*** This Week Through YOUR m4/3 2014.06.09 ***

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Brown Boobie - Bramble Cay, Northern Australia.







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Scott.

This could be the best picture I've ever taken...or the worst. I'm sure you'll let me know. Either way, I'll still love it.


Minnie Mouse Interrogation Room













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Wormsmeat
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Bird shots can be ten-a-penny but when they have great facial expressions* and a balaclava too you have to love em. Great shot.

* as did one of Yaelle's last week.

actually, looking at it again...are you sure that thing isn't a glove puppet?

How in the world did you get the car un-blurred and everything else blurred? Did you pan with the car? However, great job.

I'll be in Montana this afternoon. I'm told very spotty cell phone/wi-fi reception out there.

Florida Nature Photographer said:

How in the world did you get the car un-blurred and everything else blurred? Did you pan with the car? However, great job.

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Co-asking and absolutely agreeing with "great job".

Additionally, that last poster scene was well spotted, unless you tore it yourself

Done in post, was trying for a diorama vibe.

Duplicate layer. Blur it. Use mask to unblur the centre.

I normally go for a central band right across the frame but liked this one as a 'frame'.

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Particularly love this shot. Love the dreamy/tilt-shift effect

Haven't had the macro out much at all this summer since the weather kept my flowers from blooming til fairly recently. However, this week all is finally a riot of color, so I took advantage of the situation and clicked away.

The birds with the brown crested heads are Common Mergansers, and they were very wary of my approach. I was only able to get a few shots before they spooked and took off.

-J










Zinnias have the most amazing morphology and color assortment in each bloom!






Tough shot as they bolted up the creek.


This was a mallard duck who was repeatedly and quite avidly reaching for some tidbit on the bottom of the creek. It was right at sunset, so the setting sun lit up its belly with a golden hue .

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I've just spent a couple of hours rootling through an older back-up disk searching for a specific picture (I found it!) then getting into throwing out some of the duplicate files.

And in the process, I cam across some pix I had forgotten all about. I wonder whether I have posted them before. Possibly; but I don't think so.

Here are two taken with the E-PL3 last year. The pix are pretty much OOC but the second one has been sharpened a little and some contrast added:


Sunset from Vunakabi. The palms with the raggy heads and the fringe underneath are areca palms -- the fringe is the bunch of fruit -- the betel nuts.


I've tried a number of times to convey how steep a food garden can be here -- this is one of my better attempts. This is classic slash and burn agriculture. The bush has been chopped away, mainly with bush knives (machetes) then the crops planted -- not a monoculture, but a multitude of plants. The Lily leaves in the foreground are a yam, a root vegetable,and behind it, you can see a young banana growing. It is most likely to be a cooking banana -- a major staple here. How do you work this garden? Very carefully!

Well, it's 11.05pm here on Saturday night, and the party next door is hotting up. Oddly, their boombox has just moved into an Abba set -- and I am typing to the beat of "Dancing Queen".

Oh, these dancing fingers, mate!!!

Have a great weekend, everyone. Iou rou, as we say here (literally "you go", but used like this it is more like "see ya!" or "'bye" or "so long" or "go well").

Cheers, geoff

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
Return to Karai Komana

Wormsmeat said:

This could be the best picture I've ever taken...or the worst. I'm sure you'll let me know. Either way, I'll still love it.

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I really like the bike, bush, and figure in white, but all the reflecting license plates distract my attention too much, and not in a good way. I would consider cropping some of the foreground and the far right license plate out of the image, and then cloning the other three license plates out.

I took the liberty of trying this to see what it would look like. I won't post it here, so as not to distract from your image, but here's a direct link to it in my gallery for anyone who wants to check it out: https://s3.amazonaws.com/masters.ga...30691d444c00a318180ca57bdd9d3344bf72b9f297560

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Brent

Cheers, geoff

And, yes, I love the tree in the bush too.

Cheers, geoff

I could do with a little more depth of field in the first shot; it seems to me it responds well to a glance but is lss good on further examination.

But the second one -- the grasshopper side-on on he flower -- I could (and did) look at that for a long time. I could imagine that on the wall providing many happy hours of pointless contemplation!

The depth of field comes into question with some of the flower pix too. I have been dissatisfied with my own pix of this genre that lack sufficient depth of field to have the whole flower sharp. I just think it ought to be.

OMG, the party is now singing along to "Money, money, money" (see my post of a couple of oldies, below).

Cheers, geoff

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2011/10/return-to-karai-komana_31.html

Interesting to have someone tweak one of my fav shots. I might agree about the license plates but feel the bike is better when centered. I deliberately boosted the license plates but I'll try another version with them dimmed. Good input - thanks.

…out of the darkness like hyenas eyes on the National Geographic channel, LOL.

Cheers, geoff

The first is a great shot -he's kinda looming over the horizon like a 60's science fiction film.