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It is so beautiful out there today! 70 degrees, a slight warm breeze and a few clouds. I'm so enjoying it considering this may be the last day like this for 2022.
High Northern Lights activity was forecast for two nights in a row with a KP index of 6. I had planned to photograph these northern lights at Kirkjufell. Unfortunately, the night was quite cloudy and there was also thick fog at Kirkjufell. So I first tried my luck on the south side of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula at Gattklettur near Arnarstapi. But here, too, it grew more and more overcast with the onset of darkness, so that I made my way back without having achieved anything. At the top of the pass I could then see intense northern lights in a cloudless strip between the horizon and the cloud cover. I was lucky with the weather: there was no wind (those who know Iceland know how seldom that happens) and when I passed a small lake, I took the opportunity to take a few more pictures. Then this gap in the clouds closed again.
A short break from Lofoten - I had an urge to get out last weekend and use the weather, as the forecast was very promising. So I got up at 2:50 am.... and it was worth it! Brilliant sunrise, with a few fellow photographers appearing as well. Fresh, really calm morning, with great clouds and really quiet sea.
Hopefully the last of the Penmon series!
Bald Eagle coming at ya!
I'm not sure I'll be down at the lake much this week. Single digit daytime temps are forecast for the next few days.
At that day, weather forecast was as wrong as could be. They told us that above 2000 m we should have clear sky above a sea of clouds and best distant view. The truth in reality was a thick high fog starting at around 2000 m altitude or even higher :-)
The humid air came in from south ovest, so I went to the western dolomites on my way back home. Val de Mesdi at Kolfuschg is a wonderful place that I love and the humid air was beginning to wrap the higher mountians, anyhow there was some fascinating blue shine over the little vallley. I took several single shots for some panoramas, each of them has its own charm in my view given the different angles of view.
This is the narrowest version with concentrated view to the Val de Mesdi. 2 shots from the tripod were taken with the 210 mm lens (which would be 136 mm for 24x36) and merged in photoshop.
The day was forecasted to be cloudy and in the mid 40s but we decided to brave the elements and go to Cape May for the day and were rewarded with a sunny day in the 50s. We had the town and all the beaches pretty much to ourselves. Cape May in the winter is a whole different place than it is in the summer. I was reminded of Judecat www.flickr.com/photos/43749513@N08/ when we saw signs for Wildwood and as we walked along the beaches and watched for birds down by the lighthouse.
Looking at the weather forecast decided on a trip to Hatch Hill this morning before getting to work on the ark this afternoon. It was warm but cloudy which meant there was lots of butterfly activity but they weren't completely supercharged.
I must have seen 8 to 10 mating pairs of Chalkhill Blues and it seems there season is in full swing. I was lucky to catch some of the pairs really well isolated making life easier when taking the shots.
I have Koda to thank for this shot. If he hadn't been meowing at the front door, I would have missed the sky this morning.
“Eight to twelve feet, poor.” I’d have preferred sixteen feet or more, but eight to twelve would do, and “poor” wasn’t a problem. For surfers reading today’s wave forecast it might be an issue, but for a photographer hoping to grab a shot or two with the long lens, it really made no difference. In fact if anything, the chaos at the foot of the cliffs would be better with a collection of messy rollers all bashing into one another. I would happily settle for “poor.” And high tide was due at quarter past three - just over an hour before sunset. I could get some shots here and then toddle along the path to Wheal Coates for sunset. The light was looking promising enough. I devoured a sausage and onion sandwich and then I set off for the cliffs.
The space between St Agnes and Wheal Coates is one I come to at regular intervals. A long narrow asphalt road takes the visitor to a choice of three rutted, puddle filled car parks, and from here it’s an easy walk into the village or towards the skeleton of the long abandoned tin mine that draws so many visitors throughout the year. It would be easy to march off in one direction or the other, but I like to stop here in the middle, at least for a while. There’s no way down to the water - well not apart from the obvious option, although it’s the last visit you’ll make - but the views keep me coming back over and over again. I just wish there wasn’t a height barrier halfway down the road. You’ll squeeze under it with your VW camper, but there’s no way our Brenda is passing through without being re-engineered into an open top bus. A shame, because there have been times when we’ve come here on a cold day and sat in the car, gazing out across the sea and having a nap as a life affirming sun pierces the gloom and washes its way through the windscreen. You can see all the way across the north west coast to St Ives and beyond. Bring the long lens and watch as the weather races towards you on a chilly December afternoon. Winter is unquestionably my favourite time of the year for photography here. It’s quiet, it’s wild, and the light can do the most magical things. Today it was pretty good.
What I hadn’t bargained for, was quite how windy it was. I only live four miles away, and it felt positively benign in the garden, but I could feel my solid lump of a car being buffeted by the elements as I trundled down the long thin strip towards the car parks. At least it was dry, with no sign of rain on the horizon. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t get wet though - plumes of spray regularly drift across the space on days like this, and this afternoon was no exception. As I walked to the rocky shelf I’d remembered finding back in February, clouds of soaking vapour hung above the brown landscape, continually recharged by the boiling surge down below. The stubborn winter landscape, an unyielding buttress of granite and heather, drenched by the wild ocean in the place where they meet and embrace in a thunderous white wall of crashing violence.
At least it was an onshore wind. Had it been blowing in the opposite direction I’d have made straight for Wheal Coates and not even tried, but today was almost as good as it gets for what I had in mind. Big glittering waves, caught in weak winter sunlight, smashing into the base of the cliffs at Tubby’s Head, while gangs of wily gulls hung just above the mountains of white foam, dodging each wave with the grace of acrobats on the high wire, seemingly defying death with each incoming volley. Today was a day to take the long lens to its outer reaches, to set the camera into burst mode and see what happened. As I made my way down the narrow track towards my rock, I was almost blown backwards against the steep cliffside. In moments I could barely take a step forwards towards my chosen vantage point - one that was still a very long way back from the cliff edge. I could go closer without taking any risks, but I didn’t really need to, and making progress was difficult enough.
Mostly I took shots towards the scene below, and very occasionally I pointed the camera slightly further away towards the cliffs around Chapel Porth and Porthtowan. At times I couldn’t see what I was shooting at all as a gust of wind interrupted my progress and watered my eyes. Twice, the second card on the camera filled and brought photography to a temporary halt as I wiped it and trusted the more capacious one in the other slot to bring home the goods. In just forty minutes I took over eleven hundred exposures, following which I did indeed toddle back to Wheal Coates to witness the sun disappearing behind a bank of low cloud, where it stayed until darkness. A lot of culling and cropping would be needed later, but surely with this many shots there might be a handful that would work?
“Why don’t you put arrows on them, pointing to the birds?” I think Ali was joking, but I was struggling for the right image that had sufficient impact. I narrowed down to a few candidates, and it was this one, three gulls picked out against a beautiful white wave that seemed to work the best. There were others, so I might be back. But I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. Pretty happy with the entire afternoon in fact. Among the endless soaking winter days of recent times, this had been a rare afternoon on which to be blown about on the clifftops, watching the gulls at play above the wild ocean.
Just read the surf forecast for the weekend.. 8-10 ft east swell!! Not sure that the winds will behave themselves as it is from a pretty local system so it could just be a mess...But i have been itching for a decent shoot or surf for what feels like weeks.. It will be nothing like the picture here from early autumn which was glassy 2-3 ft with clear skies.. Woo hoo, a good storm swell!!
And, as forecasted, this morning the spring was gone and the outside world was more or less hidden in fog again.
But fog has its charm too.
Hurricane Irene brought on the latest flooding at the Delaware River Junction in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg NJ area. You can see people gather up at the river banks waiting to witness the flooding.
Single Exposure HDR Panorama, Handheld.
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You can see the Falls flooded all the way to the top, View in larger size to see the bridge.
Isle of Skye
Scotland
Just minutes before taking this shot I had my back turned to the North Atlantic storm that was threatening to blow me over and rain which was battering…the worst I’ve ever experienced…as a local photographer said it’s not a case of stepping out of the car and taking the shot. You’ve got to wait for it! (take sandwiches)
We had rain forecast for the evening, so I headed to San Jose Japantown, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The rain did not come, nevertheless it was fun strolling through Japantown with camera and tripod. I thought this discontinued gas station and restaurant in the back makes for a good composition.
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The last time I visited the light was rather flat, so it always felt like a work in progress. The forecast looked spot on today though, with breaks in the cloud, so I made my way back down to have another go. Couldn't have asked for more really. When the wind picked up it was ferocious, I was almost swept off my feet. It was good to get back in the car, looking windswept and interesting.
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With rain forecast, and low cloud brushing the tops of the Pennines in the background, the 8.47am Redcar Bulk Terminal - Fiddlers Ferry PS coals (6M17) makes its way past Newton Heath Traction Maintenance Depot as it comes off the Calder Valley line and approaches Thorpe Bridge Junction.
The railways have a long association with this part of Manchester which hosted Newton Heath Steam Shed (26A) on the same site until that traction's demise in the late 1960s. In fact some 236 steam locomotives were withdrawn from service here between Nationalisation in 1948 and the end of steam, including the iconic 70000 "Britannia" in May 1966. Unlike "Britannia" however, which got subsequently preserved, most of the withdrawals met their fate under the cutter's torch possibly to become car-panels, washing machines, razor blades, etc.
Today the depot, owned by Northern, is responsible for keeping a variety of Pacer and Sprinter units in running order, a few of which can be seen in the yard. The Oldham Loop, now tram operated, can be seen passing to the right of the depot.
The freight loco is GBRf Shed 66741 "Swanage Railway".
21st November 2017
The weather forecast on the Japanese television on 2019-10-12.
""Typhoon Hagibis developed from a tropical disturbance located a couple hundred miles north of the Marshall Islands on October 2, 2019. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued a red tropical cyclone formation alert - noting that the disturbance could undergo rapid intensification upon being identified as a tropical depression.
On the next day, October 3, both the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression 20W.
The depression stayed at the same intensity as it travelled west toward the Mariana Islands on October 4, but on October 5, 20W began undergoing rapid intensification and early that day, the system was issued with the name "Hagibis" by the JMA, which means speed in Filipino.
Sea surface temperatures and wind shear became extremely favourable for tropical cyclogenesis and Hagibis started extremely rapid intensification on October 6, and became a Category 5 super typhoon in under 12 hours - the second of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season.
Edging closer to the uninhabited areas of the Mariana Islands, Hagibis displayed excellent convection as well as a well defined circulation. The system developed a pinhole eye and made landfall on the Northern Mariana Islands, at peak intensity with 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph) and a central pressure of 915 hPa (27.02 inHg).
Land interaction did not affect Hagibis too much, but as the system continued to mature, it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, which is usual for all tropical cyclones of a similar intensity.
The inner eyewall was robbed of its needed moisture and Hagibis began to weaken, but it formed a large and cloud-filled eye, which then became clear and it reached its second peak. Travelling toward Japan, Hagibis encountered high vertical wind shear and its inner eyewall began to degrade, and the outer eyewalls rapidly eroded as its center began to be exposed.
On October 12, Hagibis made landfall on Japan at 19:00 p.m JST (10:00 UTC) on the Izu Peninsula near Shizuoka. Then, an hour later at 20:00 p.m. JST, (11:00 UTC), Hagibis made its second landfall on Japan in the Greater Tokyo Area. Wind shear was now at 60 knots (69 mph; 111 km/h), and Hagibis' structure became torn apart as it sped at 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) north-northeast toward more hostile conditions.
On October 13, Hagibis became an extratropical low and the JMA and JTWC issued their final advisories on the system. Hagibis caused catastrophic destruction across much of eastern Japan. A large tornado, which struck the Ichihara area of Chiba Prefecture during the onset of Hagibis, along with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast, has caused additional damage to these affected areas.""
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GBRf 60026 'Helvellyn' descends Vulcan Bank passing what was Vulcan Foundry (now housing and a supermarket) with 6E09 loaded Biomass bound for Drax Power Station in Yorkshire.
Weather was much better than last nights forecast and I had hopes to get this and the Hams Hall liner in sun further south but a quilt of cloud was taking the edge off the sun. So I elected for this shot taken from the pole, an angle I have never attempted before.
Took advantage of an unusually "sunny" and gorgeous day in the Northwest to snow-shoe on Mt. Rainier. This is one of the breathtaking scenes I experienced. Nice timing the forecast is for up to 4ft of snow this weekend, holy smokes Batman ...... And southern Puget Sound cities will get up to 20 inches.
Yesterday I experienced the earthquake in Italy. Though I'm not right above the epicenter, actually I live near Milano, but I still felt it. Last night, I was told that there would be another earthquake late night. So I put an empty bottle up side down to forecast the unhappened disaster.
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What would Admiral Nelson have made of Britain's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth? The photo was taken looking through an aft window onboard HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Yesterday, 4 June 2015, was a dry day, though a thunderstorm was forecast. After grey skies and rain the previous couple of days, I felt like going for a drive. Started at a wetland in SW Calgary, where I saw the usual Lesser Scaup and Redheads. The male Redhead did not like any of the other ducks around him and would chase away each one in turn. Quite the bully! Also managed to get a few more shots of a Common Grackle, though they move fast and seemingly constantly.
From there, I drove some of my usual backroads SW of the city. The clouds were building up quite dramatically, and I stopped at one wetland where they were reflected quite beautifully. I didn't see all that many birds, but was content to get a few chances to photograph a pair of Mountain Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, an Eastern Kingbird, and a Savannah Sparrow. No Wilson's Snipe this time, though I thought I had one on a distant fence post. Turned out to be a Mourning Dove - only the second time I've ever seen one on a fence post. Also saw a Swainson's Hawk which flew and landed on a high power pole near where the Bluebirds and Tree Swallows were nesting. The Tree Swallows, in true fashion, were causing the Bluebirds enough stress by flying and landing just a foot or two away from the Bluebirds' nesting box. The male did such a great job of chasing away its rather beautiful, iridescent neighbours - which I also enjoy photographing. So, a short trip, but one that I always enjoy, especially each spring.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
The weather forecast actually wasn't that good. I got out anyway on that morning in March 2010 to look around Yosemite Valley, when at some point, the sun broke through for a short time, without the mist fully vanishing. I like this picture because of the layers, adding mist in definite steps, rather than a gradual vanishing of a continuous line of objects, with finally El Capitan breaking through while bathed in that wonderful morning light.
Wir können den Wind nicht ändern,
aber die Segel anders setzen
(Aristoteles)
We can't change the wind
but set sail differently
(Aristotle, 385 BC - 322 BC)
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 ?
Despite the weather forecast of full sun, GBRf 66791 rumbles through the mist with 6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf on the approach to Trowse.
The Class 66 was imported from Sweden, arriving in the UK in July 2019; it previously carried the number T66404. Initially wearing Beacon Rail blue, it has since been repainted into Heidelberg Materials-branded green and named Settle & Carlisle 150.
Vorticity can be thought of as the tendency of a paddlewheel to spin if placed in the flow. High vorticity is a large counter-clockwise spin, zero vorticity is no spin, and a large negative vorticity is a tendency to spin clockwise.
The globes are viewed from 30 deg north latitude. On the Mercator plots, red arrows show the velocity vectors. Wind speeds peak at over 1 km per second.
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Getting harder to avoid hilltop wind turbines in landscape pictures. in my area all good hilltop views now contain them, with more forecast for the future. Langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.
It may be October, but a beautiful sunny afternoon as the Stena Forecaster leaves Dublin bound for Liverpool with a full load on the 1500 hrs sailing.
Stena Forecaster replaced Masida on charter to P & O Ferries for the Liverpool route.
Sister ship Stena Foreteller will begin a new charter from Rosslare to Cherbourg alongside the Stena Horizon in January 2020.
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