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Great Egret Ardea alba, not exactly in prime condition. The drought has a harsh flow on effect. Trees are dying, the lovely lily pond is turning into a swamp, and the birds are suffering too.
Hoping for some rain-bearing clouds soon!
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Obviously this saying stems from the idea that if you grasp the nettle very firmly, it will not sting you - equally obviously the sayers had not met the viscious b****r who persists beneath my bay tree - the best stinger in the land........
As children we believed that rubbing dock leaves on nettle-stings, helped the pain, and it was considered fotunate that they grew in much the same places!
The Road Through the Nettles.
Summer nettles, head high, hid the path from view.
Each year we trod the way anew.
The openness of winter, held, for us, no interest.
The risk of stinging pains, necessary to our childish minds,
lent excitement to our games.
In spring this old allotment, long disused,
came into life with tall yellow tulips,
discarded bulbs thrown out with garden weeds.
And flowering aconites, green and gold,
grew on the common rubbish heap close to the track.
But best of all, this summer rite of treading nettles
to the old brick wall,
relic of an ancient pigsty in the corner
beneath the twisted tree.
Here we played for days on end until, suddenly bored,
moved on to the hollowed hedges,
or to the sandpits in the field,
or to the blackened willow still in growth
despite its burnt out heart.
Here it was, I fell, rolling over,
bare-armed in the elder-scented heat,
stung beyond the help of docken leaves.
Here too, my cousin
stamped life from a fledgling bird, newly hatched,
while we girls watched in speechless shock.
Not for him the usual mindless cruelty of small boys,
tearing wings from butterflies, and tormenting frogs.
We never spoke of it again,
but now, long after his own death, I wonder
if the path to self-destruction began, for him
on this summer
nettle day.
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Submitted by: Cyberesque
Notes: This one I tried using Photoshop, just to see how different it turned out. (Picture taken with lid up, then another with the lid down and then spliced together.)
It's a good image, I just don't think the results are as nice/clean, but maybe it's because my photoshop skills suck!
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A tryptich, showing the effects of (from left to right) my normal (for this lens) Haze-2 filter, the Haze-2 combined with the equivalent of a Kodak Wratten K2 filter, (a yellow filter) and the Haze-2 combined with the equivalent of a Kodak Wratten 25A. (a red filter) All three shots, taken within minutes of each other, are from a Mamiya C3 with a Sekor 250mm ƒ 6.3 lens on Kodak Tri-X 120 film. The filters are all Tiffens...
Combination and reduction of the photos done in Paint Shop Pro X8.
All three shots are of cloudporn seen at Hilltop Mall in Richmond, CA.
The "Haze-2"-only shot has the effects of a shower of rust or other corrosion from closing the lens-changing partition in the C3 - evidently whoever had the camera before me (this is only my third roll of film through the camera...) either only had the 80mm "normal" lens, or had stored the camera (in less-than-ideal conditions) for years before actually selling it... (...or some combination of those two...)
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Yaaaaay...I finally made my 1st ever slideshow!
You can't imagine, how long I've been wanting to do this!
I am relatively happy with the end result (for a first) although I would've liked some different music but time didn't allow me to search for too long!
I took this photo on my mobile phone and one night I decided to download and editing program for mobile phones!
I started playing with all the different effects and wanted to show them to you but I didn't want to bore you with ten different photos of the same subject, so I decided to put them all together!
With Love
Nat :)
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When I first saw these little hosta shoots, the lightbulb went on over my head..... they look twirly, and their positions in the ground were sort of spiraling..... then I took the photo and messed with it. "Recipe" below. :-)
This looks better large, if you ask me. The details are nicer