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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.
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Thought I'd throw in some greens to break up the Autumn colours a bit!
Seelenfresser
Mal wieder eine ziemlich alte Aufnahme, allerdings ganz frisch bearbeitet! Einfach mal so... :))
Again, an old photograph but newly-processed! Out of the blue... :))
Tools: Aperture, Analog Efex Pro 2, Viveza 2, Pixelmator.
Elliptische Anomalie
Eine Abweichung der besonderen Art...
Das Dach des Sony Centers am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. :)
(Hinweis: Farbversion des Bildes gelöscht...)
A special kind of anomaly...
Sony Center roof at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. :)
(Note: Colour version deleted...)
Tools: Aperture, Silver Efex Pro 2.
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.
A stunning walk in the mountains and one of my favourite locations I have ever been too - but bloody cold and wet!
Created for the Award Tree's ~ Art With Text. ~ challenge.
A real mish-mash of stuff used here: four or five Microsoft Word documents with various fonts (Bahnschrift SemiLight SemiConde, ROG FONTS to name two), cropped, resized and colour-filled in Photoshop, everything then stuck into Photomatix Pro, tonemapped and finally combined with previously unused DABC #600, final flourishes back at the ol' PS lab using the Nik Collection add-on. Phew!
Spilling out into the night, the air slapping at their sweaty and flushed faces, the SeeBee defensive line - the one with the core, a Cap and a whole bunch of hooligans masquerading under the banner of Dan, variations one through eight – celebrated with a hoot, three hollers and a whole six-pack of gang-gum stylings designed to set the world on fire. The sheer levity brought about by these loveable, disgusting creatures of the gong, reeked of disillusion, straight-up bravado and all the squeaky, tin monkeys money could buy. “Don’t let the luster blind you,” pointed out one of the on-lookers, digging feverishly at the tapioca ice-cream bowl before her, “these cats can jam flat a back sass of the most gruesome kind, “again stabbing her parfait spoon deeper, “and all before eight on a Sunday.” The motor was left running. The dimes fell to the floor. The shoe shine boy folded his tent, bid a tra-la and sauntered down the alleyway, oblivious to all the temptations within.
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.
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
“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
The North Face of the Skessuhorn (964m). The mountain dominates the eastern side of the Skarðsheiði range, inland from Borgarnes, West Iceland.
Taken from near the junction of Route 50 and the F507.
Fuji X-Pro2, XF55-200/3.5-4.8, 1/400th set at f/9, ISO 250
Breaking down the second-to-last 35mm print shown at the theatre while the last show is rolling. After that, no more 35mm would be shown there.
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
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
Another of the famous rocks just off the coast of Ulleundgo whose name I've forgotten. This one was close to the end of the road on the island, which only goes 75% of the way, and next to another quite larger island famous for the view to the hotly contested Dokdo islands.
Technical Info
Nikon D800E with 24-70 f/2.8 lens
300 seconds at f/16
16 stops of Formatt-Hitech ProStop IRND filters
Processed in Silver Efex Pro 2 and Adobe Photoshop CC
An early morning trip to Downderry... while the main part of the beach in front of the town is not that interesting, the east end has much more going for it. Shag Rock at the far end (just visible in the distance) is somewhere I really want to get back to, but it's only accessible at low tide. I knew that wasn't going to be possible on this morning but I just fancied revisiting somewhere I've not been for a while!
Turbines under the Stars 24
As occasionally happens, I was torn on which I preferred, the mono or the color version of the image I produced. So, I'm sharing both.
Image made leveraging the Live Composite mode in my Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 8mm f1.8 Fisheye Pro lens. Processed in DxO Photo Lab, On1 Photo RAW 2021 and Nik Silver Efex Pro.
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Wreathed in Flames - Vanessa's wrapped up in her flow.
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Photo de notre virée Comté du Prince-Édouard, Ontario, Canada. Deuxième journée 17 mai 2016
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Took the camera along for a late afternoon lakeside ride - a place that I treasure dearly. There was no colourful sunset, but some interesting clouds came along.
I just had a hankerin' to revisit my images from this great show in 2015. I was happy to get decent separation with Ohgr on this one with solid eye contact and great layers between fore, mid and background. This was made with a first gen Olympus OM-D e-M5 with the 45mm f1.8 lens - a truly portable kit.
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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.
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
Near Goolwa, SA, June 2025
Wasn't until later that I realised I was shooting at ISO3200. Some times you just have to lean into it