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or man’s reaction to the life around him. Here is one province where it can be said with some certainty that the camera does not lie. It cannot afford to try :-)
Norman Hall
HBW! Peace Now!
aster?, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Woth M.O.G. Primoplan 58mm f1.9. Here we may better see possiblities to render an interesting background bokeh with sharp edged bubbles,
A photo is taken toward the sun and primpolan looses easily the contrast in those situations. Dehazing and reconstruction of contrast is done in Darktable.
Marbled White / melanargia galathea. Lindrick Common, South Yorkshire. 02/07/14.
'PRISTINE VULNERABILITY.'
I remember finding this pristine Marble White clinging to a grass stem, shortly after she had emerged. Her wings had not fully hardened so whenever she moved up the stem, they were still a little floppy. At such an early stage of adulthood, she would have been extremely vulnerable if spotted by a predatory bird.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
#52 Weeks: the 2022 edition
#Week 3: Double exposure
Two frame composite, with red, then green torchlight at different angles to produce two sets of bokeh highlights.
Industar-61 LZ MC 50mm f2.8 Macro (Индустар-61Л/З)
Grido
Giunta la sera
Riposavo sopra l’erba monotona
E presi gusto
A quella brama senza fine,
Grido torbido e alato
Che la luce quando muore trattiene.
(Giuseppe Ungaretti)
This image is constructed from a macro picture of an out of focus glove that has a metal material woven into the fabric. The metal created some spectral highlights. For this version, the bokeh is smaller and sharper.
An absolutely spectacular adult male Truong Son Pit Viper (Trimeresurus truongsonensis) found coiled in an ambush posture within an elevated, shallow rock cleft at a limestone cave entrance in karst rainforest within the magnificent Phong Nha-Ke Bang NP in the Quang Binh Province of central Vietnam.
This species was quite recently described. It is currently regarded as endemic to the karst rainforest incorporating the Annamite Mountain Range, an area notable for its overall high endemism and species diversity. It is an area recently subjected to intensive scientific scrutiny because of these attributes. For example, a collaboration between German and Vietnamese researchers culminated in 46 published papers dealing with the herpetofauna of Phong Nha - Ke Bang alone, from 2000-2009!
In line with so many species recorded from the Annamite region that are currently regarded as endemic for Vietnam, it's occurrence in similar habitats in neighbouring Laos cannot be excluded.
Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR coupled to a vintage Contax/Yashica mount Yashica 55/2.8 1:2 ML macro lens from the 1970's. Shot wide open @ 2.8 with a little flash-fill.
Captured this on my walk back from the shop on Sunday - I really love this plant and must get round to getting some for my garden next year - beautiful colour. It was just growing wild on the edge of a park - lovely!
Happy Bokeh Wednesday peeps
BTW - is it me or is Flickr a complete mare at the moment - It keeps on going very slowly! Very sad to see how many people really have moved on too :(
For this week’s Macro Mondays ‘Holiday Bokeh’ theme, I have chosen to photograph some small hand knitted Snowmen. The hand-crafted snowmen always make an appearance at this time of year.
The pom-pom snowballs adjacent to the snowmen are also hand-made, using wool that is wrapped around two small washers! For the ‘snow’ I used a white faux sheepskin rug. The background is simply a ceramic Christmas tree lamp and crunched up aluminium foil, sufficiently displaced from the foreground subject to create the bokeh effect.
The lighting for this shot is somewhat mixed. The overall lighting is daylight through a diffuser panel, with approximately 3 seconds of ‘light-painting’ (using a small torch on the foil background) during the exposure.