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Dirty Window Series.
They once thought they could be anything when they grew up...now grown, they ride trains instead.
Posting a few more images from my archives until I can get out again. I am adding the description that I wrote under a previously posted photo taken on the same trip.
"This particular bird resides at the Alberta Bird of Prey Centre in Coaldale, southern Alberta, a wonderful place that rehabilitates and releases (whenever possible) various birds of prey - hawks, owls, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures, and Golden Eagles. Some of these birds act as Wildlife Ambassadors, too, educating the public.
It had been a few years since my last visit to the Alberta Bird of Prey Centre - I've only been maybe three or four times - and I had been longing to go back. Much too far and all new driving territory for me to even think about driving there myself. However, six days ago, on 9 September 2016, that is exactly what I did. A friend had said she would come along, too, but she emailed me at 1:00 am that morning to say that she assumed our trip had been cancelled, as she hadn't heard back about the time to meet. In fact, I had sent two emails giving the time, so I don't know what happened there. Very unfortunate, as it would have been great to have had company on such a long drive, and I know she would have had great fun with her camera.
I knew it would be a long day and further than I would normally drive - and in a brand new car that I have yet to learn to drive! It doesn't look or feel quite as new now, after travelling 481 km, plus a long trip the next day! Only got lost twice, one minor and the other major. Must have taken a wrong turn somewhere way down south and I ended up in the city of Lethbridge, that I had very carefully planned to avoid. After driving for three and three-quarter hours, I finally arrived, to my huge relief.
Despite getting there later than I had hoped, I still had more than enough time to wander round the grounds and photograph the various raptors. Some were tethered out in a grassy area and others were in outdoor cages. Wonderful to get such a close look at the various majestic birds.
I took a slightly different way home via #845 (?), making absolutely sure that I didn't accidentally find myself in Lethbridge again and it wasn't too long before I found myself in the area that I had driven a few weeks ago, when I went SW of Vulcan to look for Common Nighthawks (without any luck).
Just so happy that I finally made myself do this drive. When I Googled the Centre's website, I had discovered that they were closing two days later for the winter. So, it was either a case of going the next day or not at all till next May onwards.
The day after this adventure, 10 September 2016, I took my daughter on a long drive in Kananaskis. This was yet another place that I had longed to be able to drive for many years - and finally I did it! I had been lots of times with various friends, but this was the very first time I had ever driven myself. We had planned to do this a few weeks earlier, but then my car had major repairs that needed to be done. Instead, I knew I just couldn't put any more money into my 17-year-old car, and I ended up replacing it. So glad we went to the mountains on this particular day, as it snowed the following day."
location: near the fangyaun lighthouse, fangyaunl lighthouse...port area.
fangyuan township, changhua county, taiwan
bronica rf645
65mm zenzanon-rf lens
rollei rpx 400 120mm
We got up early to go to the balloon festival in Canberra. It was worth it and very interesting. Even though it did not seem windy, it was windy enough to make them stay tethered.
That is controlling my Nikon cam from my laptop using LightRoom. It kind of works with a number of constraints.
That submerged boat across the creek just managing to stay partially floating . It doesn't look good .
Cabbage Tree Creek
Shorncliffe
Via Brisbane
The river Umngot in spate at Shnongpdeng, Megalaya, India. Not a good time for plying the boats.
Meghalaya album: www.flickr.com/photos/santanu_sen/albums/72157667535175284
Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition - Downsampled from ~20 MP, hotsampling! using SRWE (during photomode); my own mods for infinite tether distance and photomode in cutscenes; texture, mesh, and gameplay mods; Lightroom
My favorite tree. We ventured out on Sunday and had the most loveliest of fog draped over the area. My destination lay 30 miles ahead with this tree. We made too many stops and by the time we got there the fog had lifted but worse than that was the camera battery was nearly dead. A fresh battery lay on the desk at home. We'll try again next time.
Olympus OM2, Kodachrome 64, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light pad; 12mm extension tube used. Tethered capture in Lightroom.
The village of Kanji in Ladakh is at an altitude of around 3850m.
The Flickr mapping gives Kashmir as the location, which may be politically true but culturally we are firmly in Ladakh, having left Kashmir behind.
Fishing boats and a canoe rest near the mouth of Rio Paracauari in Soure, Marajó Island, at the start of another sweltering tropical day.
For some reason I didn't include this one in the batch I sent to David, which was a few months ago. With hindsight I like it a lot more now, I need to work out a way to incorporate it into a spaceship design.
Rollei SL66SE, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2,8, Ektachrome EC100, digitised by photographing the original 60mm transparancy on a light pad - tethered capture and digital development in Lightroom.
Ok... AB800 strip light to camera right, ABR800 Ringlight mounted off camera center, AB800 with umbrella on camera left to light the background, AB800 mounted on a boom to light her hair from above. Phew!
We spent two days at Pine Mountain State Park in South East Kentucky, Chained Rock was one of the trails we hiked.
I have recently acknowledged that having adventures helps me to find my visual voice. I've been awfully spotty on Flickr for much of this year, and it had a lot to do with feeling uninspired / that I had nothing to say… and also feeling the burn of the shoddy little camera I have been using for ages. This trip to the Pacific Northwest really helped bring me back to myself in a lot of ways.
Does this ever happen to you? What helps you bring you back to yourself?
The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.
A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule) which carries the passengers and (usually) a source of heat. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the relatively cold air outside the envelope. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.
Recently, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products. Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.
Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in the Three Kingdoms era (220-280 AD) used airborne lanterns for military signaling. These lanterns are known as Kongming lanterns There is also some speculation that hot air balloons could have been used by people of the Nazca culture of Peru some 1500 years ago, as a tool for designing the famous Nazca ground figures and lines. The first documented balloon flight in Europe was by the Portuguese priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão. On August 8, 1709, in Lisbon, Bartolomeu de Gusmão managed to lift a small balloon made of paper full of hot air about 4 meters in front of king John V and the Portuguese court.
A model of the Montgolfier brothers' balloon at the London Science Museum
First manned flight:
The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first tethered balloon flight with humans on board took place on October 19, 1783 with the scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, the manufacture manager, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and Giroud de Villette, at the Folie Titon in Paris. The first free flight with human passengers was on November 21, 1783. King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but de Rozier, along with Marquis Francois d'Arlandes, successfully petitioned for the honor.
A pair of Hopper balloons
Modern hot air ballons, with an onboard heat source, were pioneered by Ed Yost, beginning in the 1950s; his work resulted in his first successful flight, on October 22, 1960. The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bristol Belle in 1967. Today, hot air balloons are used primarily for recreation, and there are some 7,500 hot air balloons operating in the United States.
Hot air balloons are able to fly to extremely high altitudes. On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot air balloon flight, reaching 21,027 meters (68,986 feet). He took off from downtown Bombay, India, and landed 240 kilometers (149 miles) south in Panchale.The previous record of 19,811 m (64,997 ft) had been set by Per Lindstrand on June 6, 1988 in Plano, Texas. As with all unpressurized aircraft, oxygen is needed for all crew and passengers on any flight that exceeds an altitude of about 12,500 ft (3,810 m).
On January 15, 1991, the Virgin Pacific Flyer balloon completed the longest flight in a hot air balloon when Per Lindstrand (born in Sweden, but resident in the UK) and Richard Branson of the UK flew 7,671.91 km (4,767.10 mi) from Japan to Northern Canada. With a volume of 74 thousand cubic meters (2.6 million cubic feet), the balloon envelope was the largest ever built for a hot air craft. Designed to fly in the trans-oceanic jet streams the Pacific Flyer recorded the highest ground speed for a manned balloon at 245 mph (394 km/h).
The longest duration hot air balloon flight ever made is 50 hours and 38 minutes made by Michio Kanda and Hirosuke Tekezawa of Japan on January 2, 1997.
Back tether ropes on the marquees.
Marquees at the tennis tournament at Happy Valley, that needed heavy duty tethering in high winds. The week of the tournament saw scorching heat with bushfires (elsewhere), followed by torrential rains and high winds. Luckily we had perfect weather on the day of the Finals.
A view of Berlin from a tethered hot air balloon called "Die Weltballon. For 20 Euros, you could take a 15 min "flight" to a height of 150 metres.
Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) is the largest green-domed building.
You can see more pics in my Berlin set.
Olympus OM4, Ektachrome EB100, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light table using a 12mm extension tube; tethered capture and digital processing in Lightroom.
"Grassholm (Welsh: Gwales or Ynys Gwales) is a small uninhabited island situated 13 kilometres off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, lying west of Skomer. It is the westernmost point in Wales other than the isolated rocks on which the Smalls Lighthouse stands. Grassholm is known for its huge colony of northern gannets; the island has been owned since 1947 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is one of its oldest reserves.
Grassholm National Nature Reserve is the third most important site for gannets in the world, after two sites in Scotland: St Kilda and Bass Rock. It serves as a breeding site for 39,000 pairs of the birds, and supports around 10 percent of the world population. The turbulent sea around Grassholm is a good feeding area for porpoises and bottlenose dolphins." (Wikipedia, edited)