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Hula Preserve, Israel. We were there to see the migrating cranes from Africa but this light caught me.
I couldn't walk past this wonderful old birch tree... thankfully husband and dogs were in reasonably patient mode... Love the dreaminess of this lens at 1.2... :)
So I took my camera out today and gave my new 50mm a test run. The auto focus is a little shaky at times, but I guess for £70 it wasn't going to be perfect. Still, I'm pretty happy with it, and if manual lenses have taught me one thing, it's that I can now use the fully manual mode on my camera without things going horribly wrong haha.
Anyway, here's a stereotypical autumn-leaves-bokeh shot, enjoy :)
(Ha look, I finally have exif data!)
This is on a bougainvillea plant in our garden, and I decided to do a more impressionistic look at the flower by using shallow depth of field.
Hope is a strange invention --
A Patent of the Heart --
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own --
Emily Dickinson
a very young tree that started to grow on a tiny patch of moss, in the middle of the creek
adapted Kodak Cine 63mm f2.7
I spent an hour or so at a favourite nature reserve this morning.
Despite the sun I saw no butterflies or dragonflies, but there were some pretty blooms in the cottage garden.
A few of the dried hydrangea flowers I photographed about a month ago are still clinging on!
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images over the past week. I'm sorry I'm behind after a couple of busy days but look forward to catching up now :)
Explore: 8-27-09 Thank you Flickr friends.
This photograph makes a point about life. It illustrates how when we focus too closely on one thing in life, the rest of life often becomes a blur. Focusing ourselves in the "here and now" is a good thing, but giving attention to one thing and excluding everything else can be perilous. In this photograph's case, a sharp close-up focus produces a beautiful bokeh blur in the background. Best seen in large size view.
a little humor for photographers:
"When life gets blurry, adjust your focus!"
Dahlias Garden
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
091617
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This is my dog Bailey. He's a collie x lab. He was shot with an 85mm f/1.2 lens. This is about 30 images combined to create an extremely shallow depth of field image but with a wide angle of view. It is roughly equivalent to a 20mm wide angle shot taken at f/0.5.
A cooling image on a hot day. It's still too hot here, but I find these colours very soothing. Yesterday was supposed to be the hottest day and I very much hope that's true. I'm afraid I find the heat, and especially the humidity, very draining. I can't wait for 'normal' temperatures to return. Remind me I said that when I'm moaning about rain, cold, etc etc. :)
Female Meadow Brown butterfly shot through and along a row of Lavender at Cerney House Gardens, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire
There are some treasures to be found on walks that lift the spirits so beautifully - I spent much longer just looking at this small bejewelled feather than photographing it. A lovely dewy gift from nature!
Our cool, rainy Spring has lots of benefits - most important is that every drop of rain helps as we teeter on the edge of a lingering drought which started last year. Another is that everything is staying in bloom longer. We still have tulips, daffodils, bluebells, grape hyacinths and flowering trees (crabapples, weeping cherries, magnolias, serviceberries, redbuds, maples...) etc., all still in bloom. Amazing. 🌸🌷🌼
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This shot was taken out of hand with my Sony A7II and the Meyer-Optik Trioplan 2.8/100 (vintage)
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The Rose ( one of my all time favourite songs)
Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless, aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live
And the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring, becomes a rose
Taken yesterday (10 December).
Lens and settings used to give a shallow depth of field.
Camera: Nikon d600
Lens: 24-120 mm zoom used at 120 mm for shallow depth of field
Exposure settings: Aperture: Æ’/4 (max at this end of the lens),
ISO 250; SS: 1/400 sec.
Ref: 20151210-DSC_0122©ELN
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