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This is an unmodified image straight out of my phone. My wife and I were out paddling our kayaks around a northern lake today, and it just looked like this. It's pretty hard to describe. The photo gives a sense of how it felt.
Gray ghost surprise!!
It's always good to wash your fruit in the morning. You may ask...."But why?".....The answer...because it means you're facing your big sliding glass doors and might spot something wonderful out in the open space behind your house. That's exactly what happened. I saw a hawk come swooping in and land right behind my fence. I assumed it was our resident red-tailed hawk.....but when I went over to look...it was flying away from me and I could see it had a white patch on top of it's tail which could only mean a Northern Harrier. However, what I didn't expect was that it was a MALE harrier or as many call it a Grey ghost!!! We have never seen a male harrier hunting behind our house. I made some inaudible sounds with my excitement.....grabbed my camera and bolted out of the back door. I really didn't expect it to hang around very long, and it didn't. It flew out of sight, but then back in sight, and then repeated this numerous times. Finally he started making some circles and made a few passes right in front of me. He also managed to fly with some very nice fall colors behind him in the distance. I will have a few more to share, but here are some of my favorites.
Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 180-600mm F5.6-6.3 lens at 600mm, 1/1600sec, F8, various ISO's from 360 to 720, handheld and cropped. (Please view images large for best details) Nov 16 2024 Northern Colorado
BNSF 9647 leads CN train B711 north at Joliet. This unit was the first to wear any kind of BNSF livery, having been painted in a variant of BN's executive paint scheme. It was repainted a few years back and now sports H3 paint, but it still holds the distinction of having been the infamous "Vomit Bonnet" we all knew and loved.
Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky
From the movie An American Tail 1987
My grand daughter is enjoying time with one of her new toys (actually a Christmas present that was stored until now). Just hanging out with the girls.
Enjoying some quality time with my good friend Kay with my almost obligatory glass of wine in hand. Kay is such a bubbly girl and we always have a great laugh when we get together; and isn't her outfit just fabulous.
One again in the small sugar cane growing township of Silkwood, Queensland, the local Tully Mill has a sub-depot to house one of its locomotives during the cane harvesting season. I have no idea of it's identification, it is well locked away. Back on the road though, the signs as I have shown before are still of steam locomotives which haven't been used for over 50 years. Still, if you close you eyes one might steam out from a field of cane, heading for the mill every moonlit night. The ghost train!
In the parking area at the railroad York, Pa station. Believed it was PRR North Central Division trackage. Maps from the late 30's show an industry that appears to no longer exist today.
More years ago than I care to remember, 'Semmy Trailer' and I arrived at a bus garage in Ely to collect the last two of Premier Travel's AEC's. 'ST' had bought them in his capacity as a dealer and my Knotty Bus operation was going to hire them. WEB 411T was the final AEC Reliance bought new by Premier after a relationship with the type which stretched back over many years. Like many an enthusistic AEC operator their hand had been forced into trying something different by British Leyland's closure of the Southall plant in 1979.
411 served well in Stoke on Trent but was perhaps the least exciting of the five ex PT coaches I ran. Eventually she and her sisters were puchased by Knotty and passed with the business when I sold the operation to DA Travel. Upon closure of the latter barely six months later, I re-acquired the slightly stripped 411 for intended preservation ... and from that day to this it's languished in a barn awaiting it's new dawn.
At the time of collection above, The Plaxton Supreme IV 'Express' bodied WEB 411T wore the livery of Miller's of Cambridge, an company who'd also been acquired by those who bought the Premier business.
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2007-04-24: Someone posted a link to this photo on Reddit. Be sure to read the comments for laughs :-)
2007-04-25: The link on Reddit resulted in about 41k views in the first 24 hours...
A young red-shouldered hawk out of the nest for only a few weeks, on the BMC Software campus in Houston, Texas, Spring 2003..
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im pretty sure that a lot of my pictures are hard to understand...i let people interpret however they want.....but i usually do everything for a particular reason. hmm.
Actually just outside Milledgeville,IL. The couple that set up this display-it is lit at night,which would probably make a much better pic- bought the giraffes from a lady near Oregon, IL. who used them for a Noah's Ark display many years ago. He actually caught some of the local teens trying to ride them, thus the need for the lights....
On the stairs at the Apple Store in Bristol. Among all of the shiney and cleanness, an autumn leaf just seems out of place.
Not doing so much photography in the make-shift studio at home but still attempting a few experiments to try out at locations. This was done using a wire wool spinner and a masking board. Mid-exposure tripod swap and refocus. then used another moving stencil with Ryu's V2 torch on slowest strobe.
Home Faff 28-08-2019ps
És el que penses quan veus que aquell esplèndit tren que va acabar el seu servei a l'estació de França fara un any i tres mesos. I mira'l ara, quines pintes porta, després d'estar abandonat a un pà rking andalús ningú sap perquè, ha tornat per ser dipositat a la deixalleria de Vilanova. Una salutació a en LluÃs i a tota la joventut ferrovià ria que s'ha comunicat amb mi per mòbil avui, que m'heu fos la bateria...
Es lo que piensas cuando ves que aquel espléndido tren que terminó su servicio en la estación de Francia hará un año y tres meses. Y mÃralo ahora, qué pintas lleva, después de estar abandonado en un parking andaluz, nadie sabe porqué, ha regresado para ser depositado en el vertedero de Vilanova. Un saludo a LluÃs y a toda la juventud ferroviaria que se ha comunicado conmigo por móvil hoy, que me habéis fundido la baterÃa ...
A 1927 Dodge Graham sits next to the old gas pumps. The bullet holes on the old "Shell" signs.
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This photo was taken on 8/15/10
* Tripod
* Camera Setting: Aperture Mode
* Focal lenght: 20mm
* ISO: 100
* Aperture: f/16
* Exposure: HDR 6 exposures (+2 to -2)
* Process: Adobe CS5, Photomatix, Tonal Contrast & Viveza, Dfine