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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 here 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.
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!
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Pulling your hands out of your gloves in conditions like these are what I refer to as a thermal decision. But I did, long enough to que up Led Zepplin's "In the Evening" for the ball drop. Perfect.
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2026 Webcam Wednesday No. 4
I never claim to be normal- quite the opposite actually!
Theme: Working Conditions
Year Eighteen Of My 365 Project
i took advantage of what may be our last free-to-roam afternoon in a while (shelter-in-place orders said to be imminent) — and am so struck by the collective sorrow and anxiety the whole world is feeling at this point... just overwhelming
yet Dry Creek Valley in a springtime (almost) rain is still pretty wonderful.
KINNER KAILASH | A PRAYER AND AN OFFERING TO LORD SHIVA.
IN THE LAND OF THE LAMA | I came back to the city after spending a week in a mythical, fabled land of indescribable beauty. A week without connectivity to cell phones, internet and city life. 21st century time and space seemed like a distant memory. Time stands still in the Land of the Lama. It was an extraordinary, unforgettable journey through some of the most dangerous road conditions in the world. I overcame my fears (both imagined and real) with a little help from my camera. The urge to capture something real and meaningful can lead one into zones where one may otherwise never have ventured. The meaning of life resides in many things. For me it resides in photography. Everything else is secondary.
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.
ENERCON's E-115 E2/3,2 MW achieves high output even in the partial load range and is therefore predestined for inland sites with low wind conditions.
Gearless, variable speed, single blade adjustment
Height: 149 m
Rotor diameter: 115,7 m
Rated power: 3,200 kW
Weather conditions in Hastings were perfect this morning for another long exposure and a seagull also wanted to be a part of the shot as well :)
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.
Die Lichtverhätnisse waren schon für mich etwas schwierig , da der Kratzbaum vor einem Fenster steht.
The lighting conditions were a bit difficult for me because the cat tree is in front of a window.
In Pyrénées mountains, calm water of the Arcizans-Avant lake ... and a charming watermirror, perfect conditions to take a photo with water reflections.
Bitter cold weather continues here in Iowa, but all things considered, birds like this little junco are coping quite well. Down in normally tropical Florida, the rare cold conditions there have caused iguanas to come tumbling out of the trees!
Drought Conditions in the Pacific Northwest
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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.
While the start of March would usually signal spring, a cold snap sweeping in from eastern Europe created some of the coldest conditions the UK has experienced in decades. Nicknamed "the Beast from the East", what can only be described as a freak weather event brought bitterly cold temperatures and heavy snowfall. Schools everywhere closed and traffic was brought to a standstill, but the weather also meant some remarkably picturesque scenes across the country, particularly last Wednesday when the snow was thick and steady enough overnight to settle for several hours.
Central London rarely sees snow this heavy, so it was a wonderful opportunity to photograph the capital in a different light. The window to capture the scene undisturbed was narrow: by 5:30am the snowfall had stopped and the snow on the ground was fresh; by 6am snow plows and street-cleaning crews were shovelling the snow and gritting the roads; and by 7am the busy morning commute was grinding the snow into the ground, although an afternoon blizzard provided an extra layer to this, much to the delight of children and big kids everywhere.
I was near the More London complex shortly after the snowfall stopped, and although the view towards City Hall and Tower Bridge is one I've photographed many times, the scene in this weather was like something out of a fairytale. I spent the morning shooting in the area, but an image I captured before sunrise, when there was barely a soul in sight and only a hint of warmth on the horizon, was the one that seemed to capture the essence of the city in the snow.
The final image is a blend of nine exposures combined in Photoshop using luminosity masks, with the weighting towards the brightest exposures for the shadows and midtones and with highlights from the darker exposures to restore detail in the lamps along the walkway and inside the buildings. Using a refined luminosity mask targeted to the highlights and midtones in the sky, I was then able to selectively adjust the foreground to a mixture of soft blues and cyans while playing up the red and magenta tones on the horizon, as well as to enhance some of the highlights in the snow and across City Hall without blowing out detail in the street lights or the sky.
Inside Nik's Silver Efex Pro, I gently lowered the shadow structure in order to soften some of the detail and contrast, as well as amplifying the whites in the foreground to emphasise the brightness and vibrance of the snow covering the scene. Finally, inside Colour Efex Pro, I used a sparing amount of the Pro Contrast filter to add a little more definition to the buildings, and the Glamour Glow filter to enhance the dreamy atmosphere.
I wouldn't have been disappointed if I'd come away without a single image I was happy with, as the experience of seeing Central London under heavy snow was an extraordinary one that I can't imagine will be repeated anytime soon. But I took several photos that morning that seemed to capture the magic in the air, and although it's bizarre to be working on snow-covered images in spring, the UK's recent weather conditions were both bizarre and wonderful.
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This was the first of two days spent on the Conway Scenic Raileoad as part of a four day mini railfan vacation in Northern New England that would feature GP38s in glorious conditions...simply the kind of trip dreams are made of!
Instead of running all the way to Fabyans as in prior fall seasons, this year the Conway Scenic is running two daily round trips between North Conway and Crawfords with the addition of a third 'bus train' for passengers arriving by motor coach from Portland off a cruise ship as a day shore excursion. That means that now there are six trains running through the Notch every day with a scheduled meet at Bartlett and Sawyers River...it truly is astonishing and a joy to see this line so busy!
The returning 9 AM eastbound Mountaineer is passing the old granite milepost 62 as they climb Intervale Hill on the two mile tangent up from the truss bridge over the East Branch at the bottom of the hill. This spot was one of the most famous photo locations along the old Maine Central's Mountain Sub mainline because you could capture the entirety of a 100 car freight strung out as they climbed the grade. This is one of only two places where you can include Mount Washington with the train and on those rare clear days like this it is a sight to behold rising dramatically 16 miles away.
Located in the Presidential Range Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288.2 ft and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River. The summit is probably most famous for having the highest wind speed ever recorded on earth (not associated with a tornado or tropical cyclone) of 231 mph recorded on April 12, 1934 by the observatory located there!
Leading the train are GP38s 255 and 252 which are right at home here having been built in November 1966 for the Maine Central Railroad as part of an order of 13 of the model which were the first batch of second generation diesel locomotives purchased by the road. They both regularly operated here for the first 17 years of their lives until the last thru freight ran in 1983 after Guilford purchased the MEC and shuttered the Mountain Sub. In fact 252 had the ignominious duty of leading the final YR-1 from Saint Johnsbury on September 2, 1983.
255 came to Conway Scenic in 2022 and wore her Vermont Rail System red paint until just this past June when she received this new 'old' dress. The VTR red was from her nearly two decade second career as Clarendon & Pittsford 203 after having being sold by MEC successor Guilford Transportation in the early 1990s. 252 meanwhile was the last of her class in service on Guilford, lasting more than three decades, and having seen her other dozen siblings retired and scrapped or sold. She came to Conway Scenic in March 2010 along with GP35 216 in a trade with Pan Am Railways for FP9s 6505 and 6516 that would become Pan Am's OCS power.
Near unincorporated Intervale
Bartlett, New Hampshire
Thursday October 9, 2025
Changing conditions on Curbar Edge. The mist formed in the valley below and rolled up and over the rocks in just a few minutes. Taken with the iPhone while out on my mountain bike
Flying into rough conditions does not faze him when he knows that there are fish at the end of his journey.
Foggy conditions in the Flint Hills, along K-177 north of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. There were some gaps in the fog, as some blue skies showed up briefly (including one in the upper right of this capture).
Chase County, Kansas
Sunday morning 19 February 2017
Winter wonderland conditions at the Yorkshire Dales Railway as Lancashire and Yorkshire A Class 52322 takes the empty coaching stock to Bolton Abbey in readiness for the days " Murder Mystery Dining Train " running some 80 minutes late due to frozen points at Embsay. This would turn out to be the only out and return steam trip of the day as access to water for the engine was not possible.
Raw weather conditions on Rannoch Moor with the Buachaille Etive Mòr in the distance. In the foreground is one of the many rivers that join River Etive. Print.
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When to Harvest Grapes
The precise time for picking grapes is dependent on the location, length of growing season, variety of grape, crop load and the intended use of the grape. Heavy crop loads take longer to mature. The optimum time for harvesting grapes will vary year to year as do environmental conditions — sometime after the berries turn color (veraison).
Color – Harvesting grapes for use in jellies or wine making must occur at just the right stage of maturity for maximum sweetness. Grapes change color from green to blue, red or white, depending upon the variety. Color is one of the indicators of ripeness. However, it is not the most reliable indicator, as many varieties of grapes change color well prior to ripening. Still, when completely ripe, the whitish coating on the grapes becomes more evident and the seeds turn from green to brown.
Size – Size is another gauge of the ripening of grapes. When mature, the grapes are full size and a bit less firm to the touch.
Taste – Hands down, the best way to ascertain if your grapes are ripe enough to harvest is to taste them. Sample the grapes three to four weeks prior to the approximate harvest date and continue to taste the grapes as they mature. Try to take samples at the same time of day from a variety of areas on the vine.
“At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned,* like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”
- Matthew 9:36-38
There was snow, ice and icicles everywhere on the cliffs and walkways surrounding Seljalandsfoss, which made for a beautiful, if slippery, winter landscape. The little sign at the end of the walkway warns of hazardous conditions.
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This is a roadside snap from the Eden Valley the other morning. One of those days where the conditions are 'nearly' perfect and you waste a couple of gallons of fuel and a couple of hours of your life chasing around trying to get a composition that matches up to the light and conditions. I've always liked the contours of this field but the backdrop never quite matches up. On this occasion the mist was kind enough to isolate the tree and add a bit of mood. It also helped that due to some recent work by the farmer the field had a lovely texture to it. I shot this with the Nikon 180 2.8 AF-n which some might consider a wee bit long for routine landscape work but I love it. It gives an entirely different feel to the image. I've said it before but I'll say it again - too many folk seem to think that the only lens to use for landscapes is an ultra wide one.
There are laws and definitions
And decisions and errors
And unforeseen conditions
That define the course of history.
collage, 10x15 xm
private collection MKC/CE, 2025
With conditions like these you can't blame this chap for taking a selfie on the summit of Coniston Old Man. This view looks south and as can be seen the sea of cloud stretched to the horizon.
Great conditions at the Waddensea from the shore in Friesland. Playing with the constantly changing light and clouds is a real treat. In the background the Wadden island Ameland is visible with the lighthouse "Bornrif".
Brewster County, Texas.
For most of the year the low desert adjacent to the Rio Grande in Big Bend Country seems so harsh and inhospitable. In truth it is teeming with life. Never is this more evident in a spring following a wet fall and winter. With conditions just right, Big Bend Bluebonnet and a wealth of other wildflowers bloom en masse, bringing an explosion of color to rocky hillsides. Here it can be seen blooming among Lechuguilla and other species typical of the Chihuahuan Desert. Experiencing a bloom of this magnitude in the desert is an awe-inspiring thing that I hope every nature lover gets the chance to experience!
Under terrible weather conditions such as freezing rain, Canada Steamship Lines's M/V Atlantic Huron is downbound at the eastern edge of Lake St-Pierre for the last time. For her last revenue trip before retirement, she's got a load of Minnesota Iron Ore that was loaded in Superior, WI Bound for Quebec City.
After unloading taconite at Quebec, she’ll continue on to be recycled by R.J. MacIsaac Construction in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Farewell.
From this summer's trip into the Jotunheimen National Park. Eastern Jotunheimen near Gjende.
Fantastic, dramatic light and clouding. Brilliant conditions.
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Dedicated to the late great Galen Rowell
We don’t always get the conditions we wish for regardless of planning. Not getting out of late I was desperate for an outing. With a keen eye on the weather for several days I could see we were going to get a change with subzero temperatures forecasted. Where I planned to visit was expecting snow/sleet the day before, so on Wednesday morning scraping the ice from the windscreen inside and out my hopes were high, 45 miles later I knew it was another better luck next time. It was very cold (-7) but surprisingly little frost, so I set out with for the walk more than the photography. I usually see no one when I go to this forest but today I met the Forestry England Wildlife Range on a roe deer management mission. We had a lovely chat and a play with his thermal monocular using his bonny border terrier as a wildlife substitute, for any wildlife photographer it would be a suburb bit of kit. He’d already culled a deer which he warned was still lying along the track waiting for collection. Luckily my route was soon going to take me into the tree’s so I would avoid the poor deer. I’m anti-hunting and dislike sport hunting but this chap was a professional and it was a job not sport. I understand the issues with deer with no natural predators, so I’m pro rewilding and this chap was of the same mind. We had an interesting chat about the reintroduction of Lynx and could of talked all morning but I said my goodbyes and had a great day discovering to new oaks and a smashing walk in the hills. This photo from Dec 2022 is the sort of conditions I was hoping for, I still haven’t decided if any photos I took today will see the light.
The conditions have really closed in on us now, with cold winds blowing rain at us at over 40mph (65kph), but still, one has to get a selfie at the summit, and here I am at the first one of the day, Mayar, with the our 2nd in the distant gloom, Driesh.
After a trip back up to Aberdeen for meetings at the office, I stayed a little longer to climb Mayar and Driesh. Mayar stands at 928 meters (3044 feet) and is my 29th Munro, and gives me the 10% of Munro's bagged I have always wanted. Driesh, at 947 meters (3106 feet), is my 30th Munro and the 2nd of the two I climbed this day.
Lovely clear conditions were a surprise for the evening of Friday 15th March. The beautiful moon was hard to ignore so I captured this image.
The waxing moon was 36% illuminated when I imaged it and was in the constellation of Taurus.
The centrally peaked crater Theophilus near the moon's centre is particularly dramatically illuminated as it emerges from the lunar terminator into lunar dawn. Early light just catching the central peak and part of the crater's walls.
Also the walls of crater Proclus (with its associated rays), towards the top of the image and near the Mare Crisium, are catching the sun's light strongly.
Proclus is second in albedo only to crater Aristarchus.
Imaged with an Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
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Whenever I have been to Dinorwic, over 20 times, the conditions have always been different. Yesterday was one of the more testing times, certainly from a photographic point of view, as I was in fog most of the time. All I could see were dulled outlines of buildings and other features at about 50 yards if not less. At first I headed down to get under its base. So whilst one might assume that the above picture is of a lofty peak protruding out of the cloud, in fact this shot is taken at the very base of the quarry near the lakeside and that was a plume of slate rock that proved too hard to split, even with explosives.
The long dry winter has created a parched landscape of brown and orange vegetation. It's not autumn. This is the way it looks in July.
With February's snow and subzero temperatures now a fading memory, milder conditions across the UK over the past week brought that rare and wonderful combination of low wind speeds and slack tides. I was out at blue hour on several mornings to capture the scene near the Queen's Walk, where the flow of the Thames came to a standstill and created near-perfect reflections of the HMS Belfast, the riverside promenade and Tower Bridge in the distance.
This image was a combination of nine bracketed exposures, blended with luminosity masks in Photoshop and with Nik plugins to adjust the contrast and detail. The main challenge when shooting was whether to trade clarity in the water for clarity in the highlights, because extending the shutter speed and ensuring a smoother reflection also increased the size of the starbursts inside the riverside lamps, which had the potential to become a distraction. By increasing the ISO and narrowing the aperture I struck a reasonable balance, and I was then able to apply my darker exposures to the highlights to restore detail in the lamps. After this, I targeted my brighter exposures to the midtones and applied a radial gradient mask to the underside of the Belfast in order to bring out some of its metallic detail, as well as to emphasise the boat's prominence so that viewers' eyes would hopefully be guided to this part of the image first.
The colour-grading phase was a mixture of Colour Balance, Selective Colour and Gradient Map adjustments to create a colder finish and to convey the blue-hour ambience. Setting Nik's Silver Efex Pro to Luminosity and increasing the Soft Contrast and Amplify Whites sliders, I made the light inside the bridge and along the boat's upper deck slightly more dynamic. Finally, inside Colour Efex Pro, I used a sparing amount of the Glamour Glow filter in order to soften the shadows.
This last adjustment was important to me as I felt that a sense of dreaminess, particularly in the reflection, was key to conveying the sense of peace and tranquillity along the Thames that morning. Despite the imposing presence of a World War II-era cruiser in the foreground, the peaceful mood along the river at the quietest time of day was made all the more impactful by the calm conditions, creating a scene that doesn't come along all that often.
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Today the conditions were very difficult for taking a good landscape picture. I had to use unusual parameters, that I would not normally use. Wide aperture, high iso, fast exposure. Because in every 2 seconds waves splashed over my head. There was no way to use my tripod. I had my back to the sea, protecting my camera and in between the waves I tried to snap some pictures as quickly as possible. The filters needed to be wiped after each wave. 15 minutes later my clothes were soaking wet and I had to get back to my car. But the exciting and interesting foreground forced me to try these desperate measures.
The conditions at my observation site weren't ideal.:
During totality, the moon was covered by clouds, after that, only visible behind fog.
Because of this, I didn't even try to achieve the best possible image, but rather something "else", to make it as close as possible to how I saw it with my own eyes.
As the land becomes saltier, nature adapts with salt-tolerant plants surviving in the conditions,
Holland Track by Fatbike – September 2016 - #Holland 28
A classic image from the River Brathay in the Lakes. Conditions were great with frost on the ground and the early morning mist floating above the river Brathay.
We just finished our first Into The Cypress Swamps photo tour in Texas and Louisiana, and we had a blast. A wonderful group, amazing fall colours, and the best photographic conditions we could wish for. Next year we’re going to run 3 swamp tours, and we’re already looking forward to those.
Here’s Daniella paddling in one of the hidden treasures of the Atchafalaya Basin.
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Perfect conditions to see the starling roost at Ham Wall this evening - one of the best views I've had. It is so hard to convey the experience in photographs.
If you look closely you can see that every reed stem is broken - this is damage done by the starlings, due to the sheer weight of numbers over the weeks they have been roosting there.