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Usually it is a MLW 1550 diesel locomotive that operates this train, but on this day, due to a problem on the 1565 diesel locomotive, it was up to a Euro4000 to transport the Autoeuropa cars to Setúbal harbour.
Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey in the district of Trafford, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. It is now a National Trust property, open to the public. During World War I it was the Stamford Military Hospital.
The stately home was designated a Grade One listed-building on 5 March 1959. It has been owned by the National Trust since the death of the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976. Over 340,000 people visited the house in 2014/15, placing it in the ten most popular National Trust houses.
Dunham Massey was built in the early 17th century by the Earls of Warrington, passing to the Earls of Stamford by inheritance; the family still live in part of the house. There were significant alterations, especially internally, at the start of the 20th century. It has historic formal gardens and a deer park. It was formerly in the ancient parish of Bowdon, Cheshire. Wikipedia
Usually I try to write down the names of the authors, the time they are and the name of the work, but unfortunately I have lost some of my notes and I do not have the data of this sculpture! the period is certainly Hellenic, but I know nothing more about sculpture
Normalmente eu procuro anotar os nomes dos autores, a época em que se situam e o própio nome da obra, mas infelizmente perdi algumas de minhas anotações e não tenho os dados desta escultura ! o período é certamente Helenico, mas não sei nada mais sobre a escultura
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Usually, this abandoned structure overlooking a vast grassland goes unnoticed to passersby. Like the truck pulling a travel trailer off in the distance; to them it's just a part of the landscape. To this photographer, though, it was more than that. Much more!
The windmill is the last standing piece of what's left of The Kent Homestead. An arrangement of buildings consisting of, at least, a farmhouse, carriage house, and barn (Maybe even more) that stood proud for many years in Kent, Oregon.
But over time many of us began to watch small pieces of the settlement disappear. As if someone was harvesting the buildings for their materials. This activity continued until what was left collapsed. It's unknown if this was vandalism, theft, or just the legal land owners clearing dangerous derelict structures.
Several of the historic buildings I've photographed over the years are gone, now, along with their history. Tragic, maybe. Sad, yes. But that's life, isn't it? We're all just a small blip in time.
Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!
George Winston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=StfWRx9_JKQ
No photos without adequate payment, that's an iron law in Cleo's world. :)
I add another capture in the comments. It's only a quick snapshot and the quality is horrible, therefore only the small version. I have been asked for a photo showing Fynn and Cleo together and here it is. The situation is one I see almost every day but usually I don't have a camera at hand. This is something ONLY Fynn can do. Everybody else, including me, would end up with a bloody nose.
©2008 Canvas Creations
Usually not one for giraffe pictures from zoos as you always get the tall fences in the shot or have to settle for the close up of the face. Well the NC zoo has the most beautiful habitat for their giraffes. It is all built up around so no fences are seen and covers a lot of ground with several viewing areas. Loved it.
This shot originally had a very large head in the lower right and a couple small ones in the lower left but i was able to clone them out somewhat decently. I tried to just crop them out but didn't like the shot any other way than the original so did the quick cloning.
Usually the rabbits run away so fast I don't get a shot. This one only went a short distance before stopping. In the Heathdale - Glen Orden Wetlands
I enjoy participating in Macro Mondays challenges each week. Usually it takes a while to find a subject; sometimes I don't succeed.
But this week for 'corner' I have too many ideas.
Three in my triptych:
1 of 6 corners of a hexagonal small pottery coaster with leaf motif made by Clare
a book corner of a slim volume: Irène Némirovsky's 'Ida'
a corner of a flowery birthday gift bag
posted for Sliders Sunday -- Post Processed To The MAX!
My entries always need much processing, including a disproportionate amount to ensure that the macro fits within a strict size.
Killer usually has his secret bunkers in tip-top shape, but he says, "this one still needs to be tweaked just a touch!"
Kea took a really nice & detailed shot you can check out here.
DeaD's Death Depot - DDD DeaD Sinner's Cross BOM Forehead Tattoo
:FNY: Designs - Strayers Mask (Fatpack): Green
Quills & Curiosities - Smol Sludgie
Urban Industry Creations (UIC) - UIC Hazard Sign Radiation, UIC Hazard Sign Radiation 2
/ Vae Victis \ - /VaeV\ 'Aristo's Vow' blood vial - Group Gift
Usually my dolls have been so happy to go outdoors when it's been snowing there. Maya on the other hand wasn't very impressed by the snow; she thinks it's scary.
Usually Gambel's Quail are found running along the ground but this one was in a tree calling for a mate. Photographed in Western Colorado.
I usually take at least a few days off every October to do Fall foliage railroad photography, but this year was the first time I ever took a full week off in October. The first few days I focused on photography, while the rest of the week into the weekend was all about time with the family. I thoroughly enjoyed it--especially the Fall fun with the family--and I will likely do it again if I'm able.
For Monday, October 10th, the weather forecast wasn't that great. However, I've had success on cloudy days in October shooting Vermont Railway's B&R Job between Rutland and North Bennington, so I headed up to Rutland in hopes of catching that. Unfortunately--despite all the recent repaints--a leaser led on the B&R. So, it was back to the drawing board...
On the drive up, however, I had heard that RDBD (Rutland to Burlington) had the VTR 201 leading, which I knew had been recently repainted. Furthermore, I thought, "Hey, wasn't that paired up with the VTR 209 (also a recent repaint) recently?" So, I headed north. I caught up to the train by New Haven where it was switching. Sure enough, 201 and 209 were the power for the train! Despite the weather, it was a nice little chase north, and an even better chase back south, including a miracle "sucker hole" at Middlebury.
This shot at New Haven was my first shot on the northbound chase. In this case, the overcast skies actually helped as this otherwise would have been harsh light.
VTR Train RDBD
New Haven, Vermont
October 10, 2022
Usually solitary, these two male cheetahs are probably brothers. After unsuccessfully stalking a herd of gazelles, one cheetah climbs this termite mound to get a better view of the terrain.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Usually I have to chase butterflys. This one literally landed at my feet, had a bit of a rest then fluttered off again!
HTT!
Usually I would not take my macro lens on a travel trip; however it is possible to shoot close-up with my 24-70mm lens :)
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Usually at Easter I would be either heading for the coast or hills. Sadly due to COVID-19 that isn't to be this year. That said we are where we are and in all honesty , I've enjoyed being able to spend some time in the garden appreciating the wildlife very much in my own back garden.
Usually SL is my escape from the world, but I think it's important to show my support in whatever small way I can. Black Lives Matter and I stand with everyone who is fighting for their rights. I hope for a better world someday. ❤️
Genus Baby Face head
Maitreya Lara body
7 Deadly s[K]ins Marry-Ann skin “Caramel”
Avi-Glam Prestige Eyes "Nut"
JesyDream Mitsuru eyebrows
BLAXIUM Fever lashes
[POUT!] Punky eyeshadow
Sintiklia 70s lipstick
RAMA SALON Lorraine hair
Umbrella BLM hat
Blossom&Seeds Enough top
[LeiMotiv] Skinny pants
The Eurasian blue tit is usually 12 cm (4.7 in), long with a wingspan of 18 cm (7.1 in) for both sexes, and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz). A typical Eurasian blue tit has an azure-blue crown and dark blue line passing through the eye, and encircling the white cheeks to the chin, giving the bird a very distinctive appearance. The forehead and a bar on the wing are white. The nape, wings and tail are blue and the back is yellowish green. The underparts is mostly sulphur-yellow with a dark line down the abdomen—the yellowness is indicative of the number of yellowy-green caterpillars eaten, due to high levels of carotene pigments in the diet. The bill is black, the legs bluish grey, and the irides dark brown. The sexes are similar and often indistinguishable to human eyes, but under ultraviolet light, males have a brighter blue crown. Young blue tits are noticeably more yellow.
I usually let Vas'ka out only after he had a good breakfast and hope he is watching birds only for artistic reasons :-)
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I usually prefer simple 5-petal roses, but this many-petaled rose stood out from all the roses I saw that day. Great color and at the perfect stage of opening. Seen in the Rose Garden at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Sadly I do not the know the iD or I would plant one in my backyard LOL !
I usually don't take photos of beggars or street kids. But this boy was approaching me and the man in the train told me that the kid wanted his photo taken. Here you go, boy.
Usually I'm not a friend of uploading pictures from the same place over and over again....
The lights on the hill in the background are the restaurant at Johannisberg. Together with the bathinghouses (shown here) and the trainstation it forms the central axis of the city.
Usually M209 is pretty bad, so this one almost slipped by me but thanks to a timely heads up was able to get out the door quick enough. Most of the chase was pretty mediocre but finished on a high note here in Dayton, cool city id definitely go back.
Usually very secretive birds this one was fairly happy to pose for us, unfortunately the background was not ideal.
Image taken from a photo boat in the Danube Delta, Romania. Up at 4am every day on this trip but well worth it.
Many thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.
Usually if someone's face is either purple or green, I figure they are either choking or really sick. 😆
Not one of my best, but anytime that you get a close shot to one of these, well, here it is. :)
Taken at Centennial Park in Irving, Texas.
Bufflehead
Scientific name: Bucephala albeola
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Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey in the district of Trafford, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. It is now a National Trust property, open to the public. During World War I it was the Stamford Military Hospital.
The stately home was designated a Grade One listed-building on 5 March 1959. It has been owned by the National Trust since the death of the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976. Over 340,000 people visited the house in 2014/15, placing it in the ten most popular National Trust houses.
Dunham Massey was built in the early 17th century by the Earls of Warrington, passing to the Earls of Stamford by inheritance; the family still live in part of the house. There were significant alterations, especially internally, at the start of the 20th century. It has historic formal gardens and a deer park. It was formerly in the ancient parish of Bowdon, Cheshire. Wikipedia
Usually the late Missabe and early CN ran the daily limestone loads north out of Proctor in the afternoon, despite the last picture I posted. Here the Minntac limestone loads are ready to leave Proctor for Minntac behind the regular DMIR 8000 hp set of 2 400s and an SD38-type. Before the DMIR 410 North can move out of the yard, DMIR 411 and 409 must get out of the way with their Utac loads. This is late Missabe in March 2004, with only a couple of months until the CN takeover.
After all these years, it's nice that these Minntac limestone trains and Utac pellet trains still move out of Proctor. CN now assigns 12,000 horsepower trios of Dash 8s on the stone trains and usually assigns 9000 hp EMD trios on the Utac pellet trains.
This lovely boat is usually moored at Pt Ruston, is often photographed, and lovely at all times. She is used as a business office and takes prospective clients out for cruises I think. The high rise apartments and condos there are filling up fast.
It was a fun one to shoot in the calm conditions with the long lens (which I had on there for the moon, which didn't happen), so I backed up as far as I could and managed to get it in the frame. I had to shoot quite a few to get a critically sharp shot at 2 seconds. I had the Tiffen Glimmerglass (strength of 1) on there which adds a bit of glow to the highlights and pumps up the midrange shadows. It's a really fun filter that I have been using on dahlia and rose portraits as well.
Thank you, my flickr friends, for your warm and kind visits as always. You are very much appreciated! 💙
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Usually you see one, or maybe two. We saw four yesterday and the majestic twin rotor helicopters sounded amazing.
Usually I shoot the Eastern Meadowlark when they fly onto a fence post - makes for a pleasing photograph and isolates the bird.
On this occasion, I watched them at work in the field. They spend most of their time bent down to the ground hunting for bugs, and out of site in low areas in-between the grass. Every once in a while they run over to the top of mound of grass, stretch out and look around. If they don't see any danger they call out to see if they are answered by any other Meadowlarks in the area. If not, they go back to work hunting insects.
I posted in the comments this same bird above looking around before calling.
Other past poses in the comments.
PS - they are very loud and you will easily be able to tell it is a Meadowlark.
More on their audio from Cornell:
Songs
The male Eastern Meadowlark’s primary song consists of 3 to 5 (sometimes up to 8) pure and plaintive flutelike whistles all slurred together and gradually dropping in pitch, up to 2 seconds long. Male have a repertoire of songs, singing one song repeatedly for a time and then switching to a different version. They typically sing from an exposed perch, but occasionally sing in flight as well.
Calls
Eastern Meadowlarks give a single, sharp dzert note when humans or other meadowlarks intrude on their territory. Another distinctive sound is a harsh chatter that lasts 1.5 seconds and is given by both males and females. Both sexes have a series of weet calls that they give while in flight.
Another slide restoration, I'd guess from the 1980s, location unknown.
Usually when I restore slides they are really dark to look at, but this was the opposite and I thought it might be blank. I've managed to pull a fair bit of detail back.
The red & cream RT to the left was bought new by St Helens Corporation who bought 40. They were the only operator aside from London Transport who bought them. By comparison, London Transport bought 6956 in various forms. After service in London, they went everywhere across the globe.
These birds are usually the last of the southbound migrants in the fall, although this year we had a bit more variety. These birds have greater digestive flexibility and can process late berry crops, making them less vulnerable to a cold snap that suddenly reduces insect activity. Their relentless hawking of insects - pulling them out of the air in flight - makes them a bit of a challenge for photographers, but in small flocks they are often less skittish than other Warblers. This bird, helpfully displaying the yellow rump that gives it its name, looked at me briefly before charging off to feed. Though they can turn to berries they are clearly pretty aggressive in consuming insects, especially immediately before continuing their migration.
Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the mock nightingale or country nightingale. Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the nightingale names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 birds
The adult 24-spot is a small ladybird, usually 3 to 4 mm long. It has the quintessential ladybird shape, quite domed with the sides forming a smooth curve from head to pronotum to wing-cases. The wing-cases are covered with short pale hairs, and though these are hard to see without a hand lens, they give the ladybird a distinctive matt appearance. The ladybird is dark orange, including legs and antennae. There are black spots on the wing cases. These vary in number and size but there are often about 20 to 24 and usually no more than 26. Sometimes spots are joined together or they can be absent completely. Dark (melanic) forms are very rare. Another extremely rare form has yellow spots.
Larvae are 4 to 6mm long and pale grey-green with darker speckles. They are covered with branched spines. These spines are also present in the pupa, enabling the pupa to secrete noxious alkaloids as a defence against predators.
There are five European species in the subfamily Epilachninae, all herbivorous and somewhat hairy. The 24-spot Ladybird can be distinguished from the similarly patterned Bryony Ladybird - Henosepilachna argus (6 to 8 mm) by its small size (3 to 4 mm). Cynegetis impunctata, another small ladybird, is browner and has no spots. It also has a black head and this separates it from the form of the 24-spot Ladybird without spots.
This ladybird usually has no wings under the elytra (wing cases) and these individuals are unable to fly. A study found no winged specimens in a UK sample whereas 40% of those from Hungary and Romania had wings. However, as even the winged specimens carried the gene that causes atrophy, it is thought that winglessness is a trend that will increase.
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We were super lucky to find this usually shy bird bathing meters in front of us in a shallow stream!
Read the full story of day 6 of the trip here: www.adamdhalla.com/newpage3
Usually it’s the eagles that chase after the osprey for their fish. I doubt that’s what the blackbird has in mind. More likely the osprey dove a little too close to the blackbird nest.
Usually there's a giant rat placed at these non-union construction sites but this one had a big inflated pig.
#siderssunday
Usually, you don't go to a DIY superstore/warehouse to photograph the building's façade but buy DIY stuff (which we did, too, of course). Unless it's the "Bauhaus Halensee". This DIY warehouse in the busy and densely-populated Charlottenburg borough (Halensee district) is located between an urban railway line and the urban motorway, its entrance facing the busy Kurfürstendamm, one of Berlin's most famous and well-known boulevards. Its façade, consisting of textured, structured, 3D-shaped aluminium panels, is very photogenic.
This is the façade on one of the building's long sides in a wide-angle close-up view, as I stood right in front of it. Stupidly, I shot at F2,2 (I had photographed a flower growing on the adjacent green strip, wanted a blurry background, and had forgotten to adjust the aperture back to "architecture-suitable" when taking the first shots of the façade), so the roof area was a little blurry so I sharpened that part in post (Topaz).
Please note that this is not a mirrored image. It is the façade "as is", and the only manipulation here is that I removed a roof overhang on the lower left side because it was distracting.
HSS, Everyone!
Usually a popular spot for photographers, I had the whole place to myself this time with the grey and misty weather which had been forecast. Apart from the odd rain splotch and wiping the lens, no harm done. f/14, 35 mm, 0.8 seconds at ISO 50
Marsh mallow, (Althaea officinalis), perennial herbaceous plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to eastern Europe and northern Africa. It has also become established in North America. The plant is usually found in marshy areas, chiefly near the sea. It has strongly veined heart-shaped or oval leaves. The pinkish flowers, borne on stalks about 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall, are about 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter. The root was formerly used to make marshmallows, a confection.
usually I make my own crust, but making crust from scratch can take a couple of hours or more. I decided to try an experiment by buying some premade crusts (7" MIA brand). Though it wasn't as good as my home made crust, it did a pretty fine job and eliminated a couple of hours of time from the process. I've got more experiments to go in attempting to perfect my MIA experience, but things are looking good. Making this pizza took me about 45 minutes and that included making my own sauce and preparing the toppings, etc. fyi, I used uncured pepperoni, sweet red onions, and red bell peppers on this one along with three cheeses.