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I recently posted the color version of this scene. As often happens, the more I look at some images, the more I think they should be in black and white, so here is another take on it. Of course, the color version is more true to the way the place actually looks. This one looks to me like it’s a right good place to be haunted.
Almost in Wombourne and the end of this part of my walk and i came across this bench put here in loving memory of a couple 'May & Leah'"who must have loved this part of the Worcestershire & Staffordshire Canal and the view from here ........Wombourne,South Staffordshire ,Staffordshire England
The soil is rich and fertile in many parts of India so one sees many fields of crops on a road journey. If you are lucky, a woman will be working in a field with a bright colored sari on with ornaments sparkling in the sunlight.
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“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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This behavior I've seen before folks but this time it was really in defense of an onslaught of Coots, and he did stand his ground, Thanks for visiting and have a great day.
A hawk perched in a tree in Teton Valley, Idaho seems to be enjoying the beautiful sunrise over the Teton mountain range. The peak on the left is the Middle Teton and the peak behind the tree is the South Teton.
"Slow Exposures - Celebrating Photography of the Rural South.”Held this weekend in small towns in rural Georgia. Shot at one of the locations in the basement of a coffee shop.
Ilford HP5+ at ISO 3200, hand held.
Cliffs along the Atlantic Ocean in the civil parish of Dunquin (in Irish, Dún Chaoin), north of the westernmost tip of the Dingle Peninsula (in County Kerry, Munster Province, southwest Ireland), on a partly overcast afternoon in mid-May 2024.
The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The western Dingle is part of the Gaeltacht, one of the areas of the Republic of Ireland where Irish is officially designated as the primary spoken language.
This stretch of cliffs is across from the now-uninhabited Blasket Islands. This scene was taken from the viewing platform connected with the Blasket Centre (Irish name: Ionad an Bhlascaoid), which is run by the Blasket Foundation and the Irish Office of Public Works through its Heritage Ireland unit. The Blaskets – in Irish, Na Blascaodaí – fostered a traditional culture described through a well-known group of 20th-century Irish-language works by their inhabitants.The Centre provides extensive information about the geography, history, culture, and literature of the Blaskets.
In April 2024, the Irish government established the Kerry Seas National Park / Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí, a marine national park that includes the Blaskets and surrounding waters. The Blaskets are also an EU-designated Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protection Area (SPA).
(Information from the Blasket Centre and Wikipedia, websites last consulted 12 June 2024. Place names in English and Irish from logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland (reference numbers 1394329, 91, and 1411370), last consulted 4 June 2024.)
[Blasket Centre 23 cliffs vertical 2024-05-18 s; 20240518_085038]
The sun was coming up from the left and this magnificent lion took his place high on the rocks as if to place himself in the spotlight. How truly gorgeous they are . It almost took my breath away to think I was really llooking at this beautiful animal living free.
The piers end there in the clouds' reflection on the water and ice that was there in the river.
Happy Bench Monday :)
A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]
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Holga 120N, Bergger Pancro
Lab developed
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I was sure by now
That You would have reached down
And wiped our tears away
Stepped in and saved the day
But once again, I say "Amen", and it's still raining
As the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain
"I'm with you"
And as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise the God who gives
And takes away
Chorus:
I'll praise You in this storm
And I will lift my hands
For You are who You are
No matter where I am
Every tear I've cried
You hold in Your hand
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm
- Praise You in this storm - Casting Crowns
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Wiedehopf / Hoopoe
Der etwa drosselgroße, aber bedeutend größer wirkende Vogel (durchschnittlich 28 cm vom Schnabel bis zur Schwanzspitze) ist unverkennbar und auch in Mitteleuropa allgemein bekannt, obgleich ihn hier wohl nur sehr wenige Menschen in freier Natur beobachten konnten. Charakteristisch sind die kontrastreich schwarz-weiß gebänderten Flügel mit deutlichen gelben Einschlüssen, der lange, gebogene Schnabel und die etwa fünf bis sechs Zentimeter lange aufrichtbare Federhaube, deren Enden in einem weiß-schwarzen Abschluss auslaufen. Der Schwanz ist schwarz mit einer breiten weißen Binde etwa im letzten Schwanzdrittel und einer weißen Zeichnung auf der Schwanzwurzel. Der übrige Körper ist rostbraunrot. Charakteristisch ist auch der wellenförmige, schmetterlingsartig gaukelnde Flug, bei dem die breiten, tief gefingerten Flügel nach jedem Schlag fast angelegt werden. Auf mehrere lange, durchgezogene Flügelschläge erfolgen einige kurze, flatternde, so dass der Flug instabil und ungleichmäßig erscheint. Die Geschlechter sind einander sehr ähnlich; die Weibchen sind etwas kleiner und eine Spur matter gefärbt. Während der Nahrungssuche und in Erregungssituationen ist das ständige Kopfnicken sehr auffallend.
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A street shot in Macclesfield. The charity shop that you can just about see on the left had a huge number of vintage cameras in the window a few months ago. At the time I was busy doing other things, so didn't pay too much attention... but I did notice they were all bought in double quick time! Very popular hobby, this!
Thanks for looking :-)
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Praktica MTL3 / Pentacon 50mm f1.8 lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3 (1:9 dilution, 6.5 mins)
Negative scanned
Public domain photo of two windmills in Dordrecht, Netherlands in the late nineteenth century that was altered with the Topaz DeJPEG plug-in, then the Topaz DeNoise plug-in, then the Topaz Clean plug-in (skin smoothing natural), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated color violet effect), then the Topaz Detail plug-in (soft and dreamy effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (sea pink and crusta sunrise effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (dark iris ink effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (fire dipped waves effect), then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated color violet effect), then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated color blue effect; base image), then the Topaz Impression plug-in on the base image (pastel 2 type 12 effect set to solid), then the Topaz Impression plug-in on the base image (chalk pastel 2), then the pastel image was overlaid and merged with the chalk pastel image, then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (sapphire and gold effect), the Topaz Texture Effects plug-in (lilac tinge and Flypaper Textures texture), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz Impression plug-in (van Gogh 1 type 11 effect), then Alien Skin Exposure (color and tone changes), then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated color blue effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Alien Skin Snap Art 4 plug-in (oil paint effect), then Alien Skin Exposure (color and tone changes), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (blue skies and cherry blossoms effect), then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated color pink effect), then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (dynamic color and contrast effect), then Alien Skin Exposure (vignette effect), and then the Photoshop paintbrush. Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
originally founded in the 1930s as the "soda springs health resort" by quack doctor and radio evangelist curtis springer. he named the settlement "zzyzx" claiming it was the last word in the dictionary, and thus, the last word in good health. zzyzx now serves as a desert research station for the cal state university system.
mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 160. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
We found this inquisitive stray puppy in a small village in central Nepal, the ticks on his eyes didn't seem to stop him from wanting to play!
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We have sun today.
This is from one of my african daisies, i was surprised to see the details
That is why i love macro lenses so much
I arrived to Bishops Cannings to take a service one Sunday evening in late January to find the church had the most magnificently coloured clouds for a backdrop, in the deep magenta of late twilight when they're just catching the sun at the right angle. Fortunately, I had the D750 with me; less fortunately, I had forgotten the correct fitting for the tripod, so I had to use fencing and gravestones for stability, and even then had to be careful not to the let the exposure time get too long, so I had to shoot at a noisy ISO of 6400. Also, it was a big, sub-regional service, and I was under time pressure. So I'm pleased with this but also frustrated I didn't do better.
The Wiltshire village of Bishops Cannings is dominated by the spire of its fine parish church, St Mary the Virgin.
This church may be built on the site of a Saxon original but the magnificent 41 metre spire was added during the 15th Century church expansion boom on top of a late 12th Century building. Although the village even today has a population of only 1,800 or so, the chantry chapel attached to the church was richly endowed with lands, making this one of the most impressive village parish churches in Wiltshire, and a prominent landmark from the A361 Devizes to Avebury road.