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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Definition of REFLECT (verb): surface: show the image of something; show the existence or nature of something; think about something carefully.
Our ship was "sailing" again distorting the mountain reflection in the fiord.
PS This one chosen for a small conference booklet
After my first night in Florida I woke up very early. So I went to the beach and watched the sun rise. It was so beautiful! Thank you, jet lag!!!
Llynnau Mymbyr are two lakes located in Dyffryn Mymbyr, a valley running from the village of Capel Curig to the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel in Snowdonia, north-west Wales. The A4086 runs along their northern banks.
Here we see the Snowdon horseshoe reflected in the waters.
A 1,500Kms, 5 day trek down the South Road in Iceland with Camerashy68 taking in many sights with a detour back to reykjavik via the Golden Circle.
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You've seen this watchband before, as I had previously photographed it for our "Curves" theme on November 14, 2022 (and I also photographed other parts of this Casio watch, one for 2022's "Redux" and December 2023's "Bokeh" theme).
The entire casing and the strap are "ion plated", as Casio calls it, and the watch shimmers in the nicest iridescent rainbow colours, with gold as a base colour (pretty posh, I must admit). Its Milanese strap also has an unusual structure that looks a little different from a regular Milanese strap, as it almost resembles woven or knitted fabric.
As I had already photographed the strap as a rainbow wave for "Curves", I had to think of something different for our "Mesh" theme. So I rolled the strap up and placed one end of the strap above the other, with the clock face down. I noticed that the mesh was reflected in the strap's polished clasp, and this gave me my image idea: lots of bokeh from the strap, but a small, reflected part of the mesh in focus because that's our theme after all. And: I also wanted to get the "Stainless Steel" lettering in focus.
My first attempts yesterday, taken with the Laowa 2x Ultra Macro lens, didn't quite yield the desired result. At F2.8, I got the bokeh, but in the clasp, either the lettering was in focus or the mesh's reflection. And at a higher aperture value, I might have gotten both in focus, but including the strap.
So today, for a final attempt, I switched lenses and did some stacking. I am happy to say that I also learned something new about the focus differential settings of the in-camera stacking function. The focus differential ranges from 1 to 10, and it determines the difference in focus position between shots. "5" is the sweet spot, as it yields good results for most scenes, but here, it already resulted in a too wide focus range. So I checked out "1", a setting I have never used before, and it worked: sharp lettering, sharp mesh reflection, and lots of strap bokeh :)
HMM, Everyone!
One morning I walked into our bedroom and the sun was shining so brightly and reflecting its light onto the opposite wall. It seemed magical to me! The curtain is an addition to a special corner! The quality of the image is not good but I thought I would post it anyway.
I am sorry that I have not been around much but I was having such trouble with Flickr that I decided to cool it for a couple of days!
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I was taught to never just take a photo of someone else's art, but that is always OK to photograph art when presenting something other than just the art itself. It is always the point to see something with a fresh eye.
I just love a great reflection and doesn't matter from water or ice or mirror or windows... I always seek for these opportunities. So much so that I forgot to even capture ducks close by. So taken by the movements and colours. This was not achieved by intentional movement of my camera but by nature's water movement.
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It tough work for a tree to grow in a swamp. The vast majority of trees simply can't do it; they'd drown! But bald cypress and tupelo gum trees have mastered the feat of surviving in sodden soils. This is in large part due to their "knees." While there are several theories as to the function of these knobby outgrowths, the prevailing thought is that they allow these water-logged trees to breathe!
A Black-headed Gull in winter plumage along with its reflection in the water of Penn Ponds in Richmond Park.