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Spent a few hours in the mud at Mistley yesterday, which made me realise that my water resistant trousers aren’t as resistant as first thought! Mistley Quay is known for the swans that gather there, so it was nice to get this shot. Well worth a soggy bottom!!😂
We spent the night at a real nice RV park and we had it all to ourselves because it was out of season to see the birds after visiting the Bosque del Apache, National Wildlife Reserve. It stormed all night and we slept very little because of the heavy rain and noise. This is the remains of the storm in the morning. It was very scary :) The RV park owner called us in the middle of the night and even drove out to check on us he was so worried about us in the storm. It was a long night I will never forget :)
We spent the night at this wonderful RV park near the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. We had the whole park to ourselves because it's off season for bird watching :) The owner, Jose was real nice to us and even checked on us in the middle of the night (3 am in the morning) by calling and driving out to check on us! We had one heck of a rain storm that started soon after I took this picture and it rained so hard all night long about 7 hours nonstop lol. It was scary and wild and noisy to be sure! He just opened this 10 space park a few years ago and his family who came from Spain has been in this area since the late 1800's! He was a very nice man and the park was beautiful and well kept and I would recommend it to anyone coming here to visit.
'Time spent with a cat is never wasted'
---- Colette
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A kitten seen on a friend's front porch . Have a nice day :-)
these Wildebeest had spent the night in the woodlands and were heading towards the Ndutu Marsh area (in the south east of the Serengeti, Tanzania )
The south east of the Serengeti is the most southern part of the annual Great Migration . It is the area where most of the Wildebeest calves are born.
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I spent my day chasing hummingbirds and cooking tuna fish casserole. What an amazing day indeed! ( ╹◡╹ )
Have an amazing week!
We sat on a roof
Named every star
Shared every bruise and
Showed every scar
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Spent a morning lying on the ground photographing these guys. Fun times! Taken Grand Mesa, Colorado.
We spent a week walking the coast of Cornwall last year and managed to visit the beach at Crantock before it got busy.
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I spent a few days last week exploring a beautiful part of the Scottish East coast. Many lovely fishing villages and fantastic shoreline geology to explore.
I awoke early one morning to look at this fascinating harbour breakwater. It felt like I should have been catching zzzzs instead of look at them. The sun eventually rose and lit up one side of the harbour wall whilst also painting the clouds for a few minutes.
This five minute exposure used a Haida 15 stop ND and a Lee 3 stop hard grad for the sky. Very little editing here, just some noise reduction was needed.
I really like how the high breakwater casts a long shadow, with warm tones and cold tones either side.
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We spent last Sunday on a guest ranch/farm stay 50km from Lages. It is a very interesting place, with very unique activities for guests.
I'd like to share some photos of the place with you... and I've decided to start with a "gate series".
Hope you guys like it!
I spent most of yesterday looking for some autumn color to shoot. Well, that's not quite right. I didn't have to look very far to find something to shoot because right now here in western Newfoundland it looks like we're living on top of a giant pumpkin! Seriously.
What I meant was, I was looking for something different ... or somewhere different ... I hadn't shot before. And, I did manage to do that, but I still couldn't resist going back and shooting some of the old familiar stuff as well ... but, tried to shoot it from a slightly different point of view.
We spent a few days in Jasper National Park to see the Elk rut. We were last there for the rut 4 years ago and saw quite a few more Elk. But I was very happy with what we did see. We only saw 1 other bull in the forest. When we stopped by the roadside, security told us that he had a habit of ramming cars so, when he started walking toward us, we made a hasty retreat.
I read a very interesting article that states during the rut, the bull opens a slit near the eye to reveal a gland which secretes pheromones to attract a mate. I believe this photo shows that eye slit.
www.rmef.org/elk-network/why-do-bull-elk-grow-an-eye-crat...
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Spent the whole weekend getting shots of fall color before it was gone and the weekend could not have been more beautiful. I enjyed the peace and quiet and not to mention all the color!
Just spent a few lovely days away, up in Scotland for our anniversary.
Hoping to catch up on all I've
missed sometime tomorrow :)
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud
Il tempo passato con i gatti non è mai sprecato.
Sigmund Freud
Spent a few enjoyable days on the hunt for Toadstools in the woods around Dartmoor, not sure of the names but I think this is a Bonnet
Spent the night by the lake in a lowland, got out an hour before dawn from the tent. The fog is so dense that even the fingers on an outstretched hand are not visible, just gray nothing. Condensate flows down from the tent in a stream, the cold is terrible. I made tea and sat down to wait for dawn, hoping that the sun would disperse the fog. How wrong I was ... The fog was there almost until 11 o'clock in the afternoon.
Nothing special in the photo, just the fog
Spent a couple days this last summer camping on Storm Mountain, Colorado and was able to enjoy this tremendous view. Being on a hillside without trees led to a generally windy time; luckily, however, the wind was at least cooperative on this day!
Spent a lazy day on beach and suddenly BOOM!, Humpback Whales in short distance came on surface, which they then repeated many times. They were BIG, so cool to see them!
Actually, Humpback Whales did bubble net feeding, swallowing large chunks of anchovies.
Spent the last couple of days in Leipzig/Germany. Woke up early on this day....stay healthy/safe and good weekend ahead! Thanks,
Udo
Spent a few mornings trying to get a decent surfing shot with my Q2. Struck it lucky when early one morning they were in close to the harbour. Do love this wee town with it's unique surfer chic.
Just spent a good part of the day at Ricketts Glen State Park. That meant getting up 4 hours before sunrise to driver there to the park and have time to start my descent into the glen.
Here is my last capture taken today there in the magical park. Figured I needed to post the last taken after posting the first one. Nice bookends for a lovely day.
I spent some time in a ditch hiding... I guess when I moved... saw a big meal .lol..they are so awesome just to watch, unreal how much area they hunt !
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I spent Saturday out photographing birds with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rickwilhoit] and a visiting birder from South Africa. Aside from the pleasure of finally meeting one of my Flickr friends in person, it was a terrific day and we had a nice set of representative local birds, but one of the more interesting things we saw was this Eastern Towhee being driven off by a Pipevine Swallowtail. I've never seen a butterfly acting territorially before, but he definitely did not want the towhee there... Weldon Spring Conservation Area
I spent yesterday most of the afternoon in the hammock in my garden. We had a lot of sunshine for weeks now, but the real game changer are the rising temperatures we now enjoy since last weekend. Nature is catching up, green explosions everywhere. Later I took a walk along river Werre, this time between Bad Oeynhausen and Löhne. The sunset was breathtaking and relaxing. Löhne, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Spent the day playing with this one, making subtle changes to tone and texture, thought I'd better upload it so I can get something else done :-)
When I recently spent a weekend in Prague, I experienced and captured many great moments. But there was exactly one that led me to the beautiful city on the river Vltava and that was this one.
I once wished, if only for a few minutes, to stand completely alone on the famous Charles Bridge. A bridge that is crossed by thousands of people every day in a city that never really comes to a rest.
And indeed I succeeded. After I had to wait a bit until the last party-goers had more or less straightforward crossed the river on their way to bed, I was the only one. What a great feeling.
It really didn't take very long until the first photographer (the first one after me) joined me and the moment was over. But these few minutes are now mine forever.
Als ich kürzlich ein Wochenende in Prag verbrachte, habe ich viele tolle Momente erlebt und festgehalten. Doch es gab genau einen, der mich in die wunderschöne Stadt an der Moldau geführt hat und das war dieser hier.
Ich habe mir gewünscht einmal, wenn auch nur für ein paar Minuten, völlig allein auf der berühmten Karlsbrücke zu stehen. Einer Brücke, die täglich von tausenden Menschen überquert wird in einer Stadt die nie wirklich zur Ruhe kommt.
Und tatsächlich ist es mir gelungen. Nachdem ich etwas warten musste, bis die letzten Partybesucher auf dem Weg ins Bett mehr oder weniger geradlinig die Fluß überquert hatten, war ich der einzige. Ein grandioses Gefühl.
Es dauerte auch wirklich nicht sehr lange, bis der erste Fotograf (also der erste nach mir) sich zu mir gesellte und der Moment vorbei war. Doch diese wenigen Minuten, gehören nun für immer mir.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
I had spent a couple of early mornings down on the Tsehum Harbour waterfront, and in the timespan of one day, a pair of crows took exception to me walking the path. I had wondered what had changed, for I knew most crow's broods had fledged or were close to leaving the nest. They were aggressively dive-bombing me along the whole path. No matter the cause, I decided to take advantage of the situation.
It wasn't until I was walking home and enduring their attention once more, that I found out the reason. A dog walker told me that the day previously a man had discovered two fledglings at the base of a nearby pine tree, and he picked them up!! He, like I, was wearing a ball cap... (Northwestern Crow, BC).
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I spent some time today witnessing one of the most remarkable waterfowl sights in the whole world. Somewhere between 10,000 - 15,000 tundra swans are staging right here in the Upper Mississippi River before heading east to Chesapeake Bay for the winter. I took video footage on my smartphone to add some sound, which is sensational, but then I wasn't smart enough to get it on Flickr. Sorry.
Spent a wonderful day at the Butterfly Pavilion with my good friend Theresa Finley. We had a great time photographing the butterflies and flowers.
I spent a couple hours last night staring at the moon...
Well, actually photographing it as it floated in space above me.
I used a tripod, the Nikon D500, and my Nikkor 200-500mm lens.
What a wonder the night sky is!
Spent a few early hours trying to get some shots of these guys. But even at relatively high focal lenghts, it was difficult to get close enough. The fact that the location is essentially a large open field (and they see you coming a long way off) doesn't help either :)
But as that usually goes, patience eventually paid off and this one came to pose on a fence post within acceptable distance.
I spent the day in a water side hide in the Hortobagy region of Hungary. This little fella was a complete contrast to the Herons, Egrets, Storks and Buzzards.
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Spent a little time today attempting to get some good hummingbird photos after noticing frequent activity around my feeders but was unable to get photos of the Anna's Hummingbirds off the feeder. First time in a long time that I have seen a male Anna's and a female Black-chinned. Also first time this year I have seen a recently fledged American Goldfinch. This youngster was begging it's heart out but none of the adult birds volunteered to feed it as if to say "hey kid, get your own food."
Yakima County, Washington.
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Spent another wonderful day down on the Bellarine Peninsula with the Famous Flickr Five+ Group today, the weather was perfect. Thanks for a wonderful day :))
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Having spent so much time away this year it is a pleasure to get back to our garden and see what surprises it has in store for us. Just inside the gate is an ornamental cherry tree which is bursting into bloom, and I thought I would catch the last colourful buds before they all open up.
I spent a few hours with a group of Flame Robins at Mt Donna Buang. They appeared to be quite used to people as they were hanging around the carpark and allowed me to get quite close.
This is (you guessed it) the male. As usual quite showy and not afraid to be front and centre of the attention.
It's conservation status is Near Threatened which means its Population is decreasing.
We spent yesterday visiting Yellowstone in Wyoming, and of course, there were many many new photo opportunities to be found. After taking advantage and shooting dozens of photos, one will often walk away with a small handful of personal favorites, and this was one of mine from yesterday. We will be returning home on this coming Thursday after spending the better part of 15 days with old friends and seeing some beautiful vistas in the northwest. I'm sure I will leave here with one thousand plus photos, and I hope you will not tire of me sharing them with you.
I spent an hour on Sunday looking for things that might make an interesting texture shot for this week's Macro Mondays theme. Dead flower heads, a snail shell, a leaf... nothing really worked. I then had a look in my garage which is stacked full of stuff and came up with this filthy old oil can and I thought - why not? It's certainly got some texture to it.
An interesting story regarding the lens I used here - a manual focus 90mm f2.8 Sigma Macro - which I got as part of a job lot of old camera gear which I purchased because I saw two other old lenses in the lot that I thought might be interesting. This is actually the first time I've actually used this Sigma and I was more than pleasantly surprised by the results. I put a short extension tube on it in order to get in closer than the 1:2 capability of the lens. I stopped down to something like f5.6 so I would expect reasonable depth of field, which it produced, but I wasn't expecting how fantastically sharp it is.
This was shot hand held on my Sony A7ii at 1/60th of a second and ISO 500.