Quite possibly my favourite ladybird species larva!

Heath Farm - Shropshire

Quite a few years ago on the old railway bridge over the river Tay.

Quite a crop on this better doubled clicked.

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During the trip to Wooden lake in Almaty region, I've caught this rising moon at the dusk. Somebody can say what could be better than a coffee, camera on tripod at quite evening near the lake?

Quite something to find this spot swept clean by the recent heavy rains. Well worth the wet walk.

This was taken on a recent walk in the Lake District. Although it was an overcast day, I thought the grey skies quite suited the Spring foliage

Taken quite some time ago on Saundersfoot Beach with a Lumix FX camera... I'm not sure whether this image is cropped or has been stitched... the former, I think, though either is possible.

Empty road not much traffic when we were walking around near Aberglaslyn area and bridge.

Quite the snow lover I have here...He fluffed himself into the snow and settled down, couldn't pass up this photo op...the snow falling really adds something...

We see quite a few Bald Eagles in our neighbourhood and I spotted this pair flying overhead above the water. They may have been hunting for food, such as smaller birds or ducks near the water.

They are also constantly being chased by both crows and seagulls and I see that every day now.

Quite a surprise for me! First time I've seen Cranes (to my memory), and probably the last!

Taken from one end of a field with the birds at the other end, so please excuse the quality of shot!

Cranes (latin Grus Grus) are the tallest birds to come to Britain at 1.2 metres. There are around only 30 breeding pairs in the UK.

November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.

I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.

As the sun continued to move around, I left the Old trail Rd between the tracks and moved over to Old Route 66 on the west side of the canyon. Before the previously posted eastbound could pass, this westbound led by a GP50 crawled around the curve.

Dock 6 sits quite on the afternoon of June 25th while BNSF's Duluth remote yard job shoves back towards Rices Point with a pair of SW1500s. Late June and early July seems to be the only time this job can always be caught without shadows at this angle, putting it on my to do list regardless of whether a ship is present to provide a "rail and sail" backdrop.

I have looked quite extensively but cannot identify this little fellah!

Thanks to Camelia for the identification - Tetragnatha extensa

Mulling life over by the canal-side

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Quite a rare car these

Quite an interesting pose to take nectar.

If my guess about the identification is correct, it is a characteristic Acraea species having smoky brown forewings with diffused black spots at the end of the forewing cell, which are not well shown here.

Any suggestion about the ID is much appreciated.

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As you know, Rose of Sharon's can grow quite large and tall. They tower above all the rest of the flowers in the yard and it's the same in this case. Some of our Rose of Sharon's even tower over me and I'm 6'3, which makes it difficult for pruning, but that's what ladders are for...right ?

Alcedo atthis.

Never quite got the light this morning, seas were great too, hazy rain meant keeping filters dry a nightmare along with the sea spray but hey ho, it is what it is, first shot I took was this early on and prob my fav from this morning with the Bathing House lights on

Time has really started to fly by, but in my perception it has also become much more precious, because it is so important ❤️

One of the very first shots I've taken with my new 10-20mm.

Man, it's a fun lens, that one! There's a lot going on, even here at 12mm

I think that I’ve mentioned before that I have had quite a few problems with creating convincing macro-wobblies. But I thought I would have another go…

This is a lily that’s flowering impressively in a pot in my back garden. Strictly speaking, it’s a close-up rather than a true macro, but I don’t worry too much about the definition (and the Mittwochsmakro group covers both happily :) ). I had quite a bit of fun processing it, all in Affnity, using a high pass filter layer in Linear Blend mode to add a bit of local contrast - an interesting thing to try. This batch of images also looked well in black and white, but that’s not for today.

It also represents the halfway point for my 100x Wobbly project. Yay!!! (Only running two weeks behind then… :( ).

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Wednesday and 100x ;)

A large old world vulture - probably one of the largest vultures we get in Asia weighing around 8 - 12 Kg and with a wingspan of around 8.5 ft to 10.2 ft. These are pretty large unmissable vultures whose status is unfortunately near threatened. They are found in the Himalayas and much of China / Central Asia.

We visited a cattle dumpyard where dead cows (usually old ones) are laid to rest to be eaten by the vultures by the locals. There were more than 100 Vultures of around 4-5 species. And the Himalayan Griffons fought with the similar sized Eurasian Griffon several times over rights to the carcass. The fight was quite interesting that they spread their wings wide in an aggressive fashion and then use their legs to kick the head of the other vulture. The Himalayan Griffon's won much of the time due to their sheer size. After the win, the other vultures briefly give way for a couple of minutes and again they are group up.

The birds that finished their lunch - I observed - would move away from the caracass and stand aside taking rest. There were maybe around 20-25 vultures standing like this.

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And a clock. And the White Lion. And Wood Street. I quite like this little scene from Macclesfield.

Voigtlander Vito II folding camera

Fomapan 100 film

Lab develop & scan

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Quite the prize pulled from the river for this bald eagle.

Quite a rare find, had to sneak on private property to capture this classic early American Mill and dry house preserved quite well

Not quite what I wanted that morning, but after hemming and hawing over whether or not to post this shot I figured "why not?"

Well, there are actual answers to that question, but I'm relying on you Fine Flickr Folks to forget it soon enough...

Not Quite 'Blue Monday' but 60028 is the 'New Order' on 6L91 Chaddesden - Kings Lynn as it sweeps round the curve at Aslockton on 19th August 2022

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He's quite a small bear being less than 6 ins tall, in total.

Quite the rarity for us, although these ducks are found outside of the city. At the Pool, Central Park, New York.

Quite good camouflage... :-)

The seemingly neverending flight of stairs leading up the south wall of Wendelstein mountain, part of the panorama circular route.

Bavaria, Germany.

Quite calm and in its home territory, this fox was quite happy for me to photograph it at a close range .

Canvey Heights Country Park.

The last day of steam services in 2021 (November 27th) was rather hard to photograph. Trains appeared out of nowhere and the sun was sometimes hard to see. Chasing trains in conditions like this was a sort of extreme sport.

Quite liked the dark background and the reflection of the tail.

For October: a month in 31 pictures.

I've never been a big fan of extreme HDR but had fun playing with this and quite like the extreme moody feel.

Thanks to the brilliant Annie at Learn Digital Photo for teaching me how to do this.

Quite rare to spot a black 75!

Quite a lot of snow fell on Nova Scotia at the weekend, it was light and fluffy and made everything look like a snow globe.

Quite a bit difficult to beat this hand. A quartet of matching H3 GPs bring two autoracks back home with them as they ease their way into Northtown.

Little did he know, in a few minutes his day would get a little more exciting. An uninvited male swan landed near his spouse and then the drama began, He chased the intruder off, but the 2nd male angrily flew around the lake and over the nest 5 times before leaving for good. Exciting for all involved.

quite a few warblers were cleaning the Spanish moss in Circle B from all the bugs that were entangled in it. View large

Crab Spider with quite the catch...