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For security reasons they send password and username separately, in two different envelopes.
But then the designer screws up with the letterhead template and forgets that the letter moves around in the envelope. So when slid up all the way to the top of the envelope, the subject line of the letter is visible in the envelope's window.

And that "sent separately"...
They came on the same day, at the same time.

Ik hou van honden. Ik heb alleen een g*dshekel sommige baasjes.

Dit is eigen terrein van de aanwonenden, maar met vrije doorgang. Geen van de aanwonenden heeft een hond, wel een heleboel kinderen hier.

Als je hier met je hond door loopt, ruim dan gvd de rotzooi op en laat het niet liggen.

Asociaal gedrag, dit.

[Einde maandagochtend rant]

It was a long time coming. A VERY long time. And I shamefully admit that it was 100% my own procrastination to blame. But I can now finally say that my web shop is online and live with the first downloadable e-books featuring my underwater photography, as well as─for the analog dive enthusiasts among us─physical dive logs you can order for logging your dives.

To celebrate this... well... "achievement" on MY part, YOU will receive a solid discount when you order all 5 e-books in one go. How does that sound?
The first 50 people to do so, can check out with the coupon code 24FREE, which gives you two of the e-books for FREE!

www.arno.photography/shop

Also lots of other cool stuff there.
arno.photography

Red ant - Formica rufa agg.
Nikon D800, Tamron 90mm, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6.

I lived here for a year. We had a glassed balcony facing the bay and I spent a lot of time shooting off that balcony. I've shot it all: rain, hail, snow, rainbow, fog, you name it.

In this picture:
A late summer night, when the longest night had gone already, and the air was cooling down in preparation for autumn, leaving the fog victorious over cold and warm.

Arabianranta, Helsinki (FI).
Nikon D800, Nikkor 70-200mm, ISO100, 30 sec @ f/8.
Three landscape images stitched together (the original is 6, with final size of 26882×4292px).

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Find the eye of the frogfish.

Cuteness is in the eye of the beholder... And since I was the beholder, I judge this cute. Giant cute, and micro cute.
And the beauty of this is, that sometimes you don't even see all that cuteness until you open the image and zoom in on screen.
That was the case here as well.

This is a giant frogfish (aka Commerson's frogfish). And while to us people it may not be giant (we are giant to it), to that tiny little isopod sitting near its eye, it very much is.
At the time of taking the picture, I didn't see the little thing, but in post I noticed it.
And I love its tiny, bright red eyes.

Then I went back and checked the other pictures I had in this series. And sure enough: once you've seen one, you see them everywhere. In the second picture that isopod is right on the frogfish's eye.
I wonder if this parasite is the cause of what happened to the eye, because that's not a normal, functioning frogfish eye...

Nonetheless... Parasite or not... still cute.

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Parasitic isopod (ectoparasite) on Commerson's frogfish (giant frogfish) / Pissebed (ectoparasiet) op Commersons hengelaarsvis ─ Cymothoidae sp. ↓ Antennarius commerson

Nikon D800 in Ikelite housing, Tamron 90mm, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Ikelite DS161 + DS51 strobes

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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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