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The ruins of Spynie Palace near Lossiemouth. This bit is called David's Tower and dates to the 16th-century.
A bit fuzzy but the moon was very dark by midnight when the eclipse was nearly total.
Thanks very much to friends who have stuck with my during my wait for Flickr to fix my commenting. I have wasted time each day trying a comment and tried a different browser but it still didn't work.
When I have gone to Heather Farms in Walnut Creek in the past, this Red-shouldered
Hawk, or one that looks like it, never gives me a chance to raise my camera before it takes off. This day I spent, probably over two hours, as it repeatedly posed from tree to tree with me getting within a few feet of it and never looking at me. I finally, feeling 'a bit guilty' of possibly interfering with it's hunt, I decided to leave before getting my flight shot! Okay, I think it looked once and flew over my head!!...lol
It is very evident these days how a little bit of light can add so much to an image. This image was taken on another rare blue sky day we had in November when we hiked a waterfall in a national park. It was cold enough to form icicles along the path leading to the top of the falls. Although most of the path was shaded, there was enough light to create the blue color in the icicles. These days it is a challenge to take images with very little light and no moody atmosphere in our days. I even welcome some colder temperatures for macro shots of ice. Meanwhile, we shall start thinking of plans for our next road trip in 2025. We hope to visit a few more national parks in Canada.
No motorbike access to the beach section at Probacher pond between 11 am and 8 pm
Motorraddurchfahrt verboten zu dem Strandabschnitt am Probacher Weiher zwischen 11-20 Uhr
*spontaneous eruption of the bits and bobs box
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while on holiday a few shots have been taken and if shots were not lucky enough to get a lucrative position of "photo a day" they found themselves in the BBB (bits and bobs box). I am not sure what happened , did I disturbed the box or bits and bobs got a bit rowdy inside (maybe some quarrel occurred arguing who is bit and who is bob and the whole thing gone violent) but the thing , the box, erupted, it went boom! blown to pieces and bits and bobs were flying everywhere, when dust settled I said to them "hey bits! and you bobs! off you go to flickr! I got enough bother with "photo a day" business and go they did ...
if you follow me you probably are going to unfollow , and I can't blame you, as tens of bits and bobs are unleashed , they are coming ... and coming ... and coming ....
This image was made in Cornwall this year. I was trying to use the very hard and sharp nature of the rock to juxtapose the soft moving water against it. I find the contrast in these situations appealing; they are almost more than the sum of parts. I also particularly like the dark grey wet rocks texture against the foreground subtle colours. You can even see reds, browns and blues in there. I also like the subtle conditions I found myself in on this sunset shoot and the thin band of light on the horizon is almost understated. Honestly I was hoping for the sun to burst underneath it and illuminate the bottom of the clouds, but even though this didn’t happen I particularly like the contrast between the heavy clouds and stormy sea feel to this image. Anyway, this little part of the coast near Treyarnon bay I know rather well. I must have done about 100 sunsets over the years I’ve been going there, and I never tire of trying to make something new from it. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what you think…
This is a bit more grungy than my typical iPhone shots but hey I like it. I thought it gave the ferris wheel a spooky kind of mood.
Taken with my iPhone + Plastic Bullet + CrossProcess
(*I welcome and accept all positive and negative comments. If you have any constructive criticism please feel free to share as I am trying to grow as a photographer. Thank you!)
I hadn't expected to see 68067 at the head of a 6 coach passenger train, but it turned out after a diesel loco failure (sixties realism?) it was empty stock being taken away from the platform to the up carriage siding.
GCR Spring steam weekend event
Barking and bitting his ball at the same time. Why? Because I wouldn't give him the signal "one", "two" or "three" to run to the trees and back :) I was simply asking him "what do you want?", knowing I will, once again, make him doubt my IQ. I almost expected him to start barking s l o w l y, you know, so that stupid human would finally understand :)
Ouzo cannot simply be somewhere and run. He won't. (except at the park where he runs ahead to the water than waits for me there to thow a ball). Without having a proper reason, he would simply jump in front of you and maybe bark until you give him direction or produce a toy. He needs prompts, he needs actors, he needs rules. All our games have rules, which he remembers and sometimes changes. God forbids you'd call "Two" before "One", he shakes his head, trots in place and barks at you. But if he feels like changing the rules, then everyone needs to play accordingly.
He is a complex character, most of the time a very logical being, who loves a challange and most imporantly, loves to challange you.
Bit quiet for a while but I was out in the field on the Nyika Plateau in Malawi. Some "proper" internet for a bit so I can post something at last. Problem is that we saw so many outrageously fantastic things that I don't really know where to start.
Images captured in the breathtakingly beautiful Urabandai area in Northern Japan.
A mild winter so far gave us the chance to witness these early December sceneries one month late.
All images captured with the new Nikon 70-200 f2.8 E FL on the D810. This lens is simply amazingly good. Otus quality in a zoom lens. A first in my book.
A bit of garden moss growing in our garden. Bits of garden debris are on top of the moss (green). The debris looks like wood chips, dried grass clippings, and dead flowers from trees and bushes.
The round things with points are not "pointy nosed aliens" but are a "spore capsules" full of spores, which when mature, will open and allow the millions of spores to be blown about by the wind.
A little bit of fun playing around with the Flickr logo down at West Kirby recently lol
Thanks for looking,
Chris.
Met Life Blimp pilot was having a rough day with gusty winds, a bit up and down and slow forward speed, but interesting shot, found in North Carolina.
bit boring, but it’s currently my desktop background.
it makes me feel happy :-) .
taken from signal hill, looking over seapoint.
press L if you want to see a bit better the little bugger that fooled around that flower for 2-3 minutes before I eventually managed to get a half-decent shot.....
Iris had this to say about it:
buzzing bee
better not land on me
but on the flower gracefully
Have a great week ahead!
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