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Photo of the Day September 2020

Fifty metres up, with a straight out of camera jpeg of tonight's sunset as part of the maiden flight from the replacement drone, after the old one fell from the sky a week and a bit back! An outdated battery firmware appears to be the culprit apparently after a technical autopsy of sorts. I do have graduated ND's coming for this one, among the various sixteen or so Freewell ND's I purchased for it.

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we released numbers 14 & 15 today! This is 14; he was a boy but he flittered off pretty quickly. 15 was a girl; I will post her tomorrow. we also watched two caterpillars turn into chrysalises today and I actually got good photos of that process so will post those at some point also.

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A quick snap on a hike with my wife. The image isn't interesting but (I think) the story is. This is outside of Boulder, Colorado, US near a small mountain town called Nederland. The place is Caribou Ranch Open Space. Prior to a fire in 1985 it was the home of Caribou Ranch recording studio that hosted artists like Elton John, Chicago, Rick Derringer, Earth, Wind & Fire and Joe Walsh. Elton John's Caribou, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rock of the Westies were recorded there as was Derringer's single "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo". A great place in pop music history continues on as a great hiking area.

I'm hoping to get back up there for fall color but we're supposed to get whacked with our first snow storm of the season in a couple of days so it may put paid to that. To illustrate the weather extremes we can sometimes see here in Colorado, today's high temperature will be 98F/37C and Tuesday's will be 37F/3C (!) but that's a small swing compared to our record of 76 degrees F in difference. Zowie!

Caribou Ranch Meadow by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
 
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The Structure sun flare b&w
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X100T f14 - Lightroom - walking around this structure late in the afternoon, caught a sun flare at the top tip. I switched from Lightroom (lite) Cloud to Classic - and through the miracle of YouTube discovered the Calibration tool which adjusts individual color pixels from the camera's sensor, unlike HSL which adjusts the overall color - ie green. This helped define the burst of the sun's flare.
 
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erayser said:
Back to portrait shoots. Figure out the story:
- Upset at me for hiking 2+ miles to the top on a hot day?
- Enjoying the view alone?
- Just get the shot, she's not turning around?
- Posing for that IG view shot?

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You need a much longer lens if she is that mad at you :eek: Great, great, picture!
 
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