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So I seriously debated with myself if I could / should upload this or rather skip... It's the typical "I wasted a sunny Sunday (and half of a free and equally sunny Monday) at home trying to get my MM shot right capture" (arrrrghrrrrrrrr!)...;-) My idea behind this was that there are two sides to every coin, thing, debate, person... The side everyone sees, and, at least when it comes to a person, a more private, sometimes even hidden side. So you see I was getting very philosophical with this - when everything could have been so easy, simple and straightforward. But just like it is with so many other things: they are easy when they aren't required (and I have quite a few nice and easy reflections in my MM gallery). But when they are... I started off with a very simple take on my idea, the "Sun" and "Moon" cards of my tiny Tarot deck of cards (I Tarocchi Più Piccoli del Mondo - The Smallest Tarot in the World by artist Antonio Lupatelli) glued together back to back with modeling clay and then fixated on a small black tile with modeling clay as well at an angle that would allow a nice reflection. So far, so good - or not. The image turned out well, but of course the "La Luna" print on the "dark side" of the card was, you've guessed it, mirror-inverted. Not exactly unexpected, but I think the image didn't work with the "La Luna" label the wrong side round. So what to do? The easy thing would have been to rotate and flip that part of the card in Photoshop back to a readable "La Luna". But that would have been cheating. So I decided to add another reflective surface (an old, scratched pocket mirror - that ugly "line" you can see is the edge of the mirror) and re-reflect the "La Luna" - and by doing so also mirror the "Il Sole". Four sides of a coin, if you like. Before all of it gets too confusing, I'd rather stop (and have I mentioned the dust? I'd rather not...). I don't recall the processing steps, but there were many, because I did a manual focus stack to get both the Sun and reflected Moon card sharp and sort of equally well exposed (which wasn't easy, because the Moon card, reflected by the black tile, was always either too dark or the rest of that single shot was far too bright). One thing: I took the focus-stacked image into Analog Efex and added a very big, dark vignette. I realise that this would have been perfect for Sliders Sunday as well ;-)
For size, please check the image in the second comment. I'd already used these tiny tarot cards for two other MM themes, and in that image you can see how small the cards really are.
Thank you most sincerely for viewing and reading, a Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a relaxed week ahead!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich mal wieder sehr spät dran bin, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den obigen Text in DeepL übersetzen zu lassen, falls Interesse besteht. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche :-)
A rather dark example of the spring Epistrophe hoverfly which I think means it was cold when he was a larva. Photographed warming up on the garden Mahonia before starting his airspace patrols. Like Eristalis pertinax he tries to intimidate anything that gets into his space, including me.
I'm fascinated by the profile of his frons which looks to me like a human face.
A rather odd "Innovation Room" on the industrial estate at Dunkirk. I can't say it would necessarily get my creative juices flowing, but maybe there is some magic hidden away behind the shutters.
A dull scene of course but I quite like the various linear textures of the shutters on the van, the room, the building and the roof behind. Plus one slightly cheeky un-shuttered window.
Canon AV-1 camera
Canon FD 50 mm f/1.8 lens
Ilford XP400 film
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a rather rare sight of trees in Iceland, here at the foot of the Skaftafell mountain range. Loved this little spot.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
Smurfs don’t have horses. They pull their wagons with snails. Apparently Smurfs live a very laid back lifstyle and are never in a hurry. If it had been up to Smurfs to settle the West, they would just now be making it to Oregon.
ODC I’d rather be a cowboy
In a rather unexpected turn of events, CSX pulled all 3 of their "Pride In Service" units out of storage in Waycross, Georgia and put them in charge of Q410. A daily manifest that runs from Waycross to Selkirk, NY.
As one can imagine, a train with unique engines like this tends to get lots of attention from the local railfan populace.
The lead unit CSXT 911 (Honoring First Responders) and CSXT 3194 (Honoring Our Law Enforcement) were on the head end, while CSXT 1776 (Honoring Our Veterans) was working in the middle of the train as a Distributed Power (DP) Unit. (See preceding photo for the 1776)
Here, the train passes through downtown Ashland, Virginia; Tiny Tim's Hobby Shop is in the background.
Sun Peaks to Whistler took us back through Kamloops - this time by coach rather than train, so a different perspective.
My other favourite from the day at Blickling; this woman was sublimely photogenic and the light by the windows in the grand room was glorious.
And luck, as always, helped, too.
This photo were taken back in March 2012. I am just catching up with them. I had started to put up our trip to Northland but for some reason never got them all up.
We took a ferry trip over to Waiheke Island for the day. Sadly It rained most of the time and tourist bus had stopped running the for the Winter months the day before. We walk to a winery for lunch. In the afternoon we took the local bus for a short trip around the island.
Waiheke Island is the second-largest island (after Great Barrier Island) in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its ferry terminal in Matiatia Bay at the western end is 21.5 km (13.4 mi) from the central-city terminal in Auckland.
It is the most populated island in the gulf, with 9,390 permanent residents. Another estimated 3,400 have second homes or holiday homes on the island. It is New Zealand's most densely populated island, and the third most populated after the North and South Islands. It is the most accessible island in the gulf, with regular passenger and car-ferry services, a helicopter operator based on the island, and other air links.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiheke_Island
This rather striking and unusual war memorial on the village green in Over Kellet in the north of Lancashire features a broken column that represents the lives that were lost prematurely, initially in the Great War and then in WWII. Ten men from the village gave their lives in WWI, and a further two made the final sacrifice in WWII. The memorial was constructed locally in 1921.
I always look at local war memorials as I travel around with my camera. At a rough guess, I would say that, on average, we lost up to three times as many men in the Great War as we did in WWII. How our towns and villages managed to survive this huge loss is beyond me.
A rather splendid cataract waterfall that is easily reached from the small settlement of Motu along a gravel road for approx. 5km's. Once parked it is a short walk to the falls with best views afforded from a suspension bridge over the river or below the bridge where this shot was taken after a little scramble in the bushes!
SONY ILCE-7RM3
SEL1635GM Lens @ 33mm
ISO 100 / f8 / 1/3 Second
Bracketed Exposure -2/0/2+
Lee Landscape Polariser
Lightroom CC
(c) Dominic Scott 2019
We have become rather addicted to owls recently., but it's easy to see why
Yes of course they are birds., but I always think of them as being in another category... owl category
I looked it up and amazingly there are 255 species of owls worldwide., so if you started at a young enough age it may just be possible to get to see them all!
And ever wondered why you never hear one coming? Well owls are able to fly virtually silently because of a fringe on the leading edge of their primary feathers that helps muffle sound
Very useful if you're hunting for a mouse in the grass!
A rather clean CP 8172 on point of train 101-04 passes the set of Sunalta searchlight signals on the west edge of Calgary’s downtown, this making the start of the trains westward trip along Canadian Pacific’s Laggan Subdivision. February 7, 2022
Rather than a house, the image is more like a small shed where painting and drawing tools are kept :)
Actually, I'm not good at making buildings, but I tried my best this time. Little by little, I want to make various types of tree houses from now on.
I hope you will like it!
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A rather grubby 66304 still in unbranded DRS livery approaches Sleaford North Jn. with 4L14 14:55 Doncaster Iport Gbrf - Felixstowe South Gbrf. 22-03-2024.
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Broad, bright and glitzy. But rather empty, not to say deserted - especially compared to Shanghai's Nanjing Road. Well, it was cold. And the folks of Zhengzhou apparently prefer another part of Dehua Road for shopping.
SOOTC - my little Panasonic with a Gorillapod (tied to a lamp post).
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The beautiful acorn woodpecker is one of the many awesome species that one can see on our Nature"s Tapestry Photo Adventure Tours to Costa Rica. Our next trip is just around the corner. In fact we are planning to leave on the 7th of April returning on the 16th. It is a lovely time of year and it is also the nesting season. If you would like to join us please shoot me an email or message and I will get further information off to you.
Wishing you all a beautiful and blessed evening !!
Rather than cause anxiety, the presence of many boxes as I pack up in preparation for our move next week has proven to be a delight for Sundae and Pearl, in particular.
From a feline point of view, one can never have too many boxes!
14th May 2020:
Rather windy and cold this morning which didn't encourage me to go out. So I took my backup photo of the bird seed on the garden table.
Although it wasn't quite so bad this afternoon, I really didn't feel like going out. So it's the bird seed for today.
Today is also : National Caesar Day - especially for my Canadian friends - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-caesar-day-thursday-befo...
As for the Silly News it's : National Buttermilk Biscuit Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-buttermilk-biscui...
Not sure how easy it is to get buttermilk here in France.
But it's also : National Dance Like a Chicken Day : nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-dance-like-a-chic...
Which just sounds really daft!
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This rather corpulent fellow is a male Gambel's Quail. Both sexes sport the topknot. And you’d think that fascinator or topknot on the male would be used to attract females. But a study found that the females really don’t care about the size of his doodad. Instead she looks to his foraging prowess and overall size. HOWEVER, they are a bit of a social species and the males have a pecking order. The guy with the biggest topknot wins the top position in the pecking order. Sadly, they figured this out by shortening the topknot of the top male and found his exalted position was reduced to that of a peasant quail. 😒. Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden with a cactus bokeh
A rather nice MGA 1600 Mk.II Roadster in the car park at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire.
First registered in January 1962.
24th February 2017:
A rather busy day today for us both, so while I had the chance I rushed into the garden and took a quick photo of the new shoots on the Red Robin bush.
Not very inspiring but better than having to find another inside photo, it's not raining today either!
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A rather severe 8:5 crop from a ~427,9MP 360° IR panorama, yet still 62,4MP, with the classic 720nm development, white foliage and blue sky.
I just realized that a lot of my photos depict some kind of fence.. 📷
If you like, you can find a monochrome version of a wider crop of the same panorama here:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/52839468330/in/dateta...
Or a picture of the same line of tree, but on the visible spectrum and under rather different conditions here:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/52710548648/in/dateta...
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,6sec
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
This shot was taken on the same hike as www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/22012959486 and
www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/22943361756, and one of the reasons why I went further. Because when I was already very tired I could see high above me tiny white specks, that I had recognized from my earlier Alaska trip in 91. There were Dall sheep on the rim, and although it looked immensely steep at the top, my curiosity won from the tiredness, and I went further and further, until I finally got to the top, and saw this herd, and even closer by a group of 6 that looked at me with suspicion, and maybe some amusement because humans are so clumsy in the mountains compared to Dall sheep.
I like this picture better because of the background light, and the view into the valley.
From 11 june till the 25th of July, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. From there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.
A rather wonky fence that I pass by quite often. Just hadn't noticed how squiffy it was!!
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Rather, the aircraft you're seeing are from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, SC which is close to Parris Island and hosts Marine Corps squadrons. The primary fighter aircraft models used at MCAS Beaufort for training and operations include:
F/A-18 Hornet: This is a multirole fighter used by the Marine Corps for both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.
F-35B Lightning II: A more recent addition to the Marine Corps fleet, known for its stealth capabilities and short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) features.
These aircraft are part of the Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31) based at MCAS Beaufort, which supports training and operational missions.
Pleased to see them in our skies.
A rather scruffy Pipit checking out the area before return to the new family with the latest meal. This bird took at least 10 minutes before it was confident enough to return to the nest.
Rather large, spectacular hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands that favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and occasionally opening it to show extensive white. Male has deep blue hood, green upperparts with white collar (often hard to see), white underparts, and mostly white tail.
Portrait rather large curious dung fly, who wants to explore the inside of the lens. Made with magnification factor 9 and f/6.4. For the picture the Canon 7D, the macro lens MP-E 65mm/f2.8 and the Canon 2x teleconverter has been used. A large-sized version can be seen on
Rather large, spectacular hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands that favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and occasionally opening it to show extensive white. Male has deep blue hood, green upperparts with white collar (often hard to see), white underparts, and mostly white tail. Some females look similar to males while others look very different, with dark spotting below and a mostly green tail with white tips.
I really have lost focus in school. I'd rather have fun and take pictures rather than do essays every week. Can anyone really blame me though?
I wish I was the kind of person that RIGHT when I got an assignment, I did it. Unfortunately, I'm the opposite of that person. I do the assignment the night before it's due.
So, either tomorrow or Wednesday, I'm going to be showing you something I bought from The High Museum of Art from the Salvador Dali exhibit. :) It'll be a part of my picture. I'll also talk a little more on the exhibit, because it was AMAZING. :)
I hope all is well with everyone!
QOTD: (since I'm procrastinating)
What is your favorite TV show, and what is your favorite website to go to? :)
My favorite TV show: Family Guy. But also shows like America's Next Top Model, because it inspires me when I model AND take pictures :)
My favorite website: Flickr is pretty awesome :D Lately I've liked WIMP.com check it out! :D
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I rather liked how we could see where the ski runs were "carved' from the hillside vegetation and are now used in the non-snow period for the mountain biking businesses.
The Rocky Valley Dam water is used to provide snow with machines when, as so often is the case, nature does not provide enough coverage. Falls Creek is just not high enough to get the regular snow at 1500-178om. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_Creek_Alpine_Resort
Rather large, spectacular hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands that favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and occasionally opening it to show extensive white. Male has deep blue hood, green upperparts with white collar (often hard to see), white underparts, and mostly white tail. Some females look similar to males while others look very different, with dark spotting below and a mostly green tail with white tips.
While walking up Afon Lloer on Friday afternoon I saw these dark moody clouds over the mountain top further up the Ogwen Valley. I'm not certain which peak this is but looking on OS Maps it's either Y Garn or Glyder Fawr, I can't quite work out which one.
I loved how the snow looked on top of the mountains so I went in for a closer crop rather than a grand vista view.
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Rather large, spectacular hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands that favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and occasionally opening it to show extensive white. Male has deep blue hood, green upperparts with white collar (often hard to see), white underparts, and mostly white tail.
This White-necked Jacobin was photographed in Ecuador guided by Neotropic Photo Tours.
As this year is ending, I've been feeling rather empty recently, losing motivation, the tic-tac in my head sounding louder and louder.
I would say that I'm rather a nice person, but paradoxically, at the same time it's not always easy to approach me. I know sometimes it's hard to have access to the whole of me, because my whole being is afraid to get attached. Because in the end I guess I'm afraid of rejection.
In the past few weeks, some lil challenges, awareness and conversations in the "real world", made me realize how challenging it is for most people to really connect with others.
We fragment, we censor ourselves, we demean ourselves, we're not the same person everywhere because it's not easy. Because we're afraid.
We stay on the surface because it's dizzying to be real or vulnerable. Because we rather be judged for what we're not instead of what we are. Like it gives us a way out or something.
And yet. I try to remind myself that 100% times I've been whole, I've survived and I've even grown up.
Anyway. I put this random (meaningless?) thoughts here to remind myself, and maybe to remind you if you ever need.
May peace be upon all of you.
Yeap, I'm a bit uninspired these days, which I think is because of the weather. Too much rain is not that good.
Again, I'm back at the Petronas Twin Towers for some uninspired shot alone. And yes this is an old shot taken in October :-)
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A rather pleasant February afternoon at Portage Junction, finds Canadian Pacific's train 281, sitting idle waiting on an outbound crew to get it moving towards the Twin Cities again. The signal on the right, is the distant signal to enter Portage Junction from the M&P Subdivision (Madison and Portage).