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This is the big waterfall in Rouken Glen park, captured from my drone. In the background can be seen the pedestrian bridge, and beyond that another waterfall.
I managed to escape to the Peak District this week to catch up with an old friend and visit a new location. The idea was to wild camp and take both sunset and sunrise shots, but the weather forecast changed and the sun failed to show up at sunset and with heavy rain predicted through the night and into the next day we decided to call it a night.
A nice view but one for another day when the conditions are better. A nice leg stretch and a good chat in the pub before heading home to a comfy bed.
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Dried desert wildflowers, Panamint Range, Death Valley National Park.
As someone once wrote, "There's always something to see!" Occasionally I have to work at reminding myself of this, and then I have to work at doing the "seeing." My recent January trip to Death Valley was a case in point. This is a place I know well, and where I usually can find plentiful subjects to photograph, and where conditions usually are not an impediment. In fact, the conditions regarded as challenging — things like dust storms — often turn out to be photographically compelling. However, on this trip things often seemed a bit... blah. There were thick clouds and a heavy atmosphere, with a sort of gray and murky effect that did not seem to provide many opportunities to photograph the grand landscape and which left a kind of flat light that wasn't even great for more intimate subjects.
As I often remind myself, if I'm in the field often enough that I manage to encounter spectacular conditions I have to accept that sometimes I'll experience the opposite, too. So in conditions like these I have strategies. One is to simply slow down and enjoy being in the place — and I did quite a bit of that on this trip, taking time to wander up some quiet washes and to poke around odd back-country places. Another is to look where I don't usually look. This photograph came about from a combination of those focuses. Driving a gravel road "in the middle of nowhere" I noticed an abandoned side road, stopped, got out and walked along it, discoing some old mining remnants. As I walked back toward my vehicle I realized that the surrounding terrain was full of winter plants holding a remarkable number of these dried flowers, something I hadn't noticed here before.
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Managed to get out yesterday and shoot some of the autumn colours before they disappear completely . This is Golithia falls near Bodmin one of my favourite spots in Cornwall , a special place that i all ways visit once a year .
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Managed to get out for a little while this morning, and headed to Higger Tor in the Peak District. Conditions weren't exactly what I wanted - clear sky, which was expected, but no mist which I had been hoping for. It was also heaving with people, and someone, somewhere, was having a rave in their car. Unfortunately I forgot my glowsticks and whistle...
Played around with a few compositions using the gritstone rocks in the foreground, and some nice warm sidelight, and it was nice just to be out with my camera for the first time in over a month, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.
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After shooting I022 I planned to wait around for M436 that was at least 90 min away. Initially I'd planned to get breakfast but the spot I wanted to go was closed so I checked what else was around and saw that M427 was coming down from Barbers. There is only one spot on the east end of the B&A where a morning westbound works so I headed that way but with slow driving conditions I didn't quite make. Two more minutes and I could have gotten set up for a proper shot but alas all I could manage was this tight grab shot since I didn't have time to even swap lenses.
CSXT M427 (manifest Rigby to Selkirk) hustles west at MP QB50.7 on CSXT's Boston Sub behind a trio of veteran GEs led by AC4400CW 465 which dates from Aug. 2000 and still wears its as delivered YN2 'bright future' livery. They are approaching the switch for the spur into Casella Waste Systems, which receives the occasional boxcar delivered by West Springfield local L012 that makes the trek east past Palmer as needed. But that track is more than it appears on the surface and the clue is in the name of this spot which still graces maps to this day....Webster Junction.
For 72 years this was where the Boston and Albany Railroad's 11 mile long branch to Webster left the mainline and the Casella spur sits right on the branch right of way. Interestingly the branch was built by the Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad in 1884 to provide the mills in Webster with a competitive alternative to the Norwich and Worcester Railroad which had arrived 44 years earlier. Though technically independent, it was operated by the B&A/NYC for its entire existence but was never formally merged. Alas, the branch was abandoned in its entirety in 1958 leaving a few clues on the land and on maps for those who know where to look.
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Managed to get in the revamped Kingfisher hide today for the first time, I arrived at around 11.30 and by 3.00 the resident female visited at least 10 times.
Ok the weather was crap but I still managed to bag a few decent images when the clouds thinned every now and again..
Managed to capture, through the reeds, this Juvenile Deer feeding. Always a delight to see these shy deer.
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Managed to stack together 11 photos for this !
Manually aligned the images so the bulk of the alignment is around the galactic core. Resulting in a slightly fuzzy outer edge - which allows you to focus more on the core itself :)
Used the Samyang or Rokinon 12mm f2 wide open (at f2) for this photo
I managed to get out for a walk around Burrator on Thursday night, the plan was to walk up Sheeps Tor for sunset but when I climb to the top I was uninspired so decided to take a walk around in the woods along the reservior.
I was surprised to find the Blue Bells still out in bloom and stumbling across this small meadow I had to take the picture. There is a small moss covered rock in the picture (I should have been close if I am honest) in a sea of blue and the evening sun shining through the branches.
I managed to get the whole train in a single frame with my 85mm. Because of the distortion and perspective, the train looks like a big metal worm.
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Managed to fit a trip to one of the local spots alongside the weekend commitments...nothing too exciting but it was nice to get the camera out :)
I managed this fairly close shot of two Franklin's Gulls by crawling over a sandy, rocky beach for an hour, pushing my tripod ahead of me, two feet at a time. In some situations a painstaking approach is the only thing that will work. This pair watched me the whole time, one of them expressing apparent displeasure at this moment; a moment later, they were both gone.
The lake was teeming with birds in early May. By late May, very few remained. In late October, the place is a staging area for tens of thousands of snow geese, swans, and ducks on their southbound migration.
Photographed at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I managed a drive over to the coast this weekend. It had been years since I'd seen the ocean! This photo is from the little beach town of Princeton-by-the-Sea, about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Years ago a friend and I would take a bottle of wine, a loaf of French bread, and a crab net here and amuse ourselves for hours on this pier. We always had some Dungeness crabs to take home - but the wine was usually gone.
I managed to squeeze in a bit of brick therapy during the past few weeks.
This is small cargo shuttle, that I've been building over the last five weeks or so. This ship is intended to be the space equivalent of a box truck, like this. I imagine this particular ship as having a lot of light-years under its belt, used for longer journeys than originally intended, so there's a hammock in the cargo bay. As I explained above, I had a lot of time to think about this creation, even if I didn't have much time to build or blog. I also imagined the that it might not always have been docked in the nicest of space neighborhoods, so I built after I took some photos, I covered it in graffiti.
I managed to get within 20' of this big guy. And I'd of been scared out of my socks, had I not been in my truck at the time. Some times it helps to take a trip to Yellowstone, even during a drought.
There were very few animals in the Park, and just outside the Park the animals I did see looked to be about half starved. We waited a life time to make this trip, and because of the lack of rain everything was pretty much dried out. I pray we get lots of rain this winter. We need to put out all these Fires and fill-up our lakes and reservoirs.
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I managed to see the Aurora on Thursday night. I took loads of photos and had such a great time. I was completely alone on my favourite beach at Rhossili (3 miles long!). Not the best Aurora shots I have seen but still happy to get anything! All shots taken in RAW and converted to jpeg images with no added saturation.
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I managed to capture this beautiful sunset scene over a wheat field near where I live in West Sussex, UK. As I was walking through the field I came across the curved tractor track in the wheat that adds nicely to the foreground. I had to do quite a bit on noise reduction in post production though as it was quite a low light scene.
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I managed to lose the front of my diffuser back in July. I was leaning over the railing on a floating a bridge to shoot a spider and the wind caught it and it fell into the water. It being held together using neodymium magnets is very useful, but obviously I hadn't built it strong enough.
Since there was no one around but my family (this was out in a nature reserve) I decided to strip off and dive for it.
I spent a while there, but my attempts were fruitless so there was not much else to do but go home and build myself a new one.
This is the second test shot taken with version 7 of my diffuser. It had been raining that day and this was in the evening so I had couldn't be too picky with subjects and this acalyptrate fly (Meiosimyza decempunctata) in the neighbour's hedge is perhaps not the most challenging of subjects, but I am please with the results.
Version 7 now have 10 magnets instead of 5 to hold the diffusion sheet so I believe it will be much more weather-safe now.
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We managed to get out & enjoy a couple of nice walks in the sunshine but my buddy has had a bit of a rough time of it this week! Barney had a dreaded trip to the vets for a vaccination on Thursday, so he got jabbed and his horrid hooman stopped him from biting the evil vet again! Then on Saturday, he had his first dog fight in a looooong time (he came off worst). The scrap was with dad's partner's BC Hovis, who's quite nervy & anxious about Barney but also rather provocative & annoying. Hovis will do things like follow Barn around for ages, really invading his space, nipping his hocks, then skitter away nervously when he turns around.
For everyone's sanity, I mostly keep them separate when Hovis is here & when the dogs are together, they're watched, praised for calm behaviour & parted if they start getting too tense. Up till now, Barney has generally been restrained in his responses to Hovis but he must've had enough this weekend. There was a brief, loud scuffle, in which Hovis came away with a minor cut on his paw & Barney got bitten in the face a few times :( He's now looking rather the worse for wear. I was initially worried but having cleaned him up, it's clear the cuts are superficial - hopefully they'll heal fast. It was quick & mostly just noise but I still feel really bad they managed to have a fight :( Barney seems fine in himself but he's still had quite a few extra treats & cuddles this weekend! Hoping next week is less... exciting.
Managed a shot if our moon tonight, taken with an iPhone through a very big telescope. Thanks to Dave of York astronomical society for his help.
every time i look at this image i am blown away knowing that it was taken on an iPhone,
Well I first imaged M94 three years ago but never managed to get the outer ring so I thought it was time I added to this data to get a better result. I have add an addition 28 min of green, 28 min of blue and 12 min of red. I’ve also obtained an additional 40 min of luminance. This is has increased the total Integration time from 2h 36min to 4h 24min, nearly an additional two hours of data.
Object Description:-
M94, also known as NGC 4736, is a face on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M94 has an inner ring diameter of approx. 5,400 LY and an outer ring diameter of approx. 45,000 LY. The inner ring is an area of strong star formation activity. From Earth Its has an apparent dimension of 11.2 x 9.1 arc sec and a visual mag of 8.99 and lies at distance of 16 million LY.
EQUIPMENT:-
Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
ZWO LRGB Filters
Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
M94 (Canes Venatici)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
22 Red subs@120sec (44 min)
30 Green subs@120sec (1h min)
30 Blue subs@120sec (1h min)
50 Lum subs@120sec (1h 40min)
Total imaging Time 4h 24 min
Dithering
20 Darks
No Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
DSS
PS CS2
Finger LEDs
It's always good to take a step back every so often, and absorb everything that has happened. Which is exactly what I was able to do last week for the first time in months as we headed up to Scotland for 10 days to spend Easter with my parents.
I think it was the first time I have been able to properly relax this year incredibly. But what a year it has been so far. Our beautiful little daughter Léa is keeping us entertained on a daily basis, and being able to spend 10 days with my parents was extra special as they have only met Léa a couple of times so far. She absolutely loved seeing them!
I have so far managed to take a photo-a-day of Léa since she was born, something that has become a very special project for me. Watching her develop on a daily basis has been the most incredible thing I have ever witnessed - she is just amazing. Anyone that has had / has a baby will know exactly what I mean :O) What a truly magical process.
To all my Flickr contacts, I'm sorry that I have not been very active on here so far this year - life is just a little busy at the moment. But I shall return! ;o)
I'm starting to get the itch for some serious light painting action and so I will be back again soon. I hope you are all really well and that 2015 has been a great year for you so far.
David
Recently, when walking some of the forest tracks around Ardentinny, I noticed some numbered pegs by the side of the track. I soon found out that each peg was a point of interest for a canyoneering course run by the nearby outdoor centre. Every point-of-interest was also a photographers dream!.
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This is one of the waterfalls at peg #8. On the left can be seen the rope that I used to get access to the top of the waterfall.
manage to capture two architectural icons in singapore for this shot; the concourse building n golden mile complex
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This is my second shot using my drone as a lighting platform, this time in Benmore Gardens at night. I'm still trying to decide if I like this or not but, as usual, it was a lot of fun to make
Managed to get a few snaps of this beautiful field just before it started raining, Plenty of photographers out snapping this so difficult to get one without someone in the picture. I am surprised how lovely it still looks following the recent storms we have had
Managed to get a few shots of Pulpit Rock after a storm had moved through which produced a great array of colours in the sky. This is a 3 shot stitch using the shift on a 24mm tilt shift lens
I managed to take a few shots of a semi-cooperative Gecko. I looked down at my camera to adjust the exposure compensation on my flash and when I looked up it was gone.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 1x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.
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Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.
The cove has formed because there are bands of rock of alternating resistance running parallel to the shore (a concordant coastline). The seaward side the clays and sands have been eroded away.
I managed to capture this photo by going off track from the normal tourist trail on a hill that is overmatching the cove and the village. You can't really grasp the beauty of this one unless you see it from a vantage point this high above.
What I loved the most was the water, the colours it reflected, a blend between green and blue made everything a bit surreal.
Taken at Boundary Bay, British Columbia in late August 2017.
From my experience, Black-bellied Plovers are extremely skittish at Boundary Bay. The other day, I took well over an hour slowly approaching a flock an managed to get among them, making for some nice close shots!
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Finally managed to get out to see this…
Anish Kapoor's 'C-Curve' has been installed on the South Downs, just outside Brighton. The installation is part of this year's Brighton Festival. Anish Kapoor is guest artistic director of Brighton Festival for 2009.
Set the alarm early to get out there for sunrise… Taken at 5.15am (ouch).
If you want to see some seriously creative interpretations of this sculpture, take a look at 'Rob Orchard and The Big Bamboolys light painting' and also 'The Big Bamboolys moonlight shot.'
I managed to spot this from the ground of the Hotel Suvastu ast Fiza Ghat in District Swat. Brown Crakes are rare in Pakistan - only recorded around Rawalpindi previously but I managed to spot two here. The fact that two are up here and in March could mean many things - they could be resident, they could be on passage migration, they could be dispersing, they could be a pair, they could have bred, be a family....
It is the first time I have seen this bird. A great pleasure to add to the list!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_crake
The Brown Crake (Amaurornis akool), or Brown Bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.
Its genus name, Amaurornis, comes from the Greek amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown" and ornis, meaning "bird".[2] The species name, akool, is of uncertain origin. It may come from Hindu mythology, or it may be a derivation of the Sinhalese word kukkula, which is used for both moorhen and watercock.
Windig ist es im rauen Norden Norwegens eigentlich immer. An manchen Tagen fiel sogar das Gehen schwer, an einem Tag hat mich der Wind umgeworfen, an einem anderen meinen Fotorucksack 1 m in Richtung Abgrund befördert. Dass dies so ist, wusste ich. Aus diesem Grund wollte ich mein robustes Stativ "iFootage Gazelle TC" mitnehmen, aber 22 kg Gepäck für eine Foto-Wander-Camping-Reise in den Hohen Norden, da muss man Kompromisse machen. Und so hat mich mein "Manfrotto 732CY Carbon-Basalt" mit dem kleinen Kugelkopf begleitet, mit Kugelkopf und Schnellwechsel-Platte nur 1.200 Gramm schwer. Ja, es ist nicht ganz so stabil wie das große Stativ, es ist in den Funktionen etwas eingeschränkt und es ist kleiner, aber ich bin auf meiner Reise wieder mal erstaunlich gut damit zurechtgekommen 😊.
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It's always windy in the rough north of Norway. On some days it was even difficult to walk, one day the wind knocked me over, another day it carried my camera backpack 1m towards the abyss. I knew that this was the case. For this reason I wanted to take my robust "iFootage Gazelle TC" tripod with me, but 22 kg of luggage for a photo-hiking-camping trip to the far north means you have to make compromises. And so my "Manfrotto 732CY Carbon-Basalt" with the small ball head accompanied me, weighing just 1,200 grams with the ball head and quick-change plate. Yes, it's not quite as stable as the big tripod, it's somewhat limited in its functions and it's smaller, but I managed surprisingly well with it on my trip 😊.
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