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This private park is on a large property with a circumferential trail which has now became unidirectional to minimize contact. My European and American urban friends may not realize how sparsely populated some areas in the US are and that only few individuals are visiting at any one time (we saw two fisherman from a distance). Nonetheless, we will now limit ourselves to our wooded property and archive. Nest is about 500 feet away.
Be safe!
A backlit bottle of Gatorade Zero, sharing the same distinctive hue as the classic, original lemon-lime beverage.
These small 12-ounce (355ml) bottles are fairly well topped off at the bottling plant. I've found they have to be placed flat on a table and opened very carefully to minimize the inevitable drippage. A few bottles from a case I checked for this photoshoot had absolutely no trapped air.
This section is about two inches (50.8mm) long.
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➤ at least 1 of the Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire) and ...
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One of 2 under 10 weeks old Barred Owls practicing hunting and flying skills. Such a joy to see while keeping distance to minimize disturbances for them.
At the Ash River Visitor Center in Voyageurs National Park with a view extending to the northwest taking in the setting at a dock on the Kabetogama Lake. My thought in composing this image had been to use the canoe and dock and then have a layered approach to the outcropping beyond with the lake waters leading up to the more distant shoreline with trees. The overcast skies I tried to minimize as I felt they really didn't add much to the image and were more of a negative space. But I did though work to expose the image to not blow any highlights there and add ensure details in the clouds were brought out.
Love this spot on Lake Tahoe. Decided to reprocess one of my photos from last year and i felt the results were far better than before. This is a composite of two images. One for the foreground and one for the sky. This was a necessity as i used a barn door tracker to capture the sky and this greatly blurs the foreground. I used the barn door tracker to get a super long exposure to minimize the introduction of noise the best I could
… amid the many storms that surround us. 😊
I find there's something relaxing on the eye when we keep the colour palette simple. Colours really can elicit emotional responses.
Just as taking the noises away rests my ears, so minimizing the colours can rest my eyes … and hopefully my mind too!
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Same location as the cross-processed E100 shot, a very slightly wider angle, but this shot was taken within 5 minutes of the first so as to minimize light or color differences from the rising sun.
This image is definitely less saturated than the cross-processed E100, but it still definitely has punch. The sky definitely is more similar to the true colors that day. The blue of the sky was a bit washed out in the E100 - I wonder if blues suffer with E100 when cross processing - the oranges certainly did not!
I will be sending off my E100 sheets to The Darkroom this weekend, so it will be a while before I can do the third leg of this comparison. Interesting results so far though - I feel like cross processing E100 is a thing I may be doing more of.
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When I first started getting serious about birding, my friend Paul was a great teacher - not only about songs and other means of identification, but about behaviours. This in turn made a lot of difference when he encouraged me to pick up a camera. Behaviour is a very important part, in my experience, of finding and photographing birds.
A great example was learning that warbler flocks of varying sizes will sweep across an area, pulling insects from under leaves and along stems of trees and shrubs. If you see or hear one warbler, there are likely more, and including different species. In migration periods, Black-capped Chickadees are often the noisiest and most obvious members of these mobile flocks.
As a result, we would often hear or see a bird, and then hunker down, waiting for the mixed flock to move around or over us. Many of my warbler images come from this strategy, and its corollary: don’t chase birds. Chasing never works, especially with some of the more elusive species. Waiting for them to reveal themselves doesn’t always work, but chasing almost never works.
In any event: I was in such a situation recently, and I simply froze in the woods. To minimize intimidating movement with my camera, I held it close to my face, and listened to the birds moving around me. A Yellow Warbler is not a rare bird by any stretch here - they breed in our area before heading back south - but it was a good example of the phenomenon of stationary birding. There were a couple of Nashville Warblers, a Blackburnian, and some Vireos along with the Yellow, but those images were not as good an illustration of what I am describing. This bird was combing through a bush right beside me, and my having frozen in place made a neat encounter possible.
Glacier National Park, Stopped the car in a layby and walked down to the edge of the lake, the view was incredible and the lake was huge so I think the sculpture helps to minimize the landscape!
Blattspitzen des roten Ahorns und jede Menge blauer Himmel ... ///
Red Maple leaf tips and plenty of blue skies...
Out yesterday morning, Aug 27th 2015, and came across 6 Grey Seals bobbing around in the water off Backman Road, Bayswater. One seal was laying back and had a big yawn showing his teeth. They look pretty cute from a distance, but don't be fooled they can be pretty vicious if you get too close.
For the photograph: It was pretty foggy so I got down over the rocks to the shoreline to get as close as possible. Using lightroom to process the photo I used the white, black and contrast sliders under the basic panel to minimize the haze of the fog. I also used a radial filter and the brush to slightly highlight the seal in the ocean.
Mammal: Grey Seal
Date: Aug 27, 2015
Location: Backman Road, Bayswater, Nova Scotia
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Tripod: Manfroto 055XPROB with 498RC2 Ball head
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I decided to try CamFi's Focus Stacking feature yesterday. The image above shows a small flower (about the size of a quarter) that was growing in my yard. This image was created using 45 individual images that were stacked in Helicon Focus 6.
Overall, the focus stacking image capture worked as expected. However, CamFi's user interface is not necessarily ideal. The way you change variables (by scrolling through all the possible numbers for a specific value placement) is inefficient at best. And the fact that the app does not remember the last settings used makes the process of creating images for focus stacking even more laborious and time consuming.
Three stacked Kenko Extension Tubes (12, 20 & 36mm) were used to minimize minimum focus distance and increase magnification.
strobist: 1 White Lightning x1600, camera right (behind subject), diffused with a gridded stripbox. 1 White Lightning Ultrazap 1600, camera left (behind), diffused by a gridded stripbox. 1 Canon 580EX, camera left, diffused by a gridded 24" collapsible softbox. A reflector was used camera right to fill in shadows on that side. Monolights and flash triggered via Cybersyncs. The background was a black foam core board.
The Mallard, or Wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos[1]), probably the best-known and most recognizable of all ducks, is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and sub-tropical Americas, Europe, Asia, New Zealand (where it is currently the most common duck species), and Australia.
The male birds have a bright green head, while the female's is light brown. The Mallard lives in wetlands, eats water plants, and is gregarious. It is also migratory. The Mallard is the ancestor of all domestic ducks, and can interbreed with other species of genus Anas.[2] This interbreeding is causing rarer species of ducks to become genetically diluted.
The Mallard is 56–65 centimetres (22–26 in) long, has a wingspan of 81–98 centimetres (32–39 in), and weighs 0.9–1.2 kilograms (32–42 oz). The breeding male is unmistakable, with a bright green head, black rear end and a yellowish orange (can also contain some red) bill tipped with black (as opposed to the dark brown bill in females), and is also nature's most feared duck. The female Mallard is light brown, like most female dabbling ducks. However, both the female and male Mallards have distinct purple speculum edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest (though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult). In non-breeding (eclipse) plumage the drake becomes drab, looking more like the female, but still distinguishable by its yellow bill and reddish breast.
In captivity, domestic ducks come in wild-type plumages, white, and other colours. Most of these colour variants are also known in domestic Mallards not bred as livestock, but kept as pets, aviary birds, etc., where they are rare but increasing in availability.
A noisy species, the male has a nasal call, the female has a "quack" stereotypically associated with ducks.[3]
The Mallard is a rare example of both Allen's Rule and Bergmann's Rule in birds. Bergmann's Rule, which states that polar forms tend to be larger than related ones from warmer climates, has numerous examples in birds. Allen's Rule says that appendages like ears tend to be smaller in polar forms to minimize heat loss, and larger in tropical and desert equivalents to facilitate heat diffusion, and that the polar taxa are stockier overall. Examples of this rule in birds are rare, as they lack external ears. However, the bill of ducks is very well supplied with blood vessels and is vulnerable to cold.
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While walking the Devils Postpile Upper Trail with a view looking to the southwest across the hexagonal patterns with its columnar basalt. My thinking in composing this image was to make more of a layered approach with the nearby overlook that then lead to a more distant mountainside. As the skies above were mainly overcast with forest fire haze, I worked the angle on my Nikon SLR camera to have the surrounding landscape filling most of the image while minimizing what I felt was a negative space with the skies above.
The Essence is an ongoing study about minimizing the elements in a photo to its essence - shapes, lines and black and white.
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Hills adorned in lacy white
While walking the Hidden Valley Nature Trail with a view looking to the northwest across the snowy landscape present in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. What drew me into the setting was the layered look I felt present. Nearby was freshly fallen snow. Then came the Joshua Trees with some other cactus and plant-life. Off in the distance and getting snow covered quickly was the rock-strewn landscape. My thought on composing this image was to keep a more or less leveled-on view, looking straight ahead while minimizing the negative space present with the overcast and snowy skies.
The caption line comes from a poem I found online.
Winter's Embrace, by Patricia Cisco
A small fly navigates through 'giant' drops on a leaf. Easter was cold and rainy in Switzerland, but one always finds something with a macro lens...
Physics: nice round drops form because the leaf surface repels water. Energetically it is more favourable for the drops to grow round in order to minimize their shared surface with the leaf.
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A view looking to the northwest from an overlook at the North Clear Creek Falls Observation Site in Rio Grande National Forest. With this image, I pulled back on the focal length to create more of an ultra-wide angle view. I felt allowing the river to flow by added to the grandeur of this waterfall setting. Angling my Nikon SLR camera downward only allowed me to create that sweeping view, but I felt also helped minimize the more negative space present with the blue skies above. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 3 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
While going up this portion of the Chimney Rock Loop and trail, I often looked back to see just how far I'd hiked. Sometimes though (and especially as I neared in the final portion of the ascent), I'd turn around and see what could only be described as an awe inspiring view. This was one of those points and a look to the northwest across the national park. I pulled back on the focal length and used a wide angle view in order to capture some of the nearby foreground as a layered or step-like view to more distant points. Angling my SLR camera downward also complemented that and minimized what I find is a flattening of high points and mountains. In the lower portion, one will notice the hiking trail that I walked on and just how high up I was on this portion of the trail.
Where Does the Wind Come From
And Where does it go?
Does the water rushing to a shore
Follow its lead
Or move to the pull of a neighboring Moon
Questions on my mind
But silence is to be savored
As I sit on the shores of a Great Lake
In Indiana in a national park
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in Indiana Dunes National Park. This was along the shoreline of Lake Michigan just down the road from the Dune Ridge Trail area with the view looking across a grassy dune to the northeast. My thinking in composing this image was to use a layered approach with the nearby grasses, then the trees in the middle right portion of the image, and finally the blue waters of Lake Michigan itself. Given the overcast skies that day, I felt that they were more of a negative space and decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to minimize that.
The Daintree Rainforest, also known as the Daintree, is a region on the northeastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about 105 km, by road, north of the city of Cairns. Whilst the terms "Daintree Rainforest" and "the Daintree" are not officially defined, it is generally accepted and understood that they refer to the area from the Daintree River north to Cooktown, and from the coastline west to the Great Dividing Range. The popular tourist destination of Mossman Gorge, some 30 km south of the Daintree River, is often included in the definition.
At around 1,200 square kilometres, the Daintree is a part of the largest contiguous area of tropical rainforest in Australia, known as the Wet Tropics of Queensland. The region, along with a select number of other rainforest areas on the Australian east coast, collectively form some of the oldest extant rainforest communities in the world. At around 180 million years old, these ancient, self-sustaining forests are nearly 10 million years older than the Amazon of South America (the world’s largest rainforest and top region for biodiversity), and have witnessed dinosaurs, ice ages, and early humans all come and go.
In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Daintree Rainforest was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "natural attraction".
The rainforest is named after the Daintree River, which in turn was named in honour of the Australian geologist and photographer Richard Daintree. It is a remnant of what was once a vast forest that covered the entire Australian continent. It is a rare survivor of 120 million years of altered climatic conditions resulting from continental drift, which has reduced the extent of the original forest to a few restricted areas on the east coast.
The area includes the Daintree National Park, some areas of State Forest, and some privately owned land, including a residential community. Some of the privately owned land north of the Peninsula Range is being progressively purchased for conservation purposes under a $15 million government scheme involving equal contributions from the Cairns Regional, the Queensland, and the Australian Governments. As of May 2011, 72% of the properties earmarked for buyback or compensation had been secured. These 'buyback' areas of tropical rainforest included 215 blocks of land purchased by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, and 13 purchased by private conservation agencies.
The Daintree Rainforest contains approximately 3,000 different plant species, from nearly 210 plant families; with over 900 different types of tree, one single hectare could, realistically, contain anywhere from 100 to 150 individual species. The forests contain 30% of the total frog, reptile and marsupial species in Australia, 90% of the continent's bat and butterfly species, 7% of the country's bird species, and over 12,000 species of insects, along with a multitude of lower animals, fungi, lichens, mosses, and microorganisms – all within an area constituting 0.12% of Australia's landmass. Part of the forest is protected by the Daintree National Park and drained by the Daintree River. The roads north of the river wind through areas of lush forest, and have been designed to minimize impacts on this ancient ecosystem.
On 29 September 2021, the eastern Kuku Yalanji people won formal ownership of 160,213 hectares of country stretching from Mossman to Cooktown, including the Daintree National Park after a historic deal was made between the traditional custodians and the Queensland Government, on top of an earlier Native Title agreement.
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there must have been hundreds of these at longwood gardens but this was the one that seemed to speak to me so i had to give this a "shot".
geek note: i have learned that when shooting stamens up close, it is usually very effective if i make sure there is decently even separation between them to minimize overlap and so that the beauty and detail of each individual "branch" shows through clearly. what do you think? :)
Ok, I've given up on serious editing for the weekend, and now I'm just playing.
I usually try to minimize editing on photos, otherwise, at best, they end up closer to "digital art" (not that that's necessarily a bad thing) and at worst, just look fake.
I "overcooked" this one on purpose, just to try and get an effect that I was looking for. Not what I normally do, but I think it works.
An image captured on the main Basin road with a view looking to the west and The Windows with the peaks and mountainsides of the Chisos Mountains all around. My thinking in composing this image was to capture a more sweeping view across this West Texas landscape. To do so, I had to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and bring the mountains higher up into the image. The rest was balancing the setting to include some of the blue skies and clouds above, while minimizing the brightness of the sun in the late afternoon skies.
I chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring that complete setting in the image. I later exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 4 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.
More dark chocolate-covered sponge candies. Unlike the last time I posted a photo of the confections, I had to take a bite to reveal the goodness within the chocolate shell.
These pieces are smaller than the ones I photographed last time, allowing me to fully comply with Flickr Rule #1 while minimizing the dietary downside to consuming these guilty pleasures.
At a parking area pullout to the Middle Oak Creek Trailhead with a view looking to the northwest to across the Mojave Desert landscape leading up to the sandstone formations and peaks. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of some higher ground that I was located on and capture a sweeping view, looking down and then across to those peaks and ridges. I felt that bringing them a little higher into the image would bring out a sense of grandeur and minimize any flattening from the wider angle view. Given I was looking almost in the direction of the sun, I wanted to later be able to pull out some of the details present in the colored layers of rock on the mountainsides. I used the ClearView Plus tool in DxO PhotoLab 6 to help with that.
The story behind going to this location on a trip to Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks was a Ripley’s Believe It or Not comic that mentioned this location. I then went on Flickr and found quite a few amazing images and decided that I had to visit this place, at least for a short time, before heading back to Las Vegas for my flight to Austin. This is definitely a place to spend more time hiking and exploring on a future trip!
At a roadside pullout along US Hwy 62 with a view looking to the north across the mountain desert landscape present in this part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of some high ground that I was located on and angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, creating more of a sweeping view across the sage and wild grasses leading up to the foothills. The more distant ridges and peaks in the national park would be brought higher into the image and create more of a sense of grandeur with the image captured. For the focal length, I zoomed in a little to focus in on this one portion of the desert mountain landscape to my front. I also felt that helped to minimize any flattening of the hillsides and mountains.
A photo of the moon taken on the morning of September 11, just before putting the telescope inside the house. Stack more than 300 shots, to minimize the noise, and I increased the saturation of the colors to make visible the small differences due to the different minerals present on the lunar surface.
I was shooting ice beneath a little bridge. I had the tripod, a 105mm macro + 1.7x teleconverter, low ISO, and the camera set on mirror lockup (we photographers who still use primitive cameras sometimes lock our mirrors up prior to exposure in an effort to minimize mirror slap vibration).
In short, I was in full macro mode and immersed in a world of icy reflections and rushing water, when I happened to glance up... and saw this cow Moose with her calf picking their way slowly along the opposite bank. It was a lovely scene. There was no time to run back to my car and grab another lens, so I made a few quick adjustments and managed a few critters-in-landscape shots.
These are probably the same two Moose featured yesterday, as they are in the same area, which may be their hangout. But with four months in between shots, who knows... it's a big park... and it seems to be supporting a healthy and fairly recent Moose population.
I almost feel sorry for the Mule Deer. Twenty years ago they were the undisputed ungulate kings of Grasslands. Males go up to 450 lb. White-tailed Deer were in second place, bucks weighing up to 300 lb. But the reintroduction of Bison (as much as 2,000 lb) and Moose (bulls can be 1,400 lb and even cows get up to 1,100 lb) now relegate deer to third and fourth place, respectively. Nature isn't static; the balance is always shifting in both large and small ways.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Taken on a camping trip a few weeks ago.
Even though the forecasts predicted overcast skies, I didn’t break my streak of having zero clouds and bright sun on my few days at the park (its been years and numerous camping trips - zero clouds and bright sun is kind of the worst conditions there for photographing the falls)
I did my best to get to the trail early and tried to beat the sun - this was the last of the falls shots on this day - this shot, at Waters Meet, was still kind of in the shade enough to minimize most of the hot spots.
- Benjamin Franklin.
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One of my favorite spots that I photographed at Bryce Canyon National Park last winter was the switchbacks along the Navajo Trail. The leading path and the massive spires of red rock flanked both sides of the switchbacks. I returned to this spot at various times and noticed how it looked different under each lighting condition. Today's shot was taken just after sunset when the light was soft and even. This allowed me to minimize the shadows and achieve a more pleasing light on the switchbacks. Overall, I loved how the colors of the rocks contrasted against the beautiful blue sky.
A view looking towards the northwest across hillsides and ridges to more distant mountains and peaks while standing at the national park entrance sign. My thinking and composing this image was to use a layered approach with those ridges and hillsides leading up to Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. The rest of the image composition was waiting until the sun was a little bit behind some passing clouds so I could minimize artifacts across my camera lens. I chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring that complete setting in the image. I later exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.
The Kingdom of Bhutan is a very unique country that time has largely forgotten. Tourism is highly regulated to minimize environmental impact and maximize citizen happiness. In fact, tourism has only been allowed since 1974. Bhutan is the world’s only carbon-negative country. There are no traffic lights or parking meters, the men wear their traditional Gho, woman the Kira. Despite being bordered by Goliath-sized India and China, Bhutan has so successfully maintained their distinct cultural identity.
The Bhutanese people are incredibly warm and hospitable, predominantly of Buddhist faith. One of their many treasures to be proud of is the Paro Taktsang Monastery (17th-century). Anyone is welcome to visit, however it’s a six hour return hike which honestly, I found very challenging largely due to the Himalayas elevation gain from 2,400m to 3,100m.
Raven vultures (Coragyps foetens) feed mainly on carrion.
Highly prized as scavengers. They can smell dead animals before they see them.
Very important to the ecosystem, as they remove dead animals, they help prevent disease, minimizing the potential for the spread of bacteria and viruses.
It's time for some black and white. My recent uploads have been more about quality of light than a specific subject, and this applies equally to monochrome interpretations.
Here's a shot I made last month, on a brief trip to photograph sandhill cranes and other migratory birds. It was midday, and I reconnoitred with my accomplice, George, at a lookout tower (he videoed me ascending and said he got a good clip - always happy to help out). The sky was a riot of shadows and highlights. I used the Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens, levelled at the horizon line to minimize curvature, then cropped square during processing.
This is the northern part of Last Mountain Lake, where the 93 km long body of water fragments into marshy wetlands that provide ideal habitat for many bird species. The area includes North America's oldest bird sanctuary, established in 1887. But this image is about the sky and the prairie light. Sometimes that's all a person needs...
Photographed at Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.