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© Montse Sanjuan Gregorio
Montse estuvo un buen rato persiguiéndola hasta pillarla quietecita y posando; bueno, en realidad posada, pero el resultado es el mismo.
camera toss plus processing = fun
my initial foray into programmatic sources for camera toss, see this photo for a better description.
When i was walking in our beautifull holland i saw this buzzard on a branch, he was not afraid at all and i could get really close to it. which gave me this awesome result :D
Victoria and Albert Museum:
Examples of the works of Art in the Museum – South Kensington Museum – Published in 2 Volumes in 1881 – Book 1 - Plate Nos: 37 - 42
Sometime ago I posted some of the illustrations from the above book and I hoped that would be able to find them physically in the museum and photograph them. I took the third set of 15 illustrations from this book and went on the V & A website; Search the Collections. My results were based upon the following criteria:
(1) Items I did locate and photograph.
(2) Items that were in storage
(3) Items I couldn’t find anywhere
So I will be posting them, along with their locations in the museum, against the original plate and photograph from storage (where possible). The original price and any further information I might find.
One thing I didn’t count on, was that renovations would alter the interior of the building so drastically. I have found it very difficult to pin some of these locations down but in the main they have been found.
Not many of the examples shown this time were successful, as can be seen I only found 1 item.
El rÃo Traful es un corto rio que está ubicado en el sudoeste de la Argentina. Nace en el lago Traful y recorre un amplio valle en dirección hacia el este, hasta su desembocadura en el Limay. Sus afluentes más importantes son los rÃos Mineros, CuyÃn Manzano y Córdoba. Está enteramente ubicado en el Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi. Pero, al estar fuera del área de reserva ecológica, el paisaje se ha visto alterado en los últimos años del siglo XX. En sus nacientes está rodeado de bosques de cipreses, que se hacen progresivamente esporádicos hacia el este. No está permitida la navegación en este rÃo, y la pesca está limitada a escasos lugares de acceso público, limitada a la modalidad "con mosca". No obstante, en estos lugares resulta un importante foco de atracción para los pescadores de salmónidos.
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Special thanks to ToolWiz Photos for aiding in this creation. As a result camera info has been dropped.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
This is the reflection of the front part of a yellow canoe that was resting on the bank of the river. Using a smidgen of punsters license, I decided to name the pareidolia head that emerged, Canute or Canoot after King Canute a Danish king of England 1017-1035. He is best remembered for demonstrating to fawning courtiers his ability to hold back the rising tide.
Doppelbelichtung mit einer selbst fotografierten Textur - bearbeitet mit overlay / 2 Bilder + digital Overlay
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Double exposure with a self-photographed texture - edited with overlay / 2 images + digital overlay
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Thank you so much
After watching the storm clouds build for hours, it ended in this rain storm which also brought lightning and thunder.
I'm DONE! LOL! Thank you ALL for your ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism! I hope I some how hit the in between this time!
Great conditions, right loco, good company; what more could you want?
Well, to be honest, the tide in but if that'd happened I'd have had to quit the hobby on a high.
These are the days that make all the fails rankle a bit less!
** 2 shot panorama stitched in PS **
This is a medium-large black bird, 68 to 78 cm (27 to 31 in) long and with a 95-to-110-centimetre (37 to 43 in) wingspan. It has a longish tail and yellow throat-patch. Adults have a small crest in the breeding season.
It is distinguished from the great cormorant by its smaller size, lighter build, thinner bill, and, in breeding adults, by the crest and metallic green-tinged sheen on the feathers. Among those differences are that a shag has a lighter, narrower beak; and the juvenile shag has darker underparts. The European shag's tail has 12 feathers, the great cormorant's 14 feathers. The green sheen on the feathers results in the alternative name green cormorant sometimes being given to the European shag.
This image was taken on the Inner Farne Island, off the coast of Northumberland in the north east of England
With flat batteries on my R1 flash units i made a diffuser for my old SB400 flash out of a pringles tube some bubble wrap and plastic from a milk container. Quite pleased with the results on the D750 with 105 and 1.4 converter
Life is like farming. You sew the seeds. You water and fertilize. You harvest long after everything is done properly with help of weather. Likewise career, family and relationship. You get the result after long time with patience,
How do you know it is time to harvest?
We have practiced photography for ten years, twenty years or even thirty years. How do we know it is time to harvest i,e, we can get good pictures now?
I passed by the farm on Steveston Highway and saw the harvest behind the fence.
Have a great Thanksgiving long weekend friends!
Fuji X-Pro2
Fuji XF 60mm F2.4
Velvia Film Simulation
Processing images of galaxies It’s not my favourite, I much rather be processing a nebula but it’s that time of year. I image this back in mid April but I put it to one side to process M57 the Owl nebula which I images afterwards, way more enjoyable.
OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS:-
M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy at a distanced of 21 million light-years away from Earth with a diameter of 170,000 light-years and has around a trillion stars, approximately twice the number that are in the Milky Way. M101 can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major. The Pinwheel Galaxy has a high population of H II regions where hydrogen gas is contracting under its own gravitational force resulting in stars formation taking place
EQUIPMENT:-
Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Mount: AZ-EQ6 GT
HoTech Field Flattener
ZWO EAF focuser
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
ZWO LRGB Filters
Temp Cooled to -15 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
30 Red subs@180sec (1h 30min)
30Green subs@180sec (1h 30min)
25 Blue subs@180sec (1h 15min)
74 Lum subs@120sec (2h 28min)
30 Ha subs@120sec (2h)
Total imaging Time 8 43min
Dithering
20 Darks
20 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
N.I.N.A
PHD2
DSS
GraXper AI
Cosmic clarity denoise and sharpening
StarNet++
Siril
Affinity photo 2
Please View On Black Here This shot was the result of finding some higher ground just as the fog was starting to lift, the sky hadn't been visible all day up to this point, so I wanted to capture both, 10 minutes after this it had all gone, right place, right time, never works like this for me usually....
Here you see why the Heron was guarding its domain with such ferocity. Within minutes of chasing away the anhinga, the heron lunged out of the tree it was sitting in, beat its extended wings thrice and plunged into the water - spearing the prize displayed here.
A few flips and turns and the prize slid down the throat - some other photos of this series are included in the comments below.
Loosely based on Chinese guardian lions or 'foo dogs' as some call them. This MOC was a fun exercise in using Lego cloth elements as a flexible skin around an inner frame. The result is a very cohesive look with some fun patterns that would be very hard to achieve otherwise.
The MOC has several points of articulation that allow it to take a natural sitting pose. One rotation in the torso behind the shoulders, hollow thighs for the back legs to fold up, and a rotation at the base of the tail.
The detail I'm most proud of however is the plant sprue pieces used for the lips. This is my last MOC for 2022, I hope you all like it!
Photos edited by the wonderful @buttloaf_builds
Stony Point Lighthouse, the oldest on the Hudson, marked the entrance to the Hudson Highlands for nearly a hundred years and was built in 1826, the result of a contract between Thomas Phillips, of New York City, and Jonathan Thompson, Superintendent of Lighthouses.
I really enjoyed my day out in my white socks that I didn't want to take them off after getting back to the hotel.
This was the first shot I took with my new lens and the last shot that I took with my ND4 soft grad as it shattered of the rocks. Reasonably pleased with the results, note to one self dont track backwards on slippy rocks!
Thinking of ordering PhenQ – wait till you have read this!
Trying to lose weight huh? Tell me about it. I have struggled with it for a really long time. After the birth of Evan, my second child – my body weight was all over the place.
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LEEDS/HISTORICAL/ABANDONED/EXPLORATION
also known locally as "The Famine Church" following the 2nd of the potato blights which resulted in mass Irish migration to Leeds.
After roughly two hours of walking through dirt and hills, along paths and forest floors, I'm surprised how clean they look. ;)
Note: I'm blown away by how many folks have seen this image! I'm so curious where everyone is finding it... if you see this, would you let me know in the comments?
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I'm really excited to share this one.
Though often photographed, Horseshoe Bend is one of my favorite views in the world. Because you can't see the immense vista until you walk up to the precipice, the combination of heart-stopping beauty and adrenaline-pumping vertigo packs a punch unparalleled by any other view I can think of, including the Grand Canyon.
The New Year's Eve blizzard buried Page in a rare blanket of snow, and this was the incredible result on Horseshoe Bend.
191 MPixels
The full resolution zoomable panorama can be seen here.
Corta da mina
This is what remains of an exhausted open-pit mine.
Gold and silver mining began at this site during the Roman period and continued for 400 years. In the 19th century, the mine was reopened for copper and sulfur extraction by the company Mason & Barry, operating until the lode was exhausted in 1966.
Since then, the pit has gradually filled with groundwater and rainwater. The lake that now occupies the site has a dark brown color due to iron residues and is highly acidic (pH 2.5) as a result of sulfur contamination.
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.