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Elsie coming to get some one on one time. Indulge me for a few weeks as I try out a 60mm lens that I'm renting from lensrentals.com.
(title of photo comes from a song by Widespread Panic, so not original.)
Early morning light on Castle Point, Rockcliffe, Dumfries and Galloway.
Sony Alpha A700, Sigma 10-20mm, F16, 10mm, ISO100, Exp 1.6 Seconds
Raw File Processed in Lightroom, Edited in Elements.
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Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. The park is located on the Colorado River 6 km North of Moab, Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The park is located just outside of Moab, Utah, and is 76,359 acres (30,901.4 ha) in area.
Morning view. The iconic Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. 3 versions. I did not stay at the hotel, the photos were taken from outside the grounds of an unglamorous garbage dump. I did not encounter any other people whilst shooting these photos, and couldn't find any other angle to include both the hotel and the lakes and mountains together.
early morning of April 16th, solitary tree at the enterance to the Beaver Creek Conservation Area, 20 minutes outside Saskatoon, SK. Went out to photograph some star trails and got auroras instead #lucky
off camera flash popped above with diffuser
These guys have to be one of the cutest and most adorable animals I have seen, I especially like when they pose liked this.
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A couple more photos of Little Owls from my time spent with them recently. It's been fantastic to watch their behaviour and seeing the Owlets for the first time.
I've just uploaded a new album to my website showing some of my 'better' Little Owl photos...
A cloudy night turned clear as the sun rose in Monterey a few weeks back. There was no colorful burn in the clouds, but the water reflected the golden glow. And one bird wheels across the waves.
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The active volcano Fuego giving us a daytime show from our campsite a few kilometres away on volcano Acatenango.
A collaboration with Rob Orchard., torch swinging in the middle of Anish Kapoor's C-curve on the South Downs outside Brighton. His version's been up for about a week and hit #6 in explore, got picked by the local paper as photo of the day, and won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Alpine glow on the Maroon Peaks at the scenic location of Maroon Bells outside of Aspen Colorado. The yellow and Gold aspen make a colorful scene on the mountain and in the reflections of Maroon lake
Late afternoon sunlight in Assynt, NW Scotland. Taken from the slopes below the scramble up to Cul Mor's summit, looking over at Suilven and, beyond, Quinag,
Can you believe how many people showed up for the fireworks show? I got there at 5:30 so I could get a good parking spot, and surprise, about 3000 other people had the same plan..:) And they just kept coming. The show didn't start until 9:30. To the left is the Austin Symphony Orchestra and they provided the music for the show.
From a distance, the Green Heron is a dark, stocky bird hunched on slender yellow legs at the water’s edge, often hidden behind a tangle of leaves. Seen up close, it is a striking bird with a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest. These small herons crouch patiently to surprise fish with a snatch of their daggerlike bill.
Compared with most herons, Green Herons are short and stocky, with relatively short legs and thick necks that are often drawn up against their bodies. They have broad, rounded wings and a long, daggerlike bill. They sometimes raise their crown feathers into a short crest.
Green Herons stand motionless at the water’s edge as they hunt for fish and amphibians. They typically stand on vegetation or solid ground, and they don’t wade as often as larger herons. In flight these compact herons can look ungainly, often partially uncrooking their necks to give a front-heavy appearance.
Green Herons live around wooded ponds, marshes, rivers, reservoirs, and estuaries.
The Green Heron is one of the few tool-using birds. It commonly drops bait onto the surface of the water and grabs the small fish that are attracted.
I found this one catching itself a Skink in my backyard. Lake Wales, florida.
“... Sereno como agua e'pozo
el paisano sabe andar,
Sereno como agua e'pozo
el paisano sabe andar,
a la taba y las cuadreras
le arrima su soledad,
A la taba y las cuadreras
le arrima su soledad ...”
Fragmento de “Milonga del paisano”, de Atahualpa Yupanqui
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com
Tacuarembó, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
So here it is. I saw this guy for a split second and i knew i had to catch this crime on the camera :-)
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Photographed in Stuart, FL
Measurements
Both Sexes
Length
22–26.8 in
56–68 cm
Weight
26.5–37 oz
750–1050 g
Other Names
Bec croche, L'Ibis blanc, Petit flaman (French)
Corocoro blanco, Coco blanco, Ibis blanco, Coclito blanco (Spanish)
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Val Thorens located in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, French Alps, is the highest ski resorts in Europe, at 2300 m altitude.
Given the high altitude of Val Thorens and the Glacier de Péclet the resort is often regarded as "snow sure". With the winter season lasting into early May and summer skiing on the glacier.
Many of its slopes face north and north-west, providing for good snow conditions. This means that the slopes are not as sunny, so the resort tends to attract a crowd more interested in skiing than "terracing." However, the resort itself faces south, and many people enjoy sitting outside in the sunshine when they have finished skiing. As well as a combination of 68 marked runs, Val Thorens also 5 terrain parks giving access to bordercross tracks, quarter pipes and jumps.
Val Thorens is the most international ski resort in France: more than 70% of its visitors are foreigners. While one will find people from all over the world in Val Thorens, British, Scandinavian, Belgian, Dutch and German tourists make up the majority.
The Carolina Wren is easily recognized by the white stripe above each eye and its distinctive "tail-up" posture that it assumes as it flits about the bushes. Energetic and vocal this little wren has one of the loudest songs of any small bird. Males sing their “tea-kettle-tea-kettle-tea-kettle-tea." song hundreds of times a day, all year long. One particularly busy bird was recorded singing almost 3,000 times in a single day!
Carolina wrens form lifelong pair bonds and pairs often stay together for years. The birds move and feed together, where you see one, you will usually see its mate foraging close by. The pair works together to build a nest, which can be in a tree hole or on a branch, but Carolina wrens are well known for choosing to nest in man made structures such as mail boxes, door wreaths, flower pots, or even a cardboard box in a garage. They use sticks, hair, feathers, and anything that looks suitable—even shed snakeskins. They often build multiple nests then select one to raise their chicks.
When feeding, a Carolina wren hops around on the ground and in the underbrush turning over dead leaves, and probing cracks and crannies for spiders, insects and larvae. They also eat fruit and berries, but rarely come to bird feeders.
A female lays 3-4 eggs, then incubates them for 14 days, during which time the male brings her food. The parents feed the chicks in the nest for two weeks, then, after the chicks fledge, the parents continue to feed them for a further two weeks. A pair of Carolina wrens can have three broods in a year.
This wren is the state bird of South Carolina.
I found this one in my backyard. Lake Wales, Florida.
Ales stones or Ale's Stones are an ancient monument of nature stone ship which is situated at the village Kåseberge in Valleberga parish on Osterlen in Ystad Municipality, Skåne's south coast.
Ship consists of 59 quartz sand stones, each weighing around 5 tonnes. The entire stone ship is about 67 meters long and 19 meters wide and is the largest kept ship. It is located 32 meters above sea level given in the table, overlooking the steep coast and the island of Bornholm.
The stone ship built during the Vendel Period, but funerals may have also have occurred at the site earlier in the Iron Age. This belief is based on that the stones are not close to each other as they do in the Bronze Age stone ships. It is also based on the six carbon-14 dating of organic remains unearthed in and around the ship, including during some of the stones, all is in the range 400-900 AD. [1] These updates were carried out under the direction of archaeologist Martha Stromberg during her studies in the 1980s and 1990s. A seventh carbon-14 dating has been funded by private investigator Bob Lind, and touched coal from a fireplace excavated outside the northwestern stem stone. This sample was found to be 5300-5600 years old, suggesting that the site was inhabited long before the stone ship was built. [2]
The function of the Iron Age stone ships is somewhat unclear when one does not always find traces of some special activities when you dig them out, but they are generally regarded as grave monument. Often it is about cremation graves with an urn full of burnt bones buried somewhere in the stone circle. In the case of Ales stones have no tomb identified, but the plant has not yet been totalutgrävd. 1916 was erected 40 fallen stones, in some cases without knowing if the positions were the original, and the monument was badly damaged during removal of shifting sand. The monument was again rough restored in the 1950s without archaeological investigation, then the soil was abducted and sand was leveled by bulldozer. [3]
Kirkjufellfoss lies in the shadow of the mountain kirkjufell . This scene is located a few minutes outside of the beautiful town of Grundafjordur on the Snaefellsnes peninsula in Iceland. The image is a blend of the HDR image with the -2EV shot for teh mountain and sky. Viewing iceland through the naked eye is as if one is in CGI and HDR landscape which is why i've chosen to take most of these images in this way.
View On Black for the witch's hat
This was taken during the day in the pouring rain. As soon as I raised my camera to take the picture the lens got wet, but it actually didn't make much difference in the photograph. It wasn't quite this dark, but it should have been.
The photo shows a 'Hanover version' of the Wismar railbus, developed in the early 1930s as a light railbus for economical passenger services on branch lines in Germany.
As early as the 1920s, light branch lines (the so-called Kleinbahnen) were looking for ways to operate lightly used routes as cheaply as possible. The overwhelmingly employed mixed trains were very slow because of the time needed for shunting wagons. In addition, only a few trains ran each day. In order to offer faster and more frequent services, railbuses were procured. Because they tended to be one-offs and the technology was not always fully mature, they were often expensive. So attempts were made to use the experience and components from the manufacture of buses. Experiments with converted buses were not successful as their engines were not powerful enough and, moreover, they were not designed for push-pull operations.
In 1932 the Triebwagen- und Waggonfabrik Wismar AG (Wismar Railcar and Coach Company) built a light, twin-axled railbus, that could be made cheaply because it used numerous components from the manufacture of road vehicles. For example, 40 horsepower Ford petrol engines were installed, together with their drives. The use of road vehicle drives with five forward gears and one reverse gear made the installation of two engines necessary. These were located outside the vehicle body and gave the railbus an unmistakable appearance.
The Wismar railbus was very much of interest to both Kleinbahnen and private railways due to its low costs. In 1932 a prototype was delivered for the Lüneburg–Soltau Light Railway (Kleinbahn). It was so successful that the Hanover State Kleinbahn Office (Landeskleinbahnamt Hannover) ordered a batch of nine vehicles for a number of Kleinbahnen.
The Wismar railbus had several advantages. Firstly, it was cheap: at 25,000 Reichsmarks, roughly half the cost of a normal railcar. Secondly, it was easy to maintain - the engines were very accessible and spare parts could be obtained from any Ford dealer - and, thirdly, it was relatively comfortable because, although it only offered 3rd class accommodation, the seats were upholstered.
It is this time of the year again: my wife gets up early and wakes me up to say it is beautiful outside...
It is the tree again in the backyard of our neighbours.
Fuji X-E2 + Fujinon XF10-24mm at 24mm, f/16, 1/100 sec. exposure at ISO 200.
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