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Red Foxes provide such a pleasurable splash of color amid the otherwise relatively monochromatic landscape of winter. I've been watching the fox population up here for decades and it's interesting the way that every five years or so, the fox community undergoes a shift in color .... For a few years, they will all be Red, as now. In some years, you begin to see numerous foxes with coats of many colors, a sort of calico of black, red and white .... Then for a number of years you see only black foxes.
This, at first look, seems like maybe it would be simple genetic drift within the population, but it appears to be cyclical and therefore one might suspect some variable influence within the environment.
This year, fox and lynx populations are low, an effect of an extremely low ebb in the amount of snowshoe hares available for dinner.
Interestingly, and this is an established fact, albeit one which has never been adequately explained ..... The abundance of rabbits in the northland follows a regular rise and fall, more of a boom and crash, which is closely correlated with the 11 year cycle of sunspot activity. This year, along with a nearly total lack of magnetic storms on the 90 million mile distant sun, we have almost no snowshoe hares ... they are rare.
At other times, during solar maximum, they are virtually everywhere .... At those times, in the course of a drive along the Alaska Highway, you will see literally hundreds of rabbits. Now, virtually none.
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Description of the District
The MacNab-Charles Heritage Conservation District is a one
block area bounded by MacNab Street South, Hurst Place,
Charles Street and Bold Street in the City of Hamilton. The
district consists of seven properties. These properties include
two multi-unit residences, a church and manse, two residential
properties and offices.
Cultural Heritage Value of the District
According to a plaque, the cultural heritage value of the district lies in the fact that:
The downtown block of MacNab Street South, Hurst Place, Charles Street and Bold Street contains a unique collection of stone buildings primarily dating from the 1850s.
While stone architecture was relatively rare in Ontario, Hamilton’s Mountain offered a ready supply of limestone. The local resource was used to great advantage in the hands of the newly-arrived Scottish stonemasons, establishing pre-Confederation Hamilton as a city renowned for its wealth of handsome stone
architecture.
With the MacNab Street Presbyterian Church as the focal point, the Victorian stone and brick streetscape of MacNab-Charles evoke a genuine sense of history in the heart of this city.
Designation of the District
The designation of the MacNab Charles Heritage Conservation District was initiated by the City Hamilton.
The Study and Plan were conducted and written between 1986 and 1988 by the Local Planning Branch, Planning and Development Department and the Hamilton-Wentworth Region. It was carried out in consultation with a local District Steering Committee made up of owners from the area.
The MacNab-Charles Heritage Conservation District is protected by By-law 90-144 which was passed on May 9, 1990 by the City of Hamilton.
A lone warlock treks to the an ancient power: a tree planted by the Primordial Greeble Gods of Yore.
From it, a darkness emits ... ready to joust the summer souls of light.
Build for InnovaLUG's Summer Joust - 12x12 Vingette category
A welcome change saw the diversion of main line traffic between Bridgend and Cardiff along the Vale of Glamorgan line on 13th May. 60091, “Barry Needham” in charge of empty oil tanks, makes its way across Porthkerry Viaduct near Barry, working the 6B33 Theale – Margam.
Smile on Saturday - theme of February 16th, 2019: Shades of Brown
Happy Smile on Saturday everyone :)
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Macro Mondays - theme of April 9th, 2018: Circles
My circular wooden incense stick holder - with a lot of different circles : ))
width of the picture: exactly 7,5 cm (2.95 inches)
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Macro Mondays - Thema: Kreise / Ringe
Smile on Saturday - Brauntöne
A photo hot off the memory card, taken just a couple of days ago. I finally found a moment to head out to local beaches in search of a new composition. I was hoping to take advantage of moody conditions that were preceding first serious rain of the winter season. The result is the Theory of Chaos that you can see in the image. A somewhat busy but hopefully engaging and mysterious scene.
what if you could jump back or forward in time?
what would you do? where would you go?
I know what to do, definitely.
But I know it is not mine to choose.
I also know not to delve on the impossible.
So I may as well use my time well.
And do more substantial things in the real world.
Now if I could just have a few more minutes of surfing :p
Sands of Time - For Crazy Tuesday's "Measurement" theme.
Took the old egg timer to the beach on an outing. It had an eggsellent time. I think it measured up to expectations.
Happy Tuesday out there, crazy or otherwise!
At the time of taking this I wished I'd had a good looking model to put in the foreground, the little boy from the shot before last for instance, but there was no one there, but now several months later I quite like the picture.
A single exposure processed in Lightroom.
So, this evening my flickr pages have changed again..... Why is it they always add something that makes it worse!!!
Edit: have I been the subject of a hoax? Pages I opened over about half an hour had a new appearance, and now they've gone back to how they were before....phew!
This seal appears on the cover of the US Patent Publications, often referred to as the "ribbon copy" once issued by the USPTO. While the embossed seal is still used, the red ribbon is no longer on the patent publication received by the patent owner/assignee.
Image stack (35 images) Shot with single off camera strobe (Godox AD200pro/Godox XPProII L tirigger), bare bulb, bounced off a 32 inch white umbrella, mounted on overhead boom, angled at 30 degrees.
Macro Mondays - theme embossed
size of seal - 51.5 mm
The Sound Of Seil ferry pulls into Hunters Quay near Dunoon on the Holy Loch. In the distance can be seen the small village of Strone..
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This photo has been taken the day before Israel Summer Time (IST) ended.
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Volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia
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We have had a very busy first half of the year here at Action Photo Tours. Our Action Photog loyalty community is growing and our workshop portfolio is expanding. Outside of the Desert Southwest, we have added exciting workshops in the Pacific Northwest. Next year, we will bring you international workshops in the Canadian Rockies and Iceland. Collaboration with local award-winning photographers Kevin Finn McNeal and Sigurður William Brynjarsson will ensure, in addition to iconic locations, we take you off the beaten path and capture stunningly unique images! What we offer outside of our core Southwest portfolio will be specially curated and differ from year to year. So stayed tuned and join us by visiting actionphototours.com!
This action shot of our group was during our recent Southwest Shootout workshop. The moon was rising over Lake Powell with some of the most colorful Belt of Venus I've ever seen! To get everyone in the group, I extended my tripod as long as it would go and held it high above my head. It was a total guess on composition, leveling, and took a few tries to get it right. But look at these Action Photogs!
Dear friends, I wish I had more time for the wonderful world of your photos and sharing my own visual discoveries of the amazing world around us. This was one of the gorgeous sunsets when I was overloaded with work again, and could look at the magic of the evening sky only through my window. But it was so wonderful that I had to grab my camera and try to capture at least a tiny framed area of the magnificent sky seen from my balcony.
I have to sincerely thank all of you who warmly encouraged me to not disappear completely from Flickr and left small friendly reminders here and there. I hope that my current tight multi-project schedule won't last forever, and that I will be able to switch to things and creative projects of my own that allows more time for things that I truly enjoy and love.
The light, beauty, and inspiration from this wonderful scenery I wanted to share with you all.
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Wreck of a Japanese Misubishi Zero (A6M3 Reisen) fighter, a casualty of WWII conflict in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Lying in about 30 metres of water not far from the shore NW of Kokopo, the wreck escaped burial during the 1994 volcanic eruptions and remains a popular dive site.
Rephotographed from an original Kodachrome transparency taken with a Nikonos II, UW-NIKKOR 15mm f2.8 lens and Seatite strobe.
One of the most photographed locations in my hometown but anytime I can people to the flavor of the capture it makes me happy. These people are located next to the Scout Statue, which is not identified in this image. This area is South of downtown and obviously overlooks the "Heart of America".
Kansas City, Missouri
Mike D.
Looking south from Mevagissey, Cornwall. October 2017.
Another lens I lugged around the world for one or two frames - the undeservedly dissed XF60/2.4 Macro.
Fuji X-T2, XF60/2.4 R Macro, 1/3000th sec at f/8, ISO 400
Just a crop of this infrared panorama (due to Flickr's "best display size" which obviously seems to vary between free and pro users):
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Also black & white, 8:5 aspect ratio, 7157 x 4474px (32MP).
It's cool how the ripples on the lake are confined to a certain area, outside of it, the water is flat like a mirror.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,8sec
panorama head, tripod, remote
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Single White Lightning 1600 in Octabox about 20 feet above. Pocket Wizardry and plenty of compositry!
The Dubliners - Fields Of Athenry
The Fields of Athenry è una celebre canzone popolare irlandese.
Il testo della canzone narra della Grande carestia irlandese, e più precisamente della narrazione di un immaginario prigioniero irlandese che attraverso il muro di una prigione ascolta la conversazione di un giovane uomo con sua moglie.
Il giovane deve essere trasportato dopo sentenza alla colonia penale australiana di Botany Bay per aver rubato del cibo per mantenere la sua famiglia ridotta in povertà dalla carestia.
L'uomo probabilmente viene da Athenry, come suggeriscono il titolo ed il ritornello della canzone, un villaggio della Contea di Galway che in quel periodo soffrì terribilmente la carestia. L'ultimo verso narra la dipartita della nave-prigione, che scompare all'orizzonte sotto gli occhi della donna, proprio mentre l'ultima stella della notte scompare.
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Hole In The Wall Beach - Davenport California
The rain held off most of the day so I headed south to Santa Cruz. I looked at a few beaches along highway 1 but the sky didn't look all that promising so I continued north. I ended up running into Jim Patterson at Bonny Doon. We walked down and had a look at the area and decided Hole In The Wall would be a better spot for sunset. We made our way down the trail, across the creak that flowed into the ocean and down the beach. Only being on this beach once before, I was open to setup anywhere, but Jim found a nice rock ledge to shoot from. It didn't take long for me to see that this "crack" had a lot of interesting movement in the water so I unpacked my gear, cleaned my filters and setup at the edge.
I have a feeling I ended up in the spot Jim was eyeballing (sorry Jim) due to the fact that he was "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" (his own words) We both ended up with almost the exact composition but its always interesting to see how the details change from person to person, camera to camera.
Thanks Jim for the tour of the beach, it was nice meeting up with you.
Canon 5D Mark II / 17-40mm / 2 stop hard edge ND grad / 2 stop reverse ND grad
A close up from yesterday photo. BNSF Z train rounding the curve and in to the cut just west of Oregon IL.(Looks great on Black or large)..
“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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This is the first time I've walked along this stretch of beach, on the north side of a county park. I noticed this 10x10 inch post half buried in the sand. Nothing in the immediate area uses that size post (other than the pier several hundred feet down the beach), so I'm guessing this was driven there by the storm surge during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. I don't know if the wind is currently eroding the dune away from it, or if the wind is slowly burying it in the dune, although I suspect the latter. In either case it showcases the forces of wind and water. For 120 pictures in 2020 #43 "Forces of nature".
Created out of the magical universal soup ~ We are here to post as many great images on flickr as we can ~ That is our purpose in life ~ And we are not happy with the answer being 42;-)) So we keep experimenting and searching for the most unique images all the time...
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The ministry of time
Chapter II: The Mystery of the Incubators
The style card and credits here
Sam found himself alone in the laboratory, the dim lights flickering intermittently over the equipment. A bottle of beer was within his reach as he immersed himself in his thoughts. Recently, an unusual event had shaken his scientific world: the disappearance of a body from the incubators. This act not only defied the laws but also raised serious questions about the integrity of the timeline.
As the golden liquid flowed down his throat, Sam pondered the possible devastating consequences that this incident could unleash. What effect would it have on historical evolution? How would it alter temporal continuity? These questions haunted him, filling his mind with unease and concern.
An even more alarming idea seized his thoughts: Who could have orchestrated this act and for what purpose? Time travel technology was heavily regulated, its illegal use a serious offense. Only a few would have access to it, and none of them would have noble motives to carry out such an action.
As Sam delved into his reflections, a determination grew within him: he must uncover the truth behind this enigma. Not only for the sake of the scientific community and temporal stability but also for his insatiable thirst for knowledge. With determination in his gaze, he promised himself that he would not rest until he found answers and ensured that temporal integrity remained intact.
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A huge pile of cars sinking into an underground lake.
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Sunset over The Bay of Fires in Tasmania.... The Colours in the rocks are amazing..
Sony A7r2
Carl Zeiss 50mm F1.4 PlanarT
ISO 100 | 50mm | F11 | 2 sec
8 shot stitched panorama
Lee Filter - Little Stopper
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This is a panorama along about 60° of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus at left, to Cygnus at centre and at right. It frames the great variety of bright and dark nebulas in this region of the sky, notably:
- the circular IC 1396 nebula at left in Cepheus with the orange Garnet Star,
- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) just left of centre,
- and the IC 1318 complex around Gamma Cygni just right of centre.
The dark Funnel Cloud Nebula, aka Le Gentil 3, is at left between IC 1396 and NGC 7000, while the dark region to the right (south) of NGC 7000 is the Northern Coal Sack, though to the eye, as here, that area does not appear as dark as the Funnel Cloud area.
The bright Cygnus Starcloud is right of centre, where we are looking down the Milky Way's spiral arm we live in. It is bordered below by the Cygnus Rift of dark lanes in the Milky Way which continue south into Aquila.
The small (on this scale) Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) and Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) are at far left in Cepheus.
The small round red Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, is at the end of a thin lane of dark dust, B168, or the Dark Cigar, at bottom left, while the tiny green Dumbbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula, is just visible at bottom right.
This is a stitch using Photoshop's Photomerge function of 10 segments, each segment a stack of 8 to 10 exposures of 1-minute each with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 800. All on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The camera was turned to portrait orientation to align the long dimension of the frame across the width of the Milky Way for greater east-west coverage. This required moving the camera by only 5° from segment to segment to ensure enough overlap. I used a ball head with an additional panorama azimuth motion with degree gradations on it to faciliate panning along the Milky Way following the galactic equator using just one simple motion.
The lens had an 82mm URTH Night broadband light pollution reduction filter on it to help increase contrast and bring out the nebulas. No narrowband filters were used here. Even so, most of the contrast enhancement was in processing with the application of a Nik Collection 6 Pro Contrast filter, plus curves with luminosity masks, and a Nebula Filter action in PhotoKemi Startools actions.
Taken from home on a fine though not fully transparent night on May 14/15, 2023 when the time for shooting this area was limited due to the short spring night. Two more segments shot to the right farther down the Milky Way were too blue and struck by dawn twilight to be usable.
The Citadel of Besançon (French: Citadelle de Besançon) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies 11 hectares (27 acres) on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-Comté. Mount Saint-Etienne occupies the neck of an oxbow formed by the river Doubs, giving the site a strategic importance that Julius Caesar recognised as early as 58 BC. The Citadel overlooks the old quarter of the city, which is located within the oxbow, and offers a magnificent view of the entire city and its surroundings.
The fortification is well preserved. Today it is an important tourist site (over a quarter of a million visitors per year) due both to its own characteristics and because it is the site of several museums. These museums include a museum of the Resistance and deportation, a museum focusing on traditional life in Franche-Comté and the region's archeological history, and a museum of natural history that includes a zoo, an insectarium, an aquarium, vivariums, a noctarium, a climatorium, a pedagogical exhibit on evolution, botanical gardens, and a children's farm. There is also a restaurant and shops.
On 7 July 2008, UNESCO listed the Citadel, together with nearby Fort Griffon, as a World Heritage Site. Since 1942, the French Ministry of Culture has listed the Citadel as a Monument historique.
A portrait of a Hmong girl in northern Vietnam, Sapa, with a red circle on her forehead. This is usually a sign that the person is recovering from a sickness and is supposed to help relieve the symptoms.
The so-called Temple of Concordia is one of the best preserved temples of Greek antiquity and the showpiece of the "valley of the temples" near Agrigento.
No.46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' is a London, Midland and Scottish Railway Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built in 1938 by Crewe Works for the London Midland and Scottish Railway
Built as a high speed express passenger locomotive
such as ‘The Royal Scot’ and ‘The Mid-Day Scot' between London Euston and Glasgow Central as well as other expresses Withdrawn by British Railways in 1964, the locomotive was originally sold to Butlins holiday camp in Scotland. In 1996, the locomotive was acquired by The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust with the intention of restoration to mainline condition . In 2001, 46233 was restored to operating condition and since then has been a regular performer on the national network