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~There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.~ Henry Matisse
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It's been a difficult week. Sometimes the pain almost brings me to tears. Fortunately, I can arrange to be by myself at those times. Makes for long, long days. And, my mom has ended up in hospital again. Unfortunately, my sister who spends half the year there, in Az.,returned to Canada yesterday. Any news I get now is third, or fourth hand. What a process. Anyhow, the grey flowers kinda represent how I'm feeling about now. I know many of you won't like the photo, but, that's ok. It is what it is.
Difficult to get across to many here. The food value- negative number. But people are distracted by other issues.
Very difficult looking at these photos given the recent events up in Darwin with the crash of another osprey. My heart goes out to the family of the fallen marines. RIP heros❤️❤️️. You will never be forgotten.
Fall foliage can be so difficult to capture the way it is seen through human eyes. This year I tried some different techniques to capturing it. Backlighting, filling the frame with color, and simplifying the subject were my focus in the few shots I took this year of such gorgeous trees.
Criticism is often difficult to take, epically when the recipient puts so much of themselves into the production of a piece of work. All too often it’s delivered poorly and without sufficient thought towards the recipient’s feelings, causing an unhelpful, if not offensive interchange. I have to say I see this happening all too often in our new social networking environment, as people remove themselves from the face to face conversation and become lazy in their virtual interchanges. This is truly a shame, as If criticism is delivered by somebody who is receptive and willing to work towards the genuine development of another person, (not just serve their own ends), then it can be a stimulating and rewarding personal development tool for improvement, ‘for both parties’.
Following on from what others have said, I wanted to explore those little voices in our heads, (or is that jus me!) Anyway, self criticism is ‘also’ vital part, if not a fundamental element of personal development, but one that can be allot more complex! In the outset, it offers any artist a way of making creative choices. It’s a method of analysis that can be used to evaluate subtle experimentations, to guide compositional choices and applied sensitively, constructively and effectively, an invaluable tool for the development of a creative person! But there is of course a problem here. The scales sometimes are very sensitive and can tip into either the positive or negative and both result in a distorted unhelpful creative direction! If too negative, the result can be terribly destructive, if too positive, the person remains deluded and slows down genuine development. Now I’m of course oversimplifying this, and I don’t pretend to fully understand everybody’s needs, but I do find myself listening and often arguing with those positive and negative voices in my head! A healthy critical personal debate may sound like a trip to an asylum is needed, but let me assure you that this conflict is a good thing, as long as it’s balanced!
So the next time your too harsh on yourself or even others, or the next time your offering insincere comments, just take a step back and take some time to think about what you’re saying and the impact on not only others but yourself...and you never know, your insightful comment may help to balance those internal voices!
Oh if you fancy listing to some of my internal voices, you’re more than welcome to join me on a Whitby workshop in February... You can find the links on my profile, cheers....
After a difficult uphill hike - two steps forward, one step back - along the loose scree of the Caineville mesa, I had finally gained enough height to look over the otherwordly formation below me. The setting sun cast a wonderful yellow glow as my eyes kept following the countours below me, back and forth, over and over. A meditation of just me, and this strange land below.
Difficult getting through to this guy, testament to the lens , and camera I managed a lock.
Camera Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Exposure 1/2500 sec
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 700 mm
ISO Speed 640
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
Difficult to make a picture in the Haupbahnhof of Dresden. Not a lot of cars that night and my bus was leaving, but I was lucky enough to get the tram in the picture.
Difficult to get this one right, 1 stop overexposed Kodachrome 64 slidefilm shot.
Minolta 7000AF - 100-200/3.5 - Kodachrome 64 slidefilm. June 15,, 1986
W/O August 26th, 1987.
Ex-US Navy F-4J Phantom BuNo 155510. Delivered 13/12/1984. Written off 26/8/1987: Flew into a slight ridge at Pant-y-Gwair, ten miles SE of Aberystwyth, Dyfed during low level intercept practice with two other Phantoms. Both crew - Pilot Flight Lieutenant Euan Holm MURDOCH and Navigator Flying Officer Jeremy Lindsey OGG - were killed. This incident was the only F-4J(UK) Phantom of 74 Squadron to be lost in operational service.
Source : aviation-safety.net
A bit of a contradiction, but maybe the explanation will clear things up. One website says they are 13” long, but they seem much smaller when you see them from a distance and are difficult to spot….usually. This particular male was easy to find because he was busy calling for a mate and all I had to do was follow the calls. They usually don’t stick around and can walk though the branches of a reed like a hot knife through butter and disappear in the blink of an eye. This is a male photographed on Armand Bayou. Two shots here to give you some indication how small he is when seen from a distance in the reeds.
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Well dear Flickr friends I have something difficult to say.
My breast cancer from 2 years ago has gone to my brain. 20 small nodules we are fighting with radiation....
Thankfully I have been able have time to say goodbye.
Chemo doesn't reach the brain well. I had the most aggressive least treatable breast cancer. It is called triple negative.
I am at peace. The Lord is my shepherd.
God lives! The Holy Spirit guides.
My life in heaven awaits me...
I look forward to seeing you all again on the other side.
Difficult to shoot these at a distance especially when they are feeding by spinning around on the spot :0) Not great but my first encounter.
Difficult to visualise now just what a major operator Midland Red was - running a vast network stretching from Oswestry to Grantham. The company had its own distinctive style and used to build its own buses. Sadly under NBC control the company lost its way, sinking under a tidal wave of revolting Leyland Nationals. Passenger numbers declined rapidly and the company was split up prior to privatisation.
In February 1976 it was still possible to avoid Nationals and enjoy things much as they had been.
This was Evesham, with two Fleetlines visible.
This little frog was hiding under the leaves, difficult to spot. But he didn't jumped away, probably due to the temperature. I covered him up again with the leaves after I had taken some photos.
Easily the most difficult configuration of the R8 model to come across now (although the diesel three door may be rarer), these still absolutely brilliant in my eyes. Good to see one which has been cherished as well, those arches were absolutely spotless. I recall my former college having a crusty red one when I started in 2008, which is possibly the only one besides this one I have seen in the past 5 years..... I imagine these can shift quite noticeably when pushed.
This photograph was more difficult to capture than it looks. That is because I wanted the entire flower and butterfly to be in focus, but I did not want the background grassland to look cluttered. I used a Nikon 105mm macro f2.8 on a Nikon D810 full frame body with an aperture of f18, but I moved in quite close so this has very little cropping. I discovered recently that Chalkhill Blues (Polyommatus coridon) have disappeared from many of their downland localities. They need short-grazed turf with lots of their larval foodplant Horsehoe Vetch. But they also need the right kind of ants which thrive in short turf. Their relationship with ants is truly mutually beneficial as the ants protect them from predators and parasites, and in return the caterpillar exudes fluid with sugar and amino acids which the ants drink. The UK population declined by about a third (34%) between 1995 and 2004. Declines are probably attributed to loss of short turf when vegetation grows tall. This can be lack of agricultural grazing, or more likely rabbits, which suffer population crashes due to periodic outbreaks of myxomatosis. I photographed this male near the north of its British range in Cambridgeshire, although its foodplant Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) also occurs on limestone in the north of England.
A very difficult wheel trim to find these rarely fall off and when they do its because they have taken a beating! I found this across the road from where i found a 16” Civic which is crazy considering Honda’s are rare to find
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A difficult shoot. I thought I was being clever by shooting straight up until I observed the camera approach the tripod leg...and then hit it....ending the session! I shan't do that again!! But, it made little difference as the clouds rolled in shortly after.
I doubt increased frames would greatly improve the details in either the galaxy or the nebula....but they would, of course, reduce the background sky graininess. Astronomy Tools has helped slightly but there's no substitute for lots of data!! I'm a little surprised to have got this with as little as 40 minutes of light frames!!!
The eyes of the owl are just visible but sadly H-alpha is missing which would give a faint outer red ring to the nebulosity. There is surprising detail in the galaxy which is not especially photogenic on its own but contrasts nicely with the Owl in the same field of view.
Historic Istanbul City Ferries.
It is difficult to see the ferries together during daytime as they carry passengers.
Due to a storm, these four ferries were docked in the harbor for security. I was in another ferry and I had the opportunity to capture the historic four ferries together. It made me happy.
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M/S NURETTİN ALPTOĞAN (Ex : Bayraklı)
IMO : 7922910
Built Year : 1985
Shipyard : Haliç Tersanesi / İstanbul
Gross Tons / Net Tons : 456,01 / 208,04
Length : 55,93 mt
Width : 10,6 mt
Depth : 2,92 mt
Free Board : 1259
Machine Type : 6 AL 20/24 Pendik Sulzer
Horsepower : 2 X 750
Rpm / Min : 900
Fuel Consumption : 100 kg/h
Speed : 14 mile
Passengers (Sum/Win) : 1450 / 1340
M/S ALAEDDİN YAVAŞCA (Ex: KALAMIŞ )
IMO : 8113267
Built Year : 1987
Shipyard : Haliç Tersanesi / İstanbul
Gross Tons / Net Tons : 456,01 / 208,04
Length : 55,93 mt
Width : 10,6 mt
Depth : 2,92 mt
Free Board : 1259
Machine Type : 6 AL 20/24 Pendik Sulzer
Horsepower : 2 X 750
Rpm / Min : 900
Fuel Consumption : 100 kg/h
Speed : 14 mile
Passengers (Sum/Win) : 1512 / 1259
M/S ŞEHİT İLKER KARTER
IMO : 7389950
Built Year : 1980
Shipyard : Haliç Tersanesi / İstanbul
Gross Tons / Net Tons : 456,01 / 208,04
Length : 55,93 mt
Width : 10,6 mt
Depth : 2,92 mt
Free Board : 1259
Machine Type : 6 MDXC A.B.C.
Horsepower : 2 X 750
Rpm / Min : 750
Fuel Consumption : 100 kg/h
Speed : 14 mile
Passengers (Sum/Win) :
1450 / 1340
M/S BEŞİKTAŞ I (Capacity:1500 passenger)
IMO : 8113231
Built Year : 1986
Shipyard : Haliç Tersanesi / İstanbul
Gross Tons / Net Tons : 456,01 / 208,04
Length : 55,93 mt
Width : 10,6 mt
Depth : 2,92 mt
Free Board : 1259
Machine Type : 6 AL 20/24 Pendik Sulzer
Horsepower : 2 X 750
Rpm / Min : 900
Fuel Consumption : 100 kg/h
Speed : 14 mile
Passengers (Sum/Win) : 1450 / 1340
THE EXPERIENCE OF OVER ONE AND A HALF CENTURIES: ŞEHİR HATLARI
Şehir Hatları Administration represents the experience of 165 years, starting from the middle of the 19th Century. We can say that this experience has accumulated from three different enterprises until the middle 1940’s. This is because independent enterprises used to conduct passenger transportation by ferries in the Bosporus, the Marmara Sea and the Golden Horn from the middle of the 19th century until the mid-1940’s.
If we want to learn about the histories of these enterprises; briefly the foundations of the Marmara Sea line were laid in 1844 starting to operate ferries between Sirkeci in Istanbul and the Prince Islands, between Sirkeci and Pendik and between Sirkeci and Yeşilköy, and the ferry quays in Istanbul, İzmit, Gemlik and Tekirdağ under the Ministry of Maritime Affairs as the ‘Hazine-i Hassa Vapurları İdaresi’ (Administration of Ferries of the Private Treasury of the Ottoman Sultan).
The name of this administration was changed in 1862 to ‘Fevaid-i Osmaniye İdaresi’, to ‘İdare-i Aziziye İdaresi’ in 1871 and to ‘Osmanlı Seyr-i Sefain İdaresi’’ in 1910. In 1933 the AKAY administration was established under the umbrella of this enterprise operating in the Prince Islands, the quays on the Anatolian side and the Yalova line, namely the Marmara lines. And this administration later transformed into the Şehir Hatları Administration under the umbrella of the General Directorate of the Turkish State Maritime Lines established in 1937.
The ferry operations were gathered under a single roof in Istanbul after the Golden Horn Ferries Company, which had operated on the Golden Horn lines since 1858, was nationalized in 1941, and the ‘Şirket-i Hayriye’, which was established in 1851 to operate ferries on the Bosporus lines, was nationalized in 1945, with all their rights being transferred to the Şehir Hatları Administration.
In 2005 the Şehir Hatları Administration, which was under the umbrella of the Turkey Maritime Organization, was transferred to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality by a decision of the High Board of Privatization and was been the beginning of a new period in the Şehir Hatları Administration. Five new passenger ferries, the design of which were selected by a ballot by Istanbul residents, the new generation modern car ferries and three new Golden Horn ferries with large windows have been built and taken to service. At the same time the old generation passenger ferries and historical quays have been renovated and some quays have been re-built.
İstanbul Şehir Hatları Turizm San. Tic. A.Ş. was founded by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in 2010 in order to contribute maritime transportation in Istanbul and to find a solution to the traffic problems of the city. The company is also providing supplementary services related with transportation as well as the public transportation to the Bosporus, the Prince Islands and the Golden Horn.
Şehir Hatları is a modern enterprise in urban maritime transportation in Istanbul, with a strong brand value and a great corporate reputation, offering an alternative in transportation by providing public maritime transportation services, protecting the ferries, the shipyards and the quays that are symbols of our cultural heritage and it is the favored leader enterprise in urban maritime transportation.
It's a bit difficult to photograph freight trains going north on the fast tracks through Hamburg-Harburg. Here Metrans Rail 386 036 is seen with a container train to probably Hamburg Waltershof, with Florens, Eimskip, CAI, Maersk, Caru, Triton, Beacon, Hamburg Süd, Safmarine, Raffles, MSC, tex, CMA CGM and Seaco containers, on May 22, 2024, 13:03.
The Pentax 85mm f/2.2 Soft has been a very difficult lens to wrap a decent image making process around. The lens behaves in ways few do. I wrote a whole series on my explorations of this lens starting here.
Here's the setup I used - Sony NEX7 + Sigma 1.4x teleconverter + Pentax 85mm f/2.2 Soft shot very specifically at f/4.8.
I wrote about this combination and why I feel it "works" for landscape... except... I hadn't accounted for the way highlights glow and spill into the surrounding scene in high contrast situations. Perhaps some viewers might find this effect too strong for their liking.
For the next landscape outing I think I'll try and stick with lower contrast scenes and see what happens when I process to reveal the underlying "sharpness".
* Ce moro-sphinx se nourrit sur un arbre à papillon. Ce papillon, à l'instar du colibri, est assez rapide. Ses battement d'ailes sont aussi extrêmement fréquent, et il est difficile d'en faire une capture nette!
* Buddleia de David tree feeds the moro-sphink butterfly. This insect, like the colibri, is quite fast. It flaps its wings very fast and that is difficult to get it in-focus !
Very pretty, difficult to resist, but also very frustrating photographic subjects! We waited and waited and waited for it to fly, vehicles drove by and still it remained put. When eventually it did depart it did so without any warning and swerved to the left, leaving me with tail feathers! The rich background is from burnt-down veld. Image captured in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
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Laura, today is difficult cause everything is standing - nobody lying down and even Lewis is running all over the place!! Nonetheless, my wife has a few of these scented sticks around our home so I thought with the right light and a little grunge it may work. The sticks are certainly standing up and I guess the little bottles of oil are also standing up - so there we go!
Our Daily Challenge - STAND or STANDING
The Cave Nebula (Caldwell 9) is a difficult object to observe visually. Before this observation/drawing I had only glimpsed the complex nebula using an 18-inch Dobsonian telescope under a dark sky using an 0III nebula filter and even then, I was not able to see the cave-shape that gives it its name.
Except for Caldwell 51, a dwarf galaxy in Cetus, the Cave Nebula is considered the most difficult visual object on the Caldwell List.
But technology has come to the rescue. Using a Light Enhancement device attached to the eyepiece along with a 6nm Hydrogen-Alpha filter, I was not only able to observe the Cave Nebula, but also see its cave-shape in the eyepiece using a 4.3-inch refractor from a local park near my house.