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A beautiful pair of white horses so much in synch with their movements ...must be love!
Happy Mono Monday!
Peeked my head out the window this morning and saw Patches sitting in his favourite spot with a black squirrel feeding in sync in the background. I ran and grabbed the camera and got this neat shot.
I would like to thank all of you that have taken the time to view and comment on my photos, it is very much appreciated.
Tina and the Puglets xo
Legg Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strob (Leica SF 60/Leica SF C1) hand-held, modified with MagMod MagSphere. to provide fill-lite. Highspeed synch/TTL metering used.
There are some great aerial display teams around the world like the Blue Angels, the Red Arrows and our own Australian Roulettes. Well, this is the newest team - The White Pelicans! Here, they are doing a formation takeoff for a keen group of spectators.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
Legg Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strob (Leica SF 60/Leica SF C1) hand-held, modified with MagMod MagSphere. to provide fill-lite. Highspeed synch/TTL metering used.
Black Skimmer flock in flight.
Because flocks of skimmers often fly synchronously, their appearance as a flock can be quite different. Here they appear as a flock of mostly black birds, In the comments you'll see their appearance as a flock of white birds. Because they have such a thin profile, when the flock comes straight at you, its hard to tell there is a flock of birds at all - that's stealth.
This photo was quite a challenge as the sun had just risen, it was overcast and there was very little light.
Explored.
Legg Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strob (Leica SF 60/Leica SF C1) hand-held, modified with MagMod MagSphere. to provide fill-lite. Highspeed synch/TTL metering used.
The original exposure was bracketed in post in 0.5 EV increments (0, +0.5, -0.5) and fused in Photomatix, which really brought out the depth of light, colour and detail from what was a slightly flat and heavily-shaded image.
Also known as the Chinese Bulbul, it is very common in Beijing and across China. Quite active and boisterous, this bird has some attractive calls. I once observed two of these birds hovering and then striking at a swarm of flies in-synch, which was quite an interesting behaviour to behold.
Eastgate Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strobe (Leica SF60/Leica SF C1 trigger),camera right, roughty 90 degrees, 45 degrees above subject, modified with MagMod MagSphere diffuser. High-speed synch and TTL metering modes employed.
"we need one of these at the house!" she said, happiness lilting from her voice like bells.
they spent the day sleeping before their host invited them out to feed the ducks. at the pond there was a tire swing which she couldn't resist playing on.
"didn't take you for a tire swing kind of girl" said her boyfriend, making his observation even more pronounced when he stroked his beard.
she smiled at him then, a light twinkling in her eye and a wiggling of her brows, "i bet there's so many things we can do with it." her tiny frame swayed back and forth, arms synched close to increase her inertia, pony tail counteracting it by flying in the wind.
"ah. yes. we need to get a tire swing," he agreed.
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Harvest season is in full swing. The tractor pulls the wagon in synch with the harvester/mower and pours the kernels into the wagon! The dust is from the grain as well as the dry fields.
Gracie Jo, our new (semi-feral) cat is now undoubtedly using the shelter and bed we provided in our workshop/garage. We don't have to look for her at mealtime; she is synched with the schedule for our indoor-only cats.
This small flock of starlings kept me very busy as they did their murmuration thing in front of a wonderful reflected golden sunrise on the Murray River at Mannum.
A group of five to eight (depending on the time of day and distribution around the area) American Wigeons are making a seasonal visit, and their colours are very much in synch with the seasonal reflections on the water. There are young males and females, eclipse plumage males, and a mature female - the full range of colouring and plumage for the species.
On a related note - it seems shocking to me how quickly we have transitioned from departing Warblers to migrating waterfowl. Soon the Redpolls will arrive!
Traditional Thai sea vessels, in synch on the south Andaman Sea.
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Winnie, Texas
I took more pics of these warblers than most others in the area of High Island, Texas. Being my one and probably only foray into the famous warbler "fallout" area of the Gulf coast I never fully synched with spots in the area when they were most diverse and abundant. I constantly hear from birders that I should have been in spot A yesterday when I was trolling around in spot B instead. In fact I got so tired of people telling me this that I told several people to shut up about it giving PNW birders a soiled reputation.
Both the Round Island Light and the Round Island Passage Light (also called the Mackinac Island Light) are shown in this picture. The red light belongs to the Mackinac Island Light, and the white light is the historic Round Island Light. A green beacon light was added at a later date.
The lights are not in synch so it took quite a few tries to get them all lit at one time : )
Taken from the Mackinac Island Marina, which was closed for the season.
During the summer, I like taking images that are backlit while using a flash and an open aperture. Having the subject lit on both sides is an interesting look. UPDATE If I don't have the camera set for High Speed Synch and also the Flash, the camera Shutter Speed would automatically change back to 1/250 and not stay at /1250. When using an open aperture during sunny days, I need a faster shutter speed.
No one knows for certain why we dream, but whatever the reason it must be important.
•What is it in our minds during dreaming that gets suspended so we accept irrational events as being common place and natural?
•Why it is that we submit ourselves to worlds so out of synch with our own that our bodies must be lightly paralyzed otherwise we might harm ourselves reacting to unreal incidents?
•What mechanism largely flush dreams from our minds upon awakening so that we are not terribly confused by the two worlds we move between?
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Also known as the Chinese Bulbul, it is very common in Beijing and across China. Quite active and boisterous, this bird has some attractive calls. I once observed two of these birds hovering and then striking at a swarm of flies in-synch, which was quite an interesting behaviour to behold.
After a bit of a fraught start last night (accidentally turned of the mount mid slew - it lost it's position and plate solving threw a hissy fit and wouldn't re-synch) I finally came away with this.
Often overlooked because of the proximity of the Orion nebula this is NGC 1977 or the Running Man Nebula in Orion. I love nebula with both reflection (blue) and emission (red) components.
Hardware: Skywatcher Quattro CF 25cm f4. QHY8L. EQ6 mount & autoguider.
Software: APT. PHD2. AstroPixelProcessor. Affinity Photo. Topaz DeNoise.
7 x 8 minute exposures stacked with calibration frames.
"Northern Yellow White-Eye" is a small sharp-billed warbler-like bird identified by its characteristic bright yellow underparts, olive-yellow back, and distinct bold white spectacles around the eyes. Song is a quiet, chatty sequence of “chew” notes. I have frequently noticed pairs grooming each other - a very heartwarming sight captured this morning in synch with Valentine's Day. Who will be my Valentine??? Commonly found in Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Africa.
Springtime at Chanticleer Gardens, Pennsylvania
It rained just before we arrived at the gardens, scaring off many of the sight-seers and making everything look fresh and well, green.
Tech Note: Taken 6 years ago with my 6 MP Nikon D40 and kit lens. Expensive cameras get you some impressive features and additional capabilities but the basic cameras can deliver great results when used within their limitations. In fact, the D40 is the ONLY D-SLR that I am aware of that features a 1/500 flash synch speed, something very handy for daylight fill flash and not even available on the $6000+ Nikon D5!
This is an example of how clear wings of insects can become very colorful when viewed from a certain angle in sunlight. The intensity of the colors varies in brilliance with changes in the viewing angle, and can disappear entirely. The effect is similar to viewing multiple layers of cellophane through crossed polarizers.
A camera club friend had called me one day mentioning that she had bugs... in her flower garden. I was wanting to test a "mystery" three element lens cell salvaged from a junk zoom lens that I tossed out years before, and this seemed like a good opportunity to do so.
The image was taken with my Nikon D40, with my old 200mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor, fitted with a three element "mystery" lens. The 200mm has a closest focusing distance of 28". Adding the mystery lens gives a lens to subject working distance of four inches, with the 200mm focused at infinity, and a viewfinder field width of 1/2 inch. That was enough magnification for this particular subject. Despite having been taken at f/22, depth of field is very shallow. Shot hand-held at f/16 at a shutter speed of 1/2500 second, the sun still was bright enough to render a high degree of iridescence. Lighting was provided by flashing through a diffuser made from a plastic bowl that comes in a frozen dinner. The D40 can flash synch up to its top shutter speed (1/4000), when an external flash is used. The high speed had the distant background go dark... the effect I was hoping to get. The mystery lens was rigged with a 52mm macro reverse adapter on each side so I was able to test for the sharpest orientation. Reverse mounting on the 200mm was best.
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Our neighbor's yard, Holland, Massachusetts
You know, you put your right foot "in" then your left food "in" and then you shake it all about. Unfortunately, this pair is not in synch. ; )
Very happy with this image as it really shows the beautiful colours and markings of these gorgeous Green Catbirds.
Regular visitors all year round.
Again it was early morning....necessitating a high than usual ISO setting...and due to the focal length of 350mm I elected to use Shutter priority and shoot with high-speed synch on the flash head.
Thanks for visiting....enjoy the week. Cheers Dale.
Damrak, Amsterdam, damn.. the weather was quite miserable on this layover, but I'll be back there in spring, hoping for the tulips to synch with my arrival.
I took my family to see an octogenarian singing and playing songs from half a century ago - it was magical!
Paul McCartney, now 82, is still going strong. His voice may not be quite what it was, but he played a 2.5 hour set at full power without a break - simply amazing.
Even more amazing, thanks to the wonders of technology, John Lennon's voice has been extracted (by Peter Jackson) from the famous Rooftop Concert recorded in London in 1969. Paul and his band played and sang 'I've Got A Feeling' with Lennon's voice perfectly synched in, so they were singing together. The closest I'll ever get to seeing John Lennon and Paul McCartney playing together. McCartney was quite emotional at the end of that song - as were all 20,000 concert-goers. Seen at the O2 in London. (Paul is centre on the stage, directly below the video of John - you can see just how large that screen is!)