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A trip to Noar Hill this morning for the Duke of Burgandy Fritillary eventually paid off. Once it warmed up enough a few took to the wing. This male perched nicely on a cowslip for me.
The unique Duke of Gloucester seen from perhaps a small child's eye view / The power of steam in majesty.
A lovely couple of hours spent around the bottom of Ivinghoe beacon. I must have seen 10+ species of butterfly including Duke of Burgundy, 2 species of Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Brimstone, Orange Tip, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and some others that I cannot be sure about.
Going over old ground to improve on past images, also the Duke street bascule bridge is scheduled for replacement alas with a less classic more modern design i bet, so worth the documenting.
Durham, NC
January, 2022
RealitySoSubtle 6x6 Pinhole Camera
Expired 2018 Ultrafine Extreme 100
Rodinal 50:1
Scanned using D600, 105mm f/4
Micro-NIKKOR Ai, PK-13 Extension tube, and lightpad
More Black & White. This was the wettest charter that I have ever done. Duke of Gloucester at the Churnet Valley Railway (1992) PLC. The exhaust helped compensate for the lack of dryness! Click on the image.
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71000 heads north on 19/5/2011 - another much missed engine which hopefully will return.I went to check this location for 45596 recently,alas it's totally overgrown
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71000 'Duke of Gloucester' bowls along through an autumnal landscape, as she dashes away from Penrith, with 'The Royal Scot' of 06 November 2025.
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A portrait of Robert Tilley, the best friend I’ve made since I came to Canada 3 years ago as an international student. I took this portrait one day before Robert turned 73 years old. Robert's grandfather, who was born in 1882 and lived a legendary life in Canada’s Northern territories and Atlantic region, had the nickname 'Duke,' an abbreviation of his full name William Marmaduke Tilley. I think the name Duke is perfect for this portrait. The coat Robert wears in the portrait was made by himself 40-some years ago.
For people who are curious about my equipment: I took this photo with Nikon D850 and Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 lens.
Sculpture garden
At Duke Farms, the sculptures in the gardens are mostly 19th-century Italian works brought by Doris Duke’s family. In many 19th-century European and American gardens, these figures were placed as decorative statues, not always tied to a specific mythological name but rather to symbolic personifications. They often represent allegorical figures (Seasons, Muses, Nymphs).
Shining in the golden morning light of Wednesday, December 20, 2023, a southbound intermodal train charges through the signals at Duke - the signals protecting the south end of Linwood Yard in Linwood, NC. Having stopped momentarily to wait for a northbound manifest train to enter the yard, the three Norfolk Southern engines leading the intermodal put out a hefty plume of smoke as they pick up the pace.
A small, springtime butterfly that frequents scrubby grassland and sunny woodland clearings. One of the most rapidly declining butterflies in the UK.
Small and orange and brown, like a tiny fritillary. Undersides of hind wings have rows of white spots. Lives in small colonies on grassland or woodland clearings.
This small butterfly frequents scrubby grassland and sunny woodland clearings, typically in very low numbers. The adults rarely visit flowers and most sightings are of the territorial males as they perch on a prominent leaf at the edge of scrub. The females are elusive and spend much of their time resting or flying low to the ground looking for suitable egg-laying sites.
The Duke of Burgundy is found in England only with a stronghold in central-southern areas and more isolated colonies in the southern Lake District and the North York Moors.
It has declined substantially in recent decades, especially in woodlands where it is reduced to fewer than 20 sites.
Duke's Place at night. Around the spot near the corner of the building on the left (the light reflecting on the square on the ground), is about the spot where Catherine Eddowes was seen with a man by the three men leaving the Jewish Imperial Club at 1:35am on September 30th 1888.
This corner was once known as Church Passage & it was a much narrower passage that led into Mitre Square.
Eddowes was found viciously murdered in the south west corner of Mitre Square by PC Edward Watkins at 1:45am.
At 1:40am, PC James Harvey entered Mitre Square through Church Passage, but stopped at the edge of the square. He saw nothing unusual, but his lantern would not have given him enough light to see the square completely.
I think it is probable that the Ripper was hiding in that dark corner when PC Harvey entered.
There has been more nonsense lately about some shawl that had DNA on it. Even without this claim, the shawl can be written off as bogus.
It was Mitochondrial DNA, which is only a match for a certain percentage group of the population. Its not a conclusive match.
The provenance of the shawl itself is nonsense. It was allegedly found by PC Amos Simpson who took it home as a gift for his wife before it could be cataloged.
With the times of witnesses I've written above, it makes it even more beyond probability for a third police officer to some how discover the scene before Watkins, & not only not catch the Ripper in the act, but instead decides to desecrate the scene & takes a piece of evidence home.
The Ripper inflicted a lot of damage to poor Eddowes. If Simpson some how stumbled upon the scene, there is no way he wouldn't have been caught.
PC Simpson was also with the Metropolitan Police. Mitre Square is in the jurisdiction of the City of London Police. He was not anywhere near the scene of the crime.
The City of London Police were pretty thorough in cataloging & recording the scene. If Eddowes had a shawl they would have cataloged it. This story about Simpson is drivel that only started with descendants.
Nikon F4. Nikkor 50mm F1.2 lens. Mr. Negative Bat Country 400T 35mm ECN2 film.
and has been getting lower ever since :-)
Josh Billings
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would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something :-)
― Steve Jobs
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― Theodore Roosevelt
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The Duke of Burgundy is a small, springtime butterfly that frequents scrubby grassland and sunny woodland clearings and is one of the most rapidly declining butterflies in the UK. It was once classified as a Fritillary, but is now the only butterfly in the UK in the subfamily Hamearis lucina, known as the "metalmarks".
This butterfly can be confused with the Burnet Companion moth, a day-flying moth which occurs at the same time of year and is very similar in size. It has dark brown wings patterned with vivid orange spots, with white dots along the fringes of the wings, like a tiny fritillary.
I awas a bit rushed with this one. I met a 77 year old chap who had driven down from oop north just to see his first ever duke, he was also planning to sleep in his car just to get to see one. The weather at the time with a cold wind was not conducive to finding any butterflies. He was also a bit lost, thinking he was on a different hill. So when this butterfly was found I left him to it taking just two shots and hoping one was ok.
Nice little pub in Chiswick. Cheap beer (by Australian standards), good pub food and great atmosphere
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An old photo of my horse at 24 years young enjoying a good old "pipe opener", on the sand track. All 4 feet are off the ground. Unfortunately I don't have many photos of him, so the few I do have, I treasure.,
One of the few photos I printed, and it looks better printed than it does here.
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Thank you for the texture ghostbones/skeletalmess
24th Feb 2012, the unique 71000 Duke of Gloucester is seen with the Irish mail headboard on shed at Bury Baron Street on the East Lancashire Railway
This statue sits in the terrace gardens section of Sarah Duke gardens and depending on what time of year it is surrounded by different plantings.
This huge bronze statue of the Iron Duke has caused an uproar since its unveiling. Its not that the good citizens of Edinburgh resent his presence but more that he blocks the busiest street in the city. Some would like him relocated, but its likely he will stand his ground.
The Duke of Burgundy Fritilliary -
Hamearis lucina
Missed this Rare Beauty by a few weeks last year.......
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