Living high in the Eurasian mountains, the snowfinch is a larger relative of the sparrow. It is quite fearless and can be found around huts and lodges, scavenging for leftovers.
Second attempt at color grading in #RawTherapee. I found out that the previous ones looked much too dark. Which do you prefer, the first or second one in this post? 😁 ⋅
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
The Nationaal Park Duinen van Texel beautifully demonstrates the formation of coastal dunes. From the flat plane of the beach to large and completely overgrown dunes further inland and everything in between.
Thank you all for your likes, boosts and comments. I really appreciate each and every one of you! And thanks to all of you who contribute to any #FOSS projects. Without tools like #digikam, #darktable, #RawTherapee, #GIMP and of course #pixelfed my #photography workflow would not be possible.
The spoonbill is a striking bird with a long spoon-like bill that makes it easily recognizable from a distance. Depending on the specimen, it is as large or slightly smaller than a white stork or grey heron, but has shorter wings than either. Although its biosphere is shrinking, it is not considered endangered.
Taken at the Reindeer Lodge near Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. A beautiful place, but unfortunately without reindeer in August. They do not like the mosquitoes. Neither did I.
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.
Double exposure in camera (#OMDS#OM5) combining a sharp #photography with a long exposure of the same #daisy. The motion blurred has been captured by moving the daisy a bit while using LiveND: virtual neutral density filter. The 2 photos have been combined in the camera so that I get just one RAW file. The #blackandwhite is made using the "high contrast" preset from #ART (#RawTherapee clone).
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.
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!