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A pair of Cooper's Hawks were busy flying to various trees and trying to extract some twigs. They were then flying back to another tree that was being used to build a nest. It was quite a neat experience and they let me get a bunch of images while they worked on their material gathering.
Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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I should have been photographing my grandchildren climbing on the fallen trees but was taken with this small patch of bark detail on one of the trees. The resulting image was dry, dull & flat but returning a couple of days later after rain the colours and detail were really brought to life.
About less than an hour's drive east of Phoenix Arizona lies the Superstition Mountains which is the alleged location of the lost Dutchman mine. The story starts with a man named Jacob Waltz who come out these mountains with gold he said he got from a mine he found but died not long afterwards taking the secret of it's location to his grave. One must remember that less than ten miles away the town of Goldfield had an operating goldmine that extracted enough gold to be worth hundreds of millions in todays dollars. So that there was another nearby motherload of gold was nearby was quite believable. Some men over years have come out with some gold claiming they found the lost mine but these turned out not to be true. With gold now worth $1300 an ounce today the allure of lost treasure will still excite people today. The legend of the mine faded from public view until 1931 when the amateur explorer and treasure hunter Adolph Ruth disappeared until months later a skull was found with two bullet holes in it and dental records provided a positive match. You would think someone getting murdered would deter people instead it had the opposite effect with area being flooded with wannabe treasure hunters and less than savory types heavily armed going into the mountains reported. The state designated the area a state park with anyone caught trying prospecting subject to swift arrest. Considering Arizona's penal system known for it's alleged inhumane prison system where many inmates live in unairconditioned cells or tents in the brutal summer heat which is a long discussion in itself is enough to discourage 99% would be treasure hunters.
Started to watch 'Tales from the Loop' recently and inspired to build some retro-futuristic MOCs.
Source: Extractor - Brandon Hahn
Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
I have two ideas for books. One is more stuff like this: dark, overcast, Kansas. The other is its opposite. I don't know which I'll do first or when I'll do either. I've slowed down that kind of stuff. The market, so to speak, as dried up a bit.
And so have I. I hardly write, I hardly have ideas, I haven't touched a camera in months. These things come and go, and when one wanes, I'll fall back on the other. Or back upon something else.
But things are just different now. It seems odd to put out a book as authoritarianism strangles the country I photograph; as far too many of its citizens aren't just okay with, but revel in the cruelty.
On the other hand, we need art now more than ever. We need the community it brings, the inspiration, the ideas, even the distraction and downtime. We need to know who we can turn to, who we can trust.
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'Extract'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600
Process: HC-110B; 11mins
Kansas
July 2025
COmposition Series
Extract from the context volumes, colors and shapes by subjectively creating a new self-sufficient harmony.
A male Green Thorntail Hummingbird extracts nectar. This wide ranging hummingbird is small and will frequent feeders. There are many of these shimmering green hummingbirds at Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica.
This Australian parrot is a Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) and it is using its bristle brush tongue to extract sweet sticky nectar and pollen from within the flowers of a 'Corymbia' Summer Red (formerly Eucalyptus).
Photographed in Wattle Grove, Sydney, Australia.
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Bee ~ Catford ~ London ~ England ~ Thursday June 16th 2016.
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Somewhere in Ipiccy you can ectract details and i like the results of that , thanks have a nice day.
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She carefully extracted her MacBook from the bag.
At the same time I tried to extract her beautiful face from lowlight environment.
It has been almost 4 years to the day that I last took a photograph, when my daughter was just over 1 year old. Today, I finally took both kids to a waterfall i've always liked and got to share it with them. It feels like a new chapter has opened, taking them to amazing locations, and capturing new memories with a new camera. There's a few things that have improved, particularly the photo editing and detail extracted from new camera technology.
With film, everything took time, was slow and every shot considered. I never considered this waterfall good enough for for film (it cost about $20 per shot for film and processing), but with digital it really doesn't matter how many shots you take. Finally, a shot of these cascading waterfalls on my flickr account.
I can never resist FebRovery, and wasn’t going to let my tiny rover from the Astro Warden be my only contribution! This mining vehicle brought back lots of memories of playing with Power Miners and was a ton of fun to build. I managed to utilize some interesting yellow elements I’ve had around for a while along with the unusual sand blue technic column.
The saw arm can rotate 360° and extend or retract for mining or transit mode. The windscreen also opens, and the whole roof can be removed for easier access to the cabin.
Full credit for the wheel design goes to Frost.
See more angles on Brickbuilt.
The extractor spins one way then the other to empty the honey from the cells in the frames. The honey goes into a sump, the wax is trapped in the first compartment and then honey collects in the next one until it is pumped out. We sell our honey but are not going to be well off any day soon 😊
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A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars.
They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles.
WHERE DO YOU GO TO MY LOVELY… Rose
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Thank you Peter Sarstedt
A crying Rose.
The best roses come from my own garden, more fragrant and more opulent they are.
Monochromatic? Not really he? All the shades of grey... from a true black to white... as it should be!
A flower image in b&w...
I love the subtle tones, all the varied tones, that give the flower/petals/stems their texture, depth and form, their delectable shapes accentuated, extracted and emphasised without the colour.
Don't you agree?
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There's been no shortage of wonderful sunrises across the UK over the past several months, and this sunrise, captured on a freezing, frosty and foggy late-December morning, seemed like an ideal opportunity to revisit the south-eastern meadow inside Morden Hall Park, which I last photographed during the autumn over a year ago.
Despite the park's expansive 125 acres of photogenic parkland, wetlands and bridges over the River Wandle, this scene has always been one of my favourite spots to watch the sunrise. I opted for a wider set-up than my previous take, partly to capture the thick layer of fog accumulating around the meadow as the sun came up, but also because I felt this would help to put the tree into some kind of context. The fog was much thicker before dawn, and it was important to me to try to convey the magic this created, but at the same time the sunrise provided a perfect focal point in the image and seemed to complete the scene. To incorporate both of these elements, I continued shooting for a couple of hours, and then used a combination of luminosity and gradient masking, along with the Soft Light and Overlay blend modes, to merge captures of the predawn fog and frost with captures of the sun as it appeared behind the trees and cast a golden glow through the fog.
Once the exposures had been blended, I used a mixture of Curves, Colour Balance and Selective Colour adjustments to bring out the chilly early-morning tones in the shadows of the meadow, while emphasising the warmer tones on the horizon, which was largely achieved with a low-opacity Colour Lookup set to the Crisp Warp preset and using Soft Light. Contrast and structure were reduced in the shadows using Silver Efex Pro set to Luminosity, as I wanted to keep the scene as natural-looking as possible, but I gently increased the texture where the sun was projecting across the meadow using the Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast filters in Colour Efex Pro, as this seemed to help draw the viewer's eye along the ground, beyond the tree stumps and on towards the sunrise.
It was important to me to convey the simplicity of the lone bare tree at the centre of the foggy sunrise, so I tried keep the post-processing as inconspicuous as I could. The final change I made was to gently blend in a brighter exposure along a small footpath through the frame, which seemed perfectly aligned as it crossed beneath the tree and continued into the distance where the sun was appearing on the horizon. As ethereal as the scene is on a morning when the parkland is almost deserted, the footpath seemed to add a hint of a human element, leaving a reminder that beautiful landscape and dramatic weather conditions are there to be seen and enjoyed.
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Back from a couple of days in the lakes. More walking than photography, but timed a quick visit to Wastwater to capture this.
Dambulla / Sri Lanka
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Bodie, California is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills mountain range north of Mono Lake. It was founded in 1859 and abandoned in 1880 after extracting 34 million dollars worth of gold. At one time it had a population of 10,000. This raw and rugged town had 65 saloons lining its main street. Definitely no place for the timid!
Background - Made the BG using 4 different photos
Model - extracted from one of my favorite Deviantart providers Stargazer s-t-a-r-gazer.deviantart.com/art/Stock-Moon-climbing-up-t...
Textures, lighting effects, dodge/burn adjustment layer and a slight vignette added
With a Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.7. Processed with Nik's Silver Efex.
I've been asked how I post process my images to extract details from shots with old lenses. So I've finally posted a YouTube video on this subject:
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All argan sold today is produced by a women's cooperative that shares the profits among the local women of the Berber tribe. The cooperative has established an ecosystem reforestation project so that the supply of argan oil will not run out and the income that is currently supporting the women will not disappear. The money is providing healthcare and education to the local women, and supporting the entire community as a whole.
Argan oil is an oil produced from the kernels of the endemic argan tree, that is valued for its nutritive, cosmetic and numerous medicinal properties. The tree, a relict species from the Tertiary age, is extremely well adapted to drought and other environmentally difficult conditions of southwestern Morocco. The species Argania once covered North Africa and is now endangered and under protection of UNESCO.[1] The Argan tree grows wild in semi-desert soil, its deep root system helping to protect against soil erosion and the northern advance of the Sahara.[2] This biosphere reserve, the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve, covers a vast intramontane plain of more than 2,560,000 hectares, bordered by the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains and open to the Atlantic in the west. Argan oil remains one of the rarest oils in the world due the small and very specific growing area.
Argan trees were first reported by the explorer Leo Africanus in 1510. An early specimen was taken to Amsterdam where it was cultivated by Lady Beaufort at Badminton c1711
Muffins, to stave off the Beast from the East!
Recipe:
1 egg
1 cup of white yoghurt (I used low/no fat greek)
1/3 cup of oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix all in a bowl then add the following:
Preheat oven to 190c
2 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup sugar (I used half spoon sugar)
1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
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Extra: Add chocolate chips, or blueberries, or whatever you like!
Bake for 18 mins
I find this fills out a dozen muffin cases.