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The Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains; a place of comfort for one’s soul.
The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and Nevada’s Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily in Nevada.
Elevation: 14,505′
Area: 39,612 mi²
Highest point: Mount Whitney
Length: 400 mi
- Wikipedia
(Nikon, 14-30/4.0 @ 30 mm, 1/4 Sec @ f/20, ISO 100, edited to taste)
The perennials are struggling a bit in the heat of the summer and need much attention. That made me miss the spring flowers especially the tulips which bloom so faithfully year after year. No.5 in the Colour Palette series - Pink on Black.
Robin (Erithacus rubecula) Our resident garden robin is quite tame. He is so handsome at this time of the year and always happy to pose!
Gotta balance the focus stacked images every so often and the Meyer Optik lens has been wondering when I would get off of f/8 and open it up a bit. Well this week seemed like the perfect opportunity to do just that. No stacking here, just one image with very little focus but plenty of colorful bokeh. I did have to wait for some direct sunlight but the rest was easy, Put a curly pile of scaly gold and blue ribbon on a mirror, stick it in the sun filtered a bit with a white screen and go bokeh hunting with the Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 set on wide open and a Nikon PK-12 14mm extension tube. After seeing a potential angle a bit of poking and prodding completed the look. The colors were so vivid not much post processing was needed. Truth be told I did take plenty of shots and I started with artificial lights but the bokeh came out looking a bit soft and diffused so I waited and hoped for sunlight which I got the next day in the afternoon.
The image measures app 2 x 3 inches but hard to say, the curl measured 1 inch in diameter. Made for the Macro Mondays group, Theme, "Wrapping".
Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston with Nikon PK-12 14mm Extension Tube. Single image shot at f/1.8.
... still blooming in our garden for a happy Sunday!
Zebra mallow / Garten-Malve 'Zebrina' (Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina')
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
If I had a death wish!! The beautiful but fiery Atara, North Chinese Leopard photographed up close at Big Cat Sanctuary, Kent
Great-horned Owl
(Captive setting)
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It feels like forever since I've been on Flickr and have missed all of you. I feel like I am finally on the road to recovery. It will take some time for me to get back to commenting on everyone's images - so you may just get faves for a bit. So happy to be back!
you'll become a butterfly
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
– Maya Angelou
Pose by GingerFish - Flutter
Location:
These teeny, seemingly fragile, very beautiful little Rosemary flowers are on a little plant in a 4" pot in the greenhouse. Is at max 1:1 magnification and also taken in aps-c, so effectively 1.5x, but with a 1.0 d.o.f. and a bit of a crop thrown in.
They were pretty awkward to photograph - I took some photos first and then uploaded in order to get an idea of what they were like, which didn't really help that much as even with the 20x was difficult to tell what was what on these pretty complex flowers, then I took a lot of various little flowers and angles but only a couple worth keeping. A bit hit and miss to say the least :^)
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
Do not use without permission.
In Rome at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies - this was 4 years ago, but the view is basically the same. I'm one desk further back in the room, and not much has changed (except for the placement of all books - a major issue when you have to use a library, but from an aesthetic point of view a minor issue!). Even the temperature is the same, at around 35C!
(Explored the first time I've posted it - under the title The open window)
Well, and after the creation of the island, people came to it and started building houses and villages with their churches.
The sea was their friend, but at the same time their enemy because on the one hand they provided a source of income through fishing, but on the other hand the sea had its terrible quirks and she could rage like a raging rage and devourded houses, villages in short everything what got in her way and therefore also people.
And in order to avoid the seething desolation of the sea, dikes were always built higher, higher and higher, so that you no longer see the villages from the sea side, except for a small part of the church tower........
Taken on August 19, 2007 at 4.48pm, Barigui Park, Curitiba City, Paraná State,
Southern Brazil. See in LARGER
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We've all heard the expression "...as the crow flies" , did we ever stop to think do they really know the way!
Happy Mono Monday!
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Simmer down, simmer down
They say we're too young now to amount to anything else
But look around
We worked too damn hard for this just to give it up now
If you don't swim, you'll drown
But don't move, honey
You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now, that I'm so down
Your lipstick stain is a work of art
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart
And I know now, that I'm so down (hey!)
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Let's get out, let's get out
'Cause this deadbeat town's only here just to keep us down
While I was out, I found myself alone just thinking
If I showed up with a plane ticket
And a shiny diamond ring with your name on it
Would you wanna run away too?
'Cause all I really want is you
You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now, that I'm so down
I made a mixtape straight out of '94
I've got your ripped skinny jeans lying on the floor
And I know now, that I'm so down
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now, that I'm so down
Your lipstick stain is a work of art
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart
And I know now, that I'm so down (hey!)
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now, that I'm so down (hey)
Your lipstick stain is a work of art (hey, hey)
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart (hey, hey)
And I know now, that I'm so down (hey, hey)
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