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Spending time at home means digging into the closet and pulling out all of those old classics like Sorry, Trouble, Kerplunk, and of course Lite-Brite!
Spending a lot of time at home can lead to mischief. I've watched some tutorials I've had for a long time and have bought some new ones to keep me occupied. In this image, I used a technique to enlarge the lighthouse in order to counter its miniaturization from having used a wide-angle lens. Going that far I played with some Orton like affects which look pretty to me (today), if a bit unnatural. Feel free to be critical if this isn't your kind of thing. Stay safe.
... little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people. --The Breakfast Club
I've been busily spending the last week or so clearing out my 'Flickr upload' folder on my computer (that's why i've been uploading so many images each day) - when I edit photos for uploading I save them to this folder then select photos for upload as I go.
I've usually got a quite a few saved here at any one time.
This is the last image in the folder - for the first time in years it's now *empty*.
I've just bought a new computer, so i'm going through the whole file transfer, moving email, settings, etc. Such a painful process, lucky I don't do this too often. The new computer is awesome though, so much more memory and more processing power - I have been very limited with Photoshop and Lightroom with large files, so it will be a creative relief to not be held back by computing power for a change. It's just going to take me a while to get some photos back in the 'new' Flickr upload folder.
I'm still uploading random images to my Instagram account in the meantime - www.instagram.com/keithmidson/
Oh, this shot was taken at the disused railway line at Lilydale Falls, northeast Tasmania.
I spend a lovely day with Terri Toll up in the Rocky's, Fall River, just below Chasm Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park.thank you so much Terri for jogging my memory ☺☺☺☺
i managed to slow the Exposure down a bit without adding filters to 1/2 second just to add some movement in the water
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
If you spend enough time chasing birds, you will probably have some interesting and funny moments. This certainly would qualify as one of those for me. All I could think of as this guy flew by me was, for God's sake man, zip your fly. Mallard Drake. Kane County, Illinois
After spending a good bit of time in the grasses, this Grebe ventured across open water. Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware.
Bannack Montana Ghost Town
Founded in 1862 and named after the local Bannock Indians, Bannack was the site of a major gold discovery in 1862, and served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly in 1864, until the capital was moved to Virginia City. Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population. The last residents left in the 1970s.
At its peak, Bannack had a population of about ten thousand. Extremely remote, it was connected to the rest of the world only by the Montana Trail. There were three hotels, three bakeries, three blacksmith shops, two stables, two meat markets, a grocery store, a restaurant, a brewery, a billiard hall, and four saloons. Though all of the businesses were built of logs, some had decorative false fronts.
Among the town's founders was Dr. Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, a physician born in Cornish, New Hampshire, who gave up medicine for a time to become a gold miner. Dr. Leavitt arrived in Bannack in 1862, and alternately practiced medicine and mined for gold with pick and shovel.
Bannack's sheriff, Henry Plummer, was accused by some of secretly leading a ruthless band of road agents, with early accounts claiming that this gang was responsible for over a hundred murders in the Virginia City and Bannack gold fields and trails to Salt Lake City. However, because only eight deaths are historically documented, some modern historians have called into question the exact nature of Plummer's gang, while others deny the existence of the gang altogether. In any case, Plummer and two compatriots, both deputies, were hanged, without trial, at Bannack on January 10, 1864. A number of Plummer's associates were lynched and others banished on pain of death if they ever returned. Twenty-two individuals were accused, informally tried, and hanged by the Vigilance Committee (the Montana Vigilantes) of Bannack and Virginia City. Nathaniel Pitt Langford, the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, was a member of that vigilance committee.
Situated approximately 10 miles from the modern-day town of Dillon, Bannack now operates as a State Park and National Historic Landmark. History buffs will be enamored. While it continued to serve as a mining town for decades, Bannack was fully abandoned as of the 1970s. Today, its history and urban legends make it a spooky ghost town. The town is known as a site for ample paranormal activity. From murder to public executions, Bannack hosted a variety of dark and bizarre events throughout its heyday. Along with the neighboring town of Virginia City, Bannack also served as the site of many prosecutions and public lynchings. Ghosts of these events are said to linger.
Data above a combination of Wiki and Only In Your State.
More photos of The Meade and others of Bannack will follow!
I spend an enjoyable time at Bulbjerg beach. It is situated in the north of Denmark and there are some rock formations. A large group of black-legged kittiwake was nestling here, making a lot of noise, arguing all the time for the best nestling sites, and collecting nest material at the beach (seaweed). I have so many nice shots of them that I still can't choose what to post here.
But there was also a nice sunset!
I spend just one night in Seoul this time. The city was very vigorous till late night. I wanted to stay there longer. Maybe next time.
Bee-eaters spend around 10% of their day on comfort activities. These include sunning themselves, dust bathing and water bathing. Sunning behaviour helps warm birds in the morning, reducing the need to use energy to raise their temperature. It also has a social aspect, as multiple birds adopt the same posture. Finally, it may help stimulate parasites in the feathers, making them easier to find and remove.
Due to their hole-nesting lifestyle, bee-eaters accumulate a number of external parasites such as mites and flies. Together with sunning, bouts of dust bathing (or water bathing where available), as well as rigorous preening, keep the feathers and skin in good health. Bathing with water involves making shallow dives into a water body and then returning to a perch to preen
Spending a couple of hours in the middle of the forest, it is the best therapy for me.
Meanwhile, I wiil be visiting your streams, I'm looking forward to see your new work.
Spending time alone with you...
Hair: Truth (FLF - Friday @ Mainstore)
Pose; Secret Poses
Backdrop: Synnergy (HouseBoat for FLF @ Mainstore)
Bikini Bottoms: Vinyl
Skin: The Skinnery
Head: Lelutka
Collar: Kibitz
Body: Maitreya
Spend your days happy and grateful
Avoid the taste of wanting and wasteful
Every good thing will come in moderation
Envy and greed will only lead to frustration
Choose your friends, carefree and kindly
Choose your words, careful and wisely
Always be there to lend a comforting shoulder
One will be there to share a day when you're older (a day when you're older)
Nickelback
I have been spending some late afternoon, early evening time in a pretty secluded spot on the Lake - bugs of many kinds all over me - trying to locate the Pied-billed Grebe, and watching for any other activity. If one sits still enough, long enough, something is bound to happen…
These very young Wood Ducks ambled onshore and were completely oblivious to me, at least initially. The female with them stayed on the water in a supervisory capacity. Eventually a few of them noticed me, and I slowly brought up my camera while going from sitting to lying down, all in an effort not to spook them. The little photo bomber in the bottom right seemed full of beans, and they stayed for a couple of minutes, before re-entering the water.
There are often three or four sets of Wood Duck young on the water at this time of the year. I especially enjoyed the brief interaction with these ones as I had to misfortune to see a similarly-young duck caught by a Snapping Turtle a couple of weeks ago. Initially I didn’t understand the screaming and thrashing, but with binoculars I ended up figuring it out. It took a while to get that out of my head - I know predation is all around in natural settings, but that was a really unpleasant experience. These guys - who I know may suffer the same fate - cheered me up for the few minutes they were there.
People spend hours making these intricate designs on the street only to have them destroyed when religious parades go by. Once the parades have passed by, they immediately begin to create another design for the same thing to happen all over again.
Nam Tso གནམ་མཚོ།
salt lake The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m, and has a surface area of 1,870 square kilometres. It is the highest salt lake in the world, and largest salt lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region. However, it is not the largest salt lake in the Tibetan Plateau. That title belongs to KokoNor མཚོ་སྔོན་ མཚོ་ཁྲི ་ཤོར་རྒྱལ་མོ་ (almost twice the size of Namtso). Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted under the Communist Chinese regime in Tibet. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
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Spending as much time as I can at my favorite place, I watched the seabirds flee, I knew something was up, then this gigantic juvenile flew in front of me, over and around my head. The sun was setting. She gave me a lovely silhouette.
This one is younger than the two we saw on Sunday.
Be well dear Flickr friends!!!!
Manarola is my favorite town in the Cinque Terre.
A lovely place to spend holidays or a visit.
(We walked from Corniglia to Manarola through the mountains).
Jasper sometimes spends an evening down at the Old Kennel Klub. We've warned him that the place seems a bit stuffy and pretentious, but he insists that its not. Yes, they have a dress code and yes, they only serve the finest water, but at the core the members are just a bunch of good dogs. I saw Jasper tip his waiter a big bone so I know he treats the staff well.
We spend so much time in our heads... Analyzing. Wondering. Asking. Planning. STOP... come back to here, now. Where I am it's mid afternoon in late summer. The sunlight is flooding the grass... It feels still. And that's all there is for now. And all is well. {victoria erickson}
Many enjoy spending the day just hanging out at Quincy Market in Boston, Massachusetts either talking with old friends or just spending time together as a couple.
A Savanna Monkeybeetle (Genus Eriesthis) and Eicochrysops messapus ssp. mahallakoaena or Cupreous Blue butterfly on Small Scabious flower (Scabiosa columbaria)
After starting to get a case of cabin fever yesterday afternoon I spend an hour or so in Shobrooke Park, just a minute drive from home. It's a popular park for dog walkers and fishing and I arrived in between snowery showers and sunlight. This was taken at a smaller fishing pond, the bad weather can be seen approaching on the right.
My first visit to see these awesome sculptures by Andy Scott at night. Such a cool place to spend a couple of hours mooching. Surprisingly busy at 9.30pm too.....
In an monumental feat of engineering, The Kelpies, two 30 metre high stainless steel sculptures, rose from the ground in 2013, towering over The Helix and the Forth & Clyde canal.
Construction of The Kelpies began on 17th June 2013. The two enormous structures were manufactured and installed by SH Structures Limited.
The build was officially completed on 27th November 2013, and was celebrated with a 'topping-out' ceremony featuring Duke and Baron, the Clydesdale life models for The Kelpies.
The Kelpies by numbers
300 tonnes each
30 metres high
1200 tonnes of steel-reinforced concrete foundations per head
928 unique stainless steel skin-plates
Built on site in 90 days
The worlds largest equine sculptures
Spending a lot of time watching the Dippers hence so many images of them. Love watching how they work together and look after each other. Such a pleasure :)
Cape May Warblers spend a lot of time on these plants, and are drawn to them early in the morning (as in the image here, a first light experience) or at the end of the day. The reason is likely that certain insects hide in the complex Mullein flowers, but I don’t know for certain. They comb through the plant, often working from lower down and then upwards.
Like the transitioning male Wood Duck I posted yesterday, this is a bird in transition; but coming out of full breeding colours. There is something about the in-between stages of plumage, especially of birds we know well in their normal breeding colours (because that is when they initially pass through here, on their way to breeding grounds), that is fun to photograph. Juveniles, first year birds developing a base, or adults moving toward a more generic colouring; the birds seem to acquire an individuality lacking in the spring.
I squared the crop to remove some distracting background elements that I could not avoid with the camera at the time. What is sometimes ‘habitat’ is at other times ‘pointlessly busy and distracting stuff’. It is however not a math equation, with a right answer that I can ‘prove’. It can take me a long time to feel right about that, and I know I likely include too much more often than not. Working on it.
I wanted to post a bright late summer image because I am in Saskatoon, where it seems like it is mid-winter. Minus 20s at night, and lots of crunchy hard snow. I was in shorts in Ottawa three days ago.
Are we spending too much time infighting politically and forgetting the real global danger to the entire world. Peace and harmony are the only solutions but in order to achieve them we must work endlessly to that goal.
Shouldn't our politicians, news organizations, technology empires and vast corporations get involved in protecting humanity and our environment?
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Did you know that spending time in the forest ist good for the immune system? It reduces inflammation and increases the number of killer cells.
How awesome is that?!
It's so sad that most of the forests around where I live are not well prepared for climate change. If we don't manage to limit heating of the earth, they will most likely die.
If you care about the environment and climate, consider joining the group "flickr for future": www.flickr.com/groups/flickr-for-future/ :)