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Brakes-on for a vertical descent! A small twig for a lot of effort as nest-building continues at a pace on the local heronry (Nottingham, UK) (2761NR)
Pahto (Mount Adams), seen from Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Last weekend I decided to meet up with a friend for a sunset hike at Mount Rainier National Park. We made detailed plans ahead of time for both the hike and sunset watching, and then ended up both arriving later than planned, doing a different hike, and hiking more slowly than anticipated due to snow (yes, more snow!) on the trail and a stop to search for my friend's dropped phone. But sunset wasn't until 8:51pm so we figured we still had plenty of time.
We were hiking with the sun behind us, and time was flying by as it has a way of doing when we hike together, so when we emerged from a forested section of the trail into a meadow, we suddenly noticed that the sun was starting to drop into the trees, and realized we had to turn around and hustle back down the trail to where we had planned to watch the sunset over Tahoma (Mount Rainier).
As we hiked at a quick pace back, through every break in the trees, my eyes were drawn to this view of Pahto and the south Cascades. In the evening light, with that fog rising from the forest below, I finally decided it was necessary to stop for photos, despite our time constraints.
Note: Pahto is the second highest peak in Washington, standing 12,281 feet/3743 meters tall and is considered one of the 5 active volcanoes in the state, although the last eruption was 1000 years ago. It is one of the five sacred mountains to the native Yakama peoples and part of the mountain is territory of the Yakama Nation.
Let's face it now, it isn't everyday we see a genuine example of anti gravity anywhere let alone in agarden is it now? Yet here we have it along with the evidence, and not just any garden - it's in our garden! I know, it's incredible, but its not for sale so don't even go there.
The only other example I can think of is those UFO things that keep turning up on people's phones, but as folks don't believe in those, that makes this little baby unique does it not.
I'll tell you something else, it's totally silent, doesn't make a sound and you can pass your hands all around and underneath it like one of those stage magicians - it doesn't seem to mind. Nor, does it limit itself to any one flowerbed, oh no it moves with it's whims not just the sun, hot border in the morning, vegetable patch in the afternoon - it even followed me into the house one day!
A couple of days after taking this very photo, my wife and I had to pop to the garden centre (we were looking for something inter dimensional) and this little baby kept pace with us for an entire kilometre. It was only as we turned out of our road and my wife put the pedal to the metal that we thought we had lost it - I say 'thought' because when we pulled into the car park at the garden centre about 10 miles away there it was! I don't think anyone else saw it for it was hovering about 50 feet in the air directly over the compost bags, as it did so it slowly rotated and as the sun caught its petals it appeared to change colour - just like one of those bona fide UFOs that don't exist, and when we got home an hour later, there it was, sunning itself next to the garlic. I know, I know, it's incredible, but it isn't for sale so don't even go there....
This was a shot I had been longing to do when I was last down in Schierke, this is a stone's throw away from the apartment I was staying in. Unexpectedly it was a very unseasonably cold evening and I spent the majority of the LE pacing up and down. It was also a very clear night so that said I was happy for no heat distortion and the stars in all their glory could be seen perfectly.
LE star shots can be tricky in exposed areas, luckily there were a few street lamps and so I aimed for the furthest one to get an auto focus, then switched the lens back to manual before setting off the shutter, which in this case was for 20 minutes or there about.
If stuck for focus points in the dark, either use a powerful laser pointer, a torch which can be adjusted to a narrow band which you can aim at a tree or a relatively far away object or even better still, set up the camera to point in a general direction, take a run with the torch, switch it on and leave it on the ground, head back and get your focus aiming at the torch. Switch back to manual and you will have good sharp focus for your image.
If all above fails, use the LV display and zoom in on something light, manually then focus until the light source is smallest on the screen, that should just about do it but it's sometimes pure guess work. I've seen so many potentially great night time shots wrecked because of bad focus, there's quite a few little cheats to by this problem.
We're off from Monday, I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
The Great Crested Grebes were happily building their nest on this float on Hogganfield Loch. All of a sudden this young heron appeared. It had flown in from the neighbouring island. The GCGs 'abandoned ship'! The heron paced up and down on the float but refused to leave. The GCGs got their courage back and approached, then circled the float but the heron had no intention of leaving.
A pair of locomotives bring up the rear of a northbound coal empty on KCS just north of Lanagan, Missouri.
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.-- Mahatma Gandhi
Found this little guy on my porch this morning and used the tools I had at my disposal - an ipad for the surface and my cell phone for the light. I love it when my subjects come to me.
Spread some good around today, I am going to try!
Inspired by Hal's F-unit Friday entry, I've posted by own VIA FPA4 No. 6790 picture, from 27 June 1981. Peering from behind the CN depot in Brockville, the classic curves of the cab unit are complemented by the Camaro in the parking lot. The AMC Pacer, not so much...
La paix est un concept qui désigne un état de calme ou de tranquillité ainsi que l'absence de perturbation, de trouble, de guerre et de conflit.
Peace is a concept that denotes a state of calm or tranquility and the absence of disturbance, unrest, war, and conflict.
Conductor Tim Trudgen throws a wave as Norfolk Southern freight train 14R flies north on the Buffalo Line with two Canadian National motors leading a black and white horse through Dauphin County PA.
RLP 9/8/16 WWRFP 9/20/16
I have a few pacing shots of SOO SD60M's, too, and this one from December 2011 is probably the best one. I like the low light of a clear late autumn/early winter evening, and I even got a bit of a self-portrait with the shadow of my trusty Mercury Milan in the lower right. I'm still driving that car today, with over 213,000 miles on it.
142010 heads a train bound for Bargoed out of Cardiff Queen Street station as the sun sets on these units.
A visit to Hengoed to photograph the last of the class 37 workings also afforded the chance to grab a few Pacers running about. Here 143606 heads into the station with a Penarth bound working.
Se c'è una strada sotto il mare
prima o poi ci troverÃ
se non c'è strada dentro al cuore degli altri
prima o poi si traccerà .......
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIm2ZBPFJ84 - I.Fossati♫♫
Northern Pacers 142051 & 142059 have just departed Gathurst station and cross over the Leeds - Liverpool canal and River Douglas on a fine November afternoon in 2014.
* Considered to be only a stop-gap solution and based on the Leyland National bus body some of these units managed a creditable 35 years in service.
** For the record 96 were built, 15 were available for service on the last day (stand corrected on that) and 20 have made it into preservation.