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After a wonderful week in the Lake District finally back home in Kent.
Me and my Partner have never seen so much beautiful scenery and will be definitely returning !
This image was taken at the summit of Whinlatter Pass and saw some superb views and also the sunlight breaking through the clouds and moving across the fells and valley floor was a sight to see and had to try and capture it.
Hope you like :)
Tuesday Afternoon was greeted by this splendid sky with puffy clouds. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
This Stanley steam powered model began as a sedan. At some point the body was altered to make a pickup truck.
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.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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A great place to sit and soak in the morning Golden Hour. Happy Bench Monday! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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A Dodge Lil Red Express truck seen at the August 2017 Morris Cruise Night. One of 5118 made in 1979. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 Happy Truck Thursday!
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
Wooden observation deck at the Beehive Outlook - Starved Rock State Park. Happy Slider Sunday! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Further processing with Nik Color Efex Pro 4
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 & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Happy Truck Thursday! This 1959 Chevy Apache seems to have some extra height! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
painted sign on the side of an old carnival trailer
this is also a 3 shot panorama because the trailers were parked so close to each other i wasn't able to get the entire sign in one frame
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Older than Stonehenge!
Prehistoric standing stones predate the more famous Stonehenge monument and were an important place for ritual activity for at least 2,000 years
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A mostly overcast day did provide some blue around 11am. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Paint Effects and Textures from my own Topaz presets.
Finished in Nik Colour Efex and Viveza.
Thank you for any comments
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.
Explored ~ Thank You!!
Copyright 2010 Rhonda Holcomb low res version View On Black
This is the first year that I've spotted have caterpillars in my garden. This was one was munching on dill. The plant in the back is parsley.
I believe it will turn into an Anise Swallowtail
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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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.
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!