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Another from my shoot with Sarah and her husband and daughter.

Taken in Eldorado, outside of Santa Fe.

Verzasca - Ticino - Switzerland

Shot in Jefferson county Indiana, just outside Madison, one of more than 20 waterfalls that dot our county of this size or bigger.

 

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Perhaps an uninspiring shot, but having been bowled on 3 of my 4 attempts of 696 on D2 so far today, I was going to grab it anywhere not hindered by shadows, and more importantly, passing vehicles! The sign by the orad is for the farm shop down Bliss Lane. Stagecoach 16696 (R696 DNH) Flore, Northamptonshire. 28th January 2016

Manufacturer: Triumph Motor Company / Standard Motor Company, Coventry - UK

Type: 20TR2

Engine: 1991cc straight-4

Power: 90 bhp / 4.800 rpm

Speed: 169 km/h

Production time: 1953 - 1955

Production outlet: 8,628

Curb weight: 900 kg

 

Special:

- Early 50s Sir John Black, the former director, instructed designer Walter Belgrove to produce a prototype, which in 1950 resulted in the Triumph TR X, also known as the "Bullet". For several reasons it wasn't a success.

- However, Black saw a clear market for a small, inexpensive sports car and in 1951 Belgrove and chassis designer Harry Webster again commissioned to design a prototype, based on Triumph parts: The engine of a Standard Vanguard, suspension of the Triumph Mayflower and the chassis of the pre-war Standard Flying Nine.

- In 1952 this prototype appeared at the annual London Motor Show, called 20TS (Triumph Sports), later renamed as TR1. "TR" stands for Triumph Roadster.

- As a "sports car" BRM test driver Ken Richardson called it "a death-trap". The car never went into production and nobody knows if this car still exists and were it is.

- A year later, the improved design by Walter Belgrove and Triumph chief engineer Ted Grinham, was unveiled as Triumph TR 2 and shown in March 1953 at the Geneva Motor Show.

- The TR2 is built on an all-new ladder type frame with revised independent coil-sprung suspension at the front, a leaf spring live axle at the rear, Lockheed drum brakes all around and an uprated engine and is always recognized by its inside placed grille.

- The engine is fed by a two SU carburettors, has a four-speed manual gearbox with overdrive available on top gear as an option and rear wheel drive.

- The body is primitive: cramped interior with "sting windows" in the carved doors, that are opened from the outside by a hand through a slot in the window and pulling the door lock with a drawstring.

- Available options are a removable hardtop and wire wheels.

- From 1955 the doors were shortened.

- The TR2 was designed to challenge MG in the sports car export market (in total 5521 for all export☺!) to North America and the Americans loved this two-seater roadster.

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I have made so many wonderful friends here on flickr and there is one in particular who has written me and commented on the fact that he is working outside of the country and far from home. He mentioned how much my images make him feel so much closer and how he longs to be back to his country way of life. His letters and comments have touched me so, that I dedicate this one to him.....Hershel, this one is for you my friend ;-) The www.flickr.com/people/tnwanderer/

 

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Flight shot--also from Aug 2008. The tree line in the background helped to offer better contrast than the gray sky!!!!

View the 4567 x 3024 sized image and you can see a huge, white stretched limo outside Norwich Registry Office. Norwich City aerial.

After hugging the coast line for the four straight days we felt it was time to head a bit inland to see what the coastal forests of southern Oregon were like. Our real goal was to sniff out one of the few stands of Redwoods in Oregon (yes, there are actually Redwoods in Oregon!). Along the way I hiked past an amazing waterfall complex. This image shows just one small section of the falls. I wish we had more time to explore the area more, but with a three month old in tow we knew we wouldn't have much time.

 

By the way, the little guy did amazingly well on his first week long road trip..... hopefully he'll grow to like exploring new areas as much as his dad...

One of the six International Glaciers along the Beagle Channel outside of Ushuaia, Argentina.

 

Beagle Channel is a strait separating islands of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, in extreme southern South America. It separates Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from several smaller islands to the south. Its eastern portion is part of the border between Chile and Argentina, but the western part is completely within Chile. Beagle Channel is about 150 miles long and is about three miles wide at its narrowest point. To the west the Darwin Sound connects it to the Pacific Ocean. Although it is navigable by large ships, there are safer waters to the south (Drake Passage) and to the north (Strait of Magellan). Several small islands (Picton, Lennox and Nueva) near the eastern end were the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Chile and Argentina; by the terms of a 1984 treaty they are now part of Chile whilst Argentina has most maritime rights.

 

The biggest settlement on the channel is Ushuaia in Argentina followed by Puerto Williams in Chile.

 

The channel is named after the ship HMS Beagle which was involved in two hydrographic surveys of the coasts of the southern part of South America in the early 19th century. During the first, under the overall command of the Australian Commander Phillip Parker King, the Beagle's captain Pringle Stokes committed suicide and was replaced by captain Robert FitzRoy. The second is better known as the voyage of the Beagle and is famous because captain FitzRoy took Charles Darwin along as a gentleman's companion, giving him opportunities as an amateur naturalist. (Wikipedia)

For days while commuting to work, I noticed the sun was rising as a larger than normal yellow/orange globe on the horizon. It always made for a nice start to the workday. I thought this spot might make a decent photograph, so got up early one Saturday to photograph it having checked the weather the night before to see if any clouds would be in the sky. It turned out to be a great light show for about 30 minutes as the morning transitioned from twilight to sunrise. The colors in the sky and reflecting on the clouds were amazing.

 

Wanting to feature the sun on the horizon, I chose to use my long lens. Shooting straight into the sun, the dynamic range was way outside the camera's capability. This is a manual blend of 3 bracketed exposures. It was a surprise to see the underexposed image was full of deep reds that were not noticeable to the naked eye. Keller, Texas, USA, August 2015

 

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Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities of Sweden. It has been the site of permanent settlement officially since 21 May 1085 [2]. Helsingborg's geographical position at the narrowest part of The Sound made it very important for Denmark, at that time controlling both sides of that strait. From 1429 the Danes introduced the Sound Duty (Sound Dues), a levy on all trading vessels passing through the sound between Elsinore and Helsingborg.[3] This was one of the main incomes for the Danish Crown.

 

Following the Dano-Swedish War (1657-1658) and the Treaty of Roskilde Denmark had to give up all territory on the southern Scandinavian peninsula, and Helsingborg became a Swedish city. King Charles X Gustav of Sweden landed here on the 5th of March 1658 to take possession of the Scanian lands and was met by a delegation led by the bishop of the Diocese of Lund, Peder Winstrup. At that time the town had a population of barely 1,000 people [4].

 

The new situation, being a border town, caused problems for the city. The days of conflict were not over. The Danes made many attempts to regain the lost provinces. The last time was in 1710, when 14,000 invaders landed on the shores near Helsingborg. The Battle of Helsingborg was fought on the 28th of February just outside the city, which was badly affected. It took long time to recover and in 1770 the city had 1321 inhabitants and was just slowly growing [4].

 

On the 20th of October 1810 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and crown prince-elect of Sweden (later king Charles XIV John) took his first step on Swedish soil on his journey from Paris to Stockholm [5].

 

From the middle of the 19th century onwards, however, Helsingborg was one of the fastest growing cities of Sweden, increasing its population from 4 000 in 1850 to 20 000 in 1890 and 56 000 in 1930 due to industrialization. From 1892 a train ferry was put in service, connecting Helsingborg with its Danish sister city Helsingør. A tramway network was inaugurated in 1903 and closed down in 1967. Plans are underway to reintroduce trams in the city. [6]

 

Always fun to go for a breath of fresh air when the sun is out : )

Happiness is just outside my window

Would it crash blowing 80 miles an hour?

Explore July 28th #456 - History of St Margaret's Bay

 

The readiest source of information about the history of St Margaret's is a booklet titled "St Margaret's Bay The Piccadilly of the Sea." This was originally written by J Harris Stone and published in 1910. An updated version was produced by John Jewell in 1980 and the latest revision by Jean Richardson was published in 2001. Copies of the booklet are available from the Village Shop at £2.50 each.

 

Here are some extracts:

 

"The Bay lies within the parish of St Margaret's-at-Cliffe which appears in the Domesday Book as Sancta Margharita. From that time forward until the sixteenth century very little is known about the history of the parish, which is contained in a pocket of land around the South Foreland, to the south of the Dover/Deal road, and is bordered by three miles of the English Channel. To some extent the village can be described as off the map. There was no great house or noble family to record its history while its population was very small and few of them could read or write, so that it is doubtful whether any record was made.

 

......From Saxon times until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priors of St Martins in Dover controlled the parish...It was at Dover that a start was made on compiling the Domesday Book. The Priors were the ones who built the village church some time between 1140 and 1296, on a Saxon foundation. Perhaps this great church and the surrounding village was used as a summer retreat for Benedictine monks and it has always been a puzzle to understand why such a small village should have such a large church.......

 

In 1367 a hermit monk, one Nicholas de Legh, is said to have kept a light burning in a cave to warn mariners of the dreaded Goodwins and Archbishop Langham granted forty days' indulgence to all who contributed to the maintenance of the hermitage.....

 

In the parish records there is an interesting account dated 1696 of a shepherd who, being lost one night, fell over the cliff and was mortally injured, but he lived long enough to bequeath to the parish five roods of land to pay for the tolling of a curfew bell at 8 p.m. from Michaelmas to Lady Day in order to warn travellers if they walked too near the edge of the cliff........Throughout the following centuries the villagers were concerned in smuggling. It is said that the church tower was used by a parish clerk to store the gear which was required to haul the contraband up the cliffs......

 

The census of 1821 showed 87 houses and a population of 613, including over a hundred boys at Dr Temple's Academy. By 1873 there were 143 houses and a population of 820......

 

The first electric telegraph cable from England to France was laid in 1851, from the South Foreland, and electric light was tried at the lighthouse in 1859. The Channel Tunnel Company started test-boring here in 1865"

 

From late Victorian times St Margaret's was developed as a holiday resort and a retreat for well to do citizens. Among those who have stayed or lived here are: Lord Arthur Cecil, Lord Byron, Admiral Seymour, Marie Corelli, Max Beerbohm, George Arlisss, Noel Coward, Ian Fleming and Peter Ustinov.

 

"... In May 1918 the last bomb dropped on England fell on St Margaret's....When the war ended an obelisk was put up in 1921 at Leathercote Point with a matching one at Cap Gris Nez on the French coast, and a smaller one near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, to honour the men of the three nations who took part in the Dover Patrol....

 

.....The coming of the Second World War had a profound effect on the parish.... All but necessary civilians were evacuated and the whole area was occupied by troops....the village was subject to almost daily shellfire and bombing until 1945. To the nation the area became known as Hell-fire Corner..... The gun emplacements included some old 16-inch naval guns called Winnie and Pooh which, when they fired, did more damage to local windows than they did to the enemy."

 

In the 1950s the village returned to life as a holiday retreat with the RAF camp transforming into a holiday camp. The population grew and many found work outside the village, particularly in the local ports which served the fast growing, continental motoring holiday traffic. Today the parish has a community of over 2,500.

 

For further information please visit stmargaretspc.co.uk/index.html and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Margaret-at-Cliffe

  

Starlings are flocking today, swooping and settling, rising and whirling. They landed in our trees for a few minutes and I grabbed my P&S and eased outside to grab a few shots before they spooked and went on to the neighbors. I am hoping they will come back so I can try a few more shots before they leave completely

Taken yesterday in RHS Wisley... just the end of February and these Hellebores bring summer with them - what a joy they were to look at when it is so grey outside! Just a bit of levels and RGB conversion otherwise untouched.

 

Hope you had a great beginning of the new week and thanks for your visit!

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I went up to the 86th floor observation deck on the Empire State Building in New York City this evening and outside of incredibly long lines I noticed some interesting conversation around me.

 

The basic theme was what direction people where looking at and the arguments that ensued resulting in grudging realizations on the part of one of the protagonists that they were in fact in error. This was a view to the north by one geographically challenged tourist.

 

Its my feeling that the lines (at least 2 hours) left the tourists in no mood to truly enjoy the view.

 

You can see though Jersey City, NJ off in the distant right which is where I live and shoot the ESB and NYC skyline from a lot.

 

HDR - Nikon d300

If only she knew... no doubt she'd wish all of us a Happy New Year 2017, would this Dwarf Carpenter Bee, a Ceratina. And then she'd go on with her Natural Work on Creeping Daisy, Wedelia trilobata.

May it be a Sweet, Constructive Year!

All alone, or in two's,

The ones who really love you

Walk up and down outside the wall.

Some hand in hand

And some gathered together in bands.

The bleeding hearts and artists

Make their stand.

And when they've given you their all

Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy

Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall.

"Isn't this where...."

(Pink Floyd)

Just outside Trout Lake, WA. I was looking for a reflection of Mt. Adams in Trout Lake, but Mother Nature had other plans.

 

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A pretty looking tree blooming in Plainville, Massachusetts.

 

#spring

#nature

#flowers

#blossom

#plainville

Everybody pick your star they are free :-) - put your name on one !

 

On the way to Cannon Beach … “just” a view point in the late evening . We stopped on Hwy 26 bit more than half way between Portland and Cannon beach . It was getting late so we used view point as a RV park ( no signs that we could not ) instead looking for one at 11 pm in Cannon Beach . When we looked outside to see what that view point was all about .. we could not see almost anything :-) .. but the stars and very late memories of sun . So here we go …. pick a star

BTW that Hwy is called “ Sunset Hwy “

 

Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean

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We have about 25 or 30 little Hummingbirds using our feeders right now, I sometimes sit outside and watch them for hours at a time.

A much loved roadside landmark in Achmore, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

This is an infrared photograph lith printed on Art Classic paper.

 

-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my personal favourite.

 

Featured in Interestingness Top 100 22 April 2005

 

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Once I thought the land I had loved and known

Lay curled in my inmost self musing alone.

In the quiet room I unfolded the folded sea,

Unlocked the forest and the lonely tree,

Hill and mountain valley, beach and stone;

All these I said, are here and exist in me.

 

But now I know it is I who exist in the land;

My inmost self is blown like a grain of sand

Along the windy beach, and is only free

To wander among the mountains, enter the tree

To turn again a seaworn stone in my hand,

Because these things exist outside of me.

 

O far from the quiet room my spirit fills

The familiar valleys, is folded in the hills.

 

~ Ruth Dallas

when i get bored, i chuck shells in the air. YEAH. it was sunny all day. until i said "I'll go outside after dinner during sunset to do more shots :)". that was when it got all cloudy and shit. oh well HAHA i dont mind this. :DD

 

THANK YOU TO VICTORIA FOR YOUR BEYOND ADORABLE TESTIMONIAL. <3 it seriously made me smile!

 

i have some crap to say which is no surprise.

firstly sorry for everybody who i owe an fm - I AM TERRIBLE. anyways lately i have an obsession with onion rings :P I absolutely love them! and speaking of food, i tried profiteroles and hated them. blehhh. and another comment on foody stuff, jaffa cakes *THE EVIL THINGS* fell out of the cupboard into my mummys coffee and burnt all my side. fgewjighrejgkrkg. bumholes.

 

OH WELL.

i dont know what else i need to say. :D i have to say that i need to revise spanish, drama and chemistry. YES REVISION. ma best friend.

what else to say? i love how my cat stitch blinks with one eye. it is the CUTEST thing ever. the end.

 

i dont like the editing here. or the framing.

 

this is shit. but i think that ladybird is an absolute legend. OK, I KNOW IT.

Mutton Cove, Devonport, Plymouth

 

Statue of William IV located outside No1 Slip Devonport.

Many Thanks for all your kind comments :-)

Cheow Lan Lake,or Rajjaprabha Dam Reservoir is the Guilin of Thailand, deep in the Jungle where we camped in a floating tent is located in Khao Sok National Park in Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It is an 165-square-kilometre (64 sq mi) artificial lake, created in 1982 by the construction of Rajjaprapha Dam by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand as a source of electricity. Apart from the fascinating limestone cliffs and evergreen rain forest jungle, the National Park area is inhabited by a large range of mammals such as tigers, elephants, tapirs and many monkey species. Birds such as Hornbills, Banded Pittas and Great Argus are as well forest residents. Not to forget the less commonly seen reptiles King Cobra, Reticulated Python or Flying Lizard. The reservoir area includes the Khlong Saeng, Khlong Nakha and Kaeng Krung wildlife sanctuaries where rare animals can be found. West of Khao Sok National Park lies Sri Phang Nga National Park which extends the area of preservation to up to 4,000 square kilometersThe village Khao Sok is located in the entrance of the National Park (about 60 kilmoeters west of the dam) and continues to build more resorts to increase its capacity to visit this jungle region. The access to the lake at Ratchaprabha dam is further south-east in the Ban Ta Khun distinct, reachable on highway 401 approximately half way between Khso Sok and Surat Thani. The dam is the only place from where the lake is accessible by boat. Around the reservoir 17 different "Floating Bungalows" or tents accommodate tourists form all over the world. Each located in their own sort of bay, the bungalows float on rafts docked to land. Only descendants of original inhabitants of Cheow Lan village and officials of the national park are allowed licenses to own and operate these bungalows; we stayed in one of them for two nights during our visit. This picture is our view directly outside our tent taken early one morning just after sunrise.

The sun breaking through after a storm of force 9 (severe gale) on the Beaufort scale the day before... Maximum gust speeds measured were above 65 mph or 105 km/h or comparable to force 11 (severe storm), Picture shows 40 meter high Landegode lighthouse in Northern Norway, on the voyage from Bodø to Lofoten. The wind at that time was force 7 (near gale).

 

The small island of Landegode lies just outside Bodø. It is a scenic jewel, whether you are bathing under the midnight sun in the summer or watching the dramatic dance of the northern lights above the lighthouse rock in the winter.

 

In this island realm we find the world's largest and most dense population of sea eagles, and this majestic bird is a magnificent sight as it takes off from its nest and plunges into the fjord in its quest for fish.

 

Landego Lighthouse was built in 1901 in order to secure the seaward approach from Lofoten to Bodø. Today, the lighthouse is still in full operation, albeit unmanned due to a full automation in 1993. The residences for the lighthouse keepers and assistants are since being used to sleep groups of up to 30 people. It takes a good hour to reach Landego lighthouse by boat over the choppy sea.

 

Highest position in explore was 124 on June 27 (history).

 

Featured with permission on Lighthouses R Us.

 

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Thanks to everyone who takes the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. Take care and have a lovely day!

 

Taken hand held from a distance at the Yala National Park in Sri Lanka during our last visit in April 2013.

 

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Changeable Hawk-Eagles breed in the Indian Subcontinent, mainly in India and Sri Lanka, and from the southeast rim of the Himalaya across Southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines. This is a bird occurring singly (outside mating season) in open woodland, although island forms prefer a higher tree density. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays a single egg.

 

The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a medium-large raptor at about 60–72 centimetres (24–28 in) in length. It is a relatively slender forest eagle with some subspecies (especially limnaetus) being dimorphic giving the name of "Changeable". This, and also a complicated phylogeny further complicates precise identification.

 

Normally brown above; white below with barring on the undersides of the flight feathers and tail; black longitudinal streaks on throat and chocolate streaks on breast. Some subspecies have a crest of four feathers, but this is all but absent in others. The sexes are quite similar in their plumage, but males are about 15% smaller than females. The underparts and head of juveniles are whitish or buff with few dark streaks.

 

The wings are long and parallel-sided, and are held flat in flight, which helps to distinguish this species from the similar Mountain Hawk-Eagle. In overhead flight, comparatively rounded wings (upturned at tip), longish tail, white body (spotted with brown) and grey underside of wings (streaked and spotted) are leading pointers.

 

The Erastus Corning Tower, also known as the Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd Tower or simply called the Corning Tower, is a skyscraper located in downtown Albany, State New York. Completed in 1966 and sided with Vermont Pearl marble and glass, the state office building is part of the Empire State Plaza. At 180 m and 44 stories in height, it is the tallest skyscraper in the state of New York outside of the city of New York, and as such is the tallest building between New York City and Cleveland. Erastus Corning 2nd, the building's namesake, was the mayor of Albany for over 40 years from 1941 to 1983. The tower was dedicated to him in March 1983 during his hospitalization. Before that dedication, it was known as the "Tower Building".

A little while back one of my contacts, deanrr, posted some photos from a hot air balloon festival. I loved them, and thought if I ever had the chance I wanted to get some shots of hot air balloons! Well....I got my chance :) There was a hot air balloon festival in Lexington, Va over the long 4th of July weekend. it's only an hours drive from Roanoke.

 

We got up and left the house at 5:30 on Thursday and drove to Lexington, much to our disappointment the weather was not conducive for the balloons to take flight :( We headed back home. Friday we were too busy to make the drive. BUT my husband looked on the web site and saw that they were planning a 6am launch for this morning. Which meant I had to drag myself out of bed at 4AM!!! SO WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

11 hot air balloons all made it into the air! I have lots of photos and am working my way through them this afternoon :)

 

Thank you all so much for taking the time to view my work. I so appreciate it! I am really proud of this series of shots. Bright, colorful, and cheerful!!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!! And I hope that my photo brought a smile to your day :)

Walking along the beach at Southbourne Bournemouth the other day. Very quickly I may add, before the heavens opened once again. I only had my iPhone with me to take this colourful shot

Baleal is a small peninsula (formerly island) located north of Peniche, in the region west of Portugal, separated from the mainland by a tombolo, forming a beach of fine white sand. Continuing the cove there are also the islet of the Doves and the Outside island.

 

The Baleal inherited the name of the function that these rocks played in the past as whaling site.

 

Nikon D800 + Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4.0G ED VR @ 17 mm

ISO 100 - f/6.3 - 185 sec

Lee BigStopper + Lee GND 0.9 HE

 

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The Atlantic Crashes onto Old Lighthouse Beach at Sunrise

Dare County, Coastal North Carolina

Accessed via the Outer Banks Coastal Byway (NC-12)

Date taken: October 24, 2014

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I set out on an adventure recently to capture images of the iconic North Carolina Cape Hatteras Lighthouse with the Atlantic Ocean playing a prominent role in the composition. Read more about my challenge and adventure HERE!

 

The Cape Hatteras Light is the nation's tallest brick lighthouse, at just under two-hundred feet. Located on the barrier islands of the Outer Banks off the mainland of North Carolina, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has both an iconic daymark (striped diagonal white/black paint), as well as an iconic nightmark (strobe-like spinning beam of light). This photograph was taken from Old Lighthouse Beach where the historic structure once sat.

I love the magic of the night sky.

This is my take on the Horsehead Nebula sailing over the Wild Horses Monument in Vantage, WA.

To get a small grasp on the incredible visions above us outside our Earth, see the source of this image here: www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d4/horseheady.jpg

 

I was going through photos from this year and began going over the Horses Monument photo shoot. I thought it would be interesting to find a mixture of the Horsehead Nebula and one of my shots from the horse sculptures. This was a very enjoyable project to get into :-)

 

I'm in a bit of a bind lately. I've become fixated with the night sky, spending hours and nights far from home taking pictures of the stars. But, my interest hasn't taken me equally as far into the astronomy books. Over 2010 I've taken a ton of pictures of the night sky with my DLSR and I am very proud of my work. I hope I can be an instrument to connect people in cities to the wonder and beauty of the stars shining bright and clear far from their porch lights...and my porch lights. But, I just have a real trouble getting into the deep space stuff. I find it mesmerizing, but it's so difficult to relate to it. So, working on this, was taking a step beyond what my eyes can see to the beauty of deep space above us.

 

I'll stop it at that. I think I'll change this caption a few times before it says something that expresses well enough how I feel.

 

Credit to National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation for the nebula image.

But the foreground image is an unposted shot from my night shoot at the Wild Horses Monument

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The Charles was a little less icy tonight when I went out for a walk. The temperature was hovering around 60 degrees and it was beautiful. I was able to stay outside for a good 3 hours walking around Boston and Cambridge without getting cold at all! But it won't last for long, as the temperatures are going to plummet back into the 20s this weekend.

 

Pictured

Massachusetts Avenue (aka Harvard) Bridge

Boston Skyline

Charles River

Cambridge, Massachusetts

February 11, 2009

 

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lens must have jammed or something... look at all this out of focus stuff.. crap.

somewhere outside of moriarty, new mexico

 

leica m6 ttl

leica 35/2.0 summicron-m

ilford sfx200 (with r25 filter)

hc-110 (dilution b)

Look ma! My very first bumblebee picture, and I didn't even run away screaming.

 

Scoff if you will, but despite my obsession with all things bee-related, I'm sort of scared of the things. It has served me well, though, for I have never been stung!

please please pleaaaaseee view big or don't view this at all

 

I am pretty mad about this actually.

Look at that light, it's just.... perfect.

But then some asshole walks up to you to ask you what you're doing,

and first I'm nice and all but it takes pretty long and he actually came over to tell you that his friends (who are on the other side of the park) don't want you to photograph them,

which is ridiculous because my lens was facing the other way!!

When he was finally done talking (well okay, I was getting mad at him) the light was gone

So I only had this picture.

But dammnnn look at that light :D

 

SOOC by the way

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