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Its almost impossible not to love the stunning pastoral and abstract landscapes created by these seemingly endless rolling hills of loess with their late spring carpet of wheat, barley and other crops in various stages of growth and first harvest, viewed from Steptoe Butte, in the Palouse, Washington.
That this landscape looks a lot like an agricultural field of sand dunes is no mistake of the eye. When glaciers retreated from this part of the world thousands of years ago, the fine rich soil sediment left behind, known as loess (les or ˈlōˌes), was blown on the prevailing wind into these dune-like rolling hills, eventually becoming this beautiful and richly productive farming region further contoured and colored by human hands.
I think this is a great time for Sky Matthews and me to thank our wives for their support of our photography endeavors, which lately have seemed a bit like a mild addiction to say the least. I say this because, just a short while after getting the fortunate opportunity to do a quick shoot of Hawaii's still active volcanic landscapes, Sky and I were once again kindly granted leave to meet on the road to shoot the more ancient, but still very much volcanically-influenced landscapes of eastern Washington and northern Oregon. This is the first image from that outing, and though millions of shots of the Palouse have been taken from Steptoe Butte, there's something about the constant changing of the fields, and the varying light and shadow play with every passing moment, that make each shot I've ever seen seem at once both pleasingly familiar and wonderfully different.
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Watched by a seemingly interested horse, on a bitterly cold morning with overnight frost still clinging to the track and the crossing boards Standard Class 4 no. 80080 works hard as it is about to pass over Horncliffe Crossing with the 10.00 Heywood to Rawtenstall service on the 28th January 2012. The River Irwell can just be glimpsed to the right of the locomotive.
Seemingly oblivious of the freezing conditions, Oberon the Andean bear wanders about seeking fruit distributed about the enclosure.
Waterfall Creek, Waterfall, The Royal National Park. I have been to this location many times and have never seen so much water coming down. It was incredibly hard to get a shot with so much spray coming off the falls.
The gentleman on sweeping duties at Govindgarh Malikpur station has his work cut out - Rajasthan is nothing if not dusty, and with a new station building and platform under construction as part of the gauge conversion programme, dust and grit are even worse than usual. This however hasn't stopped him dressing smartly for the occasion, or donning nice shoes as he cheerfully goes about the seemingly impossible task of trying to keep the station dust free.
Beside him is the ubiquitous bike that forms part of the platform furniture on these rural lines - the green and red flags indicate it's used by the points man who will ride out to the end of the passing loop to set and clip the points for the approaching train.
15th March 2016
Some of the seemingly ever-increasing number of large, bland lumps of architecture that have been shoved into the Fountainbridge area in recent years as student blocks (don't mind some in the neighbourhood mix, but we just keep getting more added instead of building new blocks for permanent residents, which is a bit shortsighted in terms of the local community wellbeing). As with a number of other insipidly bland buildings, they look better at night, shot in monochrome!
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Big waves and hail storms over the coastline of Portknockie on Scotland's Moray Firth. All this seemingly calmed by a long exposure. This certainly was an exciting day to photograph seascapes. The wind was coming from head on here so keeping the filters clear of spray was a challenge.
I thought Italian churches were richly adorned but I don't recall seeing a church where seemingly every single internal surface has been ornately decorated with mosaics depicting biblical scenes.
The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood in Saint Petersburg is just that.
Construction began in 1883 during the reign of Alexander III, two years after the assassination of his father Alexander II. The church was dedicated to be a memorial to his father with an estimated construction cost of 4.5 million rubles. Funding was provided by the Imperial family with the support of many private donors, and it was completed during the reign of Nicholas II in 1907.
Over the last 100 years the Church has had a chequered history from being ransacked and looted during the Russian Revolution of 1917, to being used as a morgue during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. Since restored it's estimated to contain over 7,500 square metres of mosaics, more than any other church in the world. After the 27 year restoration project, the church was finally reopened in 1997 but was not re-consecrated and today its visitors are mostly tourists.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia, where a more detailed history is available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Savior_on_Blood
22nd September 2019
With the seemingly relentless number of cameras coming out with huge megapixel sensors, I thought it would be fun to dust off a Konica Minolta 7D digital SLR from 2005 that sports a massive 6.1 MP CCD sensor and see what it can produce.
We spotted this coo and thought there's a good subject - only problem was it was very inquisitive and wouldn't move back from the fence line and away from a rather messy background!
Shot in RAW and processed in Topaz / LR / PS with the final JPEG image 13.2 MB / 6855x4859.
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Konica Minolta Dynax 7D
Minolta 28-105 f3.5-4.5
ISO 100 / f4.5 / 85mm
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The seemingly impregnable walls of the royal compound of Agra were built in XVI century by the Mughal emperor Akbar who transferred the capital of his realm to Agra.
Кажущиеся неприступными стены крепости падишахов в Агре были построены в XVI веке Акбаром, перенесшим столицу Индии в Агру
Small trees stand sentinel from seemingly tenuous positions near the edge of the Kilauea caldera, as an otherworldly orange-red glow from a lava lake and a persistent column of smoke and steam erupting from the Halema'uma'u crater (nested within the larger Kilauea caldera) light up the low clouds at the leading edge of an approaching pre-dawn rainstorm, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.
Its hard to express how eerie it was approaching this scene at night for the first time. While I like this composition with the silhouetted trees, it doesn't even come close to communicating just how massive the glowing smoke and steam plume appeared at times and how much it lit up the surrounding low clouds in fiery tones. At times, the radiant plume almost looked like a mushroom cloud as it roiled into the rain clouds streaming in over the crater.
It was enthralling to watch, realizing at once the awesome power of the volcano, but also that we were witnessing only a very tiny fraction that power.
This shot is from the night before, or should I say just a couple of hours before, Sky Matthews and I met up with Bruce Omori for our incredlble doors-off, very low altitude helicopter experience shooting the scattered active lava flows erupting from the flank below the Pu'u 'O'o crater just a few miles away.
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A seemingly rare sunny day in the Piedmont region of North Carolina finds NCTM's freshly repainted N&W GP9 teaming up with Norfolk Southern's First Responders GP38-2 to shuttle passengers around the historic Southern Railway property. Upon arrival at Spencer after retirement from NS, the 620 was repainted into to N&W's tuscan red passenger scheme in which it would stay until late 2018, when shop forces gave it a much needed dip into its original black freight livery.
The seemingly endless mountain ridges and crepuscular rays from this vantage point along the Blue Ridge Parkway were spectacular. A strong thunder storm had just moved through the area and the humidity was, as the saying goes, “So thick you could cut with a knife.” This sight made the trip out very special and memorable.
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Seemingly forgotten in Rio Grande's vast fleet of 73 SD40T-2s were a group of 17 SD50s acquired from EMD in 1984. While their presence was primarily in coal train service, the entire fleet went on to serve after mergers with both the SP and UP. No. 5507 leads coal train No. 772, the Helper Local, along the Price River at Castle Gate, Utah on June 17, 1989.
I don't know if these two couples even belonged together. But when I looked at the finished picture, I noticed this seemingly traditional division of roles and had to smile a little.
This seemingly unnecessary bridge once carried the Southampton to Dorchester Railway over the carriage drive to Canford Manor. Today it carries one muddy path over another muddy path.
Huge thanks to Action Photo Tours who got me in here after some heavy rains rendered the site inaccessible to many. Coyote Buttes North, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Near the Utah-Arizona border, and one of the seemingly endless geologic treasures that make the U.S. southwest so unique and enthralling.
Another seemingly anonymous, unkempt but beautiful Modernist building in Skopje. I believe part of the Macedonian Telekom complex (Janko Konstantinov, 1974)
Canon 7, Canon 50mm 1.8 ltm, Kentmere 400
How seemingly quick we move through the seasons. We finally get used to a particular season and Nature’s clock tells us that another season is coming to an end. We need do nothing but sit back, relax and enjoy the outdoor show as the view changes from season to season. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and stay kind. Need a towel before washing my hands again 🙏.
The gnarled branches of a Japanese Maple make for a seemingly vascular setting.
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This seemingly healthy tree is one of many in a eucalyptus grove, all tagged and numbered. The tags vary in color; I don't know what significance the colors have, if there is any.
While this is a typical Chihuahuan Desert scene featuring sparse vegetation with seemingly little opportunity for human use, the Rio Grande is less than a mile behind me, and the landscape there is lush in comparison. Lush enough to attract farmers who could grow food and cotton crops in the late 1800s. When a nearby community was raided in 1916 during the Mexican Revolution, the War Department sent thousands of soldiers to protect the border residents. Three regiments of the US Cavalry were stationed here at a spot named Camp Santa Helena. They built a few adobe structures but abandoned the site when the Revolution ended in 1920.
People continued to live here and a store that served people on both sides of the river remained in operation until it was destroyed by fire in 2019. The community's name was changed to Castolon when the residents tried to establish a post office and learned they had to select a different name as there was already a Santa Helena in Texas. I couldn't find any date or usage information for the building, but suspect it was built after the Army's departure. The mountain is Cerro Castellan, which was seen from the other side in this album's previous photo.
Castolon Historic District, Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Things seemingly out of place.... This scene at Swan Lake, MS is a demonstration of sorts. CN Q194 scurries hurriedly past a rarity in Mississippi...cactuses. The CN is a Canadian railway that acquired the American railroad Illinois Central in 1998. Seeing Canadians and the stance of a cactus down in the Deep South of Mississippi does feel out of place but times they are-a’ changin’...
"In retaliation to recent Eurasian 'terrorist' activity NATO forces have conducted a series of surgical strikes on key Eurasian military assets. While the purpose of striking these seemingly random targets is unknown, it appears as if both superpowers are finally engaging each other in open conflict."
A build for World in Darkness! Lighting is a bit funky, but I'm figuring it out :P
For all of you 253rd members, mission 16 will be out soon I promise! Thanks for viewing guys!
This seemingly overbalancing sea stack lies tucked away along the Warrnambool coastline. Image shot with a 10 stop ND filter as the sun faded behind a thick cloud bank
Seemingly unorganized and frenetic northern lights again last night. Good colors and brightness, better than the night before.
In the seemingly endless potato fields and flats of East Groningen stands proudly Landgoed Tenaxx (= Tenaxx Country Estate), the brain-and-muscle child of the philosopher-naturalist T.C.W. Oudemans. On 30 hectares (about 75 acres) it's a wonderful arboretum primarily financed by its popular companion dino-park with enormous mock-ups of those prehistoric animals. The arboretum is specialised in the 'weeping' variants of trees. Out of the flatlands of this area, Oudemans and his helpers have excavated a hilly edenic Tree Abode with a few delightful ponds... And you might suddenly be surprised by a huge North American plant-eater, Diplodocus (see inset).
The flowers are of a Catalpa Tree. I'm not sure whether Northern (speciosa) or Southern (bignonioides). The name 'Catalpa' comes from the Muscogee language and means something like 'Winged Head'. Catalpa was first scientifically described by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) in 1726. It was given its own genus 'Catalpa' by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) in 1777, correcting great Carolus Linnaeus's earlier 'Bignonia catalpa'.
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This dead tree in central Switzerland seemingly reaches out to embrace the eternal beauty of the galactic core.
While shooting the focus stack for this image during nautical twilight, I noticed the Milky Way becoming visible in my LCD and really liked the composition. As I had not yet set up my tracking mount, I quickly shot an untracked single exposure of the sky. That was a good decision, because a few minutes later, when my tracker was aligned, the galactic core was blocked by clouds.
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Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Samyang 24mm, f/1.4 @ f/2
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Single exposure of 12s @ ISO6400
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Focus stack of 3 panels, each a stack of 5 x 50s @ ISO1600
It was a seemingly normal day for Juniper at the beach....until....oh, crab!
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Two azures (seemingly the same) flying in close proximity on the same day, but two different species.
Celastrina lucia with loosely arranged wing scales and checkered hindwing fringe.
Celastrina neglecta with neat rows of scales and white hindwing fringe.
Compare the two in large view for detailed look at the wings.
View of the dorsum (open wings, not shown) would further confirm the species.
I captured this Caspian Tern seemingly fish like a Black Skimmer. I don't know if it was fishing, imitating, or doing something else. Zoom in on the beak to see what I mean.
This is the second shot in the series. The first is in the first comment box.
Caspian Terns
Hydroprogne caspia
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Flash (off, did not fire)
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Though it was an exceptionally cold winter and spring, a snowstorm in Mid-may is unheard of here. Unfortunately, a large group of recently-arrived migrating Tree Swallows got caught in the storm and had to hunker down on the tree branches overlooking the Yukon River, and wait it out. I feared the worst would happen during the 24 hour storm, and was worried sick that they would die from exhaustion as a result of their long journey from Central America, a lack of food as there were no flying insects, strong winds and sub-zero temperatures. I returned the next morning and found no dead birds, so presumably most had survived. They seemed to go into a state of semi-torpor (slow metabolism) and huddled (see note) to conserve energy, a strategy that apparently worked.
As surreal as it appears, this shot is pretty much straight out of the camera with a few contrast, vibrance and saturation adjustments in CS5. The green bokeh is courtesy of the deep green colour of the Yukon River in the spring. Eventually, this photo and others, along with the story, attracted significant international media attention. See my narrative www.flickr.com/photos/keithmwilliams/6401859531/in/photos...
With seemingly nothing going on at the BKRR I headed toward North Bennington where I found Vermont Railway's RDHJ turn having arrived down from Rutland. A four unit set of power led by VTR 432 an SD70M-2 blt. Dec. 2006 as FEC 103 is at MP 2 on the B&R Sub mainline passing the old Rutland Railway freight house which sits inside the wye track whose tail is the old Bennington Branch that prior to 1953 reached 53 miles to Chatham, NY as the famed torturous 'corkscrew division.' Today only the northern mile or so is used for car storage and the remainder down to the gorgeous old stone Bennington Station 4 1/2 miles away has recently been turned into a trail after decades of being out of service.
In the foreground standing on the platform waiting for a train that will never come is a passenger cast in stone, one of many pieces of outdoor public art in this quirky little village.
North Bennington, Vermont
Monday October 17, 2022
Mastbos - Breda - North Brabant - Netherlands
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The seemingly never ending golden sands of St. Ives. St. Ives is famous for attracting artists over the centuries, drawn to its magical light.
My first viceroy of the year. Seemingly an off year for the usually present viceroys, I was pleased to find this one at the Wolf River Restoration Area near Collierville, Tn.
Long seemingly endless converging ridges with young and small fresh green potato plants of newly sown potatoes. It is spring now.
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