During today’s walk I found a crow feather I had stuck into a crack on a telephone pole during the summer and then forgotten about.
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How cool that it’s still there! Great edit.During today’s walk I found a crow feather I had stuck into a crack on a telephone pole during the summer and then forgotten about.
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That is amazing!!! And the macro shots are really cool.... that says something that never in your life have you seen this many.Yes, about those snowfleas I mentioned in the previous post. Sure I’ve seen them on mild days in late winter. You might think the dark specks you see on the snow are just wind-blown dirt. Bend down and get about 1 foot away from the snow and look again. Watch those little specks for a minute and you are bound to see one or two disappear and reappear somewhere else. They jumped! Impressive jumps, too, considering how small they are. They aren’t really fleas at all, but springtails that live in the soil. They are everywhere but we never see them unless they come out onto a light coloured surface so we can see them. At this time of year they come to the surface to mate.
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This last walk was much like others, except it was a bit milder. There was water on the road from melting ice and snow. I had not noticed the springtails at all, even when I made this picture. It wasn’t easy to see the screen and my eyes were watering from the wind. If you zoom in on this picture you can see the snowfleas are actually on top of the water, not in the water.
Then I noticed a bunch of them collected on the water surface in one of the big puddles on the road.
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It appears to me that they came up out of the snowbanks at the side of the road and in their wild leaping about lots of them ended up in the water. The current carried them along the road where they collected in little rafts in places where the water was held back by bits of slush. This was made with the Moment Macro lens. In real life that means the full long dimension of this picture is 3cm, to help you gauge the size.
We then, how about this collection. Must be thousands in there!
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Never before in my life have I seen such a mass of snowfleas so I had to document the happening. Today at the same place there was nothing unusual happening.
Here’s another close-up with the Moment Macro except this time on the 2x lens.
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I was also using the Moment camera app making DNG format photos. Quickly developed in Snapseed.
WowYes, about those snowfleas I mentioned in the previous post. Sure I’ve seen them on mild days in late winter. You might think the dark specks you see on the snow are just wind-blown dirt. Bend down and get about 1 foot away from the snow and look again. Watch those little specks for a minute and you are bound to see one or two disappear and reappear somewhere else. They jumped! Impressive jumps, too, considering how small they are. They aren’t really fleas at all, but springtails that live in the soil. They are everywhere but we never see them unless they come out onto a light coloured surface so we can see them. At this time of year they come to the surface to mate.
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This last walk was much like others, except it was a bit milder. There was water on the road from melting ice and snow. I had not noticed the springtails at all, even when I made this picture. It wasn’t easy to see the screen and my eyes were watering from the wind. If you zoom in on this picture you can see the snowfleas are actually on top of the water, not in the water.
Then I noticed a bunch of them collected on the water surface in one of the big puddles on the road.
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It appears to me that they came up out of the snowbanks at the side of the road and in their wild leaping about lots of them ended up in the water. The current carried them along the road where they collected in little rafts in places where the water was held back by bits of slush. This was made with the Moment Macro lens. In real life that means the full long dimension of this picture is 3cm, to help you gauge the size.
We then, how about this collection. Must be thousands in there!
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Never before in my life have I seen such a mass of snowfleas so I had to document the happening. Today at the same place there was nothing unusual happening.
Here’s another close-up with the Moment Macro except this time on the 2x lens.
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I was also using the Moment camera app making DNG format photos. Quickly developed in Snapseed.
Fabi didn’t want to leave the road with me and later I learned she had made a picture of me photographing the ice. This picture is cropped a fair bit. You can’t see my iPhone because my mitts are folded back so my fingers could be out and holding my phone. That little teal patch of colour is the neck strap on my phone. I made several pictures holding my phone out beyond where I could see the screen and hoping to get some pictures in focus.
Bizarre.Thus is too weird. I had to post a picture.
The remains of the Harbourview Restaurant and General Store in Alma. See fire pics above.
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This ice machine was right up within a few inches of the front wall of the building that burnt down but it sits there relatively untouched while all the rest of the building is completely burned. Not only that but the ice inside is still frozen, even after several days with no power. Not for long, though. The days are starting to warm up a little.
I love what you have done to this image. I don't suppose you remember what AremaC effect you used?Smooth with detail.
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Generally I like photos with a lot of detail but sometimes it doesn’t give me what I felt when I was there. I find I am becoming very fond of the smoothing effect I get with BeCasso Oil but I don’t want to lose too much detail. The smoothing gives it a slightly ethereal glow. I think I have the best of both worlds now by mixing the Becasso smoothed version back with the original and using belending modes to get the smoothing but still have some critical details that prevent the overall picture looking mushy or painted. I first do quite a bit of spot retouching on the original photo to eliminate anything that draws attention to itself. In this case, little rocks and bits of seaweed on the beach. The original photo was made using aremaC so even though it might appear natural it is quite far away from what a straight photo would have looked like. For instance the way the bottom became blue instead of yellow, and the waves became much lighter.
Awwww...too cute!This young raccoon has been hanging around our bird feeder the last few days.
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I presume last years’ young ones have been booted out of the nest now that the mother has new little ones on the way.
Made with the Moment 58 lens mounted on the 2x lens and then cropped about 50%. I found it was better cropping a DNG file than zooming in with a jpeg. Made with the Moment cam and edited with Darkroom.
As you can see we still have plenty of snow, as well as new snow falling almost daily.
Crazy....We are still getting new stowstorms and new snow accumulation. That one nice spring day was just a teaser. Lots of cold wind too.
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I was just flicking from one preset to the next watching for something interesting. The writing on the presets is too small to read except under ideal conditions so I don’t know what it is called but I recognize it when it comes up. It requires a similar situation to get the same effect so my tests indoors did not find it. I’ll stumble upon it again outdoors sometime and I probably won’t be able to read it then either. The biggest amount of my work was in retouching anything that stood out where I wanted it to be smooth.I love what you have done to this image. I don't suppose you remember what AremaC effect you used?
Great! So is the image “before” tumbling or “after”? I’m guessing after?Anyhow, after a week of tumbling in the medium coarse grind the whole batch was rendered perfectly usable. I should have done this a couple of years ago.
Ugh!! That would drive me crazy.After that one magnificent Sunday about 3 weeks ago there has been a setback in the weather. About every 3rd day it snows. Enough to completely cover all the bare patches. Then it starts melting again.
Yes, after tumbling, no more rough spots.Great! So is the image “before” tumbling or “after”? I’m guessing after?
Ugh!! That would drive me crazy.