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Misty conditions created these lovely colour and light effects as the rising sun emerged from behind a low cloud front. By shooting for HDR, and positioning the sun behind the branches of the trees, I managed to control the contrast enough to bring out good colour and reasonable detail throughout the image. The layer of mist was quite shallow, as the blue sky top right of the picture will testify, so I had to work fairly quickly before the contrast levels became too great even for HDR to handle effectively.
On the whole though, a pretty straightforward shot on a simply stunning morning, an absolute dream for creating misty glows and colour effects.
Zion National Park.
This was the most difficult hike of my life because of the weather conditions, the washed out access road, and the people that we took hiking with us. One day I'll tell the story. Ugh.
I am a little rusty stitching panos but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
And of course, do NOT miss the MAX ZOOM!
Conditions in Samburu National Reserve have been very dry for many months, and there is less and less for the endangered Grevy's zebra to forage on. Rangers at the northern Kenya national park have been supplementing the animals' diets by setting up daily hay stations. Here in the plains in the early morning, though, the zebras are managing to find something to eat on their own. ©2022 | John M. Hudson
That is its actual name, by the way, and not the photographer’s reflections on a challenging identification.
In drought conditions this summer the insects seemed lower in density, especially because most species of wildflower failed to fully flower. It was the first time I had seen thistles, for example, brown and dead without ever having opened their flowers.
The Ottawa River, though with significantly lower water levels, was one of the few places to find wildflowers - like this Swamp Milkweed - and the insects that pursued them. And, with the lower density, it was easier to discern different species. I am always looking at bumblebees the way I look at Gulls in the winter: don’t assume they are all the usual suspects (here, that means Herring and Ring-billed).
And that is how I found this creature, a first in my experience. The name itself is unusual - I assume that the perplexing/tricky qualifier has to do with identification. But in fact it is pretty straightforward (though less so in this image - more of the field marks are evident in other less successful images I came away with). The yellow tones a brighter, and there is an almost complete absence of black hairs at the front end of the bee. Towards its back end black sections come out of the yellow, but only partially.
The species is a wetland and woodland specialist, unlike other bumblebees, but I suspect the drought conditions made bedfellows of many different species. Go to the flowers!
Conditions were perfect last Friday evening at Our Lady's Island for some sunset photography. The lake was very still with little or no winds and nice high clouds illuminated by the setting sun, it was simply beautiful.
Early morning dash for Corfe Castle. Conditions looked good for mist and colour in the sky. No wind, broken cloud, cool temps. Haha not a chance. Most boring conditions known to man. Zero mist, zero cloud, zero colour, zero atmosphere.... . And to make things worse large parts of the castle are buried beneath scaffolding. 😭 And to add to that there is the largest banner ever draped down the bank in front of the castle all enthusiasm for photography evaporated away in an instant. And then people in pajamas turned up and stood there chatting. A very bizarre morning.
Important note if you are thinking of going to Corfe Castle. We were told the restoration works are ongoing for two years. Just something to factor in when visiting for a photo session. Another photographer did say the sunset view from the opposite hill is unaffected.
We decided to leave the hill and the people, try to find a view point that hid the scaffolding and banner. And found ourselves in front of what used to be a siege castle built by King Stephen in his attempt to take Corfe Castle. He failed (a bit like me trying to photograph it). But hundreds of years later Cromwell's forces pitched up and used the same site as a base for their siege weapons. Only earthworks remain of the castle today.
Anyway, this shot was taken as I walked down the hill. This all gave me flash backs to my last Corfe visit where the only useable image was taken with my phone. The exact same image, from the exact same spot. Except they have fitted brand new stone steps now. Which do stand out a lot more than the previous wooden steps.
Conditions were perfect last Friday evening at Our Lady's Island for some sunset photography. The lake was very still with little or no winds and nice high clouds illuminated by the setting sun, it was simply beautiful.
Out cloud chasing, when out of no where this storm popped up in Sequoia. Miss the sounds, smells and feel of the rain as for here in the San Joaquin Valley this is a rarity due to drought conditions.
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Conditions photo difficiles !
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Very low light conditions, but managed to capture this cheetah as it stalked its way near the road.
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This landscape seems like any other at first sight. But in fact it is the result of a conscious decision to go out into conditions that often deter photographers – what we think is bad light and rain. What prompted me to do this? Well I can be very specific here, and point to two absolutely brilliant video presentations that I had watched as the rain poured down earlier in the day. The first is by English artist and photographer Justin Jones, “On Landscape” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBT5pgFFwWo
One of Justin’s key concepts here is the notion of “visual literacy”. In just the same way as we learn to read a text, so we must also to learn to read the visual language of a photograph. This is just as important for composing as interpreting a photograph. Landscapes that survive the test of time are those we choose to return to time and again. Chocolate box images in perfect light and with plenty of Photoshop-ing give us a “sugar hit”, but it doesn’t last. That’s why we keep returning to the realist landscapes of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams and Fay Godwin and not to those that dominate the Google pages.
The second inspiring video was an interview with the Danish photographer Per Bak Jensen, “It isn't the camera. It's life itself unfolding.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1L-UmKwZHQ&t=506s
I assure you that this is 38 minutes very well spent if you are concerned with making your photography count. If there is one quote that sums up Jensen’s perspective it is this:
“...I sense something in our midst. Among us is something that wants to be in contact with us… That something wants to tell me something. I often feel I am very close to knowing or being told something – that can increase my knowledge of being a human being. My photographs are an attempt to search for the presence of that something, that can teach me about myself and about life.”
Jensen then concludes a lifetime’s photographic observation with this key:
“The photos I take aren’t photos I take myself. It’s a cooperation between me and something else that makes me take the pictures. I’d rather claim that the fundamental value of art is the spirit. And the spirit wants to contact us, but it’s invisible… But somehow it gives us an odd desire. It gives us courage. And it gives us a life force… If that’s the case, traces of that spirit can be seen in our images. I think that everyone working with images hopes so. That one can find a life force and spirituality in one’s work.”
The important thing for me when taking “Being Present in the World” was to immerse myself in the scene. To allow my subconscious understanding of “being in the landscape” to take over the decisions I made in the composition. When this happens you become part of the flow of life – you feel the breeze, smell the water in the wetlands, taste the air, observe every swan, react to the subtle changes in colour from green through to straw-yellows. And you also feel the Presence.
For me the trigger for that was the cloud cover that sat like a cushion overhead. I made my settings and clicked the shutter button. In that fraction of a second the landscape and I were inseparable. In Buddhist philosophy this is known as non-duality. There is simply no way to distinguish subject from object. The landscape was taking me in as much as I was photographing it. You can’t describe this feeling (like most mystical experiences), except that when it happens you KNOW it is real.
When you come to process the image your rational mind begins to take over again. Observation of the landscape tells you things you hadn’t seen before. In this case the most interesting discovery was to see how my subconscious had noted the way that in the upper third of the photograph the darker clouds mirror the grass formations next to the river in the bottom third, with the brightest luminescence across the middle. I was not operating on some conscious level to obey the rule of thirds (most of those rules are intended to be broken anyway).
There are many ways to make a photograph. This is just another one of them.
Conditions that I'd longed to experience on the Settle and Carlisle line, as the 2H90 13.18 Leeds to Carlisle approaches us.
Later we saw two northbound freights here in the sun - wonderful!
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All light & rays are natural. On the 30th of April we had perfect conditions (about 3 degrees celsius, sun & fog), so i decided to take an early walk with my dogs on this Sunday. Now we have to wait here until fall to see this again.
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I was fortunate enough to have some very cooperative conditions during my recent visit to Southern Chile! This was the best of 6 mornings I spent in the area. The worst of the 6 was the more typical weather of the area - sideways rain and 50 MPH winds.
The famous Cuernos del Paine reflect in Pehoe Lake in a colorful autumn sunrise in Torres Del Paine National Park in the Patagonia region of Chile. During late autumn, foliage on the southern beech trees here changes to shades of red, orange, and brown.
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Changeable certainly sums up the prevailing weather conditions on the Isle of Skye. I took this whilst walking back to the Cottage we rented last November. The squally showers and fleeting sunlight across the Island of Rona and Sound of Raasay with the Western Mainland of Scotland in the distance.
These conditions, whilst often challenging, make this Island such a great place for landscape photography when coupled with the stunning array of locations it has to offer in a relatively small area.
The Cottage we had was nestled above the Bay you can see here with the stunning headland of Brothers Point just jutting out into the middle distance. It is memories like this that have me wishing I was heading back there soon!
TF-FIW briefly wore Albert Ballin cs between November and December 2019, seen here arriving in Düsseldorf in rather unfavourable conditions.
🇫🇷 Le guide nous a prévenus, le climat n' est pas assez chaud en ce moment, les iguanes seront tout en haut des arbres à la recherche du soleil..La forêt est touffue..notre regard doit s'adapter....Nous en verrons dans de meilleures conditions lors de la sortie dans le Parc National...
🇪🇸 El guía nos advirtió, el clima no es lo suficientemente cálido en este momento, las iguanas estarán en lo alto de los árboles en busca del sol. El bosque es frondoso.. nuestra mirada debe adaptarse.... Lo veremos en mejores condiciones al salir al Parque Nacional...
🇬🇧 The guide warned us, the climate is not hot enough at the moment, the iguanas will be on top of the trees looking for the sun.. The forest is dense.. our gaze must adapt.... We will see better conditions when going out in the National Park...
🇩🇪 Der Führer warnte uns, das Klima ist im Moment nicht warm genug, die Leguane werden ganz oben auf den Bäumen auf der Suche nach der Sonne sein. Der Wald ist buschig.Unser Blick muss sich anpassen.... Wir werden es in besseren Bedingungen sehen, wenn wir in den Nationalpark gehen...
🇮🇹 La guida ci ha avvertito, il clima non è abbastanza caldo in questo momento, le iguane saranno in cima agli alberi alla ricerca del sole. La foresta è folta.. il nostro sguardo deve adattarsi.... Ne vedremo in condizioni migliori all'uscita nel Parco Nazionale...
Following on from a few days of sunny conditions, more Autumn type weather followed. Another new spot - here we see the special livery OBB locomotive 1144 040 rounding the curve in Kub as it climbs towards Semmering with EC151 from Wien Hbf to Ljubljana on the morning of the 8/11/21.
Please note, the dull conditions made this shot possible at this location for the time of day.
Quand les conditions naturelles de lumiere sont optimales pour mettre en valeur une fleur du sublime Zygopetalum maxillare dans les montagnes la forêt atlantique du Brésil dans l’état de Río de Janeiro. Une des espèces que j’espérais le plus observer fleurie in situ (dans mon top 3) durant mon voyage ! Photo avec le téléphone.
When natural light conditions are optimal to show the beauty of a gorgeous Zygopetalum maxillare flower in the mountains of the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil in Río de Janeiro state. One of the species I was hoping the most (in my top 3) to see blooming in situ during my trip ! Picture with the phone.
Cuando las condiciones de luz son óptimas para mostrar la belleza de una flor del sublime Zygopetalum maxillare en las montañas de la Mata (bosque o selva) Atlántica de Brasil en el estado de Río de Janeiro. Una de las especies que más esperaba ver florecida in situ (en mi top 3) durante mí viaje ! Foto con el celular.
Beautiful light conditions on a drizzly morning late last year when we were out hiking with some friends. This heavily leaning tree reaches out to the trails, seemingly trying to greet the passing people.
At Trione-Annadel State Park.
Rare monsoonal conditions migrated into the Sacramento Valley this summer, offering an array of nice pastels for a sunset photoshoot. May your skies be colorful! E.
Fortunately, it wasn't until the end of my trip to the Irreler waterfalls that I had the glorious idea of climbing one of the icy rocks in the river for a last long exposure and of course I ended up with one leg in the freezing water!
But I didn't have it far to the parking lot and luckily in the car I had fresh socks and shoes to change :)
Plumbago is a very lovely flowering bush and comes in a variety of colours ie pale blue, blue, violet and white coloured flowers and the plants can grow quite large if not pruned back. It is an evergreen shrub which flowers for long periods of time and sometimes if the plant gets the right conditions it can flower all year long. Plumbago flowers are visited by a variety of different butterflies, but the leaves are food for the caterpillars of the Hummingbird hawk moth. This plant can been grown from seed but the seed pod only produces one seed each and probably by taking cuttings from the plant this would be the easiest way to grow further plants.
Mega conditions at Greenholme today though it was full fog half an hour earlier. 35018 "British India Line flattening Shap with 13 on and a Class 47 not doing much if anything. 1Z86 10.57 Lancaster - Carlisle "Santa Special" Spine tingling stuff!
Note the exhaust hanging in the gorge from Tebay.
Sunday 1 December 2019.
DBC Class 60 no 60044 at Collingham in horrible conditions with the morning's Lindsay to Kingsbury Tanks.
Blizzard conditions at sunrise in Derbyshire's Peak District National park. Waiting in the dark with extreme weather for the sun to rise, there was no sign of the cloud lifting, but I didn't give up hope. Just a few seconds of light was all I got and was all I needed to light up the blizzard.
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I had the pleasure of shooting this waterfall under almost perfect conditions this past weekend. I used an nd filter and polarizer for a long exposure, turning these bubbles into a beautiful swirl!
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Headlands and coastal mountains obscured by winter fog along the Big Sur Coast.
This is a scene that I have tried to photograph many times. When I stop to make a photograph here, it always seems like it should be easy… but it inevitably ends up being very challenging if not impossible. The subject is quite a distance away, so it requires a very long focal length. However, the long focal length magnifies issues created by air movement across the great distance, and even though the atmospheric softness is what I want, it is hard to get the right level of detail. I tried again this past week, and decided to take the subject in a bit of a different direction.
A challenge is that the hazy conditions that obscure and diffuse the subject in the way I hoped for also tend to be both gray and of quite low contrast. To address that I decided on a brighter, high key rendition of the scene in which the colors are extremely subtle and the darkest tones are, objectively speaking, still at the brighter end of the scale. In a sense, the object here is to “suggest” more than to “record.”
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A memorable evening at Elgol where conditions were constantly changing as Storm Dennis barreled across the Isle of Skye. We were treated to ever changing conditions, including a rising tide, gale force winds, driving rain, hail pellets, snow, grey skies, broken clouds, flat light which was often quickly followed with moments of gorgeous golden hour light.
We were a group of 7 togs dashing about capturing as many images as we could, in conditions we had only dreamed of before. For some reason, a majority of us eventually ended up at the JCB (Joe Cornish Boulder) . . . fortunately we all ‘played well’ together and sharp elbows were rarely needed. In the distance can be seen the snow capped Cuillins.
I flew from Minnesota to spend nearly a week with 5 friends/togs on a winter holiday on Skye. I even got the opportunity to meet and shoot with SkyeWeasel.
This was the end of my first day on Skye, as I was walking back to the car in darkness I thought to myself how lucky I was!
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The conditions were very overcast but I waited a little while for a bit of light to shine through the clouds behind me. After this it was off to the Mount for sunset!
Thanks very much for viewing. Have a great weekend :-)
I went looking for sea eagles around the northern shore of Loch Shiel. The calm conditions might have made them easy to spot. But it started to rain. My son and wife, on a recent visit had five sea eagles in sight at the same time. But as I scoured the shore across the loch, suddenly about 30 startled Canada geese took flight from out of sight behind some gorse bushes with a terrible cacophony of noise that made me jump. But I swung my camera to catch them fly briefly and then land on the water before realising Effie was gone. I searched amongst the shoreline bushes, calling her name more and more frantically but there was no flash of her white coat. Had she fled up over the nearest hills, or into the woods? I had no idea. With a sense of dread I traced our original route back along the muddy traffic, calling out to her ever more loudly and desperately. I thought the noise might echo across the loch and bring the eagles over but unfortunately I caught sight of other movement: cows thinking I was the farmer calling them for a new delivery of hay. Now cows and dogs do not go well together. So many dog walkers killed by cows. It hastened me on my way, frequently checking over my shoulder for a herd of beasts gaining on me. But there was no sign of Effie. Had she really been so alarmed by the sound of geese that she would have fled all the way back to the car. The track bent near a bridge, and from there I suddenly spotted a little white.... it was Effie, still hundreds of yards away looking like a lost sheep feeling rather silly about itself peering eagerly round the bend towards me. What a little beauty; filthy as fv<% with mud but I was over the moon to see her. One call and she ran full tilt towards me, flying over huge puddles and mud patches, ears flapping like redundant wings, until she was in my arms. Aww my cutie, fled in terror from the madly flapping geese!
I wonder if any scientist/engineering types study plants like this that survive harsh conditions where lots of others do not. Thickness of skin? Antifreeze inside? Lessons learned could have applications in lots of other places.
Much the same here again today. Very cold. Black ice.
One of the conditions from the 1996 Union Pacific - Southern Pacific merger was the granting of trackage rights for BNSF on SP's Central Corridor between Sacramento and Denver. Catching a BNSF trackage rights train on the Roseville Subdivision is always a nice change of pace from UP City of Yellow.
Far from the standard train watching locations on Donner is the crossing of the Loch Leven trail just east of Cisco, CA. Here, BNSF 5144 leads the westbound QPVBCJ (H-PVOSTO Provo, UT to Stockton, CA Manifest) proceeds west towards Cisco.
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Inversion at that gate on Mam Tor
Tuesday was amazing with a full inversion filling Hope Valley and majority of the Peak District.
For those who follow me on other social media channels will know that this is one of my fave locations in the Peaks, its justifiable with those conditions.
Conditions have been very good this autumn for spotting lots of different fungi in our woodland and I came across this little cluster looking so fragile on the ground surrounded by fallen leaves. I am not sure what type they are but they do have a detain charm about them don't you think.
The Beast from the East 2 has hit Teignmouth but this brave sole battles arctic conditions as if exercising his right to vote in an election.
Seems like Putin is riding his luck with all this footage of corruption in the polling stations.
If people feel that voting is rigged would they brave arctic conditions to vote ? would all hope be lost and hopelessness the norm.?
Two voyagers pass on the sea wall.
The 0610 Derby to Plymouth and this old guy with a can of special brew held tightly in his hand. I wonder where his voyage will take him.
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Pine Creek Canyon Overlook is one of my favorite trails in Zion National Park. I love the short distance of the hike and the beautiful views, but I've always found it challenging to capture good photos there due to the lighting conditions. I've been to the viewpoint three times, twice during sunrise and once for sunset on our most recent trip. During my last visit, there was some police activity near the tunnels, causing traffic to back up for quite a while. I decided to stay longer than usual, hoping to capture an incredible light trail once the traffic cleared. As the ambient light got low, the slow-moving traffic worked in my favor, allowing me to capture beautiful full-length light trails, which is rare at this location due to the distance and low-speed limits. I chose a short-tele focal length to eliminate the sky from the composition and emphasize the mountains surrounding this stunning stretch of road.