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A big mess and a moment that still fascinates me to this day when I look at this photo. There is so much to discover and every time I look at it I see a little more detail. The little black duckling doesn't want to fit right into this chaotic-looking mess of flying seagulls. I asked myself why is it even found in the middle of so many seagulls? What is it doing there as the only one of its kind? And then you're just suddenly left alone. What could have been the reason for the departure of so many seagulls? In any case, it wasn't me, because I photographed the whole scene from a greater distance and had been standing in this hidden place for a while. But whatever, many questions remain unanswered and the whole scenery is still a mystery to me to this day. And that's right, because we humans don't must have to have an explanation for everything that's going on on our Planet. Nature keeps many secrets to itself for a good reason I think.
Ogni tanto mi piace usare il tele (200mm) per catturare i treni, l'effetto prospettico non è niente male ;-)
Please tell me it's something more interesting than the immature white-crowned I suspect it of being, please!
Ophir Creek at Tahoe Meadows, Nevada. August 2018.
From the Richard Harvey Kitchen Studio.
Raw file into Affinity Photo. Lost the EXIF data somehow but it’s: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, Lens EF 50mm, Exp. 1.3” @ f/18, ISO 320.
On the first full day of my Autumn In The Alps trip I had a tough decision to make. Do I sit around my hotel in Munich and hope that British Airways calls me with news of my missing bag...or do I head out with the clothes on my back and live like a hobo for the next 8 days? After spending 20 minutes getting nowhere with the nice young lady from India, my decision was clear. In spite of British Airways' best attempts to derail my trip (bumping me to a later flight, losing my bag and then refusing to give me any information for four days) I ignored the fact that I had no luggage and was now missing the big tripod, and headed to the Dolomites with nothing but my camera gear and the back up Benro that I had brought for just such an occasion.
By late afternoon, I was pulling into the Val di Funes and setting off for St John's Chapel. The few hours that I spent in this valley will stay with me for the rest of my life. After shooting around St John's, I headed up the steep hillside behind me and found another 20 or so photographers setting up for the sunset. Not wanting to be part of the pack, I headed further up the hill, and then just sat....and soaked it all in. The clinking of the cow bells. The church bells ringing out over the valley for Sunday evening mass. I dodged a couple of tractors driven by stern looking weather beaten farmers who seemed to roll their eyes at the small army of photographers. I couldn't help but wonder....do you ever get used to it? No matter how hard my day was as a farmer....to look up and see that view...in all directions....would you ever want to leave?
I certainly didn't, but it was a long drive to Slovenia and it was already getting dark. Reluctantly, I packed up and headed back down the mountain.
For more on my Autumn In The Alps trip, please feel free to read my latest blog post at: theresonantlandscape.com/looking-for-autumn-in-the-dolomites
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This is the photo that started the conversation with questions that perhaps can't be answered. I've always liked and hated this shot. The larger Blue-eyed Darners are known to perch in a vertical position and, in 11 years, I've managed to capture just one of these three-inch beauties. It's funny that I was able to catch five of these in flight with an SX10 in 2010, but never just resting.
But the question came up, should I Photoshop all the grass out or would that be cheating? Opinions varied and still do. My problem was that I've never learned Photoshop, and although I think it's fantastic what can be done with the software, I also think there's a limit as to what changes can be made.
Besides, I have a mid-level software program which I use for some edition. Certainly cropping. Maybe a little contrast, but I rarely touch the color. Guaranteed that my Cardinal Meadowhawk is the brightest red you've ever or I've ever seen.
Over the years, I diddled with this shot. The only thing I could do is put a vignette around it, but that still left most of its habitat. I actually started the summer of 2019 trying to find another perched as this, but no luck. So, like it or not, here's my one and only Blue-eyed Darner Mosaic (aka, Mosaic Darner) in all its grassy splendor.
"Damn, with whom I'm working!" (sort of a translation :) )
Graffiti on a abandoned rail car on an abandoned station on the outskirts of Belgrade.
I have a question for any experts out there. Anyone with knowledge of lightning and atmospherics, and also anyone with working knowledge of camera sensors.
I took these two shots yesterday, more in hope than anything, Being lucky enough to have the Sony RX10 that shoots at 24 frames per second, I pointed at the sky across the street and held the shutter for a second. I got lucky and managed these two shots. Not very exciting looking, being daylight lightning shots, but I am intrigued by the difference in the two shots. They are consecutive frames 1/24th of a second apart. Bolt 1 shows up the brightest, and actually shows the lightning in its ground to air phase and the bolt is only half completed. Lightning bolt 2 shows the completed bolt all the way to the cloud, but is fading in brightness. The bolt itself was very close with barely a second elapsing between flash and the window rattling thunderclap!
My puzzle is the first shot that shows a purple halo around the upward end of the lightning, and a corresponding colour shift across the image in the sky below the top of the lightning.
I'd love to know is this just an issue with the sensor and its response to a sudden intense flash, or is it atmospheric?
My guess is the sensor, but I'd love to hear other opinions or experiences.
These two shots are both cropped heavily from the left half of the wide angle image, hence the slight distortion in the vertical lines of the house.
Why go to school if you won't listen to the educated? I thought that was an excellent question.
I continue to be disappointed that children in the Untied States remain relatively silent while children in Europe are fighting for our existence. That is one of those things that clearly shows how manipulated we are.
Fantastic Friday to you my friend.
So the real question on this monkey post is why?
I was going to use it for the Macro Monday Ceramic theme from a couple of weeks ago but it exceeded the size specification of 3 inches ( it measured out at 4.75 in. tall by 2 in. deep) and I didn't like it cropped. The monkey was pretty excited about being featured on flickr and you can only imagine his disappointment when he got wind that I used the Hummel instead. I didn't want to [...bear a monkey...] as the expression goes even if it was my fault the next morning after a good bit of drinking so I felt it best to show him off here.
Ceramic lid from a German 2l stein that I received from an uncle who brought it from Germany around 1900. It's manufactured by Matthias Grimscheid, Mold #1199. It's a big stein so the wording is most appropriate: “Trag deinen Affen mit Geduld, an dem bist du nur selber Schuld.” (Bear your monkey with patience, it is your own fault.)
55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 6 image photo stack.
Textures by: Skeltalmess and Lenabem-Anna.
What do they call that guy who hangs off the side of the boat?
Oh, yeah. Bait.
Port of Redwood City, California.
This was taken at the famous feeder at the Virginia Lakes Resort, so high in the Sierras that Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches are frequent visitors. Cassin's finches are also known in the area, I've seen them at that very feeders, and purple finches also come to that altitude although I haven't seen them in that spot. So... I'm asking the experts - purple finch or Cassin's finch? The experts at inaturalist say "Pale male Cassin's", even the bird is lacking the usual bright red Cassin's "cap", but I'm still not sure.
Pine siskin on the right for scale.
Virginia Lakes Resort, Mono County, Ca. August, 2020.
UNE QUESTION DE DÉTAILS #4
Petit complément rapproché pour faire honneur à la belle série que vous trouverez ici. Allez regarder :
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A QUESTION OF DETAIL #4
Here's a closer look at the beautiful series you'll find here. Go and have a look :
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How Did The Monster From 'Jeepers Creepers' Not Only Register His Truck But Also Get A Personalized License Plate?
I have to sell some photos at my church fall fair, and I have a question for which I would appreciate any and all feedback:
I'm going to print 5"x7" photos and put them in mats. the question is: For a church fair where I don't think people are going to be willing to spend lots of money, should I just have them machine printed and keep the price at $10 each, or should I get them printed at $7 each, and then charge $15 each?
what do you think???????
Southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(And if there was any question as to this being in the West, I actually had to step around a dead rattlesnake to take this picture.)
The question is how close to the edge of the crater should you go to get the best shot of the lava lake...
So after many wishes to make a q&a here it is. You can ask everything I will answer.
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The guy you see there is my new SigFig.
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Huh, 30/52 was hard - spent several days in Moravia which was pretty exhausting (a lot of celebrating etc ;-)) and all of sudden I realized it was Sunday and I forgot about 52 weeks....Then my french fries were ready and idea appeared ;-)
And tomorrow work, gosh I want to be back in the USA - a carefree and fabulous time I had there ;-)
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You probably wonder what is that horse with stripes and paint markings ?! Well, let me answer that question. It's a cute cross between a paint horse and a zebra. Hence why it does have those cute ears and strange tail. We are so glad she take the markings from her mama and the stripes from her dad. So happy to be able to call this cutie ours, she'll grow up a little more but not so much cause we all know, zebras aren't that tall !
You might have another question about the collar the mare have on her neck, well, this pretty here is cribbing on fences that means she'll literally destroy them with her teeth ! This collar will avoid her to do, don't worry it's without danger for her, it have a little furred part on the top and under her jaw as well. It will prevent us as well to change the fences every weeks.. We'll see how it goes !
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➵ Cribbing Collar : The Flying Pony : {CRIBBING COLLAR} / Avatar
"Their common name refers to a distinctive silver mark on the hindwing." Can't see it here, unfortunately.. Proboscis in the sand?
I have a few questions in general :)
So if you couldn't tell by my stream, I don't do many self portraits. And I really don't know why either. I guess it's just easier to take pictures of stationary objects?! But I want to challenge myself, so would you agree that I should explore self portraits more, or disagree?
Also, Prints. Print exchange? Print giveaway? What do you guys think? Should I make something happen, or just leave it?
I'm not very good at decision making, it takes me 30 mins, to decide what I'm having for breakfast! So really any opinions, or answers would be much appreciated :)
How fascinating that during our lives there are moments in time that have the ability to go down in history.⏰📘
One such moment came at 17:42 on Friday the 3rd of July 2020, where were you at this momentous time, just in case anyone was out in the scullery jumping up and down on a bunch of grapes in order to make your next bottle of wine, let me pass on to you the following reportage, you cannot make it up.😜
The place was Downing Street, the subject matter, questions to the PM who had addressed the nation, what happens, yep this question is put to BoJo, “Prime Minister, should we drink a yard of ale to celebrate pubs reopening” well the cheers, whooping, trumpets being blown, beating of drums, singing, that rang out around this village, was just sheer joy. The village church bells rang to the tune of ‘Roll Out The Barrel’, Horace bounced up and down on his Olympic size trampoline, purely incredible scenes.
The noise was picked up at The Goonhilly Earth Station.🍻🎺🎶📡
The internet and phone lines in the village, all went into meltdown, morse code, tambourines anything that could be classed as a method of communication were put to use. Nancy Nancarrow, yes the lady that does glass blowing on the side, immediately swung into action producing yard of ale glasses by the thousand in her garden shed.☎️🏡🍸🍹
A crack team of ladies from the WI armed to the teeth with welding and fabrication qualifications assembled outside the church hall.
Their immediate task was to reacquisition the bus that is used for the Sunday school outings and prepare it for an exhibition pub crawl through Cornwall.🚌
They would cut the roof off the bus with Oxy-Acetylene torches and turn it into a cabriolet, these measures were required in order to follow guidelines that it is safer for large groups to be in the open air.
Next step was to expertly cut out the double seats and weld in a job lot of chairs from the church hall at two meter spacings.
Bus conversion complete, these ladies were good to go.🔥🔥
Trixie Trebillcock and Betty Beswetherick, had been in a bubble or on a bender some miles away in Wadebridge when they heard the cheer from the village go up, they immediately phoned back to the village to ask Nancy what was going on, once informed they asked, could they be picked up from Wadebridge next day on route for the pub crawl to celebrate this momentous moment in time.👯♀️🎉🎊
Mrs Trebogus said she would drive the bus for the pub crawl.
With representatives from many of the organisations in the village sat in the single seats of the bus cabriolet and every member armed with a yard of ale glass they set off from the village via Wadebridge, duly collected Trixie and Betty, then headed off through Cornwall, stopping off at numerous hostelries testing their yard glasses before one final stop in Penzance.🍺🍺🍺🍺🍷🍺🍷🍺🍷🍺🍺🍷🍺🍷🍺🍷
Following the consumption of about twenty yards of ale each in Penzance alone, some of the ladies were a bit worse for wear, some even went missing.🙈😜
As it was getting dark Mrs Trebogus had to get back to the farm in order to milk her Friesian cows. Therefore she took the decision to round up the ladies she could find and transport them back to the village. (I bet you have all been out on a day like this if you are honest)🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮
When Trixie and Betty staggered back to the RV point, they could not believe they had missed the bus, Trixie said “we will have to walk home”, Betty responded, we can’t do that, we are not fit to walk, we will have to drive. 😱😱
Trixie said “but we don’t have a car”, Betty responded don’t worry we will borrow one, Trixie said “don’t be stupid, there won’t be a car around here that is taxed, so forget that, how about we borrow a bus from Penzance bus station”, brilliant idea responded Betty.🚗🚌
So Betty stood guard outside the large bus station while Trixie went into borrow a bus, well after about half an hour of engine revving, clattering and banging, Betty shouts in “what on earth are you doing”, Trixie responds, I’m doing my best but the bus for Wadebridge is parked at the back.🚌
Betty shouts, “take the one for St Columb, we can walk from there”.🚌🚶♀️🚶♀️
Thank you so much for viewing my photos, the banter and comments you leave are so appreciated.
Take care, have a lovely weekend
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