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. . . Just in case you were wondering what I look at on my secluded dock (see my previous post), here is the view looking downstream on the Rapid River as my half of the river goes into a thick cedar swamp! For the next 200 yards you can hardly walk the river to fish, the trees are so thick! Then about a mile farther, you run into Seven Bridges Nature Preserve along Valley Road.
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Quite simply a stunning place, definitely on a par with the best of Devon and Cornwall. Dorset is certainly an underrated county, with the whole of the Jurassic Coast being a very impressive and beautiful place to visit.
The acoustics of the waves hitting the shore here were like nothing I have ever encountered. Simply splendid!
I shoot virtually all my photos with a super-wide lens and as such they are best viewed full size to get full appreciation of detail.
Quite literally across the street from the previous post, this opportunity for a bit of a story telling shot presented itself. Truth be told, it was the dramatic dark crevasses in the mountain side that first attracted my attention. However, since the yellow in the mechanical device is the contrasting opposite to the blue in the sky, this too needed to be part of the final product.
Angular lines create strength, while positioning in thirds can deliver tension to the shot. Surrounded with the green growing market vegetables made the yellow generator stand out even more. It all delivers a bit of a story that accommodates a different way of life and all occurs at the base of a mountain.
Herons are quite abundant in the UK, but I still get joy from seeing one. To me they give off a kind of jurassic vibe when they fly by - it's as though the bird has flown in from prehistoric times.
For most people, these are the largest birds we will see in the UK - they have a wingspan of about 6 feet, but are quite light in stature. Compared with a greylag goose, say, they are around half the weight.
Odd fact from the old days - The fat of a heron killed at full moon was once believed to be a cure for rheumatism.
...and for those of you wanting to keep herons from eating your goldfish, herons are quite social birds, so plastic decoy herons are *more likely* to lure birds to a pond than frighten them away from it.
Quite close to the Cattle Egret present in Europe (increasingly in Normandy, with the global warming) and Africa
Garde-boeufs d'Asie - Bubulcus coromandus - Eastern Cattle Egret
Petchaburi Rice Fields, Thailand
"Now she’s lit by the warm purple and blue black spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night"
― David Levithan
texture by Florabella, thank you!
we spent a few days at Netarts Bay on the Oregon Coast,
what a beautiful and peaceful place...
happy thursday everyone!
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I was quite taken with this particular zinnia bloom down in the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse garden yesterday.
A really different variety.
13th. Century art. Hailes Church, Gloucestershire, England, UK.
A happy looking chappy, even though he's quite faded after all these years.
These beauties were everywhere in Yellowstone National Park.
It's fun to watch them fly with that long fancy tail. They are quite striking in the sunlight with brilliant blue feathers.
Quite camouflaged amongst mid-October brush and foliage, I was able to capture an image of this beautiful Crane with two juveniles, likely born just this past spring.
Not the greatest photo I know, but still lovely to see the new family as they pause in southwestern Quebec before continuing their long migration south for the winter.
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Shellcamp Lake Visit 01/14/2024
Canon 60D with Canon 18-135mm IS STM
I purchased this setup gently used for a great price and I find that it's become a go to "generic" kit for circumstances where I don't really have any agenda other than to shoot what I see.
I keep going back to Shellcamp Lake for the wildlife opportunities, but the landscapes can be quite nice.
I got out later than planned, but the timing worked out pretty well both in terms of landscape shots as well as some wildlife opportunities.
This shot is of the frozen lake with some lovely clouds overhead. The light was starting to get a bit harsh, but still manageable.
I like the mild reflections in the ice.
Hope you enjoy!
NC
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I spent quite a few mornings walking in weather that felt all too cold for handling a mid-century folding camera. I use a number of them, mainly Zeiss and Voigtlander (not the premium models), though I am curious to branch out, if the price of film ever comes back into range from its distant horizon. I have a (to me) obscure Japanese folder that I am keen to clean up (minor fungus, major dust) and try. Where am I going with this thought ... ah yes ... using slightly variant models sometimes means I forget what idiot-proofing features are present where. So it is that I turned several photographs that I expected to be pleasingly nostalgic winter wonderland affairs into something rather more surreal and disconcerting ...
Blenheim Park, January 2022. Zeiss Ikon Nettar (6x9), Novar Anastigmat 105/4.5. Ilford Delta 400, 510 Pyro, semi-stand.
A few samples of GE's locomotives at IRM on Aug 10, 2019.
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Well not quite but 66194 makes a change from the endless stream of DMU's along this route, as it powers past Crabley Creek and onwards towards Broomfleet with the 6J94 13:04 Hull Hedon Road to Masborough steel.
Taken from behind the fence at a foot crossing.
20th January 2023.
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
― Rumi
For Poetography, the weekly inspiration. Week#155 Word is "Heart"
Quite a rare event to have a locomotive facing into Keighley but at the Match 2023 gala , 1054 Coal Tank was turned for just one run to face that way on a shuttle from Ingrow
Enjoying my at one of the last days at this walking spot of mine because as soon as the weather gets warm and gets past 70 degrees a uncountable multitude of bugs come out of the marshland to chew you up.
This was quite a challenging photoshoot for me as these Sedge Warblers spend most of their time low in the reed beds and occasionally popped up by which time I had to be ready to shoot and hence many poor images but at least three decent ones, so you get to see them all. The images were all taken at Attenborough Nature Reserve.
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Quite a fun sequence, this small unsuspecting bee was enjoying a little pollen gathering when a bumble bee came along and literally knocked him off his feet, The shutter speed was that fast that I caught quite a few frames as the poor 'wee one' skidded off and tumbled to the petals below. Ironically with one cursory look at this particular echinacea the bumble bee was off again, all that drama for nothing!
Quite a few thunderstorms lately in this area. The weather changed from hot and humid during the day to a spectacular thunderstorm with heavy rains at night.
Created this one with 55 seconds exposure time at 8.0.
ODC-Two Colours
The area I live in seems to be having an abundance of Dandelions this Spring. This one popped up in my Sweet Cicely patch in my herb garden.
Myself quite chilled, I came upon our Common Carder Bumblebee clinging to - perhaps pleonastically - Beautiful Calaminth - καλαμίνθα - on its footstool - κλινοπόδιον (but in the photo you can hardly see the hairy sepals from which the really very tiny flower arises).
Bombus was utterly wet and cold. Though she tried to move whirring her wings, nothing came of it. She just hadn't the energy to whir fast enough. For that nectar is needed or the Sun to provide enough warmth for her thorax to get a temperature of above ca. 30 C. So I took her in my cupped hand and breathed into them; slowly she revived and when a bit of Sun came out I put her back on Lesser Calaminth. She didn't stay long but slowly and a bit stiffly, I thought, bumbled away right into another rain shower. Coward for rainy wetness that I am, I gave up and fled into the Tropical Glasshouse for my own warmth.
We saw quite a few butterflies at Burton Agnes gardens - mostly Small Tortoiseshells like this one. We've passed but never visited the gardens before (the hall isn't currently open) - but found them to be well worth a visit. I'll post some views of the hall and gardens soon.
This image can be viewed full size (click twice) for more details on the butterfly's wings. I think my new lens is a keeper!