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It's always exciting to watch and photograph pikas, smallest members of the rabbit family, as they pop in and out of their rock-pile dens collecting grass, flowers, and other vegetation that they store away all summer to feed on during the winter. That way they don't need to hibernate to see it through to the spring to come.
Even more delightful than photographing adult pikas is seeing the miniature versions that are their offspring of the season when their Mickey Mouse ears are still big out of proportion to their goose egg-size bodies. There were two or three juveniles out and about when I got these photos, foraging for themselves, with no adult supervision (though there were adults present).
Pikas are a bellwether species in that they cannot survive in temperatures consistently above 78°F, which is one reason they are found only at high elevations. As average summertime highs rise throughout the globe, many pika colonies have disappeared when they cannot migrate to higher, cooler locations.
They are, fortunately, still thriving in the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. The colony I find easiest to photograph is near the 10,947 feet summit of the Beartooth Pass on US highway 212.
Well, I'm still bouncing about like an over-excited toddler after my VERY exciting find (hummingbird hawk-moth caterpillar) yesterday, at St Cyrus nature reserve. Here's one (single) shot taken on my MP-E 65mm lens (in natural light, at 1x magnification). This hasn't been cropped; this is all I could fit in the frame with this high-magnification macro lens. This image shows the tail horn (which, from memory, for scale, must be just 2 or 3 mm tall, and the colouring indicates that the caterpillar is a final instar; the entire caterpillar was about 4.5 cm). And, a sneak preview on the cutest feet ever. I have a few more images to process... I guarantee you'll all get bored long before I do!
Kreative People "Treat This #141" Original by love tt shoot.
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It was exciting to see this Great Blue Heron fly past with a pretty large gopher in it's beak....dangling it by one paw. The gopher was maybe already dead, but if not getting the sense of what it feels like to fly.
I can finally let you all know about my 4 page feature in Dorset Life magazine! Its been months in the making but today, it finally goes on sale! Here's a lo-res file for you to have a browse at the images but if you want to have a proper look then go and grab yourself a copy if local! Its also available online via their app.
So very pleased to have a feature in such a highly respected local magazine - something I have always dreamed of and another thing ticked off the bucket list.
Thanks for your support as always - it really does spur me on!
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****This frame was chosen on August 25th 2015 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #201. This is my 76th photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to everyone who visited, favourite and commented on the frame*****
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This Ten seconds long exposure was taken at an altitude of Sixty six metres, in the magic of the golden hour around sunrise at 04:48am, (Sunrise was at 05:36am), on Tuesday 29th April 2014 in the grounds of Foots Cray Meadows. This frame was taken standing knee deep in the river Cray beside Five Arches Bridge in Bexley, Kent, England.
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Nikon D800 32mm 10 Seconds long exposure f/22.0 iso100 RAW (14-bit) Matrix metering. AF-S single point focus. Aperture Priority mode. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jacobs 77mm Super slim CPL Polariser filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL 15 batteries. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release cable. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU PROCESSOR. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. VERBATIM USB 2.0 1TB Desktop Hard drive. NIKON VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8 Version 8.0 64bit
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Perhaps I should subtitle this photograph:
The Old and the New
or (just like the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons):
Nice Gneiss
This location is really exciting to my inner geo geek so, if you are like my daughters and wife, whose eyes start to glaze over when I start to talk about geology, just enjoy this panorama of one of the canyons emptying into the Badwater basin. But, if you would like to learn about the geology that created this vista, read on at your own peril:
This little canyon has exposed the contact between some of the oldest rocks in Death Valley (and the western United States) and some of the youngest in Death Valley. The right hand canyon wall is comprised of metamorphosed crystalline basement rock. These are very old rocks. They were formed and then put under a lot of heat and pressure and metamorphosed. The metamorphosis event has been dated to about 1.7 billion years ago so they were actually formed sometime before that. The 1.7 billion year date shows up a lot in the geology of the western U.S. That is probably because it is also accompanied by an extensive unconformity at its top that also covered much of the western U.S. So, to recap, the right hand rocks were formed and then deformed deep in the crust about 1.7 billion years ago then uplifted as part of a broad mountain building episode that covered a lot of the western U.S. The uplift caused erosion to remove any rocks that were deposited over the old metamorphosed crystalline basement rocks.
Eventually the uplift ceased and the western U.S. slowly built out the coastline in what we call a passive margin with just slow sediment deposition dominating the scene and no active uplifts. These rocks are largely carbonates (dolomites) and some pure quartz sandstones that occasionally flowed over the carbonate shallow flats and seas. These rocks are about 500 million years younger than the rocks in the right hand wall of the canyon.
I'm going to briefly summarize the next 700 million years. The western coast of the U.S. and the Death Valley area transitioned from passive deposition to active as the various Pacific plates began to spread. Compressive forces slowly began to squeeze the rocks in Death Valley and then volcanism began as the oceanic plates were stuffed under the western edge of the North American crustal plate. Some of the molten rocks erupted and some rose up into the Death Valley area but never made it to the surface.
Then about 75 million years ago something very special happened that changed this scenario. Many geologists think the Pacific plate that was being stuffed (subducted) under the North American plate somehow broke and instead of being pushed down toward the mantle, slid horizontally under the crust of the North American plate. This caused a ripple of compressive events to travel eastward across this region and then across the western U.S. all the way to the Rockies which mark the eastward boundary of the horizontal plate.
The compression that accompanied the shallow Pacific plate as it buoyantly rode under this area, folded and contorted many of the older passive margin rocks.
The deeper plate then foundered as the spreading center or mid oceanic ridge which was driving the eastward movement stopped probably because the spreading center finally began to be subducted under the North American plate.
In Death Valley, the compression stopped and a new round of volcanism began as the lower plate started to slowly sink into the mantle and melt. This sinking also began pull apart the western U.S. as the bulging area over the plate now began to sink also. We call this pulling apart extension and when the crust is extended like this faults begin to form that leave some blocks high but drop other blocks down along the fault to allow for the stretching. This faulting and movement started slowly and further east of this region - near the middle of the horizontally under-stuffed plate fragment. The high blocks and low basins caused by this stretching are called the Basin and Range province and cover the area from the high Sierras to the Big Bend in Texas.
The basin seen in the distance in this photograph is the deepest basin in this entire province and therefore, one of the youngest. The spreading started in earnest less than 4 million years ago. Spreading here allows the basins to fall faster than erosion of the surrounding blocks can fill them up. It is no accident that the highest relief in the United States is located here - Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountains on the western side of the basin is over 11,000 above sea level while Badwater Springs is almost 300 feet below sea level.
Now, back to this side canyon, the rocks on the left wall are young - deposited when the basin began to form around 4 million years ago. I am not sure of the formations that are exposed on the left but they look like the Furnace creek formation or the Artists Drive formation.
Those of you that have looked at the left hand wall enough probably have noticed the line that tilts upward at about a 30 to 40 degree angle in the middle of the wall. The line may represent a dis-conformity and may have initially been flat but tilted upward as the young sediments have slid westward and rotated over the crest of the turtleback.
What is a turtleback? A geologist named Curry first described them in 1938. He noticed three rounded (double plunging) rock outcrops on the western edge of the Black Mountains. He also described the contacts of the rocks within these rounded bulges and the overlying rocks at its edges and guessed that they very different in composition and age.
Some researchers believe that these rocks were first bulged upward during the compressional phase that I mentioned above. During the recent extension, these bulges were tilted down to east and exposed as Badwater basin sank past them. The overlying young basin fill exposed in the left wall "spilled" off of the turtle backs in fault blocks that all sole out along the back of the turtleback leaving the domed surface exposed and resembling a turtleback.
To those of you who read all the way to this point - congratulations - you far surpassed the eye glazing point!
I find this landscape beautiful and speculating on the long history that it represents, makes it that much more special to me.
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A first, and very exciting find, for me today. I spotted this stunning alder moth caterpillar (Acronicta alni) in a lime tree in Lainshaw Woods, Stewarton.
Ideally I would have liked to have got a better dof, to show the impressive hairs, but the weather was awful, it was very windy, and the light was not great at all, and, typically, the caterpillar didn't want to stay still, so I was limited to a very shallow dof... just a thrill to find it and at least get a few shots.
i spent exciting saturday with friends of mine in the kayak at the beautiful river zeta.
the first time wearing the diving suit, i swam, dived and jumped- from an old, wooden bridge. the water was 14 C, the outside was about 30 C degree. i wasn't be able to get camera with me during the our kayak rout, so this is the photo after our nice lunch.
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CSX caught at Contentnea Junction south of Wilson, NC. Unit 586 an AC44CW rips past local freight with 2031 a GP38-3 and friend thqt are awaiting the south bounds passage to run aqround their cars on the south bound trackage to couple up and head north.
España - Malaga - Estepona - Orquidario
ENGLISH:
This exciting botanical garden specialized in orchids is placed in Estepona. It is clearly visible with three distinctive glass domes where one of them is 30 meters high. The Orchid building is divided into two parts of 1000 m2 and 15,000 m2 separated by a bamboo forest. Inside the glass building there is a waterfall and on the 12 meter high wall there are growing orchids in different heights. There are over 1600 different orchid varieties and 8000 other plant varieties.
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El edificio del Orchidarium Estepona, que está dividido en dos niveles que se encuentran a cotas diferentes y separados por un bosque de bambú, cuenta con una superficie de 1.000 metros cuadrados y 15.000 metros cúbicos de volumen. Hay atracciones visuales como un lago, una cascada de más de 15 metros y tres cúpulas de cristal, la más alta de las cuales se alza a unos 30 metros de altura, ofreciendo una imagen sorprendente vista desde su interior. Entre las más de 5.000 plantas que contiene, hay más de 1.300 especies de orquídeas de todo el mundo, pero básicamente se recrea el hábitat de las especies cálidas Sudamericanas y del Sudeste Asiático. Representa la mayor colección europea y una de las más grandes del mundo. El recinto cuenta también con más de 200 metros cuadrados de jardines verticales. En concreto, se han ejecutado sobre una pared de 12 metros, y las plantas están distribuidas en cinco alturas diferentes, por lo que las distintas especies irán trepando por la pared y formarán dibujos de manera natural conforme avance el tiempo. El jardín botánico y el orquidario, con sus tres cúpulas de cristal, se han convertido en las señas de identidad de una estructura innovadora que ha cambiado por completo la fisonomía del municipio, siendo un importante atractivo turístico. Además de una obra singular, este nuevo espacio botánico aspira a ser un referente internacional para los amantes de las plantas y la arquitectura.
Exciting news! VANISHED CITY: LONDON'S LOST NEIGHBOURHOODS is now available – and this is one of the series of 4x5 Polaroids I shot for it.
Vanished City is a beautiful new book published by Strange Attractor Press, written by Tom Bolton, who also wrote London's Lost Rivers. It contains 20 of my large format Polaroids – 10 in colour, 10 in B&W. Lots more to come, stay tuned...
Nothing too exciting here, but it is a beautiful light! I'm hoping to revisit sometime this summer; I didn't take too many pictures the last time around, and it's only 5-6 hours from home, which, considering previous spur-of-the-moment expeditions, isn't that bad.
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Something exciting, Leeds.
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Kodak Retinette 1a.
Ilford HP5+ 400 film
Developed by me.
Rodinal, 1+50, 11 mins, 20C, Fomafix P, spiral tank.
Scanned with Epson Scan V550
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ANA's new domestic flagship B78X.
ANA国内線新フラッグシップB78X。
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✈️RWY16L↘ - JA984A🇯🇵 - Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner - All Nippon Airways - NH256(FUK-HND)
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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on Dec. 23rd, 2024, 16:18
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📷Canon EOS R1
🔭EF500mm F4L IS II USM
⚙️MANUAL・F4.0・1/1000th・-1EV・ISO250(AUTO)
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