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Yesterday I joined Linda Cronin and Mickeydud on a trip to Bewl Water, a reservoir in Kent. Luckily this weather stayed in the distance.
A bit hit and miss weatherwise today near Petersfield, Hampshire...I always prefer some wonderful clouds to a featureless blue sky though!
Lake Sumter, Florida
Didn't think it would turn into a sunset, but the sun finally peeked out!
Have a good weekend!
The outside of Nottingham's future new Central Library, part of the Broadmarsh Car Park/Bus Station building. I don't know where the quotes are from -Google is no help.
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"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever." - Leo Buscaglia
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Well, last night I finally made the time to actually decorate the Christmas Tree I put up about two weeks ago. I don't know why I wasn't motivated to do it earlier, and to be fair I did a pretty poor job on it this year. I only put up about a third of the decorations and left the tree pretty bare. But, it works and no one sees the back of the tree anyway... right?
So, since I actually got around to decorating the tree, I figured why not use it today as a prop and make photography simple!
Hope everyone has had a good day!
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Brood X, the Great Eastern Brood of the periodical cicada has arrived in full force here in Maryland. While these will undoubtedly be photographed by thousands, I'm still excited to capture them for myself.
Beautiful day last week for our groups boat trip down the River Thames!
Bit of information come across was that Big Ben is the name of the bell inside. The debate surrounds the naming of the bell some say it was named after the engineer (who was called Ben) and some say it is named for a popular and rather boxer at the time called Ben.
Flint Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fflint) located in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
The site was chosen for its strategic position in North East Wales. The castle was only one day's march from Chester, supplies could be brought along the River Dee and there was by a ford across to England that could be used at low tide.
Building work began in 1277 under Richard L'Engenour, who would later become Mayor of Chester in 1304.
The castle is based on medieval French or Savoyard models where one of the corner towers is enlarged and isolated. This independent structure served as both corner tower and keep or donjon.
Nightcliff, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Darwin /ˈdɑːrwᵻn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 142,300. It is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre.
Darwin's proximity to South East Asia makes it a link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, ending at Port Augusta in South Australia. The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour. Its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east. Past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwin's satellite city, Palmerston, and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. Prone to cyclone activity during the wet season, Darwin experiences heavy monsoonal downpours and spectacular lightning shows. During the dry season, the city is met with blue skies and gentle sea breezes from the harbour.
The greater Darwin area is the ancestral home of the Larrakia people. On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area. John Clements Wickham named the region "Port Darwin" in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836. The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911. The city has been almost entirely rebuilt four times, following devastation caused by the 1897 cyclone, the 1937 cyclone, Japanese air raids during World War II, and Cyclone Tracy in 1974.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Lots of these Common Blues about again, this must be the second brood as they all look really fresh and colourful. I've been after a shot of these on dry grass with a dry grass background and after a lot of running around the temperature dropped and these guys took to their grass perches and stayed there. I did have to carefully bend back some bits of dry grass near this to help keep a clean image, but as the grass was dead it was Ok.
After a lot of messing around I ended up using my Tamron 180mm with a 12mm extension tube mounted on my heavy pro Manfrotto tripod and using a diffused flash, the flash was on ETTL and set with a bias of -3. Enough light to illuminate the subject and get a shutter speed of 1/200. It was quite breezy and took a lot of patience, I also used a cable release :o)
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It will soon be time to hopefully catch up with my local pair at a small site I use. During the Winter they spend a large amount of time away along the rivers, and drains, only rarely calling in to check on their favoured nesting site. Some years they manage two, or even three broods, but only one last year, because of disturbance by the local fox family, and Badgers trying to dig them out through the chalk. That's nature, but they have many more suitable breeding locations close by, Suffolk.
Perching on the tallest tree he was on the look out for his food. The black squirrel on the farthest side was busily collecting pinecones not aware, it had been considered as a meal. But he was really lucky, when this big hawk swooped down for the kill, he went into the safety of a crevasse on the river bank alerted by a little wren.
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Another cool character from The Force Unleashed,
this is Maris Brood in her dark side form !
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To be continued ...
A few day's into myself and Katherines trip to the Lakes,as per usual Windermere is living up to its damp climate.I spent over an hour down by the Lakeside,freezing cold trying different compositions.Trying to avoid lake steamers and ferries,along with ducks,geese and an assortment of other birdlife this was the best of 2 shots i came away happy with.A very difficult and testing shoot.Still,ducks were cloned out adding an unattractive black smudge and various buoys bobbing around.Keswick and Derwentwater tomorrow for a day out and it's going to be wet but hopefully i will come away with something! Wish me luck!
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Saw this scene when driving home from a photographic exhibition at Patchings Art Centre in Calverton. I quite liked the shape of the hills beneath the brooding sky.
Processed in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
Watercolour - 30 x 40cm
This painting was accepted into the 2006 '21st Century Watercolour' exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London.
Sunset was closing in as clouds pushed a slight wind across the river, giving the scene a tranquil moody feel. Cedar River near Palisades State Park.
We were training yesterday... Near the centre of Warrington over the blue bridge. I took some crappy pics with my ixus, nothing particularly inspiring. Anyway I managed to find a pc with a copy of photomatix, and just did 3 slightly different versions of a pic and put it through the hdr/tone mapping process. It's not HDR cos obviously I only have a single shot, but I like the effect anyway... Ho hum Will try a proper one soon when I can get out with my 350d and a tripod.