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In Rausu, far north on Hokkaido, there is a small minshukan, a traditional Japanese guesthouse, that has a pool in a stream that these giant owls like to fish in. In fact, the family adds a few fish just for the owls. And the family has set up special lighting that strobes in a way that does not harm the owls (all of this is closely controlled by the pertinent authorities) and built a blind where guests can eat a home-cooked meal and then wait in sub-freezing temperatures for hours hoping an owl will stop by. One must stay alert and focused and have the right camera settings, because the visit is very, very brief. We were fortunate. Yatta!!
Sometimes on a cruise it seems like you are in another world, especially returning to freezing temperatures in Idaho! While on the cruise I tried to process most of the images on my iPad, unless I needed to work with the raw file, using techniques and apps discovered in a workshop with Dan Burkholder entitled Mirrorless to iOS.
I shoot exclusively with my NEX 7 and then when I had a spare moment transferred the images wirelessly via a Eye-fi card to my iPad. This had the advantage of immediate followup and allowed me to process while lounging around the pool or anywhere else, and it was a lot of fun
This image was just for kicks and was made using an app entitled "AlienSky."
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It's been a long time since I've seen this much snow accumulate, with below freezing temperatures allowing it to pillow up. If I'd known this was coming I would have bought a snowblower
Taken at the Mesa Arch just outside of Tuba City, AZ. I have neglected all the photos that I took over this week long off road trip through Northern Arizona for none of them turned out they way I wanted. However it is earth day!!
I can not recall settings or even what day this was taken during this trip. All I can remember is that it was beyond cold. It hardly got above freezing temps and at night it would drop to 7-10 degrees.
Still had a fun time on this failed attempt of a timelapse trip though! It was a learning experience and I got to find some pretty hidden locations! The hardest thing I learned on this trip is that electronics do NOT like below freezing temperatures.
This photograph is for to all my friends who live in areas where winter is defined by freezing temperatures, bleak skies and the sound of snow blowers.
This is the beach at Tulum which is located in the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. White, limestone sands and crystal blue waters all dramatically situated by ancient Mayan ruins.
Paradise found!
I was born and raised in San Diego, California where the sun shines year around. When the weather dips below 60 degrees we call that freezing temperatures in Southern California.
A couple of years ago, for some odd reason that I can’t explain even today, I decided to take a job promotion in Appleton, Wisconsin. So I traded in the sand for the snow and left the sunny shores of California for the Midwest.
Big mistake.
One winter day in December a blizzard greeting us by dumping an enormous amount of snow. Later that evening, after work, I was out in my driveway shoveling snow. I didn’t have a snow blower for two reasons: (1) I thought I wouldn’t be in Wisconsin very long (I ended up being there for two years). (2) I thought shoveling snow would be great exercise. My neighbor next door saw I was getting nowhere fast so he came over with his snow blower to help me out.
Mind you this was in the evening where the temperature dropped down to about twenty degrees. This California boy was bundled up in my thickest down jacket with five layers of REI’s best synthetic clothing. My neighbor kept warm with just camouflage sweat pants and a Green Bay Packer hoodie.
“Are you warm in that?” I asked.
“Oh this is nothing. December is when we get all the snow, but in January is when the temperature really drops, sometimes below zero,” he replied, “you know, you should really buy a snow blower.”
I never did buy that snow blower.
I ended up buying a round trip ticket to the Philippines where I enjoyed nearly three weeks of sunshine in January.
I never did see a snow blower in the Philippines nor in Tulum, Mexico and I don’t ever intend to see one ever again.
Happy Travels!
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Despite starting with snow and freezing temperatures, February 2019 ended with the UK as a whole and England, Scotland and Wales all recording the warmest February day as well as the warmest winter day. 21.2C was recorded in Kew Gardens in London on 26 Feb – which is also now the UK record. 18.3C was recorded at Aboyne in Abderdeenshire on 21 Feb setting a new Scottish record. 20.8C was recorded in Porthmadog, Gywnedd on 26 Feb setting a new Welsh record.
Like all of the UK, Bournemouth has a temperate oceanic climate with moderate variation in annual and daily temperatures, mild summers, and cool winters. From 1981 to 2010 the annual mean temperature was 10 to 11 °C (50 to 52 °F). The warmest months are July and August, which have an average temperature range of 12 to 22 °C (54 to 72 °F), while the coolest months are January and February, which have an average temperature range of 1 to 8 °C (34 to 46 °F). Average rainfall in Bournemouth is around 31 inches (800 mm) annually, well below the national average of 44.3 inches (1,126 mm). It records both higher and lower temperatures than would be expected for its coastal location. Since 1960, temperature extremes as measured at Bournemouth Hurn Airport have ranged from 34.1 °C (93.4 °F) in August 1990, down to −13.4 °C (7.9 °F) in January 1963. The lowest temperature recorded in recent years was −10.4 °C (13.3 °F) in December 2010. The February record high was broken in 2019, with a new record temperature of 17.8 °C
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Freezing temperatures and high winds made for some dramatic icing.
In Explore, December 28, 2008
I managed to get soaking wet after about 10 minutes on the pier. A wave came over the rail and I was able to turn away so my camera and face weren't hit, but I might as well have jumped into the lake waist deep! I spent about 30 more minutes out there, then had to drive 2 1/2 hours home soaked!!
Front view including the outhouse of Tie Hack cabin S Cottonwood Creek Wy
Between 1914 and 1918, lumberjacks worked in the Wyoming Range cutting trees to produce tens of thousands of railroad ties to be used in the construction of Union Pacific track between Rawlins to Cokeville.
The men were called "tie hacks" and worked ten-hour days, six days a week, chopping down the trees by hand, then hand-hewing them into railroad ties using a broadaxe.
This hard work was done in the dead of winter in freezing temperatures with several feet of snow on the ground. The men living in work camps and small cabins dotted throughout the drainages. They skied and snowshoed to travel between workcamps and get supplies from the camp commissary.
The men were paid by the tie, which were dragged down to the streams and stockpiled during the winter. When spring high water came, the ties were broken free and sent rushing downstream to the Green River and then floated 100 miles downstream to the town of Green River, west of Rock Springs.
Tie hacks camps operated in the Wyoming Range and the eastern slopes of the Wind River Range.
Over ten million ties were taken out of the forests of western Wyoming at the turn of the century. The era ended in the early 1940s.
Remnants of old tie hack cabins can still be found today.
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All Nippon Airways Boeing 777 JA795A.
Spotting session at the TWA Hotel in JFK. Feb 14 2020. Cold winter day but with beautiful light. I couldn't feel my feet after a couple of hours of being outside taking pictures during freezing temperatures.
APOD Submission: The 2022 Lunar Occultation of Mars - Imaged from home in the United Kingdom.
This image was a culmination of several events and a night of great remembrance - battling sub-freezing temperatures and an oppressive frost. All worth it in the end.
- Moon: 4-panel mosaic - 10% of 14k frames per panel.
- Mars: 8 x 75-sec stacked at 5% and derotated to the correct time, with the last of the captures taking place just 2m before ingress
- Composition: 1 x 7ms exposure during the event.
- AS!3, Astrosurface, WinJupos & Adobe PS for processing.
- Skywatcher 400P (16" GoTo Dobsonian), Celestron 3x Barlow, Omegon Atmospheric Dispersion corrector (ADC), P1 Uranus-C (IMX585) at 8750mm f/21.5.
- 6/10 seeing, 6/10 transparency, 28° altitude. 08-DEC-22 04:59:12 UT
- Credit: Myself - Tom Williams
Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 D-ABYN.
Spotting session at the TWA Hotel in JFK. Feb 14 2020. Cold winter day but with beautiful light. I couldn't feel my feet after a couple of hours of being outside taking pictures during freezing temperatures.
This was a color experiment that didn't work out like I'd hoped. I'd seen a neat photo with a big glob of paint running down a paintbrush, and thought I'd do something similar with bright colors. But it didn't glob, despite the below-freezing temperatures. And despite being careful and wearing rubber gloves, I ended up with paint everywhere, mostly on me. But it WAS colorful.
A winter wedding on the west coast of Ireland. All the elements were in place : beautiful bride, freezing temperature, wind, rain, fading light.
strobist info: ex600 on camera right, shoot through umbrella, yungnuo trigger. Ambient light underexposed by 2 stops I think.
This is the last look of the garden fountain in my garden before I wrap it for winter.
It is the place where all the birds come on hot summer days and spend their time in and out, as if they are at a spa.
There are only a few visitors now. A blue jay, sparrows, morning doves, occasional migrating bird and a squirrel.
We will be getting freezing temperatures soon, so it is time.
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Geminids meteors!
The Geminids are caused when the Earth passes through the debris left behind by the space rock 3200 Phaethon. Yesterday's Geminids meteor shower was a spectacular show. I was out there for 3 hours and I lost a count of how many meteors I might have seen. Sometimes there was a burst. The absence of the moon allowed even the faintest of the meteors to be visible.
The battle against 30kmph winds and freezing temperatures was worth it!
Everything is under row cover because of the freak freezing temperature event! Apparently this is the remnants of Typhoon Nuri, which joined with the polar jet stream to become one of the strongest extratropical cyclones on record in the North Pacific. It slammed Alaska but fortunately missed the most populated areas. But the cold air kept pushing on!
Our average first freeze date is December 2 -- this one was way early! And it is still cold. My greenhouses have now arrived but it is too cold to deal with constructing them so the row cover will stay in place for several more days.
December 06, 2014-October 09, 2015.
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What's happening behind those houses? Pictured here are not auroras but nearby light pillars, a nearby phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow, sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. The featured image was taken in Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks in central Alaska. via NASA ift.tt/1nSIfTe
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I was planning to use the evenings this week to get to all my contacts and to enjoy your pictures, but I haven't managed it. Sorry. A little trouble with some machinery and everything has been frozen. We have had wonderful weather with clear and cold days. But when the sun only shines for about two hours is everything pretty cold. It has been down to about -7degrees Celsius but no snow.
Today I walked up in the Blaanipa mountain to try to find three lambs that are missing but that I know live. I didn't find them, and the rock hard ground made it hard to my feet as it is rather steep up there:
I had just started when I saw this surviving little flower in a frozen world. It has been covered in snow and has stayed in freezing temperatures for a week, still the colour on the remaining bells are beautiful!
February 2, 2014
Punxsutawney Phil (the famous relative of this groundhog) emerged from his burrow at Gobblers Knob in the western Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, and predicted six more weeks of winter, disappointing those hoping for an early spring. As the legend goes, if he sees his shadow it means six more weeks of winter’s snow and freezing temperatures. If he does not, then spring comes early. (Easy call groundhog...yet another snowstorm is on its way here Monday ;-)
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Today on the BBC radio , Liverpool has been named the kindest city in the UK ,, This young girl was incredible , she played in freezing temperature's
and a voice like an angel , I hope you enjoy her singing as much as me .
M41 2150 stands in freezing temperatures at Balatonfüred as the few remaining passengers disembark into the harsh winter conditions. The loco has just arrived working train 9734 the 10.20 ex Budapest Dèli which terminates here. This was taken on a week long track bashing/haulage trip around Hungary and without fail nearly every train was on time despite continual snowfall. Coaching stock was roasting hot inside as well as waiting rooms at stations. Just how public transport should be, here there even appears to be an excess of steam heating the station buildings.
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frusna cyklar vid stortorget . Freezing or solidification is a phase change in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. The reverse process is melting.
All known liquids, except liquid helium, freeze when the temperature is lowered enough. Liquid helium remains liquid at atmospheric pressure even at absolute zero, and can be solidified only under pressure.[1] For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solid–liquid transition temperatures. For example, agar displays a hysteresis in its melting and freezing temperatures. It melts at 85 °C (185 °F) and solidifies from 31 °C to 40 °C (89.6 °F to 104 °F).
That lemon is big, and this was done for the Macro Monday theme, "Fruit." Found in the foothills near Jerusalem, this lemon did not seem to mind the weekend snows and near freezing temperatures.
And, the delightful Peter, Paul & Mary song has been going through my head... How about you? Anyhow, Happy Macro Monday!
Went out aurora hunting but came home empty handed...ok, not completely empty handed.
It was such a beautiful night with no wind but freezing temperatures.
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: Glory Of Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TJl_gyXPc
I will always love you, I will never leave you alone.
Dan: (pushes on the theatre door, but it bumps into something and doesn't open more than a couple inches, he frowns and peers outside, looking down, realizes Helen's up against the door, seemingly unconscious) Helen! (he pushes the door harder, but steadily, so that Helen slowly slides across the wide top landing, and he squeezes through the narrow opening) Helen, hey baby. (he checks for her pulse)
Helen: (her eyelashes flutter up at his touch and her eyes widen in fear) No! Stay away! Don't touch me! (she flails at Dan and he catches her wrists)
Dan: Babe, baby, it's me. It's Dan! Snap out of it!
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: it breaks my heart to see you crying.
Helen: (stops flailing and squints at him, her glasses having been knocked off in her collapse) Dan?
Dan: Yeah, that's right. I'm here. Baby, what happened? Did you slip? (he draws her close to him)
Helen: I came out here because -- I was going to get the easels from the school. (she frowns, thinking) Someone was saying my name.
Dan: Someone else was out here? Who?
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: You keep me standing tall, you help me through it all,
Helen: I don't know. I looked around the lot, but I couldn't see who was speaking. I got scared and I tried to get back inside, but the doors were locked.
Dan: The doors weren't locked, babe. I just came out, and they weren't locked.
Helen: Dan, I tried to get them open, and they wouldn't budge!
Dan: I believe you, baby. They might have gotten jammed, or even frozen. Did you recognize this person's voice?
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: I am a man who would fight for your honor,
Helen: No, and I couldn't see anyone. (reaches to her face) Dan, where are my glasses?
Dan: It's okay, they probably fell off when you slipped. Stay right there. (he left her on the top step, leaning against the door, and searched through the snow on the top two steps, coming up with the glasses) Here they are. (he helps Helen put them on) Baby, I'm going to call an ambulance.
Helen: I don't need an ambulance, Dan.
Dan: (sternly) You listen to me, Mrs. Samuels, you didn't fall on a bed of feather pillows. This is solid granite. People start thinking it's spring right about now, so they stop salting. Then we're hit with a last snowfall, and a few nights of freezing temperatures, and people are slipping all over the place.
Helen: But an ambulance, really--
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: Just like a knight in shining armor, - from a long time ago.
Dan: (interrupts) I shouldn't have let you move as much as you have. You could have a concussion, like that girl, Emmilynn, had. Just sit there and let me be official. (he kisses her forehead then speaks into his mic that's clipped to his collar)
Helen: (smiles at his tone, and the kiss, but while he's talking on his radio, her eyes move to the far side of the lot, and the dark line of trees there) Who was out there? Who was saying my name?
Dan: (getting off the radio) I'm going to take a quick look around.
Helen: Dan, maybe you shouldn't.
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: I am a man who would fight for your honor, - I'll be the hero you're dreaming of.
Dan: (smiles) It's okay, I'm not going to let you out of my sight. Just stay right here.
Helen: No, Dan. Let's just go inside and wait for the ambulance?
Dan: Don't be scared, baby.
Helen: But what if whoever it is, is still out there?
Dan: If somebody's out there, stalking you, and playing mind games, they're about to find out they picked the wrong guy's wife to mess with. (he pulls her duster more closely around her) Sit tight, honey. I'll be right back.
Peter Cetera on the Oldies station: We'll live forever, knowing together - that we did it all for the glory of love.
(Thank you to Erebus Darkfold for appearing as Dan Samuels.)
This morning, despite the freezing cold of -4 degrees, the sun radiated a surprisingly refreshing warmth. I had the opportunity to capture the rich colors that emerge when the sun graces us with its presence. I chose to experiment with my heavy and old style. FX lens, Nikon 80-200 f2.8, Instead of the Nikon 500mm f5.6 PF, I explored the natural habitat of Charnwood Water, which I visited last week.
My photo targets were gray squirrels, which are accustomed to the presence of humans and my favorite bird species, the Robin. I had to get quite close before pressing the shutter, compensating for the disadvantage of the 200mm focal length. Despite the freezing conditions, I occasionally took off my gloves, aiming to press the shutter in different environments with changing bokeh - background.
Winter, with its freezing temperatures, has special appeal for wildlife photography for three important reasons. First, many species are at their best; resident birds are showing off their vibrant plumage and mammals are donning their thick winter coats.
"I captured some of these moments with my camera this morning, and I hope you enjoy watching these images as much as I did while shooting them."
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Do robins puff themselves up?
Male robins will always attack any intruder into their space, occasionally – though fortunately not often – fighting to the death. Both sexes of robins have red breasts and both puff out their chests as a sign of aggression.
Here are some fun facts about Robins, the nations favourite garden bird.
Robins are very territorial and you'll usually only see 2 together when they're mating.
In fact, they're so territorial that they often fight to the death defending their area.
They are very loyal to their food sources. The Robin you see in your garden is most likely the same one each time.
Young Robins do not have red breasts. They are brown and lightly speckled, only growing their red feathers after their first moult.
Its nearly impossible to tell apart the male and female Robin by sight.
They are ground feeding, insectivorous birds; mostly feeding on worms and insects found in freshly turned soil (as well as fruit).
Females often eat the shells of their hatched young for an extra boost of calcium.
Robins (both male and female) have such driven parental instincts that they have been found to feed the chicks of other species.
They used to be members of the Thrush family alongside Blackbirds, Redwings, Fieldfare, Mistle and Song Thrushes, however, they're now classified as as Old World Flycatcher.
Although they may look the same, each Robin has a completely unique red breast pattern.
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Beautiful night under the stars this Memorial Day weekend… My best friend’s 4 yr old son Giovanni made it to 10,000 ft, after 8+ hours of hiking (and being carried ), the last 2 miles in the snow, and survived a night in a tent with well below freezing temperatures and strong gusty winds. Giovanni might not remember a lot of the “crazy” hikes he has been on in the past few years (and may not want to), however, I am positive Eric, Blumo, and I will remember this one for years to come…
I miss the summer flowering plants. I still have a lot blooming in my garden, but it is mostly covered up in preparation for the freeze that was predicted for us two nights ago. Even when it doesn't actually freeze, I feel better protecting many of the plants from the near-freezing temperatures. All the potted tropicals I drag into the garden shed; the rest of them get covered with row cover and other protective fabrics. See notes for plant IDs
Last week we had snow and two nights of freezing temperatures so I put safflower seeds in the feeders. This morning two newly arrived rose breasted grosbeaks enjoyed the treat. I wish they had been in their natural habit or the pond's stream but through the house window it is.
Random test shot from my newly acquired Voigtländer Bessamatic II (aka De Luxe model 1962-1967) fitted with a 50mm f2.0 Septon. It holds up pretty well considering that this photo is taken at a freezing temperature of -12 ºC. I used Ilford Delta 400 developed in HC-110 B.
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A westbound train to Gladstone crosses the “new” Hogback Bridge. The Hogback Bridge is a through truss bridge located on NJ Transit's Gladstone Line over the North Branch of the Raritan River at Far Hills, NJ. Back in February of 2004, the new bridge was staged right next to the old one and was sitting on a ball bearing mechanism to simply slide the new bridge into place. While the project preparation took a few years, the bridge was physically cut out and replaced by iron workers overnight. Weeks of below freezing temperatures have caused the North Branch of the Raritan River to freeze over.
NJT 419 @ Hogback Bridge, Far Hills, NJ
NJTR Arrow III MU 1380
Zinnia elegans (syn. Zinnia violacea) known as youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several places, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.
Description
The uncultivated plant grows to about 15 cm (5.27 in) in height. It has solitary flower heads about 5 cm (2 in) across. The purple ray florets surround black and yellow discs. The lanceolate leaves are opposite the flower heads. Flowering occurs during the summer months.
History
The species was first collected in 1789 at Tixtla, Guerrero, by Sessé and Mociño. It was formally described as Zinnia violacea by Cavanilles in 1791. Jacquin described it again in 1792 as Zinnia elegans, which was the name that Sessé and Moçiño had used in their manuscript of Plantae Novae Hispaniae, which was not published until 1890. The genus was named by Carl von Linné after the German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn, who described the species now known as Zinnia peruviana in 1757 as Rudbeckia foliis oppositis hirsutis ovato-acutis, calyce imbricatus, radii petalis pistillatis. Linné realised that it was not a Rudbeckia.
Cultivation
The garden zinnia was bred via hybridisation from the wild form. Zinnias are popular garden plants with hundreds of cultivars in many flower colours, sizes and forms. There are giant forms with flower heads up to 15 cm (6 in) in diameter.
Flower colours range from white and cream to pinks, reds, and purples, to green, yellow, apricot, orange, salmon, and bronze. Some are striped, speckled or bicoloured. There are "pom-pom" forms that resemble dahlias. Sizes range from dwarf varieties of less than 15 cm (6 in) in height to 90 cm (3 ft) tall. The powdery mildew common to zinnias in humid climates is less common in recently developed varieties, which are resistant.
The following have won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:
'Benary's Giant Salmon Rose'
'Benary's Giant Scarlet'
'Dreamland Mixed'
'Dreamland Rose'
'Dreamland Scarlet'
'Dreamland Yellow'
'Purple Prince'
'Short Stuff Orange'
'Zinderella Peach'
'Zowie! Yellow Flame'
Other cultivars include 'Magellan', 'Envy Double', 'Fireworks', 'Blue Point Purple', 'Profusion Cherry', 'Profusion Orange', 'Star Gold', 'Star Orange', and several white-flowered types such as 'Crystal White', 'Purity', and 'Profusion White'. Mixed-colour seed selections are available.
Growth
Zinnias grow easily and prefer well-drained, loamy soil and full sun. They grow best in dry, warm, frost-free regions, and many kinds are drought-tolerant. As they do not tolerate freezing temperatures, in temperate zones they must be sown after all danger of frost has passed. Alternatively they may be sown under cover, and carefully transplanted into their final positions when the soil warms up.
Sitting on my porch this morning in the freezing temperatures. As much as I want to love this doll, she fell short of expectations in Quality Control - her eyes are completely out of balance.
Had great timing to get one of the huge freighters in the position I caught it in, despite getting poured on by rain in freezing temperatures, still had a good time out taking pictures.
41/100 for the 100 Flowers group. We were wallowing in an amazing display of flowers on our visit to Victoria, BC., made all the more wonderful by the weather back home in Calgary on our return: snow and freezing temperatures.
There was snow followed by rain yesterday and then freezing temperatures, so there was a coating of ice all over Central Park once you got off the paths. It was a little tricky getting to this spot on Cat Rock.
More photos from Central Park are in my set
More fisheye shots are in my set
Of course I did. Given a nearly cloudless winter sky, utter calm and freezing temperatures I simply could not pass up a morning over at Lochan na H-Achlaise to capture the beautiful morning twilight hues. I wasn't wearing waders so I had to gingerly make my way out onto the ice to be able to frame this rock just so. I was a bit nervous about possibly breaking through but, apart from an occasional cracking sound, things were fairly solidly frozen. I used a 1.4 extender on my TS-E 24mm in order to enlarge the distant mountains to something I felt worked best in the composition. I thought that 24mm rendered the mountains too small in the image. Best viewed large on black in my opinion.
Cheers!
Bob G.
Black throated green warbler at the pond from earlier in the year.
I will have to close the pond soon due to freezing temperatures.
Setophaga virens
The male Black-throated Green Warbler sings persistently during the breeding season. One individual was observed singing 466 songs in one hour.
source - www.allaboutbirds.org/…/Black-throated_…/lifehistory
I made a quick hike to wahkeena falls and was amazed to see how freezing temperature shaped that place. wonderful combination of ice and show dust patterns.
(also the Pennine Way)...looking down on the market town of Hawes in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire. This was the first day of our holiday, before we had 4 days of snow, sleet and 60 mph winds and freezing temperatures - not for the faint-hearted!
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At the heart of this program is a unique, low-impact sustainable boat that will be among the most environmentally friendly and technologically advanced fishing vessels in the world. This innovative “green” boat is being specifically developed for the Alaska cod hook-and-line fishery.
bluenorth.com/home/#/fishing/fishing-vessels
This longliner is specifically developed for the Alaskan cod fishery and is designed by Skipsteknisk AS in Norway. This new ST 155L design has a moon pool in the center line for one fish to be caught at a time through the internal haul station, which is a first in the United States. The vessel will efficiently utilize proteins onboard- the fish wastage that is commonly ground up and discharged overboard. The internal haul station allows for the release of non-target species, as well as the crew to accomplish their work inside the boat without being exposed to rough seas or freezing temperatures and with no more risk of falling overboard during hauling.
dakotacreek.com/project/fv-blue-north-freezer-longliner-v...
We are experiencing a real cold spell in Florida with freezing temperatures expected again tonight. The normally busy waterways are deserted and the usually churning waters are calm. I ventured out to grab this shot just after sunset. I managed a half-dozen longish exposures of 1 to 2 sec. with the camera resting on a piling for support. Much too cold to set up a tripod.
Taken for our daily challenge - empty
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