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I recently recorded a video with B&H with some helpful tips for shooting with a long telephoto lens. Check it out in the link below:
actionphototours.com/5-tips-for-shooting-telephoto-lenses/
I cover topics such as selecting the right lens, handholding techniques, how to shoot from a tripod in both calm and windy conditions, and much more!
Zero Assoluto, sotto una pioggia di parole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn1MuuENNKA
Pioggia
La pioggia è la forma più comune di precipitazione atmosferica e si forma quando gocce separate di acqua cadono al suolo da delle nuvole. Il suo codice METAR è RA. Una parte della pioggia che cade dalle nuvole non riesce a raggiungere la superficie ed evapora nell'aria mentre cade, specialmente se attraversa aria secca (questo tipo di precipitazione è detta virga).
La pioggia gioca un ruolo importantissimo nel ciclo dell'acqua, nel quale il liquido che evapora dagli oceani si condensa nelle nuvole e cade di nuovo a terra, poi ritorna negli oceani con le correnti e i fiumi per ripetere di nuovo il ciclo. In tal modo si rende disponibile alla biosfera.
L'ammontare della pioggia caduta si misura in millimetri attraverso i pluviometri o pluviografi. In meteorologia solitamente 10 mm di pioggia equivalgono a 10 litri d'acqua caduti in un'ora su una superficie di 1 mq.
L'odore caratteristico che accompagna talvolta la pioggia è quello dell'ozono (simile a quello di uova guaste). Infatti, quando l'ossigeno atmosferico viene percorso da scariche elettriche (in questo caso i fulmini), perde l'originale struttura biatomica per assumere quella triatomica, l'ozono appunto. L'odore che segue una pioggia dopo un periodo di siccità viene detto "petricor".
I've never really had much luck with Orange Tips until our weekend visit to Cerne Abbas. They were so well behaved in the cool conditions I had time for a few lens changes.
My two sister kittens are getting bigger! Six months old now. They are very closely bonded. This is Tipper (in back) and Cookie (in the front).
Back Garden - after photographing this guy on Saturday, I watched him go to roost on the Weigela. Knowing it was going to be frosty the next morning I got up early to try to get some images with frost or dew - he was still there, but he must have been sheltered under the leaf, as I can only see the frost on the Weigela.
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Piran is probably the most beautiful of Slovenia's coastal towns, perched on a tiny piece of land jutting into the sea. It feels more like an Italian coastal town, without all the Italian tourists, and for good reason: Piran was part of the Venetian empire from the late 13th century to the end of the 18th century.
Piran is an extremely picturesque small Italianate city on the Adriatic coast of Slovenia. It is one of Slovenia's four coastal cities, including Izola, Koper, and Portoroz. It's Italian styling is due to its proximity to the Italian border and once belonged to Italy. The boat harbor is full of small colorful fishing boats. The main square is near the sea and full of activity. The streets are typical narrow winding medieval streets that are a joy to explore and find hidden squares inside the various neighborhoods. The Church on the hill is complete with a separate bell tower and baptistry. There is a walkway connecting the churchyard to a beach along the shore. The small peninsula of the city hosts a beautiful pedestrian street of various restaurants with delicious seafood and a gorgeous view of the sunset over the adjacent peninsula (in Croatia). The lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula is unique.
Piran offers great views of the small Slovene coastline, including views of nearby Trieste, large shipping vessels, and rolling hills. Hidden treasures include an old aquarium, steep winding streets, and local people fishing from the shore.
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Showing less than 1/2 inch of the tip of a #10 white nylon sable watercolor brush that has been well-used. (You might even say it has been over-used and abused...)
Macro Mondays: Less Than 1 Inch theme
2 more photos of orange tip butterflies seen yesterday.
The only flowers that any settled on yesterday.
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world.
Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonists in 1624 on southern Manhattan Island; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Lower Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor greeted millions of arriving immigrants in the late 19th century and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, and houses New York City Hall, the seat of the city's government. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, cementing Manhattan's central role in LGBT culture. It was also the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, the borough is bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers and includes several small adjacent islands, including Roosevelt, U Thant, and Randalls and Wards Islands. It also includes the small neighborhood of Marble Hill now on the U.S. mainland. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each cutting across the borough's long axis: Lower Manhattan, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan. Manhattan is one of the most densely populated locations in the world, with a 2020 census population of 1,694,250 living in a land area of 22.66 square miles, or 72,918 residents per square mile, and coextensive with New York County, its residential property has the highest sale price per square foot in the United States.
Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, as are numerous colleges and universities, such as Columbia University and New York University. The headquarters of the United Nations is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. Manhattan hosts three of the world's top 10 most-visited tourist attractions: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. Penn Station is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Fifth Avenue is the most expensive shopping street in the world.The borough hosts many prominent bridges and tunnels, and skyscrapers including the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and One World Trade Center. It is also home to the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks and the National Hockey League's New York Rangers.
Stamattina situazione tragica sull 'autobus, affollatissimo. Non si riuscivano neppure a chiudere le portiere. Tipo carro animali, o peggio. Mancava l' aria, c'era molto caldo, altro che Covid...
Ma l' autobus successivo sarebbe passato dopo 19 minuti. Troppo tardi.
Se avessi immaginato avrei preso l'auto, anche se trovare un posteggio nella zona di San Martino è da incubo.
Genova
Crowded buses. At the end a seat free!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halde_Schwerin
www.ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de/halde-schwerin/
Auch mit Sonnenuhr, etwas kleiner als auf der Halde Hoheward...
Also with sundial, somewhat smaller than on the Hoheward spoil tip...
Stockholm, Sweden.
Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull)
The Great Black-backed Gull is the largest member of the gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary.
Juveniles are checkered gray-brown and white above; they have white-based, black-tipped tails, black bills, and blackish flight feathers. Over about 4 years, these crisp, cold-toned gulls transition to dark backed adults.
Historically, the Great Black-backed Gull was harvested for its feathers, which were used in the hat-making trade, and this species was removed from large parts of its range as a result of this exploitation.
Today however, its adaptability to human presence and the use of urban environments as artificial nesting sites has resulted in the Great Black-backed Gull rapidly increasing in number and range. (Wikipedia)
"It's my personal opinion that a hat is simply a crown that lets the reign in." - Gi ♥
Model: Giselle Chauveau
Photographer: Delypop Cresci
This fellow thought that he could put his bike's kickstand down and the massive weight he was moving about wouldn't turn his bike into an ice cream trebuchette...he was wrong.
Martyr's Park (LieShiLingYuan)
Guangzhou, China
Back Garden - couldn't believe my luck when he landed on this dead daffodil (I didn't spot the photobomber at the time)
Also had a Holly Blue land on some blossom, but too high for photos.
There are several peaks south east of Silver Lake, near Hope, BC. In succession, going south, they are Mount Grant, Eaton Peak, Mount Green, and eventually Silver Tip (among others).
I'm struggling to comprehend the seeming speed with which life has transitioned from manageable to the unimaginable. The preoccupation is rightly with the coronavirus itself. But ultimately the psychological aspect of longterm stress and anxiety might prove equally disabling. Each day brings an increased awareness that this is going to be a long term situation with effects that will surely outlast the virus itself. I'm clinging to daily routines in an effort to maintain mental health. But it's deeper than that. I need to feel a sense of self worth; a need to exist. There has to be more to a day than watching endless news coverage. It's important to be dialed into events, but I fear the hypnotic effect of ongoing news feeds. Balance is key right now. It will be a process of discovery for many of us as routines change, perhaps radically, as we find out how exactly we will fit into the new model. It will be a process.
We're on the verge of the vernal equinox; the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere is Thursday. Normally a time of year filled with hope and optimism. Likely to go all but unnoticed this year. I was scrolling through an old email queue yesterday looking for a past communication. There I stumbled upon threads from exactly one year ago. They were filled with discussion of problems and issues with jobs that seemed paramount at the time, but utterly trivial now. How I wished those sorts of problems were the worst thing in life now.
The other day I noticed a very challenging astrological makeup for this week starting tomorrow, March 18. An astounding six planets will cluster in the sign of Capricorn. The indication is one of a tipping point being crossed. Perhaps a big disclosure is in the offing. The tension will remain strong through early next week. Stay safe.
Orange-tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) (female), Buchanan Castle Golf Course, Drymen. I don't know how this photo turned out sharp, as the stalk of grass was swaying gently in the breeze. Olympus's in-camera image stabilisation is definitely superior to my Nikon.