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Managed to visit the Red Tower in York a few days later with my 10-20mm lens this time. The clouds were interesting and the wind had picked up so I thought I'd dig out the 10-stop filter.
I managed to find this idealitic early spring sunset scene in Weld County, CO before our new round of snow began this week. Here in my area of Larimer County, we could get over ten inches!
Image Notes:
Manually blended five frames using luminosity and handmade masks.
The stunning South Lakeland vista from Swainson looking down on Fell Foot was a 'must do' for me on the recent PVC charter at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway.
Karl & Mike Heath were the only other ones to attempt it on the day. After a 'undefined' climb out of the forest to the top I managed to capture this image on the last run past after missing the previous two.
Well I managed a trip out this afternoon, not much about as it was still quite chilly, but I did spot a few of these guys sitting on Dandelions, this is one of the Tenthredo sp. Sawflies and I'm not sure which, although it is a species I see commonly, but I know there are many similar species in this Genus.
Anyway as it was cold this one allowed me to take an 18 image handheld focus stack of its noggin, I used ISO 320, Aperture F/5.6 and a 1/160 shutter speed. Soon after this the Sawfly started to stir and promptly flew off.
Possible ID :- Tenthredo arcuata or Tenthredo notha
Hope everyone has a grand week :o)
Mallard duck cruising by, i know they're seen everywhere but i can't resist snapping these handsome ducks E-M1 MKII/100-400mm.
Please press L for a larger and nicer view :-)
Removed yesterday and reposted today due to an ongoing flickr issue..............
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Thank you to the very few who did manage to see it yesterday and left a comment/fav :-)
This weekend is photos resurrection day for me! ;) This is another shot which i think i've managed to revive from the grave. It seems that i really do not have much luck with photos to do with horses.. they just seem to turn out overly exposed or noisy :-| i reckon i don't get on well with horses haha!..maybe cos i'm not as well hung like them LOL! However fyi i'm getting there tho :P you wouldn't want to know :D Have a great sunday tomorrow!
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About
The Horse Drawn Trams at Victor Harbor
* As repeated in my previous horse drawn trams photo :)
The Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Trams are a South Australian icon and have been serving visitors to Granite Island and Victor Harbor since 1894. The tram uses 14 Clydesdale Horses on a rotational basis with the trams accommodating approximately 50 passengers. Each horse works only two shifts a week with the trams running on roller bearings, to make it easy work for them.
It's iconic image and unsurpassed service to approximately 180,000 visitors to Victor Harbor each year provides a memorable journey for people of all backgrounds and establishes a fond memory of the Fleurieu Peninsula region for all age groups.
The Shot
1 exposure shot (0 EV) taken handheld using the Canon kit lens EF-S 18-55mm lens and polarized light filter
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using single file conversion with detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer effect of 'warm' photo filter to enhance the atmosphere of the sunset feel
- Added 1 layer effect of 'saturation' (master) to slightly increase the overall saturation;
- Applied slight dodging on the horses & carriages
- Applied noise reduction
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome.
Video
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Just in time for Bionifight's closing, I managed to put together a MOC of my (second?) favorite character from the RPG: Virse, Toa of Sand. I've been wanting to MOC her for months, and now that I finally got some (knockoff) tan CCBS, I could finish her. I have to say I'm very proud of how she came out.
Virse hails from an alternate universe where the GSR was never built and the Toa were created to attempt to repair Spherus Magna. However, they only made it worse, and in the great Shattering that followed, the Great Beings were lost. The survivors were forced to war for resources, Glatorian vs. Toa. After thousands of years passed and hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, they reached an unsteady peace. Virse, like many other Toa, used this time to specialize her element, shifting from Stone to Sand, before being taken to fight in the Bionifight Tournament. When the Bionifight Facility crash-landed on Saarella Kirottu, Virse was lost and presumed dead in an attempt to liberate the prisoners of the Cult of War.
Virse wields a Heat Gauntlet, a weak Great Being relic capable of creating great heat, in which she can forge her hardened glass blades. She wears the Mask of Elemental Transmutation, allowing her to change her body into sand.
We managed to get out to the Dec BNO at Pink Punters last month. We hadn't been there for a year, so it was nice to catchup with old friends. 🌈
I managed to get out last night between rain squals and get this shot with my new RGND filter that I've had for a month. Just haven't had the opportunity until last night. Obviously there was a lot of editing in photoshop but starting with the filter gives you a great starting point. Well worth the money spent.
Explore 05.06.09 Thanks Everyone!
We managed to have a week away in Somerset in October - as always, it was wonderful to see the sea. The path from the Weir to Gore Point is always rewarding.
I managed to get a better photograph of Southern Giant Petrel off the seafront at Punta Arenas in Chile, than I did in three weeks in Antarctica. I only spent a couple of hours at the coast in Chile, and I only saw a few but one of them flew past just a few metres away. I did see thousands in Antarctica, but none quite as photogenic as this one.
This individual is a juvenile, which has uniform blackish plumage. Adults can be pale or dark, but dark ones are not as dark as this. They are long-lived, slow-breeding species that don't even start breeding until they are about 10 years old.
They are also absolutely enormous with a wingspan that can exceed 2m, and weighing about 5kg. It is hard to believe they are related to Storm Petrels, which weigh about 30g. This individual can be identified from the extremely similar Northern Giant Petrel by its uniform coloured bill, which has a reddish tip in Northern.
Managed to find one lone flower to photography in the middle of winter. First time the weather has been nice enough to play with my new toy...65mm MP-E macro. Center of a Viola, at appx. 2x life size. Single shot, hand held. More soon.
I managed to build 3 quite big models this year! Especially 'to the sky' was huge and much more structural work than usual!
You can see here some models that I didn't post on my Flickr main account. Most of them were just some small builds for contests done within a few hours.
Among those is the 60ies furniture or Shaun the sheep. Contests can be quite interesting: I would have never thought of building Shaun otherwise and it was fun and satisfying.
'Land Ahoy' might look like a rip off of my former Lighthouse-wave MOC of 2018. Which was in a way only a fraction of my space tube cylinder. But I managed to do it 'legally' and stable and it got enough Lego Ideas votes within a few months.
At Cornwall marsh, the goose too off when we arrived for only one minute. When we paddled off it went back to this nest managing the 5 bird eggs. Not sure when the gosling baby birds break through the eggs and quickly reach down to the water and paddle away. I would like to view the goslings but the timing is difficult.
A view of new goslings photography last year….
Managed to get the camera fired up but think the constant carrying stuff about might be having an adverse affect on my gear. Took a few test shots with the 70-200 and, not sure if it's a sharp as it used to be.....
I actually did this digital painting a few weeks ago, but it seemed to sum up the spirit of the Challenge so well that I reworked it!
When we first adopted Amber, she had 'issues' with younger children - ie anybody younger than about 15! Being a rescue we had no idea why, and, although we were sure she was in no way aggressive, we had to be careful, especially in the house with our youngest daughter. Every walk, if we even passed kids on the other side of the street Amber would bark! Nowadays though she has no issues at all and happily greets anybody, large or small! In fact, if anything, she seems more protective and watchful over very young children!
I was so pleased when I managed to get this picture of my youngest daughter with Amber. My daughter thought Amber would never love her when we first got her so to see them so comfortable together now is just lovely!! This is what it's all about!
Digitally painted, textured, non-destructive dodging and burning and a few adjustment layers!
TFL!
Bernie x
I published a version of this photograph last year, which managed to make it onto Explore, for which I am very grateful. Since then however, I've spotted a number of elements about the way I processed it that bugged me.
This was taken on the same morning as the photo I uploaded and is actually some fifteen to twenty minutes before the previous one.
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"Manage me, I'm a mess
Turn a page, I'm a book half unread
I wanna be laughed at, laughed with, just because
I wanna feel weightless and that should be enough
But I'm stuck in this fucking rut
Waiting on a second hand pick me up
And I'm over getting older
If I could just find the time
Then I would never let another day go by
I'm over getting old
And maybe its not my weekend
But its gonna be my year
And I'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass
While I go nowhere
And this is my reaction to everything I fear
[everything i fear]
Cause I've been going crazy
I don't wanna waste another minute here
Make believe that I impress
That every word by design turns a head
I wanna feel reckless
wanna live it up just because
I wanna feel weightless
cause that would be enough" Weightless - All Time Low
my boys. i absolutely cannot wait for that album of theirs. we played robinson today, lost.. 9-1. varsity lost 20-1.
i am 1) wet. 2) tired 3) sore
and i have 1) a headache 2) a stomachache 3) hurt knee.
I NEED SLEEEEEEEEPPP
tomorrow is my pampering day. i feel like without it, i'll literally go insane.
and again..
currently listening to: weightless - all time low for the third day in a row..
I managed to get a photograph of this Chough with its bill open that I thought was different enough to merit posting. This is the vagrant Chough on the Lancashire coast which was still present yesterday.
In Britain, Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) are rather rare, and have always been so as there are few English folk names for them. There are many ancient references to Chough but that is because this was the name originally applied to the Jackdaw. Shakespeare refers to Choughs in seven of his plays but at this date he can have only meant Jackdaws. The name Cornish Chough was the real Chough's earliest name (Turner 1544) as it was literally the Cornish Jackdaw (also called Cornyssh daw in 1575). Thomas Bewick (1804) was the first to drop the epithet "Cornish" and just called it Chough as by this date the name was no longer used for Jackdaw. As Chough is a defunct onomatopoeic name for Jackdaw it is certain that it was originally pronounced "Chow" (similar to Bough being pronounced bow). But everyone now pronounces it "Chuff".
The Golden Silk Orb-weaver females are large, with a body length of up to 3" (7.5cm). These spiders prey on flies, beetles, locusts, wood moths and cicadas. Sometimes their strong webs manage to trap small birds or bats, and the spider will wrap them and feed on them. Photographed May 5th in Costa Rica's Northern plains on tour with Neotropic Photo Tours.
Managed to catch the light from the setting sun as it reflected off the ice formations on the other side of the opening.
At Apostle Islands National Shoreline, Cornucopia, WI
BLM managed wild horses at a watering hole in South Steens Mountain, Eastern Oregon. A young colt shows his displeasure. All rights reserved. Best viewed large.
Went to PF to have an attempt of 6F05 with tug44 on the front! But guess what? It was 15!!! Bowled like always! Anyhow I managed a shot from the bank of it! 60044 sits in the stabling point at Peak Forest looking all the more hellfire with all the stone dust down the front and with the new nameplate 'Dowlow'. It also has bling! Happy days! 20/9/15
Managed to be in the right place at the right time for an extremely short burst of sunshine on an otherwise miserable day to capture the fabulous Oranmore Castle.
managed to charm my way into Scone Palace yesterday for nothing an hr before closing time,the gentleman at the ticket office kindly let me in to take some shots as I had travelled all the way up from Paisley,very nice man that he was :)
Managed to get a few shots in the fog on my way to work this morning. This was the last shot before I had to fly away up the road, see the colour just coming through in the sky as I was leaving.
With the high cloud building, this managed to find a thin patch, seen with the 10.28 Felixstowe - Birch Coppice.
Managed to get another Athearn GP40-2 done. The prototype photo I used for reference was from RailPictures.net and was taken in 1999. www.railpictures.net/photo/55432/. You will notice some detail differences between the prototype and the model. The model is as the loco would have been in 1984 when painted into this scheme. However, I liked the look of this as it is in this photo so decided just to go with it. The locomotive was originally Western Pacific 3553 with a build date of Apr 1980. UP renumbered it to the 900 series in April 1984 and then to 9988 in Jan 2003.
Managed a very zoomed in shot of the White Pelican that has been spending time at Blackie Spit for a couple of weeks. A rarity for our area. Even from so far off an amazing bird to see
I've decided to move my repaints to a new address, so that to keep this account for oryginal dolls: www.flickr.com/photos/stary_zgreds_repaints/50478131978/i...
Managed to get a few shots of Cattle Egrets inter-acting with the "Rare Breeed" White Park Cattle this morning. I/C the classic "on the back" shot
[Reposts] This now late Summer 2026 and I havent had a chance to go shoot more Romanesque. Until I manage to procure new material, I hope you will be happy to see (again?) some oldies I have been compiling for a large and ambitious book project that I have recently undertaken on Romanesque churches and art.
For that future book, I have selected over 2,400 photos from my collection. That number is daunting. Of course, most of them will not make it into the actual book, however thick it may end up being, but keep in mind also that I am not through at all yet with shooting... Aside from the many still unknown churches in France, foreign lands beckon such as Bavaria, Armenia, all the parts of Spain I haven’t visited —not to mention all of Central and Eastern Europe that I was supposed to cover for the à la Zodiaque book project that is still on hold...
Hermitage churches are decidedly quite different in Spain! When you say “hermitage”, you think “hermit”, i.e., a solitary person desiring to live in isolation and utter poverty, and believing that solitude and physical deprivation should enable one to better meditate and pray and come closer to God-pleasing ideals. Such persons showed utmost fortitude and despise for material possessions. Those hermits (at least, the ones I knew about before I came to Spain!) probably did not often see the need for a specific place for their rituals. If they did, a simple and humble altar certainly sufficed, or at the most a very small and unadorned chapel... but here in Spain, the hermits would have none of that!
So, when looking for a hermitage church near the village of Urueña, we should not be surprised to happen upon this lovely, but not at all humble, early 1100s church with its cut stones, its three naves (count ’em!) and its generous decoration of bandes lombardes that makes art historians believe Catalan builders were employed to erect it. I make no mention of the ugly additions from the late 17th century, very un-hermit-like as well.
My Zodiaque book, Castille romane, volume 2, says that no one knows how such an impressive monument came to be built here in Castille, but mentions the marriage of the local earl’s daughter to the Catalan earl of Urgel, Don Armengel V, as a possible lead to track its architectural and decorative gene pool. This monument had no descendance whatsoever in the provinces of Castille and León and remains quite lonely, stylistically speaking. And as to the “hermit” who presumably lived there, no one knows anything about him either, but let’ say that, if he accepted to live a so-called hermit’s life in this church, he was not being too hard on himself!
I know some hermits who would have called this a joke.
Just as I did, you probably went “Wow!” when you first saw this photo: “What, this, a hermitage church?” Beyond the sarcasm, and if you try to un-see the ugly, squarish additions from the late 1600s, you can admire a lovely church, a true homage by Catalan artists to the “First Age of Romanesque” with the bandes lombardes prominently featured as they should...
Nicely appareled, with good care but not too much care, this Nuestra Señora de la Anunciada (Our Lady of the Annunciation) appears made to look as exactly as possible as early Romanesque churches looked, like a proud Catalan seed firmly planted in the earth of Castille and León... not unlike, perhaps, the own Catalan seed that the earl of Urgel intended to plant into Doña Maria Ansurez...
Jayden and Raven relaxing as they watch the fireworks during Bonfire night at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Managed to get a few more shots of the new North Rider brand today, introduced the previous day by East Yorkshire. All the routes have many picturesque hamlets, villages and vast amounts of countryside just wanting to be photographed! I urge anyone to do it. Big thanks to Scott Poole too for helping with some locations!
A wee fun photo taken at the end of Megalomatic's "Symbolism" EP Launch tour.
Listen to/buy the EP here:
megalomatic.bandcamp.com/album/symbolism