Juicy & delicious clementines from Morocco!

Long exposure of Sea Stacks at sunset transitioning to blue hour.

A very windy day at the South Stacks

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I took a trip to John O'Groats and the weather forecast was awful ... well, the meteorologists got that wrong! So, I took a delightful walk along the coastal path and admired the sea stacks.

Stacked from 10 images. For me, this is the perfect lens for Mushrooms (of the ones I own).

My guesstimate in the moment was that this stack of clouds was about a mile across. I followed its northerly drift for a while, but it was dissipating as I did. In southern Augusta County, Virginia. (Upon further review, I now guesstimate the width of the cloud at 5 miles +/- )

Magnetic construction toys for the Macro Mondays challenge, Stack. Area shown is about 64mm

Happy Macro Monday!

Tried focus stacking with my new camera. This is a composite of 20 photographs.

Car park at Frankfurt Airport

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, March 2021

Happy Tuesday to you.

Play Projects

Power plant with one stack steaming at Moss Landing, just north of Monterey, California.

Just saw a news article about this place. The power plant is coming down but the stacks are going to stay. 9/20/23.

Personal critique - a bit like most of my school reports “ Could do better” Excuse, not done many stacks. Lots to learn.

Sea stack and cliffs at Ireland’s Eye, Howth County Dublin

HWW

Stacked stones near a boat ramp on the Chattahoochee River.

For the Winter Break...

colorful chocolate stack - 6617

No I did not pile these rocks up like this ... someone else did and left for me to find.

My first attempt at stacking.Note plant imprint at centre of image

Taken just before the sky erupted in red yesterday. I was delighted by the "stacked" appearance directly above the dark cloud that cried snowflakes.

Red Bush Roses,in the Rain.

Ghost Crabs (Ocypode Quadrata). Focus stacked for 70+. Made the background come out odd but over all I like the result

A balloon stack (spark arrestor) atop a retired 1875 Baldwin locomotive boiler.

Wheel Bug. Photographed in Maryland.

Focus stack of 3 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE 65mm macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400.

Columbine. I stacked 7 images to get a soft background and a sharp image..

Park Worked.have their hands full this year.

ODC Our Daily Challenge: Stack it up

New 365 Project in 2023: 01.02.

A photo taken in the 70's on film and recently scanned from the negative

Lewis and Harris. Mangersta Rock Stacks, which I was desperate to return to. Pity tho, it was so windy and squally, showery, it was only possible to take mobile phone snaps. The stormy weather certainly made for dramatic seas. This is one angle, but tho you can walk out onto the point, had to return and do that another day, as the winds were so fierce, it wouldn't have been safe.

Central Coast. NSW Australia.

3 image handheld stack.

South Stack lighthouse, Holyhead, Anglesey.

This is a pretty good example of how Lupine foliage grips the raindrops.

stacked 40 shots @2x magnification

Still playing with Zerene stacker - this image is made of 45 stacked images takenwith a focusing rail - still haven't quite gotten the hang of the cleanup process but I'm getting there. Any helpful tips from other Zerene users welcome!

Macro Mondays - Pens, Pencils, Erasers, and/or Paper Clips

HMM

Ecola State Park, ORegon. OM97

[Best viewed enlarged.]

This close up view allows us to see the dolerite rock stacks that make up much of the top of Mt Olympus. These are sometimes referred to as "organ pipes" for their appearance. When I did the series on Ben Lomond in Tasmania's north east I mentioned that Tasmania has the largest deposit of dolerite rocks in the world.

Dolerite is an igneous rock, the result of volcanic activity up to 180 million years ago. www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/02/12/3688295.htm

On this morning the snow flurries arrived as we were watching. The mountains like Olympus are all climbable, but the weather is crucial. On a day like this one would not want to be caught up near the summit.