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Once more delving back into the archives, this shot was taken just over a year ago in the Teign Gorge, situated on the eastern side of Dartmoor. The beautiful little town of Chagford is a couple of miles upstream.
The gorge is owned by the National Trust. On the left is Hannicombe Wood, and high above that, some 1,100 feet above sea level, is an Iron Age hill fort known as Cranbrook Castle.
An uncommonly nice Autumn day, and though the Sun was low in the sky, it enticed lots of insects for a late forage. Here's a Hoverfly, Eristalis tenax, often called a Dronefly. She's delving deeply for some nectar from delicately Pencilled Geranium, Geranium versicolor.
Delving into some old raw files, I found a bunch of shots from a few years ago that hadn't been processed.
Delve into the springtime forest morning and let your mind explore the beginning of a new day.
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and wonderous day dear flickr friends.
Thank you to everyone for your visits to my photo-stream....very much appreciated.
Delving into the archives I found this one which I think I didn't post because I had a few good one's that day.
A delve into the archives again to see the lovely Scar
European Otter - Lutra Lutra
Scar
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# continuing to delve into another discovered archive as promised ( these are more of my odd, multi-exposure Supersampler images)consisting of thousands of images that were essentially an aspect of self-prescribed grief (pseudo) therapy. I say pseudo because of it's longer term efficaciousness. I'd feel tremendous while shooting. In fact the year before last, I spent the entirety of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on the roof, armed with multiple cams and plenty of Big Red (Christmas cheer in Texas). So at times, it seemed a bit more like escapism, because after a marathon photo session, I'd often feel, well, the same as I had previously. Allow me to state that these are purely subjective observations, and faint sketches at best. To be fair to my own version/adaptation of the art as therapy notion, overall it did help me. I had been severely agoraphobic, and it gave me a fixation/obsession (these have always been requisite to my functionality/survival anyway -- I must be fun to hang out with! ;), a reason to open the door, habitually monitoring the moon's whereabouts, scheduling my times, and shooting all phases. That's how it started for me, deciding that my lunar imagery up until that point was mediocre and that I knew if I spent enough time, I could extract more craterous detail, for instance, and quite simply be more capable of rendering La Luna's peculiar, unique beauty. I accomplished those objectives, and kept giving myself new assignments, solar photography being a favorite, one overlapping hard with science, what has always captivated (when I was very young, it was archaeology, always something, once again -- I went out to a UT excavation site when I was 11, amazingly cool, enlightening experience)! But I kept expanding, and please forgive/forget what I previously said about escapism. Actually, I needed that, and issuing a statement explaining that it saved my life..... that wouldn't be exaggeration, and was and remains true. Apologies for verbosity, but if anyone feels that sort of grief that itself kills, please find your thing and keep it with you. This is rather out of character for me, but finding this cache of images opened up something very dark again ,(spoken as a lover of Poe, that sort of dark, and worse) reminding me that grief is experienced differently by everyone, and mine s is still with me, it's seemingly intractable DNA mutations. People and the Pop culture are easily turned and likewise quite easily can become jaded. My example is the song "Everybody Hurts" that even some hardcore r.e.m. fans confided they were sick of hearing and everything to do with it. Sad. A simple, very beautiful part of the culture now, a piece of Michael Stipe and his kindness and essential decency, and a reason my Mom always wanted to write him a letter. She and her Mom were the most sincerely decent, good (I address this from a philosophy perspective, where her approach was religion) people I've ever known, and Mom saw something in Stipe, calling him "a very kind man." The lyric "don't throw your hand" really loomed large in meaning and significance each day before 0500, and still does. Thank you, Michael Stipe, and thank you, my Flickr community, especially if by some..... miracle you've read this far! Salud.
You delve into the deep caverns, and find yourself at the edge of a great subterranean lake. You buy a raft from the tunnel nymphs and set out for the opposite shore. But from the deep, a lurking monster attacks! The dreaded Decipus!
Decipi: Come from underneath boats and rafts, using their tentacles to drag down both the craft and its occupants.
Health: 11
Delve into unforgettable experiences like nowhere at everywhere in astonishingly exotic Vietnam. The country that looks abode of Mother Nature.
Without delving deep into history and politics, let's just say I'm a firm believer in dreams and oppose myths, especially national myths. The latest invasion is clearly fueled by myths, as clearly as was the one that happened 30+ years ago.
Here, a heavy transport aircraft Antonov An-225 Mriya (Dream) during boarding (although probably not at that time) 140 tons heavy power transformer made by Končar Power Transformers for the Philippine San Lorenzo power plant. The flight shortened the delivery time from 40-45 days to just two.
Taken from the observation terrace of Zagreb's airport, while trying to get as clear view as possible, November 2013.
Let's hope a new dream will be flying again, let's hope this invasion will stop soon.
Taken with Pentax K20D digital camera and smc Pentax-DA 55–300mm F4–5.8 telephoto zoom lens, at full 300mm (450mm-equivalent).
💙💛 Thank you all for pushing this photo into Explore at #438 at one point in time. Yay!
Delving back into the hard drives once more, most of which needed a re-edit on my calibrated monitor...
A delve into the archives again to see the lovely Scar.
This time of the year is great for seeing these amazing creatures, so fingers crossed, I'll have loads more pics when I return
European Otter - Lutra Lutra
Scar
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Iceland
More archive delving - this time , back to that inexhaustible supply of 'work' for me from Iceland 2010. This was one of the last shots of a beautiful evening just outside Grundarfjordur when the weather finally began to clear. Manual blending of 4 exposures and a photomatix produced image. I will probably work on a similar video to the Nepal trip documenting our every click while in Iceland for 5 weeks.
Iceland video (from 3 minute mark)
The lack of recent travels has led me to delve into the archives. This one is from one of my favorite mornings . . .
The alarm today went off at 5am, over two hours before sunrise. The reason for the early alarm was that the drive to Canyonlands National Park and the ensuing walk to Mesa Arch would take nearly an hour and I wanted to be able to plant my tripod before everyone else arrived. Driving out of Moab the streets were void of traffic and after turning onto the road leading to Canyonlands there weren’t headlights in the rearview mirror or taillights visible ahead. I was confident that I had departed at an appropriately early enough time.
After entering the National Park, I noticed a few taillights ahead of me in the distance. “OK, I guess there may be a few early risers there,” I thought. How wrong I was, for as I crested the rise in the dark with my headlamp guiding my way along the path to Mesa Arch I could hear many voices coming from ahead. I wasn’t alone and it wasn’t just a couple of early risers either. There were already 15 to 20 tripods with accompanying cameras and photographers set up waiting for sunrise! Fortunately, the location I had scouted out the day prior was still available, so I joined the masses and added my tripod and camera to the mix.
The beauty of the sunrise here is something one truly needs to witness in person. As the sun broke the horizon the first sunburst occurred, but the best was yet to come. Initially there is the lack of reflected light on the underside of Mesa Arch. But as the sun continued to rise and began to cross the underside of the arch a 2nd sunburst occurred while the reflected light illuminated the underbelly of the arch turning the sandstone a glowing red.
Highlighted by the rising sun is the Washer Woman (derived from its resemblance of a tall and slender woman reaching her hands into a tub) and to its right is the taller Monster Tower. Washer Woman and Monster Tower are each over 600 feet tall. Behind the Washer Woman is the Sandcastle.
This is the third image I’ve posted from that wonderful morning, but this one was taken moments earlier than the previous two. The sunburst is larger in this image as the sun is just beginning to be hidden by the arch. I’ve held off on posting this . . . due to the flares, but decided they weren’t too distracting
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It's Woodpecker Wednesday, and once again, I delve my files for this image and more information about the bird. I stioll have a few week's worth of Acorn Woodpeckers, but I'm running out of things to say about this clown of the woodpecker clan. You'll pardon me if I repeat myself, but here goes.
The acorn woodpecker's habitat is forested areas with oaks in the coastal areas and foothills of Oregon, California, and the southwestern United States, south through Central America to Colombia. This species may occur at low elevations in the north of its range, but rarely below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in Central America, and it breeds up to the timberline. Nests are excavated in a cavity in a dead tree or a dead part of a tree. I'm fortunate enough to live in their region where I used to be a constant guest for nine years. Mt. Diablo has everything that a woodpecker of this kind would want: thousands of Valley Oak and Interior Oak trees. Oddly (I think) we have none of the most numerous Red Oak and I don't know how to ID the California Black Oak, but it doesn't matter to the woodpecker ... and probably you.)
This particular woodpecker was seemingly "playing hide and seek" with me, or maybe he didn't trust me. He was at the back of this tree, and he would pop out, take a look, and then "hide" behind the trunk. Then, he'd (actually this is a female) repeat the behavior. Of all this images I have of the Acorn woodpecker, this is a favorite, probably because I can remember the experience of playing with her for three minutes.
I am delving deeper into my personal discoveries in the New Topographics genre by foregoing any hint of prettiness and allowing the reality of man’s intrusion upon nature take a brazen central role in my work. — Here all that remains of the wild aspect of nature is a thorn and thistle laden ditch along the roadside. Suburbia has completely occupied territories which belonged to nature.
As witnessed by the sewer cover this assault upon nature is also below ground as well as above.
For society to feel better and appease environmentalists they allow space for manicured parks. Again these parks are but a ruse and excuse for yet more places for mankind to occupy.
This past week, i managed to delve into the medium format sides and negatives from Fred Bailey's treasure trove. For years he toted around a huge Pentax Ashai 6X7 Medium format. During his days living in the Charlestown, NH area, he was always in arm's length of many local operations including the Connecticut River Line which hosted many hotshot freights. B&M train CPSP, from Newport, VT south to the Conrail connection at Springfield, MA has just been re-crewed at Bridge St. Brattleboro, VT with B&M GP-7 1568 and GP-9's 1738-1726 with a tonnage train ready to tackle the grade over Mt. Hermon. Photo by Fred Bailey.
A delve into the archives for this image of Rijecki at the top of Lake Skadar in central Montenegro. Plenty of colour and detail on display, with a distinctive white bird posing in the centre of the scene. Thanks for looking.
Dahlia Flower
Film: Kodak ColorPlus 200 (Expired 2016)
Format: 35mm
No Crop, No Filter, No Post Editing. Only dust Spec removal In Photoshop. NOT A.I.
Camera: Ricoh SLX500
First time using this camera again after I changed the original prism (which was stained) to a split-prism. It's all clear now and my eyes are so much happier about that!! :D
Lens: Hanimex MC 28mm 1:2.8
+Extension Tube 25mm
Manual Focus
Handheld
Metering: Sunny 16 Rule
F11 1/250
Lighting: Sunlight
Developed in Bellini C41 Kit
Scanned at Home
Our Honeybee is delving deeply into the tiny flowers of False Dittany. She's seeking nectar. The inset photo shows that the stamens and pistil of the flower are high whereas the source of its nectar is low, there where Apis is delving. Pollen will rub off on its back and be transferred to other flowers.
It's been very wet here and it's rather surprising this Ballota is flowering. I've written earlier about that plant - in former times used especlally medicinally in childbirth (hence the Dutch name: 'Kraamkruid'): www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/29190315840/in/photoli...
It's been a busy week with friends over from the UK, but just before they arrived this morning I raced over to the car park to see what I could find for today's photo. Found the lovely moss on the wall and went in for a Borrower's look.
If you haven't ever read or heard of "The Borrower's" here's a link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers
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www.flickr.com/groups/2016_one_photo_each_day/
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
According to Wikipedia, in 1892 the hugely influential U.S. senator Henry W. Corbett, Republican of Oregon, built a summer home The Pines in Seaview, Washington. However, if The Pines was the mansion's name, why is Westborough House painted on the mantle? This has the makings of a research project!
Delving deeper I discovered another source that said Corbett named his beach house Westborough House. Wherever did Wikipedia come up with The Pines?
It's exhausting just to scan Corbett's Wikipedia entry and see how many huge ventures he was involved in. I guess it pays to be a pioneer when the landscape is rife with opportunities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Corbett
Wikipedia provides additional details about the Corbett place in the entry about the hamlet of Seaview:
In 1892 US Senator and Portland businessman Henry Winslow Corbett built a vacation home in Seaview on three acres facing the ocean. This summer home, which he named Westborough House, included the main three-story house with a ballroom on the second floor as well as housing for the servants and a stable for horses and carriages. A cow accompanied the family for its summer sojourn on the peninsula so they would always have fresh milk.[5] In the late 1930s the property left the Corbett family and became the Grandview Lodge, welcoming tourists with rooms in the main house and cabins on the grounds. Grandview Lodge is now the Sou'wester Lodge, still an imposing sight on the Seaview beach approach. It has often functioned as a cultural center in Seaview, hosting lectures, literary events, topical discussions, dramatic performances, and chamber concerts. The Corbett pasture is now an RV park and campground.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaview,_Washington
According to the Sou'wester Lodge's website:
"In the 1950s the second-floor Great Ballroom was converted into 4 separate suites, each with a private kitchen and bathroom and their own old-world charm."
Not only does the lodge offer accommodations, visitors can chose from among an array of vintage trailers.
www.souwesterlodge.com/stay/lodge/
When I stopped in to check it out, the Lodge was gradually returning to normal operations, having shut down during the pandemic. The living room was not yet open to the public full time, though live music is offered there on Saturday nights.
"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?"
Gatehouse next to St. Albans Cathedral. Even the peasants' army of 1381 could not get through. The uprising achieved none of its aims. Church and nobility continued to exploit, control and humiliate the majority. But not forever. Not anymore.
Had a delve into the archives for some inspiration and came up with this long exposure.For some reason when uploaded to Flickr there was some banding on the image, have made a few adjustments to compensate
Best to view in Lightbox, press L.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Exposure 401 seconds @ f/16
Filter used Lee Big Stoppper & 2 stop GND
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About time I build a classic ship from Star Wars. But I had two goals in mind:
1. Make it perfectly minifig scale, no matter how big or how small.
2. Use the most unconventional LEGO pieces and techniques to get the shapes and proportions without delving into “illegal” territory.
Needless to say, I think I nailed it. Measuring just under 22 studs long, this matches up with the canonical length of 6.9 metres or 21 feet.
As for the parts usage... I think you can see for yourself. There are also some old rare bits that cost me more than I anticipated.
Delving back in to my London folder to post up more shots. Just a wander along the Thames produces so many decent and interesting shot
Ive more photos of London than I do of the city of Edinburgh that I live in.
Well, after delving into a washing machine in Lockdown 1.0, version 3 has brought me to this. A cheesegrater, an LED panel and a beer one evening yielded this. A bit different from my usual work, I can't wait to get back out and about again.
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Delving into the past, you'll have to excuse my 'comfort gazing', as Scotland currently descends into a spell of the worst kind of winter weather: mild & damp.
I was fortunate on this occasion to be well ensconced with time to spare. I was able therefore to enjoy that magical glow, sometimes present afore sunrise, that casts such an unearthly light on familiar landscapes.
I love the fact that you can see far-flung Mull away over to the right, in this. I spent a week there some time ago & felt I was dealt a poor hand in terms of conditions for photography (the weather probably highlighted my deficiences as a photographer). The island's evident stunning landscapes were duly noted, however, & a return would be highly desirable.
Before delving into this image, let me direct your gaze to the left edge of the photo at the level of where the beak is. No, back a bit, yes, right there. (This is mostly for Pekabo’s benefit, she’s a self-professed multi-tasker who … well, she does many things at once …)
I previously intimated that quite a few different species of birds are into this water levitation thing. Here is another example of this. The male downy was so impressed with the junko’s water levitation prowess that he decided to give this a shot himself. True enough, Mose’s water play in the Red Sea may have been more impressive but how often do we get to witness such an event? By my count it’s been about 3,200 years (don’t start flaming me here if you have a different date in mind) and I don’t remember having heard of a similar event taking place since then. (Side bar: We actually were able to see this happening in the film Moses but I strongly suspect that some cinematographic trickery was involved. This is not the case here). Even if it had, it probably wouldn’t have been close enough for me to record it with the camera. We all know that I abhor travel to unfamiliar destinations. So, I am afraid we will have to make do with activities much closer to home. The reason I call this Targeted Water Levitation is that only a single specific drop is involved as opposed to the shotgun approach of using a spray of drops. We also see that he’s completely focused on the activity never letting the drop out of his sight until it reaches his beak.
I must say that when I first saw this pic on my computer, I began to swear up and down, figuring that a perfectly good downy picture had been destroyed by a dirty sensor. Only after I had settled down a bit, did I realize that we were dealing with a single water drop and there was no reason to crop this image.
And given the current fire hazards in the west we’ll all wish for some rain.
On the face of it, quite an unremarkable photo, but delving a little deeper there's something of a mystery. HKE 680L was recorded in the middle of 'The Potteries', Longton, Stoke on Trent. Quite obviously the bus had been freshly re-painted as it had yet to receive it's NBC decals. Naturally, you would imagine that the only place where such a re-paint would have been carried out hereabouts would have been fellow NBC subsidiary PMTs Central Works in Stoke... but this was Longton a few miles away. It's bizarre in the extreme that it should be deemed economic to send buses two hundred miles merely for a re-paint, as I recall this bus wasn't the only one.
Situated up north in Canada as she delves into the filming of “Eclipse,” Ashley Greene was spotted roaming the streets of Vancouver on Wednesday (August 19).
The Alice Cullen actress actress popped her headphones on and took her pup, Marlow, for some fresh air before getting to work on the third installment of the “Twilight” saga.
Meanwhile, controversy continues to swirl in regards to the recent release of Ashley’s much talked about nude photos - with her lawyer insisting that the Internet distribution was illegal and posting them is unlawful.
Greene’s attorney claimed that the actress “owns the exclusive rights, among others, to reproduce, distribute, and to display the photos.”
www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrities/hollywood/ashley-gre...
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Delving deep into my achive for this messy but natural woodland image from Newmarket woodland on the south downs. Always good.to venture into these little hidden gems. Can't wait to start my walks out again. Certainly going to make the most of it.
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