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I suppose one of the advantages of being a bit cooler today was that some subjects were a bit lethargic. I found this lovely little Bee on a fence at Wilford Claypit today. I imagine it might be an Andrena species, but I've no real idea, any help with ID appreciated. I positioned a sheet of blue foam below the fence to give this Summer like feeling.
A 6 image focus stack using an F/10 aperture, ISO 320 and a 1/160 shutter speed.
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Cool, partly cloudy weather makes the perfect conditions to photograph small solitary bees. I found this female Mining Bee foraging for pollen in a Dandelion. Gotta shoot them while I can because in a few short months they'll be gone for the year.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (almost 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Cheap trick: There was a light colored marble wall behind the flower and I positioned the critter close to it so the light from the flash would bounce off of the wall and back into the camera. I like to avoid black backgrounds whenever possible to maintain the suspension of disbelief. Everyone is use to seeing bees during the day, so an image that has a black background looks like a night time shot. You might not consciously think "bees aren't out at night" but a part of your brain will think that the image is "off" and you won't be able to just relax and enjoy it.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp.
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These trenches and standing water canals are along Amboy Road between Amboy and Sheephole Pass. Here they are at sunset. The water's an odd sight in the Mojave Desert. I believe this land is owned by the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management and is leased to the chloride miners.
This image was shooting into the sun with the backup camera which has a crappy dynamic range.
I went over Sheephole Pass partly to see if old 66 had re-opened. It's still closed east of Cadiz. Will the bridge project extend to four or five years? We'll see.
Old US66 (now San Bernardino County 66 or National Trails Highway) is open west of Amboy. You can get to the Bagdad Café or Interstate 10 from Amboy as of the time I typed this.
Kelbaker Road remains open to Interstate 10 as of the time I wrote this.
...since the glory days of the Orange Blossom gold mine, (nine miles to the north), Bagdad [CA]’s primary distinction was having undergone the longest period without rainfall in the recorded history of North America: between February 1917 and January 1920, the place received one one-hundredth of an inch. Today the sole remains of the town are a single date palm and a sign announcing BAGDAD beside the [Burlington Northern-]Santa Fe railroad tracks.
— David Darlington (circa 1995)
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The retired truck 172 from the Mont-Wright iron ore mine on display at a park in Fermont, Quebec, Canada.
Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds
in all the times we have been to bisbee and said we were going to take the mine tour (http://www.queenminetour.com/ ), this is the first time we actually made an effort to do so. it was fun :D
An old mining place, it's on CR 119 I forget the excat location buy I pass it on the was to Estes Pk.
This fellow is taking a break from pollinating on a branch of wood littering the ground next to a patch of flowers at the Montreal Botanical Garden. I believe it is probably a mining bee (Andrena sp.), but any further information/confirmation would be welcomed. Quite the mustache on this one!
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash. Two-frame handheld focus stack. This bee is considerably smaller than a honey bee, I'd guesstimate roughly 10-14mm.
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My last of 4 record shots of bees from yesterday's looooong walk, via a diversion because of a landslip, from Failford to Stair along the River Ayr. This one was busy mining its burrow in a footpath. Any help with ID much appreciated.
The bee in this shot, and those in the previous two uploads were all in the same spot.
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I called at the mining museum at Astley Green where I was made very welcome by the volunteers.
The steel lattice headgear for Number 1 Shaft is the only colliery headgear remaining in Lancashire. The structure, which is over 100 feet high, was built by Head Wrightson & Co. in 1912 and replaced the original wooden shaft sinking headgear.
A couple weeks ago, Wilbur and I went to look for the miner's camp of the Horseshoe Mine. Instead of finding the camp, we found the mine. Initially Wilbur wasn't interested in returning to unpleasant bushwhacking on the backside of Mailbox Peak, but I convinced him I knew where to look. So we went and found the camp fairly easily.
Not much is left of it. While the outline of the buildings are somewhat visible, no actual structure is standing. Just a few pots and pans, cans, bottles, washbasins, the base of a stove, parts of rusty bedsteads and a laundry sink are scattered about in the last stages of decomposition. One of the most interesting relics was the system of rusty pipes for bringing water from a nearby creek. We followed the pipes until they disappeared under a tangle of blown down trees. It also appears the camp may have been used by loggers who came about 10 - 20 years after the miners as there were a couple of rusty, twisted saws present as well as some truck engine components.
We ate lunch near the site of the camp and thought about what the surroundings must have been like during the era of mining from 1904 - 1909 when the hillsides were covered with old growth forests. We surmised the miners used mules and wondered how they cared for them on the steep slopes covered in trees. And we wondered about the difficulties of logging. We could see the springboard notches in the enormous decaying stumps around us. Both the miners and loggers lived challenging lives trying to extract a living from the earth.
PS: The mine and the camp are difficult to find. I had GPS coordinates but they were marginally helpful as the GPS coordinates we got onsite were different than the ones available on-line. Good luck if you try to go there. Creek crossing and bushwhacking steep slippery slopes criss-crossed in blow-down await you.
Blue Sky Mine
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Night descends on a very remote abandoned cinder mining camp in the Mojave Desert. The mine is located near one of the numerous cinder cones in the region, the result of ancient black basalt lava flows. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. I hadn't had a flat tire in many years. However, some of the very rough roads brought that long streak to an end around midnight. That aside, it was a beautiful quiet night for photography.
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(Plate 5346) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 15 minutes total "stacked". 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. September 2021.
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Making its way up the steep incline, an unidentified SY locomotive slowly climbs the steep gradient to dump another load of mine spoil, in the backdrop of the heavily industrialised landscape. Fuxin power station and Wulong Colliery can be seen in the background
I think this is an Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) but didn't capture the tip of her abdomen where a tuft of orange hairs might confirm that - I was too interested by the pollen collected on her legs...
There were a couple of these in our Staffordshire garden today. I thought at first that they were female Halictus rubicundus but have been advised by a follower on Twitter that it's actually Andrena dorsata - the Short-fringed Mining-bee.
This is great because it's a new bee for the garden and a new bee for me too. Hopefully I'll recognise it if I see it again!