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Warning!: Nil
Weather : Fairly widespread rain. Heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to occur in some places.
Winds: West / northwesterly 8 – 18 miles per hour. Winds may gust to 35 miles per hour during showers.
Visibility : 10 - 8 km, becoming 6 - 4 km during showers.
State of the sea :Moderate and rough during showers.
Wave Height: (open sea) 3 – 5 feet.
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Do i need to keep my camera in the bag ?
Once I got my new 300mm lens back in March, this was one shot that I wanted to try for sure with it: the northbound Crescent coming across Lake Pontchartrain early on a summer morning. However, in May news came along that the usual 0700 departure from New Orleans would be pushed back to 0915. Obviously in the summer there would be a good chance of high sun already setting in by the time it got to be bridge, so it was time to head south for the first weekend where the forecast looked good.
Yeah, the "mostly sunny" forecast when I left home turned in "partly cloudy" by the time Sunday morning dawned. So not what I had hoped for, but oh well. Could have also done without getting eaten alive by the damned no-see-ums too!
EN: For February 24th it was forecasted that the class 371 was once again pulling EuroCity-trains between Děčín and Praha because of track works on the german side. The class last regularly pulled the EuroCity-trains back in 2018 having been replaced by class 193 Vectron locomotives. The first train of the day was EC 459 (normaly coming over night all the way from Zurich) from Děčín to Praha, which sadly wasn't formed of the typical EuroCity-rolling stock. The train has just passed through Lovosice without stopping and will soon pass Nové Kopisty station. Pulling the train was ČD's 371 005 "Pepin", which is the last class 371-loco in the old colour scheme, being sort of a retro-loco.
DE: Für den 24. Februar wurden noch einmal Einsätze der Baureihe 371 vor EuroCity-Zügen angekündigt. Auf Grund von Bauarbeiten in Dresden verkehrten die Züge auf tschechischer Seite nur zwischen Děčín (Tetschen) und Praha (Prag) und wurden teilweise von 371 005 gezogen. Die letzten regulären Einsätze der Baureihe 371 vor den EuroCitys endeten 2018 und sie wurden durch Loks der Baureihe 193 ersetzt. Erster Zug des Tages war EC 459 (der normalerweise über Nacht von Zürich kommt) zwischen Tetschen und Prag. Leider wurde dieser nicht aus den typischen Eurocity-Wagen gebildet. Der Zug hat gerade Lovosice (Lobositz) durchfahren und wird sogleich den Haltepunkt Nové Kopisty passieren. Zuglok war die letzte altlackierte 371, 371 005 "Pepin".
Sailor's memorial, West-Terschelling, Holland.
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Humber , Thames south veering southeast 4 or 5 squally showers.
Plymouth ,Lundy rain , poor becoming moderate ............AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ANY YELLOW BINS IN THE THAMES AREA !!!!!
" SLATER STREET " , LIVERPOOL.
This was shot near the Cypress Hills (in the background) in Southwest Saskatchewan. I ran PS autolevels on the sky and landscape selectively. Otherwise, no other alterations.
The weather forecast yesterday was for clouds and some sunshine. We are still looking for the latter, but it didn't stop us going for a walk in Stowe Gardens.
The Gothic Temple in Stowe Gardens was designed by James Gibbs in 1741 and completed about 1748. This is the only building in the Gardens built from ironstone, all the others use a creamy-yellow limestone. The building is triangular in plan of two stories with a pentagonal shaped tower at each corner. It is available as a holiday let through the Landmark Trust.
Stowe Landscape Gardens, which surround the late 17th century Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, date from the early 18th century and are a significant example of the English Garden style. They have been in the care of the National Trust since 1989. The 750 acres of landscaped grounds have 40 listed temples and monuments within them, as well as large lakes. A number of outstanding designers and architects worked on the gardens in the 18th century, including Charles Bridgeman, John Vanburgh, Capability Brown and Gibbs.
This picture was taken with Judy's iPhone 7. It was then tonemapped in Photomatix.
After the last week of warm sunshine we certainly had a change in our weather ~ forecast is for rain and it certainly looks like it is on its way!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Looks Like Rain ...
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Beautiful fall colours in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
About this photo: Since the weather forecast was calling for rain in the next couple of days, I decided to go visit beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada in search of some more fall colours.
I made my way to the outside of the sunken gardens and had this view down below with several pretty fall colours still remaining. These gardens are always a pleasure to walk through.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 10mm
*F-Number: F/8
*Exposure Time: 1/200 sec.
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
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Ann :-)
Some information about Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver: There's a reason Queen Elizabeth Park is one of the most frequented spots for wedding pictures in Vancouver: it's flat-out stunning. With its gorgeously-landscaped quarry gardens, fabulous scenic vistas and 1,500-tree arboretum, the park is a world-class public space and one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Perched atop Vancouver's highest point and covering 130 acres (52.78 hectares), Queen Elizabeth Park is second only to Stanley Park in popularity and annual visitors. At its peak is the park's plaza, a paved area with panoramic views of downtown Vancouver, a courtyard of dancing fountains as well as the Bloedel Conservatory, home to about 500 tropical plants and over a 100 birds of various species.
From the plaza, visitors can follow the winding paths down to the quarry gardens, ponds, lawns, and arboretum. The two quarry gardens are horticultural delights, with pathways and little bridges and mini waterfalls set amongst hundreds of plants and flowers. Private spaces for rest and contemplation are easy to find, and the plentiful trees--over 3,000 throughout the park--provide shade in summer and abundant color in fall.
Sports activities at the park include the Queen Elizabeth Pitch & Putt golf course, Tai Chi in the morning atop the plaza, lawn bowling, and 18 free tennis courts that are first-come, first-serve. And while you are there you can also enjoy a delicious lunch or dinner at the restaurant called "Seasons in the Park" with an amazing view of the city.
Cloudy, hot, humid, momentary views of the 2017 Total Eclipse that only will get to 70% in Houston. That's okay, we thought about flying to South Carolina or Tennessee but we decided it couldn't be any better than the one we saw at sea in November of 2012.
I can lie and say that I'm trying to spend time posting photos again but I'll be honest and say that life has become so much more interesting seeing and doing than just sitting at the computer. I'll be in and out. I have to check on everyone now and then. Forget me if you must but if you put up with me I'll be by now and then.
The Weather Forecast was for lots of sunshine and little cloud, So a trip back to Gloucestershire to hopefully photograph Short-eared Owls.
However the good light failed to turn up. It was a lot cloudier than expected.
Images best viewed in "lights out" L key.
The #MacroMondays #Timepieces theme
Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington introduced us to The Arrow of Time. As we look into the future we see a universe which is gradually descending into disorder, expanding and cooling, ultimately to become a scattered collection of particles so far separated within an unimaginably vast nothingness that the probability of them ever again combining to create anything is zilch. That is indeed a depressing forecast of our destiny, but as the process will take about 10 trillion years (around 50x the current age of The Universe) there's no need to cancel your pro subs just yet. Conversely if we look into our past we see greater order. Ultimately we could look back to The Big Bang when The Universe was simple and very highly ordered before its unimaginably rapid expansion an instant later.
HMM all - very deep for a Monday! Sir Arthur illustrates The Second Law of Thermodynamics which holds that entropy increases with time. The entropy of a system refers to the amount of order within it. Low entropy describes a high degree of order. For example, if we conceptually reduce your home, that pile of bricks or whatever, into its constituent atoms we can imagine that only a very few arrangements of those atoms would create your home, meaning that your home is a low entropy system. Similarly a pile of beach sand has a high level of disorder, representing high entropy. A pile of sand is a pile of sand - there are very many ways the grains of sand in a pile may be arranged to create any old pile and one pile of sand is pretty much the same as any other. However, if you put some in a bucket then threw it into the air, you would be very surprised if it landed in the form of a sand castle. But it could, proven by you instead flipping the bucket over in traditional seaside fashion, giving it a tap and carefully removing it, creating your sand castle. The grains therefore can make such a thing and could therefore land in just the right places even if you threw them into the air. But there are far many more configurations that they could take (most of which are unremarkable piles) so while a sand castle magically appearing from a load of airborne sand could theoretically happen, it is a vanishingly improbable event. Functionally speaking, the probability of such an event occurring is zero. If you left a formed sand castle alone, you'd see its entropy increase as it decays into an unremarkable high entropy pile of sand. Ultimately it will become just another part of the even higher entropy beach, demonstrating, during your hard earned summer holiday, a university level physics concept. I've never done a university physics course, he hastily clarifies, but I have done some reading on it.
I should say that it has been fairly pointed out to me that this interpretation does depend on one's world view. This is mine. It's a world view which led to the manufacture of transport options to get to beaches, buckets capable of creating sand castles, cameras, the internet and probes heading to the edges of The Solar System and ultimately beyond on precisely predetermined trajectories calculated using physics, so I think it has some evidence to support it. The background of the photo is the Christian creation story, Genesis 1. That's mine too.
In creating the image, I used a plain yellow background created in Photoshop over which I added a layer of a paving stone to provide texture, reducing its opacity to allow the yellow to colour it. Genesis followed, and finally a photo of a small pocket watch which I vandalised through the wonders of Photoshop, using much tiny deleting, moving and transforming, its parts disappearing into the future as it falls into disorder, following The Arrow of Time.
Sunday strollers & Stena Forecasters.....
A great walk along the great south wall, Poolbeg, Dublin as Sunday strollers take advantage of a fresh bright afternoon, as the Stena Forecaster operates the 15.00 hrs sailing from Dublin to Liverpool, on charter to P & O Ferries.
The Forecaster is usually a nocturnal creature in Dublin Port, operating weekdays only into Dublin at 22.50 hrs, then departing out at 03.00 hrs, however due to P & O Norbay requiring some remedial attention at Cammell Laird Birkenhead, Forecaster tasked on a rare daylight sailing.
The Stena Forecaster now joins the Stena Carrier & Stena Foreteller as visitors to Dublin Port in recent years on various charters by Stena Ro Ro.
This is the #StenaForecaster
The sunrise forecast was looking the best it had for a long time and the colour started well before first light. Can't complain as some nice colour appeared but perhaps not as good as it gets.
It is now the law in NSW to wear a life jacket when rock fishing (see sign on cliff) as many fisher people have died/disappeared. Only one Sydney photographer as far as we know though.
5 stop Hoya ND + 3 stop Cokin grad ND
art created from my photos
As I created this today (1/31/16) the temperatures here are about 55ºF ---while normals at this time of year are way below freezing. So this is not the real forecast for today or tomorrow in my neck of the woods.
This image was created with a photo I took in December 2014, added a painterly look, and converted to B&W.
I added a blue color overlay and used a Photoshop action to create snowy conditions over it. In addition, I used a Graphic Stock texture of frost, which I manipulated to create the kind of image & colors I wanted.
Over the last few days, I've been looking at some of my art books which have been collecting dust. I have been using some of the basic compositions I've found there as starting points. My finished results look nothing like what has inspired me.
The image I used as a general starting point for this was an abstract xylography print by Fayga Ostrower. It was a vertical, non-representational, abstract using three colored sections from left to right with printed wood grain, small patterns, and a transparent, slanted, red rectangle over everything else on the right side.
Today was forecast to be the first 80°F day of the year and Mrs. Orca and I walked down to the neighborhood ponds to see what we could see before it got too hot. I gravitated to a wooded area, where I soon heard a faint rustling beneath the leaf litter. I decided it must be a shrew and I waited quite a while following the movement and rustling under the leaves in the hope that it would pop out, which it did briefly (above). As it turns out, after looking at a lot of missed shots that showed part of a claw or a tail, I've determined it is actually a shrew-mole.
Shrew moles are the smallest of the mole family, weighing under one gram at birth and around ten grams as adults. Unlike most moles they spend a fair amount of time above ground, often foraging just beneath the leaf litter for insects and their favorite food, earth worms. Though they are not actually shrews, they look and behave a lot like them, and this extends to their ravenous appetites. Because they are so small and lose a lot of energy in heat loss, they must eat up to twice their body weight per day in food. Because of their lifestyle, they are very rarely photographed living, but a search of Flickr turns up many photos of dead ones. American Shrewmole (Neurotrichus gibbsii), Olympia, WA.
The pressure drops, the wind strengthens, the waves build, the stack stands tall. AmBuchaille, the Shepherd, the sea stack at Sandwood Bay is resolute against the storm tossed seas.
When the alarm went off at 4:30 AM a couple of weeks ago, I gritted my teeth and told myself, yet again, that a 95% burn forecast on Skyfire doesn't come along every day. I had also checked the satellite the night before and I knew there was a decent chance of some color down in Laguna, but I had been shut out PLENTY of times down there before. I can't begin to count the number of times over the past couple of years where I made the drive based on a Skyfire forecast only to show up and have the sun duck behind some clouds right at game time, or worse...have the clouds disappear altogether.
So when I groggily pulled up at Heisler Park at 5 AM, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was further unnerved by the fact that I was here on a Sunday morning and it looked like I was the only photographer who showed up. I started to set up my tripod, but one of the legs locked up and I had to improvise by hanging the stupid thing over a railing. Muttering to myself like a deranged homeless guy, I fought with the tripod and shivered as the wind had picked up substantially. "Bah!", I thought to myself. "I came all the way down here for what, exactly?"
And then I looked up. And smiled. The sky definitely began to glow early, and I really thought it was going to blow up in a big way. But just as the clouds really began to glow, the sun went behind another cloud beyond the horizon, and it looked like the show was over. Grimacing a bit, I folded up my broken tripod and headed back to the car, bummed that the sunrise fizzled out, but glad to be going home with at least a couple of shots. Just out of curiosity, I thought I should head up North a bit to Shaw's Cove to see what it looked like during high tide. Fisherman's Cove was out because most of it would be under water, but Shaw's should still work to get some scouting shots in, if nothing else.
I pulled my car around and muttered some more salty words at a scuba diver who stole my spot right in front of me, made a u turn....and my jaw hit the floor. While I had been finding a parking space, the sky had indeed blown up…in a huge way. I flew down the stairs to the Cove, ditching the broken tripod and began shooting like crazy. This was easily the most color I had ever seen in Laguna and the crimson red and fiery orange spilled out over the wet sand in all directions. And it just kept going! The reds eventually gave way to a brilliant golden glow giving me plenty of time to run up and down the beach and out onto the rocks. I think I clocked in around 600 shots by the time the sun went behind another cloud and I headed off, exhausted, to to Jack In The Box.
Kudos to Skyfire which knocked this one out of the park, This was a sunrise that I probably would have missed as I thought the cloud cover was going to be too deep. It was also a good reminder that every so often, those 4:30 AM wake up times actually pay off.
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It was forecast to be too hot for bird photos today (38C); so long time friend and fellow flickr tog Joe Micallef and I decided to catch up and have a coffee instead.
Seems that we weren't the only ones keen on that plan......
This beautiful little lizard (Eastern Water Dragon) decided to join us!!
Image taken with my mobile phone - hope it looks OK!
Thanks for any comments, views or favorites - greatly appreciated!!
Have a wonderful day and weekend everyone!
In Birmingham tonight the weather said we could expect snow! I wouldn't mind it making one last return!!
Most of the time this was the typical weather while hiking through the high mountain plateau in Hadangervidda. The only exception here was that there was no heavy cold summer shower.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
Cinematic Tools by HattiWatti , HUD toggle by Otis_Inf ,SRWE for hotsampling, ReShade 3.4.1, Afterburner
plenty more, I took too many..
The weather forecasters have said that it has rained in the UK every day in 2026. We better get used to taking rainy day weather pictures!
CZJ Pancolar 50mm f1.8
Pancolar is really amazing lens with wonderful color rendition and sharpness.
Inside the Western Australian Art Gallery is a room, Forecast-"An invitation to feel. Find a place to rest, listen to the sky moving, notice the wind in the leaves, paint the trees in your family, Stay with them as they fade"
In conjunction with Edith Cowan University an interdisciplinary exhibition with an ecological, meteorological message. For more information: artgallery.wa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/forecast-survey...
Further on there was a large exhibition of Aboriginal Artists and I got to meet a couple of them ( took their photo!).
Despite the weather forecast I headed up to Lake Pearson for a three days, and managed a couple of short walks between bands of rain. This photo needs no introduction to those from Canterbury, NZ, and is Castle Hill Station taken from the popular walk into the rocks area. Rain is falling in the peaks at the western end of Craigieburn Range, but thankfully the weather let me walk around the rocks with only the odd shower reaching me.