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Sophisticated photo Double exposure or voluntary out of focus The woman in the foreground and In the background, a nocturnal landscape with lights reflected on the water works on visual layering, the near scene is obscured, the distant scene is sharp.
The photo has two competing centers And in that competition there is poetry.
Wood Duck drakes, Suamico, Wisconsin USA.
The bird in the foreground being driven off by the other male who is paired with a nesting female on the pond.
Credits:
Truckers Hat: Rebellion
Shade, shirt and necklace: Legal Insanity
Ears: Andore
Beard/hair applier: Volkstone
Lighting: LUMIPro
Another image from my photo walk earlier this week to North Greenwich. This was the entrance area to an apartment complex but viewed side on. I liked the way the different shapes all imposed their way into the image with rectangles, horizontal lines, vertical lines, all of them competing for attention within the frame.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
This cowgirl is 72 years old and still competing in barrel racing at the Russian River Rodeo. Looking closely, it appears that the horse is blind in its left eye.
Another bird I encountered yesterday at the Hunter Wetlands Center whilst shooting with fellow flickr tog and long time friend Joe Micallef.
The Brown Honeyeaters were competing with Scarlet Honeyeaters and loads of Silvereyes for the nectar from the flowering Grevilleas here.
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Shoalhaven Heads Sunset - Panorama
Pentax K1 w DFA 15-30/2.8
ISO 100 f/11 -3.3 and -0.7ev
30 frames (15 x 2 exposures) HDR stitched in Lightroom, bit of levelling in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5, tweaked in Topaz Denoise and finished off in DxO PhotoLab 6
About the 1934 LaSalle
In the 1920’s, General Motors (GM) competed against Ford’s “one size fits all” approach by building “a car for every purse and purpose.” GM’s Cadillac had become the market leader in both prestige and price. The LaSalle, first designed in 1927 by the talented Harley Earl, was the model to fit between the Cadillac and Oldsmobile brands. Following the success of the early LaSalle, Alfred P. Sloan, head of GM, promoted Earl to head a new design office: GM’s “Art and Color Section.” However, success began to wane as the Great Depression wreaked havoc on LaSalle sales.
In 1933 the LaSalle was scheduled for termination. Earl spotted an aircraft-inspired design on the drawing board of Jules Agramonte, a member of the Art and Color team. Immediately motivated, Earl and his team redesigned the LaSalle with new Art Deco features such as the tall, narrow front grill, pontoon fenders, biplane bumpers, portholes, chevrons, and chrome accents. Earl had a full-scale mockup built, and presented it to GM executives, proclaiming, “Gentlemen, if you decide to discontinue the LaSalle, this is the car you are not going to build.” GM quickly agreed to manufacture the beautiful new LaSalle, convinced it would revive sales and add excitement to their product line.
The 1934 LaSalle shared many aspects of its build with the Oldsmobile including, straight-8 engine components, frame, and transmission. Both cars also featured new, hydraulic brakes and a revolutionary independent front suspension, which Cadillac did not yet have. The LaSalle team was tasked with reducing production costs by 1/3 — a feat they achieved by sharing parts across model lines. The LaSalle was a design masterpiece, advertised as “the newest car in the world,” and was the pace car for the 1934 Indianapolis 500. LaSalle sales doubled for 1934 and continued to grow through 1936; however, as the US began to rise from the depths of the Depression, consumer demand trended away from such cars, toward smaller, less expensive brand models. By 1940, GM had finally conceded, cancelling production of the LaSalle.
The birch wants the last word.
The aspens chatter in the breeze.
Fighting to the last
for all the glory of
saying the last thing
until next spring.
With the moonlight over my shoulder highlighting the rocks in the foreground the predawn glow made for interesting lighting overall ...
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO400 f/8 30s (+1.7ev - sometimes the light meter struggles with the ultra wide lens in competing conditions).
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked/aligned in Affinity Photo 2, luminosity blended in ON1 Photo Raw 2023, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
David Piper competed in the Formula One World Championship in 1959, and then went on to race sports cars when he lost interest in single seaters. From 1962 until 1970, he often competed in his own cars at sports car events, incluidng 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Perhaps most famous for racing a multitude of Ferrari's, including the 250 GTO, 250 LM and the 512S, he also competed using his own Porsche 917K, and was involved in the filming of the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, where he crashed the 917K and lost part of his leg.
He also competed using the Lola T70 seen here with the Sandeman sponsorship livery and its original British Petroleum Green colour (the colour is impregnated into the bodywork itself). This Lola is chassis number SL76/150, delivered new to the David Piper Autoracing Modena team on the 7th March 1969, and was fitted with a 5ltr Bartz Chevrolet engine.
David Piper described the Lola as "such good value for a long distance sports racing coupe at that time. It was a big step forward in all areas over the Ford GT40 against which it was measured. The car was comfortable and east to drive with no vices at all."
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and the morning competed and spread his shadow in pride
and the light flow in haste as a waterfall
It is a system of the Magnificent creations, as a sign of the lord
the creativeness manifested in most charming image
والصبح في ألق تنافس مد في زهو ظلاله
والنور من كفيه شلال تدافق في عجاله
هي آلة الخلق العظيم يسوقها المولى دلاله
فيها تجلت قدرة الابداع في احلى مقاله
words by: Sayed al Majeed
Andrew Dennes, competing in a time trial in the West of England, early 1980s. Photographed by a fellow Bath Cycling Club member.
This was shot at Brookgreen Gardens, near Murell's Inlet, South Carolina, as was a very similar image posted in late 2019 or so. This is a brick walkway, shadowed by the lattice structure above it and the trees above that. What I like here is the way the different patterns compete for my attention, making me feel a bit nuttier than usual: the virtually black shadow, the bricks and their different types and colors, and the variable colors of sunlight on the bricks caused by trees overhead letting different amounts of sunlight through. Just as I manage to focus on one pattern, another grabs my attention and the former is lost.
The history of Brookgreen Gardens is pretty interesting. Anna Hyatt Huntington was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century, when female artists generally garnered little respect. With her husband, Archer Huntington, they bought four old plantations around 1929, totaling over 9,000 acres, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic coast, in order to showcase her sculptures. Over time, they acquired works by a few dozen other American figurative sculptors, with a total of some 1400 works. The sculpture garden takes up about 550 acres; there is also a zoo, and several nature trails. For me, the gardens were a little more interesting than the sculpture, but enjoying it all together was pretty wonderful. The coastal areas have been leased to the state of North Carolina, forming Huntington Beach State Park. If you ever get down that way, check it out; otherwise, Google it. (They're not paying me anything for this brief review.)
The rainforest in the Sol Duc Valley is a picture of nature's competition for life in Olympic National Park, September, 2025. The beauty and wonder here is incomprehensible in scope, so please accept this small part of it.
This is the very first shot I took at Cala de la Vinyeta, in Calella, Catalunya (Spain).
It was well before dawn - the faintest light of the sun was struggling her way above the horizon as the stars were trying to keep asserting their supremacy.
Unluckily the darkest thing within the range of a kilometer was the screen of my camera. The focus is soft, but I think that the image has a remote atmosphere I like very much, so at last I have decided to upload it.
Apart from a bit of denoising and a delicate glowing touch, this shot is essentially SOOC. I would like very much to receive some useful advice about shooting in those light conditions and processing the resulting images :-)
Back to the processing of the following upload now - a picture of the lighthouse of Calella :-)
Competing in the UNLIMITED Class; "Hi-Tec Oils" #10 with Michael Cunningham driving along with Narelle Grayland during the evening qualifying session at the Penrite V8 Superboats meet at Temora.
New South Wales, Australia.
A hasty three shot panorama taken from the traffic island in the middle of Regent Street while competing for space with tourists snapping the view of the Christmas lights down the street to the right..
From Wikipedia:
Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail. Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760. It moved to its current site on Regent Street in London's West End in 1881. This flagship store is set over seven floors, with more than 50,000 lines of toys on sale. It receives around five million visitors each year, and in 1994 was the largest toy shop in the world.
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100x: The 2024 Edition
100/100 London landmarks by night
It seems I must have misnumbered my entries to the 100x group, and have reached the group's limit. So I am renumbering this to 100 and calling it a night. It has been a fun and rewarding challenge and I thank everyone who faved, commented and viewed these images.
Loved how the tree and sunset worked with each other ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW
Flint may be lightning fast, but if he's going to stand a chance of competing in the next Olympics, he needs to work on his false starts.
A brace of horses at the 2022 Barton upon Humber and District Ploughing Match in North Lincolnshire, UK. Lovely mid October weather for this competition that saw vintage and classic tractors plus horses and ploughmen compete for trophies and prizes.
Weighing in at 5 or 6g, Goldcrest competes with its close cousin Firecrest as the smallest British bird. But being small means it has difficulty keeping warm (because it has a large surface area to volume ratio). In really bad winters the population crashes but Goldcrests can bounce back by laying up to 12 eggs, though 6-8 is more typical. A clutch this size can exceed her bodyweight, but she produces just one every day or two, and does not start incubating until she has a full clutch. She even uses her hot legs to help incubate such a large clutch. It is quite a common breeding bird in Britain with more than half a million pairs but many more arrive here for the winter escaping the cold Scandinavian winter. Its scientific name is Regulus regulus, which translates as little king, or kinglet as they are called in America. This obviously refers to the golden crown which is visible here. Its English name Goldcrest took a bit of getting to. It was first named Golden-crowned Wren by John Ray in 1678. Ninety years later in 1768 Thomas Pennant coined Golden-crested Wren which persisted for well over a hundred years, though many naturalists were unhappy with the "Wren" part of the name as it wasn't a Wren. Some authors used its scientific name or even its translation (Kinglet) that is used in America. For example William Yarrell in 1843 called it "Little Golden-crested Regulus , or Kinglet". But throughout the nineteenth century it was generally known as Golden-crested Wren, but that tended to be shortened to Goldcrest. This became so well-used that the name stuck and is now adopted.
I photographed this male sitting on a Sitka Spruce branch near Holmfirth.
This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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