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A sheeps bit scabious holding its own momentarily in a swirling sea of dandelion ,clover and wild grasses
I think the chap lurking in the background is wondering why they aren't playing the starring role... It's a landscape heron!
A bit of fun!
While walking the Reifel Bird Sanctuary looking for birds and looked West toward Vancouver Island and saw the Mid-Island Express Ferry that runs between Tswwassen and Duke Point on Vancouver Island passing by. A relatively warm day, the heat waves distorted the ferry. I ran with it and adjusted it for Slider Sunday.
HSS!
Something a bit different than one of my favorite landscape photos.
The lobby of the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The designers did an excellent job with the detail and color of the space. The 5 second exposure almost blurred out the individuals walking within view. The hotel policy does not permit tripods, but I asked permission and they agreed,but did ask that I be careful of others.
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 at 24 mm
5 sec at f/13 ISO 100
Single photo processed in Lightroom
Captured; April 15, 2013
A bit closer to home this week and the Britannic Explorer is on its usual run around the South West. Tonight its heading up the West Somerset Railway to Minehead and then back to Bishops Lydeard for its overnight layover. Here the train is seen unusually headed by 66744 'Heart of Wales', the other Britannic dedicated loco, although not in the Britannic livery, only 66748 has that honour.
The train is running 6 minutes late here as it comes from under the Bristol Line flyover, forming 1V01 15.48 London Victoria to Bishops Lydeard. 3/7/2026
"Half your life you struggle
Half your life you fly
Half your life makin' trouble
Half your life makin' it right
One day I'm the exception
Most days I'm just like most
Some days I'm headed in the right direction
And some days I ain't even close...
I'm a little bit steady but still a little bit rollin' stone
I'm a little bit heaven but still a little bit flesh-and-bone
Little found, little don't-know-where-I-am
I'm a little bit holy water but still a little bit burning man
Burning man..."
Love a bit of fog on a familiar location, its like mother nature has let off a smoke machine and everything looks more atmospheric!
Normally with these trees i've shot looking upwards
I remember reading a comment on one of the photos that made me think.....
"Eye-catching and I enjoy the light. Seeing the gaps between branches, I see each tree recognises the others' space and respects it. I am guessing the wind making them brush against each other inhibits growth as tiny buds will be knocked off."
From ground level in the fog it looks like a Battle more than respect!!
One of the lowest tides this year revealed a lot of the bits that had fallen off the West Pier, which are usually under the water.
Bit of a Marmite shot I would think.
the bokeh has not been added in post - shot though a dew covered branch in the foreground.,
Bit of a story here....
Some 29 years ago (yikes!) I arrived in Sheffield having transferred from London Ambulance to take up my new post at Longley Ambulance Station.
I filled a vacancy there due to a chap leaving and going off to Canada to start a new life over there in the ambulance service.
His name was/is Lou Gelsthorpe.
The other day I was sat in Middlewood Ambulance Station when a guy came in and asked if there were any 'old' ambulance men about..
I said no everybody was out bar me and the cleaners.
I asked him what he wanted 'old ambulance men' for and he said that he used to work for South Yorkshire Ambulance a while back but had moved to Canada...
The penny slowly dropped and I asked him his name.....
Yes! It was/is the same guy! Lou Gelsthorpe!
I was amazed at seeing him and then I told him that I was the guy who took his place at Longley Station 29 years ago... It was then his turn to be amazed...!
What a thing eh!
For me to be at Middlewood Station when he called in on the off chance & not even the station we were both at 29 years ago either!.
Amazing..!
We sat down and had a bit of a reminisce and I got out the station photo albums and we looked through them and he saw guys and gals that he recognised and even remembered names of! I had to point out the ones who had not only retired but had unfortunately died as well.. (bit sad but very good too!)
He couldn't stay too long but I asked if I could take a picture of him and put it up here on Flickr..
So I did! There he is in the top one with one of our newest vehicles.....
Plus for a 'context' view I have placed him (in the lower picture) leaning on the very vehicles that both he & I drove & worked from out of Longley Station, but of course not at the same time!
Not a great 'clone' shot but I thought I'd put them together...
Wow what an interesting encounter eh!
Lou said that he had some old photos from his time with SYAS and would email them to me... So watch this space..
I work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service on the RRVs in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
in a small moment ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO200 f/11 7mm -2 and 0ev
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhtotoLab 8, stacked and blended in Affinity Photo 2.6, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
The Shallows, Bass Point, Shellharbour, NSW
This shot of Wahclella Falls in the Columbia River Gorge is a bit different. It is a panorama of the waterfall consisting of four horizontal images stitched together to make a big vertical image about 33 megapixels in resolution.
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Bit of a lucky shot. It was only afterwards, I realised, that a bee had flown in on the same focal plane as the butterfly, just as I took the shot.
The heavens opened and most folk took shelter as it didn't look to be improving Stu and myself retired to the pub, just to get out of the rain, honest...........
A bit of colour to counteract all the gloom in my 365 pictures, and another from earlier in the year at the marina.
I tried to branch out about on the last visit and get two yachts in one shot, rather than just the one close up.
Yes, I'm really pushing the boat out.
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Perhaps a bit too pretty for some but a revisit to the Lune valley on Referendum Day prompted a shot from the Fairmile Road which sees a Virgin Voyager working the 11.43 London Euston - Glasgow (9S65) service, and running 27 minutes late as it happened.
Luckily the height of the Fairmile Road hides the worst excesses of the M6 motorway, and interesting too that despite being electrified the railway cuts a pretty small visual footprint in this stunning setting. As always good to see the pink and white foxgloves making an occasional stand in the rampant bracken.
23rd June 2016
A bit later in the morning, the sun broke over the ridge and began making great shadows on the snow. I captured some black and white 35mm here but didn't finish off the roll. Soon enough I will get it processed and upload it here.
I'd like to climb this mountain someday. And I'd also like to get the shot from the Illumination saddle. Soon!
Enjoy! Your comments are appreciated.
Jamey Pyles Photography
To say that Marsh Warbler is a bit of a birders' bird is an understatement. They look incredibly similar to the much commoner Reed Warbler, but only keen birdwatchers would get excited about seeing one. It took me years to get a clear photo of a common Reed Warbler because they always hide among reed stems, so I cannot believe how lucky I was to get an unobscured view of this Marsh Warbler on my first attempt, as they are also notorious skulkers. I say lucky because this one only perched momentarily in the open before bolting back to a hidden song perch. But this photo does show all of the subtle diagnostic features of Marsh Warbler; The tips of its primary feathers (wing tips) are edged pale , where these are dark-edged on Reed Warbler. Take a look on this Reed Warbler to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/52098887790/in/photolist Also the tertials (those feathers above the primaries on the closed wing) have a more contrasting pale edge on Marsh Warbler. The overall colour of Marsh Warbler has a subtle olive hue, and lacks any rufous tones of Reed Warbler. Finally the legs are noticeably pale whereas they appear dark on Reed Warbler.
There are about 130,000 breeding pairs of Reed Warbler in Britain whereas Marsh Warbler usually has fewer than ten breeding pairs. Two singing males had set up breeding territories less than 100m apart on the Lincolnshire coast near Chapel St Leonards last week and as I had not seen one for over 20 years, and I have never photographed one I thought I'd make the effort. I'm glad I did, though they were elusive and only gave photo-opportunities on a couple of occasions. The habitat was not quite like the previous Marsh Warblers I had seen as this one seemed to inhabit reeds, just like Reed Warbler, whereas the others I have seen have been in tall fen with Meadowsweet and Great Hairy Willowherb rather than reeds.
Marsh Harrier searching for it's tea in the late afternoon sun. Cley marshes, North Norfolk.
I set the sun a little bit lower for 'Sliders Sunday'.
Oh, must point out, that we shot this from inside the cafe, it was cold out there!!
This was a bit of a pig of a shot to work on but I thought it had potential. Trying to get the levels right overall proved difficult. These are some beautiful wee falls a few miles up the road from me and go under an old bridge which at one point would have been the main thoroughfare between Kiltarlity and Struy. A new road and you can't see this anymore unless you dig around and explore...something I love doing!
Bit of an unexpected working which turned out to be Locomotive Services Christmas Jolly to Holyhead with a trainee fireman!
46100 Royal Scot , in the rain,
powers through Bangor with the 1Z49, and running with no centre light on the buffer beam, just like the good old days!
Found-art sculpture, displayed in front of...
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
10 December 2022.
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Miscellaneous bits and bobs.
Left to right, back to front: Engine strut and engine brick core for a now dead mini Steampunk Serenity; Power cell? Futuristic light? Miniature sun ala' Spiderman II? >_< The world (including me) may never know; Connection bit; connection bit #2.
We had a bit of a long and rough week...Misty had a very difficult time keeping any weight on her legs, and she seemed spacey and afraid of her surroundings whenever she was outside. We've had these dips in her condition before which she has been able to recover from with adjustments to her meds/supplements and lots of rest, so that's what we're once again hoping for. She did seem a little better by Friday, so we took her out yesterday for a quick outing to let her to enjoy some fresh air. We believe these outings really are therapeutic and although it's physically demanding, she's mentally more alert both during and afterward.
Bit of a celebrity on the local car show scene, this Opel Manta is usually the only Manta at shows, although out of the blue another one arrived later on at this show in Sturton le Steeple in Nottinghamshire.
I was terribly sick for two days and I begin to' feeling better only today.So all the packages from my last BC update and my CC on PP are shipped only today, sorry.From the pic you can see I'm having a so needed shower and a don't needed iPhone new cover (but cute AND pink).(-:
i was on a tiny sliver of path going around a bend, with people and dogs needing to get around me...but i didn't give up on the scene like i sometimes would, and i'm glad. it took me a bit to gain solitude and decide on the framing. i probably could have spent an hour here, shooting off the entire roll. but i only pressed the shutter once. i think there were more people coming :)