The recent double rainbow and you can see both ends. Persevered with a stitch to get most of it in frame, gives a better idea of the truly beautiful event.

Trust you will excuse the blemishes

photographer's block blah

GWR 2999 Lady of Legend, compliments this unique GWR period scene leaving Bewdley South.

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The wind was blowing so hard, even the birds seemed to be hiding out! But we persevered with our Lee Filters and smoothed out the water and sky.

Happy Blue Monday!

where he can often be found.

the old film and mystery camera

This little tree by the shore of Lake Michigan has had a rough go of it. Still, it perseveres. I love all trees, but especially love gnarly trees like this because they have such character.

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Greetings! If you are reading this you've survived the in-laws, the Huskies loss, and Santa has stopped by to the delight of all. :-) It's 17 years past Y2K and we are still here, time will tell if we can survive 4 years with a Neanderthal at the helm, but fingers crossed we will persevere. You folks had an amazing year, I saw a LOT of great shots last year and a lot of you have outdone yourselves recently, very cool to see and I'll be looking forward to your travels in the coming year. I do want to reiterate for those who missed it that I pushed the dreaded one pick a day button, it really made my life easier as I follow nearly one hundred people, I flat out don't have time for more than that, my apologies for crushed toes and bruised ego's but I have to find a way to make this work and still have a life out of this chair..... :-) I do enjoy my viewing time, so much to see, so if I miss something great give me a nudge and I'll stop by as soon as I can. I'm looking forward to seeing things that I've never seen this year, hope that I can bring you the same. :-)

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Some of the 115 steps were very steep, but I am so

pleased I persevered to get this amazing view. :-))

Northern Cardinal in snow storm

Long Island, New York

400mm - f/5.6 - 1/1320 - ISO 1250

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The last flight, (Glad you've persevered this far! :-)

before the Village - Heptonstall,

West Yorkshire, UK

Snapping Turtle

NOT nice😣! He was in the middle of the road. He finally crawled into our fence row and got hung. My husband got him out of the fence and hauled him off to a safer pond.

Beautiful eyes in full screen mode.

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Every year I go to Eemnes to look for Godwits, and I have already posted many shots on my stream. I have always been trying to make pictures of their young, but until this year I couldn't make a decent shot of them. Many reasons, the grass is too long or my pictures are not sharp because it is difficult to focus on them or they disappear between the stems. And after a few weeks they are not visible anymore because the grass is too high.

Most frustratingly you know they are there because the parents always fly around your head, or they land very close beside you, making noise all the time, so you know their chicks must be around.

But if you persevere you might succeed, and here is one of the results. I chose this one because the Godwit in the background gives an impression how small this little chick still is.

“Il est souvent nécessaire d'entreprendre pour espérer et de persévérer pour réussir.”

Gilbert Cesbron

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Sansevieria/Snake Plant in a turtle pot. 🐢

Green (Zeylanica) and Yellow (Laurentii) varieties to choose from.

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Nearly gave up on trying to get a swallow in flight, but decided to persevere for a little while longer and it finally paid off

I walked the world afar

Built up a thousand walls

To try and hide away

I searched to find my soul

A journey far from home

Lost in a life I'd made

And I'd been 'round in circles

Living for the moment

I know I ran so far

Was acting kind of crazy

Coming up with empty

Felt like I lost my heart

Now I've found a love that

Is clearer than the deep blue skies

It's true You were right there

I can see it in the days gone by

I see You in the days gone by

Your promise never left my side

I know sometimes I tried to give up

Still You caught me when I fell from high

I see You in the days gone by

You took my fragile fate

And didn't hesitate

Your love in every scar

Passion with no restraints

Held back the darkest days

So now my life is Yours

You've got me when I'm broken

You're with me when I'm hopeless

I know You're never far

Your mercy has no ending

It perseveres unfailing

You'll always have my heart

Now I've found a love that

Is clearer than the deep blue skies

It's true You were right there

I can see it in the days gone by

I see You in the days gone by

Your promise never left my side

I know sometimes I tried to give up

Still You caught me when I fell from high

I see You in the days gone by

See You in the days gone by

See You in the days gone by

And I need You everyday 'cause

I see You in the days gone by

Your promise never left my side

I know sometimes I tried to give up

Still You caught me when I fell from high

I see You in the days gone by

Keith Urban

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Really bored, in this time! 👹

Well, my foray into woodland photography was a bit beguiling! I spent a whole afternoon wandering around recceing potential composition, without much success. Then I spotted a waterfall and like a moth to a flame, I was setting up in one of my comfort zones. I hadn't a decent woodland image in my camera and I set off back to the car to head to the coast for a sunset.

On my way back to the car I spotted this scene with the tall Beech Trees lying in an almost swaying juxtaposition with each other and the little wooden bridge below in the dell. I played around with the composition as it wasn't easy to get into this position with a tripod. Anyway, I liked what I saw on the back of the camera and went back to the car a little happier.

I will have to persevere with this genre as compositions seem to elude me. Perhaps the autumn colours and repeated attempts may eventually unlock my woodland blindness.

Found this photo from last years snowstorm. It amazes me how they persevere even in a brutal storm!!

The Old Fox truck-stop on the A1, it used to be a pub ("The Fox"). It is still family run and gets very good reviews. It seems to be open evenings only. With it being a truck stop I tried to get a good bit of parking lot in the shot. I had stopped for a coffee in the "OK Diner" next to it on the way home from work. HP5+ is not my favourite film stock, maybe I've just been unlucky with lighting when I've used it, I will persevere.

Voigtlander Bessa folding camera from 1937

Skopar 105 mm f/4.5 lens

Ilford HP5+ film

Lab develop & scan

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A tenacious pine tree precariously thrives in a very lonely spot, with an incredible view of Utah's high plains desert canyons and mountains. (Red Canyon in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah)

*Repost: March 7, 2016 ... One of my personal most favorite shots. Catching up today. Have a beautiful week, everyone! :)

He wanted to but she was shy.

He persevered, she played coy.

A few kissy faces later, she led him under the woodpile presumably for some Chipmunk Hankie Pankie! .

Wonder what baby chipmunks look like??? LOL Have a great day everyone!

“Just as the chrysanthemum endures through the changing seasons, we too can persevere through life’s ups and downs.”

Created with Dream Wombo and my photo as the input. Texture created with Distressed FX+

Taken at low light and slight shower drizzle after dusk. We had to take a quick walk back to our shelter.

Victory belongs to the brave and those who persevere!

I supposed the tourist business is in low season and these boats are not fully utilized.

I suspect you could salvage this boat by bailing out the water and the boat will float again.

Visiting the Severn Valley Railway for their Covid save Spring Gala is the newly restored Saint Class GWR 2999 Lady of Legend from the Didcot Railway Centre. This was taken on a pre gala loaded test run. (April 2021)

For those of you who have visited Slimbridge WWT you will understand my 300 lens is a little limiting but as it's the most I can hold steady I just have to live with it. These birds are all wild but one is ringed, it has obviously mated with an un-ringed one which is great news.

Richard (husband) has a 600 lens & I tried that when photographing some deer the previous day - unfortunately they lost most of their antlers & parts of their heads 😣😣😣.

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

...getting the fish reoriented to go down the hatch head-first. This double-crested cormorant fought for a bit to get the fish headed the right direction, but it eventually persevered and enjoyed a nice fish breakfast

Colors and textures & perspective have been changed, but the grandeur and aesthetic persevere.

Happy Sliders Sunday!

Persevere & you can reach the sky!

Colmer's Hill, Symondsbury, Dorset

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So it's yesterday evening and various weather apps are saying there is a chance of fog in Dorset but only 1 of them says anything about it being at one of the specific locations I'm thinking of. So do I give in to the temptation dangled by a recent Daniel Wreatham video on YouTube and wake up at 02:30 😣to then drive 1hr 45mins to Colmer's Hill where 1 app indicates there will be a little mist or have another 30mins in bed and go to Corfe Castle where none of the apps say fog will be present but if it's anywhere nearby it's normally there?

I decide to set my alarm for 02:30 and see if I get up and have my coffee made in time for Colmer's Hill which I have only scouted once, nearly a year ago. Well as you can tell in the end the lure of a new location overcame the draw of Corfe partly because I expected there to be a lot of people on West Hill this morning and I hate crowds as much as a certain Mr Hardcastle!

Having done a scouting trip and armed with the Dorset Fotovue book I set out at stupid O'clock for the long(ish) drive. I managed to get the last space in the layby by Quarr Ln (I think the two cars there were from the houses opposite) and set off to climb to the top of Quarry Hill in the dark and find a shooting spot.

The above 6 shot pano was taken mid way through Blue hour before some of the higher clouds coloured up but at the time when you see the light and colour changing by the second and can realise what a wonderful world we live in despite Mr. P's megalomania and all the cost of living stuff we are all suffering from. The period with the light doesn't last long but it's truly my favourite time of the day.

As you can see from the photo I did get a bit of a reward for the effort. Nowhere near as epic as that Daniel Wretham video but he is a pro so has more freedom to come when he wants and he did say he'd been trying for years with no luck previously.

That's the thing with us Togs...we always know no matter how good or bad a shot we take is there is the chance of bettering it if we come back enough.

To those in the UK enjoy your long weekend. For me next weekend will be a doubly new experience as it will be my first shoot in Northumberland and also the first photography workshop I have attended! Wish me good weather and good photos everyone please!

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

Pythagoras

Cormac McCarthy King of Munster once stood here and looked out over his land. No wonder he was in no hurry to give possession to Queen Elizabeth 1, delaying her with his Blarney.

Blarney Castle and the estate was confiscated from the McCarthy clan in 1690. It was sold and changed hands many times over the centuries. The current estate owner is Sir Charles St John Colthurst, Baronet.

Irish history is so tragic, Ireland is littered with ancient castles and churches like this, ruins without roofs. Memorials to the millions who died through wars and famine, to the culture and language lost, to the souls lost to slavery (yes an unknown FACT a huge number of Irish were taken as slaves and indentured servants and sent to the West Indies mostly Barbados) www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_immigration_to_Barbados ...least we forget!

Oliver Cromwell's attempt at Ethnic Cleansing almost succeeded but the Irish persevered somehow. Although we should and do forgive the English for what they did to us we will not forget. I want todays English population to know this history because most don't have a clue, the English history books tell a different story. Irish history is painful but the Irish have moved on and forgiven England. Nowadays we are who we are because of our history with England, in fact it's made us stronger.

Dora O'Connell Meulman

I love this old castle I feel the spirits of the past when I look through this window.

early June, and he is trying to persevere.

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Also ehrlich .. auch wenn die Parkplätze manchmal knapp sind .. kann man sein Auto doch vernünftig abstellen .. oder !? 😐

Honestly .. even if the parking spaces are sometimes scarce .. you can park your car properly .. or !? 😐

Beauty cames from struggles, from falling over and over and over again and getting up again and again. It cames from roadblocks, figuring a way around them and working though them. It cames from being more brave than your fears. From heartbreaks and hundred of tears. True beauty is always the battles you have conquered. Perseverence, patience, determination, grit. And, of course, the beauty of being a genuinely compassionate human surpasses everything. There is nothing more truly gorgeous than a kind soul, wich makes an entire aura radiate.

-

If you wish to be beautiful

search your heart, for it is

there where love emanates

and beauty radiates.

(Lilies&Laces&Dark Pretty Things)

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Delaware Water Gap, PA.USA

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American Redstarts are incredibly active insectivores that seem never to stand still. They rapidly spread their cocked tails, exposing the orange or yellow in a quick flash, which often startles insect prey into flushing, whereupon the redstart darts after it, attempting to catch it in the air.

Nikon Z9 camera with Nikon Z600mm f 6.3 PF lens.

1/1250 F6.3 ISO 3600 with fill flash.

Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

1 Timothy 4:15-16

The Moon Bridge crosses the outlet to a pond at the Kubota Garden. The bridge was constructed Fujitaro's sons in 1974 as a memorial to their father. The Moon Bridge symbolizes the difficulty of living a good life: "Hard to walk up and hard to walk down." Kubota was a man who knew all too much about the difficulties of life. He was born in 1879 in Japan and immigrated to the US in 1907. He established a landscaping company and worked hard and in 1927 acquired the land for the garden. During WWII, the Kubota family was interred in Camp Minidoka in Idaho. Two sons served in the US military during the war. After the war, the family returned and resumed working on the garden. There were back property taxes to pay, and the garden was severely overgrown. But Kubota persevered, establishing a beautiful garden which remains today. The garden was acquired by the City of Seattle in 1987 and is managed by the Parks Department.

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WHITMAN COUNTY UNITED WAY FIRE RELIEF FUND

As we are well aware, the Western US has been burning. Yesterday, I stopped in on what is left of the small town of Malden, in Eastern Washington State.

The area is heavy with the noxious smell of everything that has burned, as well as the continuing pall of smoke coming up from California and Oregon from all of the other numerous fires.

I have visited Malden to take photos multiple times over the years and felt sick to see what had become of the area. Some of the residents who have lost their homes are living in campers on site.

It was surreal, like a black and white movie, as most color has either been burned up, painted with soot by the consuming flames, or muted by the fog of smoke hanging in the air.

This scene continues to play out again and again all over the West Coast.

I truly hope the folks of Malden and the numerous others that have suffered loss from the fires persevere.

—BG

I refuse to give in

Here is look back over a decade to a triple headed steam spectacular! This is the caption I wrote when this was originally shared on RP.net:

White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary snow plow #3 (Cooke 1899) is departing Glacier and crossing the curved trestles as it marches upgrade. This location is 14.1 miles from and 1871 ft higher than Skagway. The vintage snow fighter is being pushed by steam locomotives #73 (Baldwin 2-8-2 blt. 5-47) and #69 (Baldwin 2-8-0 blt. 4-07) with coach 211 trailing. #211 was built by AC&F in 1918 for Oregon's Sumpter Valley coming to Alaska during WWII courtesy of the US Army. The cupola was added in 1946. The White Pass is America’s busiest tourist railroad and an engineering marvel of any era. Regular tourist trains operate for the four month cruise ship season of mid-May to mid-Sept with the WP&Y largely dormant the remaining 8 months of the year. In days of old it was a 110 mile freight hauler supporting the Yukon mining industry and before that a major WWII supply conduit during the building of the Alaska Hwy. Like the town it calls home, the WP&Y was born during the heady days of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush and experienced booms and busts through the years but has persevered, and today is the most popular excursion for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit Alaska each summer.

Bridge 14A - Glacier Station

North of Skagway, Alaska

Monday April 25, 2011

‘There is no spiritual life without persistent struggle and interior conflict. This conflict is all the more difficult to wage because it is hidden, mysterious, and sometimes almost impossible to understand. Every serious Christian is willing to make a few initial sacrifices. It is not hard to make a good start. But it is hard to continue, to carry on the work begun and to persevere in it through many years until the end. … We are not “converted” only once in our life but many times, and this endless series of large and small “conversions”, inner revolutions, leads finally to our transformation in Christ.’

-Thomas Merton, Life and Holiness p. 116