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IE - 32 red shanks? (really orange shanks)
All in a row. On Cellardyke pier.
The relatively shallow DOF shows easily at this medium range, with focus placed @ group middle
Later these little foraging birds were scared from pillar to post by groups of humans intruding noisily and vocally - closely into the Redshanks foraging territory at the water's edge in the tiny harbour, till the little flock upped and offed and left the harbour.
Too many people - and their dogs....! Who appeared to have little regard for the birds who clearly were there to feed at the receding margins as the ebb continued. And which never happened. Never before seen such numbers of noisy mobile humans at Cellardyke....
In continuing my story from the previous picture, we loaded up and drove almost a mile down the road to Golf Course Road.
Golf Course Road provides a great overview of Click's Curve between Mountainair and Abo. All one has to do is drive up the road until they are satisfied with the elevation. Then, you just get out and shoot wherever you want. Pretty easy.
We had just enough time to catch this D-KCKLAC one last time before letting it go. The only reason I had no interest in catching it again was because my half-eaten green chili cheeseburger was still waiting for me at the AirBnB just up the hill. I knew the burger was ready to be consumed, so we went back to the house so that I could finish the job.
Continuing my West Cork series, this image was taken at twilight over Bantry Bay as the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean.
The Grade I Listed Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549) before the central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt.
It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the eminent Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: "I have always held... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."
Remigius de Fécamp, the first bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal seat there between 1072 and 1092. Up until then St. Mary's Church in Stow was considered to be the "mother church" of Lincolnshire (although it was not a cathedral, because the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 9 May of that year, two days before it was consecrated. In 1141, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Bishop Alexander rebuilt and expanded the cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185. The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the UK. The damage to the cathedral is thought to have been very extensive.
After the earthquake, a new bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as St Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. Rebuilding began with the choir (St. Hugh's Choir) and the eastern transepts between 1192 and 1210. The central nave was then built in the Early English Gothic style.
The cathedral is the 3rd largest in Britain after St Paul's and York Minster, being 484 feet by 271 feet. Until 1549 the spire was reputedly the tallest medieval tower in Europe, though the exact height has been a matter of debate. Accompanying the cathedral's large bell, Great Tom of Lincoln, is a quarter-hour striking clock.
The two large stained glass rose windows, the matching Dean's Eye and Bishop's Eye, were added to the cathedral during the late Middle Ages. The former, the Dean's Eye in the north transept dates from the 1192 rebuild begun by St Hugh, finally being completed in 1235.
After the additions of the Dean's eye and other major Gothic additions it is believed some mistakes in the support of the tower occurred, for in 1237 the main tower collapsed. A new tower was soon started and in 1255 the Cathedral petitioned Henry III to allow them to take down part of the town wall to enlarge and expand the Cathedral, including the rebuilding of the central tower and spire.
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile died and King Edward I of England decided to honour her, his Queen Consort, with an elegant funeral procession. After her body had been embalmed, which in the 13th century involved evisceration, Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral, and Edward placed a duplicate of the Westminster tomb there.
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This will be next to lst folks and will not bore you with any more until my next wonderful encounter with this species.
Continuing series with another pic of the inside posted to the right. I entered the back door, the only main floor entry alternative not boarded up, to get interior shots.
Continuing the story. Did everything go wrong that day? The balloon shown in the previous photos has failed.
When, like other viewers, I moved away from the take-off site, I saw numerous balloons in the sky. The starts from the remaining places were successful. The sight of numerous balloons in the sky compensated for the earlier disappointment a little.
The photo shows one of the many balloons flying over the city.
In this approach, I also liked the consistency of colors - a yellow balloon for warm air, a yellow t-shirt of a random passer-by and all this decorated with warm yellow light of the late afternoon.
I end this photo with a series of balloons.
Continuing with Cinque Terre: a classic view of Vernazza.
I recently launched my website where I share the behind the scenes of photos like this one and some photography and post processing tips and techniques: antongalitch.com
Continuing with the tree obsession... the well-known tunnel of Cypress trees at Point Reyes California is beautiful in any light, but I think at its best when shrouded in the fog that is so common on the headlands in late summer. Again, a subject I've photographed many times but never caught quite the right fog for my liking. I think this was my 5th or 6th time trying here, most of the previous times having either no fog at all or fog so dense I couldn't see more than 20 feet.
I've always loved the magnificent building at the end of the tunnel road, and I've long thought it was an old coast guard station, but that isn't quite right. It is in fact an old radio listening station (www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/kph_treetunnel.htm), and is open to visiting public with its world war II era equipment on display. These Monterey Cypress trees are of course a staple of the northern pacific coast, but this tree tunnel is a unique opportunity to see so many mature trees.
I always enjoy the drive up to Point Reyes from San Francisco, and had a few hours to kill in the morning before a flight back home. Since there was a lot of fog in the area I decided I'd head for the Marin Headlands at sunrise, hoping for the elusive shot of the Golden Gate poking through the fog. However, the fog layer on this day was too high up and too thick so the bridge was not visible, and so my backup plan was to keep on motoring up to Point Reyes and hope for the fog to be doing its thing around the cypress tunnel. Luckily I was rewarded this time! I'm a little bummed though because now I have less reason to do the drive, and I really do love this area. I'm guessing this won't be my last visit up here.
I have to add my personal thanks to Kevin Benedict for his (always) helpful suggestions on composition. I often let myself get distracted by small touches in a scene that I like and lose sight of what makes the image compelling for someone else, and having another set of eyes to set me straight is extremely valuable.
Continuing on my Japan photos, here's one from another airport, Haneda Airport in Tokyo. I took this back in 2007 as well so I'm not sure if this design is still there.
Been away from my computer a lot for the last few days. Just got back to it. Got sunsets for weather 10a240 looking pretty good I thought :)
Opethfeldt 7 unofficial update WIP
Continuing my Astro Projection series on WARP speed :-)
I had my super zoomy out-of-body & lens experience on Toronto downtown-scapes during one fabulous deep blue hour after PanAm fireworks on CN tower. It was an exciting 6-stop manual zoom-journey during the 20 sec exposure, experiencing all the festivity of downtown lights & colours with CN Tower leading all the way through...
...all brought to you by my manual zoom / long exposure magic! :-)
*It's a SOOC image, manual zooming during long exposure - no processing involved!
The experiment continued this time I think it’s the black and white that wins the day.
February ( Continued )
@12monthsonfilm
All images were shot using the Hasselblad 500v
Because the Hasselblad has an interchangeable back I decided to shoot two Kodak films. Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Tri X 400 all on a tripod so the framing and lighting would be identical. Light meter readings were all done using the “Viewfinder “app. More on that later
I’m traditionally a black and white kinda guy but I may be exploring a bit more color after this experiment. Each post will have both version for comparison.
Note: these posts will continue into March as I put together next months installments for the project
Hasselblad 500c
Zeiss Planar 80 mm f2.8 lens
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Tri X 400
It is always a spiritual experience for me to be surrounded by nature. I think it's because I appreciate the fact that it never stays the same and yet it continues to move ahead. It doesn't have a bad day and decide to hide itself away from the world for a while, no, instead it stays steady and moves forward, one day at a time.
Sometimes I like to think of myself as being a lot like nature, steady as a rock. Even with the storms that come and go, I manage to move ahead little by little; sometimes by leaps and bounds and other times just one tiny move towards my next destination, the next adventure.
I think it says a lot about someone or something's character to be resilient, to push through. I've learned a lot about myself over the years, especially within the last four, and I look forward to the storms that will come to pass in the future, for surely those are bound to build even more character -- whether I need it or not.
CSX G691 continues east past the abandoned shell of ND Cabin in Lynchburg. At one time, the N&W's old main line, later passenger main, crossed the C&O here. This line was abandoned as a through route in 1964, and the diamond over the CSX was removed in the late 1980s when the last local customers dried up. The left-most main here is still used by Norfolk Southern to interchange with CSX, extending from Montview Yard to this location.
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With seven cars out of Richford, VT for the Washington County, CMQ's Newport switcher eases across one the wooden pile bridges crossing Lake Memphremagog in Newport. While this is a far cry from the days of the Canadian Pacific running with a quartet of MLWs on 904, it is still nice to see continued rail service in the upper reaches of the Northeast Kingdom. Once the 3812 drops the cars, they'll return to Richford with northbound cars off WPNJ, and leave them for train 810 to pick up.
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...the concise report on our trip through the southwest of Iceland. Warning: this is only day 2 of 9, so you'll probably get bored... // ...met het beknopte verslag van onze tocht door zuidwest IJsland. Waarschuwing: dit is pas dag 2 van negen dagen, dus je zult je waarschijnlijk gaan vervelen!
Continuing with the swallow observations I've been concentrating on lately, here is a Tree Swallow with a dragonfly, delivering to the nest. One of the young actually flew out of the hole when this adult landed, so the young are already fledging.
Wood Lake Nature Center MN
Continuing a run of London City Scenes on Flickr. Its no secret the Shard is my favourite building in the city, but I think it looks even more special when the lights come on.
Continuing our first chase up the Rich Mountain grade we caught them again grinding up the 1.12% climb toward the summit about six miles or so ahead. This is almost exactly one mile east of the Oklahoma state line as they approach a private crossing at MP 361.4 on Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Sub deep in the Ouachita Mountains.
The MKCSH2 02 (second Kansas City to Shreveport manifest) has a nice consist of KCS 4618 (GE AC400CW blt. Dec. 1999 as KCS 2043), gray ghost KCSM 4533 (GE AC400CW blt. May. 1998 as TFM 2633)and KCS 3967 (EMD SD70MAC blt. Mar. 2000 as TFM 1667) on the head end with KCS 5023 (GE ET44AC blt. 2019) on the rear as the DPU.
Polk County, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
Continuing our trip south we made a stop at the ever beautiful Monument Valley Tribal Park. This view of the "Mittens" was another reminder to wear my gloves in the 15-20 degree F. weather!
Camera Nikon D800
Exposure 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 28 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
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GBRf 69008 'Richard Howe' is captured at Poplar Drove level crossing near Littleport on Thursday 2nd January 2025. The former 'grid' provides a very pleasing first shot of 2025, as it clatters south along the Fen line. The class 69 locomotives continue to find regular employment on the Middleton Towers sand workings, with this consist working the 6E86 morning departure to Monk Bretton. (Photo taken with pole)
after today's dollpa we went to tradition after-party at our fav starbucks) man, so many beautiful dolls!
Body: Belleza Freya V 5.0 BENTO
Head: leLUTKA Bento Cate
Hair: TRUTH - Farryn
Skirt: SS. ATIK - Hunt 03
Top: Vinyl - Bebe (group gift)
Sandals: Chic & Shoes - THF2018 (gift)
Earrings & bangles: LavandaChic*600 members (gift)
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Greyson's first ever Christmas program at our church tonight. Very proud of him he sang his little heart out and was quite animated.
But I found out if I am going to continue taking concert photos of Greyson and future grandkids I am going to have to upgrade to a little better lens for low light. Not to happy with how much noise I got and the speed that I could get at ISO 1250.
We continue with rushing, whitewater photos. This was just past the drop from yesterday's photo (in Comments). That was almost mono, but there is much colour in this.
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Spring migration continues here in the far north. Now some of the little guys are starting to show up.
This is a yellow rump (myrtle) warbler. Alaska also gets the audubon but they are on the other side of the Alaska range. They come to us from the South East of the us.
Continuing my Little Planets series...
Had cast some globular & texture magic on Toronto cityscapes as seen from the Riverdale Park East on one hazy-lazy day in August :-)
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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FEC train 111-15 is passing thru St. Augustine, FL on May 15, 2016 with the LNG test set on the point. The set has been in semi-regular service on trains 111-112 between Jacksonville and New Smryna Beach. On Sundays, 111 departs earlier than normal (Normally a nocturnal move) and is shootable in the golden light.
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The “Queen of Steam” continues to explore new frontiers and make history, now as an official Virginia landmark.
The train was built in May of 1950 by Norfolk & Western. The train was used to carry passengers from Virginia to Ohio and from the western parts of the Commonwealth to West Virginia. It is the sole surviving member of the fourteen Class J locomotives.
In 1952, it was one of the locomotives that pulled Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential campaign train from Columbus, Ohio, to Kenova, West Virginia. Now, the steam train is owned and operated by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., in Roanoke.
continued trying to develop these abstract figures...in this one the android girls are walking downhill....
Entered in natahaha's HYPOTHETICAL AWARDS CHALLENGE
"Take a Walk or a Ride"
thanks for looking in....appreciated....best bigger....hope you have a Great Weekend
Shot about 45 minutes after the previous Cover Shot photo. This train met another train at the siding just West of Tower Rd. This photo was taken at the Engel Rd crossing just West of Burlington, IL. This CSXT231 led train was highballing toward Iowa with a string of empty ethanol tanks
This was last nights photo shoot...
apparently she took a liking to sleeping in the large maple in my yard, but yesterday was so windy ... we spotted her on the deck rail... and after fussing to get comfy... she finally settled down for the night... we found her in the same spot in the morning!!
I couldn't come up with a name and since she first visited a neighbor down the street (who is Buster's groomer) she told me her 5 year old son had named her Flower.... and you all know how much I love flowers... it was perfect!!! I hope this adorable Flower continues to sleep in my garden....