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The weekend before the last I was really mad at myself for being too lazy to get out in the cold in the morning, and by the time I was motivated, I didn’t have much time. Nevertheless, I thought I could take a short walk with my camera at lunchtime, so I was going to drive to a specific place in my hometown from which I knew that it had potential for some nice images. However, there was quite a layer of snow on the road and so I couldn’t drive up the hill, mostly because I had to slow down to get around the only tight turn. I really regret not getting out sooner because then I could have walked up there, but that’s the way it was. So I spent the following week hoping for some snow the next weekend.
Fortunately, it snowed the next Friday and this time I was sure to get out, no matter what the weather conditions are. The next morning, we woke up, put on several layers to protect ourselves from the cold and started our hike up the local mountain. Since not a single person had hiked up there that morning, we had to fight our way through a calf-high layer of snow resulting in a hike that took us more than two hours instead of the 45 minutes it takes us to get up there in summer. Of course we stopped a few time to take some images, but mostly with our smartphones as the snow was beautiful, but I found the scenes were lacking some mist that reduces the chaos and typically drastically simplifies such forest scenery.
Once we reached the top, we were very happy that the hut was open and we could warm up and get something to drink and eat. After a fairly substantial lunch, we decided to start our descent, but before I really wanted to walk up the last few steps to the summit cross, especially since a bit of mist was rolling in. I knew that I had once taken a quite nice image at this spot, but I noticed that my girlfriend wasn’t really in the mood to wait long for me since it was really cold and windy out there. So I hurried up, took out my camera and snapped a few handheld shots, and I was really glad I did when I looked at them on the laptop. Even though it was not exactly what I had imagined, I really like how this image turned out. I hope you like it too!
I'm not really sure about the status of these spectacular wildflowers as the literature is variable, but it seems they are considered somewhat rare and protected. Here, there are areas abounding in them, carpeting the forest floor in white in a beautiful spring display, another of the annual events to eagerly anticipate. I tried to take a number of photos showing the abundance but was unhappy with the results. Suffice it to say that in certain forested areas, it is difficult to take a step without crushing a flower. I happened to catch them at their flawless prime as shown here with another specimen in comments.
Again- really reminds of the Exorcist, right? Here's the full view of the castle wall from the previous shot.
I'm pretty sure we were caught in the beams once or twice- I wonder if our giant forms were suddenly cast upon the castle for all to see?
We did our best to stay hidden though, moving -I think- like trained spies, from shadow to shadow, crouching and sprinting. I mean, in the rubbishy way the two of us do. But still.
I took quite a lot of shots whilst we were here, but the lighting conditions were just dire so I think this will be the last one. There was a nice one of the interior courtyard, but I think I'd be embarrassed to upload it to Flickr. I don't want people knowing how bad a photographer I really am..
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We hadn’t really bargained for a bulging car park here on Christmas Eve. Why wasn’t everyone else charging about in a frenzy, picking up an extra jar of cranberry sauce and having punch ups in the supermarket aisles over the last tray of pigs in blankets? Why weren’t they worrying about whether there were enough crackers or sprouts for the dinner table the next day? I ignored the queue and snuck off to the right into the top car park, which at first seemed to be a bad move until an elderly couple came strolling towards me with intent. “Are you about to leave?” I asked through a wound down window. “Yes, we’re just here,” the man pointed to a parked car five yards behind me. Fortune favours the inventive. Five minutes later, as I walked down through the melee, apologetic volunteers told waiting drivers that the place was full. “We’ll get you in as soon as possible,” I heard a lady say to a bored looking man who was stuck in a growing tailback that threatened to block the road down to the King Harry Ferry. At least I was in, although it was very busy indeed. At her suggestion I’d come here to meet my daughter and two year old granddaughter for a spot of lunch and a slow amble around our local National Trust garden. At least once inside the grounds, things seemed a bit more relaxed. None of us cope well with Christmas. It all goes a bit too crazy as far as we’re concerned. People spending money they can’t afford on things that other people neither need nor want. “Did you keep the receipt?” Ali and I find it all a lot less stressful now that we no longer buy each other presents. One of my cousins is in the Witnesses, and while I don’t share her religious convictions, our views on the festive season don’t seem to be that far apart. Call me Mr Grinch if you like. If you enjoy this time of year, that’s great - all I ask is to be allowed to sit on the sidelines with a note from Matron.
After lunch, when a very small person needed to go home before the danger nap hour arrived, I was determined to grab a bit of time to myself before surrendering to the madness. And this was a place where I’d once come to directly from work, immediately after the end of my last ever autumn term, on an afternoon where I’d seen a couple of possibilities that nobody else appeared to have spotted before. On that drab December day I took shots that promised more than they delivered, and resolved to return with a longer lens and in better conditions. Now, four years and one day later, I was back again. The clock had not long struck two in the afternoon, sunset was a little after four, and Ali had given me a shopping list for Tesco in Truro before six. Which included pigs in blankets. But they had to be nice ones because we were dining with her family the next day. Twelve people in one space with all of those awful Christmas songs bouncing off the walls and rattling between my ears. I refer you to the last few sentences of the first paragraph.
I digress - back to those two compositions I’d seen but never returned to in all this time. The first of them was proving to be rather frustrating. Try as I did, it needed a fast shutter and wasn’t working, so with daylight starting to run out, I moved from the beach and up the slope to the other, where the matching headlands on the east side of the Fal Estuary lay bathed in softly glowing winter light. Last time I tried, it was a tight one to compose with some distractions coming in from the right, but now I had the extra options that the big lens offered, and I was sure this was going to be the time to finally get the shot I’d had in my mind’s eye for so long. With up to four hundred millimetres at my disposal, isolating the twin headlands seemed straightforward enough.
So imagine my surprise when it quickly dawned on me that the distraction wasn’t a distraction at all. That instead of the minimal appeal of a long exposure on the two promontories alone, one with the foreground section on the right might add an element of balance that I hadn’t really considered before. A faster exposure allowed the scene to come alive with the inclusion of the gulls. Of course I tried each option, with exposures both short and long. I liked this one the most. When I think back to this Yuletide season, I won’t linger on parlour games and that tiresome Slade song that I’ve now had to endure for fifty-two (count them!) consecutive Christmases. Instead, this is where you’ll find me - standing alone in a peaceful place, and only faintly worrying about whether the local Tesco will have run out of pigs in blankets or if there are enough sprouts in the fridge for us to make it through to the new year without starving.
I really liked the theme of his contest and really wanted to enter!
LtR
Pick 1: White Shadow.
White shadow is my OC figure. His torso, legs and arms are painted by me. His head is an elven archer with some cloth wrapped around to make a mask. His sword is tlg which I painted to be authentically battle damaged.
Pick 3: Star-Lord (from guardians of the galaxy 2)
No one has done this guy, so I've decided to make him.
His torso was black and dry brushed with gray. His coat is entirely made of cloth and the arms are wrapped in that as well. The legs have some cloth and were painted to be accurate. The armor piece is made of paper and is removable.
Pick 2: Bossverse Spider-Man.
He is my favorite of the bunch. To see a more detailed desc, go find his solo post.
Congratulations Dodge! #photogrid
I really liked the moment that I captured watching that Great Blue Heron hunting late at night... I always wonder how can they see? Especially hunting those bushes. In the third picture the Great Blue Heron catches a tiny little crab... a lot of work for such a little prize. I did not have much hope that I would be able to publish any of these images because of the high ISO I had to set on my camera. Images ISO ranges from ISO 5,000 all the way up to ISO 20,000. Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue to a certain extend. But then Jarek S. "Jerry" www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/ told me about the new product that Topaz has released, Topaz Studio 2 which includes several filters including Clear AI which deals essentially with the noise ... I gave it a try and reprocessed all the pictures of this series with the new version of the Topaz product. In my opinion it is even better than Denoise. I purposely left all the file formats available (including extra large display) for those interested in looking at the performance depending on the compression. The noise handling is pretty good in some cases all the way up to extra large format... In that series, the Great Blue Heron continued to hunt even in the dark. I have shots taken at ISO 20,000 and they are still usable, especially if you post your images in a 2048 x 1365 format, something that many Flickr subscribers do. Can you guess which images of this series has a ISO of 12,800.
PS I only used the Clear AI filter software in its auto mode but the software offers a much greater functionality.
Many Thanks to Jarek for sharing one of his secrets of his wonderful photography....now I have to continue to dig in for more of his other secrets :) Have a look at his photostream when you have a minute... it is great
I have no idea when the last passenger train of any sort may have crossed the Maumee on the former DT&I but this last weekend's "Ohio Rail Experience" trip provided some rare miles to riders. With the CRR 800 on one end and a NKP Geep on the other I couldn't resist shooting it and top of the list was the Maumee River bridge which is undoubtedly the scenic highlight of their trip from Leipsic to Diann and back. 10/12/19
I really love these with her make-up. Lots of depth; a gorgeous dark violet-blue like the night sky over the desert... I love them! Again, these are the unlined chips with a slightly larger pupil.
Her lips will be glossed as well.
And flickr friends... again; too many photos - please don't feel it necessary to comment on them all! Thanks for looking, though!
Really, the snow is not to blame; snow in early April is pretty normal here. No, I'm afraid the daffodils jumped the gun a bit!
Beer has been around at least 7,000 years. But people keep trying to make it new. Nine historic Coal Sheds sit prominently on the waterfront of Mare Island. Converted from their original role of providing coal for the steam ships of the Naval Base, the Coal Sheds now house artists, speaker manufacturers, Renaissance faire producers, welders … and the Mare Island Brewing Co. They actually started brewing in 2017, amid the ongoing construction. Construction is always a long process, but with a century-old, historic-landmark-protected building, on a 150-year-old former naval base, construction is a really long process. The enterprise is not ready for visitors yet, but the beer is available on the other side of the river at the Ferry Taproom.
We’re Here! - The Art of Brew.
This was walk number 77 of 100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8FarCnm1mE
Creds :
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Skin Pumec -Alsou (in June) on Lelutka Head Aria with Maitreya Lara Body.
Ys&Ys Sparkle Makeup Applier - A lovely palette of colours for this season parties!
IKON Charm Eyes - Brown
UwSt - Giz Hair (Sienna)
RAMA - Collar Lariat Wrap Necklace with RAMA Irving Cut-Out dress - really elegant little number well worth the Lindens!
The above from Shiny Shabby with prop TORO Elle's Apartment
Really nice slightly grungy texturing with only 15LI impact. Fun!
On PA Rt 642, 6 miles west of Danville. It's really beautiful. Look under the barn for the equipment - spreaders, et..
Really enjoying the bluebirds. They must still be trying to decide which box to nest in as they go back and forth.
Coming from an area (NW Ohio) that is *really* flat, Iowa features a lot of gently rolling farm country and some real hills in places, especially along the Mississippi River. In this view Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage unit IAIS 513 leading BICR-30 is soaring above N Division Street in Davenport Iowa as it really starts to attack the climb up the hill you can see in the background. While the road runs straight up it, the railroad twists and turns its way northwest until it mounts the hills along the big muddy and strikes off across the gently rolling countryside to Iowa City, Des Moines and Omaha. 8/31/2024
I was trying a long exposure photo last weekend in a picnic island and one of our colleague just simply ON his led little flash light (which was in ma first trial) and that gave me this idea and after drawing a lot of weird things that night, this is one shot - which I really liked.
I did this without referring to anything as it just happened - so a lot of things have to be done (you can even see the shadow of the guy behind the subject who was drawing the wings and halo with the light) and we are gonna do this again during this Ramadhan in K.Vilingili with a bit more of lights.
If anyone wanna join - Just lemme know!!!
This adult Little Egret spent most of yesterday morning getting quite irate and chasing younger Little Egrets out of its immediate feeding area on the coastal section of the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss. It was quite amusing to watch as the younger ones really didn't take that much notice of being constantly told off.
Really.. I was here for the sales at the store, but i don't think i want the basement sales down here on swimsuits now.
not really, just two phones.
when I was young we had one phone on a party line. which meant, to you young ones, that several people were able to use the same line. my parents didn't want to pay for a private line.
a lotta people, but very short phone numbers.
and heavy phones.
second photo in comments.
Large Format 4x5 Crown Graphic Special
Ilford MG FB warm toned paper
shot at f/4.7 for 30 seconds
home developed in eco pro for 2 minutes
This really could be the end of the line for you if you aren't careful. Dinorwic slate quarry is a potentially very dangerous place. And of all the parts of it I have been to, I think this is the most dangerous.
As Jon Baxter wrote when he visited about four years back "its probably the only photo I've ever took that made me actually fear for my life to get it".
The railway line used to carry on. You can see the other end of it in the fog on the other side. But then part of the buttressed level it ran along the top of, slipped away and left it hanging over a chasm. You can see a guy on Youtube who went across it on his stag do. He was well wired and harnessed. But in the last few years the railway through the sky gave up and fell apart to leave it heading vertically downwards. Now even that section has gone.
Approaching this area I headed out to the left to check that it was safe to go anywhere near. It's obvious it is unstable. I could see that many of the stones had slipped out and now where the line reached this side it is undercut. I trod very lightly. You can see a small tree lower left of shot. That has grown out of a near vertical edge somewhere below the level I am on. You can't see the bottom, where you might fall to if you aren't careful. It was out of sight down in the fog. It really could be the end of the line for you.
But on this mysterious morning where I didn't see another soul I was haunted by something. As Darcy and I had been climbing up to the caban out of the complete silence we heard a relatively high pitched "I love you!", shouted at the top of the voice come from higher up in the quarry through the wall of fog. And then nothing. Had someone just jumped off one of the cliffs? I didn't know what to do. I hadn't seen any sign of anyone, wet footprints on dry slate, some scuffed grit on the trail or any other sign of life. I didn't see anyone else until almost back at my car. I didn't see any body. I'm still wondering.
Here is Al on his stag do in 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0rdy6BByE
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When you look with your eyes
Everything seems nice
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Taken near the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. It posed really well for a few shots & then legged it!
Making really good night photographs is certainly achievable with the latest digital technologies, as is evidenced by the abundance of Milky Way Galaxy photos that are so popular now; but even so, with starlight being the only available light the night I made this photograph, my camera was being pushed to its limits. What helped the situation was all the fresh snow, which amplified the starlight, and making it possible to capture what little light was there. What was astonishing is that the lights from Yosemite Village were illuminating Yosemite Point, which was completely undetectable to the human eye. But the camera saw it! Don't you just love photography?
Really just liked the colors and I've driven past this building numerous times before I finally stopped, climbed the hill for a vantage point and took some pics.
White horse waiting... prince charming must be around smashing some dragon to a pulp.
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F and Takumar 35mm f/2, Fomapan 400 in Rodinal 1+50 for 13 Minutes @ 20°C, digitalized using kit zoom with macro rings.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
This set of seven shots demonstrates Charlie's eating ritual. All have a lot of editing, and a few are really terrible, but the group is a pretty good representation of what we sit through every time he eats. Back and forth between the 2 bowls, pausing in between. It goes on for minutes after the other cats have finished. The person whose turn it is to feed the cats has to guard Charlie until he finishes, and only then can she open the doors for the other cats who have finished.
Looking for something I really don't know......
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(No crop,
no rotation,
no tripod,
no manipulation (only bw) and...
no contrast at all)
I really do not know for sure which one of these captures, that I present today to you, I love most !!! Because, all of them, represent one of my mostly loved spots in my beloved Château-land -- Château De La Hulpe. These captures are taken on a bright , sunny, November day. I was standing just a few meters away in each , while being always at the same spot….It is a magical , inspiring, and uplifting place, especially between mid October and mid November….
This is a part of my personal “Château secret path” of about 30’-45’ in my beloved Château Forest(s). Every time I arrive here, I stop, breathe deeply, look around in deep admiration and awe, listen to the sounds, and say….”thank You!!”(…and then, I start photo-shooting…). Right here, the path close to the first water-side stops, so I have to turn around the water-side, in order to follow the other side of my path, again close to the waters…Just like walking alongside a large, river-like pond, surrounded by a magical, colourful woodland…..
(*** It is really worthed, to experience these captures in LARGE, in case you have some time available…)