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Well, guess it's a compromise for just a while adding one of MRL's SD40's to one of the Livingston helper sets.
7215 DPU 8950-251 9761 helper
2-23-24
...least you compromise some of your natural protection.
This is a circa 2002 Westland Giftware porcelain "Beehive Bovine" figurine. Her broken left horn is nearby, repairable with a spot of super glue.
Portland, Oregon
WARNING: If you are headed to shoot the Horsetail Falls this year during the next couple of weeks, please read the following:
1) Due to the recent beetle infestation, at least a third of the pine trees on the valley floor are now dead or dying. When you combine these compromised trees with a flooded, soggy valley floor and high winds, you are asking for trouble. I was already concerned about the trees as I began scouting for some alternate locations this year when suddenly the wind picked up. Sure enough, just 20 minutes into my scouting on the North side a huge pine tree came crashing down right where I had been exploring a few minutes before. That's a sound that stays with you. If you were up there and saw someone leaping through the snow drifts like an overweight gazelle with two nikons flying in all directions...yes, that was me. This year, you do NOT want to be shooting right after a heavy rainstorm with a high wind blowing. Keep an eye on those trees!
2) The recent snow and rain storms have really taken their toll on the Yosemite roads, especially the stretch from Cooks Meadow into the Yosemite Lodge. If you are in a hurry and hit those potholes at 35 mph or faster, count on doing some serious damage to your wheels and/or front end. Not sure when the road crews will get a chance to fix those holes with all of the weather we have been getting lately.
3) Rockslides have been common on both the 140 and 41 this year. I have almost run into rocks in the roadway several times already this year. It would be best to take your time up there and watch for rocks on those corners, especially on the 140.
(We return you now to your regularly scheduled photo caption)
Completely forgetting that it was a three day weekend for some folks, I headed up to Yosemite last Saturday in a light rain with hopes of photographing a record amount of water in Horsetail Fall. Yosemite had just endured another deluge earlier in the week making it three times this year that a flood warning had been issued for the valley. With a snow level of 8000 feet and heavy rain just a day before my trip, I was pretty sure I would see some serious water coming down Horsetail.
As I pulled into the valley, waterfalls that I had only seen flowing once or twice before....or not all...were thundering down on both sides of the valley. Along highway 41, impromptu falls were bubbling everywhere, often throwing water across the roadway. As I came through the tunnel I almost slammed on the brakes as Bridal Veil was about 3 times larger than any time I had seen it before. It was HUGE! After shooting Bridal Veil for a bit, I headed quickly over to the North Side which was already beginning to get crowded as hundreds of photographers were already parked and camped out waiting for a show that was still two hours away.
As for the Horsetail Fall, it was definitely flowing well but not at the flood stage that I had seen on the webcam the day before. Apparently the creek that feeds horsetail isn't really all that long and once the heavy rains let up, the creek drained fairly rapidly. Ribbon Falls, Sentinel Falls, Cascade Falls and several others that aren't flowing well during the winter were still roaring, but Horsetail had already returned to its normal size. Even though it was rather early in the season for Horsetail to light up, we were still treated to a nice orange glow before all of the light disappeared. We never quite got to the brilliant reds that can show up on clear day later in February, but it was still very impressive, especially the mist that kept billowing up while we shot. I'll probably try to make at least one more trip up this Winter, perhaps after Presidents Day Weekend, but when/if I do, you can bet I will be keeping an eye on those trees.
If you are headed to Yosemite in the next couple of weeks to photograph the Horsetail Fall and you would like to know what, where, when and how, please feel free to read my blog article at:
theresonantlandscape.com/looking-fire-horsetail-fall/
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A smart male Adonis Blue from a trip to Ballard Down in the summer. I found this (and more Adonis Blues, Common Blues and Brown Argus') in a dense patch of long grass so was always struggling to get a really clear background - as you can see. He was also such a furry little blighter that going too low on the f-stop would have meant parts of the butterfly were out of focus.
However on looking back, trying to clear up the hard drive (unsuccessfully), I realise that he's such a beauty and they're such incredible little creatures that I might be able to live without the perfect background!
Press L at least.
I had to work for this one. Light rain was hitting my filters, patience was required for the waves as they were infrequent and the only way to get the entire composition in was to stitch 3 very wide focal length images together. This doesn't usually work due to the distortion of the image at such wide angles. I think it worked out though but I did have to opt for the square crop to hide some of the distortion. This little sea arch is on the coastline of the Moray Firth to the west of Portknockie in scotland.
This Brown Pelican was one of hundreds seen at Malibu Lagoon. Recently quite a number have been found dead (I saw four on my last visit) or compromised along the California Coast.
Watching and photographing this set was likely the highlight of the Summer, seen and photographed in the Ottawa area starting in mid June and into July when the chicks fledged. I made several visits to the location and kept it under wraps following the request of a a friend that shared them with me. His concern was that the nest would be compromised and the chicks jeopardized....the nesting site was just a few meters in a forest easily seen from a roadway...the day the chicks fledged I was there and missed the shot of the first chick leaving the nest by a few seconds...the adults would alternate between taking food into the nest cavity and hunting for food...usually as one arrived, the other would make room in the nest and fly away to scrounge more food...when they left the nest hole they exited like little bullets and it was a challenge to capture successful y...the lighting was tricky and I didnt want to push the ISO too high...and to "freeze" the flight it wasnt quite enough shutter speed to manage it well...
We tried to keep it quiet because this species in Ontario is considered " at risk" and any nesting opportunity is a positive chance to add to the successful rebound of this species in Ontario..Their habitat sadly is being reduced by forever ongoing development in our province...they're STUNNING looking birds and I hope you all enjoy these images!!!
Daughter wanted to look for Pokenmon. I wanted to take pics, so we compromised. I let her hunt while I took pics of the sunset.
With my compromised immune system, I'm one of those who sure appreciates it when masks are worn. Please think of others and protect them by wearing a mask.
He has never known a world without paved roads and double yellow lines. The road to providing a safe, sustainable future for wildlife in a world dominated by humans is long and tortuous but is the road best taken. #WorldWildlifeDay #Bison
We don't run, we don't compromise / We don't quit, we never do / We look for love to find it in the eyes / The eyes of you, the eyes of you / You are the road, that I've been riding on / You are the rock I melt with anger / You are the only one that keeps me going on / The eyes of you that sees right through (SongDogs)
© Albertinaplatz, Wien, 2023, Florian Fritsch
For my video; youtu.be/kTJBQLAOMYQ,
The 2009, Vancouver All British Field Meet, 24th Anniversary Celebration, held at, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Production 1953–1955 1,582 made
The original Alpine was launched in 1953 as the first vehicle from Sunbeam-Talbot to bear the Sunbeam name alone since the 1935 takeover of Sunbeam and Talbot by the Rootes Group. The car was derived from the Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Saloon and has since become colloquially known as the "Talbot" Alpine. It was a two-seater sports roadster initially developed by Sunbeam-Talbot dealer George Hartwell in Bournemouth, as a one-off rally car. It had its beginnings as a 1952 Sunbeam-Talbot drophead coupé, and was supposedly named by Norman Garrad of thhe works Competition Department, who was heavily involved in the Sunbeam-Talbot successes in the Alpine Rally in the early 1950s using the saloon models.
The car had a four-cylinder 2267 cc engine from the saloon, but with a raised compression ratio. However, since it was developed from the saloon platform, it suffered from rigidity compromises despite extra side members in the chassis. The gearbox ratios were changed, and from 1954 an overdrive unit became standard. The gearchange lever was column-mounted.
The Alpine Mark I and Mark III (no Mark II was made) were hand built – like the 90 drophead coupé – at Thrupp & Maberly coachbuilders from 1953 to 1955, remaining in production for only two years with 1,582 automobiles produced. The majority of production (a little over 1,000 vehicles) were exported, primarily to the USA, as left hand drive models. It has been estimated that perhaps as few as 200 have survived.
In the 1953 Alpine Rally four Alpines won the Coupe des Alpes, one of which, finishing 6th, was driven by Stirling Moss; Sheila van Damm won the Coupe Des Dames in the same rally.
This is a shot that I took way back in March 2019 while on a workshop with Rohan Reilly. I have not processed it before now as I was unsure how to and if it would work as I couldn't get the trees more central than this and had to compromise what I felt would have been the best composition.
So much I′ve thought
I'd have to say
Though I try to speak
My meaning strays
We can′t avoid
The facts that brought us here
I've come to say goodbye
The lies I try
To tell with my own eyes
An act of pride
A willful compromise
Please understand
How torn I am
When I walk away from here
I lament
The moments we won't share
If I am far to sentimental, I apologize
Please understand
This is who I am
And who′ll I′ll still be
When I've walked away from here
You know I′m not unkind
When I say
In the future
The past is just the past
No going back
No change of heart
But this is now
Time will not defer
My thoughts betray
So easily confess
How long I'll wait here
After you have gone
Nothing ends
But I won′t believe that now
Please don't walk away from here
And when alone
When I remember days
Nothing will change
A single fact of who you were to me
Oh come what may
Forever to the end
I find it so hard to let you go
Hush now
Let it go now
There′s no need
For sad goodbyes
Hush now
Let it go now
I know it's time to go
Time to let this fall
From my hands
Before moving to the prairie full time in 2011, I lived on southern Vancouver Island for many years (1991-2011, off and on). So today I'm starting a new image set of photos shot during those years and in subsequent visits. My favourite locations on the coast, mostly unpublished. A few, like this one, are newly reprocessed, and the original effort has been deleted from my photostream. Really, with today's software, it's like I'm seeing them for the first time. In a way that really is true.
Esquimalt Lagoon, near Victoria, was a productive location for me, especially after I rented a suite in a house just up the hill. Under constant pressure from housing development on its perimeter, it has been further compromised by population increase: traffic, walkers, joggers, dogs, etc. This is what my spies tell me. I was seeing it before I left. Whether it will remain viable as a bird sanctuary is anyone's guess. If it doesn't, mindless development in the interest of profit will be the cause, and the elected officials who allowed it will be the enablers.
What a great place it was, though, and still may be. I recall waiting for the Caspian Terns to arrive in May, one of the year's highlights. Largest tern in the world. I reprocessed this shot of one nabbing a small fish in Photoshop, with additional noise reduction and resizing to tighten the crop a little. More to come...
Photographed in Colwood, Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2010 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
A Republic Commando got sent to the Sith homeplanet of Korriban to spy on the Sith Warlords to find out their true intentions for the Galaxy. But before he could find out the truth, his position got compromised and he had to fight his way to safety!
Hey everyone! Better late than never, but here is a small build I made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Star Wars The Old Republic! As a day 1 player of the game I felt like I just had to build something for this event :D It felt good building a simple 20 x 20 MOC again! I hope you all enjoy the MOC and happy holidays!
It was a year ago, but not much has changed. Winter comes early to the northern prairie. I try to have a good attitude toward it, because the transformation is visually exciting; feel free to remind me of this comment if I start griping sometime around the end of January...
Here, daytime warming has melted a thin layer of the snow's surface, and the temperature drop at night has turned it into ice. This can be exhausting to walk on if it's thick enough to support a person's weight for a second or two before breaking. Fortunately, the crust here was very thin and the walking was easy.
Meanwhile, additional warmth - mainly from pockets of air trapped by the dead leaves of grass - has melted and thinned the ice edges to transparency. I'd been shooting landscapes, but switched to the macro lens to explore these graphic elements close up.
For work like this, a tripod is essential - otherwise I'd be shooting at f/4 or ISO 4000, and dealing with insufficient depth of field or noise removal (take your pick). I try not to take too many shortcuts; they compromise quality.
This is the second in a short set of three panoramic images, looking down at a limited patch of prairie ground (and whatever is covering it).
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I compromised slightly on my aspect of the Fyrish Monument here as I was keen to include the receding line of oil rigs/platforms at Invergordon. As sunset approached the easterly sky took on some pleasing pastel shades.
The Brickarms HAC and I have disagreed since the beginning. I got the chance to modify an olive one, though, and I think we've come to a compromise.
Removable flashlight (or M203 or foregrip), and three scope attachment points.
Compromise in the insect world -- perhaps something we humans could learn from tiny ones who share our planet. For the Looking Close... On Friday group, topic: "Combination of Flora and Fauna."
Beefy doesn't like to admit it, but sometimes he falls asleep in embarassing, but oh so cute, positions ilke this one.
He will kill me if he finds out I took this!
Even the best lenses show some degree of distortion. Most lenses offer some kind of compromise. This shot (done with an old Fuji X-E2) used the ancient Helios 44M-7 wide-open plus a 2x tele converter - a combination that is far from perfect. Every lens has both, potential and limitations. Looking at the Olympics of antiquity (the figure represents a diadoumenos, a winner in the Olympic Games) through the lens of today's games in Paris does also produce some imperfections. Perfection is not the most important thing, neither in history nor photography.
This post is a bit off season but I needed an image of the parliament buildings in Ottawa for one of my kids and I'm also participating in a B&W sub-group of our local camera club. This scene from the winter of 2009 has always been a favorite of mine so it seemed like a reasonable compromise for both projects.
When the winters are cold enough, the Rideau Canal forms the world's largest skating rink at 7.8 km long and over 900,000 people skate on it each year. It's definitely something to try for yourself.
to get on the road and hug it for a shot...loved the way the sun is setting on the tree stump :)
...lol it's late...Please no invites...save them for someone else!!
Have a great Friday...hope to catch up later today...
"The Hofburg is the official residence and workplace of the President of Austria and was formerly the principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence.
Since 1279 the Hofburg area has been the documented seat of government. The Hofburg has been expanded over the centuries to include various residences (with the Amalienburg and the Albertina), the imperial chapel (Hofkapelle or Burgkapelle), the imperial library (Hofbibliothek), the treasury (Schatzkammer), the Burgtheater, the Spanish Riding School (Hofreitschule), the imperial mews (Stallburg and Hofstallungen).
The palace faces the Heldenplatz (Heroes Square) ordered under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I, as part of what was planned to become the Kaiserforum [de] but which was never completed.
Numerous architects have executed work at the Hofburg as it expanded, notably the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Luchese, Lodovico Burnacini and Martino and Domenico Carlone, the Baroque architects Lukas von Hildebrandt and Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Johann Fischer von Erlach, and the architects of the Neue Burg built between 1881 and 1913.
Vienna (/viˈɛnə/; German: Wien [viːn]) is the national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with about 1.9 million inhabitants (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country's population), and its cultural, economic, and political center. It is the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had 2 million inhabitants. Today, it is the second-largest German-speaking city after Berlin. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations, OPEC and the OSCE. The city is located in the eastern part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In July 2017 it was moved to the list of World Heritage in Danger. Additionally to being known as the "City of Music" due to its musical legacy, as many famous classical musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart who called Vienna home. Vienna is also said to be the "City of Dreams", because of it being home to the world's first psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Vienna's ancestral roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city. It is well known for having played a pivotal role as a leading European music center, from the age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic center of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque palaces and gardens, and the late-19th-century Ringstraße lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks.
Vienna is known for its high quality of life. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouver and San Francisco) for the world's most livable cities. Between 2011 and 2015, Vienna was ranked second, behind Melbourne. In 2018, it replaced Melbourne as the number one spot and continued as the first in 2019. For ten consecutive years (2009–2019), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual "Quality of Living" survey of hundreds of cities around the world. Monocle's 2015 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna second on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within." The UN-Habitat classified Vienna as the most prosperous city in the world in 2012/2013. The city was ranked 1st globally for its culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and sixth globally (out of 256 cities) in the 2014 Innovation Cities Index, which analyzed 162 indicators in covering three areas: culture, infrastructure, and markets. Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners. Between 2005 and 2010, Vienna was the world's number-one destination for international congresses and conventions. It attracts over 6.8 million tourists a year.
Evidence has been found of continuous habitation in the Vienna area since 500 BC, when Celts settled the site on the Danube. In 15 BC the Romans fortified the frontier city they called Vindobona to guard the empire against Germanic tribes to the north.
Close ties with other Celtic peoples continued through the ages. The Irish monk Saint Colman (or Koloman, Irish Colmán, derived from colm "dove") is buried in Melk Abbey and Saint Fergil (Virgil the Geometer) served as Bishop of Salzburg for forty years. Irish Benedictines founded twelfth-century monastic settlements; evidence of these ties persists in the form of Vienna's great Schottenstift monastery (Scots Abbey), once home to many Irish monks.
In 976, Leopold I of Babenberg became count of the Eastern March, a district centered on the Danube on the eastern frontier of Bavaria. This initial district grew into the duchy of Austria. Each succeeding Babenberg ruler expanded the march east along the Danube, eventually encompassing Vienna and the lands immediately east. In 1145 Duke Henry II Jasomirgott moved the Babenberg family residence from Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria to Vienna. From that time, Vienna remained the center of the Babenberg dynasty.
In 1440 Vienna became the resident city of the Habsburg dynasty. It eventually grew to become the de facto capital of the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) in 1437 and a cultural center for arts and science, music and fine cuisine. Hungary occupied the city between 1485 and 1490.
In the 16th and 17th centuries Christian forces twice stopped Ottoman armies outside Vienna, in the 1529 Siege of Vienna and the 1683 Battle of Vienna. The Great Plague of Vienna ravaged the city in 1679, killing nearly a third of its population.
In 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna became the capital of the newly formed Austrian Empire. The city continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what became the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city functioned as a center of classical music, for which the title of the First Viennese School (Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven) is sometimes applied.
During the latter half of the 19th century, Vienna developed what had previously been the bastions and glacis into the Ringstraße, a new boulevard surrounding the historical town and a major prestige project. Former suburbs were incorporated, and the city of Vienna grew dramatically. In 1918, after World War I, Vienna became capital of the Republic of German-Austria, and then in 1919 of the First Republic of Austria.
From the late-19th century to 1938 the city remained a center of high culture and of modernism. A world capital of music, Vienna played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, among many, the Vienna Secession movement in art, psychoanalysis, the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern), the architecture of Adolf Loos and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. In 1913 Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Josip Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin all lived within a few kilometres of each other in central Vienna, some of them becoming regulars at the same coffeehouses. Austrians came to regard Vienna as a center of socialist politics, sometimes referred to as "Red Vienna"(“Das rote Wien”). In the Austrian Civil War of 1934 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Army to shell civilian housing such as the Karl Marx-Hof occupied by the socialist militia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Here I tried to find that compromise with shutter speeds, wanting to capture a slight milky look with longer shutter exposure but also a faster one to capture energy with some of the waves of waters rushing down. I metered the exposure to that fine area between the highlights of the clouds above and shadowed areas of the fall...with this as the final image after some adjustment in Capture NX2.