I found Flickr's handling of last year's spam attack utterly inadequate to the point of terminating my pro membership.
Apparently, although all my work is Creative Commons licensed, I'm still limited to 1000 items and uploads are now "locked".
So that's over a decade's work, and the longest-standing social networking site I know, come to an end.
If you wish, you're welcome to follow me over on twitter or my FB page ShinyPhoto or even instagram if you want.
All the best
~Tim
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Night-time slows
Raindrops splash rainbows
Perhaps someone you know
Could sparkle and shine
— Lightning Seeds, _Pure_
First light! The obvious famous double, Mizar and Alcor in Ursa Major, the first photo made with my Skywatcher Quattro 8” f/4 scope with L filter and Altair 1600MM mono camera.
HDR: a bunch of frames from 0.5s up to 60s.
Registration and stacking in ASTAP.
Two stretches in ASTAP blended and final tonal tweaks in Affinity.
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Light and dark: shapes of birch and pine trees casting shadows, silhouetted against bright sunlight.
Beautiful landscape discovered on the outskirts of the Rannoch area in Highland Perthshire.
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The Allt Camghouran river (surprisingly low water levels despite the storms only a few days previously) flowing down a rocky gorge outside Camghouran, Rannoch.
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Looking west to the hills of Glencoe, a contrast of warm orange skies and blue shadows.
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