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Curves and Lingerie - because feeling sexy isn't limited to one size ❤
Photography & Retouching: Dave XX Photo
Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos
Mortimer figured he made a clean getaway. He had a two hour lead on the posse. There was no way they could track him!
Bakersfield, California 2010
I hope I have this ID correct. There are lots of similar looking juvies now flying. I have observed this species to be nesting in this area in prior years. (If you can more confidently ID this bird please comment.) This is our common low-altitude Hummer in my native New Mexico. This guy was hanging around another juvenile that was barely flying. The lime green background is a heavy coating of duckweed covering this pond.
IMG_8224; Black-chinned Hummingbird
My face when I realise I have nothing but shoots, lounging by the pool, reading and catching up with family and friends for the next 2 weeks. Happy Christmas Holidays everyone <3
Photography & Retouching: Dave Lucas
Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos
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On a side note, if you are someone who finds the holidays to be a difficult period, please ask for help. See a doctor, get a referral for a free mental health plan and talk to a professional about what you can do to help yourself feel better. So many problems in life can be fixed. If you can't see a way, talk to a professional. The skills they can give you to improve your life are literally life saving
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Heading back to the Bali mainland after visiting the Balinese Hindu temple complex on Menjangan Island off the north west coast of Bali. The island is popular with snorkeling day trippers and now has a few small tourist resorts . The island is an important pilgimage destination for the devout Balinese. 'Menjangan' is Indonesian for the 'deer' that roam freely and confidently everywhere on the island.
L’oiseau qui se trouve à l’extérieur de la cage semble discuter avec son compagnon qui lui est resté enfermé alors que la porte est ouverte, cette cage qui est là en remplacement de la tête du personnage.
N’y a-t-il pas dans cette représentation, comme dans l’œuvre de R. Magritte « Thérapeute » le symbole de la difficulté de faire sortir de sa tête les mauvaises pensées, les mauvais souvenirs, sans avoir recours à une tierce personne qui serait en dehors de l’univers du personnage.
C’est le rôle de l’oiseau, d’ailleurs c’est peut-être lui qui a entrouvert la porte de la cage, à la manière d’un psychiatre ou plus modestement d’un confident .
C’est la démonstration que l’être humain en difficulté à souvent pour se libérer besoin d’une aide extérieure.
Dans le tableau de R.Magritte nous avons la représentation du voyageur avec sa canne et son baluchon, idée de voyage que l’on retrouve dans « Le confident » avec le bateau blanc qui navigue au loin.
ragazzi... gli exif parlano chiaro...10 metri!!
questo giovane grizzly ha sentito il profumino di uova e bacon che stavo preparando per colazione in un'area camper nei pressi di Denali NP, Alaska.
E' sbucato dai cespugli alle mie spalle con aria sorniona.... Laura ha solo detto " prendi la macchina foto, abbiamo un problema..."
il 300 2.8 montato è risultato lungo.. no crop!
ecco il file a pieno formato
My Labby Nero, don´t know i´m taking him.
He dont like picturetaking... ;-)))
OM Digital Solutions OM-1
OM 150-600mm F5.0-6.3 + MC-20
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Photo by Ren Matsura
Models. Ren Matsura & Gretel Bulloch
When I am wandering with my camera, I sometimes see things that make me think of specific photographs and photographers that I admire and that inspire me. I am confident I am not alone in this. Here’s the first in what I hope will be a series (albeit sporadic) of photographs that I took in the shadow of that inspiration. Not to say that the resulting photographs are inspired or inspiring, or can stand alongside the photographs or photographers that inspired them. Instead, they are tributes, however humble, and an excuse to highlight a few of the photographs and photographers that I carry about in my head and heart as I look at the world.
The first image in this series is of an early morning scene that made me immediately think of one of my all-time favourite photographs, Arco Hotel (1979), by Greg Girard. Here is a link to that image (among others): monteclarkgallery.com/girard-sander-list/ And here is a link to the artist’s site: www.greggirard.com/
Greg Girard has an outstanding body of work. His book, Under Vancouver, is a particular favourite and I look at it often. If you are not familiar with his work, do yourself a favour and take a look.
On the narrow path, opens the horizon,
A loss of sight extends his gaze,
Drunk with this thinly disguised light,
Sublime torture, should he go?
What good look for happiness without finding him before his death,
Like a grain of sand, lost in the desert,
Isolated, he wants to give up halfway,
Stay there in the dark?
Confident that he can finally live again,
Give up and live again,
His memories they will disappear,
Give up and live again.
Frédéric Burguet - Between World & Words © - fall 2015
I can already tell this is going to be an amazing year for creative collaborations <3
Photography & Retouching: Chameleon Eye Photography
Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos
A full-body portrait of a confident blonde woman standing in a rural farm setting. She has long, wavy platinum hair, defined facial features with subtle makeup, and a direct, engaging gaze. Her attire combines rustic and revealing elements: an unbuttoned blue-and-white plaid shirt held open by her hands, a white bra, frayed denim shorts exposing a hint of white underwear, and brown embroidered cowboy boots. She stands with one leg slightly bent, hands gripping the shirt’s edges, accentuating her toned midriff and athletic stance. Soft, diffused natural daylight illuminates the scene, casting gentle shadows and highlighting skin texture. The background features weathered wooden barns and lush green grass, softly blurred to emphasize depth. A rough-hewn fence post occupies the left foreground, adding rustic framing. Shot with a shallow depth of field using a medium telephoto lens, the image exhibits high realism, sharp focus on the subject, and cinematic color grading—evoking a glossy lifestyle or fashion editorial style with country aesthetics.
This is a harp shell, most confidently identified as Harpa species, family Harpidae. It is the shell of a marine gastropod rather than a bivalve: the image shows a coiled spire, successive whorls, and part of the aperture at the left. The tall, regularly spaced axial ribs and the alternating cream, amber, reddish-brown, and dark-brown markings are strongly characteristic of harp shells.
The crop does not contain enough diagnostic information to determine the species reliably. Harpa harpa, Harpa major, and Harpa articularis can have broadly similar ribbing and coloration. A species-level identification would require complete dorsal and apertural views, the shell's overall proportions and dimensions, a dependable rib count, details of the lip and columella, and preferably collection locality. The strongest defensible identification from this photograph is therefore Harpa sp.
Description
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a single shell, concentrating on the spire and the deeply sculptured outer surface. The low apex lies to the right of center, surrounded by successively widening whorls. Broad axial ribs rise sharply from the surface and sweep outward across the whorls, producing a repeating sequence of illuminated crests and narrow shadowed recesses.
Cream and pale-yellow areas alternate with amber, rust, burgundy, and dark chocolate-brown markings. Thin transverse bands cross the ribs, dividing them into irregular blocks and emphasizing the shell's underlying spiral growth. Fine parallel striations, small scratches, pale specks, slight surface wear, and variations in gloss are visible throughout.
The shell occupies most of the frame and extends beyond the top, right, and bottom edges. Part of the dark reddish aperture appears at the lower left, but most of the opening and the shell's complete outline remain outside the composition. A broad area of cool blue-black negative space balances the densely detailed shell on the left. Directional light from above and the right catches the rib crests, while the intervening shadows reveal their pronounced relief.
Discussion
The magnification changes the shell from a recognizable specimen into a nearly abstract construction. Its ribs resemble overlapping shingles, architectural buttresses, folded fabric, or a succession of geological terraces.
The spiral apex supplies a visual anchor, while the expanding ribs carry the eye outward toward the frame edges. Cropping the shell before its outline becomes legible removes an immediate sense of scale; the subject can appear either microscopic or monumental.
The image is organized around repetition with variation. Every rib follows the same basic structural rhythm, yet its color, wear, reflective sheen, and transverse markings differ.
That tension between biological order and individual irregularity gives the surface vitality. The pattern documents growth, but it also operates independently as color and geometry.
The warm ivory, amber, orange, and burgundy shell is set against a cool blue-gray background, creating strong warm-cool separation. Illuminated yellow crests seem to project forward, while the maroon recesses and nearly black aperture recede. The off-center spire prevents the composition from becoming diagrammatically symmetrical and gives the spiral a sense of continuing beyond the crop.
Rather than presenting the shell primarily as a taxonomic specimen, the photograph treats it as a landscape of accumulated structure. Fine abrasions, tiny particles, and variations in surface gloss prevent the object from appearing artificially perfect. They preserve a sense of material history and distinguish the shell's actual surface from a purely decorative pattern.
Technique
This is a 1,235-frame focus stack captured at 23-micron intervals. The stack contains 1,234 adjacent-frame intervals.
The complete sequence therefore spans approximately 28.38 mm of nominal focus-axis travel.
This figure describes the commanded focus or stage movement from the first frame to the last; it should not automatically be interpreted as 28.38 mm of usable subject depth, because optical geometry, magnification, overlap, and discarded frames can affect the final covered depth.
The supplied ZS PMax filename is consistent with processing in Zerene Stacker using the PMax method. PMax is well suited to a subject with abrupt relief and dense surface detail because it can retain the sharpest high-frequency information from many focal planes.
Here the stack keeps the apex, projecting ribs, recessed grooves, and much of the surrounding shell surface simultaneously resolved - far more depth than a single macro exposure would normally provide at comparable magnification.
That rendering also produces very strong microcontrast. Fine growth striations, scratches, dust, pale deposits, and reflective edge detail become unusually prominent. Some tiny bright specks and thread-like marks may be physical fibers or debris; isolated marks could also have been accentuated during stacking, but the photograph does not show a severe or dominant stacking failure.
The extensive frame count and small step size produce a highly continuous result across the shell's steep, overlapping relief.
Punta Arenas. It is the largest city south of the 46th parallel south.
Patagonia, Chile.
Latitude: -53° 09' 60.00" S
As the sun slips behind the mountains of patagonia, a puma emerges from the bushes after a day of sleeping through the warm temperatures, stead, confident unhurried stride echoing the stillness of the vast landscape of Patagonia.
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