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Here's another one from my daytime photo folder. Not as dramatic as most of posts but I need to mix it up a little every once in a while.
I took this one on my way to Gooseneck State Park, Utah. I have passed this spot 4 times and decided that I should make time for a revisit before some boy scout troop tips this thing over, Hehe. I had this amazing compulsion to want to climb up this thing and push it on over, so I can image what a group of drunk teens or some Ill managed boy scout troop could do once mob rules takes over. :)
Luckily there were some nice clouds drifting around this time. The last three times by here, the dreaded blank skies made for some uninteresting scenery.
Located between Monument Valley and the city of Bluff, in San Juan County Utah, The name "Mexican Hat" comes from this curiously sombrero-shaped, 60-foot wide by 12-foot thick, rock outcropping on the northeast edge of town. The "Hat"' has two rock climbing routes ascending to it's top.
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* Starlings can often just look like dark uninteresting birds. However in the right light they can transform into flying jewels . This Starling perched at the top of our feeding station and stayed there while I ran to get the camera . It was taken through the kitchen window
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can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
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narcissus, daffodil, 'Kassels Gold', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Sculpture Berlin - "Steel Love"
In Berlin stehen auf der Tauentzien-Straße in Schöneberg und dem Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg auf dem Mittelstreifen Skulpturen. Dieses Werk wurde von den Künstler Brigitte und Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff entworfen.
"Zur 750-Jahr-Feier der Stadt realisierte Stahlskulptur in Form eines Tores oder zweier verschränkter Hände, ist immer noch ihr berühmtestes, ihr beliebtestes Werk. Anziehungspunkt und Fotomotiv für Touristen aus aller Welt. Der Standort in Sichtweite des KadeWe auf dem Mittelstreifen der Tauentzienstaße war bewusst gewählt, auch wenn der Skulpturenboulevard, für den die Skulptur gedacht war, eigentlich auf den Kurfürstendamm ausgerichtet war. Den Ku’damm fanden die Matschinsky-Denninghoffs uninteressant. Am Tauentzien jedoch hatten sie das Gefühl: „Hier fehlt was.“ Tagesspiegel vom 13.04.2011
Ihr seht einen Ausschnitt der Skulptur, liebe Freunde.
Ich wünsche Euch einen lauen Frühlingsabend.
In Berlin, sculptures stand on the central strip on Tauentzien-Straße in Schöneberg and Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg. This work was designed by the artists Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff.
You can see an excerpt of the sculpture, dear friends.
I wish you a warm spring evening.
"For the 750th anniversary of the city, a steel sculpture in the form of a gate or two crossed hands is still her most famous, her most popular work. Attraction and photo motif for tourists from all over the world. The location within sight of the KadeWe on the central strip of Tauentzienstrasse was deliberately chosen, even though the sculpture boulevard, for which the sculpture was intended, was actually oriented towards Kurfürstendamm. The Matschinsky-Denninghoffs found the Ku'damm uninteresting. But on the Tauentzien, they had the feeling: "Something is missing here." Tagesspiegel from 13.04.2011
There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people :-)
Jerry Uelsmann
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cercis, weeping texas redbud, 'Traveller', j c raulston arboretum, ncssu, raleigh, north carolina
Foto des Alltäglichen.
Fast in jedem größeren Teich oder Bach kann man Schwäne sehen. Oft scheinen sie dadurch uninteressant für den Fotografen und meist lasse ich die Kamera im Rucksack stecken. Aber mit ein wenig Raffinesse kann man doch ganz kreative Aufnahmen schießen, wie ich meine, und dieses Foto beweist.
Die Aufnahme entstand zur goldenen Stunde am Morgen.
Photo of the everyday.
Swans can be seen in almost every large pond or small river. Often they seem uninteresting for the photographer and most of the time I leave the camera in my backpack. But with a little bit of finesse you can take very creative pictures, I think, and this photo proves it.
The picture was taken at the golden hour in the morning.
When I was growing up I always viewed starlings as uninteresting dull birds. The species I was used to the Eurasian Starling is a particularly attractive bird when viewed close up, however the Greater Blue Eared Starling seen here is in another league. I would also guess that a this bird was probably a third larger again than the Eurasian Starling.
This particular one was photographed at the side of a dirt track within the Lake Nakuru National Park.
I've driven past this geological wonder many times over the years, but never taken a picture because of the time of day and or uninteresting sky. That finally changed while I was headed to a delivery in Ogden,Utah and then home in Salt Lake for a weekend of family time. This is off US-191 just a bit north of Monticello, Utah. Before posting I did a little research, "Google" to see what it was called. The link below from Wikipedia lists several places that share the same name, this Church Rock is the forth one down the list. Interesting to note that the name came from basically an untrue story. Check it out if you have an interest.
Church Rock (Utah) - Wikipedia
this was my entry for a photo contest..which I forgot to submit. Which I am not too sad about, because the contest (for items from an event), REQUIRED you to take the pic on the event sim. And the sim itself, while fine for shopping, was pretty boring and uninteresting!
Fuji X-E3 plus pancake lens (and reflector). Der Alltag. The daily routine. Repetitive and endlessly repeated. After many years, all this has solidified into hard structures. Within these, we do lead a safe but uninteresting life. There must be more.
I have gone back to the meanders of the river Adda, a most inspiring location. It is just half an hour drive from home, but my life has grown so busy - especially on Saturdays, in principle the best option for me - that it could be three light years...
The weather forecast was not as favourable as it could have been - a clear sky would not be my favorite for an interesting sunrise session, but I have been longing for it for weeks, so I would have not been so easily deterred. I badly needed a sunrise session at that magic place.
As expected the sunrise itself was quite uninteresting, but I was really glad to be there anyway. The river and the wetlands enclosed by the meanders are a beautiful, enchanted place, shrouded in deep silence and teeming with life. And early in the morning there often are everchanging veils and curls of mist rising from the water and the ground. It is a place where my heart belongs to. From the road I could see misty columns surging from the river to reach for the treetops, almost veiling the rising waning crescent moon and her bright companion Jupiter. I was back into dreamland.
This is simply a re-editing of my previous post, Back into the realm of dreams, just to test the capabilities of Photivo, with only a slight post-processing in The Gimp (mainly a touch of glow).
I had a nice sunset shot of Factory Butte, the hunk of rock hulking over miles of badlands near Hanksville, but the sky was uninteresting. So, I slid in an interesting sky I happened to have.
Happy Slider Sunday!
In October, we spent part of a week in Vesturland, Iceland, bouncing around trying to get shots before the rain made the skies so grey as to be uninteresting or the rain so heavy as to wash us out. This was one of the shots we took as the clouds to the south were building.
I have often contended that the most important element of a successful photo is light. Frankly, without it, we have black. However, others contend that composition is the most important element to a top notch photo. Rather, I would suggest that an ideal composition is the most challenging component to any image. Of course the third of the three elements is exposure.
It is also the case that without all three one may have simply achieved a great shot. Taking the time to create the best we can, regardless of the discipline is a worthy endeavour. In this case, the last light of day practically trips over the ocean waves because the sun is low in the sky. And, it touches the routes of an otherwise uninteresting washed ashore tree trunk. Light is king. Regardless, without it, I can not see.
Black Redstart
The second family of Black Redstarts in Manchester often landed on a ledge which was a little plane and uninteresting. I therefore found some Buddleia heads and placed small piles of them at regular intervals so that I could create a bit of colour and pleasing blurs. Birds do not pose to order and once a bird is close to a flower head then the desired blur does not occur so the hit rate for getting a bird posing nicely and with nice blurs in the background and foreground becomes considerably reduced.
I have spent the last few days looking for Black Redstarts in Manchester and other places out of the city where I think the habitat is suitable.
in every square centimeter, now that would be interesting! And next to impossible, don't you think?
Charles Recher
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lacecap french hydrangea, 'Veitchii', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The 94 foot tall Ganoga Falls with some immense flow with all the rains recently. Fresh thunderstorms the night before this morning capture made it even stronger. Had to contend with the mist a lot here with all that flow.
With all that flow, the wide creek below the falls was really booking, and made for same great lead ins to the beast of the waterfall. In low flow conditions, the creek can be very 'uninteresting' ... but here I think works very well.
I had always planned to take this shot of Angkor Wat reflecting in a clear lake like a mirror. Once there what I saw was a swamp not a lake. Under the sunset light the photo was common and uninteresting but under sunrise light the swamp glow and I could take this different shot.
... well, we went down to Dewerstone Woods at Shaugh Prior, Tony & I, thinking that this might be a target rich environment for fungi. Living in a world of fantasy as it goes with hardly any serviceable subjects to entertain us, lots of fungi around if you looked hard enough but most of these were 'broken', simply uninteresting or in poor locations. This little clump was as good as it got for us so we shot a few off and thereby climbed a little further up the learning curve so all good.
20 shot focus stack, still not enough!
RKO_8291. Some nice houses along the water/harbor at Stavoren, Province of Friesland, The Netherlands.
Unfortunately there was not much color or texture in the clouds! Not to say a very uninteresting sky! So all focus on the colorful houses! 😉
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“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out."
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240 shots for the star trail + 1 for the foreground. This location has a special meaning for me — I come back to photograph it whenever I can, but I always try to create a different version. This time I wanted to try a horizon star trail (without including the North Star), but the nighttime foreground was uninteresting, so I tried incorporating the sunset instead. The result pleasantly surprised me because it gives off a slightly surreal, almost dreamlike atmosphere. I hope you like it.
I know many of my US railfan friends find the European railway scene to be weird/boring/uninteresting, but last Sunday reminded me alot of my early years of railfanning. When I first started railfanning in the southeastern US in the late 1990s one really could see anything on the front of the train. Foreign power, fallen flags, leasers, there was always something interesting. Today the mainline scene in the eastern US is hopelessly dull, with nearly every train led by 1 of 5 locomotive types and rarely a break from the drudgery of NS black or CSX dark blue.
In Germany however open access has meant that there is still nice surprises to be had now and then. On this day it seemed that surprises just kept coming. The first two trains at Bacharach featured a 1970s era Class 151 operated by private operator Hectorrail, the second a passenger stock transfer with DB Gebrauchtzug 111 174 in the Touristik scheme.
Then at the edge of high sun, the grand prize, a pair of over 40 year old Br 218s led by the Brohltalbahn's 218-396 screamed through town with the WRS Tonzug. The Brohltalbahn started as a narrow gauge shortline in northern Rheinland-Pfalz but since the advent of open access operates trains around the region with their small fleet of diesels.
Not what I wanted, so still a work-in-progress. Hard to get the tide-in, sunlight, waves and sky, but might get it eventually. Had to go for a longer exposure in this one since the light and waves were non-existent, which left the water very uninteresting.
I seriously have no idea how to SP any more. But, I looked much cuter today than I have these last thirty-three mono-filled days. So, you see, I had no choice. And by much cuter, I of course mean a lot less like total garbage.
I also had no choice but to 'tych these, as certainly none of them are all that interesting . And we all know that six uninteresting things is way better than one.
Thanks for the remote, Chris!
Sydney Basin sedimentary rocks are mainly sandstones about 250 million years old. The diversity in colours and erosion features of these seemingly uninteresting rocks, makes the coast south of Sydney unique.
Originally, this was a somewhat uninteresting close-up mobile photo of an old metal scale taken during the winter in Arizona.
Using GIMP, the image was converted to B&W and processed with an illusion map and then a displacement map to add distortion.
Subsequently, in Darktable, a light grain was added and the contrast was bumped to finish the "Weighed Significance" of the image. Happy Slider Sunday!
This was last Friday morning... a week ago? I don't know where this week has gone!
Whilst the fresher conditions are a relief its quite grey and flat. We didn't really get any of the predicted storms so pretty uninteresting.
I am glad I took advantage this past week.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend x
On Sunday I finally made my way into Cornwall for a wander on the coast for the first time since Lockdown began.
I'd gone down to West Pentire to see how the poppies looked down there but I was a bit disappointed with this year's display, so I ventured further North up to Bedruthan Steps instead.
Bedruthan Steps is one of my favourite spots on the Cornwall Coast, and for a while that evening I had the place all to myself which was wonderful.
The heavy cloud that had been hanging around all day moved East at sunset and I was left with a clear, uninteresting sky, but there was some gorgeous light on the cliffs just before the sun hit the horizon.
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Branches and twigs - Smile on Saturday
I seldom try to photograph the moon because most of the photos are blurry or uninteresting. This time I got a good photo.
Something you haven't done in a long time - Our Daily Challenge
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It's the magic with your words ---It's your remarks and lovely words you leave behind that makes my photos look far from the ordinary...without them my photos are dull, plain and uninteresting looking pieces...and for this, I want to thank you all.
I take pride in marking the ones that made it to explore because I want you all to know that the picture you have given compliments to did not fail you, the same pride and pleasure I get when I see your photos in explore.
I could not think of a better way of thanking you than just striving hard to post a good one for you to view and to make each of your visit worth the time and effort.
This is my tribute to all of you so I ask you not to give me invites and awards for this photo because this was specially made for all of you not for me to show around.
--just for this one hahaha I love the invite groups as you all know :D)))
Hugs to you all and thanks for reading a lengthy note :))
Not sure if it ok to have little wishful thinking during this pretty uninteresting winter? Really need some snow and sun! Still find myself reaching in to my image vault due to lack of inspirational content here at mid west. What do you think?
New Zealand endemic diving duck. Widely but patchily distributed throughout North and South Islands; not found on Stewart Island, and no longer present on Chatham Islands. Unlike any other resident duck species. Compact and dark; floats on water with cork-like buoyancy, showing bath-toy duck silhouette. Forms large flocks, often congregating in sheltered areas near willows or reed beds. Spends a lot of time underwater, where it can travel considerable distances. Sexes alike but distinguishable. Male has dark black plumage, iridescent blue-green head and wings, and yellow iris. Female is duller brown with brown iris. Flies with very fast wingbeats, often just above the water’s surface. Vagrant Hardhead differs in its white iris, white undertail, and white “saddle” on bill. (eBird)
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Common throughout our trip, but like with most scaup, usually just far enough away to make photos uninteresting. This beautiful male kindly picked a lovely sunny day to present his best side. He was keeping an eye on his offspring, closer to shore.
Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand. March 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
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A peine visible depuis le boulevard de Rochechouart, l'impasse du Cadran est si modeste que bien des Montmartrois ne connaissent pas son existence!
Longue de 42 mètres et large de 7, elle doit son nom au cadran solaire qui au début du XIXème siècle aurait été peint sur le mur qui la fermait et la séparait de la rue d'Orsel qui s'appelait alors rue des Acacias.
Avant le rattachement de Montmartre à Paris, elle était composée de modestes maisons et de remises.
Plusieurs clubs révolutionnaires comme il y en eut tant dans la première moitié du XIXème siècle y tinrent leurs réunions.
Le Club de la Vengeance la choisit pour élaborer son programme révolutionnaire sous le Second Empire
La Garde Nationale en 1871 y réunit son Comité Central qui prit la décision d'enlever les canons de la place Wagram et de Neuilly pour les concentrer sur la Butte
La même année, au mois de mai, y fut organisé le recrutement d'un corps de Francs Tireurs : Les Lascars de Montmartre.
Un roman d'Yves Carcenac raconte la vie de l'un d'entre eux, plus flamboyant que les autres : Ferdinand Janssoulé.
Comment imaginer aujourd'hui devant cette impasse banale et sans intérêt qu'elle connut un tel bouillonnement d'idées, une telle activité révolutionnaire, une telle fabrique de rêves?
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Barely visible from Boulevard de Rochechouart, the Impasse du Cadran is so modest that many Montmartre residents are unaware of its existence!
42 meters long and 7 wide, it owes its name to the sundial which at the beginning of the 19th century would have been painted on the wall which closed it and separated it from the rue d'Orsel which was then called rue des Acacias.
Before the attachment of Montmartre to Paris, it was made up of modest houses and sheds.
Several revolutionary clubs such as there were so many in the first half of the 19th century held their meetings there.
The Vengeance Club chooses her to develop its revolutionary program under the Second Empire
The National Guard in 1871 gathered its Central Committee there which took the decision to remove the guns from Place Wagram and Neuilly to concentrate them on the Butte
The same year, in May, the recruitment of a corps of Francs Tireurs was organized there: Les Lascars de Montmartre.
A novel by Yves Carcenac tells the story of one of them, more flamboyant than the others: Ferdinand Janssoulé.
How to imagine today in front of this banal and uninteresting dead end that it knew such a bubbling of ideas, such a revolutionary activity, such a factory of dreams?
After I made a few rather unintersting sunset shots from a mountain pass I drove down to the starting point of my day hike where I wanted to walk to a remote waterfall (and made more uninteresting shots). On my way down, the valley was covered in clouds. I loved spending 1h shooting the forest from above while the clouds came and went amid the trees. To me this one had something of a Japanese etching. Ariege - French Pyrenees
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Suria des de la carretera sembla poc interessant, però des del darrera hi ha un parell de punts on sorprèn, com aquí, on es pot veure alhora l'església del Roser, d'origen romanic, amb el castell al seu costat.
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Suria looks as an uninteresting and dull mining town from the road, but from the back there are a couple of surprising spots, like here, where you can see both the Roser church, of Romanesque origin, and the castle behind it.
2008 - cleaning 14 years of my 120,000 uninteresting shots. This is one my oldest photo archives taken with my first point-and-shoot.
We were on our way back to the car after a quite uninteresting afternoon (at least in regard of photos) when this little guy saved the day, singing and posing for us in the evening sun :-)))
Willow warbler.
Seen in the nature-sanctuary "Breites Wasser" near Worpswede - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Wir waren schon auf dem Weg zum Auto nach einem ziemlich uninteressanten Nachmittag (zumindest in Bezug auf Fotos), als dieser kleine Kerl die Tour für uns gerettet hat und ausgiebig für uns in der Abendsonne sang und posierte :-)))
Fitis.
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet "Breites Wasser" bei Worpswede - Niedersachsen.
As a landscape astrophotographer, I have a very ambivalent relationship with clouds. When I am out shooting, I basically want clear skies. Clouds are considered a nuisance.
On the other hand, it is undeniable that clouds can add a lot of mood to a scene, if they are in the right position.
That's a big if though. It seems that most clouds have a tendency to block the Milky Way, while leaving the uninteresting parts of the sky clear. I call them the bad clouds.
While shooting with @benjaminbarakat at this tranquil lake in the Swiss Alps, the lenticular clouds were however mostly hugging the the horizon, blocking the worst of the light pollution and nicely framing the Milky Way. Even the small cloud in front of the galactic core carefully positioned itself so as not to block any important part. Those were definitely good clouds.
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Canon EOS Ra
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Stack of 5 x 90s @ ISO1600
Foreground:
Stack of 5 x 60s @ ISO6400
Reflection:
Single exposure from the foreground stack
- Gilbert K. Chesterton.
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Since I first visited the charming town of Morro Bay in 2013, I have returned so many times that my wife thinks I am low-key obsessed with it. She’s not wrong. Honestly, it was a subject that completely stumped me on my first visit. I ended up posting no images from our first trip, and even on our second time there, I used the rock as a background rather than an outright subject as I still hadn’t figured out a way to make it my main subject. On my third visit, I managed a few images that satisfied me. Still, that visit also fuelled a desire to find better pictures of this magnificent geographic feature of the California coast.
On our most recent trip, I expected moody overcast skies and hoped to use it to my advantage. I planned to use the dunes north of the rock as my foreground interest and to apply some telephoto compression to the scene. Due to the dunes being a protected nesting site for endangered birds, I had to hike quite far to find an ideal location. But in hindsight, I think it worked to my advantage as the delay allowed the sun to break through the clouds and provided dramatic light to the scene. I used a short-tele focal length here and decided to crop the image in a panoramic format to cut some of the uninteresting bits from the scene. Definitely my favorite from the trip.