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Clivia miniata. I dug out my ca. 35 year old prime lens (Asahi Pentax smc 50 mm f1.7 @1.7) and experimented with my full frame Nikon using a short extension tube to see how useful it was.
Unidos para siempre
Soy una hebrita textil teñida de un distinguido color primario que representa energia, diversión, alegría, inteligencia, emoción, belleza, calor,.... unida amistosamente a un palito alargado metálico llamado aguja a través de su único ojito y con ayuda de su pie puntiagudo atravesamos y unimos tejidos.
Una historia sostiene que en el medievo dos mancebos de familias rivales estaban siempre combatiendo, uno con espada en mano, y el otro con una maza con pinchos en una lid que no tenía fin. Aslid el brujo de la armonía y el amor, harto de sus continuas peleas y disputas los transformó en aguja e hilo para que eternamente estuvieran unidos y castigados a elaborar cosas de utilidad.
Together forever
I am a textile little girl dyed a distinguished primary color that represents energy, fun, joy, intelligence, emotion, beauty, warmth, ... friendly united to a metallic elongated stick called a needle through her only eye and with the help of her pointy foot we go through and join tissues.
One story holds that in the Middle Ages two young men from rival families were always fighting, one with a sword in hand, the other with a club with spikes in a fight that had no end. Aslid the sorcerer of harmony and love, tired of their continuous fights and disputes transformed them into a needle and thread so that they would be eternally united and punished to elaborate useful things.
Unis pour toujours
Je suis une fillette textile teintée d'une couleur primaire distinguée qui représente l'énergie, le plaisir, la joie, l'intelligence, l'émotion, la beauté, la chaleur, ... amicalement uni à un bâton métallique allongé appelé une aiguille à travers son seul œil et avec l'aide d'elle pied pointu nous traversons et joignons les tissus.
Une histoire raconte qu'au Moyen Âge, deux jeunes hommes de familles rivales se battaient toujours, l'un avec une épée à la main, l'autre avec un bâton avec des pics dans une bagarre sans fin. Aslid le sorcier de l'harmonie et de l'amour, fatigué de leurs luttes et conflits continus, les transforma en une aiguille et un fil afin qu'ils soient éternellement unis et punis pour élaborer des choses utiles.
Uniti per sempre
Sono una ragazzina tessile tinta di un colore primario distinto che rappresenta energia, divertimento, gioia, intelligenza, emozione, bellezza, calore, ... amichevole unita a un bastone metallico allungato chiamato un ago attraverso il suo unico occhio e con l'aiuto di lei piede a punta che attraversiamo e uniamo i tessuti.
Una storia sostiene che nel Medioevo due giovani uomini di famiglie rivali combattevano sempre, uno con una spada in mano, l'altro con un bastone con punte in una lotta che non aveva fine. Aslid lo stregone dell'armonia e dell'amore, stanco delle continue lotte e dispute, li trasformò in un ago e un filo in modo che fossero eternamente uniti e puniti per elaborare cose utili.
María
Silvertip badger hair after 15 years of use. No question about it, it's not over yet!
Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Macro Takumar 100mm/f4 @f16
@daylight
Soft focus
Scene from trip to a favorite haunt, Olde Good Things in Scranton, PA
Postprocessed with Snapseed using portrait preset, contrast, local adjustments, and Lightroom to desaturate. .
Best viewed in LARGE, this can be a volatile river subject to severe flash flooding. Some good clips on Youtube of the river in spate.
Having an inbuilt ND Filter on this camera is proving very useful!
I can't tell you how useful it is keeping one, two or a dozen sporks at work for those days you forget to bring cutlery to eat lunch with.
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We were taking a few days summer rest at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, but the unusual cold southerly winds for this time of year hit soon after we arrived. The ocean and waves were wild and sea spray was everywhere. Even on the camera! This unusual wild weather turned the beautiful white sea foam into a yellow slush both on the waves and on the seashore.
It was even difficult to stand up, and going near the edge was a no no with this strong wind. I have never been in a wind so strong.
I captured this image just below the Lighthouse at Port Macquarie called the Tacking Point Lighthouse. A popular place for both Australian and overseas visitors.
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This butterfly has catholic tastes in food sources and if you look closely at the top of the bell you can see the proboscis of the Hairstreak slipping behind a petal to reach the stamen.Interestingly, having worked out the bell was too difficult to access from the open end it has found entry near the top of the flower.It's also useful to scale this spectacularly coloured butterfly against the flower.
For my video; youtu.be/rvveAmR6-c0?si=ySim9rGf7Myf9Smj,
Riverway Sports Complex,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Equisetum, horsetail, marestail, snake grass, puzzlegrass is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Other names include candock for branching species, and snake grass or scouring-rush for unbranched or sparsely branched species. The latter name refers to the rush-like appearance of the plants and to the fact that the stems are coated with abrasive silicates, making them useful for scouring (cleaning) metal items such as cooking pots or drinking mugs, particularly those made of tin. Equisetum hyemale, rough horsetail, is still boiled and then dried in Japan to be used for the final polishing process on woodcraft to produce a smooth finish. In German, the corresponding name is Zinnkraut ('tin-herb'). In Spanish-speaking countries, these plants are known as cola de caballo ('horsetail').
Dark Times RPG Sig-fig
Name: Zebulun Zephyr
Home World: Onderon
Age: 32
Species: Human
Class: Agent
Faction: Republic Loyalists
Backstory:
My name's Zebulun, Zebulun Zephyr. People called me Zeb. The Separatists were here, In saw how they killed my parents. One hero saved me from the clankers--Saw Gerrera. Later, I joined him in war with the Separatists. We were outnumbered.
When there seemed to be no hope at all, the Republic reached out to us. They sent Jedi and clones. The Jedi, who were not the usual soldiers that we had ever met. were surprisingly peaceful. Eventually, Rash was dead, Onderon was freed. Then, we joined the Republic.
Nonetheless, the peace which we had been fighting for was not long-lasting. The righteous Republic reformed into the First Galactic Empire. I witnessed a horrifying moment: a Jedi was killed by the clones, their companions. After a week of the new imperial rule, I received a message from Saw, ‘Stand up my Onderonian friends! This is not our home.’ Now, I’m an agent loyal to Saw…no…to my Onderon.
I set off to an abandoned CIS outpost to see if there’s any useful data. I was looking through the window, was looking for a beautiful Onderon……
Time spent in the backyard on an "Adventure" - SPOTTED this little fellow hiding in the ferns.
Ladybug (Coccinellidae) - A common name widely prefered is the name "Ladybird Beetle" or "Lady Beetles" as these insects are not true bugs.
North America had has over 450 native species of ladybug.
The Coccinellidae are generally considered useful insects
Ulmus minor (Ulmaceae) 057 21
The field elm (Ulmus minor) is a fast-growing, medium-sized, deciduous tree found mainly in South European regions.
The wood of the field elm is of good quality, making it useful for furniture, flooring and firewood. It has excellent resistance to water decay, so its timber is also suitable for underwater constructions and for boatsshipbuilding.
The tree is riparian and usually found on the banks of smaller streams. It can reproduce by root suckers and is, as other pioneer species, light-demanding and fast-growing. It is tolerant towards stress factors, such as salty winds, waterlogging, drought and pollution. However, due to the Dutch elm disease, the population has been heavily reduced. Nevertheless, European elms, in general, are not considered endangered due to strong resilience and genetic variability in forest habitats.
This would have been useful as protection from the rain and the hot sun at the Download Festival. Haven't decided which of the 1,100 shots I took to use as my shot of the week so I'll upload this one for a start.
the longest day - sunset here is a bit after 10pm tonight and there is useful light until 11pm
Cocteau Twins - Frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires
Quotes By Rose F. Kennedy
Story Behind This Picture: This picture is a mark for me entering the 1001 picture on my Flickr stream. When i start to use Flickr 3 years back I only wanted to upload 1 picture a day using my hand phone camera and that’s all no captions or nothing else but then as time pass by I have developed a great interest on learning photography with the people that I met from Flickr.
But then that doesn’t stop me because since small I’m very fond to colors and with Photoshop I have learned how I could satisfy my coloring addict. There was a short period of time I would say in my middle age of Flickr where I have become an addict on the number of comments and number of view, hits, favorites that I would get on my photographs the more I get the more happier I came but later I realized that isn’t what art is all about.
Since the day I have woke up out from the "Flickr Fame Craziness" I have started to set my own boundary and rules before uploading a picture which is
1) What photo should I upload today
2) What would be the best caption that can suit the photo
3) Message of the day
4) Connection of title with the picture and the colors used
5) My taste of colors
6) Every picture should carry meaningful tags and useful
7) Pictures properly organized
8) Picture are thrown into group only for its relevant and sharing and not in the manner of getting the more comments or hits
I’ am still learning and moving very slow these days as my rules of my Flickr picture are growing. I'm not sure where this will lead too.....
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The very useful foot (and bike!) ferry across the main Chicester channel. The channel eventually leads to the edge of the cathedral city of Chichester itself, the important remains of the Roman villa at Fishbourne and the site of the Roman harbour, now long silted up.
Part of a long and frustrating day's walk, the humid heat wave of late July broken overnight and replaced by flat grey cloud and a miserably cold wind I hadn't expected.
Taken with my phone as I thought I might need both hands for the ferry. A very useful service linking two remote corners of the harbour area, but also doing request stops, threading between the moored yachts on their buoys, picking up and dropping off their owners.
A long cold trudge of a day with few photographs due to the flat light.
Even Tater is going green and supporting wind energy!
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatts. Although wind produces about 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 19% of electricity production in Denmark, 9% in Spain and Portugal, and 6% in Germany and the Republic of Ireland (2007 data). Globally, wind power generation increased more than fivefold between 2000 and 2007.
The principle application of wind power is to generate electricity. Large scale wind farms are connected to electrical grids. Individual turbines can provide electricity to isolated locations. In the case of windmills, wind energy is used directly as mechanical energy for pumping water or grinding grain.
Wind energy is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions when it displaces fossil-fuel-derived electricity. Therefore, it is considered by experts to be more environmentally friendly than many other energy sources. The intermittency of wind seldom creates problems when using wind power to supply a low proportion of total demand. Where wind is to be used for a moderate fraction of demand, additional costs for compensation of intermittency are considered to be modest.
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This kit is useful to make bakery.
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Useful font for adding some authentic lego lettering to any project. A simple frame allows you to add one row of lettering at a time without the fear of total collapse that comes with most of my other lightsaber based MOCs. I built a spreadsheet to calculate how much space the lettering will take up but I'm still tweaking that. goo.gl/sbjtkF if you want to have a play around with it. Be warned though it's rather primitive and probably wrong at this stage!
I find it useful to have a background in your mind before you approach a stranger. Luckily, through this project I have come to know Soho, London pretty well and as soon as I saw Kosa in Carnaby Street I knew exactly where I wanted to take her portrait.
Kosa, of Zambian origin, was out there taking pictures with her friends too but was kind enough to allow me to take a few portrait shots.
As it was a very hot morning, she dabbed the shine down and we got to take some pictures. I got her friend to hold the reflector which just gave some oomph to her not that she needed it.
One tip to get good expressions is to use the strangers friends (where possible). I got Kosa to look at hers which made her laugh and then got her to look back at the camera which still captured that energy.
Thanks so much Kosa for allowing me to take your portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
The wide angle lens is the most often used, but also misused, lens in landscape photography. In my article I share with you useful tips for composing powerful wide angle images and I hope it encourages you to go out there and capture the beauty! Please feel free to read the article at this link. I hope you enjoy!
This image: It was one of those scenes I will never forget. We had hiked down into a deep lying river valley and then back up a steep ridge, when we were treated to the spectacle of fast moving rain showers which swept over spotlit black mountain ranges and outcrops, towering over the distant tundra. We found ourselves in one of the most breathtakingly dramatic landscapes, and experienced amazing scenes, but for me this definitely was the most memorable. The Peel Watershed, Yukon Territory, Canada.
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Summit shot - also useful from the documentary point of view - taken at sunrise on the top of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Susa Valley, Italy.
The month is July... but at these altitudes just "a brush" of snow can litterally submerge everything.
Above you can see the lightning rod, the statue of the B.V. Mary, then, below, the chapel, which is actually a Sanctuary, twinned with the other chapel situated at slightly higher altitude on the Monte Rosa, adjacent to the Cabane Giovanni Gnifetti.
Then, on the right of the construction, are visible the door and the window of the unmanaged refuge (I had to dig in the snow to open that door).
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my phone sits on my desk all day at work, on vibrate mode. when it rings, it buzzes and skitters all over the place. so i have a pad of post-it notes devoted just to phone-setting, except that kind of bothers me. because i have to use the post-it notes too, and having two pads is dumb.
so i decided to knit something for my phone to sit on during the day, which will also provide me hours of cuteness. this was my solution. SUCCESS.
(it's also a cozy, and the bottom is open so i can plug my phone in.)
The 10.18 Liverpool Street - Clacton has just departed from the stop at Ingatestone station and heads for Chelmsford under dramatic looking summer skies. The substantial metal fence on the left marking the edge of the footpath is useful as the field is currently occupied by a large contingent of cattle.
Optare Solo SR
It’s a sad sad day, as my favourite Freebus is Withdrawn.
As of today this bus is withdrawn, by TfGM to keep the fleet standard, and will be cannibalised for useful parts to keep the Versas going.
A very useful ground cover plant for a shady area in the garden. It flowers in late winter into early spring and is dormant from early summer onwards until it flowers the following year. Mine grows happily together with some of my ferns in an area which gets no direct sunlight during the winter. Great winter colour in the garden!
teaching that personal hygene can be fun ( that's NOT gasoline in the plastic tank).
insegnando che l'igene personale può essere divertente ( quella nel bidoncino NON è benzina).
HMM… the them for today, 4/23 the day after earth day, is plastic. how smart to cause us think about how we use plastics and more importantly what we do when we’re done with them or how can we cut down the useage of the one-time use things that litter our oceans and our lands.
A useful grey leaved clump forming plant but the clumps will expand somewhat if not checked occasionally.
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I loved to make this photo. I needed something difficult enough to make myself feel challenged and doing this shot really was a challenge! I did the bodypaint all by myself, though I used a very useful tutorial I found on youtube. In particular I spent a lot of time doing the facial make-up in order to give my face a very doll-like look. I'm happy with the result and I wish you will like it too ^_^
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Hiding right in front of us is a world we cannot see. Humans evolved to see light, but only a small portion of it that is useful for our daily lives. There is more to be seen beyond this limitation, including patterns in flowers that are invisible to us. Thankfully we have the technology to break down these barriers and explore a world only seen by pollinators.
Many insects can see into the ultraviolet, and some flowers take advantage of this by creating patterns that can only be seen in these otherworldly spectra. Take these Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) for example. We know these flowers to have a black center and solid yellow petals, but there is a special trait that we would never have noticed without the aid of technology: almost half of every petal absorbs ultraviolet light, while the rest reflects nearly all of that spectrum. This creates a very large, UV-dark target that bees (and other observant pollinators) can see.
To be fair, it’s impossible to know how a bee might perceive such information – they see more than just UV light, and we cannot comprehend exactly how their compound eye vision interprets information in general. That said, these flowers evolved to take advantage of their pollinator’s ability to see shorter wavelengths of light – or maybe the pollinators evolved to see these patterns? It’s a “chicken and egg” scenario. I know that certain cultivars of the genus Rudbeckia have a dark ring that is visible to our own eyes, and I’ve always wondered if this was caused by selective breeding of specimens that had a genetic mutation that shifted the UV pattern into the visible spectrum. A botanist might know the answer!
To create this image, I used a camera modified for “full spectrum” photography. Camera sensors are natively sensitive to light from roughly 300nm through 1000nm, but human vision is limited to only 400nm-700nm. This means that for a camera to properly depict the world as we see it, filters are added to limit the sensitivity range to that of our own eyes. These filters can be removed by trained professionals (don’t try it yourself!), and a camera can then be outfitted with filters to limit the spectral range to something different – including infrared and ultraviolet.
The problem with photographing UV light directly has two primary components: filters and lenses. You’ll want a filter that blocks 100% of visible AND infrared light. If even 1% of the infrared light sneaks through, it’ll equal to all of the UV light that the sensor can detect and wash out your image. The best filters on the market are from maxmax.com – the XNite 330C coupled with the XNite BP1. The two filters combined are the absolute best option. You’ll also want a lens designed for the task; I used a Rayfact 105mm F/4.5 lens which is the successor to the UV-Nikkor lens of identical specifications. This lens is made of quartz optics that allow for better ultraviolet transmission. Such lenses and filters are NOT inexpensive, but there are some options for you to consider at a fraction of the cost. I’ve bought from this eBay seller before, and I can attest that this setup works quite well to start out: www.ebay.com/itm/273863933139 - it’ll cost you more to get a camera converted to full-spectrum that it will for the lens and filters!
The camera I had converted was a Lumix S1. Fantastic camera to do this with, especially when I’ve had some documentary work requiring high-quality video in unusual wavelengths. With the high-resolution mode, I was able to shoot this image at a greater distance and crop in, negating the need for any focus stacking efforts.
If you’d like to learn more about UV reflectance photography, you can check out my new book on macro photography: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un... - a 384 page book with nearly 90,000 words of photographic instruction. While more time and attention is given to UV fluorescence photography, there is still value in exploring the capture of ultraviolet light directly.