Following the Leader
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Follow the Leader Gulls flying over looking for food, warm day at the beach a while back, shot in North Carolina.
The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is a member of the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. It is native to Africa south of the Sahara and the Nile Valley.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
The Proud Leader
In the calm of an early morning, on water barely moving, one swan stepped forward — quietly, confidently, speaking only with his gaze.
He took the lead, steady and composed, guiding his small white procession as they followed the rhythm of the river.
For a moment, it felt like a gentle ceremony of nature, a ritual revealed only to those who wait long enough for the world to exhale.
Ponosni predvodnik
U tihom jutru, na vodi koja jedva diše, pojavio se jedan labud koji je odmah uzeo riječ — bez glasa, bez žurbe, samo pogledom.
Stao je prvi, hrabro i mirno, kao da vodi mali bijeli orkestar koji mu vjerno slijedi svaki val.
Na trenutak je cijeli prizor izgledao kao mala ceremonija prirode, ritual koji se događa samo kad čovjek dovoljno dugo stoji i čeka da se svijet otvori.
Cecilie Uttrip Ludwig in second place as the leaders try to force the pace nearing the top of the Duke's Pass in The Trossachs. UCI Women's Tour of Scotland.
I've been going through some of my files and editing some of the stuff from last year that I hadn't gotten to. This was one of my favorite sunsets last year
A Canadian National leader on an eastbounde bare table on the BNSF at Cooks, Washington - March 22, 2022.
Una llaaaarga filera de corbs marins volant entre les illes de Kvaløya i Ringvassøya.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corb_mar%C3%AD_emplomallat
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A large group of shags (phalacrocorax aristotelis) flying in formation in Norway, with the island of Ringvassøya in the back.
Not the shot or location I wanted, but it works. Q217-06 with CSX ST70AH 8900 rolls down the CSX Philadelphia sub in the early afternoon sun. Here they are going from the main to track one as the close in on Bayview yard in Baltimore, MD.
CSX 8900 is the class leader of the 10 EMD ST70AH locomotives that CSX purchased.
This season's family of Canada Geese nesting on Hubbard Pond proudly parading their three innocent newly-hatched goslings.
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As mentioned in an earlier posting, Hubbard Pond and its surroundings are under consideration as the site for a heavy industrial type facility by the Regents of the University of Michigan. If the project goes forward, another piece of the critical natural habitat necessary to sustain these and other vulnerable creatures will be lost forever.
UPDATE: In a 12 March 2016 letter, the President of the University of Michigan indicates the proposed heavy industrial project for this site has been "paused". Plus, all applications for various construction permits are suspended and no construction contracts have been awarded.
While this turn of events appears positive, all it takes is a whim to re-activate the project. Until the final determination is STOP, the possibility of this easily preventable man-made disaster remains. Now is the time to stand-up. Mother Nature needs your voice.
To learn more, see:
glacierhighlands.org/wp/?p=335
UPDATE: 18 March 2016 - UM President apologizes...
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/03/u-m_presid...
UPDATE: 05 May 2016 - Neighborhood Responds to UM Update
nea2ccdotorg.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/update-from-preside...
UPDATE: 05 May 2016 - Regental Action Request Submission
nea2ccdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/5_5_16_vvletter.pdf
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You do not need to be a resident of the neighborhood to help STOP this project. Take a stand in support of the saving a delightful community. Your efforts will be greatly appreciated. See...
www.change.org/p/boycott-university-of-michigan-s-bus-yar...
Stay thirsty, my friend...
A "good leader" on the eastbound roadrailer headed for Detroit, here at Romulus, Michigan as NS 2558 leads the way - April 23, 2006.
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
~Lao Tzu
or
“...nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.” ~Thomas More
I have just made a youtube slideshow of our hike there for anyone who cares to view it
SSR’s P17 leads a single BGKF grain wagon and retired Comeng cars 301M-1001T-302M 303M-1002T-304M with T381 trailing to Bendigo at Clarkefield. The grain wagon was going for repairs, the Comeng sets are to be scrapped. The units were heavily vandalised whilst in storage at North Shore yard since August, with large amounts of graffiti and numerous smashed windows. One of the cars was even set on fire, which prompted security to be hired 24/7 to watch over the trains. 301M is the class leader of the Comeng sets. Built from 1981, 187 three car Comeng sets were built by Commonwealth Engineering. They are now progressively being retired, with the oldest ones going first and the last will be retired around 2026. Thursday 14/04/22.
In the eye of the beholder.
With the Main Channel acting as more or less a runway, NYK Line's Aphrodite Leader has center frame on it's way through San Pedro's Waterfront. The ship has just been turned and burned on a quick tour of the West Coast of the United States. Arriving from Richmond, California earlier in the morning the ship is now sailing back to Japan to start rounding up another shipload of imports.
Off to the right filling in some of the frame is the Ever Future unloading at Everport "TICTF South". As well as part of a Cruise Ship at World Cruise and a very thin profile of the USS Iowa at it's home at Berth 87.
SUNSET ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
Winter ~ Ibis ~ Boynton Beach, Florida
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County, FL
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What a treat this morning to see the first signets of the year at Sudbury Water Meadow. This location is one of my local haunts and never fails to deliver photographic opportunities.
Class leaders PN001 and 8801 lead 82P5, a Pacific National intermodal train from Moolabin Yard to Townsville.
Proserpine, QLD.
Thursday, 5 September 2024.
Heading for the last change of ends of the circuit at Shettleston Loop after reversal at Caldercruix, DB Cargo silver skip 67012 this time leads 67016 on the 3S93 Slateford - Stirling - Slateford squirts, passing adjacent to Manse Road, Bargeddie in a welcome patch of fortunate sun.
CSX L160 is about to pass under the West End Bridge, one of the best locations for a good city skyline shot in Pittsburgh with finally something decent on this train again.
Unofficial Leader.
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戸惑う態度野蛮なリアリズム壮大な夢豪華な期間巧妙なレセプション機械的アプリケーション隣接する拡大は研究された先入観のあるモデルを追い抜いた勉強した.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Siberian tiger mom "Dari" with her young cub following close behind. At the Minnesota Zoological Garden in Dakota Co., Minnesota. Imaged in Aug. of 2022.
Visitors: Invited to check out my photostream & albums for seasonal pix of wildlife/scenics/florals.
Another trip out with the big camera and the small drone! Looking towards Bridlington from Fraisthorpe.
The vehicles carrier, Pisces Leader [IMO 9676876] on approach to Fremantle Harbour on December 16, 2015. Her previous port was Port Adelaide and once she has discharged her cargo via Patrick Stevedores operated No. 11 NQ berth will continue on to Singapore. She was built at the Shin Kurushima Onshi shipyard in Japan in 2014.
IMO: 9676876
Name of ship: Pisces Leader
Former names: None
Call Sign: HPCT
MMSI: 353987000
Gross Tonnage: 69,931
DWT: 18,781
Type of ship: Vehicles Carrier
Built: 2014
Flag: Panama
Funnel mark: NYK Line
Ship Manager: NYK Line, Japan
Beneficial Owner: Unknown
A closeup of the BBMF's Lancaster 'Leader' during its flying display at The Shuttleworth Collection in June 2023.
Practicing a little social distancing this morning and enjoying some time with the birds.
It was fun watching these Snowy Egrets chase this Double - Crested Cormorat, for it seemed where ever he went there was sure to be some fish.
San Diego River by Robb Field.
BNSF SD75I 279 leads the Empire Builder on the final leg into Chicago.
P42DC 179 stopped loading in Wishram, WA on its westbound trip to Portland, so the SD75I was added and stayed on for the eastbound trip.
13 Catalan independence leaders, including Carles Puigdemont will charged for rebellion by Spain's Supreme court. Peacefully politicians are being jailed in the EU for representing their voters. Absolutely shameful!
Facism is back in Europe! This is another black day for the democracy in whole Europe.
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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the rites of punishment, of a certain mechanism of power: of a power that not only did not hesitate to exert itself directly on bodies, but was exalted and strengthened by its visible manifestations; of a power that asserted itself as an armed power whose functions of maintaining order were not entirely unconnected with the functions of war; of a power that presented rules and obligations as personal bonds, a breach of which constituted an offence and called for vengeance; of a power for which disobedience was an act of hostility, the first sign of rebellion, which is not in principle different from civil war; of a power that had to demonstrate not why it enforced its laws, but who were its enemies, and what unleashing of force threatened them; of a power which, in the absence of continual supervision, sought a renewal of its effect in the spectacle of its individual manifestations; of a power that was recharged in the ritual display of its reality as 'super-power'.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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CN 3243 leads CN 148 through Brantford on a drab day. The shiny new GEVO sure looked good at this point.
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