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This is another picture of Ms. Supercute (Tigger). It appears she's beaming with joy (Squirrels-2020-7815.jpg)
With the Olympics on, I thought that would be an appropriate title:)
The sun was shining after a lot of rain a few days ago when I took this shot, and then on Sunday morning, we woke up to about 6" of snow. That wasn't supposed to happen!
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This is a shot that occurred after the previous shot. It was a rather amazing cloud formation. After it hid the moon it quickly grew into a large rain cloud. I took a number of shots and will post a few more, the moon was in the perfect position to make for some pretty dramatic long exposures. Still at Panama City Beach, FL.
An experimental shot that didn't work too well but at the same time didn't turn out too badly. Food for thought for my next Milky Way trip. About as close to a selfie as I'm comfortable with!
This lamp post throws blue light on alternating parts of the building "Blue Planet"
Biotar 58mm f2 @ f2
I need a bumper sticker that says.."This Car screeches & careens to a halt at all Sunrays"
Seriously this day..driving along the Gorge...must have pulled off a dozen times...it was a spectacular sight! Hope you enjoy..It's hard to process something like this..so did the best I could. Just one exposure.
The dark of the forest lit by the beams of sunlight that had penetrated the tree canopy, casting shadows on the leaf laden floor.
Now this little guy was sure beaming because I chased him all over the yard trying to get a shot. He would let me get almost set up and then he would flutter away! I am sure I heard him cackle as he took flight! So this is the bet shot I could get out of my many attempts.View On Black
One of the strangest but at the same time most beautiful sunsets I have been lucky enough to capture.Taken at a beach in Wales, It had rained most of the day but bright sunshine prevailed for a couple of hours prior to sunset. Shortly after this image was taken the rain returned.
#MacroMondays
#OuterSpace
This is the interstellar starship EBS-14767 Papyrus M (of the "Metall advanced audio propulsion" class), preparing for its premier landing on the ringed gas giant Pureanus.
How do you land on a gas planet? The Papyrus M tightly locks onto the rings and projects a trajectory and "landing hull" onto the planet's surface. This landing space – it's the bright spot you can see on Pureanus's surface – is an expandable sphere big enough to take the lander. It protects the crew and the machines from the harsh, life-hostile outside atmosphere. From this sphere, the astronauts can also create smaller spheres, which allow them to leave the "mother sphere" and explore the entire planet.
More of the Solar System 3D puzzle. I assembled Mars and Uranus for this theme. My Mars idea didn't work out (although the Mars puzzle ball is so cute and tiny), so I went back to my other idea involving the rings. The smaller of the ringed gas giants is Uranus (plus it has these lovely turquoise-blue tones), which is why I chose it over Saturn, although the latter would have been the obvious choice.
Since the planet itself is more of a "real thing", I thought that at least the starship should be made from non-space-related items. I started with a tiny (and how tiny can one fold paper?) folded paper plane, moved on to a folded plane made of aluminium foil (the ship needs a heat shield for a safe re-entry, after all), and moved on to a simple metal pen holder/clip. It's one of those clips with a flexible coil (where the pen goes in) attached to the clip. That type of coil is always good for bokeh and also works nicely as a pretendedly "vital" part of any imagined machine or vehicle. But on its own, it looked as if Papyrus's rocket/ship section had gone missing at some point of her journey, and only the secondary hull or stardrive section with that ominous "planetary rings clip contraption" made it to "Pureanus". It would have been a sad ending, so I went searching for something that could serve as the actual starship/rocket component, and stumbled upon a gold-coated audio jack adapter.
HMM, Everyone!
The picture may have a lot of noise for which I apologise. Unfortunately the wood was very dark so I had to knock the ISO up to 1600, and still I could only get 1/20th speed to try and stop the fern blowing in the wind. When taking the shot I had seen this ray of light further up the stream so I set myself up and waited an eternity to catch it breaking where I wanted it too.
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An Arctic Tern practices for the summer Olympics on an apparatus at Potter Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska.
The city of Jaén is at the heart of the vast olive fields in Andalusia, Spain. The proud shape of Castle of Santa Catalina and the adjacent Parador Nacional de Turismo (a luxury hotel that occupies the ancient stable of the castle) dominate the city and offer a scenic view of the city against the backdrop of the massive mountains of Sierra Morena. It was a rainy day, but while my wife and I were having breakfast, the clouds opened up for a few minutes allowing the sun beams to break through with a dramatic effect. I rushed for my camera and managed to capture the scene.