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Continuing along the dandelion theme, their seeds are excellent ingredients in water droplet refraction images! I use them in the workshops I hold on the subject, for which there are dates in July and August that still have a few spots left: www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/ - there’s even a spot available for a workshop tomorrow due to a cancellation!
It’s helpful to know that this image is pretty much straight out of camera, with only some basic adjustments in Lightroom to adjust exposure, shadows, and crop. The kind of magnification you can get on a smaller sensor (shot this one with the Lumix GX9) is quite amazing. This was taken at 1:1 lifesize but I’d have to push to 2:1 magnification on my full-frame cameras to get the same composition (or throw half my pixels away).
Yes, I could focus stack an image like this – but do I need to? Sometimes focus stacking (combining multiple images at different focus points to increase the depth of field in post-processing) adds more clutter than anything else. Possibly a bit of extra detail in some of the droplets would be nice, but I like the fact that some are very deliberately out of focus – this helps add a sense of depth to the photo.
There are a lot of moving parts that go into an image like this: lighting on the background, alignment of the seed and flower, focus, composition, choice of flower (determines the entire colour palette of the image), and more. In the three-hour workshops I run, you’ll learn how all those parts fit together to make images just like this. The magic is all in-camera, not in processing and hours in Photoshop! You even get to keep the “third hand tool” used to create these images at the end of you workshop. :)
As spring switches into summer, there will be plenty of new subjects to explore this technique with. It has been on my to-do list for years to shoot water droplets and vines curling around the frame. I’m determined to find the time this year to make that happen. Our grapes are just showing the first signs of new growth, so it shouldn’t be long!
I also hold a full-day macro workshop in my studio and in our award-winning gardens. The July date still has some spots too: www.donkom.ca/product/full-day-macro-workshop-july-28-2018/
Continuing with the stars of the 2025 RIAT caught departing Fairford after RIAT 2025
Pakistan Air Force CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder 23-319 - one of a pair that arrived for the show along with their attendant Ilyushin Il-78MP tanker and C-130 support
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and until daylight approaches, the ghosts and the unexplainable continues...then, who knows what will happen in November?
赤レンガ倉庫へ向かう途中に出会った新港橋梁。廃線になって暫く経っているが橋の上だけ当時の線路が残されている。橋を渡りきれば線路は無くなっているはずなのにずっと続いている感覚に陥ってしまう。その時頭に浮かんだフレーズは「せーんろは続くーよー、どーこまーでーもー♪」
CANON EOS 7D + EF-S10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM
#cooljapan #yokohama #手持ちブラケット #ゴリゴリ #hdrjapan
Me voy de vacaciones. Nos vemos a la vuelta!
I'm going on holidays. See you soon!!
Textura: www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/ Thanks
Continuing towards LaCrosse, CKIN 814 and 813 lead their train from Malden across the one time Monon Michigan City Branch at Wade Tower, west of LaCrosse, IN.
Photo by John Eagan
Continuing the northbound chase here was the tenth spot I photographed this Mass Bay special.
Granite State Scenic Railway SW1000 105 leads the Mass Bay RRE rare mileage special along the little used middle portion of the line at about MP 11.4 on the old Boston and Maine Pemigewasset Valley Branch.
To read the full story of this day and some history of the line and details about the equipment check out the caption with the earlier photo at Plymouth station.
Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024
My journey continued from the fox to the eagles. Plainfin Midshipman are strange and interesting fish that live in deep water until spring, when they swim into the shallows to bear their young. The females lay their eggs and return to the depths while the male remains to stand guard. This takes place in the intertidal zone where they can withstand exposure to air during low tide, breathing through their skin. Males "sing" during mating season, which comes out as a low hum, perceptible to nearby humans. They also have photophores along their body which light up when they are in deep water to both help them capture food and possibly also camouflage them. Watching the Great Blue Herons catching one after another in the shallows demonstrated the survival challenge for these fish. Herons would start first in the morning soon to be followed by bald eagles, often hazing the herons who gave up their prey with loud and bitter complaint. It was quite a show. My objective, besides having a great time doing what I love and meeting lots of other photographers, was to capture bird to bird interactions. I was inspired by Mark Smith's photography, who sets the standard for such shots and was quite helpful. Check him out: photoworkshopsandtours.com/. Here are a few shots. I'll post a few more in another post and then make a gallery of my keepers for my website. Thanks for following the journey. Mike
The eruption of Etna continues with the sixteenth paroxysmal activity since last February 16. The 'live' event started after 11pm yesterday from the South-East crater with a lava fountain, lava overflows and the emission of an eruptive cloud about 6 kilometers high. The ash, blown by the wind, fell in a South-South-East direction and also on Catania causing the closure of a sector of the airspace and of the airport runway.
DAMAGE - And after a month of eruptions, the damage toll in the countryside on which ash and lapilli have poured up. "Damaged nurseries of plants and flowers, vegetables as well as citrus fruits scratched by the power of the sand - says Coldiretti after the new eruption with lava and ash from the South-East crater -. In the countryside there is a calamity with often irreparable damage to the crops to which in addition, the inconvenience for those forced to the extraordinary cleaning of the drainage channels or the cleaning of rural roads ".
"In many areas the earth has been submerged by a black blanket - he adds. To clean the structures and crops it takes time, water and the massive use of manpower. We are also facing changes in the volcano and, therefore, we must start also a new system of interventions that also protects agricultural entrepreneurs with fast and ad hoc rules ".
Valle Aurina
Mentre qui a Milano nevica posto ancora foto estive ;-)
While in Milan is snowing I continue to post summer shots ;-)
Press L!!!
The cold wet winter of 2019/20 continued unabated as Storm B hit the UK in mid January.
But there are still days, like yesterday the 12th.
This changing forest floor around Frenchbridge Ghyll at the head of the River Arun will start to be ablaze with green in a small number of weeks - again I can't wait for the transformation to happen. With the destruction of the forest floor by floods just be Christmas I'm thinking 2020's bluebells could be better than usual.
Back at the start of April it is then... to image this pool behind by a log jam near ///flip.adopts.reputable that formed in the mid summer storms of 2019.
Continuing the planetary theme with Thirty-Six Views of CN Tower and Little Planets series...
The sunset light of Spring Equinox played cheerfully on futuristic cityscapes of Toronto... So it was just natural for me to cast some globular & texture magic :-)
The bust of Nicholas Baudin commemorates the bicentennial of the Baudin Expedition. It overlooks Geographe Bay, Baudin’s first anchorage, which was named for his ship, the Géographe. The bust was donated by the Terra Australis Committee as part of a project which charted the voyage of Nicholas Baudin along points of his famous journey. Mauritius, Tasmania and now Busselton are just some of the locations which feature the distinctive artworks.
The expedition reached Australia in May 1801. In April 1802 they encountered the British ship Investigator captained by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. The expedition later stopped at the British colony of Sydney for supplies, where Baudin bought a new ship Casuarina . From there he sent Naturaliste back to France, carrying all the specimens that the expedition had collected to that point. From Sydney, the remaining ships headed to Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. On their way home the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis.
Credit:- Monuments Australia
Continuing with our series of Sullivan Bus TFL school routes, we have the 640 which goes from South Harrow to Bentley Wood School somewhere north of Harrow.
Where's the blind you may ask – well that's what I want to know too!!
This is my second visit here in three weeks, and both times no blind – and I'm certain it's a different bus to last time. At least this white blank looks a bit better than the black blank which I got last time!
I could easily photoshop a blind from one of my Metroline photos from last year, but why should I have to do that?
Don't think I will be up here for a third time.
Of course kids don't go to school anymore, but someone did actually get on the bus at that stop – an adult. Perhaps a clever bloke who doesn't want to fall foul of any capacity limit on the 114 or 140 routes, as this is a very busy corridor in the morning.
In common with Sullivan's other school routes, only one of the journeys is running at this time - this was 9th June
Continuing with Cameraderie forum joint effort for regular shooting in January; on the twenty-first day, I confess, two thirds into this challenge and shooting regularly for it became oppressive. I found myself in a place where photography became almost the opposite of what it means to me usually - a creative outlet without pressure to produce, meat deadlines and oblige clients; just a personal joy of observing and exploring the world and myself in it. Now with an (self imposed) obligation to have at least kinda pretty if not strong or meaningful image each day, I felt overwhelmed and tired and had to kick myself in the butt to get at it once again. I argued with my grumpy self that, even if I decide to drop everything, it would be beneficial to at least stretch the legs, and that by just strolling the streets for an hour or so I'm bound to stumble on something intriguing... And I did. Shot with Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens mounted via speedbooster on Sony A6000.
Continuing the series, here's a front view of the Riddles 2-6-4T, minus it smokebox door number and no shed plate either. It's evident from this view that this was probably the shed pilot handling coal wagons at the coaling tower. Pilot lights are being carried, one over each buffer, fore and aft (one of each pair was white, the other, red).
Continuing my theme of Class 60 uploads this week, here's one I didn't expect to see. After a fairly cloudy day in the Bristol area on Friday 28th June, the sun started to come out late afternoon, just as I noticed an empty aggregate train for Tytherington was shown running on RTT. I've been fairly unlucky for photos in the Avon valley and have no decent shots - so with plenty of cloud still around, I was well chuffed to capture this sunny shot of 60046 'William Wilberforce' rounding the curve at Freshford. The train is 6Z23, 14:11 Wembley - Tytherington. (I've photoshopped out a bush from the front of the loco)
War & love. (continued)
Combats entre foulques macroules males en ce début de période des amours
Fight between male coots at the beginning of the mating season
Please view Large on Black. The windfarms near Tehachapi, California provide a backdrop for my continuing "Cloud Series."
Made Mar. 29, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF24-105mm f4L IS USM at 105mm.
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Windfarm
The windfarms near Tehachapi, California provide a backdrop for my continuing "Cloud Series."
Continuing with a b/w and colour combo, showing some distant humans struggling/enjoying the weather.
With another winter storm on the way, this goes out to all the 100k+ still without power, but there is hope !! Think good thoughts, the roads weren't bad during this ice storm, this next storm is supposedly supposed to be only snow.
A wider frame I loved from this stunning scene as they continue the slow march over the trestle.
While this was the main reason we made the impromptu choice to drive 7 hrs round trip to and from the Canadian border: flic.kr/p/2oeDHAU we were rewarded for our efforts with a nice bonus in the form of the only road train that runs up here. I had only shot this famous location once before, but not in crazy storm light conditions like this. So yes, as you can see why we had no regrets about our crazy decision for the day!
A Canadian crew is on board matched CN SD75Is 5661 and 5664 (both built in 1996 in London, ON) leading CN train 323 back to Taschereau Yard in Montreal after bringing train 324 down to the NECR's ex Central Vermont Italy Yard in St. Albans. They are seen crawling over the old Central Vermont Railway trestle across Missisquoi Bay at about MP 15.3 (the draw span) on the modern day New England Central Railroad's Swanton Sub.
The bay is the northeastern arm of Lake Champlain and the Canadian border is just under three miles away as the crow flies due north of here. The 3800 ft long wood pile structure was built in 1912 and features a 102 ft long thru girder swing span in the middle. A century later the manually operated span was automated by a local Vermont based rail contractor in a public private partnership. To learn more click here: www.engineersconstruction.com/2012/05/03/100-yr-old-east-...
East Alburg
Town of Swanton, Vermont
Friday January 27, 2023
Continuing looking at old photography sessions to see how I would process them now.
Egle-student from Lithuania studying fashion at university in London
My cactus continues blooming right on toward Christmas ...
Schlumbergera cultivars
Christmas cactus / Thanksgiving cactus / Crab cactus / Holiday cactus
Colorado Springs, Colorado
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumbergera
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Cactaceae
Subfamily:Cactoideae
Tribe:Rhipsalideae
Genus:Schlumbergera
Dark background created with flash/ambient exposure imbalance ...
This humid and unseasonal hot weather, has bought amazing cloud formations and rain... the mist on the right is rain coming across the bay.
Bonnie is now a post-tropical storm, and continues to linger along the coast of South Carolina. NASA's RapidScat analyzed the winds of the storm, while NOAA's GOES-East provided a visible look at the storm's location and extent.
On May 30 at 4:40 a.m. EDT (0840 UTC) RapidScat saw strongest sustained winds near 18 meters per second (40 mph/64 kph) east of the center of Post-Tropical Storm Bonnie (the center was over land). Sustained winds were much weaker around the rest of the system. RapidScat flies aboard the International Space Station and can measure winds on the ocean's surface. Forecasters are able to use RapidScat data to pinpoint the strongest winds within a storm, as they are not always equally distributed.
At 5 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Bonnie's center of circulation was located near latitude 33.3 north...and longitude 78.9 west. That's about 29 miles (47 km) south of Myrtle Beach and about 65 miles (105 km) north-northeast of Charlestown municipal airport, South Carolina. Bonnie continued to produce light showers along the U.S. East Coast.
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