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Same as previous photo, but from a different POV
I'm not a gardener. I've tried and did ok for a couple of years. Apart from the fact that all my veges had purple tinges - after I grew a purple cabbage variety. That was strange. But they tasted ok. Though my hair has been purple ever since eating them ;-)
Anyway, plants sometimes look like they don't come from earth.
Not taken in my garden - so these purple stalks are not my doing!
Lots of snow, gusting wind, round puffed up little birds all week. How do they tolerate it? Rather unusually low temps here.
Dark-eyed Junco braves wind and snow. Taken from our back-deck blind.
Larger view:
So unbelievably friendly and sweet... this was one of the nicest cats I've ever met. I want to go back and give her more tasty neko snacks again. Tomonoura, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan. November 26, 2015.
Pretty little spreadwing damselfly at rest.
Genus Lestes, family Lestidae. This family hold their wings at around 45 degrees to the body when resting. This distinguishes them from most other species of damselfly which hold the wings along, and parallel to, the body when at rest.
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I took this image outdoors with the very old russian manual focus prime lens Tair 11A. My lens must be from the very early Production back in 1965 because of its unique Serial Number ! This thing is over 50 Years old and still works like a charm. Build like an russian tank - build for the eternity :)
KMZ Tair 11A 135mm F2.8 (Production Years 1965 - 1995)
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I had a new all singing all dancing iPhone for Christmas in the hope I will learn how to use the camera properly and to save me lugging my heavy camera everywhere.
I've brought these little succulents in for the winter and they are sitting on my kitchen windowsill. I made the hessian pot covers to pretty them up a bit.
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Photographed while exploring with Roger. On the road to Kiyomizu-dera, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. November 17, 2016.
A quick, single, spontaneous shot when the horsefly landed near me - camera settings were for some artistic photography of flora I had been busy with, hence shallow depth of field here.
This horsefly may be genus Tabanus, based on on-line searches. Not enough other physical details to place specific species.
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I'm using the same lens this week, the 75mm on a M43 camera, so the equivalent length of 150mm on a full frame.
It's sort of ideal for trying to get something reasonably close and then something out of focus in the distance, and I'm in danger of just looking for and only snapping this kind of shot ... I must try something different tomorrow :)
This is one of my new dahlias, Cafe au lait. The ladybird was a very obliging photobomber
Lensbaby Velvet 85
Shallow depth of field image of vibrant Dahlia flowers growing in a park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Taken with a Canon 5D4 and a 50mm lens at f/4.0.
As luck would have it we had a rare hard frost for a couple of glorious hours earlier this week, so I was able to get out in the garden and find this tiny flower for this week's Looking Close... on Friday! group theme, Winter Flora. The poor little thing had only recently emerged. What a welcome to the world!
P.S. I apologise if you find yourself inexplicably singing Let It Go as a result of my title. :))
Developed using Darktable 3.6.0. A soft texture overlay was also added in Photoshop. Photographed at Jester Park near Granger, Iowa.
Multiple cicada (Cicadidae) exoskeletons cling to lichens on a tree in this the "year of cicadas."
Eagle River, Wisconsin
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Day 18 - October 2024: A month in 31 pictures
I've struggled to get the whole of this dahlia in the frame but today I tried it with my new Lensbaby sweet 22 along with macro filters and it worked a treat.
#54 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
They seem to be in bud for so long and then once they decide to open there is no stopping them. They are the most beautiful flower...who doesn't love a peony? I do find them quite difficult to photograph though. I tied these stems together loosely so that they were bunched together. A couple of textures added.
Apologies to those of you who had already commented/faved but I had another play and blended it with a multiple exposure of the peonies and preferred the textures and tones.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 14th of May is "small part sharp" which requires that the 'focused part' of the image is quite small; most of the picture should be almost entirely blurred.
I had chosen an image of a tree branch covered in lichen with a selective focus used creating a shallow depth of field. Then, as I was on a walk through suburban Melbourne on a sunny afternoon to capture the autumnal colours, I spotted some colourful mauve seaside daisies low to the ground in a suburban garden. As I crouched low to the ground to photograph them, I noticed a tiny veined seed pod of some kind, wedged tightly into a crack in an old wooden railway sleeper used as a garden edging. The seed pod drew my attention because of its wonderful, almost Art Nouveau patterning. I decided I would try and create selective focus on the seed by creating a shallow depth of field, and this is the image I came up with.
I do hope that you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
A smile to beguile - the charming face of a common snapping turtle. And what an appropriate common name as these large, freshwater turtles are well known for their defensive disposition, their long, extendable necks and fiercely fast, strong bite.
She may look friendly, but one must always exercise caution around these creatures.
Seen in south-west Pennsylvania.
I estimate a carapace length of 35 to 40 cm.
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