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Adult Herring Gull making its presence felt. Taken in late February a couple of years ago this bird has shed the dull mottling on the head and neck that characterises the winter plumage
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from July 2019.
Wishing you all a fantastic weekend of photography. Stay safe and keep the shutters clicking!
If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
A. A. Milne
the geraniums were really buzzing today with at least 40 to 50 assorted bees!!
texture thanks to Spektoral Addendum.
Make a noise so I know you're there
Just a touch is enough for me my dear
– Gossling, Wild Love
Thanks as always to Evelyn Flint for the background!
Max and I went to look for interesting and valuable things inside the garbage, but we heard a very big noise and a mysterious light made us both run away, we were very scared.
Grace Lakes Trail, Stevens Pass, Washington
In this world of snowy solitude, the most striking aspect of my time out on the trail was the absence of sound. After departing the trailhead shared with a busy ski area, I encountered only a few other snowshoers and backcountry skiers throughout the day. With the deep, soft snow covering the landscape, it was as through a blanket of silence had been laid over it all, with only a few muffled noises made by my snowshoes.
Along the way I took many opportunities to stop and simply absorb the sound of nothing...and everything. In those moments of utter silence, surrounded only by snow, trees, and mountains, it was as though everything else in the world had ceased to exist.
I kept hearing noises on our back porch, but, I couldn’t see anything. Finally, wth a flashlight, I saw her and later I saw the four kittens. Mama isn't much more than a kitten, herself. I don't think she's much more than a year old !!
Welcome to New York! You can only wonder who decides what’s necessary noise and what isn’t, can’t you? Which in turn raises the question of subjectivity and objectivity... and who’s to decide that?
An interesting philosophical debate, no doubt. But meanwhile, my simple mind was quite amused by the street sign, which I spotted in Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village – so here it is.
With the sun getting close to setting the glinting has started as this eastbound Erie Lackawanna passes a semaphore as it approaches Marion, Ohio with 4 E8's making beautiful noise - February 14, 1976.
El Matador State Beach
Malibu, CA
10-22-2022
Art photo composited 10/30/24
{I think most photographers don't just automatically share their process, but I've been doing it for a while on my Facebook photography page for those interested, and sometimes do so here on Flickr as well.}
This is a composited image sewn together in Photoshop from two photos taken on the same day at the same place, and pretty much with the camera aimed in the same direction but at different times. Photos taken on Oct. 22, 2022. Processing took a couple of days off and on and was completed this morning 10/30/24.
The foreground is at El Matador State Beach. I composited the sunset shot from one I took farther up the beach about a half hour later. The foreground of the sunset shot wasn't that interesting, and the foreground shot here didn't have an interesting sky, so I merged the two. I also expanded the sunset itself which was much smaller and farther off on the horizon.
When doing something like this, I pay attention to the edges of the foreground image and the lighting. I darkened those two rocks extending up into the sky, but they might still be too light. I also experimented with the lighting and color correction filters in Topaz Photo AI but was not satisfied with the "computer's" results.
I had a bit of trouble with the clone brush getting the area of ocean between the rocks to match with the sunset, and tried various tools including the removal tool (the one I use to make people disappear). It's not a major part of the image, but while the sunset to the left of the rock looks okay to me, the area to the right does not.
I'm cognizant of the fact most everyone who views digital photography on a website like Facebook, Instagram or Flickr does so on their phones. I've seen images which look "amazing" on a phone but if blown up look out of focus and full of noise. I use a lot of processing tools, and go in to pixel depth to sometimes correct an area I find problematical in one of my images. My images are meant to be seen on the largest screen possible, and they're still sharp and vibrant. (or at least I hope they are. 😁)
Before the spring Warbler invasion, Re-processed images I took in Brisbane, Australia in 2013 to remind me to go back!
(White) Noise
I was lucky to take photos of Boris as well. I have many that I love that are cinematic yet overall standard band photos. This one is the most abstract and I like it the best...probably because a different photographer might just delete it but I like the abstract quality of it and being engulfed in this. It has a very postmodern and cerebral feeling to me. I have a hard time giving up on photos like this.
Noise is also the name of one of Boris's albums and White Noise is, of course, the name of a book by Don DeLillo.
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Saunders County, Nebraska
This is the first Milky Way panorama I've tried. I've admired many on here on Flickr and decided it was time to try one. This is a composite of 4 sets of 8 night sky photos oriented horizontally to make the sky panorama along with 4 photos oriented horizontally for the foreground. Each set of 8 sky photos were composited in Photoshop to reduce noise. The resulting 4 photo composites were stitched in Lightroom. I honestly didn't think that they would stitch because I've had some previous failures with night sky photos stitching in Lightroom, but this time it had no problem at all. The foreground photos were shot looking west on the night of the full moon and the Milky Way photos were shot 2 weeks earlier on a night of no moon looking eastward at a different location. The overall composite was done in Photoshop. The camera body for all the photos was an Olympus OMD EM1.2. The lens for the sky photos was a Olympus 12mm f2 and the lens for the foreground photos was an Olympus 12-100mm f4.
The name "Linoma" comes from a combination of the names of the nearby cities of Lincoln and Omaha. If you zoom in on the name you'll notice that the "N" is outlined in Red. This mimics the symbol that the University of Nebraska - Lincoln uses for it's sports teams.
A few years ago there was severe flooding along the Platte River which destroyed nearly all of the nearby buildings at Linoma Beach but the Lighthouse survived. The roadway in the foreground was underwater for about a month.
"The base of the lighthouse was a gas station, built in 1938. The 110-foot-tall tower was added the following year. There are ten floors inside, and the builders may have wanted the lighthouse to become a novelty motel, but that never happened. The lighthouse worked as a real lighthouse for years, with a spiral staircase to the top and a bright neon beacon, but it gradually fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Nearing collapse, the lighthouse (and its surrounding RV park) were bought in 2010, and its restoration began in the summer of 2013. In 2003, Linoma Beach was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, and the lighthouse was especially significant as a representation of early 20th Century roadside architecture." (RoadsideAmerica.com)
2023 Nebraska State Fair - 3rd Place - Panoramas
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L’informazione informa i fatti, non sui fatti: non conta la verità del fatto, ma il convincimento che il messaggero del fatto sa infondere in chi legge o ascolta. E in questo mondo, dominato dai media, le masse che tutti credono consumatrici, sono in realtà consumate.
[C.B.]
This past Wednesday I did something that I have not done in several months. I dragged my carcass out of bed and drove to be in “my spot” at Muscatatuck NWR for daybreak. So much has changed there over the years. The roads are much better but several fields that once provided the best hunting area for its raptors are now covered with thousands of saplings. If this growth continues, I will have little to no reason to make the drive…a sad reality.
One thing that hasn’t changed is my ability to make noise. I have a favorite, time tested and proven noise that I make when no one else is around. It has made coyotes, deer, eagles, elk, seals, bear, mink and otters stop in their track and look at me. Direct eye contact provides the best of photo ops! I hope to someday cross paths with a Honey Badger to see if it works…we all know they don’t care!
Early Wednesday I spotted bevy of 5 otters hunting one of the creaks on Muscatatuck. They were heading away from the bridge I was on, but knowing the refuge, I knew they would pass under another one further south if they maintained their course. I also knew that they would take several play, rest and eating breaks along the way. There was no way to estimate their arrival at the next bridge.
I made a few laps around the refuge, checking to see if they had made it yet, nothing. The entire time I was questioning myself with if I even wanted to photograph the otters. When you do the math, statistically I have photographed any single otter at Muscatatuck several times over the years, maybe even as a pup. I reminded myself what a blessing it is just to see them.
On my third and final lap, I could see the ripples in the water and bubble paths…a sure sign that otters were hunting below. I extended my monopod, steadied my stance and waited. Within seconds three otters surfaced as if they were synchronized swimming. I swung my lens in the area of the closest one and took a few shots. It noticed me right away and was in the process of staring me down to determine my threat level when I decided to make my noise. Instantly it opened its mouth as if to smile…I know…anthropomorphism at its best!
No matter how much things that we cannot control change, we can all still make our noise!
Adventure before dementia!
The Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16,) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. The dark center of the nebula was made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" when imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is approximately 5700 light years from Earth.
This is a reprocess of some older data using some new noise reduction techniques and SHO combination.
Equipment Details:
•6 Inch GSO Ritchey-Chretien (RC) F9 1370mm Focal length
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•ZWO ASI1600mm Cmos Camera cooled to -10'c
•ZWO EFW7 Filter Wheel
•Baader 36mm unmounted Ha, Oiii
•Orion ST80 80mm Guide Scope
•ZWO ASI120mm mini Guide Camera
•ZWO ASIAIR Pro for full automation
Exposure Details:
•Ha 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Sii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 3 hours