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By early March neighboring farmers are anxious to work their fields, and we hope in the next week to plant our early spring garden -- if the weather cooperates.
I work at school with a population of more than two and a half thousand students and teachers for many years. When the SARs started, there was one room that was yearly closed down due to seasonal flu. Of course, blame it to the dormant virus that strikes during the rainy season where a lot children get sick. A virus doesn’t die, it just becomes dormant and each virus is triggered by something. Yearly, this room is always shut down for a week or two as almost three-quarters of the class get sick. No amount of disinfectant and domestos can kill whatever virus that sticks on the wall, floor, tables and stuff inside the classroom.
When the face mask wasn’t mandated yet, I remember teaching a class one morning. We were doing book activity and went around to check their work and gave them a timely feedback whilst doing their numbers. As I stopped on one of the girls, she sneezed so hard on her book. Surely, saliva spray came out in such a fine mist, which most of the time, it’s not even visible to the human eye. Later after the class, I collected the books and marked them. Just one abrupt cough with respiratory droplets…..I called in sick the next day with high temperature, runny nose, flu and phlegm. This is how virus is being transmitted from one person to the next….from school to home, home to school then everywhere. It is a viscious cycle of infection. This happened for many years before even COVID and its variants were exposed.
Without a doubt, some will disagree with wearing a mask. But I will keep wearing it all the time. Our community won’t heal and recover if we don’t cooperate. When you wear a mask, it will block the germs that come out of your mouth and nose whenever you talk, laugh, sing, cough, sneeze and breathe. This also means that if you don’t know that you have COVID-19, you’ll help prevent others from getting it. Mask won’t protect us completely but it will help you protect getting sick in the first place. So contain it contain it contain it.
You might be far away from us due to the pandemic.... but you are never alone. Merry Christmas my Flick friends!
I very much enjoy getting out at any time of the day when it comes to photography. Even when the time is not just right. That can be part of the challenge to make the best of what is given. When huge puffy clouds appeared in the sky, it was time to get to a predetermined spot scoped out the prior day.
Hours later, the clouds cooperated and gave me what I had visualized before arriving. And, armed with a polarizing filter, the sky would go very dark against the clouds. A 3 stop GND held the white in check resulting in a proper exposure with little post processing.
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Another image of Amsterdam during a cloudy and rainy day. No filters used here!
Bikes are the best (and the cheapest) means of transport to explore this beautiful old city. Bikes can be found anywhere throughout this big city!
Amsterdam is the capital city of The Netherlands and has so much to offer. Unfortunately the weather did not really cooperate while making this image.
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sighted May 1st
I had been hoping for another opportunity to capture a better image all week, but the oriole did not cooperate, so I am posting this one because it had been a treat to see it
A super sky on the evening that I took this (it took me a month to actually look at these again). The sun broke through the clouds long enough to give some nice light. These cattle came over to the hedge but were not entirely cooperating with a suitable pose. They just wouldn't all put their heads up above the hedge line.F20,0 to burst the sun. This only gave me 1/30 at iso 800. On the verge of being too slow for hand holding and with fast moving animals. Always difficult to handle shooting into the sun without flare and other issues. Handheld to follow the cattle and the tripod was in the car about a 5 minute walk away.
Once the rain stopped this morning the bees came around to feed on freshest flowers here. It’s like they posed for my photos as they cooperated so well. “After The Rain” things got busy with the bees. The rabbits found their way out of the bushes looking fir a garden to visit. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and be kind to everyone today..
I first caught sight of this shot a couple of days ago but was not packing my camera. I made a trip back on foot earlier today, but the sky was not cooperating...too overcast (no blue). I returned home and after waiting a couple of hours, the sky opened up a bit and that prompted me to make a third trip.
Good news for Cleo's fans, I have finally been able to take a few photos of Cleo today. Lots of bribe needed but she cooperated (mostly). In the last few weeks she had more important things to do than posing for photos, like keeping Natalie's bed warm when my niece was at work. A quite exhausting job as you can imagine.
Her "smile" in this shot wasn't for me, by the way, it was for the bag of treats in my hand.
American White Pelicans cooperate when feeding. Sometimes, large groups gather in wetlands. They coordinate their swimming to drive schooling fish toward the shallows. The pelicans can then easily scoop up these corralled fish from the water.
Tofu is a good photo model and if nobody else cooperates I know that I can always count on him even if he would rather want to be left in peace. :)
It has still been rainy today and so I took some photos of Filou indoors (which is often easier than trying to convince him to pose in the garden). He was relaxing on the the table in my sister's dining room, a place which was well chosen as even on this gloomy day it offered enough light. I will probably post some more photos from this photoshoot as Filou doesn't cooperate very often.
Yesterday I was sitting in my garden, camera in hand, trying to get a sharp shot of a hoverfly. I know, what an exciting life I live. The hoverflies were not cooperating and insisted on flying away before I had time to get a shot off. They are frustrating little beasties and I've decided I never want to see another hoverfly for as long as I live. Never mind.
As I sat there this little bird flitted across and momentarily sat on my fence before making it's way to the bird feeder in my neighbour's garden. But unlike the hoverflies I had enough time to get a shot off. It was only when I looked at the shot later that I realised it was basically a silhouette of a bird, not an actual bird. But as the queen would say, one must make the best of what one can get. Frankly it wasn't very exciting so to jazz it up, and to get a bit of photoshop practice, I decided to substitute the background with an out of focus 'texture' shot that I also shot yesterday (on purpose out of focus!). So here it is - bird silhouette and textured blur - all mashed up together.
On the trail at Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, FL. The sky really cooperated on this day!
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
52 Week Challenge
39:52, Door knobs or handles
I spent too much time trying to find a door with a bird! So I ended up with my armoire...one day I'll get the birds to cooperate!
Thank you for visiting and be well!
This is one of the places that I travel to when I want to get some landscape shots.
Mother Nature cooperated on this day, and gave me a good window of weather.
While the sun didn't fully cooperate, a rare Sunday afternoon move of CSX L016 passed by in West Haven with four empties for City Carting in Milford on February 12, 2023. Freights on Metro-North's New Haven Line are few and far between. The ones that do run are nocturnal and typically have short windows to work due to the strict operating rules by Metro-North.
This was taken a number of years ago, four to be exact. My daughter and I were heading down to southern California, and while we were making a stop-over in Nor-Cal, I decided to do a day trip along the coast. All by myself, but what better way to enjoy the day than taking pictures, right?! Looking at the clouds though, I wasn't sure the weather was going to cooperate! It looked like I was heading for a storm! Thankfully, it didn't really hit until into the evening; but this sure looked like quite the picture! I doctored it some, to keep the glare from the sun down. Hope you enjoy!
Half Moon Bay, California
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Despite to be seeking all this week a good catch of Chico stretching for the weekly theme in the "Happy Caturday" group, he did'n want to cooperate.
Anyway, we wish everyone a very Happy Caturday
At least somebody was enjoying our usually totally empty golf course (La Purisma) --- the two babies refused to lift their heads to cooperate, so in pique I cut them out of the image...
You can stop reading now if you don't want to hear 3 theories about why I'm always yelling Fore at folks scattered around me.
1) Oxford dictionary goes back to 1878 which is that Fore is a short form of 'before' which is a synonym to 'ahead' thus it (somehow) literally means "Look out ahead" -- pretty convoluted.
1a) think of a ship "fore and aft"
2) 16th /17th military deriving from either musket fire or cannon fire from behind which the person firing would alert those ahead of them by yelling "Beware before" which got shortened
to cover my errant shots on the course (I've actually hit it behind me once)
3) or most probably back to the days of the 18th century when golf balls were very expensive there would be a "Forecaddie" whose job it was to spot where the ball landed -- a warning to that individual a shot was coming....
Lake State's Y505 Port Huron job is working Dunn Paper at the north end of the line. The mixed sun & clouds day cooperated when it mattered for the assembled photographers to get some nice sun at the right time. Port Huron, MI 9/26/2021
Last Saturday when I needed a profile shot for the Happy Caturday "side view" theme Tofu refused to cooperate and kept looking at me. Now that I don't need his profile anymore he shows it all the time. So here is the Dragon's profile in our autumnal garden. :)
I tried to take some photo of my cats in front of the flowering rhodie yesterday. Cleo refused but the boys cooperated even if it was clear that they didn't see any sense at all in this photoshoot. In the meantime I have mowed the lawn and you would see more of Fynn if I took this photo today. :) Tofu's contribution to our very own 'the cat and the rhodie' challenge will follow.
One from my files from last Snowy Owl season but I remember getting up bright and early that day with the intentions of finding a Snowy and was not disappointed, the weather cooperated and so did the Owl! :)
So the weather still wasn't cooperating when we arrived at Milford Sound. Decided to head back to find clearer skies and less snow.
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In 1992 Antony Gormley was asked to develop an art project in line with the UN conference on climate problems and the uncertain future of the Amazone forests.
He asked young people from the favelas of Porto Velho to cooperate. With simple instructions, they created 48.000 little figures from local clay.
Exhibited 30 years later in museum Voorlinden, they filled two large exhibition spaces.
A duck scared the hell out of me here. =) At least it sounded like a duck. This is not a duck's kind of neighborhood, so I'm not so sure what it was. After the quacking fright there was an army of birds in the bushes. They sounded like nothing I have ever heard before. Kinda like when a large metal container full of water gets tapped. It was a creepy night. :) But the weather cooperated with me finally. I am very thankful for that!
The sunset clouds haven't been cooperating very well this spring; it seems we either have overcast or it's completely clear.... with a few hazy days of New Mexico wildfire smoke mixed in.....
A glimpse through the trees. A pair a swans have successfully raised two cygnets. They are now too big for their nest in the pond and have moved to the bank. They did not cooperate for a family photo.
Some of the squirrels at Monrepos are really perfect photo models and seem t enjoy posing in front of a camera. And yes, I bribe them, which may increase their willingness to cooperate. :)
The photo was taken in March but I hope for better weather again next week that would allow me to take some more squirrel photos.
I figured after showing an artistic rendering of the lighthouse in yesterday's post, I'd now show the real thing :)
This was taken 10 days ago on a cold winter day and the sky was definitely cooperating.
This lighthouse and its two piers, the north and south piers, represent the most recognized landmark in our city, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It is a tradition to walk the north pier to the lighthouse on those lazy, warm summer evenings...
Sometimes luck strikes back. A car was passing by a rural road near our camp. The wind though didnt cooperate.
121sec iso 3200 & 60sec iso 3200
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My second trip to Cannon Beach along the idyllic coastline of Oregon. Haystack rock is surprisingly impressive when viewed for the first time, especially how it juts straight out of the beach - iceberg like.
I just returned from a Northwestern trip to Washington and Oregon. This time the weather didn't cooperate for my pictures. Just plainly of blue skies, hot and sunny days.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
One of my goals the past few years while returning to my home state of Illinois has been the chase of Decatur & Eastern Illinois's 101 job out of Decatur. It an easy morning chase into the sun - that's if the train and weather cooperate. It took me a few tries, but I was successful a few weeks ago. There are plenty of small towns with numerous props along the way.
After waiting for one southbound crossing the CN/IC diamond here at Tuscola, no.101 got signal and proceeds through town behind the standard pair of "SD45s."
bumped up as I've been working too much and don't have new spots to post, and to remind myself that I spotted this in November last year, so there's still some spotting to be had when my schedule and the weather cooperate again...
This is a male black-tailed skimmer. It was very windy that day and therefore impossible to take photos of him sitting on the grass which ways swaying in the wind. Luckily he cooperated and landed on terra firma. :)
I have been waiting all summer for a view much like this. Clean views, a lovely fade into the blue haze over the mountains in a deep, wild valley. The sunset didn’t go quite the way I wanted, though the weather hardly ever cooperates with you. In the end, I opted for this deep dark valley shot on the last day of summer, right after a large storm had rolled through. The air cleaned of pollutants that often make up the unrelenting haze, giving way to the natural mist produced by the forests. I panicked getting to the location, panicked getting the composition, and I panicked getting the shot. In the end, after leaving the scene, wondering if I had managed to get my photo, I think I did alright.
Aperture: f8
ISO: 640
SS: 1/60th
Focal: 50mm
Fujinon 50-140mm
This Kestrel has been hunting behind our house promptly at 5 for the last month or so. He normally faces away from the sun so his head’s in deep shadow but here he was cooperating. He’s zippy!
The best parking (paid and monitored) in Schwäbisch Hall can be found by the river which passes directly through town, from here 500m puts you directly in the center of the village at St Michaels church. The Kocher river and the parks that run along its banks provide a favorite place for locals to gather and picnic and party.
Hall’s center is compact and the two main streets that cross it are, Schulgasse and Schwatzbühlgasse here you will find most of cafes, restaurants and shops that the city has to offer. The weather cooperated once again and produced overcast skies with interesting clouds so made for great shooting. This view was taken from the old town side of the river looking into the village on the right bank.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 lens
The weather wasn't exactly cooperating, as we reached Homer Tunnel.
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A beautiful species of birds that are a tad bigger than a Pigeon / Dove. The birds are fast flyers and known to be very shy. They have a very unique way of gathering water and store it under wings after which they fly into the grasslands to share it with their young.
These are commonly seen in grasslands and specifically in areas where there is lot of red soil. The birds easily camouflage themselves in red soil and it is quite easy to miss them unless we know where to look.
On this day, I sighted half a dozen near a reddish soil dirt road, 4 of which flew away immediately. I didn't see these two, but stopped slowly in despair of missing them again and then noticed the two nearby. Thankfully they seemed to have sensed my feelings and cooperated very much.
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I don't know when I've seen a prettier day at the inlet than the day I took this photo. The clouds were so low it was almost as if you could reach out and touch them! Everything was perfect, from the color of the water to the color of the sky, and the wonderful shadows that hit the walkway as I sized up the shot just added to it all.
I used an HDR and Orton treatment in post processing to pull up more detail and color, and took out some of the gold tones that were on the walkway to create a little more color contrast.
I'm up late thanks to sleeping in something like 15 hours last night. My good intentions were to sleep and sleep, so I could get well faster, but my body just wouldn't stay in zombie mode to cooperate, so here it is after 3 AM and I'm just about to hit the hay! I do feel a lot better after getting all that rest, and I thank everyone who prayed for me and sent me good thoughts! I see light at the end of the tunnel. Now, to sleep again....Good night!