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In all my travels I have never seen light like this. Not the best picture as we were racing back to camp, you have to be in by dusk. If you look really close you can see a rainbow.
If i just had 5 minutes and a tripod!
Wilbur takes a brief rest at Hall Point. We hiked a little less than 5 miles with over 2300 feet elevation gain. We are out of practice unfortunately but we made it.
The dawn horizon was ablaze with colour but that clear window was closing fast. Heavy dark clouds were overhead and creeping to the horizon at one point it rained a little. This can’t be happening, I’d been worried by the lack of clouds in the forecast, I was not expecting this. As I waited for the sun to rise at least 30 minutes away I thought it was not going to be, that cloud was going to snuff the whole show out. As it happened the sun got to show its face for about 10 minutes before it joined the thick clouds above, and just before it was swallowed the land was a glow with intense light. I turned the camera round to catch it this brief encounter.
This collared kingfisher (todiramphus chloris) would sometimes make a brief, early morning appearance on a tree at the edge of the sea. The bird would invariably fly back into thick mangroves after a short time. Photographed at Rimlay Bay, Hat Yao Noi, Phang Nga, Thailand.
"Thomas the Rhymer, the famous thirteenth century Scottish mystic and poet, once met the Faery Queen by a hawthorn bush from which a cuckoo was calling. She led him into the Faery Underworld for a brief sojourn, but upon reemerging into the world of mortals he found he had been absent for seven years. Themes of people being waylaid by the faery folk to places where time passes differently are common in Celtic mythology, and the hawthorn was one of, if not the, most likely tree to be inhabited or protected by the Wee Folk."
Paul Kendall treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythology-folklore/hawthorn/
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As I walked up the Elgol Road back to the car I spotted this ewe nicely silhouetted against the evening sky. Sheep can be very skittish, so I approached cautiously and managed to get off a couple of shots before she bolted.
Taking that breath, composing oneself, before breaking down another wall and building another bridge
Model: Krystal Smith
After covering the same stretch of path for quite a while, managed to picture this Green Fritillary on the South Downs near Truleigh Hill West Sussex - June 2022.
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Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis)
I heard the distinctive call of the Cisticola and then spotted it flitting around in the paddock, thankfully it stopped for a moment for a shot.
A short time to find a spot to pull in and take a shot, no time to put a filter in place so I did a three shot HDR with a tripod, a few moments later and the rays had gone .
How smoothly and how sweetly
she lifts me from the bed where I was dreaming
of profound and fragrant fields,
she runs her fingers over my skin and sketches me
in space, suspended, until the kiss
alights curved and recurrent
a slow flame kindling
the rhythmic dance of the bonfire
weaving us together in flashes, in spirals,
going and coming in a storm of smoke—
(So why is
what’s left of me, afterwards,
just a sinking into ashes
without a goodbye, with nothing more than a gesture
of letting our hands go free?)
poetry: Julio Cortazar
art: Alice Alicja Cieliczka; drawing - pencil on paper
A brief beauty and the beast theme. Yesterday's post of the lovely Tricolored Heron was the beauty and this American Alligator is clearly the beast. This large gator was found in the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, southern Georgia.
Naturepark AWD, not my best shot ever but I think it is too cute not to share it with you.
Natuurpark AmsterdamseWaterleiding Duinen. Niet mijn mooiste foto maar ik vond hem te mooi om niet te delen.
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Attenborough NR Nottingham
After only brief and obscured views earlier in the week, this lovely little bird showed well yesterday. Next to a busy railway line, it didn't seem at all bothered and flitted around in the company of several Chiffchaffs and Goldcrests. Difficult to get the camera on it, so very pleased to get these images. The bird has been seen for at least a week now, but I wonder if it has actually over-wintered here?
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Summer sunset taken on Naxos, Greece. There was an amazing red sunset that evening. Inspired by sitting in a wet, cold and stormy Winter a long way from that moment.
The great crested grebe is a delightfully elegant waterbird with ornate head plumes which led to its being hunted for its feathers, almost leading to its extermination from the UK. They dive to feed and also to escape, preferring this to flying. On land they are clumsy because their feet are placed so far back on their bodies. They have an elaborate courtship display in which they rise out of the water and shake their heads. Very young grebes often ride on their parents' backs.
Photographing my favourite false black widow spider is quite a challenge. It's a magnificent creature, much bigger than most I've seen. It inhabits the kitchen window frame externally, and is extremely shy and reclusive. The only thing that will bring it out to play is a sprinkle of water onto its web which is strung between the window frame and window box. I am obliged to carry the camera in my right hand, which must also do the turning on, focusing and clicking, and spray the hose with the left hand. As you can imagine, this juggling act often leads to failure and a wet camera. The fickle lens often doesn't focus on the spider, who only stays around long enough to find out that there's no prey and swiftly returns to its window frame sanctuary as fast as it appeared. This time though, everything seemed to work like a dream and my spider friend even posed for a short while as the shot was taken.
After steep climb, a brief halt was much required....taken on trek to HMI Basecamp in Sikkim Himalayas, India
Here's an image from a recent brief visit down the road from home.....
The Mistletoe was out in bloom and attracted this Brown Honeyeater and others.
The flowers are almost as pretty as the birds it attracts - interestingly it is a parasitic plant!
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This is the only time you see Val d'Isere so quiet. Early morning before the madness begins and while the party set are still sleeping off last night's hors piste exertions.
Walking along a track in a narrow strip of woodland, something caught my eye - on realising they were deer feeding, I managed to move amongst the vegetation at the side of the track and stayed as still as possible and took a few shots. The doe looked up and straight at me but I held position with camera up to eye and they continued feeding. They got closer still and I took this shot as the doe finally realised I wasn't a tree and ambled off the other way with the fawn and to my amazement another smaller fawn joined them from the scrub. Unforgettable! Roe Deer, Duddon Mosses
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Just a quick stop for this welcome swallow before resuming its patrol up and down over the surface of the pond.
After a brief hiatus, Porsche has slid the 911 GT3 and 911 GT3 Touring—the latter now known officially as the GT3 with Touring Package—into production as 2025 models. They join the intense GT3 RS to create the holy trinity of the 911 lineup. The GT3 and GT3 Touring feature a round of focused updates for 2025, and the GT3 RS mains the preeminent—and undeniably brilliant—track-focused pinnacle of Porsche’s consumer lineup. All feature the venerated naturally aspirated flat-six engine and elevate it to new heights. The 4.0-liter unit makes 502 horsepower in the GT3 and 518 in the GT3 RS, producing an intoxicating soundtrack all the way to its 9000-rpm redline. The chassis is a sharper version of the 911's, tuned, tweaked, and fortified with a control-arm front suspension design that Porsche says is derived from the factory's 911 RSR and 911 GT3 Cup race cars. While the rear wing found on the GT3 and the even larger wing on the GT3 RS makes it simple for even a neophyte enthusiast to pick them out of a lineup, it's an exterior detail that doesn't allow the GT3 RS to be incognito. But the core spirit of the GT3 is impossible to ignore regardless of the packaging, a quality that makes it one of our favorite ultra-performance vehicles—one that has scorched Virginia International Raceway in our annual Lightning Lap track shootout.
In the tail of the 911 GT3 is a naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six that makes 502 horsepower. The engine is essentially identical to the one that powered the last 911 Speedster we tested, which spun to 9000 rpm and wailed hypnotically. The GT3 offers both a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic (a.k.a. PDK) and a six-speed manual, and both feature a shorter final-drive ratio for sharper responses. The 4.0-liter in the GT3 RS gets tuned for 518 horsepower and comes with an outrageous rear wing that incorporates a drag-reduction system similar to those on Formula 1 race cars, and it pulled 1.16 gs on our skid pad. The most notable performance upgrade on this latest generation of the GT3 is its control-arm front suspension, which is a first for a production 911. Combine that with standard adaptive dampers and sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2–or stickier Cup R–tires and the coupe's chassis provides tremendous cornering grip and unfiltered feedback. While the GT3's ride is undeniably firm, it's never punishing, and the electrically assisted steering is so divinely communicative that it deserves anointment as the best in the business. The RS's suspension tuning is stiffened up for the track to the point where some drivers may find it too uncomfortably sharp-edged for the street. But if you're one of those folks, consider the 911 Turbo model instead. Stopping these purist's Porsches are massive binders with steel brake rotors; a carbon-ceramic option provides heroic braking power, easy modulation, and resists fade at the track. Active anti-roll bars for flatter cornering are also available.
The price of the 2025 Porsche 911 GT3 / GT3 RS starts at $224,495 and goes up to $243,295 depending on the trim and options.
After a brief spell of Spring last week we're back to Winter again this weekend in Caithness!!
In gloomy weather 158711 stands at Wick on Sunday 23/4/2023 all prepared to work today's 2H62 1158 Inverness service.
history is a record of hard lines and defended borders.
a long, complicated argument written in stone and steel.
but peace is not a treaty.
it is a brief, weightless moment.
a silent ceasefire in the endless noise.
it does not erase the borders below.
it simply reminds us that the sky is open,
and belongs to no one.
The Shed, which was supposed to be around for a year and stuck around for three or four.
South Bank, London, 2013.