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For Smile on Saturday's "Season's Beauty" theme.
If you take a closer look, you will find one or more faces here ;-). The one I saw immediately, and which made me take this capture,
is that of a grumpy man in profile. I love gnarly old trees, they are beautiful in any season. Here the fresh leaves add a nice splash of colour to "his face". The phenomenon of seeing faces in things is called "pareidolia" (Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia ), something that I learned here on Flickr. To find faces or shapes of things in clouds or trees is fun and always makes me smile.
Have a beautiful weekend, dear Flickr friends!
Thank you very much for your comments and faves, I highly appreciate them ;-)
In diesem alten Baum verstecken sich ein oder auch mehrere Gesichter. Eines fand ich besonders markant und es sprang mir auch gleich ins Auge, als ich den Baum von der Seite sah, es sieht ein wenig wie ein mürrischer Herr im Profil aus. Das Phänomen, Gesichter oder Figuren / Gegenstände in Dingen zu sehen, wird "Pareidolie" (Wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolie ) genannt, das habe ich erst hier auf Flickr gelernt.
Ich wünsche Euch ein schönes Wochenende, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Lieben Dank für Eure Kommentare und Favs ;-)
Kallitype on HPR 8x10".
Dig neg.
Henry Hall's developer (Sodium Acetate + Tartaric acid).
Prefix toned in Thiourea-Gold (Clerc). Moersch ATS Alkaline fixer.
40x50 cm Mat Board (only partially scanned).
This is what Angry Bird will grow up to look like, grumpy, albeit, beautiful. They always look grumpy but they are the sweetest, gentle birds.
Canon 1DX, F10, 1/1250, ISO 500
Copyright Barb D'Arpino
Green Heron. For some reason these birds always seem to look grouchy Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
Fun Fact: The elusive Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is at it's most active right now, in early spring, when air temperatures are rising & flower blooms are abundant! (Let the post-hibernation chow-down commence!)
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If you are fortunate enough to cross paths with one of these guys, please remember that they are a federally protected species, & human interaction (which can be fatally stressful for the tortoise) should be strictly kept to an observation. Like Mom says: "Look with your eyes, not with your hands." :)
This fellow was observed at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, NV; shell was 12-14 inches long.
She is Happy honestly :-)
Well it's here again.
It appears "from my stream" that I'm uploading less and less each year.
I guess thta's how it goes with hobbies.
My stream will consist of Abbey in a different hat in each photo at this rate.
Merry Christmas to all.
Gaz
They come a long way for the highland gatherings. At Glenfinnan I met some from America and Australia, and this chap all the way from New Zealand. It was a dismal day, weatherwise, but not as horrendous as was forecast. Tuning the pipes in such damp conditions was a nightmare. And this piper told me that he even judges piping at the games in Waipu, North Island, where we are going in less than two months, a place I have not been to since 1977.........and I can't wait to return to New Zealand
… you know you're having a bad day when you look like this.
A feral looking - also Rabid looking - cat I came across on a walk through one of the local woods. He didn't look to good! or happy to see me!
Anyway - it's how I feel - as I may be on and off - as I have appointments and some visitors this week keeping me totally busy!
This one started out as an 11 piece build.... and quickly became what you see now.
Inspired by Chris McVeighs amazing brick sketches. Chris uses "markers" for his brick sketches. Mine is less refined and I used crayons instead.
I was taking a photo for this week's macro challenge. One of the pumpkins at the front seemed like a good subject. I noticed this grumpy guy show up in the photo later. Spooky! HMM
I always see little faces on pansies and these are looking a little grumpy!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Faces In Things ....
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Thought this group of characterful trees would look nice during golden hour. So I came to the spot as the high-front Dorit with ten sun hours was over central Europe without a single cloud in the sky.
February 2019 | Heckengäu
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Greylag Goose, Leeds-Liverpool canal, Cottingley Bridge, West Yorkshire. I think there were goslings nearby, but out of sight.
This was taken at the corner of Broadway and 95th Street...
A moment earlier, I had noticed the man peering intently into the blue recycling bin ... so maybe he was grumpy that he didn't find anything to put into his paper bag. Or maybe he had noticed me photographing him with my iPhone. Or maybe he was just grumpy all the time.
Or maybe he escaped from the Bronx Zoo...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Nov 11, 2015.
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Sometime in 2014, I created Flickr album for photos that I had started taking with my iPhone5s; and a year later, in the fall of 2014, I started a new Flickr album for photos that I’ve begun taking with my iPhone6, and iPhone6+. But progress doesn’t stop (at least with Apple): as of October 2015, I’ve upgraded once again, to the iPhone6s and 6s+ (yes, both of them) and this new album contains photos created with those camera-phones
In last year’s Flickr album, I wrote, “Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, it’s hard to walk around with a modern smartphone in your pocket, and not be tempted to use the built-in camera from time-to-time. Veteran photographers typically sneer at such behavior, and most will tell you that they can instantly recognize an iPhone photo, which they mentally reject as being unworthy of any serious attention.
“After using many earlier models of smartphones over the past several years, I was inclined to agree; after all, I always (well, almost always) had a “real” camera in my pocket (or backpack or camera-bag), and it was always capable of taking a much better photographic image than the mediocre, grainy images shot with a camera-phone.
“But still … there were a few occasions when I desperately wanted to capture some photo-worthy event taking place right in front of me, and inevitably it turned out to be the times when I did not have the “real” camera with me. Or I did have it, but it was buried somewhere in a bag, and I knew that the “event” would have disappeared by the time I found the “real" camera and turned it on. By contrast, the smart-phone was always in my pocket (along with my keys and my wallet, it’s one of the three things I consciously grab every time I walk out the door). And I often found that I could turn it on, point it at the photographic scene, and take the picture much faster than I could do the same thing with a “traditional” camera.
“Meanwhile, smartphone cameras have gotten substantially better in the past few years, from a mechanical/hardware perspective; and the software “intelligence” controlling the camera has become amazingly sophisticated. It’s still not on the same level as a “professional” DSLR camera, but for a large majority of the “average” photographic situations we’re likely to encounter in the unplanned moments of our lives, it’s more and more likely to be “good enough.” The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more and more relevant these days. For me, 90% of the success in taking a good photo is simply being in the right place at the right time, being aware that the “photo opportunity” is there, and having a camera — any camera — to take advantage of that opportunity. Only 10% of the time does it matter which camera I’m using, or what technical features I’ve managed to use.
“And now, with the recent advent of the iPhone5s, there is one more improvement — which, as far as I can tell, simply does not exist in any of the “professional” cameras. You can take an unlimited number of “burst-mode” shots with the new iPhone, simply by keeping your finger on the shutter button; instead of being limited to just six (as a few of the DSLR cameras currently offer), you can take 10, 20, or even a hundred shots. And then — almost magically — the iPhone will show you which one or two of the large burst of photos was optimally sharp and clear. With a couple of clicks, you can then delete everything else, and retain only the very best one or two from the entire burst.
“With that in mind, I’ve begun using my iPhone5s for more and more “everyday” photo situations out on the street. Since I’m typically photographing ordinary, mundane events, even the one or two “optimal” shots that the camera-phone retains might not be worth showing anyone else … so there is still a lot of pruning and editing to be done, and I’m lucky if 10% of those “optimal” shots are good enough to justify uploading to Flickr and sharing with the rest of the world. Still, it’s an enormous benefit to know that my editing work can begin with photos that are more-or-less “technically” adequate, and that I don’t have to waste even a second reviewing dozens of technically-mediocre shots that are fuzzy, or blurred.
“Oh, yeah, one other minor benefit of the iPhone5s (and presumably most other current brands of smartphone): it automatically geotags every photo and video, without any special effort on the photographer’s part. Only one of my other big, fat cameras (the Sony Alpha SLT A65) has that feature, and I’ve noticed that almost none of the “new” mirrorless cameras have got a built-in GPS thingy that will perform the geotagging...
“I’ve had my iPhone5s for a couple of months now, but I’ve only been using the “burst-mode” photography feature aggressively for the past couple of weeks. As a result, the initial batch of photos that I’m uploading are all taken in the greater-NYC area. But as time goes on, and as my normal travel routine takes me to other parts of the world, I hope to add more and more “everyday” scenes in cities that I might not have the opportunity to photograph in a “serious” way.”
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Okay, so now it’s October of 2015, and I’ve got the iPhone 6s/6s+. The the camera now has a 12-megapixel lens (instead of the older 8 MP version), and that the internal camera-related hardware/firmware/software is better, too. Obviously, I’ve got the newer iOS9, too, and even on the “old” phones, it now supports time-lapse videos along with everything else.
I’ve still got my pocket camera (an amazing little Sony RX-100 Mark IV, which replaces the Mark III I had last year), and two larger cameras (Sony RX-10 II, and Sony A7 II), but I have a feeling that I won’t even be taking them out of the camera bag when I’m out on the street for ordinary day-to-day walking around.
That will depend, obviously, on what kind of photos and videos the iPhone6s/6s+ camera actually capable of taking … so I’m going to try to use at leas one of them every day, and see what the results look like …
Like I said last year, “stay tuned…”
I tried so hard trying to get him to smile today but it was a no go..LOL!!
I'm sure it was quite the sight seeing me make all sorts of noises and dancing in front of him LMAO!! But NO smiles today, he was just mellow and chill hehe!