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I've been running low on Monorail Monday shots, lately, so when the sky turned cloudy a couple weeks ago, I grabbed my camera and headed to the park with the goal of getting a few monorail shots between showers. I had been trying to get another shot from this location ever since getting a night shot from here last Spring, but the bushes had grown over a bit and it was only recently that the landscaping guys trimmed back the verge enough to open up this view again from the opposite side of the lagoon.
3 shot handheld HDR bracket via Nik Color Efex and CS5.
Happy Monorail Monday!
(Explored at #2 on 11/21/11)
Approaching RWY16L ～ 青海コンテナ埠頭とANA機
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Another frame from one of my highlight trios of 20201. Norfolk Southern Bayview based local H04 is wheeling south around the curve north of the Aberdeen station on Main 4 at MP 65.2 on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. This was moments after meeting the northbound Silver Star at speed as seen in this image and a couple others I've shared: flic.kr/p/2kS7YzL
Aberdeen, Maryland
Friday April 2, 2021
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More from Birdsong: The Trees of Birdsong
Photographed with a Pentax K1000 and a 50mm SMC Takumar f/2 on Kodak Double-X 5222 black and white negative film.
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#2 on explore,
PS: sorry guys for not being around lately ! I'm so buzy these days, many works have to be done ='), I'll be back soon
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EMD SD70M-2 NS 2707 is leading high-hood EMD GP38-2 on NS 344 heading towards Bellevue from Toledo with a large train on this day as they roll over the Portage River in Oak Harbor, OH. 3/17/19
CN Q198 holds with a SD70M-2 on the CN Waukesha Subdivision and WSOR L249 heads east with 3 GP38-2's at Ackerville Wisconsin
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A Union Pacific manifest climbs the Tehachapi grade out of Caliente between tunnels 1 and 2 on a stormy afternoon.
Allard, Tehachapi Pass, CA - December 15, 2019
Cockpit of ANA's Boeing 787.
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Explored (18 Apr 2015, #144).
Taj is huge, and also presents a high visual contrast in terms of color & light. This makes it very difficult to capture the scene the way a human eye sees it. In this series I am attempting to look at the majestic monument with a human perspective.
In the picture #2 above, I have tried to capture the Taj as seen by a person resting in the garden after the long and tiring walk around it. If you have been there, you would realize what a relief it is to get away from the maddening crowds.
This is a panorama along about 60° of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus at left, to Cygnus at centre and at right. It frames the great variety of bright and dark nebulas in this region of the sky, notably:
- the circular IC 1396 nebula at left in Cepheus with the orange Garnet Star,
- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) just left of centre,
- and the IC 1318 complex around Gamma Cygni just right of centre.
The dark Funnel Cloud Nebula, aka Le Gentil 3, is at left between IC 1396 and NGC 7000, while the dark region to the right (south) of NGC 7000 is the Northern Coal Sack, though to the eye, as here, that area does not appear as dark as the Funnel Cloud area.
The bright Cygnus Starcloud is right of centre, where we are looking down the Milky Way's spiral arm we live in. It is bordered below by the Cygnus Rift of dark lanes in the Milky Way which continue south into Aquila.
The small (on this scale) Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) and Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) are at far left in Cepheus.
The small round red Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, is at the end of a thin lane of dark dust, B168, or the Dark Cigar, at bottom left, while the tiny green Dumbbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula, is just visible at bottom right.
This is a stitch using Photoshop's Photomerge function of 10 segments, each segment a stack of 8 to 10 exposures of 1-minute each with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 800. All on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The camera was turned to portrait orientation to align the long dimension of the frame across the width of the Milky Way for greater east-west coverage. This required moving the camera by only 5° from segment to segment to ensure enough overlap. I used a ball head with an additional panorama azimuth motion with degree gradations on it to faciliate panning along the Milky Way following the galactic equator using just one simple motion.
The lens had an 82mm URTH Night broadband light pollution reduction filter on it to help increase contrast and bring out the nebulas. No narrowband filters were used here. Even so, most of the contrast enhancement was in processing with the application of a Nik Collection 6 Pro Contrast filter, plus curves with luminosity masks, and a Nebula Filter action in PhotoKemi Startools actions.
Taken from home on a fine though not fully transparent night on May 14/15, 2023 when the time for shooting this area was limited due to the short spring night. Two more segments shot to the right farther down the Milky Way were too blue and struck by dawn twilight to be usable.
Highest position in Explore = 2 on Sept. 14th, 2009. Also featured on Explore home page and Interestingness Page. Thank you!
I had the pleasure to travel to San Francisco this summer with my family. It's such a beautiful city and there are so many wonderful picturesque locations to choose from, truly a photographer's paradise. Since I hadn't been there in 10 years, I decided to reshoot several of the famous landmarks, the Golden Gate Bridge being my main interest as I had never seen it without tons of fog. During the few days I was there, the weather was unseasonably warm and again, thick layers of fog blanketed the bridge nearly every day, almost completely blocking out the sunsets. On the last evening before we had to leave, I decided to make the trek out to Fort Point for one of the many postcard views. Just as I got there, as if on queue, the fog began to lift as the sun went down. I ran (literally) up and down the beach to try and find the best location and fired off several sets. The sunset was amazing... Orange to purple to blue... I had never seen anything quite like it and had a hard time getting back behind the camera as I just wanted to sit there and soak it all in. When I got back home, this was my favorite of the bunch as it really captured the full color gradient of the sunset that had been enhanced by the lifting fog. In addition, I really liked how the last few rays of sunlight poked through and highlighted the trees over on the left, with the one solo tree on top of the hill almost perfectly framed by the bridge arch. The sailboat was a total bonus and couldn't have sailed through at a better time.
About the shot, this is an HDR composed of 9 different exposures to cover the full dynamic range of color in the magnificent sunset as well as the famous red color of the bridge. The longer exposures in the set did a great job of capturing the motion in the waves as they crashed against the rocky shoreline. Once the 9 shots were stitched together, I just did some standard post processing in Photoshop (curves, contrast, sharpening).
Sorry to all my Flickr friends who haven't seen much of me lately. Work has been full of unexpected changes and has taken much of my focus recently. The good news is that I've been out on several shoots over the summer and have at least 20 sets to still sift through and process. I'll post them over the coming weeks. I should be back in full swing and look forward to catching up on my contacts' streams and going through the hundred+ friend requests I've received recently. Please be patient if I don't get to you right away or comment on every image but please know that I enjoy going through everyone's streams and taking time to appreciate all your wonderful work. Hope you all have a fantastic week!
Also, almost forgot, a portion of my portfolio has been featured on the FREE iFolio iPhone application. There are quite a few great artists out there and some awe inspiring work so if you have an iPhone, you can download the app and take the beautiful photos with you in your pocket :-)
With only three cars, an Ex-Southern "high-hood" GP38-2 on NS train D72 crosses the CP diamond at Birmingham on Main Track 2 of the joint BNSF Brookfield Sub-NS Kansas City District. Once they get past West Voltz, they'll shove down the Grainger Lead. 10/16/21.
Once upon a time there was a smug little town perched at the edge of a deep blue ocean. All around it, trees grew. Great twisting tentacled trees. Trees with limbs like undulating snakes, like curls of smoke turned miraculously solid. The trees breathed in and out, cleaning the air continuously; their fallen leaves and acorns fed the earth around their roots, creating food and habitat for all manner of other critters. Their branches were anointed with nests; their summer shade cooled the meadow, preserving moisture through the long brown rainless summers.
The trees harmed no one. At least not on purpose. Of course there were “accidents” when people felled them; maimings, fatalities, losses of human limbs; that was to be expected. But most of the time the trees, as far as anyone in the town knew, pretty much just stood there, swaying in the breeze, changing with the seasons; anonymous, dispensable, to be hacked away without a thought when the thing called Progress demanded it.
Then one day a fairy (do you think they called them fairies because they so often set things right, or restored an order of fairness?). Anyway, one day a fairy happened by and was surprised by what she saw. She’d last visited the shore a few hundred years earlier (a short blip in fairy time) and seen a very different place.
The people who lived there hundreds of years ago led a rich and satisfying life. The sea and surrounding woods and meadows provided a diverse and nearly endless food supply. The people ate well; had plenty for the winters; lived in comfort… and had the luxury of dedicating time to art, to craft, to ceremony, song and feast. They had their hardships. Their life was not idyllic. But they cherished and respected the earth. And the trees.
The new town was different. The people there saw the trees (if indeed they noticed them at all) as barriers, as things to be removed and gotten past. They slaughtered the trees to build their houses, heat their houses, cook their food. They slaughtered more to grow crops, to build roads and shopping malls. The trees were not entirely resigned (remember those “accidents”). But they were rooted; that was the only thing that truly held them back. And so the fairy, hoping to return the place to its earlier balance, gave the trees the power of movement; made their roots fast feet; encouraged them to bring the place back to what it had been.
The trees went forward without hesitation. They had dreamed of this day for a very long time. Many had been planning it in detail for centuries. They decided to wait till late in the night when most of the town would be sleeping or distracted.
As darkness fell, they began a slow shuffle. Earth erupted as first one, then 10, then a hundred others ripped their deep thick heavy roots from the ground… setting off a string of low successive rumbles like a long roll of thunder. A soft cloud of dust rose up around the town’s outskirts as the trees moved in. They barricaded roads. Stopped traffic. And, after all those countless years of practising with only air, their long twisting talons made solid contact; pried the roofs off houses; lashed down the power lines and watched, amused as the people jerked and fried with their own innovation coursing through them. The trees systematically ripped up the town, destroyed the people’s built environment. They worked through the night until nothing artificial stood, and all the people had been killed or had fled.
By morning the trees were exhausted. Movement was new to them and they had had a lot of it. They surveyed what was left of the town and they were well and truly pleased. They lashed long branches across each other’s backs in celebration of their victory. And then.
And then one tree saw something shiny, flickering in the dust. It was small and metallic with a strange glass front that kept changing colours, patterns, frequencies of light and dark. The tree picked it up and showed it to a few of the others. They didn’t understand why or how, but the bright shiny flickering glass held their attention. Soon more trees gathered round. And they touched the object, and it made sounds. And it continued making sounds, and somehow the sounds and the flashing glassy light seemed connected – and the trees found it even more compelling.
These were all park trees. They had lived in the closest thing to wilderness there was around the town. Few of their immediate family had been slaughtered, and so they were less vigilantly anti-people than their more urban counterparts. They talked among themselves and decided on two things.
1. They would take the shiny object back to the park to amuse them. Now that they had tasted freedom, they were less keen about standing all day and night in silence with nothing to watch or listen to but weather, insects, birds and other plants.
2. On their way back, they would check the ruins of the town for any more shiny objects. If they found more, they’d take those back as well.
So the trees started heading to the park, sifting through what was left of buildings and roadways and parking lots and whatnot along the way. They found a bunch of the shiny things and shared them among themselves… sitting in groups, huddled, watching shiny colours flash.
A couple of the urban trees saw what was happening. And they were aghast. Because they knew about television. They had peered through windows. They had seen the destruction; had seen the tuned-in zombies lying motionless for hours in the strange blue flickering glow from the screens; had seen their muscles atrophy; had seen their bellies bulge and their brains go mushy from mindless inactivity.
“Please,” they said to the park trees. “Resist the temptation. The shiny things are harmful. Besides, they’ll only flicker till their batteries die and then you’ll be hooped.” Because the urban trees knew about batteries, too. And they saw how frantic and useless the people had become when their electronic gizmos died, even temporarily.
But the park trees were already hooked. “Screw you,” they said to the urban trees. “You’re just jealous ‘cause we have shiny things and you don’t. We’re keeping them.”
And they did. And a great cultural gulf grew up between the trees. The park dwellers spent all their time gathered ‘round the shiny things – hunched, staring, lifeless. They didn’t have the energy to make new leaves when spring came; they made no shade in the summer; their doubled-over trunks and folded limbs provided no habitat and… worst of all… their stretched-out roots lost contact with the earth and cut off their former supply of nutrients.
Then one day the batteries died. The flickering screens went dark and silent. And the park trees were lost… utterly lost. They’d forgotten about their former lives; had no idea how to just be trees. And besides, they were weak and sick from endless days and nights of television.
But. They had watched enough news to know what a population ought to do in that situation:
First they looked for someone to blame. They decided it should be the urban trees. Then they declared war. And mounted an attack.
It was fall. The park and the former town were crispy dry – more than usual, what with the park trees having been off the job for so long.
The park trees were weak, too… too weak to muster any full-on, tree-to-tree combat-type attack.
So they did something they’d seen on TV: rubbed their branches together… harder and harder, faster and faster… till sparks flew. And the dry grass ignited.
By the time they realized the fire would engulf them all, it was too late.
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Next up on this fabulous day trackside with some great friends from New Jersey and Virginia we headed west because they were interested in a little bonus we heard was enroute.
CSXT Selkirk to West Springfield manifest train M424 has an interesting assortment of power including two modern GEVOs, an older AC400CW in YN2 paint, a GP40-2 presumably for either the West Springfield or New Haven pools and HRRC 1512 which is being set out here along with the rest of the inbound delivery for the Hoosatonic Railroad.
The Housy is the operator of the former New Haven Berkshire Line down to Canaan and Danbury, Connecticut and this is their primary interchange point. This locomotive is the third of three newly acquired rebuilt EMD GP15Ts and a welcome sight arriving in fresh Housatonic paint. The road has been the exclusive domain of leased GATX power for the last several years so the return of this sharp green and yellow is cause for celebration. This particular locomotive was built in October 1982 as Chesapeake and Ohio 1512 and delivered in flashy Chessie System colors and then would wear several different CSXT schemes before finally being retired and ending up in the LTEX lease fleet.
They are seen here at about MP 148.2 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Sub mainline, the former Boston and Albany Railroad switching into the remains of the old West Yard located just beyond the Junction Road overpass.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
An early evening walk around Buckfastleigh.
Bluebell by the side of the road.
Helios 44-2 on Sony A7r - I love the lense flare you get with the Helios :D
札幌へ向かうトリプルさんが青海埠頭の方まで目一杯引っ張ってくれました！😃/
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on October 21st, 2021
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Kansas City Southern train 2CKCSH04 (loaded coal train off the BNSF in Kansas City) is running 2x3 DPU here at about MP 360.2 on KCS' Shreveport Sub as it grinds south (compass east) up the 1.1% grade on Rich Mountain. The Arkansas state line is about 10 car lengths ahead and the approximately 1600 ft summit of the line is about six miles away.
LeFlore County, Oklahoma
Sunday September 5, 2021
Chico
In the wilds of Huntigdon
Got this huge tick
Had to surgically remove last night
When you google removing dog ticks
You find out that ticks are quite nasty blood sucking creatures
Toxic waste !
Can't even flush the tick in the toilet
Baby you got it - Dolly Fury
Dolly was telling me yesterday ( lipstick gallery 1&2 on flickr )
That chico has got it
She said get rid of it
Please say hello to both Dolly and Chico
Dolly Fury - In Baby you got it
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A coureur de bois
Is a runner in the woods
Our Quebec and Canadian ancestors
Were Coureurs de Bois ( Explorers )
Protect yourself against Lime' s disease
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Montreal
Surrey Lake Park. With the yellow markings on the top of the bill, the 2 on the left are Tundra swan adults. The one on the right have a tinest yellow marking which makes me think it is also a Tundra
A White-crowned Sparrow on Resthaven Island, BC.
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Taken with Helios 44-2 58mm f/2
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While the Industrial Highway doesn't have anywhere near the number of rail served businesses it did a few decades ago it still offers up a few classic urban railroading scenes. No spot is better to capture the chaos than the busy crossing of Armistice Blvd. which was to be crossed multiple times while pulling and spotting longtime important customer Teknor Apex.
Providence and Worcester Railroad local freight PR-3 has started their day with a quick run out of Valley Falls yard with a single loaded covered hopper of plastic pellets and have arrived at the plant in the Darlington section of town. The crew is lining the switch at MP 2 on the East Providence Running Track as GP38-2 2007 waits patiently. Still dressed in the colors of the pre Genesee and Wyoming independent P&W this unit is original to the road having been built new by EMD for the then only 7 year newly independent company in Nov. 1980 respectively. It has spent its entire career working the of the Ocean State and its neighbors.
Rising beyond is the brick mill complex built by the Phillips Insulated Wire Company between about 1898 and 1927. The company, established in 1888, was one of the most successful manufacturers of coated wire products, in an industry that ranked as the third-largest in Pawtucket. The complex was used by a variety of owners for the manufacture of such products until 2003 and was a railroad customer for many years.
The complete complex originally consisted of one four-story brick, heavy timber structure built in 1898. Thirteen more buildings were built over time, making it one of the largest historic mill complexes in the region. It has since been repurposed into luxury lofts and condos and alas another rail served industry is gone forever with only the shell remaining as a photo prop.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Monday April 21, 2025
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I took an 80 mile detour to get to Palouse Falls after my stop in Spokane. It is really basically located out in the middle of nowhere. You drive on a gravely road and then get to park right above this amazing natural wonder. The height of the waterfall is about 180 feet and the height of the cliff I am standing on is about 377' above the pool of water. The foamy white look in the middle of the pool is formed from the minerals that are present in the water, almost like a soapy residue. This was really apparent on the back side of the falls where you look at the river and can see the residue lining the coulee walls.
Standard three exposure +2,0,-2, on my tripod (which was very close to tumbling over the cliff!), and then merged in Potomatix, and some PP in Lightroom 2 and Photoshop for the artistic effects. Do you guys like the artistic effects? I am still playing around and learning these new tools. I am trying to approach each photo, not just as a photo, but as a work of art. Would you hang a 40"X60" canvas print of this above your fireplace?
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The only Florida East Coast trains I shot on my recent trip were the exact same pair on two subsequent days. After getting this 915 local on Tuesday as seen here: flic.kr/p/2nhiUeZ I shot them again the very next day.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that even though it was the same geep, it had been turned since the prior day making for a much nicer image. GP40-2 FEC 935 (blt. Dec. 1966 as a straight GP40 for the Burlington Route as CBQ 173) has a much shorter train this time hustling south at about MP 154.2 on the 369 mile long mainline that stretches down the east coast from the St. Johns River Bridge in Jacksonville to Hialeah Yard in Miami. They have just crossed Main Street up near the historic center of town and are on the single track north of the Indian River City interlocking where the dozen miles of double main begins.
Titusville, Florida
Wednesday April 27, 2022
Spotting for the first time in a long time.
久しぶりの空活
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on Dec. 9th, 2024, 16:53
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WP GP40-2 3551 exits the west portal of Tunnel 2 on the east side of Altamont Pass on April 29, 1982.
A short time after this photo was taken, Tunnel 2 was daylighted.
Kodachrome 64 Slide.
Now, for the 3rd year running, we have another 3 young House Martins developing fast. These are the 3 egg shells found in the garden, 2 on the 29th May with an interesting fine pattern inside, (showing through the light) and the last one found 2 days later on 31st May with no patterning inside?
The shells are incredibly delicate and only the size of a small fingernail. Alas, since this photograph was taken, the birds have not visited again since 2020.
I miss fall already. I'm glad I made the effort this year to get out as much as I could around New England.
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) has four six motor units leading a big train as they round the curve approaching the Norbell Street crossing at the Palmer treatment plant at about MP 68.2 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline.
To see this same spot the prior winter check out this shot: flic.kr/p/2nCkWGu
Rebuilt SD40M-2 3476 on the point still has her classic SD45 lines dating from her Mar. 1969 construction for the Cotton Belt as SSW 9058. The old CV never rostered anything like this and the woods of central Mass sure is a long way from this old girl's days of whipping thru Texarkana on the head of the Memphis Blue Streak...but at least she's still earning her keep.
Palmer, Massachusetts
Friday October 14, 2022
Taking off from RWY16L ～ ワンワールド 777-200ER
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on April 15th, 2021
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A JASDF C-2 (38-1217) flew to Haneda with a reserve aircraft (28-1216) to attend Defense Minister Nakatani's memorial service for the victims of the Noto Peninsula earthquake and Okunoto torrential rain.
中谷防衛大臣の能登半島地震・奥能登豪雨犠牲者追悼式への参列のために空自のC-2(38-1217)が予備機(28-1216)と共に羽田に飛来しました。
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on Jan. 1st, 2025, 14:06
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I saw 2 on one flower today but I was to slow to focus,
Although in the past I only saw them at dust this year I see them all day long,
normally I will go to the garden and check the fish and flower beds at 9 am after I get home from work, often there after till sundown, just before the sundown all insects start to roost in their favorite spot, normally on dense vegetation and tall trees,
I love to know were these go, its impossible to track them down as they move so fast,
Check out the nectar drops on his Proboscis!
Faint aurora with a hint of crescent moon to light the scene -
Grafton NSW
Though I'd have a go as the night was so still and clear - The sensor showed a bit of glow, the eye saw the barest hint of warm light over the dark horizon.
Still as thinks go it's the best I've seen to date ..
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
ISO6400 f/1.4 10s (-1ev as reported by the light meter)
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex, tweaked in Topaz AI-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
NB - did mess up on this one far too much choma from running wide open - f/2 on this works so much better ... must be getting out of practice..
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Sa Pa Vilage – We were cutting the rice again today at Ker’s paddies. Red rice and steaky rice. Again there were friends helping, including So and Cha. The Hmong have several unique skills, among them jewelry making. These are the traditional Earing that every married woman wear in combination with many ring earings of the same large size. It would take the jewelery maker about two days to make a pair with only one tiny, 2 inches sharp metal chisel. I watched one do that from a few silver coins he melted. With very simple tools, he created a work of art.
This image was taken at the end of the day and the Bokeh was provided by another woman, Chain’s hair pins. You can also see the intricate work on So’s collar embroidery, a trade mark of the Hmong.
To read more about the Black Hmong and the Sapa community, check other images in this Rice set.
You are invited to view other images about RICE planting and harvest here:
www.flickr.com/photos/napix/sets/72157605373398672/
More about Rice, shortages and price jump: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
Sorry,
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Also not much on line now, will catch up with all of you when I’m back :)
Batwing butterfly is the new butterfly at our exhibit. Very beautiful.
Description
Wingspan - 88 to 136mm.
Male : Tailless. Above, the butterfly is bluish-black and unmarked.
It has a scent patch in a rounded black-brown dorsal fold. When the fold is opened, the white lower half of the scent patch can be seen.
The abdomen has white stripes. The head of the butterfly is rose-coloured.
Female : Tailless. Above, the butterfly is grey-brown. It has dark stripes in between the veins. It has a large pale patch below vein 2 on the upper forewing.
Male upperside rich velvety blue-black. Fore wing: outwardly towards the terminal margin and the whole of the hind wing except the dorsal area have in certain lights a rich dark purple bloom, in others a very dark green; dorsal area and the whole inner side of the sexual fold opaque brownish black; outer half of fore wing with pale adnervular streaks more or less prominent. Underside similar; fore wing with the adnervular pale streaks broader, more prominent, extended further inwards well up to the terminal margin. Hind wing: ground-colour more uniform blue-black than on the upperside. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; the head in front, on the sides and beneath, the sides of the thorax and of the abdomen rich crimson ; beneath, the thorax and abdomen black, the latter with lateral black spots in addition on its crimson sides.
Female. Upperside dull black. Fore wing with the pale greyish-green streaks very broad and prominent, especially in interspaces 1 and 2, the streaks extend also into the cell. Hind wing more uniform, with a dark dull blue, in some lights dark green, bloom. Underside similar, the streaks on the fore wing broader and paler; hind wing as on the upperside, more uniform, duller, opaque. Antennae and thorax black, abdomen dull brownish black, head crimson; beneath as in the male, but the crimson less bright, especially on the sides of the abdomen and without the lateral spots on the latter.
In Sikkim, according to Elwes and de Niceville, it occurs from quite low elevations in the Terai up to 7000 feet. Its almost uniform dark colour renders it inconspicuous in the jungle, and it is therefore difficult to account for its being further protected by a disagreeable smell and probably taste. Wood-Mason has recorded that the females have a strong and disgustingly rank musky odour.[1]
Taken from the observation deck of Haneda Airport. (Re-edited)
羽田空港の展望デッキから撮影。(再編集)
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on June 23rd, 2016, 15:48
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Nothing beats the sound of three EMDs hard at work on a hill, and KCS local freight L71 puts on a real show as they grind uphill through the tiny community of McLaurin, Mississippi. KCS 6092 leads the charge, the last "Gray Ghost" SD40-2 on the KCS roster.
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