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Apologies for the lack of activity on here over recent weeks but I've had a busy summer with 3 family weddings to attend including my daughters. I'll try and catch up with everyone when I can.
A while back I had report of a Cattle Egret on my patch, this is an unusual species for Surrey so I was pleased to catch up with this particular bird amongst the cattle.
Apologies for not catching up with my flickr friends this week, it's been a bit fraught. I took this leafless tree at Toowong beside the Brisbane River as it's curly and fuzzy branches and twigs were a bit different. Goodness knows if it is dead or just deciduous. Otherwise it is just The Tree!
Apologies for being an absentee Flickr contact.
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Apologies for the lack of activity this summer as we spent several weeks back in our adopted home.
This was a small herd of 14 beauties, close to the shore line of Loch Etive.
Red Deer Herd - Cervus Elaphus
Ardchatten - Scotland
As always I am grateful to all those who kindly take time to comment on and fave my photographs.
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Explore August 31st 2023 #483
Apologies, posting more from previous visit RSPB Suffolk
Many thanks to all those who fave or comment, much appreciated
It's been a while since my last post. Apologies for the recent absence - I always knew it was going to be a busy week even before all of the extras that emerged after this Saturday evening visit to Holywell Bay and Carters Rocks. But there's certainly been a lot of stuff going on; most of it good, but all of it eating up amounts of time. By the time I got to Friday evening I was ready for a rest; especially after the second episode in our recent return to Friday night five a side football. Lockdown has played havoc with my fitness.
Monday was especially eventful as I prepared for my penultimate college Governors' meeting at work. I was pleased to hear from an old friend of mine who'd retired after nearly forty years in education in the September before last. After the usual exchange of pleasantries and reminiscences he asked me what I was planning on doing when I joined him in the world of life after working for a living. Ali and I had always planned to escape the British winters and relocate to a small piece of land in Portugal, but a couple of seismic events beyond our control have made that all but a lingering hope for the moment. Before I could go into an in depth response he asked whether I'd like to become a school governor. Would I be interested in using the skills I'd spent two thirds of a lifetime honing to a fine pinnacle (before falling off the summit), helping to steer the finances of local academy trust? Flattered to be asked, I graciously but very quickly declined. I stopped short of declaring I’d rather sit in a bath filled with petrol in a locked room inside a burning building but I could feel the panic rising in my chest at the very thought of having to crease my brow in confusion at a line of figures ever again. At least I get paid to do it now. Katie thought it was hilarious. She laughed so hard that for a moment I thought she was unwell.
Voluntary work? What even is that? If I ever do decide to volunteer I want to do something completely different that will never hurt my tired old brain again. Something that I really care about and bears no relationship whatsoever to accountancy. Monty Python were right, and accountants will be the first people to confirm it.
Thirty five years of accountancy really is more than anyone deserves in their lives. About 34 years 11 months, 30 days and 23 and a half hours more in fact. You may ask why I stuck at it so long? Well partly because I always suspected it might enable me to get out early, but it was mostly because I lacked the imagination to think of anything else to do. If numbers came easily, it seemed to be banking or accountancy, and either career path always promised to be a guaranteed conversation stopper at those cocktail parties.
Maybe I will volunteer eventually - conservation appeals - planting trees, digging trenches, counting swallows in summer; anything but accountancy. When in September I finally hang up my abacus and my green pen for good, I don’t want to ever see a balance sheet again. Not ever. Not even once for old times' sake.
Either side of this, other things happened on Monday. I suddenly bought the campervan I hadn’t been trying very hard to buy in over a year. My previous inertia on this front was mostly because the thought of going around to other peoples’ houses and kicking the tyres of their vehicles before entering into negotiations I knew I’d lose filled me with dread. On the same day I suddenly sold the car I hadn’t been trying very hard to sell for over six months. My previous inertia on this front was mostly because the thought of having visitors coming to my house and kicking the tyres of my vehicle before entering into negotiations I knew I’d lose filled me with dread. Like what I did there? Thanks!
The common factor in both of these transactions was that I knew the people I was dealing with in either case. A colleague at work had slipped into the conversation the fact that she and her husband weren't using their campervan as much as they'd planned on as they weren't quite ready to retire yet. As it turned out, the fourteen year old rust free Renault had almost everything we'd been looking for at a fraction of the budget we'd set aside. It was a very easy decision. Meanwhile, my brother told me he wouldn't be buying my little Fiat 500, the only car I've ever owned from new, but his well heeled brother in law (a banker) was very interested as it would do nicely for his two children, both of them students at the college where I work. His daughter Emily had seen a picture of it and fallen in love at first sight. Another easy transaction - although waving farewell to the only car I've ever owned that I genuinely loved was a bit of a Kleenex moment. At least she's gone to a good home and stayed in the extended family.
In between all of this on Monday I went to the dentist. At least that was relatively uneventful, but going to the dentist is never exactly relaxing is it? From Monday onward the roller-coaster week continued with a series of unending events and summer term deadlines; Tuesday felt like Wednesday, and so on. I’m glad to have reached the weekend, even if yesterday I had to check the calendar to make sure I definitely shouldn’t be in the office.
So ever since I took this shot in the evening glow at Holywell Bay last Saturday evening, I haven't got close to the camera at all. But now I have another week off ahead of me. A test run in the campervan beckons and so does a photography adventure. And I've got my second jab on Wednesday. All this to look forward. The sensory overload is really spoiling me at the moment.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend folks - and if like me you have bank holiday Monday tomorrow, I hope you have a lovely day in the sun.
Apologies to those who have sent out items which have not been blogged. My intention was to have the pictures worked today, but I found myself unable to concentrate on much else beyond the horrors which occurred in Orlando.
Never take anyone for granted. Never take any sense of freedom or safety you may be able to muster for granted.
Apologies for another Kingy set but i love photographing these beautifuls birds and as its only down the road im very much drawn there, it wont be long before the river will rise and they will move out so i try to take advantage.
Apologies for my absence of late - apart from all the other stuff we have got going on, number 1 son got married on Monday, and I then had to perform Dad's Taxi Service in the middle of the night taking him and his absolutely delightful lady wife to Heathrow.
So this very pleasant evening up on Hereford Beacon was the first time to just stop, sit and look.
This is the view north along the ridge of the Malvern Hills towards the distant Worcestershire Beacon.
The sunset didn't quite materialise, but we were treated to a pair of Bell Boeing V-22 Ospreys flying directly overhead, heading west - can't think where they might have been going ;0))
apologies for the earworm
Btb, a dear one thinks I should have added a road…. giggling
ANSH scavenger3 a favorite Christmas song
ODC Christmas Eve
Apologies for reposting this but the previous scan was a bit hurried, this does the print more justice.
My apologies for the infrequent posts lately but I haven't been shooting a ton and my last trip out last saturday was a waste, with basically zero color, no reflections at all and the kind of light where every shot looks dull. In fact, lately it's been very tough to tell what the weather will do and while I've missed a few colorful sunsets over these last couple weeks, it's mostly been just those really gloomy days where the time for the sunset comes and goes with nothing changing. I've been skipping days where the conditions seem like they could go either way and mostly have made the right decision. I can see both East and West from the balcony (albeit a bit off from the sweet spots) and if I stay home, I can at least see if I was missing anything.
Anyway, I did take a bunch of shots a few weekends ago when I was alone on the beach at Venice in the rain, watching storm clouds out at sea in one direction and a golden reflective sunset a little more West. Shooting at a beach in the rain is a new experience for me and despite being fun, I had some big issues mixed in including not being as well prepared for blowing rain as I should have been. Also since I wasn't shooting long exposures, I turned the lens image stabilization on and it sort of malfunctioned. It was windy enough on the shore to make things fairly difficult for my "wind proof" umbrella and when the IS was turned on, there would be a slight hiccup with each manual adjustment to the focus. It seemed strange but I focused where I wanted and then shot away not realizing until I got home and viewed the photos on my mac that it ended up making half the shots I took shaky and completely unusable. They're like how a 3D photo or video looks without the glasses, if that makes sense. Fortunately, the lens seems to be functioning properly again.
I did get an interesting group of shots from the half that didn't suffer from the lens issue and weren't taken when the light got too dark and I experimented with ISO 800. I shot every photo from the right side of the lifeguard headquarters and the giant stacked boulders that divide the beach facing Santa Monica. The tide wasn't what I had gotten used to and there was no reflective areas where I normally shoot so I had to walk a bit to find a clean reflective surface within view of both the storm cells and the sunset. This was basically where West and North meet I guess and with the clouds rolling over the mountains, it was pretty amazing to watch. While this is facing Santa Monica, the pier itself is out of frame to the right. The conditions were better in this direction as most of the remaining rain clouds were behind me and the blowing rain became more of an annoying drizzle. I wish the mountains were a bit better detailed, but fog and the dense clouds covering the mountains made it tough and i was mostly focused on the lower middle of the frame. Even though it was a fun night, I found it really challenging to get the settings and focus in harmony. It was so dark and windy over there at times that I'm surprised any details in the background show. Most of the shots that focused more on the mountains than the reflection and foreground were among those that fell victim to the IS issue though some did turn out well enough. I think the next time I go, I will drive further down the road and get closer to these mountains and Santa Monica Pier. As long as I can arrive early enough to take my time, I will pick a new area of this beach to focus on :)
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
November 26th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 200
f/10
1/30th second
CPL
My apologies to those who are not interested in airplane photos. It may seem like there's duplication here. But each airplane is unique with it's own identifying registration number. For those interested (in "planespotting") part of the challenge is to photograph and identify as many as you can in as many locations (airports) as you can.
May 14, 2019
Louisville International Airport (SDF), Kentucky
Apologies for not uploading a lot this past week I've ben having problems with my hardrive infact I nearly lost all of my pictures i've ever taken ! But luckily all is well:) enjoy the pics. Thanks all !:)
Apologies for the lightly re-edited (but improved) repost of this shot from a year and a bit ago but I've just been too busy getting my exhibition together at very short notice to get out and about the past couple of weeks.
Anyway, "Out of Time", consisting of 24 A3+ prints, is now up and running at the Resource for London,356 Holloway Rd, London N7 and will be there until late January 2016, 7 days a week from 9am to 6pm. If any of you make it, would really be interested to hear your thoughts and feedback, good or bad! Or drop me a line if you're going as I'm quite often not too far away. Thank you! :-)
Apologies for the blurry photo, but this thing was shifting at a fair speed responding to an emergency. I took this out the car window as it came past.
One of my contacts questioned the calendar photo. This was in an e-mail I recieved and I did not check it out.
Each day of the week falls four times in February 2017 — but that won’t be the first time that’s happened in 823 years.
In fact, each day of the week fell four times in February 2016. That’s because each day of the week falls four times in February every six years, and twice in a row every 11 years.
That means each day fell four times in February 2016, it happened again in February 2017, and it will happen again in February 2023, making claims about it happens every 823 years false.
Thanks to Truth or Fiction.
I usually check e-mail rumors on snopes or Truth or Fiction.
Apologies for my recent absence, I've had very little time with my camera recently. Here's one of my resident male Bullfinches in my garden back in July.
Apologies to my old 365 gang who have seen this wooden sculpture in every 365 project I've ever attempted. ;)
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"Mother moon
Here I am
Lay me down at your feet
I've been wrapped up in darkness
And it's time to be seen"
- Touched, Earl
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Apologies another Glen Coe image. I had such a good trip a couple of weekends back and got about 12 good shots so here is another.
I got here really late about half an hour after sunset as the track was a lot longer than expected.
I managed to eek some light out but doing a long exposure and using the Lee 0.9 grad filter to hold back the skies.
to the complete stranger for not greeting him with a warm smile,
to my friends and loved ones, for not joining with them in more laughter,
∞ ღ on me ღ ∞
With apologies to Henry and Jane Fonda.
It's not actually a pond, but the title seemed apt to me. It's the Ottawa River (not our Mississippi River for once) from Robert Simpson Park in Arnprior, which is about a half hour drive from us.
It's a 10" exposure, taken with a tripod and neutral density filter. to smooth out the water, which had significant ripples. It's not that I particularly mind ripples, but my goal here was too eliminate them as part of my learning and experimenting process.
Dummy here forgot to turn off image stabilization, which one should do when using a tripod, but I don't think it affected the result too badly as sharpness wasn't too crucial for this photo.
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Whatever it is that I don't remember I did, I promise never to do it again unless I don't know what I'm doing when I do it.
Apologies .... A little later than anticipated. Life !
This was the challenge I was going to post and I didn't know if you'd be up for it but I love playing.
This was created with oil on water a torch ( light source) a colourful item under a glass bowl.
Close in , swirl the oil and hope your camera plays ball. mine wasn't playing at first but was using my old but heavy camera and hand held. pleased with quite a few of the results.
If you are up for doing this as a challenge then shout and I'll add to the list.
Apologies for the picture quality, it was taken with my phone...... Camera started taking blurred pictures. First coat of paint on, but progress is being made.
Apologies for a second photo from the Remembrance Day tribute on Swansea Bay. Too late to put it on tomorrow.
Apologies for reposting this but the previous scan was a bit hurried, this does the print more justice.
Apologies to those few people who viewed faved and commented on this photo a few hours ago but once it had clocked up a massive 12 views in an hour I figured something was wrong so here is a second attempt.
Apologies if you don't like spiders! This one was resident in a bug house on a private nature reserve where we stayed recently.
Image © 2022 Nicola Riley
The Louvre, Paris
Haven't been able to spend much time on Flickr lately so apologies for not being able to visit your photostreams. School's started again and I'm faced with the problem of deciding what to write for my dissertation. One more week to the proposal deadline and I'm still clueless.
Apologies- I know I have posted a similar shot a few weeks back, but this was another day. Funnily I managed both a sunset and sunrise at the same spot within weeks.
The water was calm but not quite enough to get away with a short exposure and wasn't using a grad filter just the B&W ten stop.
This is my first dawn shot for probably a year and I found it weird having to shoot with conditions brightening rather than darkening so took me a while to get into that.
Had a good shot of the bridge including the town until I spotted that a post was obscuring the bridge partially when I downloaded the file..
Drove through from the West to make dawn at the bridges so it was an early start even with the later sunrise now.
Thanks for all the comments on the last shot.
What are you going to do now, you, the British rioter, after your attempt at turning the UK into a xenophobic backwater of lawlessness has failed? Will you begin to think and continue your violent version of Brexit by alternative and possibly even democratic means? Will you get organised? Or am I overrating the scope of your political ambition? Are you happy enough with just thuggery, lawlessness and mayhem? In that case not even the right wing of the Tory Party or Farage's Reform Party would want you. Not even your local football club. Fuji X-Pro3.