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On the northern shore of Lake Zuidlaren there's always a bunny or two that wants to play for a bit....for as long as it lasts (-;
Very detailed image of one of the wabbits before hightailing in 2nd comment
....you want to pick on me?
Many thanks for stopping by to see these delightful little Owls, seen this morning near their burrow. It turns out there were 5 siblings, of different ages, and two adults. Daddy spent much of the morning relaxing in a nearby tree, while Mom, ever vigilant, stood guard over her brood. I will post a family shot next, so you can see the funny little faces as they posed outside their house for me.
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Lulu makes Explore! 10/27/2014
what's eerie is that she goes from looking sinister in close up to comical in full view
"Royal Tern - Wing Shrug" by Patti Deters. This Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus), with strikingly white wings and a distinctive black head and bright orange beak, perches on a weathered wooden post. Its wings are uplifted as if in a shrug, and the wind-blown crest feathers give the bird a bit of a goofy or comical look. Seen in the Florida Everglades, these seabirds can be found along the coastlines of warm saltwater oceans and are one of the larger terns to be found. Sometimes they are mistakenly referred to as seagulls or gulls. If you like outdoor nature photography, please enjoy more birds, animals, and other wildlife images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/royal-tern-wing-shrug-pa....
It was awesome to see this beautiful bird on my Florida trip earlier this year. It was surprisingly comical in its movements chasing fish around the tidal pool.
One of the flamingo kept trying to get behind the other one to *ahem* procreate. Here's a rather comical sequence of what I saw. Have a great Sunday!
Thank you everyone!! ;0
Young horses are pretty comical at this age. They have not grown into their legs yet, so to reach the grass they need to do all kinds of contortions.
I love Mike's dog stories. He always brightens my day!
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Pebble Beach, California
Final edit with Comical Cattle preset in Topaz Studio
17 Mile Drive tours through Pebble Beach. We drove it in late December. To learn more about our drive and to see more photos, check out my post 17 Mile Drive Offers Rocks, Waves, and Photo Opportunities on my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
The usual comical, frantic, jerky feeding behavior of this egret allows it to be identified from a great distance off even though you cannot discern any of its field marks. It's usually my favorite large wader to watch trying to secure a meal. This bird, however was remarkably subdued... it was uncharacteristically calm and patient! (The bird in the background is a White Ibis.)
IMG_8983; Reddish Egret
Cape Barren Goose exchanges comical for calm after taking to the water in the Churchill Island Wetlands.
The Australian magpie, quite a comical bird at times. It kept running over to me when I whistled & was happy to stroll around while I lay on the ground taking its photo. This one obviously isn't breeding, it's breeding season just now & they can be very aggressive when breeding. I've been bitten on the ear by one before, drawing blood. Wolston Creek Bush Reserve, near Riverhills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
After comically falling off my bike this morning, I decided to go for a walk in the woods with the dog, something which I hoped would entail less pain, and comedy come to think of it. When we reached the woods it was obvious that last night's storm had left a lot of water on the ground and that the morning's sun was heating it up and casting shafts of light, catching the rising steam. At this point I already had the shot I wanted in mind and so with a confused dog in tow, headed back home to grab my camera.
The above shot is my first attempt to catch the atmosphere in the woods this morning. In actuality, trying to reproduce what you see and interpret with your eyes, with a camera, is really tough, and with Scott's obvious patience waning, 'walkies', got back on track.
A comical image with it's stretched wing which looks to human eyes like an enthusiastic pupil eager to please the teacher.
This scene was quite comical as the Black Swans were teasing the drivers and seemed to know they had the right of way on Lake Morton Drive in the City of Lakeland Polk County Florida U.S.A.
Great day on the Farne Islands with Hans Davis (Sadloafer). Complete puffinfest. Wonderfully iconic, these sea birds never fail to captivate. Will soon be leaving the islands to go to sea until next Spring. Magical!
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Barnyard cupcake tower with handmade farm animals and barn for a first birthday party. Once again, thanks to SpecialCakes and LeCupcake for the pigs and cows inspiration!
Anyone can help me remove the black cord on the wall? I knew it would ruin the picture when I was setting it up and I can't get over it! Help!!
I was actually trying to get some shots of the garden Jay today with the 500mm MKII I unexpectedly and belatedly scored from work for the weekend, but somehow the Jay had either figured out the situation, or was put off by the squirrels, which instead took over. Alas they kept me entertained, the greedy buggers!
Thing I think is comical is when blogs for travel tips discuss the Arashiyama path in Kyoto, they only ever mention Tenryu Ji, Gio-Ji, and Nenbutsu Ji, that's pretty much it. I was not expecting the path to be full of other tuck outs to take great shots.
It actually took me a minute to retrace my steps and find out where this was taken cause for a moment I thought it was a closed off path in the bamboo forests at Tenryu Ji. This was right before the turn onto the Saga Toriimoto street up into the forested mountains, there was this gate adorned with Chochin (paper lanterns).
So as the title of the post said, this pathway was closed, so at first I didn't think much of it until I came back to edit. Beyond this gate is a path to a traditional sit down restaurant and the Mandarasan Jakuan Temple (I think you can barely see it through the tree line)
Speaking of the trees, I'm still not entirely happy with the path and what not, it doesn't look entirely natural, but it provided enough contrast for me to go all in on the chochin and the gate which turned out exactly how I wanted it to, to stick out as the subjects, (besides the sun was a bit too bright and this was a shoot-while-I-walk scenario, I didn't have time to get my tripod out and get a bracketed shot, I had places to be). I also wanted the background just dark enough to warrant making the lanterns brighter to make it look like they were on.
Take my advice, don't take professional tips from others on Arashiyama. The area is smaller than you think, scan the area on maps and do your own research, you'll find a lot more than any blog will tell you.
These comical birds love to play in the dust around a water hole, chasing each other and causing the atmosphere around them to become thisck with dust. This can be quite spectacular when set against the setting sun.
If anybody gets the chance to choose these comical birds to photograph, take it up....you will loose several hours with them without knowing it
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Talk about haircut remorse! Really, the client can get carried away with comics, but the barber is another matter altogether. The style and humor of this 1943 cover suggests Norman Rockwell, but it was by an artist named Howard Scott.
Howard Scott (1902-1983) was a billboard designer for many American companies in the mid-twentieth century. He was known for designing billboards with clever one liners and large pictures of friendly, everyday people on them. Scott lived in Manhattan where he could look out over Rockefeller Plaza as he worked on advertisements for companies like Heinz Ketchup, Nash Automotive, and Campbell’s Soup. Later, Scott served in the Navy during World War II, where he illustrated posters for the U.S. War Information Center. He illustrated 13 covers for the Post from 1941-1945.
May 20, 2018
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A big-eyed sand flea, or beach hopper or sand hopper, or beach flea or whatever you like to call them...
These are shots of our local blue-eyed, big-eyed beach hoppers. They like damp sand and if you are digging a hole on the beach, you are likely to come across at least one or two. They also like it under piles of seaweed or driftwood logs. (Anywhere the sun can't dry them or their sand burrows out!!)
These ones are only a little over a centimeter long. When disturbed they frantically hop and scurry like crazed fleas. Their "cross-eyed" blue "googly eyes" help to give them that frantic crazed look.
...oh... and these creatures don't bite!
Cahoon Hollow Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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The challenge:
Thanks to Instagram, square format images live on well into the digital age. Square formats are more pleasing to the eye as they eliminate a great deal of the eye movement, moving back and forth horizontally and vertically through your image. Personally I find a square format image to be the excellent medium for breaking the composition rules, no matter your shooting style. Give it a try, it doesn’t matter what you’re shooting…#HASHTAGS are becoming ever so important, not only in Instagram but on Twitter and even Facebook, Let’s get some #HASHTAGS in your description to better identify your image. Here’s a little resource for #HASHTAGS.
My process:
I had skimmed through some of the submissions this week and noticed that the ones I was most drawn to had strong contrast – in particular strong blacks. So my goal was to find a scene with inherent contrast, i.e. I didn’t want to rely on post-processing to create that contrast. On my drive home one evening I noticed Christmas lights defining rooftops and thought that might be an interesting subject, so when I got downtown last night I knew that lights would play a large part in my image.
In one of the links that Steve posted in the challenge description, I read that Canon cameras have a setting which allows you to “see” a square format in Live View. I didn’t know that about my camera, so I decided to try it out this week! I also set the camera to shoot in Monochrome mode so that I could “see” the image in B&W. This turned out to be very helpful because I found two scenes that worked compositionally, but only one had the strong contrast I was after.
I decided to use a very long exposure to “remove” the people from my image. It was a busy Friday night with the holiday lights, First Friday Gallery Walk, craft markets, etc. Using a long exposure meant that the camera wouldn’t pick up people walking through the frame as long as they didn’t stop. If they stopped, then they turned into blurry dark blobs in my photos. So I had to take a few photos to get one that was perfectly free of people – at least in the foreground. (I could have also combined multiple exposures if I was unable to get one good clear one, but in this case I got lucky and didn’t have to do that.)
Since I shoot RAW, the photos kept all of their color information even though I had the camera set to Monochrome mode. (They would have been saved as monochrome if I saved the JPEG, but RAW keeps all of the color information.) I prefer this because it gives me more control in the B&W conversion process during post-processing.
And one other thing… I want to give a shout out to Fort Collins for THE BEST #holidaylights! I don’t know how they do it, but it looks like a magical winter wonderland every year. The lights are strung in the trees so that you don’t see the “strings” of lights – they look like large snowflakes, even when we don’t have any snow.
Lessons learned:
Using Live View to shoot a 1:1 ratio actually saves a square image to the card – even when shooting RAW! I did not realize this because reviewing the images on the camera showed me the full 2:3 frame. However when I imported them to Lightroom, they were all cropped to square. So it’s important to get the square crop correct in camera – don’t think that you can adjust after the fact. (Although if you do want that option, simply turning off Live View and taking the image through the viewfinder will record the full 2:3 frame. I discovered that by accident, but it might be useful in the future.)
I’ve never really understood hashtags, but after reading the links that Steve provided, I have a much better understanding of why and how they are useful – and also how to come up with them, i.e. do a search on a hashtag that you come up with and discover the hashtags that others use along with that one. That’s a huge help for someone like me who is word challenged (which I realize is quite comical given the length of my write-ups each week.)
CC appreciated.
First time I have ever been this close to this type of Sandpiper...and a very entertaining experience watching it bob up and down...very comical character!