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Cigarette lighter fashioned in the form of a Yamaha motorcycle for the Looking Close... On Friday group, topic: Black Background.
Macro Mondays Theme: "EDC"
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Every year I forget just how tiny these guys are. This is a male common blue and his total wingspan is just 35 mm or 1.4 inches from tip to tip. Click for more detail
Macro Mondays theme: Pareidolia!
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I like to use textures when I'm working in an still life photography. The idea is that viewer travel to the past with this kind of pictures.
It's very rare that I love one of my own pictures but I love this one. Maybe I just love the little girl running to the ocean.
Air and Water temperature shown below:
It's like this: If you are working in the dark hell and a terrible bell or strong buzzer sounds, you can leave to better and lighter places...
Now look at that door, you can only go back to hell, if you CHOOSE to block the door...
So. It's our own choice. Our own life. We are the only ones who can change it. Heaven or hell, it's a choice.
We have to free ourself!
How about that?
Get yourself free! And the rest will follow!
After the last year, living out of a suitcase I've begun to see my life in a new way, a lighter way. Keeping only the things that enrich my life and bring me something good rather than weighing me down. It's a good feeling.
Almost done. Next week may be a bit tricky for editing and uploading as I'll be visiting my parents in New Brunswick over the holidays and won't have access to my computer.
The idea for this shot was incidental of another idea I was trying to flesh out. I was trying to go for a fireball in my hand and using a lighter to light my palm...which was incredibly difficult to perform while trying to focus the camera at the same time. I noticed that just the lighter seemed like an interesting source for a fireball and went with that instead.
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had been reusing the same 11 shots of fire that I had in my composite gallery, so I ended up going to the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill again and shot about 100 more photos and from that I got 60 more usable composite fire shots. Now I have more options!
Fire is pretty easy to work with, in terms of compositing, it needs a dark background and that's about it. I still haven't figured out how to get it to show up well on a light background, so that's something to work on.
For this shot I just composited three different shots of fire, stretched the canvas up for a portrait shot from a landscape shot, and then clone stamped the edges and filled in some gaps with a black brush (the light from the lighter was making my walls glow). Topped it off with a modified VSCO filter to make the edges of the fire pop and make my hand stand out a bit more, while at the same time fading the background a bit.
I'm not sure what to do for the final photo in this project just yet. I've been kinda winging it this entire project, so I'm sure I'll think of something.
and i posted similar almost this time last year (out by 2 days)
Getting more difficult to see Aurora but it's closer to the season for noctilucent clouds :)
now only if the wee one will let me stay up late.
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A image I discovered while dumping unusable files from a adventure into the southern end of Linville Gorge Wilderness Area on April 1, 2012. The plan was to do a little night photography, based on the forecast of clear conditions for this area overnight and into the following day. To lighten my load up the mountain I had considered not taking a shelter, just curling up in my sleeping bag on a ground cloth, again based on the forecast. Glad I second guessed myself on that. The cloud cover never got any lighter than it was at the moment this image was made, and after midnight, thunder, lighting, wind and heavy and the wind buffeting my tent caused me to wonder how securely I had staked my shelter so close to the abyss and for once, glad for my extra pounds…
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Malta is known for its flora and fauna and the wondrous nature that can be found in different corners of the islands. One of the fauna that is particularly interesting is the chameleon (kamalejonte). While it is a common species found on the Maltese Islands nowadays, it isn’t as native as you might think.
“The common chameleon or Mediterranean chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon), Maltese: Kamalejont is not native to Malta,” The Majjistral Nature and History Park share on Facebook. “It was imported in the 19th century – probably from missionaries from North Africa and for many years was restricted to mainland Malta.” Can you believe it?
“It has since been introduced, no doubt intentionally, to Gozo and even to Kemmuna. Although essentially an arboreal species, the animal has adapted well to the largely treeless Maltese landscape, and is frequently encountered picking its way among rocks in garigue habitat in search of bugs and beetles.”
How to spot a chameleon
“It grows up to 30cm and is normally greenish or brown with paler markings. Its colours can turn lighter or darker and when threatened, besides changing colour, it puffs up its body and opens its mouth wide to appear larger and more fierce,” they share.
“The animal’s worst enemy is actually cold weather, against which it has little defence, as chameleons do not hide away for winter as other reptiles do. The Mediteranina chameleon is today considered an integral part of Maltese wildlife and is protected along with all the other reptiles.” Heard that? Don’t go squishing this poor guy!
Smart PDG Aviation Services EC.135 G-GLAA caught arriving back at Shoreham after a trip out to the Sovereign Lighthouse platform to deliver a decommissioning crew
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K.K.W. table lighter in the shape of a vintage camera (with built in compass). These were first manufactured in 1948 in occupied Japan and made until the 1960s. They sit on a little tripod and are worked by the shutter button. The lighter is 6.7cm wide. I found this example in the window of an antique shop in Lewes