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With a maximum working distance of just 10.1 cm the Canon MP-E65mm isn't the best tool for chasing damselflies like this teneral variable bluet (Coenagrion pulchellum) as it is both difficult to fit the entire damsel in frame as well as not scaring them away as you have to get so close.
This was taken at 1.2:1 magnification which is almost as far away as you can get with this lens. As for why it didn't fly away, it is actually because this one has just crawled out of its larval stage and pumped up its wings and was waiting for them to dry before flying. I put this together from three exposures compiled nto one shot using Zerene Stacker.
Part 1 is taken a little further away (as much as the lens would allow me) and fit the entire animal in fram. This also shows how plasticky the wings appear when they have just hatched: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50147127721/
The difficult part about being spontaneous is that it’s hard to make a decision about anything. Starting at 4pm today, I have my entire schedule free until about 8am on Monday morning, I was considering Yosemite, but now, I’m not sure. I’m only bringing my camera, toothbrush/paste, sweatshirt, bible and iPod touch. The rest can be figured out.
I’m sure I’ll have sporadic internet connection, so if you’re seriously bored you can follow my updates on my Facebook page.
But ideal for colour photography so off I went with hat and coat along with a micro-fibre cloth.
This elderly Zeiss lens delivers a certain unique quality, a little difficult to focus occasionally but when everything comes together mmmh! f1.7 btw.
“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...” - Isak Dinesen.
why this quote? i felt that this wall and wood ballet gone through difficult times withstanding these weights and all the dust and all that, still standing and holding theirselves together. Yet, they look peaceful and beautiful. Things go in a different way inside my head, i already know that :p so thanks anyways!
Kepp sharing the love. Keep the optimism. :)
Japan is in the still difficult situation.
I just pray for the revival of this country early.....
I am sorry not to be able to come to all of you.
I spend busy days, but still think that the fight has just begun!
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Its difficult to tell if this birds head is moving down or up from the water, it's actually already caught a fish and is pulling it from the water, even though the initial splash is still in the air.
Khalid Al Qassimi and Chris Patterson having their metal tested in the Dyfi complex, Wales rally GB 2017.
I started to realize that street photographers in here are not always so friendly and not very welcoming when you are a beginner or when your pictures don't look a certain popular style...and street photography is, I think, the most difficult thing to do because of the awareness and concentration level it takes to shoot and also the reactions of people on the street...But hey...I Love it still! :)
Where I live in the Pennines, Meadow Pipits are a very common breeding bird and often settle on walls and rocks. So I'd say more than 99.9% of wall-perching Pipits will be Meadow Pipits. But the very similar Tree Pipit can also perch on walls and rocks, and Meadow Pipits can perch in trees, so we cannot rely on that. The best plumage feature to separate Tree Pipit from Meadow Pipit is the flank streaking. In Meadow Pipit the breast streaking continues boldly down the flanks towards the tail, whereas on Tree Pipit the flanks are more finely streaked than the breast, which identifies this problematic pipit as a Tree Pipit. This one called a drawn out, buzzing "speez" to confirm its identity, quite unlike the sip-sip-sip of Meadow Pipit. Tree Pipit's bill is slightly stronger, and appears to angle upwards from the face, and if you could see the hindclaw it would look normal, whereas Meadow Pipit has an abnormally long hindclaw.
The name Pipit comes originally from the Latin verb pipio, meaning to chirp, and "Tree" because their parachuting song flight usually ends with them landing on the top of a small tree, though they are not woodland birds. The scientific name is Anthus trivialis. Anthus was a grassland bird mentioned by Pliny. Trivialis literally means where roads meet (tri via), but then came to mean ordinary or commonplace (and trivial). I photographed this migrant recently in the Peak District in South Yorkshire.
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Voici une image qui m’a posé d’énorme difficulté à cause du voile mélangé à la pollution lumineuse. Il m’aura fallu pas moins de 6 essais pour réussir à boucler cette photo !
Difficult gloomy lighting for the camera in the little Mini2, the scrap run from Crewe to Newport waits for its path at Park Lane Junction in Birmingham, 4M86 Felixstowe - East Midlands Gateway passes by on the main, a unit can be glimpsed in the distance.
the ford gt makes me use big letters for introducing it.
as a man you cannot get closer to the car without feeling the rising tension and your accelerated heartbeat.
the gt is the most macho car you can buy today.
and it´s very difficult to do a good shot of a complete gt - if you ever tried it you know what i mean ;)
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Common Dolphin, despite its name is far from common, and can often be difficult to see from land. Schools of between 10 and 100 may be encountered at any time of year, but more particularly during the summer months. If seen well and at close range, this species has wavy stripes of yellow, grey and brown down its flanks, with a long and narrow beak. This photo was taken about 80 miles South East of Galley Head Lighthouse, Co. Cork. It is just such a pity that these Dolphin shots were taken at 0900 on a dull overcast morning. Oh well there is always tomorrow.
At first I found it difficult to get anything unusual or impressive from a single seagull on a grey drizzly day. Until I started walking away - then this shot presented itself beautifully.
Always difficult to find a different angle at the much photographed Kimmeridge Bay so I thought I photograph it from the top of the inland ridge with the village itself in the foreground. The sun is setting over Tyneham Cap in the distance on a misty evening.
comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds,
laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag,
beauty for your eyes to see,
friendships to brighten your being,
faith so you can believe,
confidence for when you doubt,
courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth,
love to complete your life.
(anonymous)
Difficult to balance light and shadow here combined with the texture, something i have only just started to use having seen excellent examples in my contacts pics. Of course i love the old barn, the house was a bonus!
One of my photographic goals has been to take pictures of individual snowflakes. This has been a particularly difficult goal to achieve due to a number of reasons. First, the temperature and weather conditions need to be JUST right to create visible snowflakes, worthy of photographing (this is not often). Second, it doesn't snow every day (even if it has snowed often). And third, most of the times it has snowed, it was during a time that I could not get out with my camera. Either it was night time, during school hours, when I had an appointment, or when I was sick (and I was sick for six weeks straight this year, so this was often). I figured I would just have to wait until next year to get the shots I so desired. But winter wasn't done with us yet, even if it was the first day of spring! (After all, I was born in a blizzard at the end of March!) A friend of mine out in West Jersey posted a picture on Facebook of an individual snowflake which got me ALL EXCITED!!! I saw her picture during the school day and could not WAIT to get home to my camera and these snowflakes that seemed to be so well-formed! I just had to hope the temperature and conditions were the same by me, after school. I finally got home, and was THRILLED to see they were! My sister and I had a great time looking at and photographing these snowflakes! I'm sure we looked ridiculous sitting in the snow on our front lawn with blankets and towels. I was using a macro lens. The lens has a VERY narrow depth of field. So, if the flakes weren't completely flat and parallel with my lens, only part of the flake would be in focus. This was frustrating. And despite using a macro lens, it was still very difficult to get the flakes in focus. These that I am posting were the best of the crop. More pictures to come! I'll post a few each day. I'm not thrilled with the red background, but maybe someday I can figure out how to change the color in Lightroom.
It's difficult to tell where Kingsand finishes and the neighbouring village of Cawsand begins, and many of the buildings on the far left are actually in Cawsand. The local council has given up trying, and now the sign at the side of the road simply says Kingsand-Cawsand. But until the middle of the 19th century Kingsand was in Devon and Cawsand was in Cornwall. The pretty former fishing villages are on the Rame Peninsula in the far south-east of Cornwall where they overlook Plymouth Sound. In the distance is part of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, jointly owned by Plymouth City Council and Cornwall County Council.
In the centre of the picture the long dark grey building behind the village is the former Cawsand Fort. This was part of the 19th century naval defences of Plymouth and Devonport and was built on the site of a late 18th century battery. Like several other forts around Plymouth Sound, it has been converted into housing.
The requirement for defences in and around Cawsand Bay first became clear in 1779 when a 66 strong Franco-Spanish fleet anchored there intending to land 30,000 soldiers ashore. The invaders had planned to seize the high ground and bombard Plymouth and the Devonport dockyard. As with the earlier Spanish Armada, storms - plus the arrival of an English squadron - forced the ships to weigh anchor and depart. A battery was then constructed at Cawsand but following the end of the Napoleonic wars the threat subsided.
In the late 1850s a new threat was perceived when the French built the first heavily armoured ocean-going ironclad, "La Gloire". This immediately rendered the Royal Navy's wooden ships obsolete and prompted the British to build a ring of forts around their various dockyards, including the fort at Cawsand, which was on the site of the earlier battery. The British also responded by building their own ironclads, with HMS Warrior and its sister ship, both of which entered service in the early 1860s.
Really difficult to capture these tiny flowers clearly and sharply. I took many photos to get one that was satisfactory.
It is difficult to shoot these adorable tiny birds because they hardly ever stand still. This was shot just before takeoff.
Sorry I’m not around much. I’m fighting pneumonia and it’s been raining A LOT so the photos I take from my windows are in dim light, which my camera doesn’t like.
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Very difficult to focus on both of them,
I like the movement of the wing on the Hummingbird Moth,
the female Monarch is on the backdrop with couple bees,
Have a great weekend!
a very difficult composition to make cause I had the idea in my mind but I didn't know how to make it. I just played during hours with photoshop before finding a solution. It really looks like the idea I had of but I'm not entirely satisfied.
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When identifying butterflies after having shot them, there are a few things that make it more difficult.
First, there are sides. Let's say you shot a nice-looking butterfly (like this one), but you only get shots of the underside. This effectively makes all photos of the dorsal side meaningless for identification.
Second, sexual dimorphism. By this, I mean that in some species the female and male look different so all shots of the male are useless if you have happened to capture a female.
So back to this one. I found her (as it is a female) on the wet stone floor at the Haga Ocean butterfly house and managed to get a couple of good photos before I proceeded to lift her up and place her on a tree trunk so that she wouldn't be at risk of being crushed underfoot by some visitor that didn't bother to look down every now and then.
Unfortunately, a pesky little ant bit her foot which made her take off and land on my lens (here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52753405856/)
With males typically having more spectacular colours, this means the species is named for them rather than the more drab female which makes searching by name less of an option.
This particular one is one where the name isn't very obviously connected to the male - and not at all to the female. Say hello to a female blue-frosted banner (Catonephele numilia), also known as the blue-frosted banner, blue-spotted firewing, blue-frosted Catone, Grecian shoemaker or stoplight Catone.
For a shot of what the (very different) male looks like, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52376943939/
Difficult as the sun was almost in the lens, but is this a new breed of sheep I've discovered? A short walk in the warmer sunshine just past Upper Maudlin Farm in Steyning Bowl on the South Downs.
in low light (OBVIOUSLY Heheh) but the eagle came out from high sunset light into the dark inner bay, so a bit tricky, we were told it was a golden eagle but I think it is an immature...plse correct...nevertheless an exquisite bird. Very large even for a bald eagle. This was my daughters fav shot of it...
Over the rainbow...
Existe un lugar en donde las noches y los días se confunden
y donde nada es imposible.
Un lugar en donde el tiempo se detiene y el espacio es infinito....
Un lugar en donde el camino de baldosas amarillas
conduce a donde tu quieras que te lleve...
Existe un lugar más allá del arcoiris
en donde los sueños,por difíciles que parezcan,se hacen realidad...
There is a place where the nights and days confused with each other
and where nothing is impossible.
A place where time does not exist and space is infinite ....
A place where the yellow brick road
leads to where you want to take you ...
There is a place over the rainbow
where dreams, however difficult they may seem, come true...
This tiny bird calls boldly but we found it difficult to find and difficult to photograph. "The scientific name of the Pacific-slope Flycatcher, difficilis, is appropriate. It means "difficult," and this species is extremely difficult to distinguish from the similar Cordilleran Flycatcher." allaboutboids
Difficult wildflower # 2 (and one more to come) - may as well post them all today and then move on to something else!
This is a more subtle paintbrush than the brilliant reds, pinks, and yellows I've photographed for years in the mountains. I hiked the prairie here in Saskatchewan for years before even noticing it. And I've only found occasional plants, never dense colonies taking over a hillside. Add to this its generally ragged appearance and the fact that it often grows amid dense clusters of prairie grasses, sage, and other flowers, and simply does not look good when the sun is blasting down and casting harsh shadows, and you see the challenge!
Fortunately, I found this sample on a rainy day, with soft light. I tried close ups, but they didn't really work. Finally I backed off, framed it as part of a plant community, and came away with a shot I feel is acceptable.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.