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Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to
Silk suit, black tie (Black tie)
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They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man
Located : Between Kamisakaemachi station and Otani station on the Keishin Line of Keihan Railway.
Osaka, Otsu-shi, Shiga pref.
京阪電気鉄道京津線 / 上栄町駅 - 大谷駅 間
長安寺地蔵堂前踏切にて撮影
滋賀県大津市逢坂2丁目
Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger,
but a heart as soft as tofu.
(Chinese Proverb)
Weekly Theme Challenge - Something Fluffy
Looking close... on Friday! - Combination of Soft & Sharp
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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Kestrel [torenvalk]
Location: Zeeland, The Netherlands
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A disheveled looking Sharp-shinned Hawk at Britannia Conservation Area in Ottawa. Tuesday February 25 2025.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
A few more shots of these birds feeding a long the sand flats at low tide..
Scientific name: Calidris acuminata
Sharpness.
The Common Sandpiper is a smallish wader with contrasting brown upperparts and white underparts. It bobs up and down, known as 'teetering', and has a distinctive flight with stiff, bowed wings. The three-note call it gives as it flies off may be your first sign that a Common Sandpiper is nearby. (RSPB).
My thanks to anyone who clicks or comments on this photo. It is much appreciated
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
A visitor to my back yard early this past fall. I think it sees me, I am lucky to have not spooked it.
So, Sharpie or Coop? The top blocks of the retaining wall it landed on are about three inches thick, putting the bird at roughly 12-14 inches head to tail. The tail appears to be rather squared off, plus the streaking looks more like Sharp-shinned rather than Cooper's. All things considered I'm calling it a Sharpie. What do you think?
CORRECTION: A couple sharp-eyed Flickr friends provided evidence that this hawk is a Cooper's, not a Sharp-shinned. See the comments below. I stand corrected.
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Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Photographed at my home in Yakima County, Washington. This bird was here at my house at least 3 times yesterday, probably more. IMG_4513
This Sharp-shinned Hawk likes to hide in our Spruce tree waiting for any unsuspecting bird visiting our bird feeders...
This photo gives a dorsal view of Sharp-shinned Hawk, and highlights the focused gaze of this raptor and the long banded tail — an adaptation that gives it excellent maneuverability as it flies between branches while hunting small birds. This individual was observed in the western Canadian province of Alberta, at Carburn Park in the city of Calgary.
for the Macro Mondays challenge “Sweet Spot Squared” (September 19th 2016)
I like a little sharp and tangy taste with my sugar, so I chose raspberries ;o)
Finding and shooting the sweet spot!
I've got 3 macro 1:1 lenses now - but when I started out there was only one to fit my new Sony NEX-6, and it was Sony's eMount 30mm/3.5. That was March 2013, and I learned macro work through that lens for the next 2 years. So that was the lens I chose for this challenge.
I shoot macro in Manual, and have never explored the 'sweet spot' before - so I followed Janet's directions and used Aperture mode and shot all 17 F stop settings the lens has on two 2cm raspberries. I scattered sugar granules of various sizes both in front and behind the raspberries, to give me an idea of just how the overall image sharpness changes with the F/stop change.
Comparing the shots I used Janet's direction again: "You will be looking for the shot that has the sharpest details with as little blurring as possible". I thought it would be simple - F22 is the inevitable choice to offer minimal blurring, while keeping the subject in focus.
But I found a puzzling oddity. From F16 through to F22 the sharpness of the background elements increased, but the sharpness of the 'in focus' elements fell off. I repeated the experiment with a strawberry (a much larger subject) and the same result emerged - past F16 the 'in focus' elements of the shot suffered!
I went online to see if I could find an explanation. And the trusty B&H website came through with an article:
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/rules-thumb-finding-...
I needed to compromise and take 2 or 3 stops back from F22 to find the best balance. There was little to choose between F16 and F18. This shot uses F16. And yes - I did then crop the original shot I used, to highlight the main raspberry, and leaving out most of the background sugar 'scatter'.
I hope it hits the sweet spot with you too :o)
Following on from the discussion Where do you draw the line? I've taken an old credit card as my guide, which is 3"x2" and added measures in cm too. I do SO hope that this will become the standard for Macro Mondays! My 2 raspberries are set on this 'new' format for my regular establishing shot in the first comment field
My 2016 Macro Mondays set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
I found this bird in my backyard yesterday (10/31) eating a Halloween treat. The prey may have been a Dark-eyed Junco. Unfortunate for the junco but the hawk has to eat. Although it is hard to tell from the photo the hawk was under the canopy of a shrub on a dark mostly cloudy day so the shutter speed was slow and the photos are not as sharp as I would like. Yakima County, Washington. IMG_9526
Pretty sure this is a sharp-shinned hawk Accipiter striatus, just guessing. Another possibility might be a Merlin, though this bird's head is not quite shaped right, nor does it have any 'eyebrow' mark, as a merlin might (but not always) have.
I just don't see either of them often enough to know.
This little (crow size) raptor has been hanging around my little pond for several days, swooping rapidly from under cover likely grabbing little songbirds.
We first noticed the flickers completely disappeared from our backyard, including the mating pair, as well as an unusual disapperance and silence for long stretches of time, from other songbirds.
Perhaps the result of this bird taking the opportunity to ambush feed on the numerous little songbirds that have arrived.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Quite a few of these around in pairs wading and feeding on the sand flats with their chicks.
Scientific name: Calidris acuminata
Macro of glass lid over a colorful background. Backlighting by an LED panel.
Made for the Macro Mondays theme "phobias". The phobia represented here is aichmophobia - fear of sharp objects.
Accipiter striatus
This morning I woke up early and though I had planned on sleeping in the cool weather outside motivated me to make a run out to Smith Point to see if any hawks were moving. Smith Point is a peninsula that juts out between Galveston and Trinity Bays. The thing that makes it interesting (at least when it comes to birds) this time of year is that, much like Cape May, NJ, it acts as a funnel that concentrates birds that are migrating south. As I headed to Smith Point the weather was looking pretty dreary and I had the strong feeling that I was making a mistake going but I decided to press on and take my chances on the weather. When I arrived I was pleased that it was not raining and there were some raptors moving. Most of the birds I saw were Sharp-shinned Hawks like this one and I was delighted to see a couple come close in the early morning light.
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This was an experiment to see how altering the settings on the camera affected the sharpness of the bee.
Happy Polaroid Week!
Day 1: Photo 1
This is an outtake from my last 12:12 Men Project shoot with Miao Miao.
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: Warfield Pond Park - Glenwood, Maryland (Howard County)
Woodbine
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YPD51 rounds the extremely sharp curve just short of the switch to the Steel Bridge on the east side of the Willamette River. This undoubtedly has to be one of the sharpest curves on a major main line in North America today. Trains creep through here at a little more than walking speed.
Crazy for my sharp dressed man.
See his version here: www.flickr.com/photos/jaisoncobalt/54996897563/in/datepos...