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A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building common in northern Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing pine posts are called stav in Norwegian.
In 1880 a stave church in the rural village of Gol was bought by the Norwegian Preservation Society and moved to the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo, which is an open air museum containing more than 150 historical buildings, relocated from towns and rural districts.
This cormorant was working one part of the lake, then evidently was dissatisfied, so moved to the west end. Fortunately for me, I was well situated for the flight.
This is an image from a trip to Yellowstone a few years ago. With Yellowstone, it takes a few days or longer to get a sense of what is going on with the wildlife; where the dens are located, where there's been a kill, what's the best place to get lucky and get a sighting and hopefully a photograph. I learned the general area where there was a Coyote den and managed to get there during the female's relocation, cub by cub, to a new unknown location. I believe she moved the remaining cubs during the night as there was no activity days following. (Canis latrans)
As summer draws to a close, I thought it would be very appropriate for the Macro Mondays theme 'Leaf' to show a tiny bit of the decimation of my hosta plants! I have given up on my Gastropod Relocation Programme, and the snails seem to be enjoying themselves immensely.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
The Highland is a Scottish breed of rustic cattle. It originated in the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides islands of Scotland and has long horns and a long shaggy coat. It is a hardy breed, bred to withstand the intemperate conditions in the region.
Highland cattle descend from the Hamitic Longhorn, which were brought to Britain by Neolithic farmers in the second millennium BC, as the cattle migrated northwards through Africa and Europe. Highland cattle were historically of great importance to the economy, with the cattle being raised for meat primarily and sold in England.
The 1885 herd book describes two distinct types of Highland cattle. One was the West Highland, or Kyloe, originating and living mostly in the Outer Hebrides, which had harsher conditions. These cattle tended to be smaller, to have black coats and, due to their more rugged environment, to have long hair. These cattle were named due to the practice of relocating them. The kyles are narrow straits of water, and the cattle were driven across them to get to market.
The other type was the mainland; these tended to be larger because their pastures provided richer nutrients. They came in a range of colours, most frequently dun or red. These types have now been crossbred so that there is no distinct difference.
Since the early 20th century, breeding stock has been exported to many parts of the world, especially Australia and North America.
It is estimated that there are now around 15,000 Highland cattle in the United Kingdom.
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On one of the roads towards the great freshwater lake named Tonle Sap, central Cambodia. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia flooding a vast area in the rainy season and retreating significantly in the dry season. Small homes are often relocated closer to the waters edge in the dry season.
Cormorants moving from one end of the pond at Delores Fenwick Nature Center to the other. About 50 birds in this mini-migration. Could have used more DoF. Pearland, Texas.
At Fernald, Lodge Pond is a sure-fire spot to observe many ducks. if one is patient, afternoon light hits the ducks flying in or simply relocating across the pond. The dry weeds on the banks provide great background.
I was thrilled to see this bird standing in the upper most pond of Fernhill Wetlands mitigation area. I got as close as I could without scaring it, took numerous photos of it sitting still and hunting, but I really wanted a flight shot. I don't intentionally disturb birds, so I waited and waited. Finally after about an hour, two people walked up to the pond even nearer the bird, and loudly said, "I WONDER WHAT THAT PHOTOGRAPHER IS LOOKING AT?" Seconds later I had my shot!
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Built by Alexander who was the Duke of Hamilton, he lived from 1767 to 1852, the structure was incomplete at the time of his death, he was later interred in the mausoleum on completion, he was fascinated with Egyptian history so was berried in a huge sarcophagus, he was the only member of his family that wasn't housed in the walls of the mausoleum but placed on a huge slab below ground level, the rest of his family were interred in the walls on a lower level to The Duke. He wanted a place where all his relatives could be together, in the 1920's there was subsidence due to water ingress from the river Clyde so all the family were relocated to a local cemetery as there was a risk of the structure collapsing, works were succesfully completed to save the structure. Before succeeding to the dukedom, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Colonel of the Militia, and MP for Lancaster. He was later appointed Ambassador to Russia, and travelled extensively in Russia and Poland.
I relocated this hydrangea in my yard this past summer because she was not doing well where I had originally planted her. She is thriving now and, here at the end of October, has the tiniest of flowers blooming. I was taken aback by the visitors she had drawn in as well!
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Praying Mantis
A species of Mantid that I don't see very often. You can see some yellow colouring. This year we have cleared the garden alongside our driveway where these appeared from time to time. This one was on our Wisteria, looks like it has found a new home.
The unexpected discovery of a Northern Mockingbird in a coastal town less than 30 minutes from where I live made it an easy decision to go and have a look at the weekend once it was known to be still there. It spent most of its time with backdrops of houses, a junkyard, shed roofs, tv aerials and walls topped with broken glass but luckily I was in the right place at the right time when it landed on a fence with a small evergreen tree behind it.
Followers of my photo stream from the US might be baffled by the excitement but this is the first time this species has turned up in the UK since 1988 and only the third record for the UK ever.
Even more remarkably the bird first turned up in Devon in February where it stayed until March before relocating 150 miles overnight to Sussex where it was only seen for one day. A month on it then resurfaced on Friday 400 miles north at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea where it stayed for 3 days before disappearing again on Monday. It has been identified as the same bird due to identical damage to the same feathers on photographs from the different sites.
Where next on its UK tour?
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Spring returns to the Fobbing Marsh. A swan, sensing a presence, relocates 100 metres downstream. No panic, no drama.
Fobbing, Essex, England
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
It is the relocation project of a three-span arch bridge. The work had been carried out over approximately three years, and it was successfully completed two days after this day.
Daresbury School built in 1903 is typical in size of the small prairie schools in Alberta. The unusual thing about this school is it's large bell tower. It appears to be in the process of relocating. Destination and purpose unknown.
It's embarrassing how many cobwebs and dog hairs the small animals find behind our furniture. Here I bring this stag beetle girl outside. Yesterday we had a cornu aspersum with cobwebs and dog hairs. We've put it outside. Fun fact is, that the giant house spiders don't collect dirt before I find them and scream (I would be good in a bad horror movie). Two days ago, I saw a giant house spider in the bathroom. I screamed, and the brave husband caught the girl (it was a girl) in a glass and threw her outside. I'm sure she comes right back inside to look for a cosy spot for to make a cocoon. She was completely clean!
Sitting along the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, NJ under a fresh dusting of snow is a handful of AEM-7 AC rebuilds waiting to complete their trip to their new home in Connecticut for storage.
The night before there were nearly twice as many but due to a multiple lite engine restriction on Metro-North's New Haven Line the collection of retired motors had to be cut in half to complete the move.
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A few short weeks ago I was photographing ducks, blackbirds, terns, frogs, Wilson's Snipes, and even an American Bittern in this small marshy area in Grasslands Park. When I visited yesterday, it was completely dry - not an unusual scenario as we segue into late summer, but nevertheless disappointing, and raising some concern in the dim recesses of my mind. This is an arid part of the prairie. Wetlands contain such biological diversity. I don't want to lose them.
Fortunately, by late July all birds have either concluded or are in the final stages of their reproductive cycle. This mama Northern Shoveler stashed at least three ducklings in among the cattails and sedges before boldly - and noisily - swimming over to check me out. I shot from my rolling red Toyota car-blind, with morning light behind me. My files contain thousands of shots from this precise location.
But what's going on with the wetlands? We're having a rainy summer, meaning we have been receiving a few mm to a few cm of rainfall per week. However, recent winters have produced very little snow; I know this because I have to shovel the stuff, and I've gotten off easy, of late. Contrast this with the winter of 2010-11 - the year before I relocated here full time. I was out on the west coast, wrapping up business there. Friends stayed in my house that winter, while renovating their own new digs on the edge of the village. Like me, they came from another part of the country. "Prairie winters here are cold, but there isn't much snow," I had told them.
Naturally, it snowed and snowed that winter; it wouldn't stop snowing. Long-time residents said it was the deepest snow pack in 50 years. The park's resident Pronghorn herd was wiped out. The largest hibernaculum (snake den) in the area collapsed, killing a lot of snakes. Deer were wandering into the village, dying of starvation. And all the nearby wetlands, ditches, sloughs, ponds, and dugouts were topped up for years to come. The following summer, I saw Horned Grebes nesting and raising their young in the park, for the first and only time. Waterfowl and shorebirds were plentiful. So were mosquitoes.
Since then, we have slipped back into a relatively dry cycle. The wetlands are drying up. Will they be renewed? Or is this the new normal? And if the latter, to what extent is it the result of widespread climate change? Obviously no one can answer these questions definitively, and as a photographer I can only observe and report. And speculate.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Although I got a number of shots that I really liked on a recent visit to Hillside Park, here in town, I will only be posting two shots.
I know that it is best to keep images simple in most cases, and generally a strong image will have a definite subject that is dominant. Many times, including this one, I will want to include many subjects as a collection that help tell the story. Here I wanted to include the relocated pondside boulders, the open water of the pond, the hill and as much of the clouds as possible.
Winter tends to have three types of skies, completely overcast, completely clear, or clouds that are quite unimpressive. It is great to see interesting clouds and cloud formations again.
Because I have included so much, it is hard to control so many subjects and here I am not sure that I have attained a good balance. As always, I composed the best I could with what was presented. The light really was amazing as was that threatening cloud.
McKenzie River
Armitage County Park
Eugene, Oregon
The Coburg Railroad Bridge spans the McKenzie River adjacent to the Armitage State Park alongside Coburg Road between Eugene and Coburg, Oregon. The bridge was fabricated in 1887 (company unknown) for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. The OR&N originally erected the bridge over the John Day River in north central Oregon. By 1907 the bridge had become obsolete at the John Day location and was acquired that year by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The Southern Pacific during this period, 1906-1907, was replacing most of its early wooden bridges with iron structures. The relocation of what was then the John Day Bridge to Coburg was carried out by the American Bridge Company. The iron Coburg Bridge replaced an earlier wooden structure of a significant span, built in 1891 at the same location over the McKenzie.
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With Canada Day and the concomitant fireworks coming, I decided to experiment with previous fireworks photos. I took a 2023 fireworks photo from one location and merged it with a daylight phone photo from 2026 from another location. Obviously, I darkened the daylight photo.
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I couldn't find any inspiring Halloween photos downtown, so I moved this house from downtown to the woods using AI and added some extras.
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Building the Intercolonial Railway back in the 1860s and 1870s was not for the faint of heart. ICR Chief Engineer Sanford Fleming endured more than a decade of engineering challenges in order to link Halifax with the western markets of Quebec City and Montreal.
A few site were more complicated than others like this one, located a mile and a half west of St.Noël, Fleming, in order to save the cost of building a bridge over Tartigou River, had it's construction crew bore a tunnel thru the rock in order to reroute the river away from the not yet constructed roadbed.
Talk about ingenuity !
The rock debris, issued when ICR crews pierced the roadbed thru the same rock cut, was used to stabilize the embankment along with keeping an acceptable rolling grade.
I made the walk -in heavy rain no less- from St.Noël to the tunnel on a cold autumn day, hoping to catch Campbellton-bound L562 passing the site of one of Fleming's legacy.
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Milepost 85.6 Mont-Joli subdivision
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October 21st 2025
MEME.
An exhibition of photographic narrative by 5 Melbourne-based photographers.
19 June 08 (Thurs) to 5 July 08 (Sat)
2nd floor, Guildford Lane Gallery,
20-24 Guildford Lane,
Melbourne 3000.
I will be presenting six of my photographs at this exhibition together with:
Hope to see many of you there!
I will be relocating to Los Angeles soon after the opening. For those who will be in Melbourne, I'm looking forward to catching up with you at the opening night!
Photo taken in Southbank, Melbourne.
Some people come to Cooly Rocks for the cars and chrome, but this bloke was the unexpected standout — a wandering Gandalf who looked like he’d traded Middle‑earth for the Gold Coast sunshine. Monopod like a Staff in hand, beard flowing, he carried that rare mix of whimsy and quiet authority that makes you stop mid‑stride and lift the camera without a second thought.
He wasn’t performing or posing, just existing with a kind of effortless presence that made him a must‑photograph. Among the retro rhythms and polished classics, he became the festival’s most memorable character — proof that sometimes the best stories aren’t in the machines, but in the people who drift through them.