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Continuing my 52 week project (just taking long breaks in between posts). One of these weeks I'll get on a normal weekly schedule.
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Shot with two Speedlights on each side of the camera, pointed up toward the ceiling.
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NEW JERSEY’S BALD EAGLE POPULATION CONTINUES TO SOAR
January 14th, 2016
CONSERVE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY RELEASES RESULTS OF 2015 STATE BALD EAGLE REPORT
by Lindsay McNamara, Communications Manager
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey today released the 2015 Bald Eagle Report, highlighting the number of nesting pairs, active nests and nest productivity for the raptors throughout New Jersey with data collected by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife biologists, CWF biologists and committed volunteers.
“With 161 pairs of bald eagles this past year — up from just a single nest in the early 1980’s — the dramatic ongoing recovery of bald eagles across the northeast continues to inspire so many of us,” said David Wheeler, Conserve Wildlife Foundation Executive Director. “The thrill of seeing a bald eagle fly across the sky is unparalleled. This report captures how these eagles are continuing their All-American return.”
The report notes that thirteen new eagle pairs were found this season, nine in the south, two in Central Jersey and two in Northern New Jersey.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2016/01/14/new-jerseys-ba...
The Severn Trent saga continues - when the workers came and fixed my water pipe earlier in the year, they destroyed part of the hedge outside my house and left an orange temporary barrier up - that's been used and abused by local ne'er-do-wells, as you can imagine. They also planted the "wrong kind of hedge" to fill the gap. This morning, five men - yes, five - came and stared at the mess and this is what they ended up with. I can guarantee that this wooden temporary barrier will be there until it rots away and decays....
Down stream a little and look how clear the water is. In warmer weather, I have seen kids swimming in the big pool.
Hello here. I'm working on my "ISOLATION" documentary series that I photographed every single day when the quarantine rules were announced. I still continue with taking my everyday images, so not sure when and in which format I will post them later. So, here just a small starting part of my point of view to the 100 meters from the home (or from the office - I permitted to continue working in the offices located in the center of Telaviv).
Continuing to organize my studio this weekend, I came across yet ANOTHER sketchbook I'd forgotten I had. Only a six pages have been used, of which this is one.
I distinctly remember this lovely day, lounging around and sketching in a park in Rome.
continuing 'car week'....
i've posted this car previously here but just had to post another version of it when i saw the reds from the velvia.
columbus, ohio
woca
This past Friday I flew into San Jose where Ara, Nathan, and Sarah greeted me. We drove to the hills, where we met up with the bride and groom who we were there to shoot. A short drive to Carmel and the fun began.
Ara and I went with the bride and groom to the ocean, where in the near 70 degree weather we frolicked in the surf, took their photos, with Pebble Beach Golf Course on the bluffs above. We attended the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, and then we made our way to our hotel in Monterey.
The hotel...what an experience. The room reservation was botched, the rug in our room had a very distinctive iron-shaped burn on the floor, and Nathan and I are pretty sure that was a blood stain on the shower curtain. Aren't shower curtains like a dollar at the Dollar Tree? The room was at least three shades of pink, oddly though it had impeccable beautiful high-gloss, polished granite tiles on the bathroom floor. The owners clearly ran out of money after the tiling job. Evidence? The ice bucket was from a Days Inn. We were not at a Days Inn.
Ara and I went as a team to ask to borrow an iron (after all, there was proof one existed at the hotel at some point on our floor), and we also needed extra towels as we had four people in our room.
The hotel manager grunted as he gave us an iron and ironing board. But oh, when we asked for towels it was all over. "You already have TWO in your ROOM!" he snapped.
We stared at him.
He finally grunted again, unlocked a closet, and gave us two more washcloth-sized, thinning towels. Who knew there was a towel shortage in Monterey?
The wedding was a smash, at L'Auberge Carmel. The funny notes here are that the bride wore a dress a bride I shot two years ago in NH wore, and the wedding in Sedona I shot a few years ago was held at L'Augberge Sedona. Small world in those classy joints! The Villa was beautiful, the bride was stunning, the ceremony short and sweet. Photos from that will follow at some point, but I was the second shooter (it was Ara's gig) so I will let her post her shots first. : )
Sunday we made our way to Santa Cruz, where sadly the roller coasters weren't open yet, but we continued north to a different Pebble Beach where our feet were exfoliated, we collected pretty things, and found a roly poly fish head on the beach. By afternoon, we were enjoying smoothies in San Francisco. Nathan and I shared a drink in a bar where we found a giant white rabbit and a woman with a mustache and a fez at the bar! And we thought Portland was weird.
Sunday night brought us excellent Greek food, a visit to a sex shop where we ogled antique sex toys, and ice cream at one of my favorite ice cream shops in the world, Bi Rite Creamery. Salted caramel ice cream, you say? Check!
A night on a hillside in Oakland with friends of Ara's and Nathan's, where we had luxurious and soft towels galore, and a morning at Kate's Kitchen near Haight and Fillmore. Delish!
On our way out of the city we tried to shoot the Golden Gate. The fog bank was amazing, and kept teasing us, fleeting glances of the bridge. At times it was a ghost bridge, we could hear it, but see no more than a few feet in front of us. After much rain, wind, and hopes, we gave up and made our way back to Oregon.
Despite a claustrophobic panic attack, and a painful hip cramp north of Eugene where I had to have Nathan pull the car onto the side of the road and I threw myself to the ground and popped my hip in and out of joint until it felt better, it was an amazing weekend.
I cannot remember the last time I stayed up laughing and screaming and crying over obscene comments for an hour after we turned the lights off, it was like a sleep over from high school, only way better. The company could not have been better. The food was amazing. The weather was perfect. The sights, the sounds, the experiences, it was a weekend I will never forget!
The Merchandise Mart was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White to be a "city within a city". Second only to Holabird & Root in Chicago art deco architecture, the firm had a long-standing relationship with the Field family. Started in 1928, completed in 1931, and built in the same art deco style as the Chicago Board of Trade Building, its cost was reported as both $32 million and $38 million. The building was the largest in the world in terms of floorspace, but was surpassed by the Pentagon in 1943,and now stands thirty-sixth on the list of largest buildings in the world. Once the largest commercial space in the world, Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 is now recognized by Guinness World Records as holding the record
When opened in 1930, the Merchandise Mart or the Merch Mart, located in the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space. Previously owned by the Marshall Field family, the Mart centralized Chicago's wholesale goods business by consolidating vendors and trade under a single roof.Massive in its construction, and serving as a monument to early 20th century merchandising and architecture, the art deco landmark anchors the daytime skyline at the junction of the Chicago River branches. With upper levels bathed in colored floodlight, the structure stands out against darker downtown buildings in night views. The building continues to be a leading retailing and wholesale destination, hosting 20,000 visitors and tenants per day.The Merchandise Mart is so large that it had its own ZIP code until 2008 (60654). In 2010, the building opened up its Design Center showrooms to the public for the first time.
NRHP District
Cropped image captured through parked car's passenger-side window with smc Pentax-F 1:4.5-5.6 on Pentax K-S2.
The Triple-XR show continues with PN's recent run of Deniliquin to North Geelong grain trains, with 9048 seen at Epsom led by XR555, XR553 and XR552 on the 18/8/23.
Video available at: youtu.be/fxsaQ6F3pgg
Great Blue Herons building a nest. It seems to be a carefully choreographed job of the male finding material, handing it off to the female who places it in the best spot... then repeat. At times the male will continue to hold a larger stick until one end gets weaved into the nest.
Train loaded with sugar parked in Campinas / SP-Brazil, awaiting release to continue travel to the Port of Santos / SP-Brazil.
Trem carregado com açucar estacionado em Campinas/SP-Brasil, aguardando liberação para seguir viagem até o Porto de Santos/SP-Brasil.
This aircraft arrived from Moline, IL, USA with golfers going to the Open Golf Championship at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course, UK (the course is situated between Liverpool and Southport on the Irish Sea coast). It then ferried out to Milan-Malpensa, Italy.
In 2000, Airbus didn't allocate their own test registration for aircraft destined for a French Airline. This aircraft was built as an A340-313X, it was delivered to Flightlease AG and leased to AOM French Airlines as F-GTUB in Dec-00.
AOM merged with Air Liberte in Oct-01 to form Air Lib. Air Lib ceased operations in Feb-03, the aircraft was returned to the lessor and stored at Paris-Orly. It was leased to SriLankan Airlines as 4R-ADF in Oct-03.
It was modified to A340-312X standard in Dec-04 and continued in service until it was returned to Airbus Financial Services in Apr-16. It was leased to European Aviation (UK) the following month as M-VVIP and was fitted out with a VIP interior at Bournemouth, UK.
It was leased to Air X Charter in Jul-16 and was re-registered 9H-BIG in Sep-16 before entering service. Current (Jul-17).
Continued practice from Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers. Start to finish.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
--Emily Dickinson
Mogadore, Summit County, Ohio
Work continues apace at Washwood Heath Up Sidings with the construction of a new tarmacadam plant for Tarmac. 66749 Christopher Hopcroft MBE 60 Years Railway Service completes the scene running along the Washwood Heath East Sidings line and thence onto the Cemex Siding with 6M78 from Pengam Reception Sidings.
Westfield XI (Westfield Eleven) (1982-86, + 2004-) Engine 1275cc A Seris S4
Registration Number PHJ 609 K (personalised number first issued for Southend on Sea)
WESTFIELD SET
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157624624305261...
Produced by Westfield Sportscars of Dudley Road, Kingswinford as a replica of the 1956-58 Lotus Eleven.
Production began in 1982 with the cars available either fully built or in kit form. The factory finished cars came with an uprated BMC A series 1275cc engine although some were fitted with Ford Kent engines. Kits were sold without engines with owners fitting anything from Coventry Climax to Lotus twincam or Alfa Romeo engines.
Production of the original Westfield XI ceased in 1986, although the company continued to sell kits until 1988. In 2004 Westfield restarted production with finished cars still powered by the BMC A series engine,
This car was professionally built in 2011 and offered for sale having covered only 2600 miles.Powered by an uprated A Series engine, and finished with black leather interior
This car was offered for sale at the H and H Buxton Pavilion Gardens sale of 10th April 2019, with an auction guide price of £18,000 to £ 22,000
Diolch yn fawr am 70,025,557 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel
Thank you 70,025,557 amazing views, enjoy and stay safe
Shot 10.04.2019 at The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire Ref 138-298
Continuing my look back at some Alder Valley bus depot visits from the 1980s and early 1990s.
Here we see the Cranleigh depot in August 1987.
Continuing bird, found by Howard King on 29 May 2017. Coachella Preserve/Thousand Palms Oasis. 3 June 2017
Continuing my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024 with a stop in Madera Canyon. This is stage 2 of 9. Only a little hiking, mostly sight seeing. This is a place I plan on revisiting, but as an overnight camping trip. I have to change from my normal hiking style to a birding style to appreciate this place.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madera_Canyon_(Arizona)
Madera Canyon is a canyon in the northwestern face of the Santa Rita Mountains, twenty-five miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. As part of the Coronado National Forest, Madera Canyon has campsites, picnic areas, and miles of hiking trails. The canyon is also used as a resting place for migrating birds, and it is thus known as a premier birdwatching area. Madera Canyon was originally named White House Canyon, after a prominent white adobe house was built there in the late 19th century. The canyon was renamed sometime in the early 1900s, although some locals still use the original name.[1][2]
With fifteen species of hummingbird, elegant trogon, sulphur-bellied flycatcher, black-capped gnatcatcher, flame-colored tanager, thirty-six species of wood warblers, and over 256 species of birds documented in total, Madera Canyon is rated the third best birding destination in the United States. Other animals that can be found in Madera Canyon include black bear, mountain lion, bobcats, white-tailed and mule deer, foxes, coatis, ring-tailed cats, raccoons, wild turkeys, squirrels, and rabbits. Sixteen species of bats have also been recorded in the canyon.[1]
www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/road-trips/2020/07...
Madera Canyon in Coronado National Forest is an extremely popular spot for birders who want a chance to see the elegant trogon or an elf owl among many other more common species like the painted redstart and warblers. Madera Canyon is also a good place to see multiple species of hummingbirds in the summer — 15 different species have been spotted there.
Haiku thoughts
Beneath aged oaks,
Whispers of the canyon breathe,
Nature's quiet song.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
NASA PHOTO KSC-69PC-238
VIA J.L. Pickering. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
NASA INFO: The Apollo 11 rocket towers over the Kennedy Space Center’s crawlerway during the May 20, 1969 rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A. The Saturn V launched astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin on the first lunar landing mission two months later.
By Bob Granath,
NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida began a half-century ago this summer. After serving through the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs, the mammoth structure now is undergoing renovations to accommodate future launch vehicles and to continue as a major part of America's efforts to explore space for another 50 years.
Construction began with driving the first steel pilings on Aug. 2, 1963. It was part of NASA's massive effort to send astronauts to the moon for the Apollo Program. Altogether, 4,225 pilings were driven down 164 feet to bedrock with a foundation consisting of 30,000 cubic yards of concrete. Construction of the VAB required 98,590 tons of steel.
When completed in 1965, the VAB was one of the largest buildings in the world with 129,428,000 cubic feet of interior volume. The structure covers eight acres, is 525 feet tall and 518 feet wide.
To accommodate moving, processing and stacking rocket stages, 71 cranes and hoists, including two 250-ton bridge cranes were installed. On the east and west sides are four high bay doors, each designed to open 456 feet in height allowing rollout of the Apollo/Saturn V moon rockets mounted atop launch umbilical towers.The VAB was constructed 3.5 miles from Launch Pad 39A and 4.2 miles from Launch Pad 39B. A pair of crawler-transporters, among the largest machines ever built to move on land, carried the assembled rockets to the pads.
After the conclusion of Apollo in the 1970s, the building was refurbished to accommodate the space shuttle. Inside the VAB, the shuttle solid rocket boosters were stacked atop a mobile launcher platform. The external fuel tank was attached between the two boosters and the shuttle mounted to the tank. Following three decades of flight, the shuttle was retired in 2011.
Modifications of the VAB are underway to support the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, which also will result in the ability to process multiple launch vehicle types. SLS will be the agency’s advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle providing a new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit. However, NASA also is partnering with private industry on launch vehicle and spacecraft development options for taking astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station.
Last year shuttle-era work platforms were removed from the VAB's High Bay 3 as a project of Ground Systems Development and Operations, or GSDO, to accommodate the SLS heavy-lift rocket.
According to Jose Lopez, the VAB senior project manager in the Vehicle Integration and Launch Support Branch of GSDO, the changes are part of a centerwide modernization and refurbishment initiative in preparation for the next generation of human spaceflight.
Lopez noted that some of the utilities and systems scheduled for replacement at the VAB have been used since the facility was originally built. This initial work is required to support any launch vehicle operated from Launch Complex 39 and will allow NASA to begin modernizing the facilities while vehicle-specific requirements are being developed.
Plans for 2014 include awarding the construction contract for new access platforms, including structures and systems required for the SLS.
Some of the current work has included removal of over 150 miles of obsolete Apollo- and shuttle-era cabling. This will make room for installation of more efficient, state-of-the-art command, communication, control and power systems needed to perform testing and verification prior to the SLS and other rockets being rolled out to the launch pad.
As plans move ahead to outfit the VAB with the new infrastructure, code upgrades and safety improvements, the building will continue in its role as a central hub for the Florida spaceport well into the future.
Cyrille Bailly © Tous droits réservés
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Continuing the Bristol uploads, which has quickly become one of my favourite cities to visit, the last occasion was back in June 2021 which was complimented by lovely weather which made for perfect photography.
St. Augustine's Parade which ultimately leads to services diverging at Colston Avenue towards Broad Quay is a major hub for the majority of Bristol's bus services. Certainly a lot busier now ever since first visiting the city back in 2013.
Bristol has a well-established Park & Ride bus service; the services are tendered by Bristol City Council awarded to private operators, First operating 3 out of the 5 services, with CT Plus operating the rest.
Other than the Metrobus services, First operates both the Brislington and Portway services utilising long-wheelbase dual-door Alexander Dennis Enviro400MMCs. 12 (33931-33942) are dedicated to such work, 33931-33935 are branded two-tone green for the Portway services, 33936-33941 are two-tone blue for the Brislington services, and lastly 33942 carries two-tone grey as a dedicated spare.
Alexander Dennis Enviro400MMC 33941 (YX66 WEJ) heads across the Redcliffe Bascule Bridge, Bristol to Brislington P&R.
Continuing with a series of images shot on iPhone 6s in Tokyo last April.
Big things planned for my Tokyo photographs.
Stay tuned.
You can see more here.
Continuing with my old old images I never uploaded. Just a short black and white dress with a white cardigan.
Continuing with the roads & paths photo set, here's the sidewalk across the street from my house, after a typical early snowfall last year. It melted away, also typical. Just a hint of what's to come.
This wasn't the shot I envisioned. I was using the Rokinon 8mm fisheye, a fun lens to play with from time to time. I got low down and liked the close view of slushy snow and cottonwood leaves, but there was too much extraneous detail. When you're using a lens this wide, there are a lot of elements within the frame. It just didn't work, and I abandoned the RAW file for months.
I think walking away for a while can be a good strategy. It's easy to get too emotionally connected to an image, or the idea of an image that somehow failed, and thereby miss what is actually there. I re-opened the file with a more or less blank mind, and tried a square crop, taking some off the top as well. And here it is. Simplified. Better, I hope.
Tomorrow, a transitional image, going from roads and paths to... something else.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I'd been hoping for a nice rainy night for quite some time.. The clouds finally started rolling in today at around 2:00, but sadly just about everything was dry by the time I could go shoot. Luckily I found this lonely little leaf holding on to the last bit of moisture in town.
So far this whole series thing has been pretty fun.. Hopefully I have a long way to go.
Continuing exploring the 'window' theme in collage...it all started yesterday when I opened a tube of Phthalo Yellow Green Watercolor and it 'burped' on my card..a huge splat of green. I hesitated only a second before smashing and dabbing with my fingers...hopefully creating a background to my window view. I see the storm coming from the west...dark and moody, headed towards my windows. Magazine bits, watercolors, acrylics, and stitching on a card. #daisyyellowart
Continuing on from yesterdays post of seeking out treasures across the grid.
Today it's all about the great side table, vases and incents which are placed in the study area.
Read more about them and where they are from here:
Now that Disney owns the Star Wars franchise I'm interested to see if they will do more to incorporate the story and characters into their theme parks. They've talked about how they're going to continue making movies, but I can imagine a Star Wars themed land. Something like that is more likely to end up in Florida, where they have more space, but I still think it could be really cool. Based on the popularity of the existing Star Wars rides and events, I imagine it would be a bit hit with fans.