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With the rising sun sitting behind the great plume of water vapour from the Power station .. it made for some fantastic light effects
The pristine white with the radiating yellow centre seems to glow in the meadows. This was taken from my archives, but they are blooming earlier this year.
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On the plaza; Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bigger / on black / blogged over here.
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Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim + Redscaled Konica Minolta VX Super 200.
(Developed an old roll rattling around, and found these!)
Redscaling.
Basically it involves taking a roll of ordinary 'bog standard' print film, reversing it and respooling it into another film canister (all done in a dark bag) so that the light is exposed on 'the wrong side of the film' when you take a shot. You then lose two 'stops' on the optimal exposure conditions from the original. It gets developed in exactly the same way as print film, but be prepared for the technician to be a little startled (at best) or a little irritated (at worst) when they realise that something very odd has happened to the film. :)
We have had many interesting clouds and potential storms roll through our area this past week, but hardly a drop of much needed rain. These radiating clouds mirror the lines happening on the land and in the water. I hope we get a really good rain soon.
Radiated Tortoises can be very long lived with recorded lifespans of up to 188 years old with an average lifespan of 32.8 years. They come from Southern and South Western Madagascar
An image from 2017. Challenging conditions with strong winds up on the hill. The plus side was a great bit of cloud sweeping through to give me what I needed for this long exposure. there was also a bit of hail coming down during the exposure, and a few droplets ended up on the filter, that meant I needed some time to clean up the image. Once cleaned up, a bit of harsh processing to give me the finish I wanted. Another two versions to come ... one straight mono, and one toned ... couldn't make my mind up. I'll let you judge.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
so i literally just woke up from a nap, noticed how good the lighting was outside, and took a picture.
this picture makes me feel like i'm in my element, this is me. i need to start taking pictures by my standards.
anywayyyy...
i'm about to go look at everyone's streams now.
have a nice night everyone :)
Macro of decorative crystal backlit by an LED panel with a wire grid and colorful transparency behind the crystal.
Notting Hill Carnival dancing girl - 28/08/2018
Nikon D7200
ƒ/2.8
35.0 mm
1/200 @ ISO 100
Flash (off, did not fire)
Tarentule radiée - Radiated Wolf Spider
Canon EOS 6D - f/10.0 - 1/80sec - 100 mm - ISO 1250
I did plant this tree in 1981, it is now the king of my garden. (see photo in the first comment)
This photo is taken in the fall, just before the leaves are beginning to fall.
more Ginkgo photos in this album:
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- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), also spelled gingko and known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives. The ginkgo is a living fossil, as a unique species recognisably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years. Native to China, the tree is widely cultivated and introduced early in human history, and has various uses as a food and in traditional medicine.
Ginkgos are large trees, normally reaching a height of 20–35 m (66–115 feet), with some specimens in China being over 50 m (164 feet). The tree has an angular crown and long, somewhat erratic branches, and is usually deep rooted and resistant to wind and snow damage. Young trees are often tall and slender, and sparsely branched; the crown becomes broader as the tree ages. During autumn, the leaves turn a bright yellow, then fall, sometimes within a short space of time (one to 15 days). A combination of resistance to disease, insect-resistant wood and the ability to form aerial roots and sprouts makes ginkgos long-lived, with some specimens claimed to be more than 2,500 years old.
The leaves are unique among seed plants, being fan-shaped with veins radiating out into the leaf blade, sometimes bifurcating (splitting), but never anastomosing to form a network. Two veins enter the leaf blade at the base and fork repeatedly in two; this is known as dichotomous venation. The leaves are usually 5–10 cm (2-4 in), but sometimes up to 15 cm (6 in) long. The old popular name "maidenhair tree" is because the leaves resemble some of the pinnae of the maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
Ginkgos are dioecious, with separate sexes, some trees being female and others being male.
Although Ginkgo biloba and other species of the genus were once widespread throughout the world, their range shrank until by two million years ago, it was restricted to a small area of China. For centuries, it was thought to be extinct in the wild.
The ginkgo is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, comprising the single class Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo and is the only extant species within this group. It is one of the best-known examples of a living fossil, because Ginkgoales other than G. biloba are not known from the fossil record after the Pliocene.
Ginkgo has long been cultivated in China; some planted trees at temples are believed to be over 1,500 years old. The first record of Europeans encountering it is in 1690 in Japanese temple gardens, where the tree was seen by the German botanist Engelbert Kaempfer. Because of its status in Buddhism and Confucianism, the ginkgo is also widely planted in Korea and parts of Japan; in both areas, some naturalization has occurred, with ginkgos seeding into natural forests.
Utrecht (The Netherlands) has the Ginkgo seen as one of the oldest trees outside China and Japan, planted between 1730-1767? as a young tree or grown from seed taken to Europe by VOC-ships from the Isle of Deshima (as a result of Kaempfers discovery of the Ginkgo).
Inflorescence of an umbelliferous plant in the small wooded area on Walthamstow Marshes, with a healthy population of aphids.
The Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata) is one of the most protected species of tortoise in the world. Within the reptile world, it is something of a poster child for environmental conservation. In the U.S., this means that--in order to keep them legally--one must obtain a USFWS captive bred wildlife permit, and many states require their own licenses atop this U.S. one!
The protection is helping. Today, it is likely that over 3,000 of these tortoises are living and breeding in the U.S., while civilization continues to encroach on their homelands in Madagascar.
The captively-cared for juvenile photographed here is approximately four years old and could have well more than 100 years to go!