I promised a few days ago that I would bring you a photo that “blows my socks off”.  Well it is here, the second photograph down. None of these photos have been taken by me. They are a round up of great images from Flickr. All of them show motion in one way or another. There are some lovely images here, that catch the eye a scene and the imagination.

My favourite is a great creamy swirl of light. It is full of detail and colour, pulling your eye deep into the photo. I really love it, it catches my eye and mind. Some photos just work and for me this is one of them.

The other two photos I love here are the seagull and sparrow. I think the sparrow photograph is a great image. The detail in the bird is beautiful and the whole scene makes for a truly outstanding shot.

Please let me know what you think of these images by re-tweeting and commenting on this post…. I look forward to reading some feedback!

photo credit: Ivan Zuber

photo credit: Éole

photo credit: bichxa

photo credit: Hamed Saber

photo credit: ViaMoi

photo credit: Vermin Inc

photo credit: MyNameHere

photo credit: Tigresblanco

Have a look at the photographs below and tell me what you think by commenting on this post. If you have any photo funnies to share, please send me an email…

Please visit the links below the funny pictures to see the original images and photographers flickr site.

Somthing fishey

laszlo-photo’s photostream

Balls of Texas

512 Photography’s photostream

Funny sign

Me-Liss-A’s photostream

Laughing at you

jpockele’s photostream

Strange Creature

Pixel Addict’s photostream

K-mart sale

Cosmic Kitty’s photostream

Hot day

mandj98′s photostream

Some things can't be answered by GOOGLE!

Mykl Roventine’s photostream

I love wave photographs and I have found some great ones here to share with you all. Waiting for a great ocean swell to pick up and running out with your camera to try and capture the power and beauty of these swells really gets me excited. I enjoy surfing, but only small swells!! There is something intoxicating about waves. A stormy day in Cornwall will see thousands of people heading to the coast to watch the waves and feel the wind in their faces. Now for the photographs:

Sunset Wave

Hamed Saber’s photostream

Big Water - Ludington North Breakwater Light

mandj98′s photostream

Sea spray

*clairity*’s photostream

Surf thunder

colmsurf’s photostream

El Surf

Lanpernas 2.0′s photostream

Windy day at Sandys

RKHawaii’s photostream

I am a wave

Hamed Saber’s photostream

Wave at Cape Cornwall

From Digital Scene

Leven Wave

From Digital-scene

Porthleven Storm

From digital-scene

Coast Guard takes on the wave

kevincole’s photostream

I just love that last photograph, if you have any similar photos then please share them with us.

I have had an interest in birds (the feathered variety) for many years. I flew birds of prey from the age of 12, flying a Kestrel. From there I have flown Peregrine’s, Lanner’s, Harris Hawks, Buzzards, Hybrid Falcons and Sparrow hawks. I worked as a falconer on 3 airfields and did display work as well. In all, Raptors have played a huge part in my life.

As well as Falcons and Hawks, My dad used to keep aviary birds. He is also a keen ornithologist. This has rubbed off on me, I am not someone who treks around the country to spot birds, but I will travel to see what I class as interesting species. Generally Hawks and Falcons. I remember watching a Gyr falcon for hours on one of the airfields I worked on. These huge powerful falcons are  truly inspirational.

Anyway, for this weeks photo round up I have chosen photographs of birds to share with you all. Please visit each photographers link to view other photo’s they have.

Birds

wili_hybrid’s photostream

Grulla bird model

kekremsi’s photostream

pelicans observing

exrorro’s photostream

Mr Toucan would like to make

faeryboots’ photostream

Angels in fury

Jsome1′s photostream

Bird Tour

Jsome1′s photostream

If you have any bird photographs please email me or comment on this post. I would love to see some of your bird photography work

An iconic vehicle, especially here in Cornwall with the surfing scene as strong as ever. The VW Beetle and Camper are very popular. Cared for like a member of the family and enjoyed as a recreational vehicle, the following is strong.

If you walk into any surf shop in Cornwall, you will find some great photographs of VW’s as well as many small toys, key rings and other holiday trinkets.

Due to the large and popular following the VW has, I thought it would be easy to find a great collection of images on Flickr. I was wrong! But here are the best photos I could find to share with you.

I think I will speak to a few friends who are VW owners, take my camera and get some images!!!!  Anyway, have a look at the photographs below from Flickr members, and if you like their photographs, have a look at their profile.

Van Williams and Bruce lee

Elmo Alves’ photostream

Volkswagen Beetle

HAMED MASOUMI’s photostream

VW Beetle

Marcell aka drugue’s photostream

VW Reflex

Elmo Alves’ photostream

Injured VW

extranoise’s photostream

If you have any VW photographs to share or you would like some photographs of your VW then please contact us here – Digital-scene photography contact form. If you own a VW get your camera out and send in some photographs!

Well this was going to be a post of Apple Tree photographs from the web, sadly I couldn’t find any really good ones, so I have opted for photographs with apples in them, or apples as the main subject matter.

Have a look at this collection of 5 apple photos and comment on this post if you like what you see, or you have any ideas for future posts.

Remember this is not my work, just a collection of photos from the web…..

Apple Drop

Delphine -’s photostream

life is like you eat it

circo de invierno ~’s photostream

Snow White

apesara’s photostream

Reflecting apple

ArtNow314′s photostream

Apples

Daniel Zanini H.’s photostream

HDR means High Dynamic range. Capturing a photograph with well exposed tones is the main goal in photography, but this is very hard to achieve with a single exposure.

There are a few methods of creating an HDR photograph, I will cover two here but if you google it you will find a few others and some great tutorials. I am not going to explain how to do it, just cover the basics.

• Bracketing – this requires take multiple photographs, usually at least 3 shots of the same image at different exposures. A simple rule is take one image at +2ev, one at 0ev and one at -2ev. You then layer the image and blend it to show the full range of colours from shadows, highlights and mid-tones. This will give you HDR!
• RAW images – If you can take photographs in RAW format, you can then expose the image at any levels you require, saving each image and then blending once again to create HDR. This method is great if you are taking landscape photographs and have clouds moving quickly. This way you get sharp clouds and not 3 images of the clouds all in different places.

There is specialist software that will tone map your photographs and create the image for you – Photomatix is a popular software solution.

Below is a collection of HDR photographs. Please take time to view each artists flickr page!

Through my Window

HAMED MASOUMI’s photostream

Caracara takes off

wili_hybrid’s photostream

Australian War memorial

stage88′s photostream

Brisbane Sunset

Burning Image’s photostream

Old Jeans Are Best

digicla’s photostream

Geisterbahn

extranoise’s photostream

If you have any HDR photographs you would like to share, please email Digital-scene.com. If you have a question please comment on this post and to keep current with the posts here join our RSS feed

Having spent a long time looking for black and white seascapes, I have discovered that there are not many out there. Of all the photography disciplines, this seems to be a very sparse area of photography. I really do not understand this, the ocean makes a fantastic black and white subject! I am not saying that there are none, but its not as common an art form as for example the “black and white portrait”.

Textures on the sea, rocks, sand and pebbles scream black and white to me. I feel that taking the impact of colour away from a photograph, draws they eye deeper into it, requiring a little more time and thought. Adding a new element into the photograph, like time really boosts interest and depth of the photographic image.

Here is a small collection of  black and white seascapes. Please visit the link to each photographer and view there other work.

Oh Why Oh Why?

jasontheaker’s photostream

- The best photographer on Flickr in my opinion!

Black and white skies

notsogoodphotograp hy’s photostream

Escarião’s photostream

Digital-scene

I would love to get any feedback from you by commenting on this post below – let me know your thoughts on these images. A big thanks to all the photographers!!

Here is a collection of some of the best moon photographs i can find on Flickr. I have not tried to take many moon photographs, but it always fascinates me. The moon somehow looks close enough to touch on occasions, yet its thousands of miles away. The shapes and light reflections hypnotize and have fascinated man kind for years.

If you have any moon photographs to share please contact me by email. Don’t forget to visit the links of the images you like to see what other photographs these guys have on show – some will amaze!!

The bird and the moon

*L*u*z*a* lack of inspiration’s photostream

Mighty Tycho - moon

makelessnoise’s photostream

The bird and the moon

*L*u*z*a* lack of inspiration’s photostream

Moon reach photograph

aussiegall’s photostream

Moonrise photograph

GenoDM’s photostream

Many of these lake photographs would have required getting to locations very early in the morning and possibly a long and arduous walk, to get to the prime location, to take the photograph. Another advantage of getting to a lake early, is there are not other humans there to ruin the natural photograph.

These lake photographs all link to the original photographer, some of which have other great photographs in their galleries – spend a few moments and check them out.

I would love to get some feedback on this collections of lake photographs from around the world, so please comment below.

Double Bows

Nicholas T

Convict Lake sunrise

Lexdennphotography

Tso Moriri Lake

Parbhu B

Quarter past 5

Debassis

Early Morning Mist

Mysaz831

The Narcissist

Nailbender

Pastel sunrise

Lexdennphotography