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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.
A bit of macro fun again this morning, take one spiders web, add some morning dew, sunshine, a very shallow dof and some imagination…
This one makes me think of that bit in star trek when they use the Warp drive :)
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A bit of a murky morning but although there was little sign of the sunrise, there's always potential for an image if you embrace the conditions.
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Camera: Canon 5D MkIV
Lens: Canon 16-35mm f4L
Settings: 30 sec / f16 / ISO 200
Filters: LEE Filters Little stopper & 0.6 medium ND grad
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A bit of a dark and gloomy official beginning to winter. I went out with the hope of capturing a solstice sunset - willing the clouds to part even for a few minutes. Behind me there were patches of blue sky but to the south-west were unrelenting grey clouds. I also wanted to have another go at photographing the "great conjunction" of Jupiter and Saturn just after sunset, but it looks like I might have to wait another 400 years for that to happen.
I did see a report of Stonehenge live-streaming the sunset to sunrise as no-one was allowed into the site this year (not that I would have gone anyway). I suppose watching a black computer screen for 16 hours from your couch is going to be much more comfortable than being there!
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8-22-15 MS Veendam traveling through Prince Christian Sound in Southern Greenland passing a strange looking burger bit on it's way back to Boston.
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Bit of a moody feel to this one, from Crummock Water yesterday, with the dark tones. The vibrant patches of colour in the sky of my last upload had pretty much disappeared, just leaving some blue and purple tones as the light was fighting with the cloud to break through.
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
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See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
Ok, so you've all been very patient, and after all that other stuff, here's something a bit more like what many of you would expect from me. Can't say as I've been out on the streets with a camera much for quite a few years now, but there are the occasional worthwhile shots sitting around. Hope you are all staying safe.
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Shot with the Vivitar Series-1 90/2.5 Macro lens , who shared the honor with the illustrious Leitz Dual Range Summicron of having the highest resolution of any lenses tested by (now defunct) Modern Photography Magazine.
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We arrived a little bit late, & the sky was quite dull, but it was still a joy to behold this iconic Scottish sea loch castle.
Castle Stalker – in the Gaelic, Stalcaire, meaning Hunter or Falconer – is believed originally to have been the site of a Fortalice (a small fortified building) belonging to the MacDougalls when they were Lords of Lorn, and built around 1320. The MacDougalls lost their title after their defeat by King Bruce at Brander Pass in 1308 but regained it for a period after 1328. In about 1388 the Lordship of Lorn passed to the Stewarts, the lands including Castle Stalker.
Bit of folder cleaning tonight found this unfinished vertorama .. well until now at least...
This was a cracker of an arvo at Boonerah Point on Anzac day this year.
Pentax K1 w Pentax DFA15-30/2.8 WR
ISO 400 f/11 -1.7 and +0.7ev @15mm
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, stiched and blended in Affinity Photo 2.5, colour graded in Nik Color Efex 7, tweaked in Topaz Ai-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
Nikon 14-24
A bit of a story here. Sometimes I go to the pond before sunrise to look for otters and mink. The tally for the winter so far is one otter sighting, one mink sighting, and zero photos to show for it. In past years when the mammals don't show, there have almost always been ducks to enjoy once the light gets good. Not so this year when the pond has sadly been duckless most of the time. That is until this lovely Goldeneye hen showed up. I was hoping she would stick around for the good light and she did. This is actually my first ever photo of a female persuasion Common Goldeneye. Siskiyou County, California
Entering the Arches National park the visitor had immediately the sensation of statelyness and greatness. What does need one when comes in a place like this? I guess just a horse and a saddle.
A bit of a hurried capture as this was one of those fleeting moments of light you almost miss because you weren't expecting it.
I was actually packing up and heading back to the car at this point having given up hope of seeing anymore light and with a stomach wanting breakfast - a minute earlier the big bank of cloud in this direction was showing no signs of breaking and indeed was being added to by cloud overhead rushing to join it.
I only noticed it becasue I dropped my filter holder whilst putting it away, causing me to shift round slightly and I had about a minute to compose, focus and fire off a couple of shots before the cloud took over again. Sometimes being clumsy is helpful!
One of the lowest tides this year revealed a lot of the bits that had fallen off the West Pier, which are usually under the water.
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Bit of a Marmite shot I would think.
the bokeh has not been added in post - shot though a dew covered branch in the foreground.,