Male Canada geese are very aggressive. During mating season they choose a female (if they do not have one, as they are monogamous) and defend her (and later the nest) against all rivals (even other species).
This scene started with a couple sleeping at the edge of the pond, when suddenly a second pair loudly came swimming across to chase the couple away. The couple did not budge, and instead it lead to a long fight about whom the pond belongs to. I was standing right next to them, and they were a) loud and b) scary!
Olstinden is a prominent 675 m high mountain in the south of the Lofoten Islands in Norway. We saw it from the car on the way to the next campsite, and I just had to stop and take a panoramic photo.
The sunlight beautifully catches on the rims of the waxing crescent moon's craters.
This image was stacked from 20 individual photos. The process was similar to an earlier attempt (see https://www.picturavis.com/picture?/253/), except that I converted to JPG at the very end.
Treecreepers can be found in forests flying from tree to tree looking for insects. They are very good climbers and often start further down on a tree trunk, working their way up. Their coloring can make them almost invisible on a tree if they stop moving.
Started processing images from my trip to #Indonesia. Lots of high-contrast scenes, under-exposed to protect the highlights. It takes a bit to get used to, learning to trust the histogram when the images look so dark on playback.
To keep the sky from blowing out, this shot was nearly a silhouette out of the camera. After processing there's actually a nice bit of detail in the #macaque's face
First, I wish you all a happy new year! The Fediverse is awesome and you are all awesome!
This is my first attempt at creating a stacked moon image. The moon was a bit low, so there is a lot of "wobbling" in the images, making perfect registration of craters difficult. After some quick research and trial and error, I settled for the following workflow:
Batch processing of 14 individual RAW files with RawTherapee to JPEG
Manual cropping around moon for each image in GIMP
Nonrigid registration of all photos onto first image in Fiji via bUnwrapJ
Second nonrigid registration via Align Layers from G'MIC in GIMP
Stacking of all 14 images into one image via Blend [Average All] from G'MIC in GIMP
Sharpen via Sharpen [Gold-Meinel] from G'MIC in GIMP