American West 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.
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)!!
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.
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Following on from yesterdays walk to the River Axe, whilst the main focus was going to be looking for Odonata, there were lots of these Mayflies in the long grass and shrubs, which is not something I've photographed very often. Not an easy subject to compose for either, those long tails will move about in the slightest of breezes.
Best viewed very large.
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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.
Photographed at the Local Studies Collection at Richmond Upon Thames' Old Town Hall
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Wish I could have gone to this auction!
*did a little research. There is a Major Dillard H. Clark buried at Arlington National Cemetary and he has a portrait in the Smithsonian...hmmmm...
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/
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 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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