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It must be fun to look up into your tree and watch them.
Good pictures you took of them.
Angky
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04-09-2024, 06:26 PM
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Stopped into a church...
I passed along the way...
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California dreamin...
On such a winter's day...
The tiny little range-land church building was right behind me--no longer used, except as an ecological research plot. Yes, there really was a steepled building with a cross on it right there!
Across the highway was this scene.
I felt sad about the loss of the usefulness of that church.
Yet I had a feeling of getting down on my knees to pray in front of this scene. (Not to worship the mountain & clouds, but in awe of who put them there.)
While i stood there shooting these shots, right at dusk, the sky suddenly flashed brilliantly. Not long afterward, came the heavy rain and sleet.
I drove on home in the very wet, dark, rainy night.
Angky
[/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2pJezDz]_IMG4726_StandingAt8000Ft_LongValleyChch_20240403[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/194322828@N02/]Angky MacLeod[/url], on Flickr" target="_blank"> _IMG4726_StandingAt8000Ft_LongValleyChch_20240403 by Angky MacLeod, on Flickr |
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04-08-2024, 02:32 PM
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Here are a couple of snapshots (highly cropped) of some of the yellow flowers nearby the tall yellow pyramid mountain that I posted a couple of days ago.
One shot shows a bit of what might be called soil mixed into the rocky gravel, the other shot from a higher place looks like nothing other than weathered gravel.
I should have taken some good detailed macro shots, but I just snapped these quickly with the 77mm LTD that was on camera.
A bit curious to me how this "soil" can grow such flowers in such devastatingly harsh conditions.
Not "curious" actually, but totally astonishing to me!!!!
Winters are very cold and mostly dry.
Summers are hot with totally dry air.
These blooms "out-astonish" my too-brief background in botany, geology, and meteorology; they should not be alive and growing here!!! :confused:
I have to wonder if the moon-landing astronauts overlooked such yellow blooms on the yellow moon... It's conditions couldn't be much worse!
Not only so, but they are absolutely beautiful--only thing that could match them is my wife! :o (ooops!)
The 77mm did a good job in spite of how inconsiderately I used it, hand-held, stopped down too much, and held too far away.
Anybody know anything about these impossible blooms? What they are? How they can be here?
Angky
 _IMG4627_YellowBloomsOnDesertMountain_20240403 by Angky MacLeod, on Flickr
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04-08-2024, 03:05 PM
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Very great captures.
I cannot ever get a good butterfly shot--they always move away when I try to aim a lens at them.
Really pretty blue colors.
Angky
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04-08-2024, 03:03 PM
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I can see the blue of iridescence coming from the feathers in the top shot.
It's not a color in the feather but a light refraction of some sort.
Interesting!
As Julie says, they are mean obnoxious bullies, as are all jays (corvids), but they do make pretty blue items in the environment.
Angky
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04-08-2024, 02:51 PM
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Beautiful color presentation that camera gives you.
Angky
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04-06-2024, 03:04 PM
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Another desert discovery!
I was driving along, and this scene appeared.
A photography note--
I have recently acquired a "new" (used) 12-24 lens. Have found a lot of interesting things with it, this being one of them.
But a great learning project came as I tried it out on the FF K1 instead of the APSC K70 where it belongs.
I got the image okay pretty fine at about 15mm without any dark vignetting.
But the distortion gets pretty advanced at the edges (yeah, expected that).
The drastic variation in lighting--extremely wide dynamic range--caused a very dark blue sky with nearly blown out whites in the foreground. A good bit of study and practice in PP skills to get it right.
Another surprising result was the "negative" vignetting that came from my settings in my PP program (Affinity). I had to turn off the lens vignetting correction to get full color to the edges. Then I still had to do just a bit of correction for luminance at the edges. The luminance within the APSC borders was fine, but it dropped off outside of that. Thinking about that, I think I understand how it happens where the light rays have to spread out more "thinly" at the edges. But I'm not sure about that--maybe i'm thinking about that backward, because on film it would be darker on the edges.
It was a very interesting photography exercise. If it appeals to anybody to interact on either the image, or my musings (above), feel welcomed to offer your perspective.
Enjoy the picture, if it appeals.
PS: For perspective's sake, this bluff-line of rocks was a few hundred yards long from the point where I was standing to take the shot.
My PP corrections were done to make the image as close to what I saw as possible--a slight increase in contrast, a bit of sharpening, with brightening and noise reduction in the sky.
Angky
[/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2pHE4PM]_IMG4509_CastalatedRocks_RedRockStPk_20240403[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/194322828@N02/]Angky MacLeod[/url], on Flickr" target="_blank"> _IMG4509_CastalatedRocks_RedRockStPk_20240403 by Angky MacLeod, on Flickr |
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04-06-2024, 11:25 AM
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A lot of New Orleans imaging here!
I also liked the horse and carriage shot, but the architecture of the steeples caught my eye too.
No shots of the volley-ball events? :D
Angky
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04-05-2024, 05:04 PM
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Another long trip in which I discovered gold.
A whole pyramid of it
This mountain of tiny yellow blooms is near the Owens Peak Wilderness Area.
Only the peaks in this area had these blooms; lower down the mountains were larger bushes (sage, etc.) and a few scattered blooms.
Angky
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03-21-2024, 10:41 AM
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The pocketable camera is much less intruding into the scene, and this lady evidently enjoyed the process without feeling intimidated.
You also apparently enjoyed the photography session.
Good reason to carry the Leica.
Angky.
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03-21-2024, 10:45 AM
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You certainly did not fail in the composition and lighting of that shot!
Angky
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03-21-2024, 07:33 PM
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Drinking coffee with a few of the old guys this morning, Al says, "Angky, you need to bring your camera over and take a picture of my flower."
"What kind of flower is it," I asked.
"An orchid, I think, but don't ask me what kind. Just come over and get a picture," he answered.
I followed him across the way, hobbling slowly on his cane; he was very proud to show me the flower.
I was very impressed! I saw that in situ was going to be the only choice.
That required an old lens I had almost never used--a 50mm macro I had acquired long ago, but never learned to use on modern digital cameras.
Finally, after experimenting with the "Green Button" and re-learning how to spin an aperture ring through the clicks with those strange ancient numbers and by twisting that bumpy rubbery ring thing around the lens--what were we doing with that thing back in the day...?
Actually, that lens did a fine job, and I really felt like I was quite a few decades younger. (Until I tried to straighten up again!)
Now I need to print the image and give it to Al--who is a decade older than I.
A morning very well spent, I thought... :)
But maybe I should make a point of learning what kind of flower it is so that I can tell Al.
Angky
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03-19-2024, 07:35 PM
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Very well arranged image!
Great captures to do them so well.
Angky
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03-19-2024, 07:33 PM
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Wow!
If I had something like this, I would not dare to put my gear all out in one place like that for fear my wife would see it before I got it all hidden again! :lol:
Angky
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03-18-2024, 04:45 PM
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Do you know what it is like to discover a batch of unprocessed pictures that you thought were forever gone?
I found a secluded SD card from exactly a year ago.
I don't know how it got "secluded," but my wife has a way of blaming things on my memory cells--"they are too old!" :mad:
(That cannot be the explanation; I knew very good and well about that SD card, I just wasn't ready to find it yet!). :D
Anyway this is a special find for me, since this was a special trip I had taken just for the specific purpose of photographing the beginning of Spring in California--a very brief momentary time in the long, hot year of sunny California days.
Here we see grape vines on one of the very large grape plantations in Central California.
They look nothing at all like they will look after a couple of weeks into the spring sunshine.
Angky
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03-15-2024, 11:17 AM
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A closely discerning eye will quickly notice that the point of focus is the middle wire in this rangeland fence.
Some critics evaluating the image on its artistic basis might wish the focus was otherwise, but my focus was, I can assure you, very much on this wire! :eek:
Other items in the image might command the attention of another viewer, based upon their interest, but those items were merely supporting features to enhance the interest in the wire!
Critical piece of photography equipment was the 20-40mm lens, and otherwise of note is that the image is cropped only slightly.
I was standing pretty close to the fence trying to make a good landscape shot, when one of the "supporting articles" in the image walked up and stared at me.
The wire suddenly became the focus!
:D
Angky
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03-15-2024, 12:45 PM
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Bulls looking innocuous and docile.
Angky
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03-15-2024, 11:43 AM
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Very good decision to go view these "folks of the forest".
(I read it literally: Bahasa Indonesia -- "orang" = "person", "hutan" = "forest".)
They do, in your pictures, look like they are people of a forest family.
Really good shots! I'll bet you had a wonderful time standing there watching and shooting them!
Angky
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03-12-2024, 06:11 PM
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You definitely gotta love that color!
Brilliantly and unbelievably purple with something about the orange that is just right!
Angky
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03-12-2024, 06:47 PM
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I didn't know "blue" herons were actually so blue!
Those wing ends display it vividly.
What a huge wing spread!
Angky
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03-12-2024, 06:21 PM
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You might find yourself doing this more often!
Looks like a lot of fun, and nice results.
Angky
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03-10-2024, 07:27 PM
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I snapped the picture.
Within moments, the sky flashed.
Thunder boomed,
Hail pelted me!
I ran for the car!
Glad I grabbed the shot though! :D
JPG straight from the K10D.
Angky
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03-04-2024, 06:30 PM
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Going along on an old mountain road up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I looked through the trees and saw this old church house.
I found that it was built back in the late 1800's by the miners living in this area at that time.
It is still used by residents living scattered in various places around this area, and has been pretty well kept.
Within the past year, the old oil heating stove that stood in the middle of the floor was taken out and replaced by the heat exchangers that can be seen along the lower side of the building.
This, according to the folks using the place, has been considered to be a huge improvement!
It sorta removes a bit of the nostalgia for folks like me, but then I cannot fault ladies for trying to stay warm in the Sierra Nevada mountains on a cold Sunday morning! :D
This shot taken through the Ponderosa Pine trees in this area so as to maintain the quaint idea of the place as I first saw it.
Some of the twigs and brush in the near foreground between the trees obscured the front and these have been removed in post so that the front of the building could be better seen.
Angky
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03-04-2024, 03:48 PM
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That shot under those clouds is a great choice.
Angky
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02-26-2024, 02:21 PM
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