Just after 6:00 am on the morning do walk through Heseltine Playground (Horace Mann School).
I hope you are enjoying your time at the hospital! I've spent some time there... :)
Niamtougou1983
joined 1 year ago
August 17, 2023 - Common loon on a still Pawtuckaway Lake, Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA.
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450mm; f5.6, 450mm, 1/3200s, ISO 25600 - Enhanced noise reduction in Adobe Lightroom]
After being harassed by several ravens, a Cooper's hawk goes on the offensive. Pawtuckaway Lake, Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450 mm; f5.6, 450mm, 1/2500s, ISO 1600]
Two pair of goldfinches spent the afternoon eating sunflower and cosmos seeds in our front yard today.
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450 mm; f5.6, 410 mm, 1/3200, ISO 3200, Adobe Lightroom noise reduction]
Sunlight streaming through the lens of an old lighthouse lamp at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts USA
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2294624
This red-tailed hawk in our neighbor's tree was being harassed by a herring gull and finally vacated the tree. Melrose, Massachusetts, USA Photo is a compilation of 12 individual shots assembled in Photoshop.
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450 mm; settings vary]
This red-tailed hawk in our neighbor's tree was being harassed by a herring gull and finally vacated the tree. Melrose, Massachusetts, USA Photo is a compilation of 12 individual shots assembled in Photoshop.
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450 mm; settings vary]
Red-winged blackbird on an iron fence enjoying a lovely sunset across Ell Pond, Melrose, Massachusetts, USA
[Pentax K-3, PENTAX-DA 55-300mm; ƒ/7.1, 300.0 mm, 1/1000, ISO 1600]
There is a pair of swans and a herring gull in the water (lower ight). Taken during our evening dog walk.
[Pentax K-3, PENTAX-DA 55-300mm; ƒ/6.3, 97.5 mm, 1/800, ISO 640]
Wow! I just saw one of these for the first time in our local market today. My first thought was somewhere between, "that's something Fed Flintstone would eat!" and "that's too much!". I fell better seeing it sliced and divided up... A meal for 4?
Great preparation, including the roasted asparagus!
I had taken my dog out earlier and she just sat on a neighbors lawn and refused to budge. She knew what was coming and didn't take any chances.
Well I WAS going for pretentious, but I agree "recomposée" may work better... but it doesn't SOUND better, I love the sound of "amélioré" (a lovely French word that even my grating Boston accent can't mess up...too badly...)
Delete?!?!? Maybe just EDIT the offending words away? 😀
All true! - I can't/won't defend myself! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
But by way of further explanation, the faux French and intentional pretentiousness was in the context of yet another boring and unimaginative office party centered around bad take-out Chinese food and pizza. Walking around cubicle-land wearing a chef's jacket, wielding a blowtorch and formally serving these - whatever they should be called - was just part of the fun. 🙂
I was attempting to develop a variation on poutine that I'm calling "Poutine Amélioré".
Here they are out-of-the-oven, baked and cheesed. I packed them in Tupperware and brought them to the office party the next day, where I will finished them off:
-
cut gelatinized chicken reduction into small cubes and placed one in each potato cube.
-
fired up a blow torch (OK, a small culinary blow torch, but a blow torch nonetheless) and melted the reduction while warming the potato/cheese.
Served.
July 5, 2023 - Mass Audubon's Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, Massachusetts, USA
[Pentax K-1, Pentax-D FA 150-450 mm; f/6.3, 450 mm, 1/2500, ISO 2500]
A window in the Shaker House at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, USA. Fruitlands was a short-lived Utopian Community founded by Louisa May Alcott's father and she lived there for about 6 months. The Shaker House was later moved there from a nearby community, as part of a preservation project. This house was used in the filming of the 2019 version of "Little Women."
A Song sparrow!
Not only does the beach have to be "posted", but there are now systems in place to receive electronic notification if you want, and to look online for the details... location of the outfalls, sampling data, etc... Check out: https://www.mass.gov/guides/sanitary-sewer-systems-combined-sewer-overflows
Going back a few more years, here's a 1957 photo my father took from about the same spot!
view more: next ›
Thanks! It was just one shot (out of MANY I took that afternoon) where the finch and the sunflower were in the same focal plane relative to the camera. So even though it was f5.6, both were in focus. Lately I've been shooting in TAv mode on my Pentax K-1 - fixing the shutter speed and aperture, letting the ISO vary. Modern digital cameras already have pretty low noise at ISO's I used to think of as "high" on film. (I'm old enough to have "pushed" ISO 1000 film a couple additional stops in the darkroom.) Lightroom's new Noise Reduction function is another game changer.