Competing for the nectar of a Scabious flower… Underwing view of a male Adonis Blue on a Gloucestershire hillside.

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.

Irises compete with new spring weeds along a fence line in Coloma. My money is on the weeds. They play the long game.

A block away from this scene James Marshall discovered gold along the American River, setting off one the greatest migrations of people in history.

Happy Fence Friday everyone.

Coloma CA

Compete with yourself, and you will never be bitter - ana

It was such a lovely day today

(Sometimes one does not have to do anything, to have a beautiful day)

So thought I would put up a second one...image that is ;)

Besides I just heard this tune and had to post it too :)))

Yup...You know I tend to do stuff like that ;)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1p2CIdas-Y

Have a beautiful weekend, my dear friends

See y'all in a few xxx

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.

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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.

Two Common Carder Bumble bees for a heart is one too many : the one on the right was genly but firmly pushed away :)

Zoom in for more detail, mainly the proboscis of the right Bumblebee being inserted behind the small petal.

Blog Post

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Your Heart Is As Black As Night

Your eyes maybe whole

But the story I'm told

Is your heart is as black as night

You lips maybe sweet

Such that I can't compete

But your heart is as black as night

I don't know why it came along

At such a perfect time

But if I let you hang around

I'm bound to lose my mind

'Cause your arms maybe strong

But the feelings are all wrong

Your heart is as black as night

I don't know why it came along

At such a perfect time

But if I let you hang around

I'm bound to lose my mind

'Cause your hands maybe strong

But the feelings are all wrong

Your heart is as black

Your heart is as black

Oh, your heart is as black as night

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Your Heart Is As Black As Night

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... ::: Training season - Dua Lips ::: ...

Are you

Someone that I can give my heart to?

Or just the poison that I'm drawn to?

It can be hard to tell the difference late at night

Play fair

Is that a compass in your nature?

Or are you tricky 'cause I've been there?

And baby, I don't need to learn that lesson twice

But if you really wanna go there

You should know I

Need someone to hold me close

Deeper than I've ever known

Whose love feels like a rodeo

Knows just how to take control

When I'm vulnerable

He's straight talking to my soul

Conversation overload

Got me feeling vertigo

Are you somebody who can go there?

'Cause I don't wanna have to show ya

If that ain't you, then let me know, yeah

'Cause training season's over

I try to see my lovers in a good light

Don't wanna do it just to be nice

Don't wanna have to teach you how to love me right

I hope it hits me like an arrow

Someone with some potential

Is it too much to ask for, who understands?

Can you compete?

Now is your time

Run when you hear that whistle blow

Are you on my team

Or stuck on the sidelines

Waiting for someone to tell you to go?

For someone to tell you to go

You should know I

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Compete

(competing ideologies)

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

3 people will be chosen, the result will be announced on the 25th:CLOSED

Winners:

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COMPETING WITH THE GRANDDAUGHTER?

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.

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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Dave Adams Automotive Images

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.

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.)

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Leaves and they're pink/orange, behold!

PEOPLE OF FLICKR I am so proud of you! My amount of followers here has, as of now, overtaken my amount of likes on Facebook! You two are now gonna be competing!!!

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE APPRECIATION, IT KEEPS ME GOING <3 :D

The used App Hypocam has a few Filters preinstalled and here I used the Filter HC-01.

About the series

I was in Berlin for a few days and of course I wanted to shoot some Photos. My normal Camera was a little too big and unhandy for my business-trip and so I gave a Chance to my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11) and a free B&W-App called “Hypocam”. I would like to share a few impressions, but it will not be a detailed test of the smartphone-camera or the software. For me it was more about the question: can my Smartphone compete with my normal Camera? And can I create a nice & appealing b&w-Series with this equipment?

I will try to answer it primarily by showing the final results and I want to add only a little Text to every Photo. I hope you like the photos and if you want to leave a comment: What experiences have you had so far? Can a smartphone compete with or even replace expensive equipment in some situations?

Electrical Grid

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Food Supply

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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 :-)

Explored on 09/05/2015 #376 or so

The Milky Way rising above the hoodoos and unique, hearty vegetation in the badlands of northern New Mexico. The Valley of Dreams, located northwest of Chaco Canyon, does not disappoint, though its formations are not as extensive as Bisti further to the northwest. The night was the clearest I’ve been able to shoot in two years—partly weather, partly competing schedules! The moon was just setting, producing the well-exposed landscape and long shadows. I typically plan for at least two images on a night out, and this was my second with the plant and hoodoos as the landscape elements. It was a little tricky figuring out the composition in the dark, but I’m happy with what I was able to do. The sky and landscape were taken from the same set of images, but processed separately in Photoshop, Starry Landscape Stacker, Astronomy Tools, Astro Panel, and Nik.

Canon EOS Ra, Samyang 14mm, f2.8, ISO1600, 20s.

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.

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Competing with the Euphorbia in my garden are these Hellebores, also pale green but not quite so bright. They seem very robust and require hardly any attention, which is always an advantage!

sodium strret light and moon over Calder riverfront

All around the globe people are celebrating the advent of a new year with fireworks. But well... man made stuff simply cannot compete with nature. So here you see fireworks on a whole different level: one of the wildest Aurora nights I ever had the pleasure to witness. Happy New Year everybody!!!

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these ships were built from the 18th century till about 1930

These three were competing over some ice-fishing scraps. The eagle decided to do take-out. (An earlier shot shows him chowing down.)

British Short Track Championships, Nottingham UK

It was a sunny day. It was a moody day. A natural tension. At least it was cooler.

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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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...at the Cape Cod Orchid Show.