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Went for a rather dark treatment for this shot. Just trying something different :) However if you think it is too dark, pls do let me know. I think I have changed the way I used to look at colours... just not sure how good or bad it is now
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Osorno Volcano From Llanquihue Lake, Los Lagos Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America
The Shot
1 exposure shot (0 EV) in RAW with tripod
Camera :: Canon 5D Mark III
Lens :: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Photoshop
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'curves' for selective contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows & reds) to lighten the snow
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to desaturate the low clouds
- Applied high pass sharpening
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This rather small cormorant is fairly common along rocky coasts where it feeds mainly in inshore waters. Nests colonially on cliffs and other steep surfaces, sometimes on jetties.
Source: ebird.org/species/magcor1?siteLanguage=en_GB
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……. I rather liked the rich fresh leaves juxtaposed with the seasonally spent leaves of Autumn. A phone shot taken whilst doing my iPhoneaday 365 last year. Alan:-)
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Rather rabbit in the thick of things - My first rabbit sighting in the okanagan (actually it was my wife who spotted him - the keeper of the bear spray) He ducked back into the thicket after i got off my bike - then decided to grant me a few more shots. I'm going to guess a cottontail until someone corrects me.
Some rather epic sunset colours, don`t get this sort of sunset very often, just to be out at the right time, The River Adur at Shoreham By Sea in Sussex.
Seemingly the collective noun for a group of flamingos is a 'Flamboyance'. This group like my other recent photographs of Greater Flamingos was taken at the coastal lagoons just north of Korba on the Cap Bon Peninsular in Tunisia.
I feel that a they look so unhurried, calm and stately.
This rather wonderful marker is exactly 50 meters out from a small jumping dock. It's used as a marker for swimming schools (hopefully in the summer!) for people to swim out to and then back, knowing that they've swam at least 100 meters then. I'll be definitely be coming back here in foggy conditions as I think this marker and that foreground island will look amazing in foggy conditions.
Doing the Tet challenge. This is rather out of my comfort zone, so I am struggling (does not help I have been traveling) but trying for the participation points :)
No, I'm not referring to me, and my very well-known sunny disposition...rather, one of my favorite migration birds, this sweet, adorable Prothonotary Warbler, hunting for insects yesterday in Janice's Bottle Brush Bush! Their sunny yellow glow always makes me smile! I hope this little series makes you smile, too!
There were at least two Prothonotary Warblers there! This one's head features the common brownish berry stain from previous meals enjoyed before leaving the tropics!
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
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, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
The Belt of Venus about 10 minutes before sunrise admiring Parkhouse and Chrome Hills from Hitters Hill
A rather special morning indeed
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A rather damaged looking Speckled wood butterfly.
The speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) prefers to live in damp, dark woodlands. Unlike other butterflies, it's more active in shadier habitats rather than sunny ones. Males often fight over a perch, spiraling up to the treetops until they determine a winner. These perches are where the males find passing females.
After a rather rough 90 mins on the very bumpy ferry ride we disembarked on mainland Australia at the little town of Seisia and this beautiful calm beach. Many of the passengers (sitting outside) on the ferry were soaking wet as the waves came over the boat on the run into Seisia due to the winds and channel orientation!
The Fish Shop in Gaios was rather popular with the local cats, who queued patiently for the chance of a few small fish!
Another couple of shots of the queuing cats in the comment below.
A rather high vantage point to photograph this Great Egret as it was surrounded by cattails. 1st egret sighting this spring
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Freshly from maintenance at Toton, a rather unhealthy sounding Puma Energy livery DB Cargo 60074 'Luke' accelerates away from a signal check at Plumley working 6H03 Arpley Sidings - Tunstead Sidings.
I'm working on a new version of Reaper, and I'm fairly happy with him at the moment, but thought I'd just post this WIP shot of the frame, unarmoured.
I'm also debating at least trying a new colour of translucent parts, maybe dark blue, instead of the lime green
Rather rare over the arctic circle.
Can you see the tiny red boat in the middle of growlers, a little bit on the right of the rainbow's foot ?
During my previous, brief stay in Second Life, I had access to a small white chapel. One of my fondest memories of that time was that chapel.
“We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.”
― A. W. Tozer
Rather neglected old boat on the Union Canal - spring evening as the sun was setting, creating a lovely, golden light and making some lovely reflections on the water
This rather extraordinary parish church, set on a spacious green hill above the River Severn, stands in stark contrast to Shrewsbury's medieval streets and mainly Tudor townscape.
Dating from 1790-92, it is a classical church, and is built from a pale stone that sets it quite apart from the red sandstone and half-timbering that are the usual materials of Shropshire. What is more, it is a classical church with a difference: the nave is completely round.
Opinions differ as to how successful a building this is. The tower, from some angles, looks almost unrelated to the rest of the church, being separated from it by a rounded antechamber. But the interior is light, bright and uncluttered. Slender white columns (made of local cast iron) support a gallery that sweeps right round the church.
In the churchyard is the grave of Ebenezer Scrooge
The rather melancholically-named settlement at the far end of Longsleddale. However, the river in the dale makes up for it by being called the River Sprint...a sort of yin and yang naming.
I walked over from Kentmere to check out if it was a possible bike route, which it is, apart from an impossibly steep and rocky bit just before Sadgill, which would defeat me in either direction.
A rather windy day at Battery Park Gourock, where this lone tree is fighting a loosing battle to keep most of it's leaves from departing. The Rainbow isn't helping much by leaning on it though!!
Rather than sit and wait for the Fast 5 cheetahs to catch their dinner, we left for camp and were rewarded with this sighting of Saba. She sat surveying her domain, then got up and walked slowly right toward us. Saba is a female leopard, not often sighted.
Masai Mara
I have rather worked 'blind' with it. Just trying to work out how the Pep Ventosa method it was achieved and trying things out.... I am about to watch a recording though, showing how the 366/180 deg photos are actually taken. I hope that will improve things! I love experimentation even if I fail!
Explore #42 - 04.05.2009
The world’s light shines, shine as it will,
The world will love its darkness still.
I doubt though when the world’s in hell,
It will not love its darkness half so well.
But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light by Richard Crashaw (1612 - 1649)
Best Viewed Large On Black - See where this picture was taken. [?]
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I rather hesitated about the name Holarrhena. Uusally our plant goes by the Latin name Wrightia... But of course I read up on William Wright (1735-1819), Scottish physician and botanist, for whom it is named. Wright had a varied life and spent time on Jamaica where he was not only a sugar plantation doctor but also himself a wealthy slave owner. That's bad enough, but he was also much opposed to abolition. So I couldn't quite stomach using his name for Holarrhena - a less usual name for our pure-flowering shrub but listed by Tropicos as a synonym. It hails from the Indian subcontinent and one of its common names is Tellicherry Bark. Tellicherry is present-day Talassery, north Malabar, Kerala, India. That bark - ground - is used to alleviate the symptoms of dysentery.
A rather variable species but this is a lovely "textbook" one, found by Rockwolf. In contrast to the last upload, this is Britain's largest ladybird species, at 8 or 9mm long.
Attingham Park, Shropshire.
Toby is rather damp after foraging for food in the pond. It's tempting to think he makes himself look pitiful so we'll give in to his pleas for snacks.
Ocean Park, Washington.
A rather inviting bistro on the lovely Piazza di Spagna in Pienza, unfortunately not open yet this early in the morning.
Pienza, Tuscany, Italy.
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Pose and shape by myself.
Taken in Black Dragon using its dynamic lighting sliders.
No innocent villagers and passing travelers were harmed in the making of this photo, but the horse they rode in on was delicious.
I have burned bridges a time or two, I would rather walk away head held high than to prolong anything that isn't serving me. Spent a lot of time learning self care and boundaries, if those boundaries get crossed, into the pile of discards you go. My peace is worth more than your presence. Sorry not sorry...
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Billie Eilish - You Should See Me in a Crown
Bite my tongue, bide my time
Wearing a warning sign
Wait 'til the world is mine
Visions I vandalize
Cold in my kingdom size
Fell for these ocean eyes
You should see me in a crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by
You should see me in a crown
Your silence is my favorite sound
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by one
Count my cards, watch them fall
Blood on a marble wall
I like the way they all
Scream
Tell me which one is worse
Living or dying first
Sleeping inside a hearse
I don't dream
You say
Come over baby
I think you're pretty
I'm okay
I'm not your baby
If you think I'm pretty
You should see me in a crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town
Watch me make 'em bow
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Your silence is my favorite sound
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Les Fagnes sont de vastes étendues (4 500 ha en Belgique) de tourbières, de landes et de forêts qui présentent une flore et une faune assez exceptionnelles liées au climat froid et humide. Les contreforts au nord du plateau accueillent essentiellement de vastes plantations de conifères.
Les tourbières se sont formées il y a 7500 ans, à la fin de la dernière glaciation. La tourbe résulte de la décomposition des végétaux, notamment les sphaignes, en milieu très humide. Son épaisseur peut atteindre sept mètres. Jusqu'au milieu du XXe siècle, la tourbe constitue pour les habitants des villages proches, une source de chauffage appréciable. La surface des tourbières actives ne représente plus qu'une centaine d'hectares.
Le plateau des Hautes Fagnes est le plus important massif tourbeux en Belgique.
Le climat est anormalement rude par rapport à la faible altitude maximale, et le climat en principe océanique typique du nord de l'Europe occidentale. Diverses espèces de la faune et de la flore y trouvent leur limite de répartition par rapport à la latitude ou l'altitude, dont la chouette de Tengmalm.
Précipitations abondantes (1 400 d'eau par an à Botrange, 850 mm à Bruxelles), brouillard épais, neige persistante.
Quelques records : 1,15 m de neige le 9 février 1953 ; il neige parfois encore au mois de mai.
The Fens are vast expanses (4,500 ha in Belgium) of peat bogs, moors and forests which present a rather exceptional flora and fauna linked to the cold and humid climate. The foothills to the north of the plateau are mainly home to vast plantations of conifers.
Peatlands formed 7,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. Peat results from the decomposition of plants, especially sphagnum moss, in a very humid environment. Its thickness can reach seven meters. Until the middle of the 20th century, peat was a significant source of heating for the inhabitants of nearby villages. The surface of the active peat bogs represents only a hundred hectares.
The Hautes Fagnes plateau is the most important peaty massif in Belgium.
The climate is unusually harsh compared to the low maximum altitude, and the generally oceanic climate is typical of northern western Europe. Various species of fauna and flora find their distribution limit in relation to latitude or altitude, including the Tengmalm owl.
Abundant precipitation (1,400 water per year in Botrange, 850 mm in Brussels), thick fog, persistent snow.
Some records: 1.15 m of snow on February 9, 1953; it still snows sometimes in May.
Raiding the archives as I've had rather a busy day.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
Press L to enlarge, rather than clicking the + .
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) on her favourite perch (and mine), behind the CNC, Kelowna, BC.
Thanks to constructive criticism from Wayne Kennedy, a Floridian Flickr friend, I reworked the original shot posted last week. So you've seen this pose before; the adjustments to colour and framing make it a different photograph.... Although all comments are appreciated, honest criticism is always preferred. Flattery only leads to flatulence....