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Persistence pays off! I stood under some trees for my entire lunch hour today, trying to get a leaf in mid-fall. It took probably a hundred shots to get this one
Actually taken at Radnor Lake, but I have lots of other shots to share this Saturday so I wanted to go ahead and post this one now!
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This is the third time in the last few days that we've found a fully built nest on one of the van tires. With all of the perfectly nice trees & bushes to build a nest in, we're wondering what this bird is thinking!
Common mullein or great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), with a velvet leaf, thrives on disturbed soils, or even cracks in asphalt driveways.
This year, 2026 is the centenary of the formation of Zeiss Ikon, a major player in European camera manufacture in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 20th century.
To mark this anniversary, I've decided to use a different Zeiss Ikon camera every two weeks throughout the year, a project I'm calling “Twenty-six in Twenty-six”.
Box cameras are firmly at the bottom end of the camera market, but as you might expect from a device bearing the Zeiss name, the Box Tengor raises the bar slightly when it comes to specifications. That said, it's a fairly low bar, and the rise isn't that great!
Cheaper box cameras were often made of cardboard, but this one is constructed from sheet metal covered with black leatherette. Whereas most box cameras had a single element meniscus lens, this one has a Goerz Frontar two element achromat. Furthermore, while the more basic box cameras have a fixed aperture, there are three different setting here, albeit a rather paltry f11, f16 and f22.
There is still only a single shutter speed, plus a “B” setting, with a little lever sliding into place to act both as shutter lock to prevent accidental exposures, and, when the “B” setting is selected, to lock the shutter open, in effect providing a “T” setting.
When I saw that there were three distance settings, I assumed that focussing was by moving the lens backwards and forwards, but in fact it turns out that once you move away from infinity, the two other distances are achieved by swinging supplementary lenses into place. By this method, the closest focussing distance is 3 feet, which is a lot closer than your bog standard box camera of the era. Note the imperial units for the focus, indicating that this particular example was made for export.
The camera is designed to be used at waist level, and there are two viewfinders, one for portrait and one for landscape orientation. These viewfinders are not the easiest to use, and in reality allow little more than rough framing to be achieved. Like the majority of box cameras, it uses 120 film and produces 8 negatives per roll. These are 6cm x 9cm, perfectly adequate for contact prints which were the default output for family snapshots right up until the 1960s.
Fomapan 100 film with a red filter, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 8.5mins at 20 degrees.
I'm going to get that nut if it kills me!! Determined Great Tit on the peanut feeder - Bartley Green Birmingham UK 21st December 2019.
This weed started growing from a small patch of moss on an ornamental boulder. The root then found its way down the boulder into the ground. I haven’t had the heart to pull it - yet.
And, she did. Chuck thought he had moved the blind cord out of reach. That changed when our newly adopted cat, Molly, received an early Christmas present of cat furniture. Santa Maria, CA.
The blossoms on this star magnolia tree have been bitten by frost, yet they continue to declare that spring is here!
"A consistent and determined effort can overcome all resistance - like water flowing over rocks." -Unknown
This was a dizzying display. It was quite windy and the Striated Pardalote was being blown around at a different rate to the leaf with the lerp. So every time they came close to each other the Pardalote made a lunge for the treat. This went on for a few minutes with dozens of attempts.
(Peter)
This beautiful red-bellied woodpecker kept coming to the suet feeder again and again. "You will get fat eating like that!"
Own Storm.
Elements, as a great cycle in nature, as life.
Elements, as composing cycles of reminds, along hours in a watch, along days on calendar...
Turbulences in our minds. They last.
How much is too much? Sometimes forever.
"Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel.
It's very natural -
and I wouldn't want to say easy -
but natural and comfortable to write about,
and there are so many different forms of it,
millions of layers -
you could write forever about it."
~ Shawn Mendes ~
When macular degeneration took away much of her ability to see "the whole picture" Jane gave up oil painting for paper collage . . . just another way to express the many layers of her long, phenomenal life, shared in an infinite array of mediums.
Jane loved Sedona and visited there every September to absorb the landscape and interpret it on canvas or in journals.
I'm blessed to be surrounded by her art in every corner of my home, so her spirit will live on forever.
Visited a location today with many rusty farm equipment pieces. This new growth was a lovely find. Thanks for your appreciation, Gail
bumblebee on turk's cap, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX. Sony nex5r and micro nikkor 55/3.5.
Uniquely beautiful carving of the Tennessee rock created by the persistent flow of water makes the new Winding Stair Park in Lafayette a jewel.
From my observations I can say that bees are territorial. The smaller long-horned bees are often "patrolling" the sunflower patch for interlopers and then pouncing on their backs in an attempt to get the bigger bees to leave.
Os ventos que às vezes tiram
algo que amamos, são os
mesmos que trazem algo que
aprendemos a amar...
Por isso não devemos chorar
pelo que nos foi tirado e sim,
aprender a amar o que nos foi
dado.Pois tudo aquilo que é
realmente nosso, nunca se vai
para sempre...
This pied shag thought that a leaf might be a nice gift. Despite all the efforts and persistence to give the offering, the other shag was not interested in the least. Uploaded three images of this series, because these two birds made me smile.
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olympus snap 35mm film fujicolor fujifilm 200 remote location wisconsin dells abandoned but ready for business #analog #analogue #athenian #marathoner #filmisnotdead #film #filmart #35mmfilm #35mm #olympus #olympustylus #stylus
Screen one of a concept series I am calling Night Gallery ( huge fan of that show, if anyone else knows it) Not sure how long I will carry on with it. Thanks for the view!
Same shot of the other one posted but with my presence too, i'm not completely satisfied ... not the best composition i think , just a step on the right and it would be sure better
Just few correction with Photoshop CS3 and B&W conversion with Silver Efex Pro
Title inspiration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTzc3zrIrw
Nikon d60+sigma 10-20 @ f 9 iso 100 109 sec + B+W ND 10 stop + Reverse GND 0.9
Better on black www.flickriver.com/photos/tommyrave/
I upload the 1024 px
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