Une surprise en retour de la Crète chaude

Looking Southwest from the Hiking Trail bridge over the Merced towards Taft Point and Cathedral Rocks.

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These birds come to our garden many times every day for a feed at the grevillea bushes.

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"Allow nature's peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into the trees." ~John Muir~

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Another quick shot. I have started making a list of skills that I want to strengthen this year during this 365 day project. One of them is to get better at post processing my photos. I would also like to get quicker at taking photos as well. I think this photo helps with both. How can I be quicker in camera when I need to be and still get a good final result with post processing. I feel like I am learning more every day, including how lazy I can be! 😊

Géranium des bois, Wood cranesbill, Midsommarblomster

(Geranium sylvaticum)

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More clouds from the neighbourhood. We've been spoiled with some spectacular cloud formations and colourful sunsets lately and on Friday evening the sky was not only graced with particularly golden tones and clouds but also amazing sunbeams. It was quite a "Wow, look at this, must photograph!"-moment ;)

For the best possible dynamic range, I set the LX100 to "Auto Bracket 3BKT 1/3" (the camera's standard bracketing setting) and combined the images in HDR Efex which nicely brought out the clouds' and sunbeams' textures, and also the colours. As a final touch, I applied the "Skylight" filter (Color Efex) for more warmth.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, and have a wonderful week ahead!

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Not what I had in mind when I started shooting. I used a pipette to make ink droplets, and wanted to write the word "drop" in Braille on a CD. It actually worked, but I rather prefer the blurry version where only the bokeh of those pinpoints of light on the droplets is sharp. But with no drops clearly visible, I had to come up with something else for MM's pool, so for the fun of it, and to get a real drip / droplet, I played around with the ink, inkwell, and the dropper. It was a really shaky affair, because I was kneeling in front of the camera, operating it with my right hand, and holding the pipette / dropper in my left hand to make the droplets / drips. Of about 70 shots only a few turned out fairly sharp ;-). One droplet made with red ink looked like a little face or skull, but I decided on this one, because by pure chance I had hit the shutter button in the exact moment when the droplet / drip started to fall. Those funny blurry lines you can see are ink splashes, I suppose, because I've noticed that the ink splashed around everywhere when I made the drops. I'm glad I had the UV filter attached ;-).

Size of the inkwell's neck: 3 cm / 1,1811 inches

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Meine eigentliche Idee war, das Wort "Drop" in Braille-Schrift auf einer spiegelnden Oberfläche (CD) mit Tintentropfen (mit einer Pipette) zu schreiben. Das klappte auch gut, aber es gefiel mir die unscharfe Variante, bei der nur das Bokeh der Lichtpünktchen auf den Tropfen scharf ist, besser. Aber: keine sichtbaren Tropfen, kein geeigneter Beitrag fürs "Drips, Drops and Splashes" Thema. Also habe ich mit der Pipette und den Tintenfässchen ein bisschen herumprobiert. Eine recht wackelige Angelegenheit, weil ich vor der Kamera kniete und mit der linken Hand die Tröpfchen machte, und so wurden von gut 70 Aufnahmen auch nur wenige scharf ;-). Ein Tropfen sah sogar aus wie ein Gesicht, aber ich habe mich dann für dieses entschieden, weil ich per Zufall just in dem Moment auf den Auslöser drückte, als der Tropfen herunterfiel. Diese hellen Linien sind wohl Tintenspritzer, weil beim Tröpfchenmachen überall kleinste Spritzer herumflogen. Wie gut, dass der UV-Filter immer auf der Linse ist ;-)

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The Little Wattlebird, (Anthochaera chrysoptera

Meliphagidae) on the Honey Gem Grevillea.

Some time ago I cut the honey gem grevillea right back, as they can grow quite large. Since then, it has grown and is now flowering extremely well, looking very nice. The honeyeaters really love it.

Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6 lens at 340mm.

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#Jewelry

I've recently found it very helpful to pick one specific item for an MM theme and stick to it instead of randomly photographing this and that and getting frustrated in the process. Provided I know what I want to photograph, that is.

So for "Jewelry", the abovementioned specific item is a ring that my mother, magrit k., had got made in the mid-eighties but her style changed, so, years ago, she gave it to me. The ring is made of a slim, round silver ring band, a cabochon-style round golden center part, and a tiny opal with iridescent green and turquoise tones set on top of the golden center part. I like its simple design and modern looks that stood the test of time.

Next to daylight, my only other light source was an LED lamp I held so the stone would be backlit to highlight its iridescence. Tiny as it is (2 mm/0,078 inches in diameter), the opal's colours are vibrant and, depending on the direction of the light (or how I wear it), there also are hints of apricot and light blue in addition to intense turquoise green.

HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!

P.S. I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight.

Another handheld panorama of the "Schorfheide"

The Helix, Falkirk

The third in my series from the Kelpies. This time processed using Nik software - Silver Efex Pro2 to bring out the drama of the sky.

"Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." ~Grateful Dead~

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!

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Southbourne, Dorset, 2020.

A Black & White image processed in Lightroom, Photoshop and Google Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Colour image initially processed in Lightroom and then taken into Photoshop. The Black & White image was created by creating 4 Silver Efex Pro layers, one for Neural, Green, Red & Blue. Blended using layer masks.

Process used was from Oz to Kansas by Vincent Versace.

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Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus) feeding on a fish at Cleveland Point, Queensland, Australia.

The Osprey has oily plumage, so that when it dives or plunges under the water for fish, its feathers become less wet and it can take off again. It does not need to spread its wings to dry, unlike cormorants.

Backyard

Nik Collection HDR Efex

🌿 U predolujnoj tišini, sitni leptir Leptidea sinapis pronašao je zaklon među cvjetovima livadske kadulje. Iako bez sunca, trenutak je zabljesnuo svojom tišinom i bojama prirode.

In the stillness before the storm, a delicate Wood White butterfly (Leptidea sinapis) found shelter among the meadow sage blossoms. Despite the absence of sunlight, the moment glowed with the quiet strength of nature.

In the stillness before the storm, a delicate Wood White butterfly (Leptidea sinapis) found shelter among the meadow sage blossoms. Despite the absence of sunlight, the moment glowed with the quiet strength of nature.