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En la vertiente norte del Parque Natural de la Sierra y Cañones de Guara se encuentran los valles de Belsué y Nocito, cuajados de pueblos pequeños, algunos deshabitados, en los que el tiempo parece haberse detenido.
Sus edificaciones y el estilo de vida mantienen la más pura tradición de los pueblos del interior de la comarca. Por cabañeras, antaño el único medio de comunicación con el Pirineo y el llano, se puede acceder a diversas pardinas, hoy casi en desuso. Desde el Santuario de San Úrbez, lugar de romería en busca de la ansiada lluvia, un sendero de montaña desciende hasta el núcleo urbano de Nocito y evoca los pasos de los niños que años atrás recorrían ese mismo camino para acudir a la escuela. Nocito es un buen ejemplo de conservación de la arquitectura popular. Los dinteles decorados, blasones familiares, chimeneas y espantabrujas nos trasladan a un pasado de vida aislada, dura y austera.
I had three fairly good images for Macro Mondays theme. I thought I would throw onw out early lest they sit in the queue forever.
Macro Mondays
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Above the grand staircase at Drottningholm.
Drottningholm palace is the home of the king and queen of Sweden - no, they do not actually live in the big palace in the middle of Stockholm, but in this much cosier creation just outside of Stockholm (in the small village of Drottningholm - which was actually built to house servants for the palace).
The name literally means the Queen's islet, and is older than the building itself. It used to refer to a palace built in 1580 for the queen Katarina Jagellonica - but that place burned down in 1661, and the current house is the one that was built to replace it. It was on order from the queen Hedwig Eleonora - at the time queen dowager but also regent for her son Karl (Charles) XI that was underage when his father (Karl X) died. The palace was designed by one of Sweden's most well known architects: Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, and after his death the work was continued on by his (equally famous) son Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The queen used it as a summer residence, and as a place for hunting. The palace continued to be in fashion throughout the 18th century, and got a partly rococo interior during the time of queen Lovisa Ulrika.
But the place fell out of fashion with the new Bernadotte dynasty in the early 19th century, being to closely connected with the earlier regime. The last new add-ons to the place was electricity and modern plumbing at the beginning of the 20th century - after that the focus has been on conservation and preservation.
The royal family has lived there since 1981 (though the kids have moved out by now).
The use of negative space can have a powerful effect on an image and this is what I have tried to achieve here. I hope that you like it and I wish you all well and thank-you so much for your input and support. Have a great week-end my friends.
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I read somewhere that you can make a telescope using the lens found in a photocopy machine (with pretty amazing results). Of course, my next thought was could I make a macro lens out of it?
The other picture shows the unassembled lens and what a beast it is! The whole thing must weigh at least 3 kg! The lens you see me holding in this picture is almost 1 kg and only one component of the whole thing.
After some trial and error, taking things apart and putting it back together, I managed to get a 'working' macro/telephoto lens. A very different set up to my usual DIY lenses and it's going to be an exciting challenge perfecting this one. The lens you see in the picture comprises of 4 lenses in total, 1 flat, 1 concave and 2 convex.
Putting the lens directly in front of my phone camera produces only ok results, nothing that blew my mind or was any different than the lenses I already have. It did provide with greater depth of field than the other lenses I have made, which is a bonus, but strapping this lens to my phone will be pretty useless and counterproductive as it weighs so much. I still had to be around 2-5 cm close to the subject to produce usable results.
However, when I held the lens 5-10 cm away from the phone camera something unexpected happened. In this picture, the lens was around 15-20cm away from the dragonfly and 10cm from my phone. I manually focused onto the lens and it produced the result you see in this picture.
My guess at this moment is Ill need to make some type of tubing/casing to hold the different lenses together after deconstructing it, as it seems to produce the best result when the lens is a certain distance from my phone. Of course with my phone, the sensor has a fixed aperture of f1.8 which makes everything that bit more complex. And then theres the issue of mounting the thing!
If you have any ideas please feel free to share :). Hopefully the end product will be a decent macro/telephoto lens which allows me to be 15-30cm away from the subject rather than 1-5cm (which is what im getting from the current lenses I have).
Photo credit: bdopekarreuche
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Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 4X4
Camara Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Arista Edu 100 (Fomapan)
Pinhole-30 (4X4)
Exp.8 sec.
Pinhole .3mm
F.L. 30mm
F:100
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
LIghtroom 3
Our front door key is attached to this wooden keychain that looks 3D but is actually quite smooth and worn.
Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 35mm
Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Kentmere 100
Exposure: 4 sec.
Pinhole-19 ( 35mm)
Pinhole .3mm
F.L. 27mm
F;90
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Texture used: 2 Lil’ Owls/Lumen # 21
Cattleyas and sophronitis are two natural genera which appear most often in cultivation. Evergreen cattleyas produce pseudobulbs, from short 10 cm to tall 90 cm, along a visible strong rhizome. They are manly club-shaped, sheated and support either one leaf (unifoliate) or two (bifoliate). Both types produce rigid, oval to long leaves which are thick and leathery, while the flower spikes come from the apex of the psodobulb at the base of the leaves. They are among the most fabulous of all cultivated orchids. Many have lovely scent.
Using as much common sense as we can muster, we head out into the COVID-ladin world. Oregon had just started what they called Phase 1. In doing that they opened a few State Parks. This one had been on our radar for a long time. I had been bird dogging the web site to see when it would open. As it turns out, I caught it just as they updated. They were going to open tomorrow. So the next day, as early as I can get the family out of the house, we set out for White River Falls State Park. This is in eastern Oregon, on the desert side of Mount Hood. They say you are not supposed to travel far under Phase 1, this was about 2 hours away. That was probably further than the State would like to see. However, we were sure to get gas locally and take food. Shy of the nice folks we met at the park, we interacted with no one.
The Ranger at the Park said we were the first people to get there on the first day they were re-open. He seemed glad to see us and the nice camp host talked our ears off. Clearly glad to see humans.
The Falls were in perfect form. See, you need to hit this waterfall at the right time. To early and its all white or brown form the glacial silt that runs through it (hence the name). Too late in the season, and I mean a week too late, and it looks like someone turned off the water. This day the flow was strong and the water quite clear.
We drove out through the Gorge and looped back over Mount Hood. All around a very pleasant drive. Sadly, it was a ton of driving for only about an hour at the falls, but still a great time had by all. Even the dog.
This was mid May in 2020, a time we will look back on as a very strange time. I hope I read this in 5 or 10 years and laugh about it. I hope.
Must confess Halloween is my most dreaded holiday.
The hype is impossible to ignore . . . and the fact this particular event has become as celebrated as Christmas is a bit disturbing to me. None-the-less, it's everywhere . . . and we do enjoy the other parts of this indoor/outdoor used book park!
For Window Wednesday, this works!
We finally have enough snow to get snowshoes on the trail and it was a great way to enjoy a brisk winter day. Had to be careful, though - lot's of rocks, holes, and crevices in this area. Using hiking poles was often a must for testing deeper snow ahead. Blue side trail blazes (see one here?) were also much easier to follow as compared to the white version of the main trail, which were frequently difficult to see in the snowy trees. In fact, we missed a turn at one point and had to hunt around for it.
First used normal oil painting effect at 70%. Had planned to crop, but really enjoyed the surrounding foliage so decided against it. Finished by enclosing in the film strip 6 frame, which also darkened some of the photo corners. Located in my neighbor K’s rose garden.
Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 6X6
Camara Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Fomapan Classic 100
Pinhole-21 (6X6)
Exp. 8 sec.
Pinhole .25mm
F.L. 27mm
F:92
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
LIghtroom 3
I used to travel alot. Long international flights could become boring but I liked nothing more than to look out of the window down at the landscape 6 miles below me. I used to pit my geographical knowledge against navigational abilities to see if I could identify towns, cities, rivers, landmarks. It helped pass the time. Once I picked out Monument Valley on the brown Utah landscape. I was able to identify some of the towering features but couldn't get over how an area it had taken most of a day to explore in a car could be the size of a sixpence against the featureless desert around.
The best time was when I had been flying for ages: a few months actually, and I had dozed off, forehead leaning against the cold window. I awoke and through bleary eyes looked down. I didn't instantly recognise it a convolusion of channels leading across the land. Rivers, gorges and canyons. And then I remembered. Mars. I was flying over Mars. And the sunlight glinted off the surface. Water? Water? Every where? Had I just discovered water on Mars?
Unfortunately that's nothing like the truth. I often work my way round to a little cove along from Camusdarrach to find unusual patterns and colours on the beach. Here a little oil seeps into the bog that feeds the burn down onto the beach, the oil catching the light like sun on a river estuary. With dark and light sands, this is my impression of what a Martian river might (have) look like. (this section of sand being about 12 inches across)
I used Topaz Detail and Topaz Simplify to create this.
Do not use this image in anyway without permission.
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Horizontal Tanks used to store old Terlaner wines at the Cantina Terlan winery in Alto Adige, Italy.
Actually, these are Charmat Tanks, designed to make sparkling wines, but never used for that purpose. Unusual as well in that most tanks are vertical - you get more area on the lees in a horizontal tank and can also be easier to maintain
Used hardware / software:
Panasonic Lumix G7 / 70
Adapter EOS - M4/3
Adapter F - EOS
Tokina AT-X 28-85mm/3.5-4,5
RawTherapee
Using an ICM zoom movement to capture my Nashi Pear Tree in silhouette as the sun rose this morning.
Right now however, we have gentle rain which is most welcome as it brings some cooler weather and needed water. HSoS
It used to be Unsaleable. Then, Impossible. Now, Indubitable. This film is for documenting THE NEXT MOVEMENT but I just had to take it out for a little test run.
Santan, AZ.
Polaroid SX-70 (w/ exposure settings all the way on darken). PX 680 Beta Test Film. It was approximately 85 degrees F.
Thanks to anniebee for showing me an easy and successful way to shield the film:
Golden hour photography uses the soft, warm, diffused light just after sunrise or before sunset, creating a magical, flattering glow with long shadows and rich red/gold tones due to the low sun angle filtering light through more atmosphere.
It's ideal for portraits and landscapes, adding depth and a dreamy quality.
Not quite the same in black and white.
Shooting in black and white during the golden hour
shifts focus from warm colours to light, shadow, texture, and mood, creating dramatic, high-contrast images with long shadows and ethereal light, emphasising form and emotion over hue, and often revealing timeless, classic compositions.
The river Tone. Taunton, Somerset, UK.
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Happy Arachtober 22 & HBBBT have a great day folks ;0) Another one of my crab spider on route to the blue daisies
En la vertiente norte del Parque Natural de la Sierra y Cañones de Guara se encuentran los valles de Belsué y Nocito, cuajados de pueblos pequeños, algunos deshabitados, en los que el tiempo parece haberse detenido.
Sus edificaciones y el estilo de vida mantienen la más pura tradición de los pueblos del interior de la comarca. Por cabañeras, antaño el único medio de comunicación con el Pirineo y el llano, se puede acceder a diversas pardinas, hoy casi en desuso. Desde el Santuario de San Úrbez, lugar de romería en busca de la ansiada lluvia, un sendero de montaña desciende hasta el núcleo urbano de Nocito y evoca los pasos de los niños que años atrás recorrían ese mismo camino para acudir a la escuela. Nocito es un buen ejemplo de conservación de la arquitectura popular. Los dinteles decorados, blasones familiares, chimeneas y espantabrujas nos trasladan a un pasado de vida aislada, dura y austera.
Used to do a lot of HDR. now very rarely. Think it is the difference between this d300 and my d800.
Found this it had never been processed from archives.
Using a very shallow DOF (f2.0) and placing focus on the petal tip gives this image a somewhat painterly look.
Used a film grain effect in Capture One - image was a little soft so have tried to disguise that fact!
Constructive comments please!!!