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I haven't been feeling well the past couple of days but brought this together for today.... It's a combo of a close-up of nails overlaid with highway metal....
Hope you are all doing well!
Created in Deep Dream Generator
Fantastical brightly coloured fish, beautiful, high definition, acrylic art,
Due to its brilliant colours, it's hard to miss this guy.
The range of colours come from its highly reflective clothing which reflects different colours at different angles.
approx. 20mm
@bp ssg
Metallic Starling
Aplonis metallica
January 1st, 2025
Brinsmead, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
A Metallic Starling with a juicy fig for its offspring.
This fly has a nice green metallic colour, fast flying with a loud buzz, about twice the size of a normal house fly. Unsure on the species.
Shot at 2x magnification, single shot using a new diffusion material and setup, thanks to Kurt for pointers on this.
I'm dedicating this one to Tony as he does this sort of thing so well. My little girl loves this slide - I tried to take some action shots of her with a slow shutter speed but they didn't work out. I rather like this though.
an item in my daily life - I might have this one already 25 years - which surprised me today with its abstract appearance... can you guess?
Everyone has made it through!!!! No Call out this week!!!
NEXT CHALLEGE: Metallic Madness
Muast have a metallic outfit!
due: JUNE 6th
Mamiya 7, 65mm f/4 L N, FP4+, EI 80, ID-11 1+1, 8 min @ 20 ºC, Exposure data unavailable
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Ponte D. Luís I, an iconic feature of Porto city projected by Teófilo Seyrig, a partner of Gustave Eiffel.
[see more on Porto, rediscovery set ]
Metallic Starling (immature)
Aplonis metallica
January 13th, 2023
Brinsmead, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS III USM lens
A pair of immature Metallic Starlings busy nest-building, their sub-adult plumage a mix of glossy metallic sheens & streaked underparts. Though they haven't yet developed the full black plumage of an adult, their bright orange-red eyes are a clear sign of their developing maturity. Many of these younger individuals are sexually mature & will begin breeding as early as one year old, a full year before they've completed the transition from their white-streaked chest to a fully black, iridescent body.
418 (YR13PMX) turns onto Valpy Street in Reading Town Centre as it heads to Coley Park on the 11.
Next into the new Orbits livery is the Bronze 11, 418 has returned with a lovely coat of metallic bronze and 419 will shortly receive the same paintwork.
Metallic Starling pair
Aplonis metallica
January 11th, 2023
Brinsmead, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
These amazingly coloured birds migrate from New Guinea to Far North Queensland each year for the wet season to breed. They construct incredible communal nests in specific trees, with some locations housing hundreds of nests all together. As you can see in this image, the nest are built right on top of each other & can cover the whole tree, like a sprawling high-rise of Metallic Starling apartments!
Amazingly, each year these birds return to the same trees they have nested in previously to breed & raise their young, before heading back to New Guinea.
Arsipoda. Absolutely everywhere in the Juncus flowers. This one was intent on feeding on the fruit and didn't even bring its head out.
This was not the shot i wanted to do... at all!
when i read todays challange, i automatically visualised the most metallic image i could... 'goldfinger' anyone? the image of that poor girl lying face down on a bed covered head to toe in gold paint... iconic!
sooo, that's what i was going for. so why did i end up with this (which i'm growing ever fond of... but not what i wanted to do, waaa!) because after a couple of hours of my poor OH painting me with gold body paint, with a small artbrush no less, and then spraying me with gold spray, i still wasn't gold enough!!!
what did they do, cement the stuff on the poor girl???
anyhooo, luckly i prepared for the very sad and annoying fact that this wouldn't work and also bought the most amazing gold and bronze masquerade mask and a kind of shawl (think it may be a belly dancers sarong actually) covered in gold coins.
so, i'm metallic, the mask is metallic and so is the headress! there you go! now i'm off to try and wash off 5 layers of gold body paint ;-(
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