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The Sun takes over the clouds' colour management :-)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Photo taken November 16, 2022 - [enhanced colour and colour temperature, reduced exposure, added contrast and framed it;]
ready to upload for the group
Canon EOS 450D - EF 70-300 mm IS USM
ƒ/18.0
300.0 mm
1/2500 Sec
ISO 200
Whenever we go grocery shopping, I find that I look at the packaging our food comes in as a possible photographic subject. One afternoon my husband came home with a large bag of tangerines. I enjoy that fruit, yet the bag holding the orange orbs made me especially happy.
Drosera intermedia (Mittlere Sonnentau) struggling in a dried up bog at Wareham Forest in Dorset. Even the roots are visible as water levels have fallen quite drastically due to much reduced rain fall combined with high temperatures !
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Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Scientific Name: Coracina novaehollandiae
Description: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes have a black face and throat, blue-grey back, wings and tail, and white underparts. They are slender, attractive birds. They have a curious habit of shuffling their wings upon landing, a practice that gave rise to the name "Shufflewing", which is often used for this species. This shuffling is also carried out by most other species in this family. Young birds resemble the adults, except the black facial mask is reduced to an eye stripe.
Similar species: Young Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes may be confused with the White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike, Coracina papuenis, which also has a black eye stripe. However, this species is much smaller (26 - 28 cm).
Distribution: The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is widespread and common. Outside the breeding season, large family groups and flocks of up to a hundred birds form.
Habitat: The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is found in almost any wooded habitat, with the exception of rainforests. It is also familiar in many suburbs, where birds are often seen perched on overhead wires or television aerials.
Seasonal movements: Partially nomadic; some northwards migrations.
Feeding: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes feed on insects and other invertebrates. These may be caught in the air, taken from foliage or caught on the ground. In addition to insects, some fruits and seeds are also eaten.
Breeding: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes may mate with the same partner each year, and may use the same territories year after year. The nest is remarkably small for the size of the bird. It is a shallow saucer of sticks and bark, bound together with cobwebs. Both partners construct the nest and care for the young birds.
Cuckoo-shrikes are neither cuckoos nor shrikes, but are so called because their feathers have similar patterns to those of cuckoos and their beak shape resembles that of shrikes.
Calls: The call most often heard is a soft churring, often being described as a warbling "creearck".
Minimum Size: 32cm
Maximum Size: 34cm
Average size: 33cm
Average weight: 112g
Breeding season: August to February; varies in more arid areas
Nestling Period: 21 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Malewszczyzna, near Zamosc, eastern Poland.
Picture 2021-11-12-4439_P_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: Yes (50)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: Yes
Peripheral illumination: No (reduced to 0)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: +0.83
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: +2
Shadow: +1
Highlight: 0
Color saturation: 0
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 3
Fineness: 1
Thresholt: 3
Cropping: Not cropped
Angle: 0.00 (Not changed)
No photomontage.
Framed in Photoshop 6
Reduce, re-use, recycle. The 3 R's we ought to be living by. I think these pencils are the best use for 'newspapers' these days... For Macro Mondays this week's theme is; Stationery
Happy Macro Monday/ HMM
A strong dairy barn stands ready to do what it once did but instead now houses goats. Once we reach a certain stage in life, our life's work is replaced by something else, usually with us playing a reduced role.
Composed of 10 seperate exposures in same settings,
Nikon D5600 with 18-55mm AF-P
Aperture :-F 3.5
Shutter :- 13 seconds
Iso :- 3200
Focal length :-18mm(Cropped for ccomposition)
Stacked by Sequator
Noice reduced by Topaz denoise AI,
Final adjustments by adobe lightroom.
I did consider colour correcting to reduce the yellow cast but I actually think it makes the photo.
Another pic of one of the members of the Zanzibar Red Colobus troop that visited us daily.
Hakuna Majiwa Beach Lodge
Paje
Unguja
Zanzibar Archipelago
Tanzania
Europhenix liveried 37611 slows for a signal check at Beck Foot before getting looped at Grayrigg to allow faster traffic to pass. The tractor is dragging Transpennine 397005 running as 5N32 Kilmarnock - Longsight.
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Bild mit Blur - Filter bearbeitet . ( Android - App ) - Nettes Ergebnis , aber die Bildauflösung und die Datengrösse wird dadurch stark reduziert , - das ist schade .... es war ein Traum .....
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Image edited with blur filter. (Android - App) - Nice result, but the image resolution and the data size is greatly reduced, - that's a shame .... it was a dream .....
This one is the result of a combination of a focus stack of about six photos (I don‘t keep tabs on the number…) at f/8.
The beech and its intriguing roots elicited my attention here.
I used a polarisation filtre to reduce the reflection from the water in the ditch.
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.
Now reduced to running three days a week (down from five), CN 324 has just left Taschereau Yard and is on its way to Vermont, with CN 5612 & CN 2665 for power.
As the night goes on, the Milky Way makes its way across the sky like any other object, here aligned with Fajeda Butte. The sky becomes truly dark, though the camera picks up far more light scattered from nearby Crownpoint on some low lying clouds. A bit of exposure on the landscape, makes it appear to be lit from the cloud glow. The Milky Way was particularly crisp this night. Made from 20 light frames (captured with a Canon camera) by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.2. Algorithm: Median. Some processing in Photoshop and Nik to reduce the noise. Cheers!
Potato starch is starch extracted from potatoes. To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed, and the starch grains are released from the destroyed cells. The starch is then washed out and dried to powder.
Starch derivatives are used in many recipes, for example in noodles, wine gums, cocktail nuts, potato chips, hot dog sausages, bakery cream and instant soups and sauces, in gluten-free recipes, in kosher foods for Passover and in Asian cuisine.In pastry, e.g. sponge cake, it is used to keep the cake moist and give a soft texture. It is also occasionally used in the preparation of pre-packed grated cheese, to reduce sweating and binding.
This is the starch factory near Sünching.
in explore 12/22/2020
© Rainer Merkl
Irlanda - Kinvara - Tres cottages
Kinvara (Irish: Cinn Mhara, meaning "head of the sea"), also spelled Kinvarra, is a sea port village located in the south of County Galway, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of Kinvarradoorus in the north of the barony of Kiltartan.
The Great Famine in the 1840s and a series of emigrations that continued until the 1960s reduced the population of the village – once a thriving port and a significant exporter of corn and seaweed – to no more than a few hundred people. From around the 1980s the population of the parish of Kinvara started to increase while the village started to grow in size.
The village lies at the head of Kinvara Bay known in Irish as Cinn Mhara (or more recently Cuan Chinn Mhara) from which the village took its name. This is an inlet in the south-eastern corner of Galway Bay. Kinvara is situated in the territory of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, which is coextensive with the diocese of Kilmacduagh (Cill Mhic Dhuach). The parish is roughly coextensive with the Ó hEidhin territory of Coill Ua bhFiachrach (wood of the Uí Fhiachrach) and this name was still in use in the mid-19th century as recorded by John O'Donovan in his Ordnance Survey letters. Kinvara is situated in the north of the barony of Kiltartan and close to the border with The Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster. The parish is bounded on the north by Galway Bay, on the east by the parishes of Ballinderreen (Killeenavarra) and Ardrahan, on the south by the parishes of Gort (Kilmacduagh) and Boston (Kilkeedy) and on the west by the parishes of Carron and New Quay (Abbey and Oughtmama).
The Orion constellation shot under Bortle 3 sky.
Equipment:
- Nikon D300 modified
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 ED
- Skywatcher StarAdventurer
Frames:
45 frames x 120sec at ISO 800.
Preprocessed in APP and Pixinsight and post-processed in Lightroom.
Old data, re-edited.
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Captured this with three RAW shots at -2..0..+2 EV. Digital blending in Photoshop CS6. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Topaz DeNoise to reduce noise. Topaz Clarity for boost in color and contrast.
Ponytails Falls in Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Have a great weekend everyone!
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