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Sometimes hydrants become a bit clogged up with soil and silt. This one was particularly blocked. We filled 3 buckets of dirt, which was carefully disposed of….and we cleaned up after ourselves
With a leased N&W SD45 in the mix, this e/b piggy-back train grinds up the pass at Cajon on July 28, 1979.
The local museum are excavating an area belived to have been the location for a castle, dating back to around 13-1400 AD
I'm not sure if this fox squirrel is looking for some goodies—or maybe planting something for the future! Last summer when I went to replant annual flowers in my deck pots, I found a little cache of peanuts down in the soil!
this guy was sitting in the road this morning apparently stunned by the new england weather going from 95 down to 50 in a day. ( join the club) he was happy to have a little of my heat and i was happy to share some.
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Probably an occasion I could have done with a bit more dof so the winged creature could be made out more. However, I am always very disiplined to stay at or close to base ISO for best colours, DR and overall quality.
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I love to do it! I wonder why? I like to think it's an archaic cultural connection with my Irish/English/German great-greatgrandparents. . . .
Intentional toning and frame via Aviary.
Using the same setup as the classic promotional material I shot my own interpretation of the story. Here Captain Red Beard has discovered even more booty in the cave and, as any half decent sea captain would do, has got his shipmate to do all the hard work!
E-P5 / Olympus 60mm 2.8 / Raynox DCR-250
Messing around with a new technique, doing combined natural light and flash focus stack of unknown parasitoid wasp. Was observed taking massive beetles much larger than itself from a tree in a controlled fall and dragging them into a burrow in muddy soil next to mangroves, norman creek brisbane.
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I went to bed our last night in Lake Tahoe knowing that if the storm that had just rolled in continued the entire night, there would be a lot of snow to shovel in the morning. I woke up the next morning to the sound of a snow plow clearing our driveway which luckily saved me a lot of work. For some reason the plow piled all the snow at the end of the driveway so there was still a bit of shoveling to do but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
This concludes the Lake Tahoe Winter 2010 series.
ABOUT THE SERIES
My family loves Lake Tahoe. It's about an 8 hour drive from where we live but it's well worth it. This Christmas holiday, I traveled up there with my family and my fiance for my first winter trip there in 5 years.
This year my parents gave us snow shoes as a gift so we spent a lot of time snowshoeing. Unfortunately (for photography sake), it snowed a lot so I wasn't able to shoot every day but on the plus side, I love the snow and it makes for great landscapes.
I've always struggled with getting correct exposure in the snow. My first year all I had was a point and shoot and my photos actually came out pretty well. The following trip I brought my Canon Digital Rebel and to my surprise, my exposures were off. After much reading I learned that you should generally use exposure compensation since the camera's metering system is usually thrown off by all the white (your camera meters assuming objects are grey). I did a little better with my 7D this time around but I still don't think I've nailed metering in the snow.
We play prospectors for an hour or so in the Queenstown area, New Zealand. The guide in these shots showed us how to chose the site, dig the sand, wash the sand in the river and ... find gold. Lots of messy work for a few flakes of gold.
Ongoing resignaling work in South Wales calls for some deep excavations at Cardiff Central , passing by is First Great Western 43005 one end of the 1L55 Swansea - London Paddington.
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Sampo: "What are you doing in the geranium pot?"
Bones: "We are digging for treasure. All pirate treasures are buried underground."
Skull: "And the X on this map marks the geranium pot!"
Sampo "Get lost. There's nothing in the pot except geranium roots."
(Toy Sunday: Underground)
The wind blew peacefully through the trees. Birds chirped, squirrels chattered, and the sound of leaves falling could be heard in the thick, beautiful forest of southern Lenfald. Bits of red and orange were beginning to appear in the treetops. The forest was changing, green was giving way to red.
Sir Glennian reflected on this as he and his companions treaded, almost silently, on the old forest road. So many things had happened recently, the once peaceful land of Roawia was now aching with the pains of conflict and turmoil, and the only plausible outcome seemed to be war. Loreos, only few miles walk southward, was now threatening invasion. Green did indeed seem to be giving way to red.
Sounds of people now reached Sir Glennian’s ears, and he saw they had almost reached their destination. As he came around a bend in the path, he saw it, not a hundred yards ahead of him. A deep hole had been dug in the center of the path, nearly fifteen feet deep, and men could be seen swarming around it.
“Foreman!” Sir Glennian shouted.
All the workers turned and noticed their visitors, and a stout man in a green cloak turned to greet them. He had a thick, curly, brown beard covering his smiling face, which was topped with thick, curly, brown hair.
“Ah, you are here at last!” He greeted them. “We have made much progress on the work. As you can see, the hole is over a dozen feet deep. Just an hour ago the blacksmith arrived with the spikes that will be stuck in the bottom. Then we will cover it with branches spread over with dirt, and the next Loreesi scum who comes through here-”
He broke off with a large wave of his hand, indicating the destruction the Loreesi would face.
Glennian nodded. “Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
He looked forlornly down the path. Somewhere in that direction was a great desert…one in which war was brewing, a war that, he feared, Lenfald could never be completely ready for.
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Well, I was going to enter this into the last Lenfald LC, but I obviously didn’t finish it in time. Congrats to Gary and Paul on the wins! ;)
Soli Deo Gloria! :)