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Quick stop at the Capel Curig end to catch the last of the mist/haze after a beautiful morning wandering along the shoreline further up.
How long does it take you to drive 30 miles? If you were with my wife and I you would probably not like it. We stop often when we see things like this. One subject usually leads to another. Do you see only the sunrise? If you look lower you will see an decrepit barn with an old vehicle forever parked by it. That sight means I need to drive up and take a closer look even though we are headed elsewhere.
A couple of days ago I posted a comment saying that I don’t do sports shots and here I go again. Actually I don’t really think of this shot as a sport subject either. It’s an exercise in light and motion that just happens to be a picture of a motor bike.
This was taken at an annual event that is held on the beach front at Kirkcaldy. The local motor cycle club gets to close the beach down and race various styles of bike along the sands. This was my first attempt at a panning shot and to this day it’s been one of my best.
Ein frohes neues Jahr!
Thank You for all your nice Christmas and New Year wishes in the last days and all your support - the visits, favorites and especially comments in the last year!
I wish everybody a Happy and healthy New Year 2015 with a lot of wonderful photos :-)
Danke für die vielen netten Weihnachts- und Neujahrwünsche in den letzten Tagen und eure Unterstützung - eure Besuche, Favoriten und besonders die Kommentare im letzten Jahr!
Ich wünsche euch allen ein Frohes und gesundes Neues Jahr mit vielen tollen Fotos :-)
no need to comment only a quick Re-Post!
because of the fireworks ... same procedure as last year ;-)
fire
in the sky
original upload 2010-02-02 / 15:54
Last Saturday we had to drop the children back at University so took the opportunity to call in in the Peak District. A 6 mile walk around Monyash was good (and so was the cake in the cafe there!) and the weather was so good we parked up at Glutton Bridge at 6pm for a walk over Hollins and Chrome Hill.
The post box at Glutton bridge had been taken over by a nesting Robin
An image shot at dawn of the Forth Rail Bridge from a jetty a fair bit away, near South Queensferry.
This picture might divide opinion! (I like it), I should explain, I intentionally shot it in portrait mode, as a LE image, but the mist started rolling in, and obscured a fair proportion of the bridge.This was the second in a sequence of 2 LE images I shot from this location (I have uploaded the previous shot), after this the entire bridge was engulfed in mist, and I was struggling to locate my camera bag, let alone see the Forth Bridge!!!
I longed for these conditions, but never thought 'd get them, and this was the type of image I kind of envisaged, though the mist really took me by surprise, it came in so quickly.
f10//80 seconds (10.0 ND Filter)/iso100/Nikon D7200/Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 12mm
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The snow dozer pauses briefly at the Merritt crossing to allow a maintenance employee to climb down from the dozer cab and join a co-worker in the waiting hi-rail truck. A quick briefing is had between crews before the work train will get underway once again and continue plowing eastward while the hi-rail will split, probably driving back across the pass to the west side.
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Snow Dozer BN 972502
BNSF 253
BNSF 7463
Beautiful old theatre, now unused. Managed to visit with only an hour and a half of light left so had to move quick.
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On our road trip from Chicago to Boston we stopped in Ithaca to see some friends and they took us on a quick hike up Buttermilk Falls Gorge. It was an amazing place and I wish we'd had more time to explore the area.
A very quick drive to Scapa, not been to enough beaches recently, I had my ND filters in another bag, I hadn't planned on using my digital camera. Lesson learned
As it was sitting right next to the road, I startled this owl while I was passing by and unfortunately before seeing it. Thus I had to settle for a photograph of it sitting up in the trees and partially obscured ...
Great Horned Owl / Bubo virginianus
ORDER: Strigiformes
FAMILY: Strigidae
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/overview
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
It seems that nexus gone crazy over there... just been there to download something, an hour later, it says that I have 73 notifications, yet when I open to see... nothing new, only one new.
The Sea, The Sky, The Earth, The Wind, 2005. Four paintings by Dutch artist Jan Cremer, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Holland.
I spotted this invasive Curly-tailed Lizard on a sidewalk in front of a veterinarian's office in Lake Placid, Florida. I've never seen one before and had never even heard of this species. It's quite a bit larger than our native lizards and a little smaller than Florida mosquitoes (okay, I'm exaggerating just a little about the mosquitoes).
Northern Curly-tailed Lizards are native to the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands but were apparently introduced to Florida in the 1940s by a farmer to eradicate sugar cane pests. I think this type of thinking brought us our invasive Bufo (Cane) toads too.
Most of these lizards have been reported in South Florida, but I found two reports for Highlands County with one of them being in 2014 within a few blocks of this sighting.
Press "z" to enlarge.
Nikon D500, 200-500mm
f/5.6, 500mm
1/2500, ISO 2200
Hand held
(I'm really bad about checking my camera settings before taking pictures and blew out some detail in the tail. I was leaving the vet's office when I unexpectedly spotted the lizard but fortunately had the camera in my car since I was heading to Driggers Road afterwards to take pictures after the quick stop to pick up some medicine.)
My wife found this small flower in the garden, so we took it for a quick shot (which isn't that sharp, unfortunately).
Had to work the whole day, so i'm a bit late this monday...
Have a wonderful HMME - Happy Macro Monday Evening ;-)
Quickly another selfie or something interesting on the other side of the small bridge.
Everywhere, really everywhere you see bicycles here. It is the most popular means of transportation to get through the many alleys. Btw....the world leader in bike ownership is the Netherlands, there are more bikes than people...
Montage de 3 Croquis rapides bic et aquarelle sur place / on location quick bic and wash sketches / desenhos aguarelados feitos no sitio.
Im seeing black and white today..its not good. A Quick post before the weekend so I hope everyone has a blast!
Stay Safe!
If it stays cold enough for long enough even Lake Ontario can develop some pretty large ice formations. It is rare these days to see such ice build up.
It is actually very dangerous and foolish to climb around on the ice. There are cracks and holes that can be covered by thin layers of snow and ice one could easily fall through into the water. Death would come quickly.
Fridays really do come around too quickly--
"Winterset" 1973
Painting by Robert Addison (1924 - 1988)
Here is another painting in my ongoing series of presenting Robert Addison's paintings to all of you.
Barns, farms and rural scenes were some of Addison's favorite subjects. He chose them because he grew up with them and he was concerned that one day they would all be gone.
Since I still have a significant backlog of images from Iceland, sometimes - instead of going through them one after another - I look through them randomly to see if any stand out, and this time it was one from the beautiful Hraunafossar which we visited at the end of our trip.
After we enjoyed a quick dip in the hot water of the Búðardalur hot pot, which was on our way from the Westfjords to Reykjavik, we continued our drive through the amazing landscape and decided to make a short detour to the Hraunafossar. From the parking lot, it was only a short walk to the viewing platforms where you can see turquoise water coming out of the porous black lava which is covered with beautiful greenery. Every time I arrive at epic locations, I kind of feel overwhelmed and need a little time to find some compositions that work, but in this case I have to give credit to my girlfriend for spotting the composition you see here, which I shamelessly stole from her (after politely asking of course).
Taking this image wasn't easy as we were standing on a wooden floor that was shaking when people were walking over it (we could have moved a little to the side, but then the angle was not ideal and trees in the foreground blocked the view a bit) and since it’s not too far away from Reykjavik, I guess you can image how many people visit this location. I also had to zoom in to 200mm to isolate the waterfall and using filters to get a longer exposure together with the occasional wind gusts made this composition not easy to get.
After getting at least one sharp image, I noticed that my girlfriend was struggling with sharpness and soon we identified the problem: Her tele lens does not have a tripod collar and she didn’t have an L-bracket at that time. This means that - in order to take a long exposure in portrait orientation - she had to tilt the ball head of her tripod to the side, where the weight of the camera and lens caused the camera to move down introducing some blur in her images. At first we thought that the reason might be her cheaper tripod, but then I gave her my tripod with which she got the same blurry images. This meant that the only reason could be the small tripod plate on the bottom of her camera, and it only took a quick look to see that it was noticeably shifted. Fortunately, I had another spare tripod plate with me and using this together with my tripod made it possible that she also got the result she wanted. After spending way to much time at this location, we continued upstream to see the Barnafoss as well. Finally, we got a coffee at the restaurant next to the parking lot before we continued to the Reykjavik campsite with a slightly sad feeling that our trip goes to an end. I hope you like it!
PS: Thanks again to my girlfriend for having such an amazing eye for compositions and for letting me steal this one. If you have some time, I think she would really appreciate it if you would also check out her images: www.flickr.com/photos/193130995@N02/
An eastbound empty grain train operating under the ubiquitous #318 symbol, rolls along the shores of Crowsnest Lake, having just cleared the summit of the pass of the same name over the continental divide and entered the province of Alberta.
The crew, which took over the train at Sparwood, BC has several minor grades yet to climb on their trip to Lethbridge, AB. With two additional units offline on the head end, the hogger has no worries about making it over the line in their hours of service. The primary impediment to a quick and easy run will be meeting oncoming trains on the 'dark' OCS controlled subdivision.
The crew will have a two hour wait ahead at Cowley for an opposing loaded potash train. Fortunately for them the hand throw west switch at that location is already lined for the siding, having been left by the previous eastbound enduring a meet there. The crew of 318 will pull straight up to the east switch to wait for the westbound. Upon arrival for the meet, the westbound will stop on the main at the west switch, line it for normal, and be on their way. The conductor on 318 will then line the east switch out of hole, and be on their way, leaving the switch lined for the siding. The rail traffic controller will take advantage of this, and likely put the next westbound in the hole here. Traffic over the pass is very balanced, with an eastbound counterpart for every westbound.