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2024 reFocus Color Photography for Landscapes:
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Mid-June late spring wildflowers partway up Steptoe Butte - with The Palouse below. Loving the light, cloud shadows, & colors!
Steptoe Butte is a thimble-shaped, 3,612-foot tall quartzite mountain in southeast Washington State, USA. Atop the butte, the natural eye has 200 miles to view Idaho and Oregon as well as surrounding mountains, including the Blue and Bitterroot mountains. This entire area was originally home to the Palus People who are said to have described Steptoe Butte as having a view that’s a 10 day ride in all directions.
Today, The Palouse encompasses the top wheat producing county & the 2nd highest barley producer in the US - & is dotted also lately with bright yellow canola fields.
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Horsehead Nebula IC 434
Flame Nebula NGC 2024
NGC 2023
IC 435
IC 432
IC 431
Alnitak
Nikon D810
Nikon 500mm f4
Orion Atlas Pro EQ mount
F5, ISO 10,000, 60 sec. x 91 exp.
20 x Dark
250 x Bias
Location: Clingman's Dome, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Conditions were not great, with haze and clouds passing through but I was eager to get out under the stars. A heavy fog rolled in as I was shooting the dark frames about an hour before sunrise. Looking forward a chance to see what I can do with this lens once conditions improve this winter.
Was in Valley of Fire Nevada State Park. There where some little cute chipmunks running around.
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After a cloudy and rainy day there were 15 nice minutes in the evening...
Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen, Zandvoort
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Ahreum's Diary: 07-09-2024
Photographer & Model: Ahreum Song (JangSungYoung)
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Sorry, this is a bit delayed. Ive got a bit behind on my postings. This is from new years eve 2024/2025. Shot taken at Mullaloo beach at sunset. I could not resist the colours and the water in this shot.
Flash: August 5, 2024; An individual has been observed in San Francisco. This is a first sighting of this species in the state of California.
This warbler species was pretty comfortable with us getting close. It was an active bug eater, fanning its tail to get bugs to jump or doing a "flycatcher" flight from a perch to snatch a bug and then fly back. It was constantly on the move in a green brushy area probably at around 6000' elevation on the road to La Bufa near San Sebastian del Oeste.
This species ranges from the Southwest US (rarely) down into Northern South America. The red breast changes to yellow in the southern portions of this specie's range.
It's been awhile since I posted our smallest red dragonfly on its favorite perch, so here's the Cardinal Meadowhawk on Horsetail Grass, both 330 million years old.
Sympetrum illotum, the cardinal meadowhawk, is a species of skimmer in the dragonfly family Libellulidae. It is found in North and South America as well as parts of the Caribbean Island chain. And that's pretty much all that's said about this beauty.
2024 [LIFER]- International
Location: Fushan Ecological Park, one of the highland national park, Taiwan
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This duck was at least 100 ft away. This is a cropped image.
Canon r7 x rf800mm, handheld (No tripod, Luggage overload).
The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter. The Eurasian teal is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range.The bird gives its name to the blue-green colour teal.
Aurora looking west down the Blue Ridge Parkway, shot handheld with iPhone 15 Pro Max in RAW mode and processed with an Adobe vivid color profile, it's as sharp as day The aurora was all over the sky, even above us. Amazing. ©2024 } John M. Hudson
22.03.2024 - 19:00 - 22:00
University of Music, Würzburg, Kammermusiksaal Residenzgebäude
In times of upheaval, change, uncertainty and a decline in values,
of lies and disorientation, it is always helpful to return to the basis,
the nature of things, and to one's own history.
In the case of the Western musical tradition,
this is the art of Johann Sebastian Bach, who - like nature itself -
creates compositions with the greatest freedom and virtuosity using very few resources, which are perfect on all levels of music
(melody, harmony, timing, form, emotion).
My interpretation of the second book of the
'Well-Tempered Clavier' (rarely performed in its entirety)
does not use a sustaining pedal; it is characterized by
the strictest articulation and motivic characterisation,
clearly drawn architecture and polyphony,
but at the same time by freedom at all levels of interpretation.
The result is a 'new' Bach - completely uninfluenced by other interpretations of this masterpiece.
NGC 2024 and Barnard 33: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
Taken February 18-20 and 27 and March 8-9, 2020 near Seattle, Washington
Telescope: TEC 180 @ f/5 using Astro-Physics Quad-TCC
Camera: QHY600
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO with CP4 and APCC-Pro
Capture Software: SGPro and NIINA
Exposure:
Ha: 6 hours 45 minutes (27 x 15 min, bin 1x1)
OIII: 5 hours 45 minutes (23 x 15 min, bin 1x1)
SII: 6 hours 45 minutes (27 x 15 min, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 19 hours 15 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8
We spent a long weekend in Ely, Nevada. We photographed the Milky Way over the Ward Charcoal Ovens, and a windmill in the desert. We walked the city of Ely photographing the unique buildings, and we photographed the trains, the buildings and the people at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum
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Went Downtown Las Vegas Nevada in the Arts District, with my beautiful friend Anna. I love her eyes and smile
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A C40-8 leads the daily M33891 eastward along the Freeport sub. CN is really the only class 1 left to being using these standard cab dash 8's in general service. 2024 is the ex CNW 8526 and the 5611 is one of only 25 SD70I's manufactured for CN.
2024 Blue Bird Vision
Seats 66C-45A
Ford 7.3L V8 Gas
thought it would be fun to spec up a vision to what my "ideal" specs would be. I'd probably also add on a one-piece windshield and silver grille insert, along with a handful of other stuff not visible from this angle but this is definitely the majority of what I'd go for.
*Original Photo Credit -- Westchester School Bus (www.flickr.com/photos/144996861@N04/)*
M42/NGC 2024/Barnard 33 Complex
Taken December 10 and 20, 2017 near Seattle, WA
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 130D @ f/3.3
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon 6D
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO
Filter: IDAS V4
Exposure:
3 hours 41 minutes (72 x 180 sec and 20 x 15 sec)
Total Integration Time: 3 hours 41 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8
VLIX 2024 continues to masquerade as Clinchfield 3632 for now, posed with the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's WWII Guard Shack from the K-25 Site here at Oak Ridge. The shack was donated by the Department of Energy for use as their ticket booth when the Secret City Excursion Trains were still running. While the plant was in service, it was on tall stilts and had a spotlight to guard the north rail entrance into the facility.
K-25 was the top secret Manhattan Project facility that enriched the uranium used in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan for by the United States, quickly bringing the war to a close.
Tonight, Heritage Railroad Corp. Train Y101 is a yard job is using the SD45 and the F7A for a set of switching moves in preparations for the next day's run to the NS Interchange at Blair.
Behind the 3632 is CRR 800, an EMD F3A built new in December 1948, later rebuilt to F7A specifications in 1957, and served Family Lines, Seaboard, and CSX before going into private ownership, later C&O Paint, then full restoration to Clinchfield colors by the CSX Huntington, WV Locomotive Shop for the 2017 Santa Train.
Here operator Gabe Passmore hoops up orders to Engineer Alex Wood at Wheat with a genuine Missouri Pacific Speed-Fork from my collection.
Locomotive: CRR 3632
12-30-20
Oak Ridge, TN
2024
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Brought forward once again, 2023
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I'm bringing this photograph forward once again. 20 years - could it be true?
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I am bringing this photo forward - it was first posted two years ago after our visit to NYC.
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- Reflecting Absence, Ground Zero, 9/11 Memorial, New York City, New York, USA -
I didn't know 'Edward V. Rowenhorst' nor any of the other 2,980 persons that perished but I remember and honour them all as best I can with each anniversary of 9/11. I found on our visit to New York City that the memorial that has been created is at once both subtle and powerful, evocative and yet healing. It was a difficult task to choose how to photograph the site, in fact, I nearly didn't photograph it at all.
Quoted from 'The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey' ... "The eight-acre Memorial consists of two reflecting pools, each nearly an acre in size, which feature the largest man-made waterfalls in North America. The pools lie within the footprints of where the Twin Towers once stood and the names of those who perished in 2001 and in 1993 are inscribed on bronze parapets surrounding the pools."
Niet de 2005 maar wel deze 2024 heeft de "eerste" afscheidsrit (op 11 mei 2013) van de reeks 20 gereden. www.flickr.com/photos/johnybrauns/8739687306/in/photostream/ Hier met een mooie bedevaartstrein? Let op de eerste "Wagon Lits" restowagon! Van de originele groene 2005 heb ik geen toonbare opname!
"Esperança"
Temps de Flors 2024, Girona.
Girona se convierte en un gran jardín urbano con la llegada de Temps de Flors, una fiesta primaveral que este año 2024 se celebra del 11 al 19 de mayo, ocho días para vivir todo el color y la belleza de la naturaleza. Como en todas las ediciones anteriores, la ciudad se adorna con vivos arreglos florales que engalanan edificios emblemáticos del casco histórico y un sinfín de rincones y plazas, dando vida a un espectáculo que cada año regala imágenes irrepetibles.
La 69 edición de la fiesta Temps de Flors, una exhibición de flores y plantas en jardines, calles y monumentos, regresa en 2024, llenando la ciudad de Girona con su esencia de deleite primaveral y en contacto con la naturaleza. Además de calles, plazas y escalinatas, espacios interiores como claustros, los subterráneos de la Catedral o los Baños Árabes, junto a un sinfín de patios habitualmente privados, volverán a abrir sus puertas para recibir a un público entregado.
En total, este año se pueden contemplar 109 instalaciones florales repartidas en 12 barrios gerundenses: Barri Vell, Can Gibert del Pla, Carme, Devesa, Eixample, Fontajau, Mercadal, Montilivi, Santa Eugènia, Sant Narcís, Taialà y Vall de Sant Daniel. Algunos están realizados por jardineros profesionales, mientras otros son obra de asociaciones vecinales e incluso estudiantes de colegios e institutos.
Girona becomes a large urban garden with the arrival of Temps de Flors, a spring festival that this year 2024 will be celebrated from May 11 to 19, eight days to experience all the color and beauty of nature. As in all previous editions, the city is adorned with vivid floral arrangements that adorn emblematic buildings in the historic center and countless corners and squares, giving life to a spectacle that each year provides unrepeatable images.
The 69th edition of the Temps de Flors festival, an exhibition of flowers and plants in gardens, streets and monuments, returns in 2024, filling the city of Girona with its essence of spring delight and in contact with nature. In addition to streets, squares and staircases, interior spaces such as cloisters, the basement of the Cathedral or the Arab Baths, along with an endless number of usually private patios, will reopen their doors to welcome a dedicated public.
In total, this year you can see 109 floral installations spread across 12 Girona neighborhoods: Barri Vell, Can Gibert del Pla, Carme, Devesa, Eixample, Fontajau, Mercadal, Montilivi, Santa Eugènia, Sant Narcís, Taialà and Vall de Sant Daniel. Some are made by professional gardeners, while others are the work of neighborhood associations and even students from schools and institutes.