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A bit more slidey faffery with this image for Sliders Sunday. I think I prefer this even more vintage style to the original...first comment. HSS
Day 93/365:
Day 2: April 2022: A month in 30 pictures
A rose from my beautiful Mother's Day bouquet.
Macro with texture overlay (my own) HSS
Twelve Spotted Ladybug Beetles making more Ladybug Beetles in the Lovage. Ladybugs are hugely beneficial in the gardens eating up as many of those nasty little aphids as they can find. Go Ladybugs, go! 😍
Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura , preening on my back fence.
Happy Mono Monday!
1 Feb 2021; 08:46 CST
melting ice cube
I took this image during the first heat wave this year in June when I longend for snow and ice : ))
[taken through a glass with blue glitter rubber foam in the background]
Stay cool everyone !
Probably one more for Sliders Sunday, as tried to enhance this the best I could. Also, as you'd probably guessed on my earlier effort on this shot, the Yacht was added from another shot I'd taken.
I really missed my tripod for these seascapes.. For one I ended up with too much movement on the bracketed shots to make into HDR, and two I had to shoot them at a very shallow DoF, due to the low light.
Although posted a bit early, decided to add this to the Sliders Sunday group, HSS everyone :-)
Johnny Jumpups (Viola tricolor) just after a rain. Endless rainy and chilly days mean we still have tulips and lilacs in bloom here in New England. Lovely and fragrant and lushly green... but we're ready for Summer. 🌞
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
-Leon Levinstein.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
Day 349/365:
My poor cyclamen are suffering in this cold spell. They are frozen solid in the pot and don't seem to happy about it.
Lensbaby Twist 60 and macro filter.
The weekly/monthly challenge - Slide that image
31/100: 100 x Challenge - Flowers
31/100: 100 Flowers 2020
And for sliders Sunday
Our poppies are blooming early this year, this one was laying on the ground so I brought it inside for a photoshoot, it was quite an obliging model so I managed to get a couple of shots. HSS
#52 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
I saw this beautiful Iris while out walking yesterday.
Lensbaby velvet 56 with Omni filter. I added a vintage film filter.
I hope to catch up properly soon, very poor WiFi connection here.
#76 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
A hidden treasure in the fern house at Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
#42 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Anything goes for 2021 - Fragile
These dried hydrangeas are a couple of years or so old now so are very fragile. The little vintage books are also very fragile. I bought them at a street market in Berlin a few years ago. They made it all the way home until our taxi driver dropped my bag, everything fell out and one of the books fell apart.
I decided on a desaturated vintage look to enhance the fragility.
Little kitten sitting outside on a windowsill and looking, through an insect screen, into the house. It's mother, which we saw walking around the house the day before, left it there for one night, but took it and its sibling to another, less visible place.
HMBT - Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday
There are hundreds of little yellow wildflowers all over the place as we move closer to Spring. It's warm but still cold...that mixed-up time when the weather doesn't quite know which season it is.
7 Days With Flickr - Flora (Fridays).
Photographed while exploring with Charlie-san, Fukuda-san, Fumi-san, Hitomi-san, Junko-san, Kiyoko-san, Maeda-san, Makio-san, Minoru-san, miyunico-san, Nakamura-san, Roger-kun, Scott, sonnar-san, Taizo-san, Take-san, Tomoko-san, and Yume-san. Kitanotenman Shrine, Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe. November 6, 2016.
Rainbow lorikeets in the garden. This pair attracted to the numerous Callistemon bottlebrushes that I've planted that were having a small, extra little flush of flowers before the end of summer.
These birds are feisty, self-assured characters. Bold personalities and behaviours that match their eye-catching and dynamic colours.
They delight us all along the east coast here in Australia. Their natural habitat being rainforest, coastal bush and woodland areas.
To see them flocking en masse, darting at speed across the bright blue sky is truly magical.
These are specifically sub-species Trichoglossus moluccanus moluccanus.
Around 30 cm body length.
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This is a sprig of a tamarack tree, otherwise known as larch, a conifer that is found throughout Canada. Conifers don't typically lose their needles, but tamaracks are deciduous and lose their needles each fall. Before the needles drop off, they turn from green to gold. As you can see, this sprig is nearing its transition into becoming fully golden. Happy Monday and new week, everyone!
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When accosted by a pink panther, don't anther.
Crepe paper, paper mâché, cotton candy, hibiscus.
The last of the series, probably.
Tulips last evening in the new formal garden outside the President's Residence at Smith College. 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Thriving in the half-light of shade, the Astrantia major (var. Alba), also known as Masterwort and Hattie’s Pincushion.
Olympus EM1 + Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm f1.8, at f4
18/31: October: A month in 31 pictures
Not much time for photography today. Our grandson was with us again...we are making the most of it before winter sets in and we may not be able to see him so much. So today's offering is low key since the evenings are drawing in.
The book is one of my finds from a visit to a second hand book shop in Norfolk a couple of years ago. The rose from a beautiful bouquet sent by my son and daughter-in-law recently.
Incredibly small female crab spider, just a few mm body length. Perhaps a juvenile. I only saw her on these native kangaroo paw flower buds due to the contrasting colours. Out of place when I came upon her, as they usually hang out on flowers of similar colour to themselves.
This could be Thomisus spectabilis, commonly called spectacular crab spider or simply white crab spider.
Usually white, but can have patches of yellow, or appear fully yellow. The legs and head appear almost translucent.
Another suggestion is Zygometis xanthogaster, the milky flower spider (due to the eye ornamentation).
Of interest is that the spider also takes advantage of its colour scheme's reflectance of UV light to create a colour contrast in the visual field of the bees that subsequently attracts them.
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Day 184/365:
A bit of a grab shot today as I have a bad back so unable to do much. Hydrangeas in my garden.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni seahorse crystal. Then a bit of a vintage film edit with light leaks.
Rarely do I shoot directly in the sun, but these maple leaves on our path caught my eye today. Another belly shot.
If they look too vivid, let me know. I did not increase saturation, but I do know how to lessen it. Might depend on all of our monitors.
A tad chilly and windy; we had to scurry to find warmer hats and gloves ;-)
Day 276/365:
October 2022: A month in 31 pictures
After my whinge yesterday, I have decided to just take one day at a time again and see how things go. I saw my GP this morning and she has given me some strong pain killers and a muscle relaxant so hopefully they will help. No more picking up my camera for a while though so if I can come up with an idea on a daily basis, using my iPhone, I will stay in the game but not going to put any pressure on myself. Looks like more in the spotlight series, and maybe a few more with my 'helping hand'.
Texture added (my own)
Thank you for all your kind comments yesterday, it means a lot! :)
The Hand series can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/28992287@N03/albums/72177720302770978/