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As FlyFisherMike and I were scouting Hatchie NWR and Oneal Lake, we were finding some nice driftwood pieces. This is one put to use in the backyard area.
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Just as a sentinel keeps watch over its domain, trees stand sentinel over the land, their branches reaching towards the sky like outstretched arms, embracing the world around them bridging the earthly and the ethereal.
These silent guardians stand witness to the passage of time, offering shade and shelter to all who seek them.
As with many power generating companies, there is a push on to gravitate away from coal to other sources. Hoosier Energy is now no longer an exception, having announced on January 21, 2020, that they plan to have the almost 45-year old Merom Generating Station closed in 2023.
That gives anyone wanting to see Indiana rail Road's red SD90Mac's pulling coal trains just shy of three years to do so. It will be gone before you know it.
Almost to the plant are 100 loads from nearby Oaktown mine on a December afternoon.
As the sun declined, I discovered these two cup agrions in this face-to-face encounter.
When night falls, these damselflies group together on common or nearby supports, and hide behind them with their long silhouettes when they detect a presence.
Enallagma cyathigerum, the cutting agrion, is a species of odonate insect that belongs to the European damselflies.
Agrions colonise the banks of clear, slow-flowing, well-oxygenated watercourses that receive plenty of sunlight.
The main threat to the agrionid is the modification of its habitat by man (mowing, dredging, water pollution). A National Action Plan for dragonflies was set up in 2010, with the aim of acquiring new knowledge about the ecology of the species in order to improve the protection of its habitat.
Freehand shot in natural light at the ponds in my village in Haute Normandie (France)
Fujifilm X-T5 + Fujinon 80mm f2.8 macro lens; 1/2000s at f/4; ISO 125
As the snow melted the winding river is still covered in ice. I am looking forward to the area, to coming alive. The animals returning, to graze in the fields below. Waiting for green to show.
London Scenes – Various – Part Three
As the title infers, these will be slices of London, hopefully including every aspect of life. Including Architecture, Sculpture, People, Graffiti, Transport, Doors and pretty much everything I have seen over the past 10 to 15 years of photography.
As I was unlocking the van, Jessie was busy nosing around under a tree, looked up and there the vulture was watching.
Suddenly he flew directly at us, I had to duck down and then realized he was protecting his next meal and was not about to share with Jessie!! I was thankful as I would not have enjoyed driving home with a stinky dog!!
Using as much common sense as we can muster, we head out into the COVID-ladin world. Oregon had just started what they called Phase 1. In doing that they opened a few State Parks. This one had been on our radar for a long time. I had been bird dogging the web site to see when it would open. As it turns out, I caught it just as they updated. They were going to open tomorrow. So the next day, as early as I can get the family out of the house, we set out for White River Falls State Park. This is in eastern Oregon, on the desert side of Mount Hood. They say you are not supposed to travel far under Phase 1, this was about 2 hours away. That was probably further than the State would like to see. However, we were sure to get gas locally and take food. Shy of the nice folks we met at the park, we interacted with no one.
The Ranger at the Park said we were the first people to get there on the first day they were re-open. He seemed glad to see us and the nice camp host talked our ears off. Clearly glad to see humans.
The Falls were in perfect form. See, you need to hit this waterfall at the right time. To early and its all white or brown form the glacial silt that runs through it (hence the name). Too late in the season, and I mean a week too late, and it looks like someone turned off the water. This day the flow was strong and the water quite clear.
We drove out through the Gorge and looped back over Mount Hood. All around a very pleasant drive. Sadly, it was a ton of driving for only about an hour at the falls, but still a great time had by all. Even the dog.
This was mid May in 2020, a time we will look back on as a very strange time. I hope I read this in 5 or 10 years and laugh about it. I hope.
As you can see from the poster screen we are no longer playing in Port Townsend. We are now playing inside of our second brain, your phone. Watch people walk off the dock staring at their phone. Now that makes me laugh out loud!
*In Explore*
Sunset colors over Capitol Peak
Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA
Camera: Fujifilm X-T5
Lens: Tamron 18-300 mm
Settings: ISO 500, f/6.3, 1/30s, 60 mm
So as some of you know, I got a puppy for the first time in my life. Never imagined how it would feel to own such a beautiful pure being & of course, that it requires not only petting, but hard work & responsibility, to help him be his own best self.
Also, had the puppy blues after a couple of days & still feel a little uneasy... after all I will remain strong for him, because that is my duty. 🐶💫💙
created for::TMI contest nursery rhime inspiration challenge
created too to: digitalmania group
background by Rubyblossom
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inspired in Vladimir Kush
No threads or cables, pure muscle and technique. Aya Okumura in "Don Quixote" from Dutch National Ballet/Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam.
© 2018 Marc Haegeman. All rights reserved.
Check out my gallery from his production: www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com/donq_hnb_2018/index.html
As I was editing the image I noticed that there are small drops of water that are falling off the pelicans wings as he was taking off. I think this one is going to be printed.
As the Rio Grande Zephyr traveled between Salt Lake City and Helper, the train faced the morning sun. An exception was three miles of track through Gilluly, where the right of way reversed direction through the Wasatch to keep the grade at or below 2%.
On April 11, 1976, train No. 18 has reversed direction at the lower horseshoe, and will return to an eastward facing direction at the upper horseshoe on the ascent to Soldier Summit.
As quite a number of you have asked here is how I do the texture.
First of all you do need to have Photoshop, I am sure you can do it in another way but I don't know that and maybe someone else does.
«It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream».
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Blog Post
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Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Your eyes maybe whole
But the story I'm told
Is your heart is as black as night
You lips maybe sweet
Such that I can't compete
But your heart is as black as night
I don't know why it came along
At such a perfect time
But if I let you hang around
I'm bound to lose my mind
'Cause your arms maybe strong
But the feelings are all wrong
Your heart is as black as night
I don't know why it came along
At such a perfect time
But if I let you hang around
I'm bound to lose my mind
'Cause your hands maybe strong
But the feelings are all wrong
Your heart is as black
Your heart is as black
Oh, your heart is as black as night
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Will we speak to each other
making the grass bend as if
a wind were before us, will our
way be as graceful, as
substantial as the movement
of something moving so gently
We break things in pieces like
walls we break ourselves into
hearing them fall just to hear it.
- "The Answer" by Robert Creeley
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'As the Movement'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: ORWO UN54
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 8mins
Nebraska
June 2026
As Hibernia was getting off the ground last March, Alvaro posted their Baserunner, and I loved everything about it. I just had to build one, so I added a removable bed covering to the chassis that still allowed for some cargo to be stowed underneath.
Built for Hibernia: Antares Union Outpost display at BrickFair Virginia 2021.
As far as temperatures and the general weather situation are concerned, autumn has returned today.
So after yesterday's spring fever, let's carefully approach reality.
However, so that the transition doesn't feel so violent, we'll start without fog, rain or snow for the time being.
Instead, we find ourselves on an October morning in the Königsbrück Heather and admire the sight of the autumn-colored red-gold ferns on the forest floor, lit up by the newly risen sun.
Was die Temperaturen und die allgemeine Wetterlage anbelangt ist der Herbst heute zurück gekehrt.
Also tasten wir uns nach den gestrigen Frühlingsgefühlen mal vorsichtig zurück heran an die Realität.
Damit sich jedoch der Übergang nicht so heftige anfühlt, beginnen wir vorerst ohne Nebel, Regen oder Schnee.
Stattdessen finden wir uns an einem Oktober Morgen in der Königsbrücker Heide und bewundern den Anblick der herbstlich gefärbten rot goldenen Farne am Waldboden, die von der gerade aufgegangenen Sonne zum Leuchten gebracht werden.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
As another day ends in Powder River Basin at At 8:48 p.m. on June 18, 2015, two BNSF coal trains meet on Logan Hill, Wyoming. The lights and water tank of the town of Bill are on the left horizon.
As the light of a short winter's day gave way to darkness and the shadows of early evening disappeared this silent white spectre of ghostly beauty passed momentarily before my eyes filling me with a cold electric thrill.
This photo holds something of the wonder of the moment for me.
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