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PORKERI.
Porkeri is a village in the Faroe Islands, situated north of Vágur on Suðuroy's east coast. As of 2004 it had a population of 332. It is located at61°28′59″N 6°44′36″W / 61.48306°N 6.74333°W / 61.48306; -6.74333.
Porkeri has been inhabited at least as early as the 14th century.
The wooden church is from 1847 and contains things donated by seamen who survived lethal storms on the sea, maintaining the tradition of almissu (seamen in danger promised - according to Nordic tradition - to donate churches, the material or such to God if they got back home alive).
In 1984 a new school was built in the village. It is built in a modern Faroese style and has grass on the roof. The old school in Porkeri was built in 1888. It was used as such for 96 years. It is now owned by "Porkeris Bygdasavn" which is a museum. The village also has a church, Porkeri Church with a graveyard.
Tradition says that once in the old days a dispute of field boundaries between Porkeri and the neighbouring village Hov was sorted out by a walking-race between one man from each village.
There are several bizarre geological formations spreading over a mile or so (0.85 mile / 1.36 km) near the village Mikrovalto, Kozanē County, west Macedonia, Greece. It took the formations thousands of years to be created mainly by corrosion of the surrounding ground, according to geology experts. Every single formation resembles a chimney (colloquially aka “bouharí”), so the entire area or geological park has got the toponym “Bouchária” (plural form of the bouchari word).
The formations look like pillars or columns with a height of 7–20 ft (2-6 m) approximately. They consist of a mixture of sand and clay etc. adhered together by ferrous oxides and silicon dioxide. There are slates (or slabs of schist) capping the high pillars.
Within the same park there are also “nochtária,” looking like numerous confluent pyramids. The nochtaria lack schist caps, but otherwise their composition is the same as the Boucharia's.
Warning: The phallus-shaped Bouchtaria have long been connected with the occult and several superstitions discouraging the local inhabitants from approaching them at night; tradition has it that the formations are fairies' or even demons' quarters or dwellings! Please mind your steps whilst walking the well-worn path!
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM @ 50 mm
ISO 100 - f/14 - [ 1/25 sec & 1/10 sec ] HDR
01) Subject: Hymenoptera
02) Camera: Nikon D7200
03) Lens: Lomo 3,7
04) Magnification: 3,7
05) EXIF: ISO 100, 3s
06) Processing: LR ,Zeren Stacker, Ice
07) Lighting: 2 Led panels
08) Rail : MJKZZ Ultra mini rail
09) Total images. : 32
10) Step Size: 35um
11) General :
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The foliage of Yellowstone hadn't greened up yet but there was no lack of color! Norris Geyser Basin was full of greens, yellows, and reds. Click here to read the information sign about the thermophiles that produce this color.
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-Camera converted to 720nm.
-HDR with 3 shots without tripod and 1 EV step difference.
-Processed in Photomatix and Photoshop.
Climbing the cliff face of Shortoff Mountain, in Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, Burke County, North Carolina. Not for the faint hearted, these guys are several hundred feet from the bolder fields below. I prefer to watch from a ledge and admire their physical strength, nerve and climbing ability.
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Regrettably, this is not a recent image. It was taken March 27, 2010 during the volcanic eruption of Fimmvörðuháls which later triggered the more powerful eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
The new twin craters here were later named Magni and Móði. Here they are being born.
with wind chills around -35 outside, this is a macro of the condensation on my windows inside this morning.
A second species given the extreme close up treatment, this is Oniscus asellus or the Common Shiny Woodlouse. This is one of the 35 native UK species and is one of the "UK Big 5", the big 5 is made up of the following :-
Oniscus asellus (the common shiny woodlouse)
Porcellio scaber (the common rough woodlouse)
Philoscia muscorum (the common striped woodlouse)
Trichoniscus pusillus (the common pygmy woodlouse)
Armadillidium vulgare (the common pill bug)
So anyway, this is a 25 image handheld focus stack using my MP-E at full magnification on a 1,4x teleconverter and 72mm of extension tubes, using an F/5.6 aperture, 1/125 shutter speed and ISO 320.
Well I had just finished writing this up for a first time and was thwarted by a bad, bad Panda, not impressed, so here I go again LOL ;o)
A full list of UK species can be found here :-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_woodlice_of_the_British_Isles
VIEW LARGE (Some nice textural qualities here)
My new macro setup gets me 7.8x magnification (3mm fills the frame vs 23mm with normal 1:1 macro). Mostly made of parts from eBay I have accumulated over the years. It starts with a manual 50mm f4 EL-Nikkor Enlarging Lens which is about 1 inch long.
The rest adds up to 16 ¼ inches at maximum extension. 50mm of M42 extension tubes. Two M42 Helicoids, 15-26mm and 36-90mm. Then an M42 Asahi Pentax Bellows II. M42 to A Mount converter. 69mm set of Vivitar Extension tubes. Sony SLT-A57 camera. Wired remote. The flash is a Sony HVL-F58AM on a Dynax bracket with a mini ball head. All of that on a 4-way Macro Focusing Rail Slider and Manfroto MK394-H tripod. It is nearly unusable, extremely difficult to aim and focus. It shakes a lot even using the remote.
Other than the tripod, everything weighs about 7.5 pounds. A heavier duty tripod and rails would probably help but I don't need this much magnification. I just wanted to see how long I could get. I was really surprised that I still had 1 ¾ inch of working distance.
Since taking this shot, not even half those parts have been on the camera at the same time again. But it made a fun picture.