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Courts have refused to consider all of the 50+ court challenges that attempted to expunge perfectly legal votes. The electoral college has voted. One vaccine has been approved and other vaccines are in the approval process. Inoculations of first responders has begun. These events allow the return of optimism.
Pinnacle Ridge, San Juan Mountains
¡Este es tu futuro feliz, querida amiga! ¿Puedes ver lo colorido que es? ¡Las nubes oscuras se irán y la felicidad llegará otra vez!
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Shot with 500mm f/4 prime.
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The Hoptimist represents positivness. These corona days, optimism is strongly under pressure from all sides of life. Stay SAFE :-)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. ---- Douglas Adams
only one way left if you down... stand up, straight to to the sunshine...
and about the processing: i put it the Photomatix Pro 3.2 making from a single file HDR image, then a little bit Lightroom, after PS3 and add the texture...
thanks the texture, i found it here:
www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/5499036692/in/pool-8072...
Perhaps the grow-light encourages sideways growth? And no, those tiny shoots are not falling; just growing in different directs. Very independent.
Still, since it is raining again, good to have things growing indoors. Shot in softbox with off-camera strobe triggering two lights on stands. Earlier view from 2-18 appears in first comment, back when the shoots had just begun their move to independence.
Thanks for looking and indulging my fun ;-)
Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jptimmons/49611198758/sizes/l/
when it is wrong ;-(
Voltaire
HFF! Justice Matters! Resist!!
chrysanthemum, 'Mt. Rainier', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
– Henry Rollins –
" To be happy, it first takes being comfortable in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there."
– Sophia Bush –
Layer of dark clouds above, dark, dark sea below and a glimmer of hope on the horizon.... not sure what will develop...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMOMjCoR58
Portland Harbour from Portland Beach Road - November 2016
including what is ugly ;-)
Amrose Bierce
HPPS!! Climater Change Matters! Resist!!
aster, 'Ezo Murasaki', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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Tiny buds on a twig (sticks) today, ready for next spring. Nature amazes me with her preparation and tiny signs, even during our cold week.
Slight crop only. I added a 36mm extension tube to the 105mm f2.8 macro lens which gives an ethereal look to the buds. The yellow/gold lichen on branches and other red buds ready to grow next spring account for the hues in the background.
Hope this works for you.
Inspired by #MacroMondays and #stick. Little more than 5cm from one side of frame to the other.
Multi exposure shot with icm in winter woodland heading towards Spring. Material adjustment to white balance to replicate a sense of place.
Facing the sunlight coming towards us , through the golden leaves (at the Château wonderland), in Autumn, feels like we are showered with thousands of blessings and a ….pink optimism!!! Our hearts become uplifted, and we feel like all of our dreams might come true!!!!!….
❤️❤️❤️ …..And what if this Light were the NEW YEAR’S LIGHT ? 😊😊
….Plus, that my captures are showered with a fabulous golden light , that becomes my sublime model!! 😊
Color Wheel Artist
The Many Meanings of Yellow
color-wheel-artist.com/meanings-of-yellow.html
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... still waitiing for warmth and sunshine (25.12.08) - Large On Black
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Explored: 27.12.2008
Have you realised that the trees outside that you walk or drive past everyday are starting to form new leaves ready for Spring? 🌿
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.” (Albert Schweitzer)
And for all of you who visited my father's stream at the weekend and hoped he would post more shots, y.ou're optimism has proved to be well founded. One more picture -the original creme brulee! - has appeared. :-)
Taken at the same time as the picture of Darumus ministractus yesterday, this shot of the London Eye is part of the ministract set.
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
[Roy T. Bennett]
Professor Pangloss, aware that one word can be more powerful than a thousand images, waiting for the moment when the lamp of wisdom and knowledge will light up and illuminate the world. I have spoken to Pangloss. He told me that he can already see in the dark and that serious philosophical reflection is expected to trigger beams of light, strong enough to make this world the best of all possible ones. Leica M8, Voigtlander 2.2/50 at F8.
Entered in The Award Tree’s Challenge # 195 June 2020
Own image (original in 1st comment box) - Filters: Topaz Studio
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Met veel optimisme werd in 1997 de nieuwe industrielijn 289 naar de bottelarij van Valvert in Etalle geopend. Helaas: na 11 jaar eindigde het spoorvervoer op deze verbinding. In 2002 heeft de 5303 met de lege wagens voor Valvert bijna haar bestemming bereikt.
With great optimism, the new industrial line 289 to Valvert's bottling plant in Etalle was opened in 1997. Unfortunately: after 11 years, rail transport on this connection ended. In 2002, 5303 almost reached its destination with the empty cars for Valvert.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
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, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
For those who wondered how the bird I previously posted ate the fish...the answer he didn't...not for want of trying though. He tried really hard but gave up after 15 minutes or so.
I am back to my yellow challenge: "What does yellow represent" in Google and this was their response: "The Color Yellow. Yellow, the lightest hue of the spectrum, signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, caution, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friendship". So I decided to try my hand at
optimism, and found it a pretty big challenge, I hope you like what I have done.
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