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In the frosty wonderland of the Arctic, a playful seal emerges from the snowy blanket, its sleek body curving like a question mark. With a twinkle in its eye, the seal lifts its head from the glistening snow, as if on a mission to crack the code of the great celestial puzzle above. Its whiskers twitch with curiosity, and its eyes squint in a comically contemplative manner as it gazes upward toward the sunlit sky. Perhaps, in that whimsical moment, the seal is not merely looking for fish or a friendly game of ice-bound antics. No, it appears to be in search of the cosmic riddles that dance in the sunlight, wondering if the secrets of the universe are hidden among the clouds or if the answer to life's mysteries lies in the sparkle of the snowy expanse.
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment
There is no question that southern Ontario has been pretty chilly as of late, but that is no reason to hunker down in your house! I did find my way up to Bruce Peninsula on a particularly brisk day last week, and as usual the park was a stunning winter wonderland! Get those snow shoes out and dress warm!
Taken with a Canon 5D IV, 24-70 f/2.8, and LEE landscape Polarizer. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop - two images focus-stacked to maintain sharpness throughout.
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Happy Waterfall Wednesday!
It sure felt good to get out and about in the rain on Saturday morning with some friends from Conn. who made a quick trip out to the Pacific Northwest.
Elowah Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 0.3
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 160
Exposure Bias 0 EV
This QM was the size of a Comma - but had the diagnostic question mark on its wings below. Black is their summer form - and they have that beautiful lavender trim.
at the wetlands, North Georgia
As I drove up here today I realised I was completely alone; the outside temperature was -1 degree C; there was thick fog and I was driving a rear-wheel drive automatic whose traction control light kept flashing, and I began to question my sanity. This is something I've often pondered. Sane or not? I think at the moment the ayes have it.
My car is just visible in the gloom.
This is one of my favorite butterfly photos due to its rare appearance. I have only seen this species in our garden in 2014, 2015, and 2019. Now, it seems that even the most common butterflies are rare to see.
I walk where my mother once walked,
where her footprints learned to fade quickly,
where the ground keeps no memories.
only sky fallen upside down
the pan holds you there,
perched upon your mirror self
neck bent slowly,
a question written in the shape of hunger.
I think of my sisters,
how we practiced balance on hot stones,
how we learned early
which parts of ourselves to lift from the ground.
when I turn away,
the pan keeps you,
the sky keeps you,
and my eyes keep you even longer
tonight I will sleep on the edge of the village,
salt still white on my calves,
and share your dreams
of wide horizons.
Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.
As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.
I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.
* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.
This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.
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 I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.
A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
I have a question for any experts out there. Anyone with knowledge of lightning and atmospherics, and also anyone with working knowledge of camera sensors.
I took these two shots yesterday, more in hope than anything, Being lucky enough to have the Sony RX10 that shoots at 24 frames per second, I pointed at the sky across the street and held the shutter for a second. I got lucky and managed these two shots. Not very exciting looking, being daylight lightning shots, but I am intrigued by the difference in the two shots. They are consecutive frames 1/24th of a second apart. Bolt 1 shows up the brightest, and actually shows the lightning in its ground to air phase and the bolt is only half completed. Lightning bolt 2 shows the completed bolt all the way to the cloud, but is fading in brightness. The bolt itself was very close with barely a second elapsing between flash and the window rattling thunderclap!
My puzzle is the first shot that shows a purple halo around the upward end of the lightning, and a corresponding colour shift across the image in the sky below the top of the lightning.
I'd love to know is this just an issue with the sensor and its response to a sudden intense flash, or is it atmospheric?
My guess is the sensor, but I'd love to hear other opinions or experiences.
These two shots are both cropped heavily from the left half of the wide angle image, hence the slight distortion in the vertical lines of the house.
Answering your questions, I must say that this is not an HDR.
This picture is a mixture of two captures. One for the sky and another for the harbor with the ships. Some people call VERTORAMA these kind of works. After joining the two pictures I've applied several finishing touches with Photoshop.
Hope you like it!
Je n'ai pas boudé mon plaisir de photographier sous toutes les coutures cette fresque murale sur le thème de la Commune de Paris, rue de la ferme Savy (où furent situées les dernières barricades), au bas du parc de Belleville à Paris. Une fresque réalisée à l'occasion des 150 ans de la Commune par l'artiste Question Mark (projet des Amies et Amis de la Commune)
UNE QUESTION DE DÉTAILS #4
Petit complément rapproché pour faire honneur à la belle série que vous trouverez ici. Allez regarder :
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A QUESTION OF DETAIL #4
Here's a closer look at the beautiful series you'll find here. Go and have a look :
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Elle rassemble les corps de 2208 soldats, dont 577 inconnus. La bataille de Morhange dont il est question s'est déroulée du 19 au 20 août 1914 et fit plus de 8000 morts.
The questions continue...
You might remember this little hole in a fence post at St Cyrus. A few weeks ago, I'd noticed a couple of male leafcutter bees on these posts, so on another visit I looked for nest holes in the posts, and was thrilled to find one occupied hole, but was then surprised to see that it was occupied not by a bee, but by a digger wasp (`Flick' back about 10 images in my stream). Since then, when I've been at St Cyrus, I've keenly looked in on the digger wasp as I passed; it was there every day I checked. Yesterday, after a break of about 6 days, I think, I was back and checked the post to find not the digger wasp but a cute bee in the same hole! Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, so this is a quick snap on my phone.
I'm curious about what's gone on here; could they both be using the same hole?; did the wasp move out naturally, and then the bee moved in?; did the bee evict the wasp?; is one a parasite?; are they both nesting?; was one or both using it as shelter?
I'm also not sure what type of bee this is. The leafcutters I saw (a few photos in my recent uploads) have now been kindly IDd by the expert Steven Falk, as one of the rarer leafcutters, the black-headed leafcutter bee (Megachile circumcincta). This could be a female (according to his book, they usually nest in sandy ground, but have also been reported to nest in wood), but that's a wild guess.
So much to learn :D
his picture is #33 in the 100 Strangers Project - Round 3
Meet Eliza
Was in DC a few days ago to photograph an elopement at the Constitution Gardens. Since I was early to scout the location and set-up, was walking around when I noticed Eliza walking with her friend ( Alex) around the landmarks, a camera in hand and carrying some gear. I had seen them earlier too when I was parking my car but they seemed busy and I had other things on my mind then. But seeing them again gave me a second chance and I went ahead and made my request to this striking young lady. She obliged but I could sense some hesitancy - primarily because they were a rush and didn't have a lot of time. I promised to these pictures in a few minutes; honestly, I did think that we could have done even better if we had a little more time but sometimes you got to roll with what you have. I found a spot with some good open shade and we quickly shot a few quick clicks after judging the light.
Even as I clicked had a few questions for the lady - turns out Eliza hails from Ecuador and is a student at George Washington University studying political science. She and her friends were out with a camera and gear as they were working on an art project. One quality she loves about herself is her curiosity. She is happiest when she is learning new things. Her favorite memories - are anything that involves the beach which she is really fond of.
As photogenic and almost childlike as she was with really beautiful eyes ( angelic is the word that first came to mind) what I liked most about her (and this is just an impression n my few minutes of interaction) was a sense of determination and almost steely focus she conveyed with her gaze - kind of a resolute strength beneath her soft exterior façade.
Thank you Eliza for your time and trust - - special thanks to Alex for her patience. It was wonderful doing these pictures. All the very best in all that you do a- was indeed great making your acquaintance. If you stop by and like your pics please feel free to contact me for hi-resolution copies of the same.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
For my other pictures on this project: 100 Strangers - Round 2.
For pictures from my prior attempt at 100 Strangers: 100 Strangers - Round 1.
'Hey Syl, where did we put that experimental hyper drive? I can't find it in storage and its not on the list here either?'
'We put in in that external rocked drive for the space station, remember? To see if it would fit?'
'We did take it out again, right?
'Oh, uh, oops...'
Der Esspressokocher mit dem Einsatz für den für das Kaffeemehl!
Unseren Kaffee kaufe ich in einer kleinen Rösterei, mit einer goßen Auswahl an Kaffeesorten aus aller Welt. An Rösttagen kann man ihn riechen und zusehen wie geröstet wird. Fragen werden gerne beantwortet.
The Esspresso base with the insert for the ground coffee!
We buy our coffee in a small roasting house, with a large selection of coffees from all over the world. On roast days you can smell it and watch how it is roasted. Questions are answered with pleasure.
through the looking glass
so I have some questions for you guys, I would really like to be more interactive with the people who follow my work so I was thinking, how can I make my stream and my work process more exciting for you?
I just want to show my appreciation and also make my work accessible and personable, not just something you briefly stare at and then veer away from. I want to give you more
I have some suggestions, if you think any of them sound interesting, let me know!
1. giveaways (who would say no to a giveaway though, I mean really)
2. group critiques via video chat or webchat, show works in progress, get input from other photographers
3. photoshop tutorials, free or reasonably priced actions (free is always better, of course)
4. before/after images
5. behind the scenes videos
if you have any suggestions or like any of these, let me know, I just want to love you guys, basically, and help you grow and let you help me grow and just become a big happy family
okay byeeeeeee
This was one of those nightmarish days you only dream about.
It began at 7:30 with that crazy park lady. I walk far away from her now. I park in a different place and walk a quarter-mile from her. But when she sees me, she walks directly at me, no matter where I am and who I'm with. Today, I was picking raspberries. I stopped when she walked toward me. I walked in the woods. I think she followed me, but I went fast, came out on the other side, and walked in the road. She is really ruining my days when I see her, which, fortunately, is once a week.
I came home and worked on cutting glass for awhile, and then I went skating. I also dropped some things off at the post office and attempted to buy stamps, but my card wouldn't scan, and the post office REFUSED to enter the number manually. They said it was against store policy. I asked for the manager. He wouldn't come out. I banged on his door. He wouldn't come out. A supervisor came to talk to me. She couldn't answer any of my questions. All she knew was, "They wouldn't take mines, either."
I went home angry and found a message from my mother that the travel agent wants to make sure my daughter has a passport confirmation. Except that I have tried that every day, and it hasn't worked. It still didn't. I called the passport office once again (I called last week, and a woman said she'd e-mail DC to put a rush on it), and I was told to press one and three and zero, and then the machine told me there were too many callers waiting, and it hung up. Seventeen times. And then when I finally got through, I was on the phone for 59 minutes.
The woman at the passport office told me there's no record of my daughter's application, that I can try to make an appointment for one of the three days this week that it's open before the trip, but she won't guarantee that I get an appointment, and no one's reimbursing us the thousands of dollars for the tickets.
Then I called the post office, and I was told, "This is what I can do for you, ma'am. I will call myself." I asked about the canceled money order, and the woman said, "I just told you what I could do for you. Don't try to tell me what I can do for you. I am doing what I told you I would do, now let me do that without telling me...."
She said she'd call in the morning. Meanwhile, I can pay $5 to put a trace on the money order.
I wrote to my congressman. I sent a third e-mail to the passport office, and it was actually answered today. There's no record of my daughter's passport. The person who wrote told me to call the passport office again.
I went to a self-defense class tonight. I punched the bag very, very hard. It was a very, very bad bag.
(But the instructor's son, holding the bag, was truly a hottie.)
(For 365 Days. This is Day 262. )
I skated for one hour today. It was my only pleasure. I didn't even enjoy the beers.
I can still laugh, as long as there's Engrish.
Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 Sony 100-400MM GM OSS lens
Whenever I dig into my old stuff the question always creeps into my head, "What would I tell that kid if I could tell him anything?"
You are going to do OK for yourself but in a quiet, unspectacular way. He (I) already knew that. In fact I took that for granted.
You are going to lose people that mean the world to you and you will never stop grieving for them. I knew that too ( we all do ) but I would have never admitted as much, preferring to only recognize those bitter truths as I was being run over by them.
I suppose I couldn't resist giving some sage advice but I wouldn't listen to myself. I remember making a point of not acting on good advice when dispensed by anyone professing to know what life was really about.
All in all it's a good thing time travel isn't possible. Aside from being freaked out by my wrinkly old self showing up to tell me crap I knew but didn't have the courage to act on, I would have been angered that all the suspense and mystery had just been taken out of life. For all the effort that goes into fiction about jumping back or ahead in time I think it is good that we have to crunch along alone without the aid of a nebbish future self showing up every so often to whine and moan about how I'm so lacking in ambition. I'm peeved at myself right now just for thinking up the thought of it.
I first put this together in 2012. Today I thought about it and made an effort to find the original images. 1974 was taken with a Canon F1 and a 50mm f1.4. 2012 was taken with a Pentax K10D and the 18-55 kit lens. In 2012 I used Gimp to stack the images. This time around I used Affinity Photo.
A question to all my followers playing Horizon 4: Are you one of these people who just maxes every single car you own, so you can then drive around spamming head-to-head challenges at cars 3 or 4 classes slower than yours?
If you answered yes, why do you bother? It looks no fun at all and most of the people who do it, can't even drive the awful cars they've built (or auto-built). I dunno about you but I start getting frustrated when my car always understeers on every corner while also being uncontrollable when I get on the throttle. These idiots seem to make all their cars behave that way on purpose. I'm really glad collisions are turned off
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer.
Dejan Stojanovic
So I have a lot of extra Lego Squad-related pics that either didn't turn out how I wanted, just weren't the ones I chose to post, or have older versions of figs in them.
Because of this I've been thinking of opening a second account just for those so they don't have to clutter up this account.
What do you guys think? would you want to see some extra stuff, or are you sick of the Squad? Let me know down below!