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Couldn't get any closer. The red insect was so small that I couldn't really get a good focus of it. Have a nice weekend everyone!
Retitled from "Red Bulb" to "Red Mini Bulb" - Thanks Akash!
CarlZeiss Y/Contax Planar T* 50mm/F1.4
Japanese Maple @ Showa Commemorative National Government Park
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Highest position # 467 On Explore 4 januari 2009.
"Journey of the Angels"
"Somewehere in a winter night
with miles to go
no foodsteps
to be lost in snow."
Enya ~ And Winter Came ~ 2008
Highest Position - Explore #3 | 02.11.2008 (Thank you! :D)
Way to the start of the week once again! Monday blues as always but i'm trying s0o0o hard to be happy & smiley :D my colleague just told me i've a poker face.. can't tell whether i'm sad or happy LOL! Hope that's a good thing :P Nonetheless let's enjoy a great week ahead & catch u around!
View LARGE On Black to feel the sand ;)
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The Route to a Beautiful Sunset at West Beach
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows & blues) to tone up part of the sky
- Applied slight dodging on the dark area of the sand dunes
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
Music
Backstreet Boys - Shape of My Heart
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The lip curling you see here is known as the Flehmen Response of rutting Deer. It is a behaviour where an animal curls back its upper lips exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils and can hold this position for several seconds. It may be performed over an area of interest to the animal (e.g. urine or faeces). They usually do this with the neck stretched and the head held high in the air. Flehmen is performed by a wide range of mammals. The behaviour facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ located above the roof of the mouth.
Positioned deep within the frame, perfectly splitting the mid-ground and background, the frog is draped in tiny patches of duckweed, camouflaging him into the swampy carpet. In the distance, the scene is framed by weathered, moss-covered logs, adding a rustic texture to the soft, aquatic environment.
Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I am grateful for your continued support and appreciate every view, fave, and comment!
Excerpt from niagaraparks.com:
On August 6, 1918, a dumping scow with two men aboard broke loose from its towing tug and became lodged in the rapids of the upper Niagara River. A unique artifact of Niagara Falls history, the wreckage has remained just above the brink of the falls for over a century.
Severe weather conditions on October 31, 2019 caused the scow to shift significantly from the spot it remained in for over 100 years. Remarkably, high winds forced the scow to turn its position and shift further toward the brink of the falls. The news of the scow’s momentous move made national and international headlines with media and public interest continuing days after. While still lodged in the powerful rapids of the upper Niagara River, the future of the legendary scow remains uncertain.
ptuj, slovenija
Explore Highest position: 402 on Wednesday, November 17, 2010
s f o n d o n e r o n a č r n e m o n b la c k ;-)
c a t c h i n g ♪ t h e ♫ l i g h t
Color Photo Award - SILVER Medalist Round 21 - COLOR WHEEL: GREEN Perpetual Contest - Dec 2010
FP Lines&Curves - Post 1: Comment 1 - winner contest week 2 - Bottles - gennaio 2013
2° posto nel contest "#010 Bottiglie e bicchieri" nel gruppo ◕‿◕SONIAGALLERY◕‿◕CHALLENGE-SFIDE◕‿◕ - giugno 2013
1° posto nel contest "#242 Bottiglie e bicchieri" nel gruppo ◕‿◕SONIAGALLERY◕‿◕CHALLENGE-SFIDE◕‿◕ - settembre 2013
Explored on the FrontPage & Highest position #2 | 12.02.2009 Thank you so much for kind comment & fav always hugs kissess :))
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Thank you so much for kind comment & fav always hugs kissess :))
|| Have a great day all :]} ||
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Fall in Lake " Oh No Colouds /: "
The shot
Standard 3 exposures shots (-2..0..+2EV) the Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens,tripod and a polarized light filter :)
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop //Always// :
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues) to tone up section of the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to slightly enhance the redness of the clouds
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome..
Music
Click here -> Metallica - Nothing Else Matters(S&M)
Lille Plet most favorit position, you will se lots of picture of her here, as soon as we walk past the hay bale and I have my camera Lille Plet will jump on it and pose, she is a real camera diva.
Saw this Roller perched in a tree as we were driving past. I pulled up by the side of the road but it was on the passenger side so I had to manoeuvre my camera past my wife and twist round into a position to take the shot. Lol.
It only posed long enough for this shot and then flew off!
Many thanks to all who take the time to view, comment or fav my images.
EXPLORED with best position of 4 on 14.01.2012
Long exposure shot of water feature at the entrance to Islamic Museum of Art in Doha, Qatar.
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Explored highest position: 44 on Tuesday, September 29, 2020
"Antes que el sueño (o el terror) tejiera
mitologías y cosmogonías,
antes que el tiempo se acuñara en días,
el mar, el siempre mar, ya estaba y era
¿Quién es el mar? ¿Quién es aquel violento
y antiguo ser que roe los pilares
de la tierra y es uno y muchos mares
y abismo y resplandor y azar y viento?
Quien lo mira lo ve por vez primera,
siempre. Con el asombro que las cosas
elementales dejan, las hermosas
tardes, la luna, el fuego de una hoguera.
¿Quién es el mar, quién soy? Lo sabré el día
ulterior que sucede a la agonía."
Jorge Luis Borges
(English translation from rationalleycat.blogspot.com/2010/03/el-mar-traducido-por-...)
Before the dream (or the terror) could weave
Mythologies and cosmogonies,
Before the time could mint itself into days,
The sea, the always sea, it had been and it was.
Who is the sea? Who is that violent
Antique being that gnaws at the pillars
Of the earth and is one and many of the seas
And abyss and splendor and chance and wind?
Who looks on it sees it for the first time.
Always. With that wonder which all things
Elementary leave behind, the beauty
In evenings, the moon, flame of the bonfire.
Who is the sea, who am I? I will know it
In the days to come that follow the agony.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology.[3] Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.[4] His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal literature. Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil. (from Wikipedia)
Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!
Frost's bolete is a widely distributed mushroom in the eastern and southwestern US. Boletes are classified as a groupd of mushrooms that produce their spores in tubular structures under the cap, rather than gills. Found growing in association with hardwood trees, especially oak. The network pattern of the stipe (the stalk) and the amber droplets produced along the cap in young fruiting bodies.
Eastgate Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strobe (Leica SF60/Leica SF C1 trigger) positioned camera right at approximately 20 degrees, slightly above subject, modified with MagMod MagSphere diffuser.
EXPLORED with best position of 5 on 31.08.2011
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Shot was taken during a photo triporganized by DohaKoottam ദോഹക്കൂട്ടം, our photographic club to Thakira . Thakira is a small village located a few kilometers to the North of Al Khor town in Qatar. If you are a nature lover, though, it is well worth doing so, as the vista is completely different from much of the rest of Qatar.
Thakira not only rests on the edge of an estuary, it is also home to mangrove swamps. While, because of the extremely high saline content of the sea in this area, the mangroves are not as large as in other countries, they are probably the most established in Qatar.
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Position: This photo was taken in the area of Tyrrhemian sea nord of Sicily, Italy, near the volcano of Stromboli.
The last and final image in this series folks and probably my favorite, love the full down stroke position of the wings, thank you all.
Shutter (2011-2024), in the process of grooming herself, using her front-right paw to stabilize herself as she dampens her front-left one to groom the back of her head.
Highest Position - Explore #3 | 12.06.2009 (Thank you all so much :)))
I reckon i dare to say that no one has posted a similar shot of the Royal Palace like this in flickr before *fingers crossed :P* The reason is cos the Royal Palace closes at 5pm eveyday & the sunset occurs at around 645pm. I just happened to walk past this palace after a heavy downpour & surprisingly caught this view through the gate's opening. I stuck my cam in between the metals grills of the gate & snapped away without even noticing that there is a guard standing there looking at me in his booth but he didn't say anything :D Honestly that evening sunset was one of the best i've ever seen & its actually more spectacular than the sky in this shot.. in every aspect really. Hope you enjoy & catch u soon! ;)
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Sunset at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'curves' to adjust the sky & surrounding
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to tone up the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to tone down the harshness
- Applied a tonemapped 0 EV shot to remove any movement of the branches
- Applied noise reduction
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
Music
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Vom Helgoländer Klippenrandweg kann man Vögel in 50m Flughöhe aus paralleler Position fotografieren. Es gibt nicht viele Orte, wo man diese besondere Perspektive so leicht erreichen kann.
Komp. Detail: Im unbeschnittenen Bild habe ich mehr Himmel als Wasser und normalerweise vermeide ich es den Horizont mittig durchs Bild laufen zu lassen. In diesem Fall verschwimmen Himmel und Nordsee aber in der Unschärfe des Hintergrunds und der Blick des Betrachters wird auch durch die beinahe X-Form des Vogels in die Bildmitte bzw. -vordergrund gezogen. Der Horizont selbst kann nur erahnt werden, er schneidet das Bild nicht durch. Deshalb habe ich den Ausschnitt jetzt so gewählt, dass mit Himmel und Ozean zwei Elemente des Basstölpel Lebensraums gemeinsam und gleichwertig vertreten sind.
From the Heligoland cliff edge path you can photograph birds at a height of 50m from a parallel position. There are not many places where you can achieve this special perspective so easily.
Comp. Detail: In the uncropped image I have more sky than water and I normally avoid having the horizon running through the middle of the image. In this case, however, the sky and the North Sea fade into the blurred background and supported by the bird's almost X-shape the viewer's gaze is drawn to the middle or foreground of the image. The horizon itself can only be guessed at. It doesn't cut through the image. That's why I chose the crop so that two elements of the northern gannet's habitat, sky and ocean, are represented together and equally.
One of many species of clubtail dragonfly inhabiting the midwest region. Imaged June of 2020 in Anoka County, central Minnesota.
Visitors: Feel free to explore my photostream and albums for various seasonal pix of wildlife/scenics/florals.
It's raining outside (again) so Beety takes it easy.
Always besides me when I am at the computer. So sweet.
This image is from my archives. Here he was nearly 4 months old. My sweetie pie.
Enjoy your weekend my dear friends!
Hugs by me and Beethoven
Oh and thank you so much!! Beety is at Explore, Februari 21, 2006 at position 125! We both are so happy! YEAH!
Baumläufer sind schwierig aus einer schönen Position zu fotografieren weil sie zwar meist unten an einem Baum lauslaufen aber in Windeseile eine Höhe erreichen, bei der man dann nur den klassischen Bauch- oder A...schschuß aufnehmen kann. Der Winkel ist also wichtig und wenn man sie nicht sofort beim Start erwischt ist die Chance für ein Foto schnell vorbei. Bei diesem Waldbaumläufer hatte ich Glück: er hatte es nicht sonderlich eilig bzw. er durchsuchte die Rinde des Baums so sorgfältig, dass ich genügend Zeit hatte ihn in etwa 1,50m Höhe bei der Futtersuche zu fotografieren. Dass er tatsächlich eine kleine Spinne aus der Rinde gezogen hat, habe ich erst beim Bearbeiten des Fotos am Bildschirm gesehen. Die Spinne ist winzig, keine üppige Mahlzeit möchte man denken. Aber der Baumläufer selbst wiegt ja auch nur neun Gramm...
Treecreepers are difficult to photograph from a good position because, although they usually beginn climbing up the tree from about ground level, they quickly reach a height where you can only get the classic belly or ass shot. The angle is therefore important and if you don't catch them at the starting line, the chance for a photo is quickly over. I was lucky with this treecreeper: it wasn't in a particular hurry, or rather, it searched the bark of the tree so carefully that I had enough time to photograph it searching for food at a height of around 1.50 m. I only noticed that it had actually pulled a small spider out of the bark when I was editing the photo on the screen. The spider is tiny, not a sumptuous meal, you would think. But the treecreeper itself only weighs nine grams...
i took a lot of long exposures the other night. so, expect more throughout the next week or so... :P View On Black
explore highest position so far - #99
Malaika- the queen of Ole Kiombo . She literally directed her now one year old cubs to an effortless kill of a Gazelle fawn. The sequence of the kill to follow soon...amazing sighting!
Good to be back ... Sorry I was Away for so long...will catch up soon.
My attempt at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "a single drop"
Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Xenon 35 mm F2" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Position: Church of the Nativity of Touaouroa is in New Caledonia, Island Grande Terre area of Yate, Overseas Department of France, Southwest Pacific. The Touaourou Mission was founded in 1888.
New Caledonia is an islands group located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean south of Vanuatu, about 1210 km east of Australia and 17000 km from Metropolitan France. The French overseas territory comprises of the 400 km long major island "Grande Terre" divided in a Northern and a Southern province, the archipelago of Belep in northwest, the île des Pins in southeast and the Loyalty islands Ouvéa, Lifou, Tiga and Maré located northeast of the main island. Taken with the Canon EOS 650 analog camera and using the Canon scanner.
An adult female Strap-snouted Brown Snake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) prepares to strike out at a perceived threat in a highly-spirited threat display.
Charleville district in southern outback Queensland, Australia.
Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 coupled to a vintage Leica R Series Bellows Rail System with an adapter from Leitax in combination with a 100/4 Macro Elmar short lens.
Tripod, manual focus and settings. Full studio lighting utilized.
Citadel Aiud is a medieval fortress church with strong stone walls, reinforced towers, and religious buildings positioned in the town center. The complex merges defensive structures with sacred spaces through a carefully designed architectural layout.
The complex traces its founding to 1293, when King Ladislaus IV of Hungary granted a privilege document authorizing the construction of this fortified settlement. The structure underwent further reinforcement and expansion as regional threats from invasion increased over time.
The site reflects how medieval residents balanced military defense with religious life within a single fortified space. The layout reveals the integrated daily rhythms of a community that needed both protection and places for worship.
Portions of the walls were originally constructed in response to 13th-century Mongol attacks and reveal the urgency with which early settlers needed to protect their homes. These older layers remain visible beneath later medieval additions to the structure.