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Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
Nikon 14-24
A bit of detail from the Glacial Moraine at the top end of Sassendalen in Spitsbergen.
I was standing above this spot for my last posted shot of this area.
Glaciers are never quite as pristine as you might think, they grind along the mountain sides and valleys wearing them away and bring all the rubble to the melting point where it gets deposited - 'right here'.
a little bit of sunshine in your life
always bring your own sunshine
pose and backdrop found at sunnys studio
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A sheeps bit scabious holding its own momentarily in a swirling sea of dandelion ,clover and wild grasses
Reminds me a bit of Jack and the bean stalk :-)
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Backyard bits. This is just for fun: I had the hardest time getting my camera to see this and not all the surrounding leaves because it was just a dot of a thing, much smaller than a house fly. I had to use manual focus, but without my reading glasses my eyes weren't much better than the camera's. So yeah, not the best shot, but it was fun watching this green eyed speck watching me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the chap lurking in the background is wondering why they aren't playing the starring role... It's a landscape heron!
A young Great Blue Heron making its way across the mud flats on Horsepen Bayou pauses to think things over before making its next move.
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I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
EXIF
Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
Bit noisy because of the high ISO
Location: Minatomirai, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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in a small moment ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO200 f/11 7mm -2 and 0ev
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhtotoLab 8, stacked and blended in Affinity Photo 2.6, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
The Shallows, Bass Point, Shellharbour, NSW
HBW!! This shot was taken on the same street as the previous. The red dot on the left is a bicycle reflector. (<-----that little tid-bit is for you, Georgie grrl) ;o)
Bit of a Marmite shot I would think.
the bokeh has not been added in post - shot though a dew covered branch in the foreground.,
When we stand in awe, our lips do not demand speech; we know that if we spoke, we would deprave ourselves. In such moments talk is an abomination. All we want is to pause, to be still, that the moment may last. It is like listening to great music; how it reaps the yield from the fertile soil of stillness; we are swept by it without being able to appraise it. The meaning of the things we revere is overwhelming and beyond the grasp of our understanding. We possess no categories for it and would distort it if we tried to appraise it by our standard of values; it essentially surpasses our criteria.
-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Bit of a story here....
Some 29 years ago (yikes!) I arrived in Sheffield having transferred from London Ambulance to take up my new post at Longley Ambulance Station.
I filled a vacancy there due to a chap leaving and going off to Canada to start a new life over there in the ambulance service.
His name was/is Lou Gelsthorpe.
The other day I was sat in Middlewood Ambulance Station when a guy came in and asked if there were any 'old' ambulance men about..
I said no everybody was out bar me and the cleaners.
I asked him what he wanted 'old ambulance men' for and he said that he used to work for South Yorkshire Ambulance a while back but had moved to Canada...
The penny slowly dropped and I asked him his name.....
Yes! It was/is the same guy! Lou Gelsthorpe!
I was amazed at seeing him and then I told him that I was the guy who took his place at Longley Station 29 years ago... It was then his turn to be amazed...!
What a thing eh!
For me to be at Middlewood Station when he called in on the off chance & not even the station we were both at 29 years ago either!.
Amazing..!
We sat down and had a bit of a reminisce and I got out the station photo albums and we looked through them and he saw guys and gals that he recognised and even remembered names of! I had to point out the ones who had not only retired but had unfortunately died as well.. (bit sad but very good too!)
He couldn't stay too long but I asked if I could take a picture of him and put it up here on Flickr..
So I did! There he is in the top one with one of our newest vehicles.....
Plus for a 'context' view I have placed him (in the lower picture) leaning on the very vehicles that both he & I drove & worked from out of Longley Station, but of course not at the same time!
Not a great 'clone' shot but I thought I'd put them together...
Wow what an interesting encounter eh!
Lou said that he had some old photos from his time with SYAS and would email them to me... So watch this space..
I work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service on the RRVs in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
This shot of Wahclella Falls in the Columbia River Gorge is a bit different. It is a panorama of the waterfall consisting of four horizontal images stitched together to make a big vertical image about 33 megapixels in resolution.
View in larger size and read about my adventure on my blog.
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Bit of a lucky shot. It was only afterwards, I realised, that a bee had flown in on the same focal plane as the butterfly, just as I took the shot.
The heavens opened and most folk took shelter as it didn't look to be improving Stu and myself retired to the pub, just to get out of the rain, honest...........
Sunday the 14th August felt a little bit different. The sun came out which was nice, but of greater significance was something missing on the streets of Edinburgh.
Moving around the Leith Walk, Meadowbank, London Road, York Place areas of the town it suddenly occurred to me that there were no Dennis Tridents about - and this is very much DT territory! I saw one actually on a 34 but not one other anywhere in several hours which gave me a most odd feeling.
Oh I know I've skirled and bemonaed the damned things for years - great herds of them roaming in every street corner....200 of them to be precise, but today an eerie absence. I muttered to myself that it was like the summer in 2009 when the gradual demise of the Alexander Royales grew faster with every week. The Tridents are going alright, but a virtual wipe out on a Sunday in August 2011 - this was something to make special note of.
And behold the new 381 at Sleigh Drive. The 25 is a bus one might not have even noticed for the last ten years or so such was the complete dominance on that route of Tridents between Riccarton and Restalrig. On Sunday though a full compliment of Gemini's, and nearly all 11-plates too. Seeing them approaching was like someone you know who is totally transformed from a scruffy, unwashed individual with dirty clothes and very much down at heel. Here now is the same being straight from the hairdresser, fresh and scrubbed, new shirt and tie with a smart suit on and shining shoes.
This is the NEW 25.
What a magnificent sight and I had to make myself concentrate on getting the photograph.
Bit of a lazy day, despite not staying up till midnight for the first time in years... We usually watch Hootenanny, but George Ezra was up first, which caused us to turn TV off and go to bed at 11.30pm. Not much point, as the West Chiltington bazooka brigade started up at midnight or thereabouts. More money than sense round here. At least I didn't have to deal with a terrified horse...
A first attempt at oil and water pictures... More work required methinks.
A bit late with the caption here, but as my esteemed Flickrites have made their feelings known with this scan all thats left to add that its Bolton's Moor Lane bus station in the early 70s with two fine Ribble vehicles in view.
Looks a bit like old derelict castle walls, eh? Bell Canyon falls, from early October. In Spring the falls are like a geyser, but this time of year they are very subdued, without the feed from snow melt.
This day was overcast, with occasional breaks allowing beams of light through; you can see a couple of patches on the lower stretch of that rock face just right of center. This vantage point is heavily treed, to further darken the mood.
A bit later in the morning, the sun broke over the ridge and began making great shadows on the snow. I captured some black and white 35mm here but didn't finish off the roll. Soon enough I will get it processed and upload it here.
I'd like to climb this mountain someday. And I'd also like to get the shot from the Illumination saddle. Soon!
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Someone is whispering softly to me
Shadows of things that no one can see
They are there for you is you want them to be
You want them to be
You want them to....
But in the night
The darkness breathes
If he wills it to be
Before his eyes
The music dies
But he will always hear me.
He sits alone
The cards are shown
As he embraces the dark
The only sound
That he will hear
Is there in his heart.
(Title is from "Fate" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Beethoven and the other is from "The Dark" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Beethoven. Very good songs. Both on the album "Beethoven's Last Night".)
Tonight is Christmas Eve, and we went over to a friend's house for a while. We ate, talked and shared. My mother got a bit drunk, but I think she deserved to get a little lose once in a while. She never really does. After chemo she can't quite hold her liquor as well, but it's okay. We had a driver.
She was trying to force me to talk with this guy that came over who was a year older than me. But I knew that we wouldn't get along. I hated that she was trying to force him on me. But whatever. She's my mother =]
In 15 minutes, it will be 12 midnight, and it will be Christmas day.
I slept 14 hours today, which is very unusual for me. I have a slight sleeping disorder, but my mother doesn't know that. I'll never tell her. It's not quite full insomnia, but I lie awake most nights for the majority of it, just thinking, not able to fall asleep. When I get a full night's rest like that, it throws me off and makes me even more tired. I can survive on an hour of sleep for a few days. It's not that unusual for me. I've once gone eight full days of no sleep before I couldn't take it anymore.
Well, I'm off to listen to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra again, Beethoven's Last Night, and think the night away. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah.
A bit of Blue, Blue skies, sunshine and Blue locos (2)
Shap Beck WCML - 1hr later DRS hire in (DB) 66122 brings 4M27 south from Carlisle running about 20 late, routed west out of Mossend, towards Ayr and then south via the GSWR to Dumfries & Gretna Junc. It was 7 early into Kingmoor, but 20 late away.