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What this place lacked in decay it made up for with grandeur.
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What's stopping me moving here? Mainly, the lack of a work permit, or any appropriately remunerated work within 200 km. But it's a lovely spot—the little resort village of Arniston aka Waenhuiskrans, near the southern tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas.
Arniston is a little resort town with a permanent population of 1,267, in what is really quite a remote location.
not for sale, owner loves it as it...(sigh) this would be a very cool parts runner
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Als Abschluss einer doch recht gelungenen Marschbahntour, verirrten sich zwei Schwarzwälder in aller Herrgottsfrühe an das östliche Ufer des Hindenburgdamms um dort vor dem Frühstück und der Rückfahrt noch schnell ein Bildchen zu machen.
Passend zum Solgan: "Keine Marschbahntour ohne 218 359" kam besagte 218 359 zusammen mit 218 319 mit dem AS 1405 (Westerland(Sylt)-Niebüll) über den Damm gedieselt.
Während 218 359 im SSM Engelsdorf vor sich hinrostet, erfreut 218 319 bei RP die Leute in ihrem orientroten Lack.
Snowshill, Worcestershire
Sorry for the lack of interaction this week. I'm busy this week and doing lots of odd jobs at home.
If anyone is interested I'm exhibiting a few pictures in Thame over the weekend. Let me know if you want to come.
Sorry about my lack of activity on Flickr at the moment, Time was not on my side.
I will try and catch up over the next few days
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/14.0
Focal Length 11 mm
ISO Speed 200
My 25th image on explore (31/8/2022) reaching No. 78!
A final view of central London from this flight home.
To the south of the Thames, lies Southwark, specifically Newington and the West side of Borough. The view encompasses everything from the Waterloo IMAX, Waterloo East, and Waterloo Bridge, Capital Tower, the Cut and Union Street, to the OXO Tower, the Southbank Tower and Sea Containers London, to Blackfriars Bridge and the Tate Modern.
Across the Thames, you have vews of Somerset House, the British Museum and Bloomsbury, Space House, the LSE and Kings College London, St Clement Danes Church, and the Royal Courts of Justice, Corams Fields, Temple, and High Holborn.
One Blackfriars and SAMA Bankside are both conspicuously absent, as is the Switch House addition to the Tate Modern, and the Bankside buildings lack their modern cladding.
Taken with my Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Looking into the teeth of a gale howling inland off the Great Southern Ocean. Trial Harbour near Zeehan on Tasmania's West Coast.
Wild day with plenty of weather and lots of wash amongst the reefs. The West Coast has the longest fetch of any stretch of water on the planet. Hard to imagine this was a harbour at one point in Tasmania's recent history.
The shot is actually a two frame stitch. The left and right side frames each lacked a little of the other so I spliced 'em :-)
Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 24-70 f/4 , 2 secs at f/9, ISO 125 FL~40mm.
Breakthrough Photography 6 Stop ND filter.
Press 'L' and make it big :-)
Canadian Geese on Lords Drain.
Two sizes of Canadian Geese exist. A small 22 to 26 inch and a large 35-45 inch version. They have a brownish body with a black head, long blackneck and which cheeck patch. The smaller version has a shorter neck and lacks the cheeck patch.
They inhabit lakes, bays, rivers and marshes. They often feed in open grasslands and stubble fields.
They range from Alaska each to Baffin Island and south to California, Illinoise and Massachusetts. They winter south to northern Mexico and the Gulf Coast. Widespread as a semi-domesticated bird in city parks and on reservoirs.
Crosswinds Marsh, Wayne County, Michigan.
“Without the fog, we’d lack half of 19th-century literature. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles howled out of the gothic Dartmoor mist; Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde relied on the curtain of fog to obscure his transformations; Jack the Ripper’s evil seemed to prosper under the miasma, as if it had infected men’s souls.”
Philip Hoare, The Guardian, 2 Nov 2015.
Огортаючи світ густим, непроникним туманом, туман створює відчуття ізоляції та самотності, змінюючи сприйняття навколишнього, туман бентежить розум.
“Без туману ми втратили б половину літератури ХІХ століття . Собака Баскервілей Артура Конан Дойля вила з готичного туману Дартмура; доктор Джекілл і містер Хайд Роберта Льюїса Стівенсона покладалися на завісу туману, щоб приховати свої перетворення; зло Джека-потрошителя, здавалося, процвітало під міазмами, наче воно заразило душі людей.”
Philip Hoare, The Guardian, 2 Nov 2015. (Google. Translate)
Taken at Slimbridge
The avocet is a distinctively-patterned black and white wader with a long up-curved beak. This Schedule 1 species is the emblem of the RSPB and symbolises the bird protection movement in the UK more than any other species. Its return in the 1940s and subsequent increase in numbers represents one of the most successful conservation and protection projects.
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Wells next the Sea, Norfolk
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
I have just had this information from Hein Van Grouw from the Natural History Museum, after requesting some pictures of this bird: He is the museum's expert on these kinds of birds.
As the bird is clearly not a juvenile, so in other words; this bird is independent and able to source its own food, it must be an Ino rather than an Albino. Albino birds have a very poor eye sight due to the total lack of melanin pigment in their eyes. In Inos there is still a little bit melanin left, in both the eyes and the plumage. In the plumage this pale coloured melanin rapidly bleaches further in the sun light and soon the bird appears to be fully white. The remaining melanin in the eyes, however, is enough to keep a proper eye sight and therefore Ino birds do not have a problem with their vision and often survive very well for a long time.
I knew about an Ino Long-eared owl who lived for years in a certain area (in the Netherlands) and even reared a nest of youngsters every year.
Chinese mob being prevented by the police from demolishing the information booth of Hong Kong protests supporters in Mariahilfer Straße in Vienna last Saturday
I know this kind of people, because I lived and worked in China almost three years. Normally they're friendly and peaceful people, and I like them very much. But being brainwashed by using only Chinese information sources even in a foreign country like Austria, most of them are completely unable to understand people who aren't brainwashed the same way. So authorities allowing public criticism of their government will go over their heads and make them extremely angry and ready to use violence.
There were about a hundred police officers present, and they prevented a mass brawl caused by the Chinese mob right from the beginning. They did a good job.
What they lack in size, crabapples make up in number. And the color really catches the eye. Birds, squirrels and deer feed off them, but there are so many fruits that they supply color for a long time, after it has disappeared elsewhere.
The Brum skyscraper 'cluster' is set to transform the city centre area of towers to accommodate more residentials to live in.
This is all that they do in my City Centre, to keep on rising high upwards, as they can't widen out!.
For these days, my City Centre is becoming compact and lacks any room to move through the narrow streets in this City.
This part of the view, I captured was taken from the Fazeley Street Canal bridge of Digbeth.
Which for us Brummie photographers, love this part for walking around urban streets and unspoilt from most Modern progress and looking for any new changes that are taking place!
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The lack of mobility caused by my illness has got me working through a mountain of last years RAW files.
This was taken at Normanton on Rutland water last summer, no filters used, it was a lovely evening aside from all the biting insects!
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With the lack of opportunity to move freely during Covid 19, I decided to take a series of shots of reflections in the local streams, ponds, ditches and a short stretch of the River Thames. This one was taken next to Hampton Court Bridge.
The impressive mural created by local artist Rob Newbiggin to commemorate how the Botanc Gardens, Churchtown, Southport would have looked in late Victorian times. Sadly the park, though still very beautiful, has suffered in recent years through lack of investment.HSS.
Dingy Skipper - Erynnis tages
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Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
(Southerndown)
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Not the best photo, but I need to make an announcement!
I'm going to France!
I don't speak any French and have never been to Europe, but I'm ecstatic :]
If anyone knows any cool shops, museums, or exhibitions in Paris that you don't think I'd find on my own, please leave it in the comments!
P.S. sorry for the lack of anything lately. I'll take some better stuff soon.
Large duck with long, slim neck and thin, hooked red beak. White breast and sides and lack of crest distinguish male (in the background) from Red-breasted Merganser. Female's (in the foreground) bright chestnut, crested head and neck contrast sharply with white chin and white breast. Eclipse male (young male) resembles female but retains wing pattern (single black bar across wing). Female has white inner secondaries, partially crossed by black bar. Common Mergansers nest in crevices in woodlands near lakes and rivers; in winter sometimes also found on brackish waters. Beautiful complementary colors present in the pair.
Nikon 500mm F4/e lens, x1.4, f/5.6, 1/2500s, ISO 640.
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(Nyctanassa violacea). Galveston County, Texas.
I've been on a bit of photo hiatus lately. Lack of time has kept me from the field, and lack of motivation has kept me from posting on Flickr and image sharing platforms. I think that most of us experience this from time to time, and for me it can be disheartening. Fortunately, it doesn't take much to snap me out of it. This past weekend Carolina and I took a day trip to Galveston. While we spent most of the day at the beach and exploring downtown, we did take a couple of hours to visit one of my favorite marshes on the island. Here I was able to really put some effort into photographing birds for the first time in almost two months. This Yellow-crowned Night-heron proved an especially accommodating subject. I captured this image through a dense Baccharis shrub that was blowing wildly in the wind. With several bursts, I was lucky to have a few images where the head was relatively clear.
Nose-twister (Tropaeolum majus) / Kapuzinerkresse
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After the Swedes have seen everything at Haapamäki, the departure time arrives as the afternoon progresses. The type Dm7 dieselrailcar number 4216 is now heading to Jyväskylä where the Swedes shall enjoy lunch, and after that the day should be finished in Mikkeli in the evening. Haapamäki is left behind and before the 4216 can enter in the scenes of only vast forrest and some lakes, it passes scenes that still have the lack of modernity in terms of human touch.
9003, 9004 and 9002 lead HV370 loaded coal from the Hunter Valley coal loader, located on the Newdell-Liddell coal loop to PWCS Kooragang in the Port of Newcastle, seen at Branxton at 1200 on Saturday the 1st of July 2023.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regarding whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.
Canadian Goose.
Two sizes of Canadian Geese exist. A small 22 to 26 inch and a large 35-45 inch version. They have a brownish body with a black head, long blackneck and which cheeck patch. The smaller version has a shorter neck and lacks the cheeck patch.
They inhabit lakes, bays, rivers and marshes. They often feed in open grasslands and stubble fields.
They range from Alaska each to Baffin Island and south to California, Illinoise and Massachusetts. They winter south to northern Mexico and the Gulf Coast. Widespread as a semi-domesticated bird in city parks and on reservoirs.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.