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……But not as rough as it can get in winter months in Coverack! This was an Easterly wind that was whipping a bit of a swell- on the other side of the Lizard it was flat!…….. Hope Friday is going well, stay locked down and cosy to stay safe and to keep EVERYONE else safe too! A VERY BIG THANK YOU to ALL the key workers who are carrying on to benefit the rest of us - we applaud you all. Alan;-)👏👏👏👏👏
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Challenge : Bits and Bobs 2:
On your project you will require the following items,
Sunglasses , Sun Hat , Bucket and Spade and Flower.
Credit’s : Art work by me : Photo : Bobby (My Westie)
Challenge closes : 28th August 2021
Link to Challenge :
www.flickr.com/groups/3940040@N21/discuss/72157719600730559/
A bit late for the holiday season, but presented in the spirit of Santa. A weather-worn Limber Pine anchored in granite clings to the slopes of Grassy Top, with the afternoon sun warming its trunk. I'm not sure of the age of the older trees on this slope, but based on nearby trees that I've cored I'd guess this individual might be a bit over 300 years old.
Having FUN . . .
If Taylor Swift sees this, she'll do a double take for sure!
Her summer cottage is in the picture, but a bit distorted,
just for kicks!
The scenery everywhere was just stunning - especially when there was a bit of sunshine to light it up.
Landscape photography is all about patience, luck, and getting over poor choices... This shot was a nearly missed occasion : after I setted up my gear for a nice golden hour shot, thinking there was too much cloud to get any sunrise light, I did not have time to move around when, against all odds, the sunrise turned out to be beautifull. I then waited one hour without the least bit of light coming through. When I packed up my gear the sun finaly broke through and I rushed everything back out of the bag to get this shot... Not so much golden light but still : low angle sun beams hitting the lighthouse and the bridge ! Hope you like it !
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A delay in the Cardiff area allowed me to easily beat the train up to Chepstow to grab this shot of 60054 now crossing the River Wye with 6B13 05.00 Robeston - Westerleigh.
A bit of swooshery from Bamburgh Beach in Northumberland. I always admire square crops from other photograpghers but for some reason have difficulty seeing them for myself - hopefully this works? Another "blue"morning but the tide was a perfect height for the waves to cover these rocks as it was incoming and I had a happy hour here chasing various compositions as the tide changed.
Bit of a shock compared to Hampshire but I am lucky enough to be working in Iceland for a week. Heavy snow, then glorious sunshine and then around that corner a snow storm ( or light flurry if you are Icelandic). Prepared to be bored everybody.
Been a bit distracted lately but one thing I was working on was a B&W shot of the garlic family, This is one shot from that study.
It seems like I took this a long time ago but I see it wasn't that long. I hope this shot provides a moment of distraction.
All the best in these turbulent times and hope this day finds you safe and in good health! The cause of my distraction and reason I've been a bit absent from flickr lately is I'm approaching retirement and I'm a bit stressed. I was looking to finish out my 40 year career in style, big luncheon planned, lot's of hugging, reminiscing with old friends. Now with the added concern over COVID-19, we postponed the luncheon and I've been working from home for the last week. I cleared out my desk from work but still have another week, 10 days to be precise until my last day on 31 March. Very strange indeed and now I just want to get to the 31st and quell some of this anxiety along with the uncertainty of COVID-19. Well, I'll hang in there so we'll see!
Hunker down, wash those hands and keep your distance from other folk but most of all remember that we're all in this together.
... people who will be alone, people who will be in pain, in trouble for this Xmas moment.
I'm lucky in my life and even if I'm a lot selfish and not so friendly. Sometimes I complain for nothing, for not important things when some are really in sad and hurting life.
And it's why in this moments of happiness, I give a little bit of love to whom are less lucky as me.
♥LOVE♥
A bit of an obvious one for "Soap", and there are some similar entries for this week's theme.
What makes this one a little different is that I've waited for the sun to come out and shine through the bar of soap to make the logo glow with yellow light, and this type of lighting also has the effect of softening the detail - "soft soap" perhaps?
Shot with a Helios 44M lens at f/8 on about 2cm of extension tubes.
In post processing, I've "turned everything up to 11" to enhance the effect, cropped down to the logo and I've cloned out a few tiny blemishes.
Milky Way @ Stonehenge, Wiltshire UK
Well I've been a bit frustrated wrt the Milky Way core this year as when it's visible around 3am or so unless it's at a weekend I just can't shoot it as I wreck myself for work and weekends have been pretty crap so far.
I got myself a second hand fast prime lens through mpb earlier in the year and have been wanting to try it out for astro.
More recently the MWC has been 'visible' just after midnight but again far too many clouds most nights. However, the other night there was a forecast for skies to be clearing around midnight so I took a chance but wanted somewhere not to far away so despite the known light pollution I set off on the 35min drive to Stonehenge.
Experimented with f/1.4-f/2 shots and 2-2.5min exposures using the Move-Shoot-Move star tracker I have.
I can't say I think this is a great image and I'll try to convince myself it's more to do with the light pollution (I wish Salisbury's street lights went off at 10pm!) than my lack of shooting/editing skills. However I thought I'd post it just as a bit of a record of my first attempt with the Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens. 14mm would have been better but I'll cross my fingers canon will eventually see sense and let Sigma produce RF compatible glass.
For the record - the image is a composite of a 150s exposure at f/2 ISO100 for the sky and 30s f/4 ISO1600 for Stonehenge.
I'm planning on taking this lens to Iceland in October so wish me luck seeing and shooting the Northern Lights during the few nights I'm there on a Workshop.
Thanks for viewing and have a good weekend everyone..
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Given the Beauty of this Flower and its Visitor, clearly the Devil lost! The ancient story goes that the vernacular name of Succisella inflexa, Southern Devil's Bit (Morsus diaboli), goes back on the enmity between the Devil and Beneficial Nature. Our Scabious once in the dawn of humanity was a Heal-All, much to the dismay of the Devil who sought only anguish for humankind. Out of pure spite he bit off the main part of Scabious's root - regard its shallow rooting today - hoping the plant would die. Hence 'Devil's Bit'. Of course, Succisella didn't die but it did lose its healing powers. In compensation it remained attractive and beautiful, full of Plenty for myriad insects among which Butterflies and also this marvelous Hoverfly.
Belted Flyer. Volucella zonaria, by the standard of Hoverfly sizes, is very large; it measures about 2.5 cm (=almost an inch) compared to the 2-3 mm (.09 inch) of the smallest ones. And Zonaria's color is striking as well, very orange-yellow, mimicking a Hornet. So often it's called the Hornet Hoverfly. Entirely harmless, though; not a devil at all in her!
Bit of a busy evening before Game of Thrones. Early post not following any theme. One of those days. Keep the love.
"I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality."
Ralph Gibson
It looks a bit like fall foliage but unfortunately the reddish trees are dead spruce trees. The trees are being killed by beetles that bore into and eat the living tree beneath the bark. Otherwise I thought this was a nice view of the lake and mountains with a bit of remaining snow in August.
Taken 1 August 2021 at Kenai Lake, Alaska
Sometimes described as a wooden Thrup'nny bit this coin was worth 1/80 of a pound and bears some resemblance to the present pound coin having 12 sides and golden colour. I chose this for the "Redux" theme on currency.
New look. A little bit of the old and a little bit of the new, but hopefully there will be a whole lot of new to come.
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Pottering about a bit in our Snowy Garden this morning, my Sonyeye became intrigued by this Winter Brightness. Almost violently red Cotoneaster Berries are vying with Gravity - can't show you that - over the fortunes of an H2O-droplet. Amazing forces of Nature form such a droplet. Water molecules would rather band together than bond with other kinds such as air. This desire for proximity to each other causes their spherical shape - a bit technically: a sphere has the smallest possible surface area to volume ratio. What looks like an 'elastic membrane' around the droplet is in fact its surface tension, caused by that central molecular binding. This tension is quite something: it makes it possible for example for small insects to walk on water.
In the photo, our water droplet is not a sphere. It's pendant, pulled out of shape by the force of gravity. And fell into a snowy grave just as Sony did its thing.
For this to make any sense it would be helpful to have a quick look at my previous picture of the Fire Station coffee shop (and art centre).....
I have photographed the exterior of this building on three occasions now. It is a street photographers dream. Yesterday Kerry enquired in the comments, if I had had a coffee? Well I felt a little guilty that I hadn’t and thought I would rectify that today.
There is currently an exhibition of sculpture by Johannes Von Stumm on in the Fire Station. I took my mother (who is an artist in her own right) to have a look around. I bought our coffees and then surveyed the artwork.....I’m always attracted to the price tags first.....One tag read £42,000 and another read £51,000. Beautiful artwork but not really my cup of tea (or price bracket)......
The pictured bronze was sat by the bar and caught my eye. I went over and looked at it. It was a completely different style of work to the other sculptures. Much more up my street. I enquired of the barman if this was made by Mr Von Stumm as well? .....
He said No. One of the bar staff had made it!!!!!
Heck there are some very talented people around.....
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Have a good weekend.....
I think it's time for another bird, an oldie showing mistakes I made early and often. It was 11 years ago, and I was just "getting a feel for the SX20, Canon's second Powershot iteration, and 'birding'." And, I was doing fairly well, but when I look back I had a tendency to center my subjects and not leave enough space for a better composition. Oh, I didn't do it all the time, but enough so that today it bothers me that I can't improve on an image like this one. (Just like I used to tell my barber when I had hair ... and a barber ... leave a little on the upper left.)
In this case, I was lucky. I went back to that very spot in 2018, the Old Borges Ranch fam ily home, and sure enough, this tree branch was still a favorite with Juncos and Golden-crowned sparrows. (Mourning Doves, woodpeckers, and raptors stayed clear. Too bad. I'd love to have gotten more of all three.)
Anyway, the head is darker and the chestnut color a bit deeper, but you could swear it was the same bird. And, I left enough room to crop if necessary. Still, after 2015, I started leaving suffcient space in the direction that my subject was looking, and my mistakes are fewer. Fortunately, I did not get into the habit of shooting everything close when in 2014, I bought the SX50 with a tremendous range.
{The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) is a species of junco, a group of small, grayish New World sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related fox sparrow, and its systematics are still not completely untangled. I don't care what they call it today, it will always be an Oregon Junco, the first bird along with the Black Phoebe, that got be hooked on photographing birds even before I had the focal length.}