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The new colourful pillars outside of the central station in The Hague caught my attention. Wanted to include people to create a focal point, but in a blurry manner. I went for the correct exposure of the pillars because I liked how the overexposed part let the travelers stand out more.
Day 290/365:
17/31: October 2022: A month in 31 pictures
A rose from my garden, it's actually pink and I love pink but it has featured a couple of times already so I thought I'd give it a desaturated sepia look. Cafe au lai is the name of my favourite dahlia which unfortunately I don't have...yet.
Yes, I've been deadheading the roses again...
The photo in this image is of my friend's late parents, Margaret and Sandy. Everyone was given a copy of the print at Margaret's funeral earlier this year. She was a truly remarkable lady. As soon as I saw the photo I knew I had to use it in a still life image. I sent the image to my friend who said she'd been having a really bad day and this picture gave her some comfort and seemed like a message from them. I don't know what made me decide to use the photo today but sometimes things just happen for a reason.
Vanessa kershawi, known commonly as the Australian painted lady, busy in my garden. Not a full dorsal shot, but lovely enough to share.
So pretty, the pale brown underwings and the delicate pattern of orange and brown on the upper wings, with tiny blue/lilac eyespots on the hind wings.
Australian painted ladies here in New South Wales migrate in great numbers in spring, moving on a front that extends for about 600 km inland from the coast. This migration can continue for up to eight weeks, with the main movement being in a south/south-westerly direction.
I gather males and females are virtually identical in form and markings, so not sure which I saw here.
Larvae feed on native everlastings and other daisies, as well as introduced plants such as this elfin herb (Cuphea hyssopifolia).
5 cm wingspan.
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Day 143/365:
Another double exposure of my roses, a bit samey but needs must sometimes. Slightly different as it was a single rose yesterday and this one is with Lensbaby Velvet 56
95/100: 100 x challenge - Flowers
100 Flowers 2020
Another play with my Omni filters, this one is a bit more subtle with the high key. Still need lots of practise with them as it's all a bit hit and miss how it comes out and I really haven't a clue what I'm doing but it's making me pick up my camera.
Closeup image taken during my field trip to the Holland Ridge Farms, in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. Loved the backlit tulip.
Holland Ridge Farms is the biggest U-Pick Flower Farm in the USA. A pristine landscaped farm, bursting with millions of rainbow blooms including their famous tulips. The good news is, you don’t have to travel to the Netherlands to experience it – they’re right here in Cream Ridge, NJ! They currently host two pick your own flower seasons – U-Pick Tulips in the spring and U-Pick Sunflowers in the fall.
This farm is a hotspot for photography and the perfect place to celebrate life’s biggest milestones – first dates, proposals, engagement shoots, wedding shoots, maternity shoots, wedding anniversaries, birthdays etc. It is considered one of the top spots to visit on the East Coast. Hundreds of thousands of guests flock to the farm to see the millions of blooms. Their impressive flower fields also make the perfect backdrop for beautiful photos.
Look what´s reaching out of her mouth :)
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For several years, Elisa Liddell has posted her impossibly tiny Swarovski® crystal beads.
Finally I had to find and purchase some sparkly .8cm/ 0.31 inch crystal beads, also.
(The Laowa lens magnifies by two.)
Thanks, dear virtual Scottish friend!
Smile on Saturday - theme of August 17, 2019: bee-autiful!
Bee-autiful Busy Bumblebee (seen on the Mainau Island, South Germany) ... and I love its bumble bum !!
Happy Smile on Saturday and a Happy Weekend everyone !
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"Starre nicht so auf meinen Hintern!" :)
Fleißige Hummel (gesehen auf der Blumen-Insel Mainau)
... und ich mag ihren Hintern :)
Einen fröhlichen Samstag
und ein tolles Wochenende euch allen !! :)
Day 352/365:
This is not the sharpest or the best image but I didn't have much time today. We took our grandson out to The Magic of Christmas to choose a Christmas tree. We also let him choose some baubles...unfortunately he didn't choose tasteful ones like these ;) They may be my props on other days.
Lensbaby Sol 45
HMBT - Happy monochrome bokeh Thursday
Munich airport. We had quite some time during our stop-over. So what to do? Experimenting with a very shallow depth of field .... :)
John Earl Walker
flowers from my backyard.
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Be well and stay at home.
"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hour."
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature)
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 400
Aperture – f/7.1
Exposure – 1/1000 second
Focal Length – 95mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Big old Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'rosea') vine just about to flower. The golden little leaves are just as dramatic and exquisite as the flowers.
What comes in threes? Traffic lights. And what are these strange traffic lights? Tiny buttons. Who buys buttons like these? My mum in the 1970s!
For Macro Mondays theme of "Three". HMM!
Autumn and winter-time pretty little bell flowers produced by plants within this Australian genus.
Often commonly called Australian native fuchsia.
Correa is a genus of eleven species, presenting as shrubs to small trees.
This is specifically cultivar 'Catie Bec' growing to 1m in height.
Each flower just 15 mm in length.
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This little one was finding all sorts of crumbs scattered around the construction site, and was therefore blithely unconcerned with my presence.
Listening to St. Paul and the Broken Bones' "Call Me": youtu.be/z7s9A3s8iv8
Round and round it goes until we end up in a twisted ball of twine. Much like life sometimes.
Smile on Saturday - "Round and round". HSoS!
#45 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Macro Monday - Button
Wooden buttons, ribbon and background paper from my craft stash. HMM
Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converters plus Omni filter
Sparrow without a song...all fluffed up for the cold. Snow expected tomorrow.
"A rich, russet-and-gray bird with bold streaks down its white chest, the Song Sparrow is one of the most familiar North American sparrows. Don’t let the bewildering variety of regional differences this bird shows across North America deter you: it’s one of the first species you should suspect if you see a streaky sparrow in an open, shrubby, or wet area. If it perches on a low shrub, leans back, and sings a stuttering, clattering song, so much the better."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow
This puffed-up sparrow in the tall grasses neither sang nor flew in a direction I expected. We had a bit of light this morning.
Comments unnecessary. Very large crop.
Larger size: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49357859576/sizes/h/
Day 243/365:
Another one in the spotlight series. A cappuccino and a photography book, just in the frame.
Feeling a bit battered and bruised after my osteopath appointment so will try to catch up a bit later.
Seltsame Kreatur. Cygnus Olor Medusae.
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Really fascinating contortions that this mutation of a mute swan does when it eats food. This species is probably only seen on Sundays ;-) – I met this guy in a field near my village having lunch ...
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Wirklich faszinierende Verrenkungen, die diese Mutation eines Höckerschwans bei der Nahrungsaufnahme veranstaltet. Vermutlich wird diese Spezies nur Sonntags gesichtet ;-) – ich traf diesen Gesellen auf einem Feld in der Nähe meines Dorfes beim Mittagessen ...
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Cygnus Olor Medusae / Snake-headed Mute Swan / Schlangenköpfiger Höckerschwan
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