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Just up the shoreline from the Least Terns, this is a Forster's I think. On this May Gray day, the lone fisherman nailed one. I was a little slow finding the water exit (behind it), but I'm still pretty happy with the 2x on my little 300. It's actually lighter than my big 200-600 zoom by a few ounces, my new walkabout lens.
Little burrowing owl got one of those juicy figeater beetles. Plucked it right outa the air. They're so good at this.
Saint-Hippolyte, Québec.
Plein cadre
Certainement pas la meilleure de mes photos de renard roux, mais une que j'affectionne particulièrement. C'est la première fois que j'ai la chance de tomber sur un renard roux qui dort, et oui, il dormait sous un conifère à l'abri de la neige et du froid. Une prise pas facile à 06h50 du matin un 26 février... une prise de réussite sur une cinquantaine avant que le sujet de sente ma présence et dégerpisse.
Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec.
Full Frame
Certainly not the best of my red fox photos, but one that I particularly like. This is the first time I have had the chance to come across a red fox sleeping, and yes, it was sleeping under a conifer sheltered from the snow and the cold. Not an easy shot at 6:50 in the morning on February 26th... one successful shot out of about fifty before the subject sensed my presence and fled.
Explored #10 2016-10-03
Musiara, a well known Cheetah in the Mara is seen with her young cubs at sunset. The cubs were ever active whilst she was ever attentive on the lookout for any danger nearby.
Photographed in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
I've always thought of successful landscape photography as the intersection of chance and preparedness. You can prepare as much as you like, but you can't control the conditions on a given day.
This was the last morning of our Alberta trip. My friends and I got up kinda late and didn't really want to venture too far for a day where we'd be later traveling to our respective homes. And to add to that, the weather forecasts didn't look great either. We assumed we'd be looking for intimate scenes in the ice, if that. As expected, the morning was completely overcast - we couldn't even see some of the mountains. We walked out along the lake and spread out looking for interesting ice. The lake wasn't as clear as I'd have liked, and it began to snow very lightly. Gradually, we all seemed to come to the conclusion that this morning was going to be a miss. Chance did not appear to be on hour side.
After packing up, the three of us started to gradually make our way back to the car, but extra slowly; as if still holding hope for a miracle. Out of nowhere, the cloud began to break around only part of this mountain - slightly showing its ridges through the falling snow and cloud. Immediately, compositions started jumping out of everywhere. The three of us scattered like frightened cats. I started frantically searching for cracks or other features in the ice before the snow covered it up! I managed to find this crack just as the ridges of the mountain became very prominent, and in the end I felt that the bit of snow that had already accumulated actually added to the scene. Before long, the crack wasn't really visible any more, but thankfully I managed to get this shot before the scene fell apart.
Anyway, it just goes to show you that sometimes taking your sweet time giving up on a scene can pay off!
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My first successful shot of a bug in the wild (never mind the poor little jumping spider I trapped under a glass :)) He was so focused on the bounty of the sunflower he paid no mind to me. The breeze was bouncing the bloom around and I'm still a total rookie when it comes to metering but not too bad.
Making off with it's catch I love the wing profile on this shot.
White tailed eagles were driven to extinction in the UK by the ill advised hand of man, with the last bird being shot on Shetland in 1916.
These gorgeous birds were reintroduced on Rum in 1975 with further releases on Wester Ross in 1993. Since then most of the eagle population has found it's way to Mull where a healthy population is now well established.
Once again the population is starting to spread out across western Scotland and the Isles.
Local farmers are not keen, as the birds are known to take lambs, even at the point of birth leaving the ewe totally confused and wondering what happened.
White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
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After a morning spent lineside by the ELR where there were too many folk for comfort it was a quick location shift and a photo opportunity at a location I have visited before. This time it was light enough to try a photo that I had seen someone else do successfully - so it isn't an original idea!
A combined IAIS SIPE/CRPE rolls through Colona, Illinois during the last moments of sunshine with an NS SD80MAC on the point.
Having successfully negotiated the long westbound descent of Tehachapi pass, and with open country ahead, BNSF Dash 9 No. 5390 and its train start to pick up speed pass Ilmon. 03 March 2023.
More photos from my recent trip to Southern California will be added to my website as I process them, see: cogloadjunctionphotography.weebly.com/california-february...
Last month I had a Flickrmail from a young Californian man called James. He told me that his girlfriend Emmi was studying in Ireland and he was about to travel over to Ireland to meet up with her on St. Patrick's Day. James said that he was planning to propose to Emmi during his visit and wanted my advise on a nice quiet and scenic coastal location in Dublin for the proposal. Wow, talk about putting me under pressure, LOL! After a little thought I suggested the above elevated location in a large parkland at Killiney Hill and gave him detailed directions.
I didn't think I would hear from James again. However earlier this week I got another Flickrmail from a very happy James. He told me that the proposal went very well on Killiney Hill and that they both loved the location! So I'm sure you will all join me in congratulating James and Emmi on their Irish engagement.
I took the above shot a few days ago as a little tribute to the happy couple while I was up for a regular walk on Killiney Hill. The inserts are photos from James and Emmi which they took themselves on Killiney Hill just after the successful proposal. Yes I know the blended image is probably a bit mushy and sentimental...but I'm an incurable romantic, LOL!
You can visit James and Emmi's Irish proposal page photos at www.flickr.com/photos/jamesemmi/page22/
(Reached #167 on Explore)
Lake State Rwy. is crossing the Saginaw River in Bay City, Michigan with the PM heritage up front with this installment of watch out for drone killing bald eagles while flying above this spot - August 23, 2025.
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
The serval is a slender, medium-sized cat that stands 54-62 cm (21-24 in) at the shoulder and weighs 9-18 kg (20-40 lb). It is characterised by a small head, large ears, a golden-yellow to buff coat spotted and striped with black, and a short, black-tipped tail. The serval has the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size.
The serval is a solitary carnivore and active both by day and at night. It preys on rodents, particularly vlei rats, small birds, frogs, insects, and reptiles, using its sense of hearing to locate prey. It leaps over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground to land on the prey on its forefeet, and finally kills it with a bite on the neck or the head. Both sexes establish highly overlapping home ranges of 10 to 32 km2 (4 to 12 sq mi), and mark them with feces and saliva.
Having hidden her three very cute kittens, Mamma Serval went hunting and within 30 minutes she managed to catch a vlei rat which it quickly took back to it's very eager and hungry kittens. Captured during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
765's Engineer has the binders on as it slows for North Glenview after coming under the UP at Techny IL.
The first successful Milky Way capture of the season during the new moon. It never ceases to amaze me the light and colors the camera picks up that the human eye cannot see, such as the light on the horizon, which was probably a combination of South Lake Tahoe light pollution as well as the sun below the horizon. I used the Photopills app to determine when the Milky Way would be vertical and in a location that rises from the best angle of Bonsai Rock, off Lake Tahoe's eastern shore. www.optimalfocusphotography.com
Chicks have successfully leave the nest
Adult bird from 4 to 4.5 inches in length, and weigh between 9.75 and 12.75 grams.
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I was very lucky to have got such a close pass from this Puffin during my trip to Skomer Island last weekend. I just love that place and these comical sea birds are simply great to watch.
After successfully shooting CPKC 418 with the duo of tribute units on the point, I crossed over the CPKC Clover Bar Yard on my way home. Looking at the units below, I could have sworn I saw the flashy new CPKC paint scheme. I took the next exit, and went to investigate. What I saw was, in fact, not a CPKC unit, but rather a CN unit. What I didn't expect, however, was to meet another railfan, who told me CP 7431 would be arriving shortly on a manifest. With luck on my side, I ventured up the CP Scotford Subdivision to find them. Around Fort Saskatchewan, I saw a line of tanks rolling in the distace. I had no idea if that was the train, but I didn't want to miss them, just in case. I turned around and set up at the closest crossing, where not only did I find out it was indeed 7431, but it also just happened to stop right in front of me! I took the opportunity to grab as many shots as I could, because I knew it'd be a while before I shot the CP side of things again. Eventually, darkness set in, and I called it a successful day.
Train ID:
CPKC Mixed Freight
CP Scotford Subdivision
Locomotives:
CP ET44AC 7431
KCS ET44AC 5009
KSC Grey Ghost (End-DPU)
1951 Cunningham C2R (race), one of three that Briggs built to compete in that year's LeMans.
Very few privateers have been as successful in sportscar racing than Briggs Swift Cunnigham. Born as a rich banker's son in 1907, Cunningham got actively involved in motor racing rather late at the age of 41. He had previously backed others, but he did not drive himself until after his mother died, who very opposed to him racing. His first race was at Watkins Glen and the car was a Buick / Mercedes-Benz hybrid, known as the 'Bumerc', the construction of which Cunningham had backed in 1939. This race really spiked his interest in road racing, in which he actively participated for two decades.
More than anything, Cunnigham was interested in long distance racing and he set his sights on the most legendary of all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He did not just want to win the event, but he wanted to be the first to do so with an all-American team. After the Duesenbergs and Millers of the 1920s, very few American successes were scored in Europe. Prepared by Phil Walters and Frick and with the help of 1949 winner Luigi Chinetti, two Cadillacs were entered in the 1950 Le Mans race. One of these was fitted with a stock body, but the second was fitted with a custom built, supremely ugly body, which for obvious reasons was nick-named 'Le Monstre' by the French.
Although the cars were not on the pace, the 10th and 11th place finishes ensured that Cunningham's entries for the 1951 race would be accepted by the picky Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which organized the legendary race. To take on the strong competition Cunnigham bought Walters' and Frick's shop to form B.S. Cunningham Co, which was based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. Over the winter of 1950/51 a prototype racer was constructed, the C-1, powered by a Cadillac engine. Cunningham quickly abandoned the Cadillac engine, because of a complete lack of support from the company. He turned to Chrysler, who were willing to support the development and offer their HEMI engines at a 40% discount.
Dubbed the C-2R, the HEMI powered Cunningham was a sophisticated and well constructed affair. A simple, but effective steel tubular frame chassis formed the basis of the C-2. It was suspended at the front by unequal A-arms and at the rear by an exotic DeDion rear axle. The only gearbox available strong enough to cope with the Chrysler Firepower's enormous torque was a Cadillac three speed 'box. The package was clothed in a simple aluminium barchetta style body. Being very well built and very large, the Cunningham was rather overweight, which made the car very hard on the brakes. This was made even worse by the lack of engine braking by going down the gears compared to other cars fitted with four or five speed 'boxes.
Chrysler modified the Firepower engine to produce around 250 bhp, from the 180 bhp available in stock form. Despite the enormous weight of the car, the C-2Rs proved surprisingly competitive. Three cars were entered livered in white with two blue stripes, the first use of racing stripes ever. Two crashed out, including this car, but the third car held 2nd position when a bearing and valve failure threw it back considerably. It eventually finished in 18th position. Back in North America, Cunningham started to rack up victories with his racers. At the West Palm Beach factory work was started on a new racer for 1952 and a road car, of which the ACO required 25 to be produced to make Cunningham eligible to run as a separate manufacturer.
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There is something to be said about the intrinsic link between failure and expectation. It seems to me that a key component of failure is expectation. Try to imagine failure without expectation? It's tricky. Because in order to fail, you have to have somehow defined what failure is. And we do this with expectation in hand all the time, be it consciously or otherwise. This image is an example of just that. I set it up, had a shot in mind, calculated my exposure, sat on the tracks counting that exposure off mentally, got up closed the shutter and wound the film. All with an expectation of something. Part of that something was a vague notion of how I wanted the image to look. Another part of that something was the expectation that I calculated the technical aspects of the image correctly - focus, exposure, etc. Yet another part of that something was the expectation that the film would be processed correctly. And so on. You get the idea of how something like this is built off a chain of expectations, even when we don't necessarily think of those expectations. Then, when something doesn't go as expected, for example I somehow blew the exposure and overexposed the frame by several stops thereby producing a more faded, washed out image with a bit of a color cast. Well, that goes against my expectation of how I thought this would turn out. My initial reaction was, "Well, blew that one" and mentally began the process of writing this image off. It was just one photo after all and I make a lot of photos. Also, I am no stranger to "blowing it". I often tell people I could bury them with the boxes of throwaway sample prints from "failed" images that I have accumulated over the years. But then again, as I implied above, what is failure really, other than unmet expectations? And if that is really a key to failure, can failure not be converted to something else merely by either tweaking those expectations or simply by not handcuffing yourself to them. It is fine to have expectations, it is also fine to set them aside. After a day, and a second visit to this negative, I gave my initial expectations of this photo a rest and what was left behind was something that was neither expected nor failed. I don't know what it is, nor do I really need to. It is another image in my collection that has something that intrigues me, that has given me something to consider and think about. I used to remark to students that if a every photo you make teaches you something, are there really bad photos?
Anyway, just some thoughts inspired by my misexposure in the making of this particular image. And no, I still don't quite know how I goofed this one up. But I am ok with that too. If I knew, I might want to do it again and that wouldn't be nearly as fun as when it happens incidentally.
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A successful marriage requires
falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
(Mignon McLaughlin)
My twin daughters gave these tiny dolls to Freya (their elder sister) and Sam on their wedding day (October 28, 2016).
Last Tuesday, July 10 2018, Freya gave birth to our first grandchild:
a boy named Eli! :-)
an alphabet book - bokeh
Smile on Saturday! :-) - Lucky Charm
(photo by Freya)