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I overheard a lady remarking on how loud these must have been. I didn't give it a thought until she said it, but yeah.
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Nikon Z6, FTZ, Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5
Exposure X7, Color Efex Pro 5, Silver Efex Pro 3
NS 8098 the real (Conrail) leads NS 189 across Tenbridge as engineer Gravett eases the train around to spell in preparation to tie down. The outbound Atlanta crew wouldn’t be OD till 11:20 later that evening.
Salt Creek is the, seasonal, remainder of a large freshwater lake that once occupied the Death Valley. What you see on the ground isn't snow - it is salt.
Image taken along the scenic stretch of Big Sur coastline.
Noticeable is the famous Bixby Bridge, one of the most photographed features on the West Coast due to the aesthetic design and because of its location along the scenic Central Coast of California.
Thank you for your comments,
Gemma
A big cloud standing over lake Vegoritida in northern Greece.
This is the fantastic view from the small church of Holy Spirit above the village of Agios Panteleimon at the shores of the lake.
I went looking for bluelbells very early yesterday morning but found wild garlic...
Weston Big Wood, Weston in Gordano, Somerset.
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Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
I've tried so many times to get a clear shot of this beautiful big bird and today there were so many Herons flying around guarding their patch! This I think is one of my faves as it was so close to where I was standing!
laser triggered bare flash from the right
(Yongnuo 560 1/128)
timer (captur hähnel)
dropmachine (eltima)
2.flash with a sphere from the front
(godox macro 1/128)
leica dg macro elmarit
blue backdrop
liquid:
tap water,xanthan gum,food colour,milk
Wikipedia: Wat Phra Yai, known in English as the Big Buddha Temple, is a Buddhist temple on Ko Phan (also spelled Koh Fan or Koh Faan), a small island offshore from the northeastern area of Ko Samui, Thailand, connected to that island by a short causeway 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) north of Samui International Airport. As its name indicates, it is home to a giant, 12-metre-high (39-foot) gold-painted Buddha statue. Since being built in 1972, it has become one of Ko Samui's main tourist attractions and a major landmark.
Car Spotting in Bogata, TX. I used just an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, teeny tiny, little bitty, very small bit of Photoshop on this one,
Ran aground on a Southern California beach as it was coming back to port after a night of fishing. The crew said they dozed off and were running the boat on autopilot. They were not injured. The boat will be salvaged.
A common merganser catches a exceptionally large fish in the morning.
I was tracking this merganser waiting for it to swim into a better background, so luckily I was on it when it caught this fish, I don't know if it's not used to catching big fish like this, but it took a while to get it head first to swallow.
Many countries have their big birding events, in Germany there is an annual winter bird count and a garden bird count in January, and May, respectively. And there is the birdrace on the first May weekend, during which individuals or teams try to find as many species in 24h as they can. In the US, but also around the globe, users of eBird are encouraged to participate in „Global Big Day“, which this year took place on May 10th. I am usually in the US for the first week of may, attending a conference, so I had the opportunity to go birding in the US that day. Just the weather started out pretty miserably that day - after about 24h straight of rain, the morning was still very wet. This tree swallow was up and awake, but not in hunting spirit with the rain and very little insects out. Fortunately, the weather turned much better soon after that, so that I could see and hear a few more birds.
A group of 7 Big Horn sheep a mile away from where I am camping in Snow Bird Mesa, near Overton, Nevada
At descent from Setzberg, already near to our hut, the near mountains of Tegernsee could be seen with a beautiful sky at dusk. Clouds were forming kurios figures. Can you see the big bird coming near to Buchstein in the center of the image? I can imagine another bird arising at the left.
Taken from the tripod with the 75 mm lens and exposure time of 6 s. The Raw file was edited in Lightroom with a mask for the sky to be able to edit it separately.
Big Moose on an evening stroll in Denali National Park - Alaska, USA
Moose are the largest of all the deer species. Only males have antlers, which can spread 6 feet from end to end.
Moose have long faces and muzzles that dangle over their chins. A flap of skin known as a bell sways beneath each moose's throat.
An adult Male (or "bull") normally weighs from 380 to 700 kg (838 to 1,543 lb) and female (or "cows") typically weighs 200 to 490 kg (441 to 1,080 lb).
Big seven is a rather risky reggae song from my youth by Judge Dread. This shot has nothing to do with that , but I loved the scales of justice idea with this balancing of pebbles in fishing nets. This gives a better sense of scale than the other shot I posted.