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Thanks to all for your friendly comments, faves and invites I appreciate so much!!!
Merci à toutes et tous pour vos commentaires, favoris et invitations, que j'apprécie, soyez-en sûres(s)!!!
Spent a few hours in the mud at Mistley yesterday, which made me realise that my water resistant trousers aren’t as resistant as first thought! Mistley Quay is known for the swans that gather there, so it was nice to get this shot. Well worth a soggy bottom!!😂
Few birds in Britain can match the visual appeal of the Kingfisher, yet it can be very hard to spot when perched in bankside vegetation.
Totally still River Thames, enabling this reflection shot to be taken. The ExCeL Centre is on the right.
the last few weeks were very busy + jump from Portimao to saxony and then to Italy and back for one day in germany to flight to Ireland + now, days with a lot of photowork is in front of me + start today with an impression of the lungolago di malgrate + i hope you enjoy this view too!
a few days after I had perfect conditionsI was looking for the darker sky but the clouds had other plans. The South view "right"with Saturn and the core of the Milky Way and the North view "left" still in twilight. The centre light pollution is Calgary due east. Antares in Scorpio is on the peak and Saturn is directly above
I spent a few mornings here one week back in October when we had the best misty mornings and I had to get out there as much as possible. This morning the mist was very thick across the lake but I liked the way it made the other side of the lake recede.
This beautiful CANADIAN flew by me within a meter...the sound, the energy, the speed...the rush I felt was staggering...it was only for a few seconds...wow...and then it was gone..."STUNNING"...
I spent a few days last week exploring a beautiful part of the Scottish East coast. Many lovely fishing villages and fantastic shoreline geology to explore.
I awoke early one morning to look at this fascinating harbour breakwater. It felt like I should have been catching zzzzs instead of look at them. The sun eventually rose and lit up one side of the harbour wall whilst also painting the clouds for a few minutes.
This five minute exposure used a Haida 15 stop ND and a Lee 3 stop hard grad for the sky. Very little editing here, just some noise reduction was needed.
I really like how the high breakwater casts a long shadow, with warm tones and cold tones either side.
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A few years ago, I used to breed monarch butterflies after learning that they are an endangered species, so making this photo was endearing to me. My fondest memories were when after emerging from their chrysalis, they would sit on my finger tips for a brief time before releasing them into the world ♥
Soothing Melody ~ Tony Anderson - Butterflies (Piano Sonata)
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Sorry for not posting photos for a few days.
My RL work has become busy again.
I'm off today, so I want to take a lot of pictures 😊📷
Have a beautiful spring weekend to all 😉🌸
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Having a few corners left over from the fun I had with my plastic cubes, I found myself seeing what more I could make of the images. One in particular was very colorful so I started with that one. I duplicated it a bit and that started to look interesting, I then added the yellow from the corner I cut off and that gave a bit of light to the dark. With some nice color going, I was off to look for a bit of texture which led me to a camping trip folder and a window from the side of a wooden building in Maryland. Turns out I really like that shot and went ahead and processed it too. A stone stairway from a monument at Gettysburg Battlefield also caught my eye so I gave it a try and liked it. Many, many times I head down this path and the image just doesn't work so I go find another. Just as many times the whole thing gets shelved and I go do something else. Every so often, as the piece gets developed, I like what I see as was the case here with The Onlookers. All in all, I used four images and included a collage in the first comment.
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Last few days to get the amazing gift from Lelutka
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A few days ago I posted a panorama of this bridge as it crossed the Chao Phraya River two times. Technically there are two bridges - this is known as Numuber 1; the north bridge which is closer to downtown Bangkok.
I shot this one as I had arrived early and had time to look for some additional views
A few remaining seeds, clinging to a stalk of an ornamental grass, are contrasted against the horizon during a cold March sunset in western Illinois.
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This was just a few hours ago enjoy....
While taking this photo this song was on my ipod:
Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll
So, I hit the road and made my getaway
Restless feeling, really got a hold
I started searching for a better way
And I kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night
But, I couldn't see the light, no, I couldn't see the light
I kept on looking for a way to take me through the night.-
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A very busy few days helping our son and his fiancée move out of their rental flat and in with us until they complete on their new home - should be a few weeks!!! In the meantime our daughter will be moving back here with her finacé in two weeks time pending finalisation of their new home purchase - our kids always were a tag team!!! After a year of being almost exclusively alone here with my husband during the pandemic the house is going to get a whole lot busier! Every single spare inch of space will be filled with their belongings!!!!
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images. Have a good weekend everyone!
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A few wild daisies hang on as summer winds down along Brunswck Forge Road in rural Botetourt County Va. ©2022 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
On the way a few Japanese macaques crossed the footpath ... they were fast ….. it was a surprise for both parties ;-))
Kamikochi (上高地, Kamikōchi) is a popular resort in the Northern Japan Alps of Nagano Prefecture.
Taken a few months back in the Kent coastal town of Whitstable. In general seagulls in the British coastal resorts have a bad reputation for their aggressive behaviour, well deserved I should add. Should you just be tucking into your lovely bag of chips (fries) you'd better beware that if you take your attention away for even a second then chances are one of these guys will be swooping in for a free meal. It can scare the bejesus out of you! And if they don't steal your food they just might leave you with something else in the form of an embarrassing white streak down your back, or heaven forbid, on your head!
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I'm going to be leaving this message on my next few posted images. This is to let the photographers that I follow know that due to the immense amount of time it takes me to go through all the photos that appear in my Flickr stream each day I am setting my stream to show only one image per day per person. It's either that or get Flickr burn-out. Apologies in advance if your photos don't get as much of my attention as they used to. Hopefully people will understand my reasons for doing so. Thanks.
A few more shots from earlier in the year.
Eye to eye contact with an owl at close quarters, can it get any better?
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Yorkshire Dales - Lower Barn/ Embankment Female
Many thanks to all those who take the time to comment on and fave my photos. It is truly appreciated and welcome.
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Few things get my photo mojo kicked into high gear more than the autumn season here in Ontario: a pearl-grey morning sky, the smell of rain in the air, and leaves turning from green to crimson and orange to gold. Copyright © Kim Toews and Kim Toews Photography. Please contact Kim Toews for purchasing and publishing options.
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I said a few times all of my Walsh County shots (until now) were from a shoot I did a year ago. They were pretty, happy, springy, and they don't look at all like the work I've created the last few months. I wanted to go back and shoot something more reflective of me now, darker, edgier, bleaker.
What I wasn't expecting was Walsh County to meet me well over half way. Apparently we both changed a lot in the last year. Now I know landscapes haven't typically been my thing, but who cares? I'm not trapped in a style, I'll do what I want. So I will now be posting this follow up set of Walsh County... One Year later.
Taken at Walsh County.
A few times a year I have a mini-origami-meeting with a friend, who also love to fold ;-)). Today is such a day. We each select some models to fold and this time I choose this abstract origami model, called "A trapped love", where a cube is surrounded by a thick "line".
When assembling this model you put in the cube halfway, because once the "line" is finished, you can't put the cube in. And when it is "trapped" inside, you can't take the cube out without destroying this "line".
I put the model on a mirror, so I hope you see the "line" better ;-)
It's an idea by Hans -Werner Guth and he was inspired by the origami "Umulius Rectangulum" by Thoki Yenn.
There are just a few hours left (you can check the countdown on the website that I link below!) and the sweetest ACCESS event of the year will finally be open! Enjoy with your Valentines and if you're single, take the chance to give a gift to your best friend or yourself, why not? Love is love in any form!
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A few days ago I took a break from packing for the move. Took a trip to De Leon Springs, a Florida State Park. This spring flows a whopping 19 million gallons of water a day... and the river that flows from it is gorgeous. The Spring itself is 99.9% pure, and is 72 degrees year round. This is taken from a boat ride on the river. The wildlife is wonderful along with the beautiful scenery. The pool over the spring is fabulous to swim in with it's crystal clear, pure water.
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A few weeks back, on what started out as a misty morning, I decided I'd rush up to London to see if I could take advantage of the mist for some architectural photography. Well, I'm not really someone that is very good at rushing anywhere and so it goes without saying that by the time I got into London the mist had all but gone. There is very slight evidence of it here in the distant Canary Wharf architecture on the right and those buildings on the left but that was about as much mist as I got that morning. The view here is of the HMS Belfast, a second world war Royal Navy warship permanently moored in the Thames as a tourist attraction. In the background of course the always photogenic Tower Bridge.
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A few weeks back I put a black&white image of a flower reflected on a mirror into a camera club competition. I wanted to give it a grungy look and so I purposely darkened it down to shades of shadow and light and added a lot of grain into the photo using Nik Silver Efex (great bit of software if you don't know it). My thought was that the judge would look at it and think something like, "wow, this is artistic and the grain works really well". You can guess the rest. He took one look at it and announced that it could have been a decent image except that it was very grainy. So much for the artistry of my post processing skills. 😂 So, as much to appease myself as anyone else I'm going to give you something similar here with this beach scene. And I warn you, if anyone says it's ok but its a little grainy, I'm coming after you!
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A few nights ago, I took this photo of the Shore reflecting on the Water of Leith, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Shore, Edinburgh, Scotland
A few fun facts:
1-The Marble House has over 500,000 cubic feet of marble.
2-Alva Vanderbilt fought for women's rights & suffrage. (right to vote).
3- She is quoted as saying "Pray to God, She will help you."
4-She ( Alva) held a "coming out" party, with 400 guests, for her only daughter Consuelo.
5-At the party, 300 live hummingbirds were released, to hover around the indoor fountain.
6-She later moved to France permanently, to the Chateau d'Augerville, to be near her daughter.
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For quite a few years this armature did it's job in the vacuum control module of my 2001 Audi A4. Eventually the pump parts failed and I could no longer lock any of the doors. I replaced the module and put the old one in a drawer for future dissection, that was around 2008. A contact has been posting his collection of small armatures so I thought I'd see what I could come up with myself. This one was shot with a single light source placed to the right of the camera for the Macro Mondays theme, "Sidelit". The armature measures app. 1 in. X 0.75 in., the copper shaft diameter is 0.25 in.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro w/PK-12 & 13 Extension tubes, 41.5mm total extension. 30 image focus stack shot at f/8. Aligned, stacked and processed in Photoshop.