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Jay - Garrulus Glandarius
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.
The term jaywalking was coined in 1915 to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.
In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.
Population:
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C/G ratio 12.23
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Completed in 1886, the Second Empire-style John Bremond, Jr. House is the most outstanding home in the Bremond Block Historic District - a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin that were constructed from the 1850s to 1910. The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. Six of the eleven houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles.
Located on the corner of Seventh and Guadalupe, the John Bremond, Jr. House is a graceful and exuberant example of Texas Victorian architecture. Its crested mansard roof has elaborate dormers, polychrome slate shingles, and concave bracketed curves on the front gable. The cast-iron work on the wrap-around gallery is outstanding. This house and several of the others were built by George Fiegel. All the buildings within the Bremond Block are beautifully maintained. The John Bremond, Jr. house is currently owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, who have made it the association headquarters.
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Williamson, Roxanne, "Bremond Block Historic District". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
Retrieved from disc and taken with Canon Powershot A630 in the Highlands of Scotland. Did you spot the ravens..?
Jay
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is about and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
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I was lucky to retrieve this image, I'll never catch it again, my card crapped out on me shortly after this was taken. I have them where just their heads are sticking up out of the water until almost making it to shore before the card blacked out. There is a story but somethings are best left to one's imagination, especially when It comes to Flickr ;-)
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I've always wanted to use this collector coin for an MM theme, and the "Superstition" theme gave me another opportunity. My dad used to give me special edition coins for collecting, usually 5 or 10 Deutsche Mark (DM) pieces that were (and still are, but now as Euro, of course) issued for special anniversaries or in honour of important personalities. This is one of the coins. I'm keeping it in my wallet as a good luck charm, and whenever I change the wallet, the coin comes along.
There is nothing superstitious about the theme of the coin itself: a 10 DM silver (werewolves, anyone?) coin, issued for the 150th anniversary of the now worldwide operating Kolpingwerk, a Catholic Charity founded by Adolph Kolping (Kolping was a German shoemaker and later a clergyman who had originally initiated it in the mid-1800s as a journeyman union to improve the working conditions of apprentices), but the mere fact that it's a good luck charm makes it an ideal candidate for "Superstition", and there is also a quite funny story connected to it.
Ages ago, when I visited a street party with friends, we went to a shop to buy some water bottles (ever since, I've long come to always bring a home-filled bottle along to spare me the hassle of buying on the go), and I didn't have any coins in my purse other than this 10 DM coin. I hesitated to use it, but then thought, "Come on, don't be superstitious, it's time to let go", so I paid for my bottle of water with it. And instantly regretted it, but again thought, "don't be silly, it's just a coin". Of course, I kept vigorously discussing it in my mind ("No, it's not just a coin, it's extra special"), and after we had been walking for a while, I decided to ask my friends to lend me some money, ran to the shop, felt even sillier than before, but what matters is: I got the coin back ;)
To emphasise the illusion of superstitions, I placed the coin on the "warped" mirror tile (fixated with modelling clay) and focused mainly on the distorted reflection. In the coin's design, there is also a triangle: a symbol that is not only perceived as holy but is also connected to the secret society of the Illuminati, about which myths and conspiracy theories persist to this day; so I tried to highlight it.
Size info: The coin's diameter is 3 cm/1,18 inches.
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Venner timeswitch retrieved from my father-in-law's garage which uses a clockwork mechanism to drop contacts into a bath of toxic mercury (on right). Mercury vapour poisoning (from the arcing contacts) has number of psychotic symptoms including delirium and hallucinations. Wouldn't pass Health & Safety these days!
[Mixed tungsten and daylight using table tripod and timer release; processed in LR (darkened, colour temp adjusted and slight vignette) and then moderately mangled in Topaz Adjust and Clarity, particularly for dirty detail and colours.]
"I'll get it, mom!" Rooster lives for retrieving, anywhere, anytime, he'll go forever, I usually have to call it quits for his own good. When I first got him he wouldn't bring it back to me, now he does every single time.
I was trying out a used lens I bought for the first time. I do like the results.
This past Tuesday was the first of a few days I'm hoping to take off this month to do railroad photography. My original, loose plan was to make the long haul down to Scranton and finally check the DL off my list (with the exception of some switching moves I shot near Steamtown back in 2007). Well, once the little birdies tipped me off that the DL wouldn't be doing much Tuesday, I decided to head to Utica to play tour guide for Joe Hance with the NYS&W's UT-1 job. My and Joe's plans quickly changed, however, when the MA&N made one of their sporadic runs north past Boonville to retrieve stored, empty tank cars (they also grabbed empty tie gons off the Adirondack Railroad at Snow Junction on their way north, which added to their southbound train of empty tank cars). I had only shot the MA&N on this line one other time back in 2011, when Aaron Keller first introduced me to this gem of a railroad. To say I was a little rusty when it came to locations would be an understatement, but one location I had remembered and knew I wanted to get for sure was this spot in Boonville with the "pseudo street running" and buildings. To sweeten the deal, the Alcos notched out at just the right time! Though the Fall foliage left a bit to be desired, I mean......who freaking cares...
MA&N
Boonville, NY
October 12, 2021
Another photo retrieved from a damaged memory card and ruined camera. My trip to Hawaii was a few years back but I thought all photo memories were lost. This photo is of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on the island of Maui. This shot is taken on a path down into the depression, which is about 11.25 km (7 mi) across, 3.2 km (2 mi) wide, and nearly 800 m (2,600 ft) deep. I couldn't go further in, too cold, too windy, and too scary a climb down. You can see some of the sand and clay particles flying around the photo. You get to the summit by car traveling the Haleakalā Highway, a road of switchbacks and steep drop-offs. At some point you drive through the clouds and when you reach the top, most of the clouds are below you. It was an awesome experience.
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UP 815 retrieves a single load of cocoa butter from the street level spur to Blommer Chocolate, one of the only factories still active in the downtown Chicago area. Blommer receives shipments of sugar in covered hoppers on the upper level (out of frame to the right) and the street level spur is used to load overflow cocoa butter into tank cars. Union Pacific keeps a set of tank cars in Grand Avenue yard or further up the spur that Blommer essentially uses as storage tanks for whatever cocoa butter they can't fit in the factory. Every once in a while, they will ship out a load by rail as well. In this case, the crew is swapping the load for an empty and simply holding the loaded car in Grand Avenue yard. When the customer has room in their building for the product, UP will spot them the load. Cars are spotted in the street right next to the old building seen behind the Metra overpass, but unfortunately Blommer moves the car out to here themselves as trucks normally occupy the track near the building. That makes it basically impossible to get a shot down by the building which is something I've been wanting to get for a long time. In any case, this operation used to be handled only a handful of times a year or less, but has been more frequent in the last year or so with moves happening probably a handful of times a month.
And yes, I did get an over/under shot here, but I actually prefer it without a train overhead because you can actually see the classic Blommer building, which, in my opinion, makes this a more interesting industrial scene.
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'Not on my Watch'. Shy old Mr ‘J’ in fine feather with his neat black moustache, looking out and keeping a close watch on his surroundings. West Yorkshire.
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Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump.
Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter. RSPB.
Retrieved from the archive. One of my favourite spiral staircases - just a very short one, in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva (Switzerland).
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Fletcher Granite’s GE Tonner shoves a single gondola to the Pan Am interchange in Westford, MA. This small and obscure operation serves the purpose to retrieve loads of granite, imported from a quarry in Georgia, and deliver them to Fletchers processing plant for cutting and distribution. In 2014, granite shipments by rail ceased. It wouldn’t be till late 2020 that operations resumed and have since stuck around.
Tithe barn wall.
This was taken at Frampton Tithe Barn which has featured before in the Wattle monochrome image.
I'm always a bit drawn to windows and doors, arches and portals. And so with this. The window is quite small - less than two feet square. Presumably for some sort of communication or transaction.
But I'm allergic to sepia toning so this is a challenging move for me. Cliché it may be, but I need to grow up a bit and be more accommodating and less prejudiced :)
And this image was one of those where I half think the original full colour version is more interesting - the bricks have a wonderful range of colours.
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[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Photolab 3 going for a full range of colour and retrieving the deep shadow detail in the top of the window from the raw file.
Sharpened in Affinity using High Pass and Linear blend which is good for large features and lines I have discovered.
A fair bit of correction to the geometry to get the lines parallel.
The crop was difficult to try to get the visual tension balanced between the S truss and the window, limited by the in-camera framing. Hmmm... take more next time and crop later...
Into Nik Silver Efex for the conversion, using a colour filter to add variation in the brick brightness. Lots of micro-contrast and structure.
Lots of localised tweaking in Efex around the window, in the window, and around and in the S-shaped wall truss.
Heavy sepia toning for the silver with a more yellow tone for the paper.
Finally, a light light vignette, though quite subtle I think.]
Following on from yesterdays upload, not 30 m down the road a Macaque strolled across the road in front of our tuk tuk and then I noticed quite a number of them hanging out in the tiny village, sitting on verandas and in peoples yards.
I loved the casual position of this guy. Photo taken from the Tuk Tuk.
There is a love hate relationship with the Monkeys. A guy drove past us on a motor bike with one sitting as a pillion passenger.
Apparently some people keep them to climb up palm trees to retrieve coconuts.
I have read that this may not always be a good experience for the monkeys and they can be used for work under slave like conditions. Like elephants which will be in another upload. The macaques are a tourist attraction but many people have been injured when they try to snatch food and they can become quite aggressive. The populations on this Island don't seem to be very large at all but they have clearly become a problem in other parts of Thailand where Government have formed anti-monkey police units and are undertaking "mass arrests".
"In April, after growing complaints from residents, authorities started rounding up thousands of the monkeys and putting them in large enclosures to be sterilised and registered while they try to find a more permanent solution.
But soon after the "arrests" had begun, about 30 monkeys escaped and stormed the police station".
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Chick retrieving freshly caught pigeon and then the fun begins. The 2 siblings will want some of that yummy pigeon and will chase the victor until someone wins the prize. Would have liked a better angle, but it is what it is.
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After dropping the inbound empties in the siding in the town of Gore, the motive power of the Winchester & Western's "Sandman" heads up the five percent grade to the Sand Mine retrieve the outbound loads on November 14, 2023.
It's rare for me to catch the Steelton local now as it changed on-duty time recently. But I got lucky Friday as the H093 crew was sent to retrieve the train from Steelton and bring it back to Enola.
Here the usual GP38-2 combo, with NS 5619 leading, dives through CP HIP as it comes off the Rockville Bridge and into Enola Yard.
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Last September we spent a weekend at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls XXX, the biggest experimental rocket launch event in the world. The camp is in the middle of a dry lakebed, also called playa, the same place where Burning Man takes place. The playa is big, about 200 sq mi (520 km2). After a rocket come down on a parachute you walk or drive to it, guided by GPS or a directional antenna. A man retrieved his rocket on foot after a successful launch. This desert is named after the black rock behind the person.
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