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More like Nuclear Ice Breakers. (Those are a real thing by the way, large vessels powered by nuclear reactors and used to clear paths in frozen seas. But that is not what this is).
This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Candy.
This is a pic of an Ice Breakers mint, sitting on a pile of crushed mints. The unusual look of the image has to do with the lighting. The image is lit with a single ultraviolet light source. Ultraviolet light is commonly referred to as black light. UV light causes many substances to fluoresce, and it appears that the ingredients of these mints fall into that group.
This image has not been heavily manipulated. Only normal adjustments have been made in Lightroom.
Fluorescence occurs when a substance absorbs the ultraviolet light and uses that energy to produce light that falls into our visual spectrum. It is quite fun to see what items fluoresce like this. I occasionally walk around the house at night shining my UV light on various items to see if they react.
HMM.
Purgatory for the old St. Nicholas Coal Breaker. There were local and national news stories in early 2015 about the start of demolition of this massive piece of industrial history, and how it was a metaphor for the coal industry, and how the old-timers were wistful. Then work slowed to a crawl or stopped. It had looked like this for more than a year when I stopped by on my way south.
Ice Breaker, Jokulsarlon Lagoon, Iceland
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The Painted Lady Butterfly completes a mammoth 12,000 km annual round trip from Africa to Europe and back again, crossing the Sahara Desert twice in the process - the longest recorded migratory flight recorded for a butterfly.
The seem to be entering the UK in quite high numbers at the moment and it was wonderful to see so many in the meadow.
This one looks a bit fresher than the more faded and battered one nearby (other shot).
Taken in Norfolk.
Long exposure of "ice breakers" near Marken. I'm starting to love this kind of minimalist photography.
Some background information:
After periods of severe frost the coast of Marken is sometimes threatened by drifting ice. Ice floes sometimes more than one meter thick and ten meters wide along the dike and the country would move here the locality Rozewerf (whose houses are built mostly of wood) to completely destroy.
For protection are twelve metal beams at an angle of about 30 degrees in the water placed. An ice floe who dread being pushed so lifted from the water under its own weight and break into small pieces.
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San Francisco's Batteries to Bluffs trail offers choice views of the Golden Gate Bridge and California coastline. Here's how the view looked on a slightly foggy summer afternoon.
Hurricane Erin was barely noticeable here on the Atlantic coast. A few swells broke over outer reefs but no waves above normal.
original painting Moon Over Breaker by Artist Ruth Hunter; medium: oil and cold wax onpanel; artwork size: 30x30"
Breaker Beachside
Full on sunshine, is usually a deal breaker. So I stuck a ND filter on the lens, at the time didnt own one. So I perservered, the light on the water is beautiful.
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Breakers in Plettenburg Bay. Look for the flying cormorant just left of centre to see the scale of these waves.
Welcome back Monday.
It's our annual chaning of the seasons day in Chicago. Yesterday morning it was sunny and in the upper 60'sF. This morning I left my place and it was cloudy and in the upper 20'sF. I think that is probably it for us for the next six months.
I hope that everyone has the day that they have, but that today is the start of a great week!
Olympus OM-D E-M5 MII
Olympus 9-18mm
Formatt Hitech 13Stop ND filter
Couldn't resist taking another of the same breaker especially as the sky was so inviting. I think this one works a little better in colour.
Kayak in a breaker at Freshwater Bay. I chanced upon this guy (with a couple of other kayaks) during a walk along the cliff-top. A beautiful afternoon, with wonderful sea colours!
This is a Fuji X-Pro2 raw file converted in Iridient Developer - it does seem much less noisy than LR CC manages at big magnification - with better colours (on a sample of not many trials yet...)
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more than one hour jumping on ice.
kids never grow tired of these things.
me neither from the moment i have my camera :)
85mm 1.2 L
Please scuse the quality of this photo but it is bout 42 years old. The Trail-breaker is/was manufactured by Rokon located in Keene, New Hampshire, USA . They still make em. As you can tell by the chain up front it was two wheel drive and I found it would take you anywhere you had guts enough to go and even beyond. Each wheel was hollow and would carry 5 gallons of liquid. I had 5 gal of gas in front and 5 gal of water in the rear. The thing would float as I found out while fording a river once. It literally floated out from under me. No problem, just swam it to shallow water stood it up and one kick started it and away we went. I climmed a trail once , very steep it was and found when I came back down I had to walk it down as the rear end wanted to leave the trail. Yup, that steep. Dangerous machine however as it would go places that spelled trouble. Lord but I loved that machine !! LOL
August 22, 2025
Hurricane Erin made a close enough pass to Cape Cod to push in some impressive surf. In these shots, the eye of the hurricane is around 350 miles to the South-East and making its turn to the North-East.
Although Thursday was the closest it would get, the waves would stick around all weekend, presenting themselves differently each day with changes in the wind and tides.
Nauset Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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The Old Breaker, another shot from last night at Allonby on the Cumbrian coast. A lovely glow in the sky giving some colour to the clouds.
Few more frames from the big sea's last week (or was it the week before 0.o) .. anyhow these were from the 'PM' folder, Day 2... Nothing special .. just liked them :-)
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 100-400/5-6.3 IS
ISO640 f/8 244mm -0.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhtoloLab 8, colour graded in Nik7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.