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Looking back on some of my summer shots. Can't wait for some better weather and an end to grey days and rain!
After reversing at Henwick, reflected in the windows of The Hive, a GWR Class 158 heads back into Worcester Foregate Street ready to work service 2T48, the 1452 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads.
Just got back from our baby posing class that we had with Beth Jansen in Oklahoma City. What a super time... great photographers, beautiful models, awesome studio, delicious weather and some hunky daddies willing to be photographed (more to come of that!). This was from the first day... just might have to start shooting on concrete a little more often!! What a beautiful set-up done by Tracy... she loves to get these babies snuggly wrapped... and they just love it, sleeping so soundly!
The first iteration of my beard around the mid 1960's, me thinks. It only lasted for a short time as Kitty et al did not care for it.
The current version started in 2013 and after some resistance Kitty did come to like it.
Side by Side is a picture of North America's two cranes. The one in from the Whooping and in one in back the Sandhill. You can often find them together in the same groups. Lovely birds.
One of the many things I enjoy about tramping is the opportunity to look back on the ground you have covered the previous day(s).
On this 6 day tramp, we travelled from the Cobb valley to the Aorere valley, via the Douglas range in Kahurangi National Park . Part of the route we took is unofficially known as the "low route" as it bypasses the most difficult section of the Douglas range known as the "Dragons Teeth".
This photo was taken as I look back at the low route. We descended into this (Anatoki) valley on one of the distant spurs on the right and camped on the river flats in the bush. The next day we made our way up the river to the headwaters and bush bashed on a compass bearing to this saddle and Adelaide tarn. This was all untracked travel and one of the better days tramping I have had.
Black-backed Sibia has a simple two-tone plumage but is a striking species nonetheless. It is a member of the Laughingthrushes and allies family (Leiothrichidae). This individual was seen near Thailand’s highest point, in Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai province.
Tonight was the first time i've been out taking photos since getting back from Utah. A quick ride out to a local field that had been harvested a couple of days ago!
End of the first day of my first tattoo. Work by Zoe Windle of Shamanic. Sorry for the reflectopant shot..
I have never enjoy doing b&w before, during this challenge it bought back my interest in b&w development of film....
With this simple trolley we travel in many country. It’s much easier,than you need to wear backpack on your back,specially,if you travel by hitchhiking and walk a lot.
Now back on CSS rails, the 2005 leads the detour move South across the CN diamonds in Stillwell, IN.
In Venice even the back streets are amazing!
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Name: Black-backed kingfisher
Scientific: Ceyx erithaca
Malay: Pekaka Kerdil / Pekaka Rimba / Pekaka Sepah
Family: Alcedinidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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#1 Explore, Mar 18, 2012
Grey Nurse Shark
Carcharias taurus
South Solitary Island, NSW
First dive back after an O-ring failure caused my system to flood.
EXPLORED !
here i am playing with my glasses. they are kind of old pair but close to my heart. i like them more than the new ones i got.
After some RL health issues and a bit of break, I am back and hoping to start back blogging and taking photos! So please keep tuned in to see what is next!
Those pesky Cupids are back to cause lovey-dovey havoc across the SL grid. Get ready to slay them by smashing, smooshing, and squishing them before they infect you with love! 💘
The MadPea Cupid Catastrophe 2022, a two-week grid-wide hunt, is coming soon! Stay tuned for more info!
Infrared photo of a cut across road on the way to town. It is a gravel road.
The fog was lifting and the sun was breaking through.
Buildings on the left are part of an Amish settlement.
I’m not a hardcore birder, I shoot only when both the opportunity and mood arise simultaneously, both of which does not happen very often.
I remember feeling challenged shooting this bird and as such it was a great experience.
1. Tiny bird, smaller even than the common Kingfisher but way more colourful.
2. This being a Forest Kingfisher, it’s always in the thicket, never in the open. Had to shoot at very low shutter speed hoping to catch it in between twitches just to keep ISO low enough to preserve details. Being as dim as it was, had to also boost up the EV to avoid having to do any shadow recovery.
3. 600mm even on APS-C crop was barely sufficient.
4. Trying to squeeze out as much details as possible. Used normal wireless release via OVF; MUP+EFC; Live-view, none made any consistent and significant difference. This was where I got a little mad at Nikon’s useless implementation of EFC on the D500, even more useless than the auto AF fine-tune feature. What’s the point of putting in features that don’t really work!? EFC in Live-view would have helped but infuriatingly, you can activate EFC in Live-view yet you can’t use EFC in Live-view, get your act together Nikon!
5. Getting the right pose with the beak pointing sideways and preferably upwards for the slightly haughty look plus some catch-light in the eye.
An experience to remember. a most beautiful bird, its red feathers extend down the centre back of its head to the collar in a narrowing ridge looking like its beak with the dark blue patches on each side of this ridge giving it the appearance of having eyes and beak at the back of its head! This is likely a defensive marking. Especially interesting when the Micronesia Kingfisher became extinct in the wild due to introduced brown tree snake sneaking up on it from behind while the bird was totally focused ahead and below as kingfishers normally do.
Shooting very small birds is always challenging as conditions constantly change with the subject constantly on the move while you aim for that perfect pose which can disappear in a twitch.
I toyed with the idea of getting the Sony a99ii with A-mount Tamron 150-600mm G2 after this but gave it up eventually. It’s not feasible to shoot with so many different systems.
Shot on tripod at 1/15s!
Uploaded a much better image (albeit cropped) with my latest post processing workflow.