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As we forge into March and Spring just up ahead, I stumbled upon an image from back in October of a blanket of red leaves around this majestic tree.
Loose Park, Kansas City, MO.
Mike D.
As part of an extended aerobatic display, Vermilion Flycatcher goes into a steep dive while pursuing midges above Old Port Isabel Road in Cameron County, Texas.
As I mentioned the other day, the 327 was a real smoker. Here it is facing the right way, and again at Browns, Illinois.
half as good. Luckily this is not difficult :-)
Charlotte Whitton
Climate Change Matters! Resist!!
bearded iris, 'Hemstitched', j c raulston arboretum, raleigh, north carolina
As you can see, the male Bowerbird has this funky pink crest that adorns the back of his head and the nape of the neck. THis was the best shot I could get of it as he obviously wasn't trying to attract me with his charms.
"The males, which grow to about 35cm long, have to construct a twin-walled tunnel bower, stretching 1m long and 45cm high, within a cleared ‘courtyard’ just to catch the glance of a female. And even if he builds and maintains the tallest, most robust bower in the region, he’s still not going to get much of a glance if he’s not decorating it at either end with hundreds of colourful paraphernalia – rocks, seeds, bones, shells, pieces of glass, and all kinds of plastic objects of all kinds of colours.
The idea is for the female to enter the bower tunnel to inspect the male’s handiwork, while also inspecting his own pink crest, which he’ll show off to her in the most enthusiastic fashion" Australian Geographic
How Romantic!
As the Snow Goose approaches its chosen landing spot it drops its feet with the webbing maxed out and then the wings change shape. Air brakes engaged.
Near Fowler Beach, a part of Prime Hook NWR, Delaware.
As my spring break comes to an end, the people of Metro Community should be proud of my progress. I worked on quite a few dioramas, including renovating KDON Radio and Law. Here Whitney becomes acquainted with her very own office space as Don's legal assistant.
This little one continues to establish herself as a formidable friend or foe of Elizabeth's. ;)
Have a great week, everyone!
As the light fades the Grotto Grid is seen heading through Althorpe. This special will eventually arrive at its destination of Trowbridge at 23.56. 66171 will bring up the rear.
Photo taken two years ago as the world was just about to implode.
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Oak Creek as it flows below Castle Rock in Sedona Arizona.
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This is taken at Castle Acre Priory located at Castle Acre, Norfolk, England and is managed by English Heritage. Although the Priory is a ruin parts of it still stand including the front of the church which can be seen through the doorway.
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Some days I have to pinch myself as a photographer living in a city like London. It's ever changing skyline is a delight to explore but there are some iconic locations that whenever I see them, and trust me I've looked at this composition of the Millennium Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral literally hundreds of times over the years, that just keep pulling at my eye. I've taken a variation of this shot literally tens of times, probably more, but every day is different. Different skies, different light, different cameras, different lenses, different focal lengths - it's always worth shooting again.
This was taken back in October and I was shooting this old Leica lens on a mirrorless Olympus camera for the first time. It may sound like an expensive setup however it is anything but. The Olympus is a ten year old 16 megapixel camera, not very impressive by today's standards, and the 90mm lens, while it may have Leica written on it is at least 50 years old and can be had on eBay for around a hundred pounds (I paid £85 for my copy). I can't describe the pleasure I get from handling these old manual focus lenses, it's so different than using a modern auto-focus lens. They aren't particularly sharp in comparison but then I ask myself, how sharp does sharp have to be? I know many will disagree but for me this picture is sharp enough and the joy I get from using that old lens far outweighs any disappointment I may have of producing a picture that is not razor sharp. My joy of photography is as much to do with the taking of the pictures, the getting out there and walking with my camera, as it is to do with the pictures I produce, strange as that may sound. Perhaps that's why film photography has become such a staple in my life.
Olympus OMD-EM10 Mkii
Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8
As part of their hunting strategy, this lioness's job was to keep an eye on the warthog which was being stalked by the other lioness from the opposite direction.
Alas, i am still looking through old images in the hope of finding potential shots previously discarded that may still be worthy of a fiddle in lightroom. So i am now back to Iceland shots from my visit last year. Hoping to go again next year but traveling iceland solo looks like an expensive experience!!! :-(
As we waited along the the park road biding our time. We were hopeful we might be able to witness several of the large bull moose we had seen in the area the previous day. While we would see them later before they showed up this bear wandered through the area without a care in the world.
The confluence of Schulz Canal (commences as Kedron Brook) and Moreton Bay at Nudgee Beach lookedcalm and entirely benign when I took this shot sometime ago. There is a small jetty which is adjacent to a dog park and if you walk out along the canal on the left hand side, the beach is an off leash dog walking area. The opposite side of the canal included the old suburb of Cribb Island and Jackson's Estate, subsumed during a major Brisbane airport upgrade some 40 years ago. That area is now well out of bounds and given that the recently opened second main runway is closer this way, all the more an area not to venture into. If you zoom in a bit, you will see a bulk tanker on its way into the Brisbane River and Port of Brisbane which sits out off the end of the airport.
Since the shot was taken, the disastrous February floods have been and gone. The canal, which for most of its length is known as Kedron Brook and wends its way serenely through the suburbs and parkland carried what was probably a record amount of water out into the Bay. In fact, where it passed the big shopping mall at Toombul which usually loses its car park in significant floods, it completely inundated the shopping centre for the first time since it opened in 1967 to the extent that it is now closed and being restored, not expecting to reopen until very late in the year.
As the sun sets, the last ferry from Mahé arrives in La Digue.
Seychelles, 26.12.2018
Die letzte Fähre
Mit dem Sonnenuntergang trifft die letzte Fähre von Mahé in La Digue ein.
Seychellen 26.12.2018
Grote Barmsijs - Common or mealy Redpoll (Acanthis flammea).
Last winter a large invasion, but before that I'd hardly seen any for over a decade.
As pretty as this dove is, it is not a Mourning Dove as I thought when I took the picture. This is a Eurasian Dove not native to this part of the world. More interesting to me is that they only arrived here in 1999. Apparently it was introduced to the Barbados and then it has spread up the west coast. It sounds a lot like a Mourning Dove (probably why I was confused), but it coos all day unlike a Mourning Dove, which mostly coos in the morning.
..... as followers of my stream will know (probably all too well), these trees feature often, in my landscape shots. I pass them most days, and they never look the same two days running. The light hit the hills behind them, as I walked by this day. A fleeting moment, but so lovely.
I'll be away for a few days, see you all soon.
As minhas vizinhas. Na tabanca de Inorei, Ilha de Canhabaque, Guiné-Bissau em fevereiro de 2016.
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Meine Nachbarinnen. Im Dorf Inorei, Ilha de Canhabaque, Guiné-Bissau im Februar 2016
As the early morning fog burns away, Rail Traction Company’s Class 189, No.189 902, which is currently on hire to Lokomotion is pictured rattling through Assling (between Munich and Rosenheim) with an intermodal service bound for Italy.
Black aphids infesting a Reflexed Stonecrop, scientifically known as Petrosedum rupestre (formerly Sedum reflexum)
... as well as speedy. A group of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), including a male and 5 does (they have small horns) check out the bipedal creature with the long barreled viewing object. This is a small part of a very large meadow, extending from Stanley ID up toward the Sawtooth Range, that had as many as 60+ pronghorn in it, along with dozens of elk and sandhill cranes.
As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, leaves change to rich reds, yellows and brown.
It also brings wind and rain, in the UK we have a "temperate " climate; meaning we get neither extremes of hot or cold. But we do get months of dull,dank, dismal rain. Not monsoons but persistent all permeating cold drizzle.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang.
As I get ready for my trip to Africa, the backyard birds still demand their free food. They will miss me while I'm gone!
This stylized build of the Grand Canyon is part of a RebelLUG collab to showcase different national parks. I chose the Grand Canyon because of its iconic status and distinct appearance. I tried to use as many earth-toned wedge plates as I can to create the patterns of the sedimentary layers.
As you've probably noticed by now, I'm a big fan of sunrises.
I often leave very early to photograph these. In the summer it can happen that I don't even go to bed one night because I'm already on my way at half past one in the morning.
My plan is always to reach my destination an hour before sunrise so that I can experience this magical atmosphere before the day begins.
And in rare cases I manage to get a shot like the one you see here. When the full moon hovers over the mist-covered Elbe valley.
In terms of composition, the photo is certainly not a masterpiece. After all, you can't choose where the moon sets, but when I look at the photo, I remember that moment up there on mount Rauenstein in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and my joy at having captured this scene (It was my first photo that morning and I was already satisfied).
And this memory makes the photo something special for me and I hope I was able to pass a little bit of it on to you.
Wie Ihr inzwischen sicher schon bemerkt habt, bin ich ein großer Fan von Sonnenaufgängen.
Um diese zu fotografieren bin ich häufig sehr früh unterwegs. Im Sommer kann das schonmal passieren, dass ich eine Nacht garnicht erst ins Bett gehe, weil ich mich morgens halb zwei schon auf den Weg mache.
Mein Plan ist immer, eine Stunde vor Sonnenaufgang an meinem Ziel zu sein, damit ich diese magische Stimmung vor Tagesbeginn noch miterleben kann.
Und in seltenen Fällen gelingt mir dann auch so eine Aufnahme wie die, die Ihr hier seht. Wenn der Vollmond über dem nebelbedeckten Elbtal schwebt.
Hinsichtlich der Komposition ist das Foto sicher kein Meisterwerk. Schließlich kann man sich ja nicht aussuchen, wo der Mond unter geht, Doch wenn ich das Foto betrachte, erinnere ich mich wieder an diesen Moment dort oben auf dem Rauenstein im Elbsandsteingebirge und an meine Freude diese Szene eingefangen zu haben (Es war mein erstes Foto an diesem Morgen und ich war schon zufrieden).
Und diese Erinnerung macht das Foto zu etwas Besonderem für mich und ich hoffe, ich konnte ein bisschen was davon an Euch weiter geben.
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Ageratum houstonianum, commonly known as flossflower, bluemink, blueweed, or Mexican paintbrush, is a cool-season annual plant often grown as bedding in gardens
Today, it is widely used as an ornamental plant for summer borders and balcony boxes, high varieties also as cut flowers. The species is cultivated once a year, having numerous varieties whose crowns may be dark blue, purple, pink and white.
The generic name “ageratum”, which means ageless, forever young - due to the ability to bloom for a long time and retain the color of flowers, the plant received from a Greek particle. α - “not” and the word γεραιός - “old”; species - in honor of the English physician and botanist William Hewstone (1695-1733), researcher of the flora of Mexico and South America.
Barely a month old, WM SD45 #7445 is seen wearing it's as-delivered red, white, and black paint scheme on July 13th 1969 at Port Covington. You'll notice the initial lack of black paint over the grills and radius of the long hood, and the lack of white background behind the road numbers. This engine later became CSX 4618 and was retired circa 2007. It was purchased by the George's Creek Central, but it appears it arrived at Metro East Industries in St. Louis ten years ago and never left. Who knows what the future holds for this one. JM Seidl photo, JL Sessa collection.
As you may know, I'm really into trees. Of course not so much that you would call it a fetish. But I'm pretty fascinated by them. And this has several reasons.
Firstly, there is the obvious. They produce oxygen and thus create the basis for life on this planet. In addition, such a tree is a habitat for countless other organisms, both above and below ground.
And then there is the lifetime. A tree lasts for many human generations. I often ask myself, especially when I stand under a specimen like this, as you can see here, what this tree may have seen in its life. Or what the surrounding area looked like when it first poked its tip out of the ground.
These thoughts often occurred to me during my cross-country journeys and hikes in Thailand. Because I saw some examples here that made me pause in awe.
This one, on the edge of a small village, is one of them.
Wie Ihr vielleicht wisst, stehe ich ja total auf Bäume. Natürlich nicht so sehr, dass man es als Fetisch bezeichnen würde. Doch ich bin schon ziemlich faziniert von denen. Und dies hat mehrere Gründe.
Zum einen ist da das Offensichtliche. Sie produzieren Sauerstoff und schaffen so die Grundlage von Leben auf diesem Planeten. Außerdem ist so ein Baum ein Lebensraum für unzählige andere Organismen und das sowohl über als auch unter der Erde.
Und dann ist da noch die Lebenszeit. Ein Baum überdauert viele menschliche Generationen. Ich frage mich sehr häufig, vor allem wenn ich unter einem solchen Exemplar stehe, wie Ihr hier seht, was dieser Baum in seinem Leben wohl alles gesehen haben mag. Oder wie die Umgebung wohl aussah, als er das erste mal seine Spitze aus der Erde gereckt hat.
Bei meinen Über-Land-Fahrten und Wanderungen in Thailand sind mir diese Gedanken häufig gekommen. Denn ich habe hier einige Exemplare gesehen, bei denen ich kurz vor Ehrfurcht inne halten musste.
Dieses hier, am Rande eines kleinen Dorfes, ist eines davon.
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