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Dixon Meadows Preserve, Lafayette Hill, PA. USA

A great property for fall sparrows, warblers and daily surprises.

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Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens, 1.4 converter and fill flash

1/250 F8 ISO 640

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 JOHN 4:7

This Gull has a great position, perched right next to the sea.

Watching the waves roll in, and looking towards the setting sun.

Pentax K-3 mk lll

HD Pentax-DA f4.5-6.3 55-300mm ED PLM WR RE

HD Pentax-DA AF 1.4x AW converter

Herne Bay, North Kent Coast

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Wissahickon Valley, Phila, PA USA

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There were two chicks in this nest. As we were setting up, one of the chicks fledged. We were fortunate to get this last feeding of the remaining chick. A few minutes after we took this image, it took off to join the family.

Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens, 1.4 converter and fill flash.

1/250 F8 ISO 800

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

—Psalm 30:5

Hasedera - Temple bouddhiste et jardins datant du VIIIe siècle - Bouddist Temple Garden, Kamakura, Japon

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Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens, 1.4 converter and fill flash.

1/250 f7.1 ISO 640

Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees,

that I may follow it to the end.

Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law

and obey it with all my heart.

Direct me in the path of your commands,

for there I find delight.

Psalm 119:33-35

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Mercer County, New Jersey USA.

Adult males are bright yellow below with heavy black streaks on the flanks. A black eyeline and a black semicircle under the eye mark the yellow face. Males often have a chestnut patch on the back and a dark spot on the side of the neck. Females and immatures are similar but paler, with a grayish head and broken white eyering.

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Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens, 1.4 converter, and fill flash.

1/1250 F5.6 ISO 500

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his very soul?

Mark 8:36

Macro Monday - Numbers and letters

#64 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby

Tickets from my craft stash on scraps of decorated paper. Daisy and asparagus fern from my garden. HMM

Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converter

The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America and the Caribbean.

Adults have a blue-grey back and wings, white underparts, a black cap, a dark line extends from the bill to under the eye and short yellow legs. Juveniles are browner above and streaked below.

These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, but are easier to see than many small heron species. They mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic insects. They sometimes use bait, dropping a feather or leaf carefully on the water surface and picking fish that come to investigate.

They nest in a platform of sticks measuring between 20–40 cm long and 0.5–5 mm thick. The entire nest measures some 40–50 cm wide and 8–10 cm high outside, with an inner depression 20 cm wide and 4–5 cm deep. It is usually built in not too high off the ground in shrubs or trees but sometimes in sheltered locations on the ground, and often near water. The clutch is 2–5 eggs, which are pale blue and measure around 36 by 28 mm.

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Cape May Point State Park, New Jersey, USA

Probably the most common duck species in North America, but still one of my favorites to photograph-especially when they're "hamming it up" for the cameras. There were three drakes surrounding a hen vying for her attention. This drake was bathing and stretching for minutes on end. He must have won her affection because he swam off with the hen. The two remaining drakes took a cold shower.

Nikon D7200 with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens and 1.4 converter. 1/2000 F5.6 ISO 640

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Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." - Deut. 31:6

test shot with a converter (0.75 Ricoh) in the library in Stuttgart.

My garden

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Never seen this behavior in a pheasant they nomally stay on the ground, she worked out where the seed was coming from and jumped up onto all the sources of food that had been set up by myself and destroyed the whole lot, end of day.

The African spoonbill (Platalea alba) is a long-legged wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across Africa and Madagascar, including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

It lives in marshy wetlands with some open shallow water and nests in colonies in trees or reedbeds. They usually don't share colonies with storks or herons. The African spoonbill feeds in shallow water, and fishes for various fish, molluscs, amphibians, crustaceans, insects and larvae. The animal uses its open bill to catch foods by swinging it from side-to-side in the water, which catches foods in its mouth. Long legs and thin, pointed toes enable it to walk easily through varying depths of water.

The African spoonbill is almost unmistakable through most of its range. The breeding bird is all white except for its red legs and face and long grey spatulate bill. It has no crest, unlike the common spoonbill. Immature birds lack the red face and have a yellow bill. Unlike herons, spoonbills fly with their necks outstretched.

We spotted this walking along a wooden gate, quite small 4-5mm long, haven't seen one before, can anyone ID it please, I would be very grateful

For Crazy Tuesday: "Rear View"

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Umformer / Converter

The Zollverein colliery was an active coal mine in Essen from 1851 to 1986. It was named after the German Zollverein, founded in 1834. Today it is an architectural and industrial monument.

Les jardins de Hasedera, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japon

Promenade au Parc de Saint-Cloud au couchant

A stroll at the Parc de Saint-Cloud near dusk.

Tiarella Cordifolia.

Minolta MD 200 f4,0 | Panagor Macro Converter | Sony A 7II

Rawtherapee | Darktable

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Cape May, NJ, USA

NIKON D7200 with Nikon 500 mm f/4 lens and 1.4 converter. ISO 640 F/8.0 1/2000

A large, boldly patterned bird, the American Oystercatcher is conspicuous along ocean shores and salt marshes. True to its name, it is specialized in feeding on bivalves (oysters, clams, and mussels) and uses its brightly colored bill to get at them

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Podiceps grisegena

A Grey Heron at Attenborough Nature Reserve basking in the morning sun in a flower laden Weeping Willow.

1.4x converter not used in this shot.

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After awhile I decided to take off my 1x4 converter as was thinking I might not get the Osprey in frame at the pond with 840mm so near the end of visit this one comes in and lands on the large oak tree typical of my luck when the extra focal length was needed maybe about less than a mile roughly this is cropped too.

It's leg ring is 326 hidden here.I have submitted the info to the Roy Dennis foundation that man should be knighted for his work with raptors.

Thanks for stopping by always appreciated.

Best doubled clicked.

Pear blossom

Prakticar 2.8/135mm + Prakticar 'Tele Converter 2x Ex. Tube 1:1'

@ 2.8

These Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are all primed for the race as the duck on the left calls out the start.

Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EF400mm f/5.6L USM, EF1.4X Converter II, Focal length 560mm, f/8, 1/2000, ISO 800

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This was just a lens test. I tested an old Tele Converter (Sigma APO Tele Converter 2x EX DG) with my tele zoom lens (Sigma 150-500 mm f5,0-6,3 APO HSM). Even at 1000 mm it's really sharp.

1.6x Converter

1/1000 s

Hier 1250 mm

C1 Manual Exposure

so bright tonight, You could read a newspaper headlines

8.11. 08.11.2022, 02 a.m.

Wann ist der nächste Vollmond? Der nächste Vollmond im Jahr 2022 ist im November am Dienstag, 08.11.2022, um 12:01 Uhr.

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, the moon will pass through the shadow of Earth resulting in a total lunar eclipse that will be from Oceania, the Americas, Asia, and Northern Europe.

During the total lunar eclipse, the moon may take on a brownish red-hue that results from light from the sun hitting its disk after being bent around the Earth by our planet's atmosphere, which also filters out blue light.

Nice little Grey Wagtail.

Captured on a recent fishing trip after work last week in North Aberdeenshire.

These dont always sit still for very long so i had to be quick!

Taken with my Nikon D5500 DSLR and Sigma 150-600C Contemporary lens including the 1.4x Converter.

Captured handheld at 850mm.

Aberdeenshire Puffin.

Taken with my Nikon D5500 DSLR with Sigma 150-600C lens including 1.4x Converter.

False shamrock (aka wood sorrel; scientifically, oxalis triangularis), in a garden, in

DeKalb County (Vista Grove), Georgia, USA.

14 October 2020.

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A défaut d'avoir mon objectif macro en permanence en voyage, je me contente parfois d'anneaux convertisseurs pour assouvir mes besoins pour un travail photographique à faire de plus près. #Macro #MacroMondays #PhotographicEquipment

Fomapan 100 with Mamiya RB67 and Shift L 75 mm

Recurvirostra avosetta

Sculpture (limestone) by Barbara Hepworth, 1948, seen in St. Albans Museum and Gallery. I find it remarkable that Hepworth used the visual language of the Madonna and Child to represent the "new morning" in the biological history of our planet. The Eocene covers roughly the first thirty million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs - and the rise of new plant life, of the mammals and, ultimately, us. The image may tell us that this process has a sacred dimension or, at least, that religious language is a way to visually describe it. Edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) in breeding season (as indicated by the brilliantly pink bill), Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Pentax K-1

SMC Pentax-DA* 1:4 300mm

HD Pentax-DA AF Rear Converter 1.4x AW

Iridient Developer

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Shot with Pentax K5 II DA 300mm F4 1.4x Converter

Regards Steve

A night out with housemates at the After Dark, in Reading, Berkshire. My nightclub photography days were well behind me even then.

Taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens fitted with an Opteka 0.35x Semi-fisheye Converter, with lighting from a SB600. Processed in GIMP, and Photoscape

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Second option for Macro Mondays Group

Stahl-/Sauerstoff-Konverter nach dem OBM-Verfahren (Sauerstoffbodeneinblasung), verwendet von 1974 bis 1992 ---- Steel / Oxygen converter according to the OBM method (oxygen floor injection), used from 1974 to 1992

Fish Island / Prospect Point, Cercle antarctique, Antarctique

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_oxygen_steelmaking

For October 2023: A month in 31 pictures

19/31

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Hermes and the X-Pro1. Five LED spotlights in a dark room, processed in Fujifilm's raw converter and macOS High Sierra photo editor.

For Looking close... on Friday: "Owl"

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