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One from my visit to Sydney during Christmas 2019. The city was engulfed with smoke from the bush fires spread all around the country at the time. While it had mostly cleared during my trip, there was still some remaining leading to this wonderful spread of orange light on the landscape.
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A telephoto view of the last few remaining oak leaves on the lichen-covered backyard Garry oak tree.
Photographing on mostly cloudy days always offers the potential for surprise. Sure it may remain cloudy with flat light, BUT occasionally a whole in the cloud layer allows direct light to flood through. Such was the case on a four day backpacking trip through a remarkable mountain range in Wyoming. If I had to choose between photographing in conditions pictured here or a vibrantly colored sunrise/ set, I'd take these conditions each and every time. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to visit my website to see more new work (www.michaelbollino.com). A new batch of fall images are coming along. I plan on posting those to my site by next week. Thanks!
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Although hard to see there is a chick in the nest as this parent is trying to get the last of the brood to fledge offering a gopher to do so. In the up-coming post she steps aside and makes a very unusual sound while looking at the chick. It looks up (not visible to me/us) and then assumes his position lying comfortably in the nest. I offer this to show a natural behavioral coaxing to young to leave the nest and learn to fly;. Some are more cautious than others. And, a very high percentage don't need any coaxing at all they simply fall from the nest while testing their wings by grabbing air in the nest feeling their aerodynamics. They just sail to another tree or to the ground half hopping and flying to get to a safe position.
My next post is more obvious what she is doing. She places the gopher on the limb and steps aside for the chick to come out a limb so to say.
David (Bell’s Books, Palo Alto, Ca)
Date: January 17, 2024
Camera: Leica M10-P
Lens: Summicron 50mm v5
ISO: 800
Exposure: 1/125s @ f/2.8
-Thomas
The Power of the Masters to Inspire:
After “Breakfust” at the Peninsula Creamery, Beverley and I stopped in at Bell’s Books a few doors down. Bell’s is one of the oldest remaining family owned independent bookstores in the Bay Area, established in 1935. We have been visiting since the early ‘80s. I enjoy glancing over the photography section. Bell’s relies on media donations from their longtime residents of Palo Alto. And being a College Town (Stanford University), you never know when a suitcase of attic gems will appear. Today I was fortunate to add the elusive 1st edition two volume set of Paul Strand; A Retrospective Monograph, Volume 1: The Years 1915-1946 & Volume 2: The Years 1950-1968. It is the last of the remaining books for my treasured Photography Master’s Collection. A collection I started back two score and three years ago. Some of you may know, Strand was one of the Pioneers of film photography, and is famous for his portrait of Blind Woman (1916). David, an artist in his own right, and who also works for Bell’s struck up a conversation. I was in the mood to photograph. I think if I hadn’t found the Strand Book Set, there wouldn’t be a portrait of David. Amazing how the Power of the Masters can fuel the mind.
-Thomas
The Wild Cat - Felis Silvestris. Britains' only remaining large wild predator but their genetic inheritance is being diluted by interbreeding with feral domestic cats. The cats I was fortune enough to be able to photograph are part of the Conservation Breeding Programme in order to reintroduce more of the true genes back into the Highlands of Scotland.
The nesting season is finished---only a few birds remain. Always sad to have it end, but now I have to go through many photos!
Remains of the pilings or supports remaining from a dock that has long ago vanished. On the shores of Lake Erie, Port Ryerse, Ontario Canada.
A few swinging bridges remain in rural Lewis County, Kentucky, crossing over Cabin Creek. The area is one of the first settlements in the Ohio River Valley region. Legend has it that the Shawnee Indiana and settlers on flatboats met on one of islands on the Ohio River. The settlers traveled down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were trying to find the huge cane fields with their buffalo trails that Daniel Boone spoke of. Miscommunications led the settlers to Cabin Creek where they settled. Actually they were supposed to go further down the Ohio River to Limestone Creek at present day Maysville, Kentucky. A short time later another group of settlers went up Limestone Creek and settled in the cane fields and founded Washington, Kentucky. That area has a huge flat area with many large successful farms to this day. The Cabin Creek area is rocky and hilly and home to a number of small struggling farms. Lewis County is in Appalachia and one of poorest counties in Kentucky. Washington is in Mason County and remains a very historical area surrounded by successful farms.
Clapham Common Underground Station has the virtue of being one of London's few remaining island-platform stations, with trains travelling in both directions on both sides of a single platform. Standing between two moving trains can be an alarming but exhilarating experience, and it was this sense of energy and propulsion that I was hoping to convey in this image.
Besides the challenge of capturing two trains crossing through the station at the same time and at the same speed, the challenges to realising the image were capturing a busy platform when it was empty, having a high level of control and balance when editing individual portions of the platform, and the fact that an extended shutter speed to capture blurred trains was inevitably going to blow out highlights from the station's overhead lighting. With all of this in mind, the final product was edited by blending several separate exposures.
I began by capturing the platform empty a few minutes after the station opened in the morning, later using luminosity masks in Photoshop to blend multiple exposures for a balanced finish. I then continued photographing for over an hour, capturing trains at various shutter speeds as they pulled into and out of the station, eventually settling on three- and four-second shutter speeds to blur the trains. At the editing stage, I used the pen-tool to select the two tracks on the platform and masked in the trains which I'd captured travelling at similar speeds and with near-identical levels of luminance and saturation.
The challenge after that was restoring the rich reds of the train doors and the blues along the carriage undersides, as the speed at which the trains were travelling blended these into a blurry magenta, meaning both trains needed additional colour-grading in order to restore their primary colours. Having the trains on separate layers was a benefit as it meant I could edit the trains and the platform independently, bringing out the subtle grit and cooler muted tones along the platform without affecting the smooth and vibrant motion of the trains. For me, this contrast between the detail in the platform and the dizzying blur of the trains is what gives the image its impact, and hopefully what evokes a sense of what it's like to be standing on a platform between two moving trains.
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LS&I's only remaining pair of operational GE U-boats work through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction with a trio of bentonite hoppers and pair of tank cars in tow bound for the Tilden Mine.
LSI 3000
LSI 3009
The only remaining flying Avro Vulcan escorted by the Red Arrows at Dawlish Carnival Airshow yesterday.
After 14 years and a £7 million rebuild by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, the Vulcan, a classic part of British aviation and industry, took to the skies again in October 2007 and returned to the airshow circuit in June 2008. This flypast with the Red Arrows at Dawlish was apparently their first together since it was decomissioned. (See: www.vulcantothesky.org/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558.)
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Fragment of old buildings associated with the former weaving industry.
Photo taken in Zgierz - the satellite city of Łódź.
A V90 rolls down the partly still cobblestone paved road-rail shared waterfront along the Rhine in Mannheim's Handelshafen after having spotted a couple of cars at customer Graeff in the wee morning hours. While three customers remain active on the waterfront here, the disused old crane reminds of a significantly more industrial past and the hotel behind it reflects the trend away from industry and toward growing gentrification as is the case in most western countries. A year later I revisited in hopes of getting a proper photo with some sliding-wall cars on the cobblestone section, but of course exactly this segment was redone and the switch here along with all the cobblestone was taken out. On a positive note, the track along the building was put back in use to provide Wetlog with a temporary service of sugar shipments. A photo of the same section a year later: flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/54004494739/in/dateposted/Ma..., Germany
A shot of the remaining cottages at Birling Gap.
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Norfolk Southern Train 201 heads west as they pass through Cordova, AL, in the last remaining sunlight
Inchkeith, basking in the last hour of the short December day, viewed from Portobello Promenade. Sun very low in the sky as we approach the Winter Solstice, so even on a clear day like this it's so low the light quality is stretched out to this warm, honeyed copper tone, which is just beautiful
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After almost a week of vicious fighting through the icy ruins, the clanker command decided to pull out its remaining forces and surrender the port.
As soon as the droid forces retreated into their base in the cave systems to the north we all finally had some time to rest up and regroup. Everyone except for the ARF elements that is.
While the rest of the 253rd legion got to resupply and rest within the city ruins, my recon group was sent back out into the frigid cold to look for any pockets of remaining droids.
Bolt and I got sent to the eastern outskirts of the city. This sector of the city had been evacuated by the droids first and hadn't seen activity in two days. We didn't expect to find much.
[CL-8675]Jockey: See anything from up there?
[CT-2255]Bolt: Nothin but ice. Just a giant flat plain of ice. Ice over there. Ice over here. Ice on the ground. Ice on my armour. Ice...
Jockey: Ok. Shut up. I get it, there's lots of ice. Any activity on that ice?
Bolt: Looks like a storm is picking up several clicks to the east. That's it.
Jockey: Ill inform command about that.
Jockey on comm: Come in command this is CL-8675 reporting from recon patrol 14. Over.
Command: We read you CL-8675. What's your patrol's status?
Jockey: We've completed our sweep of the sector. Not detecting any functional droids nor any forms of life in the vicinity. Sector secure. However, we are picking up a storm about 11 clicks east-northeast of our position. Over.
Command: Well take a look at that. Your patrol is free to return to base. Over.
Jockey: Alright Bolt, let's get out of here.
Bolt: Don't have to tell me twice. The damn quartermaster division couldn't even equip us with the right gear. The ice crystals are starting to build up on my visor.
Jockey: Bolt, I swear if you say ice one more time I'm going to ship you back to Kamino on janitorial duties.
Bolt: Loud and clear lieutenant. Loud and clear.
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For the 253 legion thing. I've always liked Rhen Var. S/O to all them Battlefront 1 players!!!
Lost in Thoughts
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
My memories of the world still remain in my memory. Every time I close my eyes, I think more and more of the past. It's like I live in two worlds. While I was awake, spending time on the planets I had just discovered in the infinite space, when I closed my eyes, I found myself in my dream world. My dream world was now my second living space. In this way, I had two different lives between two worlds. I needed both lives. The two worlds I lived in were quite different from each other. In the face of this situation, after a long time, I started to feel like I was stuck between two worlds. I was starting to feel like I had to make a choice. It was a choice I had to make between two worlds. Would I live in the real world for the rest of my life? Or would I continue to live in my dream world that I had been fantasizing about? This question started to bother me a lot. I found myself in a deep void. There was no one around to help me. I was alone in this huge vacuum of space. I thought a lot to find the answer to my question. I thought about the past and the future. But this didn't help me much. Thinking about the past and the future made me ask myself more questions. Unanswered questions abounded. A huge pile of questions arose in my mind. Lots of questions to be answered. I still don't know why I did this to myself. Maybe I should just let time pass. As long as life goes on, one gets somewhere. However, there was one more problem. Time was a meaningless concept in space and imagination. It was the very concept of time that put me in this mental state that I had a hard time getting out of. However, time was something that didn't exist. I almost brought myself to the brink of extinction for something that didn't exist. How could I overcome something that didn't exist? How could I find myself again in all this mess? How could I reach the end of this deep journey that I set out to find myself? Questions, questions, questions... Questions that I couldn't answer, and that my mind insisted upon.
And today, I opened my eyes to a new day where I will look for answers to the questions my mind asks me. And again, we will see if I leave behind another day when I cannot answer all these questions.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Characteristic street of the village with views of the only remaining tower of the castle and the ruins of a wing of the same.
Strada caratteristica del paese con vista dell'unica torre rimasta del castello ed il rudere di un'ala dello stesso.
One of the several remaining lift bridges left on the Hennepin Canal in Northern Illinois.Originally conceived in 1831,the canal did not open until 1907.By then railroads were beginning to proliferate and barges were getting bigger,which made the narrow canal almost obsolete by the time it opened. It closed in the early 1950's and later became the largest state park in Illinois.It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Some of the architects who later designed the Panama Canal helped build the Hennepin Canal.
More on the canal and its history here:
i look to the sea
to unfold some of life’s mystery
ageless
form changing yet remaining the same
gentle and strong
waves never ending
wind never spending
its soul
beauty out of control
wisdom is told
without words...........
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Im Ammergebirge
Da ist unsre Heimat, diese Dinge, bleiben in den Tiefen unsrer Seele (Carl Spitteler)
There is our homeland, these things remain in the depths of our soul (Carl Spitteler)
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When it comes to seeing black Illinois Central Death Stars, my focus seems to always be on the remaining SD70's running around in the IC's last paint scheme. But there are several other EMDs that have escaped the Borg of the North's paint brush, and they actually carry more history than the vaunted 7000's. We found this old four axle, IC 3138, rolling through Griffith on the local back in October with a train for the yard. Originally IC 3063, she was delivered in 1969 as a straight GP40. Today, she's called a GP40-2R, or something like that, but if you don't have X-ray vision, you can still call her a GP40. As far as these things go, it's what's on the outside that counts to me. Just don't call it a SD40-3...
I honestly don't remember why this remained archived. It may have been one shot of 30 or 40 on a VERY good day at Heather Farm, a day in which I actually got to or three better than this. And those were the days when I never posted more than one shot a day.
Anyway, here is certainly one of my top 10 RSH. The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized buteo. Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico. It is a permanent resident throughout most of its range, though northern birds do migrate, mostly to central Mexico. The western RSH has deeper red shoulders than the eastern which I've only seen in Florida.
My Red-shouldered hawks were a pair. Judging from the dates that I have of my images of these birds, they don't migrate. They nest here in May. However, photographically, the nest is a lost cause. There is a favorite gum tree, easily 70 feet in height, where no even the nest could be seen from the ground. The gum has been my nemesis more than the birds: eucalyptus (gum) have dense foliage and branches. It's a shame that the RSH and Great Horned owls like certain trees that provide more than adequate camoflauge.
This photo is of the male. Almost half the images show him looking down (over his right shoulder, but I don't know why), and he would follow me until I was 100 feet or more away. He had two favorite perches nowehere near the nest. This one is an old oak, and the other the lower branches of a Coastal Redwood. It helped to know its habits and where to find him most days.
Meanwhile, I suggest you look at the range map (Wikipedia's is good), truly a "strange" range. The RSH is a coastal bird in the west and all over the east.
The Passage is the only remaining example in the Netherlands of this type of covered shopping street, popular in major European and American cities during the 19th century.
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The moon has set, but is still casting a glow on the remaining clouds below a Milky Way that is just becoming visible at Juniper Flats, Joshua Tree National Park.
Possibly the largest semaphore operation remaining on the Indian metre gauge lines is Pilibhit East Signal Box. Located at the "business" end of the station and controlling routes out to Tanakpur, Mailani Junction and Shajahanpur, as well as a level crossing and access to the carriage sidings and maintenance area, there's rarely an idle moment during the day.
In comparison to boxes in the UK these are pretty rudimentary regards additional technology and what you see is pretty well what you get. Throwing the levers takes some effort too and here the signalman is giving some welly (or rather sandal) returning lever 56 to its normal position.
Catch this while you can - the scene will change forever in a few months when gauge conversion starts in earnest.
12th October 2015