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Difficult shot....lifted his head up as I took shot ... Before that someone stood by front wheel so best I could do....
Vicolo di Palermo. Bambini,cani,galline spesso condividono gli stessi spazi di gioco in strada. Il vicolo rappresenta in quegli anni nel sud (specialmente nei quartieri più vecchi e popolari) quella “scuola di vita” all’interno della quale si formano le esperienze dei bambini ,che spesso segnano poi i percorsi individuali di ogni singolo. Percorsi difficili, rischiosi, e comunque deficitari.
Alley of Palermo. Children, dogs, chickens often share the same spaces of play in the street. The alley is in those years in the south (especially in older neighborhoods and popular) that "school of life" in which form the experiences of children, who often then mark the paths of each individual. Paths difficult, risky, and still in deficit.
Topcon RE SUPER
Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is too difficult or expensive to actually shoot during nighttime. Because both film stocks and digital image sensors lack the sensitivity of the human eye in low light conditions, night scenes recorded in natural light, with or without moonlight, may be underexposed to the point where little or nothing is visible. This problem can be avoided by using daylight to substitute for darkness. When shooting day for night, the scene is typically underexposed in-camera or darkened during post-production, with a blue tint added. Additional effects are often used to heighten the impression of night. As film stocks and video cameras have improved in light sensitivity, shooting day for night has become less common in recent years.
During the silent era of film, release prints were often tinted blue during night scenes to enhance the illusion. Although moonlight is not actually blue, it appears bluish to the human eye due to the Purkinje effect. To give a bluer appearance to scenes filmed in color, some techniques use 3200K tungsten-balanced rather than 5000K daylight-balanced film stock. The tungsten balance renders artificial lighting (street lights, headlights, lit windows, etc.) as white and unlit areas as "moonlight blue." With professional video cameras, color temperature adjustments are made to achieve the same effect. With digital post production now nearly universal, the color temperature adjustment is usually made in camera, to preserve the "white" artificial lights, but scene darkening is left to post production for finer control of the effect.
Underexposing the shot can add to the illusion of darkness or moonlight. It is typical to underexpose by about two f-stops. A neutral-density filter is often used to achieve this darkening, so that the camera aperture remains unchanged. (wikipedia)
The actual image was taken at 21 p.m. and darkened in postprocessing. Finally the blue was added.
It's difficult for a photo to demonstrate the scale of the steep slopes lining the upper end of Carlin Gill (and most other Howgill valleys), but those trees beside Carlingill Beck are indeed tree-sized – they're not huge, but they're not bushes!
I suppose they have a sheltered, well-water location, with thin glacial soil improved by nutrients washed downhill.
Maybe statistics express it better. The very flat slope to the left of the trees ascends ~125 m from the Beck to the ridgetop, maintaining a 1-in-1.76 incline for a horizontal distance of 220 m. No wonder the sheep walk single-file on narrow terraces.
Even then, the end of the flat section isn't the top, which is beyond a further, teasingly convex slope.
The furthest ridge on the left descends rightwards from Knowles (461 m) towards Back Balk. The nearer ridge is simply on the side of Carlin Gill, between the tributary gulleys of Small Gill and Heskaw Gill. The right bank is the sparser-vegetated Screes of Black Force.
The hill in the background is Greyrigg Pike, 4 km away.
Kauai, HI. This was a really difficult scene to shoot because of the insane dynamic range between the near-black lava rocks and the highlights around the sun. I'm pretty happy with it, though! Single exposure, 0.9 reverse grad. What do you think?
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Difficult the get this frame right due to the light was coming in almost at 12 o’clock, I had to shoot 2 frames, since I noticed flare on the first frame.
Camera: Nikon F4
Lens: Micro Nikkor 55mm f2.8
Film: Ilford HP5
Negative scan, D-76 1:1, 10min
Jumping Spiders are difficult for me to ignore. Here is a relatively large specimen collected a few days ago on the Beltsville Ag Center BARC West 200 acre proposed MAGLEV site. This mini-aliens will remain active until a hard freeze does them in. Photo by Elizabeth Panner, new in the lab and working on her photo chops. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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It is difficult to take the flower picture even in open shade, because it overexposed easily. Have a great day!
Difficult for me to get a decent in-flight shot but this turned out quite well considering it was so high in the sky.
“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!”
-From Dorothea Mackellar’s, “My Country”.
2019 has been a very difficult year for many Australians. In so many ways we face the New Year with mixed feelings, so aptly summed up in the central stanza of Mackellar’s beloved poem. [“My Country” is to Australians what “God Bless America” is to Americans.]
This is a land of undeniable and unique beauty, but it’s also at times a place of terror. Not political or economic terror (as in many sad places in this world), but a place where the terror usually comes in the form of Nature in its rawest state – a sunburnt country of droughts, and in the current state of affairs, bushfires. How we could do with those flooding rains Mackellar mentioned. But Mother Nature is capricious, make no mistake.
This photograph of the famous old house Rostrevor, at Sassafras in the Dandenongs to the east of Melbourne, was taken just before the fires which have ravaged New South Wales and now Victoria took hold.
It was in dim twilight amongst the tall Eucalyptus trees (so characteristic of the Australian bush everywhere), that we came across her. I’d heard a rumour that Rostrevor (which I’d seen many times before) had been destroyed in the dreadful fires of 2009, but as we drove around the bend she was there: sturdy, steadfast, present and just as I’d remembered her.
We pulled the car over and I grabbed the camera. I was delighted, but now on reflection that memory makes me emotional. Why? Well now suddenly I see Rostrevor in her fading glory as a prime symbol of HOPE. She’d had glory days before, built in the late 19th century as a guest house, and later visited by such luminaries as artists Frederick McCubbin and Arthur Streeton, but now she stands in the midst of the bush – an ever present threat every single summer - in a native garden lovingly tendered to by her current owners.
Believe me, if Rostrevor could talk, she’d tell of times when fires came just over the hills at the back, or in the valley below the road in front of her. Yet she survived! A stirring symbol of hope, an anchor that will hold us when the storms of life are at their fiercest. From the top of the hill behind Rostrevor, on a clear day, you can even see the jewel-sea of Port Phillip Bay.
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It was so hard to hold this postion without sliding back. It doesn't look like it but this slab of cement is on a very steep angle :P
The location that i am at is really close to my house and is the remains of a building that burnt down a very long time ago. I always feel somewhat awkward photographing there because there are houses at the top of the hill overlooking the location.
"...Sometimes difficult to spot, even in open terrain, this rufous wren, white throat and breast agleam, may continue to elude us as it creeps about the jumbled rocks. Now and then a bird will sally forth to seize a flying insect. Or, better yet, a territorial male will alight atop a tall boulder to defend his domain with song.
Throwing back his head, he pours out a clear, rippling vocal cascade that descends through a series of liquid notes te-you te-you te-you tew tew tew tew — a silvery glissando — once heard, never forgotten. Reverberating canyon walls instantly play back his wild and lovely song.
Crevice-nesting canyon wrens construct an open cup nest of wool, hair and feathers on a base of twigs and moss. In some places birds have adopted unoccupied stone buildings, nesting regally within."
tpwmagazine.com
I wish people knew just how difficult a shot like this is to make. There are very few places on earth to photograph this bird without getting dropped off in a bush plane. They nest on giant lakes, but there's a narrow window of time where the lakes are melted with just a little passage on the margins. This window often only lasts a few days. This window of time means the birds may be close enough to photograph . . . if you can find one. Even the most accessible pair can require a mile of hiking (as this one did), and that's hiking over spongy lumpy icy tundra, navigating between frozen puddles, melting snow drifts sometimes deep enough to swallow a person, and ankle twist grass knots. Then you finally get close to where they are . . . and they swim away, able to cut through ice-free coves and dive long distances underwater. I don't know if even most people could locate one to begin with, let alone get close. Let's not mention the fact that if you want to have anything less than a 10-12 hour round trip to their breeding areas, you have to camp. I mention this because some people see these shots and think, "I could drive the highway". You could, if you plan ahead, but to reliably pull off a shot like this would be a small miracle on your first try.
Crimson Sunbird (Male) ... Probably one of the most difficult birds to take. Not just that it stays at one spot for no more than a few seconds but also the difficulty in achieving good exposure and focus. The feathers are in such dark colors that auto focus doesn't work well and "spot metering" always give you over-exposed image. I failed 9 out of 10 times and this one is all I got from several hours work.
Difficult to separate from Eurasian Treecreeper: note slightly longer bill, shorter hind claw, browner flanks, and even steps on the wingbar. In the field best separated by voice, a penetrating "tut." Where it overlaps in range with Eurasian Treecreeper tends to be found in more deciduous woodlands at lower altitudes and in farmlands and parks.
Goritsa, Bulgaria. May 2016.
the difficult surgery went well ..... now we will hope !
listen: Yellow
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called Yellow
So then I took my turn
Oh, what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow
Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know I love you so........
I regularly come to this solar-powered fountain site primarily to get close to many Sparrow species... it's a Sparrow honey hole! Other birds also come to drink. I have seen this Goldfinch species only one time prior... in Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson. It's primarily a west coast bird seen here only in winter. Other than good cover at this site, this reliable water source is the major feature that attracts this not-so-common Goldfinch and several other difficult-to-spot birds... water is a no-fail bird magnet in the desert!
IMG_7440; Lawrence's Goldfinch
Difficult to classify, the Silver Chute Spider seems to be an arachnid contorted into the guise of an canine. With an exceptional sense of smell (Second only to the Energy Hounds), they can find suitable prey regardless of how it hides. Once located, they will ambush the target by jabbing them with their hollow proboscis, injecting a nasty anesthetic venom which renders the victim helpless as the spider begins to feed while the prey is still alive.
January, 1978 was a difficult winter for all the Midwestern roads. Tremendous amounts of snow snarled Chicago and brought rail traffic to a standstill. All carriers were short of power. The Milwaukee Road borrowed several GP35's from the B&O and they made many trips to St. Paul. On January 21, 1978 B&O 3540 leads two other GP35's on what I think was Number 212 getting ready to depart where Oakland tower used to stand. Even more unusual for the time MILW GP30 1006 joined another GP30 and GP35 1506 as hump power.
Difficult conditions for shooting Aurora last night, very bright Waxing Gibbous Moon, heavy mist near the ground and lots of moisture on the lens... and the odd Badger out to spook me in the fog...
Do I have a style ? Difficult to say. I like to think that what appears on my picture do not depend on me. The only part in the process where I am active is deciding to be somewhere at a specific moment, but I can't control what I'll see. This way of thinking describes what happens only to a certain extend, but it's not enough. In fact, the way we capture what's there to see, the way we edit picture and so on participate to a style, whatever the subject-matter. If I have a quick look to my Flickr
page, I can see that I a am a warm colorful kind of photographer. I like slightly saturated tones and sunrise/sunset colors. Whatever shot I take, I'll present it this way. If I speak about it today is because this picture is kind of different of what I do usually with this very kind of topic. I have many pictures of the alps, but most of the time, they looked quite quiet and calm. Sometimes I even used ND filter to accentuate this quite atmosphere. Here I show you something more dramatic, even a little messy, "to-much-information-ish" compared to my standards. When I look at this series, it's as if I wanted them to be more simple. But on the other hand, I like the fact that they are different. Because it's good to have a style, but it's also a little bit scary : will I always stick to it ? Won't it be a prison ? Am I still innovative ? (even regarding myself). With such questions, it's good to create some picture that looks a little bit like it wasn't you that took them, like an invitation to change your style, slightly ...
'The shy one'. For centuries Magpies have been persecuted by man, making it a very wary and shy bird that is difficult to get close to. I watched this omnivorous beauty foraging for acorns underneath an Oak tree, West Yorkshire.
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'Magpie on a Mission'. a Magpie flying swiftly down the valley, showing clearly that the Magpie is not a large bird as we may think when you consider that the length of its tail is more than 50% of its total length. West Yorkshire.
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Magpie
Magpie numbers in Britain and Ireland have quadrupled in the last 35 years.
The increase has been particularly noticeable in suburban areas.
During the winter the magpie’s diet is largely vegetarian, and in the summer predominately ground invertebrates.
Only during the spring, when feeding its young, does it become a major predator, raiding the nests of songbirds for eggs and young.
Opinions differ widely on the impact of magpies on nesting birds. Most studies suggest that their impact is minimal, but where magpies have been removed, breeding success of songbirds has improved.
One of the explanations for the magpie’s booming population is thought to be the amount of carrion from road kills available today, providing a year-round food source.
Magpies can be caught legally in Larsen traps, a live-capture trap that uses a decoy bird to lure others into the trap. Many thousands are caught and killed in this way every year.
A male magpie, attracted to a female decoy, will attempt to court and mate with her unless his mate accompanies him, in which case their joint response is aggressive.
Magpies have always been surrounded by superstition, and there are many versions of the poem that begins: One for sorrow, two for joy...
There was an old rural tradition of raising one’s hat to a magpie; now few people wear hats, the tradition has largely died out.
A magpie looks much bigger than it is: the tail makes up half the bird’s length. Its average weight is only about half that of a wood pigeon’s.
They can be found throughout almost all of mainland Europe, from southern Spain and Greece north to Lapland, but are absent from many offshore islands, including Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearics and Iceland.
Pairs usually remain within their territories, but non-breeding birds wander more widely in small gangs or bands.
They are non-migratory, and it’s rare for one to ever travel more than 10km from where it was hatched.
Though most nests are built in trees, where there are no suitable trees they will build on the ground.
A typical nest incorporates a roof, and may have two entrances, but some populations build open nests.
Long-eared owls often adopt old magpie nests.
The date of the first egg being laid is largely the same throughout Europe, with the peak period mid to late April.
In southern Spain great spotted cuckoos often lay their eggs in magpie nests.
In Britain magpies have relatively few enemies apart from man, but in some parts of Europe they are the favourite prey of goshawks.
Communal winter roosts may hold as many as 200 birds.
The roosting birds have usually departed before sunrise. Living with Birds Notes.
Its difficult to capture the Grand Canyon in one frame. Which parts of the canyon to capture is really nerve wracking. I explored different areas of the canyon and captured this. Hope you like it.
difficult to imagine this scene in Sydney
Sunset at rouse hill
Had to wait till the cows came home
Shot with Canon 600d and 55-250MM lens
It is difficult to describe the beauty of lake Bled, Slovenia, where I am spending a few days. We arrived today and had some storms. I just loved the way the clouds and mist created such delicate layering in the landscape and didn't mind getting soaked to get this picture. This is a quick edit using LR mobile.
Es difícil describir la belleza de esta zona de Eslovenia donde paso unos días con mi familia. Hemos tenido algunas tormentas estos días y el paisaje se convirtió de repente en una sucesión de capas creadas por la neblina y las nubes. Acabé empapado tras tomar esta foto pero muy satisfecho. Esta foto es una edición rápida usando LR mobile.
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Excerpt from www.hiddennewfoundland.ca:
The Brigus Tunnel is a surprising reminder of the impact that the Labrador fishery and seal hunt had on the community of Brigus. The historic town is littered with reminders of what life was like hundreds of years ago and is known for its large number of heritage buildings and picturesque gardens. But the most notable historic site in the town is a large tunnel cut through solid bedrock near the harbour front. To many people’s surprise the tunnel is an artifact of the Labrador fishery in which many of the town’s inhabitants once participated.
The tunnel was built for the famous Captain Abram Bartlett. Bartlett frequently made trips to Labrador to partake in the summer fishery but due to an overcrowded harbour would often have trouble finding a dock to unload his catch. After purchasing a larger ship, his previous berth at Riverhead was no longer usable. The only remaining suitable deep water berth nearby was in Brigus Harbour. Brigus' sheltered and deep water harbour was ideal for holding large ships but finding a place to dock a ship was often difficult due to surrounding cliffs. A tunnel through the ridge would give Bartlett access to his ship and allow for easy offloading of the catch.
Bartlett immediately purchased a section of land near the ridge and hired the help of Cornish miner John Hoskins. Hoskins began construction of the tunnel around 1860. John Hoskins was a professional who had previously been employed at the Tilt Cove Copper Mines on the Baie Verte Peninsula [Virtual Museum]. The roughly 80 foot long tunnel was constructed by hand drilling holes into the rock in which gunpowder would be placed. In order to keep the drill bits sharp a special forge was constructed near the tunnel site. The tunnel is reported to have taken around four months of continuous work to complete. The tunnel measured eight and a half feet high and about eight feet wide allowing wheel barrows, wagons and even horse and carriages to access the wharf on the other side. The tunnel was used until around 1910.
Today the tunnel is accessible by anyone who wishes to venture through. The tunnel is located near the waterfront behind St. Georges Heritage Church near the Bartlett Memorial.
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A difficult challenge trying to photograph the back of your head without a mirror - a lot of angling and good guesses
While it may be rather difficult to see, I am working on adding new (to me) tools and techniques to my processing approach. I had the base image on hand and thought I'd work it again to see how the new processes might work out. I see there may be something in here, though I'll need to do another shoot or two to get the details the way I want.
[Strobist info - Alien Bees AB800 over subject, AB1600 shoot thru umbrella camera floor, ABR800 shoot thru umbrella far camera left. Processing to taste.]
One was the first formal portrait project I undertook. 1977UK Crowthorne Muriel H. A difficult one this... born in a very poor area of Glasgow. Kidnapped by an extremely authoritarian father to London to force her mother to move there (a man who would leave the housekeeping money in an envelope on the mantepiece for his wife and who forced his eldest daughter to move at sixteen when she came home from school to find all her belongings on the doorstep). Married a man whom she met a week before he embarked on D-Day. Accepted the premise that she should be a housewife although she loved her job and had no "natural" love of children. Had two children 11 years apart, started taking tranquilisers at 30, breast cancer at 48. Her second breast was removed a few years later. The silver piece she is holding is an attempt at a hobby to give her life some meaning. Extremely ambitious and so sacrificed herself to the image of success she/they wanted to project. Believed that there were no poor people anymore in Britain, told me never to bring a black girl home. Died at 55. Paid my respects at the funeral parlour in the semi-darkness, circled the body at a distance of one meter with no impulse to touch. Looking through the family photos years later found no picture where she was touching me with affection, even feigned affection. #blackandwhite #1-5 #berlinstagram #panatomicx #6x6 #analogue #art #realpeople #reallives #portraits #b&w #photography #instagram #street www.hughes-photography.eu www.hughes-photography.eu www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.hughes.berlin @michaelcameronhughes
A difficult to find Sykes's Lark near Velavadar National Park in Gujarat, India. This rare bird is the same colour as its habitat and blends in so well. Usually seen when it flies. Sykes's Lark is mainly restricted to central India, although stray records have been found elsewhere on the sub-continent.
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