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Happy spring all fine Flickr friends.
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Texture my own, filter: Topaz
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.
The yellow-throated warbler (Setophaga dominica) is a small migratory songbird species breeding in temperate North America. It belongs to the New World warbler family (Parulidae). Yellow-throated Warblers are small, well-proportioned birds with sharp and pointed bills. Compared to other warblers, they are a bit more heavy-bodied with a longer and thicker bill. From below, note the blunt, only slightly notched tail. Yellow-throated Warblers are gray and white with a splash of yellow on the throat and black streaks down the sides. The yellow throat is offset by a black triangle below the eye and a white eyebrow. From above they have a gray back and 2 white wingbars. From below look for the white belly and white tail. Females and first-year males look similar, but are slightly paler.
An incredibly beautiful woodpecker that is found in the Himalayan forests and maybe a few other pockets in the country. It has a rich yellow and green mixed color which I found to be spectacular. The bird is also quite large compared to many other woodpeckers I have seen. The behaviours are similar to the others, but then these birds do come to the ground. We have sighted them foraging on the lower canopies and sometimes middle canopy unlike a few which are exclusive to the higher canopy.
There is another Lesser Yellownape as well which I was fortunate enough to sight and shoot. Both are amazingly beautiful! The differences are clear, but both share the same color and feather patterns except for a patch of red for the Lesser Yellownape on the crown.
Many thanks in advance for the faves and feedback.
When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained,
What I have missed with what attained,
Little room do I find for pride.
I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside.
But who shall dare
To measure loss and gain in this wise?
Defeat may be victory in disguise;
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Loss and Gain ~ Longfellow
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Change Islands
on film
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Nikon FM10 | Nikkor 35-70mm | Kodak Gold 200
Digitized with Sony A7riii | Skier Sunray Copy Box 3
Home developed in Cinestill Cs41 | 3.5 min dev, 102 F / 8 min bleach & fix, 105 F
Negative Lab Pro v2.2.0 | Color Model: Basic | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Frontier
From Sonnet 18
It is well known now as Shakespeare's phrase "The Darling Buds of May" was used as the title for his novel by H.E. Bates... which has since been adapted for television too 😊
Apologies for using my Japanese plum in 3 successive photos - I am enjoying it before it freezes (-2.6c last night)
For the Smile on Saturday challenge: "picture with added text"
HCC and HSoS ;o)
Cliché and Smile on Saturday: Here
my Plum blossom set: Here
Blend and Merge: Here
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Compared to the other ports of Enkhuizen is the Old Harbor (Dutch: Oude Haven) more a canal.
After a heavy storm in 1542 the Old Port was dug to protect the vessels.
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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If you have the flickr-app on your mobile phone, take a try and turn it around! That makes a cool effect. (Hold your mobile phone flat to avoid autoturn-mode from display or disable the function). Those who are in front of the pc can compare to my previous shot what is the same.
Hope you like it.
Compare with;
darkened: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/51894457252
lightened: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/51895418561
This is a single frame taken at maximum fire. This lasted essentially for only 2 minutes.
Picture of the Day
Compared to Tofu Sethi is hyperactive and loves to play. He especially likes to play with things which aren't really toys like this old shoelace. :)
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "Favourite toy".
3 bull elephants at a waterhole in the Tembe Elephant Park in KZN near the southern Mozambique boarder with South Africa. Well known for their large tusks. Great simply ''being there''.
If you compare the title and the photo, you might think that Mr. Kaiser is completely crazy now.
After all, it's just an old tree stump that the years have already hollowed out (with the active support of wind, weather, mushrooms and other tiny forest creatures, because time alone can do almost nothing) and which is now filled with autumn leaves and over them a young fern leans over the edge. So much for the observable facts.
But what makes this scene a magical sight is once again the warm light of the evening sun that shines over to us from the edge of the forest. Not only does it change the entire atmosphere here but it also brings in the ferns and moss. which envelops our miniature volcano to glow.
Without this light, it would actually just be a tree stump filled with beech leaves that I might have walked past carelessly (but only maybe).
But when I stood in front of this scene, I immediately had the image of a volcano crater covered in jungle in my mind.
And now I'm kneeling here in the forest, as if in front of an altar, admiring the almost endless beauty of nature.
Wenn Ihr Titel und Foto miteinander vergleicht, dann denkt Ihr möglicherweise, dass der Kaiser jetzt völlig durchgeknallt ist.
Schließlich ist das ja nur alter Baumstumpf, den die Jahre bereits ausgehölt haben (mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung von Wind, Wetter, Pilzen und anderen Kleinstlebewesen des Waldes, denn die Zeit alleine kann so gut wie garnix) und der nun mit Herbstlaub gefüllt ist und über dessen Rand sich ein junger Farn neigt. So viel zu den beobachtbaren Fakten.
Doch was diese Szene zu einem magischen Anblick macht ist einmal mehr das warme Licht Abendsonne, die vom Waldrand zu uns herüber scheint. Sie verändert nicht nur die gesamte Atmospäre hier sondern bringt auch noch den Farn und das Moos. welches unseren Miniaturvulkan umhüllt zum Leuchten.
Ohne dieses Licht wäre das wohl tatsächlich nur ein mit Buchenlaub gefüller Baumstupf an dem ich eventuell achtlos vorüber gelaufen wäre (aber nur eventuell).
Doch so hatte ich sofort das Bild eines vom Jungle bedeckten Vulkankraters vor Augen, als ich vor dieser Szene stand.
Und nun knie ich hier im Wald, wie vor einem Altar und bewundere die schier unendliche Schönheit der Natur.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
These birds are on the northern edge of their abnormal breeding grounds, but abnormal or not, they are here and this juvenile has shown up in the past few days, no doubt having been forced to go out on its own of late. Last night, two of these birds were calling quite prolifically around 10 to 11 PM. They are 'night herons' and feed mostly at night. They have big eyes to accomodate night vision and as they primarily eat crustaceans, i.e. crabs, their bills are short and stout, compared to fishing herons, as this bill is for crushing shells. This is three years running now we've had juveniles appearing around this time in this very same location. So they must like it here. This bird was out early and lurking in the shadows, quite shy.
Canary Creek - 2022-Sept-14
Canon R5 RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x @ 700mm f10 1/2000 sec ISO 4000
A male busily singing in a copse of oaks, letting other males know this is his turf. American redstarts arrive from their wintering grounds (Central and South America) fairly late compared to other warblers, but head south around the same time in the fall as other warblers.
The Autumn Lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) and Cat’s-ear (Hypochaeris radicata, I believe), This is the site where these small orchids (the last wild orchids that flower in the season in the UK) are particularly well present in their hundreds. Though this year, compared to our last visit few years ago, the numbers seems reduced and they look even smaller. The ground was quite dry and New Forest ponies teamed up with cows are at work here keeping everything they can eat low in height. New Forest. England, UK.
This is a remake of this nearly six-year-old photo by Tom Westbury: www.flickr.com/photos/drbnwy/32999224292/
As you can see the location has changed little since 2017. The addition of solar panels to the building and the presence of the electric car are interesting markers of the slow move toward "greener" technology, I think.
Although I used my camera's 7x6 setting to replicate the format of Tom's Mamiya the composition is significantly different. Apparently my Fuji's 50mm lens is not as wide as Tom's 65mm lens (I'm quite sure I stood as far back from the building as possible at the location). And Tom's camera seems to have been positioned slightly lower than mine - I assume because Tom's Mamiya has a top-mounted viewfinder and mine does not.
This is the first time I've done this experiment of "copying" another photo. I thought it was an interesting exercise, and although I've not precisely matched the tones of Tom's Portra film in post-processing I've gone some way toward it (the wet road in my version didn't help).
I have several other shots from this area, some of which I have processed in a similar style and will share over the coming days.
Much respect to Tom and his original image, which I love. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?
Processed in Microsoft Photos
180 mm equiv. (medium-tele)
Exp. Corr. Value: +0.0 EV
Exp. Program: Normal
Metering mode: Spot
WB Settings: Auto
There are many birds that are my favorites, but none can compare to the Black-crowned Night Heron, by far my #1 favorite bird. I just love these birds!!
Another Milky Way shot from Australia - a trip across the Simpson Desert in June 2017. Note how the Milky Way is "upside down" compared to this November 2017 shot of the Gibson Steps.
Our campsite was just north of the QAA Line on the border between Queensland and the Northern Territory. The Small Magellanic Cloud is visible on the left while the Large Magellanic Cloud is in the centre just above the horizon.
EXIF: 14mm; f/2.8; 30 secs; ISO3200.
Back to Spitfires! This is a Mk Vc - the 'c' describes the armament load that could be carried in the wing. There was provision for some permutation of 4 cannon and 4 machine guns although, because of the weight, not all could be carried at the same time. A common configuration was 4 machine guns with 2 cannon as in this example. The Mk V Spitfire was essentially a Mk 1 with a more powerful Merlin engine fitted - nominally 1400 hp compared to just over 1000 hp of the original. However, the actual power available to the pilot depended to some extent on the octane rating of the fuel used. Supplies of 100 octane petroleum were imported from the USA; this high octane fuel was not available to the Luftwaffe and had a significant, but not often mentioned, impact on the air war in Europe.
Compared to last year, there are not many large spiders around, this is the only Wasp Spider I’ve seen this year and its the same for the other common species the Banded Garden Spider. This one was in quite an awkward position so couldn’t get the camera low enough to match the angle of the spider in the web.
Best viewed very large.
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View from a central seat of Berliner Dom.
In 1940, the blast waves of Allied bombing blew part of the windows away.
On 24 May 1944, a bomb of combustible liquids entered the roof lantern of the dome.
The fire could not be extinguished at that unreachable section of the dome.
So the lantern burnt out and collapsed into the main floor.
Between 1949 and 1953, a temporary roof was built to enclose the building.
On 9 May 1967 the then still undivided Evangelical Church of the Union decided a committee for the reconstruction of the Supreme Parish and Cathedral Church, then located in East Berlin.
The government of the Eastern German Democratic Republic did not oppose the work of the committee due to the concomitant inflow of Deutsche Marks.
In 1975, reconstruction started, simplifying the building's original design and demolishing the northern wing, the 'Denkmalskirche' – Memorial Church.
Compared by some to the Medici Chapel, it had survived the war completely intact but was demolished for ideological reasons by the communist government due to it being a hall of honour for the Hohenzollern dynasty.
This resulted in scaffolding for restoration appearing on the church while detonation charges were applied to its undamaged rear.
The government also demanded the removal of as many crosses as possible.
The demolition and redesign cost 800,000 marks, while the restoration (done on the cheap) cost just 50,000 marks.
The Berlin Cathedral Building Society now seek to rebuild the Denkmalskirche.
In 1980, the baptistery and wedding church was reopened for services.
The restoration of the nave was begun in 1984.
On 6 June 1993, the nave was reinaugurated in an event attended by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and televised nationwide in Germany.
There has been discussion to restore the dome and surrounding cupolas to their original appearance, but this has not occurred due to lack of funds. (Source: Wikipedia)
CUPULA DE LA CATEDRAL DE BERLIN, 2008
Vista desde un asiento central de la Cúpula de la Catedral de Berlin.
En 1940, las ondas expansivas de los bombardeos aliados hicieron volar parte de las ventanas.
El 24 de mayo de 1944, una bomba de líquidos combustibles entró en la linterna del techo de la cúpula.
El fuego no pudo ser extinguido en esa sección inalcanzable de la cúpula.
Así que la linterna se quemó y se derrumbó en el piso principal.
Entre 1949 y 1953 se construyó un techo provisional para cerrar el edificio.
El 9 de mayo de 1967, la entonces todavía indivisa Iglesia Evangélica de la Unión decidió un comité para la reconstrucción de la Parroquia Suprema y de la Iglesia Catedral, entonces situada en Berlín Oriental.
El gobierno de la República Democrática Alemana del Este no se opuso a la labor del comité debido a la concomitante entrada de marcos alemanes.
En 1975 se inició la reconstrucción, simplificando el diseño original del edificio y demoliendo el ala norte, la "Denkmalskirche" - Iglesia Conmemorativa.
Comparada por algunos con la Capilla de los Médicis, había sobrevivido a la guerra completamente intacta, pero fue demolida por razones ideológicas por el gobierno comunista debido a que era un salón de honor de la dinastía Hohenzollern.
Esto hizo que aparecieran en la iglesia andamios para su restauración mientras se aplicaban cargas detonadoras en su parte trasera no dañada.
El gobierno también exigió la retirada del mayor número posible de cruces.
La demolición y el rediseño costaron 800.000 marcos, mientras que la restauración (hecha a la ligera) sólo costó 50.000 marcos.
La Sociedad de Construcción de la Catedral de Berlín pretende ahora reconstruir la Denkmalskirche.
En 1980, el baptisterio y la iglesia matrimonial volvieron a abrirse a los servicios.
La restauración de la nave se inició en 1984.
El 6 de junio de 1993, la nave fue reinaugurada en un acto al que asistió el Canciller Federal Helmut Kohl y que fue televisado a nivel nacional en Alemania.
Se ha hablado de restaurar la cúpula y las cúpulas circundantes para devolverles su aspecto original, pero no se ha hecho por falta de fondos. (Fuente: Wikipedia)
Probably the most spectacular experience I had during my trip to the Dolomites was at this lake (lago del Sorapis). Not only superb scenery.
In the morning this lake was frozen, but then the sun came out on parts of the ice, and the lake started producing sounds, that best can be compared with a singing saw. This is caused by tensions in the ice, because the ice was still very thin. And also explosions could be heard, when the ice breaks and cracks appear in different locations. A memory I will never forget.
The picture here is an ultra stitched panorama of ca 20 portrait shots, later put together in and by Lightroom. I have numerous shots of this lake in all sort of directions, and it was really difficult what to post here.
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Even in Sicily bad weather has arrived, now as I write, there is a furious storm in progress, yesterday "it was raining ashes" coming from a giant cloud spit from the Etna volcano .... (always umbrellas ... it is ....!) ... but until yesterday .... (except for a few rainy days) the good weather and, thanks to the warm sirocco and libeccio winds, coming from Africa ... have enticed the swimmers (among them the many tourists present in Taormina and surroundings ... ) to go to the beaches; certainly the situation has changed compared to the hottest months of July and August, in which months the beaches were always very crowded, in the last days of the end of October, however, the beaches presented themselves with the most distant bathers .... with presences constant, but not excessive.
..... with this series that I am about to post, with the arrival of the bad season, at least for this year, I abandon the photographs taken on the beaches.
….. I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches of Taormina (and surroundings ...) ... in search of fleeting moments ...I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Anche in Sicilia è arrivato il cattivo tempo, ora mentre scrivo, c’è un furioso temporale in corso, ieri “pioveva cenere” proveniente da una gigantesca nuvola sputata dal vulcano Etna….(sempre di ombrelli…si tratta….!) …ma fino ad avant’ieri….(tranne qualche giornata piovosa) il bel tempo e, complici i venti caldi di scirocco e di libeccio, provenienti dall’Africa… hanno invogliato i bagnanti (tra questi i molti turisti presenti a Taormina e dintorni…) a frequentare le spiagge; certamente è cambiata la situazione rispetto ai mesi più caldi di luglio e di agosto, nei quali mesi le spiagge erano sempre molto affollate, in questi ultimi giorni di fine ottobre invece le spiagge si sono presentate con i bagnanti più distanti tra loro….con presenze costanti, ma non eccessive.
….. con questa serie che mi appresto a postare, con l’arrivo oramai della brutta stagione, almeno per quest’anno, abbandono le fotografie colte sulle spiagge.
….. Ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando lungo le spiagge di Taormina (e dintorni…)... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
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Marina made quite a notice when comparing the pricing and what you get with your lindens at The Shops. Had to share this.
"OK so yesterday I was helping a Friend to pick a Mesh Avatar, since there are not to many out there I took him to TheShops .
After testing the Free Body I noticed that there are quite some differences compared to the Female Body .
I find it quite Unfair that Men pay the same thing but get less Features then Women, So i figured I would show the difference , which you can see on the Images I took at TheShops..
I am not sure what reason TheShops has to make such a difference in features and Price , but I do think Men should have the same features as the Ladies for the same Price ...."