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Canon EOS RP with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens on an EF to RP adapter.
I am still trying to find time to visit all of your images but rest assured I will catch up. In the meantime, I want to thank you all for taking the time to visit my little space here on Flickr.
Took this one on my way back home after work, some nice background and bokeh
Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7 T*
Mushroom season has begun. I went down to Mugdock country park with my mushroom mad friend Johnny to pick some... well, i left the picking to him as I don't have the faintest idea about fungi. I did however used this as a perfect excuse for some Flektogon macro madness.
Mainstreet of Shamrock, OK The following 17 images are all taken in April of 2015 in the small, Oklahoma ghost town of Shamrock. I took the opportunity to drive out there once again yesterday and found this entire main street of buildings gone. It seems lighting struck them and the ensuing fire leveled everything. Needless to say, I am glad I was there that prior April. At least this part of Shamrock's history remains. A lot to the old vehicles that were here are also gone now.
A few months ago I was looking at a small pot of Shamrocks sitting on a kitchen counted just below a window. Seated, my vantage point provided me a view of the bottom of these three leaves as light passed through the leaves (back-lit), bringing out colours and patterns not otherwise visible. - JW
Date Taken: 2022-01-31
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO100, Matrix metering, Daylight WB, Program mode, f/4.8, 1/200 sec with an EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px high, crop to 16:10 format, apply Tone Mapping At default levels, boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost Vibrance, use Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight detail, boost Black Level slightly to get the background darker, apply Noise Reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Curves tool to darken the darkest (background) parts of the image, boost overall Contrast slightly, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px high, sharpen, save.
N233NV accelerates along runway 10 on departure from Dublin Airport leaving her former Shamrock family behind for a new lease of life across the Atlantic, 3rd May 2017.
More light trails, traffic going past the Shamrock over 15 seconds, again from the Advanced Workshop recently.
ISO 100 | 15 sec | f/13 | 14mm
The Shamrock Hotel, currently trading as Hotel Shamrock, is a grand 19th-century hotel in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, situated on Pall Mall, the city's main street.
The current Shamrock building is a major landmark of Bendigo and is of historic and architectural significance to the nation of Australia and to the state of Victoria as part of a significant streetscape and collection of late Victorian buildings in a similar style.
The Shamrock began life in 1854, as a small hotel known as The Exchange Hotel, servicing miners during the Victorian gold rush and including a Cobb & Co office and a concert hall known as the Theatre Royal.
The hotel's patronage had grown quickly with the booming goldfields and it was renamed "The Shamrock" in 1855. The same year the Theatre Royal hosted Lola Montez performing for the diggers who threw gold nuggets at her feet, many of which the Shamrock staff took as tips while cleaning. The Bendigo Shakespeare and Literary Society also performed at the theatre from 1861.
Completely rebuilt in 1864, the Shamrock became a large hotel with two triple storey palazzo in the Victorian Regency architecture style. By this time the Shamrock had become the main hotel in central Sandhurst (as Bendigo was then known) and was the accommodation of choice of visiting dignitaries to the valley's goldfields district including governor, Charles Henry Darling.
A large double storey verandah was added in the 1870s.
Design and building
In 1897 the hotel was once again completely rebuilt to the design of Phillip Kennedy, an understudy of Germans migrant architect William Vahland, who is attributed for the four-storey Second Empire architecture design with basement level and a distinctive and tall fifth storey mansard roof. The elaborate "boom style" building features detailed stucco mouldings and a distinctively Australia feature in its Victorian Filigree-styled double storey wraparound iron lacework verandah. The entry patio has the hotel's name in mosaic parquetry and the name is also etched into the glass of the transom light. Part of the ambitious brief was to construct a rival in grandeur to Melbourne's Grand Hotel (now Windsor Hotel). The construction contractors were Baxter and Boyne.
The Shamrock played a role in the history of Australia when in 1898 it hosted the Australian Natives' Association at the banquet hall at which Alfred Deakin made a speech in support for the federation of Australia.
Dame Nellie Melba was one of the notable guests of the hotel during the Edwardian era, staying in the third floor corner suite opposite the Bendigo Post Office clock tower and demanded its hourly chime be turned off.[citation needed]
Other notable guests included Harry Lauder, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, John McCormack and Richard Strauss.
In the 1970s the Shamrock, like many grand hotels around Australia, had waned in popularity and was under threat of demolition as one of several sites in being proposed for speculative office blocks. The Rupert Hamer state government stepped in, acquiring the hotel for $240,000 to save it and nominated it of state heritage significance.
The Victorian Public Works Department subsequently undertook a major restoration project at a cost of approximately $2.5 million which was finally completed on 14 April 1981. While many historic interior features were intact including the grand staircase, verandah, second storey parlour, halls and arches and 1920s elevator most of the rooms were upgraded with modern facilities and the top storey beneath the mansard roof, which were subject to water ingress and pigeon roosting was boarded off and the basement level was closed. The hotel was leased to Clover Hotels.
Among the high-profile guests after the reopening were Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, during a royal visit in 1983.
The Shamrock is privately operated and was previously part of the Comfort Inn chain. It remains one of Bendigo's most popular venue for functions and photography, particularly wedding receptions.
The Shamrock was given a state interim heritage protection order in 1975. The hotel was recognised with national significance to Australia in 1978 when it was added to the Register of the National Estate.
It is currently recognised by Heritage Victoria as being of state heritage significance and listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The Shamrock is also classified by the National Trust of Victoria (B1853) as being of state significance.
Source: Wikipedia
Medicago lupulina (Black Medic, Nonesuch). A common wildflower. According to "Popular Names of British Plants", "this is the species recognized in Ireland as the true shamrock."
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
My 4th build for the ABS Builder Challenge Season 1 Finale
This is a negative version of the photo. If you have a device, you can often turn on a setting the lets you see everything on your device in negative, so if you then open you camera app, you can then see this photo normally. There are other ways to view the photo normally, but using a device is probably the easiest way.
The curved dark red seed part was used 6 times.
Go Lavender!
This box, designed in late 2020, is decorated with a shamrock, and folded from a single square of Tant paper. In contrast to most of my box designs, in which the lid is separate from the bottom part, this one is single-part and opens via a hinge. Two large flaps on both sides lock underneath a pleat that goes along the bottom of the box, making it possible to close the box quite neatly.
In order to limit the design to the convenient 16×16 grid, I ended up with a slit between the closed lid and the front wall. Using a slightly larger grid, it should be easy to add a small flap in front of the lid and ensure that in closed state, nothing can fall out of the box.
Link (with more pictures): origami.kosmulski.org/models/hinged-shamrock-box
Amazing old pub with beautiful stained glass windows and ornate decor - only the top floor is closed off.