Butterflies in Asia
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% aperture at 2.0)
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© 2016 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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© 2016 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% aperture at 2.0)
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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Back from a brief trip to paradise… Northern Italy and the Alps. Managed to snap a few pics during this “traveler’s tour,’ which is always a challenge since nobody waits for tripod users; hence all shots are handheld.
Dolomites mountain group is in the eastern section of the northern Italian Alps, The range comprises a number of impressive peaks, 18 of which rise to more than 10,000 feet. The highest point is the Marmolada (10,964 feet, the southern face of which consists of a precipice 2,000 feet high.
The range and its characteristic rock take their name from the 18th-century French geologist Dieudonné Dolomieu, who made the first scientific study of the region and its geology.
Geologically, the mountains are formed of light-colored dolomitic limestone, which erosion has carved into grotesque shapes. The resulting landforms include jagged, saw-edged ridges, rocky pinnacles, screes (pebble deposits) of limestone debris, deep gorges, and numerous steep rock faces at relatively low levels.
Glaciated features occur at higher levels; 41 glaciers lie in the region. Many of the lower and more gentle scree slopes were once forested; only patches of woodland remain, however, interspersed with grassy meadows.
(Nikon, 16mm, 1/125 @ f/18, ISO 200)
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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Same pov like previous post but not same shot and in monochrome version.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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© 2016 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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© 2015 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
55 days into this 365 and I am pleasantly surprised that by staying present to whatever shows up throughout the day is kinda fun.
Happy Friday to all.
Shot notes: the warm tones is reflected sunlight on the water further up the stream (I was shooting from a lower section of the bank)
Note to self: f/9 and that's all the focus I get?! Do I hike 15 minutes back to my car for the tripod? *sigh* Perfectionism please lighten up because I am trying to go with the flow here...
Project 365-055
This picture was created from 6 single Shots and stacked to one panorama picture and was created in London 2014.
It shows the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red".
This Art shows 888,246 ceramic red poppies in front of the Tower, each intended to represent one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the first War
More information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Swept_Lands_and_Seas_of_Red
All shots are:
upright format
f11
ISO 125
1/60
Orginal Picture Size 36Mpx
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Thanks for Explore #394
All shots of this series done with the Samyang 135/2 wide-open plus reflector (in this case the window pane through which the shot was done).
Separating the sacred (the church, to the left) from the profane (the village, to the right). All shots of this series done with the Mitakon Speedmaster at F0.95.
Oxeye daisy | Leucanthemum vulgare
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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© 2016 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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© 2015 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
All shot from the hip. The locals understandably did not allow focused photography in the old city market area.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% with aperture at 2.0)
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As I reported in a recent story, the bluebell season had proved to be a bit of a non event this year. A not very heady combination of poor weather, a poor attitude and even worse composition skills had delivered nothing whatsoever and I’d resorted to the archives for an image to share a story of abject failure. It was time to move on. What was next? Well a return to Echo Beach and Godrevy Lighthouse was long overdue. Very long overdue in fact – I was surprised to note that I hadn’t taken photos here since January. Even more startling was the realisation that on six of the previous eight visits, I hadn’t got beyond downloading the raw files onto my computer. Ok so during that period I was lucky enough to go to Iceland and the Canary Islands, trips which were filled with yet to be shared images, but it did make me wonder what on earth I’d been playing at. Why had I ignored all of these folders, and what was in them? I really should take a look.
So some time towards the end of last week, we headed down to Godrevy in the van. On a sunny afternoon that was colder than it looked, we sat at the field on the headland in our camping chairs, enjoying a cream tea that had arrived as part of an unexpected hamper delivery that morning. It seems that recommending services you’ve been happy with pays dividends once in a while. I’d brought the camera with me of course, with only a passing thought about whether we’d stay long enough for sunset. Really we’d just come down for an afternoon out, and a brief stroll to watch the seals at Mutton Cove before racing back to the van as a shower raced towards us from across the bay. Back in the van another cup of tea was brewed as we settled down to watch the world outside. Ali had a little snooze while I pushed on through the last few chapters of the novel that had taken me away to the dreamland marshes of the North Carolina coast for most of the last week. Afternoon ticked on towards early evening. At some point we’d have to make a decision about food.
So we trundled off to Hayle and continued to abandon our cholesterol levels outside the front door of the local chippy. We could always have alfalfa sprouts tomorrow. Once rumbling stomachs were refuelled, we returned to the exact same spot as before, noting that the gates would be locked at nine. I’d just hop down and have a look. There wasn’t much doing, so I told Ali I’d be back soon. I’m never back soon. She knows that.
After poppies, it’s sea thrift in this rapidly passing floral season. No sooner have the woodland blues begun to wane and descend back into the lush green foliage, the vivid pink blooms appear on clifftops across the coast. And while I’d gradually begun to make sense of bluebell compositions (at least until this year’s big step backwards), the sea thrift had remained complicated. I pretty much always shoot into the light because it’s what inspires me and moves me to landscape photography, but of course that sets its challenges. Shadows, silhouettes, and dynamic ranges to test the computer’s memory later on. I look back to early attempts where I’d followed the letter rather too closely – highlights all the way down, shadows all the way up, noise all the way up with it – all shots where I’d failed to keep the raw files to try again years later as I released the histogram was on the back of my camera for a reason and learned new techniques in the editing suite. At one time I tried a stage of shooting the foreground an hour before the background, but the blend never looked convincing. Focus stacks also came with accompanying headaches – all of those fiddly strands against the blue background sea that looked messy if you dived into the pixels too far.
The most pleasing result to date was one that ironically, I’ve never shared on Flickr. Maybe I should. A beautiful glowing mass of colourful cloud, a clutch of gulls making for the island and an appealing pink patch at the front of the image. Why did I never post it? Not sure, but when I have another creative block like the one I faced in the bluebell woods, I guess I can keep it up my sleeve. Two further years of learning how to use Photoshop will need to be applied first though. It was one of those pesky focus stacks and the blending needs another visit. At least this was in the era since I decided to keep every raw file forever. Except the real duds of course. Mind you that could be a mistake – ICM is so popular nowadays. Even if this is more like UCM.
This evening was also testing my brain cells. In truth, I’d left things late. If I’m out on my own I can happily set up a composition and wait for two hours until the light is at its best. But an hour ago we were queuing at the chippy three miles away in Hayle, and nowhere near any compositions. Not unless Asda superstores are your chosen subject. Now I dashed from one spot to another, always struggling with the gulf of water between the headland and the lighthouse that separated the foreground and background almost irreparably. As I settled on this one, Ali rang to say the man had arrived to lock the gates as a stream of vehicles headed along the clifftop towards the road. At the exact same moment, the sky was starting to get interesting, so shameful to say, I asked her if she could drive Brenda back to the main car park that is never locked, and five minutes later I saw a big red van moving away from me. “Got here without any bumps” came the message.
I settled down as the sun headed towards the horizon and the colours became ever more saturated. By now it was a case of seizing what I could from the scene and hoping for the best, before walking back along the cliff path and remembering what it is that brings me here again and again, whether or not I take photos, and whether or not I get around to working on them later.
Emboldened by her success at driving the van from the field to the car park, Ali drove us home. Cream teas, fish and chips, sea thrift and a chauffeur. Better than frowning in frustration at bluebells that don’t want to play.
Maybe some time for a few detail shots? All shot at this years Greenwich Concours Show. I find the early, pre "Spirit of Ecstasy" hood mascot on the 1909 Rolls interesting. Obviously, it was before Eleanor entered the picture, and the bedroom, so to speak! ;)
this vertorama was shot this evening (060409). i just had to chance myself for some photoshooting since its been too long i left my camera alone..pity my camera :p. sorry for shooting at the same vantage point fellas..its just i dont know where else to shoot in KL and i dont have much time to walk around. hopefully u guys can enjoy viewing the LARGE one as well :)
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vertorama of 2 tonemapped HDR images, 6 exposures each. all shots were taken using different Kelvin temperature white balance to create cool-warm tones. stitched them manually in CS3 plus minor color adjustments as the blue hour turned out too blue after tonemapping process.
St Peter’s Square, Manchester
Everyone’s favourite tram stop in Manchester… Geoff’s turn.
A few coming from the Manchester meet-up with Brad and Barb – over from the USA back in May 2024.
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% aperture at 2.0)
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© 2015 stefanorugolo | All rights reserved.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Monday" theme "Zed".
Two different grains of salt, the big one being sea salt, the other one alpine table salt! The big one is about 3 mm in size and though it is a giant compared to the small one... I really liked how it puts things into perspective! Everything is relative after all!
Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 71 mm F 4" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
All shots of this series done with Leica M8 plus Voigtlander AS 2.8/90 wide-open. The location is one of Hertfordshire's garden centres (which, as I have told you before, I do regard as one of our barometers gauging the status of contemporary culture). This time, I had the chance of talking things through with one of the managers of the centre. First, the garden centre acquires and exhibits sculptures (and almost all sorts of them) because customers buy them. No surprise here, but as well no explanation as why they do so. Two, and importantly, the centre displays the sculptures according to visual criteria (difference of colour, background, focal or points of attraction). Three, the sculptures (as stand alone figures or in clusters) are located on critical junctions of the passage way through the centre. All this, in my view, creates a semi-sacred topography where customers (believers in the regeneration and wholeness of nature) perambulate as if on a procession. The content and individuality of any specific religion does not seem to matter, however, a general and undefined kind of spirituality does.
Very quick stop off in Onehunga on the way home tonight as I was passing the Manukau Harbour view. These rays burst through and being a sky nut a few hand held shots with the Grad Filter had to be done. The crepusculars were all over within a few mins sadly.
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Have a good weekend all.
Shot: 1/125sec | f11 | ISO200 | 70mm | 3StopGnd (shot at -4/3 ev) | 16:9 format
This is absolutely true and possibly many will believe it is False and/or fanciful and because I needed it to be true….no matter because I know what I believe….
Many will know that my late husband Brendan was Irish…sadly he died aged 65 in 2012
4 years later I met Jonathan and we became friends and he walked his dog with myself and my dog Beau and Beau’s sibling Phoebe the pet belonged to my niece Mandy and we walked together for a year and a half then became a couple and married in 2017…We went to the Lincoln Christmas Market together in 2018 but I was desperately uncomfortable but I had gone every year with my soulmate husband Brendan. I wandered miserably from stall to stall till we came across a lady selling these peg doll Christmas tree fairy’s and I picked a beautiful one for my sister with blonde hair and a candy cane in her hand. I didn’t intend buying one for myself. However I stayed at the stall and couldn’t make myself leave - eventually telling the stall holder that I was drawn to the green fairy wearing a top hat hanging just above my head. “Oh she replied, that one’s an Irish fairy and if you look she’s holding a bunch of shamrock in her hands “
The feeling the went over and through my body can’t be imagined I’m sure. I just knew it was Brendan’s way of telling me everything was fine and I could go around the Christmas market with his blessing. I was and still am elated. This shot actually a blend of three shots and is of the fairy that still hangs in our bedroom. The the tiny seed head is balanced on a vase and I have a piece of original copper artwork and the orange and turquoise come through off that. How the copper settled so beautifully in the seed head remains a mystery. All shots were taken by my Nikon d850 and the blend and crop plus border done in photoshop…..now a tip for you. I took a shot minus the back border and had a free print photo that actually cost a little more because I had it upgraded to acrylic…they only expect smartphone shots so I took a photo of it and downloaded it as a screenshot and sent it to my mailbox and it was readily accepted and came back looking perfect 12 inch x 12 inch and is above a small oak table in my front room….Jonathan thinks it’s beautiful and I love it and feel comforted by it every day 😊
Btw….I have printed this myself too because a few people I know love it and fyi it print's off with these exact colours…been done over a year and never loses any vibrancy :)