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Let’s be honest: Tourism is increasing exponentially in Qatar. Whether you want to shop at the lively markets, experience a sand dune safari, or soak into the sunshine at a breezy beach, the country has it all.

 

If you are one who wants to immerse yourself in the buzzing nightlife, ultimate adventure, and blissful relaxation, we have got your back. Here we have come up with the highlights of the best places to visit in Doha, Qatar, in 2023.

 

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Fort Al Zubarah - a Must-See

 

The first and foremost on the list of the best place to visit in Qatar is Fort Al Zubarah. The site was privileged to get honored with the UNESCO World Heritage in the year 2013. It is considered an important site to preserve the rich history of early Qatari Culture. It is one of the iconic desert forts of Qatar, which you can’t miss out on if you are planning to visit Qatar soon.

 

It usually takes an hour’s drive outside Doha to reach this fort. You don’t have to pay any fee to enter this fort and admire its beauty. Just pay a visit between 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and you will be good to go.

 

A Cultural Village Awaits you at Katara

 

Want to experience the artistic and cultural interchanges to spread the message of hope and peace? Dive into the beauty of the cultural village of Katara. It is one of the places to visit in Qatar, where you can find a blend of Oriental and European architectural styles with Qatari.

 

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Like most of us in the northern hemisphere, I'm done with winter. Happens every year around this time. As we enter March, there's a growing impatience with winter cold, snow and ice. But even though the cold lingers, the increasing presence of the sun is a source of comfort. The change in the past few weeks is nothing short of dramatic. The sun rides much higher in the sky now, and the heat emitted is that much stronger. I really notice it driving in my car on a sunny day, the greenhouse effect that send the interior temperature to 80+ degrees even when the outdoor temperature is below freezing. Photographically everything has changed now in terms of light and shadow. Winter photos are still feasible, but the character is simply not the same as December and January. This is one reason I spent so much time outdoors trying to capture the sun at its nadir. The strange shadows caused by the low sun angle fascinated me. Noon-time shadows reaching out toward me that could not form until early evening on a summer day. Also the diminution of the sun to little more than a small glow spot on the horizon. A light source that could actually be photographed in the same frame as the surrounding landscape with everything properly exposed. Almost mission impossible with the blazing bright sun of a July afternoon. A sun so bright you could barely even look in its direction. I yearn for that sun, but in the depth of winter all that really matters to me is trying to capture whatever light emerges from the darkness. This scene appeared before me near the end of several hours hiking around on a freezing cold winter day. A point at which my mind was no longer functioning quite the same way as when the hike began. Not sure why I lingered so long, perhaps intuition kept me from returning to the warmth of my home. That's when the sun emerged from the thick clouds that had shielded it all afternoon. The scene before contained all of the elements of my idealized 'snow noir' vision. Long and dark shadows, contrasted by a bright but very contained sun. backlighting, killer clouds, and as if to ice the proverbial cake, snow flurries falling from the clouds still directly over me. Brightness emerging from darkness, both held in a delicate balance, and the moment frozen in time.

Just something from a couple years ago.

 

Southbound Amtrak train 55, the Vermonter, exits the 278 ft long tunnel under the center of the village of Bellows Falls and is about to cross Mill Street.

 

The tunnel was initially constructed in 1851 by the Vermont Valley Railroad. The Vermont Valley would ultimately end up in the fold of the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1893 and this tunnel would come to be a choke point on what one the B&M's core north south gateway to and from Canada as their Conn River mainline. In addition to seeing frequent B&M freight and passenger trains the Central Vermont Railway also operated thru here on trackage rights.

 

In 1988 the former B&M owned section from Brattleboro to Windsor became CV property (in a complicated tale of legal wrangling not to be retold here) with B&M successor Guilford (now Pan Am Railways) retaining trackage rights. CV successor New England Central now owns the route and this tunnel is located at MP 144.56 on their Palmer Subdivision.

 

Over its lifespan, the tunnel floor has been lowered three times; once in 1897, again in 1977 (by the Boston & Maine Railroad), and most recently in 2007 (as a joint venture between the Vermont Agency of Transportation, FHWA, and NECR with consultants; Parson Brinckerhoff Engineering & ECI Rail Constructors, Inc.) in order to accommodate increased car and locomotive heights at their respective periods of time.

 

The 2007 project lowered the floor an additional 3 ft to allow for clearance of modern multilevel auto rack cars and this view clearly shows the pronounced dip in the track profile to provide the 20.8 ft vertical clearance.

 

Rockingham, Vermont

Sunday February 21, 2020

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Captured this with three RAW shots at -2..0..+2 EV using an ND8 filter. Digital blending in Photoshop CS6. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Topaz DeNoise to reduce noise.

 

It was a nice day yesterday. Joe McLaughlin and I went to check out the tulips at Wooden Shoe. After that we left for Abiqua Falls since Joe has never been. Have a Happy Waterfall Wednesday!

 

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Milwaukee Road’s Muscatine Patrol has completed its work at Buffalo, IA and is heading southward along the Mississippi River towards its namesake city. The power for the train is a pair of rebuilt Geeps. In 1969 the Milwaukee initiated a capital rebuild program to rebuild 54 of its GP9’s in its own shops. The rebuilt locomotives had their horsepower increased from 1750 to 2000hp and were called a “GP20” by the Milwaukee. Unfortunately, this created some confusion as EMD also produced a GP20 model, which is not the same as the Milwaukee units.

- www.kevin-palmer.com - Hooting owls cut through the frosty air. A quiet gurgling sound came from the open water on the Tongue River. Sudden snaps, cracks, and pops disturbed the stillness as river ice shifted. After staring at nothing for an hour, finally my eyes could see what my camera had already detected: a noticeable glow to the north. It could be mistaken for light pollution, except there were no cities in that direction. Slowly the glow increased in brightness before it broke out into a substorm. Pillars rose up from the horizon and drifted from right to left. In the past I’ve not had much success aurora hunting in the middle of winter. But there’s a first time for everything. After months of quiet, the sun recently came to life again. Numerous large sunspots are currently moving across the solar surface, spitting out flares and explosions left and right. So much activity all at once makes it difficult to predict exactly when the northern lights will show up next. But more displays like this are likely in the near future.

Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo merriami, 37 - 46 in / 93.98 - 116.84 cm. COMMON and increasing. Found in open woodlands with clearings or agricultural fields. Large file (1.1 Million Mbs - no way for me to back up from this very tame bird)

 

Santa Rita Lodge, Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, USA.

 

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Increasing saturation to the limit can bring out this amazing result

As we moved up and left we placed ourselves at increasing risk. With each hit of the ice axe I watched the snow slide down beside me. If the snow headed toward the saddle then I was pretty sure we would do the same if we had fallen. But at one point, as I watched the snow break off and slide past, I saw it skate down the slope before disappearing over the edge to the abyss.

 

It was at this point, not far from where I am in this shot that I placed our first piece of protection. I'll admit it wasn't the best placed bit of gear. The snow was soft underneath and the change in rope direction didn't help things as it naturally pulled in the wrong direction, but some protection is better than none at all...right?

 

It took us much longer than anticipated to get here and there was still some distance to go. Each movement was hard fought and I found myself grunting like a tennis player as I plunged the axe into the snow. Slow as it was though we were still making ground.

 

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I photographed this pair of American Wigeon in San Diego with the sunshine showing off the iridescence of the male's head. They are very closely related to Eurasian Wigeon, and are very similar from the neck down: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/31066477864/in/photolist Increasing numbers of American Wigeon are seen in Britain each year (c20) and it was removed from the rarities list in 2002. Eurasian Wigeon is a scarce but regular wintering bird in North America and each species associates with its close cousins whenever they find themselves on the wrong continent. Almost all dabbling ducks used to be in the genus Anas but a molecular study in 2009 resulted in 5 species (American, Eurasian and Chiloe Wigeon, Gadwall and Falcated Duck) being placed in a resurrected genus Mareca, which comes from a Portuguese word Marreco, which is a general word for smaller kinds of duck. An old vernacular name for American Wigeon is Baldpate (pate is head) though bald originally mean white (as in Piebald, and Bald Eagle).

 

One final thing, an American Wigeon was reported near Barnsley this week. It turned out to be a hybrid Wigeon x Chiloe Wigeon, which had thrown up a bird that superficially resembled a drake American Wigeon. Interestingly the bird itself wasn't sure what it was as it was associating with Gadwall, rather than the nearby flock of Eurasian Wigeon. I couldn't find a photo of the actual bird but here's an excellent Wigeon x Chiloe hybrid taken by my Flickr friend Bill Richmond: www.flickr.com/photos/126355457@N02/52731623096/in/photolist

Illustrate attraction in a photograph today. #ds502

 

New research from the University of Washington indicates that the setting of children for sweets have a biological explanation. Apparently, the desire for sugar is related to the accelerated growth rate of this phase of life.

"The relationship between sweet and growth makes sense. When growth is fast, the body's caloric demand increases. Children are biologically compelled to like sweets because they fill a nutritional need, which causes them to seek energy sources, " explains one of Study author, Danielle Reed.

Explained: This is the delicious law of attraction!

I can't tell you how tired I'm right now ...to do anything in fact! oh well, at least i manage a post here but if i'm departing for a holiday destination at this very moment, no matter how crap i feel, i'll make sure i crawl to the airport by hook or by crook :P A good nite from here as i volunteer to drag myself to bed soon! See u later!

 

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The Departure Hall at Changi Airport Terminal 3, Singapore

 

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Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens

 

Photomatix

 

- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option

 

Photoshop

 

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'levels' to increase the surrounding tone

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to tone down the lightings

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (cyans) to tone up the glass

- Blended in a 0 EV tonemapped shot to remove movement of ppl in the foreground

- Applied noise reduction at certain area

- Applied a slight amount of 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer

 

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This shot was taken in St Nicolas Des Eaux, a really pretty village close to where we were staying in Brittany. Having seen this weir before on Daniel Sharp's photostream I was really keen to go and shoot it, and I'm glad he took us there.

 

In this shot I used the B+W 110 filter to slow the exposure down enough to just about capture the swirling water, but in hindsight I think I would have done it more justice if I'd increased the exposure time slightly more.

 

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Glaciers have been shaping our world for millions of years. But as climate change warms the planet they are disappearing. Since the industrial revolution, human activities have increased greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere and have raised global temperatures. Thus glaciers have been rapidly melting. Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tons of ice per year. Scientists project that if emissions continue to rise unchecked, the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer as soon as the year 2040.

Glaciers act as indicators of climate change and the increased speed of glacier melt is an early warning. Ice acts like a protective cover over the Earth and our oceans. These bright white spots reflect excess heat back into space and keep the planet cooler. As this ice melts, darker patches start to emerge, eliminating the effect that previously cooled the poles, creating warmer air temperatures and in turn disrupting normal patterns of ocean circulation.

Melting ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels. Because that water is stored on land when it melts it significantly increases the amount of water in the ocean. That increases coastal erosion and creates more frequent and intense storms and hurricanes. The recent rate of global sea level rise has departed significantly from the average rate and is rising more rapidly.

The loss of glacial ice also reduces the amount of fresh water available for plants and animals on land. Large additions of freshwater change water salinity and change the ocean ecosystem. In the Arctic, as sea ice melts, wildlife like walrus are losing their home and polar bears are spending more time on land not being able to hunt.

Rapid glacial melt in Antarctica and Greenland also influences ocean currents, as massive amounts of very cold glacial-melt water entering warmer ocean waters is slowing ocean currents such as Gulfstream. This will disrupt weather patterns worldwide.

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While the rest of the group charge ahead, one member tarries, exiled by a lack of waterproof dressings.

 

We're Here, banned from the mainstream.

 

Hand-held & polarised. I haven't used the polariser on the 85mm before, so it was nice to see the strong contrast increase.

 

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With the current summer schedule slowly drawing to a close, many airlines are now beginning to prepare themselves for the quieter winter schedule as well as beginning to make changes to the next summer schedule.

Emirates provides much of the capacity between London Heathrow and Dubai-International, ever since COVID-19 has seen the flag-carrier consistently operating 6 daily flights all utilising Airbus A380s. Sporadically, a few winter schedules has seen Emirates providing a 7th daily flight which consisted of a Boeing 777-300ER alongside a vast array of Airbus A380s, although the previous W24 schedule did not see the 7th daily flight operate.

In recent schedule filings, Emirates intends to increase frequencies between London Heathrow and Dubai-International for the W25 schedule; commencing from 26th October 2025, EK41/42 is reinstated but will operate 6-times weekly instead of daily which does exclude Friday. Boeing 777-300ERs will continue to operate EK41/42.

Currently, Emirates operates 116 Airbus A380s.

Echo Echo Uniform is one of 116 Airbus A380s operated by Emirates, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 27th March 2014 and she is powered by 4 Engine Alliance GP7270E engines. She has previously carried Year of Zayed 2018 colours from December 2017 to January 2019, Rugby World Cup Japan 2019 decals from June 2019 to December 2019 before carrying Dubai Expo colours from September 2021 which was modified to Destination Dubai colours since September 2022.

Airbus A380-861 A6-EEU on final approach into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on EK31 from Dubai-International (DXB).

Increasing Summer visitor to Dumfries and Galloway in Phragmites Reed Beds

Taken today. Increased contrast a little. Also used photo filter 81 in photoshop elements to warm it up a bit.

In 1686 the Sicilian fisherman Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli perfected the first ice cream machine.

However, the popularity of gelato among larger shares of the population only increased in the 1920s–1930s in the northern Italian city of Varese, where the first gelato cart was developed.

Italy is the only country where the market share of artisanal gelato versus mass-produced gelato is over 55%.

Today, more than 5,000 modern Italian ice cream parlors employ over 15,000 people, mostly Italians.

 

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Endicott Arm, AK

 

rough guess image about 3.8m or 12' across (glaucus winged gull in another photo used for scale)

 

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"As shipping traffic into Melbourne increased along the coast of Mornington Peninsula between Western Port and Port Phillip Bay, there was a high incidence of shipwrecks. So, in 1841 a committee was formed to find the best location for a new lighthouse. Cape Schanck was chosen for it’s location and high cliffs. 18 years later the first stone was laid and Cape Schanck Lighthouse became operational in 1859.

 

Cape Schanck Lighthouse was constructed using limestone blocks with a decorative bracketed gallery, rock face base course, tapered window and door openings and rare stone spiral staircase (one of only three pre 1863 surviving Lighthouses with a stone spiral staircase). The Lighthouse stands just 21 metres high and has been built on an 80-metre cliff the focal plain of the light is 100 metres above sea level. The range of the beacon is 26 nautical miles over the shipping lanes of the Bass Strait.

 

The Keeper’s Quarters (used for guest accommodation today) was built using the same limestone construction and provides a unique glimpse into the history of lighthouse life in a remote and dramatic natural setting.

 

Cape Schanck is considered by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to be the most original lighthouse under its jurisdiction. The original clockwork mechanism is still in place, though the light is now turned by an electric motor. The lighthouse was renovated from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The character code or signature code for the Cape Schanck Light is the Morse code letter “N”. This Morse code is unique to the Cape Schanck Lighthouse."

 

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Hummingbirds are visiting our north Alabama backyard. I put feeders (filled with 1 part sugar to 4 parts water) out a few days ago. Yesterday a hummingbird appeared but I was unable to get a photograph. The rainy day must have increased their appetite; one returned several times for a refill for its tummy. Morgan County, Alabama - 2018

Sometimes, fireworks don't explode where you expect them... Thanks to photoshop, I develop my own technique to put them where I want them to be plus combining this with my DRI technique.

 

Parfois les feux d'artifices n'explosent pas toujours là où on voudrait... Grâce à photoshop, j'ai développé ma technique qui me permet de les mettre là où je les veux en la combinant à ma technique DRI.

 

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Three exposures -2EV, 0, +2EV and then temperature adjustement using Lightroom and layering with luminosity mask using photoshop. Removal of distracting stuff with the stamp tool or patch tool. High pass filter to enhance details. Then saturation, contrast selectively control, dodge and burn where need...

DRI stand for Dynamic Range Increase. Three RAW files are used to achieve this. Rather than using a software like Photomatix for instance, I simply use mask to blend, my own way, the light, dark and normal shot with Photoshop and Lightroom.. To me, It looks more natural than the usual HDR treatment that I would normally applied.

  

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Ma technique est toujours la même:

Trois prises de vue -2EV, 0, +2EV. Ensuite ajustement de la température de couleur avec Lightroom et usage de calques et masques de luminosités avec Photoshop. Retrait d'éléments de distraction avec l'outil tampon. Filtre High pass pour le rehaussement des détails. Ensuite saturation et contraste ajustés de façon sélectives et locales. Dodge and burn là où requis...

DRI vient de l'anglais Dynmic Range Increase, qui pourrait se traduire par étendue dynamique améliorée. Les même 3 fichiers RAW entrent dans la composition d'un DRI. Plutôt que de se servir d'un logiciel comme Photomatix qui fait tout le travail, je me sers plutôt de masques pour filtrer l'éclairage dans photoshop et Lightroom. De mon point de vue, cette façon de faire donne une image plus naturel que le traitement HDR que j'employais auparavant.

 

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*RARE* HT6 (SK20BGU) on route 690 passing through Brixton on its way to Norwood garage.

Increased resolution to 400% by calculating the median of 60 stacked pictures / Accroissement de la résolution de 400% en obtenant la médiane de 60 photos juxtaposées. /

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To make this photo more attractive, auto enhance used, which lowered the high tone, raised the low tone, increased contract and saturation, refined the details. The final one is quite different from the original. So, is this one better than the original? Well, it may bring out more than my eyes can notice, but it is a little far from the reality. Or I was restricted by the camera I used? What should we capture through the camera? reality or fantasy?

Increasing clouds at the Peaks of Otter and Abbott Lake on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. DSC_1089-18a

I've been away in France since I last posted an image here and at present I'm back in Ireland in my summer place in Wexford by the sea. The weather has been fantastic for a change and I've been working on commissions. Here's one I finished this morning. I've called it Anna Livia Pleurabelle after a character in James Joyces famous book Finnegans Wake. Shes the queen of the River Liffy which flows through the centre of Dublin dividing it into North and South.

 

Ive lots of photos that I should be working on but all this sunshine is so distracting. Best weather we have had in seven years ;-)

 

I'm planning a workshop in November on the use of layers and textures. If you look closely at the fish above you'll see that all those fish are just several layers of the same fish which I have decreased and increased in size ad placed around the image after transforming them in direction and size. It was originally an orange goldfish and I changed the colour to that electric blue to make the image more cohesive and to make it pop. I happy about the way it turned out and if you want to see the original image you can check out my blog where I will post a before and after of it

 

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Nightcliff is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and is set on the shores of Darwin Harbour (named after Charles Darwin).

Although the origin of the name Nightcliff has always been surrounded by conjecture and controversy, the naming can be tracked back to 8 September 1839 (the time of discovery of Port Darwin/Darwin Harbour by European explorers). Early that day, HMS Beagle, which was engaged on an excursion of the Australian coast, sailed into the area and anchored in Shoal Bay near Hope Inlet. John Lort Stokes, William Forsyth and several other crew members left Beagle on a longboat for an excursion and passed around Lee Point, in the vicinity of which, there appeared to be a major opening. Stokes was later to record.

"The sea breeze setting in early, we did not reach it till after dark, when we landed for observations at a cliffy projection near the eastern entrance point: this we found to be composed of a kind of clay, mixed with calcareous matter. We had some difficulty in landing, and then in scrambling up the cliffs by the light of a lantern. If any of the watchful natives happened at the time to be on the look out, they must have stood in astonishment at beholding such strange persons, who at such a time of night, with no ostensible object were visiting their shores".

The term 'Night Cliff' was thus applied to the locality, and it subsequently appeared in this form on Surveyor-General George W. Goyder's original plan of 1869. Goyder also mentioned the locality a couple of times in the diary he kept as leader of the Northern Territory Survey Expedition.

The Nightcliff foreshore was the site of Royal Australian Air Force camps with spotlights and large guns used to defend Darwin from Japanese aircraft bombing during the Second World War. During 1941, a naval outpost including a large concrete artillery outpost bunker was established on the headland. Various other defence facilities were constructed inland as large numbers of military personnel moved into the area. The 2/14 Field Regiment A.I.F. (Australian Infantry Force) was given the task of planning and constructing a hutted camp which became known as "Night Cliff's Camp". After the war, increasing pressure for suburban development caused the Nomenclature Committee of the N.T. to officially name the area on 29 October 1948. The conjoint version of the name, "Nightcliff" was adopted.

Today, a long footpath along the foreshore of Nightcliff is used for walking and cycling, particularly in the evenings after work. Along the footpath there is Nightcliff Jetty, Nightcliff Beach and Nightcliff Swimming Pool.

 

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I chose this photo as my favourite of 2018 for few reason.

First I wanted to explore more portraits this year, and even planned ahead portraits. I had the opportunity to explore some empty tunnels of Hong Kong with my friends one night. We had not much with us, just those two lights, one tripod and our cameras. Weather was heavy, and there was no air in the tunnel, but the photos that came out were good.

Then during the editing, I ended up playing with a few more tools than usual on Lightroom to reach this rainbow of colours and get this surreal atmosphere.

I have a lot of sentiment that increase my energy

And make me happy I love my life, I love all my friends

I miss them all the time

But

What's the name of this feeling? Or the name of this energy?

I'll admit

I do not know his name but I know he called

 

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The increase use of the pesticide DDT in modern farming brought the Peregrine falcon population to the bring of extinct in North America. Conservation efforts across the continent by various conservation organizations and individuals as increased the population such that the falcon is no longer in danger and population status of the bird is now labeled “Least concern” which is a great success story for conservation.

I found this falcon sitting on a concreate post under a bridge near a major highway. It gave me a pose for a few moments and flew after a flock of pigeons to find breakfast.

 

At Clachtoll Beach. Using ICM to emphasise the windswept waves and multiple exposures to increase the overall impression of the place.

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