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Green Heron (Butorides virescens).
Grand Prairie, Texas. Dallas County. April 30, 2022.
Nikon D800. AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 D IF-ED + TC-17e II teleconverter.
(500mm) f/7.1 @ 1/2500 sec. ISO 560.
Frustrated by a lack of appropriate backdrops for my fantasy compositions I decided to shoot an up-angle using the sky itself as a background. The slight-fish-eye, forced-perspective produced by an Opteka wide-angle lens attached to the 18-55mm kit lens opened wide is my (feeble?) attempt to reproduce the over-the-top, primeval power and suggestiveness that I find so attractive in a Frazetta painting or a Richard Corben illustration. Tech: the camera is mounted on a tripod and fired with a remote set on 2 second delay to allow me to pose and also to conceal the remote. Green skin is a hue adjustment; I kicked up the blacks using levels (new trick Khan1066 showed me), added a bit of diffuse glow to stir up the sky and darkened everything to hide unwanted detail (glasses, jeans...). I'm pretty happy with it--especially by the way I was able to downplay the "spare tire" while allowing the last vestages of my flirtations with weight-lifting to come through, all by fine-tuning the shadows. I will probably be removing wires and the part of the house visible in lower-right corner before I consider it "finished." Fresh after criticizing Khan1066's newfound interest in textures I'm also thinking about being a complete two-faced hypocrit and introducing a parchment texture to the sky. Too much? What about using a layer effect + red diffuse glow to set the eyes of the serpent staff (excellent prop bought at a bargain-basement price from the Halloween Store!) 'afire?
Green Lantern / Heft-Reihe
From Space Ye Came-- And to Space Ye Shall Return!
cover: Gil Kane
DC Comics / USA 1969
ex libris MTP
Johanna, Lotta and I went to a café this afternoon with some of her friends, and I really wanted to take some pictures to upload to Flickr. But what do you take pictures of when you're out and about with people? Right, you take pictures of those people.
Since I didn't want to ulpoad any of their pictures here without asking them, I chose this one.
A Green Man in the church of Winchelsea in Sussex. Winchelsea is a small town with a very interesting history as an Ancient Town attached to the cinque ports.
October 14, 2018 - Bright green and large Sea Anemone at the tidepool display of the Aquarium of the Pacific!
Simple but i like it sunshine caught on this leaf in the forest
no alterations made to this picture whatsoever.
Green Cove Station was a rail stop along the Virginia Creeper railroad that ran from Abingdon, Virginia to Todd, North Carolina. Built by the Virginia Carolina railroad about 1914, it also served as a post office, general store, and telegraph office, managed primarily by William M. Buchanan. Famed photographer O. Winston Link memorialized this building in his 1956 photo "Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper" (you can see this print by doing an internet search). The last train passed here in 1977, but the station remained as a general store for a few more years. In the early 1990s, the former station was restored as a U.S. Forest Service visitor and education center for the Virginia Creeper National Recreational Trail.
Green Smoothie Time: Apple/Banana/Orange/Spinach
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Four of the five Hueys modified for the Stand-Off Target Acquisition Airborne System (SOTAS) battlefield surveillance role withdrawn from use at Lakehurst. The aircraft are 63-12974 63-12976, 67-17448 and 67-17691. Each was fitted with retractable skids and a rotating under-fuselage APS-94 radar. Based in Germany and frequently used for patrolling the East/West Germany border from the late 1970s.
The name green bottle fly (or greenbottle fly) is applied to numerous species of blowfly, in the genera Lucilia and Phaenicia (the latter is sometimes considered a subgenus of the former). These flies are found in most areas of the world,primarily the Western Hemisphere and especially California. and the most well-known species is the common greenbottle, Phaenicia sericata (or Lucilia sericata, depending on authority), though there are other common species such as Lucilia caesar, Lucilia cuprina, Lucilia coeruleiviridis, and Lucilia illustris. The maggots of this fly are known to preferentially consume dead tissue while leaving live tissue intact, and so have been sold for use in maggot therapy, primarily during the years before the widespread use of antibiotics and medicines and in modern times due to a resurgence of medical literature documenting their effectiveness. These flies are known to lay eggs in cadaver tissue in the wild within hours after death. The developmental stage of their larvae in the cadaver can be used to accurately predict the time death occurred
The Kartik Pilgrimage 2018 featured the holy city of Vrindavan and the surrounding land of Vraj. Attracted by the love and guidance of Paramahamsa Vishwananda, around 250 international pilgrims made their way to experience the temples and saints that make this part of India so sacred. Starting with Diwali celebrations and ending with Kartik night, dancing and singing and praising the Lord was a constant theme throughout this unforgettable journey.
paramahamsavishwananda.com
bhaktimarga.org
... until I can properly work on some proper green properly. That up there? Filler green.
More fiddling. Stop that, guttermind.
There is much green which needs proper work, btw.
Green ship mounted on blue tank. Small front canopy ship detaches. Larger computer console area in rear with swiveling command chair. The roof makes use of mostly smooth soccer baseplate pieces. The chunky wings are slightly adjustable and open for storage of weapons, etc. Ship stands on 3 round feet which nestle on circular smooth tiles on tank