More the challenge was the fact that the porch and flashlight attracted many other bugs to the party as well!
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Photo Of The Day June 2020
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My new friend "Spooky" the Owl. Upper right (mate) is hiding. Fujifilm XH-1 w/ 50-140 & 2X teleconverter 280mm. ISO 3200. F/5.6
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I have been learning Photo Lab 3, and like it very much. What I would like to see in this app, is a feature (maybe option?) for one to resize the image, and then "save for web" as done with CS5 or CS6. Photo Lab 3 with such a feature would allow me to move away from CS6. The standalone version of CS6 I use now works great with High Sierra, but I don't want to update my 2019 iMac to Catalina since it makes CS6 incompatible. My favorite of DXO's are the Nik software bundle.
Another day, another archive photo...
Cheers
Hugh
Cheers
Hugh
About five minutes before sunset at the old rolling stock graveyard in Port Pirie, South Australia.
Sony a7III, Sony 16-35mm f/4, Daylight WB, - 1 EV
16mm, ISO 640, f/4.5, 1/30
Sony a7III, Sony 16-35mm f/4, Daylight WB, - 1 EV
16mm, ISO 640, f/4.5, 1/30
My immediate thought was, "what a strange name for a yellow flower!"
With the summer solstice, had to get creative. Don't think even possible...but the symbolism with the universe. From a slide taken in the 1980s and Luminar 4.
The last photo of the cidada. Once she fell, she ran for shelter. She stopped here for the night, and we went to bed!
This little Carpet Beetle, about 4-5mm long and has a veracious appetite! It will eat almost anything, luckily for me it is staying on the Daisy for its dinner and not eating our furniture.
Comments appreciated.
Comments appreciated.
On yesterday's walk around the lake, encountered a Green Heron who had taken over the partially submerged log where the turtles like to hang out....
Nice separation. I’d be inclined to go in tighter if possible and move the subject to the left. Then clone out the remaining part of that white petal on the right.
Question why do I get carpet beetles in the house but have no carpets?
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I can see why the turtles left. Probably find him a bit intimidating! Nicely done.
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Enjoyed this series as well. Fascinating.
I had wondered why I hadn't seen the turtles basking in the sun on that log recently and now I know.... Even though I hadn't seen this guy there until yesterday, chances are that he's been there before and I was unaware of it. Glad I spotted him at last -- this makes four heron species that we have on this little body of water, which is apparently the kind of environment which suits them.
Thanks all, glad you enjoyed the series. I’m now backed up on non-insect submissions. Maybe that’s a good thing for the creepy-crawly-averse crowd.
Looking at the timestamps on the first and last shot, this all went on from 21:37 to 22:20 local time, so about 45 minutes.
From yesterday's walk in the canyon.
D3300 w/stock 18-55 VR G lens. Fiddled with a little in Luminar plugin for Photos.
Good advice, thanks. I usually do crop pics for a tighter angle, i'm not really sure why I didnt crop this one 🤔
The funny thing is here, I hadn't actually noticed the white petal on the right, I only spotted it after you mentioned it, I think was too immersed in the beetle to notice anything else. It really is a great looking insect and just like the Leafhopper's I posted recently, they have incredible markings which most people never see. Makes me wonder why they need such markings, what they're for, they seem too extravagant to be just camouflage - besides, it doesnt really work against a white floweer. I bet Chris Packham could answer that!
Carpet Beetles don't actually eat carpet - well, not synthetic carpet anyway (they will eat wool carpet) but they will eat almost anything else, any natural fibres, if you have them in your house you can get rid of them with a vacuum. They are easy to get rid of but they are very small and unlikely to be noticed until you see holes in your beautiful leather sofa.
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And a great series, too. Thanks for sharing. Brilliant insight into a not too often seen phenomena. Three cheers for your wife too for going anywhere near it, my wife would've run a mile.
Beautiful creatures butterflies. But so hard to photograph. Do you focus on the eye or the wings. Ideally you want both in focus but that set of circumstances doesn't present itself too often.
I think you got your focus spot on, she’s a beauty. Lovely shot.