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I've been working on this one for awhile, and this is the first result I feel ready to share. You are looking at an 11-image stitched panorama taken on a bridge over the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park, Alberta at about 2:30am in early August. Each exposure was 30 seconds long, to let in the light from the distant stars and highlight the rest of the Milky Way galaxy. All the colors present in this panorama were there in the original images.
Apparently Jasper's "Dark Sky Festival" ended just a few days ago, on Sunday. I should be on the lookout for others who may have chosen this location to shoot from! And maybe some year I can return for this festival :). #darkskyfestival
The weather was bad and still raining. The black clouds and the trees make the ambient light very low. Although I have already push the ISO to 1,000 and f/stop to 6.3 for acceptable sharpness; yet the shutter speed still needed 1/80 sec. The slow shutter speed would make the leaves a little bit blurry. There were fairy big trees that had changing colour leaves gave the image foliage mode. Unlike other autumn images that usually give brilliant and bright fall colour, this one just was an opposite feel in such low contrast lighting condition.
A ferruginous bee grabber watching from its ambush position on a knapweed flower in Prenton Dell Claypit. For the first time I actually witnessed bees being grabbed to receive eggs that seal their fate.
Prenton Dell Claypit is a nature reserve close to home that I didn't realise existed until I spent a recording day there with the Tanyptera Project. It is spare land owned by National Grid next to a major switching installation and they are mandated to increase its biodiversity through management. I shal certainly return.
Witnessing these majestic birds perform their intricate courtship ritual is a symphony of nature's romance.
Today (Dec. 03, 2016) around 8:00AM, I was lucky to witness an amazing event about a predator (a falcon) and a prey ( a Dove). The event happened at a cliff on the west side of hudson river not far away from New York city. A young male falcon caught a dove and quickly perched to a branch sticking out of the cliff. The dove is apparently live and well under falcon's left talon. The dove was fighting hard (I mean really hard) to get away from falcon's grip. For a few seconds, the Dove indeed seems free and ready to escape the death. In this picture (one of the whole sequence and the background is the cliff and light condition is bad), you can see the Dove seems flying backward and its wing was broken, its feathers are flying. You can see the desperate beg in Dove's eye. Falcon's left talon still left with Dove's feathers (probably a piece of Dove's body) and he is looking directly into Dove's eye, wing widely spread and is in full attack mode. Dove indeed got away for a few feet from the perch but falcon is just so fast and it snapped the Dove right away and this time no escape. Without seeing the event unfolding, you never would imagine this. Usually falcon brings back preys to perch and preys are mostly dead. This dramatic event shows just a small example of wonder of nature and it is pure luck being able to capture this.
I found this little one hanging from a line - unusual for a jumping spider, though I've witnessed it several times. Although jumpers don't make webs with which to catch prey, they're still capable of producing silk. They use it for transportation - for ballooning, or for getting around like the one here. They use it like a "breadcrumb trail" to know where they've been and also as a safety line, letting it out behind as they explore. They can use it as a tether so that when they leap into space to catch prey, they can return to their point of origin. And they can weave a cozy little retreat out of it to hunker down in for winter, or protection when molting, or to lay their eggs in.
I photographed this one in Texas, but I often see the same species back home in Virginia. BugGuide shows its range covering most states in the eastern half of the US.
16 Arachtober 2019
Colonus sylvanus
Previously Thiodina sylvana
Oleander Acres RV Resort, Mission, TX
20 November 2018
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"Fierce is she with flowing mane
No stranger to feel or witness pain
Fast she stands with shield in hand
Defender of her sacred lands
And full prepared to bring an end
To any who would dare offend
With shaft of glistening, speeding light
Fired from bow with deadly sight
The Maiden stands tall and proud
Battle Roar long and loud"
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Kalliope, the blind werewolf, and Elijah, her seeing eye wolf, wandering suspicious halls!
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Interior of Poptaslot, Marsum
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias +1 EV
(software Sony Raw converter, PaintshopPro X2)
While I was shooting this abandoned house the owner stopped on the road to talk to me. He saiid it had been in his family for a long time and was sad that it had fallen into disrepair, but proud it was still standng.
Church San Pedro González Telmo. Located in the oldest area of Buenos Aires was built in 1734 by Jesuit missionaries. He witnessed the growth, progress and decadence of the city of Buenos Aires. Even today it retains some of its old splendor. San Telmo. Old Buenos Aires city. Argentina.
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The 1898-built Gull Harbour lighthouse stands guard as the aurora borealis plays overhead...I can only imagine all the light shows this structure has witnessed over the years. Until the mid-1960's there was a permanent lighthouse keeper who lived nearby, must have been a great job if you like being alone and in the dark.
Gull Harbour, Hecla Island, Manitoba, Canada October 11, 2017.
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Giant pine stands in silent witness to an amazing display of northern lights that began the night before and now into the early morning hours of 3/24/23. I wonder how many times this tree has stood in the colorful glow in the night sky over its lifetime. For me it's a night I won't soon forget. Tomahawk, WI (Lincoln County).