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I realized I never took a 'face to face' comparison picture of these girls when I was making Pajelle, so here one is :)
I just love it when a c,oseup photo gets my attention. I liked this one so much, I just had to share it.
Leica M3, single stroke (IGEMO), 1966
Dual Range Leitz Summicron f= 5 cm 1:2 (M+DR-rigid-chrom, 11318), 1960 with yellow filter and close-up goggle
Ilford Delta 100 Black&White film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Fun with water drops between window panes on a warm December day; started with a regular lens and 2 diopter, notations define how I then slowly changed settings and lens combinations. Interesting how the background influenced visibility during close and zoom operations; only one short segment with frame cropping. Then in the last segments I did play with higher frame rates – but not recorded. Each water drop is an inverted image of the back yard! Weather had been some 15 degrees’ Celsius cooler until December 18 2016. Note no birds using the feeder on the day of the Xmas bird count.
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
A close-up of lovely Janelle, a face I never tire of photographing. From our Coke & Candy Shoot on 2/2/20 at Lunatic Lens Studio in Phoenix. Hair and makeup by Janelle and Jaylisa Cameron McCain.
Main light was an Alien Bees DB800 fired into a 7' white umbrella, camera left. Fill light was an Alien Bees DB800 fired into a 45" silver umbrella camera right. The lights were set for a 3:1 ratio. Rim light was an Alien Bees B1600 fired into a gridded medium Chimera strip bank, camera left, slightly behind Janelle. It was set about one stop brighter than the main light. An identical rim light setup was on the opposite side of her. All were triggered with Pocket Wizards.
Jaylisa Cameron McCain held a round silver reflector just below the picture image to bounce light back up into Janelle's face.
The picture was finished with an onOne Effects Glow Normal Glow layer at 50% opacity.
Shot with an Olympus E-M1 mirrorless camera with an Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens set to 48mm. ISO 400, f10 at 1/200 second.
Choo Choo Dreaming Blanket for my nephew as part of the Ripple Along
Ripples using Attic24s Neat Ripple Pattern. Trains improvised :)
Blogged at hookedonyarn81.blogspot.com/2011/10/choo-choo-dreaming-ta...
I had this pic sent to me a few days back I never knew existed by an old friend.
Its about ten years ago after a professional makeup and hair job we all decided to get just for a laugh.
It cost a bit but the result was amazing and yes we all went out to dinner later and had the best time....they were pretty special days back then.
Close-up of Argent sitting on my lap this morning, probably enjoying the warmth of my body more than anything else.
Wrought iron hinge with its handmade nails
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What a special day. When I pick up for my friend I was so happy when I saw her wearing these pretty sandals on her beauty feet. I taken several pictures of these magical momments. Please comment on these pictures.
Close up of the ornaments on the 9 foot tree:
-White Poinsettias with Gold glitter scroll design
-Clear Icicle Oranments
-Clear Snowflake Ornaments
-Shiny Silver Ball Ornaments
-Satin Silver Ball Ornaments
-Shiny Pearl Ball Ornaments
-Clear Irridescent Ball Ornaments
-Silver Netting Ribbon
-Silver Glittery Spray Picks
-Silver Hollow Scroll Frame Ball Ornaments
-LED lights
-Various Silver & Pearl Ball Ornaments with Scroll Design
You can see the entire tree with the house lights turned on here: 9' Shimmering Ice Tree
The two coots kept vigil while the teal slept. Always a treat to get to see a green-winged teal and almost never as close as this. A good day to be out birding.
Male Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
American Coot (Fulica Americana)
White Rock Lake, Dallas
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One of the performers who takes to the stage at a once-a-month Open Mic Night in our area. I have shot pro-bono at that event for the past two years and I have benefitted greatly by improving my event photography skills. I still have a long way to go, but at least I'm getting out of my comfort zone of nature photography and learning another style!
The performer above really makes his guitar sing (as well as his voice), and it's always a joy to see and hear him perform...
An overload of photos posted this morning (most of them uninspiring!), but I wanted to add them to my Texas albums, as they help to remind me of what this Sanctuary was like. All 15 images were taken at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary in the afternoon of 28 March 2019. After this visit, we had time to continue to South Padre Island, to check out the place, ready for our planned visit there the next morning. Lots of birds : )
Sunday, 9 February 2020: our temperature just before 11:00 am is 0C (windchill -6C). Sunrise is at 8:00 am, and sunset is at 5:41 pm. Cloudy with sunny breaks in the morning, with a few flurries developing in the afternoon.
Because it has been about 10 months since we went on this holiday, I have to check maps for names of the locations we visited, and any other information I gathered. Thank goodness the photos I took with my Nikon P900 have the GPS data and automatically appear on the Flickr map. Then I can add my Canon photos to the same marked locations.
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the nearby SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_Palm_Sanctuary
Our final stop of the day was South Padre Island, where we had many good sightings. We were planning to go there the following morning, but decided we had time to also call in at the end of Day 10.