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Very quick stop off in Onehunga on the way home tonight as I was passing the Manukau Harbour view. These rays burst through and being a sky nut a few hand held shots with the Grad Filter had to be done. The crepusculars were all over within a few mins sadly.
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Have a good weekend all.
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As we pulled up in the car on our driveway, the Buddleia in the front garden was playing host to this lovely visitor, a Humming-bird Hawk-moth.
- Plato.
One of the main challenges of planning a trip to Yosemite Valley is efficiently managing your time to cover the multitude of photo opportunities at this park. You have this fear of missing out while at already famous and well-established locations. I have always felt that every single viewpoint of the valley deserves the best possible light. The problem with the best light approach is that you will probably need a year to cover all the excellent photographic opportunities at Yosemite. Plus, Yosemite Valley is one place where the mood and beauty of a location drastically change in different weather conditions. Every time you visit, it is not easy to forego a site you already photographed instead of something new.
Hanging Valley viewpoint is a location that has the unfortunate luck of being close to Valley view. Often photographers pass this viewpoint in their hurry to get to the valley view and secure a parking spot. Also, the parking lot for this spot is tiny. Another trouble is Yosemite’s one-way traffic policy making it almost impossible to get to this location after shooting sunrise at valley view as you will have to complete the whole drive to get back here.
During our visit to the valley in the winter of 2015, I managed to secure a parking spot at the Hanging Valley viewpoint just before the sunset. The light had some great warm tones, and the Cathedral Rocks were being spot lighted with the best kind of side lighting. I included the Merced river as the foreground for the image and took a quick panorama image of the mountain peaks. As luck would have it, some low-lying clouds in front of the rock cliff give the picture a little x-factor along with the golden light.
Egmond aan Zee | Netherlands
Got this Sanderling at the beach in perfect sunset-light. Thanks to the all new Bird-AF of the new OM-1, I was able to follow those fast runners and focus quick enough to get some nice shots.
Journey Beyond Rail's "Great Southern" luxury passenger train runs between Adelaide, SA and Brisbane, QLD, running through Western & Northern Victoria, then Southern & Northern NSW to reach its destination. The Great Southern utilises the consist from "The Ghan' and in turn only runs between the months of December & January of each year; as The Ghan doesn't operate due to the wet season in the Northern Territory. Due to trackwork in the Southern Highlands closing the track from Moss Vale into Sydney. The Great Southern was required to make a deviation off its normal route. Running via the Illawarra Mountain (Moss Vale - Unanderra Line), the South Coast Line and the Sydney Goods Line. Finally rejoining its original route at Chullora Junction. In this photo, it's near days end as the light quickly fades and we see the Great Southern descending the grade not long after passing through Robertson, along the Illawarra Mountain line, behind NR30 & NR31 running as train number 6KT8. Saturday, 14th January 2023.
Handheld from the bottom of a rushing creek. I went in thinking the shot would be perfect from up above on the bridge behind me but after some exploring...
It's the unintended shot that makes my day.
The temperature has been well above freezing in recent days, and it’s been raining. The snow is melting fast.
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.
It appears as though someone stopped out on the road and then slogged through the snow to check on an old car in the deteriorating shed. Life habits of our parents often pursue us all our lives. My parents farmed on three locations and sometimes after a long day of work on one of them, my dad would irritate me when we were headed home toward supper and he would say, "let's just stop and take a quick check on the tractor in the other field we left for tomorrow." There weren't as many malevolent country folks back then to worry about but he had a protective sense of ownership and responsibility that he passed on to his children by his example.
The Wood Hyacinths sneaked up on me this year...Was able to get a couple of shots before the storms moved in again...In my back yard...
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 quick trip down to Great Sand Dunes National Park a few nights ago was well worth the drive. This was the first time in 9 years that the wind wasn't blowing 100mph.. As the sun dipped further wind got calmer. I waited for all the people to walk by me before snapping this image. I did leave the 2 small chairs in the foreground on the lower dune for scale. Hope you have a great day!
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.
Today I wanted to take doll photos as weather´s been so lovely and warm lately. :) But didn´t have any luck finding a good place outside. I looked for it for like an hour which made me so thristy and tired that ended up heading home. Hence the super old pics of Fiona. U_U
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
Quick grab shot in Derby Market Place … I used the Leica photostyle that was included in the last firmware update for the #LumixS5M2, other than the crop this is SOOC. Apologies for the awful pun
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
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Ruprechtskraut / Geranium robertianum / Herb Robert / Red Robin / Death come quickly
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1 “And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.
7 “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
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
A quick look back along the Appalachian Trail through Engine Gap from Round Bald in the Roan Highlands at the rain cloud that will soon swallow me within its midst's. Hoping, praying there is not an electrical element to this passing cloud. Beautiful, very interesting, but not something I want to examine up close...
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The Sea, The Sky, The Earth, The Wind, 2005. Four paintings by Dutch artist Jan Cremer, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Holland.
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...
Quick heartbeat upload - this one hoping for some critique. I've held off posting it for a few months, as I can't quite get the contrast or colour levels to work perfectly for my eye!
There's a black and white version in the comments for that reason!
I'd love to know what people think. It was morning light, but maybe not quite early enough to bring out the full texture of the distant wall of rock.
All that said, I do like the clean reflection - reminiscent of a happy hour or so, on a dewy spring morning, way up in the Triglav National Park at Bohinj Jezero. One of the single best places on Earth!
Hope everyone is well and enjoying an awesome week!
A quick trip up Sheriffmuir this morning before work to see if there were any owls about. Weather was pretty ghastly and light awful - isn't that always the case when things perch/stand within a few metres of the road
Tame chickadee, but no posing, and they are quick!…
But once we put seeds on the fence posts, they went there instead…
Taking a quick portrait break to celebrate the winter solstice. The weather tonight may block Saturn, but last night was pretty good. It was nice to be able to photograph this locally. Frankly, the city lights and moon were helpful to take out all the other stars from the sky. I always wanted to photograph this statue in the park, but never new what to use it for until last night. The moon, Saturn and Jupiter are to scale: the statue is not. This is three separate photographs realigned, one of the statue, one of the moon, and one of the planets. Saturn is so small in comparison. I look forward to seeing images from the astrophotographers who have equipment suited to that purpose. Keller, Texas, USA, December 2020
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