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On the way up Bennachie in Aberdeenshire, stopped to talk in the beautiful countryside and let a long exposure play out.
Shot on iPhone 13 Pro.
On today’s run, I went past a bubbler that was stuck. Downside is it was wasting water. Upside - photo ops :-)
Be My Mannequin?- Euphoria Pose
Leimotiv- Kiki High Boots
Fit for Erika, Freya, Legacy, Maitreya, and Reborn
Leimotiv- Aine Bodysuit
Fit for Erika, Freya, Legacy, Maitreya, and Reborn
The Bearded Guy- Upside Down Backdrop
One downside of summer travel is the heavy traffic on the interstate. Sarah hopes they make it to their flight in time.
Blythe a Day - Road Trip - 8/5/26
Sarah Shades Blythe in her stock
Lena Elena Middie Blythe in a dress from Etsy
White Car - $5 flea market find (Bratz)
Petite Blythe Sailing, Sailing
Red Barbie SUV (thrift store find)
Vintage Barbie suitcase
Thrifted Barbie blue moped
Background - thrift store artwork
More weeds from my neglected garden on a gloomy day. I did appreciate the delicate 'heart-shaped necklace' hanging from the spent dandelion.
In the morning light Australian Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus) shows the upside and downside of its wings as it wheels towards the nest it is building with its mate. Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland.
Many photographers are now refusing to geotag their landscape photographs. That has it downside, of course, but this photo shows why they have made that choice.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park in Michigan's upper peninsula is not convenient to get to. Most visitors have driven at least 4-5 hours out of their way to get here. The park has two main parking lots about 4-5 miles apart for the upper falls and the lower falls. The volume of water flowing over the upper falls is said to be second only to Niagara Falls of all waterfalls east of the Mississippi and the visitor is able to view it right at the brink. But now there has been a game changer at the lower group of falls (just one of those falls is shown here).
In the past, at the lower falls, visitors were required to row a boat out to the island shown here in the middle of the Tahquamenon River. Too much work for most visitors. A couple of years ago the park service constructed a footbridge over the river to the island. Now any of us can walk down a boardwalk trail for about 1/2 mile to the bridge and walk over to the island (this photograph was taken from one of the observation decks along the boardwalk to the bridge). Once on the island, the visitor has access to about 4 or 5 separate small falls that are collectively called the "lower falls". And believe me when I say they are magical. The loop trail around the perimeter of the island is about 1/4 mile long and is awesome because now you can see all these individual lower falls up close, instead of from a distance. But this photo shows a problem that is developing. The island, the falls, and the river are being overrun by all of us visitors, who are showing little respect for the terrain . . . and this is just at one section of the trail around the island, at one moment in time, as observed from the boardwalk.
Tahquamenon Fall State Park is not a secret location, so now when photographers find a special lesser-known spot, some are declining to geotag to avoid the sort of result shown here.
Being with a number of family members, I did not bring my camera because I did not want to slow our group down. But I did have my trusty cellphone and couldn't resist this one. If you visit during the summer, get here early in the morning for your best chance of enjoying the true magic.
Mr Spock has a way of positioning himself to stetch out different muscles at different times, including upside down and propping his feet against the back of the chair
This image was taken in March this year at Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse. It’s a relatively modern, beautiful Gothic church built to serve the abbey and the school. It’s a photographer’s dream kind of place.
This image was of one of the long side aisles with the font right at the end and some tombs on the near right. Like most church designs, the font is by the entrance and signifies the start of the Christian life, leading forward towards the altar (and tombs and crypt).
It was quite tricky to process. First, the perspective was corrected using DxO's Viewpoint to make the verticals parallel, and then it was denoised in Topaz AI (the lighting was difficult, so it stretched the camera, especially when shooting handheld).
The rest of the effect was achieved in Nik Silver Efex to increase the sense of light and contrast and emphasise the aisle flagstones. The original was much plainer, though it had a good basic structure. Silver Efex is magic at this sort of thing…
The monochrome conversion was toned in blue to give a cooler, contemplative feel. The main downside to the Downside image was the narrow crop, which buys you very little real estate on Flickr. I hope you can see it OK. Ah well…
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Donnerstagsmonochrom :)
This experimental craft was designed with the intention of drastically increasing survivability of pilots. It features a completely-enclosed hard shell cockpit area that completely shields the pilot and also allows the use of an experimental gamma-infused cannon since the armored enclosure also protects against most radiation types.
The downside of this cockpit layout means that this craft can only be piloted by pilots who have the necessary cybernetic neural implants (cyborgs and synthetic humanoids) to be able to directly interface with the ship’s exterior sensors. Fully organic pilots with no cybernetic augmentation are unable to pilot this craft as they would be literally and figuratively flying blind behind the controls.
The downside of not having a garden is that I can't easily photograph the more common birds but I've found a spot to go to, that's regularly fed by someone. By this spot is a stone wall and I first glimpsed something moving last year but it was too quick for me to see what it was. I assumed a bank vole. Recently, I put down a little bit of seed by the 'entrance' and continued watching/photographing the birds. After a while, I noticed the food had gone, so I placed a bit more and waited. After a while, this still hungry woodmouse cautiously crept out to nibble on the offerings. At least I think its a woodmouse from the more pointy ears.
Tripod mounted downside. Focusing rail. Self made 3d printed feeding unit with embedded adjusting screw. Feeding steps of round about 0,05mm can be achieved. Tamron 90mm Macro lens is mounted. But also my old lenses are usable for the focus stacking purpose. Sony A7II is used.
Photos shot with this lens can be found here --> Mushroom - Focus Stacking or here --> Tiny Tree Fungis - Focus Stacking Details
I’m back at Downside Abbey for this Sliders Sunday play. Downside is a relatively new building, started in 1873 and still unfinished, but it is a beautiful church that was home to a thriving Benedictine monastic community. Sadly, the monastery is largely empty now, and the surviving community has moved to Herefordshire. It’s a beautiful place to visit and photograph.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment. This isn’t a monochrome conversion, merely heavily desaturated and then played with using black and white filter and inversion layers with different blend modes and opacities. That was after quite a bit of perspective correction using a Perspective filter layer.
The bulk of the work, though, was done with an HSL filter layer using minus 59% for the saturation slider. I’ll post the interim version, which is a half-decent image in itself. (flic.kr/p/2rAgZqZ)
I increased the size of the image canvas by two in each direction. I then duplicated the image layer three times to create extra layers, and then I flipped the copies both horizontally and vertically and arranged them so that you get a two-way mirror effect.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
As I came across this scene, several options to immortalize it sprang to mind. I could invert myself and the camera and thus obtain the right-side-up version of this White-breasted Nuthatch. Intriguing, but given my advanced age and continually decreasing agility, I decided against this. Another, equally important, reason against this approach was that I did not want anybody to get the idea that it would be a good thing to come up with a new helmet law for photographers out in the field. Yes, you are welcome. The other option, naturally, was to just take the shot and then invert the image in Lightroom or similar software. Much more appealing. Well, I did end up using this option but decided to leave things in their natural state, mostly for documentation purposes. The advantage here would be that if I ever decided to join a group, the image would be less likely to be rejected due to my obsessively fiddling with the settings in Lightroom. This just recently happened to a bird photographer Down Under and has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since :-)
Downside of shooting ICM at incredibly small apertures is the number of dust spots you see for the first time. Got rid of about 20 - if I decide to print it I'll have to get rid of the other 200.
It was early Monday morning. I was combing the wharf looking for the perfect cup of coffee when I came along this quaint little bistro. I was impressed by the color of the trim around the windows, and the powder blue boat cleat oozed with the attention to detail common in establishments that know how to satisfy a ravenous old sea dog. The downside was, they didn't open until 11:00 AM. So much for judging the book by its cover.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
San Francisco CA
Mittens in her usual upside down pose, makes me happy because I think she’s happy. Posted for Happy Caturday’s theme of “happy.” Happy Caturday!
The Nuthatches are busy, quite a few around now and some of the males are nice and dark in their color
A brisk morning walk led me into a tree that was absolutely covered in spiders! I didn't realise that until I'd jigged about for a few minutes trying to take a photo of this particular spider silhouetted against the sun. I'm not scared of them, but what appeared to be quite a few dozen above my head was a little disconcerting. Taken with my trusty Minolta Rokkor.
On May 22th I made my plans to photograph Hobbys on my favourite patch... the wind was right, and the light should be right if the cloud cover did not materialise !
Has I got nearer to the hide my old eyes spotted numerous dark birds flying and swooping through the air..... Hobbies I thought ... what an afternoon this going to be !!!
On gaining a better focus distance the Hobbies had transformed into Jackdaws... several dozen Jackdaws throwing themselves across the sky chasing after the Dragonflies caught in the updraft .
The shots shown here are of separate Jackdaws flying roughly 30 minutes apart .
A friend who witnessed this agreed they could well have copied the Hobby's technic, and they were proving very good at it !
The downside to this we only saw 2 Hobbys pass over head at considerable height :-(((
Is this new behaviour or have any of you seen it before ???
I would love to hear from you if you have :-))
Best regards ... Martin
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