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It's always a lot easier to capture realistic-looking photos in a forest on overcast days.
The dynamic range is much more manageable, and the colours always come out looking nice and saturated.
But somehow... for me the forest is missing something without the sunlight... that extra element of magic isn't there.
Besides... if taking sun-star photos in the forest was easy... I'd probably be bored with that by now.
What fun is life without a challenge (or two)? :)
I took this photo yesterday afternoon... in my new favourite part of the Knysna forest.
This year, I traveled up north to see the mighty spectacle of the Aurora Borealis, the northern lights. The picture was taken in the blistering cold north of Kiruna.
I fact, it was so cold, I had issues with the focal distance of my lenses. In order to get a sharp projection, I had to select a more narrow aperture, which necessitated a long exposure. I assume it may be due to the adapter ring I'm using to mount the EF lenses to my RF camera. Luckily I was able to capture the aurora at a time when it was both comparatively stable and also very bright.
For anyone wanting to capture the aurora themselves, I recommend: a wide angle prime lens, testing the maximum ISO setting for your camera that produces a manageable amount of noise, opening the aperture wide, max. 1s shutter speed for the fast movement and very warm clothes.
The peanut seems a little too large for this small bird but it will be able to peck at it till it breaks down into manageable pieces.
These days my garden is small and quite manageable, having moved last year from a much larger property. The winter months have been spent working on landscaping and planting and now that spring has arrived, I’m starting to see the fruits of my labour. Brings joy to my heart. It’s the simple things…
My first grilling session of the summer (not of the year, I grill all winter as well). These are beef ribs, almost as big as those in the Flintstones. For some reason, the butcher cut these into shorter segments, as though he was going to cut short ribs and then changed his mind. But they were more manageable than a full sized rack, so it worked out well.
We lost our dog Lucy early this morning. She was a rescue dog from a kill shelter in West Virginia and had a very gentle and friendly disposition. She was a cattle dog corgi mix. We think she was about 9 to 10 years old. She started having mild but manageable seizures a little over a year ago. Despite more than a few visits with vets, they could not determine the cause. Late Thursday evening Lucy had a total of 4 full blown seizures. We rushed her to an emergency vet facility that's open 24 hours. They determined, after bloodwork, that her blood sugar was extremely low and was causing the seizures. They were pretty sure that based on the past year history, she had an insulinoma, which is a tumor on her pancreas, and causes excessive insulin. The prognosis for this is not good. Operations are 50/50 and do not increase the life span for more than a year. They got her stabilized and she went to our vet in the morning. They checked blood sugars all day, started her on prednisone, gave us a revised meal schedule, and seemed to think she was stable. We brought her home Friday evening and she seemed OK for a few hours but had another seizure around midnight. Despite Karo syrup on the gums and small amounts of food the seizures continued through the night. When she wasn't having one, she wandered aimlessly around the house and really seemed to not know where she was. My wife and I couldn't bear to watch her suffer any longer knowing that this was not going to improve.
From a kill shelter to 4 more good years of life.
Rest peacefully my friend.
It's getting harder and harder to shoot loaded coal trains on the UP, and shooting ones that aren't double length as well.
Today I guess I got lucky and got a clean UP ES44AC leading a loaded coal train at Krieger. Train is crossing over from M1 to M2 in the background at Loring.
It was bit windy today, but manageable considering the cold temps. I even managed to get a run in today in this frigid temps. No rest for the weary.
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This is a short hike from the road (about 300m), a beautiful 30ft waterfall. Park on the road above the falls near the bridge. The trail is steep and a little difficult but manageable.
This ends the day trip I was on......
The long journey nears its end as UPs donation train passes the small town of Durant, Iowa and the cemetery beside it. As our train nears the homestretch, one can't help but marvel at the whole thing. Long-dead locomotives and even rollingstock, each one carrying with it plenty of history and stories alike, now have a fresh chance at life they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. The Challenger has been dormant for a dozen years, and the 5511 five times that. Even the DDA40X, not pictured here, hasn't been roaming around for a fair few years now. It will be one hell of a day when they and the rest of the equipment have new life breathed into them.
I can't even imagine how insane the roads and photolines will be when those days come. Oh, boy. At least they were somewhat manageable here. More than once, people came and parked right in front of my shot, but thanks to another railfan intervening, we got the space cleared for our shots, and we got that striking view of the slow moving train. The days storms can be seen back behind the dormant steamers, and in fact some of those clouds were just overhead. Very, very narrow timing granted us a sliver of clear sky and the light we needed for our shots. Nice when things work out that way, eh?
Here in the northern hemisphere, the long six-month progression into ever increasing darkness comes to a halt today. The winter solstice has finally arrived. Although a full three months of winter lies ahead, at least we've reached the darkest day. That's a huge psychological boost for me. Dealing with cold and snow is one thing, but the shortened daylight is the part that really gets to me the most. I'm a very visually oriented person. Existing in darkness greatly inhibits vision, and as a result hinders my creative endeavors, at least to an extent. Even mundane tasks seem more challenging. I find night driving in particular very uninteresting. In summer, my gaze is constantly shifting as I drive, taking in the scenery and evaluating photo possibilities with each passing mile. Winter night driving reduces my visibility to the narrow cone of light emitted by my headlights. In that sense, my (traveling) world is greatly diminished. Although we have an enormous hole to climb out of, knowing that we are on the side of increasing daylight somehow makes everything more manageable. None of this has anything to do with the photo, yet I still feel a connection. There's a feeling of despair in the model's expression, but somehow a glimmer of hope seems to seeps in. With many time commitments this time of year I'm just not outside shooting as much as in autumn. However I continue to troll my recent photo archives, pulling up images like a squirrel finding buried nuts. My session with Jill has proven to be a veritable root cellar of imagery that might well carry me through spring.
MONTANE WOODCREEPER Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger in the Mindo Valley in northwestern Ecuador. This Montane Woodcreeper captured a cicada a little while prior to this photo. This is the 3rd in a series of 5 photos that shows the woodcreeper making two attempts to swallow the cicada. This photo shows the Montane Woodcreeper following the first unsuccessful attempt to swallow the cicada. The woodcreeper has just ejected the partially swallowed cicada and this photo shows the woodcreeper flipping the cicada up into the air to catch it in a more manageable orientation prior to making a second try to swallow it. This photo was taken on a sunny morning on November 18, 2012.
The Montane Woodcreeper is a member of the avian family Dendrocolaptidae.
Esta foto de un ave de nombre común Trepador Montañés Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger se sacó cerca de Mindo, Ecuador el 18 de noviembre de 2012. Hace momentos, este trepador capturó una chicharra. Esta foto es la tercera de una serie de 5 fotos que muestra el Trepador Montañés haciendo dos intentos de tragar la chicharra. Esta foto registra un momento después del primer intento de tragar la chicharra. El trepador ha expulsado la chicharra de la garganta y lo ha dado un capirotazo hacia arriba para agarrarlo nuevamente con una orientación más favorable.
El Trepador Montañés pertenece a la familia Dendrocolaptidae.
For OPTIMAL VIEWING of this Montane Woodcreeper tossing up a cicada, VIEW AT THE GIGANTIC SIZE (1832 x 1800) use the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/82065...
The image above is Photo No. 3 in the sequence. The links to the other photos are as follows:
Photo No. 1: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/82049...
Photo No. 2: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/82066...
Photo No. 4: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/82068...
Photo No. 5: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/82063...
Jenny Winwood was moth-watching on a Sunday evening when she was bitten by an awful Eric Smithson, of the Cobble Hill Smithsons, . . .after a moment of shortness of breath, she discovered in her uneven reflection, that she had acquired Eric's bad hair, . . . there was not much she could do to rid herself of the bad hair, . . .she tried to wash the badness out, cut it to a manageable shape, even tie it up, But to no avail, her bad hair kept coming back.
It looked to be a good day for a hike in the foothills east of the Rocky Mountains, except for some wind. Snow was patchy on the trail in the lower reaches, but still manageable with just our boots. Once past the junction with Prairie Link Trail, we had to don our spikes to continue. A kilometre from the summit, however, the ridge had been swept free of snow, and we were back with just our boots without spikes. The same winds that kept the snow off the ridge top returned to pester and annoy us, cooling us down. We walked just over 18 km's, gaining just over 800 m's, and taking 5 1/4 hours to so.
Shot this earlier this summer in the golden light. This was at some cabins at Eastport NL he was almost tame and certainly knew where the food was. He ate the bread stick long enough to get it to a manageable size so he could drag it away and eat in peace.
A 5 image panorama. The original file is over 16,000 pixels!
A climb up in the dark with a head torch was required to be in position overlooking the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye, for the sunrise. Luckily the clocks had changed that week so sunrise was at 6.50am. This was good as it was around an hours climb to get here, so the 4.30am rise was manageable (just).
Gral Guido
Después de la Independencia, Juan Manuel de Rosas, prominente hacendado, decidió impulsar la colonización y el poblamiento de la cuenca del Salado, y encomendó a su topógrafo, el agrimensor Senillosa, el relevamiento de la zona, con el objeto de fundar nuevos pueblos. Por decreto del 25 de diciembre de 1839, y tras la Revolución de los Libres del Sur, el gobernador Rodas decidió dividir el territorio al sur del Salado en nuevos partidos, más manejables, y nació entre ellos, el “partido del Vecino”, separado del partido de Tandil, sobre tierras de Don Cornelio Pizarro, quien fue su primera autoridad. No obstante, la riqueza de sus tierras, el partido careció de cabecera y de urbanización durante varias décadas, hasta que empezó el tendido del ferrocarril del Sur, hacia 1860. En 1887, se inaugura la estación Velázquez del ramal Dolores-Ayacucho, alrededor de la cual se empiezan a asentar trabajadores del ferrocarril y pobladores rurales de partido, y así en 1888 se funda el primer poblado del partido. En 1890, ante elcrecimiento experimentado por la población, los vecinos peticionan la autonomía municipal, la cual les es concedida en febrero de 1891. Ese mismo año, se impone al pueblo y a la estación ferroviaria el nombre de General Guido, en recuerdo del militar, político y diplomáticoTomas Guido, amigo y colaborador del general San Martin.
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Gral Guido
After Independence, Juan Manuel de Rosas, a prominent landowner, decided to promote the colonization and settlement of the Salado basin, and entrusted his surveyor, the surveyor Senillosa, the survey of the area, in order to found new towns. By decree of December 25, 1839, and after the Revolution of the Free South, Governor Rhodes decided to divide the territory south of the Salado into new parties, more manageable, and was born among them, the "party of the Neighbor", separated of the party of Tandil, on lands of Don Cornelio Pizarro, who was his first authority. However, the wealth of their lands, the party lacked head and urbanization for several decades, until the laying of the Southern Railway began, around 1860. In 1887, the Velázquez station of the Dolores-Ayacucho branch was inaugurated, around which began to settle railroad workers and rural people of the party, and so in 1888 the first town of the party was founded. In 1890, before the growth experienced by the population, the neighbors petition for municipal autonomy, which is granted to them in February 1891. That same year, the name of General Guido is imposed on the town and the railway station, in memory of the military, political and diplomaticTomas Guido, friend and collaborator of General San Martin.
Explore. Front Page. February 15, 2009.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
(Behind-the-scene: From the same tree from across the street. It was a fine afternoon for shooting. The sunlight was a bit strong for convenience but it was manageable. It actually allowed me to fiddle with my EV adjustments and find my angles with my light sources. Yesterday, Cara and I went out in the backyard and photographed a couple of determined gerbera daisies.
On another note ~ Today is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Day. The aim of the Day is to help children with cancer get the best possible treatment and care, no matter where they live in the world, by raising both awareness and money." Have a meaningful week ahead, everyone!!!)
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Interestingness: #08.
FP: #30
Took a lot of work and software to bring this to you!
This is the interior of the Mission San José de Tumacácori church. I was up in the front of the church where the priest would have stood, thought I might be able to pull off something nice by shooting back toward the light from the dark interior.
Well let me tell you that direct sun coming in the entrance really blew out the original shot, that's the reason for the -1 EV. What I found out though is the negative EV calmed the light right down to a manageable level but made the rest of the interior close to pitch black!
Had to do a bunch of twiddles and tweaks in the post process but this is what I came up with. Trust me when I tell you it's not that bright when you're inside!
Interesting fact:
The walls are made of adobe which is basically a dried mud brick. These bricks would've washed away with the monsoons so they were covered in lime plaster that was made in a lime kiln onsite!
I have been called a lot of names folks and ( Bird Brain ) jumps out at me for this last image of the previous post. When he came in with branches this size they were rejected, in my Bird mind this looks a lot more manageable to weave into the nest than the one prior, but that's me, so this being the last I hope I've conveyed what I really saw. Have a great day everyone and thank you for stopping by and being so patient and indulging.
Surreal Stunning SprayPainted Sky Summer Sunset Seaside Scene (SOOC) Panorama - IMRAN™
This beyond stunning surreal seaside sunset sky scene seems spray-painted across the area. This is an absolutely unedited, unfiltered, unprocessed color SOOC (straight out of camera) image, simply stitched together from 3 landscape handheld Nikon D850 photos taken at my blessed home on Tampa Bay, Florida. The original stitch was 100 MB which I reduced to a more manageable quarter sized image of 20MB. But the magical effect is still clearly visible.
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A nice start of the new year with this one posing in manageable distance.
Happy New Year to all my Flickr friends!
Howdy! On the last day of my vacation (Italy trip in february), I managed to get a couple of rolls with the new Ferrania P33. Blasted thro this roll in half an hour around the Ponte Vecchio area in Florence. So far I totally diggin it! It has WAY less and much manageable contrast than his "older brother", P30. Some compare it with Acros II, but I think it looks more like FP4, with a little more "bite". Here is a couple of snaps from Florence. Developed at home with D-76. DSLR-scan.
Contax G1
Contax 90mm F2.8 Carl Zeiss Sonnar T
Ferrania P33 @ISO160
Adox D-76 (stock 11 mins)
Florence, Italy
DSLR scan
Lightroom
Honey Bees feeding on Syrup. It was a lucky kind of shot but I was walking around with a camera looking for something to capture. These bees are a small swarm that arrived a few weeks previously and they are extremely docile and manageable, just as well as they are my first bees ever!
Our Alaskan Sled Dog pack, who have been with us since the beginning, is once again whole on the other side of the rainbow bridge. We said goodbye to Skye on Tuesday morning; her arthritis became no longer manageable, and her hindquarters began to give way and her appetite declined rapidly.
After Juno passed away in February, Skye became somewhat of a volunteer around here! She helped us with our senior boarding and daycare guests, by welcoming them into her pen for some naps in the sun.
Thank you, Skye. We know you and the others are enjoying your reunion ❤️
If you knew Chloe, you'd know how suited this outfit is for her. She's so tolerant when I dress her up, balance things on her head, or ask her to hold something.
I started a new group called 52 weeks for k-9's. It has the basic 52 weeks project premise and we are accepting new members. We'll be in our first week until Sunday, so you have until then to join if you'd like to! It's by invite only, so if you'd like to join just send a request. We want to keep the group at manageable size.
Come here to join, hope to see you!
There is a reason I primarily shoot with apsc cameras, rather than full frame. I know bigger sensor undeniably has advantages on dynamic range and low-light capability, but it also means physically the lens will be much bigger, especially on the telephoto end.
As I progress in my photography journey, I start to shoot more and more on the longer end and that's really where small-sensor system shines.
This image was taken with a 100-400mm lens (full frame equivalent) on a casual walk near where I live. The lens itself has a very manageable form factor in apsc system and it allows me to bring it everywhere I go. On that particular day, I noticed this bird in the far distance and the sky was glowing with sunset color behind it. I quickly grabbed this shot and surprisingly I captured this moment when the bird was chirping.
The second train was this 2x3x1 double empty coal train in the cut just west of the nursery crossing on Arlington Hill. There's some tree trimming to be done here but it's still manageable.
At times I wonder if someone reads poetry books about how uneventful lives pass in certain social circles. It could be possible; however, most poetry books like these provide insight into turbulence, conflict and forced self-discovery. I suppose the secrets the books uncover are not so secret after all and that they are for everyone and not just a select few readers who have time to ponder the words carefully in the course of the day. If conflict were not part of all of our lives there would not be a need to write about such things to make the wold seem more manageable than it is.
The image is processed for contrast and colour saturation. I hope you like the result.
Railways of Great Britain
This start of another one of my collections although I have posted a few in the past
I have taken quite a few images over the years of Old Steam, Diesel and Electric engines and after sorting out probably 3,000 plus, I’ve now got it down to a more manageable number.
I’m starting with English Engines. Some of these images could be 25 years old. Many were transferred from negatives via a scanner so the quality will not be as good I would like. I have put them all through Photoshop to get rid of the most glaring issues
Apologies to those enthusiasts if I don’t get the right engine with the right Railway, they were taken a long time ago, some of them have moved on and my memory is not as good as it was.
Happy viewing.
The email from Lord Quimby was brief. “I MUST SEE YOU IMMEDIATELY!”
James Franklin Somerset Quimby IV was, in fact, a real English lord, even listed in the second to last publication of Burke’s Peerage in 1969.
Single and bored with England, he moved to America and became a US citizen.
He shared a May 19 birthday with Malcolm X for which he would tell people more than once after he had a few too many. Yet he had never actually known nor respected any Black person.
Now this friend of many years was urgently summoning me.
I say friend, it was never the same after he threw an unopened bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin at me after I questioned his musical preference for Baroque organ music.
A closeted gay man who affected bright blue-dyed ostrich skin cowboy boots in public but soft Ferragamo slippers at home he hosted lavish parties for insipid Republican candidates but always voted Democrat.
Now I was in his home again, standing too close to him in his kitchen, as he said, “As you know, we have been dear friends and traveling companions for quite a long time, perhaps too long in spite of our shared history and past fondness for one another.”
Where was he going with this?
“Over the last fortnight I have started to reduce my list of friends to something more manageable. And that is why I wanted to see you in person, mon ami, to tell you that I never want to see nor hear from you ever again. Please see yourself out.”
Not a Casablanca ending but not unwelcome either.
And that was that. “Omnia Temporaria sunt “. All things are temporary.
Front facade complete, with the exception of a few tweaks here and there.
So far about 20,000 pcs (6400 hundred are just the dark red cylinders for the roof!)
Over the next couple of days I will be doing all the internal structure up to this point. I am designing it so that each of the sections connectors to a main technic frame in the middle. That should make the build more manageable and easier to move around if needed.
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Grand Canyon NP, AZ
A majestic view of the Grand Canyon from the Mather Point overlook taken during a recent family vacation.
The canyon itself was magnificent but I found it truly difficult to do it justice in a photograph. First, haze was a constant issue. This shot was actually one of the few where the haze was manageable in post. Second, as much as I loved traveling out west with my family and observing as my kids saw for the first time some of the national parks that I hold in such high regard, it had its trade offs. For starters, sunrise shots were simply out of the question. Instead, midday shooting in harsh light was the norm. Advance scouting was not really an option - once we left left an overlook, it was quite literally in the rear view mirror and "gone" for good. Planting myself in one spot for several hours while waiting for better light was simply not in the cards like it would have been had I been traveling with my typical group of photography companions. That said, my first visit to GCNP provided some some valuable intel that will surely be useful for my next visit, whenever that may be.
Hope you enjoy this one.
Another year older looking at myself a bit different these days,did I finally reach that pinnacle all men strive for?That place where all problems become solvable or at the very least manageable?Can I look at myself and say you are worthy?Can I stand in judgement with my fellow man and be decried equal?Why does the chicken cross the road?Which came first the chicken or the egg?Have I ever washed this mirror?Why do these questions bother me?Why do I even ask?Why?
Barney having fun on Perseverance Hill, with the Worcestershire Beacon behind. I'd be interested to know where the name for Perseverance hill came from because quite frankly, it's a teeny tiny hill - you certainly don't need much in the way of perseverance to climb it! We've not been up here for quite a while, as the Beacon is easier to reach from our home, so Barney was pretty excited exploring all the different scents and racing around after those pesky invisible squirrels he loves to hunt for.
The only downside was the heat... Barney's got a track record of not being terribly sensible about slowing down when it's hot - if we're out somewhere fun and he's off lead, he wants to be running, never mind the temperature. Normally on hot summer days, I will therefore wait till late evening to take him out, but this time, I hadn't quite realised how warm it would be up there. Luckily, we'd brought some water with us and once he started looking puffed, I asked him to quietly walk behind me, which he did without complaint (perhaps a sign he's getting some sense?).
Ooh, Barney's doing so well with his arthritis atm :) After struggling badly over winter, he's been slowly improving this spring (as the weather got better) and now looks really good. He's still a bit stiff getting up but walks easier and can be allowed to run more on walks. I've been able to cut back on the painkillers too. He's gone from 2 1/2 tablets a day to usually just 1, or even a half - in fact, a couple of times, he's skipped the pills entirely and seemed fine. I'm being careful not to over do it with the exercise etc but am glad he's feeling happier. I suspect once the colder, wetter weather returns, he'll need more in the way of pain relief but I'm happy to see that the problems caused by his hip dysplasia are manageable.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The ground was white, the sky was white, and so was the air. For every 2 steps upward I slid 1 backwards. Sinking into the snow 12 inches was manageable, but 4 feet was not. My pace was pitiful as it took 2 hours to snowshoe a single mile, while avoiding hazards like tree wells and cornices. But finally I reached my destination just as the snowstorm came to an end. Clouds broke up to reveal Shell Canyon in the distance. Winds whipped puffs of snow off the treetops like the smoke of a hundred campfires. Surrounded by house-sized boulders, I could see across the valley to Antelope Butte ski area. Between gusts it actually started to feel warm, though it was still far below freezing. A higher angle makes sunlight more intense at this time of year, which was about the only reminder that it is indeed spring.
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This is it! After the Torment, the Negotiator proudly joins my Midi-Scale capital ship collection, engineered with the same philosophy in mind: maximizing accuracy, features and proportions of the original model in a moderate size.
Made of 3,145 pieces, 68cm (27 inches) long, weighing 1,6kg, the Negotiator is a medium-sized, modular Venator-class Star Destroyer holding on a single, unique Lego stand.
This piece of work is the result of weeks of designing, engineering and intense testing. I wanted the Negotiator to be dense, massive-looking, intricate and packed with detail, while being compact and manageable.
Building at such a scale, I had to take into account every possible constraint (balance, weight distribution, structure sturdiness) while never compromising any aesthetics (SNOT look, thickness, greeble).
The Negotiator features every intricate part of the studio model: turrets, hangar and docking bays, engines, bridge, greeble... with utter attention to detail and proportions of the original ship, as seen in the Prequels.
► Instructions for the Negotiator are available at BrickVault!
Another model based on the incredible designs of EC-Henry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeA777Ru7aI
This particular ship, a YX-950 freighter, is supposed to be about 3x larger than the Millennuim Falcon. To make it more manageable, I downsized the whole thing by ca. 1/3. I also bulked the fuselage up a bit to fit a fully fleshed out hangar inside.
Credit goes to:
- EC-Henry for the ship design
www.youtube.com/channel/UCPmnhtABNKjwsrln3xP0Cig
- Aniomylone for the snowspeeder
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- Brick Vault for the cargo crates
Hoewel ik wat testopnamen had genomen met meer beheersbare instellingen, is het altijd weer spannend om een opname van tien minuten te maken. Het zou mijn enige kans worden om iets van de kleur in de lucht te pakken van de zonsondergang, ook al ging de zon schuil achter de wolken.
Ik was opgelucht toen ik het resultaat zag op het schermpje van mijn camera: goed belicht. Oef! Gelukkig geen verspilde tijd en moeite. Na flink wat sleutelen in Aperture en Photoshop – maar zonder aan de kleuren zelf te zitten – is dit het resultaat. Best heel blij mee. Wat vinden jullie ervan?
Educated guess
Even though I did some test shots with more manageable settings, it’s always a gamble to take ten minute exposures. It would be my only chance at catching some of the colour in the lower sky from the sunset, even though the sun was obscured by clouds.
I was relieved when I saw the result on my camera screen: perfectly exposed. Phew! Luckily, those ten minutes were not wasted. After quite some tinkering in Aperture and Photoshop – but without actually touching the colours, mind you – this is the result. I’m quite happy with it. Please let me know what you think.
Phylum: Basidiomycota - Class: Agaricomycetes - Order: Agaricales - Family: Hygrophoraceae
One of the smaller species of red waxcap fungi, Hygrocybe miniata is an infrequent find on cropped grassland and in woodland clearings.
Red waxcaps are notoriously difficult to separate on macroscopic characters alone, and so it is a great help when a species has one or more features shared with few or no other waxcaps. The Vermillion Waxcap is one very few members of the Hygrophoraceae whose caps are scurfy rather than greasy.
The Vermillion Waxcap is an uncommon find but widely distributed in most parts of Britain and Ireland. This species has pretty much a worldwide distribution in temperate regions, although in some countries it is more commonly found in woods than on grassland and heathland. Hygrocybe is recorded in most parts of mainland Europe and Asia as well as North America, Australia and many other countries.
When pioneering Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries was writing Systema Mycologicum (published in 1821), he described this waxcap scientifically and gave it the name Agaricus miniatus. (At that time most gilled fungi were initially placed into the genus Agaricus, since cut down to a more manageable proportions by redistribution of most of its contents to other genera, including Hygrocybe.) Despite literature searches by other mycologists over the past two centuries, the basionym remains unchallenged. It was German mycologist Paul Kummer who, in 1871, transferred this species to the genus Hygrocybe, establishing its current scientific name Hygrocybe miniata.
Hygrocybe miniata has acquired several synonyms including Agaricus miniatus Fr., Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.)Fr.,
Hygrocybe miniata var. miniata (Fr.) P. Kumm., Hygrophorus strangulatus P. D. Orton, and Hygrocybe strangulata (P. D. Orton) Svrcek.
Etymology
The genus Hygrocybe is so named because fungi in this group are always very moist. Hygrocybe means 'watery head'. Does the specific epithet suggest to you that this is a very small waxcap? That's exactly what miniata means.
The dry, scurfy cap, typically 1 to 3cm in diameter, is at first convex and then flattens sometimes with a slight depression; initially scarlet or blood red; with age the cap fades from the margin inwards to orange and then to yellowish, also becoming smoother. The cap flesh is thin and reddish-orange.
Reddish-brown with pale yellow edges, the gills are adnate, sometimes with a decurrent tooth; broad and fairly distant.
Scarlet or orange-red but paler at base, the dry stipe is level, 0.3-0.5cm diameter and 2-7cm talll; no stem ring; reddish-orange stem flesh.
Spores
Ellipsoidal, smooth, 6.5-9 x 4-5μm; inamyloid.
Spore print
White.
Woodland clearings and closely cropped or mown acid grassland where artificial fertilisers are not spread; also sometimes found on sandy heathland.
Waxcaps have long been considered to be saprobic on the dead roots of grasses and other grassland plants, but it is now considered likely that there is some kind of mutual relationship between waxcaps and mosses.
The Vermillion Waxcap is reportedly edible, but it is too small and insubstantial as well as too uncommon to be worth considering as a culinary collectible. It is, however, a very fine feast for sore eyes.
Shot with A7Riii and my 50mm F/1.2 GM wide open. Natural light photograph.
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Amtrak 1340 - Borealis - departs Saint Paul on time at 11:50 and eases through "Hoffman" under Dayton's Bluff. Gusty winds and dust from the road kicked up by trucks was pesky but manageable.
The mist got deeper and the hills vanished. The thin cloud on the horizon helped in keeping the suns intensity to a manageable level
The grabber mech is one of four mechs planned for Mechtober 2021.
After the Scanner Mech has located scrap to salvage and the Cutter Mech has chopped it into more manageable chunks, the Grabber Mech moves in and loads it into the Hauler Mech.
Didn't think I'd build another Star Wars MOC as large as the Theed Hangar and Geonosian Arena. Though it took a decade to get it done to go back to my LSW roots and getting inspired by The Book Of Boba Fett series along the way.
Eighteen regular tan 32 x 32 baseplates in foot print and built in modules for the past month or so. This is the way to accomplish a large MOC by splitting it into manageable modules with the big picture in sight. Though the modules by themselves may seem insignificant, together they create a much more awesome build. Moreover the individual modules can be switched around to create a different layout as designed much like what was done with the Akai Shiro castlegrounds.
Gral Guido
Después de la Independencia, Juan Manuel de Rosas, prominente hacendado, decidió impulsar la colonización y el poblamiento de la cuenca del Salado, y encomendó a su topógrafo, el agrimensor Senillosa, el relevamiento de la zona, con el objeto de fundar nuevos pueblos. Por decreto del 25 de diciembre de 1839, y tras la Revolución de los Libres del Sur, el gobernador Rodas decidió dividir el territorio al sur del Salado en nuevos partidos, más manejables, y nació entre ellos, el “partido del Vecino”, separado del partido de Tandil, sobre tierras de Don Cornelio Pizarro, quien fue su primera autoridad. No obstante, la riqueza de sus tierras, el partido careció de cabecera y de urbanización durante varias décadas, hasta que empezó el tendido del ferrocarril del Sur, hacia 1860. En 1887, se inaugura la estación Velázquez del ramal Dolores-Ayacucho, alrededor de la cual se empiezan a asentar trabajadores del ferrocarril y pobladores rurales de partido, y así en 1888 se funda el primer poblado del partido. En 1890, ante elcrecimiento experimentado por la población, los vecinos peticionan la autonomía municipal, la cual les es concedida en febrero de 1891. Ese mismo año, se impone al pueblo y a la estación ferroviaria el nombre de General Guido, en recuerdo del militar, político y diplomáticoTomas Guido, amigo y colaborador del general San Martin.
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Gral Guido
After Independence, Juan Manuel de Rosas, a prominent landowner, decided to promote the colonization and settlement of the Salado basin, and entrusted his surveyor, the surveyor Senillosa, the survey of the area, in order to found new towns. By decree of December 25, 1839, and after the Revolution of the Free South, Governor Rhodes decided to divide the territory south of the Salado into new parties, more manageable, and was born among them, the "party of the Neighbor", separated of the party of Tandil, on lands of Don Cornelio Pizarro, who was his first authority. However, the wealth of their lands, the party lacked head and urbanization for several decades, until the laying of the Southern Railway began, around 1860. In 1887, the Velázquez station of the Dolores-Ayacucho branch was inaugurated, around which began to settle railroad workers and rural people of the party, and so in 1888 the first town of the party was founded. In 1890, before the growth experienced by the population, the neighbors petition for municipal autonomy, which is granted to them in February 1891. That same year, the name of General Guido is imposed on the town and the railway station, in memory of the military, political and diplomaticTomas Guido, friend and collaborator of General San Martin.
I had a play with my macro lens and my Godox AD200 for this photo. It's been a while since I've worked on my close-up skills. I wanted to experiment with flash as well. For this photo I had the camera on a tripod while holding the AD200 in my hand. I used a 2-second timer to make it all a bit more manageable. I was surprised that in the daylight I still had to be a bit indirect with the flash as well as turn it all the way down to 1/128! I guess a little shade can go a long way.
Camera: Pentax K-70
Lens: Pentax FA 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Strobe: Godox AD200
"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that."
43/365
So today I didn't think I'd get chance to take a 365 since I was shooting a beaut of a wedding in Wales, and then I saw this tree in front of the venue... and had to have a little fun :-)
It was a lovely day, I felt present, I felt relaxed. I'm growing into a new chapter of my life and it's becoming pleasurable again, not just bearable and manageable. This is good! I had a little cry on the drive home, but not out of sadness, but because the sky was so spectacularly washed with purple and pink and the music I was listening to was so spectacularly beautiful (Romantic Flight - John Powell) that I couldn't help but feel it, he's the song now (I dream of him saying that to me) and how he would have loved to be that song set to that sky. Lovely.
*update* turns out there's an amazing German artist who does similar work with floating trees - check him out! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2588975/Optical-illusion...
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm f/6.5
ToupTek 2600MC
iOptron CEM70G
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
TS-Optics TSAPORed075
Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
This is an image on a very wet conditions using the Touptek 2600MC . TRansparence was really bad, and gradually changed to clouds..so i had just very few frames.
I had to test multiple aspects of my configuration :
HCG setting --> had to redo Darks and Flats ...my initial tests were with LCG
0.74x reducer for the TS Photoline 140mm
Here my comments :
HCG seems not good on such subjects, i have to say that the two images did so far on LCG are better manageable and Full Well not saturated as in this image
0.74x reducer is working great as per my opinion
In general the camera seems working great , a big improvement respect to my past ASI 294MC which is in any case a great camera.
The Chapel
Audley End House is a largely early 17th century country house just outside the town of Saffron Walden in Essex.
The site was originally Walden Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 1139. In 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII granted the abbey and lands to his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Audley.
Sir Thomas Audley converted the abbey buildings into a mansion. His great-grandson, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, demolished most of the earlier house and built the current magnificent mansion between 1605 and 1614. It was intended to be grand enough to host King James I, a feat it achieved, but its immense cost led to the Earl's financial ruin and conviction for embezzlement.
Throughout the 18th century, successive owners, including the Countess of Portsmouth, reduced the house to a more manageable size by demolishing large sections, saving it from total dereliction.
In the 1820s, the 3rd Lord Braybrooke remodelled the house to recover its original Jacobean character, a style that largely prevails in the house's interiors today.
After the second world war, due to heavy death duties, the 9th Lord Braybrooke sold the house to the Ministry of Works (the predecessor of English Heritage) in 1948. The house and gardens are now open to the public, offering a glimpse into centuries of English history.