Beer Mat + Beer Challenge
View allAll Photos Tagged IMHO
52 weeks in 2016 ... gratitude/thanksgiving ...
... this art piece is called "krijger" (roughly translated as "receiver") ... and it can be interpreted in many ways imho, the artist is Mathieu Klomp ...
For me, I'm grateful to be able to go on these wonderful photowalks with Mirjam and see a city, a church or a museum or stumble on something striking like this ... come home with a bunch of photo's and great memories of a day filled with laughter, hilarious situations ;) a lovely lunch and a good conversation ... Thanks Mirjam, youre a wonderful friend !
The art piece can be seen in de Domkerk in Utrecht
LIMG_8029_lr
A very common bird in Florida, but one that I don't see often in CA. IMHO, they look much nicer flying than pecking around in the dirt.
Never Enough - The Greatest Showman Cast - Truly one of the greatest song written and performed..imho!
Watch Loren Allred (who actually sang this song in the movie) with David Foster - youtu.be/aUOpj29BrbI
_____________
“We fear the future because we are wasting today.”
Mother Teresa
when they're taken by people who annoy me :-)
Fred Allen
HPPT!! This image is the 700th rose image in my rose album. it's worth taking at least a brief look imho :-)
www.flickr.com/photos/itucker/albums/72157594251453653
rose, little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
FREE ALL HEALTHY WILDLIFE THEY HAVE RIGHTS.
Taken in my backyard today. No Photostream is complete without a robin in the snow imho.
This week's theme of the Smile on Saturday group is "Spooky Spiders". The spider in this photo is a wasp spider, harmless and not creepy at all IMHO but I tried to add a spooky feel to the photo !:) HSoS !
An excellent place for decent reflection shots, IMHO.
I was blessed with calm waters and a good mix of clouds and blues this lovely morning.
"The lakes surface elevation is 6,489 feet (1,978 m) above sea level, and is about a mile (1.6 km) downstream from the significantly larger Redfish Lake (6,547 feet (1,996 m)). Both were named for the red-scaled sockeye salmon that returned every year to spawn via the Salmon River. The lakes flow into the river via Redfish Lake Creek."
Enjoy a wonderful Sunday!
My favorite photography subject is mountain peaks and the special ecosystems that they create. IMHO few places provide such a wealth of stunning beauty and frequent photo opps as the Canadian Rockies, in Alberta and British Columbia.
Here we have a view looking northwest at Mount Athabasca (of the famous glacier) and Hilda Peak. Just one example of what one finds along the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper.
Thanks for taking a peek at these peaks!
Have a wonderful weekend!
but when there is nothing left to take away :-)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
HBW!! pretty damn near perfect, imho ;-)
southern magnolia, 'Southern Pride', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
A favorite place at sunset.
I squeezed a lot of Moraine Lake beauty in this frame. Almost an abstract look.
Moraine Lake is so called due to a ‘moraine’, a pile of glacial rocks and boulders that was formed by the Wenkchemna Glacier next to the lake.
"Most Beautiful Lake" would have worked as well for a name IMHO.
Enjoy a wonderful Sunday and week ahead!
Finally I have reached the end of these first D850 shots taken on Oct 3rd while accidently in Jpeg mode, while I am completely impressed with what the D850 can do, my work flow usually requires RAW files to work from so while I liked the compositions I took I hated working on limited dynamic range initial start material.
This shot IMHO was the best of show for me and captured what I had set out to capture that morning, the mist slowly rising from the lake water with the island and back of the lake illuminated with the first rays of the sunrise.
As with cooking a delicious meal it is always about less is more and similar with photography usually the best things you produce are those that you have shown restraint and included less ingredients but made those that you did include be the stars of the show.
I took this on Oct 03, 2020 with my D850 and Tamron 15-30mm G2 Lens at 26mm 1/10 sec f/11 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
After a long bone rattling drive down a 27 mile dirt road. We finally arrived at the Racetrack in Death Valley. This is the "Grandstand" located out on the flat of the Playa. This is a 14 image panorama that ended up just under 60 megapixels and I had to scale it down to 30% of it's original size just to get it to upload. During the scaling process the image softened up a bit, proving that there is such thing as too much of a good thing. One things for sure, I won't have any problems with large print files. It occurred to me while trying to post this shot, that if you only had a ten megapixel camera and you find on awesome composition, you could shoot a square pano and end up with a much more printable file than shooting just one frame. Believe it or not, Wayne and I lit this whole scene using two light panels.
Hot Tip of the Day:
If you have to make an edit to an image, do it while in Lightroom, because if you open the jpeg and edit and save it again, it will lose some detail. Then save it again and save it again the fourth or fifth save which has recompressed it over and over again the image will be destroyed. And just saving a jpeg a second time renders it unusable IMHO. Go ahead, try it and watch the destruction begin. That's why every image I upload is saved as a tiff file and usually weighs in at just over 100 megabytes. I do this just in case I want or need to edit the final uploaded image I can do so without altering the quality of the image. Just thought you all should know that. :)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have a great Wednesday ahead everybody!! :)
Please do me a "solid" and follow me on my other social sites found below:
for those inclined, OMC's 'How Bizarre', a New Zealand gem. And a brilliantly created video too imho ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY&list=LL&index=9
yep it's friday already
in this corner of the planet anyway ;-)
here's to freestyling
hffff :-))
……Not many bridges have a bend along them I’m sure but this one on the Camel Trail at Padstow clearly does! This is an iPhone shot - Smartphones are great tools when you want to get low or rather ultra close to a reflective surface, I also took a few shots on the Fuji but none came up to this compositionally, (IMHO). I particularly liked the railings - one short & one longer going around the bend. Alan:-)…..
For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 86 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...
©Alan Foster.
©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……
Some of you might remember my youthful goalkeeping antics when the tripod blew over here when I was stupidly attempting a LE in gale force winds, and I just about managed to save both camera and lens.
I think I recalled cat like reflexes akin to Peter Bonetti at the time.
Anyway my elbow took most of the impact and I left it a month or so and it hadn't got any better.
8am GP call, answered immediately which was a shock in itself. 5 mins later I was booked in for an X-Ray at The Countess that afternoon. Shock number 2 of the day. Made sure I had coins for the parking. Turned up, X-Ray done, in and out in 20 minutes. I didn't even have to pay the parking fee they were that efficient. 30 mins free parking allowed.
We appreciate our NHS ofc, but even more so at the moment imho.
Rang back two days later to find out the result and no fracture or break and a follow up appointment was booked for the next day at my GP's. The locum I saw just happened to be an elbow specialist and I've got something called tendinopathy. Complete rest for a minimum of 8 weeks possibly longer and then 3 months physio. If I wake up and the pain is 2/10 that's fine. If it's 5/10 I'm doing too much.
Had to report it to work but as I'm office bound these days I wont have to take any time off but still on light duties which makes no sense because I'm doing exactly what I'd be doing anyway.
I've had emails aplenty from people in work calling me The Spanish Archer....El bow.
No doubt, henceforth that will be my nickname.
Again not the sharpest of Elgol pics but it's my last one from here and thought it was worth and outing.
IMHO,one of the toughest sparrows to get off the ground.Several trips,and at least 20 hours,to get a handful of shots!
Thanks for your comments and faves,they are truly appreciated.
Morning Glory at Idaho's Little Redfish Lake with Mt. Heyburn and other Sawtooth Mountains across the lake.
Yup, I filled many memory cards over several fabulous trips here. Idaho's finest scenic area IMHO. Hope you don't get weary of Sawtooth images.
Thank you for taking a look and for any comments, faves and suggestions!
On a snowy day as we drove past the Crooked River bridge in Alanson, MI, we could not help but to stop to see the docks and boathouses . . .
“One problem with the rise in landscape photography in recent years has been over-tourism. In 2018, you might remember that the Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board actually asked visitors to stop geotagging remote forests and lakes. In one spot, Delta Lake, the number of daily visitors increased that year from one or two to more than a hundred. As a result of incidents of this sort, some leading landscape and nature photographers, including Marco Grassi, will not geotag the exact location of pristine, untouched places that aren’t widely known. It’s a simple way to keep them wild.” - 500px blog (I have wondered why so many photographers do not identify photo locations. It seems that if there was only one place for photographers to visit, it would be swarmed so that adding a second place would relieve some of that pressure. If there were only 100 places to visit, adding another 100 would releive more pressure . . . IMHO . . . my locations are generally within my tags.)
A wonderful day begins with a bright shiny morning at Idaho's Little Redfish Lake. Nothing beats the splendor and beauty of Nature, IMHO.
Back from a good trip to the central OR coast. First time there, won't be the last. Pics to come.......
Enjoy a wonderful weekend!!
Kirkjufell Mountain with Kirkjufellfoss nice and close. Along the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland, this is a must visit location and the highlight (imho) of our trip.
For today's Textural Tuesday contribution I chose this little mountain burn in Iceland's remote Westfjords which fits the bill imho.
Happy Textural Tuesday!
Running Eagle Falls is located on Two Medicine River in Glacier National Park. We found this to be one of the most beautiful falls we have ever seen. There are several vantage points as you get nearer to the falls but this one of the clear waters in the river as you approach is not to be missed.
The waterfall itself has two portions, the top half and 1/3 of the way up on the right side of the falls, you will see a blast of water that is subterranean (at lower water levels this is the only one visible).
While the literature says the falls drops 40 feet, it seems much higher.
“One problem with the rise in landscape photography in recent years has been over-tourism. In 2018, you might remember that the Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board actually asked visitors to stop geotagging remote forests and lakes. In one spot, Delta Lake, the number of daily visitors increased that year from one or two to more than a hundred. As a result of incidents of this sort, some leading landscape and nature photographers, including Marco Grassi, will not geotag the exact location of pristine, untouched places that aren’t widely known. It’s a simple way to keep them wild.” - 500px blog (I have wondered why so many photographers do not identify photo locations. It seems that if there was only one place for photographers to visit, it would be swarmed so that adding a second place would relieve some of that pressure. If there were only 100 places to visit, adding another 100 would releive more pressure . . . IMHO)
I was determined to wring something painterly from my Helios 44-2 58 amd mounted it on my Nikon D850 using a Nikon PK 11A teleconverter with the thin type m42 adapter. I used a wide open aperture for this shot but did stop down as far as f/5.6 for some shots. I honestly thought I had some wonderful painterly bokeh when checking the LCD.. sadly I didn't notice that the tiny flowerhead of the Stitchwort in all my shots had a sort of glow around them..I have noticed the same thing from other lenses but hadn't used the Helios in years and never on the Nikon. The only way to stop this looking a bit err, a lot spectral imho, was to use the paintbrush in photoshop and carefully paint away the offending glow from just around the white petals and burn the detail back into the petals. The annoying thing was the histogram looked perfect with no blown highlights. The spectral glow simply a feature of that lens...
I started to catch up with everyone yesterday btw but as I cook dinner as my family come on a Wednesday as well as fetching Leo from school and collecting his guitar from his home on the way etc etc, I am still behind as time was short so my apologies....Sue :)
The cabins in Glacier National Park, located along the Going-To-The-Sun-Road, are a great way to visit the park. Taken on July 4, 2022.
“One problem with the rise in landscape photography in recent years has been over-tourism. In 2018, you might remember that the Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board actually asked visitors to stop geotagging remote forests and lakes. In one spot, Delta Lake, the number of daily visitors increased that year from one or two to more than a hundred. As a result of incidents of this sort, some leading landscape and nature photographers, including Marco Grassi, will not geotag the exact location of pristine, untouched places that aren’t widely known. It’s a simple way to keep them wild.” - 500px blog ( . . . I have wondered why so many photographers do not identify photo locations. It seems that if there was only one place for photographers to visit, it would be swarmed so that adding a second place would relieve some of that pressure. If there were only 100 places to visit, adding another 100 would relieve more pressure . . . IMHO . . . my locations are generally within my tags.)
Explored on Feb 22, 2023.
The Bluebell shot I used to make the fairy montage but minus the fairies.. The Samyang auto 135mm 1.8 proved a little more difficult to use for a busy woodland floor than i had anticipated but when it stopped hunting and I was able to use the manual override focus ring it proved stellar..lets face it though it's not meant for this type of shot but the results can be worth the effort imho...which obviously just my own personal opinion.
An old photo with improved technology
This is one of my all time favourites. Looking better (IMHO) using Silver Efex and Topaz Dehaze.
The Milky Way and the Constellation Scorpius rise over an Undisclosed Location.
Elitist or Entitled? which am I? I’m not sure where I fall…Hum let me see what the dictionary says:
Entitled- Definition….believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
"his pompous, entitled attitude"
Elitist- Definition……..demonstrating a superior attitude or behavior associated with an elite.
"some that say he is a spoiled, elitist snob"
Neither sounds like a camp that I’d want to be in.
The motives for withholding locations are far ranging from “save the location”, to “save the animals” to “save the unprepared from themselves” undisclosed locations…….secret places, are we elitists or are we entitled? Those that cherish the outdoors have seen the ramifications of location over saturation, and they “are” concerned. Of course, it’s because these are the most beautiful places on Earth and they would like to see that future generations can enjoy them as well. Doesn’t sound bad to me? The problem than lies within the human spirit, the spirit to set out and seek what’s out there, to see and feel and smell it with our own senses and take in the scene in all it’s natural glory. If your an inhabitant of this planet than it’s you’re right to see it, of course it is!! The real problem is the person that just purchased a camera and has never been outside the city in his or her life, do i want to give out a location that I shot in the backcountry of the Grand Tetons? If I want to eliminate them than Yes, they would be grizzly scat by morning. But If I’m concerned for their safety or the preservation of the location than NO. How am I to decide who gets a location or not, by deciding am I than elitist? Man and his devices have traveled into the far reaches of this galaxy and beyond and found no solid evidence of life, and the fact that we have been on this planet for just the blink of an eye makes me think that this planet is a gift more than it is a privilege.
IMHO, This planet belongs to every human being but it is a gift and not a privilege!!! does that makes me elitist or just concerned? If you have no outdoor experience than please prepare yourself to see it safely and responsibly. :-)
For more information on how to prepare and behave in the wilds see the link below.
For more information about the LLL technique(LowLevelLighting) you can visit
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, I am always thankful for your views, comments, faves, and support, they are greatly appreciated!! Have a great day my friends!! :)
Always Respect Mother Nature And Your Fellow Man, So:
****TreadLightly>LeaveNoTrace> PackItIn/PackItOut****
Please do me a favor and follow me on my other social sites found below:
500px | Facebook | Flickr | Google+ | Instagram | Youtube
Copyright 2018©Eric Gail
There is something I like in simplicity of shooting with projection lenses. Not thinking bout aperture. Focusing is easier with macro focusing ring than with lens helicoid. For bokeh photography few of those in collection is a must. IMHO.
One more with Kodak Ektanar Zoom
Another shot from the past. I haven't been out and about much for quite a long while. Already making plans for 2022.
As we enjoyed a walk around Whistler BC's Lost Lake (found it!) all was quiet and calm as a storm was building on the horizon, soon to blow away the calm.
Weather in the mountains is mercurial and frequently changing. Which is wonderful for photographers IMHO. I prefer a cloudy dramatic sky to an all blue or cloudy grey skies.
Enjoy a terrific Tuesday
Seems a spider can't make up its mind where to spin its web...
Not the best shot imho but I cannot bring myself to delete it. I was actually in this woodland at this particular time to photograph Snowdrops but I saw the web skeins glinting and it seemed quite whimsical to me with web crisscrossing like that :)
Pleased to scratch off another waterfall at the top of my bucket list. Upper Mesa Falls is the 2nd most impressive large waterfall in Idaho, IMHO. Shoshone Falls is considerably larger.
Was a wet, rainy day so wasn't able to get a rainbow in the spray. Darn.
"Upper Mesa Falls was formed when Henry's Fork cut its canyon deep enough to encounter an especially resistant layer of hard volcanic rock. As the canyon deepened downstream, a ledge formed overwhich the river flowed. Because the layers beneath the resistant one are softer, the falling water undercut the ledge above, eventually causing pieces of the harder rock to break away. This creates the sharp lip and spectacular drop of the waterfall you see today.
Upper Mesa Falls is approximately 114 feet / 35 meters high and 300 feet / 91 meters wide. The average volume of water flowing over the falls varies between 600 to 1,500 cubic feet per second. This equates to 387 million to 967 million gallons of water per day." yellowstone.co
Thanks for your visit! Always appreciated!
Have a wonderful Sunday!
L'Aubette, a gorgeous historic building, imho sadly misused as Shopping Centre, but a sight that lifts the spirit :)
I only managed an indoor photo of Tofu today as he didn't want to go out into the wet garden. Luckily he colourwise fits perfectly into my living room IMHO. :)
Of all the stunning sights that Yellowstone has to offer, by far and away (IMHO) the most amazing and awe-inspiring is this 3rd largest hot spring in the world.
"The Grand Prismatic Spring really is rainbow colored, following the spectrum of white light through a prism (red to blue). The spring was first officially described, and named, by the Hayden Expedition in 1871, which was the first federally-funded exploration of what became Yellowstone. The expedition's leader, Ferdinand Hayden, wrote:
"Nothing ever conceived by human art could equal the peculiar vividness and delicacy of color of these remarkable prismatic springs. Life becomes a privilege and a blessing after one has seen and thoroughly felt these incomparable types of nature's cunning skill."
This is the view from the new mandatory viewing platform taken at sunset.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
This car almost went Best of Show, and the finish is exquisite and flawless. The Talbot-Lago T150 C (competition) SS tear-drop coupe was, IMHO, the nicest supercar of the era.
Double click on the image to enlarge for details.
Seen off St Malo - a more attractive type of cruise ship than the floating hotels imho.
It seems to glow!
This bull elk wasn't having much luck wooing this pretty cow elk. He was persistent tho.....
"Bulls wallow in mud to coat themselves with urine that acts as a "perfume" to attract cows. If mud is available, bulls also wallow during mating season. A thorough mud covering cools off an over-heated bull, spreads his scent evenly over has body, and makes him look even more imposing.
An elks bugle is among the more haunting and beautiful in nature, as memorable as the howls of wolves and the calls of loons.
A cow listens to the bugle for clues about the bull's size. A bugle, like a human voice, varies with the individual, but the older, larger bulls usually bugle more loudly than their young rivals. Their bugles advertise their presence and fitness to both females and other males. They also bugle to announce or accept a challenge from another male." visitestespark.com
Watching this dance of life is one of the most entertaining and beautiful animal acts in nature, IMHO.
Hope your weekend is off to a great start!
wickedly looking stretch of rocky sea cliffs on Westray, orkney isles. The green and white algae truly make it look like a scene from another planet imho.
Explore #392 This was taken down at Rose Bay. It is a sculpture that has been built for ages now and I have always wanted to capture it with some good light behind it. I like how it looks like the creature is swimming in the water :) It is actually really interesting as it is a cement structure with a blue tile mosaic all over it ....There is also sea turtles and some rather weird looking fish..... anyway I thought it was something a little different :)))
You need to see it big n black as it looks better IMHO :)))
Happy Tuesday...Monday?..anyone still on Sunday ?? lol :)))
Car xxx
Today's Carsounds - www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU
Nikon 400mm 2.8 with X2 converter, this is one of the curious whitetail doe from a whitetail herd NW of Airdrie. Whitetails are far more photogenic than the mule deer, IMHO. There is usually a mule herd nearby but they hardly mix, I have always attributed this self awareness to their superior looks.
Michael Watson at trombone.
This last friday he played together with Dee Dee Bridgewater in Oslo. Best concert ever imho.
Wonder how the 1,2 would do here.. I can't complain about the 1,8 but I really wonder what the difference would be.. Any thoughts are welcome!
I am inspired by many things. Musically by the genius of Miles Davis, hence my title which refers to, IMHO, one of the best jazz albums of all time. Likewise I come to Flickr for photographic inspiration. My views on photography and indeed the many genres of photography that I attempt have been heavily influenced by so many talented people here on Flickr. One of them is Joseph Pearson Images, a London architectural photographer who has photographed so many of the same buildings and structures around London that I have but both of us do it in our own way. Its always interesting for me to see his take on a building that I am very familiar with myself and see what his 'eye' picked out. Usually it's something I've missed and so my education continues!
Yesterday Joseph posted a picture of one of my favourite underground stations here in London, Southwark station, and it got me looking back at some of the pictures I've taken over the years in this most photogenic of stations. I was surprised to see that I'd never posted this escalator shot so thought I'd do so now. Taken pre-covid, way back in 2019.