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This picture is more about a special moment than about the greatest photo. It was taken last week around 17:00 on a bike trail used by Victoria commuters but also recognized as a very good birding spot. It was shot at 1/160 sec; f/4; ISO 20,000 (yes 20,000) I did not want to use flash but I was lucky enough that a cyclist equipped with a head lamp and puzzled by what I was doing there at this time of night, turned around and lit up the bird. That gave me the opportunity to take a reasonable picture of this bird that had landed right next to me a few minutes before. This was my first encounter with a Saw-whet Owl in the wild. I was surprised to see how poised and confident the bird was around people. He perched in the tree for several minutes. I do not want to make this comment longer than required but I want to explain what I was doing there in the dark at this time of night as it is not a common habit of mine to do photography at night. I had arrived at the location around 15:30 as someone had informed me that a Long-eared Owl had been found at the location. This was the first record in Victoria in something like fifteen years. I do not keep list and records and I rarely show up at these rare bird report locations but I love owls. Even though I knew there was no good picture to be taken, I just wanted to see the bird. Many birders and photographers were on site when I arrived around 15:30. By 16:30, there was only one birder and myself left. The birder was interested in finding out a little more about the habit of the long-eared owl and when he was going to start hunting. I decided to stay behind with this person. The bird started hunting around 16:45 and we monitored him for a while, until this beautiful little owl landed beside us and then we lost track of the Long-eared Owl. I have been thinking about the whole situation and I am pretty sure the little owl showed up at this precise location because the bigger owl was there. I suspect that the little one was there to learn a few hunting tips from the big one. The person who was with me that night is one of the top birder on Vancouver Island. She has been birding for many years but indicated that she only saw Northern Saw-Whet Owl in the wild on two or three occasions in her life. It was a special moment even if it is not the greatest photo.
I chose to go to Botswana at the end of the rainy season or the Green Season. I was hoping that the rains had subsided and I would have clear days for shooting pictures. However, the main reason for going at this time is that it is still the low season in "travel talk" and that accommodations would be more reasonable. I travel alone and the single supplement is a killer on the budget.
I was rewarded with clear sunny days, no rain, water levels high enough for a mokoro ride and seeing the animals enjoying the tall grasses and plentiful water sources. This male impala was seen in Moremi Park in the Okavango Delta.
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A reasonable-looking CF4409 leads 6028 and 6026 through Wingen, with loaded Aurizon coal train MB918 from Maules Creek to NCIG Kooragang for export.
Thursday 7th December 2023
Delicate creamy-white flowering Meadowsweet or Filipendula ulmaria plants in the foreground of a Dutch nature reserve in the summer season.
In the background purple loosestrife is blooming too.
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Off to work early for these two pelicans, though maybe they're just getting back late.
A grainy, half-light shot, but again, the days are so short... I'm working when the light is reasonable.
Today is day 205 of Project 365 (Friday).
I was moving a few metres at a time and doing a reasonable job of remaining 'stealthy' until I stood on a loose, large pebble which pitched me sideways. My resultant flapping of arms and stumbling about to stay upright caused momentary panic in the group closest to the waters edge, though most of their comrades remained stoically unfazed by the approaching bumbling idiot!
There are three talking points that no reasonable exposition about Mr. Brown Pelican can possibly ignore:
1. Mr. Pelican sees himself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat.
2. Mr. Pelican minces to the twang of a different zither.
3. Mr. Pelican would love to see college campuses morph into small, ivy-covered North Koreas in which the student or faculty member who dares to address the real issues faced by mankind quickly finds himself in a heap of legal trouble.
As a preliminary, I want to test the assumptions that underlie Mr. Pelican's precepts. As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that from secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, Mr. Pelican's zealots have always found a way to force women to live by restrictive standards not applicable to men.
My first reasonable attempt using an adjustable stopper. I don't think the adjustable stoppers are great. They tend to lose a little quality in your image.
This is a detailed, 121 megapixel panorama of the San Francisco holiday skyline, shot on December 28 2016. I've been working on making as sharp and as detailed as possible; you can make out exit sign lights above doors at the SFMOMA 2.4km (1.5 miles) and 555 California 3km (1.9 miles) away and individual lights on the Bay Bridge 5.5km (3.4 miles) away. Thanks very much to Florian Kainz for all of his advice to get this as good as it could be :]
You can check out the full resolution version here: www.flickr.com/photos/captin_nod/32066278265/sizes/o/
The hardware used was nothing particularly special - a Canon 7D with the cheap, standard canon 70-300mm zoom lens at 260mm. I shot individual pictures at f/11, ISO 400 with a 1 second exposure (which underexposed most things about a stop). The panorama itself is shot from 46 individual images; and each one of these images consisted of locking off the camera and taking 4 photographs. In photoshop, these are exactly aligned and median filtered to reduce noise, remove motion artifacts from moving lights and recover a little dynamic range. I'd periodically switch the camera into live view to check that the focus of the lens was sharp. The process of shooting the images - the setup, calibration, checking focus and of course actual exposures - took a little under an hour.
After stitching, the image is around 50,000 pixels across. As expected, I wasn't able to completely eliminate all the things that could contribute to softness - nailing the focus, intrinsic shaking of the tripod & camera due to things like wind, and distortion due to heat haze and atmosphere. In the original panorama, there are large parts of the image that can be downsampled, resized back up and placed back in without any significant loss in quality. This 'empty resolution' means that I could wholesale resample the image to half it's size; this also had the effect of improving the signal to noise ratio a little, reducing the noise in the final image.
For the interactive panorama on Facebook (www.facebook.com/bjoshi/posts/10154212269427423), I used a modified version of Eric Cheng's fantastic PSD templates (www.facebook.com/notes/eric-cheng/editing-360-photos-inje...) to create a 6000 pixel wide, 300-degree-wide cylindrical panorama version of the image. It requires a little manual messing around with the XMP metadata to get it exactly where I wanted it (my image is not very tall); ping me in the comments below if you want more details or help figuring it out.
For those of you that have grabbed the original image from Flickr with the intent of printing or using commercially - please don't, and buy the image or hire me instead. I shoot high quality imagery at very reasonable rates. I'm easy to find, drop me a line.
Just in case this alone doesn't deter you, in the online copies of the photograph I've hidden (in plain sight) in a range of highly offensive imagery that would be extremely embarrassing and difficult to explain to a client. Have fun trying to find it all because I guarantee you can't :]
A recent addition to my Minolta collection is this X-300. I bought it for a very reasonable price as the seller said it didn't power up even with new batteries. It was in almost as new condition to look at and I wondered what may be wrong with it. A little research on Google and YouTube provided the answer and after a simple fix it was up and running again!
The Minolta X-300 is a 35mm manual focus SLR based on the MD mount, and which was produced between 1984 and 1990.
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at weekend it is a reasonable visiting option to get rid of monotonous city life. it is my pleasure to share heybeli island from the great island of İstanbul.
Still finding reasonable numbers of these dark-form Sminthurinus aureus globular springtails in our Staffordshire garden. Interestingly, not seeing the more common all-yellow form.
These three were all photographed this morning. They are quite active and very prone to "springing" away before you can get the camera on them. The largest one was ~0.5mm; the other two a little smaller. The outer two have paler patches on the head.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Heavily cropped.
My first reasonable attempt in Astrophotography I can actually present...
Andromeda Galaxy - is spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda, It is our nearest large galaxy - about 2.5 mil. light years from earth and one of the few visible to the naked eye - you can see it as a little milky blur.
Nikon D750, 10x120s stacked in DSS, ISO2500, 155mm, f5.6, Skywatcher star Adventurer.
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So we had a Bank-holiday here, the weather was reasonable as was the light.
We decided to go on a Busman's holiday (A vacation during which one engages in activity that is similar to one's usual work.) LOL!
We drove towards the West Coast, into Lancashire, towards Manchester and Liverpool.
We had heard about The Singing Ringing Tree, part of The Panopticons, a visionary scheme to create a unique series of 21st century landmarks across East Lancashire, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered musical sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley.
This musical element is created by the wind whistling through its 'branches', which are in fact galvanised steel pipes carefully tuned to ensure that the tree sings in harmonyEventually we found it, wanted the 'later light' anyway...
There was not that much wind, but now and than we did hear the haunting sounds:
youtu.be/n28qbB1zGlo
Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN).
The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is a 3 metre tall construction comprising pipes of galvanised steel which harness the energy of the wind to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves.
Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been cut across their width enabling the sound.
The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each.
We plan to 'find/visit' all of them sometime,.
Take care, be safe!
Have a sweet day and thank you, M, (*_*)
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Snow, steam an sun is certainly a rare combination.
Following a reasonable snowfall on Sunday 11th December the temperature in Southern England barely lifted above freezing for the following week, finally allowing the clouds to clear and the sun to shine through on the white landscape.
Given the time that had passed since the snowfall, the roads were mostly clear, but the thermometer still registered -5 degrees as I arrived at Freshfield bank on the Bluebell Railway to photograph their Santa Special services.
SECR O1 class, originally dating from 1896, is seen here attacking the bank shortly after it's 10:00 departure from Sheffield Park on Friday 16th December 2022.
ANGEL IN THE GRASS! A old image, not shown before, the redshank has just landed, and not folded down its wings. A bit different , but I like it, hope you do.
Just been told one of my Marsh Harrier images, will be on Televisions Spring-watch, hope Im not on holiday that week.
Thanks for the visit, still using all my time to get a reasonable cuckoo image, any comment are very appreciated .
Stay safe Tomx
Port del Compte Ski Staion.
On the way down from the ski station we stopped at a road junction where we had seen crested tits on the way up. Eventually I managed a reasonable shot..
Duk Tso is a reasonable sized lake (9 km x 5,5 km) in the north of the county of Mato. Duk Tso is a salt lake.
དུག་མཚོ། > dug mtsho > Duk Tso
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This county ,also known as Machukha མ་ ཆུ་ཁ་ , contains the source of the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River),and lies north of the Bayankala watershed. There are a few small Nyingma shrines and monasteries, of which the largest and most influential is Horkor Gon.
Area: 25.263 sq km.
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Returned to Glencoe when weather had improved and managed to get a reasonable crack at this classic shot.
{Lee Big Stopper and a 0.6 ND grad, long exposure of 30 seconds, ISO 125, f/9.0 at 17mm focal length.} Processed in LightRoom 6.1
Had reasonable weather for a change yesterday on the South Coast of the UK so I made a visit to my local beach at Hayling Island to capture the sunset but as it approached that special time of day the clouds appear from the West and provided some moody light!
1/3 second exposure using a Lee 0.9 ND grad filter.
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This old machine looks to be in reasonable condition considering being parked in a tropical region for several years now...Cairns Airport 09/02/17
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It does look better
In this context superb is a noun rather than an adjective. Superb starlings are common birds in Kenya you can see them easily saying that they are quite nervous so it took a few attempts to make a reasonable shot. Apart from a crop this is completely SOOC, these birds don’t need enhancement. Have to say while it is their name the adjective superb seems perfectly appropriate . the shot is cropped but otherwise unedited
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I quite like this picture of a pink thistle. It was as I looked at the image on the PC that I realised the spiders web had maintained a reasonable degree of sharpness. Taken at Beningbrough Hall, near York. UK
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This is truly an unusual planetary nebula. It presents a reasonable target size of about 10 arc-min in diameter. This compares very closely in size to the inner disk of the well-known Helix Nebula that spans 8X19 arc-min. However, SH2-313 is much older and further away. As planetary nebula age, they tend to lose their nice defined shape. Sharpless 2-313 has an extremely low surface brightness of just 26.2 mag/arc-sec2. This definitely adds to the challenge of capturing this planetary nebula as fairly long exposures are required to obtain enough signal to do this object justice. If you persist, a unique bow shock will be revealed near its core. For myself, the bow shock, and the processes responsible for its formation are definitely the highlight of this object.
At the core, what appears to be a very bright star is a binary star system responsible for creating the surrounding nebula. Spectroscopic measurements reveal the pair are rotating very quickly, almost enough to tear themselves apart. One of the stars is a white dwarf. The incredible forces generated by the rotation on the white dwarf has shed away its outer layers thousands of years ago. This has produced the surrounding planetary nebula we can see today. The glow is caused by the UV radiation of the white dwarf ionizing the expanding shell of material as it expands into space.
The bow shock is due to the motion of the nebula and its central star moving through the gas between the stars. It’s fairly rare to look at stellar objects and see features that suggest motion. I have imaged a few other planetary nebula that have features highlighting their movement through the interstellar medium. This can be represented with wave like structures, localised brightening of gaseous regions, or distortions. One of my favourite objects showing this phenomena is the Skull Nebula. astrob.in/365896/0/
Abell 35 is located in the constellation Hydra. To throw some perspective on this, the full moon is about 31 arc-min across, and SH2-313 is 10 arc-min across. Abell first identified this planetary nebula in 1966. It is possibly the largest PN known at 1.6 pc diameter, and is about 360 pc distant (Jacoby 1981). It is also the oldest PN known (Bohuski 1972).
Abell 35, Lotr 1 and Lotr 5 (Abell 35-like objects) are the only three PNe with binary nuclei known to contain a very hot UV-bright primary and chromospherically active. The mass transfer between their partners or common envelope interactions account for the morphological properties of some planetary nebula. As to how these binary systems form is unclear and presents a challenge to theories of binary star evolution. (A. A. GattiJ, E. DrewS, LumsdenT, MarshC, MoranP, Stetson 1997).
After staring at the screen for far too long, I think this is about as far as I can go with this data set. Data collection spanned three years from multiply locations, and different cameras, but the same telescope. There are a few little things in the image that are kind of cool. This is a very dim diffuse nebula, and galaxies can be clearly seen behind Abell 35. They shine through unimpeded, showing their colours even after they have passed through a nebula. A lot of what appears to be smudges throughout the frame are galaxies. That is so cool. I really wish I could determine just how far away some of these galaxies are. The two prominent parallel pillars, sometimes referred to as the pipes really add a dramatic element to the object. How were they formed? They definitely had a strong Ha, and OIII signal in the data collected.
Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue filtered light were used to create a traditional LRGB image. Additional structure was added with the inclusion of Ha, and OIII filters. The structures revealed in both the Ha and OIII data are incredibly different. This data was then combined with the LRGB image to add an additional layer of depth with interesting hues throughout the core of the resulting image.
Exposure Details:
•Lum 47X900
•Red 40X450
•Green 28X450
•Blue 32X450
•Ha 38X1800
•OIII 47X1800
Total time 66.75 hours
Instruments Used:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium OIII 8.5nm Narrowband-Filter
Software Used
•CCDStack (calibration, alignment, data rejection, stacking)
•Photoshop CS 6 (Image processing)
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Arturo, this is the same species of spider you posted earlier. It's called Clubiona reclusa. I keep a variety of insectivorous plants in my bedroom window to keep biting mosquitoes and midges at bay. However, it was quite a surprise when one of the Venus' fly-trap heads opened up and revealed that it had dined on a spider of reasonable size.
I have noticed this branch sticking out over the water at the Bayfront trail for some time. I thought it might make a reasonable subject for a minimalist treatment. Four second exposure with the Lee Big Stopper.
Taking reasonable photos of trains at Kilby Bridge Junction has become more difficult with the OHLE posts now with 2m wooden fencing around them, making me think that my visit there yesterday would be my last.
Now I'm not so sure after processing this going away shot of the Ketton Cement empties head round to Little Hill. GBRF 66778 was on the front
It's been 2 years coming finally found her at a reasonable price. I hope she likes that man and those kids awaiting her at home! Lol.
#toobusytowork#playingwithnewdoll
MadMolecule and I sat on my front porch and waited for our friend to run by in the Cooper Young Festival Four-Miler. Really, it was just a reasonable excuse to hang out, yap, support our pal, and drink beer, all in one shot.
20-June saw a nice conjunction of the crescent moon, Venus (bottom right) and Juniper (top right), the sails and the bridge. Taken just before Venus and the moon setting "into" the Opera House + dodging some miscellaneous clouds. After 3 hours in the Sydney "cold" at Mrs Macquarie's Chair.
Tricky to find a westward facing "foreground" for the conjunction in Sydney besides the obvious one. No HDR for the moon but I did lighten the exposure in Lightroom. Not great definition though. 0.4 seconds was a reasonable shutter speed to reduce trailing and have some view of the dark side of the moon.
The very first bird seen and photographed on the very first morning of our holiday in Cuba just a few minutes and metres away from our hotel room! Big Year no 24. Could the sightings and consequently images be reasonable good for the rest of my BY contributions from Cuba? The answer will of course be........wait and see!!
Such a crisp clear night here - the forecast is saying a prediction of minus 6C overnight which is is very cold for my part of County Down.
Anyway, so clear and dark looking that I felt I should point a camera at it.
It was only a notion and I had the 105 sigma lens on which is probably not a reasonable choice and I didnt really know what settings to use and couldnt be bothered looking anything up or even spending a lot of time playing with settings ...but I got something satisfactory and interesting (both very subjectively and set against low expectations)
an experiment of sorts.....
May try again soon and build on this
For the 125 pictures in 2025 group: number 36. Experimental
The Cranberries - Stars
I Thought this would be a great 93rd birthday gift for my dad. The price was crazy reasonable, and I couldn't resist. Look, all it needs are a few replacement parts like a new engine, some seats, maybe a few tires.
All kidding aside, I wouldn't have ever found this photo opp without the sense of adventure that he gave us from many road trips growing up. I'm retired now and I still go on road trips with my mom and dad. HIs tutoring has helped me elevate my photography to a much higher level than when I started shooting seriously. Thanks, Dad for everything! Keep on clicking.
A little background on the picture. I did some research online on Route 66 ghost towns off of I 40. Glenrio, TX is right on the border next to New Mexico. The town actually was in both states when Route 66 was still being used. The only business open is on the New Mexico side and is a marijuana dispenser taking advantage of the Texans willing to cross the border and sneak weed back into the state. Every license plate I saw in the parking lot was from Texas except for mine. :) (If you didn't know, you can't buy marijuana in Texas.)
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Sunset at Folegandros Island, Cyclades, Greece, this island is not as visited as the more famous ones, I hope it stays that way, reasonable prices, excellent food, no selfie crowds, it's actually fairy tale magical greek wonderland if there ever was one.
…or reasonable facsimile of Minilite wheels. It’s a brand/style that was so widely used on British sports cars and race cars that they look “right” on many of them. They were used on many American race cars as well.