Captured earlier this week in a chapel at Mdina. I was actually testing the IBIS capabilities of this machine and considering (a) it's a handheld shot (b) the coffee I drink (c) kept the ISO at 200; I was pretty surprised at the result achieved by both machine & lens. Furthermore, the interior of this chapel was in reality quite close to pitch darkness.

Thank you for your time to view.

Wish you all a splendid weekend.

Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Kop van Zuid, Trompetjes (cut from all sides)

Testing out the macro capabilities of the Sigma 150 with the lens wide open for the first time. The subject: our 'little trumpets' - or 'saxophones'? ;-)

This is number 1246 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism.

The soundtrack: Compared to what - Eddie Haris & Less McCann.

I pimped my camera with X-Ray capabilities. Still have to work on the finetuning.

You see just the beginn of the famous Iskar Canyon in Bulgaria.

The picture was found in my forgotten old Panasonic LX2....

No HDR, no tripod.

The capabilities of my old small camera are amazing.

I got a new pocket camera over the summer for my 35th year around the sun and I haven't shot it all that much yet. There's still so much about it that I don't know. Here's one from it. I must say, it's quite perfect for on the go and one to always have on you. No lens changes, It's micro 4/3 but mirrorless and has macro capabilities. I am in love! HBW!!

We found this Song Thrush in a urban park in Lisbon.

They are species known for their singing capabilities. Their song consists of a series of vigorous simple phrases which have penetrating quality. The fluting notes are interspersed with harsh tones and mimicry of other birds too. For their weight and size, song thrush calls have one of the loudest bird calls.

-Turdus philomelos

A friendly and very relaxed visitor to the deck...

[Click a time or two to check your prince-creating capabilities]

This female (I believe) mink has emerged from Beaver Creek from a successful fishing trip and is headed to the den to feed her young. Her mouthful of prey verifies their capabilities of being strong agile swimmers. Being listed as semiaquatic they do hunt both in the water and on land and live close to the water.

Females raise the young as single parents and both genders live solitary lives except for breeding season.

Their litter size can vary from 2 - 8 with 4 being the average size.

I watched this individual enter the water about ten times before she returned with prey.

Still playing with ImageJ capabilities other than microscope imaging

One more from my gloomy late evening trip along Glen Etive and Glencoe. This really tested the famed low light capabilities of the Fuji X-series cameras.

I tried a portrait of this crab apple tree at sunset with a fast ultra wide angle which has good near range capabilities. The tree keeps these small fruits the whole winter time and so is a delight for birds.

Sony FE 20mm F1.8 G

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/7.1, 1/2000, ISO 1100. Tracked every single shot of a small bird in a long sequence against a very busy background, see original shot below, just testing the tracking capabilities fyi. View Large.

Чего боится эта жаба, сидящая на трубе? Чего боятся эти бункерные воры больше всего? Вы сами отлично знаете. Выхода людей на улицы. (…) Вот этот самый вороватый бункерный дед сидит и трясётся от страха. Они же боятся! Ровно поэтому делают всё так срочно, тайно, секретно, так торопятся. Они боятся — и боятся они вас. Боятся тех людей, которые могут перестать молчать, осознать свою силу и понять: Ну кто может им противостоять? Эти люди задают вопрос: «Почему вся Россия внезапно подчиняется какому-то Путину, Сечину, эти Ротенбергам, сборищу какого-то жулья чудовищного?» Как только мы это осознаем, выйдем на улицы, всё это просто перестанет, растворится. Мы же каждый день просто теряем возможности, которые даёт нам настоящее, и каждый день теряем своё будущее. 20 лет уже подряд. 20 лет подряд мы становимся беднее, наша страна деградирует, наше образование всё хуже, наше здравоохранение всё более чбого.

Это никто не остановит, кроме нас самих. Поэтому я вас призываю: не молчите! Сопротивляйтесь! Выходите на улицы! Никто, кроме нас самих, нас не защитит. А нас так много, что если мы захотим чего-то добиться, мы этого добьёмся.»

Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, Москва 2021

“Do not keep silent”

This is an excerpt of a speech that Aleksey Navalny gave in a Moscow court during his show trial in 2021 before being sentenced to camp imprisonment. I haven’t found an official translation into English, so I’m giving it a try myself… everything this English version lacks in style, clarity and possibly grammar is only due to my limited capabilities.

“What does this toad sitting on a pipeline fear the most? What do these thieves in their bunkers fear the most? You know it perfectly well. They fear people taking to the streets. (…) This thievish old man is sitting in his bunker and is shivering with fear. They are afraid! That’s the only reason that everything happening is so rushed, so secretive, hurried and hushed. They are afraid, and they are afraid of you. They are afraid of people who no longer are willing to silently endure, of people who recognize their power and realize that they are unstoppable. People who wonder: “Why is all of Russia supposed to bow down to a Putin, a Sechin, some Rotenbergs, to this bunch of monstrous crooks?” It will all stop as soon as we realize this and take to the streets; it will vanish into thin air. Every day we keep losing possibilities that we still have today; every day we lose a bit of future. It has been like that for twenty years. For twenty years we have been getting poorer and poorer, our country has been degenerating. Our education has been worsening, our health system is getting more run-down by the day.

No one but we ourselves can stop this. This is why I appeal to you: Do not keep silent! Make a stand! Take to the streets! Nobody but we can protect ourselves. And we are so many; if we really want to achieve something, we can do it.”

In America now, we are very lucky indeed. We've had three different vaccinations (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) available to all people 12 and over for enough time for everyone to be fully vaccinated and yet we're still hovering around 50% for our vaccination rate and now the Delta variant is really causing some breakthrough infections of those already vaccinated and, of course, killing many people who are not vaccinated. In the midst of this, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) decided to apply some sort of bizarre honor system where only people who were unvaccinated would have to be masked indoors, which absolutely doesn't work because the same people who are anti-mask are the same people who are anti-vax. And, for the spaces and places that would enforce the vaccination, there's a whole industry now of fake vaccination cards people can show so they can continue to risk their lives and others.

At the end of the day, the people in my country just don't realize how good they have it and fall prey to spoiled entitlement and/or conspiracy theories. The cognitive dissonance required to still believe Coronavirus is a hoax even after our previous president, (demon Trump) actually contracted it is baffling and completely illogical.

Meanwhile, our leaders continue to fail us, ignoring the new Delta strain's capabilities to be spread easier outdoors easier, to be spread even within a vaccinated population because of a viral load 1000x that of the original strain, and because it only takes a couple of minutes or less vs. 15 minutes of exposure. So while our hospitals are getting filled up here in this country yet again, we're still having stadiums filled to capacity and large music festivals.

The gravestone of America will read.....

Here Lies America

So much potential and talent but squandered and wasted due to greed, hatred, selfishness, ignorance, and arrogance.

**All photos are copyrighted**

testing macro capabilities of this little new camera with manual focus.

thanks for every one for views, faves & comments.

Here lies the pride of Amersfoort also at just a smidgen over 98m it is the third tallest church tower in the Netherlands and a testament to the prosperity of Amersfoort if not to its capabilities of handling gunpowder.

During the protestant reformation in the Netherlands this 15th century tower had once been part of a Catholic church complex that was mothballed from 1579 and began serving other less holy functions like city municipal storage among others and in its final incarnation as a munitions lab.

The tower laughingly locally called Long John had the last laugh as the attached 14th century church exploded in a gunpowder fireball during its stint as a munitions lab in the 18th century leaving Lange Jan a little singed but last man standing.

Spending the time and effort researching travel websites, photo sharing sites and google will generally offer more opportunities than can be utilized on a normal vacation so research for me not only makes the locations come to life but also as a filter for narrowing the field to the finest locations for my travel purposes.

I took this on September 21rst, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/30s, f/8 ISO 800 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.

Meri tests out the capabilities of BackBone's new Pole Dancing Platform - or some of them anyway! Come see more about it on the blog readmeri.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/i-got-pole-burn/

By request. They dress the kids up in the mutton busting event like bull riders with helmets and vests now so I pulled this one out of the archives. A ewe jumped over me once in the arena while I was bent down taking pictures so I can attest to their capabilities. Didn't realize I would become the subject of a crowd roaring with laughter that day. The announcer stills brings it up to this day. It has been raining steady today, I hope it moves towards Nova Scotia and New Brunswick where the wildfires are. Canon 40D

Testing the macro capabilities of this lens

This tiny (spotless) ladybug is smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser. The capture was made by adding a +4 close-up lens to the front of a Canon 18-135 IS USM lens on a Canon 77D. Sure, a high-end true macro lens may have been a bit sharper but $$750 vs $5? You can expand your photographic capabilities without breaking the bank. Follow my blog to see more tips and tutorials.

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and if you have overrated their strength, try again, going more slowly :-)

Minna Thomas Antrim

HFF!!

japanese camellia, 'White by the Gate', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

The Zooby Animesh Babies have been given the ability to fly. I got the flying capabilities for the triplets today so they could be fairies like Mummy.

Ashes

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Arabella Victoria

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{Aurelia} (Search {Aurelia} in the Zooby Texture Hud)

Lilac Lace Cardy Dress

Baby Purple Leather Crib Shoe

Lacey Lilac Head Ruffle Wrap

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Ariana Charlotte

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{Aurelia} (Search {Aurelia} in the Zooby Texture Hud)

Pink Lace Cardy Dress

Baby Pink Leather Crib Shoe

Lacey Pink Head Ruffle Wrap

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Ariella Elizabeth

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{Aurelia} (Search {Aurelia} in the Zooby Texture Hud)

Blue Lace Cardy Dress

Baby Blue Leather Crib

Lacey Blue Head Ruffle Wrap

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Things I Rezzed

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Green Grocers - Pavillion RARE

Konoha

Hesperis river

Cosmos Mouse

Papaver alby (Poppy)

Botanical

Sunflowers

Half-Deer

English Ivy

Secret Garden Bunny

HPMD

Sweet Garden Grass08 (Fatpack)

Apple Fall

Flagstones (Free! but I love them anyway)

Nutmeg

Apple Terrace Armchair

Revival

grass field lush

The actual winner of the last big race before the onset of WW 1, in 1914 when this very car led the Mercedes sweep of 1-2-3 in the French Grand Prix just 1 month before the War began. To compound it's triumph, it won outright the 1915 Indianapolis 500, and having survived the war, the 8 year old veteran won the 1922 Targa Flora in Italy!

The 1914 French Grand Prix, often called the last great race, took place on July 4, less than a month before World War I began.

The race consisted of 20 laps around the challenging Lyon Circuit, which was known for hairpin corners and rapid elevation changes that truly tested an automobile’s full capabilities. A total of 37 entries representing Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland set off in pairs at 30 second intervals, but only 11 crossed the finish line that day.

In an amazing display of superiority, Mercedes finished one-two-three. Christian Lautenschlager took first place with his #28 Mercedes. Following close behind was Louis Wagner’s #48 Mercedes, with Otto Salzer’s #39 Mercedes coming in third.

The 4500cc 4 cylinder engine owed much to updates in airplane engines, and it ran flawlessly.

The owner of the Mercedes that won the 1914 French race, George F. Wingard of Eugene, Ore., rescued the car 30 years ago — it had once been converted to a road car — and did most of the mechanical restoration work to bring it back to its original configuration. Mr. Wingard has competed in vintage races with it, where it has topped 100 miles an hour. You will notice the seat belts, the effective crash cage with roll bar, and remember the quality of the roads of the era.......The drivers had to be more than a bit crazy!!!

Double click on the image to enlarge for details.

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While I am impressed by the additional mask capabilities of Lightroom I would say the Sky selection masking needs some work IMHO, on every image where I have used it has left a halo when I bring the image into Photoshop for final tweaking. Oct and early November are great times of the year to capture lake mist or more technically radiation fog, this occurs because the water has absorbed and retained the suns heat as air that has been cooled by the night temperatures that is moisture laden passes over warmer water of the lake. This scene is of my favorite places to welcome the morning and take in the light show as the sun rises at least when I don’t have a camera in hand and a cup of steaming coffee instead.

I took this on Oct 23rd, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 15-30 f2.8 G2 Lens at 30mm, 1/5s, f8 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Topaz ,and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

It took some blood (well, a couple of mosquito bites) sweat (it was hot) and almost tears (of frustration) to get a few sufficiently in-focus shots of this dragonfly in flight. It really put the gear capabilities and my reflexes to a major test.

Shooting these insects on the wing was really the only option to get a shot. They are tireless fliers and I did not see one settle all day.

Soft light and a wash of pastel shades drew me out to photograph the spring flowers. Although I normally like to work slowly and deliberately from a tripod, with flowers it's often easier to get into position hand held, as here. The tripod is cumbersome at close range and can be a liability when trying to avoid disturbing (or worse damaging) delicate flowers. Of course, modern cameras, with their in-built stabilisation and high ISO capabilities, make this much easier than it used to be, even for traditionalists like me.

Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.

This plant, depending where do you live, changes names and is also known as a Thanksgiving cactus in the States or as May flower (Flor de Maio) in Brazil, a home country of the native Schlumbergera cactus species from which many indoor cultivars in the Northern hemisphere are originated.

Testing in camera focus bracketing capabilities. This is the result of 30 image stack. Bath, BANES, Somerset, England, U.K.

Thank you all very much for your visit, favours and comments, much appreciated.

Another shot testing the capabilities of my XF 90 and its reach.

Taken during a 25km walk back and forth across the peaks of the Malvern Hills (beginning and ending at the Swinyard car park). The wind was the most notable aspect of our second trip - the wind reaching speeds with enough force to nearly push us over!

The MAN TGA 35.350 is a model of truck, specifically a heavy-duty truck, known for its robust design and performance. It is commonly found as a tipper (dump truck) with an 8x4 configuration, meaning it has four axles, with eight wheels, and drive on four of them. The "350" in the name typically refers to the engine's horsepower, indicating 350 horsepower. These trucks are often used in construction, mining, and other industries requiring heavy hauling and dumping capabilities

This truck seen in Rīga, at the building site.

Happy Truck Thursday!

Capabilities of the 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS lens handheld. Our busy little friend is SOOC, I have just tidied up some background distractions and cropped square.

Our garden, Essex UK

Testing the macro capabilities of my Minolta AF 100-300mm.

USAF showing off their capabilities at nellis afb.

The ancient Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System demonstrates incredible engineering capabilities predating the Industrial Revolution by over a thousand years. Constructed in the 5th century CE under the Persian Sassanid Empire, this complex irrigation system was designed with weirs, dams, canals, tunnels, and watermills to harness the power of the Karun River. It provided water across the arid landscape for agriculture, industry, and human consumption. The system connected to an underground water supply via a spectacular cliffside waterfall to power watermills. Its network of channels and tunnels stretched for many kilometers, showcasing the advanced hydraulics achieved centuries before modern technology. UNESCO designated Shushtar a World Heritage Site, recognizing it as a masterpiece of creative genius demonstrating the sustainable use of natural resources in ancient times.

EF 135L + Extender 2x (I), Extenders can create cool macro capabilities.

(Z8 low light capabilities seem pretty good)

10th July 2016 - The first RAF Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning 'ZM137' of 17 Squadron and flown by Sqn Ldr Hugh Nichols shows off its super steady handling capabilities at the Royal International Air Tattoo.

In the absence of a tripod, it is not bad to have the help of Artificial Intelligence. The detail recovery capabilities of the new noise cleanup and detail recovery processing tools are amazing. Here I have worked with several of them.

The blue hour came to me without having any decent support to stabilize the camera. Just a year ago I would have put my hands down and put the equipment in my backpack. But in Delhi he knew that he could count on several alternative assets. First, the sensor on my mirrorless camera is noticeably less noisy, at high ISO, than on the traditional full-frame SLRs I was shooting with until recently. And here I needed to take the photo at 10,000 ISO, if I wanted to have a speed that would freeze the image.

Before starting the processing I have cleaned the noise from the negative and recovered information with PureRaw from DxO. At the end of the processing I have returned to enrich the image information using Topaz's Sharpen AI. Two wonders that tempt me to forget the tripod at home on my next trips (just kidding for now).

The photo was taken with a 14mm lens, an aperture of f8 and a speed of 1/125 s. The recovery of the normal appearance of the perspective I worked with "adaptive width angle" of Photoshop and the light, contrast and everything else with Luminar AI (because Luminar Neo fails as a Photoshop plugin in its last update) and Camera Raw (which I more and more excited).

Testing out the flaring capabilities of my Helios 40-2 ;-) Sometimes the flare (and also the bokeh) is weirdly cut off at the edge of the image, but shooting at the right angle gives some beautiful rainbow colored rays. Unfortunately, there is quite some dust inside my lens and hence I had to remove a lot of dust spots in post, but I think it was worth the effort. Hope you like it!

Caernarfon is architecturally one of the most impressive of all of the castles in Wales. It's defensive capabilities were not as overt or as powerful as those of Edward I's other castles such as Harlech and Beaumaris (which indicate the pinnacle of castle building and defences in Britain), but Caernarfon was instead intended as a seat of power - and as a symbol of English dominance over the subdued Welsh.

Caernarfon is located at the southern end of the Menai Strait between north Wales and Anglesey, 8 miles south west of Bangor. During Edward I's invasions of Wales, this was strategically an excellent place to build a castle; Anglesey was referred to as the garden of Wales, providing agriculturally rich land close to the poorer land on north Wales. The Menai Strait also allowed speedy access between the north Welsh coast and the western coast, and was therefore important for Edward to control for supplying outposts such as Harlech and Aberystwyth.

Text source: www.castlewales.com/caernarf.html

Hi Guys!! I've gotten a lot of requests to update this, so I did a MASSIVE update and updated it for 2 new female bodies and 2 new male bodies as well as made a whole new PATTERNS HUD available exclusively in the FATPACK. Single colors also have the updated body sizes. (Also totally forgot to put the saturday sale logo on this, but it is for the saturday sale)

OG Bodies: Legacy, Freya, Lara

+ NEW BODIES: Kupra, Reborn, Legacy Male and Jake

12 Solid Colors. | Fatpack is HUDDED with mix and match capabilities for each part of the bag.

NEW PATTERN HUD. 10 Patterns. | Fatpack is HUDDED with mix and match capabilities for each part of the bag.

The FunBags are discounted to L$99 per color for The Saturday Sale at my mainstore as well as a $999 discounted FatPack. You can also grab an update.

Out now @ The Mainstore.

TAXI: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EXHALE/122/128/21

This is the Total Bank Tower (i.e., formerly Bank of America and Centrust Building) in Miami, Fla. The tower offers nightly light shows. Great place to try the capabilities of your equipment!

Delivered as a HC-144A but upgraded in 2022 to HC-144B standard, which encompasses the Ocean Sentry Refresh (OSR) modifications (installation of a new flight management system, which serves as the primary avionics computer for communication control, navigation and equipment monitoring) and the Minotaur mission system, which integrates installed sensors and radar and provides dramatically improved data fusion as well as information-processing and sharing capabilities.

Beyond description - Wearing Jewelry

Army Aviation Heritage Foundation Sky Soldiers showing off the capabilities of this Bell UH-1 series Iroquois helicopter, more commonly known as the "Huey". This particular helicopter was manufactured in 1969 and served with 191st Assault Helicopter Company during the Vietnam War with over 1200 combat flight hours. The 191st was nicknamed the "Boomerangs" because boomerangs always come home. Considered to be the most widely used helicopter in the world, with more than 9,000 produced from the 1950s to the present, the Huey is flown today by about 40 countries.

reverse macro photography. For everyone who doesn't know what this is, it's basically a technique where you mount your lense reversely onto your camera and go from a basic kit lens to a ultra macro lens. You loose AF capabilities but you get great pictures. It just takes a while to figure everything out.

This sunbird shows its acrobatic capabilities in this early morning image. In many respects the way they feed, hover annd their bright plumage they are similar to a larger hummingbird. Photographed within the hotel grounds near Kota Kinabalu in northern Borneo.

At least I think it was called this!

I'd travelled down with Mark the day before and did the Elidir Trail so Wednesday was the Four Fall Trail with Clive joining us. I've only met Clive once before, in London, but was well aware of his walking capabilities....after half a day with him where we covered the same distance but 5 times the elevation of the entire previous day I have come to the conclusion Clive is in fact a machine!

He doesn't stop, well apart from to take photos and to wait for me to catch up.

Looking forward to the next trip!

TESTING THE IPAD PRO CAMERA’S CAPABILITIES!

I'm exploring the capabilities of the new Rolleiflex 2.8E (Planar). Can't beat spring clouds and blue skies for a camera test.

The resolving power of the Planar lens is exceptional. Pairing the Delta 100 with Pyrocat emphasizes the preservation of small details.

Film: Ilford Delta 100 rated at 50 ASA, plus a medium orange filter. Exposure was 1/125th at f5.6 & 1/2

Film developed in Pyrocat HD, for 15 minutes.

On a cold, moonless night on the Crowsnest Subdivision, a venerable EMD SD40-2 and the sensor capabilities of my Canon EOS R5 were pushed to their limits.

With an extra 6,000 feet of tonnage out of Lethbridge (including an entire ballast train!), this lone 45-year-old locomotive faced the daunting task of hauling this massive load. Here, 5922 strains under the weight, engulfed in a thick cloud of exhaust as it shoves nearly 50 cars of mixed freight into the siding at Chokio.

From a nearby farmer’s field, I watched in awe as the scene unfolded. With virtually no available light — save for the soft glow reflecting off the snow and the locomotive’s headlights — I cranked my camera’s ISO to 8000, slowed the shutter to 1/6th of a second, opened the aperture to f/2, and hoped for the best. The resulting image was perhaps one of my most ambitious attempts to turn nothing into something.

And as for that aging EMD? Well, it performed just as its manufacturer intended. After dropping off nearly half its train, 5922 limbered out of Chokio and disappeared into the inky blackness, bound for points west.