Sponsored images from 
View allAll Photos Tagged Open
A friend opens his Secret Santa present at our annual Christmas party, which this year was in Reading, Berkshire.
Taken with a Nikon D40 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens. Off-camera lighting via a ceiling-bounced SB-600 flashgun fired via a Yongnuo radio trigger, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
A Lake State Railway northbound out of Bay City passes through Kawkawlin, MI behind two one-of-a-kind models on their roster, an HR-412 and C420. It was a bit warm for May and the crew may have left the door open for some air flow.
LSRC 698 HR-412 (ex-CN 3583)
LSRC 976 C420 (ex-LI 208)
Can't possibly mow the lawn until the bees are sated, or have more alternatives. And love the little suns across the garden...
Have a happy May Day!
Standing abount 9" tall, the Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) never had to deal with Zack Morris, but one can imagine that he would have held his own. Eastern screech owls can be found just about everywhere in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains, a line which seems to separate them from their Western Screech Owl cousins. Aside from some small visual differences, eastern and western screeches have distinct calls, and eastern screeches have a wide range of vocalizations... ranging from the telltale screeches to grunts, chirps, and the haunting trills that often accompany spooky movie soundtracks.
Often suburbanites--suburban birds will often outlive counterparts that reside in 'the wilds'--screech owls will readily nest in owl houses. This particular red morph nested within this box in Maumee Bay State Park. I have, myself, purchased an owl box that I'll be putting up this fall. After that, I'll be crossing my talons...er, fingers!
For the Macro Mondays Theme: Amore
sometimes love is complicated
sometimes love hurts
sometimes love seems further away than ever
open your heart and love will find its way
because love is all you need.
Thank you for your time, faves and comments, it's much appreciated.
Happy Macro Mondays
Classrooms in the circa-1931 portion of the old school.
The light here was interesting: The green tint in this room comes from foliage growing outside the windows and the cooler tone in the classroom across the hallway comes from windows without any foliage.
This is one of a series of photographs taken at the Syrian run restaurant, Soufi’s. The restaurant had to close because of internet hate mail and death threats. With the help of Paramount Fine Foods CEO Mohamed Fakih, it was able to reopen. Taken on the day Soufi’s reopened, this photograph is part of a photographic essay about love conquering hate.
During the pandemic, I made a cross-country road trip. It was the only moment I could to travel after graduated with my Master of Architecture.
Anyways, this was officially the first time using an extender, being in a Zoo I could not carry a tripod so I was just using a railing to support the camera. You can see the details on its tongue, it is amazing.
I was very surprised with this amount of detail at a relatively low speed, 1/400, plus using the 2x extender. I heard so many negative things about it, and this photo was taken with full 400mm, well, 800mm.
The Dogwood blossoms have decided to pop open today, off to a good start. 3/20/2022 300mm lens with a 12mm extension tube.
Former county courthouse. Built in 1911 from local stone. The town lost the county seat in 1925 to a nearby town so the courthouse was left to mother nature.
240 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to lime with a shot of natural white to the front.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
The newly-completed bike path on the side of the Westgate Freeway makes for a fantastic view over Stony Creek as A2 986 opens up to climb the short 1-in-100 gradient up to Spotswood Station hauling train 8297 and Steamrail's down Rail & Sail to Geelong. 27/4/25