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A wonderful sunset at Zabriskie point from a quick visit to DVNP last year. I already posted one image from this evening last year, but I found the incredible folded landscape at Zabriskie so mesmerizing I felt like processing another shot from there.
One of my favorite book/radio series is the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and in one of the later chapters our hapless heroes (and heroine) meet Slartybartfast (Adams had a great knack for names) who was a "planet designer" specializing in designing fjords, and was especially proud of having won an award for Earth's Norwegian fjords, and described them as having "Lovely crinkly edges". I may have misremembered it as "crinkly bits" or maybe there's some difference between the radio show and books. Regardless, that phrase stuck in my head as I worked on the photo because these are also truly lovely crinkly bits, just at a different scale than the fjords.
For anyone who has not had the pleasure, I refer you to the original BBC radio series as the best way to appreciate it. The books are also good. Various TV and movie renditions much less so. Douglas' Adams writing is a uniquely delightful blend of funny, silly, quirky, deeply insightful and (it turns out) in some odd ways profoundly prescient (the "infinite improbability drive" seems like a fantastically funny take on the strangeness of quantum theory).
Two bits times 2 = Four bits. It was worth it. I gave this couple a couple of quarters to feed the ducks and keep them busy while I circled around the cement pond to get in position for this shot. Money well spent.
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
210mm
F6.3@1/80th
ISO 6400
DSB_0857.JPG
©Don Brown 2025
Bit of an accident as I tried to get a good exposure late at night in a dark square. Turned out rather well though! (I think)
Let me cast a little bit of sunshine into your lives!! Happy Monday! One of the blooms on the hosta plant I planted last year! YAY!! It didn't die!! :) I wish you all a blessed and wonderful Monday. I am working again today, tomorrow and Wed. and then should be off for TEN, yes count them, TEN days!!! Then will probably be working EVERY day for I don't know how long.
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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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My new man is bit of an animal and doesn't look very impressed with his new bride.
Otto has been avoiding getting hitched for many a year but at long last I made an honest otter of him .
i do like having a laugh when out taking photos
A wide view of the port and station of Holyhead as the 3S71 Coleham - Coleham with 56078 and 56302 has a hour layover . To the left a TFW CAF 197 unit and a MK 4 set with DVT . Over to the right traffic is gathering for the 1515 ferry to Dublin which takes 3 and a half hours .
In December 2024 the port infrastructure was damaged when two ferries collided with a berth during Storm Darragh making the port unusable .It did not reopen until January 2025 when one of the berths was brought back into use , The port fully reopened in July 2025.
Calke is a bit different from most National Trust properties in so much as it is not restored but allowed to decay gracefully over the course of time.
Something a bit different.....
An image put together from six frames captures Ribblesdale and Penyghent in light and shadow as GBRf Shed no. 66760 "David Gordon Harris" heads south towards Horton-in-Ribblesdale with the 11:25 Arcow Quarry – Bredbury Tilcon loaded aggregate (6M38).
The train was the first image taken, and the rest were captured once the train had moved out of sight. No tripod used but a couple of practice efforts to ensure the "pan" would incorporate things like an unbroken fence, sheep pen, and skyline. Given the swiftly changing light conditions I used auto-exposure and then adjusted each frame in PS to balance the light before putting them to the stitching process. I also cropped some of the frames to nudge the stitching program into selecting the bits of each frame I wanted to include and exclude. Finally, a bit of dodging and burning here and there to even out the finish. Quite a bit of work really for an image that's hardly going to make conformable viewing on some, if not most, devices!
14th September 2017
As you know i had a rubbish dance lesson last Sunday just because I felt awkward! well it seems i wasn't the only one. One of the ladies came over to me on Thursday during a different class and said how she was ignored and probably wasn't going to go back to the Sunday classes and another couple said how slow the class was. So it would it seem it was just a rubbish lesson and nothing to do with how i was viewed :-)
As it goes the Thursday lessons are just nuts they move along at such a pace and the members are great and are getting used to be now.
Down point was my makeup was a little too light, all down to the joys of getting ready in a car at night
This gull tried for several minutes, unsuccessfully, to get this starfish in a position to eat, dropping it and picking it up again. However, he did manage to get a leg off.
Bit of a classic shot from the Natural History Museum. I was surprised by how big the place was, it seemed like it just went on for ever.
I thought this looked like the tree had its own salad bowl. I wish this was in our backyard. I would put food for the animals in that bowl!
Bit of sun, bit of laughter, that's all I really need.
Which is to say, bit of afternoon sun with more-than-expected flare, coming in at just the right angle so as not to distract from the person I'm shooting, who's laughing despite herself due to my subtle yet effective machinations.
That's all.
Bit rough...
With much of the middle West Anglia mainline closed for engineering work, trains have been motioning to and from the sites with engineering supplies.
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66763 'Severn Valley Railway' leads an assortment of wagons and a DiT 66770 through Elsenham working 6T62 07:27 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Stansted North Junction 11/01/20
Although a bit thin this cub's in much better condition than the last one, thanks so much for the kind comments lately, especially on the last fox pic. After what Mary said I expected them to have run off with the water bowl but it was still there and full. I'm reluctant to contact the RSPCA over them for fear that they might put them down, as in the past I feel like I'd rather have them living wild, getting their treatment and some food rather than facing the uncertainty of captivity or even euthanasia. Although they're in various states of illness I still get the same thrill seeing them and photographing them, it's not often you get the chance to see them up close : ) Shot from the car without a teleconverter.
Nowadays, I'm not one to wear too many accessories ~ dress shirts and ties are somewhat in the past and only worn on very special occasions!
However, I do still have some cufflinks and tiepins ~ including a Disney trie pin with a "warning!" oh and a Concorde tie pin!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Accessory....
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Being a Year Seven, Sophie gets one of these to help her coding skills, a brilliant initiative. It also helps her Dad with his too. I'm more excited than she is.
Made another cubedude..really fun builds..credit to Maclane for the cubedude invention..the claws/abs/hair are mine as well as other little touches but Maclane has more then inspired me with his great cubedudes..one more WIP left to finish..while im probably more of a Batman fan in the past..it seems the Wolverine has made it to equal fav..can t wait for X men days of future past! Thanks for the support guys..i like how the shadow is kinda like an X
A little bit further on the north side of the Deutschherrnbrücke (Deutschherrn Bridge) I took this shot of the construction site of the new European Central Bank Headquarters. On the horizon you still can see the skyline of Frankfurt a little bit. I used a ND8 filter here to get a long exposure during the day. In the post processing I used some simple effects to make an high-key image here which I thought would add a cool touch to the image. I also made a black and white version of this shot which I might upload at another day.