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Saturday mornings are nearly always spent wandering around the Purbecks in search of compositions. Out with my brother at Studland and the tide was out so I borrowed his Canon 50mm 1.4f and shot this wide open looking towards Old Harry.
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Businesses were closed [or out of business] coming into town on a Sunday. - Downtown Kaunakakai - Island of Molokai - Hawaii
Info: The tourism industry on Molokaʻi is relatively small, compared to the other islands in Hawaiʻi. Only 64,767 tourists visited Molokaʻi in 2015. For years, residents of Molokaʻi have resisted private developers' attempts to dramatically increase tourism. Accommodations are limited; as of 2014, only one hotel was open on the island. Most tourists find lodgings at rental condos and houses. > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molokai
In a world of pink... dressed all in black! I am still a babygirl!
Remember to always stand out, never blend in or conform to set standards or anything else. ALWAYS be yourself!
My thoughts are with all those affected by yesterday's horrific killings in Paris. A sad, sad day, indeed.
This is the fourth, and I think it will be the last, photo of one of two Common Loons seen at Emerald Lake, British Columbia, on 11 July 2015. Rather a distant shot, but I didn't dare crop it any closer than I did. That day, I had a wonderful day out with friend Sandy, driving westwards from Calgary and eventually reaching the next province, British Columbia (B.C.). Sandy had two destinations in mind - a stop at the Spiral Tunnels and then to explore the forest around Emerald Lake. I had only been to B.C. a handful of times in 37 years, so this was an absolute treat.
"The lake is enclosed by mountains of the President Range, as well as Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain. This basin traps storms, causing frequent rain in summer and heavy snowfalls in winter. This influx of moisture works with the lake's low elevation to produce a unique selection of flora. Trees found here are more typical of B.C.'s wet interior forests, such as western red cedar, western yew, western hemlock and western white pine. The alluvial fan on the northeast shore produces wildflowers in abundance during late June and early July.
Due to its high altitude, the lake is frozen from November until June. The vivid turquoise color of the water, caused by powdered limestone, is most spectacular in July as the snow melts from the surrounding mountains.
The first European to set sight on Emerald Lake was guide Tom Wilson, who stumbled upon it by accident in 1882. A string of his horses had gotten away, and it was while tracking them that he first entered the valley. The lake had an impression on even the most seasoned of explorers: "For a few moments I sat [on] my horse and enjoyed the rare, peaceful beauty of the scene." It was Wilson who gave the lake its name because of its remarkable colour, caused by fine particles of glacial sediment, also referred to as rock flour, suspended in the water. However, this was not the first time Wilson had dubbed a lake 'Emerald'. Earlier that same year he had discovered another lake which he had given the same moniker, and the name even appeared briefly on the official map. This first lake however, was shortly renamed Lake Louise." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Lake_(British_Columbia)
Our trip started just after 7:00 am, to get a good, early start, especially before the temperature soared. The drive from Calgary to Emerald Lake takes about 2 and a half hours and is a 218.5 km drive via Trans-Canada Hwy/AB-1 W. We took a quieter route home at the end of the day. Rain arrived just in time for this drive home and, by the time I got back to my car in Calgary, the rain was really heavy and a few of the roads were beginning to flood very quickly. It was raining again this morning. I was kind of hoping for a few rainy days, as I suddenly have a build-up of quite a few very major, very urgent things to deal with and I didn't want to be tempted to go out with my camera.
Shortly after we began our walk though the forest along the right hand side of the lake, we heard a commotion coming from the water. When we found a place to see through the trees, we could see two beautiful Common Loons and a female duck with several babies, possibly Common Mergansers. My guess would be that the Merganser mother kept chasing away the Loons, creating a lot of splashing. This distant photo of one of the Loons was taken at the end of our walk. It was in the smaller section of the lake at Emerald Lake and we noticed it when we were walking along the boardwalk/bridge. It was swimming towards us and I managed to get one quick shot. Then it swam under the boardwalk and was disappearing into the distance by the time I took this shot. This photo also shows why this lake is named Emerald Lake : )
Also, at the beginning and the end of our "hike", we watched a family of Violet-green Swallows that were nesting. Not sure how many young ones there were, but I saw three. Though we do get these birds in Calgary, I've never seen one properly - just when a mass of Swallows swarms over the Bow River and someone calls out "Violet-green!" The adults flew to feed their babies at top speed and barely stayed a second at the nest hole. I was just thrilled to see one of these birds - thanks, Sandy, for your patience, allowing me to try and get a few photos! Thanks, too, for such a great day, as usual!
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This was one of two unseasonal fires on the Ashdown Forest in Winnie the Pooh country yesterday afternoon. I was in my favourite nature reserve when I saw it. I called it in but the fire brigade were already on their way. Nothing like the Saddleworth Moor fire in scale but it still took 65 firefighters to bring it under control. Let's hope it's not a sign of things to come.... It's a bit scarier viewed large...
I employed several new techniques I came up with on this one so I think of it as more of a prototype. Still it almost gets at what I was trying to do so I'm going to post it.
I always love the anticipation of a lovely evening out, the preparation, the outfit, the selection of which lingerie your partner for the evening may later enjoy, the wonderful feeling of sliding on the fully fashioned nylons you know will be a feast for the eyes and the senses, the choice of your dress length (to tease, to be demure or to demand attention) and the wonderful sound of your spike heels as you leave the house confidently looking forward to what the evening will bring, So here you are a little look back at the start of my Saturday evening out...hope you enjoy the journey too...
Heading out of Beamish Museum town is tram Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway No.26, proudly sporting it's newly applied livery (complete with British Railways crest!), and in real danger of being overtaken by a cyclist!
This tram is actually the museum's well loved Gateshead 10, adopting the guise it had when it was sold on to British Railways Eastern Region by Gateshead following the closure of their tramway in 1951. It continued to work as 26 on their electric railway between Grimsby and Immingham for ten years before being retired and returning to the North-East for restoration to it's former Gateshead glory.
The tram was withdrawn from service at Beamish several years ago in need of major restoration work. It is hoped that this work will be completed in 2021/22 and the tram, restored to it's Gateshead persona, will return to active service.
This is a posed shot which was part of an organised photoshoot. Photographer unknown.
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It took me a long time to figure out what to do with this image, but I finally arrived at something I'm happy with. I met up with landscape Wunderkind David (D Breezy on flickr) to shoot this location at sunrise. While struggling to find this spot in the dark David helpfully got a text message from Christina (Konejita on flickr) -- at 4am. She saved us from missing sunrise by giving us directions. Things were looking promising that morning but the light never really quite got through the clouds. What you see here lasted for a few minutes. Fun times.
Badger doing what he lives for flat out and loving it !!!
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Another shot from my day out in London at the weekend with Martin Turner, Daniel Borg, Paul Baggaley and Paul Stokes.
We all ended up at Canary Wharf in the afternoon, so couldn't resist taking photos of the tube entrance/exit.
This was one of the last photos I took, with the camera simply placed on the ground.
DRS 37's 401 'Mary Queen of Scots' and 425 'Concrete Bob' power past Bridge 33 at Bolton Percy with 4Z25, the 08.30 Carlisle Kingmoor to Doncaster Roberts Road, conveying intermodal flats for tyre turning
In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is the point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle. This non-ideal focusing may be caused by aberrations of the imaging optics. In the absence of significant aberrations, the smallest possible blur circle is the Airy disc, which is caused by diffraction from the optical system's aperture. Aberrations tend to get worse as the aperture diameter increases, while the Airy circle is smallest for large apertures.
An image, or image point or region, is in focus if light from object points is converged almost as much as possible in the image, and out of focus if light is not well converged. The border between these is sometimes defined using a circle of confusion criterion.
One VW had crept onto the 142 today, so I had a quick ride. Surprisingly fully blinded (unlike some of the TE’s!) VW1274 is seen running down into Bushey. 19.1.23.