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This was taken in March on Glassilaun Beach near Clifden in Co. Galway. I was struck by the fantastic patterns in the sand, which so closely resembled trees it was quite amazing.
Strange weather we're having here at the moment. It's been unseasonably dry for weeks with hours of sunshine on a daily basis. It's also been decidedly chilly, a stiff easterly wind replaced occasionally by one from the north. While we're already applying the sun lotion on a daily basis - I carry a reservoir of Irish blood in these veins and wear a pallour that would make a vampire wince - wrapping up in lots of warm clothing has remained essential despite May being only a week away. The clear cold skies have also been a regular challenge, without clouds to bring some definition to the sky. And that banding issue is a right pain in the wotsit as you well know.
Thursday night was typical of the recent conditions. Lee and I had arrived at Gwithian with completely different ambitions in mind. Recently he's been drawn to picking out figures on the beach with his telephoto lens, and he's getting rather good at it too. In fact the one he's just posted today is especially good. Take a look - but as long as you promise to come back here afterwards. It will probably be in Explore tomorrow anyway........
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Meanwhile, I've been enjoying coming here at low tide and seeking out compositions with the camera close to the sand and the wide angle lens pointing towards the ground. I could feel the small leap of joy as from a distance in my warm car I noted what looked like an enormous delta of rivulets on the surface of the sand. I only hoped to find an undisturbed patch; hopes that seemed well founded as it was relatively quiet, but you know what these non photographers are like - they don't care where they've left their footprints.
The beach was as cold as it looked, with drifts of loose sand flying low and hard from the dunes towards the shore. At least I'd have my back to them as I stood here for almost two hours, looking for the best possible foreground and always wondering whether I'd missed something even more enticing as I tried not to blot the landscape with my welly boots. My daughter Nicky had also arranged to meet me here. She always forgets something and this time it was her tripod plate. So we shared mine as I introduced her to an L Bracket and a Swiss Arca set up. She tells me she's ordered her own now.
The rest of the daylight was spent happily taking pairs of images so that I could stumble through the focus stacking process later on. In between each pair I included my hand in a third photo to serve as a bookmark. A thumbs up would later mean I had high hopes of the last combination, while a Churchillian V sign indicated I was less confident of the pair of images I'd taken immediately beforehand. By the time I was done there were sixty RAW files on the card, which was quite a relief as for once it seems I'd known when to stop. Recently I've been coming home with almost two hundred slightly altered versions of what is essentially the same photograph and it's a soul destroying process trying to choose one.
The light faded and the blue hour was very brief in the ever falling temperatures and we made our way home, deciding to risk the pub where all hell had broken loose on our previous visit. Fortunately the all day revelry that had taken place there on the first day of lockdown easing was not repeated this time and nor had they sold out of ale and made us drink lager. It had been a good evening.
When it came to working through my images I quickly realised that shooting across the myriad of patterns on the sand wasn't really working and I much preferred this one that followed those rivulets towards the shore. Ok, so I ought to remember that placing objects on the edge of a wide angle shot is not a good idea. And I really need to kick myself and use manual mode rather than aperture priority when doing a focus stack (will he ever learn?), but it had been a worthwhile trip with yet more lessons learned. Which is always a good thing.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks.
I saw these beautifully patterned blossoms at the botanical garden. Taking notes of the name tags is something I still have to learn... I have no idea what plant this is 😅
Thanks to the Flickr Team for including my picture in today's Explore takeover - such a nice idea! 🙌
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This is another option for today's Macro Mondays theme "Speckled", but I am not sure if this can be considered speckled.
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This is one image in a series I'm shooting on parking decks ... shapes and forms, light and shadow play, mood and atmosphere. Some images are minimalist; others representational; still others abstract. To see more in the series click Parking Deck Series
This moth has been hanging around for a few days. I’ve taken many shots of this moth and chose this one here. I’m trying to look it up with several ID references and I guess I haven’t searched enough.
I hope everybody enjoys this and would love to know if anyone have seen this and happy to receive any feedback.
This is from several minutes after the video of the process of getting into its pupa state and almost an two hours after its "J" pose. You can still see some coloration from the caterpillar's body but also the 'shield' at the bottom eventually pulls up. This Swamp milkweed leaf is about head high in the thicket of volunteers.
It's always fun go get outside the "comfort zone" and look for patterns and light.
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This looked to be an old restaurant of sorts - found in south west Iowa in one of the small dying communities.
I want the curtains for my house :>)
Beautiful patterning created by the tide and waves in a sloping area of the beach sand at Clam Harbour Beach. This is a vertical version of the same photo posted earlier.