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A dramatic break in the clouds illuminates the landscape as sunlight sweeps across the fells and winding streams leading towards the lake below. Captured overlooking Buttermere Valley in England’s Lake District, this scene was defined by rapidly changing weather, deep shadows, and fleeting shafts of light that transformed the valley floor into a patchwork of colour and contrast.
The combination of storm clouds, rolling green slopes, and the distant water creates a sense of scale and atmosphere that makes the Lake District such a compelling landscape photography destination.
#ButtermereValley #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MoodySkies #MountainViews #StormLight #ExploreBritain #OutdoorPhotography #BritishLandscape #LandscapeLovers #FineArtLandscape #VisitLakeDistrict #EarthFocus #DiscoverEarth #OurPlanetDaily #LandscapeHunter
Happy 20th Birthday, Flickr :)
Thank you so much, dear Flickr Team, for choosing my photo as one of the winners. I didn't expect this at all, and I appreciate it so much! 😊🙏
#MacroMondays
#Abstract
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A subject I have already photographed two times for Macro Mondays: reflective fabric. Reflective fabric, tape, or (adhesive) foil is used for all kinds of gear or clothes to enhance security at night or generally in dark conditions. To achieve the reflective effect, super tiny micro glass beads are embedded/incorporated into the fabric. Sometimes, a top layer of foil is added for colouration.
I was curious to see how much magnification I could achieve with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens. But the beads are so teeny-tiny that I had to add the 10mm extension tube and use my camera's High-res mode for maximum magnification and a resolution high enough so I was able to crop in the image quite considerably in post to really make the beads clearly visible and also still retain all the details.
And since it's Flickr's birthday, I thought I'd use my makeshift colour filters to add the Flickr colors. For this, I used a blue semi-transparent plastic lid (a new addition to my colour filter collection; placed in front of an LED lamp from the left) of a tin that recently still contained quite deliciously spiced-up cashews (now all gone), and the trusted, pinkish-red, transparent chocolate box lid which I held against my natural light photo lamp (light from above).
HMM, Everyone! I'm very busy today and will catch up with you tonight!
#MacroMondays
#Lid
So much choice. In the end, I didn't see the forest for the trees but then settled for this metal screw-on lid of a small, round tin I got at the beads shop. A tiny perfume sample bottle with a very pretty lid was another option but I decided to reserve the latter for a "bottle" or maybe "perfume (bottle)" theme.
Yesterday, I wasn't happy with the focus spot on the lid but at least I knew what I wanted to achieve regarding the colours and background so I took a few more photos today, and for once, it worked out to repeat the set-up including the bokeh effect. The green and purple/orange bokeh in the backdrop is from lids, too. It was an "accident" because actually, I only checked if the metal lid looked nice as a subject, and I hadn't bothered to remove the two other lids from the blue foam sheet, my actual background, so they happened to be in the image. But I liked the effect so they stayed ;) The green/orange part is from a green screw cap that belongs to a small lime juice bottle. The pink bokeh shapes are from a tiny aluminium peel-off lid that was on a Wasabi tube. It's the type of extra protective, second lid that you also find on toothpaste tubes. I had stuck it into the green screw cap, and I realised it makes a nice, tiny reflector.
Technicalities: The metal screw-on lid is 0,9 cm/0,35 inches high, and together with what you see of the tin itself (1 cm/0,39 inches) and the negative space with the lid bokeh, the width of the frame should be about 3,5 cm/1,37 inches. It's a single shot illuminated from above with my natural light photo LED lamp. The LED on the right was equipped with the red, translucent plastic lid and also partly pointed at the mini reflector tube lid. The LED on the left was equipped with the yellow, semi-translucent detergent bottle cap, so lids were also used behind the camera ;) The fourth light source was my small LED flashlight which I put on a green glass bottle and held both above the metal lid.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
Reworked version of a shot from 2015… we only had a couple of days around Niagara Falls and I decided to get up for the sunrise; initially it didn’t look very promising but after waiting around for an hour or so the sun finally peeped through the clouds in spectacular fashion for no longer than a minute and then it was all over... it’s always nice when patience is rewarded!
#siderssunday
#urbanpoetry
Rails and (real) clouds (and a little bit more) on the opposite side of the entrance to the DIY superstore Bauhaus Halensee (please see the image in the first comment). The entrance to the Bauhaus store is on a fairly high bridge, and the two-story Bauhaus building was built on the premises of the former goods station Halensee which was closed in 1990. The rails on the right of the pretty old signalman's house ("adorned" with the inevitable graffiti) belong to Berlin's extended S-Bahn (city train) network, here the circle line that was completed as early as 1877, but several steps of extension followed. During the Berlin Wall, the circle line was interrupted and was operated independently in both parts of the city.
The red train on the bridge is a regional train. Regional trains are typically built as double-deckers, so people with lots of or large pieces of luggage or who bring their bicycles are supposed to stay downstairs, and everyone else can go upstairs (when you zoom in on the train, you can see a huge bicycle sticker). Well, that's the theory. Regional trains are often overcrowded, especially on the line to the Baltic Sea. The people who visited Germany for the Euro 2024 and travelled by train can now tell their personal stories of the DB's (Deutsche Bahn) "efficiency" and (un)punctuality ;)
In the background, you can see a few Berlin landmarks: the Berliner Funkturm – the city's first radio tower (opened in 1926) – behind our West Berlin "spaceship", the now closed congress centre ICC. The smaller tower behind the ICC belongs to the RBB TV centre (RBB: Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting).
The image is an HDR made of a three photo bracketing (combined in HDR Efex). I tweaked it further in Color Efex and in LR to make it a true slider (but then, all my images are sliders).
HSS, Everyone!
#MacroMondays
#Carbon
What a difficult theme. My mind went blank when I read "Carbon". I thought "Should I buy something made of carbon?", and looked online for ball pens and other small carbon-made items but then decided against it. I thought of using my tripod as a subject because it has legs made of carbon. But it looked like absolutely nothing when I got close to the pattern. Ditto my one Casio watch that has a "Carbon Core Guard" casing.
So consequently this is a last-minute photo of the obvious that every one of us has at home: a pencil, or rather a pencil lead in a "Koh-i Noor Hardtmuth" clutch pencil. I have taken similar photos before, with the tip of the lead in focus, so to make it a little different, I focused directly on the top of the tip and got as close as possible. The rings of bokeh around the lead are the pencil's metal opening. Light sources were my natural light photo lamp from above (and slightly from the left), and my two go-to single LEDs shone through a green bottle (left) and the transparent red plastic lid (right). The blue is from a small blue glass jar on which I'd placed the pencil.
Kudos to the members who photographed diamonds or match sticks for the theme. I didn't even think of these items because I kind of blocked myself ;)
HMM, Everyone!
The area shown is about 2.2637795″ wide.
Lightning 💡: A remote controlled Speedlite 430EX III-RT in a 10″ soft box.
I wish you a happy Macro Monday and a great week!
#MacroMondays
#Collection
Three of a collection of beads of different shapes, materials, and colours. I randomly collected them while looking for a replacement bead for the – once professionally beaded, now DIY – necklace I redid with a new wire at the beginning of this year (and photographed it three times for MMs). initially, I bought the glass bead in front as a replacement for the broken bead but it's about 2 mm/0.078 inches bigger than the original beads, and of a darker colour, and in the end, I decided to use the broken bead so the necklace is now very much in "Wabi-sabi" style ;)
I'm not quite sure what the two bigger beads (1 cm/0.39 inches in diameter) are made of. From the touch, I first thought plastic but from the sound they make when dropped on a hard surface (and I dropped them a lot, or rather: they kept rolling off the black tile I tried to put them on, so in the end, I fixated them with modelling clay), I'd say glass. And the more I dropped them, the more I was/am convinced it's glass. Their surface is frosted, with a "dented" (tiny, tiny, tiny dents) texture. And when light hits them at a certain angle, they display a nice iridescent colour effect which drew me to them in the first place.
No coloured lights this time because the beads have the colours "in them", so to speak. The smaller glass bead is of a blueish-grey, also slightly iridescent colour, with a partly metal-vaporized (I'm not sure about the correct term here) surface, and of course, its facets nicely reflect all the colours of the things around it (and believe me, there were/are many things). I was also a little shocked at how scratched the (new!) faceted bead already was but I guess it was touched by many hands and rolled around many times in the small ceramic bowl at the shop before I bought it, so that explains the scratches.
The two bigger beads are semi-translucent white, and the colours that emerge when, as mentioned above, light hits them at the right angle, are a bright, electric blue with hints of yellow, green, and purple.
Light sources were natural sunlight from the window to the right, natural white light from my LED photo lamp from above (and slightly from the left), and bright white light from my handheld LED flashlight, set on "spot", from the front. The final image is made of 15 focus-stacked Raws combined in Helicon Focus.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
P.S. I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight.
#white_pelican #florida #best_birds_planet #planet_birds #birdbrilliance #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography #birdextreme #bestbirdshots #discovertheworld #nature_perfection #wildlifeperfection #gregorymountainpacks #canon #gitzo #leofotousa #markins #manfrotto #TKpanel #luminarneo #adobe_LR_PS #nikcollection #topaz #dxo #capture_1 #rrs
Carlingford Lough (Irish: Loch Cairlinn) is a glacial fjord or sea inlet in north eastern Ireland, forming part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south. On its northern shore is County Down, the Mourne Mountains, and the town of Warrenpoint; on its southern shore is County Louth, the Cooley Mountains and the village of Carlingford. The Newry River flows into the loch from the northwest. Wikipedia
Macro Monday: #Junk
Size of the frame: 6 x 4,5 cm / 2,3 x 1,7 inches; height of the "vase": 2,1 cm / 0,82 inches
When I read that "Junk" was going to be the new MM theme, I immediately thought of my Macro Monday prop box. Because it's full of junk. Full of stuff, odds and ends, bits and pieces, macro paraphernalia... things I've kept, things I'm keeping, because they might come in handy for a photo one sunny, funny, far away day ;-) So basically everything you see in this capture is junk. Starting with the "vase", which actually is the broken-off neck of a small glass vial that contained concentrated inhalant, through to the dried rose hip - which I'd collected last year on a walk and which has been sitting, err was "arranged" (together with its sisters including leaves) as a most elaborate rose hip bouquet in a glass filled with bird sand (which I'd bought for MMs, too, but only ever used once, because you all know that sand and lenses...) - and the golden "doily" which actually began its life as a tinfoil bottle collar. The orange (rowan?) berries, snowberries and tiny daisies are junk, too, leftovers from an autumnal living room bouquet.
I wanted to make the junk look pretty, precious even, so I thought of arranging a little low key still life right away (I'd used the vial for a flower still life before, please see first comment). The setup was rather straightforward. I'd fixated the vial on the "doily" with modeling clay (and since this is all about junk I didn't retouch the piece of modeling clay either). Captured with in-camera focus stacking which again was difficult, because I never seemed to get the rose hip sharp - so in the end I combined four focus-stacked jpgs (I had set a different focus point for each focus stacking "run-through") with Photomerge in PS. Processed entirely in Luminar 3, added a LUT filter ("Thoreau") in ON1 Photo Raw and applied some final touches in Analog Efex.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a pleasant week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Als ich las, dass das neue MM-Thema "Junk" sein würde, habe ich sofort an meine MM-Box gedacht - diese ist nämlich voller "Müll", Krimskrams, Kleinigkeiten, Zeugs, das ich aufgehoben habe bzw. aufhebe, weil ich etwas davon eines schönen, fernen Tages evtl. für ein Foto brauchen könnte. Hier auf dem Foto ist praktisch alles "Junk", angefangen bei der Vase (dem abgebrochenen Hals einer kleinen Glasampulle, die ursprünglich mal ein Inhalations-Konzentrat enthalten hatte), über die getrocknete Hagebutte - im letzten Jahr bei einem Spaziergang mit ein paar ihrer "Schwestern" gepflückt -, das goldenen "Deckchen", das mal als Stanniol-Flaschenkragen gedient hat, bis hin zu den Überbleibseln eines herbstlichen Blumenstraußes. Ich wollte den "Müll" schön und wertvoll, edel sogar, aussehen lassen, deshalb hatte ich gleich an ein Low-Key-Stilleben gedacht. Der Aufbau war schnell und einfach, die Ampulle mit Wasser gefüllt, mit dem herbstlichen Strauß bestückt, mithilfe von Bastelknete (die ich hier, "Junk" eben, extra nicht wegretuschiert habe) auf dem "Deckchen" befestigt, ein bisschen mit dem Licht und der Belichtungsmessung experimentiert und losgelegt. Aufgenommen mit der Fokus-Stacking-Funktion meiner Kamera. Dieses Mal bin ich so vorgegangen, dass ich vier Fokusreihen gemacht habe, mit jeweils dem Fokus auf einem anderen Punkt des Sträußchens, und am Ende die vier "fertigen" Jpgs aus den Fokusreihen nochmals als Fokus-Stack in PS mit Photomerge zusammengesetzt habe. Entwickelt in Luminar 3, zusätzlich ein LUT-Filter aus ON1 ("Thoreau") und ein bisschen Analog Efex als Feinschliff.
Ich wünsche Euch eine sonnige Herbstwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Spending the day in Great Langdale reminds you that while we’re just passing through, these peaks have been standing guard for eons. The contrast between the soft green valley and the rugged, weathered face of the crags is exactly why the Lake District feels like home, no matter where you’re from.
Nothing compares to the dramatic scale of the Langdales when the clouds hang low. It’s raw, it’s rugged, and it’s perfectly British.
#LakeDistrict #GreatLangdale #HikingUK #MountainPhotography #Cumbria
The mysterious and extremely rare Giraffe Snake (serpentus giraffa) which can only be found in Sprout Forest (please see first comment), also known as "What you see are the feet of a small giraffe ceramic figure, once dropped, and fixed, picture rotated per 90 degrees to the left" snake.
Size: 2,5 cm / 0,984252 inches
Die mysteriöse und extrem seltene Giraffenschlange, die ausschließlich im Sprossenwald lebt (siehe den ersten Kommentar), auch bekannt als "Füße-einer-kleinen-Keramik-Giraffenfigur,-runtergefallen-und-wieder-zusammengeklebt,-Bild-um-90-Grad-nach-links-gedreht"-Schlange.
Thank you for your kind comments, I appreciate every single one, and your faves! Vielen Dank für Eure tollen Kommentare und Faves!
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream."
~Bernard Williams~
Indian Pass, FL at sunset...
A spectacular morning hike up to Posforth Gill Falls within the Valley of Desolation, Bolton Abbey. After recent rainfall, the peaty water was absolutely roaring down the gorge. I was incredibly lucky to catch the morning sun striking the mist at just the right angle to throw up a perfect little rainbow at the base. Processed via DxO to retain all the rich textures in the wet rock and foliage.
#ValleyOfDesolation #BoltonAbbey #YorkshireDales #NorthYorkshire #VisitYorkshire #WaterfallPhotography #RainbowHunter #WaterfallsOfInstagram #ChasingWaterfalls #UKPotD #GloriousBritain #NatureIsPowerful
#indian_river_lagoon #florida #nature #discovertheworld #sunset #waterscape #landscape #nature_perfection #gregorymountainpacks #canon #gitzo #leofotousa #markins #manfrotto #TKpanel #luminarneo #adobe_LR_PS #nikcollection #topaz #dxo #capture_1 #rrs
Captured near to Glenridding, this image explores a secluded mountain pool where clear water, fractured rock, and a narrow cascade converge beneath open fellside. The foreground stones reveal the clarity and depth of the water, while the waterfall creates a delicate line of movement through the darker gorge beyond.
The artistic concept centres on contrast between stillness and flow. Sunlight reaches the shallows in soft reflections, while shadowed rock and enclosing vegetation give the scene a private, almost secretive atmosphere. The composition invites the viewer to pause at the meeting point of water, stone, and mountain silence.
#Glenridding #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #HiddenWaterfall #MountainPool #ClearWater #RockyGorge #FellLandscape #WaterAndStone #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #WildLandscape #OutdoorPhotography #FineArtNature #SecretPlaces
#MacroMondays
#Fastener
This is an "S-Biner" double carabiner. They come in different shapes, functionalities, and sizes, and this is the smallest one available (methinks), a 3,7 cm/1.45 inches long steel thingy that, for example, comes in handy for extra securing a bag or backpack because it has a "microlock" at the centre part (it's really hard to open once it's locked). You can also use it as a keyholder, attach a strap to it... whatever. It's a convenient little device that I keep in a small pouch, together with extra camera batteries and other photo-related things. Because one never knows, right?
For this, I thought a nicely shallow DOF and bokeh might look nice, so I mounted the Laowa 50mm 2x macro. I glued the S-Biner to my go-to black, glossy tile with a small piece of modeling clay so I could make it stand up at a Dutch angle rather than just putting it on the tile. I also placed a green bnottle in front of one of the LED lamps because red and green always look so nice together, don't they? That's it ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Water spills in silver ribbons down the rugged face of Esk Falls, carving its way through dark, ancient rock before gathering in a quiet, glassy pool below. The cliffs rise steep and textured, their rough edges softened by tufts of green that cling stubbornly to every ledge.
All around, Cumbria breathes in deep, earthy tones—moss, grass, and stone woven together in a landscape that feels both raw and timeless. A lone figure stands high above, small against the scale of it all, a reminder of how vast and untamed this place remains.
The sound of falling water echoes through the valley, steady and unhurried, as if time itself moves differently here—measured not in moments, but in the endless flow of the falls.
#EskFalls #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #WaterfallWonders #ChasingWaterfalls #UKNature #ExploreBritain #HiddenGemsUK #NaturePhotography #LandscapeLovers #WildBritain #MoodyNature #IntoTheWild #HikingAdventures #DiscoverEarth #EarthFocus #StayAndWander #OurPlanetDaily #ScenicViews #NaturePerfection #OffTheBeatenPath #RoamThePlanet #AdventureAwaits #SereneScenes
Three seconds long...
#MacroMondays
#WearAndTear
The battered glass stone of a steel tension ring that originally belonged to my Mum magrit k.. At one point, it got a little too small for her, and since it's made of steel there's no such thing as widening it easily like a silver or gold ring, so she gave it to me :) My Mum must have bumped against something one or more times while wearing the ring which resulted in this cracked dent that, to my delight, almost looks like a 💗 when seen in close-up; there's also some wear and tear visible on the brushed steel.
And yes, this glass stone is "three seconds" in diameter. Due to the lack of a close-at-hand ruler (and a distinct laziness in fetching it from the desk), I used the seconds marks of my automatic Citizen watch to measure the stone's diameter. The three seconds translate into 4 mm/0.157 inches.
Technical info: single shot illuminated by two LED lamps (left and right) and my LED Lenser flashlight set on "Spot", handheld from above to highlight the heart-shaped "Wear and Tear".
HMM, Everyone! I'll catch up with you later!
#MacroMondays
#Stationery
I'm not sure if getting sharpened is great fun for a pencil but... I think it depends on the pencil's character. I assume there are pencils out there that prefer to be blunt and others that insist on being razor sharp and therefore see their daily workout in the sharpener as an absolute necessity. Why should pencils be any different from us humans who use them, after all... ;)
I've been after this idea of photographing the inside of a pencil sharpener for quite a while, I think I've tried to make it work on three or four occasions, not all of them "Stationery"-related MM themes. So far, there always had been something off, odd focusing, unsatisfying sharpness, weird POV... you name it, I've unsuccessfully tried it.
Now this photo isn't perfect, either, the framing is still a little weird, but I think this time it works as an image; I like the bokeh, and there also is enough sharpness in the right places. I think what finally made it work was the addition of a slim pencil. Strange as it seems, until now I had never even thought about adding a pencil, although a pencil is a natural (and as clear as mud) addition to a sharpener... While it would have made sense to add the pencil where it belongs, right in the sharpener, it wouldn't have worked as an image, at least not as I had envisioned it. So I stuck the tiny point of a very slim pencil into the small opening next to the blade on the sharpener's top, just so it would be visible when focusing on the inside of the hole where the pencil normally goes in.
As for the colours, they looked different in every single image. I've illuminated the scene with two LEDs and the usual makeshift colour filter suspects: red from the left, green from the right, and blue from the semi-transparent snack can lid that I'd placed behind the sharpener. There also was some sunshine from the living room window involved, and I'd used my small LED flashlight, set to spotlight, to illuminate the pencil point. I held the flashlight as far away from the setup as possible because otherwise, the highlights would have been blown out.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice spring/autumn week ahead!
These birds come to our garden many times every day for a feed at the grevillea bushes.
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