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I joined Chris Dodds and some other great photographers at the Pond at Elephant Head to shoot some bats this past September. It's quite an experience. Despite technical difficulties that seemed to plague me, I still came away with some pictures I'm proud of. This bat was captured by setting your camera to take a picture every 10 seconds. A beam is set up across a small (read small "very" small") pond which triggers the flash as a bat crosses the beam. You end up with a lot of black images and some wonderful keepers. I'll post an example of the other set up which uses a flower the bats love and triggers for both camera and flash.
Milk Motion's road to nowhere set for this upcoming round of the Arcade is simply brilliant. The magic that happens the moment you switch to Ultra is pretty remarkable! From the glass to the lighting, to every small......
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Kent's only population of certified Narrow Lipped - Western or Pugsley Marsh Orchids.....shh don't tell them their not ment to be here! The only other time I've seen the Pugsley was Buxton Common, Norfolk a few years back now...
It was a bone breaking journey but I stay to my guns, not driving due to the massive environmental damage car fumes are having, but, it's a bloody long way. So, I fuel up on toast, homemade damson jam, sweet tea, yuck but a must, pack up my old camera but with a great lens on and off I go in the middle of the dawn chorus!
I reach my destination and with a warm smile I meet "The Doctor" We have been friends and colleagues for sometime and I worked as his scrub ODP. It was not until I had him as my own surgeon, when I needed to be cut up a little, that I found out he was big in orchids, with collecting, propagating and organising. He asked me what I was going to do for the couple of days after my op, I am sure he wanted to hear, "not work" but he got, "going to take a look at Faversham's Monkey and Lady Orchids", the gates of conversation opened and here we are. He is now referred to as "The Orchimister"
There is a small, read as big as a tennis court, water-meadow tucked away on his small, private estate on land he owns and here are a few, very few, Narrow Lipped Marsh Orchids.....some say that they should be absorbed into a unified species, but they do look a far cry from the bolder Southern Marsh Orchids, just wish the weather was a little kinder!
Anyway, Robert and his dear wife make the best afternoon tea "In the world" Cake, sandwiches, cake, tea and oh, did I mention cake! This was the fuel to get me home. We laughed, said our goodbyes and off I went heading home happy.....
Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. traunsteinerioides
Hopefully I will get to see a few more of these delicate Marsh Orchids in the correct place along with a selection of Early and Southern Marsh at Lolly Moor next week.
Christie made a little bunny and is wondering, should she try to make one even smaller?
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This is an overdue answer to MP's question re. how I store my Re-Ments.
I started off with one (read: one), small (read: small) craft box. (Read: is that possible with Re-Ment?!) One day I realized I need to appreciate these minis more by taking them out of the box & displaying them, so I get to see them everyday without effort. So I got my first brown Re-Ment cabinet, and the rest is history.....and a financial wreck!
To date I have 4 china cabinets, 2 appliance cabinets, 1 double-door refrigerator, 2 convenience store display cabinets (1 to be organized yet) and 3 Megahouse bakeshop display cabinets (1 to be organized yet). And oh yeah, got the system kitchen too, which you'll see in another photo.
Then again, one day my working space just screamed "STOP, I can't breathe anymore!". I've been stacking cabinets on top of another cabinet. And don't get me started on the widespread dust nuisance!
So lately, I've been collecting craft boxes again LOL. I've decided to keep only a few of these Re-Ment cabinets, and start satisfying my OCD ;P by sorting like minis into portioned organizers. I've started doing that alright.....as to when I'll finish, uhm, maybe another one day?
P.S. I have all these cabinets, but to this day, there are no dollies exploiting them! Attn: Evolna ;P
JD and me used this countdown board to count down to the days he would come visit me in rl. Since the countdown is over, guess where he is right now ;)
Alone and surrounded by mountains in the Westfjords can make you feel very small.
Read our travel report/guide to Iceland here
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I had to try this out at my local camera shop. I compared it to the 105 f/2.8D and the 60mm f/2.8D. It’s big. It’s not as heavy as it looks (lighter than my 17-35mm f/2.8D). The quality feel is rather impressive. The AF/M, VR Mode and VR on switches are just in the right place. The manual focusing action is great. The lens felt very well balanced on my D70.
VR Seems to work well for both close and far subjects. I have never owned a VR lens and the motion you could feel was kind of weird. I was able to take sharp shots at a much lower shutter speed (or lower ISO) than the 60mm. This was for both macro and tele shots. Case in point is this photo which is at 1/13th.
The internal focusing is a nice touch as the lens doesn’t get to crazy lengths like the regular 105mm and other macro lenses do. The AF-S focusing is amazingly fast. This lens doesn’t have a limiter switch like other macro lenses do. It doesn’t need it. (Apparently I was wrong. According to the official page for this lens it does. I just didn't see it :/ ) More importantly the AF works. A lot of macro shooters say they use MF most of the time, as I have with other Macro lenses. This lens actually does AF very well. The standard AF-S manual/auto switch is much nicer than the non-AF-S switch found on the other Micro and pro level lenses like my 135mm f/2 DC.
From my “across the store” shots it looks like this lens is a tad sharper than the 60mm f/2.8D, which is regarded as a very sharp lens. However, I wouldn’t take my few handheld shots as a definitive statement on this lenses sharpness. I couldn’t get a sharp macro shot hand held with the 60mm without bumping the ISO so can’t comment there.
I was considering getting the 105mm f/2.8D for some time, but now I am tempted to get this lens. My only beef is the G feature. I really like the aperture ring. My biggest gripe about my D70 is that I can’t use them. I can on my F601 and a G lens is limited on that camera, as it doesn’t have in camera aperture control. Though I would have no VR or AF on my F601 anyways :(
The AF-S, IF and VR features really do make this a far better lens then both the 60 and 105mm Micro Nikkors. Well worth the additional cost over the 105mm. Over the 60mm it's a tough call, especially considering how much smaller (read convenient) the 60mm is.
Price quoted for this lens: $930 CAD (Official Nikon Canada lens)
Update:
Spent some more time with this lens
Overall:
+ excellent build quality
+ surprisingly light
+ sharp
+ VRII
+ easier to switch MF/AF
+ AF-S manual override is nicer than rotating a ring
+ very little hunting
+ takes 62mm filters (great for Close-Up No. 5T and No.6T owners)
- most expensive of the lot
- VR performance not as effective at macro distances as from far. Almost useless at 1:1
- takes 62mm filters (bad for Close up No.0, No.1, and No.2 owners
I've spent considerable time shooting with my friends Tamron 90mm SP Macro (not the new Di one).
This lens is amazingly sharp. Auto Focus is mostly useless at macro distance. It's also a LOT cheaper than the 105mm Nikkors.
Of the Tamron:
+ sharp
+ light
+ cheap
+ AI ring (that's a personal thing)
- slow focus (mechanical)
- extends to almost 2x in length and makes working distance very close
- mostly plastic (very cheap feeling)
- uses neither 52 nor 62mm filters (bad for any Close Up filters)
Also of note: I have yet to actually get a macro lens at all. As I've gotten cheap and just use the 135mm f/2 DC with a 72mm -> 62mm adapter and a Nikon Close-Up No.6T filter. This works very well on Digital as the step down ring doesn't interfere with even illumination. I'd still like a dedicated Macro lens. This will most likely be the Nikkor as I really prefer a Macro lens with IF. But this has become a much lower priority for me.
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The above shot is of the CPU contacts on my 17-35mm f/2.8D
Today we’re sitting down with Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin, one half of the co-founding team of LA-based Snapshot Galleria.
Kwasi has been documenting the (changing) urban landscape of Los Angeles for more than decade; either walking the streets or cycling around to find and capture the small ...
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I found this really excellent gravestone in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England. Apparently this poor soldier died from drinking small (read: weak) beer on a hot day. I respect the kind of guy who is willing to risk death on a hot day for a good beer.
The text itself is great, but I especially like the rhyming verse.
The entirety of the text reads:
In Memory of
Thomas Thetcher
a Grenadier in the North Reg. of Hants Militia, who died of a violent Fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years. In grateful remembrance of whose universal good will towards his Comrades, this Stone is placed here at their expence, as a small testimony of their regard and concern.
Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small Beer,
Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall
And when ye're hot drink Strong or none at all.
This memorial being decay'd was restor'd by the Officers of the Garrison A.D. 1781.
An Honest Soldier never is forgot
Whether he die by Musket or by Pot.
The Stone was replaced by the North Hants Militia when disembodied at Winchester, on 26th April 1802, in consequence of the original Stone being destroyed.
And again replaced by The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1966.
Saturday 10 August 2013 - Day 22 - Cusco (3,399m) - Sacred Valley - Písac (2,972m) - Ollantaytambo (2,792 m)
A disappointing day, which in some ways set the tone for all our non-trek days on KE's Inca Trail and Machu Picchu trip (I wrote more on this when we first got back).
Our trek leader, Julia, had met us at the Amaru Hostal yesterday to give us a briefing and to hand over our 8kg max kit bags. Packing light was not a problem, but finding out we were the only people booked on the KE trip had been, and today the "full day of sightseeing [in the Sacred Valley] visiting Inca sites with a local guide" promised in the trip notes turned out to be a day trip on a big coach largely full of day trippers from Cusco. As a result, the morning featured a series of tourist-geared shopping stops (not a true local market to be seen). Seeing Julia giving a guided tour to a party of four (the gents were to turn out to be our Inca Trail co-trekkers John and Lonnie) at the Inca ruins at Písac really rubbed salt into the wound. If Hazel and I had wanted this kind of experience, we would have booked directly with an operator in Cusco, and paid a lot less. The local operator for our trip was ExploreAndes, so if you like the sound of it you can book direct.
Still, looking on the bright side, the Inca terraces and village ruins at Písac were impressive even under cloudy skies, and things picked up once we got to Ollantaytambo where we had a guided tour of the Inca old town and ruins before being deposited at the lovely Tunupa Lodge. To be honest, it did feel a bit like being abandoned... all we knew was that Julia would pick us up at 8am the following morning.
After a stroll around the town and buying water supplies, we ate at Hearts Café - highly recommended.
Read more about the Cordillera Huayhuash Circuit plus Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
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Read more about the house blessing, and mixed native and Catholic beliefs:
Since moving in I haven't really taken pics of any of the rooms besides the kitchen...so tonight after I vacuumed I decided to take a picture of where we lay our heads : )
Huaca Huallamarca is an adobe pyramid built by the Lima Cultre between 200 AD and 700 AD. It has been heavily restored and sits in the middle of San Isidro district in Lima. It is similar to Huaca Pucllana, though smaller.
Read more about travel in Peru.
Two "strange but real" plants. The top is Rafflesia arnoldii, a parasitic plant that develops the world's largest bloom (over three feet across!) but has no leaves, stems, or roots.
The bottom one is Hydnora africana, also parasitic but much smaller. Read more here.
Watercolor pencils on watercolor paper. Drawn from photos found on the web.
Swapbot: Strange but real plant ATC (Hand Drawn/Painted Group)
My 113cm high 'to read' pile on the left, the much smaller 'read in 2015' pile on the right.
I'd like to read more again in 2015, I still borrow & ask for books like I read, probably about time I did more than flick through & look at the pictures!
Every day for the next 30 days I will be posting a photo and adding a comment that tells you what I am grateful for big or small, read more about it here any why not join me www.flickr.com/groups/gratitude30days/,
Today is the first day in my 30 Days of Gratitude and I am grateful to my friend Louise for her friendship and invite to this wonderful idea as I was so inspired by her Set when she did this last year, so Thank you Louise very much this will give me a good reason to get outside and relax a bit as i am so busy at the moment :-)
Best viewed small (read the final paragraph)!
Captured about 45-minutes after the image in 'The Bridge - 1' is TfW 's 158824 working 2I16, the 09.34 Pwllheli to Birmingham International on 17 May 2024 and seen crossing Barmouth Bridge.
I tried something a bit less traditional for this shot, but I made a schoolboy error (shock, horror, probe). I set up my position and composition with the camera to pick up and focus on the unit, it was too small and the focus was on the fence and ladder. Another lesson learned, I hope!
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 24 105MM F4 L IS
B+W Circular Polarizer
It was a perfect day. The day before it snowed a lot and followed by a bright sunny day. Absolutely fantastic. So I did not miss the change to enjoy the beautiful environment. This type of day is not very normal at this place. Probably happens only few times a year. There are many small reads through this vineyards. But in winter few of them gets closed as the snow does not get cleaned. Those roads are good for wondering around the area. This picture is taken from one of those roads.
Hope you will enjoy the picture.
Any suggestions or criticisms are always welcome.
New quilt. There is a reason why the picture is so small. Read more here: www.flekka.com/words/quilt/windmolen-quilt/
I think windmills, but would it qualify under a "cross" design?
Not much is known about Urk, besides that he apparently likes to eat electronics. He has been a member of both the Legion of Substitute Heroes and the Legion Academy. Also, he is very small.
Read up more on Urk at his Comic Vine page.
15 of 16 random things: i ♥ pino
In The Netherlands there is a lot of doing about Pino and his friends. It's about the time of broadcasting Sesamstraat (the Dutch Sesame Street). For years it was starting daily at half past six in the evening. Because of a new media law and (budget) management you will find Sesamstraat earlier on television, it starting at five o'clock now. And that's a problem because of a lot of parents coming home from their busy jobs and the children from the children's garden or nannies after that time and missing Sesamstraat. The Netherlands is too small..
Read more about this issue (in Dutch):
www.sesamstraatnaarhalfzeven.nl and hyves
or youtube: jeugdjournaal and dwdd
And this is your second block Lisa. More of an understated, smaller (read: omg, I can't let myself run out of fabric this time) kind of a block.
Huaca Huallamarca is an adobe pyramid built by the Lima Cultre between 200 AD and 700 AD. It has been heavily restored and sits in the middle of San Isidro district in Lima. It is similar to Huaca Pucllana, though smaller.
Read more about travel in Peru.
I've seen the blue one only once....
In Native American culture, a hummingbird symbolizes timless joy and the Nectar of Life. It's a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible and will teach you how to find the miracle of joyful living from your own life circumstances.
They are really spectacular birds, and have a lot to teach a person about self discovery and healing.
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
Read more: wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_hummingbirds_symbolize#ixzz23k...
Royal Model 10 Typewriter, manufactured from 1914 to 1938.
I want to own one of these one day, an use it to type letters and things...
I currently adore my Royal Companion Typewriter, but am always looking to add to my very small [read: 2 typewriters total] collection.
RID prime repainted as Defensor. Will not be made. More about BotCon 2007 and The Transformers at The BenSpark
October 20, 2010 - A single room at Station Ryokan Seiki in Kyoto. The ryokan is located just a few minutes from Kyoto station, but the rooms are very small.
Read more at www.explodingfish.net
Shopping for knee high socks that accommodate those with wider calves is not always easy or cost effective! Purchasing a pair of them online is often cheaper, but without knowing what to look for, you may make a mistake and get a pair that is too small. Read further for more information to help...
October 20, 2010 - A single room at Station Ryokan Seiki in Kyoto. The ryokan is located just a few minutes from Kyoto station, but the rooms are very small.
Read more at www.explodingfish.net
1- Scientific name = Hasarius adansoni (male)
2- English name = Adanson's House Jumper
3- Family = Salticidae - jumping spider
4- Arabic name =
This image is a crop. I saw this tiny spider in my bedroom in Beirut / Lebanon. It was about 0,5cm or maybe smaller. Read a description on Wikipedia or more detailed on Tierdoku (German)