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Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
A visitor to my back yard early this past fall. I think it sees me, I am lucky to have not spooked it.
So, Sharpie or Coop? The top blocks of the retaining wall it landed on are about three inches thick, putting the bird at roughly 12-14 inches head to tail. The tail appears to be rather squared off, plus the streaking looks more like Sharp-shinned rather than Cooper's. All things considered I'm calling it a Sharpie. What do you think?
CORRECTION: A couple sharp-eyed Flickr friends provided evidence that this hawk is a Cooper's, not a Sharp-shinned. See the comments below. I stand corrected.
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Grand Traverse County, Michigan
April 9th_2019
Forgive me when I post too many photos of the grouse!
On April 9th 3 friends and I drove south of the city to a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek. I hadn't thought about the degree of difficulty that might challenge me in climbing over the stile with a knee replacement. I really struggled so I do not think I will be returning to see the grouse in future years.
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On this day I had been invited to visit my friend Barb who lives in the Millarville area. She has many feeders and quite a bit of garden as well as a greenhouse. There was lots to see! The evening before had been quite chilly providing lots of dew on the flowers.
This Sharp-shinned Hawk was chasing after the Blue Jays. There was constant commotion as the Jays chased it around and around.
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Sharp pocket computers, PC1350 and PC1360. These were the only two PC13XX models released by Sharp in 1984 and 1987. Both had 4 lines of 24 characters and were very capable in their day for BASIC programming, graphing, etc.
The key differences between the two were increased memory, an additional RAM port, as well as improved BASIC and faster CPU in the PC1360.
Tigre / Argentina
[EXPLORE - 2014-04-08]
Album of Argentina: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711999...
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for the Macro Mondays challenge “Sweet Spot Squared” (September 19th 2016)
I like a little sharp and tangy taste with my sugar, so I chose raspberries ;o)
Finding and shooting the sweet spot!
I've got 3 macro 1:1 lenses now - but when I started out there was only one to fit my new Sony NEX-6, and it was Sony's eMount 30mm/3.5. That was March 2013, and I learned macro work through that lens for the next 2 years. So that was the lens I chose for this challenge.
I shoot macro in Manual, and have never explored the 'sweet spot' before - so I followed Janet's directions and used Aperture mode and shot all 17 F stop settings the lens has on two 2cm raspberries. I scattered sugar granules of various sizes both in front and behind the raspberries, to give me an idea of just how the overall image sharpness changes with the F/stop change.
Comparing the shots I used Janet's direction again: "You will be looking for the shot that has the sharpest details with as little blurring as possible". I thought it would be simple - F22 is the inevitable choice to offer minimal blurring, while keeping the subject in focus.
But I found a puzzling oddity. From F16 through to F22 the sharpness of the background elements increased, but the sharpness of the 'in focus' elements fell off. I repeated the experiment with a strawberry (a much larger subject) and the same result emerged - past F16 the 'in focus' elements of the shot suffered!
I went online to see if I could find an explanation. And the trusty B&H website came through with an article:
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/rules-thumb-finding-...
I needed to compromise and take 2 or 3 stops back from F22 to find the best balance. There was little to choose between F16 and F18. This shot uses F16. And yes - I did then crop the original shot I used, to highlight the main raspberry, and leaving out most of the background sugar 'scatter'.
I hope it hits the sweet spot with you too :o)
Following on from the discussion Where do you draw the line? I've taken an old credit card as my guide, which is 3"x2" and added measures in cm too. I do SO hope that this will become the standard for Macro Mondays! My 2 raspberries are set on this 'new' format for my regular establishing shot in the first comment field
My 2016 Macro Mondays set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
This was an experiment to see how altering the settings on the camera affected the sharpness of the bee.
YPD51 rounds the extremely sharp curve just short of the switch to the Steel Bridge on the east side of the Willamette River. This undoubtedly has to be one of the sharpest curves on a major main line in North America today. Trains creep through here at a little more than walking speed.
Happy Polaroid Week!
Day 1: Photo 1
This is an outtake from my last 12:12 Men Project shoot with Miao Miao.
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: Warfield Pond Park - Glenwood, Maryland (Howard County)
Woodbine
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Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male resting on its territory in the "lek" or dancing grounds of the prairie landscape at Camp Wainwright Military base in eastern Alberta, Canada.
3 May, 2016.
Slide # GWB_20160503_0144.CR2
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