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Now, for the 3rd year running, we have another 3 young House Martins developing fast. These are the 3 egg shells found in the garden, 2 on the 29th May with an interesting fine pattern inside, (showing through the light) and the last one found 2 days later on 31st May with no patterning inside?
The shells are incredibly delicate and only the size of a small fingernail. Alas, since this photograph was taken, the birds have not visited again since 2020.
Rolleiflex 3.5E Zeiss Planar 75mm f/3,5
Kodak TMAX 400 (EI 800), XTOL (1:1), minimal agitation,
CanoScan 9000F
For Day 78/365 and FlckrFridays "Portrait"
My dog sitting on the floor trying to catch some of the sunshine rays coming through the window.
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Holga 120N, Bergger Pancro
Lab developed
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For strobists: Canon 580EX on camera left. Triggered with a Canon ST-E2 infrared transmitter. Between the strobe and the model is a large self made translucent light panel (just out of the frame).
After watching the truly inspirational Dean Collins DVD's, I decided to make my own 2x1 meter light panel out of PVC tubing. I bought the translucent fabric from my camera store.
Learn how to light at strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-strobist.html.
The Pile! This is how I store my converse - badly and without respect, all piled in a colourful heap :) I've been meaning to take a picture of The Pile for a while and finally got around to it today... heh.
Converse Addicts unite!
Küchenutensilien fürs Spülen.
Looking back on the theme of June,27 "Kitchen Utensils"
Für "Crazy Tuesday"
Thema "Looking Back on 2023" am 26.12.2023.
Have a great 😄HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday😄.
And many thanks for all your views, faves and comments.
The colours, the warmth, the fleeting light. Autumn memories on a wet, dark and cold evening at home again.
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Last Arizona images for now...It was a great trip. If you are interested, here are some resources to plan your own:
sabo.org/birding-guide/birding-hotspots/chiricahuas/
www.birdandhike.com/Bird/Favorite/Az/Portal/_Portal.htm
and the most useful-
www.cavecreekranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/birder-...
we stayed at the SWRS:
www.amnh.org/our-research/southwestern-research-station/n...
Thanks to Lee_Marcus for helpful links, and to the great folks of Portal for building a nature and birding-centered community. If you want more info- contact me via Flickr mail.
This E9 was built for the Union Pacific railroad back in September 1955 as their UP 957 and served them well, until it's sale to Amtrak, where it would become their AMTK 430. Amtrak retired the classic streamliner in 1982 and it found it's way to Alaska working for the Alaska Railroad where it became their ARR 2401. ARR shed the locomotive and William Gardner of Northern Railcar Corporation picked it up along with ARR 2402 which was former Milwaukee Road 32A. The 2401 was patched and renumbered 10A to pinch hit for Mr. Gardner's Scenic Rail Dining train out of Brown Deer. After the Scenic Rail Dining venture went south, or west through divorce proceedings, Gardner was able to keep the 10A and 10C and they were painted into the beautiful crimson and gray scheme. A few years later, Mr Gardner added a E9 B unit to the consist, making it the finest looking executive set of locomotives around. After WATCO took control of the WSOR, they had no desire or need for the beautiful units and shed them. The 101 would go to the Friends of 261 where it wears a handsome pseudo Milwaukee Road scheme for their passenger operation. 102 ended up at the Illinois Railroad Museum where it remains in it's crimson and gray scheme. 103, former UP, AMTK, ARR 2401, WSOR 103, ended up as SLRG 103 on the Iowa Pacific. The 103 is now up for auction and the Friends of 261 would really like to add it to their collection to match the 32A. I can't get the link to work for donations there, but if interested go to friends of 261, so they can hopefully add this well maintained locomotive to their roster.
ARR 2401,2402 Northern Rail car Corporation,
Cudahy, WI. April 1987
Rarely do I see Rooks posted online by wildlife photographers because they are common. But for me they are one of the most interesting birds we have in the UK.
As I was heading back home from the fields today, I saw my nephew at the landing platform again. He was wearing the old pilot overall he got from Cormac at the space port a while back. In fact, I’m not sure, if he’s ever taking it off again. Sometimes he even sleeps in it, I think. He was sitting there, eating cookies, drinking blue milk and looking at the setting twin suns. He’s been doing that, ever since his dad left to work on that transport ship. That was three years ago. I wonder, if he knows his dad isn’t coming back. He looks at the sky day and night and keeps saying he’s going to be a pilot one day. He’s a good boy. I know I will have to let him go some day and I hope the sky holds whatever he is looking for in it.
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I always wondered how many young people like Luke Skywalker there are in the Star Wars galaxy, wishing to be a pilot and travel the universe.
After being sick for over two weeks, finally there's another upload. Originally, I wanted to participate in SHIPtember and post my first WIP today. However, I still have to work on my term paper and a lot of other things, so I fear I can call off SHIPtember once again. Anyways, I have a few more completed builds in store, so stay tuned.
Happy Birthday!
Here is Martha's birthday party: www.flickr.com/groups/1577476@N24/discuss/72157628433358037/
This reminds me of a scene from one of my all time favorite movies: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
I'm guessing that they are nesting nearby and are searching for food on the beach below - which explains the bulk of the flock.
No birds were added to the photo or cloned - I however cloned away a bird or two that were partially in frame... Shame on me. ;)
Composite created for my unique 5x7 Christmas cards that are for sale in my Etsy store. For a small fee I provide the jpg and you can print them at home or take them to a print shop.
All the proceeds go to the family crisis center in my home town.
www.etsy.com/shop/CathysArtWorld/
Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces
124th MMM "CHRISTMAS" Challenge
Entered in The Award Tree Challenge 188.0 ~ Seasonal Holiday.
www.flickr.com/groups/awardtree/discuss/72157712010085393/
Entered in Kreative People December Contest 75 ~ Show Us Your Holiday.
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/721577119769985...
Earth & Christmas star from Pixabay.
Christmas lights from Pixabay.
Stars courtesy of sweetie on Flickr.
HE>i
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Dedicated to flickr.com/groups/passionatelypinkforthecure/ Passionately Pink for the Cure
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Yahoo! is donating $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for each pink photo added to this pool up to $50,000. Please join the group & add all of your pink photos now!
Passionately PINK for the Cure
EXPLORE # 377, Oct. 12, # 291 on Oct. 15
Looking For Space
John Denver
All alone in the universe, sometimes that's how it seems.
I get lost in the sadness and the screams.
Then I look in the center and suddenly everything's clear.
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams
And I'm looking for space and to find out who I am, and I'm looking to know and understand.
It's a sweet, sweet dream, sometimes I'm almost there.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and sometimes I'm deep in despair.
On the road of experience, join in the living day.
If there's an answer it's just that it's just that way,
When you're looking for space and to find out who you are.
When you're looking to try and reach the stars.
It's a sweet, sweet dream, sometimes I'm almost there.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and sometimes I'm deep in despair.
Went for a nice drive over to Long Reef this morning, with the promise of approx 60% cloud. For once, the apps were correct, however....
The cloud was in the wrong place...
Yes, they were in the sky, just not the part of the sky I needed them to be in...
I wanted to be shooting from where the guy in the photo is standing. I waited, and watched, and waited a bit more, but from where I was standing (at the top of the hill, looking down towards the reef and water), there was just nothing in the sky worth shooting.
So, as to not completely waste the morning, off down I went to the bottom of the hill, and shot upwards, to where the clouds actually were.
Sometimes, you just have to make do with what you have been given...
Hope you like "Looking For Space"
Cheers, Mike
For the 12 months for dogs toy challenge (& no, the puppy is not the toy :-) The big pig has always been Sibley's favorite toy, ever since her first Christmas with us. And Nancy (SantaFeFCRs) made sure that her daughter Dart would have her own little pig, & left it on the front porch, keeping a proper social distance for this challenging time---
Smile for peace
Smile for joy
Let me see you smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz3ZbP0IF7A
I'd walk a hundred million miles to see you smile for life
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Mushrooms do grow better in the dark .... just look at these little beauties!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Begins With M ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
CREATIVE RF gty.im/925773952 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd 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 every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
For Fence Friday is this lovely rock wall fence beside the pond in the Treasury Gardens that remembers Ambulance Victoria personnel who "died in the service of others. Your unconditional care and commitment to the community will be remembered always"
was going for something else, but i thought this worked just as well.
"I'm sleeping soft tonight
Keeping warm with crooked dreams
The pennies off of dead men's eyes
Never let my pockets weep
And I'm sorry you had to know me
When I'm so fit to be tied.
I'm such a mensch in my clothes but my plans are criminal, whoa
So give me your hand in a quote - I'll save your grim and single soul, whoa
I'm hoping you're the type
The kind that falls for every line
The kind that sings along to all of my wrongs
Too good to be a find
Now honey, my time is money
And you've come dressed in rags"~ Jet Lag Gemini
Looe, the Cornish for which is ‘Logh’, meaning deep water inlet, is a small coastal town and fishing port in south-east Cornwall.
In medieval times there were two towns on opposite banks of the River Looe. East Looe includes the fishing harbour, the main shopping centre and the sandiest beach. West Looe is quieter, but also has shops, restaurants and hotels, and leads to Hannafore with its fine views of Looe Island. The two towns are now one, joined by a bridge across the Looe river.
Looe is the second largest fishing port in Cornwall, supporting a fleet of trawlers, potters and netters together with an expanding number of hand-line fishermen.
The majority of the Looe fleet consists of day boats, meaning they go to sea and return each day, ensuring that their fish is fresh and of the highest quality (slush-ice bins are carried on board even the smallest boats).
Fish are landed at the market throughout the day and are stored in refrigerators until the next auction, beginning at 6.00am on weekdays.
The rainy season bringeth more than it taketh, but it doesn't come without its challenges. The answer to those challenges is to accessorize. I'm not talking filters or hoods or new lenses. Along those lines I think you need relatively few extras to be successful. I'm talking about accessorizing yourself. Seriously, one of the best things you can buy in terms of improving your photography is a good pair of shoes. If you are a city walker, go get something that will hold up for hours and miles. If you are a landscaper, waterproof boots will pay for themselves many times over. Sometimes a day out is make or break depending on if you brought a hat and gloves and not depending on which camera is in your bag. I was hanging out with a couple of fellow photographers this morning - Austin Granger and Justin Renault (you can find both of them here on Flickr). We were commiserating about fielding questions on our photos from people asking which lens was used or which camera was used. Austin made the remark that they should be asking what he had for breakfast that day as that had a lot more influence in how he photographed than the camera did.
In short, take care of yourself. Even in this rainy weather, a good pair of boots, a waterproof coat with a hood, even ...gasp... an umbrella and you'll find that it really isn't that uncomfortable to spend several hours out in the rain. And you know what happens if you spend enough time out there? You make photos. Hopefully ones you surprisingly find that you like much more than you expected to.
Forgive me for continuing this uploading of old stuff! Truth is, usually when I come home from a shoot, actually two or three days later, I go over the pictures and see a few pictures I like but only choose one to upload. This makes sure that I don't bore my viewers to death by uploading many similiar pictures at once, but on the other hand, I have a H U G E back-catalog of decent pictures that haven't seen the day of light, and probably never would... if I didn't upload old stuff now and a then. There's that, and then there's all the attention my aurora pictures get! You can debate whether that kind of attention is well earned or not, but hey, every visitor my aurora pictures bring in, sometimes goes to check out my other stuff as well.
Zeiss F-Distagon 16/2.8 Fisheye @2.8, ISO 3200 - no distortion correction :)
[for anyone interested in the reality of this abstraction, I believe that’s my little Kia Soul on the right, reflected on the side of the vehicle in the next lane over 😜] San Francisco, California
Facial Piercings: LittleFish Shine (piercings that are custom placed for 35 different mesh heads. Shown on Catwa Catya.)
Eyes: Euphoric Dolly Green
Lashes: Euphoric
Lip: Go Makeup
Freckles: Queen oF Ink Lentil
Face Applier: Not Found - Sam in Sorbet
Sheer and utter Photoshop fuckwittery today ... enjoy!
For 'MacroMondays' theme of 'superstition'.
Isn't it a superstition, an irrational belief, that you must have flowers for a funeral. And the idea must go back a very long time. There is a Neanderthal grave in Iraq, within the Shanidar Caves where a group of ancient corpses had been surrounded in plant and floral remains.
We tend to remember the life and death of those we love and the final memory of them is set at a funeral service. Seeing our loved one surrounded by beautiful and heartfelt arrangements of plants and flowers can help create a lasting final impression that can bring smiles or tears.
For many of us the death of a faithful animal probably needs to be marked in some way. What to do with the remains - bury or cremate? A very dear friend of mine has taken her cat's ashes from house to house when she has moved. Reminded of this I have Joe's ashes in a decorated box - decorated of course with a plant tribute.
(For Joe - see Avatar above)
Olympus Zuiko OM Auto Macro 50mm ............................ less than 3"