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Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
Santee Coastal Reserve, South Carolina, U.S.A.
The Blue-winged Teal is an incredibly fast-flying dabbling duck native to North America, instantly recognizable by the powder-blue wing patches it flashes in flight. It breeds in shallow wetlands across the northern U.S. and southern Canada, favoring prairie potholes and grassy marshes. Often among the first ducks to head south in late summer, this pair was almost certainly on the move.
Fun Fact: some individuals winter as far south as northern South America, making them one of the most tropical of North American ducks.
According to the IUCN Red List, the Blue-winged Teal has an estimated 7,800,000 mature individuals with a population trend that is increasing.
IUCN Red List Assessment (2020): Least Concern
The 5/29/22 Macro Mondays theme is Powder.
Back in another era of my life, I was quite involved in shooting in rifle matches and spent nearly every weekend on a rifle range; and in order to keep the cost of ammunition under control and to develop the most accurate loads possible, I hand loaded my ammunition. Starting when I was 15 on the high school rifle team, I've fired tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, many of those rounds being through my .30-06, and I never could have afforded to compete if I had to use store-bought ammunition. I was 16 when I bought my first reloading outfit, and over the years I've been on several rifle teams, including the Marine Corps rifle team (where the ammunition was free☺) and the U.S. International Rifle team.
I still have reloading stuff left over from way back (it's been over 30 years since I've done any shooting), so, for this image, I grabbed my one remaining canister of rifle powder and combined it with a .44 Special cartridge case.
Okay, so its 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35C) in Denver at the moment, working its way up to a forecast 100F (38C)... So what do I do, I reach into the archives and pulled out some freezing-ass cold shots from winter.. This was the morning after two feet of fresh powder had just fallen and Belle was surveying her new virgin playground. She proceeded to dive right in (literally). It's my girls' favorite weather...snow. I think it was about 10 degrees (-15C) as I shot this
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Noticed this blossom as I walked through the Australia Garden at the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens. However, it seems it is a White "Powder Puff" (Calliandra haematocephala) blossom native to South America
The beautiful Kennal Vale river flows through the old gun powder works,one of my fave spots to visit particularly at this time of the year. The leaves are down spreading their reds and yellows over the mossy rocks, a polariser helps to reduce glare and bring out the colours. There are so many lovely compositions to be had here, I have a few more images to show yet from this amazing spot.
One big mistake with this shot is I should have thought at the time to focus stack, I was a bit like a kid in a sweet shop I think.
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Quebec Wildlife............................ Canada .
Shot at Parc Omega which is a ten-kilometer nature roadway in Montebello, Quebec.
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A former explosives store. Large scale quarrying operations (the building of a dam) once took place nearby.
Burrator, Dartmoor, Devon
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As of late I have either had difficulty remembering where I took a photo or misplaced my notes altogether. Fortunately I have the notes from this shot of a loaded coal train on the sweeping curve at Belle Ayr in the Powder River coal basin. 9.01
Kitayatsugatake, Mt.Shimagare
北八ヶ岳・縞枯山
The depth is a mysterious fluffy powder snow. The temperature is similar to that of a freezer.
深さは謎のふわふわの粉雪です。気温は冷凍庫と同じくらいです。
Chino city, Nagano prerf, Japan
Powder magazine, Magpie Mine, Peak District
From last winter -Single exposure, no photoshop
This circular building was where the gunpowder was stored away from the main buildings at Magpie Mine, it would have had a lightweight roof so any explosion went upwards.
My neighbour Ken founded Ashleigh Signs, now an International signage company. Look at The Savoy and Hilton Hotels in London and thats an example of their work. www.ashleighsigns.co.uk Ken took me down to look around the premises and I got a few shots
Para L'Atelier II, Juego 2.
Me ha costado encontrar tiempo y condiciones para trabajar el tema de esta semana y Jackie lo siento por entregar mi foto cerca del plazo. Por casualidad, había hecho una silueta con movimiento la semana pasada y correspondía a este 2o juego, pero preferí hacer una(s) foto(s) nueva(s) y eso me tomó tiempo! Me dí cuenta de que para hacer un contraluz con el Canigou, la montaña sagrada de los catalanes, muy cerca de Céret, tenía que alejarme hacía el este, porqué si no, al acostarse más rápido detrás de la montaña, la luz todavía es muy fuerte y el cielo se queda más soso. Luego hicimos pruebas con bombas a contraluz, y otro día con salpicadas de agua también a contraluz. Ayer había mucho viento, pero hoy pudimos hacer una sesión de "flour power" y pongo esta foto, aunque sea la única que no esté a contraluz, porqué representa a mi niña al 100%: no es una niña para nada quieta, "sage comme une image" como decimos en francés. Es alegre, atrevida, intrépida y VIVA. Y así me gusta <3
Hoy el sol era fuerte, así que tuve que ponerme en la sombra. Además, el fondo está negro. Así que tuve que escoger mi 50mm, la lente más luminosa que tenga, para poder subir la velocidad guardando una profundidad de campo razonable. Subí el ISO porqué no había otra manera, creo que mi cámara lo lleva bastante bien. La pena de la manita cortada ; el llevar mi 50mm y no poder alejarme mucho más para que no aparecieran los límites de la tela negra, más el movimiento rápido de mi niña hicieron que esa manita se quedara fuera...
Abajo, en el primer comentario, os pongo mis descartes.
Powder Dry
HDR 7 scatti
Fotocamera: Nikon D700
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 1/5 s
Lente: 48 mm
ISO: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Nikkor AF-S FX 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED
A BNSF coal train is passing through the loader at a mine along the Powder River Basin, as another empty is waiting its turn.
Ein kalter und farbiger Abend in den Schweizer Bergen.
A cold and colorful evening in the Swiss Mountains.