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The visually spectacular red-crested cardinal is hard to miss. Also called the Brazilian cardinal, this South American species was introduced to Hawaii in the 1930s. Despite the resemblance and common name, the red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronate) is not taxonomically classified as a cardinal.
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Like other bee-eaters, this species is a richly coloured, slender bird. It is about 9 inches (16–18 cm) long with about 2 inches made up by the elongated central tail-feathers. The sexes are not visually distinguishable. The entire plumage is bright green and tinged with blue especially on the chin and throat. The crown and upper back are tinged with golden rufous. The flight feathers are rufous washed with green and tipped with blackish. A fine black line runs in front of and behind the eye. The iris is crimson and the bill is black while the legs are dark grey. The feet are weak with the three toes joined at the base. Southeast Asian birds have rufous crown and face, and green underparts, whereas Arabian beludschicus has a green crown, blue face and bluish underparts. The wings are green and the beak is black. The elongated tail feathers are absent in juveniles. Sexes are alike.
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Siempre he creído que en el mundo de la fotografía uno no para de aprender cosas. Sin duda esto pasa en todas las actividades creativas, y en todas se van produciendo procesos de avance y de estancamiento.
Viendo foros y webs uno cada vez ve más fotos técnicamente correctas pero cada vez ve menos fotos que transmitan.
Creo que, en ocasiones, todos nos dejamos llevar por esa búsqueda de la perfección técnica olvidándonos de lo que realmente se trata, de transmitir, de comunicar.
Creo que llegado ese punto sería interesante ser más crítico con nosotros mismos y examinar de forma más profunda nuestras propias imágenes.
Está claro que una buena fotografía tiene muchos posibles ingredientes. En ocasiones con uno solo, por su fuerza o intensidad será suficiente, en otras se irán sumando una serie de factores.
A continuación enumero algunos de ellos, aunque como todo siempre será algo subjetivo y personal.
. Resulta satisfactoria: Más allá de que tenga algún fallo técnico cumple las expectativas del espectador.
. Estimula y provoca. Si no capta el interés del que está viendo la foto puede ser correcta pero nada más.
. Está compuesta por varias capas. Una imagen que funciona a más de un nivel funciona mejor. Como espectadores nos gusta descubrir.
. Encaja en un contexto cultural. La fotografía enlaza con la experiencia visual del individuo.
. Contiene una idea. Una imagen necesita atraer la imaginación del espectador, y no tan solo su atención visual.
. Misterio. Una imagen demasiado obvia a menudo no resulta muy interesante. Si conseguimos que el espectador se haga preguntas sobre ella conseguiremos retener su atención.
Como veis muchas de estas ideas se entrelazan entre sí, aunque con matices. No se trata de obsesionarse con ellas cada vez que tengamos la cámara en nuestras manos, pero sí pueden ayudarnos cuando queremos buscar algo un poquito más allá de la típica foto-postal.
I have always believed that you never cease to learn things in this world of photography. This happens in any creative activity, and there are always moments of great progress and others moments when you stall.
Viewing web forums and websites once sees increasingly technically expert photography that at the same time transmits less and less.
I believe that sometimes we are swept away by the desire to produce technically perfect photographs and forget what this is really about, to transmit and communicate.
I think that at this point it would be interesting to be more self-critical and to examine our own photographs.
It’s clear that a good photograph has many possible ingredients. Sometimes only one intense or powerful ingredient is necessary, other times several factors need to be added.
Below are a list of ingredients, although as always it’s a subjective and personal question.
. It’s a pleasing photograph: Despite technical faults it’s pleasing to the eye.
. It stimulates and provokes. If the photograph doesn’t draw the viewers’ attention, it will never be anything but technically correct.
. It’s composed on several layers. A many layered image always works best. Viewers like to discover things in the image.
. It fits culturally speaking. The photography is tied to the individual’s visual experience.
. It contains a concept or idea. The image should feed the viewers’ imaginations, not just attract their attention visually.
. Mystery An obvious image is not always very interesting. If we get viewers to wonder about the image we have caught their attention.
As you can see many of these ideas are linked. You shouldn’t follow them dogmatically each time you’re taking pictures, but they should help to take pictures that go beyond your topical postcards.
This image shows two cataloged nebulae, NGC 7000 known as the North America Nebula, and IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula (lower right). I photographed them in October 2025, but haven’t shared them on Flickr before.
NGC 7000 (also cataloged as C 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The shape gives it its name. William Herschel discovered the nebula on October 24, 1786, but it was a pioneering German astrophotographer who first noticed the shape in 1890, and gave it the nickname we now use.
The nebula lies 2,590 light years away, and stretches 140 light years across, and 90 light years north to south.
IC 5070 is associated with the North America Nebula, separated visually by a foreground molecular cloud filled with dark dust. Both IC 5070 and NGC 7000 are part of the larger ionized hydrogen region known as Westerhout 40, and like NGC 7000 lies 2,590 light years away from Easrth.
Imaged on 10/18/2025
432 x 10s subexposures
gain 20 dB
dual narrowband filter
post processed in Siril and Lightroom
March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"The Washington population of the Black Oystercatcher is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. This number is probably not significantly different from the historical population, as these birds require fairly specialized habitat, which is not evenly distributed. Oystercatchers are highly vulnerable to human disturbance, oil spills, and pollution of the intertidal zone. Numbers of Black Oystercatchers on the outer coast may be higher than in the past, in part due to decreased human disturbance resulting from lighthouse automation. Numbers in inland areas, however, have declined in response to increased human activity. The Northern Pacific Coast Regional Shorebird Management Plan has identified the Black Oystercatcher as a regional species of high concern."
"The Black Oystercatcher is restricted in its range, never straying far from shores, in particular favoring rocky shorelines. It has been suggested that this bird is seen mostly on coastal stretches which have some quieter embayments, such as jetty protected areas. It forages in the intertidal zone, feeding on marine invertebrates, particularly molluscs such as mussels, limpets and chitons. It will also take crabs, isopods and barnacles. It hunts through the intertidal area, searching for food visually, often so close to the water's edge it has to fly up to avoid crashing surf. It uses its strong bill to dislodge food and pry shells open."
Looking towards Meltham and the moors with Wesenden head road winding it’s way Ito the Peak District National Park.
Taken from a footpath in the nearby village of Netherton.
Visually seen and captured at 4:02 AM. Milky Way above the meteor. Mars is to the left of the Saguaro cactus and Saturn and Jupiter to the right of the cactus, all three planets in a straight line.
The meteor last 1-2 seconds and moved very fast. This is a 10 second exposure so the meteor is photographically less bright in appearance than the visual observation.
A Dark Beauty from the Southern Sky
This deep image captures the stunning dark nebulae and reflection clouds of the Corona Australis molecular complex, one of the nearest and most visually striking star-forming regions in the sky. Located roughly 420 light-years away, this region is a dramatic mix of dark dust filaments, blue reflection nebulae, and scattered young stars.
Prominently featured is NGC 6729, a blue reflection/emission nebula surrounding young variable stars R CrA and T CrA, which are still in the early stages of stellar evolution. The intricate brownish dust lanes weaving across the frame obscure background starlight and trace the structure of cold molecular gas, a raw material for future star formation. Nearby lies the globular cluster NGC 6723, providing a striking contrast to the dusty clouds.
The Corona Australis molecular cloud complex lies only ~420 light-years away, making it one of the nearest regions of low-mass star formation. NGC 6729, near R CrA, is home to several Herbig-Haro objects (HH 96, HH 97, HH 100, etc.), an energetic jets and outflows from newborn stars colliding with surrounding gas and dust. These shocks are key indicators of ongoing accretion and stellar birth.
NGC 6723 is a globular cluster consisting of tens of thousands of ancient stars gravitationally bound in a spherical halo. It likely formed during the earliest stages of the Milky Way’s assembly, making it more than 30 times older than the young stars in the Corona Australis cloud just a few degrees away on the sky.
Although the cluster visually appears embedded in the same dusty field, NGC 6723 lies much farther in the background, behind the Corona Australis dark cloud, it lies ~28,400 light-years aways.
Captured remotely from the southern skies using Martin Pugh’s observatory in Australia. Fully remote operation via N.I.N.A., managed as part of our SkyFlux Team rental.
This project reflects the power of remote astrophotography, planned, executed, and processed from thousands of kilometers away. The depth and detail of this image were made possible by combining meticulous planning with access to a dark southern site and using advanced PixInsight workflow.
4-panel mosaic
Each panel: 120x300s (10 Hours)
Equipment: SharpStar AP140PH, 10Micro HPS1000, ASI 6200 OSC
Control & Acquisition: Remote operation via N.I.N.A. (SkyFlux Team)
Entirely processed in PixInsight.
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
2.2 hours integration on this little critter. It's very hard to see in a 10-inch SCT even at a semi-fast f/6.3 optical system. Visually, it's a faint hazy ball of light.
Captured with the following specifications:
Meade 10-inch LX200
f/6.3 optics @1600mm.
Nikon D5100 Unmodified
ISO1600
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing done in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Two visually impaired students immerse themselves in a game of tactile chess, fingers feeling every piece and square. Their smiles reflect joy, intelligence, and determination beyond sight, proving that play and strategy have no boundaries.
Visually appealing trees, like anemic broccoli. They speak to me, although I can't tell what they're saying.
A visually stunning drive along the Shaniko-Fossil Hwy near Antelope, Oregon. As you make your way over the mountainside, going east from Antelope to Clarno, you get your first view of the John Day Fossil Beds. A preview of what is to come.
I'm always looking for interesting things on my daily walks to capture for my Picture-of-the-Day for the 365 Group, and these sidewalk bumps, also known as "warning pavers" that are meant to assist visually impaired people really caught my eye.
These are 2 different pavers that are about a block apart and they're identical in every way, except one seems to be slightly more worn. However, the one on the left clearly looks like raised bumps, whereas the one of the right looks like depressions. It's a trick of the eye due to the angle of the sun and shadows!
See how easily amused I am....
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
► █░▓ ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ MILK POWDER FACTORY here visually partly blocked by the inland cruiser 'Viking Magni'. This passenger ship, ferry and cruise ship is sailing under the flag of Switzerland and is now in Germany, under way to Budapest. Her draught is 1,7 m. I noticed few passengers here, in spite of a warm day.
Most ships here use the other side (closer to me) when going upstream, but my hunch is that she's going to pick up her passengers in Arkelstad harbour and therefore getting ready on that side of the river. This stretch of the northern shore which she'a here blocking belongs to "Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods" (Nestlé) milk powder factory, with many a container ready for shipping. I would love to see it so close by from the river. Here it looks as if the factory stands on the upper deck of the cruiser.
The passengers on this cruiser belong to the generation that hardly knew about the milk powder. Now at the turn of XXI's century second quarter it has become a real quest to find a product without it in grocery stores. I do my best.
Lumix G90 / Lumix 12-35 mm f/2.8. —At 26mm (52mm full frame equivalent) and f/4.0 aperture priority. Shutter speed of 1/1300 sec. This is a sooc jpeg edited in Apple Photos 10.0, uncropped (4×3 format) and exported as 16-bit tiff. 'Green Gap' Smooth filter (~10%) in Flickr's online photo editor
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It is not a particularly visually interesting image today but I had around an hour until midnight to do something before the pumpkin turned back into a coach... wait, no, it is the other way around. Or is it? How do you know that when all the coaches turn to pumpkins the pumpkins do not also turn into coaches?
No, my real reason for not having anything overly creative is that I am still trying to catch up on lectures whilst trying to wrap my head around the fact that in something like nine weeks I have to have finished all of my assignments and trying to keep that straight in my head and not panicking whilst remembering that whilst everybody else in my class was celebrating for making it through three weeks of university today, I was celebrating making it through one.
I have been very bad at remembering and researching facts recently, so I apologise for that.
Did you know that according to a survey completed by the American Pie Council (I wonder how many Don McLean impressions people do around them) apple pie is America's go-to pie, with 19% of American's saying that it is their favourite? Pumpkin pie comes in second (13%).
A visually dim auroral arc across the northern sky, with the Milky Way at left in the northwestern sky, from Churchill, Manitoba, on February 14, 2018. Polaris is at top, left of centre. This illustrates the classic auroral oval across the north, centred due north at this longitude, below Polaris. ..This is a single exposure with the Sigma 14mm lens at f/1.8.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
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Still life composition...the actual setting things up to be visually appealing... is certainly not my forte. Anyone know a book or some tricks to help improve my
weakness?
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into very young, developing stars, called protostars, which are still surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. The protostars forming in RCW 7 are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionizing radiation and fierce stellar winds that transformed the nebula into a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, while H II is hydrogen that lost its electron making it an ion. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen in the nebula, causing it to emit light that gives this nebula its soft pinkish glow.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chal
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how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some props...
A bit more info here:
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.
A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), feutre (in FRANCE),is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.
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Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
A visually stunning, futuristic mall with huge potential, featuring unique attractions like an indoor tram, and a large ice rink.
Some pics for my Wardrobe post!
I really had a lot of fun putting this looks together. I really find the outfit, the makeup, and the hair to all be super beautiful on their own. Mixing them together makes me feel so sexy!
Full credits and more Wardrobe info at post: digitalregeneration.com/visually-organize-your-second-lif...
Visually similar to Yellow-bellied Sapsucker of the East, this woodpecker was long considered a subspecies thereof and split only in 1998. Strawberry Butte.
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
A rather visually confusing photo of the inverted pyramid at the Louvre.
I've visited the Louvre many times over the past 30 years but this was my first visit since purchasing my 8mm Samyang fisheye lens. I enjoyed the creative options the new lens gave me and I think it's helped capture the vast scale of the I.M.Pei designed glass pyramid.
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From Wikipedia : "By 1874, the Louvre Palace had achieved its present form of an almost rectangular structure with the Sully Wing to the east containing the Cour Carrée (Square Court) and the oldest parts of the Louvre; and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon, the Richelieu Wing to the north and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.
In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of his Grands Projets, the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building. Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon. The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988 and the Louvre Pyramid was completed in 1989. The second phase of the Grand Louvre plan, La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid), was completed in 1993. As of 2002, attendance had doubled since completion."
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Marsh tit (Poecile palustris).
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Visually impaired. Monocular vision.
Animal in wildlife.
This image is probably one of the most personal, and visually meaningful, images I've ever posted.
A perfect storm of stress, depression, illness and a severe lack of sleep over a period of several weeks culminated in putting my head into one of the scariest places it's ever been in, and appropriately enough whilst on a 3 day holiday sabbatical in the mountains of Snowdonia last week. They were 3 days I hope I never have to experience the like of which again. The sense of isolation, of disjointedness from the world around me, of not even being sure who I was anymore was emotionally and mentally excruciating. The nights were the worst, unable to sleep I experienced the full depth of myself while at the same time feeling so terrifyingly distant from everything in existence. Identity and reality fractured, insanity beckoned…
Strangely enough, as much as it scared me, it was finding my depth that was my saviour, that and the love of a woman who reached down into my personal hell, gently pulled me out and helped me see the light again, inner and outer. If she hadn't been there to listen to my ramblings, my fears, and to comfort me in the darkest moments, I dread to think what the consequences for my mental health would have been.
I've thought long and hard about revealing such a personal experience here on flickr, but ultimately I'm willingly to do so if it helps just one person going through something similar to take a risk and reach out and talk to someone they trust implicitly, and maybe you who read this with a sound mind could extend a hand to someone who you know is going through their own personal hell and be the spar they cling onto in their storm tossed ocean, and slowly but surely carry them back to the safety of the shore. Don't worry, you don't have to come up with answers to their issues, it's enough to lend an ear to their fears. I tried to deal it with by myself but badly crashed and burned. I kept quiet because of pride, fear and the belief that no one could help me. They can. Find that person you trust, and talk, talk like there's no tomorrow, don't leave it until you're hanging on by your fingernails like I did.
Waiting for an eclipse.
One of the most popular and visually rewarding megalithic sites in Wales, Pentre Ifan is a splendid dolmen with a huge capstone delicately poised on three uprights. Once known as Arthurs' Quoit, 'Pentre Ifan' means 'Ivan's Village'.
Description -This monument dates from around 4,000 - 3,500 BC and was unusually oriented opening to the south, standing on the slope of a ridge commanding extensive views over the Nevern Valley and Fishguard Bay. What we see today is but a fragment of the original structure,
The capstone weighs over 16 tons; it is 5m (16ft 6in) long and 2.4m (8ft) off the ground. The stones of the chamber are all of local igneous rock; on the portal stone there is a faint decorative cup-mark.
Excavations in 1936-7 and 1958-9 showed that the dolmen originally lay within a shallow oval pit, and that the trapezoidal mound of earth covering it was up to 36m (120ft) long. The semi-circular façade, as in the Irish passage mounds/court-tombs, was marked by two upright stones on either side of the south-facing portal. The forecourt was blocked with rows of tightly wedged stones; some of the original kerbstones around the barrow can still be seen. Within the cairn were a number of enigmatic features: a slumped stone, deliberately felled before the cairn was built, an irregular line of small stone-holes and a pit with signs of burning.
I think that I can safely say that this makes up for the lack of clag in the earlier image that I took of this charter train. Whatever it is burning, is certainly visually impressive and laying a smoke screen across the Denton Holme district of the city. The victorian gas holder cast iron framework was part of the composition , just discernible but almost consumed by the smoke, but at least Dixon's chimney is still prominent. At over 100 metres high, it was the largest chimney in the country when built in 1836. Damage by lightning in 1931 made it necessary to take off the top 10 metres in 1950 for safety reasons and it is now only about 270 feet tall!
Gresley 'A4' Pacific No.60009 'Union of South Africa' makes a volcanic start from Carlisle and crosses the freight lines at Bog Junction in charge of the return 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' to Crewe via Shap. Fortunately this part of the city is not in a smoke control zone! I did curse somewhat when the 'Virgin Voyager' stopped on the bridge awaitng station access, but this image does not pretend to be anything other than contemporary. Another occasion when I was pleased that the sun did not shine, being 'wrong side' for the light, which by this time because of a fast approaching thunderstorm from the west was actually better illuminated on the east side.
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The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
Visually a descendent of the SP1 Striker, but sized more like the Galactic Peacekeeper.
I'm still not totally sure about that cagelike take on the prisoner transport pod, but it mostly works.
And I actually managed semi-retractable undercarriage.
I’ve always enjoyed how waterfalls become transformed with slower shutter speeds, with blurring water showing smooth lines and a visually beautiful appeal that we can’t see with our own eyes. I put these images in the same category of “the unseen world” that most of my work fits into, and the equipment to do this doesn’t need to be extreme!
I was lucky that this small portion of the Krushuna Waterfall in Bulgaria was in shadow, since I wasn’t properly prepared for waterfall photography. I’d normally carry a neutral density filter with me to get this effect more easily, but this was shot with only a Lumix GX9 and the 12-32mm compact kit lens. ISO 200, F/18, and the resulting shutter speed was 1/4th of a second. I normally like to get a little closer to a full second-long exposure, but the water was quite calm and cooperative at longer exposures. I’m scratching my head to figure out why I didn’t shoot at ISO 100 though!
A neutral density filter would block some of the light from entering the lens without me having to resort to such a small aperture. This can be useful for video when you want a wide aperture, but a shutter speed around 1/25 or 1/50 sec to match your framerate. For stills, ND filters allow for you to more effectively blur things like water or clouds without compromising on other camera settings. An aperture of F/18 might begin to introduce diffraction and limit my resolution for an image such as this, but you work with what’s in your bag, and I was traveling light!
Any issues with diffraction would be negated by the fact that this is a three-shot vertical panorama. The increase in resolution by shooting it as a panorama would more than make up for any shortcomings elsewhere. Knowing that a certain amount of post-processing would be required, I sat down with the image for a couple of hours and really fine-tuned the look and feel.
Images like this can feel flat right out of the camera. Spending some time with classic dodge and burn tools in Photoshop can help add a little extra depth and contrast to the image, and the more localized you make the adjustments the better the end results. The water textures were enhanced using the Structure slider in ON1 Photo RAW which I am MUCH preferring to the clarity adjustment in Lightroom / Camera Raw. Subtle details pop without feeling overdone, especially in shadow areas. Dial this structure enhancement over just the areas that need it, and you’re on your way to a better image.
On a tripod at these slower shutter speeds, but the rest of the equipment was as minimal as could be. Just a small travel camera and one of the least expensive lenses I could pair with it. Even a more expensive lens would not have avoided the time in post-processing to make this image sing, and I’m pretty happy with the results!
I need to go through more of these Bulgaria photos before they fall off my radar and winter subjects grab all my attention! :)
I wanted to travel to Morocco by boat in order to experiment visually the continent change from Europa to Africa. Only on land travelling make the passenger really feel the distance and the cultural evolution all along the way. Since I had previously visited Sevilla, Malaga was for me an obvious starting point for a short Morocco trip. Then I would go to gibraltar, Tarifa and take the boat for Tangier, my first Morocco city. The trip lasted 3 weeks until I reach south of Atlas Mountain Range, just before the desert.
The conclusion of my travel is that I could not recognize any Moroccan people anymore since I could realize that from north to south, and depending of the mountain side landscape, geography and people are totally different.
The most visually powerful element of the building is its successful circular viewing point, which is located on the corner, in the narrow angle formed by the confluence of the two streets; a four-storey cylindrical body with a spectacular gallery of arches on a curved portico on the second body, inspired by ancient Arab minarets, and crowned with a striking dome of polychrome glazed tiles recovered from the original, previously replaced by a crenellated body. In addition to the success of this composition, the careful chromatic study is noteworthy, based on the combination of red brick panels with other smooth ones in cream colour; the sections covered with polychrome ceramic, and the white stripes with reliefs of vases and grotesques .
Designed by the architect José Espiau y Muñoz in 1914 for La Adriática insurance company, it is a beautiful example of eclectic architecture, combining elements of Islamic origin with others of Plateresque style and others clearly regionalist. The building which opened in 1922, was built at the height of the construction boom in the city of Seville on the occasion of the opening and widening of Avenida de la Constitución in preparation for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.
The visually-stunning James B. Hunt Jr. library on the campus of North Carolina State University, my grad-school alma mater
On the last day that I was able to get over to Ruth Bancroft Garden, I was visually bowled over by a six foot spike of thousands of yellow flowers coming up for a four foot trunk. It was very much like it wasn't there on one day, and then burst into this array the next.
View Large: The tiny flowers have very distinct six petals, and since there are no sun birds in this part of the world are pollinated by hummingbirds. (My guess is that a full 25% of the succulents at RBG are "serviced" by hummingbirds: those with flowers that hang over (see Echeveria) are almost exclusively fed on by hummers whereas stalks such as this are both hummer and bee favorites. In August there are so many flowers visited by bees that some of the flowers can't really be seen. Then, the trick is to isolate both the tony flower and a bee that isn't so big as to obscure the blossom. (I didn't succeed very often, but at least now I have targets for next summer.)
This is Xanthorrhoea johnsonii (also known as Johnson's Grass Tree) is a large plant found in eastern Australia.The trunk can grow to 15 feet tall. Older foliage is very strong, hence one of the common names being "steel grass", and is commonly used in floral design where it can be bent and looped without breaking. Odd that there's no mention of this unique Banksea-like flower spike. However, the spikes of Banksea flowers are perhaps 10 inches tall and eight inches around. This Johnson's Grass flower stalk was 10 feet and had started flowering from the bottom.
There are quite a few succulents that blossom this way, and some - like the century plants - completely die after they bloom. They do not set seed and the bloom is a last hurrah.
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These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some tools...
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Angkor Wat is visually, architecturally and artistically breathtaking. It is a massive three-tiered pyramid crowned by five lotus-like towers rising 65 meters from ground level. Angkor Wat is the centerpiece of any visit to the temples of Angkor.
Baddesley Clinton is a remarkable survivor of a medieval moated manor house and was home to the Ferrers family for 500 years. At one time an artists' retreat, at another a haven for the persecuted, the house nevertheless passed from father to son for 12 generations before finally being sold in 1940.
The gatehouse entrance makes Baddesley one of the most visually pleasing architectural ensembles in England, with its combination of bridge, moat and crenelated gatehouse and with its stonework and windows of several different periods.
SBZ Unterschleißheim (Sehbehinderten- und Blinden-Zentrum Südbayern)
Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
First let me say, this widefield perspective does ZERO justice to the actual totality seen visually on scene. The actual totally eclipsed Sun dominates the sky - and one's rapt gaze - in a way not evidenced by this puny depiction here. So OK, just so you know that.
I went to Solartown in Madras, OR to catch the eclipse, opting for the "Daytripper" overnight parking, mainly because I hadn't made any other viable plan. And it was, literally, a farm turned into a parking lot with some 6000 vehicles (an estimate I heard) packed together. When you're a landscape photographer, a parking lot is NOT where you want to be shooting. So before heading into Solartown early Sunday morning, I scouted around and found this site adorned with several gnarly trees on a back road amidst otherwise flat and featureless farmland. As for Solartown, I sweated it out all day Sunday and slept there Sunday night but couldn't wait to escape the throngs, which I did before 6 a.m. on eclipse day (after waiting in line behind 25 people to use the porta-potty at 5:30 a.m! Yeah, TMI.).
For this shot, I took an exposure every three minutes with a solar filter on a zoom lens set at 35mm. Then, of course, I took off the filter during totality and shot a couple sets of five different auto-bracketed exposures covering a wide range of shutter speeds, to make sure I got one or more with proper exposure (since it's hard to know the proper exposure for a totally eclipsed Sun in advance). The shot of the totally eclipsed Sun with the foreground was a 2-second exposure. Then I layered in the 25 other Sun shots (1/500th second each) in Photoshop with a quick stacking method. I opted not to do the "other side" of the sequence after totality, because to do that I would have had to use a shorter focal length, maybe 24mm or 28mm, to fit it all in, and the solar disks would have been even tinier.
I'm amazed I even had the presence of mind to work the camera during totality at all. Because when I glanced up and caught the surreal sight of the first diamond ring, it took a team of wild horses, as it were, to tear my gaze away and get to work! What a gorgeous, spine tingling spectacle.
And well worth the nearly 7-hour drive from Madras back to Bend. Which normally takes less than 1 hour.
Visually, this composition reminds me of a magic wand. It's a fitting metaphor, perhaps, because a total eclipse certainly does cast a wondrous spell on all who witness it.