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OTHER HOBBIES => OTHER HOBBIES => Topic started by: Smokin Don on November 18, 2014, 04:36:26 PM
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Nov 18 2014
Yes fall and winter; that’s the way it’s supposed to be. I think this year Mother Nature has it mixed up! Monday morning we woke up to about 2+ inches of snow; we got a little more through the day but it stayed around 32 deg. so it wasn’t too bad.
Monday night the temperatures fell and we got wind with 30 mph gusts. I think it might have hit single digits overnight. At 10 AM it was just 13 deg. It has been windy all day today. Mother Nature never let my pear tree shed its leaves; some still green, before winter came. A lot of the leaves have been blowing off today.
I think all of you out there are seeing colder than normal temps, 49 states reported freezing temperatures!
Monday morning it was pretty out, the wet snow with no wind let it stick to everything. Then Tuesday with all the wind as I sat on my back porch looking out; the leaves from my pear tree looked pretty on top of the snow. I took a picture of them and enhanced a little with Photoshop elements; adjusted light levels, sharpened and made the color of the leaves stand out more with a filter. I added a white border with a drop shadow. I thought it looked nice and showed that Mother Nature was a little mixed up this year.
Monday morning
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/My%20Favorite%20Photos/_B173612_zps93bc0ece.jpg)
Fall leaves over winter snow
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/My%20Favorite%20Photos/_B183614_zps29152991.jpg)
Smokin Don
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We have been having a cold spell here in Alabama, got down into the low 20's which is brutal for us. It is 37 out there now and I don't even want to go out and get the mail. You can keep all that white stuff up there.
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Great looking photos Don!
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Ken - we are hoping to hit those "highs" this weekend....
Those are some very nice shots, Don. Thank you for sharing them!
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Oh Don, that is just lovely!! I love the picture with the leaves on the snow. Beautiful colors. Haven't messed with Photoshop at all, though I know you can do some great enhancements to photos.
We've had about a week of being in the low 20s at night, and we got some pretty nasty freezing rain for a couple of days in there. Our little red maple out front had kept it's gorgeous red leaves on late this year, and it ended up looking like blown glass after the rains.
(http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae138/katrinarounds/leaves3_zpsd6863320.jpg) (http://s965.photobucket.com/user/katrinarounds/media/leaves3_zpsd6863320.jpg.html)
(http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae138/katrinarounds/leaves2_zpsd6d41f85.jpg) (http://s965.photobucket.com/user/katrinarounds/media/leaves2_zpsd6d41f85.jpg.html)
(http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae138/katrinarounds/leaves_zpsb2a78b6d.jpg) (http://s965.photobucket.com/user/katrinarounds/media/leaves_zpsb2a78b6d.jpg.html)
Knock on wood, so far we've kept the water lines in the barn from freezing, and it's supposed to warm back up above freezing the rest of the week!
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I like it better on my screen than on my yard. :D
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Wow! I need to get outside.
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I sure don't envy all that white stuff Don!
Nice pictures everyone!
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Great shots of the leaves in ice Kat!!! You can take the freezing rain though, it makes things look pretty but can sure do some damage. Don
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Great looking photos from you both. Kat, I would rather have a foot of snow than that freezing rain, it is pretty but much more dangerous and destructive than snow.
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Don and SK, great photos. They just made me shiver.
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It's cold for us in Alabama, but no white stuff yet ...thank God .
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I'm with you on the snow vs. freezing rain!! We're lucky that we didn't lose any power lines or major tree branches!
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This is for Kat and others to see what a little touch up with a photo program can do for your digital photos. Most digital cameras do not get the lighting levels right on for a great photo. I use Photoshop Elements to correct this and do an unsharp mask, which actually sharpens the edges. That's about all I do to my photos. I liked her leaf photo so I downloaded it and the first photo all I did was, correct the level, gave it a little soft light, and did the edge sharpening.
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/My%20Favorite%20Photos/leaves_kat_zps61cf3db3.jpg)
I played with this second one and did this in about 10 minutes. I used the first photo and traced the leaf, made a layer of just the leaf on top of the original, I gave the leaf a drop shadow. Then I blurred the bottom layer and then merged the two layers to get this. It would have been better if I would have traced the whole branch the leaf was on.
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/My%20Favorite%20Photos/leaves_kat2_zps66d6b847.jpg)
Smokin Don
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Beautiful pics, We made it down to 29 here on the coast of Alabama. Too cold ... But, we are headed back up to 70 by Saturday. Our weather changes by the hour...
Not a good sign for any of us to be so cold so soon.
But those are really nice pics!
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Wow, that is impressive for a few minutes of work, Don! I've tossed around the idea of doing an online class or something to learn some of those tips/tricks-- I can only imagine what you could do with a real camera (instead of a cell phone picture)!!!
Thank you for sharing!!
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Great looking pictures. ;)
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Thank y'all for the great pictures. I really appreciate the skills y'all possess. Dee
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Sorry guys but i am so happy i am at home .
it is in the 90
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Sorry guys but i am so happy i am at home .
it is in the 90
LOL - tease!
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Here's a little Hummingbird trying fluff up and stay warm when it was 23° F last week. We have the Annie species that don't fly south so I have to feed them year round and keep there nectar from freezing in the feeder. He has some awesome red colors the camera never seems to catch and really guards his feeder close.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t139/asbachman/DSC00170_zpse8508534.jpg)
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Great picture Key. If we have any year round Hummers I have not seen them. All of ours have flown south. The hummingbird feeders are down and the bird feeder are up.
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Back in the high 60s tomorrow, So a fishing I will go.... Should get a couple Mobile River Delta shots. Hopefully a couple Reds and Specks too...
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Here's a little Hummingbird trying fluff up and stay warm when it was 23° F last week. We have the Annie species that don't fly south so I have to feed them year round and keep there nectar from freezing in the feeder. He has some awesome red colors the camera never seems to catch and really guards his feeder close.
It's nice you get to enjoy them all year KM! Your Annie is probably like my Ruby Throated, you can only see their bright colors if the sun reflects right. I am kind of glad mine go south for the winter, I get tired of changing their sugar water! Don
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Great Photos! I am impressed! Getting the focus on that is not easy
Now can someone pass me a Corona?!!!! ;D
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Great looking picture of the little hummer Key. ;)
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Here's a little Hummingbird trying fluff up and stay warm when it was 23° F last week. We have the Annie species that don't fly south so I have to feed them year round and keep there nectar from freezing in the feeder. He has some awesome red colors the camera never seems to catch and really guards his feeder close.
It's nice you get to enjoy them all year KM! Your Annie is probably like my Ruby Throated, you can only see their bright colors if the sun reflects right. I am kind of glad mine go south for the winter, I get tired of changing their sugar water! Don
We change the nectar about every 4 days. This is the first year we really got into Hummingbirds and I probably should blame that on you Don and your fine pictures :) The wife has named this one Garth and he actually comes when you call him according to the wife :D Hope he makes it through the winter.