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I watched this flock of pelicans across a bay in Horicon Marsh when they all rose together and flew over the cattails.
How did they coordinate that move? Nobody spooked them, They lifted off the water in surreal slow motion. It was a moment of graceful motion. Nature amazes me!
I had my Pentax telephoto at full extension; the pelicans were a long way off.
graceful birds
lifting in a slow dance
all of one mind
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
Road To Extension sculpture was donated to the Cameron Park Zoo. Solomon Bassoff created this and placed them in a 1928 Model A Ford he bought for the display. These represent endangered species.
I am still going to be off awhile. Have a great weekend.
No matter where I have lived, I have always gravitated to the birds of prey ... the raptors. To me, there's something fascinating about their beaks, their wings, the look of concentration and determination, but mainly their talons. When a raptor flies over me, especially when they bank and show off their underside, or topside, of their body, it's so cool. Red-tailed hawks are the most variable of all of the buteos, depending on where they are found and also their color morphs. Of course, don't forget how their feather patterns change as they molt. It really makes a challenge for species specific ID.
I could raptor all day long and be happy ... we get all sorts of raptors visiting us throughout the winter and some visit during the summer.
This red-tailed hawk flew over me at a relatively close range (though this image is most likely cropped some for balance). The extended wingspan was amazing to view, with every feather serving a purpose. Love these raptors.
Happy Monday!
© Debbie Tubridy Photography
Not quite a true macro, this image is just over 4cm across.
What you can see are two M8 size A2 stainless steel nuts (suspended on a wire in front of a green background) that are being heated with a blue gas flame.
This was taken with a Helios 44M lens at f/16 on about 25mm of extension tube. The strange orange outline around the right nut is due to it being slightly out of focus; it's the bokeh that is orange. The heat and force of the blowtorch on my wobbly set up made focussing difficult, resulting in a slightly burnt finger and a small fire.
Karl Barth once said that Christian doctrine is truthful only to the extent that it ‘points beyond itself and summons us to hear not itself, but [Christ].’ 17 The Christian tradition, in Williams’ view, is the extension through time of that act of self-dispossessing witness. Tradition is a theological reality. It is not meant to answer all our questions; its aim is to point beyond itself, to formalize its own unfinishedness, to hold open a space for new encounters with what Flannery O’ Connor called God’s ‘dark and disruptive’ grace. 18 Tradition keeps the church in contact with its own traumatic origins: the dark grace of an empty tomb.
---Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams, by Benjamin Myers, pg 48
CURIOSIDADES;
Significado de la petunia y por extensión de las surfinias.
El significado más conocido de la petunia es: la PICARDÍA.
Pero dependiendo del contexto en el que esté, su significado puede variar.
Sus colores y su floración tienen mucho que ver con las diferentes denotaciones que se le atribuyen.
Por ejemplo, uno de sus significados más generalizados es como símbolo de un sentimiento que no se puede ocultar, por eso dicen que cuando te regalan petunias te están declarando su amor.
OTRA CURIOSIDAD:
Un dato muy curioso es la forma en que la Reina Victoria de Inglaterra tenía de entender el significado de las petunias, ella pensaba que las petunias representaban las explosiones de cólera y el rencor que viene después… Nada que ver con el significado que le damos actualmente.
Y SEGUIMOS......
FELIZ NOCHE A TODA MI QUERIDA GENTE DE FLICKR.
;o)) ;o)) ;o))
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid eye contact street photography from Barnsley, England. Carrying a box of human hair extensions, it looks to me like she is the 'wig shop' store owner from up the alleyway. Enjoy!
Here we see a Route 215 pass it's usual terminus (a Route 379 is just entering the stand), and head the few hundred meters outside London into Essex for the seasonal extension to Lea Valley Campsite. The back of the Essex boundary sign can just be seen on the far left.
It's a rotten journey on foot as the pavements end, and it is a set of bends with ditches and little room for walking on a very busy road.
This picture was taken in Dayton, Ohio at Wegerzyn Gardens with my 135mm lens + 20mm Extension tube. Better view in Light box.
As always thank you for your lovely comments.
La Campa Torres es una extensión de terreno que se encuentra en el cabo de Torres, península que se recuesta sobre el mar Cantábrico, al norte de España. Domina el puerto de El Musel y se ubica al oeste de la ciudad de Gijón (Asturias)
Se trata de un enclave que desde tiempos antiguos fue habitado por diferentes tribus así como por los romanos como atestiguan los restos y yacimientos arqueológicos
Tambien aqui se encuentra el faro de Torres o faro de Gijón y las bombonas de butano que son estos depositos esfericos que os muestro con este amanecer.
El edificio que se ve en primer plano es la entrada al yacimiento arqueológico.
Espero sea de vuestro agrado
Os recuerdo que todas se pueden ver en grande y comentarlas
Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro
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A little rose bush blooming nicely. Manually focus stacked with two extension tubes, gridded beauty dish camera right.
(#124 in Explore April 15, 2021)
Last one in the series, again shot with a modified Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 Lens with M42 to Canon EF adapter + 12 mm Kenko extension tube.
Out of the shots of the forsylia flower I posted previously, this one is my favour. Which one is yours? Here is the little secret behind.
I have this Helios 44-2 vintage lens for over four years now. I bought it for its famous swirly bokeh; but I feel it hard to find the sweet spot. Apparently you need a pretty good distance in the background so the little light spots and details can register into that swirl shape.
Recently I learnt online that the front and the rear elements of Helios 44-2 could be reversed. Unfortunately my version does not have enough threads to reverse the front, so I decided to give it a try to reverse the rear element.
Wow, surprisingly after only a few shots, the crazy bokeh is unmatched and it also has remarkable color retention.
Now I am convinced that the inexpensive Helios vintage lens is a very fun lens to have and you can do many mods with it. From now on I definitely will use mine more often.
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Macro Mondays theme: handle.
The handle to wind up my pendulum regulator clock. Size about 5cm.
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 + 12mm extension tube.
(Image taken with a 3 Megapixel DSLR).
(Press "L" or Click on the image for a Larger View).
Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans), native to the eastern United States, its magnificent flowers never fail to attract Hummingbirds. This image was taken with a 21-year-old, 3 Megapixel DSLR camera, the Canon D30. Was the first Canon-made digital SLR. Very impressed by the resolution, colors, and exposure latitude. The JPG is soft but the raw files are fantastic. For example, I underexpose this shot by almost 2 stops, and the editor was able to recover the exposure with no noise. I have been using this camera for only two days, and already love it.
(Spanish): Una flor nativa del este y norte de EU, que atrae mucho a los colibrí o chuparrosas. Esta foto la tome con la Canon D30. La primera cámara DSLR hecha completamente por Canon. Solo tiene 3 megapixeles pero su calidad de imagen es estupenda. Por ejemplo esta foto por error la expuse 2 pasos por debajo de lo correcto. Creía que no lograría rescatarla, y fácilmente en el editor pude recuperar la exposición sin ruido).
(Camera: Canon D30, Canon EF 70-200 f/4L, 25mm extension).
(Location: Lake Jesup park, Sanford, Florida).
This image from my Album: Florida Woodlands..
Looking forward to the completion of the Tate Modern Extension by Herzog & de Meuron. Hopefully I'll have a full-frame camera by then to capture it in it's full glory!
Macro Mondays theme: Father
This is a section of the leatherette cover of one of the four volumes of Audel's Carpenters and Builders Guide that my father gave me before he died. It is packed with useful information that he used for many things, including designing and building the two story extension to my family home. Each time I look at these books on my shelf I think of my father who was born 100 years ago. Sadly he died at the age of 91. I don't use it for anything practical (the internet is much easier) but it is a treasured memorial to the old man.
This is a quote from the frontispiece:
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our father did for us!"
~John Ruskin
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