You got that special sauce to spur my curiosity

Etta found some water

Had Rain last-night,but they say we will have some Sun later in the week.

Detail from an exhibition piece.

Danish Architecture Center (DAC) Slide, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Scribbly Gum Moth (Ogmograptis scribula) Larvae Trails "decorate" the bark of Scribbly Gums without hurting them.

♡Love these trees♡

An American Flamingo looks up to scan its surrounding between feedings on Honeymoon Island.

View on Black | Full Stream on Black

Another from the archives of 2009...

Meh.... it's colorful and fun.....

drip collector

After a night of heavy rain you can see how nature stores water. The thick raindrops can be seen on the plant. the plant is from the genus Spurge (Euphorbia) it is incomparably diverse with a number of over 2000 species worldwide.Tropfensammler

Nach einer Nacht mit viel Regen kann man sehen wie in der Natur Wasser gespeichert wird. Die diken Regentropfen sind auf der Pflanze zu sehen. bei der Pflanze handelt es sich um die Gattung Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia) sie ist mit einer Zahl von weltweit über 2000 Arten unvergleichlich vielfältig.

I went to nearby Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. I took two shots of this Japanese fountain with an LED light from two different directions, then blended them.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo separately from two RAW exposures, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/2.8, 100 mm, 1/400, 1/640 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A6000, Rodenstock 100mm f/2.8, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC8936_9_hdr1bal1pho1g.jpg

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I'd forgotten how green everything is in spring, this a top down shot of lilies after a spring shower...

for Macro Mondays

Note 100% happy with the sharpness of this but I can't be bothered to retake it because it's so hot the varnish dries up as soon as it gets to the end of the brush and I have to sit there for ages with my finger on the trigger waiting for it to drip.

Sam Ka Tsuen, Hong Kong, 2018

Gum Leaf

Etta's been in the waterhole :)

Daily Dog Challenge: Fibonacci

I hadn't heard of this before but it's quite fascinating. I think, if I understand correctly, that this approximates the Fibonacci spiral. Hope so :I

Number 29 in the group 52 in 2016 Challenge list

*sigh* Looking forward to brighter, sunnier times...

I spent a good part of the day checking out the migrants at the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and wow there were lots of them around. However, when the light was getting low at the back drip, I decided to run over to Brazoria NWR to take advantage of the beautiful light. With the water as high as it is there weren’t a whole lot of great opportunities but this young Yellow-crowned Night Heron was just begging to be photographed. I decided to see how much of the frame I could fill with the bird’s head. This shot is uncropped and even at f/11 the DOF is REALLY thin. Makes me appreciate all those macro photographers a little more.

www.texastargetbirds.com

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Nyctanassa violacea

Just searching through my archive

I went to nearby Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. I took two shots of this Japanese fountain with an LED light from two different directions, then blended them together.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo separately from two RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/2.8, 100 mm, 1/400, 1/640 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A6000, Rodenstock 100mm f/2.8, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC8933_4_hdr2bal1pho1n.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Actinotus helianthi

Flannel Flower

To much time on my hands lol

Just walking around Rome

This image was captured for the Macro Mondays theme: "drips, drops and splashes".

Perhaps the most frustrating theme I've attempted, this shot represents one of about five hundred shots captured for the theme.

I love watching drops as they gather along horizontal surfaces. Forming a tidy row, they start small and grow in size, plumping and stretching. The bigger they get, the better I can see the fantastical, upside-down version of my world inside each watery orb. Pulled by gravity, they tremble to hold on but eventually they fall and the cycle begins again.

Like a giant metronome of life, they measure the moments.

Drip, drop. Tick, tock.

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A Line of Drips

Last weekend I had my first attempt at macro drips on a leaf, today I tried again and this time I managed to get the flower reflected in the drops, I realise there is much room for improvement but I'm much happier with the result.

This is a very fine leaf blade held in a clamp with a primula flower in another clamp placed behind.I lit them from the side trying to keep most of the light on the drops of water which I added with a pipette.

I used the Raynox close up adaptor on an 85mm lens, f18 1/125 sec ISO 100

First attempt playing with water drips

Long-billed Dowitcher drains the long bill on a small pond near Jamaica Beach, Galveston Island.

male mallard leaves the pond to join some friends across the wetlands park

That's the 6/17/17 theme for Macro Mondays, and since I've made numerous attempts to try to perfect this olive-drop-into-the-martini shot, I decided this was a good excuse to give it another try. I got several great splashes, but that *&%**! olive rarely cooperated and insisted on turning its back to the camera, and without the red pimento showing, the shot was a failure, no matter how great the splash.

Actually, this time I got two shots I wanted to post to the MM group, but one's the limit, so I posted the other one in the first comment below. I'd appreciate knowing if you think I made the right choice...