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An icy branch at dusk, illuminated from below by light reflected upward from the ice on the ground below it
HMM!
Another picture shot from my second home, ‘Albert Square, Manchester’. On this particular day the sun was very bright giving really dark shadows and extremely bright highlights, but to be honest I quite like that…!
There is no sin in being on the pathway; the spiritualists are wrong. But there is a sin in loving our road instead of our home; the materialists are wrong. There is no sin in being on the road, in being corporeal, in being finite, in being homo viator, in having responsibility for things outside, below, and now; there is only sin in settling for the lesser, and not letting it awaken an appetite for the greater.
-LITURGICAL MYSTICISM, DAVID W. FAGERBERG
One of the windows at the Musei Capitolini in Rome.
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We're still coated with ice and now 8 inches of snow, as well. A most beautiful way to end the year. This Red Twig Dogwood entirely coated in sparkling ice.
#MacroMondays
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This theme will probably see me post both final "candidates", but I still had to decide which one goes into the MM pool. This one won because it has the catchier colours and is closer to my original idea, which was photographing a miniature tile's reflection in another tile that has a kind of warped, uneven mirror surface. The miniature tile is decorated with a beautiful, stylised sketch of the Moon. The problem was just that the mirror tile is super shiny (= unwanted reflections and dust), and that it has many scratches (in fact, the surface already scratches when you look at it). Plus, the Moon's reflection didn't look that nice.
So, on to the next tile, made of differently brushed, small hexagons. One candidate is a photo of only the brushed tile (my second choice). The other, this one, includes the abovementioned mirror tile, only this time, instead of placing the tile I wanted to reflect onto the mirror tile, I did it the other way round: I put the mirror tile vertically onto the tile with the brushed hexagons, thus avoiding both the dust and the scratches. And as a bonus, I was able to get the desired reflection.
No focus stacking this time, just a single shot. For the golden/yellow colour accent, I equipped one of the LED lamps with the semi-transparent yellow plastic bottle cap. The blue accent was achieved by putting a small blue glass jar on the other LED lamp. The reflection was highlighted by the flat daylight photo lamp (light from above).
Size info: The mirror tile is also made of hexagons, but much larger ones than the brushed tile. Each side of the mirror tile is 5 cm / 1.9 inches long, which defines the width of the scene.
HMM, Everyone!
To clip or not? I decided on clip,
Under exposure was not acceptable,
Pentax K10D here with so called crap Quanteray Zoom lens.
God bless old gear because it works.
Late summer and there were a lot of migrants in Sussex, the early star being this fabulous Wryneck which stayed at Beachy Head for 3 weeks from 18 August. I really love the detail in their plumage.
A Spotted Flycatcher also at Beachy Head on the same day was similarly cooperative. Further along the South Downs the following day I found a field full of migrants which included redstart, whinchat and wheatear , all relatively uncommon birds in Sussex.
A selection of my favourite images from 2016 can be seen here
A more unconventional view taken from the main Birkett position as 46115 heads south on a windy 15/2/2014.
The low light highlights the stone walls nicely
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Looking down the two levels of an aged rusty staircase at Z Ward.
Z Ward was a separate building at the Glenside Mental Hospital that catered for the criminally insane. Built in 1885, it is now empty and preserved by the National Trust.
Early morning sun strikes the apex of the new University of Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building in North Terrace
We spent another fabulous day snowshoe hiking on the Bruce Trail. The powder was fresh and deep so the workout was wonderful. The sky was blue and the scenery spectacular. The smell of the cedar trees was divine as we brushed pass heavy laden branches on the trail. But the highlight of the hike was when we reached a spot where 4-5 chickadees came rushing toward us to greet us. We literally stopped in our tracks thinking they were going to crash into us.! I love when we are able to connect so effortlessly with nature. I will never tire of seeing these delicate little birds.
Entrance to Las Rosas Cemetery in Puerto Varas... too bad I always find it closed! One way to get in only.
X Región de Los Lagos, Chile
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Time, such a precious commodity... I am so glad we have managed a short ride out of the city the other day. I wanted to capture some of the fall colors before all the leaves are knocked off the trees by the wind. It was a cool, but lovely evening. The light was great as well, so I got in a few shots. Hope you enjoy! Happy Friday, guys!
A staircase from the Tokyo National Museum, Japanese Gallery (Honkan). The exhibition was vast and interesting, but the architecture itself was nothing spectacular. However, the western neoclassical styled building has many interesting details, one being this. The black-and-white approach here is especially funky as the sides of staircase turn into light itself.
I do not do "lists" but thought in spite of lockdown's & a few health problems, I had a good bird year. So i counted up & found I had photographed 132 bird species. Had a good start to the year & garden lockdown was better than expected. My highlight has to be this Lammergeier. Who could have expected a bird of the high mountains to be in a flat Fenland field. Here it is digesting some road kill it had recently eaten in the field.
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Lids".
I left it a bit late to find my subject but while in a supermarket on this Monday morning I found these mini highlighter pens.
So when I finally got home I placed them on a white board and backlit by the bedroom window. I focused the scene to 3 inches on the longest side and set up the lids and also the pens. I then rotated the board so there was a diagonal across the scene and focus was on the lids.
Sixth image in Bird Art series...
I enjoyed some creative framing here, highlighting the American Robin in an oval design.
I like challenging myself to try new techniques and styles in my photography. It's fulfilling and helps me think outside the box. Maybe it keeps my old brain from turning to mush!