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Feathery grasses in the Grass Garden at Kew Gardens.
While I've had this lens for well over a year, until today I've largely ignored the SA (Spherical Aberration) ring which is one of its USPs - turn it one way and the unfocussed areas become even softer as if smeared in vaseline, turn it the other and you get very sharply defined bokeh balls like this. I doubt it will have very wide application but it produced an interesting abstract effect with these backlit grasses.
This sperical drop of water just above the water. I was fortunate to get the drop in clear focus - good enough to see the air bubbles within it !! :)
A quick 360° x 360° of the setting sun at my blessed home in Floiida before I headed to NY. Swipe up/down/around or move your phone if it supports spherical panoramas as the FaceBook app does on iPhone, etc.
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After the party at work decorations that were just sitting there and fit the Crazy Tuesday Theme this week.
This is a 360º spherical all-sky panorama of the November 11, 2025 great red aurora, when the Kp level peaked at Kp8. The panorama takes in all the sky from the horizon around the periphery to the zenith overhead at centre. The curtains converge to the magnetic zenith just below or south of the actual zenith point at centre.
In this scene a bright curtain of red crosses the sky, from southeast at bottom to northwest at right, while another fainter curtain at top crosses the sky from east at left to northwest at right. At right where the red intersects with the normal green aurora the colour is yellow from the mixing of the two primary colours. The brightest green arc of normal oxygen emission is low across the south at bottom. The darkest aurora-free sky is to the northeast at top, just the opposite of a lesser-grade display.
Due north is at top while south is at bottom. East is to the left while west is to the right.
The Big Dipper is low in the north at top. Cassiopeia and Perseus are left of centre, with Andromeda and Pegasus below them at lower left. Saturn is below the Square of Pegasus above the green arc of aurora in the southeast. The Summer Triangle stars are high in the west at right of centre. Auriga and Taurus in the winter sky are rising at far left.
This was shot from home in Alberta at about 7:10 pm MST. However, as this is a multi-segment panorama taking about 1 minute to shoot the component images, it is not a snapshot of how the aurora looked at one moment in time but is a "time-blend."
Technical:
This is a stitch of 6 segments, 60º apart, each 5-second exposures at f/2.8 with the TTArtisan 11mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Canon R5 at ISO 1600, and in landscape orientation. There is a rectangular version of this same panorama as well. Stitched in PTGui 13.3 with spherical projection.
The original is 12,000 pixels across.
I remember when I took these photos at this ground level viewpoint a man who worked for the outfit constructing the tanks confronted me to question why I was there. I told him that I was simply taking photos, that’s all. I’m not sure why he was so concerned that I was doing so. I certainly had my coveralls on and other items that identified me as an employee of the property owner. Perhaps he was afraid that I would record something that was not proper in some way. The constructor of these tanks was a large, well-known company that handles projects of this kind and I would be surprised to learn if they were doing something that wasn’t quite right.
So, what can be seen here that would make that man so apprehensive?
The vehicle in the lower right is a Chevrolet El Camino of Generation 5 that was available for model years 1978-87. The headlight system shown with the larger rectangular sealed beam lamps was utilized on the 1978-81 models after which the El Camino of this generation used a quad headlight system of the smaller size sealed beam lamps.
Spherical panorama merge method in Lightroom (the other is using Spherical panorama merge which will be shown in the nex photo)
The Stadsschouwburg of Amsterdam is a theatre building on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building was built in 1894 in the neo-Renaissance style, and was the home of the National Ballet and Opera. Wikipedia
Female Four-spotted Palpita moth (a.k.a. White Palpita Moth; Palpita quadristigmalis) - Perched on the globe light on the wall next to my patio, on the Space Coast of Florida
Actually these guys have translucent wings and would appear more greenish in color if it were perched on a green leaf. Here it looks pretty much white since it was perched on a white spherical globe. And now that I say that, I'm wondering why I didn't turn on the light to capture what it would have looked like with the light shining through its translucent wings.
Maybe next time . . .
Apparently this guy was feeding on the Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) vine that's winding its way up the palms in the side yard.
Interesting how this introduced moth was feeding on an introduced host plant that came from the same part of the world.
I guess Florida is a home away from home for both of them.
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Taken with my DJI Mavic 2 Pro Drone on 12th April 2019 and
my first drone photo posted to Flickr. The drone was set to Spherical Panorama and three panoramic shots taken two of which were able to be successfully composited in Microsoft Image Composite Editor and then edited in Landscape Pro.
Crowdy Head is a Tombola, an island joined to the mainland by sand. The area between Crowdy Head and Harrington in the distance is now known as Crowdy Bay National Park but was from the 70's to 90's ? mined for rutile ,ilmenite, zircon and some precious metals. My father once owned the leases for this stretch of coast but was dudded by Clutha Mining and saw but a few thousand dollars in his pocket. Clutha made a lot of money sand mining the minerals which during that period, were so vital to the developing space industry.
More DJI Mavic 2 Drone Images, most, so far, taken by my son - HERE
This was shot on glass using a single light with a 105mm f/2.8 micro nikkor lens on my D90.
Some experts say the 105 mm does not produce very good bokeh - please take another look at the shot before you believe what the experts say!
Gorgeous Winter Days Dog Walk Time 360 - IMRAN™
Tap for full view and swipe around full circle left right up down! Just a quick pic as Kennedy & K2 re/pose for a full spherical 360x360 photo before going for a walk.
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Explore'd............July 14, 2009.............#144.
I traveled through the magic forest during the early Fall,
I stumbled upon a marvelous object,
a diamond crystal ball.
Its surface was clean and immaculate, perfect in every way,
A true phenomenon of nature, glimmering in the light of day.
I stood there in amazement, knowing what I saw was rare.
I didn’t move, nor flinch nor thud, lest ruining the moment if I dare.
Instead I captured the moment, but not without a strife;
You see beauty is in the moment, and that’s a beautiful part of life.
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Lego stuff coming soon; I have recently been really interested in photography, so this is just a cool picture I took today in a park with a beautiful fall setting.
A little abstract piece. Using a box of marbles I had sitting on the shelf for the past 3 years. Back lighting with a SB-900, with a 10" x 7' mini modifier, at 1/128 power.
Originally started as a commissioned build for BrickVault, but ended up being a complete redesign of an older MOC. The model is scaled up to fit a minifig inside and still have that spherical-ish design of older 2014 design.
In addition, I have created instructions available at BrickVault: www.youtube.com/watch?v=webxi_LxdIA
using a lot of different lights here to set a reflection in some steel balls. i am digging the recursion where the spheres are touching.
We have Ruffed Grouse living on our property. They've been eating the berries on our cotoneaster shrubs. One night I went out and found four, all in a row, perched on the shrubs, eating the berries. This guy went from the shrub to the armillary and just posed for me so nicely, before continuing on. Taken through a window. Now that we have snow we see their tracks everywhere!
Textures: thanks to Flypaper, golden crotalo and Tim Jones.