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Pacific Ocean waves crest in the late evening sun off the coast of Moresby Island, British Columbia.
Paignton Pier under an overcast sky in mid December where an off shore breeze was creating small waves cresting along the beach.
Wikipedia: The grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes.
It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs. The sexes are rather similar, but the female is smaller, darker and less ornamented than the male. The young resemble the female.
The grey peacock-pheasant is distributed in lowland and hill forests of Bangladesh, Northeast India and Southeast Asia, but excluding most of Indochina as well as the entire Malayan Peninsula. The diet consists mainly of seeds, termites, fruits and invertebrates. The female usually lays two eggs.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Soo Line train 17 crests Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 6, 1987. Leading the train is Soo Line EMD SD39 No. 6241 with nose lettering for short-lived Lake States, which was set up by Soo to facilitate spinning off a portion of the railroad to a regional carrier. The locomotive is former Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern blue SD39 No. 41.
After the "Wave" and yesterday's post, later that evening, the sky began to light up. It started very slowly, but was showing signs of more. Inexorably, the light show grew in proportion until much of the sky was involved.
A number of shots resulted in some terrific sunset work. However, just as the sunset was coming to a close, the incoming tides once again billowed with intensity. This gave me an idea, and resulted in the best of the night. One final wave, crested the surrounding rocks before the light faded, and flowed directly toward my lens. " You just never know till you go, so go".
Trail Crest is a mountain trail pass on the Mount Whitney Trail that crosses the Sierra Crest. East of the pass are 97 switchbacks leading down to Trail Camp in Inyo National Forest. West of the pass is Sequoia National Park and the trail leading 2 miles (3.2 km) north to the summit of Mount Whitney.
Trail Crest, at an elevation of 13,645 feet (4,159 m), is the highest trail pass in the United States. (Wikipedia)
Rowena Crest Viewpoint is a paved overlook located near the top of the high bluffs on the south side of the Columbia River. It offers magnificent views of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.
You can see Rt 84 that travels along the river.
Anú branco (Guira guira) measures between 36 and 42 centimeters in length, including its 20 centimeters of the tail, and weighs between 113 and 168.6 grams. It is usually found in family bands.
The adult of the species presents ocher-yellow coloring with a shaggy crest, naked yellow facial skin, strong beak and curved with a beautiful yellow-orange coloring and iris varying between yellow-orange and blue-bluish.
It is a species without sexual dimorphism.
This bird always walks in groups, being extremely sociable. His vocalization is tall and strident, and when perching, throws the tail to the back.
It is essentially carnivorous, eating grasshoppers, bedbugs, spiders, etc. Eats also hairy caterpillars and urticants, lizards, mice, frogs and puppies of other birds. Fishing in shallow water; but periodically can eat fruits, berries, seeds, especially in the dry season when there is scarcity of arthropods. It has already been seen in the region of Lagos, RJ, predating small African snails.
Its eggs are relatively large, having from 17 to 25% of female weight. The color of the eggs is sea green and a high-relief limestone network spreads over the whole surface. The nests can be individual or collective,but the female who built a nest and still did not start putting her eggs throws off the eggs of other females.
Adults do not always take care with their nests with eggs, abandoning them. The puppies leave the nest before they can fly, with the short tail, and are fed even only for few weeks.
Lives in fields and more open environments. Migrates to regions where it was unknown and becomes the most common bird along the roads.
* It's not a great capture. The sun was shinning directly on the scene and I had not enough time to search a better perspective before the bird runs away.
today i became the full owner of my house (paid the last 10%, held back in case of unexpected repairs, and signed the deed) — and celebrated by climbing up the long slope of Mýrafell (the round mountain so often in the photos from my house) for the first time — it was a clearing afternoon with almost no wind, so perfect timing.
i still can’t believe i get to live in this amazing place!
Sometimes the wind catches the cockatoo's crest at just the wrong angle (or the right angle, depending on whether you are a cocky or a photographer!)
Mount Tamalpais, California
A view from one of the high hills on the northwestern slope of Mt Tam as wisps of fog drift past.
A trio of KCS SD40-2s split the shadows as they bring KCS’s Job 16 over the hill in McLaurin, MS on the Gulfport Subdivision. Luckily, they didn’t work the plastics plant south of Hattiesburg or this angle would’ve been after dark.
A long Canadian Pacific freight wraps ups its work up the gade along the BNSF Midway Subdivision. It's a long haul up the grade for the long trains that CP is so known for. News came this morning that CN was pulling out of merger conversations with KCS making CP the likely party to take over the KCS system to become Canadian Pacific Kansas City. That being said, the days of pure CP are numbered.
With four HOGX stock cars, two SD40-2s, a GP50, and a C36-7, Union Pacific's North Platte to Los Angeles Trailers pulls westward through Utah's Tintic Valley approaching 6061 ft. Boulter Summit on May 14, 1994.
On my way home from another shoot, I noticed the moon cresting over a far mountain. Night time had just begun but the moon was getting lower in the sky. By the time I had quickly parked and unloaded my gear, it had already begun to disappear over the mountain side.
There is something about the speed with which the moon moves. (And our planet rotates) Moments later it was gone and I had only secured three images. Amazing how quickly a landscape can change.
A Utah Railway MK50-3 has reached 7440 ft. Soldier Summit with an Intermountain Power to Savage coal empty the morning of July 25, 2008.
Depuis le sommet du donjon on domine Crest et la vallée de la Drôme. A l'horizon, la montagne des Trois Becs.
Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London
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The Glacier Crest trail in Glacier National Park (goldenhikes.ca/trail/glacier-crest/) is one of the many hikes that I made during my holidays, and it is a climb of 950 meters in altitude. After the Tachäl Dhäl trail in Kluane National Park that was exhausting, this one was a fairly easy walk, that brought me to the top of the ridge with a stunning 360o view. The view here is to the north east on the Illecillewaet glacier, but the view to the west and south west is equally stunning ( may post this one later).
Another problem here is the amount of nice pictures that I took here. Ultrawide angle pictures with menacing clouds, rock formations and/or snow and ice in front, deep valley views, forest and trees, it is all there to document the beauty of the view.
The picture here was shot with my LUMIX that makes excellent panoramas, and that i discovered to be not that bad only recently. i am still deciding which of the other pictures to show later, so therefor I start with this one.
From 11 June till the 25th of July, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. From there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.
New England Central train 611 has made light work of the grade at Belchertown, MA with only 13 cars in tow as they pass MP 75 on the Palmer Sub.
At 1028hrs on Friday 04 October 2024, Greater Anglia bi-mode unit no. 755410 heads south from Beccles station in Suffolk. It is seen here at the start of its descent to Weston level crossing. This train was 2D77, the Lowestoft (1006hrs) to Ipswich service. (I have removed a visually intrusive relay box from this scene).
For an alternative angle on railway photography, why not take a look at the Phoenix website:
The Spring 2024 edition of the Phoenix Railway Photographic Journal has just been published and you can read for free by clicking on the link below:
Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Powys, UK. Had about 2hrs in Brecon recently but only had the Samyang lens with me so was a little limited with possibilities....please zoom in to view in more detail....
8 separate Pixel Shift images using the Pentax K3 II paired with the Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS (Ultra Wide Angle) lens mounted on the Manfrotto Tripod with Manfrotto Pan head 391RC2 and triggered using a Pentax remote.
Photomerge feature in Photoshop, standard run through in DxO Pro on Mac, then Snapseed on iPad Pro for B&W version. Original completed panorama has a file size of over 720 MB.
For more info on Pixel Shift:-
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