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Photo Walk, March

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Photos 5, Pixelfed 9, Personal 28
Current music:
Envy — 
Awaken Eyes
Current drink:
Peppermint Tea

After Pixey.org seemed to disable the Pixelfed API, it stayed this way, so I still don’t have a good way of retrieving the info I need for reposting photos easily from it here. But! My Firefox’s console history kept the quickly written script that I did for getting this info from the opened photo page there, and it still works!

My messy script, so I could reuse it from here the next time lol
(() => {
	const photo = document.querySelector('.card-img-top');
	const data = {
		url: document.URL,
		"content": document.querySelector('.status-text')?.textContent,
		"created_at": document.querySelector('.media-body .timestamp')?.title,
		"reblogs_count": Number(document.querySelector('button:has(.fa-retweet)')?.textContent.trim() || 0),
		"favourites_count": parseInt(document.querySelector('button:has(.fa-heart)')?.textContent.trim(), 10),
		"edited_at": null,
		"replies_count": parseInt(document.querySelector('button:has(.fa-comment)')?.textContent.trim(), 10),
		"location": document.querySelector('.location')?.textContent.trim(),
		"photos": [
			{
				"url": document.querySelector('.card-img-top')?.src,
				"preview_url": photo?.src.replace('.jpg', '_thumb.jpg'),
				"width": Number(photo?.getAttribute('width')),
				"height": Number(photo?.getAttribute('height')),
				"alt": photo?.alt,
			},
		]
	};
	const fileName = `${document.URL.match(/\d+$/g)[0]}.json`;
	const blob = new Blob([JSON.stringify(data, null, 4)], {
		type: 'application/json'
	});

	const pseudoLink = document.createElement("a");
	pseudoLink.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
	pseudoLink.download = fileName;
	pseudoLink.click();

	return blob;
})();

Trees

It was late March, and leaves started appearing on the trees. Although, for the bigger oaks it was harder to see the leaves on their big branches at the top sometimes.

A photo of an oak tree, its dark spiderweb-like silhouette against a clear blue sky. The branches are leafless, but with a few tiny sprouts here and there, almost not noticeable for now, but adding a hint of green.
That’s a lot of branches.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of an oak tree, its dark spiderweb-like silhouette against a clear blue sky. The branches are leafless, but with a few tiny sprouts here and there, almost not noticeable for now, but adding a hint of green.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Deeper in the forest, I encountered a few nicely-looking glades full of small flowers. I thought this one specifically was nice, with the hollow at the ground level. You could imagine some animal using it as their home:

A photo of a small forest glade, with many white flowers covering the grass below the dense trees, and with a single bigger tree in the middle, with a small hollow near the ground level. The sun lights up some trees and flowers, many tree branches are green, but some are still covered with the dried yellow leaves from the past year.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a small forest glade, with many white flowers covering the grass below the dense trees, and with a single bigger tree in the middle, with a small hollow near the ground level. The sun lights up some trees and flowers, many tree branches are green, but some are still covered with the dried yellow leaves from the past year.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Some of the older oaks in the forest are pretty tall! In the later People section it will be easier to understand how tall they can be, but yeah, they can get tall.

A photo of the three tall oaks standing in the forest among much smaller trees. The three trunks are brightened by the sun, and they're slightly twisting when going up. Only the trunks with a few branches are seen in the frame. Under the trees, the ground is covered with fallen leaves, but there is enough greenery to give a sense of an early spring.
Published:
on Pixelfed
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A photo of the three tall oaks standing in the forest among much smaller trees. The three trunks are brightened by the sun, and they're slightly twisting when going up. Only the trunks with a few branches are seen in the frame. Under the trees, the ground is covered with fallen leaves, but there is enough greenery to give a sense of an early spring.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

There were occasional overgrown stumps, sometimes with something resembling inventory tags.

A photo of a big oak stump in the middle of the forest. It is covered by green vines, and is surrounded by grass, fallen leaves, and smaller trees in the background. A small wooden sign can be barely seen on it, with the number 25 visible, alongside some other symbols.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A photo of a big oak stump in the middle of the forest. It is covered by green vines, and is surrounded by grass, fallen leaves, and smaller trees in the background. A small wooden sign can be barely seen on it, with the number 25 visible, alongside some other symbols.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Flowers

I don’t have a proper macro lens, but I like to make photos of small flowers like these.

A photo of a few tiny yellow flowers (likely Ficaria verna) growing on an incline in a forest, shaded from the sun. While almost everything else in the frame is blurry, it could be possible to decipher that the flowers are growing from the base of an uprooted tree.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a few tiny yellow flowers (likely Ficaria verna) growing on an incline in a forest, shaded from the sun. While almost everything else in the frame is blurry, it could be possible to decipher that the flowers are growing from the base of an uprooted tree.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Maybe I need to get something more dedicated to macro, although I wonder if you really need a proper flash setup for that? I enjoy not having to think about flashes or tripods, but maybe the way I shoot will be fine for those flowers, after all, they’re not quick insects that will run away from me.

A photo of a single white flower — a Wood Anemone. It sticks out of the ground covered in fallen leaves, although almost everything except for the flower and its leaves are out of focus.
Lost a bit of detail in the petals here.
Published:
on Pixelfed
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A photo of a single white flower — a Wood Anemone. It sticks out of the ground covered in fallen leaves, although almost everything except for the flower and its leaves are out of focus.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

For the flowers on the trees and bushes, a macro lens is not as required, of course.

A photo of a green bush with a few stems of not yet blossomed white flowers — likely Cherry Laurel. Its leaves are very green and are highlighted by the sun shining through the forest’s canopy.
Published:
on Pixelfed
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A photo of a green bush with a few stems of not yet blossomed white flowers — likely Cherry Laurel. Its leaves are very green and are highlighted by the sun shining through the forest’s canopy.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

But going closer to the ground, yeah, I’d love a bigger magnification. First time noticed these weird green flowers.

A photo of a two stems with tiny green round flowers — Wood Spurge. Only the flowers on one of the stems are in focus, and they have a very pleasing light-green color.
Published:
on Pixelfed
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A photo of a two stems with tiny green round flowers — Wood Spurge. Only the flowers on one of the stems are in focus, and they have a very pleasing light-green color.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Cherry Blossoms

And, of course, there were many cherry flowers.

A photo of a flowering wild cherry’s branch with a few white flowers and green leaves on it. The branch is highlighted by the sun, and most of the flowers are in focus. The background is a blur of some greenery, likely leaves on the trees behind.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a flowering wild cherry’s branch with a few white flowers and green leaves on it. The branch is highlighted by the sun, and most of the flowers are in focus. The background is a blur of some greenery, likely leaves on the trees behind.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8
A photo of a wild cherry tree’s branches in full bloom, with all branches covered in thousands of white flowers. The thin branches and flowers take up most of the frame, and a clear blue sky is visible in the background.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A photo of a wild cherry tree’s branches in full bloom, with all branches covered in thousands of white flowers. The thin branches and flowers take up most of the frame, and a clear blue sky is visible in the background.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8
A photo of a few low-hanging branches of a wild cherry, covered in many white flowers and fresh green leaves. The flowers are mostly in focus, and the background consists of blurry, leafless, and flowerless branches with tiny spots of blue sky behind.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A photo of a few low-hanging branches of a wild cherry, covered in many white flowers and fresh green leaves. The flowers are mostly in focus, and the background consists of blurry, leafless, and flowerless branches with tiny spots of blue sky behind.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8
A close-up photo of one wild cherry branch with a few white flowers on it blossoming between green leaves. Sunlight creates shadows on the flowers’ petals, and the background is a fully blurred gray-blue backdrop.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A close-up photo of one wild cherry branch with a few white flowers on it blossoming between green leaves. Sunlight creates shadows on the flowers’ petals, and the background is a fully blurred gray-blue backdrop.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

The above photo could also benefit from a macro lens — some of the branches that were closer to the ground had some nice details.

Birds

Where there are tree, there are birds.

A photo of a bird (maybe a carrion crow, but hard to tell) sitting on a tree. Only the bird’s silhouette is visible against a clear blue sky, but there are a bit more details in the mostly leafless branches of the tree, although there are occasional green sprouts here and there.
Birb.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a bird (maybe a carrion crow, but hard to tell) sitting on a tree. Only the bird’s silhouette is visible against a clear blue sky, but there are a bit more details in the mostly leafless branches of the tree, although there are occasional green sprouts here and there.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

I guess, for those, I’d need the opposite of a macro lens, haha. But my 75mm (150mm equivalent for the full frame from my m43) was good enough for some of them.

A photo of a carrion crow sitting on top of a tree, on a fully leafless dead end of a branch at the very top. The branches below are also still leafless, but with some not yet sprouted leaf buds visible. Most of the frame is taken by the clear blue sky.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a carrion crow sitting on top of a tree, on a fully leafless dead end of a branch at the very top. The branches below are also still leafless, but with some not yet sprouted leaf buds visible. Most of the frame is taken by the clear blue sky.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Pidgeons!

A photo of a dozen or so pigeons sitting on the tree branches in various poses. The sky is shining, the tree is leafless, the sky behind it is blue.
Published:
on Pixelfed
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A photo of a dozen or so pigeons sitting on the tree branches in various poses. The sky is shining, the tree is leafless, the sky behind it is blue.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

Magpie!

A photo of a magpie walking on the short grass. It has one leg up while doing a step. Sun is shining, and there can be a tree trunk’s shadow visible on the grass. Most of the grass is out of focus, but there are occasional yellow flowers visible here and there.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a magpie walking on the short grass. It has one leg up while doing a step. Sun is shining, and there can be a tree trunk’s shadow visible on the grass. Most of the grass is out of focus, but there are occasional yellow flowers visible here and there.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

People

When the forest got closer to the terrace, you could see more people.

A photo of a wide path in a forest between the trees, with a dozen or so of people further along it walking. The trees are tall and mostly leafless, although with a few early greenery starting to appear, and their branches almost form a canopy arc at the top, through which a bit of a clear sky can be seen. Closer to the horizon a clearing can be seen.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a wide path in a forest between the trees, with a dozen or so of people further along it walking. The trees are tall and mostly leafless, although with a few early greenery starting to appear, and their branches almost form a canopy arc at the top, through which a bit of a clear sky can be seen. Closer to the horizon a clearing can be seen.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

I like how trees form arcs on top with their branches. Although those oaks were younger than some other that I saw, it was still fun to think about the scale differences between people and the trees.

A photo of a wide dirt path between the trees in the forest, coming to a clearing in the forest with a signpost standing there. Three people and a dog can be seen, with sun shining brightly over the clearing covered in a green grass. There is a bunch of greenery around: grass, and some leafs, although some of the trees are still a bit leafless.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A photo of a wide dirt path between the trees in the forest, coming to a clearing in the forest with a signpost standing there. Three people and a dog can be seen, with sun shining brightly over the clearing covered in a green grass. There is a bunch of greenery around: grass, and some leafs, although some of the trees are still a bit leafless.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

As usual for my walks, a photo of La Défense from the terrace.

A photo of a view over Paris’ skyscrapers of La Défense on the horizon, with many trees and smaller houses between them in the valley before the skyscrapers, which are faint blue and almost fading into the blue hazy sky above them.
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on Pixelfed
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A photo of a view over Paris’ skyscrapers of La Défense on the horizon, with many trees and smaller houses between them in the valley before the skyscrapers, which are faint blue and almost fading into the blue hazy sky above them.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

That was a Saturday, a nice spring day, so plenty of people walking along the terrace.

A photo of a view over the park terrace, with the forest visible on the left, and a view overlooking Paris on the right (only trees below are seen). There are two paths on the terrace, with grass in-between, and many many people walking under the clear sky. There is a child on a bicycle who stopped and looks over the scene, various groups of people walking together or alone with a dog, and there are many yellow flowers that can be seen on the green grass.
Some dogs, some bycicles.
Published:
on Pixelfed
Alt:
A photo of a view over the park terrace, with the forest visible on the left, and a view overlooking Paris on the right (only trees below are seen). There are two paths on the terrace, with grass in-between, and many many people walking under the clear sky. There is a child on a bicycle who stopped and looks over the scene, various groups of people walking together or alone with a dog, and there are many yellow flowers that can be seen on the green grass.
Camera:
OM System OM-3
Lens:
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8

I need to get out more often, take my camera more often, and publish stuff here more often as well!

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