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This flower reminds me, first, of an old fashioned flash bulb, on the old Kodak cameras. The kind that looked like a big cube, and would rotate 3 times between shots. When I was a youth that was the camera I used. Adjacent to Phipps conservatory is Carnegie Mellon University, and one of the buildings used to be called the flash bulb because it looked like that: a big cube flash bulb. When you would look inside any of the sides of the flash cube, the element or filament looked like this flower, with a hood to reflect the light.
Secondly, this reminds me of an indiginous plant to Western Pennsylvania called the Jack in the Pulpit, which comes out in our woods in the spring. I look forward to spring !
Here is a photo of that elusive optical phenomenon known as the green flash. It usually occurs around sunset and can be enhanced when a mirage stretches the sun to produce discs above the true sun. The light is refracted through the atmosphere and green is the last visible colour of the spectrum before the light disappears. It is usually a short-lived phenomenon, hence the term flash. I apologise to all those who view my photos that are afflicted by red/green colour-blindness as I understand the green upper stripe looks just the same as the orange-yellow lower stripes. The gene for red/green colour-blindness is recessive, and is carried on the X sex chromosome. In mammals, males have just a single X chromosome, and an empty Y chromosome, whereas females have a pair of X chromosomes. If males carry a copy of this gene it will manifest itself and the carrier will be red/green colour-blind. But if females carry a copy, its effects will be masked by a normal (dominant) gene on the other X chromosome, and their vision will be normal. Females would need a copy of the colour-blindness gene on both X chromosomes to be afflicted by colour-blindness. This is why colour-blindness is so much more frequent in males.
As we're off to Skomer tomorrow, I won't get chance to post a photo, so this is just down the coast at Marloes. Jumpin Jack Flash is by The Stones, but on my playlist I've got a Johnny Winter version. I love these wild jumping clouds. I'm not taking landscape lenses tomorrow, as it should be a puffin fest :))
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The "sardine" flash-mob is born from the idea of being all squeezed in the square: many, tight as sardines in a can, supporting values such as democracy, freedom, solidarity, Europe
My back will pay for this.. but great fun! A 38 year work in progress. My Dad bought me a photographic book when I bought my first second hand Pentax SLR... many moons ago. It has milk coronets in it. There was no hope in doing this in the days of film.. it would have been very expensive.
Strobist info: two unmodified flashs set at 45 degrees front to splash.
This red disk-shaped phenomenon, is another member of the TLEs (Transient Luminous Events, happening in the middle and upper atmosphere, above thunderstorms) family and is called sprite halo. Under it, there is a group of, relatively small, sprites. Sprite halo is short-lived (some ms) and its color comes from the same physical process as in red sprites (de-excitation of 1st positive group of mol. nitrogen). Halos appear close to sprite tops (alt. ~80-85 km), over active thunderstorms, like sprites. Sprite halos are usually triggered by -CGs, in contrast to sprites which are related to +CGs (99%). There is also a faint stripe of high clouds in front of the halo. The yellow light is a distant ship.
The event happened over the thunderstorms south of Crete (on the east side of the Medicane on 28/10) as seen from S. Attica during the night of Oct. 28, 2021. Faint parent lightning flash at the bottom, behind a cloud layer, can be seen as well. I've used a Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/4'' with 51.2k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html
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The light festival in Ghent had just ended. Well, then you have to do it yourself with the help of a car and a bicycle. 😉
Fiery Skimmer Dragonfly encountered along one of the trails in the Redlands Indigiscape Centre in Capalaba.
An Anna's Hummingbird
flashes his colors for all to see.
Winter now, the Anna's are
more and more reliant
on feeders.
Single LP180 Strobe used to light subject and to freeze the motion. Flash is visible in bottom right of the frame and is unmodified. Triggered with the on-camera flash firing with the rear-curtain.
Waigeo, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia
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Flash, Amsterdam
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The soon-to-be released Phottix Strato 4 in 1 2.4 GHz Trigger connected to a Canon 40D. It will trigger flashes and work as a wired or wireless shutter release.
Strobist: On a shooting table: Canon 430 EX 1/2 power, above, into reflective umbrella, Canon 430 EX 1/2 power, below, bare. Canon 580 EXII at 1/4 power at 5 o'clock into reflective umbrella. Trigger with Phottix Strato triggers.
Frustrated by the social distancing guidelines? All you need is to grow a pair a wings and get involved with an ocean going flash mob. No distancing here, just plain old frolicking at the coast.
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Malpaso Dance Company, Havana, Cuba.
This private rehearsal was performed for our group tour from Grand Circle Foundation. No video and flash photography were allowed, so I have to use still photos to put together as video.
Based in Havana, Cuba, Malpaso Dance Company is committed to bringing Cuban contemporary dance into the 21st century by collaborating with top international choreographers and nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography. The company’s core artistic vision is led by resident repertory choreographer Osnel Delgado, and the company develops its work in a collective creative process. Malpaso was founded in 2012 by Delgado, Daileidys Carrazana and Fernando Saéz, and tours with 11 dancers.
For video, please visit youtu.be/U-jg5kY_5TM