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My first attempt at getting bokeh shapes. It involved wrapping LED lights in modelling clay so only a dot of light came out, then trying to position the lights so the dot would point directly at the camera.
If I try this again, I'm going to wrap them in electrical tape and poke them through a foam board for better light control.
HMM!
Not particularly common for CP to run to Falconbridge in the morning, so shots like this with the yard 6 axles is relatively uncommon.
A wicked bolt during a May strong thunderstorm. Remastered for better white balance and clarity.
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
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iso100
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WB 5200k
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Dry mountains in December, a usual sight on the Alps in the first month of winter.
Profili orobici asciutti e senza neve sino alla prima settimana di gennaio; ora sembra che qualcosa stia cambiando.
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A CP Rail westbound extra rolls into great late afternoon lighting as SD40 5512 still in candy stripes is looking great here west of London, Ontario back on April 15, 1978.
I came upon this pretty creek on one of the back roads the other day. I was trying to figure out the fence configuration here. It would seem to be more practical to just run the fence straight along the road on which I am standing.
However, someone felt it was necessary to build the fence down the bank, around the tree and into the water as well. Why? Maybe they had extra fencing they wanted to use up. Whatever the reason, I am happy to have it in my Happy Fence Friday photo.
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El proceso sigue, el imago que ha permanecido cabeza abajo, como descolgado, en un esfuerzo extra, como si fuera un ejercicio gimnástico, se volteará y agarrará con las patas delanteras a la exuvia. Esta acción facilitará que pueda sacar completamente el abdomen del "cascarón".
Este vuelco dura apenas tres o cuatro segundos después de estar en la fase de descanso entre 6 y 10 minutos. Cuestión de paciencia el conseguirlo.
La imagen está tomada en vertical como la del primer comentario, la he virado porque considero que tiene mejor visualización
Son las 7'30 am.
Fotograma completo sin recortes.
En el Coto. Villena (Alicante) España
The process continues, the imago that has remained upside down, as if off the hook, with an extra effort, as if it were a gymnastic exercise, will turn around and grab the exuvia with its front legs. This action will make it easier for you to fully hatch the abdomen.
This rollover lasts just three or four seconds after being in the rest phase for between 6 and 10 minutes. A matter of patience to get it.
The image is taken vertically like the one in the first comment, I have turned it because I think it has a better visualization
It's 7:30 a.m.
Full frame with no cropping.
In the Coto Villena (Alicante) Spain
Three former DT&I GP40-2's have found new duties now under the GTW family label here complete with extra flags roll an extra section of the eastbound Canadian National - Chicago to Toronto "Laser" piggyback and container train, at Hyde Park, Ontario just west of London - February 8, 1986.
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on in the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
A western meadowlark adds some extra effort to boost its singing prowess. Based on the residue on the rock, this must be a favorite perch!
My wife and I just got back from an amazing trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was so wonderful to get out shooting and the critters did not disappoint as they were plentiful and willing subjects. Custer State Park has a wide variety of wildlife and is considered one of the top spots in the US for viewing this natural bounty.
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Some of the vegetation in Washington state got singed from a 110F or higher heat wave in the Pacific northwest that happened a few weeks before I arrived. This is a fern along a trail in the Black Diamond Natural Area.
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Indiana Northeastern 2230, a former Pennsy GP30, leads another GP30, a GP7U and a GP10 with a loaded grain train east through Edon on a pleasant summer morning. A motorcar special has cleared up in the elevator track for the passage of the four veteran EMD's and their heavy train.
Yesterday I went to the Planting Fields Arboretum with a friend..
of course I snapped way too many pictures, but it's difficult to hold back when surrounded by beauty!
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CSX X648-24 rolls north through Trenton, KY, 225 miles from Louisville, KY via Nashville, TN. The flared radiator SD70MAC (4758) leading was a nice touch, especially in this lighting.
An extra with a nice lashup of CP 4429 & CMQ 3812 is shoving a long string of well cars into the Lachine IMS Yard.
Here a CPR plow extra pushed with a pair of snow hidden RS18's rolls out of Woodstock, Ontario on the St. Thomas subdivision, where at Ingersol it will turn south getting on the Port Burwell subdivision. Once on that sub she is headed for Tilsonburg and the large deep drifts located south of Ingersol on this line - February 1986.
Business was so good on the GB&W in spring 1977 that I was able to shoot a westbound extra running about 4 hours ahead of number 1 leaving Green Bay. This was the same spot that I'd shot number 1 the prior October in much better light. Just about to cross Military Avenue the 310 and 309 have 65 cars in tow as they head for the Rapids. A rescan.
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Gisteren vond een teambuilding van mijn werk plaats in Brasschaat in de vorm van een golfinitiatie. Na een gezellige lunch met het team had ik nog een extra activiteit in de buurt gepland: fotograferen in de bocht van Ekeren.
De dag begon grijs, met volop zon tijdens de golfinitiatie, en super veel stapelwolken eenmaal aangekomen in de bocht van Ekeren. Ach ja, aan het weer kun je niet veel veranderen. Eerst klom ik het talud op om daar nog wat treinen vast te leggen, de ene in wolk, de andere in een lekker zonnetje. En zo wandelde ik gelijk met de zonnestand de bocht uit.
Het was al vrij laat voor alles volledig open trok, en na best wel wat leuke foto's begon ik rond 19u20 te twijfelen of er nog iets zou vertrekken. Ik besloot toch nog een kwartiertje te wachten voor ik zou inpakken en het hazenpad zou kiezen.
En ja hoor, een kleine 10 minuten later hoorde ik in de verte iets brullen. Een kleine 20 seconden later zag ik aan het begin van de bocht iets roods met ketels achter verschijnen. Mijn geluk kon niet op. En zo dendert hier de DE 6308 van Crossrail met een mooie BASF trein de fotograaf te Ekeren voorbij op weg naar Aken. Voordeel aan de bocht van Ekeren is dat niemand je hoort als je juicht van vreugde. Spoiler alert: Het was niet de laatste keer die avond! Deze leuke trein moedigde me aan om wat langer te blijven, en ook dat heeft zijn vruchten nog afgeworpen. Wordt vervolgd...
Extra ...extra......read all about it. Wait, maybe not, apparently the crew on this westbound POSE with mixed B&M and D&H EMDs have used all available newspapers to shield the sun and seal the cracks in the door to make the trip to Deerfield manageable. B&M 313 leading POSE is passing Tyters interlocking in Athol, MA on a cold January day in 1982. Robert C. Barnett photo SC collection.