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Just two rings which I've pieced together for the photo. Actually three rings, because the plain golden one consists of two combined rings, kind of a double ring. The other ring with those tiny droplets / beads going all around is made of silver. I like to use both together, so I photographed them together, placed onto the silver side of a gold and silver coated piece of cardboard which once was used in a food wrapping. This is an image taken last night, but apparently I had too much time today, because I still tried a few focus stacks with different light and with the rings on top of a glossy black tile, but liked none in the end. So back to yesterday's image which I've processed in DXO PhotoLab 4 (sharpness, micro contrast and denoising with Deep Prime only), then in Analog Efex for the vignette and a very subtle matte look, and finally in Luminar AI, where I'd enhanced a few details (in the painting mask), added a very subtle glow, and slightly brightened the lower part of the silver ring with the dodge and burn tool.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
TP: The Road Less Traveled - Warm welcome and enjoy!
They say it isn't about which way you are going but who is walking next to you towards the same direction.
P.S. Thanks Lya and Adam for showing me this gem of a sim!
This is the road bridge on the Alnmouth Estuary just as tide tide was flooding in. The canoeist is drifting along with the rising tide
Alnmouth is a coastal village in Northumberland, England, situated 4 miles east-south-east of Alnwick. Located at the mouth of the River Aln, The estuary is tidal and the photo show the estuary at low tide
The village had a port supporting a small fishing industry and engaging in national and international trade. It was for a time a leading north-east centre for the export of grain and other foodstuffs, especially to London; and specialised in the import of timber and slate. Port activities declined at the end of the 19th century
Now I have 4 chipmunks running to me begging for sunflower seeds. And I don't know which one is Perry! I do know which ones are girls and boys so lets just say there is a Perry 1 and a Perry 2:)
One shot which I had forgotten to upload of the November 2016 supermoon rising behind Glastonbury Tor. This was the closest the full moon had been to earth since 1948. It rapidly vanished behind the thick clouds, but not before silhouetting the people on top of the hill.
Ayrmer Cove is a beautiful, secluded sandy beach, which you can reach on foot most easily from either Challaborough Beach or the nearby village or Ringmore.
On this particular day we walked down from the National Trust car park and were surprised at the fury of the Ocean and you can imagine my desperation to capture the mood. First of all I took some LE a couple way back in this account but my remote release stopped working (and why I bought cable releases now for my camera’s) I just don’t tether my iPhone never have. It was possibly the most exhilarating photo session I personally ever had. It was very cold and very windy but I loved it...
Below is the link where the famous Shark fin rock is more clearly visible...
I got a late start today, but I needed to get out. I went to my favorite butterfly field which has had an explosion of wild flowers in the last two weeks with all the rain we've had. There is nothing better than being in a field awash with waist high flowers at 1:00 PM in the afternoon when the temperature is 91 degrees F and the heat index is 100 degrees F, but this is when the butterflies are the most active. It is hard but I really do love it. There were dozens of long tail skippers, dusk wing skippers, gulf fritillary, clouded sulfur and tiger swallowtail.
The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found on the Indian subcontinent. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
The Indian pangolin is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84–122 centimetres (33–48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm long, and weighs 10–16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mammae. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, its pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue.The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armour, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160–200 scales in total, about 40–46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5–7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7–10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.
The Indian pangolin has been recorded from various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels. The animal can be found in grasslands and secondary forests, and is well adapted to desert regions as it is believed to have a tolerance to dry areas, but prefers more barren, hilly regions. This pangolin species may also sometimes reach high elevations, and has been sighted in Sri Lanka at 1100 meters and in the Nilgiri mountains in India at 2300 meters. It prefers soft and semi-sandy soil conditions suitable for digging burrows.
Pangolin burrows fall into one of two categories: feeding and living burrows. Feeding burrows are smaller than living burrows (though their sizes vary depending on the abundance of prey) and are created more frequently during the spring, when there is a greater availability of prey. Living burrows are wider, deeper, and more circular, and are occupied for a longer time than feeding burrows, as they are mainly used to sleep and rest during the day. After a few months, the pangolin abandons the burrow and digs a new one close to a food source. However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.
Unlike its African counterpart, the Indian pangolin does not climb trees, but it does value the presence of trees, herbs, and shrubs in its habitat because it is easier to dig burrows around them. Features that promote an abundance of ants and termites (grasses, bare grounds, bases of trees, shrubs, roots, leaf litter, fallen logs and elephant feces) are often present in pangolin habitats.
Few details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin. During the animal's mating period, females and males may share the same burrow and show some diurnal activities. Males have testes in a fold of the skin located in their groin areas. The female's embryo develops in one of the uterine horns. The gestation period lasts 65–70 days; the placenta is diffuse and not deciduate. Usually, a single young is born, but twins have been reported in this species. The young weigh 235–400 g at birth and measure roughly 30 cm. The newborn animals have open eyes, and soft scales with protruding hairs between them. The mother pangolin carries her young on her tail. When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.
The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.
A bit of a rarety @ Kidwelly
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According to the scant medieval documentation in which it is cited, the temple or the town of
Andrade were closely linked to the nearby monastery of San Xoán de Caaveiro (A Capela) and to the
Andrade family.
The first documentary reference to the place and to the church of Andrade appears in the Tumbo de Caaveiro in a
donation dated April 1, 1102, where Bermudo
Fortúniz, canon of Caaveiro, bequeaths to the monastery a
servant located in the town of Andrade, near the church
of San Martino. On September 9, 1158, he appears cited
again in the will of Mayor Suárez another property located next to the temple.
Already in the thirteenth century there are several references linked
to the Andrade family. The gentleman Pedro Bermudez of
Andrade donated his entire portion of the apse of the church to Caaveiro in 1204. Dated
of December 13, 1223, this same nobleman sold the
monastery all its properties in the Andrade preserve.
In 1246 Rodrigo Pérez and his brothers donated to the same
monastery the portion of the Andrade church that they owned.
The church of San Martiño de Andrade consists of a
traditional structure of a nave and a semicircular apse.
I was honoured to be remembered by my dear son yesterday that brought ne red roses for my birthday which is today. So proud over my young teenager !!!
We are celebrating Midsummer this weekend and after that my vacation starts so might be on and off for some weeks.
Have a lovely weekend.
فروخ طيور الخرشنة في جزيرة كُبر - الكويت
Name :TERNS
Latin Name: Sternidae
Arabic Name: Alkharshanah الخرشنة
Location : Kubbar Island - Kuwait
Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO Speed: 200
Seen in Explore Home Page 21/7/2007
Part of Birds Set
© AMMAR ALOTHMAN
Copyright for this photo belongs solely to AMMAR ALOTHMAN.
Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.
Which one of my CW Zooms do u like better. Not the one that is more accurate just the one that's looks cooler.
.....which we cannot
put into words,
make life special
I was taken by the moment when I found during my visit to Santorini, the 3 day as a result above Oia at once this spectacle. I have left the capture as I found it, except for a few small corrections....
Die Momente...
.....die wir nicht in
Worte fassen können,
machen das Leben besonders
Ich war angetan von dem Augenblick als ich bei meinem Besuch auf Santorini, den 3 Tag infolge oberhalb von Oia auf einmal dieses Schauspiel vorfand. Ich habe das Bild so belassen, wie ich es vorgefunden habe, bis auf ein paar kleine Korrekturen....
which the West calls “cabin fever.” True, it parades under different names, according to circumstances and caste. You may be afflicted in a palace and call it ennui, and it may drive you to commit peccadillos and indiscretions of various sorts…
Be sure that it will make you abnormally sensitive to little things; irritable where once you were amiable; glum where once you went whistling about your work and your play… It will betray your little, hidden weaknesses, cut and polish your undiscovered virtues, reveal you in all your glory or your vileness to your companions in exile — if so be you have any.
Cabin fever has driven men crazy. It has warped and distorted character out of all semblance to its former self. It has sweetened love and killed love…:-)
Bertha Muzzy Bower, “The Fever Manifests Itself,” Cabin Fever, 1918
been there, done that apparently ;-) HPPS!! take care friends:-)
allium, our yard, cary, north carolina
Trying to catch up my delay ... (which becomes bigger and bigger) ... but I need to post a new photo from time to time ...
Thank you in advance for all your faves and comments. I might answer several WEEKS later. And I might post other photos in the meantime.
Merci d'avance pour tous vos faves et commentaires. J'y répondrai peut-être plusieurs SEMAINES après. Et je posterai peut-être d'autres photos entre temps.
France. Alpes. Savoie. Massif de la Vanoise. Photo prise lors d'un aller-retour au Lac Rond, au départ du parking des Fontanettes, en passant par le Refuge des Barmettes, le Lac des Vaches, Le Lac Long et le Col de la Vanoise. Nous avons effectué cette rando à 2 avec ma femme et c'est peut-être notre rando préférée de tous les temps ! ❤️
Cette photo a été prise juste après le Refuge des Barmettes, avant de traverser le Torrent de la Glière et de passer en rive gauche de celui-ci.
On peut y voir une magnifique brochette de Pointes et d'Aiguilles, à savoir, de gauche à droite :
o La Pointe de la Grande Glière (3392m),
o La Pointe de la Petite Glière (3322m),
o L'Aiguille de l'Épena (3421m),
o L'Aiguille de la Vanoise (2797m).
J'adore l'allure de l'Aiguille de la Vanoise (à droite sur la photo), non seulement sous cet angle, avec sa face nord qui semble quasiment verticale, mais aussi quand on la voit de l'autre côté, depuis le Col de la Vanoise. Ce fut un de mes sommets favoris lors de cette rando inoubliable. ❤️
The Ironbridge, which crosses the River Severn, was the first cast iron bridge ever built (1779) and the area around it is regarded as the "Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution." Remains of the original Coalbrookdale factory that built the bridge and other important features associated with the start of the industrial revolution can be seen at museums in the UNESCO World-Heritage Ironbridge George area.
An interesting effect with this water pattern on stainless steel kitchen sink...the light from a nearby window reflects blue off the stainless steel which makes it appear as if the blue side is the water
The Ironbridge, which crosses the River Severn, was the first cast iron bridge ever built (1779) and the area around it is regarded as the "Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution." Remains of the original Coalbrookdale factory that built the bridge and other important features associated with the start of the industrial revolution can be seen at museums in the UNESCO World-Heritage Ironbridge George area.
Potentential thunder clouds in North Berwick which came to nothing thank goodness. Blustery day with constant dynamic light to confuse us. Lobster on the pier was a glorious lunch :)
at the very tip of Snaefellsnes peninsula in Iceland's West you may chose which direction you wish to surround Snaefellsjokull volcano, towards Olafsvik going towards the North or in direction of Hellissandur (the clear sands) chosing the Southern route :) It doesn't matter though for that peninsula is ever so beautiful and it is worth to surround it completely, no matter where you start or end :)
This little female Rufous is the first to take a bath in my waterfall this year. I was thrilled to see her find my beach.
There are many days I feel like I am lost out in the woods, trying to decide which direction I should go and what would be the best path to follow. Ahh...the journey of life!
Campo de Criptana is a Spanish municipality belonging to the province of Ciudad Real, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the natural region of La Mancha, within the sub-region called Mancha Alta. It is part of the commonwealth of Promancha.
In the town there is a large sample of the typical mills against which Don Quixote fought in chapter VIII of the universal book of Cervantes, thus becoming the hallmark of La Mancha. Of a total of ten mills, three date from the 16th century: Molino Burleta, Molino Infanto and Molino Sardinero.
Campo de Criptana es un municipio español perteneciente a la provincia de Ciudad Real, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha. Está situado en la comarca natural de La Mancha, dentro de la subcomarca denominada Mancha Alta. Forma parte de la mancomunidad de Promancha.
En la localidad se conserva una amplia muestra de los típicos molinos contra los que luchó Don Quijote en el capítulo VIII del libro universal de Cervantes, convertidos así en seña de identidad de La Mancha. De un total de diez molinos, tres datan del siglo XVI: Molino Burleta, Molino Infanto y Molino Sardinero.
... which is not anchored in the truth, is an illusion.
Joseph Jacson K
Texture with thanks to Jerry Jones
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
Volcanic island on which he lives about 100 people. Volcano expired 150 000 years ago. To drink is used rainwater. Residents are engaged in service of tourists, olive growing and fishing lobsters.
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Wyspa wulkaniczna na której żyje około 100 mieszkańców. Wulkan wygasł 150 000 lat temu. Do picia jest używana woda deszczowa. Mieszkańcy trudnią się obsługą turystów, uprawą oliwek oraz połowem homarów.