Canon EOS 5D Mark II EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM

ƒ/8.0 105.0 mm 1/200 ISO 100

HORACIO PATRONE : NIKON D 500 LENS NIKKOR AF-S 300/4 D IF . ED . fotografia Horacio Patrone.. BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA ) . -The most striking aspect of the northern barrios (Retiro, Recoleta, Palermo), especially in comparison with their less affluent southern counterpart. .buenosaires.for91days.com/2011/03/10/the-carlos-thays-bot...

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"This physical world has no two things alike. Every comparison is awkwardly rough. You can put a lion next to a man, but the placing is hazardous to both."

– Rumi

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Common frog (Rana temporaria) and a mushroom Clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis); island Zealand in Denmark, 17-10-2020.

The image was taken handheld during my own private tour.

Thanks a lot, everyone, for stopping by, for looking my work, for your comments and likes! Always appreciated!

The smaller one in the middle is a Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) compared to the larger Canada Goose. Lake Galena. Peace Valley Park, New Britain PA.

I make this image public for getting an impression of the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive

The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.

Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.

The uploaded JPEG is about 17MB in size, the AVIF 1.9MB.

This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.

I used this parameters:

avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif

The result is:

- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)

- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)

- 12 bit per channel

Link to Windows encoder binary

Alternate (2x as fast in my benchmarks)

IMG_0476c 2022 01 30

Life and Shadows

*note: crop edit preformed in Flickr Photo Editor 1/31/22

A direct comparison of the original painting and our recreation .. can you tell which is which?

The illustration I did and the actual doll. I changed a few little things.

Comparison Film 4x5 and glass Wet Plate Collodion

same camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Same Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena 210mm F4.5

Left: Fomapan 100 4x5, F32 1/2"

Right:Wet Plate Collodion， 4x5 Glass, F5.6, 120"

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Hope this is helpful. 😊

Compare this with the bald eagle and mocking bird shot. The bald eagle is perched near the front top of the tower. Another is perched about half way down. No one walking the path I was on saw them unless I pointed them out! I love my long lens! I also love my iPhone for getting shots like this one.

Fisherman 235

Herring Gull (l) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (r). HG - grey back, pink legs, yellowish eyering round pale eye, yellowish gape; LBBG slate-grey back, yellow legs, orange-red eyering round pale eye and orange-red gape.

Brandgans und Sandregenpfeifer im Größenvergleich.

Size comparison of common shelduck and little ringed plover.

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A Neotropic cormorant on the left (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) and a Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) on the right. The size difference is clearly apparent. Always interesting to get two different versions of the same species in the same image. There are arguably 40 different species of the cormorant / shag species.

Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade

Activists for birds and wildlife

Kimmeridge bay Dorset on the stunning Jurassic coast. Not a good sunset on this particular day but when the sun popped out for a minute the light highlighted Hen Cliff with the Clavell Tower or Kimmeridge Tower beautifully. The pile of stones found in this position on arrival was an added bonus, maybe put there in homage to the tower? ( at least that's what i'd like to think!)

Zum Vergleich das Original / For comparison the original: flic.kr/p/2ndyrpg

Wie man sieht, das geht schon recht gut.

As you can see, this works quite well.

Moorhen and two Swamp Hens.

Slight difference in height ... :-D

Distance shot.

Leica M Mono, Leitz Elmar 4/135 at F5.6. The settings for both shots are broadly the same (ISO 2500 corresponds to ISO 1250 on the M8) and I tried to edit both images in the same way as well. I am not trying to demonstrate that rangefinder cameras can do animal photography - we all know that other camera types do better in this regard. The comparison is rather between the old and low resolution M8 and the more advanced M Monochrome. It turns out that in terms of sharpness, the old M8 is still going strong. Resolution is more of a problem, especially at higher ISO settings (so, the M8 would struggle with nature and landscape photography). For portrait and street, in fact for all subjects where roughness is legitimate, the old camera is a wonderful tool. The Monochrome can do all of it and is more open to post-processing intervention.

Snow and Ross Geese side by side for comparison. I've been trying to get a shot like this for years.

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The bananas on the right look to be the perfect ripeness for eating (in my opinion—different people like different levels of ripeness when it comes to bananas). The bananas on the left appear too ripe for eating plain (again, my opinion) but they are excellent for baking or making smoothies. Both bunches of bananas are different in which ways they’re best enjoyed. When I compare my lack of capacity to achieve a lot of great things with someone in different circumstances who has the capability to do things I’m not able to it’s easy for me to fall into deep shame and guilt. I need to continually remind myself God created each of us unique and we have different experiences that shape us therefore it’s not always helpful to compare myself to others. It gives me the freedom to be who God created me to be with unique gifts and abilities and focus on growing in the ways He desires for me—which I’m still working on and probably will be for as long as I’m alive.

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My first attempt at developing film at home. For me it was an overwhelming process and I’m thankful I gave it a try. There is so much satisfaction and enjoyment for me to be able to accomplish this despite my fears and most of my days being about survival without having the capacity for much “extra” stuff. Being able to see the final image is so amazing after this whole process. It turned out much better than I expected. I’m still learning.

Nikon F100

Nikon 35mm f/2 D

Fuji Superia X-Tra 400

Self developed at home - Unicolor

Negative photographed with DSLR and converted to positive using Lightroom

Well here is the comparison of the photo of RL and my new pose. Hope you like! I tried to do my best. Adriana, thank you for your patience and cooperation... loviu <3

Here you can see the colouring and bill differences between an immature male and an older male Surf Scoter.

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Autumn View

Woodland Hills Subdivision (North)

Lawton, OK

egrets pair of great whites compared to a little egret

Someone asked me to do a height comparison, so here it is! :D I can't believe how big Aline is compared to Pansy xP Hehehe. Now holding my minifees they seem so tiny! It's weird!

Left: original head with partial reroot

Right: replacemente head

3 coats of each, but the OPI is the only one that needed it imo.

Index to Pinky:

OPI Tickle My France-y

RBL Grunge

Essie Jazz

RBL Opaque Nude

I considered some art involving a naked woman, and found that we had things in common.

White tailed eagle in company off some hooded crows. Now you can see the difference in size,birdwise. But also that the crows are not scared of this mighty eagle who I thought was king :-) and in this picture you can see his white tail..

I have never done this before, but I had to put these two pictures together so that you can compare the differences. I used the identical prompt in MidJourney and DDT2D and this is the result. Basically I asked for a woman who was not feeling well, sitting in her bed and working on her laptop. I also wanted it in the style of Norman Rockwell. I did MJ first and was disappointed, and then I tried DDT2D and was blown away!

Don't get me wrong, I have had some incredible MJ results, but in this case, DD walks away with the honours!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ns-Uuz0QU

Since I had so many pink girls here right now I figured it would be cool to take some comparison pics.

Thanks to Dianne for drawing my attention to the torso. :-)

Graureiher

Created for DU Challenge ~ November 2024

Thanks to Temari 09 for starter image.

All work done in Photoshop 2025

Shadow Frames and PNG Images

Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!