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The train sweeps through the curve and heads toward Toddington. Taken during a 30740 Photo charter on the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway 9thJune 2018
Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
I wandered out the front with the macro lens on the camera and spotted a Grey Fantail perched in our Cape Leeuwin Wattle Tree. A surprise, I have never had them in the garden before. I dashed inside and grabbed the birding lens, thankfully the pair, yes there were two, were still flitting around catching insects to eat so I was able to get a few images. They stayed for another 25 minutes before flying off.
5:30PM update - I just went into the backyard to get the washing off the line and the pair are happily flitting around the trees catching insects, some competition for the New Holland Honeyeaters!
8-22-15 MS Veendam passing an iceberg while traveling through Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland.
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Right over my head earlier this summer...
Cumulus cloud
Small cumulus humilis clouds floating over cloud that can have noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges.
Cumulo- means "heap" or "pile" in Latin. Cumulus clouds are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance, and have flat bases. Cumulus clouds, being low-level clouds, are generally less than 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in altitude unless they are the more vertical cumulus congestus form. Cumulus clouds may appear by themselves, in lines, or in clusters.
Cumulus clouds are often precursors of other types of cloud, such as cumulonimbus, when influenced by weather factors such as instability, moisture, and temperature gradient. Normally, cumulus clouds produce little or no precipitation, but they can grow into the precipitation-bearing congestus or cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulus clouds can be formed from water vapor, supercooled water droplets, or ice crystals, depending upon the ambient temperature. They come in many distinct subforms, and generally cool the earth by reflecting the incoming solar radiation. Cumulus clouds are part of the larger category of free-convective cumuliform clouds, which include cumulonimbus clouds. The latter genus-type is sometimes categorized separately as cumulonimbiform due to its more complex structure that often includes a cirriform or anvil top. There are also cumuliform clouds of limited convection that comprise stratocumulus (low-étage), altocumulus (middle-étage) and cirrocumulus. (high-étage). These last three genus-types are sometimes classified separately as stratocumuliform.
Formation
Cumulus clouds form via atmospheric convection as air warmed by the surface begins to rise. As the air rises, the temperature drops (following the lapse rate), causing the relative humidity (RH) to rise. If convection reaches a certain level the RH reaches one hundred percent, and the "wet-adiabatic" phase begins. At this point a positive feedback ensues: since the RH is above 100%, water vapour condenses, releasing latent heat, warming the air and spurring further convection.
In this phase, water vapor condenses on various nuclei present in the air, forming the cumulus cloud. This creates the characteristic flat-bottomed puffy shape associated with cumulus clouds. The size of the cloud depends on the temperature profile of the atmosphere and the presence of any inversions. During the convection, surrounding air is entrained (mixed) with the thermal and the total mass of the ascending air increases. Rain forms in a cumulus cloud via a process involving two non-discrete stages. The first stage occurs after the droplets coalesce onto the various nuclei. Langmuir writes that surface tension in the water droplets provides a slightly higher pressure on the droplet, raising the vapor pressure by a small amount. The increased pressure results in those droplets evaporating and the resulting water vapor condensing on the larger droplets. Due to the extremely small size of the evaporating water droplets, this process becomes largely meaningless after the larger droplets have grown to around 20 to 30 micrometres, and the second stage takes over. In the accretion phase, the raindrop begins to fall, and other droplets collide and combine with it to increase the size of the raindrop. Langmuir was able to develop a formula which predicted that the droplet radius would grow unboundedly within a discrete time period.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_cloud
While in St Ives during a heavy shower I decided to head for the elevated vantage point of the main bus station to catch the colours and light that usually follow this type of event. By the time I arrived, most of the drama was out in the bay and so I used the lighthouse and harbour wall as a left-of-centre focal point rather than capture the classic panoramic view over the headland and town. Thanks for viewing.
Passing through another day on the river. Water showing a
slight gain on the ice in the last few days. Still in winters grip.
ICM: Hand held Vertical Pan.
Pre-manipulated Texture: Thanks Ana Librillana.
Adelaide University Law Building
Wastwater, Lake District Cumbria.
Thanks in advance for any comments or favourites you may wish to make.
The purpose of formation is for the reduction of ego?
and I do lament that....
a slow goodbye to me...mask and wall...
stepping no where...
amongst “The Waiting Ones”
-rc
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo
Some ducks swim upstream in Yellowstones Madison River as a bull elk walks by.
He was focused on his ladies who were on the other side. They were getting friendly with some dangerous critters. He didn't want them getting too far away.
Shown in comment.
Keep safe and warm on this wicked weekend!
After the clouds had unloaded all their snow they just fizzled out and looked like torn rags scattered across the sky.
A two shot vertical panorama. I'm really starting to like this vintage Nikkor 300mm lens
A train passing by the village allotments.
Taken with great difficulty holding my mobile up against a gap in the wire of the gate, and hanging on to Tasku at the same time. I also had to clone out two cars parked in the most annoying place with their boots up.
ANSH 114 (14) public transport
Definitely Dreaming 'transport' theme. 47/52
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
On the eve of September 30, 2021, a westbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link, passes the depot at Sandpoint, Idaho. BNSF is double tracking through here to the MRL connection at Sandpoint Junction (in the background) in conjunction with the second bridge being built at the Lake Pend Oreille crossing. It appears that the right-of-way will have to widened here, perhaps using a retaining wall to provide enough clearance between the depot and the buildings and parking lots on the right. Regardless, this scene will change a bit in the next few years.
I love you more with each passing moment. Happy Holidays.
Guest photographer: Jen Albrecht
Processing: michael veltman