Photograph taken at 13:12pm an altitude of Six metres, on Thursday 5th May 2016 of a pair of very much in love Canada Geese (Branta canadensis), off Beach Drive close to Kitty Islet in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Nikon D800 70mm 1/3200s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Handheld . Nikon back focus button enabled. AF-C Continuous point focus with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.Nikon AF fine tune enabled (+9).

Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter.Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS.

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LATITUDE: N 48d 24m 38.03s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 18m 24.94s

ALTITUDE: 6.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 33.11MB

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PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

WD 2-8-0 90217. York Shed. Taken on 30/05/1965.

This doz. images complete my Scottish trip in '66.

Away from my Fife area for some reason I was to the south west where I came across Greenhill Station.

Only a WD (90386) with brake van came through however. 7/9/66.

Two 5TB WD Black P10 external HDDs and a monster of a lens acting as background singer :D

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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.

On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.

These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, a Nikon D850 FX Pro body as companion to my D7200 DX, I travel light with less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 21.863+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.

***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on April 2nd 2018

CREATIVE RF gty.im/940892762 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**

This photograph became my 2,881st frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.

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**** This frame was chosen on March 31st 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #99. This was my 97th photograph to be selected.

Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 21.000 Million+ people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****

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Photograph taken at an altitude of One metres at 16:11am on Friday March 30th 2018 off Beachy Head road and South Downs Way at Birling Gap, East Dean in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.

A day of torrential rain, hour after hour, and fleeting moments when people could stretch their legs, let off steam, enjoy the Bank Holiday as the tide chased the horizon. I loved the bright sunlight through the cloud as it glistened on the sandy shoreline, and just as I lined up a shot, a family started running across my line of sight. Perfect.

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Nikon D850 48mm 1/160s f/10.0 iso100 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 8256 x 5504 FX). Colour space Adobe RGB. Handheld with Nikkor VR Vibration (Normal) selected . AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Area mode single. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto 0 white balance. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal.

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm F4G ED VR. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.

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LATITUDE: N 50d 44m 32.90s

LONGITUDE: E 0d 12m 0.80s

ALTITUDE: 1.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB (NEF 90.2mb)

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 33.10MB

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PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.01 (16/01/2018) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

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WD 90386 passes closely at the footbridge and Level crossing at Helensfield, near Alloa on 8/9/66.

#FT-SOMRXSAKEO

#Chipera #PuntaArenas

WD 2-8-0 No 90370 struggles with a loaded coal train on the climb from Dunston up to the Bensham diveunder in 1967

5D mkii + 135L

F/2.8

1/125 Sek.

ISO-200

WD

WD 2-8-0 (now numbered 90733) draws in to a crowded platform at Haworth Station on the KWVR. The locomotive was repatriated from Sweden, filling a preservation gap as none of the WD's in BR service (numbering 733) survived into preservation.

Two 5TB WD Black P10 external HDDs

pentax 645 + SMC A 75 2.8, kodak portra 160

one of the white ducks on the canal in Stockton heath

WD 2-8-0 90378 Heads east through Pelaw Junction on 1/7/1967

WD 90719 heads a coal train at Dore in 1963. Allocated to Canklow shed at the time, it was transferred to Staveley (GC) in April 1965 and subsequently moved to Langwith Junction three months later from where it was withdrawn in February 1966.

Photographer unknown

April 18th, 1965

62C Dunfermline mpd

Locally based WD 2-8-0 90534 is seen during a weekend visit.

From a b/w photograph by James Tubb

An old War Department tanker for sulphuric acid.

Along the quays in Bristol they have a wee steam train running on the old lines and a team of volunteers operating the equipment. it was great to be right in there close up to all the old gear and rolling stock.

Scanned slide of WD 601 Kitchener at Goathland 06/92

TheWorse1.0 + Sweetfx

Hamburg - Moments