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We spent last weekend in Liverpool and came across this statue quite by accident, instantly recognised as we had seen photos of it.
It was nice to see groups of tourists patiently waiting their turn to have a shot taken with the boys. The one Rod took of me is in the first comment.
HSS and Thursday Monochrome 😀
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 :-)
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.
I spent a lovely morning wandering around Nymans gardens on Sunday, appreciating the cooler breeze. A lot of the flowers weren't too happy with the heatwave, but this Hydrangea was in the shade. Lensbaby Sol 22 with blades set to diagonal and using a +4 close up filter.
66/100 flowers 2022
70/100: The 2022 Edition
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.
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?
I spent a good amount of time exploring the island and managed to find some interesting locations along the way. I absolutely love how the morning sunrise illuminated these cliffs and contrasted against the "cold" snow. Enjoy!
I spent some time this morning enjoying my local Crossbills. They were still in a large flock but the warm weather made them sing. The song incorporates some of the "jip, jip" flight calls but also has some twangy trills and soft twitters. Have a listen to this one recorded in Northumberland by Simon Elliott: www.xeno-canto.org/602361 . I also saw pairs courtship feeding and mating. They are one of the earliest nesting species and are sometimes on eggs in February. They were largely feeding on the cones of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) which are supposedly a little tough for Crossbills to cope with. But they didn't seem to be having much trouble. I even saw Siskins feeding alongside on Scots Pine cones. This one is an adult male, I'm guessing at least two years old as first year males usually look rather yellow but this one is pure red.
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.
Just recently spent a few days over in New Brighton on the Wirral. I had chance to catch up with my good friend Ray McBride who has been a great mentor to me, for some time now.
This capture was taken last night, at my favourite Perch Rock Lighthouse (New Brighton)
We got a lovely band of colour, running along the horizon, which intensified in colour as the sun disappeared.
It was an incoming tide and as you can see, the Long Exposure I used gave the water that lovely misty feel.
This is the entrance to the river Mersey and the docks can be seen to the right.
We actually watched the new P&O's largest cruise ship, the Britannia, sail past the Lighthouse this morning, on her tour around the country.
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.
I spent some time at the wildlife park on Thursday morning, mainly because I wanted to see their new Otters but as usual I got sidetracked but the birds in their falconry. This is a white-backed vulture which is related to the European griffon vulture and native to sub-Saharan Africa. I know that many people don't like vultures but they play an important role in nature and through my visits at the falconry I have also learnt to appreciate their intelligence and friendly character.
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.
:@)
Hatch hill
I spent a gorgeous afternoon at the top of Spencer Butte. At 2,058 feet (627 m), Spencer Butte is a prominent landmark in Lane County, Oregon just outside the Eugene city limits.
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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 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.
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I spent al little time at Little Zigzag Creek this morning, before the temperature hit 100º. There was occasional cloud cover interspersed with brillient sunlight mingling with the trees. It was a good day to be on the slopes of Mount Hood.
I have been having trouble printing pictures lately. I have to lighten them up quite a but from how they first look, despite having calibrated my printer, and, I thought, my monitor, (although I had to do it based on how my prints look. Well, I finally got my ColorMunki working properly. It turns out that my computer does not like special characters in the file names of the icc profiles. I removed the underscore in the name, and it worked flawlessly. Not I can print with wild abandon.
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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 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.
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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 another beautiful afternoon at the Dingo Discovery Centre yesterday and we were lucky enough to spend some time not just with some puppies, but with mum and dad as well. This is dad, the magnificent Saxon.
Saxon is around 12-13 years old, the folks at the Dingo Discovery Centre are not exactly sure because of how Saxon came to them.
Saxon is a Fraser Island Dingo, he was smuggled off Fraser Island as a puppy, in an Esky (drink cooler) by some idiotic folks who thought he might make a good guard dog in their car yard. He was driven literally across the country to Western Australia where he lived, petrified and locked up, under a car in the car yard for a few years.
Fortunately, rather than being destroyed, he was then rescued by the DDC folks and he now lives there, and is one of the most beautiful Dad's you will ever see.
Spent a half day photographing 3 Pygmy Owls with some buddies. Some of the backgrounds had beautiful autumn foliage colors as seen in this frame.
The bird spent quite a while here in my garden looking for "breakfast".
Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male sparrowhawks have bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown bars on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown bars underneath. Sparrowhawks have bright yellow or orangey eyes, long, yellow legs and long talons. Females are larger than males, as with all birds of prey.
Mainly small birds, but 120 different species have been recorded. Males can catch birds up to thrush size, but females, being bigger, can catch birds up to pigeon size. Some sparrowhawks catch bats.
I've spent a fair amount of time hanging out at the local ponds and occasionally I hear the Pied-billed Grebes greet each other. My Sibley guide describes it as "a drawn-out, nasal chatter, slightly descending and fading away." I vowed to one of my bird-watching photog friends that one day I would catch that greeting. This is pretty close - my first shot finding the noise source. The two came together, then passed by on their separate ways. Note the one on the right has the black-banded bill of a breeder. Still some challenges left for me - find them sooner, in better light.
I spent the last weekend in Norfolk, thought there was a chance of a great sunrise. Always wanted to shoot one of the windmills at sunrise with mist and frost. Of course that didn't happen, although it was very cold, there was no frost at Thurne windmill, no mist, no colour in the sky, no reflections on the river, basically it was one boring sunrise. At lunch time I stopped at Horsey Windpump but the conditions were not very favourable and sun right above the windmill so I didn't take any photos. Ended up at Horsey Gap which was full of grey seals, it was an amazing experience to witness them. On the way back to London I was passing the windmill again and saw the stunning reflections so quickly took a u-turn and took few shots at sunset time. The water was so calm, it was like a mirror!
I spent four days at a sanctuary for Black Bears in northern Minnesota run by the American Bear Association (www.americanbear.org/). During the days that our workshop had access to the sanctuary we saw big boars, sows with cubs including several with cubs born this spring, some with year old cubs, two year olds who were out on their own for the first time and other adult males and females. Tremendous experience getting to observe bear behavior and being able to photograph these awesome creatures.
I spent a couple of very happy hours at Borde Hill this afternoon. It's one of my favourite gardens and it's finally open again after the lockdown. A few things are different - social distancing measures, booking online only, no cash anywhere etc - but the garden itself is as beautiful and relaxing as ever.
One thing that hasn't changed is that I don't have a clue what this tree is. :)
Note: It seems this is a flowering dogwood. Thanks for the ID, Sue!
Spent some time looking for short eared owls after a report indicating their presence. None to be found but a beautiful stonechat posed nicely.
We spent a night at the East Brother Light Station. The bed & breakfast inn sits on a small island located at the border of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay near Richmond. Innkeepers Bryan & Stephanie welcomed us with champagne & hors d’oeuvres upon arrival, served us a multi-course dinner with wine, and a gourmet breakfast the next morning. Shortly after sunset I went up to the light tower to observe the view. Nowadays the light source are powerful LED lights with small individual lenses to focus the light. The light can be seen for 14 nautical miles.
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