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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Another week, another grain hauler. This time a Mack. Single shot tone-mapped with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 Happy Truck Thursday!
A view of Blenheim Palace taken from the pathway leading to Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge taken a few years ago.
Entered into Buckingham Camera Club's POTY 2017 Round 1 (A Little Bit Of History): Judge's Comments: This is a different approach to the subject with a monochrome entry. It's a dramatic image. There is some nice light on the people. There's good use of space with the palace at the top of the image and the pathway leading to it.
Judge's score: 18/20
A part of the cliff wall at Buffalo State Park. This area was mined for Silica till the 1940's. Processed with Nik Color Efex Pro 4
Thursday Morning was filled with rain, by mid morning it had stopped and they sky cleared out. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Conversion to Monochrome by Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
“They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.
Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling.
You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.”
~Diane Arbus
I'd have thought the end was coming had it not been so unbelievably beautiful. One of the most unreal cloud formations I've ever seen. This was just after sunset, the light that came off of this cloud was Biblical.
Thanks Mike for such a grand tour of your old stomping grounds! About as beautiful as it gets.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission.
© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
A mostly overcast day did provide some blue around 11am. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
This Stanley steam powered model began as a sedan. At some point the body was altered to make a pickup truck.
Stayin in playin the Lockdown blues...
No one wants the virus
Way down deep inside us
We're in self isolation
All across the nation
It's way more worse than flu
Boris don't know what to do
We got the Lockdown blues yeh!
Get well Boris.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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An inviting seat awaits you across from the Visitor's Center -Starved Rock State Park. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Happy Bench Monday!
I was surprised that the I & M Canal still had ice on Friday morning. I'm sure as I'm typing this it's gone. We shattered February 17'th record high and we hit 67 degrees. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
As many of my Flickr friends should have readily guessed, this is another image I have brought to life digging in my archives. Yes, Rosolina Mare, Summer 2016. Again. I am amazed at how many shots worthy the effort of postprocessing there are in that archive.
Just like its fellow image (You'll never walk alone), I had thought to process it a great many times, but I was deterred by some blown out highlights in the sky. Not worth the effort, I used to think. However I have made up my mind at last and, after recovering what was recoverable, I have decided to accept some blown out highlights instead of give up forever.
For me the main points of interest in this shot - the very reasons that have encouraged me to embarkupon processing this bracketing - were the rippled patterns of the sand and that enormous tidal pool, with its absolutely still water mirroring such a wild sky. I have a personal fixation (most probably a deviance) with envisaging certain patterns of sandy ripples as cortex convolutions of some mysterious brain of the Earth (e.g. my Thinking heavenly thoughts), so you can better understand whence the funny title of this photo has come...
Explored on 2020/07/06 no. 22
It was my second sunrise session at Rosolina mare - not really as good as the first one, to be sure (here it is an example): the sky was overcast, the light was hard, and a high-altitude sheet of clouds gave uniform highlights where the sun was. I was a bit tired - more on the morale side than physically, since I had walked some 23 km only to take a mere handful of second-rate photos. As I was returning to the "civilised" part of the beach, at last the sky started turning into something really interesting. Lots of clouds of different shapes and sizes, and piercing sunbeams at leisure. I was wise enough to take a real exposure bracketing, and this helped a lot to recover details in the blown-out area.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files processed with Darktable. Denoising with Dfine.
A beautiful Golden tree Downtown Morris Illinois. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Tuesday Afternoon was greeted by this splendid sky with puffy clouds. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
This may have been "yard art" at the edge of the forest, but a fallen tree across the cab added nature's own design element.
52 in 2016 Challenge: #11, Vehicle
Editing notes: Color Efex filter "Sunlight dark" adds contrast and saturation in a believable way.
Mid-morning sunlight illuminates the autumn leaves. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Another fantastic day out with the Ragged Victorians, Re-Enactment group.
Processed in Topaz and Nik software.
Paint effects and textures are from my own Topaz presets.
Thanks again guys for posing for us.
Thank you for any comments