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Just one of the many decaying buildings at the old, abandoned Swift Meat Packing Plant ruins at the Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. A couple years before this shot was made, this particular building had been used as a production office during the time when the location was used as a set for a Guatamalan prison on the Fox TV show "Prison Break". Photo taken in February 2011.
Night, full moon, natural strobe.
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Taylor Swift tries to control her hair against the wind as she visits St. Paul’s Cathedral with a few friends in London on Thursday (May 7).
The 19-year-old country sensation tweeted, “Went to St. Paul’s Cathedral today. Four hundred gazillion stairs + being scolded three different times for having my camera out = fun.”
Taylor performed to a sold-out crowd last night at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
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They say this every single time when nature throws in a reminder of who's at the helm on spaceship Earth. In the news, in interviews, in talk shows. "Those in need will be helped in a swift an unbureaucratic manner." It's like a text snippet they take from their big box of snippets whenever they think it fits. This was no different after the flood in the Ahr valley and many other places, that devastated this area on the evening of July 14th, 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, three years after the flood, this is what many streets that went under that summer evening, still look like today. It was the first time for me I visited the place, as in the first time at all, not just after the flood. I fully expected to find scars of the disaster everywhere, but not open wounds that barely even started healing. Especially not so many of them.
Swift Transport Training Belfast Dennis Dart Plaxton Reg WJZ 1190 is seen Parked in Falcon Road this bus was New to London United as Reg LG02 FGK and Fleet Number DPS 662
241) House Swift
House Swift, Apus nipalensis, Layang-layang Rumah
Found from Nepal to Southeast Asia region. Aerial creature that only landed on its nest. Common bird that nesting in buildings at both urban and rural area. Feed on insect that it catch in midair.
Layang-layang Rumah sering disalah kenal sebagai Walit. Ia lebih besar saiznya berbanding Walid. Selalu kelihatan bersarang di bangunan di kawasan bandar dan kampung.
En descente sur le fleuve St-Laurent à la hauteur de Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada.
Downbound on the St-Lawrence River in front of Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada.
2019-8-5
Swift Creek is a tributary of the Suwannee near White Springs, Fl. It lives up to its name with fast moving water that at low levels traverses sets of rapids on its way to confluence.
Photographing swifts is so much fun. It does after a few hours result in a lot of deleting as well as aching arms and shoulders. As the sun drops exposure is a lot easier but the window of opportunity is small. The red glow in this bird was about 10 mins before I had to give up for the day due to fading light.
Dewlish, Dorset.
The Swift is a medium-sized aerial bird, which is a superb flyer. Sleeping, eating, bathing and even mating on the wing (while flying), Swifts rarely touch the ground. They are also the fastest birds in level flight, with an impressive top speed of 69mph. Swifts are plain sooty brown, with a white throat, but in flight against the sky they appear black. They have curved wings and a forked tail. Swifts are summer visitors, breeding across the UK, but are most numerous in the south and east. Spending their winters in Africa, Swifts migrate 3,400 miles twice a year, stopping off to refuel in places like Portugal and France along the way. (RSPB).
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If you wait long enough they open their mouths. Which is strange considering their screaming when they buzz you.
Swift Current Falls gets its name for a good reason. This is not a place you want to fall into the water. It would be more than a bumpy ride down. The locations is one of the easiest places to get to however most don’t see it from this angle because they look at it from the bridge above. While it looks good from above I really like the walk down to look back up at the falls and the Mountain in the background. I missed sunrise at this location because I was shooting wildlife but I would love to come back and shoot it during sunrise.
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Alpine swift (Apus melba)
Meaning behind the name:
Apus = Latin, and derived from Greek meaning "without foot" and refers to their appearance of not having any feet.
melba = Unknown origin and is thought to be of Chinese in 1758. One suggestion is the word could then be a shortened form of the Latin "melanoalba" or "melalba" which means "black, white" which is the colour appearance of this swift.
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Swifts are unique with their legs and feet, since they are only designed to cling and not perch. They spend almost their entire lives on the wing, only landing to rear up their young.
The English name "Swift" is just one of several names that was given to it. Others include "House swift" (1668), Black Martin or swift (1678). The Alpine swift wasn't well known here at the time, and the "Common swift" was thought to be a bad omen and surrounded by superstition. However, Swift became common usage for this species from 1768. Swifts, Martins and Swallows had all shared names prior due to their simular resemblance to each other.
In Montell, Uvalde County. I'm not completely sure about the species ID, but think the swift setwing fits.
08-08-15_MG_5965 Was a nice surprise to find this one perched their numbers have been dropping rather fast this year for some reason.
With overcast skies, the grass being cut around Wilstone res banks and a storm approaching I hadn't expected much. I had planned to photograph bees on the banks but the mowers put paid to that. What it did do was displace millions of insects which in turn bought in the Swift. The skies were alive with thousands of them all enjoying their feed. Despite the high numbers, it seems some individuals favoured particular patches of the sky. These two individuals, one with a little damage on its underside and the other with a scruffy wing I repeatedly managed to get shots of.
While tracking 1 I hit the trigger just as a second popped into view. Luck more than judgement here.
It took a lot of shots to get one worth posting! These birds are FAST! Did you know their feet and legs are so tiny they can barely walk but in the air they are incredible.
Taken in Princeton, BC in May 2016.
The Vaux's Swift is a hard bird to photograph. I was happy to see some flying very low down with hundreds of swallows in Princeton last month, the best I have ever seen this species.
Swift Creek is a tributary of the Suwannee River near White Springs, FL. Its namesake is apparent to anyone who visits it, as its water frequently races down a deep (for Florida) limestone gorge into the Suwannee. I had visited this one less than a month before this shot when the water was much higher and the light was poor. I anticipated being able to photograph this one in a long exposure racing through its channel. What I didn't anticipate were the rapids that were revealed at low water in this creek, numerous ones in the last 100 yards before its confluence with the Suwannee and even more upstream. I even found a small spring flowing through the karst, pictures of which I will share later.
In my efforts to get a at least a vaguely crisp panning shot of a swift over the last few weeks, I had collected quite a few shots of them doing their amazing acrobatics as they zoomed across the sky to catch an insect meal. They were inevitably photographed at varying heights and distances, so many were just too small in frame to carry as a photographic composition. I thought I might montage lots of the better shots together on a single frame, so here they all are, showing off all their twists and turns. If you peer closely, you can see one bird was caught by the shutter just as he/she opened their beak to swallow an insect.
Taken in the same meadow where the House Martins were hawking for insects at low level - much higher up was a Swift.
Since each image was small, I thought I'd try a composite.
One of my last shots from the Narrows in Zion National Park. The crowds really thin out the deeper you go into the Narrows. I think this was about 3 miles in from the start of the Narrows. Finding compositions in the Narrows is a lot fun. This shot is one of my favorite water flow shots I've taken. Nice water curves wrapping around the rocks really makes this my favorite image from the Narrows. We didn't finish the the Narrows until 6 or 7pm, so the light was a lot darker and cooler than some of my earlier shots.
Narrows
Zion National Park, Utah
I just posted my summer timelapse project online. youtu.be/AIdznH2bYwA