Heavy Horizon
An iPhone long lens shot of a heavy rain sky. This was the first of the three photos I published the last three days.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version.
Posts tagged ‘birds’
Blues
A long shot with an iPhone; a heavy rain sky with birds over motorway A44.
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Heron
This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Green Aliens
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Capturing the Charm of Paris: Balcony and French Windows in December 1993
LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. I do however ‘collect’ French windows. So occasionally they pop up in a frame. This is one of those, in one of my favourite cities, Paris. From the analogue archive of December 1993.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta . Click the picture for a bigger version.
On Wings
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #266 is ‘Time’. It takes a lot of time to tell everything about the concept of time. One aspect of time is how fast or how slow it is.
One common misunderstanding about time is that it can fly. It does not. It is us being mesmerized how a certain amount of time goes faster in specific situations. Eg when you are on holiday, or having a great 😊 time. Each second, minute, hour, day is exactly the same as it ever was. Sometimes time seems to go slower too! Again, a misconception. But what is the figurative opposite of flying? In most of those moments I do wish time could fly.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max edited using Snapseed and Marksta Click the picture for a larger version
Paris 2003: watching gulls go by
This week LAPC #260 is ‘overlooked’. Taking the word literally, one from the film archives. One of the ponds in Les Tuileries in Paris, looking at the small arch and the Louvre.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
Shot with Nikon F90 on Kodak TriX, scanned from film and edited using Snapseed and Marksta . Click the picture for a bigger version.
Morning Flight 3
At sunrise on the marshes at Blakeney. The weekly theme for LAPC #237 is ‘bringing softness’. I pulled the camera following a flight, coming in towards the rising sun, and here coming into the light.
Here is morning flight 1, here is morning flight 2. And if you follow my blog you have seen the photo of the same flock after they passed the sun ‘winter sunrise over the marshes’.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
On the Wing
New Year’s Day, geese on the wing over the marshes near Blakeney.
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New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day, the sun through fog over a parking at Morston Quay near Blakeney.
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Fog, water and birds
The weekly theme for LAPC #235 is shadows and reflections in monochrome.
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Salt Marshes at Blakeney
England, Blakeney – January 2023
The theme for LAPC 234 is ‘messages’. The coast of north Norfolk is one big nature resort with salt marshes and wildlife. The continuous change of the sea water coming in and out, the light changes during the day time and the vastness and beauty are stunning.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
Birds at Holkham Beach
England, Holkham – January 2023
The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #233 is ‘a one lense walk‘. The first week of 2023 we had a short stay at Norfolk; the beauty of its coast and its wildlife gave ample opportunities for photos. The Nikon D500 has the 18-105 mm lens on it.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version.
Free Bird
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Autumn 2022 – Birds
It is the end of the year and the Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Last Chance’.
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Orange Skies
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2022
A sunset sky with airplane’s and birds flying, silhouetting the sky.
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Hazy
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A grey morning in Autumn.
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Serene Autumn
The theme for this week’s Lens-artists Photo Challenge #179 is Serene. A little canal on a grey morning in Autumn.
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Getting on a Fence
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Swan
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Young family
Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.
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Swans
Right in front of the door, a young swan family takes a nap sometimes.
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Birds
The theme of Lens-Artists #124 is ‘Now and then’.
In times of covid things change, some in small ways, some in quite ‘big’ ways. The world is not getting smaller but seems smaller. Going away for a long weekend is more like a logistical planned event than a spontaneous ‘let’s get away’. And even the way I take photo’s is changed. I see less that catches my eye, all is so familiar close by. So I went way back till way then, October 1990, a long weekend with old school mates. The mates are still there, on Whatsapp. But the feeling of this image is different. A swarm of birds against a sunset. Being free, to wander, to roam. Patience my dear heart.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
Originally shot with Nikon F301 on Kodak TriX, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Proud Parents
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of great tits as guests in our backyard. The parents fly in and out to feed the unseen – but quite vocally present – brethren. The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96 is ‘cropping the shot’. Show how and why you crop shots, that is the basic question.
Basically I am not an avid cropper. Certainly in the days of film, cropping let always to the loss of quality. In digital times that is somehow different, especially using RAW format and a much better image capture technology. But in general: when taking the photo I try to frame it the way I want the final result to look like. Sometimes (digital is cheap) I take different frames of the same subject. But sometimes that is not possible.
In this photo – to close the series – a lucky shot of the two proud and very busy parents. I was focussing on one of them in the Wisteria, when the other came into the shot as well. The quality is not that great but it closes this series nicely.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Stepping Out
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of great tits as guests in our backyard. The parents fly in and out to feed the unseen – but quite vocally present – brethren. The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96 is ‘cropping the shot’. Show how and why you crop shots, that is the basic question.
Basically I am not an avid cropper. Certainly in the days of film, cropping let always to the loss of quality. In digital times that is somehow different, especially using RAW format and a much better image capture technology. But in general: when taking the photo I try to frame it the way I want the final result to look like. Sometimes (digital is cheap) I take different frames of the same subject. But sometimes that is not possible.
In this photo the nest is on the back of our shed, and I can sit about 10 meters away, more or less hidden. Even using a long lens (300 mm on a not full frame sensor so approximately 450 mm) I can not get ‘close enough’. Because they are quite tiny, a distant shot is not that interesting to look at. Then cropping is a logical step to come up with a presentable result.
Yesterday I published ‘In Coming‘ that shows how one of the parents approaches the nest. Today a take off from the nest. It is relatively easy to record the departure from the nest: when you see the head, start using the burst and all chances are that you have one nice shot in flight. To show you the amount of crop I added the original frame below.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
In Coming!!
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of great tits as guests in our backyard. The parents fly in and out to feed the unseen – but quite vocally present – brethren. The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96 is ‘cropping the shot’. Show how and why you crop shots, that is the basic question.
Basically I am not an avid cropper. Certainly in the days of film, cropping let always to the loss of quality. In digital times that is somehow different, especially using RAW format and a much better image capture technology. But in general: when taking the photo I try to frame it the way I want the final result to look like. Sometimes (digital is cheap) I take different frames of the same subject. But sometimes that is not possible.
In this photo the nest is on the back of our shed, and I can sit about 10 meters away, more or less hidden. Even using a long lens (300 mm on a not full frame sensor so approximately 450 mm) I can not get ‘close enough’. Because they are quite tiny, a distant shot is not that interesting to look at. Then cropping is a logical step to come up with a presentable result.
It is relatively easy to record the departure from the nest: when you see the head, start using the burst and all chances are that you have one nice shot in flight (see for an example here). In a shot like that you can zoom in quite close. Taking photos of the arrival to the nest is a bit more tricky. I found out that they come back using a certain pattern. They pause and sit 2 meters out on the wisteria, checking if returning is safe. But to catch them in flight I had to open up the frame a bit more. They are extremely quick and I can not see them take off for the final jump, so when I hear them I start using the burst, hoping it works out well. To show you the amount of crop I added the original frame below. A great tit in full brake.
Shot with Nikon D500, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version
Birdhouse
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2020
We have a family of blue tits as guests in our backyard.
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Filling The Frame: On Wings
The Netherlands, Alphen a/d Rijn – June 2009
The theme for the weekly Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #66 is ‘filling the frame’.
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Originally shot with Nikon D70, edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
Focus Tomtit
For the second year in a row we host a tomtit (koolmees) family in our garden.
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2017
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A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link
- Just Passing By – Beyond the Window Box
- Focus #2 – Vocabulary in Chunks
- Living In Crimson Sharp Snippets
- Focus – What Wendy Writes
- The Linda Life I Tried to Bokeh a Bouquet
- Rediscover this day: The Grand Central Astronaut – Wells Baum
- Focus – Darkly Dezire
- Mushroom, Anyone? – Heaven’s Sunshine
- Frank Prem go and pick (ordering alliums)
- Ana Linden Focus
- Words About The Important Things – the Ms. Millennial project ™
- Le Drake Noir Steaming
- WPC: Fok-us – The Mexi Movie
- Graceful – l’atlier tagnoue
- thechangingpalette out of focus
- Tempermental – MAG Stories
- livingtheqlife Aim for Your Goals
- Travel Diaries #8 Abu Dhabi – The Mundane Teenage Life
- jennsmidlifecrisis WPC: Focus: Never Grow Old
- Clearly Transparent – Wind Kisses
- 485 Only one mission in life – LA FLORALIE 3
- 484 A light command orchestrates group focus – LA FLORALIE 3
- Exhileration – MAG Stories
- Spirit in Politics Photo Challenge, Focus: White Swan, Green Lake
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus – Jedi by Knight
- Bokeh – Through the Lens
- Wide Eyed In Wonder Photos Of The Day – Perspectives Of A Circular Sculpture In Munich
- It’s All A Blur – Say It With A Camera
- The Day After Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
- The Gravel Ghost Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
- Photo Challenge: Focus – Relaxed & Forward: AnnaBlakeBlog
- Flora in Focus
- Weekly photo challenge – Site Title
- yi-ching lin photography musing
- Focus – Splattered Brains
- RuthsArc Weekly Photo Challenge – Focus
- Focusing Attempts – Blog of Hammad Rais
- Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera Vivid 2017: Magicians of the Mist
- Creative Inspiration in Food, Watercolor, Photography, Writing and Life in Between.
- The honeysuckle – Une photo, un poème
- Purposive Writer Out of Focus, Always in Sight
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus – Sky Blue Pink Design
- Where Will I Focus? – Melinda J. Irvine
- WPC – Focus – The Reflections
- Out of Focus – The Inkwell
- Weekly Photo Challenge- Focus – A Penny For My Thought
- Macro Monday #42 – Earth laughs in flowers
- What Rhymes with Stanza? Staying Focused
- mazeepuran (माझे e-पुराण) Weekly Photo Challenge: Out of focus (2-images)
- sukies original Weekly Photography Challenge: Focus
- What’s (in) the picture? Focus Beach Watch
What's (in) the Picture? 