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I think of trees as Nature's lungs and a part of the living being we all call Earth. We are all connected and we'd better start acting like it.
Meanwhile, get out there and suck up on some of that fresh new oxygen that Spring brings... :)
Heidi thinks it’s important to train your humans. Once you know how it‘s done it‘s fairly easy she says. You just need to let them know who‘s the boss and find out how to push their buttons. So if you think your human is lazy and the floors need cleaning, just pee on all your paws while in the litter box and then go tour the whole place. You’ll be surprised how fast your servants jump from their couch and start a thorough house cleaning.
Have a happy weekend everyone! I‘ll be doing some cleaning, I guess 😂
Was immer du tust, vergiss nicht, dass wir nur diese eine Welt zum Leben haben. Wenn wir sie schützen und mit Ehrfurcht behandeln, wird sie es uns danken.
We only have this one world to live in. Don't forget that. If we treat her well, she will thank us.
-i think my flickr has died in some sense
haha
but thats ok
i still love photography and i still love posting :D
so bam
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i cant wait to get my camera
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have a lovely saturday all
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A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
Don't forget, not sure what you shouldn't forget, but it looks like she forgot. Either way this is a great place to come and remember all the things you don't want to forget, or a great place to forget all the things you want to forget.
La vita e' una rosa, dove ogni petalo e' un'illusione ed ogni spina una realta'
Life is a rose, where every petal is an illusion and every thorn a reality
B/W HDR
"Pineapple juice doesn’t come in a can—it comes in a hard, spiky shell called a pineapple. Pineapples are great and all, but of all things to grow, up is the most profitable.” - Jarod Kintz
I think this is my first time experimenting with a multiple daylight long exposures, I took 400 shots at this famous spot on Xinyi Avenue, and then picked five of them to create this image.
1. Clouds (one exposure): 192 sec., f22, 11mm, ISO 200 + ND8 + ND400 + Black card.
2. Traffic (four exposures): 1 sec., f22, 11mm, ISO 200 + ND8 + Black card
3. Processing: Adobe Camera Raw + CS6 + Google Nik Collection
Have a great day!
I think that is what it is anyway
On a big multistemmed willow growing in waterlogged ground at the edge of the Quoile Basin - I could see that a lot of the willow branches were dead and it looked like a tree in terminal decline.
The Raveonettes - Blush
Freeport McMoRan's Breast Cancer Awareness GP38-2, along with four other GP38-2s, guides a short train of Arizona & Eastern Interchange traffic into Clifton, Arizona after a steep descent from the mine in Morenci.
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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 I was nine or ten years old when my grandma surprised me with a new dress she had made for me.
When I saw it I couldn't believe that such a beautiful dress could possible be mine. It was the most beautiful dress I had ever seen. ...
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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
What does it take to understand that guns kill? Why do we insist upon having guns? Can we think, instead of being governed by fear?
Violence only adds to more violence. Start with eliminating poverty and creating more equality thereby eliminating squalor, indignity, hunger, death and desperation. Try a little love, it goes a long way and does not create violence! History repeats itself, violence has never been and never will be the solution, helping one another in a peaceful way does make a difference, the damage has been done, so it won't be easy but it is better than violence.
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
So I think I have finally defeated the flea bags (squirrels) as I never saw a one at the feeders yesterday (there are four all together). And it was amazing how many more birds showed up to feed! I have two squirrel proof feeders and the suet cage and then I scatter some seeds on the ground as lots of the birds like to eat there. Cardinals do both but seem to prefer the ground. The Squirrels would come and gobble all the ground seeds up and then to the top of the pole to eat the suet. What did I do? I bought a big bottle of Cayenne pepper! I rubbed it on the suet and mixed it with the ground seeds. My ground is now red with the stuff but the squirrels... ha! They seem to have taken themselves off back into the woods to eat their natural foods. :) I hope I never see one again and if I do, I will be sure to greet it with lots of the hot stuff! I may sound mean to some, but the bird seed has gone beyond expensive and I buy it for birds not squirrels. And seriously, there is plenty of their natural foods around the area. There were four of the male cardinals yesterday. :)
I couldn't think of a reason why I should post an image of just one...
Combining two images of the same "Downy woodpecker"
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.
They think they're so clever, shuffling their little schemes and side-eyes across the garden court. Let them whisper behind their fans, let them bluff with their painted smiles and hollow promises. I see every tell, every nervous flutter of lashes, every bead of sweat masquerading as morning dew.
The thing about holding the Ace of Hearts? You don't show it. You let them play their hands—let them think they've got you figured out with their twos and threes and desperate kings. You smile. You sip your wine. You watch them double down on nothing.
And when the moment's ripe, when they've bet everything on their mediocre cards and puffed-up confidence?
That's when you lay it down.
The crowd always gasps the same way—half outrage, half admiration. But honey, I stopped playing for their approval ages ago.
I play to win.