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Colored glass, single external flash at two positions, CPL filter 0 and 90 degrees, HDR.
The Balintore sits high and dry alongside the sea wall at Cullen harbour…
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As I was waiting at Cologne station for a train to Brussels, I noticed the huge window at the end of the platforms was undergoing some kind of cleaning or maintenance
The immediate thought is .. where's it gone?
Here's how it came to be .. with a rather nice picture too!
I took this today in Blackmud.
I used the extender on the 100-400 which gave me 560mm.
Usually pretty soft but this one turned out not bad.
I used a bit of exposure comp as I was shooting into the sun, but I may have overdone it, because I cannot tone that backlight down.
Colourful sunrise seascape with high cloud and tessellated rock platform at North Avoca Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Where in this wide world can man find
nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility;
he has fought without enmity
. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954
Days after the formation of Conrail a former Penn Central GP30 2199 leads a high-wide special westbound at Toledo, with quite an assortment of loads - April 3, 1976.
High Brown Fritillary - Argynnis adippe
This large, powerful butterfly is usually seen flying swiftly over the tops of bracken or low vegetation in woodland clearings. In flight, the males are almost impossible to separate from those of the Dark Green Fritillary, which often share the same habitats. However, both species frequently visit flowers such as thistles and Bramble where it is possible to see their distinctive underside wing markings. The Dark Green lacks the orange ringed 'pearls' on the underside of the hindwing.
The High Brown Fritillary was once widespread in England and Wales but since the 1950s has undergone a dramatic decline. It is now reduced to around 50 sites where conservationists are working to save it from extinction.
Size and Family
Family: Fritillaries
Size: Large
Wing Span Range (male to female): 60-67mm
Conservation status
Section 41 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in England
Section 42 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in Wales
UK BAP: Priority Species
Butterfly Conservation priority: High
European status: Not threatened
Fully protected in Great Britain under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act
Caterpillar Foodplants
Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana) is used in all habitats, but Hairy Violet (V. hirta) is also used in limestone areas. It may occasionally use Heath Dog-violet (V. canina) and Pale Dog-violet (V. lactea).
Waiting for the tide at Bosham harbour., as the evening wore on the clouds floated away to leave a rather uninteresting sunset, still it was nice to be out with Jane Lowena and my camera.
High tide and sunset tonight at around the same time so I think a wander up the River Adur to see what compositions I can find.
We typically have fun waves in the 2-3 foot range, but last weekend the National Weather Service issued a High Surf Advisory for waves 3 times that size. This brought out the A-Team of surfers to try to ride them.
Big waves = big wipeouts and I saw guys getting really hammered in those waves, but fortunately no one was injured while I was shooting.