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But when you get behind the camera you can be involved without being on centre stage. I learned quickly that I could participate in the things I loved while taking pictures. Photography was my way of fitting in :-)
David Young
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rose, little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Think this will be the last from West Burton, super falls, Turner sketched the falls on his tour of Yorkshire Dales
Some people think Wood Storks are ugly. They resent how they move into the rookery and usurp the tree islands, crowding out the Great Blues and Anhinga who had settled in prior to this pushy intrusion. And that noisy sex that goes on all the time, that clashing of bills drawing attention to what, I should think we would all agree, be done in private, or at least in the darkness of night. Well, I for one am deeply offended. Yet, when I look at this bird, I can’t help but seeing its inner beauty. Yes, I’m a closet Wood Stork lover. There should be help for folk like me, but to hell I say, I’m coming out of the closet and will embrace my affliction without shame! (And, let me just add, this is no laughing matter.) (Mycteria americana) (Sony a9M3, 200-600 lens @ 394mm, 1/3200 second, f/6.3, ISO 640)
I think! Not checked to see whether there are other similar species in France...!
Maison du Parc - Le Bouchet - La Brenne - France
I think I understand the saying about water being our life blood, but if it is true anywhere, it is truest in a place like the arid sandstone of Lake Powell.
Kane Creek Canyon, Lake Powell.
I think I got the expression I was going for.
This is definitly something I need to work on, I never do portraits and this dark portrait was not easy.
Happy Smile on Saturday
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The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, or great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret, with four subspecies found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Wikipedia
"But now that I have, do you have a smoke?
...what, did you think I was going to kill you or something? It's my off day!"
Items used:
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Void breastplate 2.0
Void Arms 5.0
HFE Scythe Ascended (retinted)
Crystal Spiral Eyes (retinted) - Now at We Love Roleplay for 183L! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Riverhunt/137/126/1503
Seydr: Archaic tattoo (burnish)
Nefekalum: Gossamer tattoo
Catwa: hdpro majer soft head
I think it's time for another bird, an oldie showing mistakes I made early and often. It was 11 years ago, and I was just "getting a feel for the SX20, Canon's second Powershot iteration, and 'birding'." And, I was doing fairly well, but when I look back I had a tendency to center my subjects and not leave enough space for a better composition. Oh, I didn't do it all the time, but enough so that today it bothers me that I can't improve on an image like this one. (Just like I used to tell my barber when I had hair ... and a barber ... leave a little on the upper left.)
In this case, I was lucky. I went back to that very spot in 2018, the Old Borges Ranch fam ily home, and sure enough, this tree branch was still a favorite with Juncos and Golden-crowned sparrows. (Mourning Doves, woodpeckers, and raptors stayed clear. Too bad. I'd love to have gotten more of all three.)
Anyway, the head is darker and the chestnut color a bit deeper, but you could swear it was the same bird. And, I left enough room to crop if necessary. Still, after 2015, I started leaving suffcient space in the direction that my subject was looking, and my mistakes are fewer. Fortunately, I did not get into the habit of shooting everything close when in 2014, I bought the SX50 with a tremendous range.
{The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) is a species of junco, a group of small, grayish New World sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related fox sparrow, and its systematics are still not completely untangled. I don't care what they call it today, it will always be an Oregon Junco, the first bird along with the Black Phoebe, that got be hooked on photographing birds even before I had the focal length.}
I was enjoying playing with my camera, and tried all kinds of settings and combinations, I had 3 different lenses, including the Lensbaby, and I didn't always get the exposure right!! I think I was probably trying a slow speed and and camera movement, on an aperture priority setting - it has needed a little bit of tweaking to get this!
Heidi thinks it’s important to train your humans. Once you know how it‘s done it‘s fairly easy she says. You just need to let them know who‘s the boss and find out how to push their buttons. So if you think your human is lazy and the floors need cleaning, just pee on all your paws while in the litter box and then go tour the whole place. You’ll be surprised how fast your servants jump from their couch and start a thorough house cleaning.
Have a happy weekend everyone! I‘ll be doing some cleaning, I guess 😂
Swann Memorial Fountain, Logan Square, Philadelphia
Sculptor: Alexander Stirling Calder
The fountain is dedicated to Dr. Wilson Cary Swann, founder of the Philadelphia Fountain Society which provided fountains for the use of people and animals.
The sculpture represents three main waterways of Philadelphia: the Delaware River, the Schuylkill River and the Wissahickon Creek
La vita e' una rosa, dove ogni petalo e' un'illusione ed ogni spina una realta'
Life is a rose, where every petal is an illusion and every thorn a reality
You think you are a citizen of the world, but in fact you are a citizen of nowhere! You are seeing the world from the wrong angle! You are not really in the know! You shouldn’t believe everything you read in your leftist or communist papers! Listen instead to the people who are special and who are true patriots! Listen to those with privileged knowledge!
I think I'll go to the waterfalls today, to see if I can get some different shots, as it's sunny and very windy, there should be a few autumn leaves around. Eyes wider than before by Scott Matthews is fine for this shot .
#MacroMonday
#DutchAngle
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A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
Think Pink
Perhaps a bitter pill to swallow. Grand daughter Livia is allergic to the dog, so anytime she is over she needs help with that. When got them out I said...."wait a sec" and got the camera.
-i think my flickr has died in some sense
haha
but thats ok
i still love photography and i still love posting :D
so bam
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i cant wait to get my camera
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have a lovely saturday all
Don't forget, not sure what you shouldn't forget, but it looks like she forgot. Either way this is a great place to come and remember all the things you don't want to forget, or a great place to forget all the things you want to forget.
Kaithleen's Denim Silk Tape Top @ Fetish Fair
Kaithleen's Laced Shorts @ Fameshed
Both items are fitted mesh for Maitreya, Belleza Freya Venus Isis,Slink HG Psysique
and Ebody Curvy full version.
GET the LOOK is a benefit when purchasing fatpack!
The fatpack includes a style card of the model on the vendor picture!
Taken at Mystical Fae Forest
Blog:
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Love Be x
I think the excessively-cold temperatures of this day (approaching -40 centigrade) frightened the colour out of most of the objects in this photograph.
I like to think that it is never too late to smile, discover, love family, love life. Despite how difficult it can be to live and the obstacles to overcome, life always finds a way, a solution and we realize that it is worth living. It is never too late for changes, if the earth has different costumes for each season of the year, then we too can change ...