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This is a shot of Torre Agbar in Barcelona. It was taken back in 2015 on my way back from Valencia. Even in November the weather in Barcelona - just as it was in Valencia was warm with clear blue skies - not at all what I'd hoped for, but you have to shoot what you can - hence the large number of darker shots recently. This is probably the last of them for now. I did manage one day of overcast weather in Barcelona before I headed down to Valencia - but thats for another post.
The strange title has multiple meanings at the moment. My trip to Spain was successful, 1 day Barcelona, then 3 in Valencia and then another day in Barcelona on the way back, but I missed so much that I wanted to shoot - that I really want to head back at some point - the dilema being do I go back to somewhere I've already been or do I go somewhere new - I have a bucket list a mile long. I think new next - but we'll see.
The other meaning is a little more painful. I haven't taken a single photograph in the last 6 weeks - in fact since I came back from New York and I haven't processed anything in that time either. My back has gone again - and thius time its serious enough that I need surgery - next week in fact, and then there a 12 week recovery period - so it looks like its going to be summer before I'm able to get back out with my camera - its really annoying - we had snow yesterday - and allI could do was look at it from indoors. Still once Wednesday is over then its looking forward to recovery.
Anyway thank you all very much for your recent support with my shots, hopefully I'll post more soon.
Technical Details
Fuji XT-1
Fuji 18-135mm @ 26.6mm
F8
1/1000 second
ISO 200
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A lot more rainbows are captured now we all have good cameras on phones on us! Two iPhone SE images stitched together (on phone with Autostitch) and processed in Snapseed (on phone). Colour saturation has not been boosted!
This Woodpecker was formerly called the Arctic Woodpecker or Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. It does have only three toes which is a characteristic it shares with the American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis) which can also be found here. This one is a female. I added a recent shot of a male in the first comment box for comparison. Note the yellow crown.
This species eats mainly wood-boring insects which it obtains by scaling bark from trees to expose the holes created by those insects. If you look to the left of the bird, you can see the exposed boring holes in the area where the bark was removed. The Woodpecker inserts its long barbed tongue to extract a meal.
We usually find these ones by listening for the irregular tapping and tearing sounds created by the scaling activity. Falling bark chips are also a good tell.
This is how Lee and I found this one today.
Grey Nuns White Spruce Park. St. Albert, Alberta.
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heatwave and sunshine over, back to normal, Irish normal that is
Liffey River, O'Connell Bridge, Dublin
Back to the Eighties
Don't forget we wait for you this Saturday 13th in two schedules al Noon and 8pm SLT, and all days at Lace & Garters Premier Female Entertaiment Club.
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Somewhere along the back roads of Seeley's Bay, where the nights are dark and the stars are plentiful. This is a 3 shot panorama with a little light painting to illuminate the foreground.
Great Egret tossing a fish to get it to the back of its beak for swallowing.
MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA
Back in the desert, back among the cactus and all things spiny.
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Fall Break 2014: "Turtles & Lava"
November 1: Hawaii to Arizona, a long day's journey into another day; reacquainting with the desert.
The marbled whites are back on the meadow at our local golf course. I had been there two weeks ago and at the time didn't find a single one. Today I went there again during my lunch break and there were hundreds of them. It was hot and sticky, almost like in a glasshouse, but I just had to sit down in the grass and watch the marbled whites taking turns on the flowers around me.
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Male Wandering Percher.
Odonata: Libellulidae: Diplacodes: bipunctata
An often unseen part of a dragonflys head... the back of it.
I've taken 1 or 2 photos like this before but only by chance.
While I was photographing the side and front shots of this little fella, I remembered about the back of the head shots from before, so I set myself up to do a deliberate shoot of it.
Focus stacked using Zerene.
Pima Air and Space Museum, Lockheed VC-140B, cn 5044, BuNo 62-4200, used by artist Kenny Scharf as canvas for his artwork called "Back to Supersonica".
or perhaps 'companion planting'.
The chilli plant has a friend, parsley, planted in another mosaic pot yesterday.
Out of shot, the pots are positioned in a bird bath.
And they are in the same place. After I left the Americana I crossed the street and photographed this display, as I do every year. I really don't care for such harsh sunlight as my key for subjects like this, but I wasn't sure when I'd be back over there. A little tweaking on Lightroom and Photoshop Express helped reduce the harshness of the original photo. I prefer to get subjects like this at magic hour, or even later. This Samsung phone has a great sensor for low light photography and video.
And you also see my shadow at the lower right, which I don't like to have in there either.
Just a few minutes back yard shots. Distant sparrows and a few gulls were all that obliged. This one has the characteristic red eye circle but can't tell if it's a Great or Lesser.
Lok 72 (Henschel 31573/1972) ist nach ihrer Hauptuntersuchung seit Mitte Januar wieder zurück. Hier rangiert sie am Völklinger Saarufer. (1. Februar 2025)
Here's the back of the bag partner. The heart is my first attempt at paper piecing- I really like the technique!
Strangely you can;t see them in this pic, but there's a blue 1x1 round plate between every dish and every yellow 1x1 plate.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could turn my back on work as easily as this? It would be nicer still if I could face work like this!
I'm back. Did you miss me? Here's a favourite combo when I'm working from home. Love this skirt with it's hugging feel and wide belt. The top is a wrap silky number and also has all the feels. My house is now 'our' house as my partner has moved in. The advantage to that is a whole new wardrobe to explore. The down side is I'm way busier and have little time to Holly up as much. Truth be told, I'm not going full Holly much at all these days. It seems I prefer to be mixing my looks so male mode a lot with a skirt etc. In fact, I had my first wedding in a skirt last week. More on that later.
Recently repainted 3642 drops downgrade towards Picton during the Thirlmere Festival of Steam 2023.
3642 carried its previous lined green livery since it was returned to active service by the State Rail Authority in 1981.
The engine operated tour trains throughout New South Wales and into Victoria until being withdrawn in 1996, being put on static display at the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum until 2006 when it was once again overhauled, returning to traffic in 2008.
