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Flowers are almost nonexistent around my house, except for vines running up a backyard fence featuring small clusters of tiny blooms surrounded by red leaves. Alas, I cannot identify the plant as I am not a botanist.
This furry-looking bloom was roughly 1/4" (6.35mm) in diameter, the pollen cluster (I think) less than 1/32" (0.79mm) wide.
As a gardener, I dislike these in my yard, but as a photographer, I can enjoy the dandelion gone to seed (as long as it's in someone else's yard).
One of the iconic cereals of America is made in my hometown. This is an image I can actually smell as the Cheerios are being made early in the morning. This is about 5 minutes worth of exposure using my camera's Live Composite feature that stacks multiple exposures but only adds changes in the light to the final image.
The Gear: Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 25mm f1.2 lens and mounted on my Mefoto Globetrotter tripod - 25mm | f3.5 | 20s | ISO200.
Post-Processing: Initial RAW processing handled by DxO PhotoLab 4 then pushed to On1 Photo RAW 2021 for file prep prior to a roundtrip to Nik Silver Efex Pro for Mono Conversion and film emulation. I finished this one up by adding a LUT in On1 to tone it up.
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Stormy Lake Erie
Just a simple "bird in flight" image made during the gale-force storm that hit the Buffalo area a couple weeks ago. I did a mono & color version and like both well enough to publish. Cheers!
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My family and I have recently had a brief vacation at the seaside, in Rosolina Mare (Rosolina on the sea), a peculiar location in a world dominated by water, as you can see by following the link in Google Maps. There is a stretch of land surrounded by many different waters: the Adriatic Sea (E), the Lagoon of Caleri (W), the delta of the river Adige (N), and that of the river Po (S). In the middle of this watery network there lays a strip of land, roughly divided into two: on the western side (the lagoon side) there is a beautiful Mediterranean pine grove, and on the eastern side a long, wide, partly wild beach of fine amber-coloured sand.
The northern Adriatic Sea is pretty shallow, so even moderate low tides are able to uncover large sand banks; this is the context of the series of photographs I will upload in the next weeks, beginning with this one.
The very faintest early lights were already in the sky when I started my session, at 4.15 am; sunrise would have been at about 5.25, and there were many kilometers of wild beach before me... :-)
In retrospect, I am under the impression that this sunrise developed at a slow pace - maybe this was because it was absolutely windless: the sea was as peaceful as it can be, and the clouds in the sky moved very leisurely.
As I was trying to capture that peaceful, still moment, more than once I found myself wondering whether the wavy patterns retained by the uncovered sand and the complex cloudscape could somehow be meaningful - whether they encrypted some kind of message I could not even begin to understand. I do not know for sure if it that was the case, of course, but I think that somehow such sheer beauty and harmony must be endowed with a meaning - if only in the dephts of our souls... So I share this sunrise shot as a gift for my Flickr friends and occasional visitors, hoping that they will feel at least some faint whispers of this message of beauty and harmony resonating within themselves :-)
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
From here to there
with a purity in the air,
This open-air waystation
allows a moment of quiet respite.
When time to go
most travelers move slow,
As this vaulted monument
brings awe, architectural delight.
- a fragment
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Dancing through the night
like fireflies to the light
Her enchantments lit by flame
we'll not be the same again.
Those around the ring might stare
as she soars without a care.
- a fragment
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A photo edited with the Google Nik Collection plug-in for photoshop.
A small bachelor herd of Impala practising for the rut.
Satara
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga
South Africa
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
After quite a long break from sharing photos, I decided to return to one of my favorite recent series, the island portrait series. I find I love this series not only because I love the subject matter, but because this is the first series in which I allowed myself the freedom to process each photo as it needed to be processed. I found that in my past series, I would impose strict requirements on style of the end result, expecting the final image to look a certain way. With this series, I decided instead to focus on consistency of subject matter and allow the processing to adapt as I saw fit.
This shot came from my trip in May to Korea where one of the stops was the rather beautiful and photographic target-rich island of Ulleungdo. It's basically the top of an ancient sea volcano, and as such, has huge amounts of volcanic rocks both on land and just off shore. There are even three very famous rocks, each with their own names—this is one of them (but of course the name escapes me).
Originally, this frame was not one of my keepers; I had flagged another view of the same islet, but after working on it, I realized that I didn't really like the composition. Going back through I found this composition and decided to get to work on it. I'm very happy with how it turned out. Because of all of the dark tones, it's best to view large to see all of the detail, of which there's quite a lot thanks to the nice cross lighting that I was able to get in this early morning shot.
Technical Information
Nikon D800E with 24-70 f/2.8 lens
255 seconds at f/8
16 stops of Formatt-Hitech ProStop IRND filters
Processing in Silver Efex Pro 2 and Adobe Photoshop CC
This was the first and only time I've been out to shoot the Bay Lights. Now that its getting dark earlier, I'm guessing I'll get a few more shots from here as I walk home.
8 vertical exposures stitched into panorama in Lightroom.
Unfortunately, even a cursory look quickly reveals imperfections in the stitching. But merging a panorama with even the slightest motion in water or waves makes it impossible for a flawless stitch. Still, the place is so beautiful and this panorama gives you a good impression of what it was like so I went ahead with it anyway.
Thank you very much for the views, kind comments and faves.
As found at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, NY last weekend.
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Sundown over Waubs Bay, Bicheno, Tasmania.
Re-work of a chocolate box image I wasn't happy with first time around, the sky always looked a bit flat. Blew a whole gale of NW the next day.
Sony A7Rii, Nikkor 20/1.8G, 1/100th sec at f/11, ISO 100
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Floor sign outside an elevator in Galbraith Hall at UC San Diego. I'd been wanting to shoot this as I like how the digit 3 looks in the Gotham typeface, the signage font used in the core area of the building.
Effects courtesy of NIK Collection's Silver Efex Pro 2, Full Contrast and Structure effect with added cyanotype toning.
The Full Moon of July 31, 2023 rising at the end of a long line of high tension towers across the prairie near Milo, Alberta. Some smoke in the air made the rising Moon even redder than normal, making it look like an eclipsed Moon. This night the alignment of the rising point of the Full Moon coincided with the angle of the powerlines off to the southeast at 135° azimuth.
This was the evening before the day of actual Full Moon, which ocurred at midday August 1, so the Moon the evening before was almost as full as it would be the next night, and the alignment was better this night. This was also a "supermoon," being a Full Moon close to lunar perigee.
This is a single exposure with the Canon RF7-200mm lens at 200mm anf f/4 on the Canon R5 at ISO 100. A mild soft focus effect added with Nik Collection 6 Color EFX.
A little prop fail. He wanted to sit leaning against the backdrop. Wrestled with him for 1/2 hour. Finally gave up and gave him his pupcakes. The other 2 boys were off to the side waiting patiently.
Sew up a banner, add ecru sheet, add pupcakes....all okay...add dog and what could go wrong???
A beautiful day for a walk.
To see and be seen.
To show your colors
or make it monochromatic.
- a fragment
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Pier 54 I found this crazy park near the Chelsea Market in NY City. Little Island. The view was great, but I really liked the abstract shapes of the concrete pylons.
A Daisy flower from our garden.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 200mm f/4D Micro lens.
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Waiting for the sun to set to capture some SuperMoon shots, the sunset provided a show of its own.
Taken at Bronte Beach Park in Oakville, Ontario Canada - One of my favourite walking spots.
Well, yes... Those of you who are following my work will have realized instantly that this is another photo from my Rosolina archive. It was the first and only time I have been at Rosolina Mare (Rosolina by the Sea), but I have been lucky enough to have two wonderful sunrise sessions there. And apparently my archive from this location has some more suprises in store, somehow (sadly) compensating for the very small trickle of new shots.
There had been a heavy thunderstorm during the night and the sky was still busy in the fiery aftermath of that turmoil, whereas the sea was very calm, already oblivious of the nocturnal gale.
The northern Adriatic Sea is pretty shallow, so even moderate low tides are able to unveal large sandbanks and a hidden world of sand ripples sculpted by the gentle, constant ebb and flow of the water near the coast.
One of the features I like of this view is the sensual spit of sand languidly stretching through the frame - like an ancient goddess lying down by the seashore enjoying the golden kiss of the Sun. However the detail that really captured me was that stranded tangle of reddish seaweed: a remnant of the thunderstorm left on the beach whispering to the sky its own part of the story while slowly dying shrouded in a veil of warm light - surrounded and permeated by all that almost unbearable beauty. So in posting this shot I hope that you can hear its feeble voice, too, and bear with you a memory of the tale of a stranded seaweed...
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1/0/+1 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I am happy to join the Gimpers' community in celebrating the recent releasing of the Gimp 2.10