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For some reason this makes me think of a bad dream. Hummmmmmmmmmm, maybe because it is just bad????
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You could hear a collective intake of breath from the neighbours when Harry shouted to me in the garden 'MUM!! YOU'VE LEFT YOUR WEED SEED ALL OVER THE TABLE!!!!
Little, erm, wotsit!!!
Teeny tiny Scabious seeds on blue perspex.
Deploy sunglasses, and view *large*
I could be wrong w/the female ID.....the dots on its neck seem a bit too prominent for the female. It could be a very young hatch year male.
Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.
As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.
I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.
* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.
This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.
A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
Critique welcome.
1955 Chevy - after short Google search.
52 Weeks of 2022
Week No. 24: I wish I could fly
Category: Flying Technique
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This is a story of ex beverage factory
Ride from famous glory to ebb tide
Once Maraska was Croatian pride,
Now it is forgotten like an old hooker.
Today it looks spooky as Alice Cooper,
My photo is artistic onlooker.
It’s a perfect spooky space
For making Hollywood horror movies
Factory facade is like an Iggy Pop scary face.
Location can be cool place for filming
New part of a cult Danish movie Pusher.
I can fell smell of greenback if James Wan make remake
Of old dog horror movie The Pack.
Perhaps someone could rearrange factory to horror house - Bates motel.
If it wasn't in so weak condition
Then it could be a cool place for children game hide & seek
Now it’s maybe too late for renovation
I wish to thanks to this abandoned factory
That gave me inexhaustible inspiration.
Maraska became mystic & pessimistic ruin
People laziness and negligence made it undoing.
P.s. In the future I will upload photo of dark room on third floor, on this image you can see windows from dark room in the middle. In this picture you see how back facade look terrible from backyard. You also saw view from third floor and staircase in previous photographs シ.
I recommend you songs: Alice Cooper - Pick Up the Bones, Iggy Pop - Love Transfusion, The Dudes Of Wrath - Shocker.
Photo was explored on Flickr, place 112 / 500.
So many places to go. So many things to experience. If only we could be more like the water. Each little rivulet finds its way down a path, exploring from place to place. It may meet a choke point and mix with the rest, but then it spreads out and quests the edges of its reality once more. All the while, it's always moving, always en route to the next place. In the end, it always finds a way to get where it's going.
Polaroid Pronto!
Polaroid 600 film
I haven't really felt like sharing much work this year. I'm not going to apologise. I'm pretty sure hardly anyone noticed.
I did manage a couple of trips out with the camera earlier in the year though, and now I have a little more time on my hands I have slowly been working my way through the RAW files.
I had high hopes for this shot as soon as I took it. A classically dressed lady with umbrella, rushes through a London street that could easily be mistaken for a film set. Straight away I thought of 'Mary Poppins' although I'm sure its not.
The Fujifilm XPro2 did well on this night despite the torrential rain.
One could get lost trying to map out the epic landscape of the Palouse, so many roads to 'nowhere'. Again I failed to annotate where this was, sorry. Have a safe, fun, and as dry as can be Halloween all! :-)
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this goatsbeard (Tragopogon dubius or western salsify) plant growing on our acreage! I love experimenting with the seedheads!!
Tragopogon dubius (western salsify, western goat's-beard, wild oysterplant, yellow salsify, yellow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, salsify) [...] has been introduced into North America where it has become widespread, being reported from all the continental United States except for a few in the far south-east, and all provinces of Canada except Newfoundland and the northern territories.
Like most salsifies, the Western Salsify grows as an annual or occasionally biennial forb, reaching a height of typically 20-60 cm but sometimes almost a metre. It grows typically in warm, sheltered spots with moist soil. Its yellow flower is 4-6 cm in diameter and is likely to be seen in late spring or early summer. The flowers open early in the morning and often close up by late afternoon. Later the plant forms a seed head that resembles that of the dandelions but is distinctly larger. The seeds themselves (known as achenes) are 2-4 cm long but featherweight, weighing about 8 mg each on average. [...]
That right there is some of the best skies I've ever shot, those bright colors streaking across the sky, something only a sunrise could give (a sundown gives more pink and red).
For those who do not remember my story from the other Iverson post, allow me to reiterate. Earlier in my photo career, before DirtyGlassEye, I was given a task to get 5 separate photos, all at a different time of day, and in a different location. I tried hard not to rely on Hood as my subject cause 1. It wasn't out a whole lot this season, 2. Everyone else does that here.
I arrived at the tulip fields when it was still dark and set up shop at the edge of the blooming fields (they change the pad locations every year to keep the soil pure, or at least that's what I've heard). It was around 40-50 degrees, a little chilly, but just the way I like it. If you're in the Pacific Northwest and don't like the cold then what ya doin here at all?
Anyways, I combed the rows for a bit before I found this pink John Deer which would be a great subject. So I setup and waited. Now that I think about it, I should've brought a foldable chair, fortunately the ground was dry and not muddy, it's been a little while since it last rained.
After about an hour the sky started to light up, with the sun still out of the frame and clouds reaching across my backdrop I stood there and shot. It could not have been more perfect. Because the light on the flowers wasn't that great I just made it lighter in editing, but that sky is still in it's original state. For how much I chastised the sky in my other shots, calling it the most uncooperative element of all my photos (and I stand by that), for this particular shot, it could not have been better.
Could be London, England. Could Dublin, Ireland
but it's NYC, USA (and I probably should of placed in on the right side of the street.)
and the car is a 1922-1924 Bullnose Morris Crowley tourer one of only two cars recorded at the 2024 Geneva Concours.
She smiled "It could be fun" she said. :)
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Someone mentioned that I could see up to 200 meteors per hour. I certainly saw many of them last night.
While I was waiting for them I thought that this might be a fun exercise to play around with in Photoshop. It felt appropriate. I copied 25 images and zoomed in on each one of them. Then I used the Multiply Filter and added the sky back to a signal original image. Enjoy!
#MacroMonday
#Reflection
So I seriously debated with myself if I could / should upload this or rather skip... It's the typical "I wasted a sunny Sunday (and half of a free and equally sunny Monday) at home trying to get my MM shot right capture" (arrrrghrrrrrrrr!)...;-) My idea behind this was that there are two sides to every coin, thing, debate, person... The side everyone sees, and, at least when it comes to a person, a more private, sometimes even hidden side. So you see I was getting very philosophical with this - when everything could have been so easy, simple and straightforward. But just like it is with so many other things: they are easy when they aren't required (and I have quite a few nice and easy reflections in my MM gallery). But when they are... I started off with a very simple take on my idea, the "Sun" and "Moon" cards of my tiny Tarot deck of cards (I Tarocchi Più Piccoli del Mondo - The Smallest Tarot in the World by artist Antonio Lupatelli) glued together back to back with modeling clay and then fixated on a small black tile with modeling clay as well at an angle that would allow a nice reflection. So far, so good - or not. The image turned out well, but of course the "La Luna" print on the "dark side" of the card was, you've guessed it, mirror-inverted. Not exactly unexpected, but I think the image didn't work with the "La Luna" label the wrong side round. So what to do? The easy thing would have been to rotate and flip that part of the card in Photoshop back to a readable "La Luna". But that would have been cheating. So I decided to add another reflective surface (an old, scratched pocket mirror - that ugly "line" you can see is the edge of the mirror) and re-reflect the "La Luna" - and by doing so also mirror the "Il Sole". Four sides of a coin, if you like. Before all of it gets too confusing, I'd rather stop (and have I mentioned the dust? I'd rather not...). I don't recall the processing steps, but there were many, because I did a manual focus stack to get both the Sun and reflected Moon card sharp and sort of equally well exposed (which wasn't easy, because the Moon card, reflected by the black tile, was always either too dark or the rest of that single shot was far too bright). One thing: I took the focus-stacked image into Analog Efex and added a very big, dark vignette. I realise that this would have been perfect for Sliders Sunday as well ;-)
For size, please check the image in the second comment. I'd already used these tiny tarot cards for two other MM themes, and in that image you can see how small the cards really are.
Thank you most sincerely for viewing and reading, a Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a relaxed week ahead!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich mal wieder sehr spät dran bin, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den obigen Text in DeepL übersetzen zu lassen, falls Interesse besteht. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche :-)
No way could I pass a opportunity to shoot something with the beautiful sky.
Of course this was on my way to shoot swans.
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I could hardly believe it when I saw this beautiful log in Lake Dobson in Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. It reminded me of a dragon.
You could occasionally get this back in the day!
It may have been the last Scania to work this route but I'm not 100% sure.
Real 27 goes to Chiswick Business Park by the way, screw that awful awful Hammersmith Grove curtailment, so not on
I could just see my dogs trying to get to the ceiling of this cavern to taste some of that nice looking 'bacon' :))
Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia
I could joke that this little fellow was just being very shy but actually this was the best i could get hahaha, i was just too slow for it and its friends.
This picture has been cropped.
Seagulls at Bang Pu, Thailand; captured by Apple iPhone4, no edit.
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This beautiful Lady knew I was disappointed when we didn't get to have a big first wedding. So she took it upon herself to secretly rent land, decorate, send out invitations, hire the officiant as well as entertainment. With a little help from Family she managed to pull all this off on top of keeping it hidden from me until two days prior so I could prepare. Not only was this an AMAZING two year anniversary surprise, but I'm also the luckiest man alive to have such a wonderful Wife and Family in my life.
Three seperate creeks merge at a single location with three beautiful waterfalls in Glacier Park, MT.
I had to wake up at 2:30 am to drive 2 hours so I could hike in the dark with a headlamp while trying to avoid the local grizzly bear population just to be here at first light. Not a bad way to spend the morning.
Shot with a tripod placed in the middle of the center creek. 8 second expsoure.
Could you live in an area that secluded?
The next city with more than 2000 inhabitants is several hours of driving away...
While I really enjoy a vacation of a few weeks or maybe a month in loneliness I can't see myself living like that permanently (as of right now).
I could take the flower and stem off the body, but I didn't,, This picture is so old there is not a date enbeded in the file
I could try to sell this as a CP 1001 leader shot but the truth is, it is on the tail-end of train 419 for testing.
The 1001 is paired up with 3084 for these tests, while the 8821 is the legit tail-end remote for the train.
CP 419 tail-end power: CP 1001 (CP H20EL) - CP 3084 (EMD GP38-2) - CP 8821 (GE ES44AC)
Rolleiflex Sl 66, Delta400, DDX 1+4
I heard a terrifying scream."I am dying". This is my sad story about trees ...
Respect them so quickly they leave. One day we will understand what we have lost, but it may be too late to save them.I wish it was just a bad dream. Let's wake up ...
If, like me, you hear "Help me." of your tree friends, please add today on your Flickr, a picture of a tree with the title "If trees could talk". Join those who understand the language of trees.
It's never too late to help.
I hope flickr becomes a virtual one big forest of great trees.
Will you join?
If you agree, I will gladly add your photo in the gallery "If trees could talk"
I greet everyone.
Painting creates silence. You could examine the objects themselves, the actors in a Dutch still life—this knobbed beaker, this pewter salver, this knife—and, lovely as all antique utilitarian objects are, they are not, would not be, poised on the edge these same things inhabit when they are represented.
These things exist—if indeed they are still around at all—in time. It is the act of painting them that makes them perennially poised, an emergent truth about to be articulated, a word waiting to be spoken. Single word that has been forming all these years in the light on the knife’s pearl handle, in the drops of moisture on nearly translucent grapes: At the end of time, will that word be said?”
[Mark Doty, from: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy]
You thought you could get out, didn't you?
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I could not tell you how often I have visited Ullapool, any excuse will do. It always has such a buzz it is a real tourist hot spot. I like to visit the harbour to see what is doing and I like this view back along Shore Street.
we are not separate
my daughter's shoulders are my shoulders
my son's hands my hands
my wife's heart my own heart
i've heard the outer darkness is really nice this time of year