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Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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Hydrangeosity. The rest of this week? Hydrangeosity Week on Flickr. There's even a new, very exclusive group that all the cool kids are joining for these puppies.
Nothing says beauty quite like a withered and dying hydrangea. Nothing. Rly. NOTHING!!!!
Also? Happy Birthday, Isabelle!
Snowy hydrangeh. Real snow! None of that photoshoppery stuff here, thank you very muchly.
Celebrate the return of the lob
HBW needs you. Rly. Yes, you.
Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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This photograph was taken by Martin Werker from his web page on Flickr.com.
By lightening the shadows a little more in this photograph it took away the shadows underneath the catapillar. In lightening the shadows it also brightened up the whole image even more. This cooled down the stones on the ground making the catapillar to standout even more, too.
I cooled this one down on the temp slider to give a more natural look. Notice what this does to the catapillar, it really stands out because by cooling the photograph if really brought out the true colors of the stones. Making a great contrast in this photograph.
I like this catapillar photograph the best of the four posted here.
What's really cool is that you can change all the colors individually and slide them back-and-forth untill you're satisfied with the colors in the photograph. You can change the white balance and the temp, the tones and so much more all within Adobe Lightroom 1.1.
I can make the green in this catapillar darker or lighter depending on what I remember the seen had looked like in reality. Or I can make it whatever I feel like I want the colors to be in any given photograph.
Please refer to Martin's photo on flickr.com shown below. I did this to show Martin what I can do in Adobe Lightroom 1.1. Only to show him a comparative difference in looks and what he can do in Lightroom.
I could've of made anyone of these colors brighter or darker. I chose to leave the rocks a little more orange than of the original. It would probably even look better if I made the rocks less orange to cause the catapillar to standout more than it already does. This would most likely cause the orange bumps to really pop out at you even more than you see here.
Thank you, Martin. I hope you don't mind me posting this for you, and to seen on my photostream. I can take your photo off if you want me to, then I will immediately do that at your request.
I acknowledge that this photograph is Martin Werker's who has a Pro account at the URL show below. Please take a look at his wonderful photos.
I won't bore you with any more catapillar photographs in showing the differences in appearances.
Found this colourful tiny creature which looked inanimate and feigned death. Was about to flick it with my finger without realizing it is a poisonous vapourer moth caterpillar which injects tufts of hair into the skin causing irritation/infection as their defense system ...
The lighting was poor, so I used pop-up flash with DIY diffuser, which makes it my maiden diffuser experiment, and hence no chance to reduce the aperture to make the whole subject in focus!
Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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Another take off from #Hoverfly Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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Every flower must grow through dirt.
Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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Ever since I lived in Malmo, Sweden when a young woman, I have loved tulips...fresh cut tulips from Holland were sold in the kiosks I'd pass on my walks to and from work and I always brightened my apartment with them. To this day, tulips always bring back such wonderful memoriies to me, of youth, color, love and adventure!
INFORMATION ON THE TULIP:
Tulipa commonly called Tulip is a genus of about 100 species of bulbous flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. The native range of the species include southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the east to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers.
The species are perennials from bulbs, the tunicate bulbs are often produced on the ends of stolons and covered with glabrous to variously hairy papery coverings. The species include short low growing plants to tall upright plants, growing from 10 to 70 centimeters (4–27 in) tall. Plants with typically 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12 leaves. The cauline foliage is strap-shaped, waxy-coated, usually light to medium green and alternately arranged. The blades are somewhat fleshy and linear to oblong in shape.
Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Ottoman Empire. The tulip is actually not a Dutch flower as many people tend to believe. The tulip, or "Lale" (a Persian word) as it is called in Turkey, is a flower indigenous to Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and other parts of Central Asia. A Dutch ambassador in Turkey in the 16th century, who was also a great floral enthusiast, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, got their very names because of their Persian origins. Tulips were brought to Europe in the 16th century; the word tulip, which earlier in English appeared in such forms as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend, "muslin, gauze." (The English word turban, first recorded in English in the 16th century, can also be traced to Ottoman Turkish tülbend.) The Turkish word for gauze, with which turbans can be wrapped, seems to have been used for the flower because a fully opened tulip was thought to resemble a turban.
Tulips originate from mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy. They do best in climates with long cool springs and early summers, but they are often grown as spring blooming annual plantings in warmer areas of the world. The bulbs are typically planted in late summer and fall, normally from 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 in.) deep, depending of the type planted, in well draining soils. In parts of the world that do not have long cool springs and early summers, the bulbs are often planted up to 12 inches deep, this provides some protection from the heat of summer and tends to force the plants to regenerate one large bulb each year instead of many smaller non blooming ones. This can extend the usefulness of the plants in warmer areas a few years but not stave off the degradation in bulb size and eventual death of the plants.
(Source: Wikipedia)
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe!
Shot with #olympus in #southampton #uk
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Common Yellow Robber Fly, Ommatius sp.
This strange dragonfly can catch flying insect mid flight and then suck them dry. I took this picture in my garden in Sydney Australia and it is very tame, I can get my lens very close to it.
This photograph was taken by Martin Werker from his web page on Flickr.com.
By lightening the shadows a little more in this photograph it took away the shadows underneath the catapillar. In lightening the shadows it also brightened up the whole image even more. This cooled down the stones on the ground making the catapillar to standout even more, too.
I cooled this one down on the temp slider to give a more natural look. Notice what this does to the catapillar, it really stands out because by cooling the photograph it really brought out the true colors of the stones. Making a great contrast in this photograph.
I like this catapillar photograph the second best of the four posted here.
What's really cool is that you can change all the colors individually and slide them back-and-forth untill you're satisfied with the colors in the photograph. You can change the white balance and the temp, the tones and so much more all within Adobe Lightroom 1.1.
I can make the green in this catapillar darker or lighter depending on what I remember the seen had looked like in reality. Or I can make it whatever I feel like I want the colors to be in any given photograph.
Please refer to Martin's photo on flickr.com shown below. I did this to show Martin what I can do in Adobe Lightroom 1.1. Only to show him a comparative difference in looks and what he can do in Lightroom.
I could've of made anyone of these colors brighter or darker. I chose to leave the rocks a little more orange than of the original. It would probably even look better if I made the rocks less orange to cause the catapillar to standout more than it already does. This would most likely cause the orange bumps to really pop out at you even more than you see here.
Thank you, Martin. I hope you don't mind me posting this for you, and to seen on my photostream. I can take your photo off if you want me to, then I will immediately do that at your request.
I acknowledge that this photograph is Martin Werker's who has a Pro account at the URL show below. Please take a look at his wonderful photos.