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#258 in Explore on May 7th, 2009! Thanks everyone!!
This particular shot is one for a group here on Flickr ( Weekly Photo Challenge ) that hosts a weekly photo challenge for all of its members. The idea is that they provide you with a theme and you have a week to come up with an idea and produce the shot. Depending on what the theme is, it can really make you work outside of your comfort zone as it forces you to look at things differently than you may have before. In this instance, the weekly challenge was to shoot a name brand and this is my entry for the challenge. The hard part wasn't coming up with a brand to shoot (Guinness is a pretty obvious choice for me) but actually coming up with a decent shot was. I haven't really tried any shots like this in the past so there was quite a bit of experimentation before coming up with the final product.
This particular shot was taken on the antique wooden chest that we are currently using as a coffee table. I placed a piece of glass on on top of it so I could create a faint reflection and then placed a black backdrop behind the subjects. The only light I used was from the living room window. I did do some editing in CS3 before adding the border and that was it. One of the best parts about the whole exercise was that besides learning a few things along the way, I got to drink my subject afterwards. :-)
As always, any comments and suggestions on how to improve are appreciated. :-)
Yay and thank you, my diptych with Vickie made the front page of explore!
Thanks to Bern@t for capturing it.
Friday 21 October - Just noticed that this has got into [Explore] at 332!
Still some fruit hanging round on the brambles and she was happily munching away
FQ04 & CLP16 can be seen passing Mawson Lakes while working loaded GWA copper train 9112S on Sunday 7th of February 2016
Explore page 40
While there’s a life, there’s a hope
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*model : my sis [Deema] ..
*No Edit ..
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1. Abstract Condensation!, 2. Browned Off....?, 3. The Long and the Short of It...., 4. Life on Mars, 5. Ghost Chair!, 6. Black Curve, White Light, 7. Red Sky at Night..., 8. Ball-istique!,
9. Along the Right Lines?, 10. Catching the Light - An East Sussex Landscape, 11. Lone Tree, Big Sky, 12. A Tearful Pinkerton Agent!, 13. I Could Only Stop and Stair!, 14. Incandescenza Dorata sul Mediterraneo!, 15. A Nice Little Orangement 3, 16. Leading You Up the Garden Path Again at Great Dixter!,
17. Seeing Double at Great Dixter!, 18. Givng Topiary the Bird at Great Dixter!, 19. An 'Arrowing Experience at Bodiam Castle, 20. Bodium Castle Inside Out!, 21. The Way Into Bodiam Castle, 22. Who Killed Mickey Mouse?, 23. Reflecting on a Brassy World...., 24. Out of the Blue at Great Comp Garden!,
25. Bubble Bath!, 26. "Hi Buddy" Said the Water Lily to Her Neighbour!, 27. Zig Zag, 28. A Little More than Level Pegging!, 29. Dahlia Smith!, 30. "To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness” Jeremy Preston Johnson, 31. Along the Right Lines, 32. Preparing for Take Off!,
33. Sailing into Dover as Viewed from St Margaret-at-Cliffe, 34. Tears from Heaven, 35. To Bee or Not to Bee, That Is the Question?, 36. Pink Rose in the Frame, 37. The Eyes Have It!, 38. Rediance!, 39. Stepping Up to Great Dixter!, 40. Oast House, Twisted Tree, Hedges & Border at Great Dixter,
41. A Veritable Flood of Tulips at Great Dixter!, 42. More of the Gardens & Back View of Great Dixter, 43. Red, White and Blue (+ a Little Yellow) at Great Dixter, 44. In the Pink at Great Dixter!, 45. A First Look at the Manor House at Great Dixter, 46. Leading You Down the Garden Path at Great Dixter!, 47. Bordering on Genius at Great Dixter!, 48. A Sideways View of a Part of Great Dixter,
49. Vainglorious Green?, 50. Our Bonny Lass!, 51. The Final Setting of the Sun at Bexhill-on-Sea, 52. Another Look Out to Sea at Bexhill-on-Sea, 53. Backlit Beauty!, 54. Looking Towards the Seven Sisters, 55. Reaching for the Sky in Gillham Wood!, 56. The Mysterious Disappearing Pathway in Gillham Wood!,
57. Looking Through a Glass Darkly..., 58. Knole Gardens in the Frame!, 59. The Inner Courtyard at Knole, 60. A Sideways View from Knole, 61. Bambi at Knole!, 62. Rediant Beauty at Bexhill-on-Sea, 63. The Beth Chatto Gardens - Almost a Final Pond Look!, 64. The Beth Chatto Gardens - Blueming Beauty in a Sea of Green!,
65. The Beth Chatto Gardens - Red Hot Pokers!, 66. The Beth Chatto Gardens - (S)weeping into Pink!, 67. The Beth Chatto Gardens Float My Boat!, 68. The Beth Chatto Gardens - On Reflection, 69. Majestic Ickworth House, Park and Garden, 70. Willy Lott's House in Constable Country 2, 71. Bridge Cottage in Constable Country, 72. In the Pink of Condition at Lovely Lavenham!
These are the most recent and many thanks for over 74,000 visits, it is much appreciated!
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Gull in Whitby
UPDATE MAY 2011 - #37 on Explore for 25.05.2011 - thank you very much everybody! :-)
Had a visit to Whitby few weeks ago, I forgot how nice this place is having not been there in a while but plan to have a revisit to get a photo of the harbour and pier hopefully when it s a bit quieter.
Anyway, whilst walking back off the pier noticed this chap just sitting on the wall. He was sitting there quite nicely and some nice person decided to give him their left over chips, he looked at them and just turned his nose up at it which I thought is very unusual, maybe the Gulls in Whitby must be well fed. Anyway, the Gull you see in the background flying away was sitting with him and then just flew off which he didn't seem happy about and then promptly started squawking and this photo was the result, he was almost playing up to the camera :-)
Hope everyone's week is going well.
Photo Details
Sony A700
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR
f/6.3
50mm
ISO200
1/1250s exposure
Software Used
Lightroom 3.0
Information
Gulls (often informally called seagulls) are birds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until recently most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. Gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls, stout, longish bills, and webbed feet. Gull species range in size from the Little Gull, at 120 g (4.2 oz) and 29 cm (11.5 inches), to the Great Black-backed Gull, at 1.75 kg (3.8 lbs) and 76 cm (30 inches).
Explore highest position at #166.
Thank you everyone.
At The Philadelphia International Flower Show.
Please check out my set for the show.
This shot (as all of my Flower Show shots) was indeed taken on Fat Tuesday. This is such a festive looking image that I decided to name it in honor of the holiday. I also celebrated by having some amazing gumbo at the Reading Terminal Market, YUM!
Exploring a secondlife sim and I came across a wonderful room.I'mrunning my fingers along the warm wood of this bondage rig, imagining that,one day, I may be bound tightly to it, with an experienced Mistress.
A "halmeoni" (grandmother) reaches up to grab a few cherry blossoms as spring arrives at Jeju University in Jeju, South Korea.
***Explored - highest position #228 (04/11/11)***
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With the arrival of spring on the island I decided to head up to Jeju University with the hopes of getting a few unique pics of people enjoying the warm weather and blooming flowers.
I should have known better as there were cliches everywhere. A young woman throwing petals into the air as her boyfriend cheered her on and clicked away with his camera. A young teen cupping her hands around her face and tilting her head as her friends took her picture, pink flowers everywhere behind her. The atmosphere was great and the images I saw were cute but not something I was interested in photographing.
Then, as the sun began to set and I rounded the corner of the street my car was parked on, I came across this older woman walking slowly down the path in front of me. She must have been about 70 years old and she was clearly enjoying the first hints of spring after a very long winter. The golden light falling down on her was beautiful and the colorful flowers and young woman in the background were framing the scene perfectly.
Suddenly, she turned around and, despite her age, leaped up into the air and grabbed a handful of blossoms. Satisfied, she turned around and slowly headed back down the path.
Spring has arrived.
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Here is my third and final entry to the tips and bricks contest, a microscale build of set 497 Galaxy Explorer. I made sure to include every detail, from the ship to the base and satellite, to even the small rover. It does fit inside the 20x20x20 requirement, and I made sure that the ship does not extend past the base, which is 20 studs long. This was also my first attempt using a new editing software called gimp.
Thanks for checking it out!
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Im enjoying my 'break' from work by visiting flickr as much as I can!
I'll be away to sort out my shifting soon!! :(
Love exploring with my sweet heart!!
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