just a little trying with my old camera

Took this last December off CA-58 just West of Tehachapi California. I never posted it because my sensor had lots of dust on it and so needed some cleaning up in post. Now that I have the MacBookPro and Lightroom CC figured I had no excuse. Only took a few minutes, hopefully I got all the spots.

The last one

Osteospermum is from Africa, hence the name African daisies.

Have a good one

Yes, I understand

Every life must end, uh-uhh

As we sit alone

I know someday we must go, uh-uh-uh-uhh

Oh, I’m a lucky women

To count on both hands the ones I love

Some folks just have one

And others they’ve got none, uh-uhh-uhh

Stay with me

Let’s just breathe

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Just Joey' was inducted into the Rose Hall of Fame as "World's Favourite Rose" in 1994.

Have a good one

Gotta balance the focus stacked images every so often and the Meyer Optik lens has been wondering when I would get off of f/8 and open it up a bit. Well this week seemed like the perfect opportunity to do just that. No stacking here, just one image with very little focus but plenty of colorful bokeh. I did have to wait for some direct sunlight but the rest was easy, Put a curly pile of scaly gold and blue ribbon on a mirror, stick it in the sun filtered a bit with a white screen and go bokeh hunting with the Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 set on wide open and a Nikon PK-12 14mm extension tube. After seeing a potential angle a bit of poking and prodding completed the look. The colors were so vivid not much post processing was needed. Truth be told I did take plenty of shots and I started with artificial lights but the bokeh came out looking a bit soft and diffused so I waited and hoped for sunlight which I got the next day in the afternoon.

The image measures app 2 x 3 inches but hard to say, the curl measured 1 inch in diameter. Made for the Macro Mondays group, Theme, "Wrapping".

Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston with Nikon PK-12 14mm Extension Tube. Single image shot at f/1.8.

Just messing about on the Mac

Happy to see February get here. That means Winter is almost over..;) March is usually windy but doable. The hotel prices go up at the coast starting tomorrow, soooooo no more trips to the coast for a while..;(

Happy Week Everyone

Random photo on the banks of the Volga, in the city of Konakovo. Women's silhouette.

Pose: B(u)Y Me - Say Yess ! 5 bento pose with mirror Pose and ringbox and roses included @ Men's Closet Event

Hairbase: Volkstone - Bucky hairbase @ Equal10

Outfit: hoorenbeek - Double Breasted Suit outfit

♫♥♫Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes♫♥♫

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Avro Lancaster NX611 'Just Jane' at East Kirkby during a Timeline Events night shoot.

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The Netherlands

A pincushion Protea, Leucospermum sp. The first flower (at the bottom of the photo) has just opened.

For the Macro Mondays theme: Dutch angle. The width of subject and surrounds is 2.7 in.

f/3.5 ISO 100 1/250 Pentax 50 mm f/1.4 Pentax K-1, cropped.

HMM and happy new week!

Thanks for visiting. I am very grateful for the kind comments and faves.

Thank you, my dear friends, for all your comments and favs!

wedding shoot, married couple just took off...

Banksia "Giant Candles", a commercial hybrid of Banksia ericifolia and Banksia spinulosa. This hybrid is characterised by very large inflorescences (flower spikes) (up to 40cm long) that like this one may be curved. Natural hybridisation occurs but the resulting inflorescences are not as large.

One flower in this inflorescence has opened. The style (pistil) of the flower has partially straightened and it extends beyond the other flowers. The orange colour of the flowers is similar to that of Banksia ericifolia but the pink colouration in the style comes from Banksia spinulosa.

The photo is hand-held. I couldn't position my tripod to take it.

Thank you for your visit. I appreciate very much the faves and kind comments which have been left.

A Black-capped chickadee takes an acrobatic pose to feed on the dried seed pods.

Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON

Speke Hall Liverpool aug 2020

Can you spot the lamb? :)

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I don't think that this fish will be a full meal for the Great Blue Heron, but it's a start!

Calas de Roche (Cádiz - Andalucía)

Sigma 10-20mm + Cokin filters : GND8 + Soft Sunset

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Hi all !!

It's not a pic for blog... I just wanted to do a pic for "HIM" : my love. I hope you like it !! ♥

Story : "Let me introduce you my love... I know you already know him, but i love him so much. I do a portrait of him because he's my everything. I met him and i knew he was my person... Never change my love... You're my boite à secrets, mon amant, mon amour, mon alpha, mon tout..."

Thanks for watching and your support !! ♡

The music : 🎵.

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A Nuthatch in my local woods.

Wild South Africa

Phalaborwa

Limpopo Province

South Africa

Male Southern Masked-weaver showing his weaving skills

Luna accepts to keep this hat on her head just for Love.

Luna for Happy-Caturday theme : "For love".

Happy Caturday and Happy New Year to all my Flickr's Friends❤

LACPIXEL - 2022

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Detailed brick facades of buildings in Owego, New York.

Just Joey, a beautiful rose.

I am not well, even my eye balls hurt !

Some ghastly thing that is doing the rounds.

I hope you have a wonderful Friday

Just one look..

discretion

Looking at you..

Nobody saw it

discretion

Thanks for your visit, comments and/or faves.

Another image taken at Barr Lake with my good friend Linda. I've posted a similar image but I liked the vignetting on this one the hint of reflections and the lines made by the branches. There's a branch on the left that looks like a snake....it isn't.

April 2020

happy day my friends:-))

109/365 - "When every day is an adventure"

WISH YOU ALL A GREAT THURSDAY

it has been a beautiful summerday

For you, kardia mou...

"Here i am - this is me

There's no where else on earth i'd rather be

Here i am - it's just me and you

Tonight we make our dreams come true

It's a new world - it's a new start

It’s alive with the beating of - young hearts

It’s a new day - it's a new plan

I’ve been waiting for you

Here i am

Here we are - we've just begun

And after all this time - our time has come

Yeah, here we are - still goin' strong

Right here in the place where we belong

It's a new world - it's a new start

It’s alive with the beating of - young hearts

It’s a new day - it's a new plan

I’ve been waiting for you

Here i am."

🎧Here I Am

A wonderfully peaceful moment, once again captured on Zanzibar. Who wouldn't want to be sailing into the sunset on the beautiful Indian Ocean.