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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron adaptall 2 sp 80-200mm f/2.8 (model 30A) lens
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my thoughts on the lens: www.aarondesigns.org/Tamron-80-200mm-f28/
Shot with 500mm f/4 prime.
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The Hoptimist represents positivness. These corona days, optimism is strongly under pressure from all sides of life. Stay SAFE :-)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. ---- Douglas Adams
What a year it's been. And didn't we all say things would be back to normal for last summer? Oh, well it's Christmas again. And we've managed to get most of our family together (the benefits of having a B&B). I've got some great Flickr friends and contacts, many of whom I don't deserve as I'm not particularly good at responding to comments. But I do appreciate them and try to reciprocate by taking and posting more pictures, sometimes of questionable quality....like this one. Merry Christmas to you all. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing this Christmas I hope you can share good times with family and friends and can look towards 2022 with friendship and optimism.
only one way left if you down... stand up, straight to to the sunshine...
and about the processing: i put it the Photomatix Pro 3.2 making from a single file HDR image, then a little bit Lightroom, after PS3 and add the texture...
thanks the texture, i found it here:
www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/5499036692/in/pool-8072...
including what is ugly ;-)
Amrose Bierce
HPPS!! Climater Change Matters! Resist!!
aster, 'Ezo Murasaki', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."- Richard M. DeVos
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Much appreciated it!
when it is wrong ;-(
Voltaire
HFF! Justice Matters! Resist!!
chrysanthemum, 'Mt. Rainier', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
– Henry Rollins –
" To be happy, it first takes being comfortable in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there."
– Sophia Bush –
Layer of dark clouds above, dark, dark sea below and a glimmer of hope on the horizon.... not sure what will develop...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMOMjCoR58
Portland Harbour from Portland Beach Road - November 2016
Perhaps the grow-light encourages sideways growth? And no, those tiny shoots are not falling; just growing in different directs. Very independent.
Still, since it is raining again, good to have things growing indoors. Shot in softbox with off-camera strobe triggering two lights on stands. Earlier view from 2-18 appears in first comment, back when the shoots had just begun their move to independence.
Thanks for looking and indulging my fun ;-)
Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jptimmons/49611198758/sizes/l/
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Tiny buds on a twig (sticks) today, ready for next spring. Nature amazes me with her preparation and tiny signs, even during our cold week.
Slight crop only. I added a 36mm extension tube to the 105mm f2.8 macro lens which gives an ethereal look to the buds. The yellow/gold lichen on branches and other red buds ready to grow next spring account for the hues in the background.
Hope this works for you.
Inspired by #MacroMondays and #stick. Little more than 5cm from one side of frame to the other.
Multi exposure shot with icm in winter woodland heading towards Spring. Material adjustment to white balance to replicate a sense of place.
Antwerp, Estación Central.
(...) Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Austerlitz began, in reply to my questions about the history of the building of Antwerp station, when Belgium, a little patch of yellowish gray barely visible on the map of the world, spread its sphere of influence to the African continent with its colonial enterprises, when deals of huge proportions were done on the capital markets and raw-materials exchanges of Brussels, and the citizens of Belgium, full of boundless optimism, believed that their country, which had been subject so long to foreign rule and was divided and disunited in itself, was about to become a great new economic power—at that time, now so long ago although it determines our lives to this day, it was the personal wish of King Leopold, under whose auspices such apparently inexorable progress was being made, that the money suddenly and abundantly available should be used to erect public buildings which would bring international renown to his aspiring state. One of the projects thus initiated by the highest authority in the land was the central station of the Flemish metropolis, where we were sitting now, said Austerlitz; designed by Louis Delacenserie, it was inaugurated in the summer of 1905, after ten years of planning and building, in the presence of the King himself.
Delacenserie's eclecticism, uniting past and future in the Centraal Station with its marble stairway in the foyer and the steel and glass roof spanning the platforms, was in fact a logical stylistic approach to the new epoch, said Austerlitz, and it was also appropriate, he continued, that in Antwerp Station the elevated level from which the gods looked down on visitors to the Roman Pantheon should display, in hierarchical order, the deities of the nineteenth century—mining, industry, transport, trade, and capital. For halfway up the walls of the entrance hall, as I must have noticed, there were stone escutcheons bearing symbolic sheaves of corn, crossed hammers, winged wheels, and so on, with the heraldic motif of the beehive standing not, as one might at first think, for nature made serviceable to mankind, or even industrious labor as a social good, but symbolizing the principle of capital accumulation.
And Time, said Austerlitz, represented by the hands and dial of the clock, reigns supreme among these emblems. The clock is placed above the only baroque element in the entire ensemble, the cruciform stairway which leads from the foyer to the platforms, just where the image of the emperor stood in the Pantheon in a line directly prolonged from the portal; as governor of a new omnipotence it was set even above the royal coat of arms and the motto Endracht maakt macht. The movements of all travelers could be surveyed from the central position occupied by the clock in Antwerp Station, and conversely all travelers had to look up at the clock and were obliged to adjust their (...)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz, 2001.
Facing the sunlight coming towards us , through the golden leaves (at the Château wonderland), in Autumn, feels like we are showered with thousands of blessings and a ….pink optimism!!! Our hearts become uplifted, and we feel like all of our dreams might come true!!!!!….
❤️❤️❤️ …..And what if this Light were the NEW YEAR’S LIGHT ? 😊😊
….Plus, that my captures are showered with a fabulous golden light , that becomes my sublime model!! 😊
Color Wheel Artist
The Many Meanings of Yellow
color-wheel-artist.com/meanings-of-yellow.html
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
Have you realised that the trees outside that you walk or drive past everyday are starting to form new leaves ready for Spring? 🌿
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.” (Albert Schweitzer)
And for all of you who visited my father's stream at the weekend and hoped he would post more shots, y.ou're optimism has proved to be well founded. One more picture -the original creme brulee! - has appeared. :-)
Taken at the same time as the picture of Darumus ministractus yesterday, this shot of the London Eye is part of the ministract set.
... still waitiing for warmth and sunshine (25.12.08) - Large On Black
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Explored: 27.12.2008
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
[Roy T. Bennett]
Professor Pangloss, aware that one word can be more powerful than a thousand images, waiting for the moment when the lamp of wisdom and knowledge will light up and illuminate the world. I have spoken to Pangloss. He told me that he can already see in the dark and that serious philosophical reflection is expected to trigger beams of light, strong enough to make this world the best of all possible ones. Leica M8, Voigtlander 2.2/50 at F8.