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Photo Of The Day June 2020
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Same bug and leaf as yesterday's shot. Just a little further down the transformation.
This is a fantastic image. It captures the joy and movement of a band in the groove. Very, very nice!
Final (!) from the current series out at Pawnee National Grassland. It's hard (for me) to get the scale of the place into images. The silence too. It's a mixed use place, so there are people, there is habitation. But the silence is amazing. What I remember about this windmill - which is a water pump I think - is a rather eerie repetitive clanking sound. Nothing else for miles. No doubt cows and other animals find it useful!
Off in the distance, just peeking over the horizon, some snow-covered mountains.
Water by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
I've really enjoyed this series of pictures @r.harris1, thank you for sharing them with us. IIRC, they have been taken with a medium format camera correct? And you are so right, you just can't (or at least I can't) capture the vastness of a place like this and certainly not the quiet. Being able to hear a lone bug flying at some distance from you or the sense of how truly small you are in this world. It's something many of us don't experience very often.
Thank you @inkmich! Yes, some of the images are on an older medium format digital back that I’m still very much learning my way around. It’s much slower to work with and weighs a ton but a lot of fun. High ISO is 200 😀. The Great Horned Owl from the past week was on a 35mm DSLR.
Being out there in the vast open spaces is a great (and much needed) perspective changer, for sure! It has really helped through the lockdown to still be able to visit such places (in Colorado, anyway) and has helped keep my head on straight. I enjoy solitude immensely but have gained a deeper appreciation of it lately.
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. iPhone 6s.
Our ornamental cherry tree produces tiny fruit...
Cheers
Hugh
Cheers
Hugh
Yet another stunning photo. I love logging on and seeing your photos. I always show my little girl (5) and she enjoys seeing them too. Thank you for sharing them.
A Jagged Ambush Bug with prey..
"Ambush bugs are smaller, heavier-bodied cousins to assassin bugs, but instead of stalking other insects they wait motionless for their prey to wander near. Woe to the insect that gets within reach! The ambush bug will suddenly seize it in powerful raptorial (prey-grabbing) forelegs and quickly dispatch it with a stab from its sharp beak, delivering an injection of immobilizing and digestive fluid ." -ref: https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/predators-ambush-bugs
"Ambush bugs are smaller, heavier-bodied cousins to assassin bugs, but instead of stalking other insects they wait motionless for their prey to wander near. Woe to the insect that gets within reach! The ambush bug will suddenly seize it in powerful raptorial (prey-grabbing) forelegs and quickly dispatch it with a stab from its sharp beak, delivering an injection of immobilizing and digestive fluid ." -ref: https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/predators-ambush-bugs
Very nice, especially getting that horizon level.
Just distant convective storms for me:
Very nice, especially getting that horizon level.
If your camera app has the option of grid lines - that will help.
Many people don't realize that most herons, including the Great Blue Heron, like to get up in the trees, where it is safe and private, and where they can see what's going on:
This is the first time the red finch let me take his picture (her picture?). Usually he just zooms off as soon as he sees me, which I consider cheeky since he comes to eat the food we put out. His companion is showing what he thinks of having his picture taken.
Yeah, I have the rule of thirds gridlines on my G9. The camera also has a level, but I don’t really use it since I use those thirds lines. Even then, a quick rotate in post is a good last resort. I‘m surprised how often this gets overlooked by the casual photographer. It’s like a crooked picture on the wall! A nice level horizon just shows attention to detail.
In addition to horizontal alignment, the grid lines come in handy when checking for vertical skew.Yeah, I have the rule of thirds gridlines on my G9. The camera also has a level, but I don’t really use it since I use those thirds lines. Even then, a quick rotate in post is a good last resort. I‘m surprised how often this gets overlooked by the casual photographer. It’s like a crooked picture on the wall! A nice level horizon just shows attention to detail.
