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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!
I shot this same comp a year ago at Alkali Pond in the Eastern Sierras, CA and wanted to try it again. Rich Bitonti joined me for several days during this trip which was fun. Unfortunately it was extremely windy which made shooting lakes difficult. Tioga Pass was also closed which really sucked. I guess spring is arriving late this year. Anyway, I did manage some pretty good shots despite the conditions so I'll post those later.
Canon 5D mkII, Canon 17-40 f4@17mm, f11@1/125th sec, ISO 400
Zwischen der Bordsteinkante und dem Gehweg wachsen kleine Plflanzen, trotz der wideren Umstände, die ihr Leben mit sich bringt. Sie trotzen Gift, sie überleben es überfahren und umgetreten zu werden und richten sich immer wieder auf, egal was das Leben ihnen bringt... weil es schöne Momente gibt... :)
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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/
I have always found Little Stints a difficult species to photograph but this year I have managed to capture them on two occasions. I find them difficult because they are tiny (less than half the weight of Dunlin) and are usually too far away for my photographic equipment. But this juvenile fed right in front of the hide at Kilnsea wetlands near Spurn offering great photo-opportunities. I liked this image because its fine bill is actually open, like a pair of tweezers, whereas all of my other photographs show the bill closed. They are also not a common bird in Britain with typically only about 770 records annually. The majority of these are juveniles on autumn passage, stopping off between their tundra breeding grounds and their African wintering grounds.
I have always thought that the "Little" part of Little Stint seemed superfluous as there isn't a Big Stint to distinguish it from. But there used to be, as "Stint" was a once commonly used name for Dunlin, particularly down the east coast of Britain. In fact the name Stint was used in print about 100 years earlier than Dunlin (1452 v 1530). Thomas Bewick was the first person to use the name "Little Stint" in 1797 to distinguish it from "Stint" (ie Dunlin). The name was adopted by subsequent authors but the name Stint was already largely superceded by Dunlin by the time of Bewick.
There are four species of Stint in the world but two (Red-necked and Long-toed) are incredibly rare in Britain, and Temminck's is a former breeding bird that is now only seen on passage and is much rarer than Little Stint. There are usually about 800 Little Stints recorded annually in Britain but only about 100 Temminck's. The three North American "peeps"; Western, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers are stints in all but name. Similarly the rare Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a stint if you ignore its bizarre shaped bill: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/14668414026/in/photolist
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
This little crystal is from one of the warm snowfalls earlier this season. It’s difficult to shoot them before they melt, with the outer features fading first. The inner details however are something to marvel at. View large!
Warm snowfalls are very difficult to photograph in, but I’m out there every chance I get; You never know when something interesting and unusual is going to appear in front of you! This plate-turned-dendrite has one of my favourite forms, providing interesting fern-like branches with strong geometry in the center. The center here also has a bit extra: a snowflake inside a snowflake.
Not exactly, but it’s a fun example of a “skeletal form” type crystal. The smaller top snowflake shape has “bones” that run up the center of the branches and connect the top plate to the bottom plate. This kind of snowflake is a unique variant of the split-plate or capped column, where the stunted growth of the secondary plate (the one that lost the battle for access to water vapour) continues to grow outward, albeit at a slower pace than its bigger half. You don’t see these structures often!
This likely means that the side containing the smaller plate was facing the direction of wind, and thereby was still able to have some access to “building blocks” for continued growth. This can be backed up by the smaller rounded trapezoidal shapes on the inside of the larger plate. These indicate inward crystal growth, showing that the plate is “filling in” from thicker edges. This only happens when the inner area of the crystal is able to still receive water vapour.
Editing these snowflakes becomes a bigger challenge as well. As these subjects are so very fleeting, from the first frame to the last frame the snowflake might have completely melted. Focus-stacking is the technique used to combine multiple frames at different focus points to get the entire snowflake crisp and sharp from tip to tip… but what happens if the subject is actively changing while you shoot? The answer is a bit of a headache.
The center of the snowflake would remain largely untouched by the melting process, but the branches are tricky as they start to melt first. I usually pass forward and back across the snowflake, hoping to get as many needed images as possible in a single pass. I might make 4-5 passes across the crystal, making sure that I haven’t missed anything, as there are always images missing from the sequence due to the hand-held approach I use… it’s the missing slices that prove problematic.
If I need to take the missing slices from a second or third pass across the crystal, it won’t line up properly with its neighbouring focus slices. The later image will have degraded further; edges would be more rounded and the tips would be shorter. Making them fit together again is a manual process that takes a fair bit of time in Photoshop. On average my snowflake images take about 4 hours to edit, but these kinds of issues usually add an hour onto that process. I think it’s worth the extra time, and I hope you agree!
Snowflakes form in very interesting and beautiful ways, and understanding where these shapes come from has always fascinated me. If you like these posts, you’ll absolutely love the 304pg hardcover book “Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes”: skycrystals.ca/book/ - it’s everything a science and photography geek could hope for. :)
To marvel at more of these winter wonders, check out “The Snowflake” print, which is the culmination of over 2500 hours of work with the subject funneled into a single image: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - the perfect image to make winter a little more tolerable!
#snow #snowflakes #macrophotography #winter
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...
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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
I think that Woodcock is among the most difficult of British birds to photograph (well). I have been a keen birder since childhood, yet this was the first time I have managed to watch and photograph a Woodcock doing things. It was creeping about in the undergrowth and probing its long bill into the soft earth to find worms, which incidentally it can detect by smell. Woodcocks don't just randomly probe in the hope of connecting with a worm. This one usually kept itself obscured by vegetation but occasionally I got a brief, clear view. Unfortunately it kept its bill low behind this mossy log using its unusually high-set eyes to monitor what was going on around. I did take a number of photographs as I think this was a once in a lifetime opportunity so I may upload a couple more in due course.
I never really planned on building Umbara, because building and photographing a MOC that uses almost entirely black pieces is very difficult, but when I saw the release of the new 501st battlepack I knew I had to do it. So here we are.
It took me about 2-3 weeks to finish it, I tried to use lot's of trans red, purple and green elements. I didn't have the black elephant pieces that almost everyone uses on Umbara so I had to improvise and build the plants differently as you can see with the inverted tires. I also put quite a lot of work into the terrain, but that's pretty hard to see because it's all black.
The MOC represents no recognisable scene from the Clone Wars, it rather draws motives from the different episodes, like the trench, battle, vixus plant/beast etc.
I also used a light up lightsaber for Anakin, you can get one yourself here and if you use my code FOL15 you get 15% off and free world-wide shipping, so go get some at @gameofbricks.eu . Give me some feedback on the MOC down below and share it around. Thanks! ;)
Very difficult to photograph this fixture as apparently, someone decided to turn on the light switch... illuminating all of 3 bulbs in a fixture consisting of 20-30 bulbs? Why even bother? Or maybe, just maybe, someone could replace ALL of the bulbs... and dust the fixture??? What a novel concept.
I like flowers. It is difficult to find good flowers in summer, but we can still find fresh flowers in stores. There are many different small, interesting objects in nature for macro photography. I took this picture with Sigma macro lens, it has image stabilization, very sharp and compact lens. I don’t use flash for macro photography because I don’t like highlight on the objects. I took a few shots and used photo stacking in photoshop. Rose are big flowers and are easy to photograph. Smaller flowers are difficult to photograph. Have a wonderful day!
I found it very difficult to decide what to photograph for this weeks Smile on Saturday challenge. In the end I decided on glass as this has been one of mankind’s brilliant achievements. I have quite a selection of bottles but decided to use the small milk bottle that we used to have in primary school. Showing my age now lol. I used a blackboard picture on my iPad for the background and tweaked out the bits I didn’t want in photoshop.
History
People had used naturally occurring glass, especially obsidian (the volcanic glass) before they learned how to make glass. Obsidian was used for production of knives, arrowheads, jewelry and money.
The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000BC. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first man made glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500BC and the first glass vessels were made about 1500BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia. For the next 300 years, the glass industry was increased rapidly and then declined. In Mesopotamia it was revived in the 700BC and in Egypt in the 500’s BC. For the next 500 years, Egypt, Syria and the other countries along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea were centers for glass manufacturing.
In the beginning it was very hard and slow to manufacture glass. Glass melting furnaces were small and the heat they produced was hardly enough to melt glass. But in the 1st century BC, Syrian craftsmen invented the blow pipe. This revolutionary discovery made glass production easier, faster and cheaper. Glass production flourished in the Roman Empire and spread from Italy to all countries under its rule. In 1000 AD the Egyptian city of Alexandria was the most important center of glass manufacture. Throughout Europe the miraculous art of making stained glass on churches and cathedrals across the continent reached its height in the finest Chatres and Conterbury cathedral windows produced in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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It's surprisingly difficult to balance like this. I fell several times.... o.o
33 more days to reach 1,000 likes on my Facebook page! Really trying hard to reach my goal...
Left: original (Rodez)
Right : reproduction in situe
Between the final neolithic and the chalcolithic
5 300 – 4 200 ypb.
Mounhes-Prohencoux
I like flowers. It is difficult to find good flowers in summer, but we can still find fresh flowers in stores. There are many different small, interesting objects in nature for macro photography. I took this picture with Sigma105mm macro lens, it has image stabilization, very sharp and compact lens. I don’t use flash for macro photography because I don’t like highlight on the objects. I took one shot and didn’t use photo stacking in photoshop. Rose are big flowers and are easy to photograph. Smaller flowers are difficult to photograph. Have a wonderful day!
Difficult to make the image look like what the eye sees in a clear night... Just one picture edited with DxO, no compositing. Still a bit too colorful for a "realistic" rendering, but I like it that way.
Internet access is very subadequate here, will have a lot to catch up when I come back from holidays.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Snow and very strong wind on Round Bald at Roan Mountain.
My original photoshoot for today with a model got rescheduled yesterday afternoon so I checked the weather last night and was surprised that snow was in the forecast for the Roan Highlands. I was thinking about heading up to Big Yellow Mountain since I've not been there in a while. I forgot to set my clock early enough so when I woke up on my own at 5:30 I realized I still had time to go to Roan Mountain instead. The drive up there was exacly what I expected, no snow until the last couple of miles from the top on the mountain and only a good covering about a mile from the top. The road was icy up there too. When I reached the Carvers Gap parking area the wind was blowing strong with gusts over 50 mph. It was a bit difficult crossing the road to the trail as the wind was causing me to slide (like ice skating) in the worong direction. Once I reached the icy trail I decided to walk alongside it in the snow for better traction. With my layered clothing and windbreaking jacket I was quite comfortable with the exception of windblown ice pellets stinging my eyes. The heavy fog that never lifted while I was there really limited my choice of compositions so I gravitated toward one of my default locations. I tried a couple of experimental images but they did not work out. Anyway I did get this one fairly good image and was glad to have another chance to play in the snow this season.
Instruction no 19: go exploring.
I usually avoid the zombie walk in my hometown. I convinced myself to go exploring there even if I had a little prejudice against it (for pictures in mean).
There were so many zombies there and a big croud of photographers of all kinds.
Every time I was trying to take a photo there was someone trying to pose in it so it was pretty difficult to shoot in those circumstances; the density of the crowd made the context difficult for interesting backgrounds also.
This is the best I could do in the context for SP.
In this area of Shoreditch. the walls are so frequently repainted with new advertising it's difficult to keep up to date with the changes unless you lived nearby.
The small whiteface (Leucorrhinia dubia), also known as the white-faced darter, is easily distinguishable from other darters by the white frons on the front of the head - unless you see it from an angle like this where the face is obscured.
Fortunately for me there are more distinguishing characteristics so we can determine this is a female L. dubia which I found on Midsummer's Eve in the Paradiset nature reserve near lake Långsjön.
The blue morpho (Morpho peleides), also known as the emperor butterfly is blue on the upper side of the wings.
Very blue. Like crazily, insanely blue. It shimmers quite a lot depending on the angle you see it from, making the colours even more fantastic.
The iridescent colour looks cool - but it is very difficult to capture in a photo. Compare the wing colours of this one with another specimen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/26963220947/ - quite different-looking, right?
Depression is difficult to live with when it raises it ugly head and digs into your soul, but when it does - for me - I find food is an issue and I go through many stages until I come out of the fog. Sugar, then cutting out the sugar means I get super hungry for other none or less sugary food, which eventually subsides and then the health habit kicks in for - well - for as long as it takes until the darkness falls again. Its a path without meds, but a path of these isolated pockets of addictions that somehow pretend to bring comfort but only really complicate the whole process. For me, anyway that is how it is.
Home to some 200,000 Intha, a Tibetan-Burmese ethnic group. Once mainly fishermen, today many of them are farmers (floating gardens) and live more and more from tourism.
This is a blessing - especially for the youth, who find good jobs in hotels and restaurants.
The multi-generation houses, schools, pagodas, stores and workshops of the Intha stand on stilts. With canoes to classes, prayer, work, weekly markets. Incessantly, locals are on the move.
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Hey forks,
I must honestly tell you, that i found it really difficult to create this Picture.
What i wanted to show with this Picture is that much of our Food is not very healthy for us because of additives which are not good for our Body.
By the fall
your René
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A railway route between Burma and Thailand was by the British government considered too difficult to undertake. But in early 1942, Japanese forces invaded Burma and seized control of the colony from the United Kingdom. To supply their forces in Burma, the Japanese began the railway project of 415 km through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers. Beter known as Death Railway in Thailand which was built with forced labour by prisoners of war during the Second World War. The pass is noted for the harsh conditions and heavy loss of life. Soldiers were forced to remove the rock using no more than picks, hammers and their bare hands. Hellfire Pass is so called because the sight of starved prisoners labouring at night by torchlight was said to resemble a scene from Hell. Hellfire Pass was a particularly difficult section of the line to build. It was the largest rock cutting on the railway, coupled with its general remoteness and the lack of proper construction tools during building. The Australian, British, Dutch and other Prisoners of War were required by the Japanese to work 18 hours a day to complete the cutting. Sixty nine men were beaten to death by Japanese guards in the six weeks it took to build the cutting, and many more died from cholera, dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion. More than 16,000 enslaved British, Dutch, Australian and American POWs perished at these sites. More than 90,000 Asians also died from starvation and disease during their forced labor, according to the United Kingdom's Forces War Records. At the Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum the highly recommended portable audio headset includes the voices of survivors who describe atrocities they endured, which you can listen to while wandering between Hellfire Pass's stone walls. On the way back I stopped at the Sai Yok Noi Falls, not for the falls, but for the original steam train. It was well hidden. An old steam train that is resting here. Retired Japanese steam train no. 702 build in 1935 by Mitsubishi.
Kanchanaburi is home to the famous Bridge on the River Kwai. During WW II, Japan constructed the meter-gauge railway line from Thailand to Burma. The line passing through the scenic Three Pagodas Pass runs for 415 km. This is now known as the Death Railway. At Sai Yok Noi waterfall stands a spirit house and State Railway Steam Train 702, built by Mitsubishi in 1935 and was sold to the Thai Government at the end of WW II. This was part of a package of one and half million pounds for the track and rolling stock seized from the Japanese Army. The State Railway of Thailand still has in working condition seven of the original steam trains which are used every Saturday and Sunday for special trips from the River Kwai Bridge to Nam Tok.
Verreweg het meest indrukwekkende oorlogs monument in Kanchanaburi. Hellfire pass is de naam van een berg doorgang voor het dodenspoor tussen Thailand en Birma, het is berucht vanwege de vele gestorven krijgsgevangenen op deze moeilijke locatie. De pas is aangelegd door de geallieerde krijgsgevangen in 1943 tijdens de 2de wereld oorlog. Het werken in de nacht bij het licht van de kampvuren gaf deze pas de naam Helffire pass, de pas van het hellevuur. Het is gelegen in een stuk met dichte bebossing. Langs een stuk van 4 kilometer kunnen bezoekers een voorstelling maken van de omstandigheden waarin de pas is aangelegd. De pas is ca 500m lang en 26m diep. De pas is in 6 weken aangelegd door de krijgsgevangen met behulp van simpele gereedschappen zoals handboren, houwelen, manden en schoppen. De totale lente van de Dodenspoorlijn ook wel Birmaspoorweg is 415km. Tijdens de aanleg stierven per dag gemiddeld 75 arbeiders; 16.000 krijgsgevangenen stierven aan uitputting, ziekte en ondervoeding. Onder hen waren 7.000 Britten, 4 500 Australiërs, 131 Amerikanen en bijna 3.000 Nederlanders. Ook stierven er meer dan 90.000 Aziatische dwangarbeiders en arbeiders bij de aanleg door het moeilijke gebied. Het museum is zeer interessant. Sterk aanbevolen is de draagbare audio headset, deze bevat de stemmen van overlevenden die vertelen over de gruweldaden. Hoe ze deze hebben doorstaan. Een bijzondere ervaring wanneer je zelf loopt door deze Hellfire pass. Foto van de Brug over de rivier de Kwai. Deze brug is in het Westen vooral bekend van de speelfilm The Bridge on the River Kwai. De opnamen werden echter niet hier gemaakt, en het verhaal is slechts losjes op de werkelijkheid gebaseerd. Echter, bij de constructie van de brug zelf vielen relatief weinig doden (negen). De huidige brug is het originele exemplaar. In de jaren 80 heeft de toenmalige Nederlandse kroonprins Willem-Alexander een bezoek gebracht aan deze brug. Bij de Sai Yoi Noi waterval staat een Staatsspoorwegen Stoomtrein nr. 702, gebouwd door Mitsubishi in 1935 en werd verkocht aan de Thaise regering aan het einde van WO II. Dit was onderdeel van een pakket van anderhalf miljoen pond voor het spoor en het rollend materieel in beslag genomen door het Japanse leger. De Thaise Staatsspoorwegen heeft nog zeven werkende oorspronkelijke stoomtreinen die elke zaterdag en zondag gebruikt worden voor speciale reizen van de River Kwai Bridge naar de waterval.
I had a difficult choice with this image, crop or not to crop. Just look at the size of that bright star, and compare it against the galaxy. It’s a small target, but I love how it hangs all alone against a backdrop of colourful stars. There is an incredible cluster of galaxies in the lower left, and they would have to be hundreds of millions of light-years away. I couldn't bring myself to crop away all that interesting stuff that makes up the field.
NGC 5068 is a face on-field barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is about 22 million light-years distant, with a diameter of 45000 light-years across its disk. Its apparent angular size is 7.48 X 6.7 arcmin. NGC 5068 is close to the celestial equator, partly visible from both hemispheres.
A supermassive black hole lies in the bar of NGC 5068. The bar structure is typically a sign that a galaxy is reaching its full maturity as a galaxy. The spiral arms surrounding the central bar contain many younger stars. These star-forming areas have a lovely red hue.
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