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Used to spend hours down the field making daisy chains. I enjoyed constructing one for this task. Enjoy #relax
Used my new texture No. 9 here. This is the last of my Mothers day flowers.
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The Siege of Port Hudson occurred from May 21 to July 9, 1863, when Union Army troops assaulted and then surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War.
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensive against Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' army of 40,000 Union soldiers moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River where 7,500 Confederates troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, CSA, a New Yorker by birth, awaited their assualt. On May 27, 1863, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege that lasted for 48 days. Banks renewed his assaults on June 14 but the defenders successfully repelled them. On July 9, 1863, after hearing of the fall of Vicksburg, the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson surrendered, ending the longest siege in American history and opening the Mississippi River to Union navigation from its source to New Orleans.
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Textures credits:
Vintage Tin from Playingwithbrushes
Green Day from darkwood67
Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 2 1/4 X 2/ 1/4
Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Arista Edu 400
Exposure: 10 sec.
Pinhole-8 (2 1/4 X 2 1/4)
Pinhole .3mm
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
The use of the snoot underwater opens up a wide range of lighting possibilities, leaving the final result to your creativity and technique.
This cheeky little blenny was just poking its head out of its rock shelter, so I was able to isolate it well with the snoot.
Photograph taken in the cove of Tio Ximo (Benidorm-Spain). Copyright @2023 José Salmerón. All rights reserved.
La utilización del snoot bajo el agua, abre un gran abanico de posibilidades en la iluminación, dejando a tu creatividad y técnica el resultado final.
Este pequeño y atrevido blenio solo asomaba su cabeza de su refugio en la roca, por lo que pude aislarlo bien con el snoot.
Fotografía tomada en la cala del Tio Ximo (Benidorm-España). Copyright @2023 José Salmerón. Todos los derechos reservados.
I used to have an obsession with dropping things into water and taking pictures of the drops. But I didn't really understand lighting back then.
Not that I do now, but I have the basics :P
Geek info: 2 x Flashguns, either side both through directional snoots (to keep the background as dark as possible) @ 1/4 power each
Processed in Lightroom, using Rainbow Lightroom Preset. See details here (bottom of the page): www.oliviabellphotography.com/2012/01/20/my-lightroom-jou...
Jump #53 of #100
"I love you THIS much!"
Really can't believe how lucky we have been so far in the last few weeks... apart from some bad spells of weather, we're had a lot of sunsets, which have given us wonderful lighting for jumps!
I've had this idea written down for ages, although when we tried it, it looked really flat and boring. Originally I had planned to have Rosanna Bell standing with her arms reaching out, and then to have Sasha Bell flying into her arms... that type of thing!
Well when we tried it, it looked really boring... so we thought trying the same idea, but with Rosanna in the air too would be better and I'm so pleased we did it this way because I love the movement of them meeting mid-jump!
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Used up half a day of leave and headed for Winterton on Sea. The Horsey Grey Seal colony now extends as far as Winterton and as a result the beach is closed - to protect the pups and parents from humans.
Once the young (white) pups are weaned they are left on their own in the dunes for a couple of weeks to moult into a waterproof coat - hunger then forces them into the sea.
I think this youngster may have just returned from a maiden voyage.
Taken after sunset in very low light.
Using parts from one of the PM figs.
Yep, I know i'm not the first to do this. But I don't remember who was...
Abandoned entrance to an old castle in the woods near Oregon,IL.The castle was built in the late '20s as a private residence and was sold to the Presbyterian Church which now uses it as a retreat center,by also holds a popular Olde English Faire every October.The castle's location on the bluffs above the Rock River makes for some great river views as well nature walks.
The castle was modeled after the Hearst Castle in California.The builder,Walter Strong,was a media tycoon with the Chicago Tribune.He did much of the designing and work himself.Sadly he only lived in the castle 2 years before dying...
By the way,there is another entrance to the castle down the road,however,it shows a lot less atmosphere....
I used a T-max film emulation in the DXO Flim Pack and used a paper toner, classic soft focus, blur vignette and a regular vignette in NIK Color Effects Pro.
National Express Platinum 6956 passes Ringway Whitefriars whilst carrying a 12X service into Coventry
Vehicle Details
Operator: National Express Coventry
Fleet Details: 6956 'Lindsey Jillian'
Registration: YX68 USE
Vehicle Type: Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC
Vehicle History
New to Coventry 12/18
Using up my JESSIOPS PAN 100 in my CANON EOS 300v as battery failed in LONDON ! All around BRENTWOOD. I processed in my home-made Crawley Formula FX-55 .
Canon EF Zoom 75-300mm gf4-5.6
Using the GS/OS app SAFE2 to FTP a newly created disk image from the Apple IIgs to my Mac Pro across the LAN via ethernet, thanks to the IIgs' Uthernet card in slot 2.
Transfer speed was about 8K/sec.
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In September 2015, I was scouting out and photographing numerous sites around Lake Tahoe, California and many sites in the Eastern Sierras for a short 5 days.
One the night of September 17, I took the Bonsai Rock Milky Way shot with the moon just above the distant mountain peaks.
The next day we moved down into the Eastern Sierras where I had been planning to photograph the iconic bristlecone pine tree with the Milky Way. Little did I know on the way down how well the moon would come into play with my night sky photography work there.
I used a long established technique to get the moon rays in this shoot while I light painted the bristlecone pine tree with my special light.
In 2017, I will have two 5 day Milky Way photography workshop in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, one over the 3rd week in March and one over the 3rd week in April.
During each of the two workshops, I will conduct 3 4+ hour Milky Way Photoshop post processing session where I teach all the techniques I used to create this final photo but this time it will be more of what is called a "Deep Dive" PS post processing session and workshop participants will need a laptop with Photoshop CS 2017. Lightroom will work but lacks some functionality used in what I will teach.
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My Milky Way night sky photography workshops
In 2017, I will be leading two 4 day photography workshops in Jackson Hole. During both workshops, I will take my group out for 3 nights of my Milky Way night sky workshop.
My 2017 4-5 day photography workshop schedule:
ANP, Canyonlands & Monument Valley - March 24-29
Icons of the Southwest w/Ryan Smith - April 23-28
Jackson Hole, Wyoming spring - June 21-25
Jackson Hole, Wyoming fall - September 19-23
The great part is that in 2017 I will return to Jackson Hole for the incredible wildflowers throughout the valley and the surrounding mountains.
Do you shoot the Milky Way but need a little help in getting the Milky Way to jump out of your photos ? If so, take a look at my ebook A Photographer's Milky Way Processing Guide - A Photoshop HowTo
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The covered bridge was built in 1862 by a certain David I Wood, who used to charge teamsters to travel across the bridge. The bridge was built using wood from Mr. Woods's lumber mill in Sierra County, California. There is a plaque on the northern side of the bridge that commemorates this.
This bridge was built to replace an 1850 bridge that washed away in a storm. At 251 feet (229 feet after the end walls were removed) it is thought to be the longest single-span covered bridge in the United States. As with all such bridges, the cover serves mainly to keep the rain off the load-bearing structure, which would otherwise soon rot from the moisture. Some said covers also made the bridge look like a barn so horses wouldn't be frightened to cross, but this was not universally accepted by teamsters of the day.
This road in the late 1800s was part of the Virginia Turnpike, a link between Marysville and the Comstock Lode silver mines in Virginia City, Nevada. Wagon teams, horsemen, buggies and livestock were charged a toll to cross the bridge. The Turnpike ran 14 miles from Anthony House (submerged under Lake Wildwood) to North San Juan.
The main visitor center to the South Yuba River State Park lies just to the south of the bridge.
Using a rebuilt GP38 as its primary power (along with a GP30 that was parked somewhere else on this day), the Iowa River Railroad operates about 7 miles of former M&StL trackage in central Iowa. The railroad runs from an interchange with CN at Ackley down to the Pine Lake Corn Processors ethanol plant at Cleves, the only customer on the line.
IARR GP38M #3802
Cleves, IA
November 25th, 2023
Cam Used : Canon 500D
Lens Used : Canon 18-55mm f3.6-5.6 IS
Editing Used : Dynamic Photo HDR
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Not the correct use of this idiom but this Firecrest did seem to have a bowed head which showed off his fiery crest beautifully. Firecrests have more orange in the crown than Goldcrests, especially females which have an all yellow crown stripe in Goldcrest. Here's a male Goldcrest for comparison (he was singing): www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/49755706231/in/photolist
The amount of orange here makes me think this Firecrest is a male. It is the one that frequented the banks of the River Aire near St Aidans back in February.
Back to my title, which is a misquote of the line "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", from Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2, but used recently by Stormzy. It means that those charged with major responsibility carry a heavy burden that makes it difficult for them to relax. And finally, its scientific name Regulus means "little king" from its crown.
I used to see lots more of these on my local patch but only see occasionally now. I got great views of this beauty as the cold weather bought them very close to the edge of the reed bed.
I have used the analogy when speaking to large groups about how the teen years can be like a leaf floating down a stream and how it's our job as adults to cause gentle ripples in the water to guide their way so that they don't get caught in side eddies, riptides or anything else that would slow down their progress as they journey down their "stream" of life. This capture reminded me of this analogy.
One of the cool things I love about Kauai is that there are so many little roads that you can follow for miles, never seeing another soul, and happen upon little grass knolls and gently rolling streams like this.
On day #5 of our little virtual vacation I hope that you are able to find places in your own life to sit calmly, listen to the gentle waters of your travels and reflect on the journey.
This is the part of the vacation that I hate... knowing that I only have two days left and I'm just starting to relax )-:
Tomorrow it's time for a little "tubular dude!!!" Don't guess... you'll be wrong (-:
I could not use many 15-minute exposure frames due to malfunction of my equipment at the first night in this period.
equipmnent: Takahashi FSQ-130ED and Canon EOS 5Dmk3-sp4, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma 2Z-BL, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 3 times x 15 minutes, 4 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 3,200 and f/5.0
site: 2,430m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 South and long. 70 16 11 West near Cerro Armazones Chile
Mount Wellington is about 1271m over the city of Hobart in Tassie. This place was super windy when i was there & i honestly feel that if i'm just a few kg lighter, i most probably would get blown away easily :P Very fortunate to get a fanastic cloud formation on that day too ... well it did what it supposed to do :) .... a big storm came later during the NYE celebration!
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The Lookout Building at Mount Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) in RAW taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'levels' to lighten the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues) to adjust the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens) to tone down the vegetations
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (cyans) to enhance the glass building
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to tone down the rocks
- Applied a slight amount of 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
Music
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Taken using : Nikon D700 + Nikon 16-35mm f4 + Schneider 10 stops ND filter.
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I thought this shot could look like something else going on a few decades ago. The Illinois Railway Museum diesel crew was using CNW F7 411 as Museum switcher on Sunday 3/12/23. Among the switch moves was to pull out GTW RS1 1951. This veteran ALCO hasn’t been outside in some time.
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This morning I was checking out a new location in the southern pond and I was able to get down the steep embankment and position myself almost right at the water's edge. As I sat and waited for the birds to return which I had disturbed when I first settled in, this little Wilson's Snipe poked its head out from among the bull rushes about 20 feet away. It started methodically foraging and working its way toward where I was.
I kept perfectly still and used my quiet shutter release mode and it never noticed me over the course of about 10 minutes. It eventually got so close to me that I was not able to focus my zoom lens even at the shortest focal length. At one point it looked like it was going to hop right into my open camera bag! What a wonderful gift this was to start my day!
Image used for the former New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register - now Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga List
List Number: 7664
Construction date: 1905
The site of today’s Victoria Park Markets was once the central refuse collection area for Auckland City. Disposal of refuse was a pungent city issue throughout the latter part of the 19th century. In the 1870s collection was contracted out and dumping occurred ‘out of the sight and smell of citizens’. In the 1890s however, citizens were required to dispose of their own rubbish and vacant allotments became convenient, informal tips. Fear of the bubonic plague in 1900 prompted the council to consider a municipal refuse destruction plant and in 1904 a tender of £16,840 was accepted from J Barre Johnston Ltd of Sydney for the construction of a Meldrum destructor, completed in 1905.
The complex of polychromatic brick construction included the council’s Works’ Depot, blacksmith’s and carpenter’s shops, stables and a 38m high chimney. Alfred Wrigg (City Engineer from 1899 to 1906) probably supervised construction. He was also responsible for supervising the Auckland electric trams and for paving Queen Street with asphalt.
The capacity of the destructor was increased during the 1920s and 1930s, but by 1960, as controlled dumping grew in popularity, it was disposing of a mere 10% of the city’s rubbish. The plant was closed in 1972 and it was subsequently converted into the Victoria Park Markets.
As Auckland grew, so did its requirement for electricity. The council was vested with the public supply of electricity by the Auckland City Electric Lighting Act 1900 and an Australian engineer, W T G Goodman, was employed to report on the feasibility of using the destructor to generate electricity in 1906. His proposals were accepted, although he criticised the council for failing to incorporate a generating plant in the original design, despite a series of earlier reports endorsing the potential of electricity.
The electrical contract was won by Turnbull & Jones for £11,808. The cost subsequently escalated with revisions in potential demand and the provision of additional boilers and new feeders. In 1908, electricity was provided to the first 12 customers. Within four months demand exceeded supply and coal was used to supplement the burning of rubbish. It was replaced in 1913 by the Kings Wharf coal fired power station, again built by the council.
Information sourced from the excellent booklet, "Heritage Walks - The Engineering Heritage of Auckland" produced by Tourism Auckland.
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Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 6X6
Camara Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Kodak BW400CN (exp. 2007)
Exposure: 20sec.
Pinhole-16 (6X6)
Pinhole .3mm
F.L. 37mm
F:123
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Lightroom 3
This image is a sunset over a pond. This is my attempt at using an option on my Nikon called "multiple exposures". Other info: ISO set at 100, program mode using f/5 with exp.bias
of -1.3.
The mulitple exposure menu accommodates 2 or 3 exposures per image. The idea was to smooth out the water using this method. There was a slight breeze disturbing the surface. This process got the results I was hoping for, but I'm sure there are numerous ways to achieve the same result.
The image is approx. 70% orig. and 30% PS enhanced for lighting, hue and saturation.
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I have a new series of photos that I been working, well trying to work on... finally this days I've been away it did help me to finish with this one... I use no softboxes this time, no artificial lightning at all, well I mean non electrical surge I guess... hehe ...
All it was used, was a small candle laying down on the hardwood floor of my house, which I did remove later on.
Are you still wondering on how do I look?... well here I am ^.^... Ha-ha!
Work still keeping me busy, and I am trying to rest from flickr for a few more days, so hopefully I'll be back soon.
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I used to spend hours after hours, looking for these tiny fossils. They can be found in gravel piles, used for concrete. I still can`t help myself. When I see a pile, I have to check for these little beauties.
Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera (6X9)
Estenopeica, hecha en casa.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Arista Edu 100
Exposure: 8 sec.
Pinhole-24 (6X9)
Pinhole .3mm
F.L. 50mm
F:166
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2