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It was a wee bit nippy (freezing temperatures, blizzards and high winds) on top of Beinn a'Chrulaiste in Glen Coe looking towards Buachaille Etive Mor.
6th September 2018:
A lovely sunny morning and I thought I'd profit this afternoon with a walk over the road to my little nature reserve (the car park).
Huh! By the time I could get out the clouds had come over and it had gone quite nippy.
So a quick walk round to see what there was to photo for today. Some lovely late flowering Sweet Peas in a garden. Nothing better to cheer you up.
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Shot for Week 46 of my "52 Weeks of 2022" flickr group project given the theme "Abandoned".
Winter has started in Michigan, and it was a crisp 20℉ (-7℃) for my morning photo adventure. It was definitely nippy walking around the park at sunrise looking for a good subject for this week's assignment. I found this picnic table left in the lake to weather the winter months all alone. Being already covered in snow, and sitting in front of the sunrise, I thought it made a great subject for this week's theme...
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Lock and Dam No. 15 is located on the Upper Mississippi River. It spans the river between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. Lock and Dam 15 is the largest roller dam in the world, its dam is 1,203 feet (366.7 m) long and consists of nine 109 feet (33.2 m) non-submersible, non-overflow roller gates and two 109 feet (33.2 m) non-submersible overflow roller gates. It is unusual among the upper Mississippi River dams in that it has only roller gates, has different sizes and types of roller gates, it is not perpendicular to the flow of the river and is one of the few facilities that has a completed auxiliary lock. The main lock is 110 feet (33.5 m) wide by 600 feet (180 m) long and its auxiliary lock is 110 feet (34 m) wide by 360 feet (110 m) long. In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 15 Historic District, #04000175 covering 3,590 acres (1,450 ha), 2 buildings, 9 structures, and 1 object. Construction completed in 1934. Wikipedia
Davenport, Iowa - from 41.519513, -90.571155 looking southeast
February 1, 2022
Technical: Lots of adjustments made to this include removal in Photoshop of several antennas, wires and miscellaneous. Also, I left the Bald Eagle in just because I thought it worked, compositionally. Otherwise, gone!
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The second day of hard frost, it's starting to feel like winter. The roofs glistened white this morning. Dead leaves and dry grass blades in an array of colors from bluish brown to light tan display their six-sided frost crystals poking up into the air and piled on top of each other. These start melting as soon as a ray of sunlight touches their fragile edges. The air is nippy cold but the sunlight is hot
Well despite the weather being a bit on the nippy side we manage to have a family BBQ. I have to say it wasn't too bad either. We hung some tarps up around the deck to cut the wind a bit, lit the deck fireplace and added an outdoor heater. At least we could all be together while following the restriction guidelines.
But I guess the best part of the day was that the rain didn't start until we were just finishing up coffee and dessert. Who could ask for more in these times.
This image is comprised of several images to make this panorama. It was a very nippy morning. It had snowed throughout the night and I wanted to get out there in the morning to see if I could but something together. Froze and took a short hike upstream to check some possibilities but walked back to this area and tried to compose a shot..
McConnell's Mill State Park, PA
It's always refreshing to be able to watch the sun rise and illuminate the frosted foliage in the park.
I live in a place in this world that has four seasons, though, like many such places, those seasons are far from equal. The heat of summer intruded far into autumn’s given space this year. Earth’s transit around the sun left evidence of the shorter days that herald winter... it just took a while before it was cool enough to notice that it actually was fall. We expect vivid hues, slowly falling leaves evicted by the wind, harvest of apples and pumpkins, nippy mornings and warm days. There’s also a sadness to the season as it bookmarks shorts and flipflops to coats and mittens. Like so many others, I look forward to fall setting the oven of summer down from its steady roast, and I hope for a little velocity of time... bring it on! Yet when fall arrives, I wish to be able to dial down that speed somewhat to savor the season. Regardless, time flies, and seemingly more so in the fickle season of autumn. The prolonged summer heat made setting a camera in front of some decent color even more erratic this fall, and time was working against me.
Who doesn’t love a good Easter egg hunt? I love the beach at Topsail Island for just that reason… I’ve found more fossilized shark’s teeth there among the scattered and broken shells than any other beach. I’ve been there with a crowd and have walked away with more tooth treasure because I have an eye for it. This year, with color coming in so late into the mountains of western North Carolina, I tried to put those skills into finding compositions of brilliant fall color. A rainy day in my time there last week had me chasing waterfalls. Here, I polarized the reflected sky from the foliage to show the rich autumn tones over Dry Falls when so much around it was just so many varying shades of green. “Easter eggs” are harbingers of yet another season, though the hunting concept does seem to work in fall. What do you think?
A photo of my tent on top of the mountain Ben A'an in The Trossachs, Scotland with Loch Katrine below. I camped on the mountain as the weather forecast said clear skies and a good sunrise. Typically for Scotland, the weather changed and my tent got battered by snow and high winds during the night, making for an uncomfortable night. The temperature plunged to minus 10, in Scotland we call that 'a wee bit nippy'.
If catnip is for cats, and geknip is for gek, I wonder if there are other kinds of nip as well. Like, let's start with the obvious one: Dognip. I think dognip is balls. Any balls. Meatballs, tennis balls, they've been observed to go nippy over either. Sometimes it seems like the efficacy of tennis balls is actually higher; dogs seem to get much more nippy about things they can run after.
But how about humans? To my awareness, research hasn't figured any nip that works for everyone, as is given away already by the fact you can't really form a nice portmanteau of "human" and "nip" that rolls as easily of the tongue as the previous ones. But just because something doesn't work, doesn't necessarily mean it can't be done. Maybe you're just doing it wrong. After all, you can see humans get nippy all the time, so there must be something that causes that.
Like, take my old city. You can buy jecknip there at every corner; they call it Kölsch. Only, considering very similar substances are popular throughaut the country, maybe it's more accurate to summarize them all under the umbrella term of krautnip. Yeah, that works better. Delicious cold krautnip fresh from the barrel. Ah, wonderful!
Britnip is easy too. It's tea, as long as it's the right kind. In fact, I'm consuming a can of britnip here as I'm writing this. But I'm not a brit, so I don't get nippy from it. I'm resisting it's power!
As for the brits' poorly behaved ugly offspring, things aren't quite as clear. I was thinking lead initially, but that didn't seem to work at all. Turns out yanknip is a two component substance. Lead is one ingredient, but you also need gunpowder to spice it up. Two components... way too much to memorize for the average modern yank of course, so they've begun phasing out the traditional yanknip in favour of crystal meth.
Yanknip is also peculiar insofar that it is straight out illegal in many other places. Even more so than Dutchnip - coincidentally another form of nip that involves smoke and fire.
But let's move away from nationalities, I guess you've understood how those work by now. Oznip, Rusnip, Swissnip, you get the picture... I'm sure you get a very clear picture indeed for each of these.
But what about other groups? I've once read it that nerdnip is in fact humppa. Which some researchers have claimed is also Finnip, but I have my doubts there. Nerdnip however, that checks out. One would think it's not far from here to geeknip of course, and yet research on what that might be hasn't come very far to this day. Some have speculated it's dice, or books; even socks have been rumored to have at least some nippigenic effect on geeks. Some substances that function well as geeknip also seem decently effective as punknip, which was a rather unexpected overlap. Turned out punknip is largely jecknip or derivates thereof, with traces of several other nips mixed in, and well stirred with torn-off hood ornaments; preferably from brands that will receive antipathy as soon as the nippiness levels have started to rise. Research in that area is still ongoing.
I got up at 4am to catch a sunrise at Eyemouth, but the weather was having none of it.. It rained and there was a very nippy wind making low temperatures meaning all my shots were coming out blurry.
I went back to my car and was ready to head home but I did not want to go empty handed so following a last minute decision, I headed to Pettico Wick in hope of getting some light on the cliffs.
At last the clouds broke and some light formed exactly where I anticipated and I was lucky to catch it.
I know this place has been done over and over again by a lot of Photographers but I like the beach as it is local and is the perfect place for a sunset especially. Thanks for viewing.
Another collage of frosty leaves in Iowa. We arrived in Asheville, North Carolina on November 11th. A whole new world to explore. First task is finding housing. At present, we're camping out in various motels. Pretty nippy here. Today: expected high 47, low 25 °F.
out came our inner child to celebrate a frigid
14 inch record snowfall, no such thing as too much fun
frolicking in this winter wonderland,
stay warm my friends
happy sliderssunday!
and last but not least, a very Happy Birthday
shout out to Kacey, I'm first to wish you a fabulous day,
let's celebrate! mucho♥
Dropped into Windang on the way home today ... very nippy wind blowing but with the chance of colour.. well you know how it goes.
Last Saturday was nippy to say the least! I was bundled up in 3 of everything to take shots down by the lake. Felt really sorry for all of the ducks and geese :(
A simple red Christmas light on Fifth Avenue caught my eye on the nippy night so I focused on it, wide open to cause the bokeh effect to its surroundings quite satisfied with the finished product. Another image of my wonderful experience with NYC Photographers Meetup group for their annual New York Holiday Photowalk accompanied by my damsel. OM Systems Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark III Olympus OM Systems Olympus M.Zuiko PRO 40-150 f2.8 #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @nycurbanism @nycprimeshot #nycprimeshot @nybucketlist @iloveny #omd #olympusphotography #olympus #microfourthirds #micro43photography #micro43 #nycphotographers
On a nippy morning, -8 outside, 7 degrees C inside...
Time to hook up some heaters, too much cloudy weather, the sun does not shine long enough...
1920 Aveling and Porter Convertible Tractor 4NHP "Nippy" 9354 KE1748
Photo from 2022 Stoke Row Steam Rally
12th April 2019:
A lovely sunny day other than a very nippy wind blowing over, so we stayed in the garden sheltered from it. Or as much as possible when it blows straight over us.
The apple tree in a neighbour's garden is flowering so I took a few photos and chose the one I liked best.
Not overly exciting, but better than no photo!
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The Milky Way.....Galactic Core.
Another new luna cycle so it was time I pulled my finger out and joined Ziggy for an Astro Shoot. It's been quite a while since we braved the dark nippy conditions of the Upper mountains and conditions looked good. But...... as we ventured out into the frigid night sky, the old enemy reared its ugly head, Mr Light Cloud which kinda spoiled the ideal conditions!! Oh well, here is probably the best shot of the night!
After a period of fascination with 'corporate' liveries, Polish railway companies started to repaint some of their locos into various historical liveries. One of such examples is EP07-338 carrying a very smart livery from the 1980s, commonly referred to as 'trapezium' by the Polish railway enthusiasts. On a nippy February afternoon, the TLK13111 'Połoniny' from Warszawa Wschodnia to Przemyśl Główny, via Radom, Sandomierz and Stalowa Wola is seen passing a quiet village of Styków near Starachowice.
This very nippy John Cooper Works GP Mini was flying around Goodwood and with an interesting number plate too - GP11 HOT no less. Seen here going over the start finish line at a big rate of speed.
Image details: - Nikon Z9 with Nikon Z 100 - 400mm @f/7.1, ISO 80, focal length 100mm shutter on manual set at 1/250th second. Processed in Lightroom and Topaz.
Brrrrrrr... nippy but nice walk this afternoon. Much needed after a friend bought an enormous Costco cookie dough cheesecake for pudding... bang goes the diet this weekend!!!
Explored. Thanks everyone.
British Summertime was crashing out this evening as temperatures dropped and parts of the region were experiencing the first snow of the the coming Winter (it's still Autumn!).
Any memories of that fabulous 2018 Summer seemed rather distant as the last rays of British Summertime sunshine were fading.
It was a bit on the nippy side along at Seaham Harbour late this afternoon as northerly winds were throwing some hugely impressive waves against the town's north pier and lighthouse.
The light wasn't conducive for a decent photograph, but just before I called it a day, some golden rays of the setting sun came through to illuminate the spectacular waves.
It was a nippy early spring morning on the Illinois 40 overpass above the former Santa Fe main line at Edelstein, Illinois. Then this brightly-colored fellow landed on a power line, staring right at me, posing with the endangered Santa Fe searchlights as backdrop. I couldn't resist this bright red cardinal's showmanship, so I snapped his picture before he fluttered off to his next stop.
It was a wee bit nippy minus 8 in Glen Falloch when I took this shot of a Scots Pine standing out from the surrounding landscape which was blanketed in hoar frost.
I picked this car up for a friend as it had been for sale locally, so I jumped at the chance to assist them, as I had often wondered what the 115hp 1.8 engine was like. In a word, it is nippy. Not necessarily fast, but even by modern standards it can keep up with reasonable ease.
The previous owner seemed to have spent a fortune on it as it drove almost unbelievably well for a car now a quarter of a century old, tighter than it had any right to be.
Inside, everything worked, including the heated seats and all electric windows and sunroof.
It was an absolute bargain for my friend, and just goes to show how proper maintenance is the best way to preserve a car, even with considerable use.