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Heather Farm, Walnut Creek, CA. Here we see a tethered pair of common green darners, with (I believe) the female laying eggs in the water. A second rival male green darner comes by and nearly knocks the perched male off the reed.
Aerial panorama of the Cargill Corn Milling Plant and Cedar River looking south from Van Vechten Park. The photo alignment resulted in a tilted horizon and gives the illusion of everything being gently drawn into the sunset.
Photos taken with a tethered quadcopter and Ricoh GR camera.
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Visiting Peterhead Harbour , viewing and capturing the fishing boats tied to the pier this scene of ropes and clips tethering a boat to the pier caught my eye.
Peterhead ; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Phà draig, Scots: Peterheid is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's biggest settlement (the city of Aberdeen itself not being a part of the district), with a population of 18,537 at the 2011 Census.
Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in mainland Scotland. It is often referred to as The Blue Toun (locally spelt as "The Bloo Toon") and people who were born there as Blue Touners (locally spelt as "Bloo Tooners").
More correctly they are called blue mogginers (locally spelt as "Bloomogganners"), supposedly from the blue worsted moggins or stockings that the fishermen originally wore.
History
Peterhead was founded by fishermen and was developed as a planned settlement. In 1593 the construction of Peterhead's first harbour, Port Henry, encouraged the growth of Peterhead as a fishing port and established a base for trade.
Peterhead was a Jacobite supporting town in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. In particular, it was one of the Episcopalian north-eastern ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment, were periodically landed from France during the Forty-Five.
A lifeboat station was first established in 1865.
Since early times Peterhead has received a portion of its water supply from Morris Wells.
Peterhead convict prison was opened in 1888, gaining a reputation as one of Scotland's toughest prisons.
The present harbour has two massive breakwaters, enclosing an area of approximately 300 acres in Peterhead bay. The south breakwater, about 2700 ft long, was constructed in 1892–1912 using convict labour from the prison. The north breakwater, constructed 1912–56, is approximately 1500 ft long.
A new phase of growth was initiated in the 1970s with Peterhead becoming a major oil industry service centre, and the completion of the nearby St Fergus gas terminal. At this time, considerable land holdings were allocated for industrial development.
In recent times, the town has suffered from several high-profile company closures and is facing a number of pressures, including Common Fisheries Policy reforms. However, it retains a relatively diverse economy, including food processing, textiles, service industries and, still importantly, fishing. (Over 90,000 tonnes of fish, with a value of around £60m are now landed at Peterhead, which is still also base to over 550 fishermen.)
The Peterhead Port Authority plans to extend the northern breakwater as a stimulus to the town's economic development. In addition, to assist with business diversification and town centre environmental improvements, the 'Peterhead Project' initiative under the Aberdeenshire Towns Partnership brings together the Council, Scottish Enterprise Grampian, Communities Scotland, commerce and community representatives.
Until April 2005, the Royal Air Force station RAF Buchan was located near the town.
Local government : Peterhead is the largest settlement in Buchan, a committee area of Aberdeenshire.
The town was a burgh in the historic county of Aberdeenshire. In 1930 it became a small burgh under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929, but in 1975 small burghs were abolished and Peterhead became part of the district of Banff and Buchan within the new Grampian Region. When districts and regions were abolished in 1996, Peterhead became part of the new unitary authority of Aberdeenshire.
Since 1975 Peterhead has had a community council, with limited powers.
Education : Peterhead Academy
Peterhead Academy houses around 1,300 pupils and the school is split into six houses (Arbuthnot, Buchan, Craigewan, Grange, Marischal and Slains), with all the names associated with areas of the town. The school has pupils coming from surrounding villages such as Boddam, Cruden Bay, Hatton, Inverugie, Rora, St Fergus and Crimond. The academy's motto is "Domus Super Petram Aedificata" (A House Built on a Rock). The academy is Scotland's largest school at over 22,920 square metres (246,700 sq ft) of gross internal floor area.
The school has multiple subjects such as ICT, English, French/German, Technical, Engineering, Art, Home Economics, and many more.
Primary and specialist schools.
Peterhead has six primary schools (Clerkhill, Buchanhaven, Meethill, Dales Park, Central, Burnhaven).
There is one special school, Anna Ritchie, which caters for most specific learning difficulties, autism and other disabilities.
There is also Peterhead Alpha School which caters for children with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties, as well as learning difficulties, e.g. dyspraxia and dyslexia.
Transport :Peterhead has a number of in-town and out-of-town bus services.
Peterhead is further from a railway station (32 miles from Aberdeen) than any other town of its size in Great Britain.
The town once had two stations Peterhead railway station and Peterhead Docks railway station. Passenger trains on the Formartine and Buchan Railway stopped in 1965 under the Beeching Axe, and freight in 1970. The start of reconstruction of the Borders Railway to Galashiels (early 2013) has begun a local political debate into the possibility of reopening the line from Aberdeen to Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
The nearest airport with scheduled services is Aberdeen Airport. A heliport has been set up at the Eastern end of the former RAF Buchan air base. Recreational aviation also takes place from a part of a former runway.
Tourism
The harbours, maritime and built heritage are the town's principal tourism assets. Recent initiatives include investments in the Peterhead Bay area, which have included the berthing of cruise ships in the harbour.
A number of projects are planned under the auspices of the Peterhead Project initiative, including tourism strategy development, enhancement of existing attractions, measures to improve the town's physical attractiveness, and improved marketing and promotion.
Sport
Peterhead F.C. are a Scottish Football League club who play in the League One. They won the League Two championship in 2013–14.
Peterhead also has a successful amateur boxing club, and in 2008 was the most successful boxing club in Northern Scotland. And currently has two reigning Scottish champions. The boxing gym is open to all and located in Ellis Street.
Peterhead RFC are a Scottish Rugby Union team who play at the Lord Catto playing fields.
Maritime Economy
Peterhead has a thriving port, serving the fishing, oil and gas and other commercial industries. It also receives many visiting seafarers arriving on ships that ply these trades. Seafarers' welfare organisation Apostleship of the Sea has a port chaplain at Peterhead to provide pastoral and practical support to them.
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Last one from the recent set with Pixie Dina at Studio Blanco! It's taken a couple of weeks to get all these sorted - I need more time!! Can someone please invent a way of bottling units of hours for me to buy? I'll buy bulk.
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Rachel and kite - Department of Tethered Aviation (DOTA)
Kite by Tim and Ruth ( www.windfiredesign.com )
Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).
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The Fix lens Canon EF50mm f/1.4 USM is not in the frame because I use it to take this shot!
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a massive limb broken off a dead tree on the cliff that'd been caught in another tree as it drifted away. i freed it & tried steering it around the corner with the canoe but it was too huge to be able to wrestle it fully outta the current so i gave up & went to make coffee.
returning to the shore for a chore later, i found it'd gotten caught in the eddy along the north shore & was more or less stuck on some rocks right where i'd wanted to push it to with the boat. got in there & hauled it close enough to be able to tie it off so it'll still be there for dismemberment tomorrow into a week's worth of firewood.
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim ~ Kodak EliteChrome 400 (cross-processed)
A marvellous dual-purpose day out in London... starting off with a flickrwalk around the streets of Southwark, following the Tate's Street Art trail, and flickr-sponsored drinks and food (thank you *so* much squirrelmonkey for organising such a great event - it was wonderful to meet so many other flickrrs!), followed by Massive Attack's opening night gig at the Meltdown Festival.
Setup picture... 3 flashes, 3 light modifiers, tethered shooting setup w/pocket wizard triggers.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
This was some kind of radio tower that I shot at an awkward angle out the driver's side window of my car.
The darkness in the right side of the image is really the interior roof of my car.
I was surprised at how it turned out since the whole image looks as if it was taken from outer space.
This was not my intention when I captured this photo and that's why experimentation can be so rewarding.
I did add some nonsense, of course.
Pentax ME Super
SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4
Fujicolor C200, redscaled and shot at ASA/ISO 12
Home Developed in Unicolor/Argentix
Scanned with Pakon F135
16 x 20, acrylic on canvas. (sold)
for the All Girl Show at Twilight Artist Collective, west seattle junction location
opening reception: thurs july 10th, 6-9 pm
Scanned print, from 35mm negative.
The last few images in my photostream are from a collection of my earliest work and were taken during a photographic era when street photography and photojournalism, often with overtones of social awareness, were a much larger proportion of the subject matter of photography than it is today.
At long last ive tethered my Ipad to the 5D.
I've used a USB cable to an Ipad usb converter gizmo.
It is possible to do it cordless via wifi but you must have a computer online in the same house.
Unfortunately I dont at my little house, but will take the laptop round at some point!
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