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A native forest parrot was sitting near a feeding station at the eco-sanctuary on Saturday morning. I was getting the hungry eye look but all was well when a ranger came a few minutes later with a trolley full of biscuits and sugar water. She was mobbed by half a dozen kakas as she refilled the feeding station. Smaller birds knew the pecking order and stayed in the trees until the kakas had had their fill.
Overcast day but not raining today.
While the CBRY waited around for the BNSF local to bring their interchange cars to town the BNSF ran a few trains through town. One was this empty oil train which had two CN leaders as well as two CN units on the rear. Seen here passing an empty grain train at the east end on Connell. The grainer had been sitting for a while and I was hopeful the local would show up and the CBRY would depart on the upper track in the background, alas that wasn't to happen as the grain train followed the oil train out of town.
Well, had a few people accusing me of gross photoshopping on my last shot taken very shortly before or after this. Furry muff, i have done some tweaking, selective curves and contrast but nothing mad on the sky.. These are just long exposures using a fuk off dark filter to allow it even with some light in the sky. Not sure why i feel i need to justify myself, but anyway...
Think this shot is a better composition than the last, with better foreground. Sky isnt as impressive though or dramatic. Anycheese, what do ya think...
Have a wicked weekend all!!!
December Geese. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Migratory geese flock in Central Valley pastures on a foggy morning.
The experience of photographing winter’s migratory birds in California might be divided into several sorts of exercise. One is looking for the birds, often without finding them or perhaps spotting them too far away to photograph. Then there is the experience, after not finding them, of waiting for their hoped-for arrival, perhaps spending time doings something else entirely. When they do show up we then watch, often making a few hopeful initial photographs as they do the same things we’ve photographed before.
Sometimes we manage to get very close — occasionally because the geese, by some miracle, come to us, rather than due to our skills are finding them. The geese have work to do, and they seem almost oblivious to our presence as they feed. The flocks often move slowly across the landscape, producing a remarkable low, droning sound. If you have watched them long enough you know that eventually they will move, sometimes by leaving in groups that follow one after another, but sometimes in a sudden and virtually unpredictable eruption of flight that produces first a sort of “ripping” sound as thousands of pairs of wings flap and the flock becomes airborne.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
This Eurasian Coot was rather hopeful of some food when I walked close to the edge of the wetland pond one frosty morning. I always love their red eye rings.
"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
This is Hopeful Falls which is on the back side of a summer camp in the Talladega National Forest. Its a short easy walk if you don't mind getting your feet a little wet!! I knew this falls was here and that it was nice I just wasn't sure about access until this August but this is one of those that you really need to wait for the rain to visit.
"Everything that decays becomes fertile soil for growth."
"Growth and Decay". Alia Baroque's build for the RFL Weekend.
Just checking for food (especially now she's on a diet!)
Happy Caturday & happy Easter!
A rather flippant interpretation of 7DOS "shoot anything" - but it's a Hotel Chocolat bag. Chocolate is bad for pets & she never gets to eat any - but Daisy is always hopeful!
I'm editing the photos of the 13 cats and one rabbit that I photographed for charity yesterday, at a local center for The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals.
All of them hope to get adopted, and I hope that my photos can help them. This male called Bob Hendrix was picked up for a temporary foster care while I was there. Poor thing, it wasn't easy to get it into its transport cage - but I hope it will have a nice life from now on.
My album of cats and rabbits here.
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OMO was celebrating 10 years of selling washing detergents in vietnam and was looking for kids to wash clothes in their new commercial. hundreds of kids turned up hoping to be selected. saigon vietnam 2006. view large
Levant sur la pointe bretonne. Les lumières de Kermorvan, Saint-Mathieu et du Toulinguet perdurent sur la mer d'Iroise et créent une ambiance magnifique. Ajoutez à cela le bruit des bateaux de pêche venant du Conquet, le goéland marin pas content que vous le dérangiez de si bonne heure : oui, vous êtes bien en Finistère nord !