Quite liked the dark background and the reflection of the tail.

HMM

Looking close...on Friday - "Pink on white background"

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Olimp Resort, Romanian Seaside, Constanța County, Romania

Zeiss Touit F2.8 50mm Macro E-Mount

For the "Looking Close..on Friday!" theme "Flora in March"

Working on a video for this process right now and thought I'd share the image. :) If you want a free PDF of these to print off and play with yourself, please PM me your email and I'll send it off to you!

These are a 'new thing' for me, so I'm just getting my chops yet. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E

London Street Graffiti Collection Backgrounds.

10 backgrounds include 2 rares.

Opening 6st May.

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Photo made by Me.

A fantastic day spent in Paul Fowlie's Red Squirrel Hides in the Yorkshire dales. These cheeky little characters certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves also.

No Photoshop or anything like that - just a colored wall in a castle park.

I had some reasonable shots of a Kingfisher but they had a pretty uninspiring grey background due to a dull overcast day. So for the very first time I decided to find out how to change the background of the shot, this is the result not perfect by any means but more pleasing to the eye than grey. There is also a slight vignette, it's obviously not a natural background and I would always say if I had done this. Any thoughts ?

The center background shows a huge mountain of mine tailings.

Full Moon in the Cloudy Evening Sky as seen from Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.

First, my apologies for posting so infrequently lately. Everything is fine, I've just been a little busy and haven't had as much time to devote here as I would like to. Hopefully I can get more consistent again soon.

I didn't take many portraits of Scotch after his surgery in large part because I wanted him to just concentrate on getting better and was a bit stressed out from the whole ordeal. After 17 total trips to the vet and surgery facility in 2016, he's off to a great start here in 2017 at least. He's been healthy, going on multiple long walks a day and is generally just a really happy 13 year old. This portrait comes from the same shoot as my previous Scotch post and I was mostly very pleased with all the results. I picked an evening where he was both calm and alert and didn't have to rely on him napping or sleeping like the previous year. With a handful of tiny treats, I was able to move him around where I wanted. He may be deaf but he still knows a few hand symbols we've used since he was a puppy. He'll still go to where I point, will still sit when I hold up a fist and will lie down when I lower that fist.

For this capture, I held a treat by my face and let him stare away for a few shots before I threw it to him. All dogs look differently when they want a treat or food--my Rottweiler would stare at and inch closer to the food while drooling or snatch it when he thought he had an opening and my old miniature pinscher would growl and bark at me (he was a monster)--but Scotch either figured out my weakness when he was young or simply lucked out. What he does when I'm eating my own food or holding a treat is stare me right in the eyes--this is a dog who hates eye contact--and just look at me like this while I eat, never shifting his gaze to the food. it's impossible to ignore and say no to...and I rarely do. It's so effective, in fact, that I'l typically push aside on my plate the last bite and give it to him so he won't look sad when I put my fork down on an empty plate.

This was also the first time I got to test out my new manfrotto tripod and vanguard pistol grip head. The tripod was a christmas gift to myself and finally gave me a lightweight, sturdy and portable option. It also allows me to get the camera extremely low to the ground like my old vanguard Alta Pro 163AT which is what I've used for the majority of the photographs I've posted here. The head is a vanguard GH-300t which has a built in shutter release if I want an extra hand verses holding a wireless remote. Oddly, my old set up was a vanguard tripod with a manfrotto pistol grip but this new setup seems much better to me. Like the previous post, Scotch is up on a chaise in my brother's office with a black foam board behind him to create the background and let me use a quicker shutter speed. While previous portraits have been favorites as I learned to photograph him and figure out how to achieve the look I wanted, I think these last two have been my favorites overall. These shots have more detail and better poses and the remote shutter on the pistol grip worked surprisingly well and sped up the time needed between the focusing, arrangement and setup of each shot.

Again, sorry for the infrequent posts and I hope everyone is having a great weekend :)

SCOTCH

Age 13

Hollywood, California

January 18th, 2017

SETTINGS

40mm

ISO 400

f/5

1/13th second

SETUP

legs: Manfrotto 190cx pro4

head: Vanguard GH300-T

lighting: EcoGear FX pro LED flashlight with diffuser

compact LED flashlight offset on either side of his face.

black foam board backdrop

Icelandic Poppies. LOVE the papery texture!

Papaver nudicaule or Iceland Poppy, with large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, one foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long.

They were first described by botanists in 1759.

Cultivars come in shades of yellow, red, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-coloured varieties.

All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous, containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids: ALWAYS wash you hands thoroughly after handling ANY flowers/plants!I like my garden to be a haven for bees and butterflies.

People smile when they pass... because of the colours, I mix herbs and flowers, it is semi-wild?

I let it 'overgrow' in a controlled way, simply because I do not like weeding AND I do not have enough time.

Well, it was inevitable that from some neighbouring garden, some of the wild yellow poppies were eventually be carried by wind or bird?

They look lovely in their bright yellow frocks and are a real honey-trap for bees!

I never saw the wild yellow in Belgium, only red ones, gave family there some seeds and yet they have NEVER managed to grow them...

With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments, have a great w-e, M, (* _ *)

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thanks for Jessica.

Visit this location at Ibo's home in Second Life

Press L for a better look at its curled tongue and for the raindrops on its antenna.

Happy Sliders Sunday!

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a fog laden day at Ft. Sill, OK

I don't usually like to put up new versions of old images, but I've broken my rule in this case. The previous version didn't give a sense of the scale of the building: it was just a crop of the top. This version, I hope, better conveys the height.

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Santa Maddalena (Sankt Magdalena) in the Val di Funes in Italy the famous church of San Giovanni in Ranui (Sankt Johann)

with the Geisler or Odle dolomites mountain peaks in background

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my Texture - Wall

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BLACK BACKGROUND is the topic for Monday 11 January 2016 Group Our Daily Challenge

Candid shot of a Capitol Hill Arts Workshop student in my Washington, D.C. photo class. Single dot focusing was on the rim of the student's lens but special attention was on the background, framing the subject in the doorway and using the photo of the wall to balance the image.

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A scene of my daily walk with my Jack Russell , you are looking over to Trematon castle in the far background, and in the foreground Forder viaduct and Forder where there are some lovely houses opposite the creek, well worth a visit and a walk.

Extra Note: Sitting on the banks in the distance overlooking the River Lynher are Shillingham Vineyards which presently produce a Rose, Sauvignon Blanc and a Chardonnay

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