Just Before Flying Off by Mark Stevens
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An image captured of a grackle just prior to flying off. I was enjoying a morning stroll with my golden retriever along the hike and bike trail around parts of Lady Bird Lake when I came across this bird. I was able to capture a few images before as I slowly approached, but then used the zoom lens to bring more of a centered focus to the bird itself along on the fenceline.
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As much as I'll happily play devils advocate for e-scooters, jesus it is terrifying seeing a 12 year old child barrel down a footpath on one of those things, anyways you should throw bricks through your local government members windows until they install a safe bike network around every school and local amenity
A Scottish heavy duty dutch draft centaur pining over a shy innocent and sweet cow hybrid reader, unbeknownst to him reader does the same. One hard day at work he was doing his usual rounds when he overheard this one particular werewolf talking about courting her- Hearing this he knew he had to do it first! Only thing is he doesn't know how to. So he awkwardly gave you a largemouth bass fish as a gift "..'ere I caught ye' aè fish twas aè bugger to catch but I thought ye'might like it!-" it was very unexpected and it took you a while to finally respond "Y-you got this for me..?" he slightly got red and embarrassed "A-aye this f'you..it might not be much but Just thought a sweet lass like yer might like it-"
( this is A heavy duty dutch draft they were oftenly used to haul boats from the canal with the cargo)
Storm Clouds and Rain Over New Mexico by Mark Stevens
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While at a roadside pullout along US Hwy 82 just west of Hope, New Mexico. The view is looking to the north to some passing storm clouds with rain falling down across this part of the Chihuahuan Desert. My thinking and composing this image was to capture a look across the pretty much flat landscape with the storm clouds gathering above. I decided that I wanted to have the horizon lower into the image, so that I could include more of the skies above, especially with the one centered where rain, was coming down. I expose for the highlights and brighter portions in the skies above, knowing I can pull out the more shadowed areas later in post-production. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 6. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 5 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.