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Looking across the Kyle Of Lochalsh from Eilean Donan Castle, Western Highlands, Scotland – June 2019
Created using: Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
Taken near Hope, British Columbia, Canada.
We went out on Saturday morning and found a little used track in the mountains. By unusually good luck I found myself in the middle of a warbler fallout, almost all of the Yellow-rumped variety.
My attention (as may be expected) was focused on the tops of conifers where I would say 200+ warblers were cavorting from limb to limb with avian zest. In the midst of this event, this... this...... (might I say jealous resident) descended from on high and began to pose at close unobscured distances from my camera. I took this as a deliberate attempt by this vain fellow to purvey attention for himself (or for herself as the case may be......nuance).
Yes, this is an unusually camera friendly Steller's Jay!
*No peanuts were injured, unshelled, cached or consumed in the making of this photo. Not even in post-production!*
Steller's Jay
I've tried many times over the past several years to take this picture while driving, but none have ever been very sharply focused. This morning I pulled over, and opened my door and stood on the top running board of my truck for an unobscured view. I cropped the highway from the bottom and plain sky above, to leave a wide shot. This is off I-15 about 25 miles North of Las Vegas. The spot I pulled over to is near the apex of a long steep downhill, that with a loaded truck is easy to hit speeds that, well would get me fired if I didn't keep it below 75 mph.
Oh, and the title, this year I'll hit my one million miles driven in a semi.
A bit noisy because of high ISO due to low light. but it is difficult to get an unobscured shot of one of these.
North Whitemud Trail. Edmonton, Alberta.
We were up till 2AM for this shot of you Neowise. Here in Washington a unobscured view without trees of you Neowise was hard to find, with some surrounding element to compose with you.
Hope you enjoy it !
C/2020 F3 (Neowise)
With only a few hours to visit Mt Rainier National Park, I found myself being thwarted at nearly every turn by the atmospheric conditions around the mountain. Warm temperatures combined with upper level moisture to create a constantly building and shifting shroud of clouds around the peak.
Patience paid off, somewhat, by revealing this relatively unobscured view from the pull-out just above Stevens Canyon. I waited here for about 45 minutes to get a clear shot, and this was as good as I could get. Next time, I'll devote more time to this park. I was surprised by how much there is of interest beyond the iconic titular peak, with the Tatoosh Range mountains, the lush cedar forests, and the flower covered plains to the northeast. More than a day trip, to be certain!
blue moon, afternoon moon, sky moon, washed out by the sun moon, scarred moon, seas and craters moon, always the same moon, december moon, not quite full moon, surprise me moon, silent moon, unobscured by clouds moon, dream moon, free moon, find me if you can moon, up all day moon, sleepy moon, moon moon.
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The only unobscured sunlight seen all day shines on PL-1's three blue B40-8's, just a tad out of reach for anything other than a tele. I put all 300mm of my big white lens to work here, and kinda dig the way this came out. Not much more became of this PL-1 "encounter", I'll call it, due to the crews amazing ability to burn the clock.
March 2023
Plainville, CT.
A cuter face than my previous post.
This young Moose was calmly munching on twigs just a few feet away from its likewise browsing mother.
This was taken from the edge of very dense bush. It was not possible to get a shot of the whole body of either one and very few chances for an unobscured head shot.
We were very close, but neither animal changed the relaxed browsing behavior though they were well aware of our presence.
St. Albert, Alberta.
Steller's jays are a thrill for me to see as they fly around the Colorado landscape. Usually they're quite fast and they bury themselves quite a bit. So when this beauty was spotted sitting pretty on the bare branch of a tree ... unobscured ... I was all on it! It didn't even seem to mind. It appeared to be basking in the sunshine on a cold, but clear, winter's day.
A bird with attitude ... or at least they give that illusion. :-)
© 2019 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
An extremely rare breeding species in the piedmont and coastal plain areas of Virginia and other mid-Atlantic states. Nonetheless, a breeding pair of these cuckoos was found this spring at a regenerating clearcut down the road from my house; not long after, their nest was discovered in a young deciduous grove. When I arrived at the location, I was treated to the song of both the black-billed and yeIIow-biIIed cuckoos at once. No cuckoos were incubating the nest at the time, but a parent called loudly from a few feet away, trying to ward me off. I tried using various different camera angles to capture the bird, but none showed the head unobscured, so I ended up shooting from near ground level, but pointing the lens directly upward.
Although I see Redwings every day during winter, I rarely get good views of them. But about a dozen birds were taking the last few withered berries from trees in a village High Street not far from home, and they seemed to have grown accustomed to people. They seemed happy to sit and pose in trees while I was just a few feet away. They would also descend to take fallen berries but they were less confiding on the ground. Although I have taken quite a few Redwing photos these must be the closest I have had. If you click twice on the head you can count every barb on every feather. At times they were so close that I could not get the whole bird in frame, though it was difficult to capture them unobscured by twigs or shadows in the bright sunshine.
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Then is my daily life a narrow room
In which a little while, uncertainly,
Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,
Among familiar things grown strange to me
Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,
Till I become accustomed to the dark.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
Sometimes it really feels like the birds are messing with me. I know they aren’t really but I definitely felt that way this spring when I encountered this Kentucky Warbler. I had seen him foraging on the ground surrounded by weeds and dense vegetation. For quite some time I tried to get an unobscured photo but it just wasn’t happening. Eventually I gave up and started looking at some other birds in the area. After several minutes I looked up and saw this; he was sitting right in the open at eye-level staring me down. I just had to laugh as I clicked this photo.
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Geothlypis formosa
in the days around the summer solstice it is possible if conditions are right and the northern hemisphere sky is unobscured to get a glimpse of Noctilucent clouds which can be described as a modern phenomena.
they are formed from tiny particles of dust and ice in the Mesosphere. the uppermost layer of the earths atmosphere.
they are only visible in the midst of night when light from the sun illuminates them from its position out of view beyond the horizon.
Looking rather minuscule in relation to the wide breath of the parallel Mississippi River, BNSF's Z STPCHC9 06A makes quick work on the gently descending grade that it will enjoy for the majority of its Twin Cities to Windy City journey, costing close to 60-per along the serene glass surface of the water at the neatly tucked-away village of Genoa, WI. Although this type of overhead shot has been made easy by the explosion of amateur drone technology in recent years, there is a certain satisfaction derived from obtaining a view like this the "old fashioned way" using sweat, determination, and willpower that a drone will never match.
The last shot I've seen from this location on Flickr was by Mike Danneman, and the view is rather unchanged from when he hiked up the bluff almost 25 years ago, other than the obvious change of the railroad. Given how fast tree growth can overcome a bluff in these parts, it was delightful to see this view still unobscured by vegetation. www.flickr.com/photos/mikedanneman/28645555008/in/photoli...
69002 Bob Tiller CM&EE approaches Welney Road level crossing at Manea, working 4H98 08.16 March Up Yard - Middleton Towers sand empties. [Pole, 5/6 sections (~6.8m)]
Although I've done this train here, I've not got it with 69002. I'd thought about going to Silt Drove at March, but left home slightly too late and thought I might be cutting it a bit fine. But, compared with the shot of 69007 about three weeks previously, I've stood slightly further to the right, plus the are two fewer wagons so the semaphore signal in the background is completely unobscured. Also, the colours have changed - the crop in the field behind the train is more golden, and some of the trees are starting to change.
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Neptune's Fountain and Artus Court are two of the key tourist attractions in the old city of Gdansk. Through the day there is absolutely no chance of getting an unobscured photo of Neptune and his trident, however at first light before 06.30 am it is possible.
The fountain dates from 1606 and was built on the site of a well, whilst Artus Court is a former meeting place for merchants which can date its history back to 1348.
Between February 16th and February 23rd every year, the setting sun illuminates Horsetail Falls, tumbling down El Capitan, in such a way as to illuminate the waterfall in vibrant reds and oranges so it appears like a lava flow. In addition to the angle of the sun at a particular time of year, the conditions have to be just right for this to happen: ample water flow in the falls as well as clear skies, unobscured by clouds, in the direction of the setting sun.
We arrived at the park, and found our chosen location just before noon, more than 5 hours before the firefall was to occur. There were clear skies all afternoon, and decent flow due to rain a few days before, which foreboded well for us to witness this. At approximately 5:15, just as the light began turning a slightly warmer color, and the red glow was to appear, the sun dipped below a low lying cloud cover, extinguishing the color we hoped to see. Not all was lost, as we got to witness this beautiful golden color just prior, and we got to spend an afternoon in Yosemite, meeting and talking with other friendly photographers, which is never a bad thing! All in all, I'm sure we will try again in the future, but for 2016, this was our only shot!
I dare say that this is a fairly uncommon occurrence in our predominantly maritime climate. More like Alpine light, having an unobscured, newly-risen sun skim the top of a mountain like this was a thrill for me beyond effective description. Needless to say, it was over in a jiffy, & I was left glad of of the fact I'd captured 'something' in spite of my obvious mobility issues.
You'll get some idea of difficulties in moving around on this ridge from the snow banks seen in the lower half of this image. Worse, earlier on, was the business of ascending through these crippling accumulations.
The combination of a dark night & moving through hill-fog ensured I was effectively blind as to efficient route-finding & 'drift avoidance'. My trusty, cheap head-torch gave it's all, but being able to gauge only 10 metres or so ahead inevitably saw me floundering hopelessly time after time.
As you exit the rock garden at the lower gate, you’ll have an unobscured view across the Kent countryside and the Wealden landscape, which is amazing. It’s also from here, where you can admire the Wildflower Meadow stretching into the distance.
Shot from my window Christmas Night. It was either get the clouds or get the unobscured moon. A proper exposure of the moon would have rendered the clouds black, so I chose the clouds with the moon behind.
The last Christmas Moon was in 1977, and the next will be in 2034.
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Whilst in London on Monday for a day out with the camera I took the opportunity to take some images for this weeks theme, in between my usual graffiti and street art photography.
This shot was purely accidental but fits the theme perfectly. Lining up the camera to take a shot of a piece of street art, hit the shutter at the exact same moment a cyclist zooms by. Totally unaware that the cyclist was bearing into view as my eye was firmly pressed against the viewfinder. I instantly knew that this would be my shot for the week.
So, thank you anonymous cyclist for inadvertently helping me achieve my goal for this weeks theme.
Incidentally, the piece of artwork I was trying to photograph is by an artist named Dreph and I will post an image of the piece (unobscured) at a later date.
Some great creative shots in the group for this theme, keep up the good work people.
A female presenting me with a clear unobscured shot for a change! I didn't know that grasshoppers have been around for over 250 million years. Hampshire, England.
... seeking twigs to break from a tree for its nest. Some branches have already been mutilated. Unusually for a parrot, the monk parakeet does not nest in tree holes. A South American species, naturalised in various parts of the world, for example, also in the Canary Islands and Florida. Getting a clear view of these birds unobscured by branches, was difficult.
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There are twenty one species of Snipe around the world and Jack Snipe is the smallest. It is also the only Snipe that does not have a pale central crown stripe as you can see here its centre crown is dark. Here's a Common Snipe showing its pale central crown stripe: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/51422047362/in/photolist If you'd have asked me three years ago which British bird I would most like to photograph I'd have said Jack Snipe without hesitation. Not because they are amazingly photogenic, but because they are amazingly elusive. I have probably seen thousands of Common Snipes but my Jack Snipe sightings I can only count in tens. Though in the last three years I have had a run of extremely good luck with Jack Snipes and have managed several unobscured captures of this bird that normally sits tight among dense vegetation. They breed on bogs in Russia and northern Fennoscandia but migrate south and west in autumn. An unknown number winter in Britain as their elusive nature makes them notoriously difficult to census. Common Snipe will often take flight as soon as anyone sets foot in their marshy habitat, making a call like tearing cloth as they do so. But Jack Snipe will sit tight until they are almost trodden upon, then will rise inconspicuously and silently. This individual splashed down in the middle of a small, garden pond at Spurn having just flown across the North Sea. It moved around trying to find somewhere to hide and feed, and occasionally revealed itself in full view like this, though you can see that my window of view was narrow. I think this is my only photograph of one standing "at ease" as my others are usually crouching/cowering, or walking.
I'm not uploading images in any sort of order now, although I tend to it struck me that there really isn't any point as nobody really cares when you shot them and it only satifies your inner obsessive compulsive disorder voice telling you to post them in date order :-)
Infact was one of the very last shots from the recent Icelend visit, the amount of images I managed to get was staggering and will take ages to get through (not a bad thing)
We thought we had done for the day and the trip after shoting a mountain several hours drive away and had driven towards Keflavik with the flight home in the morning in mind, the forecast for here was cloudy and nil for the Aurora, as we neared the hotel I looked out of the window and could see the Aurora randomly kicking off over the sea, a (rather great and deserted) location was decided upon and we headed off to shoot it there.
2 hours or so here we had a really great light show, also the moon was nearly full and unobscured so it was a great tol for lighting the foreground and lighthouse, the hardest part was keeping shadows out of the shot as it was that bright, the moon is reflected in the small pool in the foreground....
Not to be without incident, (anyone who knows me knows I usually end up in some sort of scenario...) I'd made it to this spot avoiding all the very dangerous frozen rocks and deep holes, set up and all was good , I'd dropped a lens cloth on the ground, it was very dark here.. so I bent down to pick it up and immediatly put my hand into something very soft and strange feeling.... uuuurgggh! so what's the first thing you do bearing in mind you can't see it...? yes that's right have a good sniff to see whats what... it smelled absolutely disguting and I had a pretty good idea what it might be although there was no sign of any dogs.... trying not to be sick I wiped my hand on the frosty reeds nearby cleaning myself up before I got my torch out to see what I'd inadvertently scooped up ...
I can tell you I 've never been so pleased to see a rotted clump of seaweed in my life :-)
I'm so taken
with the sun across the merciful fields
taken again
by sorrow in the sunlight the ploughs
through what I am
in hues of hope that kindle dreams
igniting me
before leaf-fall takes away
this time
shadows become finishing lines
timelessly
the forsworn seconds do tell
of finite possibilities
in unobscured sythed sisterly mercy
I see
thearchic Ones in gold
they, the Oaks,
purificative
wise to the day in tow
elevation purview
life is the time
when nothing truly sleeps.
by anglia24
11h20: 14/11/2007
© 2007anglia24
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To say that Marsh Warbler is a bit of a birders' bird is an understatement. They look incredibly similar to the much commoner Reed Warbler, but only keen birdwatchers would get excited about seeing one. It took me years to get a clear photo of a common Reed Warbler because they always hide among reed stems, so I cannot believe how lucky I was to get an unobscured view of this Marsh Warbler on my first attempt, as they are also notorious skulkers. I say lucky because this one only perched momentarily in the open before bolting back to a hidden song perch. But this photo does show all of the subtle diagnostic features of Marsh Warbler; The tips of its primary feathers (wing tips) are edged pale , where these are dark-edged on Reed Warbler. Take a look on this Reed Warbler to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/52098887790/in/photolist Also the tertials (those feathers above the primaries on the closed wing) have a more contrasting pale edge on Marsh Warbler. The overall colour of Marsh Warbler has a subtle olive hue, and lacks any rufous tones of Reed Warbler. Finally the legs are noticeably pale whereas they appear dark on Reed Warbler.
There are about 130,000 breeding pairs of Reed Warbler in Britain whereas Marsh Warbler usually has fewer than ten breeding pairs. Two singing males had set up breeding territories less than 100m apart on the Lincolnshire coast near Chapel St Leonards last week and as I had not seen one for over 20 years, and I have never photographed one I thought I'd make the effort. I'm glad I did, though they were elusive and only gave photo-opportunities on a couple of occasions. The habitat was not quite like the previous Marsh Warblers I had seen as this one seemed to inhabit reeds, just like Reed Warbler, whereas the others I have seen have been in tall fen with Meadowsweet and Great Hairy Willowherb rather than reeds.
RSPB Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire. Nicely positioned close to the hide and unobscured by any grasses with the sun directly on it. Thanks for any likes/comments - appreciated.
May 1st, 2022 12:00PM
High of 71 degrees Fahrenheit
Low of 49 degrees Fahrenheit
68 degrees Fahrenheit at capture
As the day warmed up, the wind continued but the sun remained unobscured by cloud cover. This small adult snake was flipped under a large, flat, thick slab of dolomite on a Southwest facing glade. It was very cool on capture, likely using the rock as refuge from the night before. While mobile at first, it quickly calmed down and coiled up for pictures.
Camden County, Missouri
I very rarely catch these little beauts unobscured or not on the move-out of frame... Luckily, this one sat still for about 1/500 sec :-)
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy. Webb’s sharp vision has revealed delicate filaments of gas and dust in the grandiose spiral arms which wind outwards from the centre of this image. A lack of gas in the nuclear region also provides an unobscured view of the nuclear star cluster at the galaxy's centre.
Webb gazed into M74 with its Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) in order to learn more about the earliest phases of star formation in the local Universe. These observations are part of a larger effort to chart 19 nearby star-forming galaxies in the infrared by the international PHANGS collaboration. Those galaxies have already been observed using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories. The addition of crystal-clear Webb observations at longer wavelengths will allow astronomers to pinpoint star-forming regions in the galaxies, accurately measure the masses and ages of star clusters, and gain insights into the nature of the small grains of dust drifting in interstellar space.
In particular, Webb’s view highlights the masses of gas and dust within the galaxy’s arms, and the dense cluster of stars at its core.
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for side-by-side Hubble and Webb images
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Read more about the Phantom Galaxy here
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (the MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team
60076 Cross Fell is at the head of 6H12 06.24 Tyne Coal Terminal - Drax Power Station loaded biomass, pictured between Hart and the former sidings at Cemetery North. [Pole, 5/6 sections (~6.8m)]
This was a new location for me, although I've not quite got it right for this train. I'd found it back in April when I'd photographed 6H12 (with 60076!) going round the curve further south (next to new housing built on the site of the former Steetley works) - see this picture, On that occasion, I'd driven most of the way through the new housing and walked along the footpath on the east side of the line - and thought this would be a great spot for 6H12 (by 8am the sun is too in-line). Unfortunately, when I next visited the north-east, in late July, there were no biomass trains between Tyne Dock and Drax, so I didn't get a chance to try it.
I initially tried a 50mm lens (equivalent to 75mm in full frame), the test shot being the Grand Central "Adelante" not very far ahead of 6H12, but the train looked too small (too far away) so I changed to this 77mm lens (equivalent to 115mm). I thought the train would be longer, and actually expected the back to be behind the more distant bushes. After taking this, I wished I'd angled the camera more to the left, but had deliberately kept in the path in bottom right. I used the pole to reduced the amount of potentially out of focus foreground (and it got me over some low bushes in front of me), although it did also make the train slightly less horizontal in the frame.
After taking this, I went to a couple of spots further back, where I was stood closer to the line (which included metal fencing), and tried it with a couple of DMUs. If I get the chance, I shall have another go at 6H12 stood in one of those places, as the whole of the train will be unobscured, although at the better of the two (which has almost no fence) there is now a foreground shadow (although it's well clear of the track).
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I spotted this Red-tailed Hawk as I was driving down a highway. It was facing me with white belly showing and wings spread. I turned around and found a place to pull off the side of the road. By that time, it had turned around. I did not realize how many branches were in the shot, but was lucky the eye was unobscured. I was happy to get the shot, especially with it showing the fanned out red tail.
This is a species I always hope to see in this field in season. Several years ago when the grass was kept low in some areas they were common but recently there is little short grass and they are rarer.
They are very small with quick darting movements so hard to follow in flight and with the very long grass are often difficult to get an unobscured view.
Musk Lorikeet
Glossopsitta concinna
November 30th, 2020
Cape Conran, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS III USM lens
Hard to go past another Musk Lorikeet image for my favourite image of 2020! They are such photogenic subjects on those incredible grasstree stems.
After the devastating fires of last Summer that saw much of East Gippsland burn, the landscape was blackened everywhere you looked. However the regrowth was evident across much of the land, aided by the plentiful rainfall we saw this year.
The most amazing sight to see were fields of grasstrees that were flowering en masse - huge sections of land with a beautiful golden glow in the early morning sunlight.
Unfortunately many of the grasstrees flowering stalks were fading, having flowered profusely since early Spring, & the diversity of earlier birds using this food source had dissipated. However, we did find two patches of grasstrees that were still reasonably active & they were popular with dozens of Musk Lorikeets, including multiple immature birds. So the majority of our time was spent wandering through the vast fields of these yellow spears looking for opportunities to photograph them as they fed.
The photography was actually fairly tricky - the grasstrees were thick & finding spaces & unobscured views to shoot was challenging. But the flowering stems provided some excellent opportunities for interesting backgrounds & compositions.
I captured this image on our last morning before we made the 5 hour journey home to Melbourne. The weather forecast was not in our favour, with the storms that had rolled in the previous day expected to continue most of the morning. However we were very pleasantly surprised when we were greeted with clear skies & magnificent light just after sunrise. And so I was quite pleased to come away with this image of an adult Musk Lorikeet moving from one grasstree stem to the next to continue feeding.
A view looking to the west-northwest during a stop at the Igloo Creek Campground. The bus ride I’d been on had stopped at this location for a short meal. I had this chance then to look around and capture an image of the namesake mountain with some nearby forest for an image captured. My thinking that while I might not capture an unobscured mountain view, I would have enough in the image to bring out that look of just beyond what was nearby. I later did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.
The heron wasn't situated in the best position for my liking. Fortunately the breeze moved the reeds just enough to get the face unobscured and in the light. The out of focus elements just helped accent the subject.
This Black-throated Gray Warbler has been a regular visitor to my yard since early fall. I have tried to photograph this bird no fewer than ten times. Not a single image was any good. This morning, with the trees full of goldfinches I took the camera to our upstairs deck. Who pops up, right in front of me, unobscured by branches and in nice morning light. Yep, Mr. BTGW!
Good things happen when you least expect them!!
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To keep things ticking over on the photostream until suitable Nottingham adventures happen, I thought I'd revisit some things I saw at Showbus '18, beginning with a bit of a West Midlands theme... and Metrobuses!
Yes I've already got these two taken from the other side, but it'd be rude to ignore the bright yellow and blue travelcard livery on 2764, so here it is in the full, unobscured and in a line-up of three Metrobus Mk2s. The whole line had about 6 or 7 Metrobuses of both versions, just spaced out a little further apart.
A764 WVP is joined by slightly older NOA 462X in this view with the G.H. Watts examples beyond.
Showbus, Donington, 30.9.18
57605 is bathed in sunshine as she passes Dolcoath Tin Mine with the 1026 St Erth to Exeter service. Why does it start at St Erth ?
The last time i was at this spot was 25 years ago. Then it was a wide open view with an unobscured line of sight to the wheel house. Houses and trees now partially obscure what was the main attraction at this spot.
Panamint Valley
Death Valley National Park
California
"The Mojave is overwhelming, both physically and psychologically, partly because of the utter absence of moisture, but largely because of the sheer visual scale.
Unobscured by vegetation, and displayed to the eye for tremendous distances by huge elevations and depressions, it seems a world of crystal clarity and total exposure."
David Darlington, The Mojave
Another new view on offer on the GOBLIN following the lineside clearance for overhead electrification, Harringay Curve which links the GOBLIN to the ECML and which has been shrouded in trees for as long as I can remember. There isn't many scheduled daylight workings that head down the curve so I made a special effort today to catch large logo Class 37 No. 37025 leading Network Rail test train 1Q96. This is the start of an epic 12hr round trip from Ferme Park via Essex, North & South London. Network Rail 97301 was on the rear of the train. Full credit goes to Paul Robertson www.flickr.com/photos/37923727@N04/ who kindly edited out the lineside clutter from the original shot resulting in a great unobscured view of 37025.
As long as these Eagles remain standing, unobscured, the main of the world remains safe. May they stay forever in the light!
Hidden away where most people won't see it and partially obscured by vegetation so the other people will not get an unobscured view in passing.
Here it is because I thought that it should be viewed!
What's been taken?
and what's been sworn?
emptying the inside-
contemplating all that's foresaken
who now stands alone?
seen from the masses;
a laches from unobscured seasoning
will falling leaves ever atone?
within the clutches of this modest Summer
pleading betwixt mighty Oaks
to 'leave out all the rest' sounds true
it's plenitude in the hue of the 'allcomer';
-the shadow of yesterday sets for us all
unless...unless this embracing bocage
helps us grow into the light of truth;
what we've done will shine with total recall.
by anglia24
14h20: 31/08/2007
© 2007anglia24
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Chasing the light at Angkor Wat (fingers crossed).
Angkor Wat (Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត) is the largest Hindu at first, then Buddhist temple complex and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yasodharapura (Khmer: យសោធរបុរៈ, present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum.
I went to Cambodia specifically to get a sunrise shot of this iconic location. I left my hotel at 04:30 and was at the reflecting pool at 04:50, I found my spot and proceeded to set up my gear.
It was still pitch black and I couldn't see this amazing temple yet, but what I could see behind me on the road into Angkor was a stream of headlights, Tuk Tuks and taxis which were bringing more photographers / tourists to see sunrise.
As the masses started to arrive they started to try and find and unobscured viewpoint of Angkor, there must have been a couple of hundred people there all trying to get the same shot!
If you ever intend visiting Angkor Wat, I suggest that you do a lot of research before you get there. I got to Ta Prohnm (this is the temple that Lara Croft made famous) as well and was back in my hotel before 07:30.
Note: The normal tourist runs start at 08:30 just when the light is too harsh for photographic needs, so I suggest that you avoid these like the plauge!.
This is one of the very few images that I took with my trusty 24-70mm.
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Equipment
-Canon 5D Mark II
-EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
-Manfrotto
The Guildhall (grade II listed) was designed to complement the rest of the Civic Suite and opened on 13 February 1937. It houses a large pipe organ which was built into it from new. The organ has two distinct consoles: a classical concert organ and a theatre organ. The consoles share the same body of approximately 4,000 pipes which are housed in chambers above the proscenium arch. It was the largest organ made by its builder, John Compton.
The Guildhall is now a multi purpose venue and was the location of the recording of Nicola Benedetti's 2012 album, The Silver Violin.
It is now known as the O2 Guildhall.
It's unusual to find the Guildhall without cars and vans parked in the front so I braved the pouring rain to get this shot with an unobscured view.
Day 4 in the April group
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