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Exposure was difficult due to the forest gloom and early morning light. The sloth bear is a unique species of bear found in the forests of the Indian subcontinent, including Sri Lanka. Their distinctive appearance and behaviour sets them apart from other bears.
They have shaggy, black fur, which often appears matted and untidy. The fur is longer around the neck, giving them a scruffy, mane-like look. They have a shambolic gait. There is a white chest patch, often V-shaped. Sloth bears have large, powerful jaws, but they do not primarily take larger animal prey. They use their claws for digging and pulling apart rotting logs to find insects, especially termites and ants.
Sloth bears are generally solitary and are largely nocturnal, foraging at night when they can find more insect activity. They are shy and avoid human contact. They are not aggressive unless provoked.
The species is currently classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Populations are declining due to habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict and poaching for their body parts.
Sloth bears are known for their loud vocalisations, which include grunts, growls and roars. They are also adept climbers.
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Excuse me, have you seen any ununsual ongoings?
Unusual? As in things I wouldn't want to happen? No officer, nothing of the sort!
But you look like...
Definitely not, officer! We're honest, law avoiding citizens!
Toy Project Day 1852
🔸◾️ A U T M N A L - G O L I T H A - I I I ◾️🔸
A final photo (probably) from last month's visit to Golitha Falls...
The River Fowey on a particularly gloomy and windy autumn morning at Golitha Falls. I composed this shot to bring the leaf covered boulder into the foreground. With the foreground so close to my lens, I opted for a 2 exposure focus stack - in order to capture front-midground sharpness.
Due to the gloom (and light impeding polarising filter - for cutting through the reflected light on the leaves to give more saturated colours), my shutter speed was naturally slow without an ND filter. In fact, to avoid the moving water turning too "milky," I dialled the ISO up to 1000.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/8 | 1/2 sec | ISO 1000 | Tripod | Polarising filter | 2x Focus-Stacked Exposures | Taken 24-10-2020 at Golitha Falls
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2020
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This photo of Dirk Braeckman can be seen at his exhibition in The Hague. More information will follow.
Having avoided the ice cave trips for the past seven years - due to price and crowds - I decided to visit one on this trip, since there were very few other tourists around (and the ISK currency was a bit weaker). I was in a small group - guide, Icelandic couple from Reykjavík and Belgian woman working in Höfn. We walked across the top of the glacier with crampons first, before descending to the edge and entering this cave. There were a couple of other groups there too, which at least gave some scale, although I would've preferred one person, not moving around, for that! The guide told me that on a busy winter's day they can have 35-40 groups there (wow!) - so a few hundred people, queueing up to get in the caves...
This ice cave is found under the Breiðmerkurjökull glacier that feeds the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon with large icebergs, which then get smashed up in the tides and wash up on my favourite beach.
i'm trying to write reports.....but would rather be playing with my photos...
my head is spinning from flat-buying this week. I never realised how complicated it would be!
Sirui 50mm f/1.8 Anamorphic 1.33X
2020 l 10 aperture blades | Sony E mount
On APS-C: the horizontal EFL* is 35mm and the vertical EFL is 50mm.
Paris | 2021
the lens has a very annoying , but not unusual for an anamorphic lens, minimum focus of 85cm ... to avoid that issue i'm using a B+W NL Close Up Lens +2
ARW to Jpeg via LightRoom ... Desqeezed with Photoshop
* EFL: equivalent focal length
A welcome find on my owl hunting evening particularly as said owl insisted on hunting out of reach of the camera.
This group of five young pheasants posed for a few minutes on a nearby wall.
This was late evening so quite high on the ISO but also providing a lovely pastel effect to the background.
Lets hope these guys avoid the shoot.
Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Yorkshire
Many thanks to all those who take the time to comment on my photos. It is truly appreciated.
Kolkata... Rustically dilapidated, where walking on the street is safer than walking on the pavement. Red lights are merely a suggestion. Crossing the street seems to be a life threatening national sport. Seat belts - what seat belts? For heaven sakes avoid the blue buses because they won't avoid you. Always look both ways before crossing the train tracks. Mind the cows, dogs and cats. Feel free to bathe in the street - everyone does and you won't be noticed. I will never complain about traffic again. The car horn is a national musical instrument which everyone seems to have perfected because they're playing it all day long. Every street is a different market selling all kinds of goods and wares. Be prepared for selfies several times daily - not taken by you, but taken by others who want a selfie with you. But, if this is all that you see in Kolkata then you truly haven't experienced the city. People always say look beyond the negative - I don't consider this a negative. Rather in this case I would say look into all of these things and you will see friendly, hospitable people who are content, with a sparkle in their eyes and smiles on their faces. Walk down any street, say good morning to someone and they smile back at you and wish you a good morning too. It's no wonder that Kolkata is called "The City of Joy!" All of this makes Kolkata a street-photographers paradise where photos are happening every second. I stayed for 9 days, but it could have been 90 days and it still wouldn't have been enough. It was a life changing experience that I shall never be able to forget and will always cherish. Until next time...
Macro Mondays theme: Superstition
The “Evil Eye” is a human look believed to cause harm to someone or something. The supernatural harm may come in the form of a minor misfortune, or more serious disease, injury — even death. (Ref livescience.com)
According to the European folklore, you should always carry a piece of garlic with you to avoid the Evil Eye.
Anyhow, don’t worry! Even if you don’t favor my picture, I would never give you the Evil Eye! Or would I? 😉
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments
De Compressorenhal bevindt zich op de eerste verdieping van het indrukwekkende Energiegebouw.
In de grote persluchthal stonden de luchtcompressoren. Beneden in de mijn werden de machines met perslucht aangedreven om het ontploffingsgevaar via elektrische vonken te vermijden.
Bron: c-mine.be/energiegebouw-0
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The Compressor Hall is located on the first floor of the impressive Energy Building.
The air compressors were located in the large compressor hall. Down in the mine, the machines were powered by compressed air to avoid the risk of explosion via electric sparks.
Source: c-mine.be/en/energy-building
Do you want to get into this years Gothmas Market before everyone else and avoid the crush? here is how!
The Juniper Events and sponsor groups will have a 12 hour early access to the event
(11pm on the 4th of December – 11:01am on the 5th of December)
You can join the Juniper Events Group (free to join), using the following link pasted into your browser:
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You can find the list of participating designers here:
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You can find the Shopping Guide here:
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GOTHMAS MARKET 2025
Welcome to Gothmas market 2025
December 5th - December 15th
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Some items showcased in this picture are from the Gothmas Market event as follows:
BlackSoul Poses ~ Sexy Gothmas II
Really... Gothmas Skull Tree
^TD^ Gothic Xmas Hanging Tree
{.Moon.Phase.} Hand CrystalBalls_Silver
Yuni - Milie Dress
[MOSH] Obsidian Bloom
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Other information, items/accessories in picture (not at event):
HAIR
[monso] Meiko Hair
ACCESSORIES
Frock Rock Fishnet - Black Stockings
JEWELRY
UNHOLY REGAL EARRINGS
NAILS
Le Forme Bento Nails M06 Metal Claws
BACKDROP
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The titmouse is lighter on his feet so he avoids the Juncos staying up in the branches if he can. Juncos chase other Juncos, the Titmouse & also the Nuthatches. Blue Jays are bruisers, much too big for this tree. We've been chasing the Ravens away, they'd carry the entire tree off if we'd let them. Thank goodness there aren't any squirrels. There's certainly a lot of personality bobbing around on this back porch rail.
I've always avoided doing DSOs in Moonlight but a while back, I bought an Optolong L-eNhance Triband filter which can be helpful in reducing light pollution and stray Moonlight - it predominantly passes 3 narrow band widths centred on:
Hydrogen Alpha: Red, 656.4 nm
Oxygen III: Green, 500.7nm
Hydrogen Beta: Green-Blue, 486 nm
The filter is certainly more opaque than my standard IDAS P3 light pollution suppression filter. Usually my flats are exposed at 1600ms but for this filter it was 6500ms at 0 gain. Autofocus and plate solving exposures were 4s at 578 gain.
The raw image was lacking in contrast - not surprising given the Moonlight but I've used curves enhancement and local contrast enhancement in PixInsight to improve that. I haven't altered the colour palette as this was a first test for this filter.
Technical Card
480/80mm f/6 Altair Starwave triplet refractor.
Altair Planostar 1.0 x FF with 2 inch L-eNhance filter
ZWO ASI2600MC; 39 x 360 second subs, Gain 100, Offset 25, Temp = -15c.
EQ6 pro mount with Rowan belt drives. EQMOD control. Primalucelab Sesto Senso electronic focuser.
Session control; SharpCap 4.0 on laptop with WiFi link to IPad.
Automated plate solving GOTO.
Automated FWHM multistar focusing every 16 frames. +/- 500 steps at 2s and 578 gain.
20 dark frames
50 flat frames (electroluminescent panel, 6500ms exposure @ 0 gain).
Post processed in PixInsight 1.8.9.
Light Pollution and Weather:
SQM (L) not recorded - 95% Moon
Session ended by cloud, target was also very near roof level.
Polar Alignment:
Resumed from previous Park.
Error measured by PHD2= 0 arc minute.
RA drift + 2.44 arcsec/min
Dec drift - 0 arcsec/min
Guiding:
PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/Altair Starwave 206/50mm guider. Every 4th sub dithered.
RA RMS error 1.1 arcsec
Dec RMS error 0.82 arcsec
Astrometry:
Resolution: 1.612 arcsec/px
Rotation: -87.819 deg
Observation start time: 2023-02-07 20:41:29 UTC
Observation end time: 2023-02-08 01:09:49 UTC
Focal distance: 481.13 mm
Pixel size: 3.76 um
Field of view: 2d 9' 37.7" x 1d 41' 33.2"
Image centre: RA: 6 32 17.164 Dec: +4 58 40.33
9/365
February 17, 2010
Funny story: I was trying to avoid my neighbors and my mom from seeing me with paint all over my face- it didn't work :)
self portrait- why do I look depressed lately!? Grrr...
sorry guys, if they are starting to look the same....
I'll try something new out and try more creative shots :)
So just a little sidenote: watercolor is NOT easy to get off your face (I'm actually still trying to get it all off- and I have youth group tonight. Dang.) but it's ideal if you want a runny paint look :D
Everything is desaturated except the watercolor.....
this looked so much better than selective color (trust me, I tried that :D)
Tomorrow's 365 is going to be difficult because my cousin is getting married!
so I'm gonna attempt to wake up around 4:45 or 5 (ugghh) and shoot outside...if not I'll just post one from the wedding or something :) ahhh I'm so excited, I get to shoot her portraits with a couple other people!! its gonna be funnnnn :D
EXPLORED! yay :DD thank you so much everyone!
Evening biomass empties from Drax head back to Tyne Dock along the York avoider hauked by GBRf's 60095. How will this look in 2022? All is set to become vey enclosed around here as York Central takes shape on the left side.
July the 8th 2021.
These guys always return to the bay in the winter months.
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
North Slipway Oban Bay - Scotland
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We started late to avoid the worst of the morning chill, but ended up being the last car in the parking area at the end of the day. Although only 6 km's return distance, with a gain of only 700 m's, it took us 5 and a half hours to complete because we had to break trail for most of it...
Because they are endangered, many Piping Plovers are banded. This particular one is one of the first I've seen this season and has avoided being banded.
Second shot today from the Star Casino deck is a deep dive into the centre of Southbank Parklands which line the southern bank of the Brisbane River opposite the city itself. Up until the 1970's, this area of South Brisbane was one to be avoided if possible consisting of old, mostly abandoned warehouses and wharves, sleazy pubs and miscellaneous other businesses all left over, it felt from the 1890's! These were swept away by a basic park by the late 1970's although in this view you can see a couple of heritage buildings that were saved.
Then came World Expo '88 that transformed the area and started a complete renewal of most of the surrounding suburb which is now home to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, a TAFE college and Griffith University, the ABC's Queensland base, The Exhibition Centre, the Queensland Museum, Library, Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art at the western end. These are mostly out of frame to the right. The pool(s) are basically the centre of Southbank Parklands. The line of low rise home units beyond the trees are bordered by Little Stanley and Grey Streets with the ground floor for the whole distance being a long line of very diverse restaurants.
Not many people on the beach the day this was shot back midweek in September . This spot on the river is about the centre of a large reverse S (from this side) as it meanders across its flood plain. And flood plain it literally is as both sides have been inundated to one degree or another in every major flood.
This area is served by South Brisbane railway station while the far eastern end including the Maritime Museum is adjacent to Southbank station.
On my current US road trip, I wanted to catch some Alpenglow. While having sunrise and sunset reds on sandstone (like in Arches NP), which brings out the reds indeed, a white, i.e.snowy, background does work nicely as well. Contrasting, blue sky. That was the goal.
Not being the luckiest with the weather, I basically had one shot about shooting a sunrise, prefixed by two hours of searching and settling for a place where an assumed sunrise might be seen nicely. So, the next morning, I went on a dirt road in Owen's Valley, ran around in the half-dark, avoiding all kinds of cow releases, finding a spot where I could get some interesting foreground, masking a bit the not-green grass. I liked the Owen's River being quite calm, and what I also liked were clouds in the sky giving the light some brightness variations when it hit the nearby mountains.
Afterwards, we continued to Yosemite Valley, but more on that in the coming pictures.
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The African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) is a common species of jacana in sub-Saharan Africa. Jacanas are waders with conspicuous long toes and claws made for walking on floating vegetation in shallow water. The African jacana is easily recognized with its chestnut body, white and black head and a blue beak that extends over its eyes. It normally reaches a length of 30 cm (12 in) with females somewhat larger than males.
African jacana is found in various still to slow-moving fresh water habitats, such as lakes, marshes and large slow-moving rivers. It needs floating vegetation for breeding and often tall reeds and similar vegetation for shelter and hiding. It is often found at the edge of the water or walking on floating vegetation, such as water-lilies, where it primarily feeds on insects in addition to spiders, worms, crustaceans, molluscs and seeds.
The African Jacana is a good swimmer and diver. When foraging, it swims over open water from one vegetated area to another.
To avoid predators, it can swim underwater, and in the same situation, the chicks can stay underwater for a moment with only the bill tip above the surface, and they swim as well as the adults.
If threatened, the bird raises its wings in aggressive posture to the predator as a visual signal. It also utters raucous calls if the intruder flies across the territory.
Outside the breeding season, this species is gregarious and may form very large flocks.
This lovely Jacana was photographed early in the morning, foraging in the waters of Hyena Dam in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.
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Ấn tượng đầu tiên của mọi ng về mình là khó gần, nhưng sau đó lại nhận xét " Chơi chung mới biết là Khanh bị khùng " =)) =)) =)) =))
it was at about this point we decided to climb straight up the valley's edge instead of carrying on up the Nick. The rocky scree up the Nick looked harder work than just clambering up..
Album fodder.
Though the temperature of 10º Celsius is not really low compared to snowing countries, it is still called "cold current" in Taiwan. I stayed at home and avoid being outdoor in such a cold and rainy day.
攝氏十度對很多下雪的國家而言，實在不算是冷，但是對台灣而言，就已經是「寒流」等級。
當然，我這怕冷的，完全避免出門，在家翻舊庫存。
PS. 標題出自宋代，陸游的「漁家」。
~東華聖宮, 新店區, 新北市
Donhwa Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 160, F8, 30 sec, 70 mm
- Canon 5D Mark III with EF 70-200 mm f/4 L lens
- Sunset @ 6.10pm (275º) / Shot @ 6.51pm
- Visibility 10 km @ 5.45pm
Rush hour traffic starts to build in Cardiff, whilst 153309 whizzes over the top and into Cardiff Queen Street. 2V47 18:15 Coryton to Radyr.
The Cathedral of Florence ("Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore") was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style. It is one of Italy's largest churches and has the largest brick dome in the world (completed in the 15th century). The work on the outer wall also took centuries and the marble facade seen here was only completed in 1887 with design elements by Emilio De Fabris. At the top right of the picture you can see the bell tower ("campanile"), which was built by Giotto in the 14th century.
There is little space between the cathedral's facade and the baptistery, it is impossible to photograph the facade directly from the front without getting extremely converging lines. In addition, there are always a lot of people in this area, so that you do not have a clear view of the cathedral without special measures. Still, I tried to make a virtue out of necessity in order to achieve an interesting visual effect. I created a vertical panorama from two wide-angle shots stitched together using perspective projection. I used some further shots for the people, mainly in order to avoid distracting elements. I didn't have a tripod with me, you can't take that with you anyway if you want to visit the attractions. So everything was shot hand-held at high ISO, and I removed the noise with Lightroom's new AI noise filter.
I took my dog over to the common today. (Both of my dogs actually) but one of them is a pro at avoiding the camera.. I suppose years of practice. Oops. Have also just go myself this canon 6d. Absolute game changer compared to my 70D. Cannot wait to get more serious with my photos!