Light, Shade & Color!
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A small creamy white straw flower amongst the yellow ones.
Taken at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens.
An oldie but goodie " A Whiter Shade Of Pale " by Procol Harum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BADDeIQWVQ&t=4s
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Peaceful Bokeh Wednesday
This little shelter is shade for the horses where there are no shade trees. One of my favourite places to visit only about a 30 minute drive from home.- Mundoolun - Queensland -Australia.
iPiccy and Topaz.
This is a large property with many horses in different areas, mostly race horses resting.
Thank you everyone for your visits, comments and friendship.
Master of Photography - Members Choice.
Gulls can be extremely harsh in bight sunlight and difficult to expose. This one was standing in dappled shade and made a much softer subject
This feathery friend followed me along the canal bank chirping a beautiful song.
Created using Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
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A fellow photographer and friend from the UK wanted to learn more about masking in Photoshop, and Zoom to the rescue. I started with one of my shots that never thrilled me, but thought it was a good simple shot to start with. As far as the dime a dozen shots of '55 Chevys go, IMO, it was just OK, and it's color was not my favorite. Kind of a peach color, ergo the title. I showed him the power of the new Object Selection tool in Photoshop, and if any further cleanup is required a few other tools can be used. However, typically I use the Polygonal tool for that. I went on to tell him that if you are selecting the subject (car here) but want to do something with the rest of the image, (the background) and not the subject, you must click Inverse before doing any of that. I told him that if you are going to spray out the background like above, you can pick any color you want, but a color already in the image usually works well, or as in the case here, a complimentary color. Maybe a bit of a stretch here, and being that the cars color is in the red family, the compliment of red is green, and therefore my reasoning for going with a shade of green. So, as I'm working my way through this demo process with him my original feelings about not liking the image started to change, and I actually kind of like it now. I think it's proof as to how, with a little extra play, you can turn a mediocre image into something a little more special. So, the takeaway here is don't throw in the towel on those "so so" images, there just may be hope for them.
The Sun moves through the sky and changes how we see things all the time. The Iris is sharing beautifully shaded areas because where the Sun is in the sky during this photo. And hour from when the photo was taken the Iris would have looked different from this particular capture. Nature is beautiful and fragile and also ultra generous in how much she gives us daily. Take the time often to enjoy Nature and give praise for her generosity. Gratitude and Kindness need to be a large part of our personal profile. It’s never to late to make a change or to make a commitment to help preserve Nature.
Fuoco selettivo su alcuni frutti di rosa canina.
(li avevo chiamati impropriamente "bacche" ma sono stato prontamente redarguito)
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The black skimmer was photographed resting on a sandbar along the Cuiaba River. There were about six of them there when this image was taken. Within minutes more skimmers were circling above getting ready to land.
The black skimmer (Rynchops niger) is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas in the river shallows.
Skimmers have a light graceful flight, with steady beats of their long wings. They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water (in order of importance) for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.
The black skimmer breeds in loose groups on sandbanks and sandy beaches in the Americas, the three to seven heavily dark-blotched buff or bluish eggs being incubated by both the male and female. The chicks leave the nest as soon as they hatch and lie inconspicuously in the nest depression or "scrape" where they are shaded from high temperatures by the parents. They may dig their own depressions in the sand at times. Parents feed the young almost exclusively during the day with almost no feeding occurring at night, due to the entire population of adults sometimes departing the colony to forage.