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Not just provided by the weather but also the glorious colours of the little Goldfinch. They are a bird that I don't recall growing up with but these days they seem to be an ever present in the local woodlands and gardens.
Happoone provided a venue for the alpine skiing and jump events of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan.
It was the winter olympics held at the lowest latitude; the latitude of Hakuba village is 36 degree 42 minutes north, which is roughly the same as that of Tunis in Tunisia.
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Les mésanges nonnettes sont de petits oiseaux sveltes, généralement curieux et peu farouches. Les mésanges nonnettes apparaissent généralement en couple à la mangeoire, prospectant avec d'autres mésanges. Cependant il s'agit de "couple" composés d'individus du même sexe qui passent l'hiver ensemble. Dès le printemps, lorsque les mâles commencent à chanter, les « faux » couples se séparent. Elles préfèrent chasser dans les niveaux inférieurs de la végétation et au sol. Elles accumulent souvent des réserves pour les périodes de disette.
C'est une visiteuse assez habituelle de nombreux jardins des zones rurales. Elle est assez timide, mais elle ne dédaignera pas les mangeoires en hiver en compagnie d'autres variétés de mésanges, à condition de trouver des arbres ou des buissons à proximité. Les mésanges nonnettes sont tellement vives et rapides qu'un court instant leur suffit, pour prélever des graines à la mangeoire. Dès qu'une place se libère, les couples plongent continuellement sur la mangeoire pour emporter des graines, A la différence des autres mésanges, les nonnettes prennent chaque fois plusieurs graines ; elles peuvent ainsi emporter jusqu'à trois graines de chanvre dans leur bec. Ces graines ne sont pas cependant consommées en même temps mais bien disséminées dans des cachettes appropriées telles que des fourches d'arbres, des crevasses dans les écorces ou des branches tombées au sol. Chaque graine est cachée séparément et souvent n'est pas retrouvée. Dans la nature, elle inspecte les arbres à la recherche d'insectes. Sur le sol, elle se nourrit de graines d'adventices, faînes, baies et graines de tournesol.
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The chickadees are small, slender birds, usually curious and not very shy. Nutcrackers usually appear in pairs at the feeder, prospecting with other tits. However, it is a "couple" composed of individuals of the same sex who spend the winter together. From the spring, when the males begin to sing, the "fake" couples separate. They prefer to hunt in lower levels of vegetation and on the ground. They often accumulate reserves for periods of scarcity.
She is a fairly habitual visitor to many rural gardens. She is quite shy, but she will not disdain the feeders in winter with other varieties of tits, provided they find trees or bushes nearby. The chickadees are so quick and fast that a short moment is enough for them to collect seeds at the manger. As soon as a place is free, the couples dive continually on the feeder to take away seeds, Unlike the other tits, the nonnets each take several seeds; they can carry up to three hemp seeds in their beaks. These seeds, however, are not consumed at the same time but scattered in appropriate hiding places such as tree forks, crevices in bark or fallen branches. Each seed is hidden separately and often is not found. In the wild, she inspects the trees for insects. On the ground, it feeds on weed seeds, beeches, berries and sunflower seeds.
Title provided by Lizzy aka ylumière Thank you.
Theme No.11 is Soft Focus (#2) - I will post 5 or more photos under this theme.
Thank you for stopping by my friends.
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The first Memorial Day in 1868 provided a compassionate nation the opportunity to mourn after a very brutal Civil War. Obviously that war, along with all others, was the consequence of very strong and differing opinions. Unfortunately, the currency of war is blood and many pay the ultimate price. That price is what we honor on Memorial Day.
I hope we all take a moment to respect those who gave us the opportunity to openly voice our opinions in the 1860’s, 1960’s and today. I will always cherish it!
Happoone provided a venue for the 1998 winter olympic. This area was the starting point for alpine skiing.
Happou (八方) means "eight directions," and One (尾根) means "ridge" implying a ridge providing views in all directions.
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It once provided shelter and healing...... until He took its place...
Featuring the Skye Studio Rocky Shore Collection. This set is outstanding...it can transform any area into a beautiful and peaceful place to retreat...I paired it with the Skye Enchanted Woods with the Skye Epic Cliffs in the background...
Pictured:
Skye Rocky Shore Straight (various pieces from this collection to create the shoreline)
Skye Enchanted Woods V3
Skye Twisted Tree
Skye Wild Grass
Skye Shabby Deck
Skye Rocky Shore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Skye%20Elgol/249/191/23
Skye Studios Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/14830
Skye Studios Flickr: flic.kr/ps/9Qv9V
New from Hive, two must haves for fall....and what's even better...they are GROUP GIFTS!! *hears the audience roar.....wear your Hive group tag and get on over there!
hive // falling leaves
hive // pumpkin patch wagon . group gift
hive mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/hive/139/55/25
hive flickr: flic.kr/ps/2hPUK9
Also from hive in the back corner:
hive // the secret shack RARE
Misc goodies:
Botanical - Sand Barrier Fence
Botanical - Marram Grass
*CSF* Blonde Beach Grass
evh Nui Hammock
Ruins Wall by Reid Parkin
TC - Water Floating Leaves-Petals-Weeds
Pewpew! Autumn Shed - White Wood
[we're CLOSED] old well
ReKa. Fire Bowl_Group Gift
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Schloss Favorite is a Baroque maison de plaisance and hunting lodge in Ludwigsburg, Germany and was used as a summer residence and hunting lodge. It is located on a rise, directly north of Ludwigsburg Palace and connected via an avenue to it.
Schloss Favorite was built from 1717 to 1723 for the sovereign Duke of Württemberg, Eberhard Ludwig, to a design by Donato Giuseppe Frisoni. The model was the Gartenpalais in Vienna.[1] The original plan provided for combining the functions of a hunting castle, surrounded by a vast park and hunting grounds, and a country villa with a beautiful view. In 1748, it served as a backdrop for a grandiose firework display arranged on the occasion of the wedding of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg and Princess Margravine Elisabeth Fredericka Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
From 1806, King Frederick I of Württemberg converted the park into a ménagerie, containing wild boar, deer and chamois, and the house was used as a hunting lodge. At much the same time, the architect Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret renovated the building's interior in the neoclassical style.
With the fall of the monarchy in the 20th century, the house was little used, neglected and fell into disrepair. It was restored from 1980 onward, and it opened to the public in 1983. The park has been transformed into a landscape garden, which has since served as an animal park. Today, the originally furnished castle rooms give an insight into courtly life
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green flowering cherry, 'Ukon', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Shade and Scenery warm day in the mountains umbrellas made for a bit of cool and the plants provided some beauty.
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Evening Flight
Cropston Reservoir in Leicestershire provided a rare night of magical skies
There are stories in every photograph, why not take a close look and find yours…
Photography: www.flickr.com/photos/iainmerchant/
#IainMerchant #Art #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #PicOfTheDay #TheArtofLife #ThinkingOutLoud #Beautiful #Leicestershire
Photo by: Iain Merchant Photography (www.iainmerchant.com)
provided it is accompanied by only ten words :-)
Edward Steichen
HSS! Justice Matters! Indict Trump!
dahlia, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Saturday provided a break from the rainy days we had been having so after work I immediately went out to the Country Club Plaza to catch the refurbishment of these beams of light at a local church near the Plaza water fountain. The blue water was in honor of the UMKC graduates.
Narrative taken from a fellow photographer--
When Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Community Christian Church in 1940, he envisioned beacons of light forming a “Steeple of Light.” That part of his original concept, however, was not completed until 1994, thanks to the work of Dale Eldred, chair of the sculpture dept. at the Kansas City Art Institute. At the time, four powerful spotlights were installed on the roof where their beams pierced the night sky until they went dark a couple of years ago. This past weekend, though, the beams were turned on again with newly-installed lights. The return of the new “light steeple” marked the church’s return to in-person services after the darkness of the pandemic.
provided it doesn't block traffic ;-)
Dan Rather
HPPT! Climate Change Matters!
hybrid camellia, 'Pink Icicle', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Richard Tatti generously provided some NEF files to download nd follow along with his edit in a recent YouTube video: www.nightscapeimages.com.au/workshops---online.html
With travel restrictions in place (and thunderstorms anyway) I thought I would have a go. I set out with the intention of creating a different shot to Richard rather than trying to re-create it, which is not to say I don't like his original! In fact I probably would not normally edit this shot in the same way if it were mine! Richard used a Nikon Z6 and 20mm f/1.8 S lens, 9 sky shots and 3 light painted foreground shots. I used Sequator to stack the sky images (as per the video) and Photoshop to combine the result with 2 of the 3 foreground light painted shots.
(Warning: this is a long one, so grab some popcorn and settle in.)
Photographing landscapes has provided me with countless opportunities to have my mind blown over the past few years. From summits in the Canadian Rockies, to countless sunrises in the Sierras to spectacular night skies in remote corners of Utah to beautiful coastlines in Oregon....so many incredible moments. Of all of these experiences, the one I endured last Friday was truly special. It was a personal triumph and one that I have literally been working toward for the past two years.
Tom Bricker was the first one to mention the Diving Board to me. I had seen the shot by Ansel Adams, of course, and had always wondered where he took that shot from, but I figured you would just...you know. Get closer. I was sure that the location must be just beyond Curry Village. What was the big deal?
The big deal is that the diving board is a location in Yosemite that cannot be reached by taking one of the major, well maintained trails. Back in Ansel's day you just took some ropes and charged up the Leconte Gully. But the gully has long been deemed unstable due to frequent rockfalls. The standard route nowadays begins on the mist trail and winds around behind Lost Lake before heading steeply straight up the side of base of Half Dome. From what we were able to gather from scouting online, this would be a 16 mile round trip hike and the word "strenuous" was being thrown around by some very hard core hikers and climbers. My heart sank as I first heard these reports. After all, the hike up the Upper Falls trail had nearly finished me off a few years before. How in the world could I expect to haul my camera gear up the Mist Trail let alone the nearly vertical sections of this crazy trail to the foot of Half Dome?
But I really wanted that shot. I hit the treadmill and began building up my endurance. (Of course the first night was only 10 minutes, but hey. It was a start.) I also began challenging myself with some more difficult hikes, the most recent of which was up to the Fern Ledge in Yosemite. As the Summer drew to a close, we finally had a chance of thunderstorms and the promise of a possible sunset, and I sent Tom an urgent message: Can we go for it on Friday?
So last Friday, Tom and I took off at 4 AM for Yosemite. By 10:30 AM we were taking off from the Mist Trail parking area. Man I was feeling good! No stops at all on the way up to the first bridge. I was blowing past old people and asian tourists like they were standing still. Then the REAL climbing began. By the time we made it to the top of Nevada Fall, I was wiped. But we hadn't started the tough section yet. Tom and I had found a short cut up from Emerald Pool and we had a GPS map with us on Gaia. We were all set. What could go wrong?
So up we went.
The trip from Emerald Pool to the regular bush trail junction was easily the hardest climbing I've ever done. The nearly 30 pounds on my back turned out to be a huge mistake as I nearly gave up several times. Between the steep terrain and the bushwhacking, I was toast. When we hit the junction, things only got worse. I was having to stop almost every 100 feet and poor Tom just sat there waiting for me. After clawing my way up another 700 feet or so, I finally collapsed, unable to continue. I told Tom to head up without me, but he refused. After a long break, it finally hit me: I could dump whatever I wasn't going to use at the top and grab it on the way down! So out came my 24-70 lens (way too hazy for a valley shot), the tripod, almost all of my food, two jackets and over a liter of water. I dropped by stuff in a neat little pile behind a tree reminding myself that it would be a bad idea to forget those items on the way down.
Suddenly the backpack was WAY lighter and even though it hurt, I continued to force my way up. For the final 500 feet, I hung back and sent Tom up ahead. After another 1/2 hour break, I lurched back onto my feet and with the soundtrack of Rocky playing in my head, I charged up the last 500 feet to the Diving Board...some EIGHT hours after leaving the parking lot.
The view was absolutely spectacular as Half Dome rose far more majestically than I could have ever imagined. Although we didn't get quite the epic sunset we were hoping for, we did get some color during the last few minutes, just enough to give some atmosphere. A goal I had set two years prior had just been achieved. I had made it all the way to the diving board!
Our smiles began to fade as it dawned on us that it was getting dark in a real hurry and my car was still 8 miles away. There would be no "short cut" on the way down as we were pretty sure we would not survive a hike back down the sketchy ravine we had just clambered up. So down we went on the long, normal route around past Lost Lake. About 45 minutes later, I said something like "Hey Tom....where's my stuff?" Both of us were convinced that it must still be below us, so we plowed on. After we had gone another 1/2 hour or so, it dawned on us that we must have passed it. We were both beyond exhausted and nearly out of water. But Tom, being the hero that he is, charged back up to look for it. But didn't find it. He had a quarter of a liter of water left and I had maybe a half. I wasn't even sure if I could make the hike out, so I took a deep breath and told Tom we just needed to leave my lens...and all of my other stuff up there, which would have been roughly $2500 to replace.
Ouch.
Okay...this is taking way to long. I'll skip to the end.
After we passed Lost Lake on the way down, we found water in a creek and used my filter to keep from dying on the way back. Tom made it back to the car around 2:30 AM and very kindly drove the car around to the trailhead as I had some severe blisters. I didn't make it back to the trailhead until 3:30 AM.
Fast forward to last Monday when I drove back to Yosemite to find my stuff. I stayed overnight in El Portal and set off the next morning, this time without the 30 pounds taking only water and food. I left at 4 AM and by 8 AM I found my stuff exactly where I had left it! I made it up there in HALF the time! My lens and gear were undamaged and I breathed a huge sigh of relief before heading back down.
For those of you who might be interested taking this hike, I'll have much more details for you including maps, etc on my blog in the very near future. Sorry for the ridiculously long story and THANK YOU for reading the whole thing if you are still with me! The Diving Board was truly a once in a lifetime trip for me....at least for now. I MIGHT try it again, but if I do, it will be with MUCH less gear and more water!
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Background color provided by a distant brick commercial building (brightly lit by the setting sun). Texas Medical Center, Houston. Manually focused (cool and easy with the visual aids provided by the R6) because autofocus failed to acquire the desired subject in full shade.
Maybe (poisonous) Sennabean (Sesbania drummondii). Please feel free to correct me or guess. There were definitely Sennabeans nearby with 4-sided capsules that rattled in the breeze; this looks slightly different. Perhaps just older, capsule thinning and no longer taut : ))
Artist’s Statement (provided by, and with thanks to, Terry Eve)
This black-and-white photograph, delicately toned with cool blue hues, captures the raw interplay between time, memory, and the relentless forces of nature. Set against the backdrop of a windswept shore, where small, gnarled trees bear testament to years of elemental battering, the image speaks of endurance—both of the land and of those memorialized within it.
At the heart of the composition stands the graveyard, a silent archive of generations past. The foreground is marked by older, taller crosses, their silhouettes stark against the shifting sky. These weathered monuments, softened by time, contrast with the modern black headstones beyond—precisely faceted, their geometric edges catching the muted light. The white inscriptions, sharp and legible even at a distance, stand as echoes of individual stories, tethered to a landscape shaped by forces far older than human history.
The cool, desaturated processing imbues the scene with a spectral stillness—moody, mournful, yet undeniably striking. Though the weather is overcast, an ethereal glow lingers in the air, subtly illuminating the scene with a diffuse, otherworldly presence. It is as if the light itself acknowledges the passage of time, revealing not just a place of rest, but a threshold between past and present, permanence and impermanence.
This image does not merely document a location; it captures an atmosphere—a quiet, melancholic reverence in which nature and memory are forever entwined.
London has always provided a home for minorities, and on this morning in January 1987, the minority that enjoys railway travel around the nooks and crannies of London would have congregated at London Bridge station.
202001 stands under the roof of the 1860s-built London, Brighton and South Coast Railway station before working a Branch Line Society railtour.
The railtour visited a number of exotic locations south of the Thames, including Angerstein Wharf, Northfleet Cement works and Chessington Goods before heading north of the river to visit various freight only lines.
The class 202 were part of the narrow, Hastings gauge fleet of DEMUs that replaced steam traction between Hastings and London Charing Cross in 1957 and continued in operation until 1986.
Although the class 202s spent their careers travelled through the former South Eastern Railway's platforms at London Bridge enroute to Charing Cross, they were strangers to the west side of the station, as seen here.
In a peculiar link to my uploaded image ( flic.kr/p/2mU5NHq ), the tour was to have used the prototype DEMU 210001 pictured in that image but on the day the class 202 substituted.
Walking under this pier during low tide at Deception Pass State Park in Washington provided me with some interesting structures to photograph. After years of exposure to the sea, barnacles and seaweed have made this structure their home.
Mother Nature provided the trick, while Wisconsin & Southern's Janesville bound T4R provided the treat, as they roll through the Southern Kettle Moraine forest on this snowy Halloween afternoon.
WSOR T4R
WAMX 4174,4183,4181
Eagle, WI.
Autumn 2019
Astonishing winter clarity provided this uninterrupted sightline right across Badenoch to the Cairngorms or Monadh Ruadh.
Despite the utterly beautiful light, I felt I struggled to find fitting harmonious compositions to match it. I took a fair few photos that afternoon that I knew in my heart wouldn't cut it. Using Aonach Beag's ridge as a framing tool for the drama beyond, however, was one I was happy with. Corralling the spread of snowy hills into a fairly tight arrangement also improved matters.
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Right beside the Humber Bay Arch Bridge is an area where the City of Toronto has provided colourful Muskoka Chairs for your viewing pleasure.
Halloween provided the trick and the Wisconsin & Southern provided the usual treats in the form of a trio of EMD's finest. Six inches of snow fell on this chilly Halloween morning, making for a fine autumn scene with a bit of frosting. Four years later, this morning about an inch or so of the frozen fallout blanketed the area. Happy Halloween folks!
WSOR T4H
WAMX 4174,4183,4181
Milton, WI.
October 31, 2019
At one time the Battersea Power Station provided west London with most of it's power from it's coal burning turbines, belching out smoke and adding to London's already abysmal air quality. The building itself is an art deco masterpiece and with it's 4 huge chimney stacks a real landmark in this part of south west London. In the past 10 years the decommisioned power station has been completely refurbished and it's now a retail shopping complex, albeit one that still owes a lot to it's original design. It now provides punters with a bit of retail therapy with lots of small shops and boutiques to wander around in.
This is shot from the top level gangway looking down the length of the structure.
Medium format film photography
Rolleiflex 2.8E
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8
Kodak Portra 400
Texture provided by SkeletalMess. Thank you!
Photo is my own.
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Cloudless nights provided two opportunities for photographing the Perseid meteor showers at their peak in the (mostly) dark skies of the Eagles Nest Wilderness. The radiant (point where the dust and ice from Comet Swift-Tuttle that burn up in the atmosphere appear to be emitted from) is in the constellation Perseus in the NE quadrant of the sky, in the “dim” part of the Milky Way. I was off with centering the radiant in this composition, which is a bit to the left of center.
The colors of the meteor streaks are true and not accentuated in post processing. As different elements burn in the atmosphere, they emit different colors. The Perseid particles are made up of calcium, sodium, magnesium, silicon and iron, which give the streaks the green and pink colors as they pass through the atmosphere.
This group of meteor streaks were culled from 957 photos taken during the two nights (around 80 had meteor streaks), selected for brightness and position in the sky. The green end of the meteor streak points toward the radiant in Perseus. On the horizon between the groups of conifers on the right side you can see the Pleiades (seven sisters) and Jupiter rising above the horizon. Despite the isolation of the site you can still see significant light pollution on the horizon, though I’m unsure of the source.
Provided by the social music school DoReMi. They "place freely accessible pianos in public spaces. Everyone can play." openpianoforrefugees.com/?lang=en
They "offer music classes in pair lessons for refugees and socially disadvantaged people paired up with people being socioeconomically more fortunate and mostly German-speaking. Sustainable integration and appreciation of cultural diversity are promoted through an innovative “Pay as much as you can” concept while enjoying music classes together..." openpianoforrefugees.com/about-us/?lang=en/#concept musikschule-doremi.com/de/?lang=en
At the S-Bahn and U-Bahn station Handelskai in Brigittenau, the 20th district of Vienna
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Photo from the Andreas Müller collection, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
ca. September 1982
C-GCPI "Empress of Honolulu" / fleet no. 907
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
48296 / 370
CP Air
C-GCPI shortly before touch-down on Riem’s runway 07. A CP Air DC-10 was noted at Riem on 28 September 1982 (no registration reported), possibly the precise date for this shot.
Information from flickr - thanks to Reinhard Zinabold:
Built in 1981 and operated by CP Air between 1982 and 1987; transferred to Canadian Airlines 1987 and operated until 2000; stored and broken up at MZJ in 2004.
Registration details for this airframe:
C-GCPI with Canadian Pacific / Canadien Pacifique at YYZ in July 1987 (CP Air colours, Canadien Pacifique titles):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/4/1/0288144.jpg
C-GCPI with Canadian Airlines at HKG in May 1988 (CP Air colours, Canadian titles):
www.airhistory.net/photo/240619/C-GCPI
C-GCPI with Canadian at DUS ca. 1990s (full colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/23454616855
The remains of C-GCPI at MZJ in October 2004:
www.flickr.com/photos/l8rmt/11568254575
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
AIRbourne provided a unique pairing of one of the RAF's huge Chinook helicopters being formated on by 'The Blades' aerobatic team with their four diminutive Extra 300's
Note the 'photographer' in the forward window with the Mobile!
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Site of 2 Forts that were important to early American history :
Fort Bowyer was constructed by the U.S. Army during 1813 to guard against possible British attack. This small log and sand fortification was attack twice by the British during the War of 1812. The first attack made by four British warships and a combine force of British Royal Marines and Creek Indians came on September 15, 1814. The ensuing battle was total American victory. One warship, the H.M.S. Hermes was sunk and the marines and Creek Indians were forced to withdraw. During a second battle which took place during early February 1815, a combine British land and naval force forced the vastly outnumbered American troops to surrender the fort. By the terms of the treaty that ended the War of 1812, the British had to return Fort Bowyer to the United States. Fort Bowyer defended Mobile Point until the early 1820's.
Fort Morgan was seized by troops of the State of Alabama on January 4, 1861. Turned over to the Confederate Army in March of 1861, the fort served as the first line of defense for the city of Mobile and provided protection for blockade runners entering Mobile Bay. On the morning of August 5, 1864, Union naval forces fought their way past the Fort Morgan and defeated a Confederate naval squadron which included the C.S.S. Tennessee, one of the most powerful ironclads constructed in the South during the war. Union land forces commenced siege operations against Fort Morgan on August 9th. On the morning of August 22nd, Union artillery began one of the most intense bombardments of a single fort recorded during the Civil War. The Confederate's losses were 17 men killed. The Confederate garrison's 581 men were forced to surrender the next morning.
SX-BLW : Boeing 757-236 : Greece Airways / Air Scotland.
Greece Airways, with this single 757, provided the aircraft and crews to operate scheduled services for 'virtual' airline Air Scotland.
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An early August morning provided both clouds and sky color to enhance the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park.
Bryce Canyon is located in the state of Utah and is relatively close to Zion National Park. It was designated a national park during 1928. At 56 square miles, is smaller than many other parks, but is a gem with its countless colorful hoodoos. Its elevation is somewhat high ranging from 6,600 ft to 9,100 feet which causes it to have a cool climate. It was a refreshing mid-50s F the August morning we took this photo.
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 at 50 mm
1/13 sec at f/8 ISO 100
Single photo
August 2, 2016
The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of the Australian State of Queensland. As provided under the Constitution of Queensland, the Parliament consists of the King, represented by the governor, and the Legislative Assembly. It has been the only unicameral state legislature in the country since the upper chamber, the Legislative Council, was abolished in 1922. The Legislative Assembly sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Brisbane.
The Queensland Parliament retains plenary legislative power over Queensland, however Commonwealth laws apply to the extent of any inconsistency. Some laws from the colonial era passed by the New South Wales parliament and the Imperial Parliament also remain in force.
Following the outcome of the 2015 election, four additional seats were added to the Legislative Assembly, the voting system changed from optional preferential voting to full-preferential voting, and unfixed three-year terms were replaced with fixed four-year terms.
The Parliament was founded 22 May 1860, less than a year after the Colony of Queensland was created in June 1859. It was convened at military and convict barracks converted for the purpose located on Queen Street, Brisbane. Immigration was an important issue for the early Parliament. Population growth was encouraged with new settlers enticed by land ownership.
In 1915, Queensland became the first state to make voting compulsory at state elections.
Since 1 April 2003, live audio broadcasts have streamed through the internet from the Parliament while it is in session. In June 2007, the Parliament started broadcasting video of parliamentary proceedings. Nine in-house television cameras are used to record sessions.
The first female Speaker, Fiona Simpson was elected on 15 May 2012.
Photo taken by Theo Kastner and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
January 1983
G-OBAF
British Aerospace BAe-146-100
E1004
British Air Ferries (BAF)
G-OBAF was noted at Riem on 6 January 1983 (from/to Warton) and on 9 January 1983. This was actually a British Aerospace demonstrator painted in BAF colours. The airframe returned in 1985 as G-BRJS with Dan-Air London.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Richard Vandervord and Paul Seymour:
An order by BAF for the 146 was never forthcoming, despite this demo paint job, although they did short-term lease some 200s and a 300 later on. This, the fourth-built 146, was later re-registered by the RAF, Dan-Air, Merpati, National Jet Systems and Debonair, eventually being broken up at Adelaide in 5.09 after use by Qantas Airlink in 2001 and return to National Jet.
First flew as G-OBAF in 1982. To the RAF as ZD695 in 1983. Returned to British Aerospace as G-BRJS in 1985. To Manx Airlines as G-OJET in 1987 then to Merpato Nusantara Airlines as PK-MTA in 1996, Debonair as G-DEBJ in 1988 and National Jet Systems as VH-NJA in 2000. Operated by Qantaslink from 2001. Scrapped at Adelaide in 2009.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=14048
Detailed history of this airframe including photos:
www.aussieairliners.org/bae146/vh-nja/vhnja.html
G-OBAF with British Aerospace at LGW in February 1983 (modified basic BAF colours):
www.aussieairliners.org/bae146/vh-nja/0414.269l.jpg
This airframe as ZD695 with RAF at Brize Norton in June 1984:
www.flickr.com/photos/105925977@N03/31838598207
This airframe as G-OJET with Manx Airlines at LHR in September 1991:
www.flickr.com/photos/66737297@N06/52075172173
This airframe as PK-MTA with Merpati Nusantara at ADL ca. 1996:
www.flickr.com/photos/singapore269/15375898038
This airframe as VH-NJA with QantasLink at BNE in June 2001:
www.airhistory.net/photo/335412/VH-NJA
This airframe as G-DEBJ with Debonair at BCN in March 1999:
www.flickr.com/photos/jordi757/16016740918
This airframe as G-DEBJ with Debonair at LTN in May 1999 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/40596588521
This airframe as VH-NJA with National Jet Systems (NJS) at ADL in April 2007:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/1/82460_1193094556.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
Photo taken by Andreas Rink, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
1976-05-07 (7 May 1976)
D-ABYH (1)
Boeing 747-230B
20559 / 186
Condor
Note: D-ABYH (2) is Boeing 747-830 c/n 37832/1472 delivered to Lufthansa in March 2013 and still current in October 2024.
D-ABYH at the holding point for runway 07 in the last rays of sun on a Friday evening in early May.
Information from flickr - thanks to Chris (Heathrow Junkie):
D-ABYH c/n 20559 Boeing 747-230B - delivered new to Lufthansa's charter subsidiary Condor Flugdienst in March 1972. The aircraft flew with the airline for nearly seven years, before being sold to Korean Air as HL7442. Four years later, on 1 September 1983, the aircraft was shot down by Soviet Air Force SU-15s for breaching Soviet Airspace over Sakhalin Island while operating flight KE007. All on board were killed.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=398902
This airframe as HL7442 with Korean Air Lines at HKG ca. early 1980s:
www.flickr.com/photos/151931049@N08/49518245597
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
November provided some stunning days of diving around the Channel Islands, and I was lucky enough to take advantage of it. I didn't realize how great the conditions were until I jumped in for the first dive, which was already set for macro. After some good macro shooting, I shifted over to wide-angle to really go to work.
The clouds provided by a recently passed storm soften the light at the Horseshoe Bend which was created by the power of the Colorado River. The site is located near Page, AZ and is upstream of the Grand Canyon and shortly downstream of the the Glen Canyon Dam that forms Lake Powell. As with other sites, people endanger themselves by doing such things as sitting on the edge of the cliffs which rise about 1,000 ft above the river.
This is a different approach from my earlier 14 mm photo. Taken at 24 mm, I think that it brings the formation and the Colorado River closer and helps them dominate the photo. Also, the distant mountains and the storm appear closer. I used the close rocks to frame the photo, but kept them out of focus to draw more attention to the bend itself.
Nikon D800
Nikon 14-24 mm f/2.8 at 24 mm
1/320 sec at f/5 ISO 100
Single photo
October 21, 2015