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Just when you thought ive given up on my 12 inch girls, well i didnt... finally had time to photograph my 3rd poppy.
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Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway is a geological wonder with over 40,000 interlocking basalt columns perfectly shaped into hexagons because of intense volcanic activity some 50 to 60 million years ago. In 1986, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Giant’s Causeway is steeped in myth and legend. Carved from the coastline, the giant Finn McCool left behind an ancient Celtic folklore.
Legend of Finn McCool
One of the legends is that the giant Finn McCool, who was a mythical hunter warrior, used the basalt columns forming the causeway as stepping-stones to travel from Ireland to Scotland to visit his love, a Scottish giantess, in an attempt to bring her back to Ireland. Many of the most popular versions of the tale include a link to Scotland because the same pattern of hexagonal columns can be seen from the Antrim Causeway across the sea in Staffa, a Scottish isle.
The most popular tale, however, revolves around a rivalry between the giant Finn McCool and a Scottish giant named Benandonner, known as the Red Man. Finn challenged his long-standing rival to a fight while they shouted and threatened each other from across the water.
When you walk the Causeway coastal trail, bread the fresh air from the Irish sea and use our imagination, it doesn’t take long until you feel the magic of the Celtic mythology and folklore.
Chaussée des Géants
La Chaussée des Géants est une merveille géologique avec plus de 40 000 colonnes de basalte imbriquées parfaitement façonnées en hexagones en raison de l’intense activité volcanique il y a 50 à 60 millions d’années. En 1986, il a été déclaré site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. La Chaussée des Géants est imprégnée de mythes et de légendes. Taillée dans le littoral, le géant Finn McCool a laissé derrière lui un ancien folklore celtique.
Légende de Finn McCool
L'une des légendes est que le géant Finn McCool, qui était un guerrier et chasseur mythique, a utilisé les colonnes de basalte formant la chaussée comme tremplins pour voyager d'Irlande en Écosse pour rendre visite à son amour, une géante écossaise, dans le but de l'amener en Irlande. La plupart des versions les plus populaires du conte incluent un lien vers l'Écosse, car le même motif de colonnes hexagonales peut être vu depuis la côte de l’Antrim Causeway de l'autre côté de la mer à Staffa, une île écossaise.
L'histoire la plus populaire, cependant, tourne autour d'une rivalité entre le géant Finn McCool et un géant écossais nommé Benandonner, connu sous le nom de Red Man. Finn a défié son rival de longue date à un combat pendant qu'ils criaient et se menaçaient de chaque côté de l’eau.
Lorsque vous parcourez le sentier côtier Causeway, respirez l'air frais de la mer d'Irlande et utilisez votre imagination, ce n’est pas long avant de ressentir la magie de la mythologie et du folklore celtique.
It rained today. I forgot to close my windows a while ago so some water entered my room T___T. I went out with my mum to look for furniture to be added in our new house in Alaminos, so much fun!
Had a little love, but I spread it thin
Falling in her arms and out again
Made a bad name for my game around town
Tore up my heart, and shut it down
Nothing to do
Nowhere to be
A simple little kind of free
Nothing to do
No one but me
And that's all I need
I'm perfectly lonely
Spring has sprung in the coastal ranges of California in this view from 2023. I was out exploring new areas I had not yet attempted to visit in Carrizo Plain National Monument, where a very nice wildflower bloom was happening. One road took me up to a ridge line that looked back west towards some eroding hills and peaks and I was immediately struck by the bands of purple phacelia that seemed to echo perfectly the bands of tilted rock making up the mountains and hills. I’m fascinated by such phenomena, where the conditions are just right for the flowers to grow on this narrow band and not spread way further around the hillside, whether it’s because of the way the seeds distribute or because the microclimate of those parts of the hills just sets those swaths apart. I found it to be a difficult subject to capture, and I tried many, many compositions and after much consideration this is probably the best. Scattered throughout the rest of the scene are accents of goldfields and some other flowers mixed in even a few poppies.
There were not many animals to be seen in Joshua Tree NP, but I got one shot of this cute little earless squirrel that remained 'perfectly still' while I had my camera aimed waiting for some action when my husband yelled, quietly, coyote! I quickly turned my attention to see what he was talking about, never did see it and then proceeded to get a little lost looking for it...lol
This was in a campground with a lot of really big boulders, twists and turns.
Thank you for your comments and visits...have a great day!
To all of the people who feel uncomfortable in their bodies because they aren't where they want to be right now - this one is for you ❤
Photography & Retouching: Intimate Studios Melbourne
Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos
What an awesome sight! My first tulip opens and isn't it wonderful that the 3 colours compliment eachother perfectly! Nature is truly amazing!
I guess sometimes the stars (and comets) do magically align perfectly. I've been planning on going to Little Sable Lighthouse for over 4 months. I was going to go a couple other times but between COVID and the weather it hasn't been possible. But, yesterday/last night my wishes FINALLY came to true! I got everything I wanted and more. Comet #neowise graced me with it's glorious presence!! Since I'm so impatient and didn't want to wait 6800 years for NEOWISE to return. So, obviously it was time!:) If you have not gone out and seen it I very highly recommend it. After working yesterday, driving 7 hours, shooting for 6 hours, sleeping 1.5 hours in the car, driving another 7 hours, not being able to wait to edit this I think it's time to relax a little bit.;)
Canon 6D Mark II
Sigma 70-200mm
6 sec
f/2.8
ISO 6400
UNLEASHED
Often times it is difficult to predict a gorgeous sunset from a mediocre one. It often occurs at the last minute, when the sun gets at a certain level and the clouds are 'just right' to produce a stunning array of colors. Then comes slack water, to reflect it perfectly in the water and produce two sunsets instead of one.
Of course the really nice part is this is the view from my backyard, standing on the dock...
- Duke Kahanamoku
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On our first day in Alaska, we drove south on the Seward Highway and enjoyed epic mountain views across the Turnagain Arm. The weather was beautiful, but I was greedy and wanted to return the next morning to capture some stunning morning light. While at the hotel, I checked the weather forecast for the next day and realized my mistake. It was going to be 20°F, and gale-force winds were expected. Since we only had a few days in Anchorage, I decided to take the risk and brave the conditions. My wife and daughter decided not to join me on this adventure.
While driving on the highway to reach the viewpoints, nothing noteworthy happened. However, the cold weather was unbearable, particularly with the wind chill. I prepared the camera beforehand to capture the images and would quickly run out of the car with my camera & tripod once the light became interesting. After taking the shot, I would hurry back inside the car to warm up. Thankfully, the views were breathtaking; the taller peaks appeared to have received a light dusting of snow overnight. With the warm morning light reflecting perfectly on the mountains that were now covered entirely in snow, all I had to do was just point and shoot.
Normally found by the river however this Heron was perfectly happy on a rooftop near Littledown Park Bournemouth Dorset.
~Look 👀 auntie PH Reed she fits perfectly in your 'Snug as a Bug' issa Moriko Cocoon. 💞
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PIN-DA Peanut Faerie Tan 45mm Micro BJD
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Here is an 8,000 pixel-wide version of my 80,000 pixel-wide San Francisco panorama. I just realized that I had never posted it to Flickr, so here you go! No HDR and no Gigapan machine required. I'll explain below and don't forget to fave and share it on the internet if you like it. I always forget that when I look at panos.
Have a look at the super-super-big 8,000 pixel wide version!! C'mon, you know you want to!
www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography/587464094...
Most gigapixel images are created during daylight hours or well after dark, conditions at which the light is consistent over dozens (or hundreds) of shots. However, I wanted the entire panorama to be done during the rapidly changing light that occurs just after sunset. It was not as easy as I first thought!
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Settings etc.
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112 11-second exposures (they were almost all 11-seconds to keep the city lights constant)
All shots were taken between 20 and 27 minutes after sunset on several nights over a 6-week period.
The final size is (13,423h x 80,540w, 1×6 ratio)
AutoPano stitching software to start, but 50% was hand-stitched
Canon 5D mark II with live view set to 10x magnification to help with precise focusing
Canon 500L F4 lens with 1.4 extender (after the 800 rental expired!)
3 rows of portrait oriented shots with about 35-40 on each row
25% overlap on each shot
Refocus every 3rd shot with extra care on the towers and hillside to the left
Refocus on Bridge towers to make sure that every bolt can be seen clearly
No grad filters
No polarizer.
No HDR
ISO 200 (to reduce the exposure time a bit but not too much to induce noise)
RAW files processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF files processed with Photoshop
Tripod – 1 home depot bucket with a circular 1-inch thick plywood board rotated on top to create panoramas. Jessy calls it "The Pano-Pod!" I like it!
Amazingly, If I had simply used the 500 with no 1.4tc, I might have been able to do it all in one night with about 60 shots. But the extra resolution meant I could print it at 36ft @240DPI instead of about 20 feet. Big difference!
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Story
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I wanted to create an image that would look like a single photo taken during that 5-10 minute period about 20 minutes after sunset where the softening natural light is about equal to city lights. A photograph created at this time will not have blown-out highlights but still have the glowing atmosphere of a nocturnal view. Since I needed to shoot over 30 photos per row and at least 3 rows tall, I knew that it would take several favorable days to shoot them all. This is because there are only a few minutes with good light after sunset and each exposure would take around 7-12 seconds to shoot. Also, with the 800mm lens I rented from borrowlenses.com you have to be very precise about focus, and setting the focus using the Live View feature adds even more time to each shot.
Shooting
I was excited to begin. The next 10 days looked clear and warm, so off I went. This was last November, but it was warm. The first obstacle was how to stabilize this huge lens during 10-second plus exposures when it is perched on the side of a hill exposed to strong ocean wind. The Golden Gate is the easiest place for wind to pass through the California coastal mountain range so there is a lot of it passing through. The sturdiest tripod is no match for these breezes so I had to come up with another solution.
I headed over to Home Depot and bought a 1-inch thick rounded and sanded plywood wheel that is about 18 inches in diameter. It is about the size of a very large pizza. Also I bought a plastic bucket, a short 1×4 and some thin wood shims. The idea is to place the plywood onto the bucket and then put the lens on the plywood. Then it is easy to rotate the lens right and left. The bucket is low to the ground and very stable even in high winds with the big lens on it. Also, it is easy to level the entire thing using by moving it in the dirt until your line of sight across the wheel is level with the horizon. I cut the 1×4 to a length of about 6 inches and cut notch in the middle so that the end of the lens would rest in the notch. That stops the lens from rolling around. The thin wood shims are then used to raise and lower the camera side of the lens. With this setup, you can shoot an entire row, insert or remove some shims and then shoot another row.
For the first 10 days, visibility over the bridge was perfect but it was hot and the city lights twinkled. Twinkling when viewed through 800mm of lens makes the entire frame flicker back and forth as though you are looking into a swimming pool on a windy day! During daylight it is not too bad because you can have an exposure time of 1/100 or less and things may look a bit wavy but at least they are sharp. At night, an 11-second exposure with the heat shimmering will make the entire image soft in a similar way to what you might see on a long exposure of ocean waves. Even my morning shooting suffered from atmospheric distortion. After 10 days with that magnificent lens I had nothing to show for my efforts! Needless to say I was a bit discouraged. However, I am not one to give up easily, so I borrowed a friend’s 500mm F4 and a 1.4 extender for a total of 700mm of magnification. Fortunately, he was very patient because it took about 4 extra weeks to get the images I needed.
Eventually the weather cooled, the atmosphere stabilized and the twinkling was dramatically reduced. Next, my hope was to get some mist in the atmosphere over several days to get through the entire panorama with consistent light. I made a total of about 20 trips to my spot before I had all the images I needed. All of the images used to make the final pano were captured on five of those evenings.
There were other problems during shooting besides the atmospheric distortion. First, the focus. The city is far behind the bridge, so when I was shooting the towers in front of the city I had to stop down to about F29 and focus extra carefully and do an extra long exposure. On the left side of the panorama were some foreground hills, so I had to refocus there too as well as every few shots throughout the panorama because the focus ring might get moved just a little. Most images, however, were made at F11. This allowed me to get enough depth of field to keep everything sharp. The DOF at F8 (the optimum setting) is too shallow and would cause something in each frame to be out of focus. I kept the exposure time down to 11-seconds by using an ISO of 200. There was very little noise in the final images.
The next problem is that I had to come back on successive days and pick up where I left off. So I had to arrive well before sunset to set up and practice what I was about to do. It is easy to not be perfectly aligned with a row from the day before. If you are not perfect all the way across then you don’t get enough overlap for stitching.
The other big problem is that the light was changing quickly and was different from the far left side to the far right side. This is a very wide-angle image so this is to be expected. So if you attempt a gigapixel image at dusk, study the direction of how the light fades and start shooting from the darkest areas and move towards the lightest. By the time you get to the lighter areas, they will be closer in brightness to the darker side. This way, the overall image will be more evenly lit.
Processing
I brought the images into Capture One, a RAW processing program. It has lots of settings which allow you to gain a little extra dynamic range and still have the image look natural. I collected the best images from all the shoots into one folder and carefully adjusted them for brightness and color. This went fairly smoothly, though there were a few images where I had to dig deeper. The idea is to have all the images be the same brightness.
I saved each one as a JPG because I knew the final file would be huge and I don’t have a super powerful computer! Also, I didn’t touch the JPGs until I had created a PSB file after stitching. TIFF files can only be 4gb in size and a 16-bit file would be 5gb. I ended up creating an 8-bit file but I kept it in PSB format, anyway. I did not lose any information as would be the case if I edited the JPGs directly. And JPG files have a 30,000 pixel width limit.
Originally I planned on using the highly rated Autopano stitching software. It did a great job until it reached areas where the bridge cables were in front of the bay water. As you can see in the small portion below, one cable or a bridge section looks like the next. The stitching software became confused no matter how I adjusted the settings. I auto-stitched as much as I could and then I stitched the remainder of the image (about 50%) manually in Photoshop. Fortunately there was plenty of overlap and after about 80 hours of work, the image was completely stitched.
After stitching, I went over the TIFF image carefully while viewing it at 100% magnification. I cleaned up any bad pixels or stitching errors. There was a bit of noise in some of the darker areas so I used the Photoshop noise reduction and that worked fine. Then I looked at the entire image to make sure that the entire scene looked evenly lit. A few places needed to be brightened or darkened but the adjustments were small because I was careful when creating the first set of files from the RAW files..
The combination of the 500L lens and the 1.4 II teleconverter along with close attention to focus created a final image that was very sharp. Most of the image needed no sharpening, though some areas were sharpened a bit just to get things as close to perfect as possible.
The total amount of time I spent doing recon, 20 trips to the location, and post processing was around 160 hours. Was it worth it? Yes!
Status: works perfectly.
Canon Sure Shot Max. 35mm point and shoot, auto film ISO setting, auto everything else too. Controls are limited to flash off/on/on with red-eye, half-press autofocus, and self-timer. The lens is a 38mm f/3.5.