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After receiving a new crew at Wauhatchie for the trip to Nashville, K442 passes MP139 on the Chattanooga subdivision. This is also where Whiteside Tunnel, or Dang Ole Matt Jones Tunnel, Man!, as the locals call it, sits as it watches the many trains that was it was built to have run through it, but never actually saw due to a new route next to it that diverts it. Leading K442 is SD50-3 8536, at the time one of only 5 SD50 series locomotives active on CSX, or any Class 1 railroad for that matter. 11-27-20
To help meet the increasing demand on water supplies, Siblyback Lake was constructed in the late 1960s, with the dam being completed in 1969.
Surrounded by the striking backdrop of Bodmin Moor, Siblyback Lake lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
There is a beautiful 5km round lake circuit, which is perfect for pushchairs, wheelchairs and bicycles. The path runs adjacent to the lake, and passes by the impressive Siblyback Dam and through woodlands.
This is really how it looked. I haven't increased the shadows here, only a slight increase in brightness.
The fact that nature is tied to increasing entropy—that is, to the increasing loss of energy over time—and hence to irreversible time, also allows for the enfolding of each person’s biography into the supportive fabric of a long cosmic narrative that is still incomplete. Nature, or what theology calls creation, is an unfinished drama rather than the product of an opening instant of divine magic. This means that the universe is undergoing a suspenseful and anticipatory process into which the evolution of all species and the brief stories of our own lives are woven seamlessly.
-God after Einstein What’s Really Going On in the Universe? John F. Haught
What increases should also decrease again...
Moon at 68% on 06/09/2023 at 05:13 h MEST
Lumix G9, LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3, 400 mm (831 mm KB), s 1/160" (-1.33 LW), ISO 200, f6.3
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Still wandering around my neighborhood, too lazy to take the car and fight the traffic!
Because of the heat, the Marina Walk is quite empty, ideal for photography! It will become very crowded in one month time when the temperature starts to cool down.
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Due to the increased number of passengers towards/from the Black sea coast, in the summer season BDZ adds more carriages to express train 8601/8602, especially during the weekends.
In the past years the train was hauled by the red Skoda's or the blue and yellow class 46 200, but since the arriving of the Smartrons, the train is served only by them. On the photo - the latest arrived Smartron locomotive - 80 051, named to the rullers Tsar Asen and Tsar Petar IV is pulling the 10-car train towards between Stamboliyski and Ognyanovo stations.
Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. Ibises usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. It is widespread across much of Australia. It has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long down curved bill and black legs. They are monogamous and highly territorial while nesting and feeding. Most nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. Due to its increasing presence in the urban environment and its habit of rummaging in garbage, the species has acquired a variety of colloquial names such as tip turkey; and bin chicken, and in recent years has become an icon of popular culture, being regarded with passion, wit, and, in equal measure, affection and disgust. 55209
Pound nets consist of a fence leader that interrupts the movements of target species and a heart that funnels fish into the trap (pound) via a no return mesh tunnel. The series of nets are anchored to the bottom perpendicular to shore and are set in nearshore areas, with depth often increasing toward the pound.
The netting usually reaches above the waterline with the pound open at the surface. Pound nets are harvested by concentrating the catch in one corner and removing it with a dip net. The leaders may be as long as 1,300 feet (400 meters) with pounds measuring 160 square feet.
Risks to Sea Turtles
Populations of loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, and leatherback sea turtles are at risk in areas where pound net fishing is abundant, such as the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waters.
Sea turtles may become entangled in any portion of the pound net, most commonly around their head and front flippers. Entanglements can result in bodily injury or drowning.
Entrapment occurs when a sea turtle finds its way into a pound net but cannot get out.
Sea turtles may also become pinned against the netting in a fast moving current and drown if they cannot free themselves.
Risks to Marine Mammals
Small coastal cetacean species, such as bottlenose dolphins, can become entrapped and or entangled in pound nets.
The mesh netting of leaders can act like a gillnet and entangle dolphins. Because the nets are often at or near the surface, cetaceans may be able to breathe until they are released. Once an animal is caught, stress may lead to bodily injury, with strong currents often complicating entanglements.
Bycatch Reduction
Regulations require modified leaders (composed of stiffer materials) to be set more than 10 feet from the low waterline during the summer to reduce turtle bycatch in Virginia. Use of stiffer materials in the leaders has likely lowered dolphin entanglement as well.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/bycatch/fishing-gear-poun...
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The Lazuli Bunting has increased its range in Canada since the late 1960s, spreading north from the Thompson Valley into the valleys of the Cariboo-Chilcotin Plateau of central British Columbia
A morning on Queen Charlotte Drive watching the sun rise behind Mt Cawte. The locked camera settings give it the holy feel as the increasing power of the sun floods the screen with light. Managed to keep the details of dancing clouds in the foreground, but still does not do justice to experiencing such beauty with real eyes. Twice a day we can watch this colorful spectacle on natures cinema with plenty of empty seats and 100% free!
New Zealand
The increased height of the new sea defences on Black Rock has been questioned by quite a few in Brighton including me. The comments were mainly about it being unnecessarily high. I took this photo around lunch time today and before Storm Barra had arrived. I'm not sure it's high enough now ;-(((. The engineers on top the sheet piling seem to be taking it all in.
Good to see these on the recovery in our area.
Common birds in the 70s they did become quite scarce though they do seem to be on the increase in some areas like ours
I increased the ISO to 1000 here to be able to keep the aperture at f/8 but get the quicker shutter speed as the water was really moving fast ... this allowed for more detail in the pretty flow at 1/4 second shutter speed.
Capture with the CPL filter only.
I took this shot at the river falls in town. I wanted people in the shot Caught 2 different couple walking. Made B/W and cropped one side a little. Brought out more definition by just a little contrast increase
The increased activity of a pair of Blue Jays in Janice's yard has been a delightful addition to my visits, lately...before, they were rather standoffish, only occasionally stopping to grab a snack!
Warm May weather has triggered an early runoff in the creeks, streams and rivers. We are at least 2 weeks ahead of average stream flow for this date.
This is called the Cascade Falls area of Chalk Creek. The leaves are not fully out yet.
Jesus said in the gospels, "You can't put new wine in old wineskins". He was saying you can't go to a new level with an old way of thinking. For something new to happen, something has to resonate on the inside; your spirit man has to come into agreement with God and believe what the scriptures say. Psalm 115 says, "The Lord your God will increase you more and more."
In fact, Jesus said He came that we might have life to the full, in abundance, 'till it overflows. That means you're headed to three places; to a full life, an abundant life, an overflowing life. What type of container do you have ready to receive that overflowing life? If it's a little cup, it's time to get rid of that! You might think a barrel is big, but get rid of that, too! God has a barn load full of blessings in store for each one of you.
It's time to give God permission to increase you. God says that you are going to be most blessed. You're going to have the most peace, the most friends, the must fulfillment, the most resources, the most wisdom, and the most opportunity. Most blessed means you will not lack in any area. You may not have seen it yet, but if you'll stay in faith and make room, God says you're going to be the most blessed!
Increased heat has accelerated petal dropping from our neighbor's Golden Rain Tree, Camarillo, California
"A little roughhousing amongst siblings."
The Urban Fox
Wild foxes have learned to adapt to the urban environment in order to survive. By nature, foxes are nocturnal and hunt at night, whereas the urban fox has adapted its behavior to survive and can be seen during daylight hours.
Locally, a fox vixen has located her den in the foundational remains of a razed building complex along the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. She has six Kits, which can be seen frolicking in the debris and along the dunes during the day. The fox family has become local celebrities and unfortunately people have begun feeding them. Never feed wild animals. Although you may feel as if you’re helping them survive, you are actually harming them. Feeding foxes can alter their natural behavior and they may lose its fear of humans.
“Wildlife that is fed by people become less experienced at forging for their natural food and may become dependent on handouts that are not a part of their natural diets. This is especially true in juvenile animals that have not yet developed their own foraging skills and have little ability to fend for themselves once handouts cease.” ~ Julie King, Senior Wildlife Biologist
Please Do Not Feed the Wildlife!
Red Fox
The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is the largest of the true foxes and the most abundant wild member of the Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammals and bird populations. Due to its presence in Australia, it is included among the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
Remastered 2/16/2011:
Increased size, rebalanced color, brightened and sharpened trees, slightly increased contrast, slightly recropped
This panorama was a complete and utter nightmare to put together, in every way conceivable. The lighting in the scene itself was constantly changing between shots, leading to many different lighting inconsistencies between different sectors of the scene. Painstaking post editing was required to remove these without leaving a seam. Then, Photoshop failed to auto-blend some of the parts of the panorama, requiring me to do a significant amount of tweaking to get the alignment detection to work. Then I had issue getting the color from the top half to work with the bottom half, requiring more manual editing and layer tweaking.
Since all of this was done at 60 megapixels, Photoshop would take 15 seconds or so to process many of the requests I would send it.
It took about 8 hours to wind up with this result. Hopefully the rest of this shoot will not turn out to be this irritating.
I am satisfied with the result. I just wish the process wasn't such a headache.
**Version 2, increased detail and contrast**
Well I know some of our friends across the pond wouldn’t think so but it was bloody cold that night at -7°C. Thankfully there was not any problems to talk about so most of my time was spent indoors, one of the reasons why Astro photography rules.
This is the second time I’ve imaged NGC 1499 in just over a year and it’s not a lot different to my original image except this was taken with the Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon giving me an increased field of view of just over 2°.
Note:
I removed all the stars after the initial processing using StarNet++ and then added the Ha Combined with the Oiii stars back in at the end.
NGC 1499 also commonly known as the “California Nebula” is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It’s almost 2.5 deg in length and is approximately 1000 Light Years from earth with an apparent magnitude of about 6.
EQUIPMENT:-
Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Explore Scientific 0.7 Focal Reducer
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
Astronomik 6nm Ha Filter
Astronomik 6nm Oiii Filter
Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
NGC 7380 California Nebula (Perseus)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
Gain 200 Oiii
Dithering
25 Ha subs@240 (1h 40min)
26 Oiii subs@300sec (1h 44min)
Total imaging Time 3h 24min
20 Darks
25 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
StarNet++
DSS
PS CS2
There's been no shortage of wonderful sunrises across the UK over the past several months, and this sunrise, captured on a freezing, frosty and foggy late-December morning, seemed like an ideal opportunity to revisit the south-eastern meadow inside Morden Hall Park, which I last photographed during the autumn over a year ago.
Despite the park's expansive 125 acres of photogenic parkland, wetlands and bridges over the River Wandle, this scene has always been one of my favourite spots to watch the sunrise. I opted for a wider set-up than my previous take, partly to capture the thick layer of fog accumulating around the meadow as the sun came up, but also because I felt this would help to put the tree into some kind of context. The fog was much thicker before dawn, and it was important to me to try to convey the magic this created, but at the same time the sunrise provided a perfect focal point in the image and seemed to complete the scene. To incorporate both of these elements, I continued shooting for a couple of hours, and then used a combination of luminosity and gradient masking, along with the Soft Light and Overlay blend modes, to merge captures of the predawn fog and frost with captures of the sun as it appeared behind the trees and cast a golden glow through the fog.
Once the exposures had been blended, I used a mixture of Curves, Colour Balance and Selective Colour adjustments to bring out the chilly early-morning tones in the shadows of the meadow, while emphasising the warmer tones on the horizon, which was largely achieved with a low-opacity Colour Lookup set to the Crisp Warp preset and using Soft Light. Contrast and structure were reduced in the shadows using Silver Efex Pro set to Luminosity, as I wanted to keep the scene as natural-looking as possible, but I gently increased the texture where the sun was projecting across the meadow using the Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast filters in Colour Efex Pro, as this seemed to help draw the viewer's eye along the ground, beyond the tree stumps and on towards the sunrise.
It was important to me to convey the simplicity of the lone bare tree at the centre of the foggy sunrise, so I tried keep the post-processing as inconspicuous as I could. The final change I made was to gently blend in a brighter exposure along a small footpath through the frame, which seemed perfectly aligned as it crossed beneath the tree and continued into the distance where the sun was appearing on the horizon. As ethereal as the scene is on a morning when the parkland is almost deserted, the footpath seemed to add a hint of a human element, leaving a reminder that beautiful landscape and dramatic weather conditions are there to be seen and enjoyed.
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Don't know if you've seen Michel’s incredible Bluethroat in Rapeseed shot, but I turned a nice shade of green over that picture (and he knew it! I can just imagine his develish smile when he uploaded it :-). He even offered to take me there in search of the Bluethroats but to my great shame I must admit I totally forgot our appointment.(never happened before, and for sure, it won't happen again). It says something about the character of the man that even after this, he gave me directions to the rapeseed field to find the bluethroats for myself. Thank you, Michel!
When I came there, lots of birds around but no bluethroats. In stead, this whitethroat tried to convince me quite loudly that white was much better than blue anyway :-)
When you think I've saturated the yellow in the background (rapeseed flowers), think again! I even had to desaturate it a bit as the original just hurt my eyes :-). Besides that, I only increased contrast on the whitethroat a bit, but that's all I did in PP. Decided to leave it uncropped, as I really liked the look of that tiny bird in that massive sea of yellow.
We are counting the days but in a couple of weeks, the two of us will be on another adventure to Iceland. Those of you that have followed me over the last years will remember the unforgettable trip we did 2 years ago. I'm sure that with the recent vulcano eruption it will be an interesting trip yet again!!
Brazil
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
South America
This image celebrates International Jaguar Day.
International Jaguar Day was created to raise awareness about the increasing threats facing the jaguar and the critical conservation efforts ensuring its survival from Mexico to Argentina.
Observed annually on November 29, International Jaguar Day celebrates the Americas’ largest wild cat as an umbrella species for biodiversity conservation and an icon for sustainable development and the centuries-old cultural heritage of Central and South America.
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico in North America, across much of Central America, and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina in South America.
It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List; and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat.
Overall, the jaguar is the largest native cat species of the New World and the third largest in the world. This spotted cat closely resembles the leopard, but is usually larger and sturdier. It ranges across a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, swamps and wooded regions.
The jaguar enjoys swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush predator at the top of the food chain. As a keystone species it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating prey populations.
The wild parrots flying free in Southern California today are descendants of wild-caught parrots who were imported into the United States before importation was banned and somehow either escaped or were released intentionally. These birds were already well versed in their survival skills and able to establish themselves in areas where exotic plant-life is plentiful.
Wild parrots have been documented in Southern California since the 1960s and there is strong evidence to suggest there may have been wild parrots as far back as the 1940s. One thing is certain -- several events have contributed to the status and distribution of wild parrots in California today.
With their personal origins a mystery, these naturalized parrots have banded together to make the skies over Southern California their flyways, the wires their playgrounds and the trees their homes. Steadily increasing in numbers with the passing of each spring, the successful adaptation to the urban environment by these pioneering parrots gives testimony to a promising future.
Near The Gulf of Mexico
Southwest Florida
USA
A wild adult white ibis.
Wikipedia - The .American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from North Carolina via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal New World tropics. n flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females.
The breeding range runs along the Gulf and Atlantic Coast, and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Outside the breeding period, the range extends further inland in North America and also includes the Caribbean. It is also found along the northwestern South American coastline in Colombia and Venezuela. Populations in central Venezuela overlap and interbreed with the scarlet ibis. The two have been classified by some authorities as a single species.
Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.
During the breeding season, the American white ibis gathers in huge colonies near water. Pairs are predominantly monogamous and both parents care for the young, although males tend to engage in extra-pair copulation with other females to increase their reproductive success. Males have also been found to pirate food from unmated females and juveniles during the breeding season.
My increasing interest in wildlife is bringing about some lovely moments recently.
A location almost on our doorstep, not the remote isles of Scotland. So you can gather my excitement when I found out about the otters
We spent several hours, watching their behaviour, speedily motoring through the water, watching as they dived and following the trail of bubbles
I watched numerous times, as one firstly caught a fish, then brought back an eel for the kit, waiting on the bankside
Sadly the young kit, although quite agile in the water, seems to have a very bad eye problem with her/his left eye, which bulges significantly.
I wasn't sure which image to post but this one of the otter creating some wonderful ripples as it glides effortlessly through the water appealed
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guid...
Slightly smaller than a herring gull, the lesser black-backed gull has a dark grey to black back and wings, yellow bill and yellow legs. Their world population is found entirely in Europe. After declines in the 19th century due to persecution they increased their range and numbers. This expansion has now halted and there is serious concern about declines in many parts of its range. The species is on the Amber List because the UK is home to 40% of the European population and more than half of these are found at fewer than ten sites.
Overview
Latin name
Larus fuscus
Family
Gulls (Laridae)
Where to see them
Found around the UK's coastline in summer and on some inland high moors. The biggest UK colony is on Walney Island, Cumbria, with a staggering one third of the UK population. More than half the UK population is found at fewer than ten sites. They are increasingly common in urban habitats, even in inland locations such as the West Midlands. In winter it is mainly found from southern Scotland southwards, and is best looked for feeding over fields and at rubbish tips, congregating at large reservoir roosts each evening.
When to see them
All year round. UK breeding sites are left in July and August and birds start to return as early as December. Large numbers of Scandinavian birds, which are darker than UK breeding birds, start to arrive in October.
What they eat
Omnivore - scavenges a wide range of food.
Population
UK Breeding:- 110,000 pairs
UK Wintering:- 130,000 birds