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Once in a while a photo captures the right conditions to offer the semblance of 3 dimensions causing the key subject to come out at the viewer. It seemed to us to be the case for the beak and head with this photo. Red advances whereas blue recedes, sharp focus and edges advance whereas blurred and vague edges recede, and shadows can enhance the affect also. Of course when desired the pros can do it all in Photoshop.
Photo taken in Green Cay Wetlands, Florida.
This purple gallinule is a beautiful bird of many shades We chose the photo in Comment 1 below to show some while maintaining the 3d theme. It is the same bird as the subject bird.
Waren (Müritz) (also Waren an der Müritz) is a town and climatic spa in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
Waren lies on Lake Müritz, the largest inland lake lying entirely within Germany, which has an area of 117 square kilometres (45 square miles).
If feeding conditions is good the capacious throat sac is used to engulf whole shoals of fish. This large waterbird is often found swimming in flocks in shallow lowland lakes and river deltas. Native to south-east Europe.
Trees in winter
With the arrival of winter, and often at the end of autumn, a new problem arises with trees. This specific "winter" problem is associated with the accumulation of wet snow and the formation of frost on the branches and trunks of trees. "Freezing rains" - phenomena occur under certain combinations of weather conditions: sleet, wind, fog, sudden changes in temperature with a "transition through 0 degrees". Such a significant load on the branches and trunks of trees can lead to emergency situations:
1. Breaking off and collapse of large branches. Typical for poplar, aspen, willow, linden, oak. To a lesser extent for pines and elms.
2. Breaking the forks of co-dominant trunks. Most often found in the above tree species with V-shaped forks. Less typical for U-shaped forks of birch and spruce.
3. Bending under the weight of snow and ice, with possible breaking of the trunks of inclined trees.
I found the trees without obvious problems :)
During the last week of high winds and rain I gave myself a challenge to get out and shoot something where conditions aren't ideal!
I ended up at Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, wind swept, poor light and wet, all i can say is my aim was moody!!!
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War.
Male White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) feeding on spruce cones in the suburbs of southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The spruce trees were stressed due to dry conditions this past summer and produced a large cone crop this year. This resulted in a large number of both species of Crossbills moving into Edmonton this winter to feed on the abundant food supply.
24 December, 2015.
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When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We've been told it's going to snow this weekend, but this magnolia tree is getting ready for spring with its fuzzy buds.
Sono i primi giorni d’ottobre, ma dal Passo di Antrona 2839 m in su le condizioni che abbiamo trovato salendo al Pizzo Cingino Nord 3227 m sono quasi invernali.
Dall’anticima, a sinistra l’ultima parte di cresta da percorrere con attenzione.
2008 conditions. Prior to 2010 Buda Castle was a cultural centre, involving museums, a theatre, the National Library and the National Gallery among others. This profile has changed after 2010, the Orbán government wants it to be a governmental district housing state offices and ministries. Even the outline of the area has changed a lot since then.
STORMY MEETS BRILLIANCE
Viewers gather to witness surreal atmospheric conditions
Richmond,
British Columbia
Canada
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These conditions were more than I could have asked for. The drive up was terrible and muddy and my truck still has mud stuck in places 3 weeks later. In the end it was all worth it for this shoot, and this one is just the beginning!!!! Vlog this weekend!! Kris.. Vlog below…
Winter Conditions
Cariboo, British Columbia
Canada
The Cariboo Regional District (CRD) in the Central Interior of BC encompasses 80,252 square kilometers of land. The Cariboo and Coastal mountain ranges hug the CRD on its west and east side boundaries. The region straddles Highway 97 from 70 Mile House in the south to 5 km south of Hixon in the north.
District of the South Cariboo region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada
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The Bearded Helmetcrest is a true treasure of Colombia. This fellow lives near the active volcano at almost 14,000 ft. They are large with thick feathers to survive in these extreme conditions feeding on the small flowers thriving there.
Weather conditions were more favorable for photographing these fidgety warblers today, and this young chestnut-sided warbler even stopped for a second to stretch out! Key ID features here are the bright white eye ring and greenish-gold cap on its head.
Not the calmest of conditions or sharpest of lenses...but look what brought a huge smile to my face this week - the first common blue of the year!
Thank you so much to everyone for all your faves, comments and encouragement - I appreciate every one of you so much, but once again I'm behind with comments.
Working from home is involving so much screen time I'm finding it really hard to take on any more, but being out with the camera daily and spotting the changes in nature is my medicine.
I will try my hardest to catch up very soon x
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Les semaines se suivent et se défilent à grande vitesse, mais je dois avouer me laisser tenter par certaines conditions météo plutôt particulière que nous avons eu pour un mois de février. Pluie neige et grésil cette journée du 10 février, ça n'a pas semblé déranger les oiseaux ni affecter leur appétit. J'ai donc fait une pause et pris le temps de prendre quelques photos.
Ici ce beau mâle Durbec des sapins qui est détrempé par la pluie et qui est maintenant sous un torrent de grésil. Temps très gris et lumière pauvre...
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The weeks go by faster and faster, but I must admit being tempted by some rather special weather conditions that we had for the month of February. Rain, snow and sleet that day, February 10, didn't seem to bother the birds or affect their appetites. So I took a break and took the time to take some pictures.
Here this beautiful male Pine Grosbeak who is soaked by the rain and who is now under a torrent of sleet. Very gray weather and poor light...
Blustery conditions and not a reflection in sight.
Llyn Cowlyd is the deepest lake in North Wales. It lies in the Snowdonia National Park at the upper end of Cwm Cowlyd on the south-eastern edge of the Carneddau range of mountains, at a height of 1,164 feet (355 m) above sea level.
The conditions in which I was shooting in here were very dark, as it was quite early in the morning, so unfortunately I had to bump up my ISO, but I still like how this one came out.
Taken in Estes Park, Colorado
P.S. If you zoom in on this shot, and the photo doesn't look sharp anymore, just move your cursor around a bit.
three conditions are necessary for the appearance of a geyser:
* water in depth which can circulate and then rise freely (no obstacles)
° a reservoir;
* the proximity of a pocket of magma which heats the water.
It is possible to find hot springs and geysers in non-volcanic regions if the geothermal gradient is sufficient! Thus heated, the water turns into steam. The pressure increases and propels a powerful jet of water and steam to the surface. The surface orifice is generally narrow. The intensity of the forces at play explains the rarity of the phenomenon. Geysers therefore differ from simple hot springs by the underground geological structure.
Strokkur projects hot water into the air at a height of 20 meters, sometimes exceptionally up to 40 meters.
The more complete documentation appears in the 3 photos of yesterday
The weather conditions in Churchill were the most extreme conditions I have ever photographed in. On this day it was -2 degrees Fahrenheit which is -18 Celsius. Add to that a wind chill of minus 30. I even got an icicle on my eye lid -haha! I wouldn't have traded this experience though and the amazing sightings we had with this polar bear family :-).
Another shot from the deep Hoar Frost morning last week.
As we head into the festive period the probability is that I’ll obviously be engaged on other activities than spending time on Social Media. So with this seasonal shot, I’ll take the opportunity to wish you all well, thank you for all of your views, faves and comments over this last year, and I hope that you, for whatever reason you celebrate/commemorate this time of year, have a great time .
After the visit to San Gimignano and surrounding areas I spend three days in a beautiful Country Hotel named Borgo Tre Rose, with 360° of view of the wonderful hills and vineyards of Tuscany.
I intended to visit Pienza, Val d'Orcia and Lago Trasimeno, unforgetable places of the Tuscany and Umbria region, but unfortunately I had not health conditions to do this.
As you can see in the next photos this place is very pleasant and appropriate to relax. The view from there is fabulous, and the amount of flowers had enchanted me and made me forget for a while everything that I have missed in this region.
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Weather conditions improved in the late afternoon. This is a northwestward view from a hill that used to be the site for Chichijima's weather station.
The island in the left is Nishijima (西島, western island), while those in the right are Hyoutanjima (瓢箪島 gourd island), Anijima (兄島 older brother island), and Hitomarujima (人丸島).
According the climate data provided by Japan Meteorological Agency, average temperature of the coldest month in Chichijima is 18.5 degree Celsius, which means Chichijima has a tropical climate.
Annual precipitation of Chichijima is 1,296 mm, and the precipitation of the driest month is 51.6 mm, which means Chichijima has the tropical monsoon climate (Am) as compared to the humid subtropical climate (Cfa) in the Izu islands and the main island part of Tokyo.
Chichijima's climate is relatively dry judging from the Japanese standard; annual precipitation of downtown Tokyo is 1,530 mm.
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Yesterday, I finally managed to capture Jamink Church in heavy mist. I have been waiting six weeks to get an opportunity to experience this amazing location in these conditions and late yesterday afternoon, just by chance as I was passing en-route home from another location, the conditions were absolutely perfect.
Rolling heavy mist, a gorgeous subtle orange sunset, and a church on the end of a high ridge. It really does not get any better than that for me. I was in raptures and so excited to see what I had captured on the memory card. Isn't that just the best feeling? Knowing that you should have gold on your card and not being able to wait until you return home to see exactly what you have got. It really felt like Christmas morning and Santa definitely delivered, lol.
So here is the image of Jamnik Church surrounded by rolling mist with huge mountains providing the dramatic backdrop.
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Saint Maries River RR is seen crossing the Pedee Creek with 18 loads of lumber enroute to the Union Pacific interchange at Plummer. Perfect weather conditions to shoot a logging RR running on ex Milwaukee Road trackage with ex MILW power.
We had mixed weather conditions this week, finally on Sunday the sun popped up and enlightened the colours of nature as here in the Minden area during my hiking tour. Ostwestfalen, Germany
Taken in October 2020 on a K&F Concept workshop. An exceptionally low tide at New Brighton of 0.6m meant we could make the mile or so walk out to the wreck of the SS Denham.
We were blessed with superb conditions with some wonderful cloud cover with breaks in between. As the light faded we turned our attention to the wind farm in Liverpool Bay. Thoroughly enjoyable and I think we all managed to forget about Covid for a few hours.
This enormous Irish Oak { Quercus Petrea } which only grows in the western and northern areas of England and all over Ireland, as it likes the damp boggy conditions as long as its feet are dry, stands alone in its Autumn colours in a field at Derrybawn Co. Wicklow. This tree was once part of a vast forest that covered this area but which were felled to build "The Fleet" during the days of the great sailing ships in England.
The reason why it survived is because of its odd shape. The trunk is too short for the timber to be of any commercial use so it was spared from the woodsman axe. In England it would have been chopped down to make charcoal.
There is a large branch, 20 feet long lying on the right and its just visible. It would have been a match to the one on the left and would have balanced the tree.When this happens the tree reacts by strengthening and lengthening the root system on the affected side in order to prevent itself from becoming top heavy and falling over.
Ive taken some measurements and the age of it is approaching 900 years of age.It is getting the end of its natural life. I think that is is stunning with its wild tentacled octopus like branches spreading out and tapering gradually to very fine terminal ends which are like small delicate outstretched hands. There are many different oak species through out the World and they are all instantly recognisable because of this unique growth habit. most famous is the English oak { Q.robur } which can grow up to 20ft taller. It also grows here and doesnt have the short stems that attach the leaves to the branches that the Irish oak, has which makes for a more refined appearance.
A translation of Derrybawn where this tree goes is " The White Oaks " which obviously refers to the great forest which is long gone.
I will go back here shortly to get a Winter photo of it. I do have a Summer one up on Flickr.
I hope you do like this lovely tree as much as I do and it was lucky find as its not widely known about.It should be kept that way too.
Have a great weekend and fingers crossed for some decent weather! Im going to do some tree hugging, well anybody and anything hugging really as Im getting a bit desperate!!! Lol!
Pat.
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Canadian West Coast Winter
The beginning of a snowfall. Brake lights reflect against falling snow...hence the warm toned snowflakes.
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Riffelsee revealing his fascinating reflection on a calm & clear autumn morning. Perfect conditions for "His Majesty's" glorious appearance in the first light of the day.
Due to drought conditions, water is not always present at the falls. We were lucky to see a trickle coming over the cliff high above. Still pretty awesome and the area is beautiful. There are signs galore warning of potential landslides and danger, but visitors (such as myself) ventured close anyway.
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Nojoqui Falls Park - Santa Barbara County - California - USA
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One of the Icons of the Southwest at late afternoon with best light conditions...and one of my all time favorites.
The Toadstool Hoodoo is a spectacular mushroom shaped rock standing majestically on a large boulder within Rimrocks, which can be accessed from the unmarked trailhead at US highway 89 between mile marker 19 and 20.
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Gloomy conditions at Preston Sands Beach, Paignton made for this shot of a small wave washing over the top of an outfall pipe and in the distance Queen Victoria and Arcadia were anchored.
Searching for Large Heath in far-from-ideal conditions on a squelchy peat bog next to Loch Maree in Wester Ross… No sign of a butterfly in the drizzle and wind; no surprise there. But the consolation prize was the dramatic sight of Slioch, one of Scotland's Munros (a mountain over 3,000 ft (910 m) high), which dominates the eastern end of the loch, as it dipped in and out of the low clouds.
The search was abandoned with the arrival of yet another band of persistent rain!
A short trip to Vancouver and a few treasures are nabbed in broad daylight. This of course brings up the question of light it self. Is there good and bad light for photography? Instead, I would contend that if you think you are shooting in bad light, then perhaps you are shooting the wrong thing.
This landscape shot would not illicit the strong shadows and differing colors given those parcelled at sunset. Rather, choose your subject given the lighting conditions and find the gems that exist all around us.
Un couple de martins-pêcheurs élève normalement 2 nichées par an, voire 3 ou 4, si les conditions sont favorables ou si une nichée a été détruite.
La première ponte a lieu dès la mi-mars en Europe occidentale, un mois plus tard en Europe orientale. De 4 à 8 œufs sont pondus à un jour d'intervalle, à même le sol de la chambre de ponte. D'un beau blanc brillant et de forme presque sphérique, ils ont un diamètre moyen à peine supérieur à 2 cm et ne pèsent guère plus de 4 grammes.
Le couple se partage, à parts à peu près égales, le temps de couvaison et se relaie par factions de 2 à 5 heures. L'incubation dure trois semaines et ne commence qu'une fois le dernier œuf pondu ; les éclosions ont donc toutes lieu au même moment.
Nus à l'éclosion et incapables de maintenir leur température interne, les petits sont réchauffés par les adultes pendant une semaine, jusqu'à ce qu'ils se couvrent de courtes plumes. Les parents peuvent alors se consacrer tous deux à leur ravitaillement.
Les poissons apportés aux jeunes sont légèrement plus longs que ceux que les adultes capturent pour eux-mêmes : entre 4 et 7 cm, avec un maximum de 10 cm. Pendant la becquée, les petits, disposés en étoile à l'intérieur de la chambre, sont nourris chacun à son tour durant les deux à trois premières semaines. C'est l'époque où le sol du nid se couvre de leurs pelotes de réjection, et où les parents se baignent souvent. Un peu plus tard, les jeunes se tournent tous vers le boyau d'entrée, serrés les uns contre les autres, ou s'avancent dans le couloir à la rencontre des adultes.
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A pair of kingfishers normally rear 2 broods a year, or 3 or 4, if conditions are favorable or if a brood has been destroyed.
The first spawning takes place in mid-March in Western Europe, a month later in Eastern Europe. From 4 to 8 eggs are laid one day apart on the floor of the laying chamber. They are bright white in color and almost spherical in shape. They have an average diameter of just over 2 cm and weigh little more than 4 grams.
The couple share, roughly equally, the brooding time and relays in factions from 2 to 5 hours. The incubation lasts three weeks and begins only once the last egg laid; hatching therefore takes place at the same time.
Naked at hatching and unable to maintain their internal temperature, the young are warmed by adults for a week, until they cover themselves with short feathers. Parents can then devote themselves to their food.
The fish brought to the young are slightly longer than those that the adults catch for themselves: between 4 and 7 cm, with a maximum of 10 cm. During the beak, the little ones, arranged in a star inside the chamber, are each fed during the first two to three weeks. It is the time when the ground of the nest is covered with their balls of rejection, and where the parents bathe often. A little later, the youths all turn to the inlet hose, huddled together, or walk down the hallway to meet the adults.