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A Western Bluebird dropped by yesterday afternoon. Although they're around, I think this is the first time, I've ever had one at my house.
Zermatt, it's a pleasant town, but seriously they need to sort out all the traffic!!! This was base camp to getting up closer to the Matterhorn. I warned you all that I would be posting more gratuitous Matterhorn images!!! This is from a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland.
The whole traffic thing is a joke of course. Zermatt is actually combustion engine free, only electric and "grass-powered" vehicles up here. Which means you can't actually drive here, you need to take the spectacular cogwheel train to get to the village. Steep sections of the railway have cogs to stop the train from slipping backward or going down too quickly.
The horseman's outfit matches the Valais flag, which is the canton that Zermatt is in.
Another ridiculously early morning shot in the rain and wet grass, but as we say in Ireland, "A damp day, thank God!"
I took this a week ago, just getting to put it up now. My only shot of last Sunday. I thought it looked a bit shamrocky, even though they're clover leaves, so looks like a place a Leprechaun might leave his umbrella!
Today is day 192 of Project 365 (Sunday).
3 or 4 of my pictures disappeared on Flickr, this was one of them. I just wanted to repost them, no need to comment again :-)
This is the vibrant liquid light from the stained glass windows of the Sagrada Familia. The color comes from 100% filtered sunlight. Astonishing genius from Gaudi, the light changed continuously while I was there.
the series goes from left to right, capturing the sunset in the west, the streets running north and final capture depicts the east river.
I am a bit short of current fly pictures these days ...must try to correct that this weekend.
Happy FlyDay Friday!
Not original. This is a extreme closeup of a painting in the lobby of a building somewhere in the Chicago loop.
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Place : Tour Pey Berland and Cathédrale Saint André seen since le quai des Chartrons, Bordeaux
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This is one of those shot's that came out much better than expected, not sure why I like it but I sure do :-)
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Leaving Tokyo again today. This was from the Hamarikyu Gardens, near my hotel. Like most parks in Tokyo, it's repurposed from a Shogun stronghold.
A big harvest this year, this group of woodpeckers have been harvesting for over 6 weeks, and have created two new granaries to store their acorns, this one on the roofs of several houses, and another on a palm tree. Normally they just use an old oak tree. It's so crazy now that they have to hop from tile to tile trying to find room for just one more acorn.
Loved this redhead's shadow too, with its big acorn revealed, and how clearly you can see how they use their tails to steady themselves.
Fascinating, innovative, super social creatures.
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It turns out that 2016 had one last treasure to offer up, my son James and I spotted a whale just off the coast yesterday. It was a little far away, but a fluke's a fluke! I think it was a humpback, but I'm no expert.
This is a closer image I got earlier in 2016 - Link.
One of my brighter Milky Way shots with a total of 16 minutes exposition time (4 * 4 minutes).
That's Jupiter on the left.
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My enterprising buddies, the acorn woodpeckers are also using palm trees for their granary this year. So they've got acorns stashed deep in the trunk of this palm tree, which is easily 100 foot up off the ground.
Weirdly beautiful and fascinating place - at times it feels like a moonscape
The Burren refers to an area of Carboniferous limestone uplands in North County Clare famous for its incredible plant biodiversity
Shonen Knife - Moon World
Accidentally caught this guy with completely wrong dof setting, but interesting effect.
Today is day 187 of Project 365 (Tuesday).
Wandering lonely 2. I remember this day. Shannon estuary. Almost totally alone on miles of sand. No footsteps.
I dug up my archives and found some old stuff that I had never uploaded to Flickr and his high angle shot of the sky at sunset is one of them. 😃
Captured with my PowerShot S95 near a Caltex gas station not far from home.