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keyrex

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The cows were pretty interested in me, and some of them even started to wander over for a closer look.

I like photographing cows, they always have quizzical a look on their faces and it makes me wonder what they are thinking about.
 
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Thank you very much!
The cows were pretty interested in me, and some of them even started to wander over for a closer look.
The vignette was done later on by the way.

Cheers :)

Hugh
It wouldn't have been such a good shot if they were looking the udder way!
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Here's a tip. If you dropped your can of beer, don't open in for a minute or two! :p
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Such an honor to be able to photograph this young lady.



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very nicely done.
 
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keyrex

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Perseids
August 2018

This was taken 2 days before the peak day of the Perseids meteor shower. It was the only clear night forecast in the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park. I've never ventured in here in the dark before, but I have never seen such clarity and truly dark skies directly overhead. The light pollution Northwards was evident as you can see, but directly overhead was breathtaking. I'll be back in winter when the clarity is even better. The photo doesn't do it justice.
Anyway, I captured 4 Perseids out of 250 frames that were 20s, f2, ISO 1600. I used 24 frames near the end of the sequence to stack, align and eliminate noise via Starry Landscape Stacker to serve as a base frame.With the resulting base frame, I then composited and aligned (the best I could, because Polaris wasn't in the shot) to show the meteors coming from the radiant of the Perseus constellation. When aligned, they were merged via masking and then stamped and from there, I made a few edits to bring out the milky way more (it wasn't the side featuring the brighter core area), reduce noise and speckling in the foreground loch etc. I only witnessed the rightmost meteor with my eyes, and man it was bright! Quite a bit of work involved, but I honestly thought I'd capture at least 10 meteors over the hour and a half of exposures. I may have managed that or more on the peak night, but that will be for another time.

Genuinely interested to see what people think about this.

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That is amazing, stunning! A lot of hard work and very time consuming but very worth it for the end result. The light pollution, in my opinion, adds to the picture and gives a lovely glow on the water and those multi-directional meteors frame and highlight the milky way.
Well done.
 
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A bee enjoying his dinner.
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Comments always appreciated.
I love bees. Just need a few more flowers in the garden to attract them.
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Perseids
August 2018

This was taken 2 days before the peak day of the Perseids meteor shower. It was the only clear night forecast in the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park. I've never ventured in here in the dark before, but I have never seen such clarity and truly dark skies directly overhead. The light pollution Northwards was evident as you can see, but directly overhead was breathtaking. I'll be back in winter when the clarity is even better. The photo doesn't do it justice.
Anyway, I captured 4 Perseids out of 250 frames that were 20s, f2, ISO 1600. I used 24 frames near the end of the sequence to stack, align and eliminate noise via Starry Landscape Stacker to serve as a base frame.With the resulting base frame, I then composited and aligned (the best I could, because Polaris wasn't in the shot) to show the meteors coming from the radiant of the Perseus constellation. When aligned, they were merged via masking and then stamped and from there, I made a few edits to bring out the milky way more (it wasn't the side featuring the brighter core area), reduce noise and speckling in the foreground loch etc. I only witnessed the rightmost meteor with my eyes, and man it was bright! Quite a bit of work involved, but I honestly thought I'd capture at least 10 meteors over the hour and a half of exposures. I may have managed that or more on the peak night, but that will be for another time.

Genuinely interested to see what people think about this.

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Nice. Worth the effort in my opinion.
 
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keyrex

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I love bees. Just need a few more flowers in the garden to attract them.

I have exactly the same problem, i tried planting some but they died! I am limited to an approx. 6' area between bushes that can be planted, the rest of the garden is too close to the trees and they suck the life out of everything near them. The butterfly bush (Buddleia) that this bee was on, is actually a weed but it looks nice and attracts the wildlife so it stayed, it is now a feature of our garden, i hang the bird feeders from it and it is close enough to the house to get close up of the birds, insects, etc..
Not sure you can grumble though, to be honest, i've seen the picture of the hawk in your garden - now that made me jealous!!!
 

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I have exactly the same problem, i tried planting some but they died! I am limited to an approx. 6' area between bushes that can be planted, the rest of the garden is too close to the trees and they suck the life out of everything near them. The butterfly bush (Buddleia) that this bee was on, is actually a weed but it looks nice and attracts the wildlife so it stayed, it is now a feature of our garden, i hang the bird feeders from it and it is close enough to the house to get close up of the birds, insects, etc..
Not sure you can grumble though, to be honest, i've seen the picture of the hawk in your garden - now that made me jealous!!!
Not seen him in a while. Mostly Blackbirds these days.
 

keyrex

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Not seen him in a while. Mostly Blackbirds these days.

We get a family of blackbirds in our garden too, I really like their call it always brings a smile to my face, they remind me of R2D2. This summer, in our garden we have been really lucky, we have seen families of blue tits, long tailed tits, blackbirds, robins and not forgetting the squirrels, oh yes, and the bloody rats!
 

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We get a family of blackbirds in our garden too, I really like their call it always brings a smile to my face, they remind me of R2D2. This summer, in our garden we have been really lucky, we have seen families of blue tits, long tailed tits, blackbirds, robins and not forgetting the squirrels, oh yes, and the bloody rats!
Mrs AFB keeps telling me about sightings of an escaped wallabie near us. Like half a mile down the road. I'd love to see him in the garden.
 

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I don’t have mountains where I live, but we do get some nice color contrasts occasionally.
 

kallisti

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Another kiddo pic. This time a pool pic--being thrown forward into the water. Only sharing it because he is blurred--I chose a shutter speed of 1/125th which was too slow to freeze the motion but created this somewhat surreal pic which is what I was after. Will be shooting another series with a significantly faster shutter speed. Won't be sharing those pics however ;)

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Donka

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Perseids
August 2018

This was taken 2 days before the peak day of the Perseids meteor shower. It was the only clear night forecast in the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park. I've never ventured in here in the dark before, but I have never seen such clarity and truly dark skies directly overhead. The light pollution Northwards was evident as you can see, but directly overhead was breathtaking. I'll be back in winter when the clarity is even better. The photo doesn't do it justice.
Anyway, I captured 4 Perseids out of 250 frames that were 20s, f2, ISO 1600. I used 24 frames near the end of the sequence to stack, align and eliminate noise via Starry Landscape Stacker to serve as a base frame.With the resulting base frame, I then composited and aligned (the best I could, because Polaris wasn't in the shot) to show the meteors coming from the radiant of the Perseus constellation. When aligned, they were merged via masking and then stamped and from there, I made a few edits to bring out the milky way more (it wasn't the side featuring the brighter core area), reduce noise and speckling in the foreground loch etc. I only witnessed the rightmost meteor with my eyes, and man it was bright! Quite a bit of work involved, but I honestly thought I'd capture at least 10 meteors over the hour and a half of exposures. I may have managed that or more on the peak night, but that will be for another time.

Genuinely interested to see what people think about this.

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Love this. I'm planning on heading down that way at some point for some night photography - any recommendations? Is there good car access?
Incidentally, I was out locally shooting some test shots of my Samyang (Rokinon) 12mm a couple of months back and managed to get a lot of shooting stars, at least one or two every image over the course of 45 mins. No idea if there was any kind of event at the time - I just wish I had been in a location with a properly dark sky.
 
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keyrex

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Mrs AFB keeps telling me about sightings of an escaped wallabie near us. Like half a mile down the road. I'd love to see him in the garden.

That was in the local paper today, it has been spotted on near Wombourne Sainsbury's (maybe he's not happy at them selling Kangaroo steaks?)

You know i said i had a (unwanted) family of rats.....
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I think there are 8 rats in there and the terrible thing is that they have got to go - terrible because they are so cute and incredibly funny.
Apart from calling the council to kill the b****ds, does anyone have any other ideas how to get rid of them? I have tried traps and poison but, alas, to no avail!
 

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That was in the local paper today, it has been spotted on near Wombourne Sainsbury's (maybe he's not happy at them selling Kangaroo steaks?)

You know i said i had a (unwanted) family of rats.....
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I think there are 8 rats in there and the terrible thing is that they have got to go - terrible because they are so cute and incredibly funny.
Apart from calling the council to kill the b****ds, does anyone have any other ideas how to get rid of them? I have tried traps and poison but, alas, to no avail!
they should be fine since that black plague is over, just don't touch, invite them inside or make contact them
 
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