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My only acceptable hellebore shot of the season 😐
[Thanks, Peter, for the reminder that I do actually own an extension tube and can use it with this lens....! The combination worked quite well..... 😀]
Water drops on a textured surface. I tried all sorts of ideas for this theme and finally settled on something simple and went for Mr. Wet :)
***Admins/Mods Crazy Tuesday group: If this photo is not acceptable please feel free to remove it. I promise not to enter into any possible form of conversation involving any possible format of communication including email, snail mail, carrier pigeons or pyschic influences 😄
Dedicated to RHC (ILYWAMHASAM)
St John, New Brunswick as the Canadian seagull flys. I think the bird is leaving town during this snow storm. While the air pollutants are considered acceptable from the fossil fuels industry and its oil refinery. Certainly there is a concern and questions regarding long term exposure. Fine particulates in the air and the smell of sulphur throughout the day can certainly highlight the importance of controls.
This is the final acceptable image of Josephine's Lily, a single blossom on the end of a 20-inch stalk surrounded by 30 others that, had they been closer together, would have been a spectacular fireworks display. Or at least that was what I was expecting.
What I got can be seem below. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. At the same time, I knew I would post four sequentially for your pleasure. We've all been through this type of experience. Dickens wrote about it in "Great Expectations."
So enjoy this one starburst, while I go gather the elements of what could have been a dandy finale.
These two were discussing who could drink from this leaky faucet.
Valley of Fire State Park near Overton, Nevada. The first morning I was here 3 Big Horn Sheep came into the campground looking for water. It has been 220 some days without rain and it appears their thirst outweighs their natural fear of people. We were both a little scared of each other but settled on a distance of around 30' as being acceptable to both of us. They stayed for several hours and afforded me with many photo opportunities. The background of reddish /orange is from the brightly colored rocks that are throughout the park. Behind the sheep is a picnic table and this is an actual campsite within the campground
I came for the maroon and blue; but was not unhappy to see Arkansas & Missouri's matched pair of former Tacoma Rail 70AC's, seen here picking it up as the Monett Turn approaches Purdy, MO. Last shot of this run before heading west to Tulsa...or else (said the missus).
Acceptable in the 80s
Calvin Harris
2007
U.K. #10
‘It was acceptable in the 80s
It was acceptable at the time’
The ScotRail services round the Fife Circle were amongst the last in the country to utilise rolling stock with opening windows. Standing in the front vestibule with the window down was certainly acceptable(ish!) in the 80s but somewhat frowned upon in the 2000s! The final services ran during the lockdown.
Here we see 68006 ‘Daring’ awaiting departure from Edinburgh Waverley with the 17:08 service to Glenrothes with Thornton on 29.10.2019
I’ve linked below to a video taken onboard the Fife Circle service the next day. Railway enthusiast friends may like to turn up the volume!
A very common bird yet one I struggle to get great images of. This is acceptable, but not great. small steps.
Pulled up the shadows on this one, meaning that there is more image noise than I'd like, but it's acceptable for this shot. The kingfisher gave me an interesting pose on an exposed perch during the rainstorm, giving a nice view of the cattails in the background.
ISO: 1600
F-stop: f/8
Exposure: 1/640
Forgot I had two acceptable shots of the Wood Duck. The only two that are still in the bird (rather than "original") folder. What a gorgeous - and frustrating - bird he is. The frustration was just natural, but if only I had gotten there an hour earlier when the sun was still out...
For Macro Mondays this week I thought an image representing the struggle of the Ukrainian people would be acceptable.
Poor smiley although still smiling is trapped and hurt engulfed in an iron curtain.
Poor Ukrainians!
Bombed, battered, but still fighting for their survival surrounded by large tanks and soldiers from Russian aggressors .... 🔥🆘📢🔫💣😢
"Oh! for heaven's sake go home and leave the innocent children and people of Ukraine alone!!!!!!"
Love & Peace everyone!
😊💔💖💞 Sean. x
I have used a little bouncing smiley super-ball toy to create this image!
I used some blue round stickers adding this colour scheme to enhance the Ukrainian flag colours contrasting with yellow.
I sawed a piece from smiley, from his head, then used a piece of metal wire mesh around him ensuring a point of the mesh entered through his head area.
I then placed him inside a blue bucket of the correct colour and took some macro images.
The yellow smiley super-ball is small only one inch in diameter so therefore falls within the three inch maximum size requirements for Macro Mondays!
First moon-shots with my new Canon EOS 600D and the EF-S 55-250mm lens. I'm sooo glad that I bought this camera! Catching the moon in an acceptable quality was one of my biggest wishes and goals and with this new camera I'm a little closer to this :)
Many of my wildlife shots, particularly birds, although generally acceptable, are spoiled by an unattractive background. This often happens when they are shot against a blank or featureless sky. I have found that the Luminar 4 editing program is not just a boon for landscape photographers, but is also a fun way to give the birds a second chance. Sky replacement in these shots is not an attempt to deceive - just a bit of fun to let the subjects have their moment in the sun (or cloud, or storm, or sunset!).
The Lilac-breasted Roller and its perch are absolutely real.
After many hours in Photoshop, here is my acceptable result of 37421 as it stands in Barrow the other night having just entered on the rear from the carriage sidings ready to work 3Q91 up to Carlisle via reversal at Sellafield and via Carnforth/Morecambe & WCML. I didn't know this loco had been fitted with LED headlights since I last saw it so it was impossible to get any sort of shot with the high beam on. Thankfully I managed a shot with the tail lamp on clear of any flare so I've managed to somewhat salvage it.
It took three trips to capture an acceptable image of the La Jolla Tide Pools. The negative tide was not the ideal situation for me; however my weather app indicated the good chance of a nice sunset. The low tide revealed large areas of interesting greenery throughout the area, but I decided to stay here and claim this spot for my sunset shoot, knowing that there is room for only two or three people at one time to photograph this particular composition.
At last, an acceptable photo of a Redpoll! Don't know which type though. Needless to say, heavily cropped.
It's difficult shooting with an iPhone in pano mode at night. Things can often get too grainy and the resolution can be less than acceptable. Here I got a bit lucky as I think the bright areas were intense enough to register without a lot of 'noise'.
Gradually figuring out how to Pano-Sabotage at night.
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I had to work for this one. Light rain was hitting my filters, patience was required for the waves as they were infrequent and the only way to get the entire composition in was to stitch 3 very wide focal length images together. This doesn't usually work due to the distortion of the image at such wide angles. I think it worked out though but I did have to opt for the square crop to hide some of the distortion. This little sea arch is on the coastline of the Moray Firth to the west of Portknockie in scotland.
An experiment with UV active painting, I only used black light UV lamps as the light source, which makes it harder to get acceptable shutter speeds, but does bring the color of the painting into focus...
Now that I'm a septuagenarian I can report that there are a number of positive things about aging. Number one, is that I finally got my supply of brain cells down to a manageable size. Another benefit is being held to a lower standard by friends and loved ones. Instead of having to always be on point, now it's acceptable to be "still with it," or merely "coping." Which reminds me of a story that I better tell before I forget:
A 60-year-old man went to the doctor for a check-up.
The doctor said, “You are in great health! All your tests are good. And for our records, may I ask, at what age did your father die?”
The 60-year-old patient said, “I didn’t say my father died! My father is 80. He skis, runs marathons and is in excellent health!”
“Oh, that’s wonderful! Well then, for our records, at what age did your grandfather die?”
“I didn’t say my grandfather died! My grandfather is 100, teaches dance lessons and plays golf four days a week. In fact, he’s getting married next month!”
“Why would your 100 year old grandfather want to get married?”
“I didn’t say he WANTED to get married!”
Ba--dump.
Location: old gray matter in my brain.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
The only hope there is of standing righteous and acceptable before God is by receiving by faith what another has done for you. All self-attainment, self-accomplishment, self-righteousness must be abandoned realizing the vanity and hopelessness of bringing to pass our own right standing before God. We must humble ourselves before a holy God, recognize our sin, acknowledge our complete inability to remove that sin. Then we must embrace what Christ has done for us, instead of us, paying the penalty of our sin in our place in order to bring to us, by faith, a credited righteousness by which God may rightly justify us as ungodly sinners. Look to Christ and Christ alone. - Bruce Ware
One Sunday between rain storms, a group of photo friends met up at Tanyard Creek. This was the one photo I got on the Vigilant before the heavens opened up and dumped buckets on us, lol. Sadly, my little travel tripod wasn't as stable as I'd have liked. At least the photo turned out acceptable, in spite of not being as sharp as it could be!
Gear:
Kodak Vigilant Six-20, Kodak Anastigmat 105mm
Kodak Ektar 100
FPP ECN-2 Kit
PlusTek OpticFilm 120 with Silverfast
Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
There has been discussions about bird-photos, their artistic values and technical qalifications such as sharpness. Does an acceptable bird-photo have to be needle-sharp all the way to the smallest detail? Not necessarily; there are many other adequate qualifications and occassionally it may be impossible to get them all concentrated into one single photo, but I haven´t seen a bird-photo spoiled with sharpness, so far.
Anyhow, I think the content of a photo may easily overrule technical values. But what about bird-photo and it´s artistic values? Personally I value art as a dimension having nothing to do on this field. And why is that? Am I some kind of art hater? Far from that, but bird-photo illustrates real matters from the outside world of a photographer. Art demonstrates intangible ideas evolving from the artist´s mind. Mixing these two dimensions creates nonsense. It is possible to mix water and oil, but it looks and smells ugly being far from art.
Anyhow, camera may well serve as a method of an artist. Good bird-photo may as well rise great emotions in the mind of spectator.
So to say.
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Örö
GO 3710 comes in hot from Londontown hustling under Jane street and is 15 minutes away from their destination at Union station. Go is ending service to London this October, so I made sure to get atleast one acceptable shot of the train.
"We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst." - William Hill
"Come into these arms again
And lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
It's beating like a drum" - A. Lennox
Love Song For A Vampire
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Sometimes an idea works out differently than you expect. This was intended to be a photo of just a passionflower tendril with a droplet at its center, but the droplet would not form an acceptable “lens” based on the imperfect edges to the spiral. Many attempts were made before deciding that another element would be required.
I have a box of wildflower seeds that I collect opportunistically and use when the mood strikes. This one is a favourite: Salsify (also called Yellow Goat’s Beard). The large web-like sail on the seed holds water droplets nicely, and I nudged this seed firmly into the center of the spiral. It didn’t stay there for long, with the weight of the accruing water making it front-heavy and nearly falling out of the tendril. In its descent, friction against the thicker barbs at the end of the seed stopped it. The camera was ready for its previous positioning, but all settings were dialed in. A quick adjustment to framing and focus, and here we are.
Moments after the photo was taken, the seed continued to fall and ended up on the table. For a behind-the-scenes image I placed it back in the approximate location, and you can see that here: donkom.ca/bts/IMG_2283.jpg - a sunflower used as the background, connecting both blue and yellow is support of Ukraine.
And there has been some developments on that front, for those who do not receive regular news updates. There are five main points I’d like to mention:
- Russians have placed a human head impaled on a stick somewhere in Popasna. The thought process to commit such a crime is seemingly pervasive across their armed forces: instill fear for control with zero regard of human life. Russia is showing the world they are ready to head back to the Dark Ages, which began with the fall of Rome. The parallels to Moscow are uncanny.
- Russian forces tortured and murdered at least 50 Ukrainian Prisoners of War in Olenivka prison camp. They claim that Ukrainian forces struck the facility after learning that the prisoners were providing testimony about Ukrainian war crimes. In reality, all evidence indicates that a Russian thermobaric warhead was detonated inside the facility and not indicative of a missile attack. The war crime is a way to fuel the Russian propaganda machine in Moscow, where the Russian version of events will remain unchallenged.
- Amnesty International filed a report stating that Ukrainian forces were using civilian infrastructure and endangering civilian lives in the process. The report was not offered to Amnesty International Ukraine for input and was written by someone using testimony from people in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. As a result, many people have cut ties with the organization with at least one founder leaving. Why is this important? Such a report basically gives Russia full permission in their delusions to fire on all civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, as if they weren’t doing that already. However, for the purposes of propaganda, this can paint such attacks in a heroic light for the Russian population.
- Unexpectedly and with devastating force, significant damage to an air base in Crimea has occurred, destroying more Russian aircraft than at any other point in the war and killing an estimated 60 pilots. The source of the attack is currently unclear, as the distance from Ukrainian-controlled territory is greater than the longest-range weapons that Ukraine has. Some people suggest it was an improvised drone strike that set of a cascade reaction of explosions, others suggest that Ukraine has been given weapons of which the public has no knowledge (fog of war reasoning). Either way, the Kerch bridge leading from Crimea to Russia has been jam packed with cars leaving the region. The Russians no longer feel safe there.
- There are reports that Russia has mined and planted explosives strategically inside and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (the largest such facility in Europe). The head of the Russian forces in the region made “scorched earth” comments; basically, if Russia can’t have it, they’ll destroy it. This would be the largest nuclear disaster in history, resulting in radioactive clouds that would spread across the planet.
What does this all break down to? The complete disregard for human life by the Russian forces continue, and are partially enhanced by their ability to spin their own web of lies and justifications for further diabolical actions. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are grinding the Russian forces down, destroying certain bridges around Kherson and creating intense fear among the Russians in Crimea. For all the terror that Russia inflicts, they gain nothing but fear and uncertainty.
It's only a matter of time before the forces in the Kherson region are so diminished that the area can be liberated with a minimum of casualties to the brave men and women of Ukraine and all fighting alongside them. The demoralized forces from Russia will likely have an escalation of desertion, possibly with increased desperation in tactics.
Ukraine’s biggest challenge will be to bring the fight to the east side of the Dnipro River in the south. If powerful nations around the globe continue to supply Ukraine with more advanced, long-range weaponry, the next stage of the Ukraine War will begin. They all need our support, and we must be prepared for the unspeakable horrors discovered when towns and cities are liberated. Support charities working in the region, write to your government officials, create your own messages of support, rally and make it known that Russia cannot win and cannot be allowed to follow this path of tyrannical madness ever again. We continue our support over here, as best we can.
So much fun to watch the orioles coming to the feeder. I've seen them as late as 8:45 pm. It is hard to see out there, but I hear the male as he seems to be much more vocal at the late hour. This was the last acceptable light shot I got of him at 7:15 pm but he did return at 8:45 on the nose :) Just waiting for the babies to arrive. Hopefully soon.
Really there is. There's just enough of it showing to make it acceptable for Fenced Friday (both of them).
Not that long ago it was almost impossible to get an acceptable shot while cruising on a boat on the river late at night. How sensors have advanced over the years able to shoot at high ISO and still retain good dynamic range and reasonable noise levels. What will it be like 10 years from now? amazing
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There are a few common/acceptable collective nouns for a group of swans, including bevy, flock and lamentation.
But seeing this mixed group of immature and adult Trumpeter Swans mingling together, I think a mingle of swans works. Though there was still large areas of open, unfrozen water, this mingle preferred to stroll around on the ice for a while.
Last post from our recent day trip to Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge.
A foreground suddenly ablaze by the early rising sun presented me with both an opportunity & a conundrum. Incorporating it whilst avoiding my own shadow required a fair bit of moving around. This, & the necessity of revealing as much of the loch as possible, required a number of attempts from different spots, with this one achieving an acceptable compromise.
I must admit to having a problem with dammed lochs/lakes, that had previously existed in a natural state only to be exploited with no regard for visual & ecological consequences. There are many in the Highlands: Glascarnoch, Monar, Mullardoch, Cluanie, to name but a few. The celebrated views at the southern end of Haweswater, in Lakeland, highlight how most are willing to embrace a certain idea of what represents exceptional scenery. I, personally, find the man-made effects for the best part repulsive. Conversely, & maybe a little surprisingly, incomparable writer & tireless environmentalist, W.H. Murray, proclaimed Quoich, ". . . one of the most splendid water-scapes in the Highlands". My own position is to find it very difficult accepting permanent alterations. Exacting damaging interference to a land we should be preserving - not exploiting for all it's worth - & therefore leaving behind an unforgivable mess for future generations, represents yet another backward step in the "ascent of man" (sic).