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Having eyesight believed to be 100 times better than humans, owls are well adapted for the "Night watch."
This is not selective colouring btw, the photos are in b/w...and the watcher is non other than our dear friend SonOfJordan :)))
This shot made Explore many years ago, but I wasn't happy with it. I took this with my first digital camera, a little Kodak point and shoot, that took great pics for what it was, but wasn't good at all for low light shots, which this was because of the storm rolling in. Also, at only 7.1 megapixels, it had about half the detail or less that some of my other point and shoots have, and a whole lot less definition than my DSLR! That said, I caught shots with it that I haven't been able to since, like the three or four lightning shots I managed to capture that day!
This was taken at Veteran's Memorial Riverfront Park in South Daytona, FL, right on the Halifax River. The storm was a nasty one, but it took a long time to actually drop any rain. Meanwhile, I was all over town capturing some spectacular shots that I only wish I could have gotten with a better camera! This was my favorite of the day. I was that close to the egret, and it seemed to be watching the water as if to decide what to do while I was watching it. I loved the moodiness of the shot, and though I might have cropped it more to be more in keeping with the rule of thirds, doing so would have cut off the bottom of that cloud ridge that gives dimension to the sky. Some rules just have to be broken! I did crop it some, and I think it was effective.
Some of the post processing tools that I use now were unavailable to me when I first processed the shot. I think this is an improvement over the original edit, which is below under the original.
Rags taking the easy way down from the cat tree...
Dushara Tatters and Rags, Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somali cats) & Bastian (mixed breed), 02.01.2018.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
A snippet of brutalist architecture. Definitely not to everyone’s taste - the picture or the architecture.
This juvenile Green Heron had just landed when it was threatened by another juvenile of the same species. I couldn't get both of them in the frame since I had too much glass.
Canon EOS 7D, EF500 4L IS USM, Canon 1.4X Converter II, Focal length 700 mm, F5.6, 1/500, ISO 1000.
This is Watching & Waiting.
I went out in hope of catching some lightning strikes, but they didn't eventuate. I decided to take this minimal shot whilst watching the storms roll in. The w.e has storms forecast, so hopefully maybe tomorrow I might be able to capture some lightning strikes again.
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