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We had just reached the Bryce Canyon at Sunset Point, when a strong thunderstorm descended northeasternly over the Escalante Mountains, while lights sprawled across the landscape from the west. Because it was only fast to attach the camera to the tripod to maintain this mood. And after a few minutes a huge (double) rainbow spread out, for which unfortunately the 18 mm of the lens was not sufficient.
Wir hatten soeben den Bryce Canyon am Sunset Point erreicht, als nordöstlich über den Escalante Mountains ein starkes Gewitter nieder ging, während von Westen Lichtspots über die Landschaft zogen. Da galt es nur, schnell die Kamera auf dem Stativ zu befestigen um diese Stimmung festzuhalten. Und nach wenigen Minuten breitete sich ein gewaltiger (doppelter) Regenbogen aus, für den leider die 18 mm des Objektivs nicht ausreichten.
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Had to crop pretty hard, but it's a funny shot anyway ;-) Enjoy!
If you want to see a short vid from one of my recent scenes please take 2 minutes end enjoy this relaxing short video. Feel free to like or leave a comment!
2016 - KW 05 - birds
I had been shut out for 5 nights in a row on this trip and was willing to shoot anything at this point. As I was running around to the different viewpoints on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon looking for some open sky, I rounded the corner along the drive and hit the brakes for a quickie. :) I set up one light panel quickly and snapped 3 shots then jumped back in and off I went. I used a cooler white balance than usual on this one at around 3200. :)
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In 2006 I had two times the opportunity to migrate into the valley of the Havasupai Indians and see this magnificent waterfall and take pictures of course. Unfortunately, destroyed a flood in 2008 a part of the beautiful lime sinter terraces .
The Havasupai Indians are also called "the people of the blue-green water". Blue-green has been the water the day before. In the night, however, it had rained heavily in the mountains, so that in the early morning a red-brown muddy broth rolled into the valley, probably a not-often-seen drama.
Unfortunately, a strong wind blew, so a fine spray of dirty water dyed everything including the camera.
In 2006 hatte ich zwei mal die Gelegenheit, in das Tal der Havasupai Indianer zu wandern und diesen großartigen Wasserfall zu sehen und natürlich zu fotografieren. Leider zerstörte eine Flut im Jahr 2008 einen Teil der schönen Kalk-Sinter-Terrassen.
Die Havasupai Indianer werden auch "die Leute vom blaugrünen Wasser" genannt. Blau-grün ist das Wasser auch am Tag vorher gewesen. In der Nacht hatte es jedoch in den Bergen stark geregnet, so dass sich am frühen Morgen überraschend eine rot-braune schlammige Brühe in das Tal wälzte, vermutlich ein nicht oft gesehenes Schauspiel.
Leider wehte ein starker Wind, weshalb sich ein feiner Sprühnebel des schmutzigen Wassers auf alles einschliesslich der Kamera legte.
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We had it confirmed yesterday that our dear Flickr friend, Gérard had left us. I say confirmed because I had noticed he had not reappeared as he always did and the days of his absence were increasingly disturbing. I thought about him often of late...his loyalty, consistent presence and most of all his humor. He is the only one I've ever known who I could really hear laugh when he wrote "LOL."
It's funny how this medium can actually develop what can only be defined as real friendships when one anticipates and looks forward to daily interactions and comments. I recall the shock I felt when he informed us of his condition...and clearly recall also the shock he himself felt in just those few dramatic words. I eagerly awaited his return to Flickr from his treatments and, when he did, marveled at his spirit during this impossibly difficult time.
Gérard and I shared musical tastes and frequently exchanged YouTube links we thought appropriate to an image or an expressed thought. In many ways, we were on the same "wave length" and we discussed and mourned the losses in the musical arena this year. And now he has joined them. It has indeed been a year of loss.
So adieu, mon ami. You will be missed deeply by many, as myself, who have never met or even spoken to you...a tribute indeed. Oh, and I can tell that's you captured in this image by the white head...;-)
And one more link to carry you onward...
Had to share this joyous sight with you ! Yes, it's another rainbow (sorry!) but this time taken from my bedroom window this morning at 8.39 precisely ! If you look closely you can see it's actually a double rainbow. Soon the rain came and all my other pics were covered in raindrops and a bit blurry. The yellow thing sticking up on the left is a crane, by the way.
Processed in Topaz Impression 2, Soft Pastel at 50% opacity. Hope you like it - I was delighted to see it !
Have a lovely day everyone !
I had been waiting for this moment for a long time. In 2013 the park was closed because of the government shutdown (don't get me started). Last year, clouds rain and snow kept the Tetons hidden while we were there. This year - bingo! While the sky did not light up much, the mountains sure did! It was a sight to behold and well worth the wait and cold temperatures!
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This chipmunk that we found deep in the forest was hiding in plain sight. it thought by not moving it would not be found, and that nearly was the case. We could hardly see it in the light as diminished by the trees; had to turn the speed down and the iso up to photograph it. A little light came through a break in the tree tops which can be seen in the eye reflection.
Photo taken in Kent Gardens Park, McLean, Virginia.
Had to wait 2 hours in the cold but then it went RED.Shot with the Nikon D7000 and the Nikon 55-200mm vr.
This had been sitting on my bucket list, for a long while. I was thrilled to be able to capture this sunstar, behind Wizard Island. The weather was very unpredictable, with a clouds and snow forecast every day. My first luck was to be able to find a room at the Crater Lake Lodge, which had recently opened after winter closure. Being a light sleeper, I kept looking out the window, every time I woke up during the night, in the hope of seeing some clearing, to have some sun for my sunrise. I also had the bonus luck of capturing some moonlit night images, which I'll post at a later time.
This is a three 24mm horizontal image panorama.
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Had a walk to a local pond in the snow yesterday. This Gull didn't seem bothered at all by the weather, I was freezing!!
"And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat..."
My favorite Lyle Lovett song. He has had several virtual concerts in the last few months, in fact, there is one this Friday.
Looking a little bit tacky here but this Robin is over two years old now which is a good age for a Robin. Always hanging around in the same area in one of my nature reserves I often go to visit. Ever since I first spotted this as a juvenile there has always been a dark patch below the right eye that is still there to this day. My little friend here has become very tame and always so very photogenic and hopefully will be around a bit longer yet. In the 1400's when the Robin was named the colour orange had not been classified and this is why we say that the Robin has a red breast and not orange. America has an eagle so it's about time the UK had the Robin as its national bird !!!!!!
I had some fun with this one and learned some Photoshop tricks while I was doing it. As soon as I get another boarder staying here I'm going back to the coast. Just seems like there's just a lot of cool adjustments I can do to coastal shots.
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Yesterday, we had some sunshine and warmed up to about 36 degrees... feelin' the heat! Our Anna's Hummingbirds were back to their normal behavior of chasing each other around the yard! Flash Jr. graced me with a hover and a flyby while I was taking some photos on our main deck. I'm sure it was his way of saying thank you for keeping the nectar from freezing during our first cold spell this Winter. You're welcome little buddy! Photo taken in Camas, Washington.
Had a walk along a different path at Copt Hall, spotted these Corn Buntings and others birds on the walk! Think this is a female, please correct me if wrong!
Had a few nice one's of this guy folks and once again he was very cooperative, I thanked him and off he went.
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these Wildebeest had spent the night in the woodlands and were heading towards the Ndutu Marsh area (in the south east of the Serengeti, Tanzania )
The south east of the Serengeti is the most southern part of the annual Great Migration . It is the area where most of the Wildebeest calves are born.
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Had a 14km walk yesterday to get to this double stone circle (Grey Wethers) on Dartmoor in Devon.....so well worth it!!! It's in a stunning position. Handheld, Zeiss ExoLens, remote, Snapseed on iPhone.
Had a morning to myself today. I went back to visit a place I first tried to shoot at 12 months ago, but luckily this time it was warmer and the rain held off! Trying out a wide angle Tokina I bought a while back but haven't really given a till now.
Had another sweet encounter with a Great Grey Owl at a friend's acreage today. We saw the owl fly past while hiking in their spruce woods, then when we got back to the yard, I was searching the treeline along the edge of the yard for the bird, only to realize it was in a small spruce not 30 feet from me!
Had the lightningbolts over from when I took them of to make bleez helmet and this is what I came up with.
The helmet is custom sculpted by me and everything except the face is painted by me. The face is from nexoknights but I thought it fit.
I had other photos lined up to post ... then this little guy landed on an unopened zinnia blossom. And let me get REAL close! That's our big pink hibiscus blooming in the background. Pachydiplax longipennis in our North Georgia yard on a rainy day.
UPDATE 9-6-22: Selected for exhibit in juried Natural Expressions photo competition by GNPA club here in Georgia - @ Alpharetta Cultural Arts Center September-October 2022
while it was still dark we had gone to a simple bird hide to be there before the flocks of Meyer's parrots and African green pigeons arrive at the clay eating site at sunrise.
While we were waiting we heard some noise behind us and after a while we knew these were warthogs ( definitely safer than some other possibilities...)
The family of warthogs came closer and had picked up our scent but they had no clue where we were.
The huge male in this image was walking in front and stopped nearby to look in our direction.
You can clearly see both set of tusks of which the very sharp small ones are used for fighting other warthogs or for defense against predators. The larger ones are used for digging etc.
Kafue National Park, Zambia
phacochoerus africanus
common warthog
knobbelzwijn
phacochère
Warzenschwein
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Had some great photo ops with a field full of Bobolinks. Have seen them before but never had so many around me in one ongoing interaction. I would simply stand on the dirt road and wait for them to come out of the fields and stop on the fence or small trees along the road - - it was an awesome experience.
Bobolink - Male - Ontario
Had to check out Little Cottonwood Canyon while home for some Rest & Relaxation. Found a couple of new spots and was happy to see the water is down from last month, I think it will be perfect for the shots I'm looking in August.
Had an idea that we could kinda go over the top on this one- I mean have you seen INSA's own shoots already- they are dope, always been a fan....so we got a little indulgent on this one.
Lit mainly by Matt and Tash, whilst I ran around snap snap snapping with the compact camera.
Styling By Ophelia Fancy, additional stylin tweaks by Bekah, and Hair and Mannequin MakeUp by the supremely ace Ciara McCarthy. Additional assistance by Scarlett. Button pressed by me.
Models Sally (floor) Sophie (standing) and Hannah (bath). No models were harmed in this image, or forced to eat Doughnuts....
see the whole shoot on film, here
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you can book us via www.garage-studios.co.uk It really does make sense now doesnt it....
damn i put in the book but forgot here- the shoot was produced by A.Bronkhorst....
Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Had so much fun doing this !
Shortly before the theme was announced I discovered this little brass (?) pot in the basement and wondered if I could use it for a project. When I found out about the theme for this week, I thought it could surely serve as an oil lamp. I had in mind the same little book I used once before and watched a tutorial on how to put letters on subjects.
Now I should remind myself about the actual fairy tale, I must have read it very, very long ago.
Had to stop the car to capture this lonely tree while exploring the wide open spaces near Leamington, Ontario
I had 3 days away in June as part of my recuperation progress and visited Inverpolly Nature Reserve in the Scottish Highlands.
Using the camera on a tripod with a slow shutter speed to get more light on the foreground I was lucky as a 'murder of crows' started wheeling about, alas the slow shutter speed rendered them a bit blurry.
We had been away for a while, and when we came back to our old country house, I saw this “spot” of about 1 cm² outside on the kitchen window. I thought a young bird had crashed and made this, but later noticed that the spot had changed shape. Taking a better look revealed that the spot was actually many small spider babies. Sometimes close in a bunch, later more spread, then close again. I let them live there until one day the spot was gone, and now I have hundreds of small spiders around my house, I guess :-)
We had perfect sunny weather while in Whistler this week.
This suspension bridge was part of a hike we went on. It was the bounciest bridge I've been on. I thought of setting up a tripod on the bridge to shoot the creek below, but that thought disappeared after a second or two :)
Today, back home, we finally have some rain that we so badly need.
Had a great day yesterday folks with a lot of action images and fly-by's, and the shooting has been wonderful, one of the better years in a while.
Have a great day everyone and thank you so much for stopping by to say hi.
I had forgotten about this photo (and the dress for that matter!) until I discovered it posted on a stranger's photostream. They removed it at my request, but it's kind of creepy the way just anyone can pirate our photos. If you see a friend's photo posted somewhere that doesn't seem right, let them know. Maybe we can at least slow down this nonsense. Now I'm going to dig thru my closet and rediscover that dress!
Had a walk around Beth Chatto gardens today with Jayne. The Butterflies certainly loved the magnificent flowers!
Had fun creating this for Smile on Saturday theme of pawns. Hope you all have a happy and safe weekend 😀
Had a lovely couple of hours in Hardwick park yesterday, the three of us. Took a huge tub of peanuts which got a lot of attention from the water birds, we were surrounded, mostly by ducks, who got really close, it was quite fun to watch them. A fun afternoon with a quacking bunch of nuts.
Had a mini dog shoot at the weekend, with these 2 adorable cocker spaniels.
I'm still not feeling my greatest some days, lacking in energy and have been finding social networking a bit overwhelming, but I still want to post on here some days. So I might not be able to reply to each individual comment as usual, hope you guys don't mind.
Having a break from Friday for the week, going to the Lake District with Antonio for some R&R. Looking forward to that. Have a good week, my friends.
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.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
Had a couple Bobcat encounters yesterday. Found this one an hour before sunset. Couldn't have asked for better lighting!
Had a nasty encounter while out walking tonight.
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I had my third Covid vaccination on Friday morning and probably as a reaction to it I had chills with a fever and body aches all night. Today I still don't feel great but crawled out into the garden to take a photo for this week's Happy Caturday theme "Spymasters". The spy in chief of our feline family is definitely Tofu. He spys on all humans and animals in the neighbourhood but his main subject of interest are BIRDS. Behind that fence is a thuja hedge, a preferred hideout of the sparrows, and above him is the birdfeeder. As far as I know he has never seriously tried to catch a bird, he is perfectly happy if he can watch them.
Happy Caturday everybody !