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the bottom of a drop shaft, in a deep storm drain tunnel.
an impact plate can be seen in the foreground, bolted to the floor. there is a small, constant flow dropping down, but it is hardly visible due to the effects of long exposure and backlighting.
I was just walking back to the car when I spotted the shaft of light falling across the road, so after a hurried change of lenses and pulling out the tripod legs I was able to nab a few frames before the light went out.
Female Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
(Eastern morph) - New Jersey
Photograph captured with a Canon EOS 1Dx camera paired with a Canon 600mm f/4 IS lens and 2x extender, at 1200mm
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Another typical day slogging it out in the corporate world. Finding any spot to rest is just enough to keep on ticking over a few more minutes.
Here, we see the strange man taking a sitting rest next to a goods lift on another floor after a turn from a corridor that hardly anyone ventures past the toilet doors of.
Across, the engine room, where massive fans crank a might wind. Doors are closed, so the sound is minimal.
Hands across the face are to shield from some of the overhead fluorescent lighting. The Oakleys are back on the office desk. Sadly the rest is disrupted by the actual act of reaching this spot in the building plan.
When photographing the yellow shafted northern flicker at the Yakima Area Arboretum some of these cedar waxwings landed almost within arms length and several flew by very close. I was almost afraid the one would hit me. There are several hundred in the area eating crabapples from the flowering crabapple trees. I also saw several at Sportsman State Park.
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Taking a break from the Stourhead images today and bringing it closer to home; at the New-Forest-Nationalpark.
This particular morning I had been following the early light around the New Forest which was something pretty spectacular. I get great enjoyment from seeking out small areas of light where the rays from the sun penetrate through the wooded areas.
I only had about an hour from sunrise, then after that the sun had risen too much to single out areas like this. Its all the more fun knowing you are working against the clock to find that special image!
PARIS.- Air Shafts ... Stravinsky Square ...
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Beautiful site; the strike on the left is shrouded in rain while the strike on the right brightly leads the way for the massive rain column heading north over El Cerro (or The Hill) above the Rio Grande Valley in Los Lunas, New Mexico USA
The second largest woodpecker in North America and also one of the few that is largely migratory. This female takes a break from gathering ants on the forest floor to perch on a colorful, pine tree. From Hilltop Lake Park in Richmond, California.
At the top of the 12th floor is a mechanical room for the freight elevators. You can actually look right down the shafts. I stuck my camera out over the shaft to grab this shot. Looks like it's a long way down to the bottom...
Abandoned Brach's Candy Factory
West Side, Chicago, IL
March 2010
One abandoned mine shaft is open for self-guided tours. The displays here looks like they haven't been touched for 40 years. It really could use some renovation. Seen at Calico Ghost Town in California.
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Taken from near the summit of Carnedd Y Cribau on saturday night wildcamp in Snowdonia.
It had been a cold day climbing up, with several heavy showers, but it turned into a beautiful evening.
What a view of Snowdon to relax to in the evening!
For those interested, the summit on the left left is Crib Goch, and the car park at Pen Y Pass is visible just above centre of image. Being a Bank holiday weekend, Snowdon was overun with several hundred if not thousands of people, and I had this summit all to myself!
I don't know if this photo works or not. Give me the truth.
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Canon 7D | 400mm f/5.6L
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Ferns etc. | Chebacco Woods, Essex, MA
Crepuscular rays
Crepuscular rays /krɪˈpʌskjʊlər/ (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, or god rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance. The sun rays do converge to the sun, but the sun is much further away than the rays might make it look like.[2]
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.[3]
Shop floor at the Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, Mass.
Everything ran off the overhead shaft, which was powered by water rushing in off hydropower canals. The looms still run today, but the overhead shafts now operate on electricity rather than water power.
While the things were running you could see any number of ways to get fingers, hair or clothing caught in the machinery, and that would happen sometimes to the women and girls working here. But more common were the long-term health effects of working in such an environment: respiratory problems from breathing cotton dust for example, or circulatory problems from standing on a hard wooden floor for 10 to 14 hours a day.
I'm headed back to the office from my mid-day exploration and caught a fun dance of light. I know well the light is directly above and already coming down. So it's actually reflected and bounced from the glass building to the left and gently makes its way across LaSalle Street.
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I went for a little walk with my mum up in the hills behind her house. we came across this old lead mine shaft it was the only decent forground I could see.
I took some shots with and without the 10 Stop Filter but I just preferred the drama the extreme ND filter provides.
I was hoping for untouched snow but I think the foxes have been hanging around these parts.
EXIF: 24mm | ISO 100 | 239s @ f/16 | B&W 10 Stop + Lee 0.9H & 0.6H
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Godrey Lighthouse and headland lit up through a brief gap in the clouds just before dusk. Long lens shot from balcony of holiday home.
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