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Poplar Tunnel on London's Dockland's Light Railway... By Mark Higham, follow me on instagram @mhigham.photos
I only have a very small garden but am blessed with a lovely view of the dockside where I live so thought I would upload a few shots taken during lockdown. Keep well and safe everyone!
By Josiah McElheny. More info at: mfa.org/collections/object/endlessly-repeating-twentieth-century-modernism-503178
It's Woodpecker Wednesday, and once again I present the second most numberous pecker in the oak woodlands of northern California, the Nuttall's. Nuttall's woodpecker (Dryobates nuttallii) is a species of woodpecker named after naturalist Thomas Nuttall in 1843. They are found in oak woodlands of California and are similar to the ladder-backed woodpecker in both genetics and appearance.
Nuttall's woodpecker feeds primarily on insect larvae such as those of wood borers, click beetles, and ants, found by tapping and probing into the crevices in oak trees. The bird also feeds on sap from sap holes created by red-breasted sapsuckers in birch and willow, and consumes a variety of berry seeds.
Pair bonding occurs in late January to March with egg-laying mostly in April and May. Nuttall's woodpeckers are socially monogamous and show displays of bi-parental care. New nests are excavated each year by males in the cavities of dead trees such as willow, oak, and alder. As my wife and I made our walking loop around our community, we came upon the oak that had fallen last Thursday. We did not expect to see a female Nuttall's already working on the tree for two reasons: First, this was the male, and all three of the Nuttall's that we'd previously seen (since 2012) excavating nests were females. I'll have to look into that further, but I even have a video of first nest builder. And second, as with most woodpeckers, they make their nests in dead, but upright trunks of trees. My guess is that today's woodpecker was not excavatiung a nest, but just looking for grubs and sap from firs and eucalyptus that are oozing right now and fairly early this spring.
By the way, woodpeckers are among the most difficult birds to photograph. They constantly move (and have toes and feet for doing so) up, down, and all round the trunks of trees pecking up bark looking for grubs. Those that are sapsuckers are probably twice as active as the insect eaters, making as many as 75 holes girdling the tree and then repeating even three of four inches before the move on to another tree. The Nuttall's we say today was at least 50 feet away, so it was out of range anyway. But there will be more this summer.
This is the view inside of Pilgrim Monument on Cape Cod, or as some say, the challenge of lots and lots of stairs to climb! This 252-foot tall monument was completed in 1910. I loved the geometric patterns the stairs provided of boxes within boxes. Enjoy!
Step into the heart of the Pink City through this stunning black-and-white perspective of the Sawai Man Singh Town Hall. The monochrome edit emphasizes the intricate Indo-Saracenic architectural details, from the repeating arched windows to the delicate floral moldings that define Jaipur's royal aesthetic.
#LIGHTCAMACT
...and a swivel chair
(experimenting with the stroboscopic mode of the D300 built-in flash)
Nikon D300
Sigma 10-20
f/4.5
1/10
ISO 200
Built-in flash: repeating 1/8 5 50
Repeating the source image for the previous lo-res collage, for those inclined to enlarge and peep into pixels :)
...and a swivel chair
(experimenting with the stroboscopic mode of the D300 built-in flash)
Nikon D300
Sigma 10-20
f/5
1/10
ISO 200
Built-in flash: repeating 1/8 5 50
CLICK ON THE LIGHTER TO CHANGE THE POSE!
3 options for lighter hold:
static, animated, animated on a timer
time hud: repeating every 30, 60, 90, 120 secs
or instantly animated
I had an idea to convert all of the recent photos of these abandoned homes into black and white photographs, just to see what would stand out in each image without the color. I'm not much for repeating photographs, but in this case, the differentiation between the past (the photographs in color) and the present becomes clearer.
Conversion done in Adobe's fabulous beta app, Lightroom.