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ODC Our Daily Challenge: Try, Try Again ...
... to keep up-to-date honoring my flickr friends for their faves and comments. Thank you :-)
New 366 project 2024: 26.05.
ODC Our Daily Challenge: Try, Try Again
Focus, Sharpness, DoF .... Photography is always a challenge!!
Probably the same young eagle that I talked about leaving a lasting impression made another impression, mental and physical, when it tried to land in this tree after the very first flight from the nest. It was fine. After a couple of tries it was like it had been doing it forever. Near St.John's, NL.
This image has tasked me and tasked me but I will have it. I've poked at this for well over a year and I am finally crying "uncle!" and releasing it.
My first edit of this heavily textured pic was the best, but thanks to my inability to multi-task, and being on the phone with another manager, I hit the wrong button and deleted over an hour's worth of work!!! Aaaaargh!!!!!
Well, it turned out okay, anyhow, and I still have the original pics, so one of these days I might have at it again.
Last time, I placed a Great Egret over the moon. This time, it was a seagull. Many layers of textures were used in this, and it would be almost impossible to duplicate. (As I found out when I tried to remember what I'd done in the first edit!) These kind of pics are usually trial and error, lots of experimentation, and finally arriving at something that resembles art. I enjoy it, except when I do something stupid!
Handwritten on the back of this sentiment card: "Loren & Persnelia Wright."
Try Again.
'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try again, try again;
If at first you don't succeed, Try again;
Then your courage should appear,
If you will but persevere,
You will conquer, never fear, Try again, try again.
Some of you know by now that it was graffiti that first brought me to Detroit with my camera. Then, when I saw the images painted on the inside of the windows of some of the abandoned buildings, it was the grasshoppers that really caught my eye.
I had tried to shoot this grasshopper at Farwell a couple of times in the past, but it was last week, with a few more months of experience under my belt, that brought me the image I wanted.
This is an HDR processed image made from twelve bracketed shots and a lot of hands on adjustment to get the exposure right throughout the image.
I'm happy now. It may not be the most beautiful picture in the world (I know it isn't), but it is a marked success for me. I finally got my grasshopper.
Tried to make a drop biscuit using Michael Ruhlman's ratio. Didn't quite work out for me.
Gray Boy is back. After giving it a good try, his adopter had to throw in the towel: it just wasn't working. Gray Boy wouldn't come out of his hiding place the whole time, not even to use the litterbox. Despite all efforts to make him comfortable and give him space, he just wouldn't come around. It was a gamble since GB started off as a completely unsocialized cat. He's made amazing progress but perhaps he's just not quite ready to apply lessons learned here in another home. We're happy to have him back (he was all smiles the minute we let him loose in the yard), and we'll keep working with him. If he decides he just wants to live with the ferals that's fine with us too. Welcome home, Gray Boy.
P.S. I don't know WHAT got into Lucy, but Gray Boy's tail suddenly became an irresistible target.
I need to remember that I have a larger head than most adults. Therefore, standard adult sized items like headbands and hats don't really fit me that well.
Still, it would be a cute headband on a normal sized head, wouldn't it?
Not the best of comp's but the first BIF that is acceptable..
Thanks for viewing and your comments...
The lift is there...the taste...I believe is right...but try as I may, a vegan macaron will never be.
These are good though, none the less.
Better photos tomorrow.
My first and second attempts at a sequence. Shot on the south side of the Foreign Languages Building at U of I Champaign/Urbana
Model: Drew Hauck
This was the first attempt. The bar came down on the ""Squirrel-proof"" feeder and he only got one seed....But then....
NO INVITES OR ICONS PLEASE
double trouble
thats what i call this
This was another effort at TTV; now I see why you need a "contraption", or a dark piece of material to block out the light. Of course, I got too much table corner, and not enough guitar as well tee hee. Nice shot of my camera though, don't ya think? : ) well, Em's camera that is!
Well, Thankfully taking a day to think about it and grabing the right equipment (and a little post processing) paid off. Of course having some actual sun also helped.
Now to piece together my Sunday Dinners Submission. (bet you all thought I had forgotten. . .)
Nikon D90 | Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8 @f8 | 1/320 | ISO200 | capture No. 0299 on my D90
30 Days of Gratitude 11/30: I'm grateful for my persistence. I don't have much time at night to hone my night photography skills (severely lacking, I know), but whenever I get a chunk of time, I try it again.
