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Two of the Lighthorsemen demonstrate how they trained for cavalry sabre charges. The Australian Lighthorse Regiments that fought in Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, Beersheba and Damascus during World War I were all volunteers.
I'm warming up, stretching my legs a bit and flexing my muscles before going outside for jogging. I have been jogging for almost 2 years now and I really like it. I started with short distances and nowadays I run about 5 miles. It's so easy because you can simply start from home and do it whenever you have time. It keeps me fit and clears my mind, and an extra benefit is that I can wear the shiny satin shorts that I love so much.
The younger me doing morning exercises at the Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia on June 26th 1998.
Wikipedia has a great explanation of the shapes of this peculiar landscape.
Scanned negative with a Plustek OpticFilm 7600i filmscanner.
Kodak 400 ISO film.
Some post-processing in Photoshop (some dust and scratch removal, histogram, contrast, noise reduction, USM).
A Black-necked Stilt takes time to stretch in Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee.
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
As the third in the green stream series, I saw this small section of Rock Creek and decided that I needed to get in tight to catch this shot. Needless to say, I got wet for this shot but then if it's a mountain stream, I am usually in it. I HAD to maneuver to the right spot in order to compose this shot. I'll be the one with the wet jeans. I will say that my longer zoom was handy in this particular spot.
eDDie got a wild hare (Loveland tularemia, probably) to go specifically to Rock Creek above Allenspark to hunt wildflowers and he called me up. I have been up there several times and knew the area and the route. I am sure that he was not ready for the experience. He was astounded by the number of campers that could pack into this narrow gully by the nasty road/trail. I have not been up here since the flood but it looks like it got badly hit. The Forest Service kindly marked our parking space with a "closed for revegetation" sign. Handy! I bailed his Blazer like a flash, well at my flash speed. I was ready to shoot with my long lens. The normal zoom would have been a lot better plan. I was already busy shooting when eDDie came by on his way after wildflowers, great stuck with my stream shots and ended up with enough for a series.
Actually, Rock Creek flows more quickly down and through Ferncliff instead of toward Allenspark. There are a large number of possibilities up this creek (pronounced crick in the Rockies) and for me, it lead to the one-legged man in the trouser factory syndrome but this was easier to keep the campers from the frame. I decided, without input, to start a green stream series from the lot that I snapped. As I opened the captures, I usually feel that I left shots behind no matter where I visit, eDDie's or my venues.
After I started editing my original shots of Rock Creek, I thought of the bounty of camper cars parked up the trickle. I decided I might return with my normal zoom during the week for a massive plunder of captures.
I have been too busy to do much stitching lately so I'm getting back into the swing of things by batch making cards using machine embroidery.
These are the results