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One of my favorite birds and the reason I bought my Canon 600 f/4 prime lens - I found this drake hooded merganser at Lake Artemesia today with another drake and two hens. Little did he know that I had finally calibrated my Canon 2x tele-converter on my 7D2 and 600 using my lens align system and was going to test it out on some unsuspecting birds. So, Mr. Hoodie became my first test subject to see if I could focus with an astonishing 1920mm effective (7D2 body, 2.0 extender, and 600mm lens is 1.6 X 2.0 X 600 = 1920) and actually get a nice photo out of it. Why do this at all? Well, most of the hooded mergansers I've met aren't really a sociable lot. They seem uncomfortable around humans and they like to stay far far away towards the middle of the lake if they can. But the 2X introduces another problem and it's a huge consideration. Can I keep the camera and lens stable enough so that I didn't get a blurry photography. The longer the effective the more of a problem this is and this is as long as I can get and still use autofocus on my 7D2 body. I was shooting this camera combination on a tripod with a Wimberly head.
Well, you be the judge! How do you think it all worked out? Did I nail it or get a blurry photo? Thank you for looking and giving me feedback my friends!
Taken 6 February 2017 at Lake Artemesia in College Park, Maryland.
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There is an interesting tangle of long tree roots along the bank of the lake and it is not always easy or obvious to identify which tree they belong to...
A single RAW file processed mainly in Lightroom with a little work in CS6.
It was an over and under steal for WWCC's Alex Bonczyk as Miles' Ben Sansaver leaps and extends for the throw from the Pioneers catcher and allows Bonczyk to dive cleanly to the bag. Sansaver couldn't get a handle on the wide throw and Bonczyk extended the steal to 3rd during 1st inning action of the first game Saturday afternoon at WWCC.
Es ante la negativa del Gobierno Nacional de avalar créditos para la Capital. Lo harán por una ley. Mientras, las nuevas líneas (F, G e I), la terminación total de la línea H y la culminación de las existentes "en marcha" (A y B), siguen en lista de espera.
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El ministro de Hacienda porteño, Néstor Grindetti, presentó en la semana en la Legislatura el presupuesto 2010 y así arrancó una ronda de diez reuniones informativas. Los cuestionamientos de los diputados, que fueron pocos, giraron sobre cuatro ejes fundamentales: la falta de previsión de aumentos salariales para los empleados del Estado, la elaboración de los índices para calcular la inflación, la escasez de grandes obras de infraestructura y el estancamiento en la extensión del subte.
Para 2010 la Ciudad pretende contar con un presupuesto de $ 17.457,8 millones. "El 66,5% del total se destinarán a servicios sociales", aseguró Grindetti. La reunión, amenizada por dos rondas de café y medialunas de manteca, duró dos horas y media pese a que estaba previsto que se extendiera por cuatro, y en el Salón Montevideo se respiró un aire afable.
Los diputados opositores coincidieron cuando le pidieron al ministro que no se victimice por la falta de apoyo del Gobierno nacional para avanzar en grandes obras de infraestructura. Grindetti sostuvo: "si todas las entidades financieras de renombre mundial han calificado a la Ciudad como un sujeto de crédito aún por encima del nivel de riesgo soberano, deberíamos preguntarnos por qué el Gobierno nacional ha privado a la Ciudad de la posibilidad de acceder a créditos de largo plazo que hubieran permitido desarrollar aún más inversiones". Y adelantó que enviará a la Legislatura un proyecto de ley para permitirle a la Ciudad emitir deuda sin el permiso de la Nación.
Ruanova cuestionó el presupuesto propio de la Ciudad para la extensión de subtes, que es de $ 40 millones para la B y de $ 37 millones para la A: "Solo el estudio de factibilidad para el sistema de bicicletas públicas cuesta $ 40 millones", comparó. Grindetti aseguró que existen ofertas de financiación para las líneas A, B y H: "Si se concretan, vendremos a la Legislatura para analizar las obras puntualmente", explicó.
Arriba: La futura terminal de la línea A, San Pedrito, una de las tantas estaciones casi terminadas que necesita de un mínimo de financiamiento para ser habilitada. Le siguen, San José de Flores, de la misma línea, Echeverría y Juan Manuel de Rosas de la B y Parque Patricios y Hospitales de la H. En tanto, en el extremo Norte de esa línea, se encuentra la estación Corrientes a la que le faltan terminaciones mínimas indispensables para su funcionamiento, como señales, cableados, el tendido de la catenaria (por donde se alimentan vía aérea los trenes del subte), caminos rodantes en la combinación con Pueyrredón de la línea B (que será la nueva novedad de la red) y escaleras mecánicas exteriores e interiores.
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Esta especie está extendida por el Noroeste de África y por toda Europa, a través de Oriente Medio, Próximo Oriente, Asia (30-70ºN) hasta Japón. Ausente en las islas atlánticas y Británicas excepto un área restringida del SE de Inglaterra (Norkfold). En Norteamérica hay subespecies diferentes. Las alas posteriores van provistas de cola.
Según los factores altitud y latitud, nos podemos encontrar con uno, dos o tres vuelos, de febrero a octubre.
Puede aparecer en lugares tan variados como pastizales de montaña, zonas de cultivo, barrancos, ruderales, parques…. Puede presentarse desde el nivel del mar hasta más de 2000 m. Son frecuentes las concentraciones de machos en las cumbres de las montañas.
Macro Mondays - Macro Textures - 2016-07-11 - BANNED!
CR2032 - cupside detail of a button cell I had to change on my yesterday's autonomous photowalk.
CLOSING GAMBIAN IMAGE, requested pied kingfisher.......
If I dont return to posting U.K birds soon, will be showing courtship displaying, while everybody else are showing baby birds. Have been going out, but it is a struggle after the Gambian beauties, but cant live for two weeks photography a year.
Thank you for some extra special comments yesterday, your like a extended family to me.
Love to you all Tomx.
When photographing these Wheatears I was carrying my old Canon 7D mkii with the ef500 f4 with 1.4x mkiii extender as well as my Canon R6 with the RF100-500 lens and the RF2x extender.
It really does give amazingly sharp images with the 2x i am very impressed.
Myrdin's Prim Leg Extenders are GO !
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Igniting throughout her soul and mind, the fire spread uncontrollably causing her to drop down on one knee, completely out of her control. Screams of pain, loud heartbeat and excruciating accusations all in her own voice full of blame, hatred and distaste.
It was getting harder to lift herself back up. How much she wanted to be able to look at the sky again, follow dreams that were lost behind her and detach herself from being bound by what she shouldn't any longer. Mistakes are redundant and repetitive. Disguised in the form of excuses and self inflicted obligations. For the greater cause? Or just for her own demise? Wilting away countless images until it is left at the foot of being just an 'idea', never a reality.
"Get up!" said a voice. much to her surprise. With barely any strength left, she focused on that voice, the one that seemed to grow louder and louder compared to the rest.
"You came this far, no giving up now.." the voice continued. "This is just the beginning!" it shouted even more in a sheer determined encouragement.
The burning sensation through her self shifted into the air around her that just made her exhale a breath. A sudden drop of water was felt on the back of her neck, followed by more drops as the rain broke whatever the fire was doing inside of her. The smell of fresh soil danced along her senses, the heavy weight slowly lifted from her back.
The shattering of something inside her gave birth to a new horizon, gave reason to move on and it was oddly not that difficult to...spread her wings.
P.S. Kintsugi is going to be closed soon. I'll surely miss this place.
SLURL: Kintsugi; Spirited Beyond
It will be so hard when all 3 go in 2023, but I am grateful for the extension. 🐼💜🐼🐼
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From a visit to Newcastle's Colisseum - Antiques & Collectables. Taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 5.8cm f2 (Red T) wide open, extended.
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The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
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Ferocactus herrerae es una especie de la familia Cactaceae, endémica de México y el sur de Estados Unidos, aunque actualmente se ha extendido por todo el mundo.
Es un cactus de porte globular de color verde medio, con 7 a 9 espinas centrales y al menos 1 plana y más larga, las radiales con aspecto de cerdas, en estado adulto normalmente tiene alrededor de 13 costillas. Cuando ha alcanzado edad suficiente produce abundantes flores de color amarillo entre primavera y verano.
Este cactus crece en forma globular hasta alcanzar su tamaño máximo, y a partir de entonces crece en altura, algunos ejemplares pueden llegar a medir en estado adulto unos 50 cm de diámetro y unos 2 m de alto.
Este cactus necesita estar en un lugar muy luminoso con sol directo para su correcto desarrollo, sobre todo si se desea conseguir flores, ya que en la naturaleza vive en desiertos muy calurosos. El sustrato ideal es el que se pueda regar y no se encharque, normalmente va bien la tierra hecha de hojas secas mezclada con arena. En cuanto al riego, en verano se suele regar una vez a la semana dejando bien empapada la tierra, en septiembre u octubre cuando empieza a bajar el calor es aconsejable ir reduciendo gradualmente los riegos hasta ser casi nulos, época en la que también es aconsejable rociarlo con algún fungicida para evitar los hongos.
Ya que esta especie no suele producir brotes laterales o hijuelos, la reproducción se realiza exclusivamente por semillas. Estas se encuentran dentro del fruto que deja la flor cuando se ha secado,misma que aparece regularmente a la edad de 15 años, si las condiciones de cultivo han sido óptimas durante el desarrollo, estas flores pueden ser de color morado, lila, o amarillo, al producir flores también producirá semillas las cuales, después de recolectarlas es conveniente esperar a que vuelva a hacer calor para sembrarlas. Para eso, una técnica muy usada, es colocarlas encima de arena húmeda dentro de un recipiente tapado con plástico o cristal que permita la entrada de la luz y el calor pero no deje salir la humedad. Si todo va bien en unas semanas empezarán a germinar, en cuanto tengan un tamaño que permita cogerlos bien es aconsejable trasplantarlos a algún tipo de tierra más nutritiva y menos húmeda para que se desarrollen bien, en cuanto a su exposición al sol es recomendable que en esta etapa estén en un sitio muy luminoso pero sin recibir el sol directo, que podría causar graves quemaduras o la muerte.
Ferocactus herrerae fue descrita por Jesús González Ortega y publicado en México Forest. 5: 53, en el año 1927.
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Ferocactus herrerae, commonly known as the twisted barrel cactus, Herrera's barrel cactus, or the biznaga (in Classical Nahuatl), is a species of viviparous barrel cactus in the genus Ferocactus of the family Cactaceae that is native to southwestern Sonora to the northwestern coastline of Sinaloa in western Mexico. It was described by Mexican botanist, Jesús González Ortega in 1927. Its common name refers to its twisted, barrel cactus shape habit, with long, hooked, or barbed spines.
F. herrerae reaches an average height of 2 m (6.56 ft), and 40 cm (15.74 in) in diameter. 7-9 spines, with supposed bristle-like radials. Flowers are yellow, with red-pink midribs and brown tips, blooming from Summer to early Autumn. Fruit are yellow-green and fleshy. Areoles are 2.03 cm long. It starts out in a globular barrel cactus form and eventually, as it matures, developing into a signature cylindrical barrel cactus form.
Ferocactus herrerae was originally listed as a subspecies or variety of Ferocactus wislizeni until it was elevated to full species status based on morphological differences. The prior treatment is still used by some authors.
Ferocactus herrerae was assessed and listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN Red List (International Union for Conservation of Nature), for agricultural land clearance and conversion, combined with shrimp farming practices have greatly limited populations. Its current population is decreasing at a rate of 30%. It may also be provided a source of protection from CITES Appendix ll, though this cannot be certain.
Ferocactus herrerae is commonly used as an ornamental cactus out of its native range. Its seeds can be ground into flour, and its fruit are edible, showing numerous positive nutritional aspects.
Ferocactus herrerae is commonly pollinated by various cactus bee species (Lithurgus spp.).
Taxing for departure from RAF Fairford after the 2024 RIAT airshow is this now rare sight of the USAF KC10 Extender from the"Travis AFB".
Sadly only a small handfull of this wonderful aircraft are flying as they get replaced by the new KC46 Pegasus.
"Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.”
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[I'm currently going through a 200-hour vinyasa teacher training program to become a yoga instructor. It has been challenging and blissfully rewarding. I had no idea how amazing it would feel to help others feel amazing. Yoga has changed my life the past three years and gotten me through some of the absolute lowest points I've ever experienced. I can't recommend it enough.]