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Near Schwedenplatz, Vienna
Original title “Working Girl” was inappropriate. Looked back at all my photos that year and asked myself what I liked best, and why. This is the type photo for a core theme—images resolving contradictions. In this case, order and chaos, as the woman cleans the window of a clock shop with a perfectly horizontal squeegee stroke in a sea of bubbles. Love her contemplative expression, and the clutter of urban reflections superimposed on the orderly interior of a Viennese clock seller.
Explore “Street and Documentary” Takeover no.89, 24 July 2024
My good friend Peter EW&F suggested that I improve my bug trap to save the Honey Bees.
I haven't caught any Honey Bees yet mostly flies and ants but I improved it anyway just incase, I can now open the lid and let them out.
See original trap below.
Have a great day!
The Devonshire Park Theatre is a Grade II listed building designed by Henry Currey.
It was built in 1884 and further improved by celebrated Theatre Architect Frank Matcham in 1903.
It is one of the best examples of small Victorian Theatre in the country with ornate interior featuring decorative plaster work with scrolls and caryatids by Schmidt of Holloway.
The theatre won the Martini/TMA Regional Theatre Award for ‘Most Welcoming Theatre’ in 1994
The other one was so messy, so I redone the whole thing, and I also didn't like his previous owner...
Vermicelle's Corridor. Cambre d´Ase. French Pyrenees.
Climbing up a snowed corridor completely vertical with crampons and a rope is an amazing experience.
It serves to gain practice at the mountain and to improve in difficult situations in the future.
Here is one of the daisies that I dyed last week, it is the only one that really picked up much color from the dye. Working on my New Year's goals to practice and improve my Photoshop skills. Here I have added a texture layer to the image but decided to mask off the daisy to create a further divide.
Feeling a bit disenchanted with my photography today. I really am working to improve not just technically but artistically. How do you improve your artistry without practice though and 366 is hard because I have to share what I am working on. I know these are self imposed rules... but it makes it tough to experiment. I just finished the book Outliers and must keep working towards my 10,000 hours before I really get discouraged I guess.
The texture I used was generously shared by www.flickr.com/photos/nasos3/. I applied flic.kr/p/95xjot
I got a chance to go to the zoo today, I haven't been there in years. It was great to see how much they have improved it.
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We were lucky with the weather with our trip to Salop. I'm going through another Black and White phase. In the past I have converted but not really done much processing. So one of this years goals is to improve my processing skills. I do not usually let my education get in the way of my ignorance but do please let me know what you think. And as we all know, the world was all black and white until last century!!!!
This is the house in front of Stokes Castle and lovely it is too.
Enjoying an afternoon walk at Graves Island Provincial Park
For an improved close up, please zoom in!
Fluorescent Rosella
In a tree, beside my car.
Photographic notes:
The magic of using a (super) telephoto lens is the "bokeh" effect.
I had other fixed focal length lens in my kit, though using the 300mm lens, I was able to use a very small aperture to improve front-to-back depth-of-field for the flower, yet render a very nice bokeh. The reasons for 1600 ISO were: It was an overcast day, and about to start drizzling rain, so not a lot of available light, though the photo was taken just after 1:00 p.m. on a Winter afternoon, in the southern hemisphere. Also, as I was not using a tripod, and not steady, I decided to use a shutter speed double my focal length, as a minimum. The combination of a maximum 1600 ISO and 1/640sec dictated f/10.0, though I would have preferred f/16.0, so there was a very real decision process for the photographic outcome I sought to render.
Cropping 6 X 6 or 4 X 5 offers other interesting possibilities.
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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This beauty was captured after a 10 hour sail in the vacinity of one of Blackbeard's stomping grounds. Evidently it's a charter sailboat that hails out of Silver lake in Ocracoke.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Sun shines through the beautiful common cottongrass flowers in Siglufjörður, Fjallabyggð, North Iceland.
Original image was put into the black and white projected pictorial competition at my local camera clubs competition (pre shelter in place). The judge's comments on how to improve the image have been incorporated in this image. If you are interested, the original image is here: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/12173401@N00/49653923396/]
Olympus OM1 Zuiko 1:2.8 24mm f/8 1/25 ISO 50 DSC01785
The Birmingham Main Line Canal in Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands.
On 24 January 1767 a number of prominent Birmingham businessmen, including Matthew Boulton and others from the Lunar Society, held a public meeting in the White Swan, High Street, Birmingham to consider the possibility of building a canal from Birmingham to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Wolverhampton, taking in the coalfields of the Black Country. They commissioned the canal engineer James Brindley to propose a route. Brindley came back with a largely level route via Smethwick, Oldbury, Tipton, Bilston and Wolverhampton to Aldersley.
On 24 February 1768 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the building of the canal, with branches at Ocker Hill and Wednesbury where there were coal mines. The first phase of building was to Wednesbury whereupon the price of coal sold to domestic households in Birmingham halved overnight. Vested interests of the sponsors caused the creation of two terminal wharves in Birmingham. The 1772 Newhall Branch and wharf (now built upon) originally extended north of, and parallel to Great Charles Street. The 1773 Paradise Street Branch split off at Old Turn Junction and headed through Broad Street Tunnel, turned left at what is now Gas Street Basin and under Bridge Street to wharves on a tuning fork-shaped pair of long basins: Paradise Wharf, also called Old Wharf. The Birmingham Canal Company head office was finally built there, opposite the western end of Paradise Street.
By 6 November 1769, 10 miles (16 km) had been completed to Hill Top collieries in West Bromwich, with a one mile summit pound at Smethwick. Brindley had tried to dig a cutting through the hill at Smethwick but had encountered ground too soft to cope with. The canal rose through six narrow (7 ft) locks to the summit level and descended through another six at Spon Lane.
In 1770 work started towards Wolverhampton. On 21 September 1772 the canal was joined with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Aldersley Junction via another 20 locks (increased to 21 in 1784 to save water). Brindley died a few days later. The canal measured 22 miles and 5 fur-longs (22⅝ miles), mostly following the contour of the land but with deviations to factories and mines in the Black Country and Birmingham.
Over the next thirty years, as more canals and branches were built or connected it became necessary to review the long, winding, narrow Old Main Line. With a single towpath boats passing in opposite directions had to negotiate their horses and ropes. In 1824 Thomas Telford was commissioned to examine alternatives.
Telford proposed major changes to the section between Birmingham and Smethwick, widening and straightening the canal, providing towpaths on each side, and cutting through Smethwick Summit to bypass the locks, allowing lock-free passage from Birmingham to Tipton.
By 1827 the New Main Line passed straight through, and linked to, the loops of the Old Main Line, creating Oozells Loop, Icknield Port Loop, Soho Loop, Cape Loop and Soho Foundry Loop, allowing continued access to the existing factories and wharves.
A year earlier he had built an improved Rotton Park Reservoir (Edgbaston Reservoir) on the site of an existing fish pool, bringing its capacity to 300 million imperial gallons (1,400,000 m3). A canal feeder took water to, and along, a raised embankment on the south side of the New Main Line to his new Engine Arm branch canal and across an elegant cast iron aqueduct to top up the higher Wolverhampton Level at Smethwick Summit. The reservoir also fed water to the Birmingham Level at the adjacent Icknield Port Loop.
The Smethwick Summit was bypassed by 71 ft cutting through Lunar Society member, Samuel Galton's land, creating the Galton Valley, 70 feet deep and 150 feet wide, running parallel to the Old Main Line. Telford's changes here were completed in 1829.
By 1838 the New Main Line was complete: 22⅝ miles of slow canal reduced to 15⅝; between Birmingham and Tipton, a lock-free dual carriageway. It was also called the Island Line as it was cut straight through the hill at Smethwick known as the Island.
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After an hour of hiding from the rain and strong winds the clouds started to clear. I was hoping for a rainbow or two looking towards Chrome Hill; there's always another time for me and my shadow to visit
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0Q57 Worksop to Derby Litchurch Lane. The new order. Class 93 is a new tri-mode locomotive designed for both freight and passenger services, capable of operating on 25kV AC overhead lines, a diesel engine, and battery power. Developed by Stadler Rail and operated by Rail Operations Group (ROG), it aims to improve efficiency and reduce emissions on the UK rail network.
It can run on 25kV AC overhead power, a diesel engine, and battery power, allowing for flexible operation on electrified and non-electrified lines. The Class 93 can reach a top speed of 110 mph (177 km/h). The tri-mode system aims to reduce emissions and fuel consumption compared to traditional diesel locomotives, with battery power enabling zero-emission operation in some situations. It is designed as a mixed-traffic locomotive, suitable for both freight and passenger trains. The locomotive is designed to optimize efficiency across the network and potentially enable higher speeds for freight trains, integrating them more smoothly with passenger services.
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Formerly known as strip-headed tanager, this is not an easy bird to see in North American, Your best chance to see this fellow is around Holguin of Cuba.
Everyone complained about getting skunked on Rainier this year. Bland, cloudless, mostly colorless sunrises. Well, I took things into my own hands this time.
A contact posted a shot of the lunar eclipse today with some pretty sweet stars in the background. Turns out those stars were pasted in from a different shot, probably even a completely different shoot altogether. But of the 10 or more shots of the eclipse I saw posted today, this one stood out above the others. Some purists would argue that's wrong. Thinking about it for a few moments, I decided that as photographers we are also artists, and it often isn't so much about religiously recreating what you saw, but rather creating something that is uniquely yours and appeals to you (hopefully also your audience too!). Unless you are shooting editorially, most of the time there are no rules. That's the beauty of art - it doesn't need to follow rules. So, I hope you enjoy downtown Portland's sky over Mount Rainier. If you've been following my stream, you've seen this sky before. But I promise where you saw it before is actually where it was supposed to be. I also assure you that every other element of this image, including the light on the mountain itself, is exactly as it was that morning.
A few minutes later:
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The folding chairs standing ready for use when the weather matches the forecast. It is a bit cold at the moment but is forecast to improve later in the week. Drawn with a Staedtler Pigment Liner pen in an A4 sketchbook.
(Newtonia brunneicauda)
Zombitse
Madagascar
Our disappointment in Madagascar wasn't the number of species, as in that regard, it even exceeded our expectations. What disappointed us a bit was the scarcity of birds. Most species were only spotted on a single occasion.
And since we are not birdwatchers but "birdographers", we always want to have a new and better opportunity to improve the quality of the photos.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Madagascar (2023) (174)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Vangidae (Vangídeos) (24)
- All the photos for this species Newtonia brunneicauda (1)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/11/13 (28)
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Here's an improved version of an older build of mine, the TS.1. I've actually had this one built for a few years and had displayed it at a few Bricks Cascades but had never posted a photo of it on here. I'm much happier with this updated version, the main change was redoing the angle of the head to make the attachment more secure and better designed, which I was able to accomplish. Hope you guys like this version too!
Also, as a side note, as of today I've been on flickr for 10 years, which is really crazy to think about. It's been a joy to be part of this online LEGO community for so long, I've interacted with so many awesome builders and seen so many great builds throughout my time on here. I haven't been nearly as active on here as I once was but I still love LEGO and continue to do stuff with it, and don't plan on stopping. Hope you guys like this updated version of the build I posted on my 5th flickr anniversary and will enjoy the stuff I have coming up, I've got some exciting builds in the works!
View a video of this build here.
For years Larry has been on a mission to build the ultimate beach wagon.
He's built several different prototypes through the years, before coming up with the ultimate design!
Pulling one from last year - a trip to one of our fly fishing lakes.
I forgot about the image - and wit improved software - it made for a beautiful image.
I captured this image on the Moor above Grantley in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. It was pouring with rain which gave me the opportunity to try different shutter speeds for different effects.
Thank you for taking the time to view my images. I am happy to receive constructive feedback so as to improve.
A juvenile Cattle Egret does not have his act together at the moment. I am sure he will improve in the future.
N17756 - Sikorsky S-55QT WhisperJet - PAPILLON Grand Canyon Helicopters
at Grand Canyon Airport (GCN)
c/n 55186 (V55-400T) - built in 1972 as a CH-19E
The S-55QT (Quiet Technology) conversion was started by Orlando Helicopter in the mid 1980s and continued by Vertical Aviation Technology (VAT) in the 1990s, at the request of Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters who needed quieter helicopters for their sight-seeing flights. It features a 5-blade rotor instead of the standard 3-blade one, revised engine intakes and exhausts, and noise-suppressing engine covers. It also has extra large windows to improve the passenger's view. The conversion was certified in December 1999.
Only 2 helicopters were ever converted to this standard by Vertical Aviation of Sanford, Florida
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Improved version using grad filter in LR. Previously the enhancement destroyed the detail and contrast of the kayaker. Now one can make out the color of the kayak.
This was a hazy flat scene to begin with.
Western Canada, Section 6: Vancouver Island
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV): la locomotora diésel 1022 «Benacantil» fue una de las cuatro adquiridas de segunda mano a FEVE (números 1022, 1024, 1030 y 1032) para el remolque del tren turístico Limón Exprés y trenes de trabajos, sustituyendo a las antiguas Batignolles de la serie 1200. La 1022 fue construida por Alsthom en Tarbes en 1955 para el ferrocarril Santander-Bilbao. (Escaneo mejorado de una foto mía de papel).
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV): the 1022 «Benacantil» diesel locomotive was one of the four acquired second-hand from FEVE (numbers 1022, 1024, 1030 and 1032) for the towing of the Limón Exprés tourist train and work trains, replacing the old Batignolles of the 1200 series. The 1022 was built by Alsthom in Tarbes in 1955 for the Santander-Bilbao railway. (Improved scan of a paper photo taken by me).
3 weeks tomorrow I'm heading back to Lofoten, 3 years after my last visit. I've always been a little disappointed with the photos from my last trip so I'm having a look back and thinking about how I want to improve.....
Just after sunrise and the light was burning through the ocean mist which added a lot more contrast than I had expected. So many shadows it was difficult to tell where the bears were (that spooked me a little) I found a comfortable spot away from that area and waited till the light improved.
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Well, it took me 2 days, but here's our 3rd(?) annual Armstrong Anniversary photo extravaganza. I don't think its anywhere as good as late years (still things I'd improve); but overall its fun and what I wanted -- but its not nearly as good as I hoped it would have been.
Nota bene: Made this private for awhile until I accepted that cropping to make more of a macro is fair. ?
Macro Monday a day late.
This qualifies as smooth bokeh. No bokeh bubbles. I placed a colorful dishcloth in the background to give this some warmth.
Gary Clendening asked privately if I wanted some help with technical issues. By FlickrMail? You bet!
He suggested photographing without the three extension tubes, and suggested using the timer or a remote. As I already used the timer, mirror up on the D810, I decided that approximately 5 inches / 10.16 centimeters of Kenko extension tubes between the camera and the rather heavy (25.4 oz. /720 g) macro lens might have caused the lens to droop. Even an infinitesimal droop was noticed by hawk-eyes Gary. Rather than jury-rig the gimbal mount on the tripod to accommodate that setup, Gary suggested removing the extension tubes. In my defense this time, this is the same needle and it is several generations old and a tad rusty.
Gary also suggested that I focus using the camera and then switch the AF to manual. Since I'm nearsighted as well as only able to use my left eye, this made sense.
With the D810's 7360px by 4912px, I cropped at least 60 percent of this to find a composition I almost liked. And then downsized it to a 2048 pixel-width jpeg.
Thank you, Gary! However, I still prefer to capture a photo as shot—not by cropping.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 105mm f/2.8
1/13 sec; f/3.3; ISO 100
manual exposure, tripod, backlight and SB800 off-camera speedlight
I loved the way the staircase of the Chambord castle looked when facing upwards. Any ideas for improving the photo?
Whenever i saw an image from U-Bein bridge with the tree in the background, the tree itself caught my attention as much as the bridge. One day back in February 2015 lucky me saw it for real. My guess is Tim Burton would like it too :)
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Much improved redo process May-2025. How do you think?
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