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Male brush turkeys are magnificent at this time of the year as their colours intensify and their yellow wattle hangs lower. It is breeding season and they are extremely busy building huge nests and chasing off competitors.
FP & Explore # 406... May 19, 2009
"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
~ Cicero
(January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC)
When something wonderful happens to us, it may not seem real until we can tell our friends about it. Their happiness for us deepens and intensifies our pleasure.
When something bad happens to us, we search out our friends for comfort, understanding and assurance. Their sympathy eases our pain and gives us hope.
Knowing how much friendship means to us, how can we be better friends to others in their times of prosperity and adversity? I am going to try to be the best friend I can be to the people who bring so much into my life....beginning with some long overdue testimonials I need to write. I have procrastinated long enough!
Here's an interesting tidbit about rhododendrons: The world "Rhododendron" comes from the Greek words: rhodos, "rose", and dendron, "tree".
Oh.... one more thing.... has anybody had experience with Getty Images thru Flickr? They are interested in 14 of my photos.... and I'm not sure about all this... it's new to me! Please flickr mail me if you have any info regarding this.... Thanks!
Have a wonderful Tuesday, my dear friends! ♥
Although whinchats look rather inconspicuous I'm always happy to see one. Unfortunately their numbers are dwindling, which is mostly due to agricultural intensification.
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Crinkly, wrinkly leafy.
Ok. Find leaf in the garden; dry it, one week; place on a table in a darkened room; light from low right with LED torch; take a photo with a camera.
Easy right? Huh….
How clueless could one be? No… that’s not fair on mankind... How clueless could I be?
Ah well. This is about where I gave up with this little project for the Macro Mondays group’s Crinkly, Wrinkly… theme. I absolutely refused to go back an photograph the desperate thing again....
A focus stack of seven images; sharpened with every known technique known to man (Unsharp thingy, Clarity, HighPass/Linear Light)... and a few others too…hue shifted slightly right to intensify the reds; colour zapped by steepening the A and B ramps in LAB Mode Curves; denoise; dark vignette…
I’ll leave it to my much-abused leaf-worn viewer to guess the tree that spawned this ;-)
It's one inch across.
Is there a Macro Mondays therapy group anywhere?
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy what you see (just don’t zoom OK?). Happy Macro Mondays all those who survived. :)
Cowtail Stingrays are a common sight, feeding in the shallows off western Australia and Indo-Pacific region. They are harder to see than you might think - I have intensified the colour and contrast of the image on the left, otherwise they just look like shadows under the water. They have an extremely painful sting, very rarely fatal, and only sting when attacked. My wife did actually tread on one (they are that hard to see through the water) but they both fled in opposite directions, no harm done! For the shot on the right, I held a waterproof camera under the surface, but it was impossible to see anything on the screen, hence the poor framing - but they are a beautiful orange brown colour.
Benjamin Franklin theorized that the "mystery of the Northern Lights" was caused by a concentration of electrical charges in the polar regions intensified by the snow and other moisture.
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The reed beds at Titchfield provide an ideal habitat for this bird which has suffered along with other farmland species from agricultural intensification.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 19th of July is "creative with shells", where as the title suggests, we need to be creative with shells, so do something interesting with them. Now, I do enjoy fossicking along the beaches I visit, and I am known to gather shells. A while ago I came across a large number of cuttlefish bones on one of my walks, so I picked them up and brought them home. I used them to take a few creative photographs and then I got rid of them, as unlike other shells which lose their seaside smell, theirs only intensified because what they are made of is so porous. Now, you might say, “but the theme is about being creative with shells, not bones.” Let me assure you that in spite of their name, cuttlefish bones or cuttlebones are not really bones at all. They are in fact a brittle internal shell of a cuttlefish which allow them to control their buoyancy. Therefore, unless I am told otherwise, I believe this is an acceptable choice for this week’s theme. When I took my photographs, for one, I copied a chromolithographic image of Queen Elizabeth I from one of my Victorian era chocolate advertising cards and enlarged the image. I then covered over The Queen’s stiffened lace ruff with a halo of cuttlefish bones beneath her head. I think that is quite creative enough for this week’s theme. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Cuttlebone, also known as cuttlefish bone, is a hard, brittle internal structure (an internal shell) found in all members of the family Sepiidae, commonly known as cuttlefish, within the cephalopods. In other cephalopod families it is called a gladius. Cuttlebone is composed primarily of aragonite. It is a chambered structure that the animal can fill with gas or liquid for buoyancy control. On the bottom side of the cuttlebone is the highly modified organ with which the cuttlebone is filled with gas or liquid. The microscopic structure of cuttlebone consists of narrow layers connected by numerous upright pillars. When the cuttlefish dies, only the cuttlebone remains and will often wash up on a beach. In the past, cuttlebones were ground up to make polishing powder, which was used by goldsmiths. The powder was also added to toothpaste, and was used as an antacid for medicinal purposes or as an absorbent. They were also used as an artistic carving medium during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Today, cuttlebones are commonly used as calcium-rich dietary supplements for caged birds and are not intended for human consumption.
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Fotoversuch. Bewusst mit Wassertropfen auf der Linse fotografiert um den "Regeneffekt" zu verstärken.
It`s a test. With raindrops at the lense to intensify the rain-effect.
Rain and mist intensified the Autumn colours and caught my eye in my local Exmoor woodland last weekend.
0.8 seconds, 63 mm, f/13 at ISO 125 timer & manual exposure
I live on the cracks in your fassade
My nature is deceit
I cheat
And surrounded by snowflakes
I turn up the heat
A beautiful crystal in my eye
Amends my sight
Intensify
Multiply
I might look into your face
But I see the sky
"Without you - Day is nothing but a waste of light
Without you - I am lost, I vanish in the night
Without you - Life is but a senseless waste of time
Without you - Everything I dream turns black and white"
I sit on the steps to your mansard
My fate is disbelief
I grieve
(And) Surrounded by snowflakes
You turn off the heat
I spin in the currents of my life
Love shape white
Intensify
Multiply
I don't look into your face
There's no reason why
Have a look in large view ^^ ;)
Org pic taken at Templum
An enchanting, uplifting river of colorful blooms!!! In extra vivid colors, that I simply adore!!What else, to …intensify your Spring awaiting feeling inside you!! Already!! Yesss!
At the Keunkenhof Park of Holland!! What else!!!!!
( ….And for dancing at …home alone, …like I do!!!!!😊😊 : )
Common dandelion
Scientific name: Taraxacum officinale
Biology:
Dandelion flowers from May to October but most profusely in May and June. A period of low temperature seems to intensify flowering but daylength does not have a great influence. Seedlings that emerge in spring may flower in their first year. Established plants that bloom in spring can flower again in autumn. The time from flowering to seed ripening is about 9-12 days. The fruiting period is from April to June. A flower head can produce up to 400 seeds but the average is 180. A plant may have a total of 2,000 to 12,000 seeds. Cut down flower stems do not produce any viable seed.
Dandelion seeds are wind dispersed and may travel up to 500 miles from the parent. Seeds have been recovered from irrigation water and can survive submergence for 9 months. Viable seeds have been found in cattle and horse droppings. Seedlings have been raised from the droppings of various birds.
As Food and Drink:
Did you know you can make wine out of Dandelions? There are lots of recipes for making Dandelion wine on-line. Or that the young leaves go great in salads? In fact, the family of plants that the Dandelion belongs to also includes lettuce! If you let a lettuce plant go to flower in your garden you'll see what I mean. And the roots of dandelions can serve as a coffee substitute when baked and ground. (Hint: if you are a real coffee aficionado, don't try this.) Hey, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, or in this case if you have a yard full of Dandelions eat'em and drink'em. Apparently, you can make green and yellow dyes from the flowers, too.
I went back to Heaven Farm bluebell woods yesterday evening, after the day's visitors had left. By then the sun had gone, but the low light just seemed to intensify the colour of the bluebells. This shot was taken in the second wood, which has a very different character from the first.
A month ago, this tree looked as if it was dying. It was in bad shape before the fire and the fire only intensified its stress. Miraculously, since our recent rains, new leaves have appeared and this oak has revived. A red-tailed hawk sits atop this tree. Two plus months after containment of the Woolsey Fire. Las Virgenes Canyon.
This image is dedicated to all those suffering from depression and mental illness. Due to the Covid lock downs and mandates their problems have only intensified. Many are trying have to self medicate with drugs and alcohol, but that only mask the problem. Pray for these lost souls, that they may find the help they need. Especially during this Christmas season, when they need our prayers the most. God Bless
Okay, so I know the greens in this are *really* green. Nature made them that way, they've not been tampered with in post. A combination of misty and rain has intensified the colours here. So much so that the majority of images I have from this particular morning I've converted into mono. This one, I'm leaving in colour - partly to assess its reception here.
Redstart (F) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
Taken at one of my favorite spots on a mountain top in Wernersville as the storm started to intensify on Saturday.
I keep getting treated to spectacular weather in these parts...what more could I ask for than fog and a snow storm rolled into one.
The days are shortening and darkening but the colours are intensifying...I think this is natures way of compensating us ;-)) Another shot using the Helios 44M
Eastern Screech-owls have been visible in the Ottawa area as long as I have been birding here, and that seems to have intensified in the last few years. They are best viewed very early in the morning, or at the beginning of the evening - they are dormant during the day, for the most part, and often hidden from view. This Owl is one of a breeding pair that chose a more exposed roost, and on this occasion spent about ten minutes seeming to contemplate an early afternoon food run. But the Owl soon settled and resumed resting. It was one of those magical moments when you get to see a bird being itself, and I was super lucky to have my camera and an open, low perch for the bird. I will note, as a birder sensitive to the health and freedom from harassment of the owls, that people visiting the area where this and other owls have made homes have been super respectful and non-intrusive, at least in my experience.
The Korean dogwood in my backyard always has such a beautiful progression of color changes in fall. The rain just intensifies the color of the leaves. Makes for a wonderful view throughout the day. Press "L" for the best view.
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Redstart (F) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
IORY 3221 glides downgrade just east of Thackery, OH with the day's LSL. Now that summer is here, grass growth, thanks to a fertilizer spill months ago, has started to intensify, making the former Grand Trunk "Good Track Road" mainline into a pleasant "Green Track Road"
A joy to both see and hear, the decline of the Song Thrush due to agricultural intensification and changes in hedgerow and woodland management resulting in loss of nesting habitat and food supplies is a tragedy.
The colors in this cloud that hung over the South Belt area and El. Franco Lee Park intensified as sun began to set in the west. I liked this version the best including the intensity of the rainbow. Maybe its just a red bow without the other colors.
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Cropped to make macro of desired grouping. Went to normal oil painting screen but set that at zero...however remained on that screen and used the multiply effect to intensify colors. Then used Adobe photoshop beta cosmos 5 effect. Finished with a fine silvery border. Located in the front yard of my next door neighbor.
[Exactly this] is the ‘evil’ of this world: goodness and satisfaction—instead of magnifying and intensifying the soul’s longing—pacify it, weaken it. Once they are reached, instead of completing the person, goodness and satisfaction cause him to decompose; they empty him. Because man is man in as much as he strives, acts, pours himself out, gives himself, sacrifices himself.” Giussani insisted, “Man and life exist in the dynamic of gift of self: sacrifice of self.”
-The Life of Luigi Giussani, Alberto Savorana Translated by Mariangela C. Sullivan and Christopher Bacich
Redstart (F) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
Part of Kata Tjuta, in a gorge, in the Uluru National Park, Australia.
The light was fading but it seemed to intensify the colour of the rocks against the darkening blue sky. Awesome area.
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Post Sunset, Solkan Railway Bridge, Solkan, Slovenia
Having visited this location during the day time, I opted to return to capture a long exposure image just after the sun had set and the traffic intensified as people headed home after work.
The image turned out better than I had dared to hope due to numerous roads and the main railway bridge being lit. I think that the light is beautiful and really showcases the various bridges off wonderfully well.
The railway bridge at the bottom of the image is the Solkan Bridge, and with an arch span of 85 metres, it has the world's longest arch span of any railroad bridge (or so I believe anyway), mainly because later construction technology used reinforced concrete to build bridges (thanks Wikipedia :D ).
It was built in 1905 but restored by the Italians in 1927 after a horrific blast saw the arch fall into the Soca River below. It measures 220 metres in length and 36 metres in height. It spans the gorgeous green coloured waters of the Soca River, itself a river measuring 138km in length and running through Slovenia into northeastern Italy.
Here is the link to the daytime photo version
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And here is the link to a timelapse of this scene developing
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Cropped to get ultra macro. Then used normal oil painting effect at 80%. Then remained on that screen and used the screen effect. Seems to intensify colors here and there and also lighten and darken different areas. Chose to go without border.
these sour orange blossoms are everywhere. kids like to throw the oranges at each other for fun -- if they smash, the wonderful scent on the street just intensifies.
from a walk around the neighborhood yesterday afternoon, just before popping over to get the groceries.
on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/04/fallen-star.html
A disappointing 115, running with borrowed CSX shitboxes heads south toward Gibson, and eventually the G&W. A quickly intensifying snow squall is directly over us, and my short drive back home would prove to be quite problematic with an inch and a half falling every hour. Not the Harbor Belt though - they certainly didn't seem bothered by this.
Oh well, the things you do for trains, eh?
Macro Monday: #BottleCap
Sliders Sunday
Strange things are growing on my balcony. When I checked the plants there the other day I noticed a mysterious glow coming from one of the balcony troughs. When I took a closer look I spotted this tiny mushroom growing on the moss at the lavender's and ivy's roots. When I took another close look it started to pulsate with an amazing inner light. Had it responded to me? Was this an attempt to make contact? Was this an alien mushroom, and should I be worried? I went inside to get my camera, half expecting the little shroom to have doubled in size on my return, but there it was, as tiny as before, still snugly sitting between the balcony plants. When it noticed my camera, its glow intensified. I wondered... maybe this was a magic mushroom from Influencer Planet, and I should make a short YouTube video instead of just taking stills? Unsure about my video skills, however, I decided to stick to macro and took a few shots of my new friend, camera on tripod propped onto a cardboard box (wait a minute, did I say on a cardboard box? On a balcony on the second floor, right in front of the balcony parapet [and the space between the railings big enough so that my camera could easily fall through]?!? Well... I did it for science). Anxious to check if the captures had turned out well, I hurried back to my desk. I'm glad to say that one of the captures looked good, it's the one you see above. Alas, I did not get the chance to take any more captures of the tiny shroom, because when I returned to the balcony with my camera, it had disappeared, and only a soft afterglow reminded me of its short visit...
I usually don't upload my MM capture the night before Monday, but this was also for Sliders Sunday, and while I was super late in the game for the latter, I wanted to add it to that group, because I did quite some sliding when I processed the image.
This is the tiny plastic cap of an old miniature perfume bottle "Le Dix". The cap is 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches wide (maybe I'll still take a capture of the bottle and cap, so you can see how small it is). This is a manual focus stacking made of 5 images. For a change, the manual method worked better than the in-camera focus stacking, where I never managed to get the entire cap sharp. Processed in Luminar 3 with several filters, then I added a LUT layer ("Simple" from ON1 Photo RAW) and an Analog Efex layer (preset 7, film type "subtle", vignette). As blending mode I used "Lighten" for both the ON1 and the Nik layer.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Seltsame Dinge wachsen auf meinem Balkon. Bei der täglichen Pflanzeninspektion fiel mir kürzlich aus einem der Balkonkästen ein geheimnisvolles Leuchten auf. Sehr zu meinem Erstaunen fand ich dort einen winzigen Pilz, der es sich auf dem weichen Moosboden zwischen dem Lavendel und dem Efeu gemütlich gemacht hatte. Als ich ein bisschen näher heranging, fing das Licht im Innern des Pilzleins plötzlich an zu pulsieren. War das etwa eine Reaktion auf mich? Hatte ich hier womöglich einen Alien-Pilz entdeckt, der Kontakt aufnehmen wollte? Das musste ich unbedingt fotografieren. Als der Mini-Pilz meine Kamera bemerkte, wurde das Leuchten in seinem Innern sogar noch stärker. Vielleicht war das ja sogar ein Zauberpilz vom Influencer-Planeten und ich sollte besser ein YouTube-Video aufnehmen statt eines Einzelbildes. Da ich aber mit der Kamera noch nie ein Video gemacht hatte, beschloss ich, bei meinen Leisten, sprich beim Makro zu bleiben. Gesagt, getan, platzierte ich für die richtige Höhe die Kamera auf einem Pappkarton (Moment mal, sagte ich gerade "auf einem Pappkarton"? Auf einem Balkon? 2. Stock, direkt vor der Brüstung mit luftig weitem Abstand zwischen den Stäben - also Kamera-durchpass-luftig-weiten Gitterstäben...?!? Egal, es war für die Wissenschaft) und machte ein paar Aufnahmen, die ich mir auch gleich am Monitor anschauen wollte. Was soll ich sagen, als ich von meinem Schreibtisch zurückkehrte, um weitere Fotos zu machen, war mein kleiner Besucher verschwunden. Nur ein sanftes Nachleuchten war als Erinnerung zurückgeblieben... Zum Glück hatte ich eine brauchbare Aufnahme im Kasten.
Oder besser fünf, denn dies ist ein manuelles Fokus Stacking bestehend aus fünf Fotos. Die manuelle Methode hat hier ausnahmsweise besser funktioniert als die Kamera-interne, mit der ich nie den ganzen Pilz bzw. Verschluss scharf bekommen habe. Das Thema ist ja "Flaschenverschluss", und dies ist der kleine Stopfen einer Miniatur-Parfümflasche ("Le Dix"); der Verschluss ist ganze 1,5 cm breit, das Fläschchen mit Verschluss nur unwesentlich größer, so ca. 2,5 x 2 cm. Entwickelt in Luminar 3 (diverse Filter), anschließend habe ich in Photoshop noch eine LUT-Ebene (aus ON1 Photo Raw, Stil "Simple") und eine Analog-Efex-Ebene (Preset 7, Filmtyp "Subtle", Vignette) hinzugefügt, die ich beide mit dem Mischmodus "Aufhellen" mit der Luminar-Ebene "verschmolzen" habe.
Ich wünsche Euch einen sonnigen Ostermontag, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
This is an older photo that I have recently re-processed with new techniques I have learned over the last year or so.. It was a very nice sunrise, but I also processed it darker to intensify the saturation in the sky.
Exposure0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperturef/14.0
Focal Length17 mm
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TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton, Texas
Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe. In the past it often grew as a weed in cornfields (in the broad sense of "corn", referring to grains, such as wheat, barley, rye, or oats), hence its name. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat. It is also, however, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world, including North America and parts of Australia. (Wikipedia)