Welcome to Picture of the Week (POTW) for the period 4 - 17 January 2018. I’m pleased to be again hosting this wonderful and diverse thread, and all are invited to contribute.
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Blue Faced Honeyeaters are seasonal migrants here, and their arrival often coincides with the flowering of the tree down by the side of the house (Melicope elleryana). The male has the showy blue cheeks, the female and juvenile have the same olive green seen on their wings, back and tail. I took these photos using a Takumar Bayonet 135mm f2.8 @ f5.6 with a Kenko KAX 2x teleconverter. These pics have had minimal processing.
Some of the older lenses I’ve collected give colors that can range from vivid to lurid, especially wide open. The Marigold close up was taken with a Promura preset 35mm f3.5 at about f4 or f4.5 with a 20mm extension tube and CPl (to minimize reflections of the water droplets). While the distortion in the photo was planned wide open it just went wild. I actually desaturated this image to get more natural color. Even desaturation didn’t help with the marigold behind the dandelion, so I left it much as it was taken, just sharpening a bit for downsizing. It was taken with a Tokunon preset 135mm f3.2 at about f5.6 and an 11mm extension tube.
The gardenia bloom was opening just after a heavy shower, and as it looked so white and crisp against the retaining wall and foliage behind it I thought I’d try it as a black and white. It was taken using an Industar 61 50mm f2.8 (another preset) at about f8 or 11, and processed in the black and white module of Topaz studio.