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We have now reached the main village on the island and the only settled part. Most visitors don't go any further than this...
I got this Nikkor 55 3.5 Micro lens in the mail yesterday. I got it on ebay really cheap as the photos of the lens showed a "less than pretty" lens. After the sale was done he emailed me and said he had "seller's remorse" and wanted the lens back if I did not like it. So I decided to see if the lens was any good by taking some quick and dirty shots to see if it was sharp. So the question is should I send it back or keep it!? And yes, the above photo of the trees (my front yard) is something I shot last year but since there was some good mist last night I wanted to shoot it again.
This mama turtle was trying to wrestle this one stray egg into a hole where she had already buried several of her other eggs. She then covers them. When the eggs hatch, the baby turtles dig their way to the ground surface.
I've seen this glyph all over the Mojave. I know it means something, but I can't remember what. Star? Planet? Perhaps darthjenni will pop in and fill us in. I know they know - They are the ones who told me in the first place!
Mojave National Preserve
Who can tell what this is?
If someone gets the answer correct, I will add the name of the location to the title and add it to the location tag too.
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Background & Pose: Exposeur - Hex Wall
Hair: tram J0109 hair / HUD-A
Choker: .::Supernatural::. Gigi Choker
Eyeshadow: alaskametro<3 Winter Beauty Book
Tattoo: Leven Ink Tattoo - Flowers Dark Red
Jacket with Top: MOoH! Ellie jacket @ Sinners and saints Feb 8 - 29
Skirt: Bumblebee - Xiomara Pleated Skirt - SCOTTISH PACK
I found this on Twitter and I just HAD to share it! This was drawn by Daniel de Almeida, and you can check his twitter account out here: twitter.com/morpheus0201
Now I know the DCEU and the Arrowverse are completley seperate, but it's still cool to see this mashup in a very Alex Ross-like style!
This is just the stitched and edited portion of my Milky Way Nightscape shot at Redfish Lake taken in August. I enjoy looking at these with just the sky, a dark blurry silhouette of the foreground provides some context and contrast. Plus it gives people an idea of what it looks like to use a tracking mount and the outcome of doing so.
8 shots were used for this, each with the Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 50mm lens on the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer, all exposures are 4 minutes at ISO 800 and f2.8.
Took this a good while ago. Gordon, Huntress and Michael Lane have actually all gotten significant updates since this was taken but ah well. I don't want to set em all up again.
Anyways, just wanted to get this out of my files and into my photo-stream. Cheers, folks!
This is the last view I had of the Grand Canyon before plunging into its abyss for a descent of 1400m. It is a very beautiful park without being my favorite in the region.
Red lily petals after a late afternoon thunderstorm. Gardens lush from the rain, warm and steamy air sweet with the smell of all things blooming, the sounds of birds and buzzing little winged things....this is Summer. 8)
I hope you're all having a wonderful Summer weekend. I'm in Atlanta for the weekend. Will catch up with your streams when I get back.
Compare this Willow Warbler with the one I posted yesterday which is a normal Spring Willow Warbler. This one I found on the patch at the same time ,its the palest Willow Warbler I think ive ever seen there are 3 possibilities really, and none are easy to determine. I have consulted an expert on the subject and the answer isn't clear. There is a possibility its a Northern race bird (Acredula) but this bird is paler than those , then it could be the Eastern Race (Yakutensis) which would be very rare but unfortunately there is also crossover between races. The other option and probably most likely , is its the normal race Willow Warbler (trochilus) but for some abnormal reason it has not moulted at all,in the winter and the plumage is so worn it has become almost washed out , as the feathers do look worn . Normal Spring Willow Warblers are prestine green and yellow which as you can see this bird isn't at all , so which race cannot from pictures be totally determined , but whatever it was it was a smart unusual Willow Warbler , like none ive seen before really, in 50 years of birding,also when it tried to sing , it was nothing like a Willow Warbler so possibly a 2nd cy bird that even has a aberant song.
So this may be a male heliopahnus flavipes jumping spider but I'm not sure (at all). Feel free to correct me.
This guy was extremely determined to keep his lunch aphid. He didn't move too much so I had a couple of chances to get good shots.
Eventually, when I set him free again, on the spot where I found him, he still carried his prey between his fangs.
Shot with a KX800 twin flash.
I always wanted to try a D810 with 36 megapixels.
That was back in 2014 when it was released - before I realised what sort of photography suited me best. Back in the day all those pixels came with a weight (980g without a lens),
This shot was in 2016 and I had just bought a used Olympus OM-D E-M5 with a single battery that had run out and I spent a whole day shooting with this Lumix LX7 with a mere 10 megapixels. At the time a didn't appreciate how liberating it was.
Oslo, Norway.
This happy eastern fox squirrel is enjoying a handful of frozen crabapples for lunch. That thick fat layer and fur coat should help this squirrel stay warm next week!
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. All the sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, including the flowers. The flowers are vintage French metal sequins from the 1930s in this bauble, so they are rare. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flower sequins until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
This Adult bird was photographed enjoying the Winter sunshine on the grassland at RSPB Frampton Marsh {Lincolnshire, U.K.}.
This red disk-shaped phenomenon, is another member of the TLEs (Transient Luminous Events, happening in the middle and upper atmosphere, above thunderstorms) family and is called sprite halo. Under it, there is a group of, relatively small, sprites. Sprite halo is short-lived (some ms) and its color comes from the same physical process as in red sprites (de-excitation of 1st positive group of mol. nitrogen). Halos appear close to sprite tops (alt. ~80-85 km), over active thunderstorms, like sprites. Sprite halos are usually triggered by -CGs, in contrast to sprites which are related to +CGs (99%). There is also a faint stripe of high clouds in front of the halo. The yellow light is a distant ship.
The event happened over the thunderstorms south of Crete (on the east side of the Medicane on 28/10) as seen from S. Attica during the night of Oct. 28, 2021. Faint parent lightning flash at the bottom, behind a cloud layer, can be seen as well. I've used a Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/4'' with 51.2k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html
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This shows the twilight just before the sunrise at Abol Pond in Baxter State Park in northern Maine. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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This is the culmination of well over a year’s worth of work: I think I started this project a little after the UCS Republic Gunship was released. So it feels good to finally have this finished and show it off!
I strived to make an accurate, studless version of the ship which incorporated some of the discoloured panels like the UCS version. I used the reference material collected from Star Wars Episode 2, 3 and Battlefront II.
Over the course of this project, a few outstanding Gunships emerged in the LEGO Star Wars community, which was both inspiring and slightly disheartening as they set the bar for MOCs of this vehicle incredibly high! Bousker made an excellent Clone Wars version and you may see some similarities between mine and Jhae's. Though we came to the solution of using the grated cheese slopes independently, his design helped inform some of the internal structure and the bed of the troop compartment.
I also looked to atlasr's version for inspiration, which while digital and at a slightly larger scale than I was aiming for, is perhaps the most accurate LEGO version I’ve ever seen.
Massive thanks to all the dudes for their inspiration, encouragement, feedback, and numerous ideas which I stole, you know who you are!
This is a mysterious ancient woodland called Wistman's Wood and is found in Dartmoor National Park in the South West of England. It is a wonderful place full of stunted oaks, moss covered rocks and lichens of all descriptions. A place of legend, magic and mystery.
Sitting in the middle of a field with the backdrop of the tree covered hills this house must have been pristine in its early days, but now the home of the roaming animals
This image is a labor of love. Originally begun in 2022 and finally finished this year. It is comprised of images from 2 different telescopes, 2 different cameras, two types of binning, and 9 different exposure lengths. I had no idea how difficult it would be to marry all this data together. Finally, here it is.
Discovered in 1702 by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, M5 is one of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and a location 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, M5 appears as a patch of light with a pair of binoculars and is best viewed during May.
A majority of M5’s stars formed more than 12 billion years ago, but there are some unexpected newcomers on the scene, adding some vitality to this aging population.
Stars in globular clusters are believed to form in the same stellar nursery and grow old together. The most massive stars age quickly, exhausting their fuel supply in less than a million years, and end their lives in spectacular supernova explosions. This process should have left the ancient cluster M5 with only old, low-mass stars.
Yet astronomers have spotted many young, blue stars amongst the ancient stars in this cluster. Astronomers think that these laggard youngsters, called blue stragglers, were created either by collisions between stars or other stellar interactions. Such events are easy to imagine in densely populated globular clusters, in which up to a few million stars are tightly packed together. Text from NASA/Goddard
Taken from Santa Rosa CA and Blue Canyon CA, May 2022 and June 2023.
Scopes: Tec 140 and Vixen VC200L (Courtesy of Larry Parker)
Cameras: QSI 683 and ASI 2600M
Mount: Paramount MYT
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
L:R:G:B = 5.5h:1.5h:1.5h:1.5h:
M5 V2 is perhaps slightly better. V2 used a masked stretch, which made the stars smaller but resulted in a clouded overall look. In V3 I decided to go with a more conventional stretch for better clarity. Now in V4 I've used all my tricks, and its made a marked improvement.
This is probably the most common hawk in North America. If you’ve got sharp eyes, you’ll see several individuals on almost any long car ride, anywhere. Red-tailed Hawks soar above open fields, slowly turning circles on their broad, rounded wings. Other times you’ll see them atop telephone poles, eyes fixed on the ground to catch the movements of a vole or a rabbit.
West Kelowna BC
Canada
Exploring blurriness. Pentacon projection lenses have a certain "name" in this regard. It is difficult to find reasonably priced one that is in good shape. Here are a few test shots