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Nothing competes with the beauty of a rough mountain. I hope you enjoy this one as much as i did being there.
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Path above Skunk Creek, running beside the Sports Complex, Peoria Arizona. A Melissodes Bee (in the preceding image) buzzed in whilst this Marine Blue Butterfly was feeding here and claimed the feeding rights to the Desert Straw. Unfortunately I was too slow to catch the actual exchange of title.
Undoubtedly Best Viewed Large or On Black
You'd think that it would be almost impossible to upstage that incredible train/engine shed roof design wouldn't you?
I would have, and had fully intended to get a clear shot of it.
I patiently waited for the last train to discharge its latest cargo of passengers, shoving the empty space ahead of them forwards, onwards to the exit, the rest of their lives and, (I hoped) smartly OUT of the shot I wanted to take.
I had already raised my camera, and was about to frame it without too much platform foreground and then these two passed carefully by; making their way along the platform in the wake of human detritis and the eddies of air settling around & about them.
At that point I couldn't imagine the shot without them in it. :)
The only puddle after all that rain of the last few days but it was a perfect puddle for this reflection of the classic Ford Escort. A great reminder of some of the rally cars I used to compete against many years ago in various rallies.
This was at the Fox & Pheasant Pub, Stoke Common, Bucks - Petrol Heads Car Club.
This is my fave shot from the set.
It is late September, spring in NZ and the Pied Stilts are competing strongly, doing leaps in the air often exceeding 5 metres - it seems a competitive action triggered by sex hormones.
Sometimes collisions occur as here when a descending bird landing on top of a competitor that had not leapt as high.
Nikon Z7 with Nikon PF 300mm lens plus 1.4 x TC
Competing for berries, these twin fawns wouldn’t get far enough away from one another to give me a good shot of both. :-)
Passing through Belford among the traffic, empty coal train HV263, rides the shadow of loaded GWA coal RV218, with 9031, 9027 and 9035.
2019-07-10 Pacific National 9031-9027-9035 Belford HV263
Taken in Fredericksburg Virginia after a severe hail storm destroyed most of the native pollinator plants in our yard. The few bees that survived were competing for the remaining flowers.
NIKON D7100
lens DX = 105
lens FX = 157
lens type = VR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
aperture = 20
ISO = 400
shutter = 1/60
Having competed their runs up to the Etihad seven of the vehicles involved are parked up awaiting their return duties. Go North West 3056,3057, 3102, 3105, 3081,6177 and in the corner one of the former Brighton Volvo B5LH Gemini’s 3085 which is the last to retain its Brighton livery.
Hawkes Coaches had a go at commercial bus services for the first time in 1988 with a limited service from Penyrheol to Swansea.It was one each way to start though demand being there it soon was increased.SWT competed aggressively with services 998/9 running in front of the Hawkes 98/9 numbered services.The service started with a refurbished Leopard/Plaxton coach reg'd 723 CTH though this was the first service bus,added when the increased timetable was introduced.
GSX was a very nice bus indeed.You can see from this pic how tidy it was on the whole.Weekly tickets were available and the service went on to operate til Mr and Mrs Hawkes decided to retire,selling out to Veolia in 2005.
In EXPLORE 18 - Thanks so much again.
Red Admiral Butterfly. Taken while taking my grandson for a walk. I am not sure who was the most excited by it.
Taken with my Tamron 70-300mm lens. It has stopped working!!! Aaarrhhhh.
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This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '52 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998. It's the 1935 Alfa Romeo 8C-35 of Paul Grist and has an 8-cylinder 3,822cc engine with twin overhead camshafts. It was built to challenge the Mercedes Benz and Auto Union cars but rarely managed to get the better of them. The Alfa Romeo 8C-35 was introduced when the Tipo B Monoposto – or P3 as it is more popularly known – became overdue for replacement. The P3 had itself been derived from the Monza and had flown the Alfa flag with great success between 1932 and 1935. The 8C-35 never beat the German cars in a top level Grand Prix, but did succeed in doing so in a number of smaller races, in the hands of Tazio Nuvolari.
Dolce competed in a barn hunt trial this weekend. It was his senior level debut (in Barn hunt there are novice, open, senior, and master levels). He had a very good weekend with two qualifying runs. In both his qualifying runs he placed first and got high in class! So proud of my little hunter! One more qualifying run in senior, and he will earn his title and move up to master level.
This car competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000. It's the 1923/17 Bequet Delage of Alexander Boswell which Maurice Bequet and his business partner Roland Coty, with the assistance of the Hispano Suiza factory, constructed in 1926. They started with the chassis of a 1923 Delage 2LCV into which they installed the 11,959cc Hispanio Suiza V8 engine from a 1917 World War Two Spad fighter plane. It raced in the Grand Prix de la Baule where it finished in third place, but did not contest any more Grand Prix races as it didn't comply with the regulations then in place. After competing in minor events with some success for several years the partners sold the car in 1936. It was eventually acquired by Nigel Arnold-Forster who restored the car in 1980 and he drove it for several years at vintage racing events.
A note in the programme of the event said this:
‘The most spectacular car in the field is Alexander Boswell’s wonderful Bequet Delage, a delicious concoction that marries the Hispano-Suiza aero engine from a World War 1 Spad fighter with a good handling French chassis of 1923.’
An absolutely superb Rod modification of this Zephyr. A show stopper in every way
In late 1935, Edsel Ford conceived the Zephyr as a model, down from the very expensive Lincoln K series (that competed with Packard, Cadillac etc, for the $$ of the very wealthy) and aimed at he Chrysler Airstream, Cadillac LaSalle, and the Packard One-Twenty, who had successfully tapped into the upper middle class market. At that time Ford had only the Ford brand for the Hoi-Paloi and the Lincoln for the very wealthy, and the competition had long tapped into the various levels between the two extremes. It would be a few years before Edsel introduced the Mercury.
As a 'streamlined' design the Lincoln-Zephyr actually had a lower drag coefficient than the Airflow, The Zephyr was powered by a small 75° V12 engine developed from Ford's Flathead V8 and unrelated to the larger K-series Lincoln V12 engines. The valve-in-block flathead engine was quite compact, allowing a low hood. Excepting for some Ford trucks, the Zephyr was the first Ford product to have an all-steel roof. With the axing of the larger K series Lincolns in 1940, the Zephyr was the basis for the post-war Lincolns with the Zephyr name not surviving the war.
Swahili racing teams come together several times a year to compete in traditional hand-crafted, Arabic-styled wooden dhows in the Lamu Archipelago off Kenya's northern Swahili Coast.
As anticipation builds, spectators from across the archipelago gather along the shoreline to witness this spectacular event. Local villagers in the foreground are strategically situated for the start of a race on New Year’s Day in Shela, a small Swahili fishing settlement on the island of Lamu.
Such a great flower to sow - it out competes weeds so it is perfect to sow on weedy freshly dug soil. Very cheap seed as the seed are sold as green manure in bulky bags and the seeds last greater than 5 years retaining very high germination rates so you could have a relatively big area every year for half a decade for about 50 pence a year! If growing for flowers you dont need to sow as densely as you would if growing as green manure for digging in before flowers set seed.
Also if you sow in succession you could theoretically have them in flower from mid spring to late Autumn. Late sowings overwinter and flower in Spring.
The individual flowers last so long (each flower spike lasts about 3 weeks as it unfurls new flowers) and it is perfect for cut flowers for bringing inside too.
Is there a better/easier/funner flower?
I have a patch about 3m by 3m just hitting peak flower and it is absolutely buzzing with honeybees and white tail bumbles.
I do grow a patch quite often but must make a point of discipline to do it every year and maybe more than once per year.
Very distinctive dark blue pollen loads - clearly illustrated in this picture. Like blue suede shoes
Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
Competing cultural events on a Sunday afternoon at the Wollongong Botanical Gardens
A wedding (Cambodian) and a photo shoot on the bridge.
Coastguard CG199 skirts along the bottom of the picture, whilst a satellite passes overhead, all under the majest of an aurora.
Brooke competing in 4H at the Blue Moon Ranch. On this date, 1-3-15, she won the overall High Point Trophy.
This car competed in the Formula Junior Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992. It's the 1960 Lola MkII Formula Junior car of Tony Steele and appears to have a 4-cylinder online Ford Kent 1,098cc engine. Formula Junior was introduced in 1959 as a class of racing where younger drivers could be introduced to single-seater racing. It ended when Formula 2 and Formula 3 were re-introduced to the racing scene for the 1964 season and Formula Junior has continued to be featured at historic racing events.
A colonial animal, it competes with cattle for grazing rights, and their numbers have been dramatically reduced. A "dog town" in Texas was once reported to cover 25,000 sq mi, and to include 400,000,000 individuals.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, USA.
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I'm surely having a thing for 'rather impossible' shots these days. No filters were used for these frames - and they were not necessary anyway, as the green color of the grass is so bright in the InfraRed spectrum that it fiercely competes with the bright sky, and basically overpowers it !!
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IR converted EOS, 840nm
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Sailboats compete off Manly marina, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Nikon D810 and 200-500. Image taken from Oceana Terrace ( Best viewed on a big screen)
This car competed in the Bill Phillips Race for Standard & Modified Pre-war Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019. It's Mark Butterworth's 1938 Lagonda V12 Le Mans, two of which were built for the 1939 Le Mans 24 Hour race, and afterwards several of the short chassis Lagonda Rapide models were converted to Le Mans Replicas. The cars that competed at Le Mans in 1939 had a 4,479cc V12 engine with 4 SU carburettors and finished in third and fourth places driven by Arthur Dobson/ Charles Brackenbury and Lord Selsdon/ Lord William Walleran respectively. The car is seen here at Druids Corner during the race.