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As Autumn approaches, just before rutting season when all you can see is hardened antlers, as above, a soft velvety layer covers male deer antlers. While the velvet covering is indeed beautiful, its purpose is much more functional and protective than it looks. Deer velvet is a contributing factor to antlers being the fastest growing tissue of any mammal.
It's purpose is not to weatherproof. The velvet contains a network of blood vessels and nerves and acts as a protective layer for the hardening antlers underneath. It allows the antlers to reach their full potential so that they can be used by the male during rutting season, to bash other antlers, so to speak...
When velvet shedding happens, it is the signal that the rut is beginning.
And here's the rain that accompanied the rainbow I posted yesterday. Ying and yang! I love the rain, but my camera doesn't, so I've been thinking about a smaller, lighter, more weatherproof camera - suitable for street photography but has some versatility too - limited budget (maybe secondhand). Does anyone have any recommendations?
Many thanks!
Located at the northern end of Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz Harbor is a haven for fishing craft and vessels. A harbor light, located at the west jetty, has marked its entrance for forty years. The original light was a box light structure which served from 1964 – 1996. It was replaced by a cylinder nicknamed “the water heater” which was used from 1996 – 1999. From 1999 until May 2002, a simple pipe structure held the light which marked the way into the harbor.
In 1998, the Santa Cruz community, under the leadership of Bill Simpkins and Jim Thoits, proposed replacing the unsightly harbor light with a lighthouse of classic design, adding a little more character to a community renowned for its characters. Fundraising efforts began in earnest, and with the contributions of many people, including a major donation from Charles Walton of Los Gatos, enough money was raised to begin construction of the new lighthouse in 2001.
The lighthouse, designed by Mark Mesiti-Miller and constructed by Devcon Construction, Inc., stands 41 ½ feet tall above the level of the west jetty, and 59 ½ feet above the mean low water mark. It weighs 350,000 pounds and is built to withstand a quarter million pounds of wave energy.
The construction began with a cylindrical inner core which houses electrical equipment and a circular staircase of forty-two steps which lead to the top of the lighthouse. Surrounding the inner core is a network of reinforcement rods, onto which “shotcrete” was blown and then hand-troweled to form the conical shape. These shotcrete walls are 4 ½ feet thick at the base. Finally, a durable weatherproof white finish was applied to the exterior of the lighthouse and a copper roofed lantern room topped it all off.
On June 9, 2002, the new harbor lighthouse was dedicated, and the signal, a green light flashing every four seconds at a focal plane of thirty-six feet, was activated. It is named the Walton Lighthouse, in honor of Mr. Charles Walton’s late brother, Derek, who served in the merchant marines and was lost at sea during World War II.
On a rainy day ...
... at a small mountain lake in the Swiss alps
A little story about the picture: We were so looking forward to this weekend, where we wanted to visit this mountain lake all together. The weather forecast did not bode well, but we were still hopeful that there would be some nice moments. Unfortunately, the weather was even worse than the forecasts said, because on the first day it rained almost constantly and it was bitterly cold. Arriving at the accommodation, we still wanted to hike that day to the lake high in the mountains. Everything was gray and wet and we could therefore walk very badly. When we arrived at the little lake, it was still raining and the fog was low over the mountains. We only saw the water from the lake. We could not even recognize the trees all around. We were all alone up there. (Normally there are some visitors on this amazing place.) That was the beautiful side of this weather, because it was so quiet and peaceful in this wild nature. We arranged ourselves with the weather and tried to capture this mood with our cameras. Somehow it should work, after all, they should be weatherproof, according to the manufacturer. Well, we could test that extensively on this day. It was not very long and our cameras were completely wet with all the accessories. We started to freeze because everything was wet on us too. We then tried desperately to avert the damage. At some point we gave up and tried to focus only on photographing, which we partially succeeded, as the rain for a few minutes became less or stopped altogether. Out of this background, this photo was taken here. We spent a whole afternoon in the rain and in the evening anyway or just because of that, we were all happy together with a good and warm dinner in the accommodation.
Addition: Both of my cameras were totally wet including bags and still worked after that day. So both survived the hard test in the swiss alps, because the next day it rained on and I continued to shoot with both cameras !!!
By the way, I've never seen more intense colors in the fall than on those rainy & unforgettable days in the swiss mountain world. I learned something new, that you can also enjoy the rainy weather as well.
Dire Straits-Why Worry
The snow has melted unfortunately , I hope he comes back soon - I love the winter! :)
Happy weekend!! :)
...is what I call waiting until the last moment to quickly pull your very non-weatherproof camera out of the way of an incoming wave, then trying not to get wiped out by the undertow!
Ghost Glalss Frog (Sachatamia ilex)
For Earth Day 2017 here is a photo of one of the coolest frogs I have ever found from my recent trip to Costa Rica. This is the Ghost Glass Frog and it was found on a night hike in the heavy rain at the Costa Rica Amphibian Research Center. This shot was taken in the pouring rain. This frog presented itself after we were photographing a large arboreal lizard that we found perched in some bushes. The lizard started to move a little as we were photographing it and it scared up this cool frog which we were hoping to see. The frog ultimately jumped to this leaf where I took a series of close up pictures.
Costa Rica has so much degraded and destroyed habitat which has been converted to farmland especially for Bananas. The future of beautiful frogs like this rests in better care taken over wetland ecosystems and the lands which drain into them.
Fürstenzug (Procession of Princes) is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904 - Wilipedia
Batten down the hatches, the Seatruck "Clipper Point " from Liverpool on its final leg towards Dublin Port, the right side of the breakwater along the Great South Wall tames the wild Irish Sea.
An der Fassade des Schöneberger Pallasseums sind seit 2016 in Blickrichtung Potsdamer Straße zwei große Augen zu sehen – eine "Hommage à Picasso" des Berliner Künstlers Gert Neuhaus. Seit den 1970er Jahren gestaltet er Giebelwände und Häuser in Berlin mit Fassadenmalereien – oft mit Illusionen, die im Vorübergehen wirken. Bisher entstanden 46 haushohe Wandbilder mit wetterfesten Silikat- und Acrylfarben, die meisten davon in Berlin.
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Since 2016, two large eyes have been visible on the facade of the Schöneberg Pallasseum, facing Potsdamer Straße – a "Hommage à Picasso" by Berlin artist Gert Neuhaus. Since the 1970s, he has been decorating gable walls and buildings in Berlin with facade paintings – often with illusions that are effective as you pass by. To date, 46 house-high murals have been created using weatherproof silicate and acrylic paints, most of them in Berlin.
Located at the northern end of Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz Harbor is a haven for fishing craft and vessels. A harbor light, located at the west jetty, has marked its entrance for forty years. The original light was a box light structure which served from 1964 – 1996. It was replaced by a cylinder nicknamed “the water heater” which was used from 1996 – 1999. From 1999 until May 2002, a simple pipe structure held the light which marked the way into the harbor.
In 1998, the Santa Cruz community, under the leadership of Bill Simpkins and Jim Thoits, proposed replacing the unsightly harbor light with a lighthouse of classic design, adding a little more character to a community renowned for its characters. Fundraising efforts began in earnest, and with the contributions of many people, including a major donation from Charles Walton of Los Gatos, enough money was raised to begin construction of the new lighthouse in 2001.
The lighthouse, designed by Mark Mesiti-Miller and constructed by Devcon Construction, Inc., stands 41 ½ feet tall above the level of the west jetty, and 59 ½ feet above the mean low water mark. It weighs 350,000 pounds and is built to withstand a quarter million pounds of wave energy.
The construction began with a cylindrical inner core which houses electrical equipment and a circular staircase of forty-two steps which lead to the top of the lighthouse. Surrounding the inner core is a network of reinforcement rods, onto which “shotcrete” was blown and then hand-troweled to form the conical shape. These shotcrete walls are 4 ½ feet thick at the base. Finally, a durable weatherproof white finish was applied to the exterior of the lighthouse and a copper roofed lantern room topped it all off.
On June 9, 2002, the new harbor lighthouse was dedicated, and the signal, a green light flashing every four seconds at a focal plane of thirty-six feet, was activated. It is named the Walton Lighthouse, in honor of Mr. Charles Walton’s late brother, Derek, who served in the merchant marines and was lost at sea during World War II.
The Fürstenzug (English: Procession of Princes) in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904.
The Fürstenzug is located on the outer wall of the Stallhof (Stables Courtyard) of Dresden Castle.
--Wikipedia--
This mural was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family, in order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with 23,000 Meissen Porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907, with a length of 102 metres (335) feet.
Der Fürstenzug in Dresden ist ein überlebensgroßes Bild eines Reiterzuges, aufgetragen auf rund 23.000 Fliesen aus Meißner Porzellan. Das 102 Meter lange, als größtes Porzellanwandbild der Welt geltende Kunstwerk stellt die Ahnengalerie der zwischen 1127 und 1873 in Sachsen herrschenden 34 Markgrafen, Herzöge, Kurfürsten und Könige aus dem Geschlecht des Fürstenhauses Wettin dar.
The Procession of Princes in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907.
ODESSA: "Don't throw me a snowball! You ruin my nice Polar Bear coat!"
OTIS: "Polar Bear coats should be weatherproof after all! .... or is your coat synthetic? ..."
Fürstenzug (Procession of Princes) is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904 - Wilipedia
It's late afternoon and I'm stood beneath the less weatherproof section of awning at the southern end of Crewe station, thankful that the current downpour has managed to find its way on to the platform and provide a nice basis for light reflections.
Without the motivation of a camera shot, the passenger walking towards me engaged in a phone conversation might be less thankful as he hurries towards to the front of the carriage, and shelter.
The train is a Siemens-built 'Desiro', unit 350111, working LNWR's 4.32pm service to London Euston (1U38). Quite a respectable service it is too taking the direct route and 2 hours 18 minutes for the 158 miles to Euston with most stops being in the Trent Valley between Stafford and Rugby.
With less than 5 minutes to scheduled departure time, the driver is getting himself settled in and happily hasn't yet turned off the cab lights so ensuring a bit of extra detail is captured.
Technically it's far from a perfect offering, and it's certainly pushing the capability of the camera, but there's something about the combination of colours and the atmosphere that I find appealing.
A shot that's better viewed full screen.
1/15s @ F7.1, 2000 asa (auto, less 2.0 stops under-exposed).
4.28pm, 26th November 2019
On Bridge Road in Richmond, this colonial cottage stands out for two reasons:
(1) The blue and red colour scheme, and
(2) That window on the right of the front door.
Given its Georgian architectural heritage that large window originally would have matched the one on the left to keep the symmetry. Obviously it's a later addition, perhaps to let more light into a living room.
I had a question the other day about whether the roofing iron was original in these houses. My initial thought was that these cottage roofs must originally have been clad in wooden shingles. Perhaps that was so, but in fact the date for the invention of corrugated roofing iron actually fits these Georgian cottages. In 1829, Henry Palmer of London invented "putting flat sheets of wrought iron through rollers created a corrugated effect that strengthened and stiffened them. They were quick to install on a basic wooden frame while remaining lightweight, strong and weatherproof, especially if painted."
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/blueprintforliving/icon-of...
So it's quite possible this is an original roof, or at least it soon replaced the worn out wooden shingles.
Chinese roof tiles of the green-glazed variety. Every time I see these tiles, of which there are many out here, they remind me of Michael Palin's 'Around the World in 80 Days' adventure in which he was challenged by Terry Gilliam to return with such an item as proof of distant travel. This he did, prising a tile from the roof of a rundown railway building in China. The tiles shown in this photo however, currently keep Hong Kong's Lung Mo Temple weatherproof and removal for whatever reason is unlikely to be appreciated !
Here's another dahlia at Lexington Community Farm, seen in a 50-frame focus stack. It was drizzling lightly, but my camera is weatherproof. I used Helicon Focus to blend the images together.
I haven’t uploaded any photos to Flickr for over eight months, but there was a good reason for it.
My wife and I decided to pull up our Colorado roots of nearly 28 years and head out of state to a new and unidentified location to call home. The process actually began on December 1, 2024, when I began dismantling my large N scale model railroad 25 years in the making. By March 2025, most of it was in a large heap on the now empty basement floor, with a few sections saved and given to a couple of friends. What followed was packing, selling or rehoming the rest of our stuff. Meanwhile, I found an topper for my wife’s old 1996 Dodge pickup, and after some makeshift weatherproofing, loaded our futon mattress into the 8-foot bed. It’s purpose yet to come.
During the fervor of packing, Katie’s horse Lilah was relocated to a boarding facility north of Denver, and soon after we loaded the empty horse trailer with more stuff from the garage and basement that we didn’t want to store with the moving company. It was also stored, along with Katie’s car, at the horse’s new location. After a garage sale, we filled an 18-yard dumpster that stayed in the driveway for a week—the old couch, kitchen chairs, layout pieces and anything else that needed throwing away—went bye-bye. We packed our vehicles with camping supplies and last minute things we didn’t get packed for the movers, now ready for the next phase of our journey. The house was empty and would shortly be put up for sale.
On April 9 we pulled out of the driveway for the last time, vehicles crammed with two humans, two Beagles and hopefully all the supplies we need to take us on the road trip to our new home. There was no looking back now..., except when I had to make sure Katie was still following me since her Dodge is a 5-speed manual equipped with a Cummins diesel and she needed a bit more time going through the gears! Northward ho!
We stayed our first night in a campground at Douglas, Wyoming. In the search for our new home, we planned on checking out properties in both the Cowboy State and Montana. The dogs loved curling up with us in the back of the Dodge, especially on nights like the one we had at Cottonwood Creek Canyon, where high winds and temperatures in the teens made the Little Buddy heater feel pretty good in the morning! During our entire adventure, we never stayed in a motel.
From the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming, we traveled into Montana. We were camped along the Yellowstone River at Columbus when our house in Arvada went under contract on April 20—we were now officially ‘homeless’!
After traveling around Big Sky Country, we gravitated to the Clark Fork Valley between Missoula and the Idaho border. Camping along the river amid beautiful mountains and forests was most enjoyable while checking out properties for sale. We swam (more like ice dipped early on), read, warmed by camp fires and did all the other stuff you do during downtime when camping. I photographed trains and Katie even went fishing!
Four months of living out of the back of our vehicles culminated in our purchase of Whitepine Ranch between Thompson Falls and Trout Creek. It’s a 19 acre ‘ranch’ with cozy cabin, large heated/insulated shop, classic barn built in 1955, hay barn, carport and two hay fields. It also has several corrals and a pasture that Lilah now enjoys. We love it!
Most of the boxes are unpacked and as we settle into a winter routine at the ranch, I thought it was about time to share a few photos again on Flickr. Hopefully you’ll indulge me in some images of our grand adventure over the next few months. The photo above is of one of our campsites located at Trout Creek, Montana, on May 16, 2025. Operating over former Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, an eastbound BNSF coal train crosses Trout Creek where it empties into the Clark Fork as my wife Katie looks on.
The Fürstenzug (English: Procession of Princes) in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904.
The Fürstenzug is located on the outer wall of the Stallhof (Stables Courtyard) of Dresden Castle.
Phasianus colchicus male
We get lots of Pheasants in the garden, this one was sneaking around the back path trying to look inconspicuous.
I was going to do a close up of the feathers in a more abstract image but maybe that's for another day.
Got the hide weatherproofed today!
Waipapa Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Waipapa Point, Southland, New Zealand. It was first lit on 1 January 1884.
The lighthouse was built in response to the wreck of the passenger steamer Tararua on reefs off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881, with the loss of 131 lives. With its sibling, the retired Kaipara North Head Lighthouse, this was one of the last two wooden lighthouses built in New Zealand.
The lighthouse was automated and keepers withdrawn in 1975. It has been solar powered since 1988. A new LED beacon was installed externally on the balcony of the lighthouse in December 2008. Restoration work conducted in 2008 ensured it was weatherproof and secure from vandalism.
An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal.
Escalators have the capacity to move large numbers of people. They can be placed in the same physical space as a staircase. They have no waiting interval (except during very heavy traffic). They can be used to guide people toward main exits or special exhibits. They may be weatherproofed for outdoor use. A nonfunctional escalator can function as a normal staircase, whereas many other methods of transport become useless when they break down or lose power.
Every week, Underground escalators travel the equivalent distance of going twice around the world. 90. According to TFL, London Underground trains travel a total of 1,735 times around the world (or 90 trips to the moon and back) each year.
There are 440 passenger escalators on the London Underground. This is at Green Park.
Remember early last year when Storm Freya paid an energetic visit to our shores one feisty weekend at the beginning of March? Possibly not; after all the storms seem to roll in one after another towards the end of the winter around here. This year it was the same, with Ciara, Dennis and Jorge arriving from the west to enliven February. Apparently the last one was due to be named Ellen in keeping with the alphabetical sequencing theme, but our friends in Spain saw it first and gave it a more continental flavour. We do get a lot of storms along the west coast of the British Isles. At least they had the decency to arrive at the weekends to bring a bit of drama to our photographic adventures.
Freya was also a weekend visitor, and it seemed rude not to head five miles down the road to Portreath to watch the action, elbow to elbow with a generous number of fellow camera wielding visitors as is always the case when the weather gets a bit exciting here. Eventually I managed to entrench myself in my favorite corner of the few square yards that provide this vantage point. In this chosen spot you can watch incoming rollers that race towards the inner harbour drench the unsuspecting viewers on the edge of the quay below as you wonder whether you should have warned them (although I suspect they're aware and they do it for fun). Occasionally one of the bigger waves will carry enough force to even reach our lofty position so you have to be ready to spin through one hundred and eighty degrees and crouch down rapidly to protect your precious camera equipment. It doesn't matter how weatherproof the camera is. Sea waterproof it is not.
On this visit I didn't bother with a tripod - a rare thing - and I set the camera in burst mode. This resulted in sifting through almost 700 RAW files later in the day, from which I picked a few. Sometimes I feel that the more fun I have actually taking the shots, the less pleasure it brings when I have to decide which of the fruits of my labour I'm going to work with. Until recently I'd left the folder full of images untouched, but just a few days ago I decided I needed to clear some space on the laptop. 700 files became a still confusing 28, which made this morning's happy little spell of absent minded pottering about in Lightroom slightly easier than it otherwise would have been. It's still challenging, because every image I've kept has a different aspect that catches my eye. What I liked about this one was the curtain of water cascading from the harbour wall.
The are probably still one or two more I might share from this session. Once I've furrowed my brow at the remaining 27 shots in confusion that is.
Happy Sunday Flickr friends.
Waipapa Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Waipapa Point, Southland, New Zealand. It was first lit on 1 January 1884.
The lighthouse was built in response to the wreck of the passenger steamer SS Tararua on reefs off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881, with the loss of 131 lives. With its sibling, the retired Kaipara North Head Lighthouse, this was one of the last two wooden lighthouses built in New Zealand.
The lighthouse was automated and keepers withdrawn in 1975. It has been solar powered since 1988. A new LED beacon was installed externally on the balcony of the lighthouse in December 2008. Restoration work conducted in 2008 ensured it was weatherproof and secure from vandalism.
Decided to stand under a large waterfall to test the Nikon's weatherproofing feature. It held up perfectly, as it should.