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I thought this Laughing Gull picked a pretty beautiful place for a nest. Last month I had an opportunity to visit Rockport Beach Park where there was an impressive breeding colony of Laughing Gulls and other birds, it was quite a treat!
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Leucophaeus atricilla
Fireman Pete Hackney and driver Mick Pickering, our footplate crew on a Russ Hillier photo charter on the Great Central Railway with Fairburn Tank 42085. I have fond memories of Mick Pickering, the driver on my footplate experience, way back in 2005.
‘The Bends’. Have you ever stopped to wonder about a bend in the road? Early man (or animal) ambled along until an obstacle came his way - he ponders a while then decides the best option and goes left or right until the next obstacle - and goes through the same thought process again! And every man since then has followed suit trusting his forebears intuition. Hitherto the ploughman must do the same and will continue so for the edge of his field is down the same well trodden path!
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
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Looking right at Dunwich Beach but leaving the mist as seen...
Sizewell the nuclear power station appearing like a golf ball is on the horizon and in an English fishing hamlet in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It belongs to the civil parish of Leiston and lies on the North Sea coast just north of the larger holiday village of Thorpeness, between the coastal towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
SUNSET - Great Blue Heron
Florida Everglades U.S.A.
In The Wild - South Florida
*[three more GBH photos in the comments]
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Author Unknown
Some trees are more interesting without their leaves.
I thought it was time to share some color. This one was found up in RMNP and I really liked it you can tell by how many pics I took of it.
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...about posing with this gentleman?
Um, maybe.
Seen at the Michigan Renaissance Festival a few years ago
Manchmal weiß ich nicht, wo mir der Kopf steht... Manchmal gibt es Schatten, manchmal gibt es Licht... Manchmal grinse ich, obwohl mir gar nicht dazu ist... Und manchmal vergesse ich sogar, mich zu rasieren...😉 Meine erste Langzeitbelichtung mit Blitz habe ich mit mir selbst ausprobiert. Bevor ich jemanden anderes damit verunstalte, ganz nach dem Motto:
„Es gibt keine schlechten Bilder von dir; Manchmal siehst du einfach nur so aus.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
...let your ideas flow.........
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...deixe suas idéias fluirem.....
I could not decide which image to post so I thought I may as well post both images.
One a wider view the other more of a close up. This is my home town Worthing in Sussex where they have just erected this wheel for the summer months so I thought I would pop along to capture some long exposures, there are a few draw backs to shooting from the pier at this time of year.
one is you are also shooting into shade which means very contrasty images on the beach and sea front buildings, it was not the best sky but hey it is what it is. Secondly shooting from the wooden boards of the pier means there is a bounce when someone walks past, I lost count of the number of long exposures I had to abandon each time i heard footsteps behind me when someone came up to me to ask me what I was shooting !!!.
Thirdly why on earth did the council put up a cheap wheel which does not have any lights on it, it would be so much more photogenic and attract far more people if the thing was lit up at night .
You live in my memory,
though we've never met.
I know you are out there somewhere and haven't found me yet.
Rest assure I will be waiting,
when you finally come my way...
Patiently I am waiting, and hoping for that day.
I thought it was time to take a break from the Algarve and pay a visit home to Limerick. This is the Desmond Castle on the river Maigue in Adare, Co. Limerick. Built on the site of an earlier ring fort by the Kildare branch of the Norman FitzGeralds and held for 300 years it was forfeited in 1535 and handed over to their southern cousins the Munster Fitzgeralds. Today it is one of the many attractions of Irelands most beautiful village.