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Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia
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The Past: the Stone House (1848)
The Present: the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, 20 December 2020
The Future: the Park Ranger who unbeknownst to me is about to chase me out of the park…
The Great Conjunction hasn’t happened in almost 400 years, since 1623; Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the night sky to form a single bright point on December 21, 2020. A similar event over 2000 years ago is thought by some historians to be the Star of Bethlehem that led the wise men to the Infant Jesus.
What you see here was supposed to be a practice shot the night before but wound up being my best photo of this little adventure.
I have been planning this photo since I found out about the celestial event taking place…it will not happen again until 2080. I have wanted to try my hand at landscape astrophotography for a while, and this event was perfect for a first time. The Stone House is such a wonderful and iconic historic building and its relatively remote location was ideal for the angle needed to see the conjunction (between 220˚ and 240˚).
The Stone House served as an impromptu field hospital for not just one, but two massive battles of the American Civil War: the first major battle of the war First Manassas (Bull Run according to the North, July 21, 1861), and it’s even more tragic follow up Second Manassas (Second Bull Run, August 28 - 30, 1862). The grounds around it were fought over in both battles and several artillery shells are still lodged in its walls. While it sits just under a mile away from the main battlefield, it is part of Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Well preserved and photogenic, the Stone House is very easy to visit with its own parking lot outside the main National Park area and a convenient location…too convenient as it turned out. The car light trails from the nearby intersection proved to give off too much light pollution.
I had just taken this shot, only my second of the night, and was in the process of adjusting to another shot due to the light pollution present when a Park Ranger showed up, lights blaring on her patrol car. She chased out two other photographers from the parking lot, but I foolishly hoped she would ignore me. No such luck.
“The park closed an hour ago sir,” she said through her patrol car window. She followed me out of the parking lot, flashing lights still on.
And the Great Conjunction dropped behind a cloud by the time I found another location. And the following nights were full cloud cover. Lucky I got this shot! PhotoPills and StarWalk 2 for planning, and Capture One for post processing.
Selected for FLICKR Explore December 22, 2020, # 81.
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Name "click beetle" refers to the clicking sound which these beetles produce. They have flexible connection (that acts like elastic device) between the first and second thoracic segment.
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
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Our ever reliable Little Robin...
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
The robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is a vagrant in Iceland. In the south-east, it reaches the Caucasus range. Irish and British robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Scandinavian and Russian robins migrate to Britain and western Europe to escape the harsher winters. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast. The European robin prefers spruce woods in northern Europe, contrasting with its preference for parks and gardens in Ireland and Britain.
Attempts to introduce the European robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local acclimatisation societies, with none becoming established. There was a similar outcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889–1892, and the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia in 1908–1910.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.
Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
The robin features prominently in British folklore, and that of northwestern France, but much less so in other parts of Europe. It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology. Robins feature in the traditional children's tale, Babes in the Wood; the birds cover the dead bodies of the children.
More recently, the robin has become strongly associated with Christmas, taking a starring role on many Christmas cards since the mid 19th century. The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain. The blood from his wounds stained the robin's breast, and thereafter all robins got the mark of Christ's blood upon them.
An alternative legend has it that its breast was scorched fetching water for souls in Purgatory.
The association with Christmas more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red jackets and were nicknamed "Robins"; the robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.
In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by The Times, the robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK.
In 2015, the robin was again voted Britain's national bird in a poll organised by birdwatcher David Lindo, taking 34% of the final vote.
Sunset on the Ottawa River
Coucher de soleil sur la Rivière des Outaouais
Teddy Swims - Sara Smile (Hall & Oats Cover)
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Clicked@Old Central Jail, Chennai
Candid shot, but i like to try for the best of the lights, colors and subject.
He is my friend Mr.Gopi, he is not at all interested in showing his face to any photographs. Same thing reflects in this shot also.
Film: Fuji Superia X-Tra 400iso Expired 03/2011
Camera: Canon A1
Shot: Sept.27,2014
F-stop: F16
Shutter: 8sec
Lens: 28mm
Location: High Level Bridge, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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My entry for the first round of the 2017 Bio-Cup, A revamp of the Brickmaster set "Click", Mata Nui's lil beetle dude.
Loved the layers of leaves it was on too! If my memory serves me right, I think it was a dog rose!
Shawbury Moat - Shropshire (May 20)
Who doesn’t know, the small magic tins, the click into center open, press on the rim, and open and close again, click-clack, click clack and so on unit they are empty.
Typical promotional gift, filled with small pills of spear mint.
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Female Mandarin Duck ~ Menagerie Zoo ~ Jardin Des Plantes ~ Saturday May 4th 2019.
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Trying to satisfy my need to click the shutter.
Backyard photography
Pike County Georgia USA
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Fotos espontâneas, tiradas por mim (:
até que ficaram legais ...
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Foto 1: Ítala e João
Foto 2: Kléber Veloso
This little click beetle repeatedly opened and closed its elytra (the hard, protective forewings, orange in this beetle), which I thought meant it was preparing to fly, but it never did take off while I was watching. I think it was actually getting its flight wings properly folded and stowed away. (Montana)
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All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
I photographed on a beach a young lady who, leaning her smartphone against a paper bag, in order to self-portray, assumed statuesque and plastic poses for "artistics selfies"; … .I photographed a couple of lovers entwined with each other, regardless of everything that was around "their world"; ... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the wather to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato su di una spiaggia una giovane signora che, appoggiato ad una busta di carta il suo smartphone, in modo da autoritrarsi, assumeva delle pose statuarie e plastiche da “selfie artistico”; ….ho fotografato una coppia di innamorati tra loro avvinghiati, incuranti di tutto ciò che stava attorno “al loro mondo”; …ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in acqua per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.---------------------------------------------------------
Camino. Faa, que buena puerta. Me prestás la cámara? miro, enfoco, click. Cruzo la vereda. Miro, enfoco, click. View. Que lindas quedaron. Me encanta el amarillo. Apago la camara....Crack. ops, ups, ouch, guaa.
Servicio técnico. 220. Click again. Puerta amarilla. Foto. Flickr. Ahora si, uff, que susto.
I can't quite believe it but my storm at Porthcawl image has won me a place being shortlisted in the British Photography Awards too! Absolutely mind blown right now!
Now its all down to the public vote so I need to ask a huge favour of all of you.... please click here and vote for me in the Landscape section if you would be so kind? It literally takes 2 seconds!
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