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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
I see street photography as a privilege. The right to photograph anyone and anything in and from a public place for the purpose of art and documentary is not universal around the world. Rights can be taken away at any time, especially when abused.
I shoot courteously and always respect my subjects right to refuse to be photographed. I have always deleted shots when asked to do so.
On Thursday in Glasgow I was harassed by another street photographer. I don't have to justify why I turned my back to them as they tried to photograph me and I am not a hypocrite for doing so despite their protestations that I 'had a nerve'.
However, if someone indicates or tells you that they do not want to be photographed, if you continue to photograph them over and over again what you are doing can be classified as harassment, a criminal matter. Don't be a jerk and don't bully people.
I reacted out of a place of trauma and I am not proud of that but, as you all know, harassment formed a major part of causing my trauma in the first place. The point is that we, as street photographers, have a responsibility to treat people respectfully. This is deeply important if we want our 'rights' to continue in a world becoming increasingly wary of photographers and 'surveillance'.
This is why I take one shot and move on.
You don't follow people, chase them, take multiple shots or feel affronted if they refuse to be photographed.
Take care my Flickr friends. Take photos. Be kind to one another and I wish you a wonderful week in this crazy world.
I think this is a juvenile Male, but if not, maybe one of my bird watching friends will let me know. I do know that I've had a male and female cardinal at my feeder and now a couple of newbies are showing up.
I took thi because although Mary has been living with us for over 10 years, we have not yet seen the colour of her eye, but I believe I saw a hint of blue.
How some folk think this is acceptable I’ve no idea or judging by the warning notices fastened to the bin handles they just don’t get it - brown bins in Wakefield are for Garden waste.
I’ll not publish the exact location just to protect the innocent but rolling through the back streets of Wakefield Freightliner 66542 is only half an hour from its destination with 4E24 the 06:13 Felixstowe North to Leeds Freightliner Terminal.
1st February 2020
Rodin's famous statue, commonly called 'The Thinker' or 'Le Penseur' was designed as a representation of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, for inclusion in a monumental work called 'The Gates of Hell' - a huge bronze doorway for a museum that was never completed.
There are some 28 life-size 'Thinkers' on exhibition around the world, all considered to be 'originals' - and not one of them made by Auguste Rodin himself.
As well as being a genius sculptor in clay, maybe Rodin's greatest success was his ability to industrialise the process of turning his clay sculptures into much larger bronze statues - the creation of enlarged models and their casting, conducted by teams of skilful artisans.
The Rodin Museum, close to Bois de Boulogne in Paris, is well worth spending a couple of hours if you're in the area.
This video explains everything you need to know about Rodin in 15 minutes: youtu.be/Z4AEXRtDEEY
I think that is what it is, correct me if I'm wrong.
Trying out the Tamron 1.4 teleconverter on the 150-600.
Shot at iso 5,600, f9, (wide open), 1/1250 equivalent of 1,125mm. I think it worked out really well.
This shot is uncropped.
I think Sethi is a very handsome cat. He is a bit chubby at the moment because in winter he is less active than in summer and he eats enough for two cats. but I like chubby cats. :)
This Yellow Tyrannulet was hanging out along the road to Cano Negro in northern Costa Rica earlier this month. We had pulled over to see if we could get a good view of a White-ringed Flycatcher that we spotted in the top of a tree but it was a hopeless case. However, the Tyrannulet seemed to be begging to have its photo taken, flitting from one open perch to another.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Capsiempis flaveola
I think I have the ID correct, and know there are two `types' of this one (Beautiful and Plain), and I think this is the Plain one. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I had a few of these sitting on the wall of the house under the outside light the night I saw the drinker moths too. Funnily, that was probably the first night I'd really looked on the wall under the light to see if there were any moths, so then I thought there would always be a selection, but having looked every night since, I haven't seen any more Drinkers or these Golden Ys.
This is another image taken with flash, and a silly exposure time.
Valmadrera, Italy.
Who can tell where the journey of this rock began...
This is Lake Como, alias Lario. The town you see on the other shore is named Abbadia Lariana.
Shot this during the lunch break, to get to this spot takes just ten minutes of driving from my work place.
Straight out of the camera.
It is bird images today. There are a few varieties visiting the bird feeder during these winter months. This little Coal Tit is an infrequent visitor or I see it less often. I think it is one of the smallest that visits.
I've been seeing a lot about Sunday mornings on Flickr recently. For my family, however, it's all about weekend evenings.
You can see the place we stayed in the eye.
We. went on a few trips this year. The most special was to Shetland. This otter appeared in the harbour feet from where we were staying.While it was fishing I grabbed my camera and sideled down one of the slipways. Remarkably the otter caught it's lunch and decided to eat it on the same slipway. I tried to retreat but it landed so quickly I ended up staying put. Having finished it's meal it came even closer to sniff me out before deciding I didn't smell so good and popping back into the water. An amazing experience and one I will always remember.
Think the ID is right. These little things are still stupidly shiny even when it's cloudy. :@D
Catcott
In the spider world, i think few are more strange and fascinating than the Rufous Net-casting Spiders (Deinopis subrufa), also called Ogre faced spiders.
Net-casting spiders are common in bushland and gardens. By day they hide, stick-like, among foliage. By night they build beautiful little webs about the size of a postage stamp and made of thick, bluish-white cribellate silk. The web structure and web spinning behaviour reveal that the net is a highly modified orb web, as net casting spiders are descended from orb-weavers.
I found this little beauty, with damaged back right leg, on a garden screen and simply had to test the macro setting on my new phone. If you're curious to know more about these amazing spiders, here is a link to the best and most entertaining video you will ever see about Net-casting spiders.
I think this is one of my favourite hovers. They are big, beautiful and easily identifiable. They are also lazy and so make excellent subjects as they sit still.
I think this is the first time I have gotten a picture of him just laying in the grass... Usually when he's outside, his nose is to the ground like he's looking for something.. ;-) He doesn't look like that today.. I just had him groomed .. LOL!!!
Rockabilly Diners club event at Big Daddys
see Dee's version here : www.flickr.com/photos/deedeesimone/53669782821/in/datetaken/
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Taken at Safari Park, Cisarua - West Java - Indonesia in Aug 2022.
THANK YOU so MUCH for your kind visits, faved and comments.
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Went looking for some mushrooms again in Hagley Park. Finally found the type/species I was hoping to find. This is a focus stack of 100 images each at 1/100 sec, f/2.8. ISO 100
Most think a hawk hunts and kills from above, but this hawk uses a different technique. This hunter works its way among low bushes, hunting inside the bushes, under them, whatever it takes.
Ed eccoci alla presentazione della prima macchina decorata con i quantomeno vistosi colori della nuova impresa ferroviaria Oceanogate.
La 483 020 è qui in mostra con i mezzi e le manovalanze dell'impianto Sogemar di Melzo. (28-3-12)
On March, the 28th there was the official presentation of the new Oceanogate lok. The Angel Train E483 020 now wears this colorfull livery for Oceanogate a Contship company. (2012-03-28)
#MacroMondays
#Dried
Entirely unintendedly, really. I think combining a chili pepper with a flame of sorts is a little cliché. But why is there smoke swirling around behind this dried Trinidad Scorpion pepper when I hadn't placed a smoke or fire source behind the chili, neither a lit candle nor a match to be hazardously lit (finger scorching included) just in time for the focus stacking? At first, I had put my go-to tool for backlit scenes behind the Scorpion, the small "Ledlenser" flashlight, but for the fairly small peppers in the bag its diameter was just a tad too big so I either had an unpleasant halo around my subject or a light leakage under the chili no matter how I placed it.
Time for plan B which brings us to the unintended part: I also have a very small, octagonal-shaped, extremely bright, and powerful "TrustFire Mini-X" key-ring flashlight that proved to be slim enough to disappear behind the chili. So I leaned the chili against the flashlight, set the latter to non-stop light, and then set the camera. When that was done, I looked at the display and saw a weird blue streak behind the pepper. "This is one bright flashlight!", I thought, assuming what I saw was a light beam. But then I noticed that the "beam" moved, and all of a sudden the air was also filled with a certain spiciness that started to scratch my throat... Well, this flashlight is not only very bright but it also gets very hot very quickly when it's constantly on – and the dried Scorpion's skin was (still is, I should add) wafer-thin. So it seems that the flashlight had started to scorch the dried chili. I quickly pressed the shutter button, nervously watching that thin "smoke ghost" move around while the camera recorded 30 images (15 ORFs and 15 JPGs; the JPGs are combined to a final stacking image in-camera), and immediately switched off the flashlight and removed the chili once the stacking was done. Phew ;) An unintended, unexpected, somewhat cliché, but definitely nice "accident".
I think there was no real danger that the chili might have been set on fire during the short focus stacking time, and the single swirl of smoke also was very thin. Helicon Focus, however, combined all of the 15 different ORF "smoke ghosts" into a more voluminous set of streaks which I think looked good so I left it that way. Size of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper: 3 cm x 2,5 cm / 1,18 x 0,98 inches.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
I think our local Burrowing Owl looks a tad out of sorts with all the attention she is getting. It looks like she has evidence of a recent meal on her beak.
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AvaWay CINDY Armlets.
Catwa bento head - Catya
Maitreya Lara body
Lara Hurley skin - May
The chair is from Nutmeg. Romanov's Golden Armchair White
The pose is from Luanes World BENTO poses - "Think About You". Including mesh roses. It will be available soon :)(NEW)