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En gewoon ook twee keer...

Ik had 'em voor 10 euro erop staan.

Maar ik denk dat hij een koerier gaat sturen en dat ik dat even moet voorschieten, of zo...

If you've spent enough time with your nose in the grass, you know that when a ladybug climbs up to the top of a leaf or stem, it's about to take off.
That was the case here. I saw it crawl up and knew it was about to take flight.

My luck here was that I had the camera still set to continuous high.

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Ladybug - Coccinella septempunctata
Nikon D200, Tamron 90mm, ISO100, 1/180 sec @ f/4.8.

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From my series "Series": Seasons

I moved to Finland in 2002.
Lived there for well over a decade and I absolutely adore nature there, in all it's stages.
I love its four seasons (as opposed to the 12 months drizzly autumn we seem to have in the Netherlands).

I passed here many times before the idea of this series took shape in my head. I think the fall colours triggered it. It's my favourite of the four, and the first one I shot in this series.

I marked the spot so I would know exactly where I would have to stand in for the next photos, to make sure they would all line up perfectly. It's not 100% perfect, because I didn't think of noting down the focal length I was shooting with, but I managed fairly ok, I think.

All four images are a series of photos stitched together.
Native resolution of the files is 11811×2480px.
I had these printed on canvas for 3 exhibitions in Helsinki, Finland, on 200×42cms .

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Nikon D200, Sigma 28-200mm

Spring (Apr 2007, just after 10:00).
ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/16
6 landscape photos stitched together in Photoshop

Summer (July 2007, just after 16:00).
ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/11
5 landscape photos stitched together in Photoshop

Autumn (Oct 2006, just before 16:30).
ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8
5 landscape photos stitched together in Photoshop

Winter (Jan 2007, just before 14:00).
ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8
6 landscape photos stitched together in Photoshop

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I wrote about this before.
These stairs have been the ball on the chain of my photographic existence.

Read more here:
https://www.reddit.com/user/ArnoTheArtist/comments/1oui87l/oc_casting_shadows/
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I had a brief uplifting of hopes when I got an "okay" shot in with my mobile phone, but it was 1) below par in terms of quality, and 2) still cluttered with all kinds of crap.

Then yesterday came. I went to pick up our son from a play date, and I passed here, again.
It was raining, again.
There was no shadow whatsoever, again.
I tossed an uninterested glance to the side, grunted (as I appear to be doing now frequently when I pass here), because seven years of patience still got me nowhere, and drove on.

But then the sky cleared and slowly the sun came out. On the way back we passed here, again.
And I didn't have my gear with me. Again.
Only this time I felt there was time still, so we rushed home, I grabbed the camera and rushed back.

It's still not the long shadow I saw back in 2019, nor the longer-ish shadow I shot last year with the phone, but I think it's a good one. The shadow is pretty crisp, there's no clutter, and the walls have been cleaned earlier this year. And it took only 7 years!

It makes for a good triptych when, perhaps, in 2033 (or somewhen there) I finally get the picture with the long shadow.

Until then, I'll just grunt when I pass there, and move on.

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Nikon D800, Nikkor 50mm, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8.
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En nu was ik nog in een goed humeur... Pffff...

Edit to add: deze screenshots zijn van twee verschillende gebruikers.

Yesterday was World Ocean Day.
It should be World Ocean Day every day. Few things are more important on our planet than our Oceans.

We should be way more protective of it and all the life inhabiting it. Of most of it we don't even know it's there yet. It's weirdly ironic how we know more about the vastly bigger "space" up there than we know about the waters down here.

This beautiful creature is a porcelain crab. With its antennae-like filters it catches plankton and other tiny organisms from the water for food. It's absolutely fascinating (and mesmerizing) to see them at work. I could (and have 😁) looked at this process for minutes on end!

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Porcelain crab / porseleinkrab ─ Neopetrolisthes maculatus

Nikon D800 in Ikelite housing, Tamron 90mm, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Ikelite DS161 / Ikelite DS51 strobes.

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In de bonus. 2 bakjes snoeptomaten (2x 500 gram) voor 4,49 euro.
Op dezelfde plank, 1 bakje snoeptomaten (1x 1kg) voor 4,29 euro.

Ze vliegen de deur uit!

KutVW heeft geen ID waar die kutlijntjes voor zijn.

Camiguin, Philippines.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 50mm, ISO100, 30 sec @ f/8.
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Zo... laten we gelijk even de kankerstokkenbak dumpen op de parkeerplaats voor de basisschool.

Lekker bezig.

This is one from the shoebox I stumbled upon.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 50mm, 1/125 sec @ f/11.
Time stamp: 4:26am, Jan 17th, 2014.

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"Donut" nudibranch - Doto greenamyeri
Nikon D800 in Ikelite housing, Tamron 90mm, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Ikelite DS51 strobe

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