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Pardon the repetition but I'm unlikely to see this species again until I go back to the west.
Photographed at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
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While my wife was working in the garden, this handsome Stellar's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) came in and hopped around the yard until it finally got some peanuts put out!
They are quite familiar with us and we love to see them and watch their antics!
I was finally able to capture an image that I liked. Although, I do wish his topknot was flared up more. He was side/back lite, not the best.
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Each year around May time I have another go at taking this subject. I keep aiming for something better and, gradually, I think I’m improving (in stark contrast to some of the other photography I do lol).
This is one of the better ones from a couple of years ago. I processed it several ways one time when I was on holiday working from the raw file using Affinity on the iPad. That means I didn’t use any external plugins or filters.,
The set has rather mouldered away since then but I thought it would be a quick and easy one for Sliders Sunday today. I often think that. I’m usually wrong as was the case here…
I clearly had fun, though, at the time. I seem to have used all sorts of things: inversion, gradient maps, mirroring, layer blending, HSL adjustments, ripple filters, and even the affine filter (which takes a source layer and makes multiple copies of it - see some of them with patterns of diagonal dots). Some of these versions build on others.
In the end, the Affinity file was over one and a half gigabytes (all the variants were in one file, a couple of dozen layers). Amazingly the iPad didn’t bat an eyelid - I only noticed when I came to copy the file back to the desktop for some final exports from Affinity.
I’ll post one of the variants in Sliders Sunday and add a link to the in-camera original in the first comment. One of the variants is a “proper” version which forms the basis for the others.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Stellar's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri) are very active at our peanut feeder of late! Barely stopping throughout the day! Here a juvenile takes a second in the Maple tree to have a quick look around.
Osteospermum (African Daisy).
Taken in June in a friend's rather nice garden on the little-ickle camera.
I've often rather liked images of flowers isolated against an innocuous background even though they can be rather sterile and austere. I've done a couple in the past but this is another experiment.
For the Mittwochsmakro group.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Wednesday :)
[Handheld in daylight.
It may not seem much but this one was a pain to process into half the vision that niggled in the back of my atrophied brain...
Developed in Capture One with a lot of colour, contrast and clarity tweaking, especially in the centre.
Processed further in Affinity Photo painting out the masked background and more softening of the petals, getting rid of the myriad spots of pollen and blemishes from the white bits and delicately sharpening the centre.
Eventually I gave up twittering about with it, though not entirely satisfied (always an essential step, lol) :) ]
Quite amazing light rays were visible when the light broke through the low hanging clouds and mist at the edge of the forest at this morning. The whole woodscape was bathed in fine light while I was shooting and enjoying the happening.
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I wondered what this usual looking bird was when I spotted it near the frozen waterfall. It looked a bit like a Blue Jay but different. When I got home I found out it was a Stellar's Jay.
My first time seeing one!
Lake Louise,Alberta.
Canada
Valdez Alaska is about a 6 1/2 hour drive from our cabin. A few summers ago, we drove down for a day trip just to get out of the house. We sat alongside the ocean watching otters, seals and sea lions swimming around. One sea lion took particular interest in my wife and kept swimming by her getting closer with every pass. She was sitting on the rocks by the ocean and the sea lion came really close, guessing about 15 to 20 feet away at the most.
My wife still talks about this day. We are hoping to go back this summer and see if we can experience this again.
A Stellar's Jay (Cyanocitta stellari) poised in the woods near Telegraph Cove on the north end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
3 June, 2013.
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