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10 years ago the Old Town (Zona Velha) of Funchal used to be a bad neighborhood avoided by tourists. Thanks to the initiative of some great local artists this changed lately. The local government supported a restoration project called “The Art of Open Doors”. At the same time, new restaurants began to open and now, less than 10 years later, Funchal’s Old Town is an entirely different place. Besides the great street art you can find many good restaurants, Poncha bars, stores and art galleries. The most beautiful painted doors are in the Rua de Santa Maria. I chose three favorites for this little triptych.
Nuesta Senöra .. Now this deathly beauty is to be avoided at all costs .. she can put the hocus pocus on you . So watch out !
Where as Catrina or to give her her full name La Calavera Catrina is a fun deathly character who's more into dress style , its all about the fashion than doing anyone harm . The strange and the bizarre from Mexico's Day of the Dead culture .
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Another one from Scalber Force, but this time the classic shot. Don’t get me wrong, I do like this one, but I’m always trying to see spectacular locations differently as to avoid the expected. If you haven’t been there, it’s a wonderful spot and when you are down in the canyon it feels like you are in a lost world. That is if there isn’t other photographers there looking for the same experience!
I guess it’s gotta be there, lurking in the background. Actually, I reckon I did pretty well just avoiding all the parked cars….
31 438 comes off the Wensum avoiding curve at Norwich hauling 1E72, the 10:20 Birmingham - Yarmouth and past 31 417 as it waits to leave Crown Point depot
Norwich Thorpe was closed over the long Easter weekend to allow for resignalling and track rationalisation prior to the electrification
SD60 # 6709 is one of the SD60 units that some how managed to avoid becoming an SD60E. For now she is safe and continues to move freight.
Avoiding the dust trail on approach to Druids, competitor No 10. looks like support or part of the British Army. Beautifully turned out bike.
Colas 'Grid' 56302 rolls along the York avoiding line by the old Severus junction, now York Yard North with 6S95, the 13:42 Sinfin to Grangemouth empty aviation fuel tankers. Life is over for the Freightliner coal wagons in the background, and the track beneath them has an equally short term future, redevelopment as York Central beckons.. August the 10th 2020.
Conrail C40-8W 6081 was leading train Z413 westward on the B&O's Belt Line in Baltimore in a view taken from North Avenue in 1993.
At the time, Conrail was running over CSX tracks to avoid Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in the wake of the Ricky Gates fiasco.
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I took this at a rest area somewhere in the US, I cannot for the life of remember, I can see the place clearly but not that name of it, I will search through my archives after work and find the location. This is an original old settlers cottage that was on display here, I had to go high on the crop to avoid the barbed wire surrounding the building, but I like the effect. This cottage had one door and one window. Simple and effective. Amazing how people lived all that time ago, but in saying that it was certainly build to last.
Have a great day today, and don't forget to look up and see the cloudage ;) Car xx
Today's Carsounds - Avril Lavigne-Complicated
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An update, this was taken at the Fredona Visitors center, Arizona.
A really nice little loop of Fleet Pond. Just avoided the rain and chatted to a couple of nice old ladies. Happy day's for a Friday.
Knutsfoss (or Knutsføss in the local dialect) is a waterfall in the river Etna in Etnedal, Valdres, Norway. Above the waterfall there is a small narrow wooden bridge, which is quite scary to cross by car. Even more scary it was for poor Knut who gave his name to this place. According to a legend, the scoundrel Knut could avoid time in prison if he managed to jump across these falls. He didn't make it and lost his life in the river.
Successfully avoiding the sun, 50008 Thunderer passes Burn heading 5Z19, the 11.52 Gascoigne Wood Sidings - Chaddesden Sidings empty stock for the next days special from Derby to Paignton. Friday 13 January 2023.
There are some bushes where this egrets sleep every night in autumn and winter. So my challenge was to take a close up such as a "portrait" or get a composition with several birds. Unfortunately I woke up them and run away. By the Fluvia River (Catalonia). Cropping to avoid the houses in the background.
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I tend to avoid people in my landscape shots but had intended to use the couple here for scale and balance. My original shot wasn't right though and I chose not to use it. The magic of Elements means that I can use the couple from one image in another effort - I think they add to the story.
I'm back in British Columbia after spending a couple of months in the UK, and I can't get over how incredibly beautiful it is here! Although I'd never forgotten, it really does re-emphasise how incredible it is here after being away for a while. The mountains, the water, the city, wow!
Here's a shot I took looking west from St Mark's Summit in September, which is the first major viewpoint along the Howe Sound Crest Trail which runs all the way from Cypress Provincial Park to Porteau Cove. Although St Mark's Summit only takes a few hours to do as a round trip, it's still a bit of a climb with a bag full of camera equipment and a heavy tripod, with lots of tree roots waiting to trip you up. However, when you get to the top, the view is spectacular!
The north tip of Bowen Island can be seen on the left, with Bowyer Island in front of it and Keats Island behind it. Roughly in the middle is Gambier Island, with Anvil Island on the right. In the background is the Sunshine Coast, and just visible on the horizon is part of Vancouver Island.
As this was my first trip to this viewpoint, I didn't want to risk making the hike back in the dark, so I wasn't able to wait for sunset. I tend to avoid HDR where possible, but in this situation it was essential to be able to capture the wide range of brightness due to shooting into the sun. To get the width of this vista I took four sequences of bracketed images and stitched them together. While I'd love to have been able to shoot this at sunset, I really wanted to share this shot as it sums up my feelings on returning to this amazing part of the world!
A bit of spider web on this leaf - pretty common this time of year when spiders are holing up and leaving webs to overwinter lower down.
I once possessed a vast collection of CDs kept in alphabetical order, particularly my opera collection, but I also cherished a touch of spontaneity in my life. Thus, I would often rummage through several large piles which I deliberately kept in random order, selecting albums on a whim to revel in the delightful surprises that emerged when I pulled them from the bottom of the stack. The challenge lay in avoiding a chaotic avalanche during this process, which required finesse to manage. I had to be careful not to trigger a musical landslide, but the thrill of discovery made it all worthwhile.
Tokyo, Harajuku
Die Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street) ist die angesagte Einkaufs- und Erlebnismeile in Harajuku schlechthin. Auf rund 400 Metern findet man Läden, Boutiquen, Cafes und Restaurants, die allesamt etwas ausgefallener sind. Jugendliche sind hier die Zielgruppe. Die Wochenenden sollte man besser meiden, dann ist die Straße extrem voll.
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Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street) is the hippest shopping mile in Harajuku. Within a distance of around 400 meters you will find shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants, all of which are a little more unusual. Young people are the target group here. It is better to avoid the weekends, as the street is extremely busy then.
Maybe to avoid any problems on the last day , the coal for the final trip to Ratcliffe was brought as far as Doncaster the day before .
The 6M61 Immingham - Doncaster passes Barnetby East signalbox for the last time with 66784 giving the traction .
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When browsing galleries of rail enthusiasts from other countries who visit Poland for the purpose of taking pictures, I often am amazed by the sometimes obsucre choices of places they visit. i often wonder where they found out about them, as some are very rarely frequented by even Poles.
There is one exception though. The harbour areas of Poland seem very attractive and can certainly stand up to the standard of the industrial railways of Silesia, yet, despite this, I think I have yet to have seen any foreign railfans take pictures here, despite them being in direct proximity of other places frequently visited. The Ostbahn brings in Dutch fans of the Wadlopers, the line to Hel attracts Czechs, but Gdańsk and Gdynia? Not a single soul.
One of the areas with the largest amounts of traffic is the transloading facilty in the Gdańsk harbour. It owns a fleet of 4 equally painted SM42s. Their resemblance to the paint scheme of Tabor Dębica is not a coincidence - all of them were repaired there. On this picture all of them are visible. SM42-2240 returns to the depot after finishing its shift, while SM42-2256 prepares to start work instead of it. To the far left of the frame is SM42-2279 and in the shadowy depot sleeps SM42-2304. It also seems like since our last visit, the track layout has been revised and the very unique Bäseler-type switches have been removed.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
A magical afternoon chasing rainbows and avoiding freezing spray around and under the mighty Skógafoss on Iceland's sublime south coast.
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Couldn't avoid taking this one as the phone was actually getting a better read of the highlights and it looked amazing.
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It pays to get up early in the summer at Mt. Rainer if you want to avoid the hoards of people. This shot is from the bridge just a mile up from Paradise Inn. Two young bucks happened to wonder in for a drink and luckily posed just long enough for a couple of exposures.
Note: Two thin pieces of wood were placed under the iron to avoid scorching the towel during the process.
i'm working on managing my photo archives right now--transferring photos from internal to external hard drive in an effort to avoid catastrophe
also, i'm already getting excited for misty mornings in the spring
A repositioning train swings a left turn at Barstow to access the Mojave Sub from the Cajon Subdivision. Although no regularly scheduled intermodals run this way, repo moves between the LA Basin and the Bay Area (and vice versa) are pretty common.
Well, its late summer again, and its time for some more jumping in the water photos from the Chowan River!
The sunlight was almost directly overhead, so I put a Nikon SB-800 and SB-600 in plastic bags and sent my helpers into the water. She is jumping off of a dock that is quite high in relation so the water, so with a wide angle lens it was easy to get this angle.
The only problem with using this wide of an angle is after snapping the shot I have to whip the camera out of the way to avoid getting splashed. Most of the time I'm too slow and some water gets on the lens, which has to be fixed later in photoshop.
From objects as small as Newton's apple to those as large as a galaxy, no physical body is free from the stern bonds of gravity, as evidenced in this stunning picture captured by the Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Here we see two spiral galaxies engaged in a cosmic tug-of-war — but in this contest, there will be no winner. The structures of both objects are slowly distorted to resemble new forms, and in some cases, merge together to form new, super galaxies. This particular fate is similar to that of the Milky Way Galaxy, when it will ultimately merge with our closest galactic partner, the Andromeda Galaxy. There is no need to panic however, as this process takes several hundreds of millions of years.
Not all interacting galaxies result in mergers though. The merger is dependent on the mass of each galaxy, as well as the relative velocities of each body. It is quite possible that the event pictured here, romantically named 2MASX J06094582-2140234, will avoid a merger event altogether, and will merely distort the arms of each spiral without colliding — the cosmic equivalent of a hair ruffling!
These galactic interactions also trigger new regions of star formation in the galaxies involved, causing them to be extremely luminous in the infrared part of the spectrum. For this reason, these types of galaxies are referred to as LIRGs, or Luminous Infrared Galaxies. This image was taken as part of as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of LIRGs in the local Universe, which also used the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) instrument.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola
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To avoid Christiaan's Hammer I had to bring out my own ammunition!
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March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"The Washington population of the Black Oystercatcher is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. This number is probably not significantly different from the historical population, as these birds require fairly specialized habitat, which is not evenly distributed. Oystercatchers are highly vulnerable to human disturbance, oil spills, and pollution of the intertidal zone. Numbers of Black Oystercatchers on the outer coast may be higher than in the past, in part due to decreased human disturbance resulting from lighthouse automation. Numbers in inland areas, however, have declined in response to increased human activity. The Northern Pacific Coast Regional Shorebird Management Plan has identified the Black Oystercatcher as a regional species of high concern."
"The Black Oystercatcher is restricted in its range, never straying far from shores, in particular favoring rocky shorelines. It has been suggested that this bird is seen mostly on coastal stretches which have some quieter embayments, such as jetty protected areas. It forages in the intertidal zone, feeding on marine invertebrates, particularly molluscs such as mussels, limpets and chitons. It will also take crabs, isopods and barnacles. It hunts through the intertidal area, searching for food visually, often so close to the water's edge it has to fly up to avoid crashing surf. It uses its strong bill to dislodge food and pry shells open."
Freightliner Class 66/6 No. 66601 The Hope Valley runs along the Westbury avoiding line towards Fairwood Junction with 6C31, the 10:08 Theale – Whatley Quarry empty aggregate working on 24th September 2021.
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So sorry for avoiding you all. I felt terribly bad that I didn't send the prints on time. I had them printed in time but then I got them from costco and they auto corrected the images and so the colors were all messed up. Then I printed them again and now I just have to send them. Im really sorry they still aren't sent, they will get to you soon. :)
It took me a while to get them printed because I've been really busy GETTING INTO COLLEGE!! And also working on shooting and printing etc for an art show on April 6th.
Oh yeah, did I mention I got into college?! Cornish College of the Arts called me on Thursday and accepted me!!! :DDDDD
Great-horned Owls are desperate to avoid lengthy daylight flights during the months of May and June. This is nesting season for blackbirds which are among the most savagely protective members of the family Aves. The owls “hole up” deep in the recesses of willow trees preferably in a grove where they can avoid interlopers such as said photographer by tree hopping so to speak.
I can determine their flight path across “good light” by approaching a tree from a specific direction. When they make their escape to a neighboring willow, I raise my 600mm telephoto to my eye and fire away. I have a short window of time to find them, acquire focus, and fill the buffer.
On the two occasions that I did this, I accumulated a great many close-up flight-shots of Great-horned Owls. You can sample some of them on my Flickr pages. However, though I love flight photography, my heart is not in this. It is not that I am disturbing owls in a harmful way. By this time of year their fledging have started to fly. I also know when to quit before photography becomes harassment. It has something to do with forcefully making things happen in nature. It is oddly symbolic of a deeper meaning.
Put simply, getting the shot is not that big a deal to me. If it were, I would be missing the transitory wonder and beauty winging by me from moment to moment. The real magic and mystery is flying past undetected when I preoccupy myself with goals and objectives.
Recently, I stepped out of my truck and instantly became aware of the incredible silence. It was an unseasonably warm day, sunny and calm. In the distance, I could hear water spilling out of a culvert into the river. One of those feelings that seem to say “all is right with the world” came over me. I slung my lens and camera over my shoulder as an afterthought and started ambling down the road.
Suddenly, a big-tired 3/4 ton diesel truck turned and rumbled towards me. Out of thin air, it seemed, a “grey ghost” Northern Harrier appeared and flew directly between me and the oncoming truck. I raised my lens instinctively and let the shutter rip. It was like Zen archery — no beating heart nor widening eye. I had been two years looking for this shot and there it was like magic.
Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) are unevenly distributed and highly variable throughout the boreal forest. They live mostly in open coniferous forests, or coniferous forests mixed with deciduous species such as larch, birch, poplar, and willow. They are found in muskegs, clearings, swamp valleys, meadows, or recently burnt areas, and generally avoid dense spruce-fir forests.
Winter habitat is usually the same as breeding habitat.
They are remarkably long-tailed for an owl; reminiscent of a small hawk in flight (hence the name) with quick, snappy wingbeats. Pale eyes give it an angry look. Brownish overall with white spotting above, barred underparts, and spotted crown.
N Hawk Owls feed on small rodents by sight and sound. Often seen perched on the very top of a spruce tree or snag, surveying the surrounding landscape for prey.
When rodent populations crash, large numbers of Northern Hawk Owls can move south of their normal range.