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101/365 - I wrote up a review of my new lens tonight - also did some fun image maps to demonstrate depth of field. To see the full versions - check out the review:
www.100summits.com/articles/photography/item/245-nikkor-8...
Explored Sep 29, 2017 #269
In the Barley field near Tumby Woods (see my previous upload) there were lots of these beautiful little pansys growing up through the crop. It was a real treat finding these little flowers in amongst the barley. In normal years, the crop would have been harvested over a month ago and the stubble probably sprayed off to kill weeds before re-planting for next year - one reason why so many of our native wild flowers have suffered so badly.
The delicate Field Pansy (Viola arvensis) is a wild relative of our garden pansy and can be found in fields and on waste ground and roadside verges - anywhere the ground has been disturbed. Its long-stalked, pale yellow flowers can be found winding their way through the grasses from April to October. It is native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and a weed of disturbed and cultivated areas.
Viola arvensis was shown to contain cyclotides, a class of peptides found in plants. The peptide cycloviolacin O2 in particular has shown to possess cytotoxic activity against human cancer cells and is therefore looked at as a potential drug lead.
I drove past this field a few days ago and noticed a small number of white flowers at the top of the enclosure. 3 days later I took a chance and drove back to see what three days of sunshine had done. It was very much worth it and I don't think these beautiful poppies have even peaked yet as there were plenty of small plants yet to bloom. Farmed beauty.
Japanese "Asanuma" field camera with Petzval lens. Lens marked "E Baiser, Paris". Bellows rebuilt, somewhat clumsily, by myself. I use this to shoot paper negatives using Ilford RC multigrade.
Esta foto se la dedico a Madriguera. Ella es una de mis favoritas en flickr, me encanta su vitalidad que se refleja en sus fotos y sus comentarios.
Esta foto es mejor que la de tu vaco, jajaja!
The hills up past Livermore, CA are green after a late rain... I've learned that if you don't jump on the opportunity, the grass dries out pretty quickly and you have the usual yellow carpet, so I grabbed a friend and drove out on 580 to get some shots.
There were still a couple patchy places I had to fix up in post, but it was really beautiful.
This image is a deep field of galaxies captured while Hubble was making observations of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (not shown). As the Abell cluster was being photographed with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, the telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys stayed trained on this nearby section of sky to create a bonus, parallel deep field image. Afterward, the instrument positions flipped, with the Wide Field Camera 3 observing the parallel field and the Advanced Camera for surveys observing the cluster. These combined observations provided a wealth of information for astronomers.
In this field, Hubble resolved roughly 10,000 galaxies in visible light, most of which are randomly scattered galaxies. The blue galaxies are distant star-forming galaxies seen from up to 8 billion years ago; the handful of larger, red galaxies reside in the outskirts of the Abell 2744 cluster.
This parallel field was captured as part of Hubble's Frontier Fields project, which used the combined power of "gravitational lenses" and Hubble's ability to create long-exposure deep field images to see galaxies that would normally be far beyond the reach of telescopes.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-01.html
The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson
Shorebirds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.
Freshwater Birds of Ireland with Jim Wilson
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The Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) is a small species of passerine bird that breeds in western Europe on rocky coasts. It has streaked greyish-brown upperparts and buff underparts, and is similar in appearance to other European pipits. There are three subspecies, of which only the Fennoscandian form is migratory, wintering in shoreline habitats further south in Europe. The Eurasian rock pipit is territorial at least in the breeding season, and year-round where it is resident. Males will sometimes enter an adjacent territory to assist the resident in repelling an intruder.
Its population is large and stable, and it is therefore evaluated as a species of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The Rock Pipit is closely related to the Water Pipit and the Meadow Pipit, and is rather similar in appearance. Compared to the meadow pipit, the rock pipit is darker, larger and longer-winged than its relative, and has dark, rather than pinkish-red, legs. The water pipit in winter plumage is also confusable with the rock pipit, but has a strong supercilium and greyer upperparts; it is also typically much warier. The rock pipit's dusky, rather than white, outer tail feathers are also a distinction from all its relatives. The habitats used by rock and water pipits are completely separate in the breeding season, and there is little overlap even when birds are not nesting. (wikipedia)
This very pale individual was feeding very well at the base of the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
"Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells"
— Pink Floyd Time (Breathe Reprise)
Postcards From London Series #2
*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR (-1, 0, +1 EV)
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