weekly It is what it is, Sirching for 52/2016 - 52 - Celebrate

Dark Knight said:
For me the tree needs a bit more definition, but I'm really liking the sky and the rocks, maybe that is it, the tree suffers from such a good sky and foreground, nice one Chris :)
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Thanks Dean, I know what you mean, it was windy and a long exposure so the tree was moving around a lot. I did consider a composite but doubt that I could have made a half decent job of masking round the tree/sky
 
Great sky and and ever greater texture the rocks. The tree does look a bit washed out, but that's fine with me.
 
fauna
ˈfɔːnə/
noun
  1. the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.

These Brachiopods are from the Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago
52-2016-Fauna by TheWub, on Flickr


Oh, and the obligatory "second one for me" ;)

52-2016-Fauna (2) by TheWub, on Flickr
 
Having looked up Brachiopods I can't tell from that picture thats what they are so I will have to go with the dragonfly although I am not particularly keen on the shadow, nice colours and detail
 
Nice take on the theme Chris for No 1 I like the details and texture in the rock.

Love the colours of the dragon fly against the rro0ck in No2 I assume the shadow is curved due to the undulations in the rocks surface.
 
Hi Chris. I like the bright and beautiful dragonfly best ... although I did learn something I didn't previously know with the other !!
 
Just realised I didn't comment on your wonderful lone tree shot. I agree the tree is a little soft through wind movement but it's still such a striking and dramatic image with the rocks and wonderful movement in the sky :clap: I think the green of the tree works just as well as stark branches would have done - just gives it a different feel.
 
alsjazzera said:
Having looked up Brachiopods I can't tell from that picture thats what they are so I will have to go with the dragonfly although I am not particularly keen on the shadow, nice colours and detail
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Downton Mini said:
Nice take on the theme Chris for No 1 I like the details and texture in the rock.

Love the colours of the dragon fly against the rro0ck in No2 I assume the shadow is curved due to the undulations in the rocks surface.
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Carl Ayling said:
Hi Chris. I like the bright and beautiful dragonfly best ... although I did learn something I didn't previously know with the other !!
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Emja said:
An interesting take on the theme - I like that dragonfly though, very spectacular!
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Emja said:
Just realised I didn't comment on your wonderful lone tree shot. I agree the tree is a little soft through wind movement but it's still such a striking and dramatic image with the rocks and wonderful movement in the sky :clap: I think the green of the tree works just as well as stark branches would have done - just gives it a different feel.
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Thanks all for commenting. with the Brachiopods what is left after 300 million years is the shell which has been fossilised. and that is light grey against slightly darker grey so it was quite hard to bring out a decent level of contrast. I was actually out looking for butterflies yesterday but there were loads of those dragon flies and very few butterflies.
 
sirch said:
These Brachiopods are from the Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago
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Shoe horn :p

Dragonfly for me too Chris.
Well captured :)
 
Dark Knight said:
Hahaaa you had me there Chris, fist look and I thought 'What the f**k is he thinking' :D

Real clever idea, but still prefer your second image, well captured and great colours... great minds etc. hey (y)
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Thanks Dean, I saw your dragonfly and nearly didn't bother posting this.

wallyboy said:
Nice sky in the lone shot, what filter do you use?
the dragonfly has some good detail nice take.
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Thanks Walter, for the Lone shot I used an SRB photographic 10 stop
 
Is 300,000,000 years a bit shoehorny? I don't know. But I prefer the dragonfly. :cool:
 
d00d said:
Is 300,000,000 years a bit shoehorny? I don't know. But I prefer the dragonfly. :cool:
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Thanks David, brachiopods have been around for about 500,000,000 years so these are fairly young :whistle:
 
rpn said:
Are Brachiopods animals? Anyway prefer the dragonfly shot but the background and strong shadow spoil it a bit.
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Thanks Stan, they are hard shelled sea creatures a bit like mussels and clams
 
susiejb said:
Hi Chris ....love the lone tree, perhaps a bit more detail in the tree itself, but it's still a super shot.

I like the idea of the fossil ....a fascinating piece of history, and of course a beautiful dragonfly is always a winner.
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Thanks Susie.
 
Lone - Maybe not the shot you originally envisaged, but it's a good shot and spot on for the theme. The sky is ace.
Fauna - I'm going to go for the second shot as it's much easier to make out and is an exceptionally sharp shot of the little critter.
 
LC2 said:
Lone - Maybe not the shot you originally envisaged, but it's a good shot and spot on for the theme. The sky is ace.
Fauna - I'm going to go for the second shot as it's much easier to make out and is an exceptionally sharp shot of the little critter.
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Thanks Tim
 
Static

Doing all this from a tablet so can't really tell what this looks like but it's a photo of some sort

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Blimey look at the lot! and its not even the M25 :D

Good idea Chris it works well.
 
Blimey ... priceless staticness ... top image Chris. (y)
 
That is a brilliant take on the theme Chris. Well done. :clap:
 
Liking that Chris love the way the line snakes through the picture.

Over the bank holiday weekend I will be one of 200 + Mini/MINI owners taking part in charity run in North Devon where we all go out in a very big line were usually right at the front but a few years back we were at the back and being a marshall we had to drive get to the front at the regroup point it was then you realised how long the run is!!
 
Cobra said:
I hope that wasn't a queue for the toilets or ice cream vendor :D
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Bruja said:
Blimey, that's some queue of traffic and certainly looks static to me.

Looks good to me :clap:
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d00d said:
Blimey ... priceless staticness ... top image Chris. (y)
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Carl Ayling said:
That is a brilliant take on the theme Chris. Well done. :clap:
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rpn said:
An unusual place to have traffic jam. Looks like they'll be static for a while.
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alsjazzera said:
excellent take on the theme
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Downton Mini said:
Liking that Chris love the way the line snakes through the picture.

Over the bank holiday weekend I will be one of 200 + Mini/MINI owners taking part in charity run in North Devon where we all go out in a very big line were usually right at the front but a few years back we were at the back and being a marshall we had to drive get to the front at the regroup point it was then you realised how long the run is!!
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Thanks all for the great comments, glad I didn't cock it up on this tablet on which I type like an old bloke with a tablet, otherwise I would give a fuller response :-)
 
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