Those Hares Were Fast As Lightning

Here we are with a photo that is a bit simpler in concept, at least at first glance. No head stuck in a milky jar or recreation of Ophelia. The thing I enjoy doing about shots like this, and I sort of have a similar feeling toward my oranges shot, is that there is an implied story and everyone can make up their own.

Here is mine, and what I talked about with the model before we shot...don't read if you want to interpret your own and not be swayed by mine -

We had a great time coming up with this story. So she is in the 1890s, and she had a boyfriend that she loved very much, but her parents didn't approve. She decided she would run away with him, but shortly after doing this he left her. She couldn't go back to her parents because they didn't want someone who left their family, so she had to prostitute herself to make money. There was shame in this for her, and since making enemies with the police she decided to flee the state and start a new life for herself (presumably with this lovely pink dress stuffed in her suitcase).

So...in other words....photos can be a lot of fun when you just make up a somewhat silly story and go with it :-)

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So wet and muddy it looked like this Highland cow had his wellies on

- Salvador Dali.

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On our last day at Zion, I promised my friends a good view at sunrise and convinced them to hike the Canyon overlook point trail before we started our long drive back home. And it was well worth it, just before we reached the end point of the hike we saw two elusive big horns from about 15 feet away. They casually wandered near us before quickly disappearing. I quickly tried to change the lens on my camera to get a good shot but by the time I was ready they disappeared. Kind of stressing the importance of a second body for a landscape photographer, hopefully someday soon.

This is a panorama shot I made at the Zion Canyon overlook. Sunlight was pretty strong from the east and I had a hard time balancing the light for this shot, had to fish out my 0.9 Lee ND grad filter which seldom comes out of my bag. Also each shot had to be very carefully recomposed with the filter so as not further darken, the areas in shade. I also used a longer focal length to better convey the enormity of this view. Hope you all like this image, I had a lot of fun making it.

Those who are coming with us..Tootles,James,Story and Tiger Lily.Yes the horse too! he will play an important part in the dessert.He will stay behind in Cairo as he is not the nicest horse..we got him really cheap on ebay but we'll be doing some shopping there and he's a bit heavy to take back again..poor horsy.

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

This is Lisa, cub of Ryan (if I got the spelling of her name right), and she is one of dozens of jaguars named in "Jaguarland", a small section of the Pantanal. She was one of the 11 individual jaguars we found in the 4 days we stayed at the SouthWild Flotel.

August 25, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

Today we're along the Arizona Strip, the section of land separated from the rest of the territory by that 'ditch' otherwise known as Grand Canyon National Park. We'd been camping on the Kaibab Plateau and we're heading northward into the wilds of Utah, into the monsoonal storms under these Maynard Dixon-style skies, of which, we'll pass by his home near Mt. Carmel in Utah later that day.

Those little smiles that people make,

Pretty, warm sunset.

..that's kinky.

Cyberpunk 2077

In-game Photomode +

Freecam by Otis-Inf & Jim2point0

- Hotsampling control

- Time of Day change

- Timeskip/Freeze

Reshade

Alviso, California.

Textures thanks to les brumes and pareeerica :)

LARGE please View On Black

Prints, notecards and canvases available at Jacki on Imagekind

“Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night"

- Edgar Alan Poe, from Eleonora, 1841

Oh, another one of those stitched panorama macro shots where the subject is to large to fit in frame, right?

Wrong. This blunt stretch spider (Tetragnatha obtusa) is absolutely small enough to fit in frame (as can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52807137438/), but since the top and bottom was just pure white, I figured I could get away with cropping that away and make this a 21:9 image.

And the trickery doesn't stop there. This is also rotated 180 degrees as I found this one upside-down in the veranda ceiling so I had to get a stool (which was a little too high) and shoot this with the camera upside down, pressing the shutter button with my left pinky finger (my mom took a photo of me looking very elegant here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52806686381/).

This is a focus stack, but instead of just taking multiple shots while moving or shifting focus ever so slightly, here I actually lowered the camera and rested between two shots because of the awkward position and still somehow managed to get the exact same angle and focus where it was needed - I'm as surprised as anyone!

Looking closely at this spider, you can see what will be its doom. On the back of it, there is a larvae of the parasitic wasp Acrodactyla quadrisculpta which has attached itself and will eat of the spider - but not enough to kill it until the larvae is ready to pupate.

For years, I have been shooting them whenever I come to the 17-mile drive in Carmel. This time, I 've got to try to shoot with cinefilm.

Film: Silbersalz 250D

Camera: Leica M6

Lens:: Voigtlander Nokton 35mm F1.2 Asph III

Today is Sadie's 3rd birthday. I just got home form her party. I will catch up on all your photos tomorrow.

Those stairs leads to some of my bests memories... Hidden in a secluded part of Uganda, a luxury outdoor style hotel (I don't know how to describe it!), all to myself... A beautiful campfire, some amazing food, a gigantic room all to myself...

And also the WORST food poisoning (and consequently night) of my life.

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fast schon Nostalgie

almost nostalgia

I managed to get really close to this Great Horned Owl during a birds of prey demonstration a few weeks ago. Too close, really. It was hard to resist those eyes!

This was so funny. I think they need some time in a real school. It honestly is like living with the Minions. I am glad Gerrie set him straight.

Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday

Into My Own

by Robert Frost

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,

So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,

Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,

But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day

into their vastness I should steal away,

Fearless of ever finding open land,

or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back,

Or those should not set forth upon my track

To overtake me, who should miss me here

And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew--

Only more sure of all I though was true.

texture by .lenoirrrtextures...

This Purple Gallinule, one of our prettiest wetland residents, was taken back in May, which seems like it was last year to me. Swamp Hens have established in Florida and look very much like the Purple Gallinule, but behave differently and aren’t quite as pretty. The Gallinules use those long toes to walk on floating vegetation and to climb flimsy stalks for the blossoms at their top. It’s fun to watch those big toes balance on thin stalks that are bending over from the weight of the bird. (Porphyrula martinica) (Sony a1, 400mm f/2.8 lens with a 1.4 extender yielding 560mm, f/4, 1/4000 second, ISO 640)

The mums began three years ago! Won't they be nice this Fall?

You've arrived and just about to enter.... you feel a tug... an inner whisper.... 'don't go in'... 'you'll fall down the steps'..... ' everyone will look'....'just go home'....'are you sure that was the right dress'.............

Background - ashensorrow.deviantart.com/art/Premade-Background-120-136...

Butterflies = Shoofly stock @ DA

Created for AshenSorrow - Challenge #3

Challenge image with thanks to AshenSorrow

Another of those postcard type images I captured walking around the grounds of Gateway Arch National Park. Composing the image and metering was a matter of finding that centered point from a nearby rise to fill the arch while including some nearby people walking about. Including people was also useful for perspective to fully take in the immense size and scale to the Gateway Arch. And yes, towering above! Metering was then a matter of finding a shutter speed that seemed to best capture the dynamic range across the clouds to brighter points reflecting some sunlight which came in and out of clouds to the west. I finished up post-processing work in Capture NX2 by adding a few CEP filters (Low Key, Polarization and Graduated Neutral Density) for the final image.

Combining pieces from several [QE Home] collections with free items from the [QE Designs] shop at Shop&Hop to create the ambiance of old Hollywood.

Details & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2026/07/063026qe.html

One of my favourite places in Dorset. Mupe Bay. Sunday morning there was barely another soul around. After shooting down at the ledges, James and I headed back up to take in the views from the cliff top. As we sat and chilled out, the beauty of the scene captivated me. The Jurassic Coast ranks with the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon as one of the recognised natural wonders of the world!

To me, it's a wonderful example of creation's brilliance that the blackberries ripen just in time for hungry migrating birds each year...mere coincidence? I think not...and I see this perfection of well thought out timing in nature all the time...

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

—Franklin D. Roosevelt (also known as FDR, he was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945 and is still the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms)

-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --

‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)

‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom

‧ ISO – 320

‧ Aperture – f/5.6

‧ Exposure – 1/800 second

‧ Focal Length – 112mm

The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11

The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/

Explore #145 June 4, 2011

Thanks to all for the great comments! To those of you who have invited me to post in real nature groups: Thanks for the compliment :-) but this is not "real" nature -- it is a composite. Check out the source image noted below to see where it came from. And I've never been scuba diving in my life!

Created for k-play+'s Tag-n-Jump challenge from my own source.

Octopus head courtesy Ross Elliott.

School of fish courtesy Allie_Caulfield.

Coral courtesy WikimediaCommons.com.

Those damn Chiraq streets UGH

View in Black

A favorite fall getaway in Eastern Oregon. Sadly, it's becoming a different kind of farmland and the trees are not being replanted.

Escaping from the tomb and putting someone else in their place.

Rather than quoting Bible verses you're going to hear a whole lot today and half of you will discredit as cult utterances, I thought I'd just put this out instead: Angels, Heaven, and other aspects of our faith are concepts difficult to wrap one's head around, and right now we can't. So a lot of people dismiss them as petty imaginings and larger-than-life reflections of things we can see and touch. "Giant humans with bird wings? Haha how pagan."

Consider, just for a brief while, the implications of perhaps these being original concepts; our concepts and ideas little reflections that are missing pieces, and the only way those who saw angels or Heaven could describe them was through Earthly terms, resulting in outrageous-sounding descriptions filled with lions' heads, wheels within wheels, and a lot of gold when there simply was no way to utter the element that made their appearance unutterable. Plato, though not completely right, had hit on something with his Myth of the Cave, now you just need someone to guide you out of it...

This brief little build is also destined to be an entry for FLONAPRIL, it seems: www.flickr.com/groups/flonapril/

Children of the Yakel tribe, Vanuatu

(a la Enrique Salvo) Saludos Enrique

got those 2 mails and a photo so touching.

*Hola. He comnocido a la gata Moon.

Ahora tengo una gatita de 6 semanas que es igual que ella. Tiene Hidrocefalia y labio leposino. Me guataría poder contactar con la dueña de Moon.

Un salud y gracias.*

*Leila, mi gatita está estupendamente, come bien, corre y juega con mis gatos adultos.

Estoy encantada con ella es muy buena.

Lo único que tiene es un ligero movimiento de cabeza pero cada vez lo tiene menos.

me emocioné cuando vi tu caso, eso me ayudó a seguir con ella.

Yo trabajo en una protectora de animales y Betty y su hermana la habían dejado tiradas en la calle. Su hermana ya vive con una familia y Betty se queda a vivir en mi casa con mis cuatro gatos.

Me alegro mucho que me hayas contestado.

Un beso.

Ah, vivimos en Algeciras. España*

Mail 1. My cat Betty

Hy! I read the story of the cat Moon. Now I have a 6 weeks old kitty just like Moon, with clef palate and hydrocephaly. i want to get in touch with the owner of the cat Moon

Mail 2. Re: My cat Betty

Leila, my kitten is very very well, eats a lot, run and play with my other cats. She is a very good kittie. She has a slight bouncing movement of the head that is every day lighter, almost gone now.

I was very touched when I knew bout the cat Moon, that helped me to deal with my kitten.

I work with animal care too. Betty and her sister were abandoned out in the streets, her sister is already adopted and Betty is with me and my other 4 cats.

Thanks for answering my mail, kisses

Ah, we live in Algeciras. Spain

Those are new days

out with the old

in with the new

:-)

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....We thought they'd never end....

Those wonderful and cute creations are made by Chu

She not only made amigurumi and clothe to doll

she made Graphics too (and so perfects!)

Well this is a work than she made for me so if you want one like this contact with her

Those are made for my Moo Cards so when I send an amigurumi this will be with a card

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Estas hermosas y tiernas creaciones estan hechas por Chu

Ella no solo hace amigurumis y ropa para muñecas

tambien hace estos graficos (y tan perfectos!)

Bueno, este es un trabajo que ella hizo para mi asi que si quieren uno contactense con ella

Son hechas para mi Tarjetas Moo asi cuando envie un amigurumi este ira con una tarjeta

Last day was a great day to be at this location that i wanted to visit for a very long time now, maybe mother nature was saving this day for me so i can experience one of the best sunset ever!

I have been to this location, but just to shoot some Astro-photography and now i was there just at the right time and the right moment! This made it easy for me to capture some great shots from this amazing location

Its a blend of 2 shots, the -1 and -2 because i really liked the darker tones but yet was able to retain enough information due too the amazing Dynamic range of the D810!

It was shot at f16, to get the best possible sun star from the sun, even though its dimly visible

Hope you like it, feel free to share!

I enjoyed taking those pictures and editing them so much! To see my new post and those photos above without being cropped go here: helloliladreams.blogspot.com/2014/10/primavera.html

'Primavera' means 'Spring'. I chose this name for the title simply because I love the this classical piece, written by the Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi.

♫♩♫ "Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera" ♫♩♫ (I love this cover/video, there are slightly changes to the original song but still superb. And beautiful video.)