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Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
Looking roughly north from the summit of Sgùrr an Airgid. Thankfully when the clouds came down near to the top and reduced visibility to 50 metres or so we were able to follow a path (faintly visible on the right) for the last few hundred metres to the summit, and down again, so didn't need to resort to a compass. But the view would have been superb - we even met a luckier couple who had got there a few tens of minutes earlier and were raving about it.
The L519 Edson Sub local heads across the causeway at Wabamun Lake with a short train. With the Sundance Power Plant pretty much converted to natural gas fuel, a good chunk of traffic handled by the L519 (flyash from burning coal) has been dramatically reduced. With the lack of flyash traffic, the local only runs this far once a week, down from the 3 day a week service schedule of the past.
My daughter is hiding behind me in the far left of the image, apparently she did not like the horn on the 5367!
I noticed something that I wasn't aware of while watching Sabine's Gulls in Svalbard recently. They have reduced webbing between their toes, a feature to lessen heat loss in cold environments. I knew that Ivory Gull had reduced webbing but could find almost no mention of it in Sabine's Gull, yet you can see it quite clearly here. I looked in BWP and there was no mention, and moreover, all of the illustrations, including text figures, showed full webbing. Witherby's Handbook has a single sentence referring to concave webbing, but that was the only thing I could find. Incidentally Ivory Gull is the closest relative to Sabine's Gull, despite looking vastly different and being in different genera. This photograph also shows the inside of the mouth is bright red, which is not something I have personally seen before, though this is documented. It also shows that the striking 3-triangle wing pattern is not visible from below. Here it is on the upperwing: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/53922205073/in/photolist
This was taken from a moving Zodiac off the north Svalbard coast.
They sit within a few metres of our longe window, sometimes asleep, such a treasure but one almost flew into a sliding door the other day, t suddenly at the last moment it realised its mistake and a catastrophe was averted.
People consider these birds as common but they are far from that, it's that they are large and conspicuous that gives this impression.
Vastly reduced in numbers.
Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
EQ6-R Pro
Guiding with ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
214x120" lights calibrated with darks and bias frames
Nebulosity4 for Mac
PixInsight
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 6
The Iconic Eastern Span of our Bay Bridge. Shot with the flying Hasselblad at morning twilight.
This is five images shot in burst mode. I stack them within adobe bridge - 'Load files into photoshop layers' under the tools tab. Auto-align, then convert to a smart object, lastly change the stack mode to Mean or Median, this cleans up the noise quite well. I will even reduce noise further in camera raw when necessary, and sharpen for final output.
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While at Echo Amphitheater in Abiquiú, I shot some infrared.
I've tended to process my infrareds to black and white as I never felt satisfied with my attempts at false color processing with channel swapping.
I've been learning more this past year about working with color prior to converting to black and white.
In the first comment box below is the unedited shot, pretty much all brown. Shot through the Hoya R72, 720 nm filter. The custom white balance that I had set keeps it from being totally magenta.
As has been my common result, using the Channel Mixer adjustment layer and swapping values for the red and blue channels wasn't great.
I've been learning what the Selective Color adjustment layer does, so opened that under the Channel Mixer layer.
It allowed me to play with how much red, yellow, green, blue, cyan and magenta are within colors and thereby fine tune what the Channel Mixer does.
Things were better.
Then I opened a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer above Channel Mixer and found that playing with the Master and moving the Hue slider helped too.
After working on tonal ranges, using midtone luminosity masks on curves layers and dodging and burning, I still didn't like how much purple was in the sky.
I tried the Select Color command to isolate the sky and that created a mask when I opened the Color Balance adjustment layer. Mostly working on shadows and midtones to reduce red, increase blue and increase green got the deep blue color.
I've been learning about the Hard Mix blend mode, and after using the color picker to grab the color of the trees, I opened a Color Fill adjustment layer, set it to Hard Mix and then reduced the Fill opacity to 7%. This enhanced the tree color.
Finally, I got a false color infrared that actually had definite color.
Why did I do all this?
This extreme edit became the underlying base to a black and white version of the shot. All the color stuff I've been learning was part of tutorials on processing for BW.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, I hope to post that on Thursday for Donnerstagsmonochrom.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA. I made a smaller copy of the original photo and dragged it on top of the original larger copy in PS as a layer. I reduced the opacity top layer to 50 % and moved the layer around until I got this converging pattern and changed the blending mode.
22x600' RG
14x600', 18x300' B
19x1200' Ha
13.8h total
oakland, ca
january 2014
m42 with TMB92SS and TRF-2008 0.8x reducer (f=400mm)
STT-8300M with astrodon HaRGB filters
mach1GTO
equinox image
pixinsight
The Bears Ears National Monument surrounds Natural Bridges National Monument and includes over 1.3 million acres of land. The Bears Ears Buttes are two buttes that rise to over 8,900 feet. The Buttes and the land of the monument are sacred to five local Native American Indian Tribes. The Bears Ears National Monument was established in 2016 by President Obama. President Trump reduced the size of the monument by 85%. President Biden restored it in 2021.
The "Apostle" closest to us reduced to a heap of rocks on 3/3/2005.
The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell National Park. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Currently there are eight apostles left but the name remains significant and spectacular especially in the Australian tourism industry. The apostles were formed by erosion: the harsh and extreme weather conditions from the South Ocean gradually eroded the soft limestone to form caves in the cliffs, which then became arches, which in turn collapsed; leaving rock stacks up to 45metres high. The site was known as the Sow and Piglets until 1922 (Muttonbird Island, near Loch Ard Gorge, was the Sow, and the smaller rock stacks were the Piglets); after which it was renamed to The Apostles for tourism purposes. The formation eventually became known as the Twelve Apostles.
On a fine day with mild sunshine and gentle breezes, sea gulls may circle around those stacks and even come close to greet you. On another cold, miserable day, strong gusts and showers may howl and test your determination whether to quit or stay on to witness the grandeur of Nature at work.
This is a detailed, 121 megapixel panorama of the San Francisco holiday skyline, shot on December 28 2016. I've been working on making as sharp and as detailed as possible; you can make out exit sign lights above doors at the SFMOMA 2.4km (1.5 miles) and 555 California 3km (1.9 miles) away and individual lights on the Bay Bridge 5.5km (3.4 miles) away. Thanks very much to Florian Kainz for all of his advice to get this as good as it could be :]
You can check out the full resolution version here: www.flickr.com/photos/captin_nod/32066278265/sizes/o/
The hardware used was nothing particularly special - a Canon 7D with the cheap, standard canon 70-300mm zoom lens at 260mm. I shot individual pictures at f/11, ISO 400 with a 1 second exposure (which underexposed most things about a stop). The panorama itself is shot from 46 individual images; and each one of these images consisted of locking off the camera and taking 4 photographs. In photoshop, these are exactly aligned and median filtered to reduce noise, remove motion artifacts from moving lights and recover a little dynamic range. I'd periodically switch the camera into live view to check that the focus of the lens was sharp. The process of shooting the images - the setup, calibration, checking focus and of course actual exposures - took a little under an hour.
After stitching, the image is around 50,000 pixels across. As expected, I wasn't able to completely eliminate all the things that could contribute to softness - nailing the focus, intrinsic shaking of the tripod & camera due to things like wind, and distortion due to heat haze and atmosphere. In the original panorama, there are large parts of the image that can be downsampled, resized back up and placed back in without any significant loss in quality. This 'empty resolution' means that I could wholesale resample the image to half it's size; this also had the effect of improving the signal to noise ratio a little, reducing the noise in the final image.
For the interactive panorama on Facebook (www.facebook.com/bjoshi/posts/10154212269427423), I used a modified version of Eric Cheng's fantastic PSD templates (www.facebook.com/notes/eric-cheng/editing-360-photos-inje...) to create a 6000 pixel wide, 300-degree-wide cylindrical panorama version of the image. It requires a little manual messing around with the XMP metadata to get it exactly where I wanted it (my image is not very tall); ping me in the comments below if you want more details or help figuring it out.
For those of you that have grabbed the original image from Flickr with the intent of printing or using commercially - please don't, and buy the image or hire me instead. I shoot high quality imagery at very reasonable rates. I'm easy to find, drop me a line.
Just in case this alone doesn't deter you, in the online copies of the photograph I've hidden (in plain sight) in a range of highly offensive imagery that would be extremely embarrassing and difficult to explain to a client. Have fun trying to find it all because I guarantee you can't :]
Soft after sunset light reduces the north shore and Copper Island to shapes while Shuswap lake takes on the pink hue from the sky.
Poznan, Poland
Autumn
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Fall Leaves Reduced
is my favorite thing to do with polymer clay.
The technique is borrowed from glassmakers. The design is built in the clay using the colors of the clay in a sort of 3-D way and then stretched and rolled to the size you want for your projects. Once the ends are removed every cross section slice is an exact replica of the one before and all throughout the cane.
Ta Da! This is how I roll. I am off to make some fantasy flowers...
SKIN FAIR 2026
Welcome to Skin Fair 2026
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March 6th - March 16th
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The Juniper Events and sponsor groups will have a 24-hour early access to the event
(9am on the 5th of March – 9am on the 6th of March)
You can join the Juniper Events Group (free to join), using the following link pasted into your browser:
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The Complexity limits of 100,000 will be enforced on the sims for the first few days to reduce the lag and give you a better shopping experience, please dress accordingly and detach any unnecessary attachments.
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Selfie.
This is left hand, palm side between 2nd and 3rd digit (you can see a ring), backlit with an LED torch. You can also see some veins in the top finger which I'd not noticed when doing this previously.
Sometimes I think that it would be worth exploring taking macro abstracts of different parts of the body. But there are two obvious problems though.
First, the only person in the house that would put up with such a project also needs to be clicking the shutter.
Second, how on earth do you get rid of all those Wrinkles of Wisdom? (By the way, I'm still waiting in the hope that the Wisdom will turn up real soon - the wrinkles have been here for quite a while now.) And in any case, why do you think I chose the palm-side?
This was another idea that turned out to be more of a challenge than I had anticipated. It was a task and a half to take, trying to compose and focus in the dark, trip the shutter and keep in the same position without moving (Ed: that's what same position means, surely?)... This is the best of about 20 - it took that long to get a half-workable technique.
For Smile on Saturday "Let it Glow!" theme.
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy smiles for Saturday!!
[Tripod mount. LED torch back-lighting. Manual focus. Delayed shutter. High auto ISO, as small an aperture as I could bear.
Processed in Photolab 2 for the Prime noise reduction.
Cropped in Affinity Photo to get the main diagonal bright line going through one of the corners but still have the two other diagonals showing lightly.
Sharpened using Unsharp Mask and High Pass/Linear blend. Reduced clarity to soften the textures and noise.
More denoise.
Dark vignette.
I've discovered that because Flickr uses 8 bit jpegs rather than 16-bit pngs and there is a very limited colour range in the picture, the red gradients don't work as well as they might, particularly on some of my devices :(]
Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
Reducing the range and vibrance of the hues in this image, and adding a bit of grittiness, brought the composition together nicely for me. My attention flows back and forth from right to left up through the image without the perceptual disruptions of the brighter, more demanding colours. ;-)
Translation: I did the raw conversion using Lightroom 5, passed the image to onOne's Perfect Effects 9. looked through the presets for something that appealed to me, fiddled with the sliders until I was happy with what I saw, saved and published. All that compositional gobble-d-gook above was made up post facto, moments ago, heh heh.
Getting out & hiking into a place like this is always good for the mind, heart, & soul. At least it is for me! My son & two of my nephews went with me to Turkey Foot & Mize Mill Falls Saturday. Great day to be in the woods.
Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) preparing for an aerial attack in Bakkadalur in Arnarfjörður in NW-Iceland.
The Arctic Tern weighs little over 100 grams, but it is a fighter, attacking humans and predatory birds and animals of all kind that disturb it in breeding season. It is also a world-class traveller, that would put Marco Polo to shame. The average tern in its life will travel a distance equal to going to the moon and back—about 500,000 miles (800,000 km). It has circumpolar distribution, breeding colonially in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America (as far south as Brittany and Massachusetts). The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates from its northern breeding grounds to the oceans around Antarctica and back (about 24,000 miles) each year. This is the longest regular migration by any known animal. It is also one of the birds that spends most time in the air.
Arctic Terns are long-lived birds, with many reaching thirty years of age. They eat mainly fish and small marine invertebrates. The species is abundant, with an estimated one million individuals. While the trend in the number of individuals in the species as a whole is not known, exploitation in the past has reduced this bird's numbers in the southern reaches of its range.
My first rainbow shot. Couldn't have timed it better for this one, just happened to be walking down Circular Quay when the sun decided to come out.
Enjoy
- Canon 5D Mark2.
- ISO 400, f10, 17mm.
- Canon 17-40mm f/4L USM.
Standard 3 exposure (+2,0,-2 EV) handheld
Processing
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using Tone Compressor
Photoshop
- Adjustment of curves to increase the overall contrast (Linear)
- Adjustment of hue/saturation
- Used Smart Sharpen on Background Layer
- Reduced noise with Noiseware Pro
- Sig/Borders Added
Thanks for all the comments, faves, views, notes and invites!
The theme for this week's Macro Mondays is "plastic". I became very aware of the issue of single-use plastic contaminating our oceans on visiting uninhabited areas of eastern Greenland last year and taking part in a beach clean-up - we collected dozens of items of throwaway plastic. It has become big news this year with the UK's proposal to ban plastic straws and cotton buds. For my macro entry I decided to take a picture of my water bottle, which I now use instead of buying bottled water - saving a lot of money as well as doing a small bit to save our oceans. So - this is "Plastic" for Macro Mondays. HMM! (field of view is under 2 inches)
And doubling up - my Day 23 entry for April 2018: A month in 30 pictures, and #23/100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition - my x is macro with a dedicated macro lens.
(P4231460)
Firstlight for my new Explore Scientific 127mm fcd-100 apo, ES 0.7 reducer & Atik 383l+ / 1*900s halpha testshot
Yes that is the horizon below the ThunderCat boat. Kingfisher Team I seem to remember. Crew Number 41. They hit a big wave at speed and it launched them very high.
It is pretty dangerous - the propellers are not shielded as reduces their effectiveness but if the crews land on another boat with that outboard engine on full song...........
Plus they can travel at speeds of 70 mph too but on calmer waters.
I was standing in the shallows in wellington boots following the action as the tide went out, occasionally a bigger wave would break and nearly go over the top of the wellingtons. They did actually fill up with sea water on a practice day when a wave caught me out.
Took ages trying to dry them out. Should have had a pair of waders instead but salt water and Nikon cameras don't mix so I had to be careful. All was well in the end and an excellent collection of shots resulted.
The image info:- ISO set at 250, aperture was f/6.3, focal length 500mm (300mm lens with 1.7x teleconverter) shutter speed 1/6400th to freeze all the water droplets. Processed in Lightroom Classic 2024.
beyond the mind
state of reduced sensory overload
cartography | max richter
youtu.be/SNapoDicpuQ?si=O4CRU2eFJ7E4eKOk
The face trembles between two worlds —
in suspension between adaptation and dissolution.
The self melts, dissolving its contours,
to reveal, for a single breath, what lives beneath.
Outside, the world rages — glaring, greedy, demanding.
While inside, the light collapses into silence, into the fragile realm of one’s own.
When everything grows too loud, the image breaks —
for truth reveals itself only in decay, when the noise outside becomes unbearable.
by bes~•
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
— C. Jung
A southbound CSX mixed freight has reduced speed to 50 MPH for the diamond crossing with the former C&O Piedmont Sub just ahead at Doswell, Va. The date for this action was December 13, 1994. I understand the speed restriction over the crossing has now been raised a bit. Here's a better explanation for such a restriction than I can write from scratch:
"A flashover occurs when the brushes in the commutators of DC traction motors touch each other because of a unusual movement or bump, such as when a locomotive goes over a grade crossing. If the brushes touch each other, an electrical short can occur almost like a lightning strike. Obviously, this can severely damage the traction motors. Locomotives with DC traction motors must have the throttle reduced slightly when going over a grade crossing to reduce the risk of a flashover. Newer locomotives with AC traction motors have no commutator brushes and therefore do not have to be throttled down at grade crossings."
The old Tottenham Hale was an area of low rise and mostly well laid-out buildings.
The new Tottenham Hale was explicitly designed to reduce the proportion of social housing in Tottenham - as set out in Haringey Council's 2017 Local Plan policies AAP2 and AAP3.
Following the deselection of 22 social cleansing councillors in 2018, the two successive subsequent council leaderships have rowed back somewhat from that earlier objective.
This is inhuman design, with bad overlooking, a loss of privacy, and the exclusion of many homes, especially those at lower levels, from adequate access to direct sunlight.
The turning point of planning policy in the wrong direction came with the National Design Guide of 2014, which scrapped such previous standards as the 'seventy-foot separation rule', which originated in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918.
In the last ten years, developers have been taking the mickey with ever-denser designs, and they will continue to do so, until they are stopped.
For now, let's leave the last words with Tudor Walters, 107 years ago:
'Medical opinion is unanimous as to the importance of allowing plenty of sunshine to penetrate into the rooms; it is in the winter when the sun is low even at midday that its light and warmth are most valuable. This should be considered when planning the distance between houses facing one another.'
PS the two tallest blocks at Broadwater Farm are also seen here, on the left.
Revisiting this old data set.
Camera ZWO ASI294MC cooled
Scope: Tak FS-60+reducer
Mount TAK PM1
60x120s subs at unity gain
The Response Boat - Medium of the United States Coast Guard.
*Apologies again for reduced uploads to Flickr, while still in use"
Instagram is receiving the majority.
The Milky Way rising behind one the many horse statues of Galleta Meadows Sculptures in Borrego Springs, San Diego's desert region.
As I was editing this picture the Rolling Stones "Wild Horse's" song came on and I could not get the tune out of my head and it seemed like such an appropriate name for the picture.
2 sets of stacked images to reduce noise
Sky at ISO 6400, 25 seconds x 13 shots
blended with
Foreground at ISO 3200, 30 seconds x 8 shots.