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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. Male Great-tailed Grackle
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Just over five centuries ago, Da Vinci spent 5 years waiting for Mona Lisa. And it was great, because until today Mona enchants us with her enigmatic smile, her charm, elegance and nobility of character.
But Leonardo had to wait much longer before Mona Harris appeared. And he admits, it was worth it. A woman of principles and knowledge transformed into wisdom, able of uniting a people disunited since the American Civil War. We live on a wild little planet. It's time to heal our wounds. It's time to look to a future for everyone. Of all races. Of all religions. From all social classes. Ignorance makes wars. Uniting people is an Art. The true Art of Life.
I spent a (very cold) long time trying to use the many elements of the landscape at this location...it turned out to be hard due to there actually being too many bits and pieces, so the results are a bit messy. There's snow, a big boulder, a character tree, ice, grasses, a loch and Liathach to rest the eye on. Ah well, it's been an awful day's weather (again) so it kept me amused.
I spent a happy lunchtime trying to capture an early Garden Bumblebee with my new lens, but here instead is another lovely Primula, suggesting it wasn't the lens's fault I couldn't catch the Queen...
Spent a very pleasant afternoon at Waldegraves pool with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/japes3/] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevebalcombe/] hunting Dragons. Nice to see the Common hawkers are still hanging in there...
A female in the act of endophytic oviposition.
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Spent 5 days in bitter cold Hokkaido and I love this part of Japan where I can get these dream shots, very close. xlolx
Spent a wonderful sunrise at this tranquil little straight. The dynamic light provided several different opportunities to shoot these mountains.
Today Chris came over and he randomly brought bubble mix, it was cute. We spent about an hour and a half blowing bubbles and taking pictures and it was actually a lot of fun. :)
Spent a few days in Big Bend National Park, current events, never ending drama.....watching the Milky Way...over the famous Casa Grande in the Chisos Mountains pondering whats out there in the Universe makes it all go away....Bortle 1 skies....some of the darkest anywhere in the USA
I spent most of May 25 in the Whiskey Dick Unit of L. T. Murray Wildlife Area. I drove and walked Pumphouse Road and Whiskey Dick Road in search for wildflowers and in particular the barrel cactus. Many wildflower are at peak bloom but the cactus are just starting to bloom. I have in the past photographed the cactus in mid April. I will post a number of photos taken in L T Murray WLA, Kittitas County, Washington of the wildflowers and a few bird photo the next few days.
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Spent a morning on Brownsea island while we were in Dorset last month and were lucky to see plenty of the red squirrels.
Spent a Saturday in Hoi An. A great location to experience the historic architecture with plenty of chances to view and capture the local Vietnamese in their element.
The sunflowers stopped blooming a month ago. They're looking quite ragged. We left them standing for the birds to feast on their seeds. The maple beyond our neighbor's garage has lost its leaves. #inktober2020 October25, 2020
I spent all day last Saturday sat on the beach trying to get this shot, through wind and rain - and eventually sun!
I wanted to get the Snow Buntings flying low over the beach, perpendicular to my plane of focus and of course with their chests towards me - showing off all that white plumage (so ideally mostly males) - preferably lit up by either early morning or late afternoon golden sun. So not really asking for much.
It is surprisingly difficult to focus on the flock when they are swirling around.
Thankfully though I eventually managed to track them properly, low over the beach, just the once.
All of the birds in this shot are males.
Spent a few days in North Berwick with some of the family, so not much time for photography. Managed to get to the beach for one sunset.
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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Yesterday I spent some time farting around with some 8x10 Arista Ortho Litho film, trying to get "continuous tone" from it by various means.
This sheet of film was pre-exposed to white light with my enlarger (1 second at f22) to prime the film for exposure (reduces contrast, bumps shadows up a notch), and exposed in camera at 3 ASA. It was then developed in Divided D-23: 90 seconds in Part A, and 2 minutes in Part B. To some degree, this treatment resulted in a more or less continuous tone negative, but its still VERY contrasty. I can see where this might have an application for alt processes, like Salt.
Deardorff camera with the 12" Tuener-Reich Gundlach f6.8 lens, wide open.
Spent the afternoon walking around Boston looking for fall color, and didn't find much. Apparently this is the warmest fall on record here (eek) and as a result the trees haven't changed color much and now the leaves are drying up and falling off without changing color much first. Seems like only a couple species are getting any real color, and I guess they're more rare than I thought in the city (maples, maybe? not sure). Anyway, while I didn't find much fall foliage, I did walk by this cute Beacon Hill courtyard. Shot with iPhone 6s.
Spent some time making a hat for a friend. Hopefully it fits and he likes it, it's my first attempt at a crochet hat!
For those interested the pattern I (sort of) followed for this hat can be found here: Ribbed Wonder - Easy Crochet Hat
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
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I spent the better part of an evening catching the recent lunar eclipse. Unfortunately, I really don't have the lens for those types of shots, but I kept my little stash of moon shots thinking they may come in handy.
This is just another fun in Photoshop shot, placing the blood moon into an older shot of a scene taken in BIrds Hill Park.
6K02, Freightliner’s 1150 Rutherglen Central Jn - Carlisle Yard spent ballast train – with 66514 at its head - snakes round the reverse curve at Enterkinfoot on 13 May 2023.
(Some digital gardening necessary at this location now)
Spent Christmas Day in Floyd Lamb park. Photographed this beautiful hawk
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Spent an enjoyable, albeit challenging morning with some great friends and fellow photographers. Both the wind and the light were a challenge to work with. Once set up on a composition, you could expect to wait ten to fifteen minutes for a lull in the wind that would last only a few seconds, and you had to hope that you had cloud cover at the same time. It's good to be challenged on occasion.
Spent an hour today with the members of a great band of horses from the Spring creek Range and these two were fighting off and on all the time
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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We spent a day launching rockets in a big farm field near Helm in the Central Valley of California. Hundreds of high power rockets were launched in daytime. This rocket blew up at launch -- the motor retainer failed, and the thrust pushed the motor up through the body tube. With that, the nosecone shot up, and the motor started to spiral in the air under its thrust.
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I spent some time last week rediscovering how much fun it is to shoot sunsets with a wide angle lens and Singh Ray filters. Then I pulled out my trusty 50mm (no extension tubes) and rediscovered why I love this lens.
I’m not sure what these are but they pop up everywhere around here.
Have a great Tuesday!
Spent some time in the city today. Mostly shooting long exposures with 10 stop filter and wide angle lens. Here's one shot.
I spent most of yesterday (5/25) in the Whiskey Dick Unit of L. T. Murray Wildlife Area. I drove and walked Pumphouse Road and Whiskey Dick Road in search for wildflowers and in particular the barrel cactus. Many wildflower are at peak bloom but the cactus are just starting to bloom. I have in the past photographed the cactus in mid April. I will post a number of photos taken in L T Murray WLA, Kittitas County, Washington of the wildflowers and a few bird photo the next few days. I should mention that most native plants have multiple common names.
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I spent a few days visiting a friend who lives in a small rural town in the Catskill Mt. area in NYS.
Beautiful countryside, ribbon candy rolling hills of velvety green, woods, animals, lakes and rivers, dotted with small towns here and there.
My visit happened to coincide with the Annual Livingston Manor Trout Parade, which honestly I'd never heard of.
These lower income communities rely on tourism for income and fly fishing is a big draw....in fact it got started here. Hence, the parade.
Everyone....everyone....shows up for it. It has more attendees than the town has population as the neighboring towns flock to it.
It's community based, covers all of 2 blocks, which is about all there is to the town. Storefront windows display colorful trout drawings done by the local school kids, and there are trout chalk drawings on the sidewalks. Proceeds from donations and sale of parade merchandise go to support different community agencies. A perfect, warm, sunny, clear, ice cream eating Spring day added to the festive mood.
It was small town America having itself a fun time.
Here is the proud trout that led the parade. :-)
Spent the day with my brother the other day while he got his new tattoo-looks good & really suits him. was fun to watch him in pain, but to see how happy he was after the fact!
I spent some time at Shaugh Bridge to capture the last of the autumn colours and was drawn to this spot on the River Plym and loved the composition with the leaves, the rocks, the flowing water and colours on the other side of the river. I used a slower shutter speed to smooth out the water to create a more dreamy image.
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Spent evening in the city with my wife. Awesome time! Found nice looking tree in one of the parks. Liked it. Took it. Here it is :)
I spent much of my growing up years in Southeast Idaho, and a recent trip to take senior pics for my grandson, brought back memories of spud combines, high school, and teenage angst. As I left Blackfoot, with high winds and a snowstorm herding me south, I witnessed the most incredible showing of fall colors arching and bucking in chevrons along the foothills. The red/orange/yellow splashes continued to delight all along the Wasatch mountains through Salt Lake and into Spanish Fork canyon. Amazing!
Tuesday I spent the morning up in the mountains. The goal was to find some fawns and maybe a bear cub or two. While I wasn't lucky enough to locate any cubs (this time), I was fortunate enough to find a few fawns. I have a number of shots to share, but I think this is maybe my favorite from the bunch. Seeing this newborn fawn, likely only a few hours old at this point, sharing this tender moment with its mother, was just something else. Between (very) short naps, the fawn (and its twin, who was just out of frame) would wobble to their feet, wander around a small area near their mother, and then quickly rush back to her side, usually trying to nuzzle up against her. Curious as they are, they also spent plenty of time sniffing and eyeing up anything within their reach...even something as simple as a long blade of grass. Pure innocence seeing their brand new world for the first time.
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Spent some of Saturday hanging out in Emeryville's Tiny Telephone studio, doing photo stuff with Lucy and the Long Haul. Super cool to see music being produced for real, with loving care.
Spent a Sunday afternno on a photo shoot underneath and around three very imprssive, and threatening storm cells. It was quite the show. This is facing to the northwest.