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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."
Not sure what the temperature was when I took this shot this afternoon at Scarborough Marina, but a high of 39 degrees Celsius was forecasted. Hottest day of the year so far for South East Queensland.
So my time out in the sun was rather limited for photography.
Lucky the sea breezes cooled things down a bit.
I must just add that many other parts of Australia are sweltering also.
It was just on the evening news that today's top temperature was 37.6 Celsius.
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.
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 ?
Clear skies forecast, new moon & half term holiday for Keiran equalled me booking a last minute Friday off from work so we could go out & shoot some night skies for the first time in absolutely ages!!
This was the spot we shot our very first Milky Way images. This one is much better than those. The plan was to concentrate more on the foreground images which didn't work out great as I forgot my intervalometer remote so I was stuck at 30 seconds maximum!
A7 - SY24/1.4
The weather forecast for the last few days has been suggesting wall to wall sunshine for today, but I woke up to grey skies which persisted until 2pm or more. Godalming has nice old bare trees so I thought they may make a good subject for today.
However, this shot was taken in the opposite direction where the sun appeared through nature's veil.
Not everyone will know of Beth Nielsen Chapman, but I was fortunate enough to see her in Birmingham in 2014. This is probably my favourite song of hers and I have been on the lookout for an image to go with this song for many years.
Godalming, Surrey
31st December 2025
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Lith print (8x12cm) using Moersch Easy Lith 20+20+960 on expired Kodabrome II.
Notes: generous overexposure of 3-4 stops at least, followed by relatively short development time (for Lith).
Camera: Nikon F2 (1976) with Nikkor 50mm/f1.8 AI
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.
Since the weather forecast promised clouds and rain during the Perseid maximum I went to my usual shooting spot a night early. Well worth it. They kept coming steadily. Sadly I missed the longest ones I saw traveling about 1/3 lenght of the sky. Composite photo of 38 shots.
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.
A neat thing about my job is my boss is flexible. I told him Thursday that I may take vacation on Friday if I wasn't there in the morning. He is super cool about that stuff.
So...I woke up Friday morning and chanced the weather and headed up to Blue Lake. I was hoping that the Cascades would break apart the clouds and it would be nice up there. Lately, the only thing you can count on with the weather forecast is that it is wrong. The early winter spires were hiddien behind clouds all day....(believe me...I waited!!!) Needless to say this was take during one of the few moments that it wasn't snowing,
BTW...The larches are yellow and awesome!!!!!
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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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.
I'm starting to see more and more trees with little green leaves growing on them and the past two days have been warm and sunny. The weather forecast for the rest of the month shows similar weather with the occassional rain storm. It's hard to have a bad day with this kind of external change.
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 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
The German college system is a bit different in that the breaks fall in the spring and late summer. I decided to spent 2 weeks of it in Eastern Europe, primarily Ukraine as it was an area I had never visited and would be very cheap. Amazingly the early sunny forecasts proved to be mostly true with several days of beautiful sun on the scenic mountain line to Rakhiv in the Carpathian mountains. Here train 16, the Rakhiv to Kharkiv Passenger rolls across the Prut River shortly before Yaremche with a 2TE10 leading the way.
The forecast for today was a dark and dull one, but i took a risk to get some autumn photos in Brighton.
Here we see Brighton & Hove 219 on Route 81 to Open Market via Queens Park. 09th November 2011.
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.
View of Joyce Island bridge at sunrise, Suisun Marsh, Solano County, California. Clear skies and excessive heat are in store through the 4th of July.
forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Fairfield&...
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
...DANGEROUS HEAT TODAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...
.STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WILL BUILD INTO
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS BRINGING VERY HOT
DAYTIME TEMPERATURES. THIS EVENT IS EXPECTED TO LAST THROUGH AT LEAST THE
MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...POSSIBLY LONGER. IN ADDITION TO THE HOT DAYS...
OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE IN THE 70S TO LOWER 80S...OFFERING MINIMAL
RELIEF.
[Explore 30 November 2024]
The weather forecast was pretty grim with Storm Bert approaching (why do they always have such friendly names?), but apart from the biting wind and getting soaked, I am pleased we decided to go for the hike!
This set of images seemed appropriate, as we have snow in our forecast for the weekend.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
It's been a strange but nice Saturday. The weather forecast had predicted a cloudy day, with possible rainstorms in the afternoon. Nothing strange, it was the trend of the entire week. My summer vacation were going to end, and It was my last chance for a serious hike. I left the house at 6 AM and I started to hike on the trail that leads into Otro valley. Cloudy sky, but the clouds were high and it was windy. I did not know where I wanted to go. In the end, following a tradition of the last five years, I thought I had to reach Zube pass, despite the elevation gain, almost 1.800m (5,900ft), and the lack of a serious training. I had been at Zube at the end of every summer since my child was born. On the top of the pass there is a small chapel of the Virgin, dedicated to the protection of families all over the world. I am not a religious person, but that small chapel, in that place, always had a sort of mystic call for me. If the weather was bad, moreover, I had already taken so many shots up there, in the previous years, that I would not have cried for the missed photographic opportunity.
Thick clouds started to roll in at 8.30 AM, but they created an effect that was similar to thermal inversion, that is much more common during fall and winter. At an elevation of 2.400m (7,870ft ) the clouds were below my feet, and the summits of the high mountain were all there, clearly visible.
I reached Zube pass, 2.876m (9,436ft), at 9.30AM. Three hours and an half, not that bad at all. I was there, and I was alone, with a breath taking view. Despite the fact that you can use two cable lifts to shorten the trail (but starting from other valleys), and in the good season many people hike to the pass, I was the first one to reach the summit.
I have many shots with the most spectacular summits of Valsesia (and I will post many of them in a time to come), but I choose this one because it reminds me of how long the trail is.
I stood up there for an hour, with the Virgin, without caring of the temperature, that was close to Zero Celsius, and the fact that I had just a light jacket, shorts and a bottle of water. Probably the major discomfort was for Mary the Virgin, alone up there with a sinner and an unbeliever... but the Maker has a lot of pity.
E' stato un sabato strano, ma simpatico. Le previsioni del tempo avevano previsto una giornata nuvolosa, con possibili temporali nel pomeriggio. Niente di strano, è stato il trend di tutta la settimana. Le mie vacanze estive stavano per finire ed era la mia ultima possibilità per una camminata seria. Sono uscito di casa alle 6 del mattino e ho iniziato a fare un'escursione sul sentiero che porta nella valle di Otro. Cielo nuvoloso, ma le nuvole erano alte ed era ventoso. Non sapevo dove volevo andare. Alla fine, seguendo una tradizione degli ultimi cinque anni, ho pensato di raggiungere il passo Zube, nonostante il dislivello, quasi 1.800 m, e, molto peggio, la mancanza di allenamento. Sono salito a quel passo alla fine di ogni estate da quando è nato mio figlio. Sulla cima del passo c'è una piccola cappella della Vergine Maria, dedicata alla protezione delle famiglie in tutto il mondo. Non sono una persona religiosa, ma quella piccola cappella, in quel luogo, ha sempre avuto una sorta di mistico richiamo per me. Se il tempo fosse stato brutto, per di più, ho già fatto così tanti scatti da lassù in altre occasioni che non avrei pianto per l'occasione fotografica mancata.
Le nuvole spesse hanno iniziato a farsi vive alle 8.30, ma hanno creato un effetto simile all'inversione termica, che è molto più comune in autunno e in inverno. Ad un'altitudine di 2.400m erano sotto i tuoi piedi e le vette più alte erano tutte lì, chiaramente visibili.
Ho raggiunto il passo Zube, a 2.870m, alle 9.30. Tre ore e mezza, non così male alla fine. Ero lì ed ero solo, con una vista mozzafiato. Nonostante sia possibile utilizzare due funivie per accorciare il sentiero (salendo però da altre valli), e nella buona stagione molte persone camminano fino al passo, sono stato il primo a raggiungere la vetta.
Ho molti scatti con le vette più spettacolari della Valsesia (e ne posterò molte in un momento a venire), ma scelgo questo perché mi ricorda la strada fatta.
Sono rimasto lassu' per un'ora, con la Vergine Immaccolata. Senza preoccuparmi troppo della temperatura, che era vicino a Zero, e del fatto che avevo solo una giacca leggera, pantaloncini e una bottiglia d'acqua. Probabilmente il disagio maggiore e' stato per Maria, sola lassù con un peccatore e un miscredente ... ma il Creatore è misericordioso.