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A walk along the oceans shore. The late afternoon world is full of colors, mostly shades of red and gold. The ocean is loud,intense and the power is unmistakable. The wildlife hunts and gains power from the sounds and sights. It is entertainment only nature can provide.`125
One of the most beautiful villages in Scotland. It gained fame as the "home" of the TV series Hamish MacBeth.
A diferencia de la mayoría de las aves acuáticas, las plumas del cormorán no son completamente impermeables de forma que al mojarse aumentan de peso, esto les posibilita hundirse más y bucear con facilidad. Esta característica, junto con su capacidad pulmonar y la facultad de regular los sacos aéreos, les permite ser buenos pescadores submarinos. Una vez en tierra, deben extender las alas para secarlas. Por todo ello, el cormorán siempre me ha parecido un ave diferente.
A veces nos empeñamos en ser como todo el mundo, sin saber que, aquello que nos hace diferentes es también nuestra gran ventaja.
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Unlike most waterfowl, cormorant feathers are not completely waterproof, which causes them to gain weight when wet, allowing them to sink deeper and dive easily. This characteristic, together with their lung capacity and the ability to regulate air sacs, allows them to be good spearfishers. Once on land, they must spread their wings to dry them. For all these reasons, the cormorant has always seemed like a different bird to me.
Sometimes we insist on being like everyone else, without knowing that what makes us different is also our great advantage
A black & white landscape of Chipmunk pond which is on 4 mile, 2,300 feet of vertical gain hike along the Ypsilon Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado
- Nikon D800e
- Sigma 24mm - 70mm
_B+W Circular Polarizer
Today August 29th Bastian celebrates his 6th anniversary with us. He has gained a little weight, but is still the same cudly and playful boy as back then, when we found him at the shelter. :)
Bastian (mixed breed), 11.07.2021.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
This double crested cormorant did a few circles of the lake to gain altitude before it finally left the area. Gave me a few passes at it. Didn't nail the focus, but I liked the dynamic pose enough to post it.
There is no Beauty Without Some Strangeness
- Edgar Allan Poe
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The Raven:
Ravens are among the smartest of all birds, gaining a reputation for solving ever more complicated problems invented by ever more creative scientists.
The Raven is an acrobatic flier, often doing rolls and somersaults in the air. Young birds are fond of playing games with sticks, repeatedly dropping them, then diving to catch them in midair.
People around the world sense a certain kind of personality in ravens. Edgar Allan Poe clearly found them a little creepy. The captive ravens at the Tower of London are beloved and perhaps a little feared: legend has it that if they ever leave the tower, the British Empire will crumble.
Common Ravens can mimic the calls of other bird species. When raised in captivity, they can even imitate human words; one Common Raven raised from birth was taught to mimic the word “nevermore.”
The oldest known wild Common Raven was at least 22 years, 7 months old. It was banded and found again in Nova Scotia.
(Nikon D750, Nikor 80-200/5.6, 1/320 @ f/8.0, ISO 400, edited to taste)
Object: NGC 7822– (HST or SHO palette) – 2022
NGC 7822 is an area of star formation located in the constellation on Cepheus and is located about 2900 light years from Earth. The object contains SH2-171 and a cluster of stars called Berkeley 59.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/18/2022 to 10/22/2022
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII @ f/5 (530mm focal length - 106mm aperture)
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 33 x 10min. (330min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):20 x 10min. (200min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):29 x 10min. (290min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:820min. (13.67hrs)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
The best option is to gain intel, the local D18PD station is quiet so Flit takes the opportunity to sneak across the street to tap into their databases and hack some information.
She is careful to not be detected, but then she hears the whirling of an overhead chopper.
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Bauhaus Movement - Interdimensional Hyperdrive/BLACK
Black Cats poses - Call of Duty 1
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DRD - geekmania - cybernetic face
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erratic / eunice - bikini bottom / black (maitreya)
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[LAB737] Locust MK-III (Gunmetal)
T. Holotags
T. Solid Eye System
[The Forge] Tyre Pauldrons
A faschinating little shop by this name, found along George Street, along my driving route to work.
I haven't actually been inside yet, just stopped to shoot its title mural along the side of the building.
Sydney - photographed from the Cahill Walkway on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, about 50 metres from the south-eastern pylon.
Saturday night, 24th May, 2024.
So I parked the car along Lavender Street at Lavender Bay (aka Milsons Point) and wandered down to Kirribilli to acquire a Flat White Coffee along with a Raspberry & Panna Cotta Tart, which I drank & ate walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in order to grapple for a position on the walkway up above 'The Rocks' and Campbells Cove.
I managed to fight off a Ninja-like battalion of photographers from Japan, as well as other warrior-style photographers from Cardiff, Madrid and Boston - all armed with tripods. Needless to say I still don't have a tripod but this ironically assisted me to gain my position for the fireworks. Hence this picture and other similar (though different) shots previously uploaded to Flickr.
And here is The Electric Light Orchestra with their biggest ever hit-song 'Don't Bring Me Down' (1979) from their album 'Discovery':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon 24-105mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Triple Falls, Du Pont State Forest.
Easily reached by a steep but short hike, this location has all three falls in view at the same time, but at the cost of being a bit distant. Total height of the falls is around 100 feet. Good views of the upper two cascades can be gained by taking the steps down to the viewing area at the top of the lower cascade. And I imagine that a good view of the lower cascade can be had from the base which seems popular with anglers.
when the plane gain height, storm clouds appear...
Como en las malas peliculas... cuando el avión remonta el vuelo, aparecen nubes de tormenta...
Tibor has a flock of sheep that varies in size but is anything up to 600 strong after the lambing season. Here he is with part of his pack of livestock guardian and herding dogs.
Many people ask why does Tibor require so many large dogs? His flock graze on agricultural land on the lower slopes of the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Bears and wolves are regular visitors from the forest and they test the defences of his dogs, in the hope of gaining an easy meal.
and the boys enjoyed every mouthful!!!
I gained weight just looking at this!!
This is not my photo, but I did the post work...
1 Corinthians 13
Bible 21
I am nothing without love
4 Love is patient, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast or exalt itself; 5 she is not rude, she does not seek her own gain, she is not quick-tempered, she does not count wrongs, 6 she is not malicious, but she rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, always hopes, endures all things.
8 Love never ends.
What happens if a photographer discovers and develops his own style and starts repeating technique and motives? Is it becoming boring or does the work gain more depth? You find a new article with reflections about photographic style on the website.
"Depth and Latitude in Photography or Does it get boring after a while?"
www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2020/11/12/depth-and-lat...
And you find the "Best of Inner Core Project" pictures on the website.
www.chris-r-photography.net/inner-core
If you are interested in participating in this project, please drop me a note via Flickr mail!
I've always been deeply impacted by the loss of rock stars...not those that have tragically taken their own lives through drugs...but those that have now more frequently begun to show the natural evolution of human mortality. Yesterday a case in point. I reckon it's because they have been friends for what is now a very long time...and in some ways better friends than most in that they have always been there in time of need at the spin of a turntable or the push of a button. And as Led Zeppelin said, "Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share." And we, who Steve Miller called "Children of the Future," growing up in the '60s and '70s took our music seriously. And we have been loyal to it throughout the decades. In our minds, nothing has nor will ever compare.
In recent years, the passing of rock icons through natural causes has brought the somewhat astonishing recognition that the future has arrived...and with it all the annoying symptoms of human frailty and seniority. They are losses of consequence, and, for me, cause for much reflection and thought as to a life lived.
And yet, just a few weeks ago, my Grandson entered the world...and today word that a valued contact named Marilyn was overjoyed at the arrival of a Grandaughter. These of course are the gains some of us are fortunate enough to experience. These remind of the hopes and dreams and expectations that we had for ourselves so many years ago -- some fulfilled, some denied. We now pass these on to others, still perhaps best expressed by another rock icon -- always best in his Jeff Beck and Faces days...;-))) Life, for now, goes on...
LM-https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Photo%20Studio/34/45/602
Life can make ourselves feel not enough for certain things. We may face failure so many times at them. When we hit that wall instead of giving up, we should train ourselves to punch through that wall to the other side.
Photo by @Kankst
300 Clarence Gaines St
Paducah Kentucky
McCracken County
Photo taken June 15, 2021
The Present building erected 1940-43 with help of Works Progress Administration.
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak was not muted in his singing, but the softly coloured bib, the few white feathers in the black Head and the speckled plummage down the sides make me believe this one is a first year male, and on his way to gaining those rich colours of the adult male.
Pinery Provincial Park, Lambton Shores, ON
Object: WR134 (October 2024)
WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located in the constellation of Cygnus. It is surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and high velocity winds from the star. It is 5.25 times the radius of our own sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
- Other designations - V1769 Cygni, BD+35° 4001, HD 191765, WR 134, HIP 99377, SAO 69541
- Distance: 6000 light years
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/05/2024 to 10/08/2024
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11 Celestron 11" Edge HD @f/7
- Focal reducer: Celestron .7x Focal Reducer, for 11 HD
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 27 x 10min. (270min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):25 x 10min. (250min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:520min. (8.67hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
Respect is earned,
Honesty is appreciated,
Trust is gained,
Loyalty is returned.
Auliq Ice
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more,
Bill Clinton
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracey
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️ ❤️ ❤️
(Towers of the Virgin, Zion)
We cruised northward from Joshua Tree that winter, staying just behind the storms battering the southwest, gaining all the photographer’s benefit of seeing our favorite haunts draped in fresh snow. Dawn shivered with hoarfrost on oaks that were the namesake of the creek out there in the meadow, and I blew on gloved fingers and paced around, waiting for the sun. Thirty five hundred feet above the valley floor, the Towers lit up along with the skies at sunrise, and gave me hopes for the day. The people who opened up this country were often surprisingly well read in the classics, and most knew their scriptures. Inspired by sacred places, they bestowed names that make them sacred still: Court of the Patriarchs, Angel’s Landing, The Great White Throne. The high point anchoring the right side of the Towers, stained red under the flat top of a sandstone pinnacle, reminded a clergyman over a century ago of a sacrificial altar, and so it became the Altar of Sacrifice. The name conjures biblical connotations of Abraham’s trust and even the rituals of the Aztecs, but the idea, central to every early culture, has modernized. The most dramatic burnt offerings today are probably votive candles, and gods are no longer feared. My parents’ generation taught us the virtue of sacrifice by their example, and looking up there I think of how natural that act is to us. I have a sister who has suffers all for one of those parents, her self-denial is an ultimate devotion. But it’s selfish to consider how much I have given up myself; others can judge that. Instead I’ll bow towards the Altar and say a silent thank you, to all those who have sacrificed something for me.
After walking for a while, you will always find beautiful scenery, experience some things, and always gain something.
Sure hope we all soon can comfortably see aerial views like this again! :)
Have a terrific day, everyone...
Near Moab, Utah. This view is deeper within the Fisher Towers complex. Climbing is popular and difficult on Fisher Towers. On the far right is Titan Towers with the highest elevation gain. Ancient Art, the small, strange formation to the right of the first peak from the left edge, ranks very high in terms of difficulty.
Thank you very much for your views, faves and comments!
Données FIN prise de vue
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Date : 2023-06-11
Objet : M27
Instrument : Telescope 200/800 Quattro SkyWatcher
Camera : ZWO ASI1600 MC / Filtre = IrCut / Temp = -10°c / Gain= 139 / Offset = 21
Durée pose unitaire = 240s / Nombre de pose : 23
Traitement SIRIL et PHOTOSHOP / Gestion Stellarmate
Phase lunaire : Last Quarter(0.752)
Données Météo fin de session
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Fin de session StellarMatte : 2023-06-11 03:19:14
Lever du soleil : 06:09 AM
Coucher du soleil : 09:56 PM
Conditions climatiques : clear sky
Couverture nuageuse : 0 %
Taux d'humidite de 93 %
Pression : 1015 hpa
Vitesse Vent : 10 km/h
Orientation : 320 ° (N=0° / Est = 90° / Sud = 180° / Ouest = 270°)
La temperature en fin de session est de 16 °c
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@ Frank TYRLIK -->>> www.flickr.com/photos/frank_tyrlik/
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
― Henry Beston
That time of the year when shooting after work becomes impossible without adding your own light. I hate that!
Welcome back in GVA, eastern beauty ! After almost 5 months, Aeroflot is back in town and in Europe. SU2381 is seen here gaining speed and leaving to SVO.
© Erwan Pambrun-Vincent - Tous droits réservés
Rolling thru Gaines, Michigan having just left the home terminal in Durand a couple miles back is GTW train #450 a turn to east yard in Detroit with former boiler GP9 4930 leading 2 sisters on February 26, 1983.
Rolling into the nice super elevated curve just south of Gaines, Michigan is Grand Trunk Western train #410 running from Durand to Lang Yd. in Toledo, Ohio. Normally a pair of SD40's this day you found no complaints from me with GP9 4544 leading SD40 5929 - December 18, 1976.
Pacific white-fronted geese after taking off from the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on their spring migration to the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada. Currently two populations of white-fronted geese are recognized: the Pacific Population and the Mid-Continent Population. Numbers of Pacific Population white-fronted geese have increased steadily over the last decade.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2018
10 Year Project
Each month I take a favourite photo from ten years back, and re-edit it, using current tools and knowledge.
This one seems to have gained a little something from the changes in tech. Plus I straightened it better. :-)
I went out twice today, thinking I could get some nice shots of the cedar waxwings.. they are around.. but all I got is pissing rain... and very few birds interested in my photography :) the sun would shine for a little while and then it got so dark, I knew I was in trouble... I have a rain coat for my gear but it feels like my gear gained some weight over time, perhaps Christmas time, (who did not ) and the coat fits is a bit too tight ( battery grip will need to be removed for a better fit )... So glad this Great-tailed Grackle was waiting for me in my Arizona library..... I am not a very brave wildlife photographer.... I am always leery about laying down on the ground and thinking what or who is going to grip me from behind.. I am particularly not found of insects... but I could have never imagined a world like the one that exist before I started laying down on the ground for photography. That morning, I remember focusing on those beautiful Black-necked stilts on the left when I turned slightly to the right and noticed this bird... as keen as me on the morning hunt...with just a different interest than mine... this type of scene makes me happy that I conquer my fear... proud of the little wuss I am :)
Photographed using a Helios 40-2 85mm Lens
The flare was actually caught with the lens. Flare is quite prominent with this lens. It just happened to be in the right place this time so I kept the photo.
Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees belonging to the four o' clock family, Nyctaginaceae. They are native to Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. There are between 4 and 22 species in the genus. The inflorescence consists of large colourful sepal-like bracts which surround three simple waxy flowers, gaining popularity for the plant as an ornamental. The plant is named after explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), after it was documented on one of his expeditions.
The species grow 1 to 12 metres (3 to 39 ft) tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. They are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4–13 cm long and 2–6 cm broad. The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colours associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes called "paper flower" because its bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.