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Heads up kids! Incoming.
Within about 30 minutes, two fish were brought into the nest while I was there. The gang is doing well! Plus they were being fed when I first got there. I think she grabbed this fish out of the water from right under the bridge where I was standing. Good job mama!
The CSXT 777 on the point of CSX Q257 is heading south through Bowling Green, OH on the CSX Toledo Branch on a sunny early May late morning. 5/1/18
A delayed Cn 439 rolls by the Chatham sub with dual SD75is after waiting on VIa 78 at Stoney Point. As a result, it came in some awesome light which is hard to beat.
seems to be an expression of satisfaction as the Steller's jay retrieves one of a few peanuts in the garden
Did some birdwatching today, taking advantage of the wintry c-cold weather that came our way thanks to Winter Storm Izzy. No snow or ice like other areas but cold enough to ramp up the activity at our feeders.
Fair warning - Because there a lot of photos, there will quite a few posts over the next few days. Today is a series I'm calling Jackpot! Each bird, or squirrel, was caught in the act of grabbing the goodie before taking off.
Starting off with the lead shot of an immature Redheaded Woodpecker who hit the jackpot at the nutlog feeder with a bodacious treat!
(See the series in the comments section.)
Juvenile White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) near Log pile adjacent to Kelowna Rec Field, Kelowna, BC.
I hit the jackpot tonight. All the elements of a great photo came together and i couldn't stop smiling when shooting this scene. This car was uncovered a few months ago when the lake was drained for upgrades. I've tried to shoot it before but conditions were never great. I actually thought the car had already been removed so i was elated to find it still there with this epic sunset going off.
This is a 3 image shift pano with the Canon 24mm tilt-shift lens.
777 rolls through Delaplane, VA with a dual heritage combo up front & many rail fans trackside. The crew was loving it too, waving out the window and putting on a pretty good horn display. Not often you'll get a train like this in perfect sun on a weekend to boot- jackpot indeed.
A dwarf runner bean that is doing well at the edges of big tubs - it comes in a colour mix, I am quite taken with this unusual colour that I had not come across in runners before...
A few minutes from the casinos is the true beauty of Las Vegas, The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Hasselblad/63 1xHz-0 drop in filter using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop
I'm not sure who I need to thank but the Twin Ports area has treated me very kindly these past few weeks. UP 1995 made an appearance in Itasca, DMIR 215/403 have been paired on the E lead job out of Proctor, and don't even get me started on the weather. It really makes me want to push my luck and snag a lottery ticket. Anyways, DMIR 215 and DMIR 403 shove a cut of cars back into the yard as a loaded train rolls past.
Proctor, Minnesota
(CN) DMIR 215 DMIR 403
Testing out my new budget walkaround setup - D700+Tokina 400mm 5.6 + Kenko Pro 300 1.4x....pleasantly surprised by the results!
Taken at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, Douglas Squirrel with a White Fir (guess?) cone.
Photo of Colchuck Lake, elevation 5,570 feet above sea-level, Aasgard Pass (Also known as Colchuck Pass), elevation 7,841 feet above sea-level and located on the left, Drangontail Peak, elevation 8,842 feet above sea-level and located in the center, and a hint of Colchuck Peak, elevation 8,705 feet above sea-level and located to the right, captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 17mm F/4 lens. On the Colchuck Trail. Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Stuart Mountain Range. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Mid October 2019.
Exposure Time: 1.3 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6500 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 50 * Filter: Hoya PRO ND ND-32 (⌀72mm)
So it is early September, which around Stockholm Sweden means autumn has arrived and the number of insects out and about have dropped significantly.
On a walk out in the forst near our home together with my family I still naturally brought the camera as you never know.
Apart from a few spiders and not much else, the trip was coming to an end without anything really interesting, plus the weather looked like it was gonna take a serious turn for the worse with dark clouds looming.
And that's when I saw the familiar green glisten of a green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) on the path in front of us!
The usual crawling and walking on my knees followed - but this one wonderfully enough decided to pause and pose a little bit for me and I ended up with this shot which quite possibly is my favourit of 2020!
Oh, and we got back just as the heavens opened with a massive rain.
24/09/2016; It was my first evening in Lisbon. I had just checked into my apartment, had the tour, received some tips from the young lady through which I booked the place, and I just came back from doing grocery shopping when I noticed the sky starting to colour up nicely.
So I quickly put down my bags, and set up my camera and tripod, to be treated to the jackpot. What a wonderful introduction to what turned out to be an amazing city, of which I have plenty more to share with you over time.
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Northbound Alaska Railroad train 235N, the once a week Winter Aurora passenger train, has a baggage car, diner, and two coaches trailing a pair of SD70MACs as they step out over the mighty Tanana River on the Mears Memorial Bridge. The 700 ft long span designed by Modjeski and Angier and built by the American Bridge Company and is one of the longest simple thru truss spans in the world. It was the final link in the Alaska Railroad upon completion in 1923 and President Warren Harding traveled here, the first president to ever visit Alaska, to drive the golden spike at the north end of this bridge on July 15, 1923. The bridge is named for Colonel Frederick Mears of the Alaska Engineering Commission who served as chief engineer of the Alaska Railroad's construction. To learn more about Col. Mears check out this link: www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/mears-frederick/
The Tanana is one of Alaska's great rivers flowing 584 miles from the eastern edge of the state before emptying into the Yukon River. Take note of the black and white tripod with the flag sitting on the ice in the river. Since 1917 that has been Alaska's own unique version of the lottery when railroad workers revived an older practice of betting on the exact time the Tanana River ice will break up here. Today individuals throughout Alaska (and by mail from elsewhere) purchase tickets betweenn February 1 through April 5 of each year. You write in the exact date and time you think the tripod will move. It has a line extending to a tower on sure with a clock in it and once the tripod moves about 100 ft it will snap the line and stop the clock. Last years jackpot was over $220,000 and if you care to learn more or make a wager before it's too late check out this site for more info:
Nenana, Alaska
Tuesday March 14, 2017
Came across this field on my way to a friend's house. It was a new route that I was not familiar with. At first glance I knew I wanted to come back. It took a few attempts of going up and down the road but worth it.
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New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R188 no. 7391 (Kawasaki, 2010-2016) is the lead motor on one of three 7 trains seen over Sunnyside Yard in this view from 49th Ave.
On a day hike out of McCall, Idaho, we ended up in a burn area (there had been fires the year before). The hike was a bust- wandering around burned trees is depressing and dirty. But I found mushrooms the size I had never seen before. We had mushrooms for supper that day. (These are Boletus edulis; Steinpilz in German)
In EXPLORE, Aug 1, 2017
You may notice that this is actually the same photo in triplicate. I took and posted the original photo months ago, but thought it would be fun to photoshop it to look like a fruit machine.
133/2016
Out hiking this AM and found more morels. Tonight will be rib eye steak, mushrooms on top and salad.
For the Macro Mondays group, on the subject of 'three'. I found these three cherries in one group, and thought they'd be perfect for the theme, since the meet the required three objects, and don't fall foul of any of the restrictions placed on us this week!
They also reminded me of the old fruit machine symbol...
I found this tangle of snakes under a rock today. There were actually two more Garters and a Redbelly that scurried away before I could get a shot off.