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Difficult times for everyone at the moment and I genuinely hope you and yours are keeping safe and healthy.
Rather than revisit old images I'm determined to rediscover what is on our doorstep.
It's not all chemical plants and heavy industry around here. The early ( very, ) morning sun casting low shadows and giving the Wirral Way a hazy, ethereal feel.
2.2 miles from home. I only saw a couple of joggers who both gave me a cheery hello and one cyclist who looked at me like I was one of the zombies out of Shaun of the Dead.
Everything feels strange and unusual but I dare say we'll adapt out of necessity rather than choice.
Very difficult working handheld and find stability and the right angle with the sun to get the most beauty out of these rainy dandelions. Only few pictures are OK.
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Every now and then you see things you never thought you would ever see.
This fellow was practicing his skills on these very uneven rocks at the edge of a cliff that fell sharply to the ocean below. It was difficult to know if he was just expressing himself or if he was attempting to impress either the people along the beach who gathered to watch him or his girlfriend who was egging him on from her position just off camera to the right. Regardless it is certainly unique expression.
1/800 sec., f 5.6, ISO 400 , focal length 85 mm
Not to scale.
It can be difficult to shoot out here, due to stray light. Especially red headlamps.
The most courteous solution if you're sharing a space at night is to hold a flashlight in your hand and point it down, where you actually need to see (and not trip over something). And to not use red lights.
Although this light only occured on one of the images I captured to make the panorama, it was preserved in the stitched result. Being a dimmer incandescent light, the end result is still usable.
For when we don't have hands free and can't use our 14-lumen flashlights, Lori and I have purchase dimmer headlamps intended for children, we found some incandescnet ones that were 5 lumens (so we bought half a dozen), and we found an LED headlamp that dims to 6 lumens.
A small hand-held flashlight is our preferred go-to light, since light down at our waists, at a different angle than from our head, illuminates the undulations in the terrain much better (greatly reducing tripping risk), and a light source coming from a lower source is more likely to be blocked by bushes, and not light pollute the subjects and foregrounds of other photographers working in the area.
We see what other photogrpahers do that ruins our shots, and we try not to emulate their actions. Common courtesy 101.
One of those shots that didnt need a crop .. I liked the composition but I did flip the image to the left it just seemed more natural. i find this colour very difficult to shoot but seemed to get some definition this time in the petals :)
Guessing what this is would be difficult so I had better tell you. It’s an in-camera multiple exposure of two ICMs taken of the inside of a corrugated tin roof of a carport in one of the local lanes. The movements were along the lines of the corrugation, but the camera was turned between exposures to create a geometrical abstract image.
I’ll post a static image of the roof and the initial multiple exposure in the first comment as evidence.
The image was suitably cooked, mangled and digested in Affinity Photo with a second firing of the pot in Nik Color Efex. The curious wood grain effect was an artefact resulting from oversharpening (and over-other things) in Affinity.
Wishing you all a happy (and sunny?) Sunday.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday, and general pixel-messing :)
Surprisingly difficult to stack these cases - they seem to have a mind of their own, either closing right up together, or falling all over the place. I did contemplate sticking them so that they were evenly spaced, and then decided I would let them go they wanted!
One main light on the right and some slight infill on the left.
A bit of post adjustment to tweek the colour but little else.
Russian Industar 61 L/Z f2.8 50mm
This was actually the most difficult splash photo that I've done to date. It took a exhausting 4 takes to get it right. Needless to say, I hot a hot mess on my hands when it was all said and done.
For those interested, the brownie got soaked in 2 out of the 4 takes. It eventually became a hot mess. It was really good though. The coffee gave it an enhanced flavor.
On the occasion of Festival of colours (Holi), this is a still I captured while exploring a local market in the evening when I came across this interesting moment. Two friends were shopping at an artificial jewellery stall.
Though I would have loved it if I could properly capture the priceless expression of a kid in between them also ! :)
The hilltop offers an unrivalled view of Gyantse town, and there is a small museum documenting the excesses of the British Younhusband expedition, which severely damaged the fortress in 1904. Restoration work at the fortress has taken place in recent years, but visitors have still occasinally found it difficult to gain acces.
The original fortress of Gyel-khar-tse (རྒྱལ་ཁར་ རྩེ་ rgyal khar rtse) is attributed to Pelkhor-tsen, son of the anti-Buddhist king Langdarma, who vainly sought to perpetuate the Yarlung Dynasty from West Tibet following the assassination of his father.
The walls of the present structure were reputedly built in 1268, following the rise to power of the Sakyapas, and in 1365 a palatial castle was founded on the hilltop by the local prince, Phakpa Pelzangpo (1318-1370), who had acquired influence at the court in Sakya through his reputation as a brave general in the southern military campaigns conducted by his Sakyapa overlords, and at Zhalu, where in 1350 he entered into a marriage alliance with the lords of Zhalu. As dowry he was granted the fiefdom of Changra, west of Gyantse, and he invited the great Buddhist master Buton Rinchendrub of Zhalu to reside in a temple which he had constructed there. In 1365, in addition to the Gyantse Castle, he also founded the Tsechen Chode (Shambu Tsegu) castle and temple complex at the entrance to the Gyantse valley and adopted it as his principal seat. The incarnation of Buton, Drubchen Kunga Lodro, also resided there.
A species in the difficult Chrysis ignita group.
Size: 7-8 mm
Posting this from my hotel room one day before the opening of my biggest exhibition yet at ABECITA Museum of Modern Art in Borås, Sweden. This image is one of 62 large format prints (averaging at above 100cm).
This particular image is also featured in my most recent book "Livet som minimonster" ("Life as a mini-monster") – a children's book focusing on the fascinating life cycles of insects and spiders (see comment section).
Stacked from 178 exposures in Zerene Stacker.
Sony NEX-7, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 10/0.28, 170mm tube-lens ("morfanon"), Nikon PB-6 bellows, Cognisys StackShot.
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Difficult everyday life, because all the pipes have to be laid above ground everywhere due to the permafrost
50 km north of the Arctic Circle in Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko) Bay in the central part of the west coast of Greenland.
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Schwieriges Alltagsleben, denn überall müssen sämtliche Leitungen wegen des Permafrostes oberirdisch verlegt werden.
50 km nördlich des Polarkreises in der Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko)-Bucht im mittleren Teil der Westküste Grönlands.
Prise à mains levées sur le pont Jacques-Cartier- Difficile d'éviter les vibrations des véhicules passant sur le pont
Taken without support (tripod)- Difficult to avoid vibrations of vehicles passing on the Jacques Cartier Bridge
Tapis rose fait de balles roses sur une partie de la rue Ste-Catherine
Rose carpet made with pink balls on Ste-Catherine street
A difficult day today. Very dark light meant a low iso and wide apertures resulting in long exposures.
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10/10 for determination and skill but despite the best efforts of the squirrel it still comes up short in the search for food....
i have been tagged by Talef... thnx hun...lol... ok 16 personal things about me... here goes:
1.Fiercely independent… I fight all my own battles
2.I don’t bite my finger nails but I do bite and pick my toe nails….. bad habit I know.. see pic
3.Stubborn, I never ask for help… actually I never ask for anything from anyone
4.I have been on the planet now for more than f f f four decades
5.Claustrophobic… like in a major way
6.I went to boarding school in England because it was the only place you could get a straight through flight to anywhere else in the world, which my parents needed as I would be traveling unaccompanied to visit with them in the holidays where ever they were.
7.I love fairy lights
8.Accident prone… always covered in bruises and scrapes
9.I love sucking coffee up through a tim-tam biscuit…. Hmm I love coffee… dble espresso!!
10.I live in t shirts….
11.I find it extremely difficult to confide in others, yet I have all the time in the world to listen to someone else, offer a shoulder, sympathy, advice, opinion or just an ear, and people do confide in me often.
12.I can turn my tongue upside down
13.Incredibly protective of my children
14.Frangipani is my favourite scent and flower
15.Oh i am also told I am tactless and open to the point of embarrassment.....but i never offend anyone deliberately, although I do manage to do that often.
16.I am terrified of the day I can no longer hold my pencil and draw
A couple picks there way over the rocky breakwater to the lighthouse at Wisconsin Point on Lake Superior.
It really is difficult to tell one alligator from the other and especially when they are mostly submerged like this but I believe that this is our resident female that we’ve affectionately named Dolly! Dolly tends to hang out in one specific part of the bayou and it is where she usually nests and where her youngsters hang out as well! There were about 4 or 5 of juvenile alligator about 15 to 18 inches long on the far side of the bayou! I like the golden tones reflected in the water and in her eye as well!
Thank you everyone for you wonderful comments and favs on the past posts! We managed 78º today but it was a bit overcast and blustery!
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It took me a while to find a composition back this far from the falls. The fallen tree made for an interesting, if difficult to photograph, bridge over the stream. There was also quite some amount of distracting junk in the foreground. Luckily, a good position and some zoom made it work out!
Nikon Z f
Vivitar 28-200mm
Promaster HGX VND
A very difficult theme this week, I never tried taking photo's by candlelight only !
This is part of a Christmas bauble with glitter on it.
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There is a small population of Long-eared Owls in Iceland. The first confirmed record of a breeding pair was in 2003. These owls are very elusive and hard to find so it's difficult to guess how many breeding pairs there are now but hopefully they are growing in numbers.
Not so difficult once understood the trick, anyway a result possible only with your support, so THANKS A LOT TO ALL OF YOU!
1. tulipano, 2. Teatro Civico di Tortona, 3. angelo, 4. Teatro civico di Tortona (AL), 5. Racconigi, 6. dolce pasquetta, 7. The Abominable Snowman's daughter!, 8. I wish you a sweet easter,
9. fontana delle tartarughe, 10. Noi e Gorby, 11. scorci romani, 12. stazione centrale, Milano, 13. Stazione Centrale, Milano, 14. lucernai, 15. Milano, 16. Ebe,
17. croco, 18. tramonto a Basaluzzo, 19. la finestra sul cielo, 20. altare della patria, 21. in viaggio, 22. Il Vittoriano, 23. colosseo, 24. a sunny sky on the snow,
25. gruzzolo, 26. che poi.., 27. tris di cioccolati, 28. Teatro Eliseo, 29. maschera, 30. javier marin, 31. luna sul Vaticano, 32. fontana di trevi,
33. rialto, 34. il cielo su Lugano, 35. la fortuna di prendere il bus, 36. Lugano, 37. P, 38. natale a Venezia, 39. Sona (vr), 40. venezia,
41. Alessandria, 42. rialto, 43. lights!, 44. venezia, 45. happy new year!, 46. un nebbioso canaletto, 47. venezia, 48. Piazza Garibaldi vestita a festa,
49. pomodori, 50. venetian, 51. sul vaporetto, 52. solitudine, 53. auguri! best wishes!, 54. inusual venice, 55. birra, 56. Venezia,
57. osteria dal ponte, 58. allegria, 59. Isola San Giulio, 60. sull'orlo della sera, 61. Solvay Solexis, 62. lago d'Orta, 63. isola san giulio, 64. winter view,
65. isola san giulio, 66. celle, 67. snowy sunset, 68. arnaldo pomodoro, 69. Arnaldo Pomodoro a Orta San Giulio, 70. edicola affrescata, 71. scorcio, 72. ciclamini
73. love me fender, 74. fili d'erba, 75. elettrocitta', 76. in the mist, 77. crisantemi, 78. la boheme, 79. 'o babbasone, 80. Ciclamini,
81. stati d'animo, 82. Betty Boop, 83. semaforo rosso, 84. leone, 85. nebbia, 86. tramonto, 87. mollette multicolor, 88. accendini,
89. gialla, 90. luce d'autunno, 91. foliage, 92. scorcio romantico, 93. cicogne, 94. fuochi d'artificio, 95. sauternes, 96. cielo,
97. St Agricole, 98. archi e contrafforti, 99. attraverso una monofora
Always difficult to find a different view of an iconic location such as the wrecked West pier in Brighton. Hopefully this achieves this.
Prismacolor Premier Pencils on Strathmore Toned Tan. Some blending done with Gamsol and brush. 9x12
Photo: Sally Robertson
Just got this in! This was a tough one. The shell was especially difficult with the shine and all the lines and getting the greens right but another great learning opportunity.
The sunshine hitting the floor of the porch and making the Cotswold stone glow.
I've a great fondness for this carving, I think because it reminds me of my dad.
He was a stonemason at York Minster and he used to say he was proud to be one of the unknown masons that had built it and maintained it over the centuries, their names forgotten, their legacy the building itself.
What I love is the naivety and rustic workmanship, so much more evocative than any fancier piece and the whole thing whispers stories to me of who this stonemason was, his life and why he was here in this remote church sometime in the eleven hundreds.
The 'beak-heads' in the arch are all individually carved, each one with its own personality and on bizarrely different sized blocks (how to make things difficult in an arch), but the real treat is the tympanum (the panel above the door.)
It seems he could carve whatever he fancied on the day; a fish spitting or eating a man's head (Jonah?) and squeezed in below it a man tightly bound in a shroud.
But it's those roundels that fascinate me and I can't help putting flesh on the bones of the mason.
Very much in the style of the battle shields of the day, the type we've all seen in clunky historical epics, was he a returning soldier? His carving skills are rather rudimentary so was he a local man, perhaps maimed, carving what he knew, thinking of his friends and their individual, handmade shields and the battles they had survived, or not?
I've got him chipping away at the blocks in a nearby thatched barn, his work paid for to keep body and soul together.
Or perhaps they are just round designs after all, but he's still there in that barn with a life, chipping away, sipping on a small beer to keep the stone dust down. I wonder who he loved and what made him really laugh.
Gone, but not forgotten afterall dad!