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This young lady caught my attention when she kept passing our living room window. At first I thought she might be wearing blades.
The flightless ostrich is the world's largest bird. They roam African savanna and desert lands and get most of their water from the plants they eat.
Though they cannot fly, ostriches are fleet, strong runners. They can sprint up to 43 miles an hour and run over distance at 31 miles an hour. They may use their wings as "rudders" to help them change direction while running. An ostrich's powerful, long legs can cover 10 to 16 feet in a single stride. These legs can also be formidable weapons. Ostrich kicks can kill a human or a potential predator like a lion. Each two-toed foot has a long, sharp claw.
Ostriches live in small herds that typically contain less than a dozen birds. Alpha males maintain these herds, and mate with the group's dominant hen. The male sometimes mates with others in the group, and wandering males may also mate with lesser hens. All of the group's hens place their eggs in the dominant hen's nest—though her own are given the prominent center place. The dominant hen and male take turns incubating the giant eggs, each one of which weighs as much as two dozen chicken eggs.
Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand. The old saw probably originates with one of the bird's defensive behaviors. At the approach of trouble, ostriches will lie low and press their long necks to the ground in an attempt to become less visible. Their plumage blends well with sandy soil and, from a distance, gives the appearance that they have buried their heads in the sand.
Ostriches typically eat plants, roots, and seeds but will also eat insects, lizards, or other creatures available in their sometimes harsh habitat.
Re working of an old shot taken in Hampshire woodland at dawn. Shot was handheld with an ND8 filter so the movement is intentional / unavoidable.
The Rollei magic is a medium format TLR camera manufactured by Franke & Heidecke, Braunschweig, Germany.
It was Rolleis answer to the desire at that point in time for a TLR with an automated exposure control. Rollei could achieve this when the shutter company Prontor designed a new shutter for just that purpose, the Prontormat-S.
The Rollei magic uses 120 type Rollfilm. 12 6x6cm square images can be captured for each roll of 120 film.
By using a special mask set the camera can be adapted to shoot 16 images 4x4 or 4x5.5cm on a roll. The mask put into the filmgate does automaticly change the frame counter from 12 to 16 exposures.
A big difference with the Rolleiflex is the fact that the Rollei magic uses front-cell focusing instead of moving the whole lens board.
Because many after-sales complaints were received about the lack of a proper manual speed control Rollei came up with a second model, the Rollei magic II to rectify this.
Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller and have slimmer bodies. Most species fold the wings along the body when at rest, unlike dragonflies which hold the wings flat and away from the body. An ancient group, damselflies have existed since at least the Lower Permian, and are found on every continent except Antarctica.
All damselflies are predatory; both nymphs and adults eat other insects. The nymphs are aquatic, with different species living in a variety of freshwater habitats including acid bogs, ponds, lakes and rivers. The nymphs moult repeatedly, at the last moult climbing out of the water to undergo metamorphosis. The skin splits down the back, they emerge and inflate their wings and abdomen to gain their adult form. Their presence on a body of water indicates that it is relatively unpolluted, but their dependence on freshwater makes them vulnerable to damage to their wetland habitats.
Some species of damselfly have elaborate courtship behaviours. Many species are sexually dimorphic, the males often being more brightly coloured than the females. Like dragonflies, they reproduce using indirect insemination and delayed fertilisation. A mating pair form a shape known as a "heart" or "wheel", the male clasping the female at the back of the head, the female curling her abdomen down to pick up sperm from secondary genitalia at the base of the male's abdomen. The pair often remain together with the male still clasping the female while she lays eggs within the tissue of plants in or near water using a robust ovipositor.
Fishing flies that mimic damselfly nymphs are used in wet-fly fishing. Damselflies sometimes provide the subject for personal jewellery such as brooches.
Model: Andresa Alves
Photography and Retouch: Jackson Carvalho
Make and Hair: joaquim Jr.
Fashion Production: Diego Viana
Photo Assistance: Jonathan Albuquerque
Executive Production: Danilo Nunes
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- Canon 60D
- Rokinion 8mm f3.5 Fisheye
- Canon 430ex II Flash
- Yongnuo YN 568ex Flash
- Yongnuo 622c Triggers ( 3 of those )
Editing / RAW Process:
- Adobe Lightroom 5.7
- NIK Collection - Analog EFX Pro 2
Strobist / Flash info:
- Canon 430ex II Flash set on low tripod on the Left of the camera pointing 45 degrees upwards…
- Yongnuo YN 568ex Flash set on a tripod at top of stairs pointing towards the skater…
Here's my 'first draft' of this morning's ridiculous sunrise at Owls Head. 13 vertical exposures, f/11, 1/6 sec. 18mm lens on my crop sensor, and I still couldn't reach the coverage of the wonderful cotton candy clouds overhead. I am going to go back and work on blending exposures so that I can bring out more details in the lighthouse and the holiday decorations.
Story behind the photo:
I snuck out of bed at 3:30 AM and considered my options. My planning these days is almost always based on what the satellite looks like. Clouds above with a window for the sun to rise is generally what I'm after. I was originally going to hike up Mount Megunticook in Camden Hills for sunrise, but when I got there I realized I didn't bring my headlamp and it would be too tough trying to hike it in the pitch dark, which was necessary in order to get up there by sunrise. So I had to come up with another plan...
Camden Harbor was my next option, but the bare trees, empty harbor, and lack of snowfall bummed me out. Onward to Owls Head! I arrived in the parking lot around 6:15, and starting walking around to find the best vantage point. Shooting up the stairs really wasn't an option. I had to get something original and besides, the light was going to be a lot better looking over the water right up beside the lighthouse.
The problem I encountered when I found my spot was that there was very little room to move back and include the lighthouse in the frame. I don't have a real wide angle lens or a full-frame camera, so my reach was seriously limited. To compensate, I propped my tripod as far back as I possibly could, which was on about a 30 degree slope with trees touching my back, and considered something Christopher O'Donnell has done to overcome similar frame limitations, panorama stitching. I started making horizontal frames, but the scene was just too tall, so I switched to vertical. Sweeping from left to right, I wanted to include the full structure of the lighthouse along with what was turning out to be a spectacular sunrise. I judged my metering from the bars on the back of the camera and exposed 3 times in 1 1/2 stop increments.
Looking back, I wish I had paid closer attention to the top of the frame, maybe I could have captured more of the sky above by taking two verticals instead of one for each area. I could also have paid closer attention to my histogram, but I think experience paid off here, I had a good enough idea by judging the meter on the camera to know that I wasn't overexposing on this, my shortest exposure.
Haha, I realize I just wrote a friggin' essay, but I wanted to share some of what went into this photo and what I've been learning lately... Thanks!
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Santa and the Boy, are wishing everyone a Merry Christmas this year.
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13 vertical exposures were stitched in Photoshop to create this sweeping panorama of Owls Head, near Rockland, Maine.
- Canon 7D Mark 2
- Canon 50mm f1.4
- Canon 430ex II Flash
Editing / RAW Process:
- Adobe Lightroom 5.7
- NIK Collection - Analog EFX Pro 2
Today was my first real day out with my new D600 and 15mm lens, I ventured down to the beach for sunrise, unusual I know. As most people who know me the majority of my recent work has been done on my iPhone as my old D90 had issues.
This image I call The nicest looking public toilet in the shire.
I took a few pointers from +Trey Ratcliff book on HDR photography and edited this set of three images in #photomatixpro then did a little #AdaptiveWideAngle adjusting in +Adobe Photoshop thanks to a tutorial I recently watched by +Adobe +Russell Preston Brown then I took the final image into +onOne Software and did a little glow effect, cropped the image then this was the final result.
I don't usually use #Photoshop to edit my photos but after recently acquiring an annual subscription to #AdobeCC I feel I need to start attempting to use it more. I hope you like the final result.
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The hazy spots on the water is river ice. I love the winter. It really changes up the scenery. That sounds like something a photographer would say. Or yah, it's going to snow.
The willow-herbs are a 'difficult' group of plants - in that they hybridise readily. Most are hairy perennials - which can spread by short offshoots from the base of the main stem. Most willow herbs have long, toothed, spear shaped leaves that are arranged in opposite pairs along the lower stem, though higher up they may alternate.
The great willow-herb, Epilobium hirsutum (pictured above) is the tallest and largest flowered willow-herb found in the U.K. It is widespread, often abundant in damp places.
All the willow-herbs have long, narrow seed pods that split open when mature to show the silky hairs attached to the tiny seeds