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Before & after post processing. This 100+ year-old dairy farm barn and concrete silo (Keetch Family) is in the middle of a small town (St. Charles) in SE Idaho that has grown around it over the decades. Although there is very little overall light pollution in this rural area, there is quite a bit of local light pollution from several surrounding home yard lights, making the barn over lit with a mixture of sodium-vapor (yellow-orange) and mercury-vapor (green) light colors. Here are the corrective steps I took:
• Darken & desaturate the barn/silo via yellow channel
• Increased sky contrast (which reveals the
latent colors in the sky)
• Enhanced the Andromeda Galaxy*
• Reduce barn & silo keystone distortion
*The barn is facing the NE sky, so the core of the Milky Way is behind me.
06.04.09 Monday
It’s official! From all the behavioural signs the ospreys on the nest can be no other than our own No-ring and Mrs. And, as you can see from the grid, it is the earliest they have ever arrived. Good weather and tail winds probably helped them on their way. Without satellite tracking there is no way of knowing where they spent their winter. Gambia, Senegal or Mauritania are the most likely countries – anywhere where they can find a tree of their own and a place to fish. One thing is almost certain - they do not meet up in the tropics. They enjoy a singles winter-sun holiday for 7 months of the year and the delights of domesticity for the other 5.
2001 M April 15th
" F April 17th
2002 M April 3rd
" F April 18th
2003 M April 7th
" F April17th
2004 M April10th
" F April 14th
2005 M April 7th
" F April 4th
2006 M April 4th
" F April 3rd
2007 M April 17th
" F April 18th
2008 M April 10th
" F April 10th
Today, for instance, Mrs. has been nestling down creating a small cup in the middle of the larger nest structure and they have been mating regularly. When not otherwise occupied No-ring has been sitting in full telescope view on a tree just below the nest to keep out of the (very chilly) southerly wind. He has also been trying out other favourite posts, for fishing on the Lake.
photo A King
An old post office, long closed, sits among horse farms in a tranquil setting in Clarke County, Virginia.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 19mm PC-E F4 perspective correction lens, ISO 400, F11, 1/400th second shutter speed. Oben tripod with Benro 3-way geared head.
"Automne. Le post scriptum du soleil ." ( P Veron )
Au dessus du Mont Saxonnex, Haute Savoie, France .
A voir sur fond noir, cliquer L .
These posts probably date back to when settlers ran sheep and cattle here at Lake Wallagoot. In more recent years the land has been handed over to Bournda National Park. This area is on the edge of the lake and probably only under water after heavy rain.
Everyday
the Lamp Post
who sees more than I can see,
whispers words of wisdom
to me, and only me.
I lean my head against its pole,
Embrace it with a loving hold,
And while its mysteries unfold
I listen.
An old post worn down by the weather in an area that was once a pastoral station by eons earlier was a thriving lush forest.
I awoke early to watch Mrs. Wang and her husband make silken tofu and soy milk, similar to the way the Mr. Mok made his silken tofu dessert on Lantau island in Hong Kong, but without the help of machinery.
The couple used to live up in the mountains before the earthquake forced them to move into the refugee settlement area in Yingxiu. They started to make tofu in the settlement to earn a meagre living.
Mrs. Wang performs her Buddhist prayers every morning before starting her daily tofu making routine.
Yingxiu, Sichuan