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The weekly/monthly challenge - I'm using this one for two themes - Sunflare and Sunset. Okay, it's more bokeh than sun flare but artistic licence and all that!
We were out walking yesterday when I looked back to see the view and just had to take a photo. I had a manual lens on my camera (my new Lensbaby Twist 60) and this is what I saw so decided not to adjust the focus. I'm pretty sure this could be improved greatly (the sky for instance) but I just loved the blur and orange bokeh balls.
Edit: Apologies to those who had already commented or faved but I decided to crop the expanse of empty sky off into more of a letterbox and replace the image. I think it works better. I am having to stay up with a poorly dog so had a bit of time on my hands.
I love visiting gardens - local favourites are Borde Hill and Sussex Prairie Garden - but I probably enjoy photographing flowers in my own garden more than anywhere else. Most of the gardens close to the public at 5pm, missing the warm evening light. This Cosmos grew from a pack of mixed seeds and is now very tall. I love the colour.
tiny parts (barbules, I think) of green coloured feathers, taken with the 60mm Laowa ultra-macro lens (2× magnification)
52 in 2023 challenge: #34 = Plain
(plain coloured)
I hope you have a pleasant weekend 💚
We moved to the beautiful state of Colorado from Minnesota when I was a young girl about 9 or 10 years old and I have lived here ever since. And I don't see us moving to anywhere else.
This was taken in my sister in laws beautiful green house!
View in Large screen!
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
28 Jan 2021; 07:48 CST
I like these as they fit over my glasses. They're sitting on the engine of my zero turn and the main reason I need them. The coating is from the last time I mowed. The scene is 2.5" wide and shot with available light.
Walking around the park with manual focus lenses, catching the best possible bokeh.
Taken with an old Pentax K-5 digital camera and a lot older smc Pentax-M 200mm F4 telephoto lens.
An early morning local shoot across the purple flowering fields.
*** Featured in Explore 24th July 2025, many thanks to all 🙏 ***
I used my iPhone's screen to reflect some light back onto the shell.
As we say: The reflector you have with you is the best reflector *winks*
Oh, and it's shot with my ultra wide at 40mm, doesn't look it though.
In hindsight I should have upped the ISO for a faster shutter speed.
there is no street. there is no city. there is only the darkness, a deep and silent void. through it, a man on a bicycle cuts a sharp line of motion. he is a fleeting moment of clarity. other souls pass by, blurred into ghosts, their forms stretched by speed. it is a study not of a place, but of time itself. of a single, sharp instant moving through the vast, empty dark. he is the only thing that is real.
Day 29 - April 2024: A month in 30 pictures
The boating lake and Victorian shelter in Sheringham, Norfolk
Lensbaby Sol 45 with blades engaged and lens angled.
Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis, Gruidae) in evening light on the edge of Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area, Town of Rushford, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Camera: Sony A7Rm5
Lens: Sigma 150-600 Sport
Focal length: 537mm
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/640s
EXP Comp.: -0.3
ISO: 2000
MA400081-2_N
Though Onohara has changed a lot since I first visited in 2008, some things remain familiar. Photographed on my first outing on my 2015 Japan visit. Minoh-shi, Osaka. November 21, 2015.
Many dismiss micro four thirds believing that it’s not possible to get shallow depth of field. You can, you just have to work differently; either get closer and/or use longer focal lengths.
This shot of our dog Sherry, lying in a bit of shade the other day in our garden, demonstrates what you can get.
Olympus EM1 Mk2
Olympus 75mm f1.8
I wonder, if I was a bug, is that how I would see the world?
Would I be able to make sense of the visual chaos?
SMC Takumar 55mm f1.8
I always enjoy the end of the afternoon most at Sussex Prairie Garden and wish I could stay on until it's all bathed in warm evening light. Maybe I should just hide behind a tree. I mean, you wouldn't tell, would you? :)
The prettiest time of the year is here – it's autumn!
Taken with Pentax K-5 digital camera and smc Pentax-FA 50mm F1.4 lens.
April 2025: A month in 30 pictures - day 22
The blossom in the churchyard looked so pretty so I grabbed a just in case shot.
iPhone 16 Pro Max
MacroMondays#Currency
This one was mistakenly put in a box with old invalid coins. As you can see it quickly started to look like the other coins in the box. I had to partially clean it so that you could clearly see in the photo which coin it was.
HMM!
Small containers ready to fill in an orderly manner. (This is not my style, except when filing RAW photos.)
Inspired by Flickr Friday for #ABitOfOrder this week. If you'd like to see a different focal point or horizontal layout, and feel irritated by my preference for shallow dof, ask and you might receive. My husband and I don't see eye to eye on photography. But he's good at landscape photography, using f/8 and smaller apertures ;)
Now to fill these containers in an orderly manner. (Tidy is not my middle name; how did Flickr Friday know?)
Thanks for your faves, comments, and just for looking. If you borrow this, please link back to this page ;)
Macro of a dahlia in my garden, this is the only bloom at the moment. Our weather has been pretty wet and cool and it doesn't seem to be doing the plants much good. We're still waiting for summer.
Canon macro 100mm
Lensbaby Omni seahorse, stretch glass and prism
My wonderful wife enjoys here an beautiful winter morning with crepuscular rays. Can´t get enough of such scenes.
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Sony A7II
Walimex Pro 135/2 (aka Samyang 135/2 or "The Beast" copyright by --StadtKind--)
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