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Samyang 100mm f/2.8
Another experiment of mine. Correctly exposed light produces interesting results.
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EU07-1510 with Express InterCity train 3550 "Giewont" to Gdynia Główna leaves Zakopane station. During summer season PKP Intercity often uses the short term lease of locomotives to assure the traction for increased number of services daily. And usually it's PKP Cargo that offers the locomotives for PKP Intercity. June 23, 2019.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
EU07-1510 z pociągiem EIC 3550 "Giewont" do Gdyni Głównej odjeżdża ze stacji Zakopane. 23 czerwca 2019 roku.
Jak to zwykle obserwujemy latem, PKP Intercity wzmacnia inwentarz lokomotyw krótkoterminowymi wynajmami pojazdów. I zazwyczaj to PKP Cargo jest dostawcą lokomotyw na sezon letni.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
Warm May weather has triggered an early runoff in the creeks, streams and rivers. We are at least 2 weeks ahead of average stream flow for this date.
This is called the Cascade Falls area of Chalk Creek. The leaves are not fully out yet.
Increased heat has accelerated petal dropping from our neighbor's Golden Rain Tree, Camarillo, California
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
New Hampshire
During the winter and non breeding seasons they travel in large groups in search of fruit.
Supposedly the original "Bohemians" were travelers or refuges from central Europe. This species is therefore true to it's name and was in fact well named.
The information below is from a "Cool Green Science" web page and the Nature Conservancy
"Waxwings Really Have Wax Wings" BY Matthew L. Miller
"Waxwings really have wax wing tips. The bright red, visible on the wing feathers of some waxwings, is actually waxy red secretions. The red wax tips are appendages on the bird’s secondary feathers. They’re colored by astaxanthin, a carotenoid pigment.
While it was originally thought that the red tips functioned to protect the feathers from wear and tear, there is little to no evidence for this hypothesis.
Rather, the red secondary tips appear to be status signals that function in mate selection.
Interestingly, the red appendages of both Waxwing species increase in number and size with a bird’s age: individuals with zero to five waxy tips are thought to be more immature birds, while those with greater than nine are thought to be older.
Individuals within these two categories tend to associate as mates. Pairs of older birds (those with greater than nine waxy tips) nest earlier and raise more young than do immature birds, suggesting that this plumage characteristic is an important signal in mate choice and social organization.
Most of this information comes from a wonderfully informative article..... By Matt Miller I've enclosed the link below and it's a wonderful read for anyone who has interest in both Cedar and Bohemian Waxwings."
Here is a link if your interested in more...
blog.nature.org/science/2017/02/27/waxwings-really-have-w...
This egret was seen and photographed from the tidal causeway that links Holy Island with the mainland. In fact the tide was rising as I took this photo and we soon had to make our escape to avoid being marooned.
The Little Egret was a particularly common bird in the UK up to the middle ages, however as the demand for feathers to be used in the millinery trade expanded the egret was wiped out as a breeding bird here in the UK. A Wikipedia source states that demand was such that in 1887 one dealer in London traded 2,000,000 skins. The majority of these were from farmed birds.
Step forward into the mid 20th century, the numbers of Egrets in Europe were particularly low with small breeding populations to be found in the south of France. Protection was provided in the 1950's and the numbers have increased no end since then. The UK saw its first breeding in 1996 at Brownsea Island in Dorset, since when the population has moved further north and west. Here in Yorkshire they are regular sights at many of the local reserves.
british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/black-tailed-skimmer
Description
Length: 44-49mm
Flight period: May to August (less abundantly also in late April, September and October)
Females and immatures: pale, yellowish brown with tho bold lines running along the length of the abdomen. The wings have a yellow costa and a very dark brown or black pterostigma.
Male: develops a blue pruinescence on the abdomen darkening to the rear with with S8-10 becoming black. Its eyes are very dark green. They fly swift and low, skimming the water surface.
Females retain their colur and markings though they become quite greyish brown with age.
Dr. Chris Thomas photographed and timed the hatching sequence of a female Black-tailed Skimmer and has placed it on the web as part of a longer photo tour of the BBC Springwatch East Day at Marston Vale, June 2006. The first photo of the sequence can be found here.
Habitat
This dragonfly is found at any open water with bare patches along the shore where the patrolling males frequently rest in the sun.
Status & Distribution
Fairly common. Southern England, parts of Wales and Ireland. Increasing its range northwards.
The depot at Clearmont, Milepost 660.5 from Lincoln, Nebraska, was important for train orders all the way to the installation of CTC between Gillette and Sheridan. Helpers plied this hilly and isolated part of the BN's Yellowstone Division, and those moves in addition to the increasing coal traffic made it a critical spot. By now the CTC must be in place as the train order signal is gone; I have pictures with it intact but this one compares better.
This experimental craft was designed with the intention of drastically increasing survivability of pilots. It features a completely-enclosed hard shell cockpit area that completely shields the pilot and also allows the use of an experimental gamma-infused cannon since the armored enclosure also protects against most radiation types.
The downside of this cockpit layout means that this craft can only be piloted by pilots who have the necessary cybernetic neural implants (cyborgs and synthetic humanoids) to be able to directly interface with the ship’s exterior sensors. Fully organic pilots with no cybernetic augmentation are unable to pilot this craft as they would be literally and figuratively flying blind behind the controls.
Due to the increasing drought, lavender fields are also conquering the Winequarter more and more..!
Lower Austria, Austria.
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Remastered 2/16/2011:
Increased size, rebalanced color, brightened and sharpened trees, slightly increased contrast, slightly recropped
This panorama was a complete and utter nightmare to put together, in every way conceivable. The lighting in the scene itself was constantly changing between shots, leading to many different lighting inconsistencies between different sectors of the scene. Painstaking post editing was required to remove these without leaving a seam. Then, Photoshop failed to auto-blend some of the parts of the panorama, requiring me to do a significant amount of tweaking to get the alignment detection to work. Then I had issue getting the color from the top half to work with the bottom half, requiring more manual editing and layer tweaking.
Since all of this was done at 60 megapixels, Photoshop would take 15 seconds or so to process many of the requests I would send it.
It took about 8 hours to wind up with this result. Hopefully the rest of this shoot will not turn out to be this irritating.
I am satisfied with the result. I just wish the process wasn't such a headache.
First, my apologies for bringing up a political subject in a forum that some feel should be devoid of political opinion.
I spent today reflecting on the merits of public lands in the U.S., and the potential outcome of turning over Federal lands to the states, and subsequent sales of those lands to private individuals and companies. The possibility of this transfer is more realistic today with the recent bill passed by the House, making it easier to transfer Federal land to the states, and the inauguration of Donald Trump.
The view in this photo is on Federal land, but is within 1/4 mile of evaporite ponds that cover a significant area near Moab Utah (earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83905&eocn...). The ponds are used to concentrate potash, a potassium bearing mineral used largely in fertilizer. (BTW my father was one of the chemical engineers who consulted in the construction of this plant in the early 1960's, so my early well being is tied in small part to its existence)
Clearly the current use of this land has merits in enhancing food supply for humans. However this area is also heavily used for recreation. It is conceivable that this area would be used to enhance the production of the potash mine, and become one of the next evaporite ponds., which are already quite visible from Dead Horse Point, the high point on the mesa in the center of the skyline. Access to this scenic area and the White Rim road may also cease. It would enhance the profits of the company that operates this mine, and may increase the supply of potash, of which the U.S. produces about 2% of the world's production. It would also seriously compromise the aesthetic value of the area. Is the loss of public access to this land, and the loss of tourist money worth the benefits to greater potash production? This is only a hypothetical possibility- as far as I know there is no plan for increased use of the area for evaporite ponds, but it provides a reasonable scenario, given the sentiment in the Utah state government.
My hope is that those in power will properly weigh the pros and cons of use of Federal lands, and the potential for transferring those lands to the states. Let's keep public lands public. Let's also remember people need to make a living. The two are not antithetical.
Photographic note: this is a 3 photo stack to enhance the sharpness throughout.
A good news story! Grey seal numbers, in the UK, have increased from only 500 in the early 20th century to more than 120 000 now. Here are a few of last year's pups.
The Isle of Skye is one of my favourite places in the world but prices for accommodation there have more than doubled even for the old, shabby hotels, without any increase in quality or value, sheer profiteering.
I cant afford to go there anymore so I am dredging through all my old shots.
The chances of good weather are very slim, most of my visits had really wet and windy weather which makes the high booking costs even harder to bear. Also, when the weather is fine you will be eaten alive by midges so invest in one of those wide-brimmed hats with the protective net hanging down.
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The rocks appear to be glowing from the slanting sunlight. This is a natural effect, not something I did in Photoshop. I made some PS Levels adjustments to increase the contrast a bit. I have seen this effect in other photographs of Bryce Canyon formations. Nikon F3, 200mm telephoto lens Kodacolor, scanned from print.
A huge amount of effort has been made to encourage the Bittern to breed in the UK. From a low number of just eleven breeding pairs in 1997 their population has increased to 227 breeding pairs. Much of the reason for this has been habitat management. This has been great for the Bittern and also those like me who are interested in birdlife in the UK. The big issue for those enthusiasts is that the Bittern is a shy and secretive bird that lives in reedbeds, rarely poking its beak out to look at the outside world.
I have seen and photographed them before but much to Shirley's frustration she has only had very distant views of the birds. Yesterday all of that changed when we were sat in the Roger Mitchell Hide at Potteric Carr, Shirley quietly but excitedly pointed me in the direction of the nearest reedbeds where the unmistakable shape of a Bittern could be seen stealthily stalking through the reeds. Good views were short lived but we could see its shadow and occasionally its beak poke up to see what was going on for some time.
The seafront in Barcelona. This year has been particularly stormy thanks to Climate Change increasing the chance of more severe weather. While the surf is appreciated by some, it erodes Barcelona's artificial sands, necessitating their constant replacement.
for the Macro Mondays challenge “Sweet Spot Squared” (September 19th 2016)
I like a little sharp and tangy taste with my sugar, so I chose raspberries ;o)
Finding and shooting the sweet spot!
I've got 3 macro 1:1 lenses now - but when I started out there was only one to fit my new Sony NEX-6, and it was Sony's eMount 30mm/3.5. That was March 2013, and I learned macro work through that lens for the next 2 years. So that was the lens I chose for this challenge.
I shoot macro in Manual, and have never explored the 'sweet spot' before - so I followed Janet's directions and used Aperture mode and shot all 17 F stop settings the lens has on two 2cm raspberries. I scattered sugar granules of various sizes both in front and behind the raspberries, to give me an idea of just how the overall image sharpness changes with the F/stop change.
Comparing the shots I used Janet's direction again: "You will be looking for the shot that has the sharpest details with as little blurring as possible". I thought it would be simple - F22 is the inevitable choice to offer minimal blurring, while keeping the subject in focus.
But I found a puzzling oddity. From F16 through to F22 the sharpness of the background elements increased, but the sharpness of the 'in focus' elements fell off. I repeated the experiment with a strawberry (a much larger subject) and the same result emerged - past F16 the 'in focus' elements of the shot suffered!
I went online to see if I could find an explanation. And the trusty B&H website came through with an article:
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/rules-thumb-finding-...
I needed to compromise and take 2 or 3 stops back from F22 to find the best balance. There was little to choose between F16 and F18. This shot uses F16. And yes - I did then crop the original shot I used, to highlight the main raspberry, and leaving out most of the background sugar 'scatter'.
I hope it hits the sweet spot with you too :o)
Following on from the discussion Where do you draw the line? I've taken an old credit card as my guide, which is 3"x2" and added measures in cm too. I do SO hope that this will become the standard for Macro Mondays! My 2 raspberries are set on this 'new' format for my regular establishing shot in the first comment field
My 2016 Macro Mondays set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
Here's a recent photo that I took of a flock of (female) ostriches.
It's actually relatively easy to take a nice photo of a flock of ostriches (hint: the females are easier). ;)
Here are a few things to consider (in order of importance)... in case you also wanted to take a nice photo of a flock of ostriches;
1. First you will need to find some ostriches (hint: there are more ostriches in the Little Karoo than you can shake a stick at).
2. Next you must have a sturdy fence between you and your chosen birds (hint: ostriches generally don't like humans).
3. To attract the flock you would either need a sack of corn, or else you would have to be incredibly charming (hint: I had no corn).
4. The camera settings are easy. Fast shutter speed, small aperture, and then increase the ISO as required (hint: use your histogram).
5. Now you must take as many photos as possible... in the shortest possible space of time (hint: continuous-high).
6. Finally, you must keep your fingers tightly crossed that at least one of those photos doesn't look like a complete mess.
As I said before... it is "relatively" easy to take a nice photo of a flock of ostriches. It's certainly a lot easier than taking a nice photo of a plain sheet of paper! ;)
The Mute Swan is a very large white waterbird. It has an S-shaped neck and an orange bill with a black base and a black bump. It flies with its neck outstretched, making regular, slow wingbeats. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species.
A panorama of the eclipsed Full Moon rising over Reesor Lake in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta, on May 15, 2022. This was the much-publicized "Super Flower Blood Moon" eclipse.
From my location and longitude, the Moon rose in the late stages of the initial partial eclipse shown here, but with the portion of the Moon's disk in the umbra glowing a dim red and just visible in the blue twilight sky. Shortly after this, as totality began with the Moon entirely in the umbra, the Moon had moved up into the increasing clouds at top that were moving eastward, and obscured the Moon for the rest of totality. But for a while at moonrise the band of sky with the Moon low in the southeast was clear. It was a narrow band of photo opportunity, but at the right time for foreground lighting in the still bright twilight.
This was from the west end of Reesor Lake near the Saskatchewan border. The lake is home in spring and summer to lots of white American pelicans seen dotting the lake here. It is named for the Reesor family who now in their fifth generation still ranch just up the road from here north of the Park.
This is a stitch of three segments with the Canon RF70-200mm lens at 86mm and f/5 and 0.8 seconds at ISO 100 with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw with most processing in ACR with sky and ground masks.
Location planning done with the aid of The Photographer's Ephemeris and TPE3D. However, this was a favourite spot that I had shot from several times before, but never a lunar eclipse! I chased here to avoid the worst of the clouds incoming from the west. Cloud cover matched predictions precisely this night.
New ship added to the extended fleet. Making it ship number 8 for the battle. War assets increasing.
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I just happened to come across this weir when i was walking along a section of the park which i have never been before. It was fairly steep to go down & of coz, i gotta do it! :P i slided down the soil on my bum with my cam & tripod. That's pretty hilarious if any of you were to witness that :D I actually leap from 1 stone platform to another to get to the middle of the dam, just to get this shot. If i slip & fall, i guess i would be pretty screwed big time haha!
This HDR shot does look like a painting to me :P However to prove that the original shots are already pretty surreal. I've posted another original shot pretty much direct from the memory card (except for just a small amount of increase in overall saturation) -
Come Flow With Me II | Non-HDR
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The Weir at Linear Park
The shot
Standard 3 exposures shots (-2..0..+2EV) with tripod using the Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens and a polarized light filter
Photoshop
- Added a layer effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added a layer effect of 'saturation' of yellows & blues for the splash effect
- Used 'unsharp mask' ( as always ) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Robinswood Hill Country Park. Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
April 2023.
Chiffchaffs breed widely in Britain & Ireland, apart from on the highest ground. In recent years, this species has been expanding its breeding range north into Scotland, with BTO research suggesting it is benefitting from climatic warming in that part of the UK. Breeding Chiffchaff numbers have also risen in the UK in recent decades, especially in Scotland, although there is some indication that this trend is now levelling off. In autumn, many breeding Chiffchaffs depart for southern Europe and North Africa, but increasing numbers are staying for the winter months. They are among the earliest singers in the breeding season, being heard from February onwards. (BTO).
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around 2.5mm and moving very often so I wasn't able to use the Raynox DCR250 on my 105mm Macro lens to increase the magnification
YN14EX Macro flash
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(Explore #07 April 07, 2009)
The ebbing tide has swept the sands clean at Sango Sands Beach, Durness. It is a small sandy cove with scattered rocky outcrops that is a long exposure photographer's paradise as the tide recedes, exposing more and more rocks further down the beach. This view looks just north of east, with blustery winds and seas increasing as a storm approaches from the west.
Durness (Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais) is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland around 190 km north of Inverness. The area is remote and the parish is huge and sparsely populated covering an area from east of Loch Eriboll to Cape Wrath, the most north-westerly point of the Scottish mainland.
to see this spectacle, the preparation was getting up early, a one hour journey and the knowledge of this viewpoint. Be honest I was 30 minutes to late for sunrise on this location. The last minutes of driving the sky greeted me with a glow and gives me doubt that I will see a nice mood on my dream location. At the location I was breathless cause running down to the riverside, built up the tripod, mounting the filer and setup the camera. But I was on time when the sun breaks trough the horizon.
Location: Hochkrummbach (1700m) Lechtal Austria
Date: October 5, 2009 07:52am
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tokina 12-24DX
Exposure: 1/80
Aperture: f/10
Filter: Hitech Graduated ND 0.6 Stop
notes: increase structure partial with color efex 4
To increase adhesion between wheel and rail, Infrabel daily sprays sandite paste on the rails of line 124, 50, 60 and 26 during autumn.
On 19/10/2020 two TUC Rail 55's were assigned with this job.
This is the turn from Denderleeuw to Jette via line 50.
Populations declined in the 1960s and 1970s, largely from the loss of wetlands from water diversion for human use including housing developments, business parks and shopping malls.
Contamination of wetland habitat with selenium caused increased developmental abnormalities and mortality. Since 1995, owners of selenium-contaminated sites, in northern California, have been required to provide safe wetland habitat for the species. Breeding success on the new sites has been much greater than initially expected, but long-term prospects for breeding at these sites are not clear (source: All About Birds). Selenium is a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and is used in photocells.
Thanks to bazazga for the ID. Spot on. These are lacewing eggs...My marvel at nature continues to increase :)
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The winter is coming…
We could of start like that but the winter is already here and moreover, John Snow literally has stolen this phrase from everyone.
Missing some snow this winter? And we are here to bring you some even if you are in the middle of the desert.
Our Snow Cloud brings you some snow and a festive mood. The cloud goes above your head surrounding you with the falling snowflakes.
The Snow cloud comes with the HUD that gives it 6 color options and 6 types of snowflakes. You can also resize the cloud and change the glow intensity together with the HUD as well as turn off the snow
Enjoy the winter with Moon Rabbit
Santa Ink.
Opening: December 5th at 3:00PM SLT
Closing: December 27th 11:59PM SLT
Colors look solid until you get up close. Then you see you variations.
The Heliconius Laparus doris butterfly is one of the strongest butterflies in the Amazon region. They can live up to 9 months while neotropical butterflies normally live a couple weeks! This is an extremely long time. They can do this because they are able to digest pollen externally while it's on the proboscis increasing their protein intake.
The Doris is quite colorful and a number of different color morphs... such as green, red and blue. It has an iridescent fan-like color patch on the lower wing, four jagged symmetrical white patterns on the upper wing as well as white dots on the body and wing edges.
Heliconius doris, Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The fireman of JS 8190 thins a can of oil by warming it on a few coals from the firebox. The ambient temperature would be in the region of -20 which reduces the ability of the oil to flow freely. Heating it will increase the viscosity and allow the oil wells of the JS to be topped up during the early morning crew change at Dongbolizhan depot in NW China.
September 1 is officially the beginning of our spring period here on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia - but this past three weeks has already seen an increase in invertebrate activity.
Glycyphana sp. flower beetle perhaps stolata or brunipes. I read that these two species are only separated by whether one has protrusions on the hind leg. Specimens from both species have been observed to have the same maculation on the elytra.
Body length 10 mm.
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There’s something to be said for small cameras and macro photography. The perceived increase in magnification from a micro 4/3rds sensor offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to tiny subjects, like water droplets and their refracted images.
This image was created with a Lumix GX9, still my favourite “small camera”. I spent roughly a year shooting with it exclusively in the past and it never let me down. It’s a perfect travel camera, but the proof is in the pudding: it handles macro work exceptionally well too. Shot with the Laowa 50mm F/2.8 2x macro lens, that’s where things get interesting.
Don’t get me wrong, I am in love with the Leica 45mm F/2.8 macro lens. Incredible sharpness, image stabilization, great autofocus, and no distortion. Sometimes your budget might not extend that far, or you might need higher magnification. The Laowa 50mm 2x macro lens is manual focus only, but you get twice the magnification in a small package – the equivalent of 4x magnification compared to a full-frame camera setup. That puts you into the realm of snowflakes, but also makes it easy to fill the frame with water droplets.
This is a tendril from a cucumber vine. Before planting the seedlings outside, I saw these tendrils and anticipated that they would make a good “ingredient” in a water droplet image; curves and spirals in nature are always a winner. In behind is placed a Gerbera Daisy, carefully positioned such that the yellow center of the flower was directly behind the spiral. Alignment of these ingredients is key.
The water droplets were set in place with a hypodermic needle. The tip of the needle is hydrophobic, meaning that water wants to get away from it and not stick to it. This makes it easy to place water droplets on other surfaces. The more spherical a droplet, the better it acts like a lens, refracting an image of the flower placed behind. You can see that with the bottom droplet well. The “internal” droplet inside the spiral is anything but spherical, so it’s heavily distorted… but it also creates shapes and colours that accent the image nicely.
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There’s always more to explore and discover in the universe at our feet. :)