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New York Susquehanna & Western train SU99 heads west for Binghamton working hard up the grade in Newfoundland, NJ.
I would characterize this as the most unexpected image taken on my 2016 trip to Newfoundland. I've always liked how the tones of the birds and surrounds play together in this shot, but the circumstances of acquiring it may be more interesting than the image itself. (at least to those who have tried bird photography!)
So me and a friend were lying prone on the chilly, damp Newfoundland stone, high above the Atlantic ocean as it sloshed and crashed at the bottom of the cliff face below. (So far below that I tried to stop thinking about how close we were to the edge of this rather precipitous fall) We had been waiting for a very shy puffin to emerge from its burrow for some 30 minutes, tripods set as low as possible. Yes, puffin image-acquiring had not yet lived up to the hype for us... not the ease of a Newfoundland tourist brochure, etc. But wildlife photography isn't supposed to be easy :)
So after a bit of prolonged discomfort and monotony, we were brought back into consciousness as we spotted two small birds flitting from rock-to-rock along the clifftops, generally headed right towards us. In fact they flew directly over our heads, and we craned our necks around to see if we could identify them. Well... they were perched directly behind us, maybe 15-ish feet away. Cedar Waxwings?? Can't really say that was on our birding radar. So there was a sort of moment where we are silently looking at each other like... should we? Dare we? I mean these are two skittish (typically) songbirds who have been in constant motion until perching nearby. In order to even attempt to photograph them we'll have to both sit up from our prone positions, get on the other side of our tripod, and swing two telephoto lenses 180 degrees around to point at these waxwings... 15 feet away. Surely they will bolt as soon as we even move with our noisy rain gear on. So we did our best ninja-crawl to reposition ourselves... they're still perched. Actually, they seemed quite interested and amused with us. These birds did not fly off for the next 5-10 minutes. I was flabbergasted. They sat perched for so long that we were finished taking frames before they got bored with us and took off. This is the part that I have always wondered about-- even though we were very close, the birds were not actually sharing the same ground. Difficult to describe the jagged nature of this clifftop edge, but they were basically sitting atop a sea stack that had a little separation from our area. Couldn't help but wonder if this was some kind of innate "bird calculation" that made them not as concerned with our clumsy movements.
Anyway, we slapped our foreheads in disbelief, turned back around, and the puffin emerged less than 15 minutes later. Sometimes it all works out! But with birds... yeah, rarely!
The Newfoundland is a large working dog. They can be either black, brown, grey, or white-and-black. However, in the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it became part of the confederation of Canada, only black and Landseer coloured dogs were considered to be proper members of the breed.
My daughter used to babysit one of these dogs for one professor in college, she said, every time she let him out, he'd just sit on the ground, not moving at all. She'd have such a hard time to get him up. They're BIG dogs, you know. :-))
There were so many of these guys flying around Gros Morne National Park it was unbelievable. I tried to capture a photo of them swarming in the air but it is difficult to do. See below for my attempt - there were hundreds of them hovering in the evergreens.
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This photograph was composed while driving through rural Newfoundland. Scenes such as this are common - and help paint a picture of a way of life: dependent on the sea; somewhat solitary; resilient; awe-inspiring.
Little Bay, NL
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JUMPING JELLYBEANS!! Flickr sure has changed...it will take some time for me to get used to it again.
I was just taking a picture of this bird island seeing what I could see when a whale jumped just as I clicked the shutter. I had no idea they were there. It was amazing and if you look you can see there were two whales. What an evening in Newfoundland.
We were in search of icebergs around Twillingate when we spotted a couple taking photos of this gorgeous Newfoundland dog. I had to ask if I could snap a few shots. It was nice to have an iceberg in the background as well.
Taken from the Newfoundland shoreline, June 2016. Many miles of drizzly atmosphere separated me from this iceberg (600mm shot). I never really obtained a totally sharp image, but I do like the feel of it. The cloud-filtered sunlight glancing off the flat, slanted top was quite eye-catching. After reviewing some previous attempts, I looked back through the viewfinder and saw this gull entering the frame. Click, click, click. That bit of gull accent ended up making the shot for me.
A composite view of the beautiful province of Newfoundland. Images were taken over a few different visits and cobbled together. The logo was also created for this final image.