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It's Ramadan here in Malaysia. It's the second week of fasting before Hari Raya. To my muslim Flickr friends, Selamat Berpuasa. Everyone else, have a lovely week ahead.
This is a close up of a hibiscus that is in my garden. And the only one in bloom on the tree. I hope it lasts the whole week since it is truly a beautiful flower.
11.11.2010 - just happened to browse through EXPLORED. And found this at #421. LOL. So funny.
Adventures on the Iberian Peninsula. And Port Wine. Plenty of delicious Port Wine.
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Flash Parker Photography:
January 03, 2016
Satiate:
/ˈseɪʃɪˌeɪt/ ([verb sey-shee-eyt; adjective sey-shee-it, -eyt])
verb (transitive)
1.to fill or supply beyond capacity or desire, often arousing weariness
2.to supply to satisfaction or capacity
3. to satisfy to the full; sate.
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This week while browsing baking blogs online, I came across this recipe at Lovin' from the Oven and figured after all the chocolates and cookies from the holidays, this could be a nice break!
The recipe was easy to follow and aside from adjusting the baking time because my oven is ridiculous and doesn't know how to hold heat, it was a pretty simple process!
Recipe for those interested:
Ingredients:
For the Bread
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2/3 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 apple, peeled and chopped, mixed with 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
For the glaze
- 1 cup of powdered sugar + 1-3 tablespoons of milk or cream, mixed together to a drizzling consistency
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9×5-inch loaf pan. (Or line with parchment paper, which is what I did because parchment paper is my best friend in the kitchen)
2. Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside.
3. Cream together the white sugar and butter. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract.
4. Gradually stir in the flour and baking powder. Mix milk into batter until smooth.
5. Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf pan; the top with half the apples and half the brown sugar mixture.
6. Pour the remaining batter over apple layer; top with remaining apples and brown sugar mixture.
7. Swirl brown sugar mixture through apples using a knife. (Following instructions is hard, so I skipped this step... still turned out okay just not as visually appealing)
8. Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. (Or if your oven is evil; bake for 65 minutes and hope for the best)
9. Let cool for 15 minutes before drizzling with glaze. (Or get distracted and come back an hour later to do this step)
Enjoy!
Hope everyone is having a sweet Sunday!
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Browsing the reduced rails and trying on a selection of dresses will banish your worries and bring happiness. This was specially true for me in this dress. As I stepped out of my little room to check this dress in the big mirror at the end of the corridor, another woman said "That's beautiful!" Women are not ashamed to do these things for each other.
I shot the trees and clouds, thanks to Eirian stock browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&...) on Deviant Art for the model shot. Missing on the picture are the swarms of mosquitoes who had a feast on this photographer ...!
With the rains being so late this year the giraffe had resorted to browsing on the new growth from cabbage trees, not something I'd ever seen before.
If you zoom in you will also notice a red-billed oxpecker on the giraffe and a Fork Tailed Drongo waiting patiently for the giraffe to move and stir up some insects.
Kudu Private Nature Reserve
Mpumlanaga
South Africa
I'm having trouble uploading this morning -- another hiccup from Flickr. Trying again.
Here, a zookeeper named Sarah offers some maple leaves from a nearby tree to Code, the common eland (taurotragus oryx). Keepers like to build trust with the animals.
This Christmas cactus is for sale at Mahoney's Nursery, in Winchester. It was about seven feet in the air, but I'm 6'4" and had no trouble getting my camera up there. I was there today to buy some cut flowers, and brought my camera inside to snap some photos while browsing. I should do this more often, as it's a good opportunity for floral photography in the off season.
Grove Arcade Building - Asheville, NC
The Arcade Building was constructed between 1926 and 1929. It was designed by architect Charles N. Parker in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. Built by E.W. Grove, it has since remained one of Asheville's architectural marvels.
It served as a commercial shopping center until World War II, after which it housed government agencies including the National Climatic Data Center. It was reopened as a public market in 2002.
This photograph shows the Grove Arcade Building just after it's completion. It is from the E.M. Ball Collection. Link is to the University Archives of the Ramsey Library at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
With long legs, a long neck and a habit of rearing up these elegant antelope can reach browse which is out of reach to most other antelope.
A few weekends ago was the annual Milton Strawberry Festival. We started the experience by browsing the farmer's market and then taking a tour around the fair grounds to enjoy fresh strawberries, good food, and some pretty delicious strawberry-related goods.
Browsing the window displays of the shiny, sparkling objects of desire in the jewelry shop as night falls, the bright light of the windows in contrast to the gathering gloom of dusk
For all the awkward experiences we had. Today was definitely worth it.
More tomorrow, also comments and stuff will be read and I will do some stream browsing as well. I'm just too tired for now. Goodnight!
Hello Everyone and happy Sunday and Memorial day eve. :)
I wanted to take a moment and give a huge hug and kiss to all our active Military, Veterans, Police Officers and Firemen. Thank you for all you do each and everyday, protecting us and helping in the time of need, you are very much appreciated and cherished and wish you all the happiness and joy in your and your families lives. :)
I was laying on my sofa this morning browsing Amazon and other sites on my tablet looking at clothes and some other items, that I needed to purchase, tapping the "Add Item" while still in my pajamas and sipping coffee, when it came to me, this was wonderful to be able to do this, but also very depressing, being locked away like a prisoner in Alcatraz for the third month it seems and having no real human contact except at the office and when I go to the market.While in the veggie section , in my mind i was begging someone to come up and squeeze my ass! LOL. Just some form of human contact. It made me remember before the internet really became a thing in the late nineties and when there was shopping to be done, I remember my Mother and my Aunt would dress up on a Saturday morning their hair all done, makeup and heels, driving into the city to meet friends for a luncheon and then some shopping. My sister and i had no real idea of this when we were very small children, we just would sit on the bed and watch our Mother dress and ready herself, give us a kiss and tell us to behave and listen to our Father and she would see us later that afternoon. That happened once or twice a month and she would come home with a shopping bag or two. It was when my sister and I became older that she and my Aunt on occasion brought us along on their afternoon Saturday shopping excursion and to experience what shopping was. In the nineties and early 2000's shopping was an experience, having a luncheon in a nice restaurant, going through a store that was five floors, being able to touch and feel clothes, trying them on and seeing things and picking them up in your hands and feeling the quality. It was not about the buying, we were not a rich family and could have whatever we wanted, our Father would kill us and then send us off to boarding school. No, it was about having the experience and being out where people were and where energy was. Being all dressed up and close with family and friends, it was that human contact and communication that made it so special and meaningful, even with something so superficial as "Shopping" because that was not what it was really about, it was about being part of a small tribe, the women coming together to talk and share, to gossip, laugh and connect with one another. That is what I miss today and what I believe is hurting us as a society in part,
as more and more of us shop online and less going to an actual department store. When we order food delivered to us and go less and less to the restaurants, when theaters of plays and dances stop and events become cancelled, I am very fearful that we will loose what society we have left, we need that human contact, we need our tribe, we need that community of being together in the same boat and taking care of one another, but if we forget to even know how to talk with one another, how will we remember how to trust and love one another. After laying there on the sofa for a long while thinking about this and wonderful memories, I determined myself to have hope and have decided to actually dress up and go to an open store next weekend and do some shopping and sit in a cafe and have some lunch and to talk to a stranger and hopefully bring a smile to their day. :)
I suggest we all do that this week and weekend, put the phones and computers away at least once this week and actually communicate with another human being face to face. reminding ourselves we are all of the same tribe and we need and have love for one another. :)
Have a wonderful Memorial Day
tomorrow and thank you for allowing me to share my photo with you, I forgot to talk about it, it is my favorite black latex power suit outfits with large hat and my purse, all ready to hit the sales and then pounce my SL friends afterwards. I hope you enjoy!
xoxo,
Hildda
Zookeeper, Elyse, offers the goats some leafy branches. The goats accepted them eagerly! In zoo lingo, the branches are referred to as browse.
Beef Jerky warning label.
THE LUNATIC IS ON THE GRASS
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I've been waiting for almost a whole week to post this photo for Feathery Friday :-D FINALLY (Yes, I realize it is still Thursday, but I post my next day's photo the evening prior)
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This Wisconsin white-tail doe spends her days browsing for food among the flowers and keeping to her young fawn well hidden. Hence the expression "flora and fauna".
Gorgeous spring day at the weekend, went for a browse through the weekly street market in the Grassmarket (the square in the Old Town just below the Castle). Enjoyable checking out the different stalls on a nice day, also a pretty good spot for people watching pics!
Cooking up something special!
A robber fly with a beautiful pair of green eyes that I shot last night. They're not the cuddliest of creatures of the insect world as they typically sit around on leaves waiting for other insects to fly by, then pounce on them and literally suck the life out of them.
But, what's of interest in this photo, is that it doesn't use your normal type of lens at all, nor does it use anything fancy and known, but instead uses a cheap 20mm microfilm reader lens obtained from ebay, suggested as an alternative to the most excellent JML 21mm lens. So I thought I'd try it out and give it a whirl as nobody else had.
Microfilm lenses are interesting for extreme macro because they have a quite amazing resolution, literally 100s of lpm. Compare this to your average consumer zoom or prime which might have 50-100, and it becomes immediately obvious why they're a good thing to use in extreme macro. Do beware though, not all microfilm lenses are the same - I wouldn't personally want to go much below 20mm nor would I want an f stop much above 2 or 3 (because of diffraction).
Technical: preserved specimen, background uses smallHD with cs4 gradient 2s exposure, rear curtain sync; 136 photos into 31 sub stacks using zerene stacker, retouched from Dmap composite, finished off with CS4, NoiseNinja & Topaz Detail. Step size of 15µm, polystyrene chip cone diffuser. Resized to reduce noise. 20mm microfilm lens on slightly more than flat bellows so somewhere between 1:1 and 2:1 ish, 3 flashes @1/32 perpendicular @3,6 &9 o clock.
Sadly this maybe my last stack for a while - I need to get some equipment fixed as it's misbehaving, and we're also hoping to move house and the chairwomen of the domestic board almost certainly has other priorities in mind!
Further notes - this is a bit of experiment, as I have an awful tendency to underexpose the background which makes it noisy and icky. So I thought I'd try using the histogram for once and make it a bit lighter. Not sure if green was the best choice but there you go, works ok. It was also an experiment insofar that I wanted to achieve a clear distinction between foreground and background, and simplicity. I think I got that ok although I was sooooo tempted to cheat and fix the background assymetry in post!
UPDATE 2014 - I have put together an extreme macro photography learning site to explain the techniques and equipment used for all my macro photos here in Flickr which is now ready. To point to a few of the links that people who want to learn this stuff might like to have a browse of:
Focus Stacking, Focus Stack Preparation, Shooting A Stack, Stack Processing, Stack Post Processing, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 28 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 35 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 80 mm f/4, Nikon El-Nikkor 50 mm f/2.8N, Reject Enlarger Lenses, JML Optical 21 mm f/3.5, 20 mm Microfilm f/2.8, Anybrand MP-E 65 Macro Lens, Manual, TTL, Rear Curtain Sync, Extreme Macro Backgrounds, Single Colour Background, The Gradient Background, Adjustable Flash Shoe Mounts, Extension Tubes, Eyepiece, Field Monitor, Flash Bracket, Focusing Helicoid, Holding Tools, Lens Adapters, M42 Iris, Macro Tripod, Making A Macro Beanbag, Insect Photography
There are many interesting shops to visit in Key West, FL. We enjoyed browsing for souvenirs in the different shops.
Thank you to everyone who takes time to view and comment on my work. Any critique or feedback is welcomed or feel free to browse my other galleries at kdp450.smugmug.com which are constantly changing. Most recent postings can by found in the "Recent Postings (Not Dailies)" gallery.
I've burned myself while capturing fire. Choked on smoke, inhaled dirt and spend hours cleaning up a mountain of baby powder all for the sake of atmosphere shots. I've chased birds up and down cliffs in Maine because I just "had" to have birds in the shot. This project has definitely taken me to places I've never been and even more so, proved that I have a very strong addiction to the art of photography and digital compositing.
The people around me have come to know what certain types of shots will take in terms of frustration and time. Tonights shot was no different! I had been browsing the internet on one of my many short tangents and came across one of my "virtual" Acquaintances most recent work and instantly felt the need to compete. Not with the same type of image, just a photo that rivaled the "wow" factor and work involved.
From the second I had mentioned to Joyce that I was going to go "epic" she knew that any plans to relax early were out the window. She likes to predict just how long a photo will take based solely on a few key points. What element I am playing with, what will I be creating from thin air and who's in the shot. Shots with Shawn are always a little bit more time consuming as the first 10 minutes are spent trying to both persuade him to do the shot and then calm him down. He's like a child on a sugar high. He has a hard time being serious for more than a second. However, he is nearly always able to pull it together and give me the emotion or action I'm looking for.
Well, after Joyce had the necessary information she made a prediction of around 3am for the finish time. I of course always tell her she's crazy and that it wont be that long. She just laughs and says "we'll see".
So what does it take to make someone explosively turn to water. I honestly had no idea! I had never attempted a composite with the use of water like this. I searched the internet and found a few crappy tutorials and a hand full of less than amazing images. The only images that were close to being what I was looking for were a few from old Gatorade ads. I knew I was going to have to wing the shit out o this one… But where to start?
Well, anytime I get to freeze action of moving things, I always smile. I love to freeze a single moment in time. Water unfortunately moves a slight bit faster than 1/250 of second and I was just not able to freeze water with the sharpness I have come to demand out of my photography. I'm not sure that I'd be able to achieve sharpness even with the Paul C. Buff Einstein Lights sync speed of 1/320. If I had powerful enough speed lights I would have opted for a different approach. I would have used the bulb setting and just used the speed lights super short flash duration to expose the shot rather than the shutter speed. This has worked in the past for freezing extremely fast moving objects like the rubber breaking from around a balloon falling in mid air, showing a ballon shaped blob of water. An event that is too fast for the human eye to see.
I had setup for the water shot by placing AB800s with Gridded soft boxes at both 9:00 & 3:00. My ability to composite the water was resting solely on getting a completely black background. Using a front light like the beauty dish would have illuminated the background and making the water useless. I had setup a black backdrop on what was officially the longest boom I've ever used. I had attached a c-stand arm to the end of my Avenger boom bringing the total length to just under 12 feet. After sandbagging the shit out of both the boom and stand I was able to stretch the full width of a Walmart black bed sheet on it, swing the whole wobbly rig over the pool all of that just to get a solid black backdrop!
I would pre focus then lock the camera in manual focus. Joyce would get water amounts varying from a cup to a bucket and we'd count down 3…2…1… She'd throw the water as I clicked the shutter. Capturing the water was simple yet not totally sharp. I knew I could do no better with the gear I had so I opted to except what I had and move on.
Shawn's shot was lit with the standard 3 point lighting. I had him put practice the pose and just as he got it I said "ok, now get in the pool" he looked confused and asked if I was serious. "of course, you're going to be turning to water, if you're not wet it just wouldn't look right" He reluctantly got in the pool and after 2 minutes of bitching about it being cold, Joyce decided to help him and splash him with water. After shawn was thoroughly wet, we got back to shooting. A process that took all of 10 minutes, 2 mintues if you subtract Shawn's theatrics!
It was now off to the digital world!
Post Production:
This is obviously where the magic happened. I masked shawn out in record time using the quick selection tool in Photoshop. This was the first time I'd ever used this tool and I don't know why I've never used it before! Its quick and pretty damn accurate. It's a secondary tool coupled with the magic wand. I suggest you try it.
After masking, I simply yet time consumingly overlaid selections from the best water shots. Using the natural highlights on his skin I essentially recreated his silhouette with water spray. I was then able to paint away areas of this head and body to give the impression that he was turning to water. This has to be the most abridged version of a post production process ever. This wasn't all together difficult just very time consuming. There is over 60 layers of water. Every area of his skin that is being "liquified" has an actual overlay of water as an edge. This gives a more realistic appearance and helps sell the overall effect. I wasn't sure about the background but knew that solid black was just not right. I played with a few different types of gradients and settled on my good friend mr. circular gradient.
So this was definitely one of those images where I had to force myself to say "I'm done" I knew I could have gone on for ever. I'm sure I could have replaced the background with some crazy image of a city turning to water or some shit like that. I instead opted to call it a night and watch a bit of Vanilla Sky.
The time was now 4 minutes past 3am and once again…. Joyce was right! I will now use her strange ability as a tool in developing more accurate client bids. She can sit in on meeting and at the end she'll be able to tell how long the shoot and edit will take like some sort of strange human calculator. Its brilliant!
Lighting:
Model:
AB800 Med Softbox at both 10:00 & 2:00. Full Power
AB800 Beauty Dish Boomed overhead. 1/4 power
Water:
AB800 Gridded Med Softbox at both 9:00 and 3:00. 3/4 Power