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Sandhill Crane at Circle B Bar Reserve, Lakeland, FL
This shot was taken early in the morning. It was mostly overcast. I was concerned with the high ISO but loved the overall image. I was able to reduce the noise in the image without having to overly sacrifice details of the crane. Doesn't always work but I was satisfied in this case.
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A Black Brant IX sounding rocket launched from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska Jan. 19, carrying a mission to measure diffuse X-rays from the local galactic neighborhood. The flight was a success, and the science team is reviewing data. Read more: go.nasa.gov/2mUVOTU
Credit: NASA/Allison Stancil
Good morning. I thought I would post a few images of Yellow Eastern Tiger Swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), both male and females, which I photographed back in early August. All the photos were taken on the same day along a short stretch of State highway where I found Hairy Mountain Mint ( Pycnanthemum verticillatum) growing along with dozens of Swallowtails feeding on it.
The above shot of a male Swallowtail lifting off from the wild flower is probably the best in flight shot of a butterfly I have yet been able to capture. Fortunately at the time I had exposure set at .002 seconds due to the bright sun and was able freeze the forward motion as it unexpectedly flew away. Otherwise the wings would have been somewhat blurry, which is typical for most shots of butterflies in flight.
Thank you for stopping by...I hope you enjoy this series of these beautiful Swallowtails feeding peacefully on a hot August day, and that you have a great Saturday and weekend.
Lacey
ISO100, aperture f/5.6, exposure .002 seconds (1/500) focal length 170mm
I had posted a few images from the morning of April 8, but I found this one show the sun after it had risen above the horizon. There was blowing snow that morning, which was bad enough that travel was not recommended. This was taken from my car, as the wind was strong enough to make the vehicle shake a bit.
This four-week old Red-tailed Hawk is just learning to use its wings. In this image this nestling has successfully lifted its feet about 1/2" off the nest. Ithaca, New York. May 30, 2015
Just a few minutes before liftoff of the Northrup Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, VA a pair of bald eagles decide to vacate the area. There is a considerable amount of heat being generated from the launch site creating atmospheric distortion of the rocket and water tower.
www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/northrop-grumman...
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An Atlas V rocket lifting a GPS satellite into orbit at Cape Canaveral.
The rocket is 58 meters tall, weights 335 tonnes and costs $100 million a go! The Kennedy Space Center is full of big numbers.
On 5 April 2018, Ariane 5 flight VA242 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites, DSN-1/Superbird-8 and Hylas-4, into their planned orbits.
Credits:: 2018 ESA-CNES-Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - S. Martin
SUNRISE ~ Smathers Beach ~ Great Egret
The Florida Keys ~ Key West, Florida U.S.A.
*[Key West Vertical Image Series]
*[I don't know why she left!?! I was quiet. LOL]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smathers_Beach
The final bit of early morning fog lifts, as the day's first light illuminates Amicalola State Park. Taken from the balcony at the State Park Lodge -- talk about a room with a view.
A second year Bald Eagle after dining on an Ocean Beach at Copalis in 2014, a small town on the Washington Coast
This was just right place, right time.
This adult launched himself from the top of the evergreen. The benefit of 10fps is that you get to choose the one you like the best. I do have others from this moment but liked this one the most.
When Eagles have lift off there is a large jump usually followed by some powerful wing beats. This frame is the Eagle beginning to create lift by the pose of the wings and the powerful flapping.
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ESA’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.
Credits: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG - S Martin
My final trip of 2023 saw me heading west away from the rain at home to help fill in the gap between Christmas and New Year.
The target was a drake Smew (Mergellus albellus) that has taken up winter residence on a loch near Glasgow. I have seen plenty of the red head females but only previously seen a couple of the black and white males and none for over a decade so didn’t have any decent photos of one of my favourite ducks ever since I got given a bird book as a kid.
The vivid white helping it stand out amongst the other ducks.
A winter visitor to the UK in ever decreasing numbers as the warming winters mean like a lot of our winter visitors they are not having to migrate as far west as they used to.
The only member of the Mergellus family which is linked to the Mergus group of sawbills, albellus derived from the Latin for white. Where the common name Smew comes from is uncertain and first appears way back in the seventeenth century.
While climbing repeats on Craigowl Hill the sun set spectacularly! I stopped at the summit to catch my breath and enjoy the spectacle... The golden rays touching the snow speckled mountains of the north.
Just moments after snapping this shot, I was hurtling back down the hill at what, on a bike, felt like escape velocity!