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Miracles do happen. All five of my monsters in the one photo.
Not perfect but I'm pretty happy with it!
Can't decide if I like the colour or the B/W best.
Eiders (source is Bird life international 2009)
In the 1960s, seventy-five percent of the Dutch eider population died as a result of
toxic waste transported by the river Rhine. Fortunately the numbers recovered quickly,
but at the beginning of this century, the number of Dutch eiders declined again. This time over-fishing of mussels was the
cause. This forced the eiders to migrate to the North Sea, where they had to switch to a different and insufficient food source. Another mass mortality of
21,000 eiders occured. Seems this year there's lots of offspring to admire.
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Mother and offspring, ambling along the Mana flood plain...ZM
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” - Genesis 15:5
GIANT ants and outsized chickens have taken over a police headquarters.
The sculptures will greet visitors to Durham Constabulary’s headquarters at Aykley Heads having taken up residence outside the building.
Three works have been donated to the Force for temporary display over the summer by acclaimed artist Graeme Hopper.
They are the ‘Millennium Bug and Offspring’, which took eight months to create, ‘Girl on a Swing’, and a group of abstract iron chickens.
Fellow local artist Ray Lonsdale, the man who created Tommy the soldier at Seaham, has also donated a piece of his latest work.
The statue of an elderly lady and little girl has been placed on a bench outside the building’s front entrance.
I hadn't seen my assistant Captain Quack for a while, so I was starting to worry a little about him. Imagine my surprise when my doorbell rang and I opened the door to see this...
Now I know what he was up to!
I'd have to admit that I have no idea whatever. I've snapped so many of these exposures that I am running out of titles. This one quite obviously had a real large bay of green lighting on one side and some other minor colors. Your results will vary with each capture you snap. Try everything! This shot is zoomed but the camera back was rotated as I held the zoom ring. It looks like I introduced some extra shakes during the exposure. At this point, I have no idea what caused any of this but it is fun to keep chasing these shots. It seems as though I finished the twist and zoom and had shakes left in the exposure. I usually start with the tele-focus on the best point of interest and then spin and zoom. You might end up on a void in the display like this and that can be fine too. Other displays warrant other techniques. I am intent on trying throwing images well out of focus during exposure. Roll yer' own. I think that opening the aperture a bit would burn the trails in slightly better. The zoom ring does not turn a full 90 degrees so I have to add some contortions to get near the 90 degrees. Contortions would be fine too. This lens has a zoom range of less than 3X but boy are the shots excellent throughout the range. Even after I dropped the camera onto the concrete I used it for several extra months.
The zoom increases at the perimeter of the frame and the jiggles were really interesting this time. Maybe it was the fact it was below twenty degrees. Jiggles sre often the best effect. I did a zoom along with unavoidable and intentional jiggles which really add to the action. These are just Christmas lights which usually prove to be the best of subjects. I have abandoned trying action on tripod views. I might try propping the lens shade on the tripod only; a vee block on top of the tripod might be a help.. Strap your seat belt on, I am going to try several. Reality is highly overrated.
I never finished my color lights or rose garden experiments and now I just bought a 3 stop neutral density filter. The neutral density filter is hardly necessary at night. I just had to jump at another opportunity to try out the tricks before next summer's fireworks and the fair rides. I am still not out of snaps of the other subjects but I hope my breadth has expanded. I did vewwy, vewwy wittle warping and editing, for me at least, to present it the way I wanted. I have learned to slow the camera down even further to three seconds this time and I dropped the lens setting to f:/20 and eventually f:/16. Three seconds is about enough to accomplish a wide array of tricks if prepared and prepanned so to speak. Of course this digital experimentation is cheap. I did set the camera to a shutter delay of one second and that was a help in preparing for the action. I will continue with that. I had fun shooting all of these and they were a breeze to edit! I get mostly muted colors in the ag settings I have shot, so I revel in JUST COLORS. And this title DOES have a nice touch for the actual scene, don't you think? I spent two hours giving this stuff titles.
Merimbula Flats on the NSW South Coast - I would like to shoot this at sunset & high tide would be magic. This is a 6 shot pano and stitched in CS5 and best viewed on black - Click L
A dense wall of young oak saplings has sprung up around the back of the big Cefn Ila pollarded oak. A bit of management may be required, but it is nice to see how readily these trees can reproduce.
A couple weeks ago I noticed a robin had built a nest not far from my front porch. There were 4 eggs and over the weekend they hatched. The parents freak out every time we use that door, so we avoid it using it except when leaving or returning for the day.
The other evening I noticed both were gone but the babies were squirming, so I ran in and grabbed my camera and crouched down on the porch and waited. It took about 20 minutes before the parents decided I wasn't going to jump out and returned to feed them. I was able to snap about 5 shots, 2 of which were reasonable focus, including this one. The camera noise freaked them out so I retreated inside.
I decided to post this one, since it's my first ever shot of nestlings and I was quite proud of myself for being patient and resisting the urge to break off a leaf and/or twig for a better view!
I am short on time tonight but will be back to check out what everyone's been up to soon!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ DWARFED is the topic for Thursday, April 25, 2013
Day 115 ~ 365: the 2013 edition
This little seedling catches sunlight and grows at the base of a Giant Sequoia redwood.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park, CA
For anyone who is interested a while back I managed to get a robin to feed off my hand, there are a few photos on my stream. I knew it was the same one coming all of the time because he had a folded foot, he was a regular visitor to my hand because he was feeding his young, approx 7,
Anyway because robins do not live to long I realised he had gone to the big nest in the sky awwwwwe
Anyway today I had a robin fly to me to be fed and guess what! he had two folded feet, I do believe he is an offspring to the original one. So I have started trying to make him feel comfortable in the hope of him trusting me to feed out of my hand.