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Stranger #68 – Mateusz – the last stranger of the three photographed in a row during my last encounter (take a look at the description of stranger #66 for more details). He seems to be quite serious here but the whole situation created a lot of joy and laughter :)
This picture is #68 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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OK Folks, my Flickr Friends Pekka and Dwayne wanted me to take a Shot, were we all three are visible. So here we are... :-)
I took it with the Self-Timer - it was totally overexposed, although I took it in the very late Afternoon. However, I tried to make the Best out of it. I hope you like it.
Shot was taken at my Favourite Place, which some of you may know from earlier uploaded Images.
For the 6th year in a row, Wintergloed makes the city of Bruges shine with a beautiful light trail. "FIRE & ICE" makes you discover 10 special light installations that connect the warmth of fire and the icy splendor of winter.
Echoes of the North
"Search in the Ice Age" at Kruisvest - Sint-Janshuismolen
(...) This atypical show takes you back to the period in which mammoths populated the earth, a time full of challenges and mysteries. Admire the impressive dimensions of these gigantic animals and be inspired by their power and splendour.
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Al voor het 6de jaar op rij laat Wintergloed de stad schitteren met een prachtig lichtparcours. "VUUR & IJS" van het Brugse centrum tot langs de Vesten ontdek je 10 bijzondere lichtinstallaties die de warmte van vuur en de ijzige pracht van de winter met elkaar verbinden.
Echo’s van het Noorden
“Zoektocht in de IJstijd” bij Kruisvest - Sint-Janshuismolen
(...) Deze atypische vertoning brengt je naar de periode waarin mammoeten de aarde bevolkten, een tijd vol uitdagingen en mysteries. Bewonder de imposante afmetingen van deze reusachtige dieren en laat je inspireren door hun kracht en pracht.
Bron: www.visitbruges.be/nl/wintergloed/lichtbelevingswandeling
"I"m telling you, 'cause I know;
if Ya want to sell your pumpkins
You gotta keep 'em in a row."
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Dont'cha just love these big
round orange balls you see
everywhere this time of year?
I know I do; and will be so dis-
appointed when they're all
gone....made into pumpkin
pie or soup, or carved into
jack-o-lanterns! ~sigh~
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"But just what do they do
with all of them that don't
sell? Do any of you have
any ideas?
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Just Wondering...
~Mary Lou
The first map of Southwark (Duchy of Lancaster ca1543) clearly shows it marked as 'George'. It was formerly known as the George and Dragon, named after the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. There were many such inns in this part of London.
In 1677 the George was rebuilt after a serious fire that destroyed most of medieval Southwark.
It is known that galleried inns were used for Elizabethan theatrical productions (Inn-yard theatre). It is thought that the Players were on a dais in the courtyard with the standing audience next to them and that those paying a premium would be in the galleries with a better view.
Later, the Great Northern Railway used the George as a depot and pulled down two of its fronts to build warehousing. Now just the south face remains.
The George was one of the many famous coaching inns in the days of Charles Dickens. Dickens in fact visited the George and referred to it in Little Dorrit.
Pic #1 of 3 - 6:22:08am - Here
Pic #2 of 3 - 6:33:53am - This One :-)
Pic #3 of 3 - 6:44:33am - Here
Visit Here to see where we shot after this set.
So last night as I was falling asleep on my old friend Dimpi's couch in the Marina District, I had very little confidence that this morning's shoot would be anything but a bust. Mainly do to the fact that at Midnight when I checked weather.com the forecast was solid rain all Saturday starting at 5am this morning and it was pouring buckets when I finally went to bed. But, having made plans with fellow photographer and flickerite maxxsmart , I decided to get some rest and meet him at Starbucks in the morning.
Well, when I woke up and checked the whether at 5am it showed partly cloudy skis until 8am, then solid rain from then on out. And they were right on. So, after meeting Steve and Grabbing a coffee. We were off.
So, usually the way it works, at least for me; is you go out to a location; you take a bunch of shots; of basically the same subject, from different angles and then you pick the best shot when you get home and open your files on the computer.
Well, when I got out to this spot with fellow photographer and flickerite maxxsmart this morning, I notice that both the light and clouds where changing very rapidly. So, I got an idea. If after making my initial calculations for my long exposure and taking my first shot, my calculations turned out to be correct; I'd try to show how the light changes very quickly in the morning. Depending on when you start and end your exposure, your results can be stunningly different.
In this set of 3 shots, taken approximately 11 minutes apart you can clearly see what I am talking about. For example reason only, I did no post processing (except using iPhoto's crude retouch tool to make a piece of lint or something disappear from the sky of all 3 shoots). BTW I Hate dust, it plagues me. If anyone has a method of keeping it off my sensor PLEASE let me know.
So, here is my mini set of 3 shots, all in a row, on a morning that I almost certainly thought that I and Steve would be standing in the rain getting nothing more then a cold.
Enjoy :-)
For the Techies :-)
Canon 5D Mark II
Exposure: 240
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 50 (to control noise in the Long Exposure)
Lens: Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L II
Tripod Gitzo G 026
Head Gitzo G1178M
No Filters (Just UV to protect the front of the lens) Just adding this note because I had a few questions about which filters I used. The changes in color are due to the moving clouds acting as "filter" and "reflectors", upon the emerging sun.
This photo didn’t look like much initially, but it grew on me because of the composition of horizontal rows of background, middle ground and fore ground.
Photo taken on the drive to Glenorchy, New Zealand.
This morning, I have added a few photos taken on 3 July 2020, on the way home after a drive to Forgetmenot Pond, west of Calgary. The Pond was my main destination.
The weather forecast was for several rainy days in a row, so I wanted to make the most of a sunny day. The past week, I have had to be careful about how many kilometres I drove, before getting a service after the maintenance light came on a week ago, as I didn't want to mess up my car warranty.
On 3 July, however, I decided to drive west of the city, just into the eastern edge of the mountains. It's not a long drive and I was hoping to find some wildflowers before they all go to seed. I almost gave up trying to photograph wildflowers, as it was too windy to keep the flowers in the viewfinder.
What a nightmare few hours, as I think half of Calgary decided to do this trip. So many cars and so many people. Parking lots were overflowing and the main highway was lined with parked cars in many places.
My first stop was at a forested area to have a quick look for wildflowers and to see if there were any fungi that had started growing yet. Very little variety in wildflowers, and I only came across one single mushroom plus a little group of a different species.
From there, I kept driving till I reached Forgetmenot Pond. This is actually a man-made pond, left over from the excavation of a gravel pit. The water is crystal clear. It's just a short walk around the pond, but enjoyable to do. The main road this far into Kananaskis only opens in June each year, as a winter gate at Elbow Falls closes in December for the winter months, to protect the wildlife in the area. This day, though, the path around the pond had so many people on it, and some people (families?) had actually set up various tents near the path. I had to keep walking through the trees to avoid everyone. As for Elbow Falls, there were so many cars there that there was no way I was going to even try and call in briefly. This was a Friday, not even a busy weekend day. I guess this is what it is going to be like the whole of the summer - yikes!
I found the following 4-minute video on YouTube, taken by Kenneth Lori using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter and taken on 16 June 2016. It travels over Forgetmenot Pond and the surrounding river and mountains. So beautiful.
Later, it was such a contrast to drive a few of my favourite roads closer to home. A few cyclists and a few cars, but, in between them, it was so quiet and peaceful. Felt so good. There was even one Snipe on a fence post to make this extra bit of driving worthwhile. Not that I need any more Snipe photos to post : ) You might be glad to see a Snipe photo as, soon, it will be back to (oh, no!) American White Pelican photos. Just had to get out for a while on 5 July, partly because my place was feeling much too warm. The drive to and from Frank Lake was roughly 145 kilometers.
On 3 July, I found that two of the Mountain Bluebird families had vacated their nest boxes. I had a feeling that I was going to miss their fledging - this is what usually happens each year! However, I was so happy to spot a tiny Bluebird fledgling huddled right against the top of a fence post. Just trying to keep safe. And then, suddenly, it was no longer there. I didn't see it fly and I thought it may have dropped down into the grass. However, when I turned my car around to the other side of the road, I found a fledgling (same one?) down in the field, in an area of dried mud rather than tall grass. SO cute.
To help support a small pub/restaurant in the area, I called in and got take-out. One of the young women who works in the cafe was excited to tell me that they now have homemade chili on the menu again. The minestrone soup is also good.
There was still time, after taking a few photos of some of the usual birds, to drive on a road that I have driven so many times before, but not for a while. Happy to see a beautiful Swainson's Hawk perched on a fence post.
Finally reached home around 5:00 pm, after driving roughly 185 km since 9:30 am. So, not a really long drive, and one that still left me with more spare distance before my car had to go in for service yesterday. Hopefully, that will be that, for the rest of the year, as far as my vehicle is concerned!!
Yesterday, 9 July 2020, I gave my car a good test when I did a long drive to one of my favourite places. I stopped and started the car so many times, feeling nervous that it might not start, but all worked out well. Lots of beautiful sightings that I will start posting in the next few days. I haven't even downloaded my photos from yesterday, which is most unusual for me - I was exhausted after driving somewhere around 460 km!
Cropped version of the one posted earlier...advice given, taken and followed through and i think i prefer this one.
April 25, 2018
Two warm days in a row pushed the hesitant peach blossoms to open today. It has been a very cold and long winter.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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After shooting POAY at Wells Beach I raced to the state line at the Salmon Falls bridge missing the train by 45 seconds thanks to a slow dump truck I got stuck behind. But no matter, I had one more shot in mind that has long been on my list. Given that this spot was only 14 miles further from where I'd just missed him I knew I had to hustle....or so I thought...but boy was I wrong! It would be more than 2 1/2 hrs before he would show up making for quite the long wait here on the Main Street overpass.
Instead of keeping them moving the dispatcher elected to old them on th double track at Dover until the two Amtrak Downeasters that were approaching from both directions got by. Normally Boston bound train 684 would show up here first then meet Brunswick bound counterpart 683 on the double track in Newfields just ahead. But for whatever reason 684 that left Portland on time encountered nearly an hour delay so 683 came first then 684 and finally after all that cleared up POAY was back on the move to Boston.
So here first up is the rear of eastbound train 683 with a P42 bringing up the markers seen passing the gorgeously restored former Boston and Maine station that has been owned by the University of New Hampshire since purchased for one dollar 1960. Those of you who've read some of my other recent captions may notice the hitorical link between these photos in that the depots here and at Wells Beach and Kennebunk were all sold in the same time period as the spiraling B&M did anything and everything to raise cash and eliminate tax liablities to try to stave off the inevitable bankruptcy. And it was a harbinger for the end of B&M intercity passenger service that was only 5 years away well before the rest of the indutry followed suit with Amtrak in 1971. Although with one caveat....the ICC mandated the B&M to run one round trip each to Concord and Dover, NH (the latter of which stopped here) two more years until those too ended in 1967.
Anyway, this depot was erected here in 1912 when the B&M double tracked and realigned their main (dating from 1841) out of the center of Durhamm. But this yellow brick building itself was actually built in 1896 as the East Lynn depot. It was disassembled and moved here from Lynn in anticipation of the grade separation project and proposed four tracking through that city that I've written about before.
And yes...that is a pay phone you see...and no, I didn't check if it worked...but really wish I had!
Durham, New Hampshire
Monday March 22, 2021
Here a duck, there a duck, everywhere a duck, duck.
Thanks backroadshutterbug for the title idea! :o)
The 2018 Southern California Wrestling Dual's were held at Palomar College on Saturday 13th October 2018.
CHAMPIONS – Cerritos
RUNNER-UP – Palomar
Mt. SAC finished third behind Palomar and Cerritos.
Cerritos won its third So Cal Duals title in a row.
"Four Cranes in a Row" by Patti Deters. Four Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) fly gracefully in a line above autumn grasses at Crex Meadows in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, USA. under a clear blue sky. The lead crane has her wings down while the other three birds fly in formation with their wings up. The scene captures the elegance of nature and the freedom of flight. Thank you for viewing this image. If you like outdoor nature photography, please enjoy more birds, animals, and other wildlife images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/four-cranes-in-a-row-pat....
I was at work and needed some air, so I went onto the quayside in Peterhead on this ships last trip there. I had my old Olympus EE-3 half frame camera in the pocket of my boilersuit and decided to go ahead and waste a few frames on the tanker van just about to leave with all our sludge on board. I don't know about the result... but it was sort of fun though. And no, it didn't look anything like this in the real world since you ask.
I had to build this as a composite from three different shots. Usually I wouldn't work that hard to get a show but I really liked this home-made costume. I had to combine the shots because people kept walking by on either side of Sarah and Starscream. As for the costume, I really like it. She has made a Transformer at least two years in a row. Last year she was a G1 Bumblebee. Way cool!
Because of an exhibition I am preparing for next summer with "IN A ROW" as its theme I am making a number of collages with photo's shot between 2005 and 2017. This is the fifteenth I am uploading to Flickr. More will follow. In this one: Dunes at Schoorl, Neth., ploughing, Bellingwolde, Neth, dunes at Schoorl, Neth., Nieuw Statenzijl, Groningen, Neth and, in the middle: Bellingwolde, the Neth.
For the second year in a row, we were treated to a very rare flying display from a U-2 at RIAT 2025. The aircraft performed a flying display on the Saturday and Sunday of show, consisting of a 'high-speed' gear-up pass, a simulated engine out approach, as well as the unique takeoff and landing routines of the aircraft.
This photo was taken during the go-around after a simulated engine-out approach. -19/07/2025
Silly outtake from my photoshoot with Cadence today. Click that link to find out what I'm up to!
Additionally, I'm only going to say this once, Flickr pervs: if you leave inappropriate comments or invite this photo to inappropriate groups, I will block you. Not interested in being objectified without my consent, thanks.
A lot of people have a photo of Bleeding Heart flowers in their photostream, but they are beautiful flowers : ) Saw these at the Reader Rock Garden on 25 June 2014. This garden is situated on a hillside and it often tends to be windy whenever I go there, lol, so these delicate branches of little pink hearts are a bit of a challenge to keep in the viewfinder.
"Lamprocapnos spectabilis also known as old-fashioned bleeding-heart, Venus's car, Lady in a bath, Dutchman's trousers, or Lyre-flower is a rhizomatous perennial plant native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Lamprocapnos. It is a popular ornamental plant for flower gardens in temperate climates, and is also used in floristry as a cut flower for Valentine's Day. It usually has red heart-shaped flowers with white tips which droop from arching flower stems in late spring and early summer. White-flowered forms are also cultivated." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocapnos
Today and tomorrow are the last couple of days of the 10-day Calgary Stampede, and then life will return more or less to “normal”. For visitors to our city, especially, these days are full of excitement and interest. For many of us who live in Calgary, whose children have grown, the tendency can be to get in the car and drive in the opposite direction, away from the noise, the crowds and the smell of grease that fills the air down at the Stampede Grounds.