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This was my first camera. My parents gave it to me as a child 46 years ago. With it I photographed my entire family for years. How many beautiful memories!
PS: And it still works of course!
Been looking at all the amazing Flickr photos ppl have here, thought I should at least take a try at it.
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First Crocus of this Year
Spring will be quite near
To bring us many a Flower
As Nature is full of colourful Power
Fauna awakes in the Months of Spring
And even the Birds will start to sing
(Caren)
Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
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4.5 mm
1/60 Sec
ISO 200
First real snow of the Winter season here in Piedmont Virginia, predicted to accumulate to maybe an inch. Snapped the photo quick. Come morning it will be gone.
first light
I ran for miles through the deeper, darker part of the forest until I finally saw the first light. Totally breathless, but happy I took this picture. With sharpened senses, I enjoyed this dream-like moment
Happy Weekend out there :-)
A group of young hikers set out at first light to climb a mountain. In about three hours they should be on the distant peak with a great view of Moraine Lake and the Central Oregon Cascades.
It's early November and the morning air is downright chilly after an overnight snowfall, but it's business as usual at the Horicon terminal, as the Janesville bound freight T4H prepares to depart Horicon.
WSOR T4H
WAMX 4182,4183,4175
Horicon, WI.
Autumn 2020
The first yellow leaf I saw today was sitting on a rock in a stream.
The Nooksack tribe says that before the Europeans arrived, you could walk across the water on the backs of the fish. This is what they mean.
Currently, the tribes and the local fisheries a fighting Big Oil and Big Coal to stop the transport of toxic chemicals through sacred waters. They want to build the world's largest coal dump on sacred Lummi burial grounds, which are also above a herring breeding spot. They have skirted state regulations to transport toxic oil bombs by rail through our county.
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I went out early in the morning, looking for large wildlife to photograph. In June, grizzly bear is the primary target, but I'll gladly settle for moose, elk or wolf.
It was another of those frustrating days, where you see fresh bear scat everywhere but no bears. A solitary elk crossing the road, too far in the distance for photos and a moose that was just teasing me but I knew I would have to be lucky to get a photo.
I had stopped a couple hundred meters from the moose and was down in the ditch, hoping that he would keep moving in my direction. Alas, he trotted off into the trees and although I took some photos, none was worth keeping. I just sat there thinking what a frustrating morning it had been.
Then I looked over and saw this young red squirrel on the ground, enjoying a snack. I am sure that out here, in the middle of nowhere, this squirrel had never seen a human before. I did this nonchalant thing that works with some animals, where you look the other way but leisurely creep towards them. Surprisingly, she didn't run away, even as I laid in the grass just a couple of meters away and slowly swung the camera her way.
We spent a few minutes together, so the morning wasn't wasted after all. I wonder what story the squirrel told when she went back to the trees.
First snow of this winter in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 lens.
16mm 125/ sec. f/14
My first snowflake picture ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ
As well as the first snowfall of the season.
Taken at 5x with the Canon MT-24EX Macro Twin Lite Flash. Still getting the hang of these two, but the results are super rewarding!
The first slushfall of the season hit Sand Patch overnight, and enough of it lingers today to make an early winter scene. This is train M332-14, featuring eight units on the head end, eastbound near Mance.
photo taken The Outer Garden
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So this was the first of the 5 little Canada goslings to jump off the roof of my barn yesterday. I knew this was going to be happening sometime yesterday so I had, the day before, set up a spot where I would be able to just sit and watch and wait.
I knew exactly where they would jump down from (it's only an 8 ft drop) but it was just a matter of when.
I woke up a little before 6 AM yesterday morning, grabbed my binoculars to check if the geese were still on my barn roof which they were, then I took care of all my animals, brushed my teeth, got dressed, grabbed my camera and a couple extra batteries and planted myself in the spot I had chosen to watch from.
I waited about 6 hours for the event to happen but I didn't mind the wait. And to clarify, it didn't take 6 hours for the goslings to jump. Once they got started it was a matter of seconds but It was so worth it to me to get to see this happen. I purposely am not zooming in on the gosling that's falling because the siblings watching from above on the roof are, in my opinion, an important part of the story.
They watched so intently and it was amazing to me how the goslings were very quick to get down to business and jump, one after the other until they'd all made it down to where mom and dad were waiting, then they all left and headed for one of my neighbor's ponds.
I got good shots of the 1st, 2nd and 5th goslings jumping down but for the 3rd and 4th goslings, the photos were crap. I was so mad. But at least 3 out of the 5 turned out good, I don't know what I did on those 2 that didn't turn out but it is what it is. I'm happy for what I got.
Lots of people probably don't care a bit about watching geese leave a nest but this event was for me a real highlight. Anything in nature like this is what thrills me to the bone.
So in the next few days I'll be sharing some images with you that I got yesterday. So stay tuned. Or don't. Whatever floats your boat :-)
We have red kites flying over our house most days, and this afternoon I decided to have a go at taking an image of one. I have aimed my camera at them before, but not had a recognisable result. Today I used continuous auto focusing and tracking using the hi speed facility, and after some post processing managed to capture one. I am now encouraged to try again.