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This migrant seemed to be all alone except it was hanging out with a black-necked stilt. (Also unusual for us, but a little less so.)
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana
This course in Baltimore County is adjacent to the center for MD agriculture and farm park which we visited last week - HTMT!
home alone 48...make of it what you will ;-)
This weeks message is "Go With the Flow"
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive. "I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. This is how I survived."
I had a different plan for this weeks photo, and it did not work out. I had this idea last night, and it also did not come out as planned. I became so frustrated with the details of the photo, and my inability to achieve the results I wanted, that i don't even remember what point i was trying to make. So, I begrudgingly accepted what I had and posted it. After sleeping on it the message became clear.
We cannot always control the events of our lives. even the little details tend to go awry. A zipper breaks, the road is closed, they are out of your flavor of ice cream, or you photo is not what you wanted. It is by accepting what comes our way, and going with it, that we will reach our destination.
So, I am not thrilled with the photo, but I get the message, and that is good.
Lesson 2
When all else fails, laugh at yourself!
A view from Chambers Bay Golf Course and park in University Place, WA. These old cement structures are left over relics from the sand and gravel companies that were there for many decades. What a wise move to preserve the history and make the area even more interesting. Great photo ops for scenics and portraits as well.
The reason I edited this one was to try out Topaz' new upsizing software called AI Gigapixel. It is like Genuine Fractals and other software but this one uses artificial intelligence to make up the new pixels when upsizing and man does it ever work great!
So this was a huge crop that left less than 1500px to work with before uprezzing it to 2500 with AI Gigapixel. That gave me enough px to edit decently and reduce noise. I'll be using this workflow quite a bit and it opens up opportunities for low res files from the past or huge crops in the future. It would be a great way to prepare a file for a large print too.
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Yeah I am corny!
Loving the new BB outfit of course what is new?
Models: Shy and I
Poses Shy and I
Location My Home
"Chilled Asparagus with Egg, Red Pepper and Oil and Vinegar"
Perfect for a brunch, or as a substitute for a salad at a dinner party. Makes a great and light first course. Very nice in summer when the weather is hot.
Put about 2-3 inches of water in a pot and bring to a boil. Trim the ends from the asparagus and place in the boiling water. Watch closely as you only want them to cook for a few minutes. Remove the asparagus, run under cold water to stop the cooking process and lay out in a single layer on a plate and place in the refrigerator to cool.
Boil eggs, and peel and chop. Take one red bell pepper and cut into strips for garnish.
Either make a dressing with olive oil, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard and a pinch of salt, or as I do at home, use Paul Neumans Olive Oil and Vinegar dressing. This stuff is excellent! Just do not refrigerate the open bottle. If you want, add a bit of dijon mustard to the Paul Neumans and whisk. Adds another layer of flavor to the dish.
Arrange asparagus on each plate, drizzle the dressing over the asparagus, top with chopped egg, and garnish with the red bell pepper.
This dish can be plated and kept in the frig until service or left at room temp for 1/2 hour before serving.
Early Milwaukee Road Little Joe's going through the then Milltown Reservoir. Bonner Junction is in the background. This was the access to the Milwaukee's Blackfoot branch up to Clearwater. Today the Milwaukee, reservoir and dam are gone. The Clark Fork is restored to its natural course, but evidence of the Milwaukee remain.
Current day view:
Photographer and date unknown. Photo from my collection.
© Darlene Bushue 2021
"Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much we can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain." ~Terri Guillemets
Five out of ten days we spent in Yellowstone we had a combination of rain, snow, fog, sleet, and graupel with intermittent periods of clearing. Of course, this made it difficult to capture any decent wildlife shots but didn't stop me from taking advantage of the opportunity for some atmospheric shots like this one from the Thunderer trail early one morning as we were coming into the park. I was having a field day with the fog while Mike kept reminding me, "you know this is the spot where the grizzlies use all the dead trees for scratching posts."
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
This observation was designed to help astronomers understand the origin of the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe. These galactic behemoths are called Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and — as the name suggests — are defined as the brightest galaxies in any given galaxy cluster. Astronomers suspect that BCGs form through the merger of large, gas-rich galaxies like the ones in this image. They turned to Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to investigate this galactic trio in painstaking detail, hoping to shed light on the formation of the Universe’s most massive galaxies.
[Image description: Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0