"FUTURAMA" - SOTN February 2019 Contest

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From bud to bloom.

From my garden, a few days of lesser weather, the Roses suffered, I watched till I could no more and then brought them in... and here it is, one of them, the showy Just Joey, for our pleasure.

Few roses are as perfumed as 'Just Joey' a classic variety, with a fabulous scent and stunning depth of colour.

The salmon, coppery-orange flowers have pronounced red veining, with the whole bloom fading to a satisfying copper-buff with age.

It is also very disease-proof and undemanding.

Hybrid Tea Rose and has a fruity fragrance (to me it smells like ripe raspberries mmmmmm) which wafts from large ruffled salmon blooms, once opened.

This superstar rose is from England. Just Joey roses were inducted into the Hall of Fame by the World Federation of Rose Societies in 1994.

The flowers are well-formed with large, high-centred buds, supported by long, straight and upright stems.

The Royal Horticultural Society has given it its prestigious Award of Garden Merit.

Have a lovely day and thank you for your comments, M, (*_*)

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Just to show how the beauty of the Cherry Blossom can brighten the dullest of days.

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Olimp Resort, Romanian Seaside, Constanța County, Romania

VIA 72 Departs Windsor with the Detroit Skyline in the background as 917 takes the lead of the train.

Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral in the background and statue of Avram Iancu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Avram Iancu (1824 – September 10, 1872) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848–1849. At that time Transylvania was part of the empire. Hungarian revolutionaries in Romania (many of whom were landowners) refused to debate the abolition of serfdom (which at the time was the state of the larger part of the Romanian population in Transylvania). He started rallying peasants in the Apuseni (Western Carpathian) Mts. to protest. As the Austrians granted the abolition of serfdom, they also forbade all representative institutions in Transylvania. Avram Iancu was censored throughout his life, had his library confiscated, and was placed under surveillance. The Austrian authorities knew that his presence alone served to inflame local sentiments. Avram Iancu was officially declared a Hero of the Romanian Nation in November 2016 by the Romanian Parliament and the president Klaus Iohannis.

Built in a Romanian Brâncovenesc style, a synthesis of Renaissance and Byzantine architecture, the cathedral is located in the Avram Iancu Square, across from the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre. The cathedral was built between 1923 and 1933, after the Union of Transylvania with the Romanian Old Kingdom. The main dome of the Cathedral, inspired by the dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, is surrounded by four Romanian Brâncovenesc style towers. The 18 large columns supporting the dome are sculpted in stone. The main material used for the construction of the Cathedral was stone extracted from Baciu and Bompotoc. (Wikipedia)

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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.

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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 ?

Samenstand des Winterlings im Garten vor schwarzem Hintergrund /

Seed head of the winter aconite in the garden against a black background

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Such a nice blue behind that garishly bright Gaillardia

After a week when temperatures across the UK have hovered above a sweltering 30C/85F, I found myself longing for the chill and fog of early spring, and revisited a shot which I captured at the centre of Richmond Park in early April. On many mornings I'd hoped for calm conditions that would bring heavier fog, and before this particular sunrise the low wind speed and near-freezing temperature near the Pen Ponds created fog so dense that, for a couple of hours, visibility dropped to about 20 metres. As the sun finally crept above the woodland and created various shades of orange and pink on the horizon, I came across the bare branches of an oak tree, and next to it the remains of a broken tree trunk, part of which now lay on the ground. Something about this scene captivated me, so I stopped to capture it.

The image is a blend of seven bracketed exposures, and proved to be a fun editing project because of the contrast between intense foggy light around the sun and deep shadows covering the trees and foreground. I began by blending my exposures using luminosity masks, bringing up visibility of the tree trunks while toning down brightness around the sun. I then refined my own masks in order to select and intensify the fog in the background. This was achieved by duplicating the blue channel in the Channels Panel and using a Levels adjustment to increase the channel's contrast between Darks and Midtones, effectively removing the trees and grass from the selection. After extracting the highlights around the sun using a selection from my Brights luminosity masks, I was left with a selection of just the foggy background, where I blended in my brightest exposures using a combination of linear and reflective gradient masks.

Colour-grading the image was very straightforward, as the mixture of early-morning blues across the landscape and intense warm tones in the sky only needed a little emphasis. Using Colour Balance adjustments with Apply Image as a layer mask, I gave the midtones and shadows a colder finish, and targeted the brighter area around the sun to increase the reds and magentas in the highlights. Setting two low-opacity Colour Lookup adjustments to Soft Light, I then used the Foggy Night preset for the foreground and the Soft Warming preset for the sky.

Using Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I brought out a little of the tree trunks' texture using the Detail Extractor filter, and at the same time softened the detail in the sky using the Sunlight filter, which helped to bring out the hazy glow across the scene when I'd captured it. While I thought that viewers' eyes would gravitate to the sun emerging between the tree's branches, the tree and the trunks among the fog were what drew me to the scene, and I felt it was important to try to emphasise their weathered texture and, ultimately, their "character". There was something hopeful about the colour spreading across the horizon as the sun rose, but at the same time something poignant about a scene that seemed to tell a story of nature's brutality and illustrate how certain things, once broken, can't easily be healed or repaired.

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Spotted something off in the distance

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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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Smoke (single flash). It's always a treat when smoke trails take on anthropomorphic characteristics.

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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

In the forground:

Reed Bunting - Rohrammer

(Emberiza schoeniclus)

Background Vocal

Bluethroat - Blaukehlchen

(Luscinia svecica)

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