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I must admit, I wanted to visit the ghost town of Dummer mainly because of its name. Once a thriving prairie village, it was apparently named for William Dummer Powell, a chief justice from Ontario. Dummer now has smattering of abandoned houses, some old rusty vehicles and a population of zero.
Dummer, Saskatchewan
Scenes from the April Prairie Rebellion show that took place in the Plaza in OKC.
The next event takes place at the same location at 8pm Sept 14th outside of Bad Grannies
Canon 5D Mk II | ISO 100 | f8 | 1.6 | 17mm
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Witches Falls Circuit, Mt Tamborine, QLD.
The first outing with the new 5D Mark II.
Old 17-40. First was soft on the left hand side. This shot is still a bit soft up in the top left corner, but I like it enough to post it up.
It was a very muddy day. Slippery and just after the huge deluge Brisbane had. If fact it was still drizzling when I walked this path. I only had thongs as I misplaced my old Keen's (which busted last weekend! doh!) and ditched them to walk barefoot, the whole track. A pretty rewarding experience and a good way to reconnect to the Earth to get some positive energy back.
We were walking the circuit and noticed at the bottom of the circuit a closed off path. So we went right, looked at the falls (which only fall after heavy rain) and starting walking back.
Why not. Let's see if we can make it through.
First leg of track - this massive tree.
2nd leg of track - the first seasonal lagoon, which was over the path, but the path itself was a running river.
About another 100 meters down, the actual "Seasonal Lagoon". The water was up to the sign, and deep, over the path, easily groin height. Pretty surreal. As you can guess, the path was gone :) - so back the way we came and up the hill. In the mud. In the drizzle. Fun!!
About Prairie Dogging
In companies that use large numbers of cubicles in a common space, employees sometimes use the term prairie dogging to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distraction. This action is thought to resemble the startled response of a group of prairie dogs.
Processing
Clarity, saturation, curves, smart sharpen, CA adjusment, more sharpening in LR2.
When I saw a rainbow begin to form, I grabbed this shot before I rushed off to a spot that would be perfect for the full bow...unfortunately the full bow never did form. Still, it is always a lovely sight to see such wonderful colors in the sky.
Faville Prairie
Wisconsin State Natural Area #3
University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
~permission required to visit~
Jefferson County
The prairie falcons were in good form in northeastern Colorado today. This was the second of three that I saw near Jumbo (Julesburg) Reservoir. I watched this falcon from my car for 25 mintues before she took off...and for all that I almost missed it when she finally did!
Diadophis punctatus arnyi, Grant County Wisconsin, 23 May 2022.
Conditions were very dry and many ringnecks had moved from the dry bluff prairies into the adjacent woods and were found under bark, or in this case between the bark and the wood.
Out on the southeastern Alberta prairie... the horizon seems endless, with not much in the way to break up where sky meets ground. I saw this particular sunset beginning to take shape while talking with my cousin out in his farmyard on a crisp autumn evening... and 'the show' just got better and better, until there was no 'better'... and that's when I raised the camera. =)
Our conversation dropped off a bit as we stood there and watched it all unfold. It took the big wide open of a prairie sky to fit all the color and brilliance and absolute drama... and in that moment, there was nowhere else that I would rather have been.
This one... I would have remembered, even had I not had my camera with me!
Last light on the Schulenberg Prairie at The Morton Arboretum. This was just before the mosquitoes drove us out.
Restored Tallgrass Prairie, Murphy Hanrahan Park Reserve, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA.
Four photos stitiched.
Alberta Terminals Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada
7D | 300/2.8L + 2x | 1/2000 sec., f/7.1, ISO 640
These falcons were quite well known now for hunting pigeons at the grain elevator. How about a set of just stationary shots? I really wish this falcon was perching on a tree though.