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this shot was taken way back in fall and i was drawn by the colour of the bay which usually i find most difficult to capture but also the way , the tree seemed
to be drinking-in the abundant sunlight 😁
Spent an hour getting some shots at the iconic boat house on the swan river .... managed to make the shots look peaceful , even though there was a steady cue of tourists with selfie sticks making things difficult ha !!!
Here is a photo of my favorite snake species the Regal Ringneck Snake (Diaophis punctatis regalis). They have a very secretive natural history which makes them difficult to purposely find on the surface. That makes finding them that much more special.
This particular animal was the result of me specifically targeting them under environmental conditions when I thought they should be on the surface in Central Utah back in 2013. My timing was the result of much study of historical specimens, including my own personal finds as well as the finds of other people. I was very happy my theory was correct and that I was able to find and photograph this animal. These snakes have a widespread distribution in Utah and are probably common in the areas they exist but they live underground most of the time. Unlike the ringneck snakes in the central and eastern United states these snakes apparently don't eat worms and slugs and in most of their habitat they don't have amphibians to consume either. Not only that they can be found in very desolate areas which is again very different than their sister subspecies to the east. In some of these desert mountain and foothill habitats they have small toad and frog larvae to consume in spring and early summer but in most areas there primary food source is lizards and other snakes. Instead of constricting their prey, ringneck snakes have a saliva which is toxic to other reptiles and amphibians. Unlike a cobras or coral snakes that also feed primarily on snakes, the ringneck lacks fangs for delivery of this venom like saliva. The ringneck instead bites and holds onto its prey chewing its saliva into the prey item. Snakes and lizards can succumb to this venom within minutes. However there are no cases of ringneck snake saliva having any adverse affect on humans or other mammals. I have never even heard of anyone being bitten by these snakes. They are very shy. So if you see one in the wild, congratulate yourself on your luck, admire it and let it on its way.
"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."
quote by Henri Matisse
I think it goes for photographers too?
Yet some discard this and will just try to imitate?
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Views from the high level observation deck at the Star Casino. You can see the colour of the Brisbane River changes depending on the angle of the light. The photos show the Neville Bonner footbridge across to South Bank and the Big Wheel, the artificial beach looking as though it is being reconstructed, plus the Riverside Expressway highway beside the river.
The Observation deck was pretty crowded when we visited with many people having drinks and food. There can be a bit of a wait to get the lifts down, though we didn't have problems, timing the up and down well.
The clear fence of course made viewing easy, but photos difficult with dirt and reflections.
One of the City Cat Water Ferries was coming into dock at Southbank. We took one of these later on. A great way to travel.
How difficult it is to make love without making noise on a mountain of straw, pierced by seven or eight more men, sleeping men who for nothing of the world should be awakened. But the truth is that everything can be done, although it costs infinite care
So difficult to achieve peace
Cabarita Beach, Northern NSW
Again, a shot I would never get without a big lens.
My love affair with my new (old, broken VC) Tammie continues.
I suppose with a working VC I would have shot this @ 1/320th and ISO 100 - but at full stretch without VC it's hard to get away with anything under 1/1000th. The girls in this shot were about 700 metres away.
je galère énormément pour mettre des commentaires sur certaines galeries pas de difficulté sur d'autre impossible d'écrire un commentaire. Je fais un nouvel essai.
Bonne soirée à tous !
Never experienced weather like this - 35mph with gusts. The power of the wind is lifting the water from the waterfall. Incredibly difficult to stand, let along capture an image.
It is difficult to catch a freight in good light in Healy Canyon. As the freights generally run at night only on the longest days of summer does one get the opportunity. And of course then you need cooperation from the weather Gods. Well it all came together on the morning of 6.22 around 545 Am the sun had cleared the mountains and brightened the canyon floor. The series of shots I am posting today where all taken from the same location. The train has just passed the Garner section house and is on the new section of railroad built to bypass the tunnel below me. Healy Canyon is an extreme maintenance issue for the railroad with the exception of this section of fairly newly rebuilt rail.
Icelandic turf houses (Icelandic: torfbæir) were the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone, and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities.
30% of Iceland was forested when it was settled, mostly with birch. Oak was the preferred timber for building Norse halls in Scandinavia, but native birch had to serve as the primary framing material on the remote island. However, Iceland did have a large amount of turf that was suitable for construction. Some structures in Norway had turf roofs, so the notion of using this as a building material was not alien to many settlers.
The common Icelandic turf house would have a large foundation made of flat stones; upon this was built a wooden frame which would hold the load of the turf. The turf would then be fitted around the frame in blocks often with a second layer, or in the more fashionable herringbone style. The only external wood would be the doorway which would often be decorative; the doorway would lead in to the hall which would commonly have a great fire. Another interesting aspect of the Icelandic turf house was the introduction of attached toilets, which were communal, and the act of going to the attached toilet was often done in large groups. The floor of a turf house could be covered with wood, stone or earth depending on the purpose of the building. They also contain grass on their roofs.
Icelandic architecture changed in many ways in the more than 1,000 years the turf houses were being constructed. The first evolutionary step happened in the 14th century, when the Viking style longhouses were gradually abandoned and replaced with many small and specialized interconnected buildings. Then in the late 18th century a new style started to gain momentum, the burstabær, with its wooden ends or gaflar.[2] This is the most commonly depicted version of the Icelandic turf houses and many such survived well into the 20th century. This style was then slowly replaced with the urban building style of wooden house clothed in corrugated iron, which in turn was replaced with the earthquake resistant reinforced concrete building.
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Christmas can be a difficult time for many people. There is such a big build up for it in many countries beforehand which makes it inevitable that there will be some disappointments. It can be greeted with mixed emotions, bringing to mind past or present sorrows as well as joys. Often at this time of year there have been major disasters around the world and today there are difficult conflicts and there's a lot of illness. Whilst thanking all my flickr friends for their friendship, comments and favours I have thoughts for those having to face very difficult things, I hope for at least moments of peace or joy to everyone this Christmas.
Sometimes it's difficult for Purists to stick by their rules. As you can see, the original below shows harsh lights coming from the left causing some overblown clouds & sky. No matter what, you can never fight nature when comes to lighting. But nothing can stop you from getting it right with photoshop.
By just re-cropping to a square format, there is less editing to be done. Just make a little darker on the left of the sky using "Multiply" on blending mode to selective areas.
pp: A little touch of Topazlab for that lift on colors to my desired taste just to give the image a little boost.
I would normally apply 2 or 3 layers of preferred settings and blend them selectively.
Shot more than a year ago while in Hualien, Taiwan
Excerpt from macnabpresbyterian.ca:
By 1854, the congregation of Knox Free Church at the corner of James and Cannon Streets in Hamilton had grown so rapidly that the Presbytery of Hamilton authorised the building of a new place of worship at the corner of MacNab and Hunter Streets, in the growing southern section of the city. A short time later, Dr. Calvin McQuesten, a local industrialist, arranged for the financing of the construction of the new building. In 1854, a wooden structure was erected on the newly acquired site. Although the building would seat between three and four hundred persons, it was necessary within the year to enlarge the facilities.
Scottish stonemasons constructed the second building, using stone quarried from the Hamilton “Mountain”. The foundation stone was laid in April 1856 by Isaac Buchanan. During the next twenty-five years two additional buildings were added to the site: a manse of local limestone in 1871 and a school building next to the church in 1878. The interior of the church remained unchanged until 1877, when modifications were required for the addition of the first organ.
After the First World War, an addition was made in the form of the present church parlour and kitchen. Each addition conformed to the general type of the early building, of which the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has said: “It is remarkable for the simplicity and good proportion of the design. Its unknown architect was evidently a man possessing great skill and judgement to a greater extent than most of his confrères of that period.”
Although the depression of the early 1930’s meant difficult times, the interiors of both the church and Sunday School buildings were completely reconstructed: the floor of the church was lowered; the galleries were removed; a wide centre aisle was arranged with side aisles outside the massive columns which extended to the ceiling. From the ceiling were suspended lanterns designed in the form of Gothic incense burners concealing the electric lights and reflectors.
In 1934, a chancel was added to the south end of the sanctuary, and the present Casavant organ was installed, originally of two manuals but later enlarged to three. It retained some of the pipes from the original 1877 instrument. The organ was completely renovated in 2007.
In 1954 a new manse was purchased and the old manse was designed as a church house, intended to house the crowded church school as well as the church office.
Difficult to take as the train is very fast and by the time one focuses one of the many bridge girders usually gets in the way.
After around 50 m the trip ended this time. The icy plateau changed into a steep ice gradient and I was on the one hand alone and on the other hand not right prepared to explore this cave further. I was afraid of getting trapped down in the cave because it was almost impossible to move up on this surface without ropes and spurs. However... I will return ;-)!
Canon PowerShot G3
Aufnahmedatum/-zeit: 20.05.2007 16:11
Aufnahmemodus: Manuell
Tv (Verschlusszeit): 1/50
Av (Blendenzahl): 2.2
Messungsmodus: Mehrfeld
Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO): 100
Objektiv: 7.2 - 28.8mm
Brennweite: 7.2mm
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
is giving me trouble ! Trying a new discipline, and Chinese brushes handle in a totally different way from Western brushes - it's going to be a long job if I'm ever going to be proficient !
Michelle is wrapping the last Christmas gifts. 🎁 Do you have everything ready or do you usually leave shopping for the last few days? I wish all of you a wonderful Christmas with lots of health, peace and love in this difficult year. 🎄🎅❤
Difficult, for me anyway, to know how to process this. The pic had strong sunlight through the shadows and it was very green. I hope this mellow one is OK
It's difficult to get clear full moon shots due to the number of trees in our yard. No sooner had I managed to get a clear shot then this happened! A tree got got in the way - and I knew the "event" was over.
Still, always fun to see a Super Moon, extra bright and shiny. And this is the first one of the year - called The Super Pink Moon because it's happening in April when flowers are in bloom. Nothing pink about it at all.
Subject Description: It;s difficult to image any scenario whereby the non-standard Class 23 ‘Baby Deltics’ could have survived into the large logo era, but they would have looked good alongside the 37s on the West Highland line. This fictional rendition carries the same one-off livery as 37166, and this livery is perhaps better suited to the shorter body of the 23 than the standard large logo version. With hindsight, I should have probably added an ETH jumper cable and renumbered it as a Class 23/4.
AI Notes: This image is based on a loose representation of a Class 23 prepared in Photoshop in pre-AI days and before the real-life Class 23 project got off the ground. Like the latter, it is a ‘cut and shut’ Class 37 but without the same level of refinement. Whilst I was quite happy with result, I felt it would look better in a Scottish setting. My first prompt to Gemini AI produced rolling hills in a style that looked more like a model railway backscene. This snow scene in a generic Scottish station (which AI has labelled as Inverness or something like it) was a better result. I asked AI to add the photographers. As is often the case, AI has fallen down on the detail, making a mess of the double-arrow logo, running number and depot emblem, all of which I’ve copied from the original. These issues aside, the finished issue is pleasing and quite different to the original (13-Mar-26).
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always difficult to ensure alignment of these water images for multi-exposure hdr composites, can't avoid a little movement of the boats - have added an orange to green graduated fill as an overlay in photoshop to add a little more colour
Very difficult in handheld mode to find the right angle with the sun to get the most beauty out of these wet dandelions. Only a few pictures from hundreds are acceptable.
Left: original (Rodez)
Right : reproduction in situe
Between the final neolithic and the chalcolithic
5 300 – 4 200 ypb.
Mounhes-Prohencoux
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!
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/
This little guy is always difficult to photograph since he is usually running around or hiding up in a tree. When I was finally able to get a decent composition in the right light...he stuck his tongue out at me! LOL! Asian Passage - San Diego Zoo. Taken 5/6/2021.
Excerpt from the San Diego Zoo website, "Although red pandas like to eat bamboo and live in China’s bamboo forests with giant pandas, don’t let their name fool you. Formerly known as lesser pandas, DNA studies show that red pandas represent a unique family that diverged from the rest of the carnivore order, so they are now placed in their own unique family: Ailuridae. The Chinese name for the red panda is hun-ho, meaning fire fox. The red panda’s reddish coat and white face mask offer camouflage among the red moss and white lichen that cover the trees of its bamboo forest home."
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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.
Difficult to separate from Yellow-legged Gulls and Herring Gulls without a careful appraisal of plumage characters. Candidate birds may draw attention by slender-billed, long-legged, and slim appearance. Flattened crown, rather small dark eyes, and usually unstreaked head are also useful characters. Wingtip (primary) feathers in adults have long tongues of white that penetrate into the black tips. Juveniles have prominent pale underwings. Breeds and winters predominantly on inland water bodies with some movement toward coasts in winter. (eBird)
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As suggested, these gulls are difficult to separate from the Yellow-legged gulls. In fact, when first seen it was called "Yellow-Legged" and was put into eBird as such. It wasn't until the Covid lockdown, when our guide for the trip, who is also the eBird reviewer, contacted me to let me know that it was in fact a Caspian Gull. Apparently the shape of the bill was the give away :-)
Durankulak Lake South, Dobrich, Bulgaria. May 2016.
Neophron Tours.