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Always knew my collection of wine corks would come in useful.
Shot using Zuiko 50mm lens with Makinkon x 2 converter.
So I called up the Captain,
“Please bring me my wine”
He said, “We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969”...
“Hotel California" - Eagles
The rarely seen White Cork snake (albus ebrietas anguis) is mostly harmless. A single strike will give the victim a sense of calm. However, multiple strikes can lead the victim into having poor judgement, which in itself can lead to negative effects (e.g., foolish behavior in front of friends, unwanted tattoos, waking up somewhere strange, etc.).
Composed and shot for Looking Close… on Friday!, In a Row
fun to pick up a few things around the house to create a story, there is a story in this Im sure just waiting for a viewer's brain to kick in.
You know the story wine, roses, and song and there is a kiss somewhere in there.
Oh, kiss me, beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon's sparkling
So kiss me
Not so easy when you live in the desert and there's no sea.
Also #4/125 A fragment of imagination:125 pictures in 2025
A Sminthurides aquaticus walking across a piece of wet winecork.
A photo without flash merged with a photo with use of flash and f/4 for the springtail details.
...other than I can I save our wine corks. I'm hoping one day I'll think of a reason for this collection :)
We spent a day launching rockets in a big farm field near Helm in the Central Valley of California. Hundreds of high power rockets were launched in daytime. I did a single launch, a rocket made out of wine corks, which is always a crowd-pleaser. I forgot my hat, so I used a rocket parachute to protect my head from the sun.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a JPG exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/7.1, 55 mm, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 JPG exposure, _DSC0922_hdrj1bal1pho1b.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2023 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
They are on duckweed that grows on a winecork in my little pond.
Without the extra 2 detailphotos ! :-)
It took a lot of *hic* dedication to get this *hic* shot... HA!!!
Seriously..NOT! This particular vineyard was cleaning out their "recycle cork" barrel and I just happened to be around before the employee took all of the corks out.
Cork - Our Daily Challenge - And what a delightful challenge it is!
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"Practice makes perfect"
How many times did you hear that while growing up? I still adhere to that motto today, though I find to tough to get outside and shoot any pics when when the temps are this cold in part because I have been working outside for 33+ years for my day job and my old bones need a break on the weekends. Also because I am uninspired creatively with the winter being so dreary.
So.. to keep myself sharp I do an exercise I learned while taking one of my college photography courses, and that is to shoot inside of the classroom and come up with 10 images. Instead of the classroom I use my house.
I also have certain criteria for this exercise which includes: each image must have a certain level of artistry & each image must inspire and be "wall or show worthy".
I find this exercise to be motivating and challenging as it teaches me to look "outside my box" and in doing so I take what I learn out into the field and hopefully I grow as an artist for doing so.
Wine meets photography - still life with the inspiring cork of a Virginie de Valandraud, Saint-Emilion / Bordeaux
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Sony FE 70-200 F4 G OSS Macro II
The cork at this angle is 1.75" W, image is 2.15" W.
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The sole remnants of five delicious bottles of wine drunk over the last month.
We're Here looks at Five today.
I took this shot with the fastest lens I have in my vintage lens collection, an ultrafast f/0.7 X-ray lens, the Canon Lens X 60mm f/0.7. This lens was used in X-ray machines before the digital area. It is a tank, weighting 2.7 kg. The front diameter is 101 mm, back 55 mm. The flange focal distance is less than 10 mm, e.g. too short for Sony E-mount, which is 18 mm.
I simply used tape to attach the camera to the lens. This temporary solution works great, and is surprisingly sturdy. With this setup the focus distance is about 19.5 cm. So this lens has a fixed focus distance, can't focus to infinity, and is always fully open. The depth of field is around 2 mm, which makes it very hard to focus. This lens is so fast, I used ISO 100 and 1/350 sec for this shot.
See short video clip that demos the shallow depth of field, and photos of the lens at the X-Ray Lenses group on Facebook: bit.ly/3IaFZUh
This lens is as fast as the legendary Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7, which was made for NASA, and was used by Stanley Kubrick to shoot his film Barry Lyndon: bit.ly/2LpV0WY
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/0.7, 60 mm, 1/350 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Canon Lens X 60mm f/0.7, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC8198_hdr1bal1pho1b.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
The year is coming to an end, time to chill the Champagne!
I took this shot with the fastest lens I have in my vintage lens collection, an ultrafast f/0.7 X-ray lens, the Canon Lens X 60mm f/0.7. This lens was used in X-ray machines before the digital area. It is a tank, weighting 2.7 kg. The front diameter is 101 mm, back 55 mm. The flange focal distance is less than 10 mm, e.g. too short for Sony E-mount, which is 18 mm.
I simply used tape to attach the camera to the lens. This temporary solution works great, and is surprisingly sturdy. With this setup the focus distance is about 19.5 cm. So this lens has a fixed focus distance, can't focus to infinity, and is always fully open. The depth of field is around 2 mm, which makes it very hard to focus. This lens is so fast, I used ISO 200 and 1/125 sec for this candle shot. The Christmas tree is about 1 m (3 feet) behind the candle. Each light on the tree turns into a big bokeh bubble, bigger than the sensor, which is full frame.
See short video clip that demos the shallow depth of field, and photos of the lens at the X-Ray Lenses group on Facebook: bit.ly/3IaFZUh
This lens is as fast as the legendary Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7, which was made for NASA, and was used by Stanley Kubrick to shoot his film Barry Lyndon: bit.ly/2LpV0WY
I processed a balanced and a soft HDR photo from two RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/0.7, 60 mm, 1/200 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon Lens X 60mm f/0.7, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC2851_2_hdr1bal1sof2h.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year; I hope your 2021 has treated you well with many beautiful memories and 2022 continues to bring happiness and bliss.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
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Old vintage glass crowded by three corks.
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We love wine. We collected the corks. In a bag. For years. We did not know what to do with them. Got it! A rocket!
We built a rocket out of cork. The structural elements are all cork, the fins are plywood. We mounted the fins with some slant so that the rocket would cork-screw on the way up.
On its maiden flight we tested the rocket on a G motor that produces about 64 N (6.5 kg equiv.) average thrust. The parachute was stuck, and the rocket came down ballistic. The grassy ground and rocket are compressible, so the rocket bounced back about ten feet into the air. We fixed the parachute problem. Since then the rocket has been flying many times - the corkscrew motion on the way up is always a crowd-pleaser.
One time the rocket came down ballistic and broke into two pieces. Now we fixed it - she is now ready for the next flight. This weekend's rocket event at the Show Ranch is cancelled due to rain forecast. We will launch it again possibly a week later.
I took three RAW exposures at f/1.8, with the rocket lying on our dining table. This produced the bokeh and shallow depth of field. I processed the two exposures into a balanced HDR photo.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 exposures, NEX-6, _DSC0314_5_6_hdr3bal1c
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Oops... I forgot to set my alarm last night. Probably because I was too busy drinking wine to take the edge off the road rash. As I'm already running late, I decided just to relax and get my SP out of the way today and be really late.
Besides, I've been working too much anyway. (And I'm management, so I don't really "punch a clock".)
Another SOOC (straight out of camera shot) with digital macro setting.