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While these birds have beautiful iridescence (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/49685114962/in/datepos...), they also provide the near perfect contrast with the background sky. Taken about 100 feet away.
Focal Length (35mm format) - 1500 mm
Wonder what most are looking at?
The iPhone 7s+ zoomed at 2x did a very good job capturing the color spectrum of this event as compared to my Nikon:
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No color enhancement or color saturation was used for this upload.
Life’s Iridescence
By Peter S. Quinn
Are you my love?
In the days on going
Full in passion of
The earth now glowing
From whole of spring
And blossoming white
Where fervor will sing
On through the night
Are you the dream?
From my deep desire
Like a glowing beam
Of its passion’s fire
That never ending seem
In its true aspire
Always fresh airstream
That more will inspire
Are you those things?
That distinction give
To instants and evenings
That we truly live
So much therein made
In everyone’s essence
Never be of it afraid
It is life’s iridescence
This fly’s iridescent blue and green body stands out from the mostly brown and yellow-green surroundings.
One of my older pictures, a picture of a fly walking slowly inside a bush.
In the first week of January, friends invited us to Oakover winery for breakfast - which was very nice - and whilst there I noticed Straw-Necked Ibis, that I had been chasing for several weeks, and so snapped a few photos however, due to the temperature (my excuse) the images weren't sharp and so I have been looking for an opportunity to head back to the Swan Valley to capture the colour and intensity of these amazing birds. When I first noticed these Ibis, I naively thought they were simply Black Winged Ibis however having the opportunity to see them a few times since I know that they are so much more. The iridescence of the wings is spellbinding, and I found myself waiting for the sunlight to hit the wings perfectly not realizing that the sunlight reflects differently with every movement of the Ibis revealing an ever changing kaleidoscope of colours and complexity. I was a little bit disappointed that the birds weren't very comfortable with me trying to get closer - trying to show the full intensity of the colours - and yet pleased that these are wild birds and really shouldn't trust a human. Ultimately though, very pleased to get these wonderful images of these shy, and from my experience, hard to find birds.
The adult Woolly-necked Stork upper-parts has a glossy black plumage with green, blue and purple iridescence. The neck, lower belly and under-tail are white. Bill is black with red tip from half length, the eyes are red, and the legs and feet are blackish. Juvenile birds are duller versions of the adult. Height -±85cm. (Kruger National Park, RSA)
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Intense Morning.
Versant couleurs orgiastiques sublime iridescence réalité extravagances pathologiques névrosé toile fanatique lumières secrètes teintes ivre,
ουσιαστικές εκφραστικές ιδέες θαυμάσιοι συμβολισμοί απτή τέχνη ελαιομυθική ήλιο αναγεννητική ενοχλητικές γραμμές,
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ogromna mistrzowska natura współczesne absurdy zanurzone wspaniałe czasy metaliczne bogactwa zaangażowane greens conjunctions blues,
kuvvetli an sentez sarılar izole beyin etkileyerek güzel aşırı çılgınlar nadir arıtma egzotik tutkular garip overstimulated karmaşıklıklar,
شفافية الروح صيغ عقلانية مثيرة للإعجاب المعارض القاسية الفردية المعتقدات بالارتياح غارقة نبضات,
原始的な面白い花魅力的な魔法のような空魅力的なフィールド経験のある大衆大衆ロマンチックな影豪華な次元ハウリング表現気質測定自然の美しさ.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The late afternoon sun plays upon the iridescence of this drake Mallard, revealing a beautiful purple hue as opposed to the normally seen green.
Mallard Drake
Watertown, WI.
March 16, 2024
Emerald swallowtail (Papilio palinurus)
Mitutoyo 100x NA 0.70, tube lens: ITL200 (Nikon)
Illumination: Halogen and white(!) LED (Ra>95)
This is a collage of 8 pictures from the very same scale, but different illumination (white light, but different incident angles and different polarization angles). This leads to the brilliant iridescence of that butterfly.
Visit the album to see some colour variants of the scales!
This butterfly is a true master in structural (physical) colors. Oblique light produces blue/aquamarin, direct illumination results in a yellow reflection. Back-illumination yields red/brown. Thus, depending on illumination angle (and polarization) any mixture between yellow and blue can be obtained. In addition to the iridecent scales, there are several "normal scales" with pigment colours from brown to orange, yellow and almost white. If you are interested in the details, here is a nature article explaining this phenomenon:
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
EF400mm f/2.8L II USM
The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours. The brightness of the colours is neither the product of iridescence or pigments, but is instead caused by the structure of the feathers, which causes scattering of blue light (the Tyndall effect).
The kingfishers have long, dagger-like bills. The bill is usually longer and more compressed in species that hunt fish, and shorter and more broad in species that hunt prey off the ground. The largest and most atypical bill is that of the shovel-billed kookaburra, which is used to dig through the forest floor in search of prey. They generally have short legs, although species that feed on the ground have longer tarsi. Most species have four toes, three of which are forward-pointing.
The irises of most species are dark brown. The kingfishers have excellent vision; they are capable of binocular vision and are thought in particular to have good colour vision. They have restricted movement of their eyes within the eye sockets, instead using head movements to track prey. In addition, they are capable of compensating for the refraction of water and reflection when hunting prey underwater, and are able to judge depth under water accurately. They also have nictitating membranes that cover the eyes to protect them when they hit the water; the pied kingfisher has a bony plate which slides across the eye when it hits the water.
Iridescence in a floating film of iron salts in Landmannalaugar, southern highlands, Iceland.
Iridescent films are often seen on the surface of stagnant pools in peat bogs. These floating films are formed by iron-precipitating bacteria that oxidize dissolved iron and produce insoluble iron salts. The phenomenon is called bog oil because of its resemblance to the oily iridescence of petroleum. In Icelandic, it is called járnbrák (iron slick).
Youth, hope, envy.
This is the fourth photo out of my iridescence series, to see more information about it click here.
A dark-brown stork with green-bronze iridescence on the wings and breast. It has a distinctive white ruffled neck, a white tail, and a dark salmon-tipped bill. Resident and migrant. Individuals and small groups forage in rivers, shallow wetland margins, urban grassy areas, and flooded grasslands for insects and small vertebrates. (eBird)
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Usually seen from a distance, we finally got close enough to see this lovely stork, standing at the river edge.
Nagarahole National Park, Karnataka, India. February 2015.
Asian Adventures.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
EF400mm f/2.8L II USM +1,4x
The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours. The brightness of the colours is neither the product of iridescence or pigments, but is instead caused by the structure of the feathers, which causes scattering of blue light (the Tyndall effect).
The kingfishers have long, dagger-like bills. The bill is usually longer and more compressed in species that hunt fish, and shorter and more broad in species that hunt prey off the ground. The largest and most atypical bill is that of the shovel-billed kookaburra, which is used to dig through the forest floor in search of prey. They generally have short legs, although species that feed on the ground have longer tarsi. Most species have four toes, three of which are forward-pointing.
The irises of most species are dark brown. The kingfishers have excellent vision; they are capable of binocular vision and are thought in particular to have good colour vision. They have restricted movement of their eyes within the eye sockets, instead using head movements to track prey. In addition, they are capable of compensating for the refraction of water and reflection when hunting prey underwater, and are able to judge depth under water accurately. They also have nictitating membranes that cover the eyes to protect them when they hit the water; the pied kingfisher has a bony plate which slides across the eye when it hits the water.
Not a great deal of time today so took Max out to Faversham's local Bysing Wood to be back in time for video confrences. Bysing Wood is usually associated with burnt out cars, drug and drink paraphernalia, fly tipping and all the joys that an urban woodland can bring, I was not disapointed there! But, the woodland is not managed so thick with fallen trees and tangled undergrowth, usually something interesting can be found. To my surprise the western side of Bysing Wood has been coppiced, when, I am not sure as it has been some time, but the ground level has been opened-up nicely today revealing the mother-load of Magpie Inkcaps ranging from just breaching the leaf litter through to slimy maturity. Yes the magpie Inkcap is named for its pied apperance but get the angle right and the series of tiny verticle ridges filled with mucilage forms prisms on its cap giving rise to light defraction and iridescence similar to the feathers of magpies...... never seen so many of these fascinating toadstools and yes I was a little late for my first meeting!
Not a wet paeony :)
What is reality? Is it an image? A reflection of an image? Or is it what we see?
Well... no to all of these. So the question remains an intriguing one. And the more I read about human perception the more intriguing it becomes: our minds don't see what our eyes do…
(And if, perchance, you find your curiosity piqued, ask yourself the question why are tiger and zebra stripes vertical and not horizontal. It’s not an accident and nor a creative whim, and the answer is relevant to photography too….)
This is for the Smile on Saturday group’s Reflection on Black theme.
It’s a visual tease of course. There are three questions in the puzzle:
What is it?
Which way is what?
Where’s the mirror?
All easy to answer, but if your eyes pause even for a moment as they work it out I will feel I have succeeded in my objective.
Curiously, for me, I found it much more obvious looking at the thumbnail than at the full-screen version. And that itself is a comment on our perception I think....
I read somewhere, and it’s true for me, that a photograph that takes the mind a little while to work out generally will be perceived as a more interesting one. And that is why we find record shots and clichéd images less engaging than the creative ones - sometimes just changing the viewpoint makes capture interesting (we all take our images at head height don’t we lol.)
This is part of a set I took 18 months ago, though I only processed this particular perspective today. If you want confirmation of what it is you can rummage through my photostream to find out...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Smile on Saturday :)
[Tripod mount; delayed-release. Black background on black glazed ceramic tile, side-lit with LED torch.
Processed in Capture One using levels to make things blacker and then balancing the light to give some detail in the reflection. Enhanceds colours, particularly the blue and the orange. Because I like them :)
Used a gradient masked layer to brighten the reflection part to decrease the disparity in lightness against the source.
Nik Color Efex Pro for a Classic Soft Focus effect to introduce a glow to the highlights. This was a bit over the top so I blended the effect layer back into the original using Darken mode.
Flipped vertically. For fun.
Then we were done :)]
The sun does wonderful things for both the water and the bird.
Male Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
Cottonwood Park, Richardson
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Site: Lac-St-Charles (terrain privé / private land)
Pas facile de photographier un oiseau blanc, et qui a un plumage irisé qu'on veut mettre en évidence. L'iridescence est à son meilleur au soleil. Par contre, on brûle les blancs et on perd sa texture. Je n'ai pas encore trouvé la recette pour avoir un juste équilibre.
Quand même, je suis content d'avoir capté ce magnifique canard très farouche.
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Not easy to photograph a white bird, and has an iridescent plumage that we want to highlight. The iridescence is at its best in the sun. On the other hand, the sun burns the whites and we lose its texture. I have not yet found the technic for a good balance between.
But I'm glad to have captured this very beautiful wild duck.
Such a showy species of Skipper butterfly, they suddenly become very common around here as Autumn begins!
Their caterpillars are rather stylish, too...see below
I'll admit that I have an obsession with hummingbirds. Fascinating tiny but fierce creatures with their glimmering iridescence. This one, an Anna's Hummingbird at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, about an hour east of Phoenix, AZ