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A bit of golden dunage from Cornwall this weekend. Bit unlucky with the weather on the last 2 days so this was one of the only shows of light I managed to catch. Such a beautiful place, I always leave a bit of heart behind. One day I might retire there
Just going through some shots that I haven't put up yet. I liked this one of some reason...I think I was just playing around with my 50mm lens.
Bit your tongue canoe boy and look again!
I knew little about birds when I first started taking photos on the bayou and calling this white beauty a Snowy Egret was my first major mistake. This it a juvenile Little Blue Heron which you can plainly see is completely white. It lacks the yellow spats that are a part of the Snowy’s wardrobe and also comes with some pale colors in the lores and the eyes. We see quite a few of them at this stage during their development on the bayou. A juvenile Little Blue Heron perched in a tree along Horsepen Bayou.
I meant to include the adult version here, but finally realize I had not included it earlier. In the third comment box.
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I reckon this shot is a bit too late for the movie - Transformer. I didn't even realise this shot is in my archives... that's what happen when one has too much crap in his harddrive :P Anyway, its still better late than never! Sorry its a post & run this morning as its way past midnight here & I'm going to transform myself into a sleeping log now. Should see you shortly soon! ciao!
View LARGE On Black to TRANSFORM!
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About
The Oversize Boat Truck at Dockland, Melbourne
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'level' to tone up the metal bars
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues) to adjust the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to desaturate the harshness
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to tone down the ground
- Used a slight amount of 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
Music
(Transformer Soundtrack) Linkin Park - What I've Done
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I know yet another Flickr cliché but oh, I love those home-grown apples. So yummy and beautiful. Hope everyone is having a great week!
Bit of abstract sand tide detail from Charmouth 2 weeks back. I liked how it looked like a little beach forest
A bit of an experiment. I joined a group called The Weekend Ruiner founded by Mr Vanmoer (frenchbloke.vanmoer). Every week you get random items. Some of them are like movie sets in a way -- like a long hallway missing one wall so you can do a photoshoot. This week I got this house. It's awesome. A cartoon neon house.
www.flickr.com/groups/3353476@N24/
I had a body I never wore from the Meta-Body experiment of 2011 called Frame Girl which was all lines. I've always wanted to use that body but it's not exactly something you wear out to dinner. It needed the perfect occasion.
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And the umbrella? It's raining in Norway. Nope, I'm not in Norway. I'm in Arizona where the sun is beating down on us. It's just one of those random things that worked for me.
Camera and lighting:
Firestorm, as is
Additional lighting by Lumipro
Also I added a light on the umbrella
Location: Nykus
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nykus/66/199/659
(note: I'll leave it out until Monday night. But Nykus has a landing point. So once you land, look for a round transporter thing and click on 1 to take you to the virtual room or megatrak -- anyways should be 1. Or click this again after you hit the landing point)
Setting:
wr special - 80LII glowing wireframe house thing with stool by Doctor Zimberman
Me:
{ Poppins } White Umbrella by Belle Epoque
Frame Girl shape and skin by Meiló (meilo.minotaur)
Bit of a weird one, this is the reflection from a wine glass with the sun on it and some processing to bring it out. I'll be back on normal shots soon!
There a bit of haze towards the horizon in places, but the zenith was stunningly clear giving a tremendous view of the Milky Way arching overhead. The sighting of the ghostly glow of the Zodiacal Light that shows up prominently in this image was a bonus.
This panorama was stitched from nine portrait shots taken on a static tripod (Canon 760D, 16mm FL, f3.5, ISO6400, 30s).
These are bits from a tiny screwdriver set used for working on electronics. That makes this photo a macro, as well.
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Been away a bit.
Baffled how it happened but the Monday after Christmas began coughing. Started as a tickle. Then turned croup like. Was able to get to urgent care that Thursday and a rapid test was positive for covid.
Because of my recent cancers I qualified for the myoclonal antibody treatment. Felt remarkably better for a bit.
But this sure has been a roller coaster.
I feel so bad for the unvaccinated. If I've been this awful after three Pfizers, I can't imagine surviving without having been vaxxed.
I had been given Prednisone for the croup/bronchial inflammation which I didn't start taking until I lost the sense of smell. Surprisingly the sense came back after two days.
A week after I showed symptoms, Kim showed, but hers were very different. She had severe nausea and headache. She hasn't had the respiratory involvement, but her test this past week was also positive. She's on the recovery roller coaster too.
Sometimes we feel some better, then it all hits again.
Been using our large gym ball to lie over. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of us who had been Physical Therapists had talked about the importance of lying prone and the importance of postural drainage, which we used to do for patients in the hospital before Respiratory Therapy took it over.
Lying on one's chest on the ball supports the diaphragm and makes coughing more comfortable. Pushing forward to get the head low and butt high will help get secretions moving and excreted. Plus rolling on the ball is very good for the back.
I suppose my involvement here at Flickr will be a bit spotty for awhile yet. Hope everyone stays well.
This has been baffling. We've been masked whenever we've left the house. Kim goes to work but since she showed symptoms after me, I'm the likely one to have given it to her. In the week before showing symptoms I'd been once to the grocery store. And I've always double masked. I've always brought along my alcohol spray bottle to spray down the shopping carts.
One thing we haven't kept up is the wiping down of the grocery items before bringing them into the house. And we haven't been wiping down the Amazon packages that get delivered. But that method of transference has always been very low on the list. Being unmasked in a closed space has always been the chief method of transmission.
Go figure.
A bit of a blurred shot, but with the end of Metrobus operation by National Express West Midlands imminent, thought I'd fetch this out of the junk pile, as it's the only shot I've got of an Acocks Green Metro in service.
Nice paint match on the replacement panels. you can see why the silver livery was dropped!
Did some long overdue birdwatching over the weekend, so will be "taking a break" from the arboretum pics before resuming again.
Spotted this male Northern Cardinal at the "Blazing Hot Blend" feeder - pepper treated seeds to deter the squirrels and seems to work, too. Mr Cardinal is looking a bit ragged but not sure if it's due to the stress from parenting or because of the extremely hot weather we've had in our area lately? Or something else completely different?
** Mind you, our hot weather is nothing like some other areas are experiencing but still - hot for our area! And no doubt the heat affects wildlife regardless of where they are located.
you know she's a little bit dangerous.
She's got what it takes to make ends meet
the eyes of a lover that hit like heat.
You know she's a little bit dangerous.
Just when I was wondering what to photograph for Macro Monday's theme of "Found in the Kitchen" I spied this bit of fluff dangling from my kitchen light shade.
HMM to all.
For a bit of a change of pace (abrupt shift?) , I will upload a few more images from our May trip to The Big Apple. The Dey St. Concourse at the Fulton Street Transit Center in Manhattan is a marked departure from subway architecture of days gone by, and it's strange to see anything to do with the NYC subways so deserted.
To quote Benjamin Kabak in 2nd Street Sagas, "It certainly doesn’t look like the subway system with which New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship. That alone is a step in the right direction, albeit a very, very expensive one." For more about the Fulton Street Transit Center, go to secondavenuesagas.com/2014/11/09/a-look-inside-the-new-fu...
Hope everyone has a good Tuesday. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments.
© Melissa Post 2015.
All rights reserved. Please respect my copyright and do not copy, modify or download this image to blogs or other websites without obtaining my explicit written permission.
A bit torn and tattered Monarch butterfly resting on a hydrangea flower. I'm seeing many more Monarch butterflies this year than in recent years. I have many native plants that I planted specifically for the butterflies, and it seems that my efforts are not in vain. Backyard photography.
Something bit special from an evening out in falling snow.
It is not very often that I get such a possibility to make a photograph where you have already been sure that it will be very special. The mood has something indescribably unique and you need all your concentration to make a photo at all, because this moment is so wonderful and you do not want to miss it. This was such a moment when I stood with an umbrella armed in the slow falling snow show and the passing sun was still showing through the clouds before disappeared behind the horizon. Some kind of magic...
I hope you can imagine something of it, in this shot the falling snow is unfortunately not so clearly visible. Lol... ;-)
Cheers
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Along with a few other walkers along the Kennet and Avon Canal recently, we stopped to watch the crew of this narrow boat try to turn it around. Quite a bit of difference to a three point turn in a car!
I thought at one stage they were not going to make it, but persistence pays and eventually it ended up facing the desired direction. Provided some unexpected entertainment to an unwanted audience!
Bit of a funny lazy day today. Stayed at home pottering around. Eventually went out for a walk in the wind but forgot to take the camera. So emergency photo time again for the group. This one is the back end of the ironing board.
Day 232 of 365 - Down the Road a Bit
This is a through the window while driving shot tortured significantly in Nik Silver Efex Pro, photoshop and aperture. I am not thrilled with it but I am posting it for my photo a day project.
edit:
Thank you all for all of the positive comments. After sleeping on it and all of your comments and favs I am liking it more. I think this is a case of not being able to see past the original shot (which was undoubtedly awful, see for yourself) to what I made of it.
Small and Smaller is this week’s theme for Macro Mondays, therefore different size of tool bits on black slate. Do make the photos more interesting, splashing water von above, lighting the water with a mirror, beam above the black slate.
By the end of George V's reign the threepence had become unpopular in England because of its small size
The physical dimensions of the brass threepence remained the same in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
The effigy of the queen produced by Mary Gillick was used, with the inscription ELIZABETH II DEI GRA BRITT OMN REGINA F D used in 1953, and ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F D used in all other years.
The reverse shows a Tudor portcullis with chains and a coronet, with the inscription THREE PENCE date.
This coin was produced in all years from 1953 to 1967, and in 1970 (in proof sets only).
Following decimalisation, the brass threepence ceased to be legal tender after 31 August 1971.
Something different I actually liked this coin, when I was a lad if you had a few of these you were rich.
A little green bit seen at London's Science Museum.
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Though a bit awkward on land, albatrosses are magnificent in the air. Airborne albatrosses are masters of dynamic soaring requiring little metabolic energy or wing flapping. This mōlī has returned from months of nomadic solitary foraging at sea and will reestablish its pair bond with a monogamous mate through an elaborate courtship dance. Laysan albatrosses with established pair bonds are the first of the season to arrive at this breeding colony in the sand dunes of the north shore of Oahu. Males generally arrive first in mid-November and stake out a nesting site, females arrive a few days or so later. After a brief reaffirming courtship dance followed by mating, the couple return to nomadically soaring over the north Pacific for about two weeks to forage and fatten up for the rigors of nesting. The pair return to the nest where the female lays a single egg then departs to replenish the enormous energy deficit required to produce a beer can sized egg. The male takes the first incubation shift and fasts for two weeks until the female returns to relieve him. They alternate incubation duties and foraging with increasingly shorter shifts. If all goes well, the egg will hatch in about 60 days.
and still have a bit of tradition." Alexander McQueen
Fence and pathway rocks by Born With Ambition (B.W.A.) are currently at this round of Cosmopolitan!
Fence: Born With Ambition - Modern Fence - Black
Pathway: Born With Ambition - Grey Pathway - comes in Grey, Black, and Tan, and you have the option of flowers or rocks (rock version shown)
Mailbox: What Next - Petite Mailbox - Black
Wall Lighting: Prestige Furniture - Wall Lamp 003
String Lighting Along Pathway: Tarte - Pathway Lights
Home in background: Onsu - Palo Alto - Driftwood
Poland, kodak profoto 400
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