Shieldbug and bluebells.
📆 2023-05-13
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Olympus 25mm f/1.2
🎛 1/1600s, f/4, ISO 200
🤖 Sharpen and denoise in Topaz Photo Ai
📍 Craig Gwyladus, Vale of Neath
Troy Kaighin Astarte
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Hobbyist photographer: nature, birds, insects, plants. Hobbyist DJ: drum & bass. Lecturer in computer science for a day job. insta @tkastarte.
I’m voting #Yes in #UCUrising ballot for better working conditions, pay (especially for lower paid colleagues!), and a return to a fair and healthy pension. @ucu
On a grey morning in February, a squirrel leaps excitedly onto a tree stump covered in goodies.
📆 2023-02-24
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Panasonic Leica 200mm f/2.8 + TC 1.4
🎛 1/2000s, f/4, ISO 3200
🤖 Topaz Photo AI denoise and sharpen
📍 Gnoll Park, Neath
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Squirrel #WildlifePhotography
Gulls fighting over a starfish.
📆 2023-02-05
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Panasonic Leica 200mm f/2.8
🎛 1/2500s, f/2.8, ISO 80
📍 Worm's Head, Rhossili
🤖 Denoise and sharpen in Topaz Photo AI
Last remnants of a mushroom.
📆 2023-02-05
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Panasonic Leica 200mm f/2.8
🎛 1/1250s, f/4, ISO 200
📍 Worm's Head, Rhossili, Gower
🤖 Denoise and sharpening in Topaz Photo AI
Which long-eared owl do you prefer—eyes in focus, or beak? Note this is a captive bird.
📆 2023-02-14
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Panasonic Leica 200mm f/2.8
🎛 1/2000s, f/2.8, ISO 1250
📍 British Bird of Prey Centre, National Botanic Garden of Wales
Some fun with snowdrops and sun.
📆 2023-02-14
📍 National Botanic Gardens of Wales
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Panasonic Leica 200mm f/2.8
🎛 1/1000s, f/5.6, ISO 320
🤖 Denoise and sharpen in Topaz (newly acquired)
#FlowerPhotography #NaturePhotography #BotanicGardens #Spring
#Solidarity from our first day of #Strike for #UCURising. Picketing Swansea University Bay Campus, and then the #RightToStrike rally in Swansea with a speech from our branch co-president Nika and support from the #NUS.
Sunset in #Swansea bay.
📆 2023-01-24
📷 Olympus E-M1X
🔎 Sigma 16mm f1.4 DC DN
🎛 1/1600s, f/5.6, ISO 200
📍 Aberafon Beach
Pied flycatcher.
📆 2022-04-19
📷 Nikon D500
🔎 Sigma 150-600 C
🎛 1/640s, f/6.3, ISO 640, 600mm
📍 @RSPB Carngafallt