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Stena Forecaster arriving at Birkenhead's Twelve Quay's Terminal to replace her sister Stena Forerunner who departed for Europoort.
Name:Stena Forecaster
IMO:9214678
Flag:Sweden
MMSI:266040000
Callsign:SCKZ
Vessel type:Ro-ro Cargo
Gross tonnage:24,688 tons
Summer DWT:12,300 tons
Home port:Gothenburg
Class society:Det Norske Veritas
Build year:2003
Builder: DALIAN SHIPYARD - DALIAN, CHINA
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts..
Lots of birds in the air tongiht. A good time to visit Birdcast.info and look at the live radar. Then walk outside and listen for awhile.
Kind of a strange morning in that police sent me from the shoreline of Adler Planetarium to this nearby spot for my morning drone flight. I'm use to them only telling me to bring it down. This morning would be surprisingly different in that he gave me a close alternative. Very nice police interaction I must say. "Make sure to stay below 400 feet", he would say. I thanked him, packed up and moved on to this rather cool launch point. youtu.be/q00Y4RC5U3c to checkout short drone flight from here.
"A Forecast - Looking Up Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri, in the Year 2010." From Greater St. Louis Christmas Magazine, Dec. 1910. Halftone of rendering by Clarkson, 1910. Missouri History Museum Library. N20346.
With a top forecast and potentially, working of the year, it seems every photter in the midlands has had a slice of 50007 "Hercules" & 56105 tnt with 47739 on the 6E07 Boston Steel at Stenson Jn. Whoever said the modern scene was dull! 17/05/14.
Storm in making
Mother nature committed to perform as expected in local forecast, quick thunderstorm. quick click with iphone.
With the imminent demise of HST's along the north Cotswold line and beyond to Hereford I have taken every opportunity avaialable to capture the last days.
43174 with 43022 on the rear head through very murky conditions on the approach to Ledbury tunnel on 5-2-19
Had it been sunny the shadows would have caused a problem at this time of year
The working was the final regular day time HST service, the 1W00 0821 London Paddington to Hereford operates by Great Western Railway
The last HST through to Hereford operated on the 15-2-19
The Malvern hills which are normally visible have disappeared from view due to the cloud and mist.
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts.
Well I was shooting fall colors in Zion National PArk when I saw that they had forecast snow for Bryce Canyon, so instead of heading back to LA, I headed out to Bryce Canyon! And I was treated to snow, sun, clouds, snowstorm, and then a glorious sunrise over the s-capped hoo-doos in Bryce! :)
Sony A7RII Bryce Canyon & Zion National Park Autumn Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscapes
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation d4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
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Beautiful snow covered hoo-doos in Bryce Canyon! Bryce Canyon hoodoos all covered in snow! Beautiful Bryce Canyon Fine Art Sunrise!
My fine art landscape lenses for the A7RII are the Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens and the Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS Lens ! Love the Carl Zeiss and super sharp Sony Glass!
Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. These forecasts come from models trained on the last 23 years of bird movements in the atmosphere as detected by the US NEXRAD weather surveillance radar network. In these models we use the Global Forecasting System (GFS) to predict suitable conditions for migration occurring three hours after local sunset. These maps also show precipitation forecasts (outlined and shown in grayscale). Note, areas forecast to experience precipitation and bird migration may overlap, and predictions for migration intensity may be highly variable in these locations.
Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts. Leon Levy Foundation, Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission supported this research, with additional support from University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Oklahoma. The BirdCast project was created with grant awards from the National Science Foundation and subsequently supported by awards from Leon Levy Foundation.
With a lot of snow forecast for 8 of the next 10 days, I feel very lucky that my daughter and I had such a beautiful day yesterday, 17 December 2017, for our Christmas get-together. Along with the snow will come much colder temperatures, too, unfortunately. Looks like we could be getting around 20 cm of snow tomorrow, badly timed for one of our out-of-city Christmas Bird Counts. Yesterday was rather chilly, with a cold wind. It was such weird weather, as the colour of the sunrise sky lasted all day, till we left just before sunset. A gorgeous Chinook Arch crossed the sky, staying the whole day. Some of the fields were bare, and others had a light dusting of snow on them.
The day started with breakfast at the Saskatoon Farm - always enjoyable. They do close from the end of the day on 23 December and open again in the morning of 17 January. A well-earned break for everyone who works there. As always, we walked around the grounds to look for things to photograph and, as usual, we were in luck - dead Sunflowers, cats, dogs, even a little House Sparrow that was inside one of the greenhouses.
From there, we continued south to the area east of High River and drove some of the usual back roads; ones that I had driven just four days earlier. Of course, we were hoping that we might find a Snowy Owl, though I knew not to get our hopes up. Before too long, my daughter spotted our first Snowy Owl of the season - the tiniest speck of white that I could barely see with the naked eye, but it was a Snowy and that was all that mattered. Later in the day, she somehow spotted a second one; again, the tiniest speck perched on a very distant fence post.
A few minutes before this second sighting, my daughter spotted two handsome Mule Deer bucks - looked like father and son - lying down next to a metal grain silo, near the edge of the road. They stayed there for a while, which was surprising, as males tend to be far more skittish. Eventually, they stood up and walked off into the field.
Of course, we couldn't resist taking shots of any old barns, sheds and houses that we came across.
Altogether, a great day that was much enjoyed. Thank you so much, Rachel, for spending the day with me, and doing something that we both love! These are my absolute favourite days in the year.
Pleasant Autumn day today before the forecast rains set in tomorrow. So off to that marvelous nature reserve 'Tussen de Venen' to the east of Groningen near Muntendam. Lots to see there in any season, and today I was happily intrigued by flutterings of Common Coppers (a 'fluttering' seems to be a nice word for a gathering of these pretty Fire-orange butterflies). Little Wolf here is probably just about at life's end: see the wear and tear of its wings.
The landscape of Tussen de Venen is quite Arcadian: lots of sheep usually, although I saw no shepherds; no mountains either, of course; and no wolves. Wolves? Indeed, the name 'Lycaena' is said to be connected to the Greek for a she-wolf. And the ancient Roman pastoral festival of Lupercalia is thought to be connected to the Lycaia, purifying festival of Greek Arcadia. Why our Butterfly was given this name, I don't know. But to be Among the Fens was indeed to enjoy Pure Nature.
Here Fire Butterfly - '' Vuurvlinder', in Dutch - is enjoying the comforts of late-blooming Canada Goldenrod, Solidago canadensis. There's a Dutch kind as well, Solidago virgaurea. The two kinds can be distinguished by looking closely at the foliage. 'Canada' has non-undulating toothed leaf edges (see the photo).
Well, I'd worked up a bit of a sweat on my bike on the way home against the wind. So with a small detour I stopped for a swim near another patch of Goldenrod. The Sun was really warm from between the clouds, all was idyllic and Arcadian. I was Purified among the fluttering Fiery Wolves.
Violent weather, 5 days forecast
Storm and hurricane winds hit Denmark from Thursday afternoon and night to Friday
Wednesday 4th December 2013
Sunrise / Sunset: 8:46 / 15:48, length of the day 7:02, diminished 10:40
Moon up: 9:50 / Moon sets: 17:49
Central and Western Jutland
Cloudy with rain during the morning clearing but with showers.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013.
Weather in force until Thursday morning, sent pm. 05:00.
For the morning and in the morning cloudy and misty and rainy and then. Otherwise, doing it up from the northwest with any or part sun, but also from noon showers. Temp. about 8 degrees, and easy to fresh, local strong wind from the west and northwest. In the evening and at night partly clear weather, but also continue to dominate. Temp. down between 3 and 7 degrees. It blows up, the wind increases to strong winds to gale from the southwest and west.
Forecast said clear skies so I headed to London for some urban star trails. Drove beneath clear skies for just over 2hrs before reaching my first location. Within 15 minutes the starry sky had succumbed to a layer of misty cloud.
Chasing pockets of clear sky around the city for three hours, a futile attempt to be in the right place at the right time, I captured only a handful of shots including this, straight up the Heron Tower. Mist has its uses.
By 3am, with a 90+ minute return journey still ahead, it was time to point the car homeward. Above Clapham Common, a mere ten minutes later, the sky cleared and remained so the whole way home.
D300 w/ 50mm AF-S
JPG from the camera
The forecast on the previous night predicted wall-to-wall sunshine so I planned to shoot the mixed at Mile 5 of the Island Falls Sub in good light. Of course, the day dawned with nothing but cloud in the sky.
In November 2005 weather forecast was fine for the eastern alps so I decided to go to the beautiful mountains of Hohe Tauern over a weekend. At this time of the year, you must not be afraid of crowded mountains. Quite the opposite, I never met another person when I was hiking there.
On the second day, I started at night because I wanted to get some photos of the Großvenediger. It was very dark and somehow I didn't get the right junction at the trail. Dwan and sunrise were nearing, so I decided to go right ip the crag without a trail to win height. That was a little bit exhausting but somehow successful too. When first sunlight came in, I could take nice photos of the mountains of the Großvenediger group.
I thought that the right one on that picture should have been the Großvenediger. Afterwards, when I looked exactly on the map, it was a little bit sobering that I could not see the Großvenediger at all. It was Schwarze Wand, but I think that is a nice mountain too (and that should really matter).
The slide was scanned with Imacon Flextight 848.
Today is forecast to be the warmest day of the week (a whooping 20 degrees!) and so it's my only chance to wear a skirt. I told my friend Meghan this on the walk into the building and she thought I was ridiculous.
But I pulled on my warmest tights, a nearly boot-length skirt and tall boots. A little cardigan and a tank and I was good to go. I considered buttoning the sweater all the way down and belting it with a skinny little black belt, but decided against it.
The forecast was for a very pleasant afternoon in mid-March so we set up a small group shoot at a parking garage in downtown Boise. The weatherman lied. It was bitterly cold, windy, and then it snowed a bit. The poor models froze but toughed it out.
Megan has been one of my favorite models for years. Always a delight to shoot with. This was her first shoot since having a baby boy a few weeks earlier. Megan looked great but was leery about being outside for too long - as were we. She toughed it out and I like the photos. Next time we will wait for warmer weather.
With good weather forecast in the capital in mid-June 2021, the opportunity was taken to photo the buses at Marble Arch and along Park Lane. Five of us enjoyed catching up and snapping the comings and goings in a near normal busy London.
The four major open top tour operators were out in force and carrying good loads throughout the day. Big Bus, Golden Tours, TOOT bus (The Original Open Tour) and newcomer Julia Travel (City Sightseeing / Stagecoach) brightened up the scene. A single London Bus example was spotted all alone at Victoria.
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Monday, 3 February 2020: our temperature is a cold -9C (windchill -17C). Sunrise is at 8:10 am, and sunset is at 5:30 pm. The forecast is for partly cloudy with a few snow flurries this morning.
The 7 photos I have posted today were taken on Day 10 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, in March 2019. I won't be going on holiday anywhere this year, but really want to finish off this trip as soon as I can.
Later: I managed to post these 7 images early this morning, but ran out of time to add an account of what we did and where we went on Day 10. A good friend was picking me up to go looking for an owl : ) Because it has been about 10 months since we went on this holiday, I have to check maps for names of the locations we visited, and any other information I gathered. Thank goodness the photos I took with my Nikon P900 have the GPS data and automatically appear on the Flickr map. Then it is easy enough to add my Canon photos to the same marked locations.
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV. Will post a photo of it shortly.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_Palm_Sanctuary
Our final stop of the day was South Padre Island, where we had many good sightings. We were planning to go there the following morning, but decided we had time to also call in at the end of Day 10.
The wifey and I were heading out for a ride in the Jeep, so I had the Nikon with. I was going to take nature pictures of maybe some waterfalls. Instead we saw a waterfalls in the sky, glad I was ready for it. Within a few minutes we were in that deluge of very heavy rain.
Well I was shooting fall colors in Zion National PArk when I saw that they had forecast snow for Bryce Canyon, so instead of heading back to LA, I headed out to Bryce Canyon! And I was treated to snow, sun, clouds, snowstorm, and then a glorious sunrise over the s-capped hoo-doos in Bryce! :)
Sony A7RII Bryce Canyon & Zion National Park Autumn Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscapes
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation d4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
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This is from yesterday when I got finished levitating sticks I ran over and shot this.
Today was a good day. I was busy but I really didn't accomplish much.
I'm going on a road trip tomorrow to see Iron man 2 in Imax :P
The good news: our beautiful rolling hills are vibrant, verdant and lush with emerald green grasses and wildflowers.
The bad news: more rain on the way - all week.
Looking across the Bay, from the edge of the Westpoint Slough in Redwood City, ~6 miles to the foothills in Union CIty.
This is a single RAW image tonemapped in Photomatix. The clouds have that overly dramatic "HDRish" look which I'm not totally enamored with.
It's quite interesting how many different looks you can get from an image depending on the processing decisions...