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Spent the past week on vacation at a cottage on Crystal Lake, north on Bobcaygeon Ontario. We were fortunate to have some great weather and were treated to a couple of spectacular sunsets during our time there.
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spent the afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC today...I found myself in tears as I walked among Monets and Picassos.
Butterfly Gallery Showing Collage
Black Butterfly Series
Best on black, hit L
Black Butterflies from Fairy Tales Event 2012
Del May Pose
Neva River Sim
I spent the last day of my yearly vacation on the Montzen route. Starting the day in Sint-Martens-Voeren, I ended in Hoeselt.
At the very end of this last day of my yearly vacation, I could squeeze out shots of 2 more freights heading west. One of them being a train loaded with Move and Ewals containers, headed for Genk. The train is seen just south of Hoeselt.
Shoutout to Trainbelge, who I met in Hoeselt again, after meeting each other for the first time 1 week earlier in France.
BRLL 266 016 (RTX), Hoeselt 11.8.2022
We spent an afternoon on RSPB Ramsey Island today. I have never seen so may Wheatear in one place at the same time, juveniles everywhere which was a fantastic sight in this day and age :-)
I spent a few days in Largo Portugal visiting my daughter & family while away the last month.
I had been to the Algarve of Portugal 15 years ago and wasn't really into birding back then so it was really nice to experience the Algarve through a new set of eyes.
White Storks are plentiful - - many of the local villages had nests along the river sides and on many abandoned buildings.
I only went photographing for 1.5 hours on the 1 morning - - but I saw plenty of birds
White Stork - Lagos Portugal
Spent the day going through some old shots and transferring them to my many large hard drives :-). Came across this image which was 1 of only 2 that I managed to capture the Bioluminescent sea in any great colour or detail. So, had a dabble with editing it and thought I would add it to the collection :-)
I spent a short time at Butterley Reservoir in Derbyshire owned by Ripley and District Angling Club. The anglers there were all very polite and a few of them gave me permission to take a few shots of their fishing tackle. Butterley Reservoir is perfect for Bream, Perch, Roach, Tench and Carp. The reservoir is behind Midland Railway, Butterley, near Ripley.
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30 June 2020. Thank you :)
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Selected for Flickr group 'in explore', by group admin David Kracht, on 01 July 2020. Thank you David.
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We spent three weeks recently in the north-west of England, staying just over the Cumbria border. The nearby village of Arnside is on the southern side of the estuary of the River Kent. This provides the south-east border of the Lake District National Park. This is a quiet corner of Cumbria and is off the beaten track. The village is on the north-eastern corner of Morecambe Bay, within the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The dark blue sailing boat is a River class yacht built locally in 1912 by William Crossfield, who were famous for their Morecambe Bay Prawners.
Spent the day at Floyd Lamb Park on the North-West side of Las Vegas. This is a great place to photograph wildlife on the several small ponds in the park.
Great-tailed Grackle
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Spent the sunset at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then made the drive back to Marble Canyon where we are staying. By then the the stars were really out and the moonlight was bathing the pretty views around Lee's Ferry, where you can enter the Grand Canyon. Here the old bridge (now used for pedestrians only) and the new bridge cross the Grand Canyon providing for this spectacular view of the Colorado River.
Early in the day we passed Horseshoe Bend when we traveled through Page ... and the long line of cars to get into the pull over was extensive. Have passed it several times now and never made the trek to photograph it. There are just too many other cool areas to photograph that many never get to see. This location we are staying is very pretty ... giving you access to the river where we will be swimming today, as well as access to both rims of the Grand Canyon. Planning on doing sunset along the south rim tomorrow, which I have not seen for nearly 15 years. Last time there did sunrise. So sunset will be a treat.
This area is also 30 minutes from Page, so you can access a lot there too. Nice thing about this spot, it is very quiet, with just two hotels. I had the park here and the bridge all to myself in the warm desert night breeze. A great time to relax and take 30 second exposures :))
Spent about 90 minutes taking captures from the bridge and down into the park on this evening. Tons to photograph. This evening will spend more time there for sunset and into the night.
Also if you look above where the river bends in the night sky, you will see that I also captured a shooting star in this 30 second capture. The light along the horizon is from Page, Arizona. Horseshoe Bend is actually not that far from here as well, just around the bend or two from Lee's Ferry which is just out of the frame where the river ends here in this photograph.
Spent the day hanging out at a local eagles nest in Guntersville Alabama. The eagles are very active right now with an eaglet in the nest.
Spent some more time on the technique yesterday and I think that it works better if the subject is facing you.
Punda Maria
Kruger National Park
Limpopo
South Africa
Just spent a few days over in Keswick, what a beautiful location. My good friend Ray McBride had suggested a trip to Castlerigg Stone Circle, so we rose early 4.45am and set off. Arriving in pitch darkness we located the stones and I set up the camera waiting for sunrise.
The mist in the lower valley could be seen even in darkness but as the sun rose, the mist began to reveal what it had hidden. After changing my lens I managed to capture this closer image. It was a wonderful sight to see and one that will stay in my mind for years to come.
This fawn spent at least fourteen hours in the backyard garden on this day. I'm reasonably sure it is less than a month old here and was dropped off by its mother while she foraged for food. I stepped onto the back porch about 7 a.m. that morning, and startled, the fawn raised up out of the ground cover so that I saw it there. It had already visited several days before, and knowing how skittish it was, I retreated and tried to photograph it through the downstairs window. When I couldn't get the image in focus, I retreated to the upstairs where I opened a window and removed the screen. Mom did not return until close to 9 p.m., and I haven't seen the fawn since. I'll suppose it is now old enough to keep up with its mother and so can stay at her side.
Spent and early evening here during our stay in North Yorkshire, capturing the many aspects of this well known fishing port and the River Esk.This was taken just as the sun was going down,to the right and out of sight.
We spent much of the last day packing for the trip home - rearranging items in bags, determining dinner and breakfast from the food we'd bought along the way. A snowy, quiet day also gave time for looking out of the window and thinking, though we did go out for a stroll that afternoon - why waste a good chance to wander a bit?
Spent a good couple of hours in the woods after work today. So much fungi around that it wasn't difficult to find some decent specimens with a nice background too. I think this is Cantharellus Friesii but there are so many varieties of Chanterelles it's hard to be sure.
Spent the day at Floyd Lamb Park on the North-West side of Las Vegas. This is a great place to photograph wildlife on the several small ponds in the park.
Great Egret
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I spent a good day yesterday with my good friends (I think) Tony Nixon & Andy Stuthridge and we had a great time snapping these and cirl buntings. The sun even came out.
Male yellowhammers are unmistakeable with a bright yellow head and underparts, brown back streaked with black, and chestnut rump. In flight it shows white outer tail feathers. They are often seen perched on top of a hedge or bush, singing.
Its recent population decline make it a Red List species.
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Spent a weekend in Powys with a friend, riding in the mountains. The Palomino is Jasmine and the pretty posy boy is Spirit.
I spent a half day walking around the grounds of the 1896 Motel. It was time to head back north into Vermont. As I'm going through the town of Williamstown, MA I saw this beautiful maple tree on the open campus of Williams College, another totally lovely place. I had thought red was my favorite color in leaves, but this tree changed my mind. I had never seen this apricot color in trees until I now. It was more stunning than I could capture, or maybe it's just me. I didn't see most of the campus. This was part of the campus close to some apartment dormitories. I would have liked to have seen more of the town, but I had not even planned to go through Massachusetts. I'm so glad I did though.
Having spent the last five days trying to get either a shot of a beardie or a nice close up of the glossy ibis and failing on both counts, I thought I'd take a quick run up to Hatch hill and do a bug hunt. I found this little fella hanging from a web, apparently unscathed. So I cleaned him up and set him free.
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Hatch hill
Our garden spent several weeks this month covered in snow and ice … this is a tiny part of one bush … coated in hoar frost!
Shot with the Sony NEX6 and the Helios 44-2 lens.
For Looking close on Friday group - "winter leaves" 😊
Looking Close: Here
Helios 44-2 and 44-M set: Here
The colours of winter: Here
The winter garden: Here
Winter through the lens Here
We spent a couple of nights at Niagara Falls on our recent road trip. Here's a long-exposure night shot taken from Goat Island on the New York side of the Niagara river. Colored lights illuminate the American falls on the right side of the frame, while the skyline of the town of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, is visible across the river.
I spent my birthday week last week drinking in Colorado (I mean shooting spectacular fall color in aspen groves in the Colorado mountains) with a couple of my backpacking buddies. We got into a lot a good stuff that I will post this winter. For those of you who don't know, I'm on the right here (Bob is on the left and the photo is courtesy of Randy).
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See Earl, proof I don't eat RB.
Spent the last weekend in North Yorkshire, my friends took me to see some gardens in Arncliffe. I had never been there before it’s a most attractive village many of the houses are seventeenth century.
Arncliffe is in Littondale, one of the Yorkshire Dales in England. Littondale is a small valley that runs off the upper Wharfedale valley.. Situated on a gravel delta above the flood-plain of the River Skirfare, Arncliffe's houses, cottages, and other buildings face a large green, and behind them are green hillsides etched with limestone scars.
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Spent a fine morning on Loch Morlich recently and was lucky in that the mist decided to show up and hung around for a while. The area around here including Loch Morlich and Loch an Eilein is one of my favourite locations, especially when the mist shows up.
I spent the better part of three days exploring the Nebraska sandhills. The maze of roads in and around them is truly staggering. Even with a map and GPS I got lost a number of times.
Some roads would simply end. Others were become private. And others deteriorated to sandy nothingness.
Typically, there are no landmarks in the Sandhills. There are hardly any trees. Abandoned houses and schools appear now and then, but they're nestled in the vallies and between hills.
Some places are utterly desolate. You can travel fifty miles and not see another car or truck or tractor. There's almost no cell coverage, and the roads that I was on almost never actually crested any of the hills. Rather, they would wind themsevles through the valleys and passes.
And though I drove hundreds of miles through them, I feel like I hardly know them at all. I can usually spend some time in a place and at least have a good idea what that place is. The sandhills confounded and intimidated me.
It was a strange example of what seemed like tame and even inviting land actually being unsettling and fear-inducing.
And yet, there was a peace between all of that. There was a quiet and a beauty that soaked its way through the hills.
I would like to try them again.
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'When You Called'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Kodak Tri-X; x-01/1981
Exposure: f/18; 1 sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 10sec
Nebraska
July 2022
Spent some more time with this left behind. I really like the added details in the clouds that HDR brought over the single exposure, I dont event know if you can get this with luminosity mask.
I spent some time this winter hiking Minnesota's North Shore area along Lake Superior - this is one of the many small islands that dot the shoreline - picture was taken on a particularly pretty pink sunrise south of Grand Portage and about 15 miles from the Canadian border.
The ice in this picture is called 'plate ice' - it's formed when the cold lake water freezes very shallow and the wind pushes it up on shore where it breaks into clear chunks - it looks like broken glass and the crashing sound can be deafening.
Spent a magical few days in the far North of Sweden. Absolutely loved snowshoeing, as it bought us close to the landscape in total tranquility. Very fortunate to see some wonderful wildlife while on snowshoe and it really was a great way to escape from the daily grind!
Spent ages watching this little guy stretching his wings for the first time, whilst sitting on a yarrow flowerhead.
... spent my last night walking round the LUX light installation in Helsinki. First time I've used the Light Trail mode on my Slow Shutter app, so bear with me :)
Spent 10 minutes with this guy today. He flew down in front of me and walked around on the ground, not sure what he was thinking.
I spent an entire day at Horseshoe Bend to photograph the sunrise and sunset. This location has gone from obscurity in the 1970s to a crowded tourist destination today, complete with tour vans and busses hauling in travelers who want to stand on the edge and make self-portraits. They literally line up in a cue on the cliff's edge while the tour guide instructs them through a series of poses.
In the offseason, Horseshoe Bend isn't very crowded which made it a nice experience. The wind picked up in the afternoon to the point that sand was being blown up the canyon walls, and was strong enough to knock over tripods. I put my knit cap over the camera to keep the sand out of it, but it was hard to keep the sand out of my eyes except to face the other direction. I considered leaving, but it looked like the sun would be able to peak under the clouds and light them up. Well, that's just what happened, so it was a good decision to see it through. Visitors that evening were treated to a gorgeous fiery sunset.
This is a 2 frame vertorama (vertical panorama) shot with 3 frame bracketed exposures to capture all the light. So 6 frames in total to make the photograph. This is a wonderful location, easily accessible, and even wheelchair accessible. Just don't roll the wheelchair up to the edge.
Page, Arizona, USA, March 2023
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I spent two weeks at the Veluwe, an area in the Netherlands, where heather landscapes and small hills dominate the landscape. The hills are remnants of old ice ages. Thanks to the very wet spring and summer, the heather was spectacular this year, and almost restored to its full glory after 3 consecutive dry years.
The sky here looks very threatening and thunder was audible, but in the end only a few drops of rain.
1400 pictures with heather, and wildlife. So a lot of work to do on that.
Spent the weekend in the beautiful Kanab Utah during the Kanab Utah hot air balloon festival. Their was a lot of cool balloons, a street street fair, with bands and food, and even a paper lantern lighting. Was great, I want to make it an annual happening for me.
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I spent Saturday evening at a friends house for his birthday and some board games. Left around 1am, and noticed the sky was crystal clear! Not one to miss a photo opportunity, I raced home, grabbed the camera then headed out to the National Park to find a nice dark spot. 4 1/2 hours later I had the necessary source frames to create this photo - my first shot of the Milky way, and my first attempt at astrophotography.
Just what a need, ANOTHER hobby! :)
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon 17-40mm f4.0L @ 17mm
Filter(s): None.
Aperture: f/4
Sinlge Frame Exposure: 9 seconds
Total Frame Exposure: 9 minutes (60 frames in total)
ISO: ISO1600
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