nectar of flowers but also eats insects it captures in flight.
It makes its nest, a bowl of paina coated on the outside with mosses and lichens, on top of a horizontal branch or a fork. It puts two white eggs, which are incubated only by the female.
Wood Duck drakes, Suamico, Wisconsin USA.
The bird in the foreground being driven off by the other male who is paired with a nesting female on the pond.
Former BN GP38-2 2096 and BNSF 2377 switch the spurs to Pacific Terminals and Sea-Pac Transport Services in between a variety of trucks on Chelan Avenue Southwest in Seattle's Industrial District West.
Irises compete with new spring weeds along a fence line in Coloma. My money is on the weeds. They play the long game.
A block away from this scene James Marshall discovered gold along the American River, setting off one the greatest migrations of people in history.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Coloma CA
Compete with yourself, and you will never be bitter - ana
It was such a lovely day today
(Sometimes one does not have to do anything, to have a beautiful day)
So thought I would put up a second one...image that is ;)
Besides I just heard this tune and had to post it too :)))
Yup...You know I tend to do stuff like that ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1p2CIdas-Y
Have a beautiful weekend, my dear friends
See y'all in a few xxx
Credits:
Truckers Hat: Rebellion
Shade, shirt and necklace: Legal Insanity
Ears: Andore
Beard/hair applier: Volkstone
Lighting: LUMIPro
This is the Rose from my garden that I promised yesterday, to post today. It is competing with the yellow dahlia but will lose out for longevity as the dahlias stay longer. Still, it’s not bad for the middle of November!
Another image from my photo walk earlier this week to North Greenwich. This was the entrance area to an apartment complex but viewed side on. I liked the way the different shapes all imposed their way into the image with rectangles, horizontal lines, vertical lines, all of them competing for attention within the frame.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Two Common Carder Bumble bees for a heart is one too many : the one on the right was genly but firmly pushed away :)
Zoom in for more detail, mainly the proboscis of the right Bumblebee being inserted behind the small petal.
My SL~Amazing! Art Expo competion entry - presented at www.flickr.com/groups/14870065@N21/ - The SL~Amazing Art Expo competition
Sim: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tranquility%20Base/69/198/22
This cowgirl is 72 years old and still competing in barrel racing at the Russian River Rodeo. Looking closely, it appears that the horse is blind in its left eye.
Competing with the Dlugi Targ as the major tourist draw for the city is the riverbank of the Matlawa River. Alas at the moment there is a huge amount of regeneration work ongoing so the West Bank isn’t seen at its best.
The two key subjects here are the Zuraw (the Crane) which dates back to the 15th century. It was hand powered, the largest such example in Europe and capable of lifting 2 tonne (I thought it might have been more than that). At the end of WW2 it was blown up, but has since been rebuilt, like much of Gdansk.
Also seen at the other side on the photo is the MV Soldek, a coal and ore freighter which holds the distinction of being the first cargo boat of note built in Poland after the conclusion of WW2.
Shoalhaven Heads Sunset - Panorama
Pentax K1 w DFA 15-30/2.8
ISO 100 f/11 -3.3 and -0.7ev
30 frames (15 x 2 exposures) HDR stitched in Lightroom, bit of levelling in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5, tweaked in Topaz Denoise and finished off in DxO PhotoLab 6
The birch wants the last word.
The aspens chatter in the breeze.
Fighting to the last
for all the glory of
saying the last thing
until next spring.
With the moonlight over my shoulder highlighting the rocks in the foreground the predawn glow made for interesting lighting overall ...
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO400 f/8 30s (+1.7ev - sometimes the light meter struggles with the ultra wide lens in competing conditions).
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked/aligned in Affinity Photo 2, luminosity blended in ON1 Photo Raw 2023, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
This was shot at Brookgreen Gardens, near Murell's Inlet, South Carolina, as was a very similar image posted in late 2019 or so. This is a brick walkway, shadowed by the lattice structure above it and the trees above that. What I like here is the way the different patterns compete for my attention, making me feel a bit nuttier than usual: the virtually black shadow, the bricks and their different types and colors, and the variable colors of sunlight on the bricks caused by trees overhead letting different amounts of sunlight through. Just as I manage to focus on one pattern, another grabs my attention and the former is lost.
The history of Brookgreen Gardens is pretty interesting. Anna Hyatt Huntington was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century, when female artists generally garnered little respect. With her husband, Archer Huntington, they bought four old plantations around 1929, totaling over 9,000 acres, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic coast, in order to showcase her sculptures. Over time, they acquired works by a few dozen other American figurative sculptors, with a total of some 1400 works. The sculpture garden takes up about 550 acres; there is also a zoo, and several nature trails. For me, the gardens were a little more interesting than the sculpture, but enjoying it all together was pretty wonderful. The coastal areas have been leased to the state of North Carolina, forming Huntington Beach State Park. If you ever get down that way, check it out; otherwise, Google it. (They're not paying me anything for this brief review.)
This is the very first shot I took at Cala de la Vinyeta, in Calella, Catalunya (Spain).
It was well before dawn - the faintest light of the sun was struggling her way above the horizon as the stars were trying to keep asserting their supremacy.
Unluckily the darkest thing within the range of a kilometer was the screen of my camera. The focus is soft, but I think that the image has a remote atmosphere I like very much, so at last I have decided to upload it.
Apart from a bit of denoising and a delicate glowing touch, this shot is essentially SOOC. I would like very much to receive some useful advice about shooting in those light conditions and processing the resulting images :-)
Back to the processing of the following upload now - a picture of the lighthouse of Calella :-)
Competing in the UNLIMITED Class; "Hi-Tec Oils" #10 with Michael Cunningham driving along with Narelle Grayland during the evening qualifying session at the Penrite V8 Superboats meet at Temora.
New South Wales, Australia.
Loved how the tree and sunset worked with each other ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW
A Grevillea flower does its best to compete with some bokehgons from a HELIOS-44M 58mm f2 lens, wide open.
This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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