Friday, 2 August 2013

Friday at the Flicks - Bees on Buddleia

A couple of days ago I was processing some cloud photos in Elements. As I finished tweaking the final one the program suddenly grabbed all memory and locked up. A forced closure and restart showed that all the work had been lost. I couldn't be bothered to go through it all again.

Looking around for other photo processing software I found Paint.NET, a free program so downloaded it along with some extra free effects plug-ins to try it out. Here are a couple of early trials:

The originals:
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Both can be enlarged.

The finished results, foreground deliberately kept dark:
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Only the one video this week. While the large buddleia bush was in full flower it attracted plenty of bumble bees:



Unfortunately it has now finished flowering.

Have a great weekend observing the world around you.
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5 comments:

  1. ADRIAN2 August 2013 at 11:23

    That is a bit naughty of Elements.
    Summer is brilliant this year. It should allow nature to catch up a bit.

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    1. Midmarsh John4 August 2013 at 10:06

      Not the first time Adrian. I must remember to save each one as I finish it.

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  2. TexWisGirl2 August 2013 at 17:04

    your sky shots turned out well! love the bee on the butterfly bush!

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    1. Midmarsh John4 August 2013 at 10:08

      tWG: There have been lots of nice cloud formations recently. The Buddleia has done well this year.

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  3. Sue Garrett12 August 2013 at 11:29

    Our buddelais have been great too and much loved by the hoardes of peacock butterflies.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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