Ephemera
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My first opportunity to photograph Mayflies for a couple of years.
As usual the breeze played havoc and made it more difficult, but these insects are such a photogenic subject!!
Mayfly on the riverbank.
A species I love to see most years.
Such a photogenic insect, seen here with a backdrop of Buttercups.
The reflecting lake was created temporarily for a garden exhibition.
The rock on the right is called Bock and is the specific location where the foundation for Luxembourg city was laid in 963 by Count Siegfried. On the left is the "Pont du Stierchen" bridge in the Grund which is said to be the home of one of Luxembourg’s most terrifying and strangest ghosts: the Stierches-geescht.
Ephemera is a composite image, created from a composite of images licensed from Shutterstock. The watch parts themselves are made of 3 components used in another composite.
My first Mayfly of the season for me this morning.
Thanks to my learned friend Phil I now know that this specimen with clear wings is a fully fledged adult, rather than the sub-imago (teenager)!!
Paprastasis lašalas, ephemera vulgata
Lithuania, Tauragė, 2022.05.29
Canon 90D
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro
AAW April 4 to 11: Anything Goes
WIT: Went out for a walk today, and came across this feather clinging to a branch. So delicate and ephemeral.
Made Explore
The sun and the tide. Neither wait for any man. The moment is there and it is gone, never to be repeated in that exact form again.
An early morning Mayfly. One of the nicest insects to photograph with their intricate and delicate wings. Every year I take several shots of these insects as they appear the same time as I am hunting out the Demoiselles.
James Place Adelaide. Long exposure of the passing parade (ND 5 stop filter). The sine wave effect from the moving people appealed to me.
I'm sharing these for historical interest and information empowerment for Eichler Home owners.
More on our journey of preserving a 1955 Eichler Home in South Land Park Hills + telling the current state & past history of mid-century modern in Sacramento, California -- eichlerific.blogspot.com/
I last photographed Richmond Bridge a little under a year ago. At the time, there was one red boat moored beside the bridge. When I returned late this summer, there were more than a dozen boats lining the river, and I immediately knew I wanted to reshoot the location.
I've always been drawn to the architecture of this stunning 18th-century bridge, from the texture of its Portland stone to the romanticism of its Victorian gas-lit lampposts, but also to the almost ethereal spectacle when its unique shape and structure is reflected in the river. I was fortunate enough to be shooting the bridge on a morning when the wind speed had dropped to 1mph, which helped me get a clear reflection in the water and capture a sharp image of the boats relatively easily, despite the fact that the boats were moored quite loosely and slowly swaying along the width of the river.
Minimal editing was required before I was happy with the final image. I isolated the boats in Photoshop with the pen tool so that I could mask in a brighter exposure and selectively add some saturation and contrast, and then just spent a little time dodging and burning the bridge to recover some of the shadows and to emphasise the glow from the lamplight cast along the bridge's stonework.
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