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A bit harsh maybe but if you live in a seaside town you will know just what havoc gulls cause. Many a time, I have seen them swoop down and make off with someone's food or ice cream. I once saw one swallow an entire sausage which was hot! This one wasn't going to move for me to get my shot of Polperro so I made him a feature. Whilst in Looe, a woman sitting next to me, eating a sandwich, got 'hit' good and proper by a gull. It went all over her arm and t-shirt. I am one of those people who carry everything in my bag and was able to assist her with wet wipes. It was so bad I had to help her remove her t-shirt. Luckily she had a sweatshirt around her waist that she could wear
Feuerwerk über Mainz
Leider hat der Nebel über Mainz und Wiesbaden die Sicht auf das Feuerwerk etwas erschwert, aber anfags konnte man von der Südbrücke aus doch die eine oder andere Rakete erhaschen. Ich habe hier drei Bilder mit der gleichen Perspektive übereinander gelegt, damit der Mainzer Dom wenigstens ganz vage zu erkennen ist :D.
This clown was down on 3rd street in Santa Monica. I appreciate his can do attitude getting dressed up and hanging out hoping to make some money. Never the less, still a bit creepy.
A bit of Spring, already?
Shot taken in my garden with a macro lens: my very first attempt with that kind of ones.
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Bit of an Easter theme going on here with the church and the 'daffs' , roseberry-topping in the background and the moon rising between the branches, very faintly.
This was a bit of an accident. I was playing around with many options on this old bottle we had in the house, which had a LOT of arrows on it.. I decided to pour beer in the bottle, and it resulted in a foamy mess, which resulted in this. I then accidentally over adjusted the saturation, but then liked it. My original choice was to go for black and white. Hope you all see the arrow!
A bit sketchy to get to this spot. And even sketchier to go further.
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After a bit of a break, Ted Craig Photography and I are back with our Yogi Tea inspired series!
This quote really spoke to me, with my upcoming trip across the U.S. and another even BIGGER chapter starting in my life (more on that later) I've really been excited to see where my life story leads!
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This is a 1 1/2” carbon steel crimped wire drill bit. The strong & sharp wires go all around the bit. I got it to rough up some clear acrylic, but it’s mostly used to remove rust. Wound up using a metal flat-head (slotted) screwdriver to push out some of the spikes for more interest. Don’t use your fingers, as I tried at 1st. Ow. lol.. Happy Macro Monday!
Hoping for clear sky and a bit of wing , hoping to catch some sailboats, I called few people from our photo club www.surreyphotographyclub.ca
to go to one of my favorite places – Crescent Beach in South Surrey – White Rock. We didn't get any breeze and the sky was getting hazy even at 7am. Still we were able to take few shots. This is the place that I can spend hours – actually I did on few occasions. This time just after 7am.
See where this picture was taken, Crescent Beach - South Surrey / White Rock [?]
Explore Jul 2, 2009 #307
From recycled bits of handmade cotton crochet, vintage rose glass buttons, mother-of-pearl emblem, tourmaline gems from discarded earrings.
Had a bit of a dilemma yesterday afternoon, do I go back to Dartmoor for more snow or head towards the coast, obviously I choose the later. This is another location I'd never been to before and when I left the car I really didn't realise what I was up against, the hike nearly killed me! The sunset never really mounted to much but it could have been worse. As the Sun poked out from the clouds for one last time I tried to get everything pointing sunwards.
Shot with d3100 and Nikon 12-24mm
Any constructive crit welcomed.
Cheers,
Gary.
Edit: I've just started a Facebook page to show some more of my photos, hopefully it will be used for all types of photography that I will be experimenting with. I also hope to use it to build up some like minded contacts. There's not much on there at the moment but over the coming weeks and months I will be adding plenty. If you are a facebook user and have time please take a look and maybe even like. Feel free to leave a link for any facebook pages you may have for me to check out. Cheers, Gary
The cow on the left and the calf in the middle are the ones I posted earlier this month. The cow on the right was peacefully grazing nearby and kept getting closer. I thought maybe the mom might get a bit defensive, but all remained calm. Again, this is two cows and one calf...not a cow and two calves. The cow on the right is on lower ground, making her looks smaller.
This was taken during the rut and there was a large bull nearby but he stubbornly remained in tall, dense willows so no shot of him on this day.
Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming.
Bits and bops from shopping trip to Men Only Monthly with NX-Nardcotix David. Credits and info on my blog. billybeaverhausen.com/2018/06/21/taking-david-to-mom-june...
A bit of a distant shot but it's always good to capture these little birds.
The Stonechat is a strikingly patterned small chat often seen perched prominently on gorse in their favoured heathland habitat.
This species has undergone dramatic change in distribution over the last few decades. In winter, the species distribution has increased to cover 80% of the UK, whilst the breeding range is creeping eastwards from its western strongholds. The species is found throughout the island of Ireland all through the year, although again western areas form its core range.
Stonechat is a partial migrant, with many birds staying here all year, and some migrating to southern Europe and North Africa. It is thought that a series of mild winters favours those birds that stay behind, and that beneficial habitat changes through early stage plantations enable Stonechats to increase their breeding range.
Here's something a little bit different today. I stumbled across two large caterpillars of Fox Moth this week within a metre or two of each other, but no others despite searching. This one was crawling around on the recently deceased flowers of heather on the moors. They are big too, as long as my longest finger though not quite as wide, or maybe wider if you include all that fur. This one shows the eyes and face really well and reminds me of that famous illustration of the smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. Those tiny things that look like legs below the eye are actually larval antennae which smell the vegetation to make sure it is suitable to eat. Fox Moth caterpillars hatch in June and are fully fed by September, but they overwinter as a caterpillar under moss or leaf litter and don't pupate until the following spring. They don't feed in the spring but sunbathe conspicuously. I often see Cuckoos taking the fully-grown caterpillars of Fox Moth in April and early May, as they seem to specialise on eating big, hairy caterpillars.
The name Fox Moth is from the colour of the adult moth. Male Fox Moths are often a foxy orange whereas females are more grey. I've just realised I haven't uploaded an actual Fox Moth yet so I'll do that later, though I think mine is a rather grey male. The caterpillar is apparently sometimes known as the Devil's Gold Ring. When young the caterpillars are black with golden rings, and maybe the Devil's because the irritating hairs can cause a rash on sensitive skin. Though I wonder if it is because caterpillars often curl up into a ring if disturbed, though they look more bronze than gold. Its scientific name is Macrothylacia rubi. Macrothylacia translates as "large bag" from the papery, cigar-shaped coccoon. Rubi is the scientific name for one of its many foodplants; Bramble. Though it is nearly always feeding on heather or bilberry whenever I see it.
Bit of a tweaked variant of my standard design, i'm trying to come up with a backstory for this version and how Arthur acquires it. I've narrowed it down to a few options.
A: It's a heavily modified and more advanced version of The Empress.
B: It's the main mode of transport for an alternate universe version of Arthur, that somehow ended up in the main universe
C: It's Chitty, and follows from a previous idea I had of Arthur acquiring Chitty.
D: it's a replacement for The Empress, that Arthur built from blueprints for the Paragon Panther
Little Nova seemed a wee bit stressed of late so she's been kickin' it with me. Seems to have had a really positive impact as her coat is returning to normal!
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It was a bit diffuse earlier in the morning, a few minutes before it really exploded. This is looking south from my campsite, though. It's always promising when the aurora is south of us.
A bit of a dog day yesterday. Toby was ill first thing and very weak so we took him to the vets. With dog nearly 17 we are always on edge with his health and more so yesterday. He eventually picked up a little with the help of medication and he poo’ed and ate always milestones with any dog just ask their owners. With Toby having a relatively comfortable afternoon I ventured down to Roker to see the waves in-between the horizontal drizzle/mizzle. The visibility was poor at best but I did manage a couple of snaps that were OK, thats with the amazing power of Lightroom to cut through the drab.
The last bit of sun shows just before dipping below the clouds. We got treated to a pretty sunset from above the clouds shortly before landing. The sun seems to do strange optics like this odd reflection thing you see. (see this photo used on the atmospheric optics website: www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/smir11.htm )
Note: I recieved this in email, Les hope you don't mind me putting this here:
Hi,
Your 'last bit of the sun' image showing on the sundogs
group is an impressive example of a ducted mock-mirage
sunset.
I have an educational site "Atmospheric Optics" at
Can I show your image in the sunset mirages section please?
www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/sunmir.htm
You would get full credit (name needed!) in the caption and
you retain all rights.
Thanks
Les
From the high point of the escarpment , looking backwards to where I just came from,
The great circuit walk at the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye.
The walk is magical, because each part of it is unique.
(4 shots stitch using ICE)
Weather was ever changing. Sometimes sun would come out giving opportunity for a better photos.
The Quiraing is the largest landslide in Britain, but it is not a torrential rain-induced landslides. It’s part of something much larger in size.
The weight of all volcanic rock, formed 50million years ago, slowly took its toll on the weaker Jurassic sedimentary rock below, which fractured and broke under the strain, and volcanic rock have been slipped down the hillside; this process is still going.
Trotternish ridge, Scotland
The image has notes on it
This particular hike was a bit of a disaster. Our aim was to climb a nearby 10,000 foot hill by the name of Mount Siyee, but being a visitor and guest in Montana I chose to let my two Montanan pals do the planning. Imagine my surprise when they advised that they didn't have a map and only possessed an old guide book. Never mind the weather was set good for the day so we'd find a way to the summit. Well, their guidebook was forty years out of date and our instructions advised that we should take a left turning up a prominent ridge at the end of a plantation of trees. We did this but weren't aware that two miles of additional trees had been planted up the valley. The result was that our ascent would take us towards the summit of Cracker Peak from where it might have been possible to traverse a high ridge to the summit of Mount Siyee.
This photo of Mike shows him making his descent of the ridge we climbed. Craig had already thrown the towel in on account of the terrible loose rock we had to contend with, so Mike and I continued on up the crumbling mountain. We scaled the ridge seen here and then reached a ridiculously steep snow slope. Mike called it a day and left me suffering from a combination of summit fever and frustration at their lack of planning. I continued and made good progress to an island in the snow before finally realising that there was a huge snow slope just waiting to carry me away to a certain inevitable end. I saw sense gingerly made my way back to Mike and then we descended the crumbly strata seen here.
It would be a very long hike back to the road and then a race to catch the last bus back to the summit of Logan Pass where our car was parked.