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Went looking for some mushrooms again in Hagley Park. Finally found the type/species I was hoping to find. This is a focus stack of 100 images each at 1/100 sec, f/2.8. ISO 100
Ed eccoci alla presentazione della prima macchina decorata con i quantomeno vistosi colori della nuova impresa ferroviaria Oceanogate.
La 483 020 è qui in mostra con i mezzi e le manovalanze dell'impianto Sogemar di Melzo. (28-3-12)
On March, the 28th there was the official presentation of the new Oceanogate lok. The Angel Train E483 020 now wears this colorfull livery for Oceanogate a Contship company. (2012-03-28)
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Taken at Safari Park, Cisarua - West Java - Indonesia in Aug 2022.
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I would like to think that I am very good at organization and storage solutions. When properties are prime real estate, space and the amount of products would be crucial. I was facinated with how much stuff these merchants were able to display.
Is a butterfly on a bright yellow flower a bit cliché? Perhaps, but it brings a bit of sunshine to a Tuesday
#MacroMondays
#Dried
Entirely unintendedly, really. I think combining a chili pepper with a flame of sorts is a little cliché. But why is there smoke swirling around behind this dried Trinidad Scorpion pepper when I hadn't placed a smoke or fire source behind the chili, neither a lit candle nor a match to be hazardously lit (finger scorching included) just in time for the focus stacking? At first, I had put my go-to tool for backlit scenes behind the Scorpion, the small "Ledlenser" flashlight, but for the fairly small peppers in the bag its diameter was just a tad too big so I either had an unpleasant halo around my subject or a light leakage under the chili no matter how I placed it.
Time for plan B which brings us to the unintended part: I also have a very small, octagonal-shaped, extremely bright, and powerful "TrustFire Mini-X" key-ring flashlight that proved to be slim enough to disappear behind the chili. So I leaned the chili against the flashlight, set the latter to non-stop light, and then set the camera. When that was done, I looked at the display and saw a weird blue streak behind the pepper. "This is one bright flashlight!", I thought, assuming what I saw was a light beam. But then I noticed that the "beam" moved, and all of a sudden the air was also filled with a certain spiciness that started to scratch my throat... Well, this flashlight is not only very bright but it also gets very hot very quickly when it's constantly on – and the dried Scorpion's skin was (still is, I should add) wafer-thin. So it seems that the flashlight had started to scorch the dried chili. I quickly pressed the shutter button, nervously watching that thin "smoke ghost" move around while the camera recorded 30 images (15 ORFs and 15 JPGs; the JPGs are combined to a final stacking image in-camera), and immediately switched off the flashlight and removed the chili once the stacking was done. Phew ;) An unintended, unexpected, somewhat cliché, but definitely nice "accident".
I think there was no real danger that the chili might have been set on fire during the short focus stacking time, and the single swirl of smoke also was very thin. Helicon Focus, however, combined all of the 15 different ORF "smoke ghosts" into a more voluminous set of streaks which I think looked good so I left it that way. Size of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper: 3 cm x 2,5 cm / 1,18 x 0,98 inches.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
I think all women in the post-apocalypse CAN have it all...depending on how fast they can run....
* Miss Hottie Runner Up Speech excerpt...
Pic Location: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pine%20Lake/30/54/28
Tralalas Diner @ Pine Lake
Post-apocalyptic Photo Op Sim
Stuff:
(Boob things) MetaTheodora Weapons of Mass Distraction
Scrap Metal Road Sign .:Space Engineer:.
I think this is the last unused image of one of Brisbane's "Tiny Doors". We'll have to go and seek out some new ones soon! This one was also in the city's Queen Street Mall (I think)!
Holga camera in NYC
400 ISO Fuji black and white film
now that I have more contacts since I last uploaded this shot... figured I'd put it to the front of my stream, as it's one of my favorite photos that I've ever taken, that way more people can see it.
I really want to go back to shooting film.
My holga has a tendency to have ghost images on the bottom of the frame, in a sightly different place than where it should be. See where her jacket is doubled on the lower right? I don't think all holgas are this way. (edit: I like this quality of my holga a lot, actually)
I think I previously posted a HDR version of this shot. Trying to learn proper processing so I don't need to resort to HDR.
Richland Falls in the Richland Creek Wilderness.
Think I said this location was a pine tree plantation in another description. I've since discovered they are Poplars. The hint is in the entrance to the fishery which has a large sign that says 'The Poplars Fishery.'
The Canada Geese are still nesting at the other end of the pond which arguably offers better compositions so I stayed at this end and left them in peace.
I can definitely see the attraction of fishing here. Once inside the plantation it really is like you are transported to a different world.
I am wearing:
* *CK* Surprise me set. Exclusive for DUBAI Event (NEW)
* NX-Nardcotix Hala Stiletto. Exclusive for DUBAI Event (NEW)
* MINA Hair - Raven. Raven is INTERACTIVE hair - it REACTS TO WATER! The hair turns wet on contact with default SL water, It dries of in the sun, 30 seconds to fully dry. Or use the included Blow Dryer; the hair dries within 5 seconds. Included is theAquaSense Wet Hair HUD Exclusive for Fetish Fair (NEW)
AvaWay CINDY Armlets.
Catwa bento head - Catya
Maitreya Lara body
Lara Hurley skin - May
The chair is from Nutmeg. Romanov's Golden Armchair White
The pose is from Luanes World BENTO poses - "Think About You". Including mesh roses. It will be available soon :)(NEW)
It won't be long now!
Rufous Hummingbird
Selasphorus rufus
ORDER: Caprimulgiformes
FAMILY: Trochilidae
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rufous_Hummingbird/overview
Colorado Springs, CO
I think every photographer has some pictures that are not a kind of his usual, some other genre. Here is such a pic I took some time ago in the village, in the back yard of my friend's house. I like all these subjects. They may tell a story about the life we do not already remember.
Thank you for all the comments and faves, my friends.
Whether you think you can, or think you can't... You're right!
On Dacio:
Hair - Stealthic
Shirt/Mask - Body Factory
Pants/Shoes - Vale Koer
Body - Signature
Head - Catwa
Face/Body Applier - Stray Dog
Tattoo - Prodigy Ink
Ears/Bracelet/Watch - Mandala
Rings - Meva
at Whitchurch Silk Mill
Snippet:
silk is a surprisingly strong material - a single thread of silk can lift more weight than a steel wire of the same width
posting for
Mittwochsmakro-Wednesday Macro
Octubre Rosa/Pink October
I think this was my best shot of 2020. The pandemic was in its early days. I felt like that jackrabbit. I was on high alert. In May I'd exited from my business of 25 years (no work) and moved into a new job for the summer. I was very... lucky. I was also very alert.
My family and I took walks in fields after dinner. There were a ton of rabbits. There were no planes. No cars. The city was weirdly quiet. I felt compelled to make keen observations and good judgments, just like the rabbits in Watership Down.
"The full moon covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Moonlight...is inconstant. It transforms.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down
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Couldn't think of an adequate story to go with this image. I'm drawn back to what it means to me looking at it. All I could think about was this song. It reminds me of my older brother I guess. Perhaps because I sat alone when photographing this scene, watching the darkness envelope these beautiful mountains and wished I wasn't. It brought back memories of many a late night spent with my older brother when we were teens. I took great comfort and trust in our conversations, his advice and opinion. We talked about everything under the sun and I remember many times sitting together and watching the stars rise high in the skies like a million tiny lanterns. It was my brother who also showed me this song before he left for boot camp. Since then we've both grown up and moved to different states but I think of those nights often when I'm up late.
Here's to
starry skies and memories of long nights... to loved ones who were willing to sit with us in both the cover of darkness and in the beauty of light.
Thank you as always for listening to my ramblings...
xx
Rachel
This is a Tea Plantation in Tanah Rata, Malaysia. It wasn't the perfect day to visit it but in the end the clouds gave a nice dramatic sky for this picture.
I think there was a discussion recently that F40s and the like qualify for "F-unit Friday," so I guess this fits the bill!
I had already planned on spending at least one day on CSX's Mohawk Subdivision this spring, and with a beautiful stretch of weather and some vacation time set aside, I took Tuesday, May 10th off to do just that. While one of the most pleasant surprises of the day was SD40-2 #8054 leading both Q626 and Q627, I knew ahead of time that the prize of the day would be CSX's OCS running west in the afternoon. As is typical with OCS trains, the estimated departure from Selkirk kept getting bumped up (originally in the 5:00 PM hour, but eventually bumped up to around 3:00 PM), so therefore my location of choice kept moving west in hopes of better light. I decided on Little Falls by the old brick factory building--one of my favorite late afternoon locations on the Mohawk Subdivision.
While others tried for multiple locations, I didn't want to play with fire and just picked one. So, I arrived in Little Falls well in advance to make sure the scene was fine, and it's a good thing I did because I couldn't believe how much brush had grown up in the foreground since my last visit in 2017! I hacked away at it with clippers and my hands for a good long time until I was satisfied with the once-again-open view. Not wanting to miss the train, I kept my camera on me during my battle with the brush and unfortunately lost a lens cap at some point. At the end of the day, it was a small price to pay...
CSX Train P001 (OCS)
Little Falls, NY
May 10, 2022
I think this is Tn 1690, the "Valdstejn", Liberec - Cheb, timed at 09.48 from Chomutov.
Sorry about the backlighting, but these locos, always in stunning condition from Chomutov Depot, looked great!
Thanks to this reference via Christoph Kainz www.flickr.com/photos/128767441@N03/, I now feel happy that the location is correct, I am standing on the little hillock at far left in this picture www.flickr.com/photos/brs-online/48060976166/in/album-721...
I think I'm going to have to find another tree for these Zenith shots ... critics might begin to regard the repeat appearances of this old aspen tree as some kind of failure of imagination on the aurora paparazzi's part ...
Not a whole lot of variability in scenery around my place here ... just Spruce and Pine, and more Spruce and Pine ...
(Aurora directly overhead last night, 3/1)
I think I could do with bit of help on this one...when I took this I thought it was a Chiffchaff but on closer inspection I then thought it could be a Willow Warbler with the lighter coloured legs. It was taken on the Llyn Peninsular in North Wales along the coastal path near Abersoch, which then brought me to think it may well be a Melodious Warbler ( if I am very lucky ) which, according to my RSPB handbook they can be found on this stretch of coastline. I would be very grateful if anyone can help me on this.
Many thanks, Dave.
Do ever think that certain places in nature are communicating with you ? Yeah, I know ; see a Dr !.
But it's true and these reeds drew me in and held my attention for way too long :)
She thinks you must just be jealous of her fluffy pink stool. Yes, that's it. You couldn't possibly be laughing at her. :)
Yesterday's Crazy Tuesday group theme was Negative Space and, as usual, I tried a few different ideas. I'm beginning to think I must have a split personality. The image I chose to post was the grown up version. I'll leave you to decide what this one is. :)