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-Henry David Thoreau
The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetlands. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans.
They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill.
Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds. The Great Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society, one of the oldest environmental organizations in North America. Audubon was founded to protect birds from being killed for their feathers.
Not all young that hatch survive the nestling period. Aggression among nestlings is common and large chicks frequently kill their smaller siblings. This behavior, known as siblicide, is not uncommon among birds such as hawks, owls, and herons, and is often a result of poor breeding conditions in a given year.
Great Egrets fly slowly but powerfully: with just two wing-beats per second their cruising speed is around 25 miles an hour.
The oldest known Great Egret was 22 years, 10 months old and was banded in Ohio.
(Nikon D500, 300/4.0 + TC 1.4, 1/1600 @ f/7.1, ISO 220, Edited to Taste)
camera toss plus processing = fun
my initial foray into programmatic sources for camera toss, see this photo for a better description.
I spend quite a large part of my life choosing, testing and repairing photographic equipment. It takes me much more time than creating pictures..
Once I unwittingly overheard a conversation of men drinking alcohol on the river bank.
They talked about fishing and choosing equipment for this.
One of them had a heavy box of various fishing gear. He showed them with pride, laid out and sorted out ... spinners, wobblers, fishing lines, hooks ...
And the other could boast of nothing but a shovel.
But I remember his words well:
".. there are men's magazines about women,
But sometimes it's just a woman.."
After that He dug up worms and went to fish..)
Nice weather and great photos this weekend for all of us
And let the pleasure of the process does not replace the result for us ! ) ) )
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from the last obsolete roll I tested
The expiration date of the Fuji S-400 is not exactly known,
packaging without boxes 35mm film rolls
exposed as iso 200
nikon fm2n camera
50mm 1.4 Cosina for Nikon Planar lens
Epson V600 scanned
The effort (previous picture) paid off for this Red Tailed Hawk with a vole as a prize. As the juvenile Red Tailed Hawk took off with the vole it briefly landed on this fire hydrant marker across from where I was standing. Moments later he flew off to a tall tree nearby to finish off his dinner. Downsview Park, Toronto.
Das Gebäude ist stilistisch dem Brutalismus zuzurechnen. Es besteht aus 152 unverkleideten Beton-Blöcken zwischen 0,84 m3 (1,84 t) und 64 m3 (141 t); der höchste Block misst 13,10 Meter.
Das Licht fällt durch einfache Glasscheiben, die in die unregelmäßigen Zwischenräume eingesetzt sind, woraus sich überschneidende Lichtbündel ergeben.
An der Altarwand befindet sich ein Abguss des von Wotruba für die Hofkirche in Bruchsal geschaffenen Kreuzes.
Stylistically, the building can be categorised as Brutalist. It consists of 152 unclad concrete blocks between 0.84 m3 (1.84 t) and 64 m3 (141 t); the tallest block measures 13.10 metres.
The light falls through simple glass panes inserted into the irregular spaces between the blocks, resulting in overlapping beams of light.
On the altar wall is a cast of the cross created by Wotruba for the Hofkirche in Bruchsal.
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.
So, I had kind of forgotten about this contest until Robot reminded me, so here are the results!
In first we have Wavy Films with his SINnoman Bun from Adventure Time. I really love this figure. It's very original and creative, and the paintwork is really clean.
In second, we have Comic Customs with his Owlman from that animated Juicy League movie. The paintwork is very clean, and I've never seen this figure made before.
In third, we have Ancient Robot Customs with his Toon Lonk. The whole figure is very accurate to Lonk, and the sculpting and paintwork are great.
So, y'all can just DM me on insta to tell me what you want.
I was honestly disappointed in quite a few of the entries that didn't at all fit under the rules of the contest. Y'all gotta read the rules that I put in place.
This time the Caspian Tern managed to catch a Catfish after diving into the pond. This is one of the series of shots that I took of it diving and taking off of water with the fish in its mouth. Good to see them back in our shores. It was a cloudy afternoon; however, a nice break from three days of continuous rain. Burlington, Ontario.
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
== in Explore 12.9.2020 ( picture 79 ) ==
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I always admire people who can just "do" street photography. They are up there, in my book, with those who seem to be able to waltz into a forest, snap a photo and walk away with an amazing shot. I like to dip my toes into both genres but am never really happy with the results. In fact I seem to recall making it a new year's promise a few years ago that I'd try more when it comes to both street and woodland photography.
With this in mind I headed down to Littlehampton beach front for a spot of street photography. Parked the rental car and tried to pay for my stay - 2 hours should be enough I thought - only for the pay machine to throw a fit and declare it's card reader non-operational. I fumbled in my wallet and frustratingly only had enough coppers and half pennies for one hour of parking. I'll make the most of it I thought and headed off to this location. After a few minutes of standing here, waiting and working on my composition a primary school class and teacher showed up. Not wanting to get into trouble, or get suspicious looks thrown my way I wandered 250 or so meters away to another shelter/bench like this. Set up again only for the same class to show up and sit there after a few more minutes. Frustrated I stomped back to the original location. Almost 20 minutes in and I hadn't really gotten anything. Lo and behold, a few minutes later the same class came back. The teacher grinned at me and I knew then she was doing it deliberately. So I stood my ground, pointed the camera in this direction and waited her out. She blinked first, sheepishly herding her class away to the right of this scene. Victory! But it cost me 25 minutes of my one hour of parking.
Came away with some shots that I'm really happy with though they feel a little same-y with the cool shapes that meander across the scene. I did try and get the odd cyclist but couldn't time it quite right with them being half hidden behind the structure. Guess I need to get out and practice street photography more then....
25x10sec (composited in sequator - Align Stars), f1.8 ISO 1600.
In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.
I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just for the reference.
Things like blurry stars in corners you can't fix. They do get less light than the center of a sensor, so maybe that's the reason for them being blurry in corners.
All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.
After watching the storm clouds build for hours, it ended in this rain storm which also brought lightning and thunder.
Mid 1950's Simplex Automatic
Simplex was founded by Paul Treen (father of United States Congressman and Louisiana Governor David Conner Treen) in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s with an initial investment of $25.00 Treen had been a dealer in Harley-Davidson motorcycles and had pitched them the idea of making a lightweight motorcycle for young riders. When Harley-Davidson rejected the idea, Treen decided to enter the market himself and designed his Servi-Cycle. The Simplex Servi-Cycle was introduced in 1935.
Although Simplex Manufacturing Corporation produced motorcycles for over 20 years, the last Simplex Automatics looked almost the same as the company's original 1935 Simplex Servi-Cycle motorcycle. Paul Treen would often visit the factory's tool shop and work with the engineers on new ideas himself, resulting in continuous improvements to Simplex products instead of annual new model introductions.
The two-stroke engine had a rotary valve and an "overhung" crankshaft with only one main bearing. A kick-starter was added by 1953.
Western Auto sold Simplex motorcycles under the Wizard brand in the mid-1950s.
Simplex's minimalist philosophy was maintained throughout the company's history, whose designs changed little after 1935. By the 1950s Simplex's designs were primitive, leading to the end of Servi-Cycle and Automatic production in 1960. Simplex continued to make minibikes and karts using proprietary small engines until 1975, when Simplex went out of business. Treen had sold the company three years earlier, in 1972
This was the beautiful result following the cobweb creation, previously posted in this photostream, of my Actaea [Cimicifuga, Bugbane] which was quickly destroyed by local gusting breezes.
I must have had a lucky spider :-)
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The result of the clearances after the World Wars probably. Not enough able bodied men returned home to work the farmsteads, struggling on poor upland ground was normal but without menfolk to do the heavy work, life became very harsh indeed, and enticements were offered or suggested for help with relocation to Canada and the like. It is a very sad story for areas like the Cabrach but also the Western Isles and most Scottish upland areas suffered a similar fate.
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The Cappadocia region is a historical and tourist central Anatolia, Turkey.
The most distinctive features of the region are the unique geological formations, the result of volcanic phenomena and erosion, and its rich historical and cultural heritage, including numerous underground cities and houses and churches carved into the rock, with many of these admirable fresh. In 1985, the Göreme National Park, one of the most famous areas of the region, with 9576 ha, was declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
Net Results group of fishing nets stuck in a barrel just made an interesting arrangement, some vivid colors from the netting, found in North Carolina.
Forgot to lock a leg on my tripod, so it slowly sank left resulting in this swirl of a mess and blurring the slight Aurora we had that night. However, it was a good way to make a faux-Polaris though.
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A pleasant day spent in the company of Dave McDigital was rounded off with this final shot of 1Z30 skirting Tanyard Bay below the cliffs of Bransty.
A little wordy here, sorry:
First: The Scherer article and my experiments of 2023 are WRONG. There is no fixed shim or extension that will match a Contax lens to a Nikon or vice versa. It was an interesting idea but it didn’t pan out.
Second: in my tests, the Contax and Nikon are exactly matched at infinity. The error only occurs as you focus closer.
The Nikon lens rotates farther than the Zeiss lens to reach a given focus distance. To go from infinity to its minimum focus of 5 feet, the Sonnar focus ring rotates 154.4 degrees; to get to the same point the Nikkor rotates 169.4 degrees, a difference of 15 degrees. This is not enough to be obvious just looking at the lenses, but it’s beyond the depth of field limit at f/32 with the 135mm telephoto - a very significant error.
On the other hand, since the lenses match at infinity, the error is very small at longer distances. Beyond 10-12 feet, the difference is within the wide open depth of field at f/3.5, and from 15 feet it’s less than I’m able to measure repeatably. The situation deteriorates rapidly as you go closer: at 8 feet you’ll need to be at f/8; f/16 at 7 feet, f/22 at 6 feet, and the smallest aperture of f/32 won’t be enough at five feet. The quick, easy, and frankly the only answer is to consider the 135 as having a minimum focus limit of 10-12 feet.
The actual distance error is very small, only about 4 inches at the five foot limit - but the depth of field is so small at that distance that it can’t cover anywhere near that amount.
Enough of the 135. What about wide angles?
The news here is actually very good. The 35mm wide angle will have the same 15 degree error at five feet on the focusing scale - but on the 35, the depth of field is enough to cover 21 degrees, even wide open at f/2.8. I wasn’t able to measure closer than five feet since that’s the minimum limit of the lenses I have to test, but this is a very promising situation. Shooting between 3 and 5 feet, stopping down to f/4, certainly f/5.6 ought to be plenty to keep you within the depth of field.
So, okay for wide and tele. What about the normal lens?
As close as I’m able to measure, the extension of the camera body focus helical is exactly the same between the Contax and the Nikon bodies - 3.55mm to three feet. The difference is just that the Nikon mount turns farther than the Contax to get there. This suggests that there is no difference between the actual 50mm normal lenses from Zeiss and Nikon. Since the focus mount for the normal lens is part of the body and not the lens, it’s correctly matched to the rangefinder regardless of which lens you have plugged into it. So for the 50, there should be no problem at all using a Sonnar on your Nikon or a Nikkor on your Contax.
All this tends to confirm the old conventional wisdom that the problem only affects tele lenses, something I was skeptical of until I went through this exercise. It does NOT confirm the idea that the Nikon normal lens was a different focal length from the Sonnar, leading to all this kerfuffle … the difference appears to be entirely due to a very slightly different thread pitch in the focus helical in the camera body. As for WHY Nikon would have done that, I have no idea. Maybe it was just a mistake that wasn’t discovered before they already had committed to their version of the mount.
So there it is. Have I verified all this on film? No, this is all based on measurements, and on the assumption that the engraved distance markings on the Zeiss and Nikon lens barrels are accurate. Frankly I doubt that my photography is precise enough to prove much at the very small distance differences involved here… I have more faith in the measurements than I would have in my negatives. But I will be doing some shooting, to see if the results correlate to these measurements.
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This image from near Wapanocca NWR in eastern Arkansas shows the flock of snow geese after they came up out of the field. I regret my lens could only get a small portion of them. Hundreds can be seen here but thousands were flying. The noise of all the honking was very audibly impressive; a real attention getter.
Lightning strikes Glenwick Ln, Irving TX at Oakdale Rd when early dusk storms inveloped neighborhood.
Having been once again in a creative rut, and faced with a three hour train journey this morning, I put some serious thought into planning a photograph - and this was one of the resulting ideas.
It evolved somewhat as I went along, but the idea was always to have plain, dull old water entering the lens and coming out as some kind of rainbow jamboree. I was wondering if I could use milk coloured with food dyes, but in the end a lack of a) milk and b) food dye scuppered that plan short of a trip to the shop, so instead I used my shower head to create the water drop effect shown here, taking two photos of the shower using a large softbox and a speedlight on 1/16 power for each.
I then photographed the lens, using my Nikon 105mm f/4 Micro, and the same softbox in the same position relative to the camera, though on 1/2 power.
The rest was photoshop of the painstaking but straightforward variety; cutting out the grey background I'd set up around the lens, overlaying this on the shower head and colouring the droplets using filters (individually...). I'm happy with the result!