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This beauty was taken on Monday 7th June at the RSPB nature reserve.
The funny thing is at the time I had no idea what this was. It was only after reviewing my photos I saw this beautiful bird.
I looked in the RSPB British bird book but couldn't find it in there, after further investigation I found out that this bird was really rare.
Pratincoles are unusual among waders in that they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the ground.
Great Dixter gardens macro bliss :)
I recently visited Great Dixter gardens and it was the first time in months that I've been out and about for pleasure.
The gardens didn't disappoint ! It is well worth a visit.
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This image was taken and edited on my camera phone .
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Grey Heron
I taken a few walks in the RSPB nature reserve near me. I enjoy the exercise and love photography.
I figured it's good to walk a few miles in the beautiful countryside breathing the fresh air and sometimes I see beautiful wildlife along the way 😀
"Grey herons are unmistakeable: tall, with long legs, a long beak and grey, black and white feathering. They can stand with their neck stretched out, looking for food, or hunched down with their neck bent over their chest.
What they eat:
Lots of fish, but also small birds such as ducklings, small mammals like voles and amphibians. After harvesting, grey herons can sometimes be seen in fields, looking for rodents.
Measurements:
Length:90-98cmWingspan:175-195cmWeight:1.5-2kg
Population:
UK breeding:13,000 nestsUK wintering:63,000 birds"
Link-https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/grey-heron/
I had the day off work so I thought a nice little trip to Great Dixter would be nice, they had an amazing showing there, it was so good that I'm going again on Sunday.
Unfortunately, most of my macro insect images didn't come out very well, but hey ho. . . You live and learn!
Another image that was taken in one of my favorite places the Great Dixter House & Gardens in Sussex.
I really enjoy taking macro images.
I first started with buying a cheap set of screw on lenses onto my standard efs 18-55mm lens. Then I moved onto extension tubes,reversing my lens and experimenting with cheap m42 mount lenses.
Eventually I knew that I really wanted a proper macro lens and I've had a lot of fun with it.
I was always looking for more magnification and eventually bought a Canon 1-5x macro lens. Although I wouldn't recommend this as a first macro lens as it's harder to use with no auto focus it is still my overall favourite lens of all.
I'm really active on Instagram now your welcome to check me out!
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Wasp spiders
These were both taken in my garden. Wasp spiders look really colourful and have a zigzag pattern in their webs.
This was a composition of several images to increase depth of field .
I love the different shapes and colours in nature, this was taken after getting home from work,in my garden snatching a little spare time for myself :)
I had the day off work so I thought of a nice little trip to Great Dixter.
Another image that was taken in one of my favorite places the Great Dixter House & Gardens in Sussex.
I just love this 100mm macro lens,it has very pleasing bokeh in my opinion :)
It was freezing cold taking this shot of St Thomas A Becket Church but worth it. The sky was clear with a tapestry of sparkling stars.
A single shot taken with my Canon 6d with the Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. ISO 800
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I decided to go out last minute to the RSPB nature reserve at Dunginess, mostly for the exercise, to be honest.
The lighting was perfect with lovely hard,low sunlight.
I only captured cormorants, but I have always admired these beautiful birds.
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
This large, black waterbird can be seen across the UK throughout the year. Cormorants are experts at fishing, but this can bring them into conflict with anglers. They dive underwater for long periods of time catching their prey. Their feathers are not waterproof, which helps them dive deeper, and this is why they are often seen standing out of the water with their wings spread out to dry.
Approximately 9,000 pairs breed in the UK each year, and their numbers increase dramatically when they are joined by 41,000 birds over the winter months. Cormorants are able to breed both on land and in trees, making nests of seaweed, reeds, and twigs.
Cormorants are on the Green list for Birds of Conservation Concern.
Link-
northkent.birdwise.org.uk/meet-the-birds/cormorant-phalac...
Taken with my basic but favorite
Canon 450D
The first Church of England, this historic gothic-style cathedral dates back to 597, which served as a rich and powerful monastery of Benedictine monks in the 12th century
LINK-
www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186311-d188526-R...
I love the wonderful macro World! It is like visiting an alien planet when you do macro , you never know what your gonna get.
This was taken at the Romney marsh wildlife centre in Kent.
I took this in July last year in my garden.
This shot of a peacock butterfly with its wings up, it took a while for me to approach this beauty but I managed to get within 4inches to capture this shot. They usually fly away 95% of the time.
This image was taken with my modest and trusty Canon 450d and with my EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II
Otters are fun creatures to watch and they are highly intelligent. Most of us don’t know much about them so here are some facts to help you educate yourself about them. It can be fun to test out your knowledge as you go.
Otters consume mainly fish but many people think that they eat plants and berries. They are definitely meat-eaters.
Male Otters are called boars, females are sows, and the offspring are pups.
The Sea Otter is the only species that have a shorter and less muscular tail. The others use it as a powerful weapon and to navigate their movements in the water.
Otters spend the majority of their time on land but many people assume that they spend it in the water. The exception is the Sea Otter which does spend almost all of its time in the water.
Top Facts about Otters
There are 13 different species of Otters found in the world. There is evidence that they have been around for more than 5 million years.
Antarctica and Australia are the only two places in the world where they aren’t found. While they tend to live in the cooler waters, they have been known to reside where the water is warmer and the land is sandy.
Otters are very closely related to badgers, ferrets, and mink. They aren’t related to the beaver but they are often mistaken for them. They are also distant cousins of the skunk.
They have the ability to create and use tools just like beavers, monkeys, and apes.
The average life span for an Otter is 10 years. That can double though with one in captivity.
Otters can have a tail that is a foot long. It helps to protect them as well as to help them steer through the water.
Generally, the tail will make up about one-third of the body.
An Otter can remain underwater for up to 4 minutes. They can also dive up to 300 feet in search of food.
Otters love to sunbathe during the day and they are very active at night.
Humans are the main predator of Otters due to hunting for their pelts.
Otters are believed to be one of the most skilled creatures in the world.
They are the only known marine animals that don’t have blubber. They have their fur instead to keep them warm.
It can be hard to tell the pups from the mothers because the pups can be almost as long as their mothers at birth. Those that don’t know the males and females stay separated often assume this is a couple rather than a mother and a pup.
There are some great photos of Otters engaging in human behaviors including holding hands.
As you can see there is plenty of information out there about Otters. If you want to pursue more about them, consider reading about their characteristics, habitat, and feeding habits. You can also learn information that is specific to the various species of Otters out there. They are definitely amazing creatures with plenty to teach us about life, fun, and survival.
Link-
www.otter-world.com/facts-about-otters/
This beauty was taken at the Wingham Wildlife, Rusham Road, Wingham, Kent, CT3 1JL
Canon 7d mk1 and Nikon microscope achromatic finite 4x objective lens
This image was taken this morning at New Romney wildlife centre.
I slowly approached this insect and managed to take around 11 separate photos (before the subject moved) and stitched them together to create one image with improved depth of field.
I had very limited depth of field as I used a Nikon microscope achromatic finite 4x objective lens and had no means to stop my lens down.
I really love the macro world and marvel at the wonderful designs that nature makes.
Party time
I really love my Xone db4 mixer and and enjoy mixing tunes on my Technics SL-1210MK2's
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Meet the Dragonfly
Everything dragonflies - dragonfly life cycle, facts, pictures, articles, more!
One of Nature’s most intriguing and fascinating insects, and the subject of mankind’s most sublime and ridiculous myths and mythologies, the dragonfly darts around going about its business as usual, blissfully unaware and oblivious to the interest it has generated in us.
And perhaps thankfully for us because if the dragonfly were to understand that we have called it the “Devil's darning needle” and “gwas-y-neidr” or the Adder’s Servant, it could laugh long and hard at us…and considering the dragonfly has been around for over 300 million years, it could be a really, really long laugh.
The primary fascination that humans have had with dragonflies is because
Of its ability to seek out pure water
Of its ability to Reflect multiple colors with changing angles of light
Of its awe inspiring flight and speed
Of its ability to almost single handedly control insect populations
Of its ability to adapt to change with indescribable ease
Of the way it lives out its adult life, living each moment to the fullest.
Dragonflies were almost deified as the souls of the dead in Native American culture and heralded as symbols of purity and change, they were symbols of victory, power and prosperity, and the native Burmese (now Myanmar) regularly released dragonfly nymphs into the water surrounding their settlements to control the populations of Yellow Fever causing mosquitoes.
Dragonflies are natural and seriously efficient predators and can deliver a telling blow to insect populations in areas that they are present in good numbers, so much so that normal people are saved from most mosquito-spread diseases, and bee keepers consider dragonflies as a pest.
Biology
Dragonfly Close Up The dragonfly, owing to its position in the food chain, is not scared…so if you find one flying over to you and sometimes looking you in the eye for a few moments, don’t be surprised or shocked. It’s what it does…look with its 30,000 eyes, to find food and mates. Oh, while 30,000 is an approximate number, it is the number of ommatidia that dragonflies have within their compound eyes.
Like all arthropods, dragonflies have compound eyes - only, they are a little more specialized, suited for a born predator.
When dragonflies see, they don’t exactly see…they more sense. Sense movement at a much wider angle than any human could even imagine. The reason being, its eyes are ball-like and see at a complete 360 degree span. Each Ommatidia, called Ommatidium in a singular, is an eye in itself, capable of seeing anything right in front of it. This helps the dragonfly sense movement anywhere around it.
Furthermore, the dragonfly has a flattened area right in front of its eyes with a concentration of eye cells that see directly in front. This helps it see the little mosquito as it flies around, so it can home in on its meal. Other predators of the Arthropod family like the Praying Mantis and the best fliers like bees have similar flattened fronts to help them see better, as they fly.
The body of the dragonfly is supported by two pairs of extremely powerful wings that help it float at the slightest breeze and can flap fast and hard enough to hover even against a strong headwind. Here again, although its wings are transparent and seem quite frail, you’ll find they’re a whole lot stronger than they might seem at first sight. The construction of my wings and the fact that they are not jointed like those of butterflies, and can operate independently, helps the dragonfly fly and run a neat little air show on its own, capable of flight in all directions, up, down, left, right, forwards and even backwards. Nope, the hummingbird is not the only one that can go on the reverse gear.
The surfaces of dragonfly’s wings are not smooth. They have small pocket like ridges that catch even the slightest gust of wind to take flight. Although the rough surface poses a certain degree of aerodynamic drag, the dragonfly can move fast enough, and more importantly, have enough control in flight to make sure if it catches sight of its meal, it’s as good as eaten. Not many an insect escape its six legs once the chase begins, as it out-flies the prey and grabs it using its legs to eat them at ease. To make it as simple as possible, the legs are positioned in such a way that they form a pouch like shape. This helps grab prey leaving them with very little chance of an escape.
As the dragonfly flies a lot, it needs to both heat up and cool off and hence, the famous Obelisk pose. The muscles that flap its wings need to be warm at all times.
Coming back to the Obelisk, dragonflies bask in the sun as much as possible when they need the heat. And when they need a little breather from the warmth, they position their bodies in such a way that it makes little or no direct contact with the sun’s rays.
They also do something quite similar to catch the warmth of the setting sun. Same pose, vastly different purposes.
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I really enjoy taking macro images.
I first started with buying a cheap set of screw on lenses onto my standard efs 18-55mm lens. Then I moved onto extension tubes,reversing my lens and experimenting with cheap m42 mount lenses.
Eventually I knew that I really wanted a proper macro lens and I've had a lot of fun with it.
This was taken with my Canon 100mmL macro and is probably at the limit of magnification for this lens without using extension tubes or other techniques. This is my 2and favourite macro lens.
I was always looking for more magnification and eventually bought a Canon 1-5x macro lens. Although I wouldn't recommend this as a first macro lens as it's harder to use with no auto focus it is still my overall favourite lens of all.
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This is my daughter Jessica and was taken in my living roomwith a smoke machine and party lights on!
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Cross polarization photography is fun and quite easy to do.
I love the psychedelic colors that can be achieved .
No colors were added artificially.
Please see link-
www.ephotozine.com/article/abstract-photography--easy-cro...
Celebrating my 50th birthday
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This was taken at the RSPB nature reserve at Dungeness in Kent.
There are 2 pairs of coots and they kept squabbling to protect their patch.
Description
Coots have prominent frontal shields or other decoration on the forehead, with red to dark red eyes and coloured bills. Many, but not all, have white on the under tail.
The featherless shield gave rise to the expression "as bald as a coot," which the Oxford English Dictionary cites in use as early as 1430. Like other rails, they have long, lobed toes that are well adapted to soft, uneven surfaces.
Coots have strong legs and can walk and run vigorously. They tend to have short, rounded wings and are weak fliers, though northern species nevertheless can cover long distances.
Breeding and habitat
The greatest species variety occurs in South America, and the genus likely originated there. They are common in Europe and North America.
Coot species that migrate do so at night. The American coot has been observed rarely in Britain and Ireland. In southern Louisiana, the coot is referred to by the French name "poule d'eau", which translates into English as "water hen" or "moorhen".
Ecology and behaviour
Coots are omnivorous, eating mainly plant material, but also small animals, fish and eggs.
They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer.
Chick mortality occurs mainly due to starvation rather than predation as coots have difficulty feeding a large family of hatchlings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect.
Most chicks die in the first 10 days after hatching, when they are most dependent on adults for food.
Coots can be very brutal to their own young under pressure such as the lack of food, and after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die.
The coot may eventually raise only two or three out of nine hatchlings.
In this attacking behaviour, the parents are said to "tousle" their young. This can result in the death of the chick.
A group of coots may be referred to as a covert or cover.
Link
( Taken with my iPhone 6s plus )
This is in the basement level under a building at a job where I used to service the lifts . The lift room I need to get to is down the end of that long dark walkway.
At the end there are no lights at all, I turn left and walk some more to get there in near total darkness .
The security guard informed me that there are large rats and sometimes homeless people around.
The day I took this photo I finally unlocked the combination padlock to get into the motoroom by my dim camera torchlight, it was deathly quiet.
I went inside doing some paperwork and then suddenly, The door blew open and make a LOUD BANG! . . .I nearly had kittens! :)
Processed with MOLDIV app, taken with my work windows phone.
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I just love photography! Be it portraiture , macro,expressive, trick photography, long exposure , or any other. I am trying to push my own boundaries.
I have a thirst for knowledge. It is a tough road ahead, but patience should put me in good stead.
I have seen so many amazing artists on here who give me inspiration and push me , to strive for better things .
Here's hoping that I achieve my goals.
Our little ones are the most treasured and precious little things in our World.
This was taken on a photoshoot of mine a while back, the 1st one I've done of a new baby but was enjoyable and a great learning experience.
Taken with a Canon 5dmkiii and Canon 100mm macro lens.
This beauty is a Hornet, I'd wanted to take a photo of one of these for years. The 1st and only time I'd had the opportunity to take a photo of one at the time of this image was 2 years before this one at the time, I'd set myself up, was just about to take a photo and it flew off !!
When I take photos with such high magnification, I try to brace myself on something firm, use mirror lock-up (Which stops mirror slap ) And I also always hold my breath to minimize any movement for the sharpest possible image.
I don't use a tripod for macro work as they are slow and cumbersome(by the time I set it up, whatever I was photographing has moved and probably had babies by then!)
This specimen was captured at Great Dixter House & Gardens in Sussex. It had damaged wings so it couldn't fly, it also posed for me beautifully
A large storm woke me up at night, I rushed out with my camera and set up under some shelter .
I put my camera on a tripod and started shooting, I feel this this is my best lightning photo to date.
This is a crop of my original image.
This was taken at Dungeness in Kent. I am really enjoying exploring long exposure photography. I have some big plans in the future and look forward to continually learning and capturing our beautiful landscape.
I took this with my Canon 7d , Tamron 17-50mm lens and a cheap graduated neutral density filter.
Every time I look at this image now ,I wish I'd straightened it up! Oh well, you live and learn .
This is the second edit of this image that I have uploaded as I feel that my processing has improved immeasurably since then.
This is my final edit and the same one that I have recently exhibited at the
Lovely's art gallery
248 Northdown Road
Cliftonville, Margate,
Kent, UK, CT9 2PX
I am very lucky I feel to live near Littlestone beach, My family regularly walk, cycle along and also visit this quiet beach.
This is a new specimen for me, I have never seen mouth parts like this before. I love extreme macro as life looks like giant aliens from another World. This photo is heavily cropped and taken in great dixter gardens East Sussex .
I enjoy the challenge of in flight photography, I find it tough but also rewarding if you occasionally capture the sort of shot you were looking for,it's very satisfying. :)
I shot this with a 50mm lens, I think it was a total of about 5 shots stiched together to get it all in.
Hastings Pier
is a pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, England.
Built in 1872 and enjoying its prime in the 1930s, it became a popular music venue in the 1960s.
The structure suffered major storm damage in 1990, and was closed to the public for a time before closing completely in 2008,and 95% destroyed by a fire in 2010. Hastings Pier Charity oversaw a rebuilding project, with the pier reopening on 27 April 2016.
The redeveloped pier won the 2017 Stirling Prize for architecture.
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Littlestone beach walk My daughter and I enjoyed our exercise walking along the coast. It was another beautiful day and we built up an appetite :)
This was also the very first time I've used my new Canon EF 135 f2.0L lens and I've got to say that I'm impressed with this lens quality.
This beautiful Damselfly was taken using my Canon kiss x5 (identical to the 600d) with my Canon 100mm macro lens.
Damselfly (suborder Zygoptera), any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings. Damselflies are generally smaller, more delicate, and fly weakly in comparison with dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera).
Their colors can be stunningly vivid. Wingspans among the 2,600 damselfly species range from 18 mm (0.71 inch) to about 19 cm (7.5 inches) in Megaloprepus caerulatus, a giant damselfly of tropical Central and South America.
Damselflies can usually be distinguished from dragonflies by their thinner, needlelike abdomens and by the way they hold their wings when at rest.
With few exceptions, damselflies hold their wings vertically and together, rather than horizontally and spread apart.
Also, the four wings are almost identical in size and shape and in the vein patterns. The large eyes of damselflies differ from those of dragonflies in that they are always widely separated, rather than close together or touching each other.
One of my all-time favorite places Great Dixter Gardens, I am always impressed at how this beautiful garden evolves over the seasons.
I took this photo in Wales. I would normally use a tripod for this type of shot but in this case it was handheld.
I love the challenge of trying to capture in flight insects, I usually fail miserably but sometimes manage to capture the shot that I intended.
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Imagine trying to swat this!
I took this photo in the New Romney wildlife center. I was amazed to see it's whole head was made up of hundreds of compound eyes! The natural World is so diverse and incredible.
If I remember correctly this was shot free hand and a stack shot of around 7 photos taken using my Canon DSLR using the Canon mpe-65mm 1-5x macro lens.
If you know what type of insect this is then I would love to know. :)