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As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs
really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
Walt Whitman
This is a new species to me, but similar to E. prolifera I see in California, though larger and with a longer column. I regret I saw just this one individual, as I have read that they can brood many young--up to 300-- along the column and under the protection of their tentacles which have stinging cells.
Salt Creek Recreation Area, Clallam Co., NW Washington
Brood X, also referred to as the 17 year cicada.
I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to observe and photograph these cicadas, but for the little amount of time I did have, WOW. They definitely made their impression over the few weeks they were here.
I haven't looked up the correct name for this species yet, but will add. If you are reading this and know, please comment it. Thanks.
Tech:
Canon 80D
Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro
yn560 speedlight
Napkin in a baggie as a diffuser - I had to come up with something as I was camping and forgot a diffuser. Whatever works.
bread - from a series of pronunciation pictures to be hung on the wall in dutch-as-a-second-language-classrooms
Leadbetter point.
Checking out the storm thats been hanging around for a while.
Canon 40D
Sigma 10-20mm
f10 for 1/40th
ISO 100
Open brood cells during the pupal stage of development. Although this is an uncommon and abnormal image in colonies, it is harmless too. These pupae develop in to healthy workers.
Credits: Bram Cornelissen
playing... I wanted to do a night sky Background . Not all turned out as planned, but hey, there are no mistakes in art, aren´t there
This shot is 3 bracketed shots merged together in Photomatix, and finished off in Photoshop CS5. I really like how the sky and water have turned out.....all this merging and blending and bracketing and whatever other hocus-pocus is all new and totally confusing to me.....it's a shame all the trees on the fell on the right seems to have all but merged into one big mess......
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I had wished to take a close up picture where the hair of a person is detailed and sharp. Even though I prefer to be behind the camera taking the pictures and being in control of capturing what I envision, I chose to be the subject for this one. Getting the framing right, when someone else was holding the camera, was a little difficult at first but after some correcting and continuous feedback, it resulted in what I was looking for. I leaned my body forward and lifted my head a little to get my hair to move forwards in the shot to help emphasize it. I then boosted the clarity and sharpness of the image to help define my curls. With the facial expression I had put some thought into it whether to be brooding or smiling, but I felt that brooding with the blurred background would give the image the intensity I was looking for it to have. It is also shown in studies that women find men that are not smiling to be more attractive as they are perceived to be more masculine and dominant, whereas men who are smiling to be softer and more feminine. It's interesting however, that the opposite is true when it's about men perceiving women's attractiveness. All this is related to the old and traditional gender norms that had been set in the past, but I feel are still present to a certain extent in today's society.
Another brood of swallows, not long out of the egg, on the Crannog at WWT Castle Espie.
I hope this family haven't left it too late in the season.
I'm taking these shots with a xpadder controller+camera tweaks+A Closer Look mod by FadingSignal. Don't really need TFC anymore, which is amazing.
This is the same pair that had just had some fledgelings but are already picking another house for the second brood. They are still feeding the little ones on occassions. I had a time deciding which one to focus on but decided on the male as he looks like he is showing the female his selection. We had a pair to raise three little bluebirds in this condo of homes. I have seen the female bringing pine needles . I cleaned these homes back in March.
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Exposure 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture f/13.0
Focal Length 27 mm
ISO Speed 100
Reverse GND Filter
Live at the Paris-studio...Kettingstraat. 1992.....Saturday Night !!
This is a 3 exposure HDR, processed with HDR Efex Pro. I wanted to make it look realistic but also a bit painterly, so I took it through Topaz Clean. Unless you're at 100% you can really see the detail changes Clean makes but rather it gives that simplified painting kind of look.
I'll post of the full-size version later so you can zoom-in and see the effect.
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