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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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Another of my recent Mayfly shots. Difficult to work out which one to post, although this one I like with the tails adding to the composition.
Worth viewing large.
Up before sunrise to walk down to the River Axe to see and photograph the Demoiselles and other river bank invertebrates.
I was not disappointed however the breeze was an issue, although very gentle there was very little shelter or cover so it was a struggle to begin with photograph, eventually things settled down and one of the first insects was this Mayfly.
A little tricky due to the thin grass blade, I could not get the whole of the Mayfly in focus so concentrated on the main body.
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a set of twelve blocks decorated with vintage ephemera and sealed........these are just for fun!!! sold on ebay!!!
I found the dry lavandula
I felt the sensation of nesting
I picked up the leaves and the hedera
I reaped the rose fruit
I made the liquidambar leaves branch
I composed the nest
I photographed
And in the end it flew away...
ephemera : noun
plural noun: ephemera; noun: ephemerum
things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
"there were papers, letters, old boxes—all sorts of ephemera"
collectable items that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity.
Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.
Sarah Monette
Ephemera danica is a species of mayfly in the genus Ephemera...The adults mainly can be found in May–June (hence the common name of mayfly)... The lifetime of adults is very short (around four days at the most), hence its genus name (Ephemera).
This was undoubtedly aimed at the guys in the garages and gas stations, and was probably flipped over when a woman came in. Note the censoring so this sample could be sent though the US Mail. My, how times have changed! "Forward Look" was also the advertising campaign slogan for the 1955 through 1961 Chrysler products. I wonder if they were making a play on that? (1958 Willens Art Calendar salesmen's sample book.)
Credits:
Flower crown: Lode
Hair: D!va
Necklace: Eclectricity
Dress: BlueMoon
Eyes: Ikon
Face: Genus
Applier: Not Found
Body: Maitreya
The green drake or green drake mayfly (Ephemera danica is a species of mayfly in the genus Ephemera...Ephemera danica can reach an imago size of 15–20 mm (0.6–0.8 in) in males, while females are larger, reaching 16–25 mm (0.6–1.0 in)..These insects are part of the aerial plankton and usually they are food for swallows, trouts and many amphibians and spiders.
Taken at Wicken Fen.
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