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Took this unexpected shot as I was leaving MIA. I had been standing on a cement pillar to look over the chain-link fence to grab the sunset, and as I walked back towards the car this flock of birds was quick to return back to their spot to gaze at the sunset. T3i and Sigma 18-250mm.
The streets of Old Peshawar are just packed with pedestrians, carts, cars, rickshaws .. you name it. A sea of faces. It looks like chaos but there's a method to the madness - as if there's an unwritten rule book that everyone abides by that keeps things moving.
I went out for a small walk in the Forest on Saturday. It is the first time I have felt fit enough to walk since I had Covid back in December. There were signs up letting people know that controlled burning was taking place. Though seeing these huge flames would have told us that. We didn't stay out long as it was so cold. The wind was biting
"The law permits controlled burning each year from the first working day in November until the last working day of March. However, in practice it generally starts in early February because the worst of the winter weather is over, there are no birds nesting or animals producing young, the vegetation is still quite dry and the damp ground offers protection to the peaty soil. The process is strictly controlled and only a small percentage of the heathland is burned each year (on average 400 hectares) and only then in rotation, which traditionally is once every generation (about 25 years). A firebreak is first established around the area to be burned, which is made by using a cutting machine. The firebreaks are used to prevent the spread of flames to other parts of the heathland. Only skilled and experienced staff are permitted to undertake controlled burning of the heathland
One more in the comments below
The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia. It is sometimes called the European eagle-owl and is, in Europe, where it is the only member of its genus besides the snowy owl (B. scandiacus), occasionally abbreviated to just eagle-owl. It is one of the largest species of owl, and females can grow to a total length of 75 cm (30 in), with a wingspan of 188 cm (6 ft 2 in), males being slightly smaller. This bird has distinctive ear tufts, with upper parts that are mottled with darker blackish colouring and tawny and the wings and tail are barred. The underparts are a variably hued buff, streaked with darker colour. The facial disc is poorly developed and the orange eyes are distinctive.
With a total range in Europe and Asia of about 32 million square kilometres (12 million square miles) and a total population estimated to be between 250 thousand and 2.5 million individuals, the IUCN lists the bird's conservation status as being of "least concern". Tame eagle-owls have occasionally been used in pest control because of their size to deter large birds such as gulls from nesting.
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There is no questioning who is in charge when this eagle patrols the skies above the Mississippi. There are literally thousands of birds on the river, but only one rules them all. www.troymarcyphotography.com
Taken Sept 26, 2014 in St John's, Newfoundland
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Scott Kelby's 8th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk -- Paranapiacaba, Santo André, Brazil, October 3rd, 2015. #WWPW2015
Hands down this is my favourite controls set-up on our Aussie rear loaders, just too bad the JP5 isn’t produced anymore, so this operating system is being phased out. What I really dig about the JP5 is that all hydraulic functions can be operated without the assistance of electronics, instead there are levers connected directly to valve spools for the lifter, packer, winch, tailgate and ejector. What shits me about new trucks and some other existing models is that general operation relies on push buttons, which is fine when things work, but you’ve got no back-up option in case the buttons and switches stuff up. In addition to reliable manual operation with the JP5, you do have the convenience of auto packing, with the ability to override a cycle at any point. Although speaking of packing, you don’t have dual levers to operate the slide panel and sweep blade individually, but you still can to an extent (not that it’s a major issue). The lever seen at the bottom operates the comb lifters for the plastic bins, which also has a proxy sensor beside it to trigger the engine revs. The lever above the console runs the pack cycle manually, with both the sweep and slide functions achieved together. On the bodies which are fitted with winch systems, there is most often an identical lever posited directly beside the pack lever to raise and lower steel bins.
Now to the actual console, you’ve got your yellow button to activate an in-cab buzzer, of course the big red mushroom is your stop button and the green “prime” button completes the first half of the pack cycle by opening the sweep and lowering the slide, meaning the black “pack” button does the rest by sweeping the hopper and lifting the slide. With the featured selector switches, your bin buffer one raises and lowers the bar which stops wheelie bins up to 660L in size flipping over into the hopper. The red labelled switch allows the operator to change between normal pack cycle conditions (auto) or to rescue mode which actuates a specific valve, allowing the operator to raise the slide panel without needing the sweep blade to close (breaking sequence). The third and final switch above the yellow button controls the engine revs, with auto complimenting the bin lift proxy and pack buttons, manual mode makes the engine rev constantly at 1000RPM for manual packing (or being an attention seeker) and the third mode adjusts lifter speed and pressure to suit larger and heavier bins like an 1100L, basically giving the lifter a boost. Shown in the picture is the primary operating station, with the other side of the tailgate generally only featuring the yellow, red, green and black buttons, plus an optional pneumatic lever to operate a comb lifter from both sides if equipped.
control of the contrast.
Orwo NP20 plates 6.5x9, Rodinal dev
Ilford Ilfospeed paper 4,35 M, Medium 180 (grain)
@f8 interval 5s
Ilford multigrade dev, economy it can be used at 1:14
Durst M605 + Rodenstock 75/4.5
Although the radio telescope at Mt Pleasant wasn't doing scientific work on the day we visited, we were kindly given a tour of the facilities and even shown how the dish itself was maneuvered. The control room was filled with electronic instruments I remember from the days when studying a unit of electrical engineering in the 1970s (before I decided it wasn't a career option for me). But there is some very recent equipment here as well. You can see the computer box from SpaceX, as this telescope also monitors their satellites in space.
No AI was used in the making of these photos or in the writing of the descriptions. It is all my own work.
Viaggio in Giappone giorno 11/17
Oggi abbiamo salutato Shirakawa-go le Alpi Giapponesi e ci siamo mossi verso la costa est, verso la città di Kanazawa dove siamo arrivati nel primo pomeriggio.
Kanazawa è una città moderna, in pieno sviluppo urbanistico con modernissimi quartieri e con la chiara intenzione di raggiungere Kyoto come città turistica, intenzione resa possibile dall'a
pertura recente della linea alta velocità Shinkansen che la collega direttamente a Tokyo.
Voglio però raccontare l'incidente successo ieri pomeriggio a Shirakawa-go. Eravamo già nel Ryokan dove abbiamo dormito e ad un certo punto abbiamo sentito suonare a tutto volume le sirene anticendio. Al che tutti gli abitanti del villaggio sono usciti dalle case, fatte di legno e paglia facilmente incendiabile e hanno iniziato a bagnare con degli idranti i tetti di paglia.. Successivamente abbiamo visto che una delle case più piccole dall'altra parte del fiume aveva preso fuoco e che diverse squadre di pompieri erano già sul posto e in maniera efficiente stavano domando l'incendio contenendolo a quella casa. Evidentemente il rischio incendi è così elevato che gli abitanti hanno adottato un rigido protocollo di difesa con gli idranti con lo scopo di impedire che un eventuale fuoco si propaghi alle altre case.
È stato un evento a cui non avremmo voluto assistere ovviamente, perché fa male al cuore vedere una di quelle magnifiche case distrutta dal fuoco, ma è stato anche incredibile vedere tutte le case coperte da questi getti d'acqua e ammirare il coraggio, l'efficienza e la bravura dei pompieri giapponesi in azione