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It's really hard for me to try to explain how hard it is to motivate myself to do any photography these days whilst I continue to recover from my knee injury. Recovery has been seriously interrupted by lockdowns and closures of gyms...indeed, I've not even been able to see a physio for over 6 months. With all of that my fitness has suffered considerably and so even short excursions can sometimes feel like I'm hitting the wall at mile 22 of a marathon. Therefore, the thought of making the effort to climb a hill for photography when the conditions are less than ideal...well, it doesn't appeal.
When on the hill, a different fear now presents itself. Fear of another injury. I used to head out without a care in the world really. Sure, I might slip and fall, but I always felt that I was the master of my own destiny, even in those circumstances...but now it is different. My body just failed when I injured my knee, with very little in the way of warning, just a little knee pain like I've had for years anyway. The actual step I took when my tendon snapped was so incredibly innocuous, it's the type of step I've taken thousands, if not millions, of times before...it was just like going down the stairs at home...but in that moment, my tendon chose when I was alone, on a hill, in inclement weather and without a mobile signal, to snap...not at home, going down the stairs. And now, although the injured knee presents no pain, my other one does, so the fear is that that will someday go too, as so often seems to happen with people who rupture one tendon, eventually the other one ruptures too. Add to that a lack of strength in the injured knee, some balancing issues and a tendency to give way without warning...that all adds up to a heck of a lot of nervousness when going off the beaten track.
The day I took this photo was no different in many ways. I was solo. The weather was inclement. There was no-one really around. I did have some extra protection in the form of a satellite transceiver that enables me to send an SOS and I did tell my wife where I was this time. But with boggy conditions underfoot, it still meant my mind wasn't wholly invested in photography until I'd set up my tripod and decided to wait, in the cloud and drizzle, for things to happen. And so I waited...and waited...and waited. About 2 hours later I felt the subtle change in temperature on my neck as the sun tried to break through the misty conditions. Poised with my finger on the shutter just hoping for the mistiness to clear a little to reveal the landscape, the conditions brightened to the left of the scene you see here until not only were the two tress visible, but also the landscape beyond...and low and behold, a rainbow. What resulted was a stitch pano consisting of 7 vertical frames and 160 megapixels of Lake District loveliness. This scene lasted for all of 30 seconds...and then it was gone.
I don't tend to big-up my photography, especially these days. I tend to work behind the scenes, especially for anything from Snowdonia, where I spend most of my time, refining my project and building, what I hope will be, a quality book. However, when I go elsewhere, it is sometimes nice to share what I captured, and I think even I like this one enough to shout about it.
A view of Tarn Hows on a miserable wet day with edits.
Tarn Hows is an area of the Lake District National Park in North West England, It contains a picturesque tarn, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Coniston and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Hawkshead. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the area with over half a million visitors per year in the 1970s and is managed by the National Trust.
Tarn Hows is fed at its northern end by a series of valley and basin mires and is drained by Tom Gill which cascades down over several small waterfalls to Glen Mary bridge: named by John Ruskin who felt that Tom Gill required a more picturesque name and so gave the area the title 'Glen Mary'.
The area features in the map of the open world racing game Forza Horizon 4.
Idyll beyond the pavement,
How green was my valley
In vernal raiment.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ The East Decatur Greenway extends, unpaved, about ⅓-mile beyond its southern paved trailhead, continuing northeastward through a wildflower garden, then, here, over Cecilia Creek (aka East Fork Middle Branch Shoal Creek) via a small pedestrian bridge, finally concluding along the eastern bank of the creek.
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For a long time he tried to follow how she was doing that, but ...........................
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The driver who has this license plate owns a sewing machine / repair shop. This is his response when people ask him, “How’s business?” 😉
"Wait a second! How's my hair?!"
A Bold Jumping Spider that I photographed at Conowingo Dam in Maryland.
How 'bout a few Daggers? All different species. So named because many of them have black streaks running part way down their wings.
Also posted on BugGuide: bugguide.net/node/view/1974026
Columbia, Missouri
You just have those days where you get stuck on seeing something with every frame. Today was faces. Everywhere, I saw faces. In this shot alone, I saw three. distinct faces, can you see them too?
I wonder how this juvenile Red-winged Blackbird is doing, whether that growth on its beak was a symptom of something wrong with it or not.
How can this be? Why my phone is in 2018, takes pictures worse than the phone that was made in 2006. Picture taken on the phone Nokia 73, the price of which is $ 100)))Photo in the original as is, without color correction.The conclusion is this, in good light, you can make a beautiful photo on any camera
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A completely posed picture - from sliding him around on the floor to get him where and how I wanted him, to the tilt of his head and the direction of his gaze.
A posing natural - at least that's how I remember it.
I could check through the oldest pictures and see if memory serves, I suppose, but some part of me likes thinking of him as perfect.
It's been a rough couple weeks, with the thought of him having cancer hanging over our heads (he didn't).
Here's hoping we have many more years of happy photo shoots ahead of us.
Our Daily Challenge - June 3, 2020 - With Age Comes...
... understanding - for both the model and the photographer.
366:2020 - #159
100x in 2020: #35
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Excerpt from www.mississauga.ca/arts-and-culture/arts/public-art/perma...:
Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens (Studio of Received Ideas), 2017
Bronze, aluminum
Entrance to Central Library and Mississauga Celebration Square
Thirty birds gather on and around a white steel tower and cupola that is an artistic replica of the tower that tops the historic Council House built 132 years ago on the New Credit reserve in Hagersville – the land the Mississauga people moved to in 1847 from their ancestral home on the Credit River in what is now known as the City of Mississauga.
Perched on and around the tower sit thirty birds, cast in bronze and painted in vivid colours. The birds are portraits of avian citizens in the region, both local and migratory – interpretations of drawings done by local residents and members of the New Credit First Nation community, of actual birds seen in backyards, parks and walkways within the community.
Spreading the invitation to the diverse local community to give special attention to the wildlife that share the living space of the city is a method of passing on Indigenous concepts of philosophy, respect and living in balance with all of creation.
CSX ST70AH (SD70ACe-T4) #8903 and 8902 wait for something to happen at Mulberry, FL, just north of the heart of the Bone Valley. Unfortunately, nothing much happened. This pair ran light back to Mosaic's phosphate production facility at Bartow after sunset, the only move I saw in two days.
These two units are apparently part of an order of ten, numbered 8900-8909, and set up at Waycross before being sent to south Florida.