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I decided I'd make may way down to the beach before work on Friday. This was certainly not a morning when everything went as I wanted but then again when does that ever happen? A look out of the window at 5:30AM confirmed the weather forecast was well wide of the mark as I surveyed a scene that provided little in the way of optimism. Still as I was up I made my way down anyway with a hit of rain in the air on a cold breezy morning. Next challenge was the high tide was not quite as high as I'd hoped rendering my intended subject to far up the beach. Still I had spied a large piece of drift wood close to the base of the cliffs and so set about manhandling it down to the tide line. Five minutes of struggle later and with the tide flowing nicely over the sand and around the log I had an image.
Getting this lighting was an accident. I was using a cereal box as a light modifier. I was going for a narrow slit of light and somehow got this. At first when I saw this on the back of the camera I was like what is going on here! And how the box was positioned. But as I was going through the photos I took, this caught my eye. I spent way to much time on this photo in post. I wanted to like it in color but it just didn't work. I took a break, came back worked on this for two minutes and finally got something I love! Finally getting something to work, ahh that's what it's about.
There are lots of factors that need to be in sync for me to make the final decision to go out on a nightscape photography shoot. Last Friday night (Sept 11) those ducks were all in a row for me, as the saying goes. The weather forecast included cloudless skies; the Moon wasn’t due to rise until around 2:00 am on Saturday; the Milky Way would be in the western sky for hours on end, and I could sleep in once home and the daylight hours came around.
Despite all of that fortune, there were several times on my outbound trip that I found myself wanting to turn my car around and go back home. The gnawing self-doubt that assails me during most of my waking hours was once again urging me to give up, to head for home and to stop kidding myself that any of my photographs are worth looking at, let alone posting online.
After working on today’s photo, though, I’m glad that I pushed through. Being able to capture and share the beauty that I saw in the sky–and the wonders that only the camera can record–reminds me that perseverance often pays off. The Milky Way was very low in the southwestern sky over this man-made pond in the Jerrawangala National Park when I shot the two frames that I used to create the final stitched composite image. You can see the stretched reflection of the red supergiant star Antares on the muddy pond’s surface, with the star itself hovering over the eucalyptus trees in the distance.
I captured the two individual photos that make up this final image with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.0, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 3200.
Standard mass produced line infantry rifle, made by the northern continent's Rivacheg Company, the steel as always forged in their own magma forges.
Starting the flesh out the setting, will probably do some brain storming to get a nice bit of info for the next one perhaps.
Nearing the top of the long slog out of the Sandouling open cast coal pit in NW China.
This JS 2-8-2 locomotive is kept in steam 7 days a week and hauls a 400 ton train from the loader to the washery and return approx once every 2 hours.
Her days are numbered as she approaches the end of her working life. With Chinas environmental programme this pit is due to close in April / May consigning the last five locos to the scrapyard.
Undertake your passage
in trust and innocence,
for such is the Warrior Way.
And at the end,
send heavenward
the feathered arrows
of your perfect faith.
photo prise de la fenêtre (29 décembre)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
forecast for 01/01/2017
Sunrise at 08:08 AM - Sunset at 04:25 PM
Temperature from 1°C to -3°C
Celebrating 250 years and recognizing the importance of perseverance and spirit then, now AND going forward.
"Celebrate 250" reenactors of the "La Baye Fur Trade Coalition" at Heritage Hill State Park, Allouez, Wisconsin USA
"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
~ David McCullough from "1776"
Statue of the Buddha submerged within the roots of a Bodhi tree at Wat Mahathat (วัดมหาธาตุ พระนครศรีอยุธยา), Ayutthaya, Thailand. The Bodhi tree is a sacred fig tree species, as the Buddha attained enlightenment while sat under the Bodhi tree in 500 BC. Because of the symbolic role in Buddhism, the tree is also called the Tree of Awakening or the Tree of Enlightenment.
Mai: I won't give up! I need to defeat the boss! >=/
Mai is a very perseverant person, if she want something, she'll fight for it! ^^
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Mai: Eu não vou desistir! Não vou parar até conseguir derrotar esse chefe! >=/
Mai é uma menina bastante persistente, quando quer alguma coisa, luta por ela até o fim! ^^
Perseverance often pays off in landscape photography. On this particular morning, we had to hike around a mile in the dark. It was snowing and blowing so hard it was difficult to see with our headlights. By the time we reached the rim, visibility couldn't have been more than 5 ft! Everyone in our group thought we weren't going to get anything good. But as it happens so often in the desert Southwest, suddenly the snow stopped, the sun found a small break in the clouds, and it was a complete transformation. These are the moments we live for as landscape photographers!
And still this flower spike grows, and tries to follow the sun. It's developing a pinkish tinge now.
In the confrontation between water and rock, water always wins. Not through strength but through persistence.
Patience, light and perseverance. For me and many others, these are three of the fundamental elements of landscape photography. I've visited Gribdale several times this year, and never come away with anything I was particularly happy with. On this visit, I decided to avoid the classic view towards Roseberry Topping, and after a bit of searching, settled on this composition looking towards Great Ayton and the setting sun. There was much more cloud than forecast, but after 90 minutes of waiting, the sun burst through a gap in the clouds and lit up the scene in front with beautiful, golden low angled light. Less than a minute later, the sun was back behind the clouds and didn't make another appearence.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover has collected four samples from an ancient river delta in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater since July 7, bringing the total count of scientifically compelling rock samples to 12.
Twenty-eight miles (45 kilometers) wide, Jezero Crater hosts a delta – an ancient fan-shaped feature that formed about 3.5 billion years ago at the convergence of a Martian river and a lake. Perseverance is currently investigating the delta’s sedimentary rocks, formed when particles of various sizes settled in the once-watery environment. During its first science campaign, the rover explored the crater’s floor, finding igneous rock, which forms deep underground from magma or during volcanic activity at the surface.
In this image, NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in the face of a cliff in the delta, as well as one of the locations where the rover abraded a circular patch to analyze a rock’s composition.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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Clearing Storm
Thor's Hammer with a Rainbow
Bryce Canyon National Park
For the record, it was the coldest temperature I have ever experienced, a minus 17 degrees fahrenheit, with the wind chill it could have been 10 degrees much lower. It was also, the first time I saw that my tripod, bag and everything I took out freezes in an instant. My last photo for the winter. Spring has come! :-)
Even several days after being cut down and shoved into the yard waste can, with the leaves wilting, this one flower still shines on.
Ain't no rain gonna make this woman take the day off.
If you want to see how I took this photo, please watch the beginning of this video:
Even though uprooted and dead for years, this tree remains standing. This is as close to giving the finger to adverse life conditions as a tree can get. I am impressed.
To take this image, I had to get up at 130 am and hike for 90 min through a dark forest and across a pebbly beach. This was time spent in awe - I listened to the sounds of the night forest, I saw the sea opening up before me when leaving the forest and climbing down the cliffs and I watched three otters play and hunt.
100% human made photographic image without any use of AI based content creation tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion. ;-)
Another weathered old barn.. but with great strength of character which the years have bestowed upon it.
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Some years ago a tiny seed carried by the wind settled into a crack in a rock formation, being trapped it made the best of an unfortunate situation. If all goes well, our little tree will crack open it's prison walls. The boulder will give up the struggle and break apart into a pile of stones.
18/02/2017; After a tranquil sunset, the blue hour also happened to be nice and calm at the Leiden harbour.
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The inscription reads: Liberatoribvs Americanis Popvlvs Belgicvs Memor (IV.VII.MCMXLVI) or "The Belgian people remember their American Liberators – 4th July 1946"
The Mardasson Memorial pictured here is located near Bastogne, a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. It honors the memory of the 76,890 American soldiers who were wounded or killed during the Battle of the Bulge.
On my way back and fourth to Brussels over the past couple years I have many times wanted to exit A4 and head north on A26 toward Bastogne to visit this historical place of 3/4 of a century ago. I finally took the time to do so last week and it was well worth the stop.
**A quick break from my Build-A-MOC-A-Week project**
My son wanted to build the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, so with a little help from Daddy here we are 😊
Statue of the Buddha submerged within the roots of a Bodhi tree at Wat Mahathat (วัดมหาธาตุ พระนครศรีอยุธยา), Ayutthaya, Thailand. The Bodhi tree is a sacred fig tree species, as the Buddha attained enlightenment while sat under the Bodhi tree in 500 BC. Because of the symbolic role in Buddhism, the tree is also called the Tree of Awakening or the Tree of Enlightenment.
A vine clings and grows along the rock face of a wall at Watkins Glen State Park. via 500px ift.tt/2bXHffY
This modern shellfish vessel seen returning to Bridlington Harbour after visiting the local fishing grounds,
"The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes longer time " - Lady Aberdeen
Background thanks to Rubi Blossom
Wild flowers are slim pickings in late Autumn in New Zealand.
So I returned to the old faithful performer again. This is the exact White Campion stem I captured on a previous trip, but at a different angle and time of day. See a few posts back.
I had to work fast to capture the last of the sun before it sank below the hill. This time I managed to back light the petals and get some Bokeh too which I am very pleased with.
A couple of minutes later the light was gone.
I remember rising from a kneeling position with a sweat on my brow. Phew!