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Photo of the Day August 2020
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Seen on my bike ride and out comes the iPhone. Oh, and I won the race.
The white butterflies must have some translucency or something, as I’ve noticed that the highlight areas of the wings pick up the color of whatever flower they are on.
Pink seems to be a rare color in nature for anything that’s not a flower. The only creature I can think of is the flamingo, and that’s from diet.
There is a fairly brightly pink and yellow coloured moth.
And now for something a little different..... The other day when I was walking around shooting, I spotted the geese on the lake and just as I was fumbling with my settings one of them did the "display" thing before I had a chance to properly focus. In reviewing the images later in post-processing, my usual instinct would've been to discard the image because of that -- couldn't really see the goose's face because of the angle at which he/she was holding his or her head and because of the poor focusing, and in general the whole image wasn't all that great. I hung on to it anyway, as there was something compelling about those wings. Later I went into the Photomania.net website and started experimenting with some of their free filters......
"A Negative Look at the Showoff"
"A Negative Look at the Showoff"
But it’s weird because there is a lot of naturally occurring red. And pink is just watered down red.
A mighty mite. This little guy is only about 2mm in length and difficult to spot with the naked eye (if youre eyesight is as bad as mine!) so I was really pleased with the detail in this shot. I'm not sure I even realised they had eyes having never seen them.
Comments appreciated.
Comments appreciated.
Yeah, butterflies can have both red and white, but not pink! Maybe it has something to do with the visible spectrum and pink just shows up too readily to predators? Flowers are pink because they want to be found, yet not all flowers are pink. I’ve heard that pollinators seem to be most drawn to white and pink, so maybe a pink butterfly would constantly be brushing aside things that thought they were a flower? I guess it’s one of life’s mysteries.
The Roseate Spoonbill is pink in color.
The are plenty of pink birds, it's just they are uncommon and I would imagine most are from diet.
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Had a "no show" portrait shoot this morning. Took this shot while waiting.
f5 35mm ISO64 1/500's
Most of my shots are in portrait because I'm used to taking pics of IGr's... I was thinking of shooting in landscape for this, but I liked the color change from center to top and bottom... especially how the reflection of the sun fades to dark. It just didn't grab me the same way in landscape. I know there is more empty space at the top... but what makes you determine landscape vs portrait or how you crop a photo? Besides taking more space in the thread... LOL... sorry about that.
f5 35mm ISO64 1/500's
Most of my shots are in portrait because I'm used to taking pics of IGr's... I was thinking of shooting in landscape for this, but I liked the color change from center to top and bottom... especially how the reflection of the sun fades to dark. It just didn't grab me the same way in landscape. I know there is more empty space at the top... but what makes you determine landscape vs portrait or how you crop a photo? Besides taking more space in the thread... LOL... sorry about that.
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Run out @ Alan Cooke Ground, Phuket
Fujifilm X20
Fujifilm X20
Another idea for the weekly 'Sky' themed contest that didn't quite do it for me to be entered, also taken at the old sheep farm which is now used to grow straw.
This horse is giving me the shifty eye.
X-Pro 3 XF18 2.0
X-Pro 3 XF18 2.0
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I like that you were thinking so hard!! 🙂Another idea for the weekly 'Sky' themed contest that didn't quite do it for me to be entered, also taken at the old sheep farm which is now used to grow straw.
Park Gardens
X100T f5.6 - front portion of botanical gardens - coffee, coffee
X100T f5.6 - front portion of botanical gardens - coffee, coffee