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I wanted to get the three bridges together with all three bridges landing and looking north. So I've named them the "Three Sisters" The weather was ideal yesterday with the low cloud base giving me the opportunity for a long exposure, I hope you enjoy my images, thanks again for taking the time to view and comment. The blurb and credits below was sourced from Wikipedia.
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Forth Road bridge, opened in 1964, spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh, at Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry. It replaced a centuries-old ferry service to carry vehicular traffic, cyclists and pedestrians across the Forth
The Queensferry Crossing is a road bridge in Scotland. It was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry, (courtesy of Wikipedia}
Yesterday they started major roadworks to the bridge, however, there were no major problems during the morning peak after the Queensferry Crossing had closed to southbound traffic for resurfacing work. Motorists travelling towards Edinburgh from Fife have been diverted onto the Forth Road Bridge while 15 metres of tarmac on the crossing is replaced.
It still looks beautiful from this standpoint
This is the image I meant to put up rather than the previous one- sorry!
I liked it better because you can make out the Pelicans more but I'll let you decide.
I often work in Boulder Co and love to take the back way in on highway 93. This is a one of the amazing views that I am lucky enough to see on my drive.
I love Colorado!
Water towers on the grounds of a defunct army ammunition plant. The grounds are fenced off, and this is the closest I could get to them.
Grumpiness set in as I awaited sunset and could not get a composition I was happy with. I really wanted to get to the water's edge to catch the reflections but the undergrowth was too heavy. I decided to go to higher ground and try to eliminate the foreground. The haunted trees provided a lovely silhouette and the sunset painted the sky.
Sorry to post and run but I'm off. Will catch you all on my return. x
A big storm sweeping in from the west over Mt Direction and the Selfs Point tank farm.
Shot from Pavilion Point with the Cornelian Bay anchorage at the centre left and the suburb of Lindisfarne at the right. River Derwent, Hobart, Tasmania
The very next frame is just raindrops...
Nikon Df, AF-S NIKKOR 18–35 mm 1:3,5–4,5 G ED, 54secs at f/11, ISO 100
Breakthrough Photography X4 ND 10 Stop Filter
January will make nine years of trucking, and I think I'm starting to feel the effects. The worst is heavy traffic, Los Angeles, Portland, and this afternoon Seattle Area. Actually in Pacific tonight, delivering in Puyallup tomorrow morning. Then, who knows, probably back to Los Angeles. Next month I'm taking a "whole" week off. It's been about five years since I took more that a few days off each month.
Anyway, tonight I'm tired as usual, but wanted to post something and do some catching up before falling asleep. If I don't get to your posts tonight, it looks like a got a several hours before my next load tomorrow, so I'll spend some time relaxing and seeing the rest of what you've all been shooting.
This picture was taken this year back in March after picking up a load of cheese in Logan, UT. This is looking out over Willard Bay, from the truck brake check pullover above Brigham City, UT. Willard Bay is part of the Great Salt Lake.
I posted another picture of this same sunset, but this is further to the right.
4:30 am and I am awoken by a tap on my bedroom door. Sunrise beckons. Or does it?
Well I guess it does since the sun must rise everyday but will it be worthy of an early start at a god-forsaken hour of the morning. (I know, some like my beloved, that get up at that time every morning, are hardened to early starts). Not me.
It was grey and drab with heavy cloud but we wandered down to the beach to see what we could see.
The sun refused to perform, but for a minute or so, when it peeked through a gap in the clouds, it cast a beautiful glow and reflected in the pool below.
It ended up being such a lovely time on the beach, regardless of the lack of colour. By the time breakfast came around, we had been up for hours and photographed lots of birds and the day had only just woken.
Most birds in the US are native but there are some that are not.
For example, rumor has it that we can thank our English ancestors for bringing the common House Sparrow to America in the 1800s. Legend has it that they missed the little fellows when they invaded our country and started bringing them over here to remind them of home. Not quite sure our thanks should be effusive on this one.
Starlings were brought to New York City in the late 1800s and were introduced to naïve Americans. Starlings, however, liked the US so much that they are now one of the most widespread and numerous birds in our country. Many people consider them a pest.
Others introduced to our shores include the Cattle Egret (Africa), Mute Swans and Collared-Doves, both from Europe and Asia.
Probably the most welcomed introduction was when Ring-necked Pheasants were brought to us from China, again in the late 1800s. The instigator was a US government official serving at a consulate in Shanghai who brought them back to Oregon.
It took them a while to gain a strong foothold but today they are especially populous in the Midwest with the Dakotas and Nebraska holding the top three spots for the most pheasants. Minnesota is a respectable sixth in ranking.
My wife and I took advantage of the spring-like temperatures and were out before sunrise yesterday to see what was happening in the countryside.
We saw around 25 pheasants in a couple of hours, including this Ditch King that stopped for bit in the rising sunlight to pose as well as to keep an alert eye on us.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
There were a few tornadoes that passed through the area this afternoon. I missed out on them. Chased a few storm clouds around this evening.
Perhaps this image is alittle better than my previous post of the Towan Plains Swamp, east of Swan Hill.
The edges of this swamp had a thin crust and once the crust was broken, it was like quick sand.
Sunset from the Cato Bridge in Jupiter, FL. 1-17-17. Panoramic of 2 images and stitched together in PS. Long exposure of 130 seconds using ND graduated filter and a ND filter stacked.
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Out of the arms of the night.
Inspired by Chris Cornell's 'Scar on the Sky" from Song Book. He actually sings "We ripped the night out of the arms of the sun".
I still can't listen to him without a deep sense of sadness and a tear.
Quite a sunset tonight from the home office window, even now there is still a deep yellow band of light across the horizon 30 mins later. In the distance near the sunset itself were some kelvin helmholtz clouds forming and disappearing very quickly. It is very cold indeed too, 6 deg C but feels like 3 deg C in the breeze. In the opposite direction were large dark rain clouds too. Handheld shot out of skylight window.