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I’m not a hardcore birder, I shoot only when both the opportunity and mood arise simultaneously, both of which does not happen very often.
I remember feeling challenged shooting this bird and as such it was a great experience.
1. Tiny bird, smaller even than the common Kingfisher but way more colourful.
2. This being a Forest Kingfisher, it’s always in the thicket, never in the open. Had to shoot at very low shutter speed hoping to catch it in between twitches just to keep ISO low enough to preserve details. Being as dim as it was, had to also boost up the EV to avoid having to do any shadow recovery.
3. 600mm even on APS-C crop was barely sufficient.
4. Trying to squeeze out as much details as possible. Used normal wireless release via OVF; MUP+EFC; Live-view, none made any consistent and significant difference. This was where I got a little mad at Nikon’s useless implementation of EFC on the D500, even more useless than the auto AF fine-tune feature. What’s the point of putting in features that don’t really work!? EFC in Live-view would have helped but infuriatingly, you can activate EFC in Live-view yet you can’t use EFC in Live-view, get your act together Nikon!
5. Getting the right pose with the beak pointing sideways and preferably upwards for the slightly haughty look plus some catch-light in the eye.
An experience to remember. a most beautiful bird, its red feathers extend down the centre back of its head to the collar in a narrowing ridge looking like its beak with the dark blue patches on each side of this ridge giving it the appearance of having eyes and beak at the back of its head! This is likely a defensive marking. Especially interesting when the Micronesia Kingfisher became extinct in the wild due to introduced brown tree snake sneaking up on it from behind while the bird was totally focused ahead and below as kingfishers normally do.
Shooting very small birds is always challenging as conditions constantly change with the subject constantly on the move while you aim for that perfect pose which can disappear in a twitch.
I toyed with the idea of getting the Sony a99ii with A-mount Tamron 150-600mm G2 after this but gave it up eventually. It’s not feasible to shoot with so many different systems.
Shot on tripod at 1/15s!
Uploaded a much better image (albeit cropped) with my latest post processing workflow.
Finaly I almost finished my dwarf army, I had started to do in far 2013. I tried to make it similar to Warhammer FB tabletop game.
In Bryce Canyon, looking up toward the rim. The two barely visible people are descending the same trail I'd just come down.
Taken in 1956 when, I was 16, with a Leica M3 and 35mm f/2 Summicron. The EXIF identifies the scanner I used to digitized the Kodachrome 25 slide, not the camera.
Taken in the lake District last year. The title suggested itself as all things are dwarfed by the mountains. This little tree seemed to be the only one in church praying to the Gods on high.
Marin Dwarf Flax, Hesperolinon congestum. A rare rank 1B.1 serpentine endemic that's listed as a State and Federally Threatened species.
Passengers walking between the NCL Star on the left and the Caribbean Princess on the right look so small.
While I have no possibilities to build with real bricks, I tried to create the atmosphere of battle with virtual bricks. May be you are tired from my Dwarfs and Warhammer themes, but I am not yet.
I like my old MOC Organ Gun very much and I think and this picture not the last one where I use this tiny artillery.
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Ottmar Hörls "Einheitsmännchen", eine Installation zur deutschen Wiedervereinigung
An installation for the German reunification.
Some of the structures around Taj Mahal are stunning examples of Mughal Architecture and would've made fantastic tourist destinations by themselves. But, they are dwarfed both literally and in terms of their stature, standing next to the majestic Taj Mahal.
This building is one such example. It is part of the boundary wall surrounding Taj Mahal.
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This wind-bitten tree, a semi dwarf, an exile,
leans its trunk
against the fence's barbs, its scars etched
from weathering.
Nearby fields lie barren.
What secret impulse rose into this wayward
flowering? Limbs droop, arthritic,
each
lacquered, blood-red fruit a gemstone
in waning light.
Half the tree seems blighted. Where
the trunk splits
leeward and overhangs the milkweeds, leaves
curl and brown, berries puckered to black kisses.
This final act is playing out far afield,
unnoticed
by whoever owns
the land. The tree, untended, needs amputation.
Or would such severing
quicken
its demise? A sparrow flutters off, in no mood
for rumination. Who knows
if under peeling bark some force still slumbers?
And so this tree
buries deep its life lines
and holds up its bitter end, its cancering
for all to see:
sky, endless blue, fading day, clouds in flight.
And so we.
--Miguel deO
A pair of CSX AC motors lead by SD70AC #4716 is getting underway from Grand Rapids with Toledo-bound freight Q334 in tow. The train has just passed under the old Pere Marquette cantilever at Godfrey Ave, which would stand here for a few more years before being reitred. Q334 was usually always a very large and heavy train, largely thanks to the vast amount of casting sand off of the Michigan Shore. The large cut of 2 bay hoppers on the head end illustrates this well.
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A revisit of an old idea to make a minifig playing on the words "dwarf star". I might incorporate him into an loh story, he looks like he might fit there. (As a villain, of course. I have waaaay too many heroes already. :P )
Dwarf Candlestick banksia.
As well as being pollinated by and being the provider of food to a vast range of animals particularly in the summer months the candlestick banksia is known to have a lifespan of 300 years.
Among the recipients of its succulence are the honeyeater and the honey possum both of which play an important role as pollinators.
The shrub has the capacity for regeneration from bushfire with the regrowth coming from the epicormics buds that are located within its trunk or from its base known as a lignotuber.
Banksia attenuata,or dwarf candlestick banksia is found only in the southwest of Western Australia however it is available in other parts of Australia at nurseries.
Mount Annan Botanical Gardens.
Mount Annan, New South Wales, Australia.
Sulawesi Dwarf-Kingfisher, Ceyx fallax
Captured in the North Sulawesi, lowland forest at Tangkoko N.P. A tiny, multicolored forest kingfisher with carrot-orange colored bill confined to Sulawesi.
Grey Birch in a Dwarf Pitch Pine Barren on the Shawangunk Ridge near Sams Point. Dwarf Pine Barrens are very rare, fire dependent, environments.
The dwarf witch alder (Fothergilla gardenii) is a tall shrub I’ve had in my garden for many years, and each spring I marvel at its unusual flowers.
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I had to cancel my trip to Costa Rica in April (obviously) to celebrate my friend's 50th Birthday :-( Hope I can get there for my yearly trip in October to see everyone and for the exciting photo opportunities like this Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine.
(Yet another updated build) Kashyyyk aquatic variant dwarf spider droid moc. Only change this time around is the antenna, but it does make a big difference. Looking back at my previous attempt, the 5L bar I used looks ridiculous.