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Another perfect night to watch the fireworks over the Ottawa River. Saturday night was Portugal's show and it was a beautiful display of color and sparkles. This is the view from behind the Supreme Court. I am glad I don't have to decide who is the winner.
Jasper set continues: this is me, clearing snow off my tent in late September. The Columbia Icefields are spectacular, but this can happen - and does - a little earlier than in other parts of the Canadian Rockies. Twenty-five years ago I was a lot tougher than I am now, and I actually enjoyed this.
The tent, designed and produced by Mountain Equipment Co-Op in Vancouver, was a good one. Not free standing - its only drawback - it nevertheless was spacious, dry, comfortable, and shed snow very well. It didn't leak. It never blew down or tore. I always felt secure sleeping in it.
My notes from this trip tell me that I moved on to a warmer place after spending a day hiking in the snow. At the time I lived near Sooke, on Vancouver Island, where snow was a rarity, so a snowy landscape felt exotic and reminded me of my childhood in eastern Canada. Since moving to the Saskatchewan prairie in 2011, I've gotten over that.
Photographed near the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park, Alberta (Canada); scanned from the original Fujichrome Provia 100 (push-processed one stop to a whopping IS0 200). The camera was a Nikon F90, the lens a manual focus Nikon 24mm that I still have and still use. Tripod, self-timer. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1998 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
AC-4 Continues to amaze. So the oldest and last remaining California Condor in the wild from the original 22 birds taken into captivity in the mid-1980s has another story to tell. He was released back into the wild after 30 years of captive breeding in 2015. The following year he fathered a wild chick born in the same area he was born in in Santa Barbara County almost 40 years ago. Well, earlier this year an untagged juvenile showed up that AC-4 was observed hanging out with. This would have been normal if it were not for the fact that shortly after AC-4 paired off with female #654 last year (and an egg was confirmed between them) #654 was assumed deceased after a loss of tracking signal. Condors split duty between father and mother incubating eggs and feeding newborn chicks. In order for this untagged juvenile to be the offspring of AC-4 that meant AC-4 would have had several weeks of incubating the egg and many months of supplying food to the youngster by himself. A task that was deemed impossible. And here's the "well". Well, DNA results are in ... AC-4 is the father. So what was thought impossible, was not impossible at all, at least not for AC-4. The fact that we have California Condors still here today is an accomplishment of not only the hard work of the dedicated biologists, handlers, Rangers, DNA experts, surgeons, veterinarians and hunters who have switched to non-lead ammunition ... but also because of the incredible will to survive and adapt of these birds. If you're in Ventura or Santa Barbara County and happen to see a Condor with an orange tag with the black numbers 20 on it, tip your hat, you're seeing something legends are made of. Way to go AC-4.
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...had a late birthday dinner with my sister and her family last week...
Trying to make my birthday stretch as far as it will go!
So nice to see water along the Kern river in this area. Went for a bike ride and was happy to see them filling ground-water recharge basins all along the river. I'm hoping the rain will continue for another month or two.
CPKC 241 continues its charge northward on the Detroit Lakes Subdivision, originally the Soo Line's Winnipeg mainline, toward Thief River Falls and later Noyes at the international border seen here south of Winger in Polk County. Winger has a gravel road underpass at this location, which I had intended to include in the scene. However, the timing was tight, so I opted for this framing with the various prairie grasses and snow. Next time.
And the archiving of my work continues. Now I am getting all of the drawings (well over a hundred), from Noёl Riley Fitch and my book “Paris Café: The Sélect Crowd,” labelled and in order. They were done in sketchbooks between 1995 and 2007. My sketchbooks are dated and numbered. Luckily, I put the sketchbook number on the back of the drawings. They had been cut out. So, it was very easy to find the year each drawing was done. Still more to do…..
Continuing in my series of photos of the temperature inversion in Vancouver, I was fortunate enough to be able to capture the downtown buildings and the Lions Gate Bridge both partially covered by fog, and partially lit by the setting sun.
This is quite an unusual shot, as the fog frequently only sinks after sunset, so I was very pleased to be able to get this photo, capturing the last rays of the sun as they light up the buildings and the suspension bridge.
In this shot, you can see that the fog is higher in the west (on the right of the photo), and is actually blocking the sunlight from hitting the lower reaches of the buildings, particularly on the east side. The shallow angle of the light also highlights the peaks and troughs in the clouds.
This is a six photo panorama taken at 300mm just a couple of minutes before the sun set.
(Continuing bird 2016-17 'wintering' season
Jeremy initially refinds)
Redwing REDW (Turdus iliacus)
South Valley Drive
Greater Victoria BC
After seeing photos (online) of Redwing in Europe photographed on the ground (behaving like American Robins) i had it in mind to try to get a shot of this "Victoria bird" on the ground this season
Earlier this year i had seen it on the ground rummaging in the leaf litter (like a Varied Thrush) but no clear views for photos.
This particular morning after being perched higher up , it flew down & paused on a very low hanging Red Cedar Tree branch momentarily before dropping to the ground.
Excitedly i managed to get this shot.
woot a treat!.
Thanks to AnnN and the mighty Gatten for help
Later in the day i also enjoyed the recent North American vagrant to Victoria Area - BLPH..another JG find
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also to keep my bird nerd certification in good standing, i will admit that i was happy to now have seen this Redwing in 5 months
my sightings for this bird are as follows
December 19, 2015
January 7, 2016 (2 sightings/locations)
February 11, 2017
February 17, 2017
March 1, 2017
10 Apr 2017
A brief interlude before continuing with the redshank photos to upload a few lapwing photos. One bird is insistent on foraging on the edge of what another bird considers it's territory leading to some confrontations right outside one of the hides
(From my personal digital photo archive, 2010)
Berlin is a true gem for history lovers, as it is full of corners where many events of its long history as a city and also as the capital of Germany took place.
The so-called "Albert Speer Candelabra" (in German "Speer Kandelaber", also called "OWA Kandelaber", OWA are the German initials for "Ost-West-Achse" because they were part of the East-West Axis project, which in turn was one of the parts of the project "Germania Capital of the World", in German "Welthauptstadt Germania").
These candelabra were part of this East-West Axis from the Brandenburg Gate, for seven kilometers to what is now called Theodor-Heuss-Platz (in honor of the first President of Germany after World War II), which was previously called Adolf-Hitler-Platz and before that also Reichskanzlerplatz.
These candelabra were designed by the Berlin Energy and Light Limited Company (Berliner kraft- und licht-Aktiengesellschaft), because they had to meet a special lighting requirement along the entire Axis, which had to span a bridge over the Canal Landwehr at the Charlottenburg gate, without raising the bridge height too much and yet the channel had to remain navigable.
Albert Speer designed the outside of those candelabra.
Part of these candelabra, more like street lamps, had to be dismantled on the avenue now known as Avenue of June 17 ("Straße des 17. Juni", which was then called "Charlottenburger Chaussee"), since the part of the avenue that it is included between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column, in the last weeks of World War II, during the Battle of Berlin when the city's airports were no longer usable, as they were taken over by the Red Army, it was used for the take off and landing of Luftwaffe aircrafts.
Some 800 candelabra have been preserved since 1936, which have been repaired several times and are among the few remaining living vestiges of that megalomaniac project called "Germania World Capital", and despite the past time they continue to have a modern design reminiscent of works of art arising from the time of the Staatliche Bauhaus. (Source: Wikipedia)
LOS CANDELABROS DE ALBERT SPEER, 2010
(De mi archivo personal de fotos digitales, 2010)
Berlín es una auténtica joya para los amantes de la historia, pues está lleno de rincones donde ocurrieron muchos eventos de su dilatada historia como ciudad y también como capital de Alemania.
Los llamados "candelabros de Albert Speer" (en alemán Speer Kandelaber, también llamados OWA Kandelaber, OWA son las iniciales en alemán de "Ost-West-Achse" por que formaban parte del proyecto el Eje Este-Oeste, que a su vez era una de las partes del proyecto "Germania Capital del Mundo", en alemán Welthauptstadt Germania).
Estos candelabros formaron parte de este Eje Este-Oeste desde la puerta de Brandenburgo, durante siete kilómetros hasta la hoy llamada Theodor-Heuss-Platz (en honor del que fue primer Presidente de Alemania después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial), que antes se llamó Adolf-Hitler-Platz y antes también Reichskanzlerplatz.
Estos candelabros fueron diseñados par la Sociedad Anónima de Energía y Luz de Berlín (Berliner kraft- und licht-Aktiengesellschaft), porque tenían que cumplir un requerimiento especial de iluminación a lo largo de todo el Eje, que tenía que salvar un puente sobre el Canal Landwehr en la puerta de Charlottenburg, sin levantar demasiado la altura del puente y sin embargo el canal tenía que seguir siendo navegable.
Albert Speer diseñó la parte exterior de esos candelabros.
Parte de estos candelabros, más bien farolas, se tuvieron que desmontar en la avenida que se conoce ahora como Avenida del 17 de Junio ("Straße des 17. Juni", que entonces se llamaba Charlottenburger Chaussee), pues la parte de la avenida que está comprendida entre la Puerta de Brandenburgo y la Columna de la Victoria, en las últimas semanas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la Batalla de Berlín cuando los aeropuertos de la ciudad no eran ya utilizables, pues estaban tomados por el Ejército Rojo, fue utilizada para el despegue y aterrizaje de aviones de la Luftwaffe.
Desde 1936 se conservan unos 800 candelabros, que se han reparado varias veces y son de los pocos vestigios vivientes que quedan de aquél megalómano proyecto llamado "Germania Capital Mundial", y a pesar del tiempo pasado siguen teniendo un diseño moderno que recuerda las obras de arte surgidas de la época de la Staatliche Bauhaus. (Source: Wikipedia)
and until daylight approaches, the ghosts and the unexplainable continues...then, who knows what will happen in November?
I made this image with an Olympus OM 1 or 2 from the stern of my canoe during an archaeological survey of the Coppermine. My partner and I began our survey at the headwaters, Lac de Gras, where, years later, the big Kimberlite pipes were discovered and Canada's diamond industry began.
That was a difficult but wonderful trip, made somewhat odd because we were, by chance, following a royal canoe party (Prince Andrew, I believe) down the Coppermine, which made for some hilarious radio chatter between me, pretending to be an unctuous Conservative, and a certain famously irascible government geologist, camped on the lower Coppermine above the Arctic Circle, who was equally known for his marathon running, his taste for weed, and his hatred of all things royal :)
In the end, with the autumn gales beginning as they do in August in the Barren Lands, and our canoe carrying lots of scientifically precious prehistoric stone tools as a result of our survey, we accepted his generous offer to fly us out from that government geology camp and back to Yellowknife free of charge.
The following summer, in 1978, my Woodyard partner and I made an archaeological survey of the Rawalpindi River, which is a tributary of the Coppermine. Imagine my shock, at the trip's beginning, to see a grizzly bear running toward me in my camera's viewfinder when I turned around 180 degrees to take a picture of the river's headwaters outflow. But thank god I did turn precisely then! Oh man, that was a fire drill. We did everything wrong, were totally scared and stupid, but we survived intact (except for our minds) and later briefly radioed in to the geology expeditor that we'd had a scary bear encounter, been chased, but were OK, and were continuing the project as planned. It's a whole big hilarious story of its own, and so totally Northern.
But later, back in Yellowknife, my first-ever music gig was about to happen, backing up Ted Wesley, and he asked me who I was. I replied with my name, Frank Metcalf, amazed at this basic question from a friend. But what he wanted was my stage name. I laughed and joked and said duhhh I don't have or want a stage name. Then Ted said well it's obvious. I replied what's obvious? It was all sounding crazy. Ted said well you're Grizzly Frank. I said what the hell??? That was totally crazy. I ran from the damn bear, and was always dead honest about that. But he said everyone knows that's your name now. It was a classic WTF??? moment. Turns out the expeditor had kind of fleshed out a bunch of "details" to make the "story" much more gripping and less ridiculous than it really was.
Ted was hiring me for my first-ever gig, he wanted that name for me, so I said what the hell, OK. CBC / Radio Canada loved the "Grizzly Frank, Canada's Master of Bones" schtick and came calling repeatedly. I loved being onstage, and we were right then creating this pan-Arctic folk festival called Folk on the Rocks, which continues to this day (2022). I was on the first booking committee. It was the start of a whole huge long pile of fun, gigs, and travel for me personally, all over Canada and two festivals in Europe as well, and so I will always thank my dear departed friend Ted Wesley for his crazy idea. I guess I should thank the grizzly bear too, but that's harder :)
San Francisco, CA
05-06-2022
Processed: 06/29/23
I continue to be amazed at the images I may remember well when taking them (or forget taking them altogether) and then "stumble" across them when looking over "old photo folders" in my archives (which are meticulously filed by time and place.)
I arrived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco by bus from my hotel at around 8:30 am to specifically photograph Broadway where the old Condor Theater stands. This was where the XXX rated clubs were in the 1970s and I wanted to photograph the area. I ended up walking up Broadway toward Chinatown, and then walked Grant Street all the way through to California Street, where I took a cable car all the way to Fisherman's Wharf.
This is a highly processed telephoto shot taken at 87mm with my kit lens, then sharpened and filtered in Photoshop and Aurora HDR. Photomatix Pro, as usual, combined the three exposures for the HDR. I would say this is pretty much where Chinatown "begins" (on Grant Street anyway, which is the "Main Street" of the neighborhood.)
Because it was early in the morning, there weren't a lot of folks walking up and down the street, and very little traffic as well. And I'm amazed that in over a year I've never processed nor presented any of the photos I took of the area (except for one shot of the Condor Club and one of the Zoetrope Cafe which aren't in Chinatown) till now.
Me voy de vacaciones. Nos vemos a la vuelta!
I'm going on holidays. See you soon!!
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Next building past the Scaffolding is Downe House, bought by Mick Jagger after he married Jerry Hall back in the early 1990's
Arguments still continue over the ownership
Richmond Hill, Richmond, Greater London. UK.
Continuing the series of cool light shades found on weekends away….
100x: Photos taken on the iPhone 13 Pro
Continuing the saga of my previous post we find ourselves looking at yet another set of tier 4 GEVO's. This time leading M301 as they split the ever so famous intermediates at Mile 30.
Check this post for the rest of the story of my tier 4 woes from yesterday.
With a single rebuilt AC44/60CW, UP train ZMNNP-18 has just finished working the intermodal ramp at UP's Neff Yard and swapped crews, getting to ready continue west on Main Track 3.
In the background, a trio of SD40N's are tied down with UP train YKS87R-18 on Track 212, which died here at Neff last night before trying to make it back to 18th St. Yard with a transfer. 1/19/25.
The continuing chase (20 sets worth) of the Dakota and Iowa North Sioux City train with a pair of spotless 60 year old GP's that sounded fantastic. At Elk City the 2nd unit was placed on the r/e giving us a different view on the final leg of the chase to North Sioux City yard. As luck would have it the conductor's D&I truck is in the picture as well.
My recent obsession with mist and trees continues! Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70
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First Daffodils of Season
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Continuing along the path to early spring marked three weeks ago with a photo of our first crocuses of 2018, we now daffodils in bloom. Actually, the several clumps of daffodils at the corner or our lot have been in bloom for a couple of days. It was nearing the sunset hour on an overcast day, so I used a UV filter rather than a CPOL, and used the 100-400mm lens hand-held. Perhaps I didn't go out for photos earlier because I didn't want to be reminded that leaves have continued to accumulate since they were raked and bagged earlier.
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Scottish Citylink are continuing to operate their route 900 between Edinburgh and Glasgow for key workers who require transport between the two cities.
Here is Parks of Hamilton HSK653 heading along a very quiet Glasgow Road on a service 900 heading to Glasgow. 18th April 2020.
We had a good bit of rain on Tuesday that continued into the early hours of Wednesday.
But, by the time we rolled into our parking lot the sun was shinning and every leaf on the ground was bejeweled with sparkling crystal, pearl shaped, droplets of rain.
The usual kit of iPhone, Olloclip Macro Lens, then edited on iPad with Snapseed.
There was some color texture overlay added as well. This caused the leaf to brown up a bit more.
Continuing with Cameraderie forum joint effort for regular shooting in January; on the twenty-first day, I confess, two thirds into this challenge and shooting regularly for it became oppressive. I found myself in a place where photography became almost the opposite of what it means to me usually - a creative outlet without pressure to produce, meat deadlines and oblige clients; just a personal joy of observing and exploring the world and myself in it. Now with an (self imposed) obligation to have at least kinda pretty if not strong or meaningful image each day, I felt overwhelmed and tired and had to kick myself in the butt to get at it once again. I argued with my grumpy self that, even if I decide to drop everything, it would be beneficial to at least stretch the legs, and that by just strolling the streets for an hour or so I'm bound to stumble on something intriguing... And I did. Shot with Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens mounted via speedbooster on Sony A6000.
Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars! There's no doubt that the story of Star Wars has impacted and inspired generations and the story will continue. I thank God for allowing Star Wars to grow and bringing people of all types together through it. More thanks goes to George Lucas for carrying out his vision for these films and to the present Lucasfilm company for honoring the fans and exploring Star Wars in new ways.
I plan to release a new photo every day under the 40th Anniversary tagline until I find a good stopping point. I apologize if I fall behind due to a busy schedule.
God Bless and may the Force be with you.