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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.
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.
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
Had some great photos taken at the pond Yesterday with another Lily blooming to compete with this Bulls Eye Lily.
After the Female laid her eggs she posed for me on the flower, she even let me put my palm under her and touching her wings.
Credits:
Truckers Hat: Rebellion
Shade, shirt and necklace: Legal Insanity
Ears: Andore
Beard/hair applier: Volkstone
Lighting: LUMIPro
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
[Ayrton Senna]
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!
An old limb stretched his fingers upwards rustling hints of a faded autumn white it touched the others around him. A creation of wild confusion competing for the light while lush green layers cover the grey nurturing the aging limb. It will survive another spring. - Lynn Reket.
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
To compete for money prizes, you have to ride the Bronco for a minimum of 8 seconds and then be judged on your performance. This cowboy stayed on for well over 8 seconds.
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.
Competing with some ivory drapes, this beech stands out with the remains of its coppery leaves. Taken at Brush Hill Nature Reserve, Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire.
a flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. it just blooms.
♬ girl, just let me buy you flowers ♬
[SHIFUKU] - Tweed look @ Cupid inc.
♡ taken @ Zaanse Schans
Blog Post
sllorinovo.blogspot.ca/2015/10/black-as-night.html
Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Your eyes maybe whole
But the story I'm told
Is your heart is as black as night
You lips maybe sweet
Such that I can't compete
But your heart is as black as night
I don't know why it came along
At such a perfect time
But if I let you hang around
I'm bound to lose my mind
'Cause your arms maybe strong
But the feelings are all wrong
Your heart is as black as night
I don't know why it came along
At such a perfect time
But if I let you hang around
I'm bound to lose my mind
'Cause your hands maybe strong
But the feelings are all wrong
Your heart is as black
Your heart is as black
Oh, your heart is as black as night
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Competing for the light.
Infrared 720
Tree tops above Chapel Common in the South Downs National Park, England
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
I can now continue to reveal the competing images from the 2021 Sandwich Fair Competition.
These images continue the series from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.
Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.
It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.
SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.
This image is the front grill ove an Oliver tractor, one of the many vintage tractor brands that can be found in the antique tractor display.
2021 Category: Details
For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.
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.
David Piper competed in the Formula One World Championship in 1959, and then went on to race sports cars when he lost interest in single seaters. From 1962 until 1970, he often competed in his own cars at sports car events, incluidng 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Perhaps most famous for racing a multitude of Ferrari's, including the 250 GTO, 250 LM and the 512S, he also competed using his own Porsche 917K, and was involved in the filming of the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, where he crashed the 917K and lost part of his leg.
He also competed using the Lola T70 seen here with the Sandeman sponsorship livery and its original British Petroleum Green colour (the colour is impregnated into the bodywork itself). This Lola is chassis number SL76/150, delivered new to the David Piper Autoracing Modena team on the 7th March 1969, and was fitted with a 5ltr Bartz Chevrolet engine.
David Piper described the Lola as "such good value for a long distance sports racing coupe at that time. It was a big step forward in all areas over the Ford GT40 against which it was measured. The car was comfortable and east to drive with no vices at all."
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If you are the squeamish sort, you will likely never see a margined carrion beetle in the wild. These forest-dwelling beetles live on dead animals, the larger the better. Females lay their eggs in rotting flesh and upon hatching, larvae eat that decaying tissue. As a way of helping their young, adult margined carrion beetles eat the fly maggots that are competing with their larvae for rotten flesh. The larvae transform into adults by late summer and adults overwinter in the forest duff. Notice how much this margined carrion beetle looks like a firefly. Fireflies are very toxic and few predators bother them, so the margined carrion beetle likely benefits from that association - if the smell of rotting meat doesn't repel predators already😃 Margined carrion beetles are also useful in forensic investigations since their arrival at the crime scene can help determine the time of death - they show up after they've got some fly maggots to feed on.
Two major players competing for traffic in the viable transportation corridor that is the Columbia River Gorge momentarily roll past one another on the river's Washington banks at Dallesport in a side-by-side appearance made possible by some unbelievable luck. The 11,249 foot snow-capped peak of Mt. Hood looks down at eastbound garbage traversing both their respective playing fields as a 60-car H INBROO1 26A, fresh out of the siding following a meet with a Pasco to Longview freight, hustles on rails above while a much slower "Crown Point" tug painstakingly pushes its short barge toward the locks at The Dalles Dam in this region's never-ending "Dash for Trash." BNSF collects garbage from terminals all throughout the Pacific Northwest via a handful of local jobs that shuttle the loaded containers of waste to yards at both Interbay and Everett where several of these unit trash trains per day are assembled for forwarding to a landfill site at Republic Services in Roosevelt, WA. These moves closely resemble your normal intermodal trains, however with a rather distinct and unpleasant odor attached with them. Upon arrival, the containers are removed from their railcars and loaded onto trucks where rubber wheels bring the garbage its last few miles uphill to Republic's large dump site, which has the capacity for over 120 million tons of trash, fourth largest of its kind in the United States. Empties are then loaded back onto a waiting train and promptly sent back west to the cities for another load of stinky cargo, continuing the cycle. Union Pacific runs almost an identical operation of their own for Waste Management on the Oregon side of the river to and from a dump site near the town Arlington.
Some of railroad's EMD SD75Ms that often run these trash trains would've been the icing on the cake for this shot, but hard to complain here.
Leaves and they're pink/orange, behold!
PEOPLE OF FLICKR I am so proud of you! My amount of followers here has, as of now, overtaken my amount of likes on Facebook! You two are now gonna be competing!!!
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE APPRECIATION, IT KEEPS ME GOING <3 :D
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 :-)