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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!
74/365
I was at the beach all day. And my parents forced me to stay out in the sun so now my skin is all red-brownish and it hurts.
So my tripod decided to break yesterday, thanks to my dad for being my tripod haha. Our first idea was that I lied on the ground, but I found out very fast how awkward it can be to lie on the asphalt while people are staring and pointing.
I think though, the right choice was to stand up :)
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Continuing with my special flickr food channel edition, this hispid cotton rat devours a leaf.
Hispid cotton rats are omnivorous, but the major portion of their diet consists of green vegetation. They occasionally consume insects and other small animals. Field observations of hispid cotton rat diet indicate that preferred foods are the stems, foliage, and seeds of crop and wild plants.
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 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
and until daylight approaches, the ghosts and the unexplainable continues...then, who knows what will happen in November?
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.
Continuing the theme this week of staying local and finding farm/outside buildings of interest... this is another "close to home" offering for my 365 challenge. The cold, the muted colours I think help to set a mood of a sad, abandoned building.
Theophilus and Cyrillus Craters – continued work on the Sky-Watcher 120ED and Televue 4x Powermate. Seeing was good with a few high clouds, this is only the best 15% of 5000 frames. Looking forward to capturing 25k frames in future efforts.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Televue 4x Powermate, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC. Captured using SharpCap v3.0 software. Image date: 19 June 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
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赤レンガ倉庫へ向かう途中に出会った新港橋梁。廃線になって暫く経っているが橋の上だけ当時の線路が残されている。橋を渡りきれば線路は無くなっているはずなのにずっと続いている感覚に陥ってしまう。その時頭に浮かんだフレーズは「せーんろは続くーよー、どーこまーでーもー♪」
CANON EOS 7D + EF-S10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM
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Me voy de vacaciones. Nos vemos a la vuelta!
I'm going on holidays. See you soon!!
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Continuing Creative Cold Colorful Cocktail Concoctions: IMRANtini Masked Blond Bandit 3D - IMRAN™
Continuing the series.... I don’t cook. Never have. Never will. But I can experiment. Continuing satisfying my need for virgin frozen drinks, here’s yet another one in 3D. Mango, a little orange, dash of pineapple, and lemon juice with red grape juice. See earlier one at www.facebook.com/134701029880230/posts/3491943427489290/ ! Non-alcoholic Cheers!
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Continuing towards LaCrosse, CKIN 814 and 813 lead their train from Malden across the one time Monon Michigan City Branch at Wade Tower, west of LaCrosse, IN.
Photo by John Eagan
The rails continue to sing as a hot Z train flies down main 1 out of the sunset doing all of the maximum authorized speed. On main 2 sits a loaded worm train bound for the coast with the normal 4x3x2 set up.
The Kentucky Dam, a hydroelectric facility on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties, was completed in 1944. The dam initially carried the Illinois Central Railroad and Paducah & Louisville Railroad and two lanes of U.S. Route 62 and 641 at its crest.
As part of a $734 million project to construct a new lock at the east end of the Kentucky Dam and to renovate the entire facility, U.S. Route 62 and the Paducah & Louisville Railway (PAL) were rerouted from atop the dam to their own separate structures just to the north. Part of the existing roadway atop the dam was retained to access a visitors center while the railroad tracks were removed.
In September 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded an $89 million contract to the American Bridge Company for the new railroad and highway bridges. Work was intentionally slowed down because of a lack of continued funding. The main span Warren Through Truss, weighing 4.4 million pounds and measuring 500 feet in length, was floated along the Tennessee River from its erection site, raised via hydraulic jacks, and then slid into place onto the new bridge piers in August 2009. The new Kentucky Dam Railroad Bridge opened for the PAL on November 22, 2009. The combined cost of the new railroad and highway bridges was $97 million.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Continuing my Toy-ronto Life and Miniature Park series...
Happy Miniature Sunday, Pan Am edition! :-)
Toy-ronto's miniature park turned into one of celebration venues of Pan Am Games! Little Toy-rontonians and guests are gathering to the big telly in the park to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of Toronto 2015 Pan American Games! :-)
We watched it too! :-) The opening ceremony was absolutely amazing with a dazzling show by Cirque du Soleil and fireworks from the CN Tower!
More Toy-ronto's tilt-shift fun is coming - Stay tuned / Bientot a l'ecran!
To learn more about PanAm and ParaPanAm Games in Toronto 2015, visit site www.toronto2015.org/
My journey continued from the fox to the eagles. Plainfin Midshipman are strange and interesting fish that live in deep water until spring, when they swim into the shallows to bear their young. The females lay their eggs and return to the depths while the male remains to stand guard. This takes place in the intertidal zone where they can withstand exposure to air during low tide, breathing through their skin. Males "sing" during mating season, which comes out as a low hum, perceptible to nearby humans. They also have photophores along their body which light up when they are in deep water to both help them capture food and possibly also camouflage them. Watching the Great Blue Herons catching one after another in the shallows demonstrated the survival challenge for these fish. Herons would start first in the morning soon to be followed by bald eagles, often hazing the herons who gave up their prey with loud and bitter complaint. It was quite a show. My objective, besides having a great time doing what I love and meeting lots of other photographers, was to capture bird to bird interactions. I was inspired by Mark Smith's photography, who sets the standard for such shots and was quite helpful. Check him out: photoworkshopsandtours.com/. Here are a few shots. I'll post a few more in another post and then make a gallery of my keepers for my website. Thanks for following the journey. Mike
The eruption of Etna continues with the sixteenth paroxysmal activity since last February 16. The 'live' event started after 11pm yesterday from the South-East crater with a lava fountain, lava overflows and the emission of an eruptive cloud about 6 kilometers high. The ash, blown by the wind, fell in a South-South-East direction and also on Catania causing the closure of a sector of the airspace and of the airport runway.
DAMAGE - And after a month of eruptions, the damage toll in the countryside on which ash and lapilli have poured up. "Damaged nurseries of plants and flowers, vegetables as well as citrus fruits scratched by the power of the sand - says Coldiretti after the new eruption with lava and ash from the South-East crater -. In the countryside there is a calamity with often irreparable damage to the crops to which in addition, the inconvenience for those forced to the extraordinary cleaning of the drainage channels or the cleaning of rural roads ".
"In many areas the earth has been submerged by a black blanket - he adds. To clean the structures and crops it takes time, water and the massive use of manpower. We are also facing changes in the volcano and, therefore, we must start also a new system of interventions that also protects agricultural entrepreneurs with fast and ad hoc rules ".
I continued along the road running parallel to the river. I had never been this far. I saw a couple ahead, their long shadows trailing behind them. The man has a loving hand over her girlfriend’s shoulder. I grabbed a quick shot before they rounded the corner.
After finishing up at Yuengling 2532 goes around the Pottsville leg of the wye on the way home to West Cressona.
Continuing in my subject/slideshow fashion we'll take a look at the R&N around Pottsvile. They serve what I think is still a team track and 2 Yuengling breweries around town. The Pottsville Branch from Port Clinton ends at Pottsville Junction, a switch which is probably technically in Mount Carbon. There is about a half mile spur from there north towards downtown Pottsville while the Middleport Runner (the former Passenger Main as this was from Port Clinton to Tamaqua) goes about 10 or 12 miles to Middleport. About 2 miles up the runner past Pottsville Junction is Mill Creek Junction and the connection(s) with the Saint Clair Runner to Yuengling's brewery at the south end of the old Reading Co. St. Clair yard in Port Carbon. The track to this brewery had been abandoned but was put back in in 2002, a great opportunity as the arch bridges you'll see in this sequence are on the wyes of Mill Creek Junction which was the relaid track.
Continuing with some light painting exploits, combining some flash at the end on my subjects to make for hopefully and interesting portrait shot.
Pixelstick was used for the light painting and SB900 on 1/4 power was used to illuminate my son.
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The cold wet winter of 2019/20 continued unabated as Storm B hit the UK in mid January.
But there are still days, like yesterday the 12th.
This changing forest floor around Frenchbridge Ghyll at the head of the River Arun will start to be ablaze with green in a small number of weeks - again I can't wait for the transformation to happen. With the destruction of the forest floor by floods just be Christmas I'm thinking 2020's bluebells could be better than usual.
Back at the start of April it is then... to image this pool behind by a log jam near ///flip.adopts.reputable that formed in the mid summer storms of 2019.
Here's a series of photos I took of the potted poinsettia plant at our front door.
The Christmas poinsettia legend begins long ago with a peasant girl in Mexico, faced with a problem on Holy Night: she lacked the means to contribute a gift in the Christ Child ceremony at the church, as all the other children would be doing. The girl was, however, reassured that, to use a modern expression, "it's the thought that counts."
Taking this advice, she picked some roadside weeds on the way to church to make a bouquet. But when she arrived at the church and it was time for her to present her gift, the bouquet of weeds was transformed into something much more colorful: red Christmas poinsettias! Thus was born an enduring tradition, as we continue to associate Christmas poinsettias with the holiday season.
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.
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.
Continuing my Astro Projection series...
It was on that pinky-blue hour in May when I had my out-of-body & lens experience on Toronto cityscapes. My experimental zoom engine drive performed well on all stages, recording this exciting journey in the multiple city dimensions...
...all brought to you by my manual zoom / long exposure magic! :-)
*It's a SOOC image, manual zooming during long exposure - no processing involved!
After the Norfolk Southern liftbridge at CP 509 was raised, the 81 year old SS Alpena was cleared to continue its voyage down the Calumet River to Lafarge North America for loading. Entering the mouth of the 100th street drawbridge, the old steamer is nicely accented with the ominous looking clouds and industrial looking backdrop of Chicago's Southside.
Continuing my mini series of little mocs based off my favourite movies, a great suggestion from @the_brick_silo Ghostbusters! Really pleased with how they turned out, especially the proton packs! More characters in this style and more mocs coming soon!
Continuing my exploration of shapes in the film that’s all about shapes. Really happy with the way this one turned out. It’s exactly what I was trying to do. I used the manual exposure on my Mint SLR-670S to overexpose and make the shot high key. Love the way it came out.
Continuing with posting photos from my archives. Not sure when I will get out for a drive, given that our roads, especially the back roads, will be in poor condition, thanks to all the snow we have had. November 23 2024: lots of snow and it looked like almost 10-12 inches of snow on top of my back fence.
We have just had three very cold days with freezing fog that turned everything white. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries before the fog arrived, so now I have been hibernating for a little while. Starting today, 2 December 2024, our weather is forecast to be 'warmer' for a few days.
I am adding the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted image taken on the same day.
"In the afternoon of 20 February 2015, there were just a couple of friends down in the park and, happy to say, they had already found this tiny, popcan-sized owl. This was its perch during the time I was there, giving some nice out in the open views, but all rather similar. It's such a beautiful owl. This is the female - the male is smaller, has a more rusty colour especially around the neck, and he has a thicker, white eyebrow line. In the end, it went to sleep. This was roughly a week before I saw it (and its mate) for the last time that season. People who have been seeing it in the months since then must be keeping very quiet about it. No reports, no photos posted anywhere."
"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds.