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Men participate in the fifth annual SoCal Fitness Classic, the final stop of Summer Series as they strive for superiority and to be crowned the fittest team of summer!
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View looking northwards from the viewing platform at the top of the Umeda Sky building towards Shin Osaka and the Osaka International Airport (Itami). Spot the Shinkansen train making its way through the scene on elevated tracks.
keeping cool on a hot first day of May, thankfully it has turned cooler this evening with a cold front moving through and will be much cooler tomorrow with our first good chance for rain in a while
Weekend before last a couple buddies and I set off to shoot some photos in Downtown Los Angeles. I really wanted something unique (for me anyway) and hit up a friend for some info on where we could snag a good rooftop view. We ended up here with his directions.
Now we had to kind of sneak in and we were totally trespassing. I do not condone this behavior at all, but it was my decision. We got to the top after a grueling hike up 30 flights of stairs. Once we got to the top and caught our breath, we set-up our gear and started shooting.
Just as the lights in the city started to come on (which is what we were waiting for), building security showed up and told us to pack up and follow them. They were kind and professional and actually pretty cool. But they stressed that we were trespassing and that it is something we could be arrested for. They took down our info and kicked us out. Luckily they did not make us hike down the stairs to get out. wink emoticon
Like I said.. I don't condone what we did. But.... I kinda like this shot I was able to snag before we got the boot. I was lucky to get outta there with our photos as they demand you delete your memory cards before they let you leave. We were lucky to swap out our cards while packing away our gear.
Anyway. I hope you all like the shot
A British Shorthair Cat sprawled out sleeping. Taken with the Fujifilm GFX 100s camera and Fujifilm GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR lens.
I took my portable actinic trap up to Ashridge woods last night and in three hours i caught:-
Sprawler (2),
Feathered thorn (11),
November moth agg. (12),
Spruce carpet (2),
Red-green carpet (3),
Mottled umber (1).
31 moths at the end of October is quite reasonable, i suppose, but i STILL couldn't get a Merveille du jour!
I shall keep these two females and try to obtain eggs to rear next year.
Men participate in the fifth annual SoCal Fitness Classic, the final stop of Summer Series as they strive for superiority and to be crowned the fittest team of summer!
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Horseshoe Thicket on Walthamstow Marshes. These willow trees don't seem to stay upright for long. The area is usually under a few inches of water in winter and early spring but is still relatively dry so far.
Assam sprawled on the floor, enjoying a nap, confident that no other cat would bother her (she was the alpha cat from the day we got her (the middle of November of 1999 at age 1 or a bit more) to the day she died in Yubari in May of 2017 - no other cat would seriously challenge her other than Nobuo, and they eventually worked out an armed truce).
Named after the position I found myself in about 10 minutes after this shot... Straight across a footpath... Why do I insist on walking around in the dark and carrying all 5 of my torches in my bag, instead of keeping at least one out to find my way!!!
Trying to make the best of a bad job. Just could't find my way with the comp or colour last night and this shot was too green and yellow. So decided to try out a bit of faffery with it and made a sepia layer and set it to 80% opacity then did a vignette over that too. Ended up I quite liked it. I've given up caring what people think about PS and SOOC. I figure if an image that was going into the waste bin can be rescued then why the hell not. Still believe that we should't be superimposing the light work in. That should always done in shot.
Anyway rant over!!
Spain's real estate bubble burst in 2008 and left many empty lots like the one in the pic, as well as entire ghost (unfinished) towns.
Some of these towns are now starting to see communities grown in them but in my opinion bringing soul to "inorganic" spaces is not an easy task. This article tells the story of Valdeluz, a Madrid suburb:
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/business/spain-ghost-town-fina...
On the flip side, photographer Markel Redondo documented this ghost town phenomenon first in 2010-2012 and again in 2018. His work can be seen here and proves there are still many completely abandoned urban developments scattered around the country:
markelredondo.com/Projects/Sand-Castles-II/1
Madrid, Spain.
Cover Artwork for republication of William Gibson's Neuromancer series. Generative city architecture.
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A vertigo inducing image of the sprawling city of Bangkok. Taken from the Cloud 47 Skybar using a GorillaPod shortly after sunset.
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Livin' in the sprawl
Dead shopping malls rise
like mountains beyond mountains
And there's no end in sight....
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights
12/11/2025; LED trap; Boughton Heath Allotment colony, Chester.
A couple of online mentions suggest that the ‘claws’ (or epiphyses) on the forelegs, which are distinctive in this species, are used in the grooming of the antennae, but I have no idea if this has actually been observed.
More details
www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/asteroscopus-sphinx/
species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0000501413
Mottled Umber (2)
Satellite (1)
Sprawler (1)
Winter Moth (2)
Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple Moth) (1)