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Never trust the weather forecast! Dull clouds and flat color, but with the aid of Singh Ray and Lee, a decent sunset was made after all.
The best part of the day was hanging out with my buddy Pete, and trying to get my behind into his shots...lol. But seriously, it was nice to hang with and to shoot with Pete again. It has been a minute since the last time that we were able to hang.
So far, it has been a good week. Not photographically, though. Not much to write home about. But the company has been great. Pete on Wednesday and Reggie on Sunday. Can't complain at all. Thanks guys!
Oh, and a special shout out to my man, Reggie. Happy Birthday, buddy!
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I went down to visit the snowy owl that has been spending the winter Southeast of Denver. They are rare down here and he has been attracting quite a crowd for months now. It's easy to see why - he's a beauty!
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I'm getting ready for graduation with a bachelors in Business and I'm finishing up with a pretty interesting finance class. The truth is with the economic conditions the future is hard to foresee… But it made me wonder how people working in Finance feel… well it probably feels like Rain is falling down on you and you have nothing really to protect yourself other than a teeny tiny umbrella… Just keep holding on and sun should come soon.
Special thanks to my buddy Michael for letting me pour water on him, and a special thanks to Casey (for assisting and lunch), and another special thank you for Don and Jessie (assisting with lighting and water pouring).
Just my take on a photo project I'm working on for school
Hope you enjoy…
Canon Rebel XT | Canon 70 - 200mm F/4 | Lit with Reflectors, Tin Foil, and Sunlight | Edited in Aperture
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With a cracking forecast and the prospect of this location succumbing to development soon, I thought it was time to take a visit to Barton Farm near Winchester before the bulldozers move in. With the sun around a bit more before the clocks change and the train reporting 45 minutes late, I thought I would give it a go, although I must admit the sun was more 'head on' than I was expecting. Anyway, its a record shot of the area. Running now about 20 late, 66717 'Good Old Boy' passes with the 4Y19 Mountfield to Southampton Western Docks Gypsum working. 18/2/17
Thanks to N1 for the updates on route. Taken with the aid of a pole.
With the forecast showing a sunny day ahead I made the hour drive down to Emsworth in Hampshire to visit the very tame and reliable Spotted Redshank that's now returned for it's eleventh year. Anybody that wants to visit, I strongly recommend reading www.emsworthwildlife.hampshire.org.uk/x-spotted-redshank before your visit as it gives an insight into the birds habits and movements.
After a bit of a nightmare where I took around 500 shots without applying the microadjustments my lens needs the camera seemed preform very well again.
Looks like this one is turning from a Cat 1 storm to a Tropical Storm, which will peter out and become a Tropical Depression somewhere south of Vietnam.
Forecast for the rest of Thursday :
Max 28
Rain easing late.
Possible storm.
Possible rainfall: 35 to 70 mm
Forecast for the rest of Wednesday :
Max 32
Partly cloudy.
Chance of any rain: 0%
photographed with iPhone XR
“We do see a slight slowdown in some regions in end- markets, and the main driver for this is China,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld said on a conference call with analysts. Chinese demand may pick up at the end of the fourth quarter because of stimulus spending, he said.
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Hydro and Orkla to form the world's leading aluminium solutions provider
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Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:00am EDT
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Norsk Hydro ASA and Orkla ASA have agreed to combine their respective profiles, building systems and tubing business, creating the world's leading aluminium solutions provider. The new combined company, to be named Sapa, will be a 50/50 joint venture owned by Hydro and Orkla.
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Alcoa Cuts Global Aluminum Forecast on China Slowdown
Thursday, 11 October 2012 | 00:00
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Alcoa Inc. (AA), the largest U.S. aluminum producer, cut its forecast for global consumption of the metal by 1 percentage point on slowing Chinese demand, helping to trigger a decline in Asian stocks for a third day.
Demand will climb by 6 percent this year, New York-based Alcoa said yesterday in its third-quarter earnings statement. That’s less than the company’s July prediction for a 7 percent increase in usage.
“We do see a slight slowdown in some regions in end- markets, and the main driver for this is China,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld said on a conference call with analysts. Chinese demand may pick up at the end of the fourth quarter because of stimulus spending, he said.
The forecast revision by Alcoa, typically the first company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average to report earnings, comes a day after the International Monetary Fund and Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third-biggest mining company, trimmed their growth outlook estimates for China. Aluminum prices in London touched a 34-month low in August as global supply exceeded demand.
“The global economy is clearly slowing,” Lloyd O’Carroll, a Richmond, Virginia-based analyst for Davenport & Co., said yesterday in an interview. “That’s what the IMF said today and so I think what Alcoa is doing is consistent with that.”
--- Shares Drop
Alcoa traded at 7.02 euros as of 9:38 a.m. in Frankfurt. That’s equivalent to $9.03, a 1.1 percent decline from yesterday’s closing price in New York. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) slipped 0.9 percent at 4:42 p.m. in Tokyo, while Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the nation’s biggest producer of the metal, dropped as much as 2.1 percent in Hong Kong.
Demand from heavy-truck and trailer manufacturing will fall this year, Alcoa said. It now sees Chinese truck and trailer output slumping as much as 21 percent, compared with a decline of as much as 8 percent projected three months ago. Chinese can and packaging growth may be 8 percent, down from Alcoa’s July forecast of as much as 20 percent.
The IMF yesterday cut its global growth forecast and lowered its projected expansion for China, the world’s biggest aluminum user, by 0.2 percentage point annually, to 7.8 percent this year and 8.2 percent in 2013. London-based Rio, which has pulled back from projects as sluggish global growth reduced demand for metals, yesterday lowered its estimates for China’s growth to below 8 percent.
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Alcoa reported a third-quarter net loss of $143 million, or 13 cents a share, compared with net income of $172 million, or 15 cents, a year earlier as sales dropped 9.2 percent. Excluding costs related to environmental remediation and the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Aluminium Bahrain BSC (ALBH), Alcoa had per-share profit of 3 cents. The average of 18 estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for break-even earnings per share.
“We are clearly seeing the impact of a Chinese slowdown globally and it’s indicated in Alcoa’s numbers,” said Nader Naeimi, Sydney-based head of dynamic asset allocation at AMP Capital Investors Ltd., which manages almost $100 billion.
Alcoa reiterated that demand will increase this year in the global aerospace, auto, packaging and construction industries.
The company said it improved productivity across all four business units. Its rolled products business posted the highest ever after-tax operating income and the engineered products and solutions segment had a record margin on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Total sales fell to $5.83 billion from $6.42 billion, beating the $5.56 billion average of 10 estimates.
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Alcoa settled a four-year racketeering lawsuit brought by Aluminium Bahrain, the state-owned smelter known as Alba, both companies said yesterday. Alba’s 2008 civil suit alleged that Alcoa bribed officials in Bahrain to charge more for alumina. Alba said it paid $500 million more than it should have.
Alcoa will pay Alba $85 million in two cash installments and agree to a long-term sales agreement, without admitting liability. Alba said the settlement has a total value of $447 million.
Alcoa, Rio Tinto, Norway’s Norsk Hydro ASA (NHY) and closely held Zeeland Aluminum have cut 1.21 million metric tons of production capacity since mid-2011, according data compiled by Bloomberg.
Aluminum for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange averaged $1,950 a ton in the third quarter, 20 percent less than a year earlier. It traded at $2,024 a ton as of 8:47 a.m. local time.
Prices below $2,000 may drive more production cuts, Ken Hoffman, a Bloomberg Industries analyst, said last week.
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Alcoa’s Kleinfeld said that the company predicts global demand will exceed supply by 262,000 tons this year.
The aluminum price is “decoupled” from the supply and demand “fundamentals” of the market, and instead is being influenced by investor concerns about the European debt crisis and the slowdown in China, he said on the call.
“The macro factors are currently dominating the pricing situation,” he said. “But it can reverse very, very quickly.”
Aluminum will average $2,212 a ton next year, according to the median of 22 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The metal traded at more than $3,300 in 2008 before the financial crash, and reached a 2011 intraday high of $2,803 a ton.
Alcoa is organized into four segments: alumina, which mines bauxite and processes it into the precursor to aluminum; primary metals, which smelts aluminum; flat-rolled products, which makes sheets used in beverage cans as well as airplane wings and car parts; and engineered products and solutions, which produces aerospace fasteners, turbine blades and truck wheels.
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..and the rain arrived. After the blue skies of dawn this was a bit of a shock.
Taken from Ilam Moor Lane, Staffs
The weather man is calling for 4-8" tomorrow......
This lovely, fragrant Viburnum is next to a bench in my garden and there's another one not too far away. On a breezy day, they fill the yard with fragrance....assuming of course Spring ever arrives!
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! :)
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Due to the conditions being forecasted as perfect for shootin' on Saturday morning, I got up at 5 am and drove up to Whiteoak Canyon at the Boundary Trailhead at Shenandaoh National Park. I was hoping to meet some of my friends to shoot up there, but to no avail, but I still had a good time getting in and out of the stream. I think I got some real keepers for sure. I got into the knee deep water here with my tripod to highlight this beautiful cascade in the foreground and include the fresh spring greens and dogwood in the background. I look forward to sharing more of my images with you, and I hope to catch up with some of your images today my contacts!
Whiteoak Canyon Cascades
Shenandoah National Park
Boundary Trailhead
Spring
If I told you about the business meeting I was having, you would look at me like I was crazy, right? The rushing ocean drowns all the noise. Oh Banzai, you are SEXY.
The weather forecast changed, taking the rain out until later in the evening, so I was able to concentrate on the 'finish line'--the lilac tree area in the other corner. I ran into some 'problems' as two bricks that were placed last summer had shifted, so I had to relevel them. Then, I had issues with roots that would cause the bricks to be higher than intended, so some pruning was required to get the level right. So, today's bricks numbered 8, bringing the total number to 90. Yes, I counted! That leaves about 15 more bricks to go.
The Isle of Portland is the signature view from here. Some days it looks so close you could swim there. Some days the sea mist is down and you can't see it at all. Today, clouds were scudding across the sky bringing occasional short-lived downpours.
East Glacier, Montana. But Luna's serves up a great piece of huckleberry pie for breakfast! Or lunch or dinner, I suppose.
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.
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Lots of birds in the air tonight, although migration will be interrupted by a large band of thunderstorms.
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The forecast predicts it's going to be raining all week :(
But it hasn't rained in a long time, so the grass needs it.
Planning on posting a bird shot from a photo shoot tomorrow!
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"It's gonna be hot!... and wet! That's nice if you're with a lady, but ain't no good if you're in the jungle!" — Roosevelt E. Roosevelt, Good Morning Vietnam
I just heard that European insurance carriers are no longer willing to insure ski resorts at altitudes under 6,000 ft.
Michael Hanley, Head of Digital Communications, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum and Philip Tetlock, Leonore Annenberg University Professor in Democracy and Citizenship, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Molly Crockett, Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 18, 2017
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Forecast is threatening rain for most of the day. Thankfully, my friend the Red Kite made an appearance in the treetops again. So able to maintain my view from the garden this morning.
It's just a few day until the participants arrive, the forecast is saying rain today but sun on the opening ceremony. Photo: Jonas Elmqvist/Scouterna
The forecast for the weekend is blue skies and sun. Unfortunately Phill has to work on Sunday so if we will have to go out adventuring tomorrow!!
Have a great weekend everyone:-))