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My first half decent shot of this winter visitor. This small seabird used to breed in Iceland some 30 odd years ago (last pairs on the island of Grimsey) but are now only seen at sea during the winter months. Not quite as striking in winter plumage as it is in summer plumage but I was just happy to see one close enough to get some shots.
I so wanted some decent photos of Red Squirrels but on our first visit it rained and was very dark amongst the trees. We popped back on our last day just as the sun was setting. I prefer not to photograph animals on feeders but this cheeky chappie was helping himself to the nuts and it was the only shot on offer!
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Just upgraded to the Sony A9, and this is the 1st half decent snap i've managed to get.
Unfortunately, it's a camera jpeg, as my Lightroom 5 can't read the raw files
From tomorrow I shall be in Robin hoods Bay on the North Yorkshire Coast for a week. The cottage has decent wi fi so i should be able to keep up with contacts without difficulty
I noticed this tree Acer Rubrum " October Glory ‘ when I visited the Yorkshire Arboretum two years ago but the photographs I took of it were rubbish . I had another attempt last month with a bit more success .
It's an unusual tree in that simultaneously it has some bright green leaves seemingly untouched by Autumn while also holding some vivid red ones . It's not that this tree is behaving strangely they have about six Acer Rubrum " October Glory ‘ and they all display in the same way . Anyone else know of any other trees with this unusual habit
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August 12: We couldnt get a decent connection both here in the house and in the office. According to our ISP 2 Pacific submarine cables are down and are thus affecting the performance of the internet service in the Philippines. Promise to catch up when service normalizes. Cheers everyone.
Aug 12 9pm: Tried making a comment and it is taking me about 5 mins per comment.. just too much...
Aug 13 6:42am: Connection appears to have normalized. Will catch up this morning. Great day to everyone.
Aug 13 5pm. Cant get a decent speed. Can upload page but cant see the pictures. Geeesh!
Aug 13 11pm: No hope.. Will sleep.. Try again to catch up tomorrow.
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Peters Canyon Regional Park is centrally located in the city of Orange, near foothills of Tustin and Irvine. Because it’s located in the middle of Orange County, and because it actually has some decent hills with views extending to the coast, Peters Canyon is one of the more popular places to hike in OC.
One of the Chrysidid species I see most often - not that I am complaining! A decent photo is always a challenge with these hyperactive insects.
A decent sized flock of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) gathered in the field across from our house.
Here's a few of them! I didn't count!
Eastman Kodak No. 4 1897-99 rare and very old this camera was one of the first roll film models, it also will take glass plates, worn but overall decent shape, found in North Carolina.
Unique social passerine with a disproportionately long tail and very short and rounded wings. Overall pallid sandy-brown. Often seen hopping on the ground with its tail cocked. Favors vegetated desert wadis and plains in the Middle East; also found near human habitation. Eats arthropods, plants, and berries. Moves around in noisy social groups; the subject of intensive studies for decades. Gives a high-pitched “tsee tsee tsee.” (eBird)
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Although the description above suggests that these birds are easy to see, that was not our experience. While we did see them in groups, they were usually hidden in quite dense vegetation and were very difficult to photograph. I really like babblers as a family because they are cute and fun to watch so I was pleased to finally get a half-decent shot of this one perched briefly on a branch.
Here is the link to our Arabian Peninsula birding trip: ebird.org/tripreport/431495
Khairah Forest Park, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia. November 2025.
Saudi Birding.
thank you my dear friends for your super kind comments and faves. As you may have guessed, landscape photography is not really my thing, but I embrace the challenge when it presents itself. This trip was all about spectacular landscapes so it wasn't a hard task to come up with a few decent shots.
I thought I would post this one as it has many similarities with my image of Boston Stump. For starters, it was an easy image to take as it was a straight shot, looking directly at the subject matter, but underexposing by about two stops in order to protect the highlights. I had to act fast because I was late getting to the location, so literally parked up and took the shot. I did not even set up my tripod as the light mist was disappearing fast, but I was lucky enough to be able to rest my camera and lens on a fence post. However, the relative brightness of the scene meant that I was not struggling for a decent enough shutter speed.
The owner/builder wasn't there anymore. Died, I guess. I saw this snail shell, and the shadow, on the concrete, in bright sunlight, and thought that it made a decent picture.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
I found this location super hard to get a decent photo of. Super harsh bright daylight, the amount of safety barriers and rope, the number of tourists, a tele lens would of been nice. I should of read a bit more research about this location before rocking up... - And on top of that the stench of gasses being emitted from the active terrain is enough to turn any stomach. Def looking forward to having another go at this place in the future.
Still, one of the most surreal and alien looking landscapes I've ever seen!
The Temple Island in Henley-On-Thames is a beautiful little spot tucked away amongst the more exalted bustle of the Henley Regatta. I first caught wind of this place a few years ago when I had been a spectator at the Henley Regatta. Although I wanted to take some shots, there were not a lot of cloud cover to make it worth my while.
As a landscape photographer, everyone would nod their heads in unison that whilst sunny weather is preferred, all sun with little clouds does not really make for some compelling viewing especially at dusk.
So I went back thinking I should be here on other day when the clouds would play ball. Thing is you do not need too much of wind either or your reflection would be shot. So in all, there are a lot of factors that need to come together to get a good photograph of a place. There wasn't much of a wind blowing although there were a lot of boats going backwards and forwards which leaves a big wake every now and then. So you have to time the shot in between such instances.
In all, it was a decent evening's work at the temple island. Midsummer is a good time to be here with the sun setting adjacent to this location.
EXIF - f/11.0, ISO100 38mm 99 sec
Magenta Filter (handheld)
Some decent numbers of these waders are passing through Northumberland heading south after their breeding season, some of them still retaining some of their orange summer colours.
Around 200 are hanging around on a local estuary at Amble on the falling tide they can be quite close to the road enabling me to get some decent photographs. Loud motorbikes going way to fast while annoying did at least provide the opportunity for some flight shots as they all switched to further along the river.
We had a decent crop of serviceberries in our yard this year, but unfortunately the birds didn't get a lot of them. Our local pack of squirrels managed to clear our trees off over a week or so, and there are few if any left now.
This shot was taken 5 months ago along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It shows the early stages of a cloud inversion, mist condensing into the lowest points, clouds rolling down the sides of mountains, eventually it will fill this whole area. I really do like the look, though I would have preferred a bit more light in the area. I stopped before the tunnel to Devils Courthouse to grab this shot after my shoot at graveyard fields. I decided to go with a small landscape, with a big sky in this composition, dark in the valley against a fiery sky above.
ISO: 160
Aperture: f16
SS: 2.5 Sec
Focal: 27mm
No filters this time, the light was fading so fast i didn't want to hassle with them.
These Lilies bloom about this time every year on the nearby lake. I try each year to make a decent photograph of them.
My first decent picture of one of these lovely birds! For what that's worth!
San Pedro House, Sierra Vista, Arizona. March, 2020.
Monotropa uniflora
I took a while but after rummaging through my archives I finally found a decent capture of this translucent flower
When it’s rainy and chilly outside I can always count on this hawk to be in my backyard. Finally managed to get a decent picture of him.
I cant believe how difficult it was to get a decent shot (which this probably isn't) of a flying puffin with Sand Eels in decent light and with some detail. I will have to go back.
Ralston's Cairn, Glencoe, Scotland
As I’m shortly to set off for a 2 week trip to Glencoe & Isle of Skye I thought I’d post an image I took in Glencoe a little over a year ago.
I’d seen photos of the Ralston Cairn on Flickr and saw a YouTube vlog on it a few years ago so I knew roughly where it was but had not actually tried to find it before. It’s one of those ‘honeypot’ images that divides opinions and given the main subject of the image is man-made even I wondered about shooting it. However, as I’d never shot it before I thought it was worth tracking down and seeing if there might be a nice sunset too. Alas there was nothing going on in the sky so I just fiddled around with various focus-bracketed compositions and chose this. No points for originality but it will do for me and it’s crossed off my list of Glencoe shots…..unless I’m in the area and it looks like a decent sky will be likely. Who knows, might happen this month when I’m up there although I want to seek out a few new places as well as some ‘tried-and-tested’ ones. If I’m absent until later in March you know why!
The Ralston Cairn is dedicated to Ralston Claud Muir, a train driver on the West Highland Line and avid hiker, especially within the Glencoe Glen.
Sadly Ralston fell ill on Christmas day 1999 and died 16 days later on 10 January 2000 from multiple organ failure caused by Leukaemia. He was only 32 years old.
The Glencoe Glen was his favourite place to hike and his friends and/family thought it fitting to erect an everlasting monument to his memory. His ashes are also interred at this spot. His friends and family still visit the monument, often with a wee dram of whisky to toast to his memory.
www.livebreathescotland.com/ralston-cairn-glencoe/
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Doing all the things you can do inside, olive oil on water with the macro lens. Surprisingly difficult to get a sharp decent shot.
Cathedral Rock is a natural sandstone butte on the Sedona skyline and one of the most-photographed sights in Arizona. After a weekend drive around Northern Arizona, Sedona was my last stop before heading home to San Diego. While I'm happy that I finally got a decent reflection photo of Cathedral Rock, it certainly wasn't the easiest reflection photo that I have ever taken. Steady winds over 10 mph made this an exercise in patience, desire and persistence. DSC_5650A
After departing Rutland a typical Vermont Railway hodgepodge of power passes some decent color on its was south to Bennington.
...of ring-necked ducks practice being too far away under too dark a sky for a decent shot at the San Louis National Wildlife Refuge.
This exhibit is at the Old Westbury Gardens.... I went with a friend on this very hot and bright day... so hard to get decent shots... but I wanted to share...
For over half a century the life-sized public sculptures by Polish artist Jerzy Jotka Kędziora have expressed his firm conviction that “Art must get out of museums and reach the people.” Old Westbury Gardens, in association with the Art & Balance Foundation of Poland, is pleased to present the gardens-wide exhibition, Balance in Nature! Sculptures by Jerzy Jotka Kędziora. This exhibit features works from a dozen or so years, including Kędziora’s world-acclaimed series of gravity-defying sculptures. Placed between the earth and sky, the sculptures direct the viewer’s sight and imagination to the higher strata of the surrounding spaces and dreams. —Jerzy Jotka Kędziora.
Many more images to follow....
A juvenile snow goose was flying in my general direction and decided to land not too far away from where I was positioned. Not sure of why, but the younger birds seemed to move about more than the mature birds. Possible it was just random restlessness or perhaps they were seeking out parents or the group of birds they migrated with from up north. Either way, it did afford me opportunities get decent flight photos. This bird in particular flew a bit closer than the rest, so there is good detail in the image.
A Phalaenoides glycinae Moth sitting on my patio strp. It seemed a little reluctant to go out into the hot sunshine for quite a long time enabling me to get a half decent shot. And yes my Grapevine are showing signs of both the caterpillars andn perhaps a viral disease, as well as having some grapes. HWW
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Hard to believe but this was my first blue BCOL C44-9W leading on a train. In all of my years of photographing trains, this was one of the most elusive units for me to capture leading.
Today was a pretty crummy day for myself and some time trackside was needed to clear the mind and BCOL 4645 did a pretty decent job at helping with that.
Paris Junction, CN M33131-28
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Short version: Stayed out for hours (Friday) awaiting sunny moments... and then the glow came ☺
Hello dear friends!!!
Got lucky again :-)
We've had a lot of wet & grey days this Fall (Autumn), but if you stick around long enough, the beautiful sunlight will shine through :-)
I spent the morning riding / walking around, experienced a few showers and also a lot of spiky chestnuts falling from the trees (had my bike helmet on though!)
Was hoping for perfectly still water, but the wind continually blew and produced minor ripples on the canal (which ended up working out okay, the reflections have a 'painted-on' feel to them).
Between the grey & cloudy skies, light rain, falling chestnuts and early sunset, I felt lucky to finally get some decent shots by the afternoon.
This wasn't the shot I was planning for (not complaining) but I'm running out of time this season.
As you can see from the pic, many of the trees on one side of the canal have already lost a lot of leaves, and I think they'll be bare by next week.
Tomorrow and the following days are supposed to be completely grey with rain, so I was happy to get out there before the last leaf fell ;-)
I will say I was pleasantly surprised by this delightful afternoon glow (as I usually go for the morning moods).
Looking at the photo, you'll see the sky is mostly covered with clouds, and I got lucky when a little blue began to show.
That's when a gorgeous glow brightened the leaves (not only on the trees but also on the wet, green grass).
So I ran down the bank and planted myself on the rocks... twisting, turning, crouching, doing what I love :-)
(no, I didn't fall in, but I did slip twice!)
It was fun !
Photography is often an adventure for me :-)
As always, I hope you find something interesting or enjoyable here...
Have a wonderful day my friends!
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CRUSH
Rusting train engine on the grounds of the Train Museum in Snoqualmie, Washington.
Most people probably go to the Train Museum in Snoqualmie, Washington for the train rides and for a visit to the quaint train station that is now a museum, but about a mile away on the road to the town center is 50 yards of decaying, rusting train cars full of fascinating textures.
Unfortunately, the train is about 30 feet behind a chain link fence, but I got some decent shots using a telephoto while walking along the elevated highway that runs parallel to the tracks. I was lucky that the sun was almost directly overhead and casting perfect shadows for about 20 minutes before the surfaces were in shadows for the day.
Like three years ago, starting the new season with a wonderful and enchanting Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261)
Previous approach: www.flickr.com/photos/olegbr/8552071862/in/dateposted/
I wanted to personally check whether it still variable ...
It was found that this is so :)
Here animation L-channel 200%: olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/astrofoto/NGC2261/NGC2261_...
Of course, 3 years - a very large interval for observing the changes in the nebula. Everything is much faster: www.umanitoba.ca/science/astronomy/cbrown/imaging/hvn/ana...
In 2013-2016 animation, I drew attention to the star just above the nebula, which is for 3 years significantly shifted to the right.
To heighten the effect, combined with the current picture image DSS., For about 60 years, the offset is already pretty decent. olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/astrofoto/NGC2261/NGC2261_...
Here www.astrosurf.com/mcianci/ngc2261.html Italian colleague calculated that the proper motion (proper motion) of the star 0.2" per year. The name is NLTT 16798 and is listed as High Proper Motion Star: simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NLTT+16798
Explanation: What causes Hubble's Variable Nebula to vary? The unusual nebula pictured above changes its appearance noticeably in just a few weeks. Discovered over 200 years ago and subsequently cataloged as NGC 2661, the remarkable nebula is named for Edwin Hubble, who studied it earlier this century. Hubble's Variable Nebula is a reflection nebula made of gas and fine dust fanning out from the star R Monocerotis. The faint nebula is about one light-year across and lies about 2500 light-years away towards the constellation of Monocerotis. A leading variability explanation for Hubble's Variable Nebula holds that dense knots of opaque dust pass close to R Mon and cast moving shadows onto the reflecting dust seen in the rest of the nebula. (text:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap991020.html)
This picture was photographed during 4 and 6 February 2016 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 29 * 600 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 11 * 300-450 seconds, bin.2 each filter. About 8 hours.
FWHM source in L filter 2.10"-2.97", sum in L channel - 2.55"
The height above the horizon from 40° to 48°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6