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Suffering from the Black Dog its all a struggle at the moment , so many great images from my contacts, I need to buck up and get out there.
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MYANMAR,burma , die Mahamuni-Pagode(mit Gold-Buddha-Statue) in Mandalay
The Mahamuni Buddha Temple also called the Mahamuni Image is a Buddhist temple and major pilgrimage site, located southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) (Myanmar).The Mahamuni Buddha image (lit. 'The Great Sage') is deified in this temple, and originally came from Arakan.] It is highly venerated in Burma and central to many people's lives, as it is seen as an expression of representing the Buddha's life.
Ancient tradition refers to only five likenesses of the Buddha, made during his lifetime; two were in India, two in paradise, and the fifth is the Mahamuni Buddha image in Myanmar.] According to the legend, the Buddha visited the Dhanyawadi city of Arakan in 554 BC.King Sanda Thuriya requested that an image was cast of him. After casting the Great Image, the Buddha breathed upon it, and thereafter the image became the exact likeness of the Mahamuni.
I am very honored that the image made it to second place in the "Taken March 2021" contest of Flickrology. Thanks for organizing the contest, the great images participating and the many insightful and constructive comments !
The Mahamuni Buddha Temple also called the Mahamuni Image is a Buddhist temple and major pilgrimage site, located southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) (Myanmar).The Mahamuni Buddha image (lit. 'The Great Sage') is deified in this temple, and originally came from Arakan.] It is highly venerated in Burma and central to many people's lives, as it is seen as an expression of representing the Buddha's life.
Ancient tradition refers to only five likenesses of the Buddha, made during his lifetime; two were in India, two in paradise, and the fifth is the Mahamuni Buddha image in Myanmar.] According to the legend, the Buddha visited the Dhanyawadi city of Arakan in 554 BC.King Sanda Thuriya requested that an image was cast of him. After casting the Great Image, the Buddha breathed upon it, and thereafter the image became the exact likeness of the Mahamuni.
Well we took this last saturday. I really didnt think we got anything, as it was raining. In fact we had to start the pan over a few times, to turn lens away the drizzle. As it turns out I like it.
*9 exposures in all 3 sets of -1 0 +1
5,10,20 secs
Edit * Cant believe no one caught me on my math 3x3=9 not 6 :)
To all who have shared your great images, keep them coming, may you have a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year.
Chaos perhaps, but controlled chaos for sure! A beautiful and colorful street scene from Karnataka! Sorry to be slow getting to all your great images but travelling to COP27 with little time only managing now to grab some airport lounge wifi to throw up a pic but back soon in the glow of the internet.
More clouded shots but this time with a sun. On a very variable day, at the end of it the sun suddenly came out, offering some great images of this icelandic landscape, and also in other places the landscape turned nito gold.
Die Sonne ist noch nicht ganz aufgegangen als ich auf dem Heimweg von meiner Milchstrassenexkursion war, als sich mir diese wunderschöne Szenerie bot. Hellweiss schimmernder Bodennebel in der sich eine Gruppe Pferde wild tobend vergnügte. Welch ein tolles Schauspiel..
The sun wasn't quite up yet when I was on my way home from my Milky Way excursion when I saw this beautiful scenery. Bright white shimmering ground fog in which a group of horses were romping wildly. What a great spectacle..
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As the wood meets the meadow and the morning sun does its best to burn away the morning mist a blanket of soft but strong light shines across the meadow lighting up the edge of the wood. It was this light that has allowed me to get so many great images from this part of The Hangings at Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire and something I hope I will be rewarded with again.
A shot of the Devil’s Mouth which is part of The Long Mynd section of the Shropshire Hills, looking towards Church Stretton.
I’d been there for sunrise, which didn’t really produce anything of note (I revisited a couple of days later and was rewarded with some great images, see previous posts), but once the sun came up, and the clouds started breaking up, there was some very nice light.
MYANMAR,burma , die Mahamuni-Pagode(mit Gold-Buddha-Statue) in Mandalay
The Mahamuni Buddha Temple also called the Mahamuni Image is a Buddhist temple and major pilgrimage site, located southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) (Myanmar).The Mahamuni Buddha image (lit. 'The Great Sage') is deified in this temple, and originally came from Arakan.] It is highly venerated in Burma and central to many people's lives, as it is seen as an expression of representing the Buddha's life.
Ancient tradition refers to only five likenesses of the Buddha, made during his lifetime; two were in India, two in paradise, and the fifth is the Mahamuni Buddha image in Myanmar.] According to the legend, the Buddha visited the Dhanyawadi city of Arakan in 554 BC.King Sanda Thuriya requested that an image was cast of him. After casting the Great Image, the Buddha breathed upon it, and thereafter the image became the exact likeness of the Mahamuni.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
This shot is completely unprocessed, uncropped. No artificial light. No adjustments what so ever!! No zoom, no filters. Just me, my camera, and a Macro lens.
I say this only to prove, that great photographic imagery starts with a great image.
All those neah sayers that believe processing is just about fixing a poor image and the digital age requires no thought or skill. So not true...great processing always begins with a great image.
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Some heavy shadows made this a great image for a mono conversion. The conifer with its scrawny arms aloft shielding the glare of the morning sun really stood out and cast a deep shadow back to where I was standing. Taken in Hillock Wood, Princes Risborough
As I arrived at Durdle Door to take a sunset shot I saw this man painting the scene and thought it would make for a great image. It was a challenging shot to take because of the low sun shining almost directly into the camera, but I use 2 ND grad filters on the left hand side to bring it down by one and half stops.
Daniel 2:31 “Thou king sawest, and behold: there stood before thee a great Image, whose figure was marvelous great, and his visage grim.”
Apologies for my lack of activity on Flickr - we were away for a few days and on returning, I found my grandson had unwittingly shared his daycare cooties, to which I am defenseless. In any case, a snowy Sunday afternoon and morale boosting hot toddy found me playing with pictures again. This one is from last September just outside Fundy National Park. I like the composition and have come back to it a few times but it's not a great image - there was no sky, it was getting late so the light was poor, and there was a breeze stirring the grasses. Sliders Sunday seemed a good excuse to push the limits and see what would happen - though I was probably encouraged a bit by the toddy. Thanks for your patience.
My dear Flickr friends, Happy New Year to you and your families !!
I wish you all the best, peace & love, & great images for the New-Year - 2016 !!!
Greetings from Tel-Aviv :)
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Sailing at the stormy weather - Tel-Aviv beach
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We had a trip to Great Sand Dunes planned, so I hit the web doing research for the place. Everyone seemed to have the same thing to say- sand and cardio. Sand will be everywhere and you will die from climbing the dunes. Well, both were true. I left sore and with sand in everything. I was very careful with the lenses though. Never changed them in the field, and used an older 70-210. I also hit the dunes at sunset, because sunrise finds the dunes hidden in shadows of the mountains next door.
The plan worked great. I came away with more images from here than anyplace else on the trip. I usually edit all my images and then decide what gets posted, but I could not wait when I had so many great images. Here is my favorite so far. This is a slow shutter tripod image blended with a fast shutter to show the detail and show the motion of the sand.
Let me know what you think.
Dandelion
Spotted in the garden this morning!
My time for Flickr will be limited over coming days. I will try to keep posting and catch up with all your great images.
You'd think a stinging bee would be avoided by hungry birds, but apparently not. They probably are adept in making sure the stinging abdomen is held outside the mouth area like this cardinal is demonstrating.
Or maybe they make sure it is dead and not stinging before they ingest it?
I have a feeling this male was courting a female that was flying around the area at the time. He spent a good two minutes sitting on this branch and it seemed he had no intention of eating the bee himself. Probably part of their courting/mating ritual where the male offers food to the female as evidence of his undying love :)
It sure worked out for me since I had a full two minutes to capture great images, as opposed to the three seconds that I'm used to from these beautiful red birds!
The bee is best seen when the image is enlarged...
Especially for my mom - mám tě moc ráda!!! ;-)
And a little bit of publicity ;-) Thank you my friends for joining and participating in a new group You made my day! I created!
Getting out of your comfort zone right? So macro photography is a different ball game. I saw some great images of you all over the past weeks and when trying to make one myself, it took me some time. The exact F-stop and creating a good background is difficult. Also the right focus when your camera is on the forest floor (and your life screen cannot tilt) requires some exercise. Anyhow, this one turned out quite nice. Please enlarge on the biggest "Dalton" to see more details. Have a great Sunday and hope to see some more mushroom pictures from you. Thanks again so much for your comments and if you have any suggestions please let me know, learning here!
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If you want to end up with a great image the single most important thing you can do is take an interesting photo and look for the subject and composition, to begin with. Look for an object that catches your eye. So This photo had a tremendous appeal to me.I don't know whether I was successful or not, but it did give me a positive vibe in it while clicking... Thank you for your likes favs, and comments on this photo. I appreciate it very much!!
I walked my favorite butterfly trail in Elk Island National Park today during a late afternoon sunny break. I was happy to find these four beauties. I thank mattbpics for his great images of Moths and inspiring me to pay more attention to them.
Top L - Silver-bordered Fritillary. Top R - Tawny Crescent
Bottom L - Spear-marked Black Moth. Bottom R - Canadian tiger swallowtail
Elk Island National Park. Strathcona County, Alberta.
Did not have the opportunity to capture Mr Rainbow this season. Managed to improve the PPing of these shots to get decent IQ. The shooting condition was very dim and shaded. Shot handheld with 1/8 sec. That's why I am hanging on to my Oly system for dear life - the great image stabilisation and Pro Capture feature.
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Landscape photography is a fleeting love, at least the subjects are that is. Iconic trees die, idiots tag rocks, and arches collapse. I went looking for Windstone Arch in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada expecting to see that same iconic scene I have seen in many other great images. Found the cave, found the odd rock face inside the cave, did NOT find the arch. Why? It was not there anymore. Poof. Gone. Erosion or some dummy with powertools, I don't know, but the actual upright of the old arch was not there anymore. The cave is still as stunning and still totally delivered in the image though. I was just surprised to find it missing.
I visited this cave late in the day because conventional wisdom says to visit it in the morning. Naturally I try to steer clear of wisdom (actually I try to steer clear of crowds). This way I got the cave to myself. I shot it tight, I shot it wide, I tried several angles, but in the end I liked this wide shot best. I thought the wide perspective pulled the viewer into the scene. I also shot this in a focus stack, but I actually preferred the foreground a little soft, again, so it pulled the viewer in.
We found that this specific cave was interesting but by no means the only cave with these neat wind-swept qualities and strange internal formations. I shot a few others that might get posted, but you should know that if you head out there to shot this cave and can't find it, there are plenty of other great caves to shoot. I almost feel bad going with this super popular spot instead of using another lesser-known cave. I feel the same way when I go to the Portland Japanese Garden and try NOT to shoot 'that' Japanese Maple Tree. But, I end up shooting that darn tree every time (after you wait in the line que that is). I guess it was my way of knowing I could get one portfolio image in the can without that much effort. You know it delivers.
Now I made myself feel bad. I am going to go process the other neglected images from other caves. Teach this popular cave a lesson. He is so arrogant.
Let me know what you think.
Not a great image perhaps, but it was an interesting cloud formation. Seeing it, I hoped it would develop into something specacular. It didn't! The ISS got in shot too...
This is a snapshot, photographed in RAW format to see how far can a cellphone go in post process, and its amazing for a smartphone, not even close to a DSLR, but it delivers great image quality.. Thanks :)
(Alcedo atthis) This will be my last post for a few weeks now until the end of February. I'm off on a long planned trip to Japan so hope to have some great images when I get back!
An image of a juvenile male Yellow Bellied Sapsucker taken at Kirk-Cousins Management area just south of London.
Thanks for viewing and wishing you all a new year that is happy, healthy and full of great images!! :)
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This article has some great images of this bridge being built. I have found some areas that this bridge is right up against things like this great old brick building.
www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-22/photos-sixth-...
with a storm rolling in yesterday, hoping to capture many lightning strikes, I set up my K3 in the morning with a MIOPS lightning trigger and aimed it to the west. A daytime storm required me to put on an 8 stop neutral density filter on my lens. I set the sensitivity on the MIOPs to 90%. My shutter was at a 1/4 of a second at f/8. After work I was hoping for some great images of some really cool bolts. Not a one did I capture as the strikes were landing elsewhere. But I did get some wonderful images of clouds, all lit from extraneous and distant lightning flashes. Have a super day friends and hope that you enjoy this series of images.
Hi everyone. Hope you are all ok. What a time to be having computer problems. Mine is running very very slow. Was going to try and get it looked at but never made it before lock down.
I have not been on flickr for a while because of this. Will try and keep up with your posts, as it's nice to see your great images.
Take care and keep safe.
Brian.
I will say it was quite a shock to step off the plane in Boston Saturday night to a 15 degree cold chill after being spoiled with 9 days of sun and 60's and 70's. The week in Arizona with the Pitarys' and the our friends from Ohio and Chicago was a great time. The trains were very co-operative and some oddities made for great images. Getting the street running in downtown Globe was a big check on the list and with an earlier than normal call time on Friday February 18th, AZER train 107 for Lordsburg, NM hit the street just before 3pm in pretty nice light. Five GE B40-8's led by 4012 and a heavy train march through the city of Globe, AZ. It was a great time with great friends, can't wait to go back.
Season's Greetings and wishes for a safe 2021 to FLICKR friends, acquaintances and viewers. I am grateful for interest shown in my pictures and have enjoyed seeing many great images and interesting species posted by other FLICKR members.
Coastal scene along the spectacular north west coast of Scotland.
Landscape Photography is easy......anyone can give it a try, it's so accessible. Head out the door with your smart phone and start shooting. You don't need tripods and filters to get great shots. There's so many locations where you can grab great shots just by sticking your camera out the window of the car.
Landscape Photography is hard....and mastering it can take a lifetime. There are technical issues that must be learned like compositions rules, camera settings and exposure triangle. You need an artistic vision to tell a story. However, if you take on these challenges you will be rewarded with great images and a deep sense of satisfaction that will keep you wanting more. It doesn't hurt to be lucky either.
Whichever of the above is true, if you catch the bug, spending time in the Great Outdoors into interesting locations promotes a more active lifestyle with virtually no downside and your overall wellbeing will be increased.