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Toronto's Edwards Gardens has several Butterfly Bushes. Also named Buddleja davidii, and Summer lilac. I was very excited to see about 20 Monarch Butterflies enjoying the bushes.
HSS
Edited in Topaz Studio.
A pair of Northern Gannets at their nest.
The male on the left had just returned and the female started to shake her head from side to side as if saying "Where have you been for all this time?"
The male then started to dart forward excitedly towards the female, beak agape,but never got too close.!
A few days later the female laid her first egg in the nest.
The head shaking is behaviour I have seen before but I have never managed to capture it on camera!.
Taken at RSPB Bempton.
I always get so excited when I get a chance to go into Austin, like I did this past weekend, because I know I'll always visit Zilker Gardens to see if the water lilies are in bloom. Saturday they were!
Explore #71 on Tuesday, December 9, 2008
This is my first completed image with the new ODK10 telescope from Orion Optics. It has taken a little tuning all round. but I think I'm there now!
NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is a H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star. The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow. It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel. It is located approx 7800 light years away.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 ws-g with 3nm narrowband filters.
16x1800s Ha
17x1800s OIII
18x1800s SII
25.5 hours total integration time.
Kyashi got all excited at the mention of Chinese Ink paintings by Fiona Fei and ran off to Shi Mo Gallery. She found much more and though maybe a bit overdressed, had to join in and be One in a Billion. (it also gave me a chance to work with adding highlights ;) )
Video about the display: Art Made in Second Life - Fiona Fei
The rest of the story: One in a Billion
Model: Christiana Lutrova
I need to interrupt the beauty of Hawrelak Park with this bulletin. After I returned from Hawrelak and had some time to warm up, it came to my attention that the squirrel was some upset over the mouse showing him up in the levitation department. He called me over and gave me a severe dressing down and insisted that I document the fact that he’s still the supreme ruler over all things levitation. You know me, there was no way I was going to decline this opportunity and my fingers had recuperated by that time. We were a definite go for this. He did not disappoint, I was blown away. He actually showed me his best stuff. And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why competition rules. It propels us to hitherto unknown heights. Both of us were, to say the least, somewhat excited …
Just a couple of more technical things about levitation here. Most of you may be under the impression that levitation is something that happens in slow motion like when an Indian guru does it. Well, most of the time, this is not the case. You have to be on your toes because the event is over in the flash of an eyeblink. Speaking of being on your toes, like many of my other shots, including the ones from Hawrelak, I employed my favorite shooting technique, the sitting down and enjoying life scenario. This one taken from my swing bench. So, don’t get too hung up over which is the proper shooting stance and how your feet should be positioned for this or that, just relax and get it done :-)
Have a wonderful week!
Believe it or not, this looks pretty cool when pressing on the + thingy.
In the field of excited sighs
Inside natures open thighs
Grows a beauty, oh so sweet
That my fingers they do meet
That my fingers they caress
Natures defences, i undress
Allowing my sun to now cover
My sweet, wild growing lover
That fills the field with excited sighs
That opens wide, it's waiting thighs
Waiting for my love, to descend
cover it with sunshine, that will never end
Still not many butterflies around. This year I'm even excited if I see a common cabbage white butterfly in the garden. This one was feeding on my woodland sage (Salvia nemorosa). A few moments later it narrowly escaped the Dragon's claws and teeth.
A rich purple color winding out of a soft but clean white. No Photoshop. This is the actual purple color. Amazing what nature can offer.
Grain train power was so much fun then. It's no wonder I can't get excited with grain trains now.
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Took it a while back when I was in Japan. I was really excited about taking photos in the snow but it never snowed :(. More photos to come!
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While I've seen my share of ruby-crowned kinglets, not many share with me their crown ... for which they're named. I think that he was excited to see us. :-)
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An eland herd. I was excited to see the young ones because I have never seen eland calves before. The male is also present in this picture
A Tufted Titmouse watches with great anticipation as some peanuts are placed out after heavy rains over the past days.
We're very excited to announce Candy Fair 2014 designer applications will be opening May 1st through June 1st, 2014
This years Candy Fair will be October 3rd - October 17th, 2014
We'll be opening applications early because we have a lot of plans for this years Candy Fair and last year we had hundreds of applications. We're going to be taking a month just to go through and decide on stores/sponsors for this years fair. We will be capping at 100 stores not including our 8 sponsors. Stay tuned more info coming May 1st, 2014! Bloggers we will be doing things a bit different this year so stay tuned to info in regards to that coming May 1st as well!
We're very excited for this years fair and although its a ways away we've already been planning for months. <3
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In my previous article, like many photographer, I was very excited about the release of the new R6 and R5 because they offered tremendous advances.
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I bought the R6, the Canon RF 100-500mm and sold everything to buy again a 5D mark III
Why? Because the Canon R6 is also that:
1) Delivery of the RF – EF Adapter Ring offered by Canon has arrived 60 days after purchase. Fortunately, my nice store went out of its way to lend me one.
Many customers have suffered this and it is scandalous on the part of Canon not to have integrated the ring in the original box.
2) Prepare to pay (and I'm not even talking about new RF lenses)
- a very fast and robust SD card to enjoy the burst like the Sony Tough SD
- Resistant, I used Lightroom 6 box. To read new raw CR3s, you need Lightroom Classic
- To make the photos look like a Canon Picture Style you need a quality color profile, thank you to Damien Bernal for your recommendations
The choice of an L Bracket is complicated with this screen, Tom Migot has devoted several videos to it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA25FyekVKY
The R6 is with High ISO but if you want a very clean result, Denoise by Topaze is the best Tool , So, one question: Why have I never needed it before?
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This photo at 12800 iso will be almost unusable on 5D Mark III but never forget that the easiest and most beautiful thing is to take pictures when there is ... light
- The second battery is essential. It is difficult to say how many pictures you can take with one battery but I advise you to double your battery park as well as the charging time.
For years, I shot without ever thinking about the drums with a second in the bag never used.
3) The ergonomics of the R6 disappointed me and brought nothing
- The grip is worse than before. However, I have small hands and the handle seems too small to me. Those with large hands have their little finger in the air and some props even sell a base to add.
I wore for years a 5d Mark III with a 300mm 2.8mm IS II sometimes by the tips of two fingers to tell if the whole thing was balanced.
- The SD card door opens only by friction. There is still a small slot to slide a nail with difficulty, but the 5d Mark III and IV opened more easily with one hand.
The adjustable screen has never been useful to me because its tilt to the left of the device is not practical and even less with the L bracket
Touch has never been useful to me, in the field physical buttons are more practical
4 / A user experience that sometimes disappoints:
- Eye tracking stalls when it is too complicated in the foliage. Does the ultimate portrait of your dreams with a subject against a pretty background require this technology?
- In billebaude if you take your camera back, it will sometimes take a while before everything turns on again. Several times I had to turn off the R6 completely because the autofocus didn't know where it was.
- You see a beautiful sunset, you take your R6, you put your eye in the viewfinder and there… disappointment. Why not keep looking in our good old DSLR?
5) The rendering of R5 and R6 is often very different in appearance compared to DSLR.
More so if you mount a native RF lens.
Is it the technology or the level of detail that wants this? The shots often appear to be very artificially separated, and natural colors like grass are sometimes strange. I know you can change everything in PP, but all of this bothers me and takes me away from the pictorial and cinematographic universe.
My daughter came home from school with a drastically different school photo than I saw for a decade, I got it, the canon photographer (my daughter had asked a few years ago ;-) had bought an R6 or R5 and the schoolyard became a bit strange as « Gattaca ».... Advantage for Eye AF, it’s tea time for him ;-)
6) Let's talk about goals.
The photos of a Canon hybrid with an RF lens that I have seen in recent months made me want to buy a Canon EF 85mm f1.2 II 1 month after the R6. I'm not sure that was the goal. from Canon that we buy back the EF lenses that we had sold second-hand.
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Canon did not lose everything because, to get Canon cash back, I exchanged my Canon EF 300MM 2.8 is II before the summer of 2021 for an RF 100-500mm ...
Why did I do this?
Fear of obsolescence and maybe a follow-up helped by an abundant marketing hype which made me give in and go against my convictions of never buying a zoom because the rendering really has nothing to do with a focal length fixed premium… I sold it 1 month later.
The bottom line of this financially not very pleasant operation is that, as in many areas, if we have the feeling that things will not be in our best interest, it is better to abstain ;-)
What will I miss most about the Canon R6
Focusing in low light, your 85mm 1.2 will get a facelift
Staggering stabilization from 100-500mm net to 1/50 th to 500mm
The focus on the eye, clearly the majority of wedding, sports and animal photographers will never want to go back, I understand them, this is a decisive advantage over the competition
And especially the advantage of having the collimators close to the edge unlike the DSLR
The burst and the endless sorting it generates, the swiveling screen, the touchscreen, the wifi, the gps, I will miss less.
I don't think I’ll buy again this excellent 300mm 2.8 IS II.
I still got the magical 135 mm F2 and 85mm 1.2 , my next wildlife Canon Lens will be a prime EF, surely excellent, not too big (price too) because I take my equipment everywhere, repairable I don't know ...
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Every day, especially since the digital and the Internet, our so-called user-friendly world becomes unnecessarily more complicated and deliberately consumerist.
The R5 and R6 are good cameras and Canon has really caught up to the competition but it's not my direction.
The 5D Mark III is 2012, a century after 1912, my favorite year, in which I have been preparing a photo for a very long time.
What if Canon EF finally became a way of life.
Gari Valden
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{ Let me introduce you! Her name is Poppet and she is a lovely creation from the very talented Samantha Cheung from ChinaLillyDolls! I am very excited about having this Traveler here with me for the next month so be prepared boys and girls for one very exciting show! }
Did this pic yesterday of me and my hubby.
We are in an amazing stage of our relationship at the moment, filled with tons of excitement.
I shall be heading out to live with him for 3 long months in a few weeks, and we are using this time as the first part of our life together really. After this, we plan to make further steps.
I am super excited and I know my hubby is too.
Some people say SL relationships don't work. Well, they do, and they CAN. I think we and many others a proof of that <3
Hey everyone! I'm excited to share I've teamed up with 2 of your fav hair designers to create the TRUTH Collective! Faga and Wasabi are joining Truth this year to create hairstyles using Truth HUDs & textures.
Star & Loved are out now at the mainstore ❤️
A large flock of birds is using this deserted barn as a landing strip as they excitedly shriek about the coming changes in Minnesota on a fall morning. Growing up on the farm I never realized until I was older how I rarely felt alone. There was always some animals or birds around making noise and giving our place a sense of life. The beeping of phones, tablets and computers today are not nearly as satisfying.
I am pretty excited with my first narrowband image. Narrowbanding allows me to do DSO imaging from my light polluted suburban Bortle 6 backyard and even if the moon is in the sky.
Filters with a tiny bandpass of only 4,5 nm around the wavelengths of singly ionized sulfur (Sll), ionized hydrogen (H-alpha) and doubly ionized oxigen (Olll) are used with a monochrome astro camera to capture 3 different images that can be combined into a color image.
There is a catch though: SII and H-alpha are in the red spectrum, while Olll is teal. This makes it hard to produce an image with colors like the human eye would see.
The most common solution is to not even try to. That's what NASA did with the famous "Pillars of Creation" image from the Hubble Space Telescope. They assigned Sll to the red, H-alpha to the green and Olll to the blue channel. This is called the Hubble palette, a false color image that shows the distribution of the different gases.
My image shows the normally red Rosette nebula in the Hubble palette.
Here some additional facts from Wikipedia: The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical HII region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
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William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.5, piggy backed on a wedge mounted Celestron NexStar 8GPS
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro
20 x 180s with Baader 4,5 nm Sll, Ha, Olll filters
I am always excited to find spider babies. Getting a chance to shoot them with back lighting and dew was even better. This is another one that was hard to choose. I took tons of shots I took of these babies like any time I find babies. I noticed while editing, several of them seem to be carrying drops of water.
This is the only picture which I DID NOT do any color, brightness and etc adjust. Direct converted from RAW to Jpeg.
*This is a re-edit of photos taken this summer. I have a bad habit of rushing edits on photos that I'm really excited about and not taking the time to do them right. You can look at the old one if you'd like, but I'd prefer you not. I won't delete it though. ;)
This was stop #1 of a planned four stop vacation out west, starting in the Black Hills and ending in Shoshone National Forest, however, it became the only stop after car issues necessitated returning home rather than risk breaking down on a remote road in the Bighorn Mountains. This is the end result of a total of 5-6 images taken on Black Elk Peak over the course of about five hours. The foreground shot (including the peaks in the distance) was taken shortly after sunset while there was still enough light to capture the details in the rock (ISO 640), and then hours later, I captured the stars in several different shots at ISO 6400 at 20 seconds each. It was a bit of guessing to line up the shots after such a long time between the shots, and the result required quite a bit of Photoshop surgery to hide the seams and make things look right. Unfortunately, the level of wind between when I hiked up and when the Milky Way was out made planting my gear in one spot impossible/reckless.
I was blown away at how the dark the skies were here, and how visible the Milky Way was to the naked eye. I've been photographing the Milky Way for some time now, but I've never seen it so clearly. I am very bummed that I wasn't able to get out to Wyoming for the second leg of this trip, the second stop I had planned out would've been even darker and more remote.
Still, I am very satisfied with this photo and it was a rewarding experience getting to the summit and weathering the elements to get it.
hi everyone:) kinda excited of a new timelapsvideo of an amazing talented guy from Norway:) he has been to Lofoten shooting some of the most amazing scenery i have seen for a while:)
check this out here : vimeo.com/24456787
AMAZING STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!
well well, no new stuff. a B&W version of a previous post :) hope you like it?
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take care and have a wonderful wednesday :)
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I was excited to get this shot with the fresh snow on the hoodoo at Bryce. There was 4 ft of snow on the ground at the trail head. Slipped on my Katula spikes and dressed up - it was 17 degrees - and treked down the switch backs to just where I had imagined. there was great angular light on the formations until I got ready to shoot. Thena massive cloud pushed in a remained for the rest of the day! Nice but too much flat light. i was crushed.
Here I am, standing on the shoreline just after 3:30 in the morning, the horizon is already ablaze with colour, I’m excited. My tripod is already out and waiting for the camera as I rapidly change my lens under the illumination of my head torch, I’ll use my super EF16-35 f4L, I’m excited. I look for an early composition, these rock platforms look fantastic, leading lines galore carved out by millennia of sea erosion, I’m excited. It’s still low light, to keep that colour on the horizon I need a ND grad, I decide to use a medium 2 stop to lift the foreground darkness, I’m excited. I frame the image, check the settings, f11, calculate the shutter speed, back to ISO 100 and bulb, this is fun, I’m excited. The first photo taken with a 76 second exposure, I check the results but no pressure it’s still 40 minutes from sunrise, did I say I’m excited. The first photo of the morning, the day before the summer solstice, the time is 3:40.
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This little Tufted Titmouse is fired up about something. Carried that green wild grape around forever. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
SCOUT: "Paddy! Paddy!" *Excited.* "Paddy come and look!"
PADDY: "What is it, Scout? Are you alright?"
SCOUT: "Of course I am alright. Paddy! Why would anything be wrong?"
PADDY: "Well, usually when you call me, Scout, it's because something is... well wrong... and you need help."
SCOUT: "Oh!" *Puts paw to mouth.* "Well, in this case I don't need help today, Paddy! I am excited!"
PADDY: "Why Scout? What did you find in this pumpkin patch?"
SCOUT: "I found a coach, Paddy!"
PADDY: "A coach?" *Surprised.*
SCOUT: "Yes Paddy!" *Nods emphatically.* "You know, a carriage."
PADDY: "Yes Scout, I know what a coach is." *Looks around.* "I don't see any coach."
SCOUT: "Then you aren't looking hard enough, Paddy! It's right here!" *Points excitedly towards a nice ripe pumpkin.*
PADDY: "That isn't a coach Scout!" *Shakes head.*
SCOUT: "Yes it is, Paddy!" *Nods head.*
PADDY: "No it's not!" *Shakes head more.* "It's a pumpkin!"
SCOUT: "It is a coach Paddy! Don't listen to him, my beautiful one!" *Strokes pumpkin's rind with paw lovingly.* "Or rather, it could be, Paddy, with a bit of magic! It is full of potential! It could be the best coach in the whole wide world, EVER!"
PADDY: "Do you mean like Cinderella's coach, Scout?"
SCOUT: "Oh no, Paddy!" *Shakes head.* "Better than that, Paddy: Scoutarella's coach!" *Jumps up and down excitedly.*
PADDY: "Scoutarella?" *Alarmed.*
SCOUT: "Yes! That will be me!" *Pats chest with paw proudly.* "I shall be Scoutarella, and my magic pumpkin coach can drive me to the royal ball where I can dance in my very best tutu with Prince Peter, who also happens to be mijn beste vriend, and Princess Rosie, who also happens to be Prince Peter's princess! You can come too, Paddy, but no-one will dance with you."
PADDY: "Why not, Scout? I happen to be a very good dancer." *Disgruntled.*
SCOUT: "Well, for somebear who is ancient, from ye olden days when the world was black and white, you are a good dancer, but no-one dances like that any more!" *Giggles.* "Besides, somebear has to play a wicked stepsister!
PADDY: "Scout!"
SCOUT: "What?!?!"
PADDY: "Well it isn't going to be me, Scout!" *Folds paws akimbo across chest. "Besides, how many times must I tell you that it is rude to discuss my age in such a way! Anyway, as I keep saying, it wasn't the world that was black and white. It was the telly that was!"
SCOUT: "That's what you say, Paddy!" *Scoffs.* "Well... what's your magic like?"
PADDY: "My magic, Scout?" *Alarmed.*
SCOUT: "Yes Paddy! I need a faerie godbear to come and transform this pumpkin into my beautiful magical golden coach coach. That could be you... if your magic is good enough that is!" *Nods seriously.*
My Paddington Bear came to live with me in London when I was two years old (many, many years ago). He was hand made by my Great Aunt and he has a chocolate coloured felt hat, the brim of which had to be pinned up by a safety pin to stop it getting in his eyes. The collar of his mackintosh is made of the same felt. He wears wellington boots made from the same red leather used to make the toggles on his mackintosh.
He has travelled with me across the world and he and I have had many adventures together over the years. He is a very precious member of my small family.
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
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Here are a few more pic of yesterday's jump. It was fabulous and I will describe it more once I have got over the post jump Party :-) Thank you for all your donations. I'm keeping the site open for another few months in case anyone else would like to donate.