One day I’ll fly away - (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE) by DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES . . **** This

One day I’ll fly away - (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE) by DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES . . **** This frame was chosen on June 7th 2019 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #100. This is my 126th photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr’s way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time – usually over a 24 hour period. Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute – That’s about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That’s only one image in every 17,000!….. so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 31.700+ Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. ***** . . Photograph taken at an altitude of Twelve metres, at 10:40am on Tuesday June 4th 2019, on a an overcast and drizzle filled morning off Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards Road in the grounds of St James’s Park. Situated in the City Of Westminster, the Park spans twenty three Hectares and is the oldest of the Royal Parks of London, with a variety of visiting and nesting birds that include Ducks, Canada Geese and Pelicans. Here we see seven Mute swan cygnets(Cygnus Olor) on the lake in St James’s Park, with two very proud parents just out of shot. . . Nikon D850 Focal length 300mm Shutter speed 1/125s Aperture f/16.0 iso900 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 6880 x 4584 FX). Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration (Normal) selected . Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. AF Area mode single. Exposure mode - Manual exposure. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. Auto 1 white balance. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal. Active D-lighting on Automatic. High ISO Noise Reduction: On. Picture control: Auto with Sharpening A+1.00. Nikkor AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E. Hoya UHC 67mm UV© filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. . . LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 9.10s LONGITUDE: W 0d 8m 7.80s ALTITUDE: 12.0m RAW (TIFF) FILE: 90.50MB NEF: 64.7MB PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 19.70MB . . PROCESSING POWER: Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18) LF 1.00 HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit. https://flic.kr/p/2ga7G3T -- source link

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