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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.
Finally got a semi decent shot of one of these guys. Night photography and I don't meld well. I had fabulous views of a Flammulated Owl after taking this photo but at that point was too dark for my skill level. For this photo I used my car headlights but for the Flammulated Owl I would of had to have held the flashlight and the camera at the same time and that just wasn't going to happen LOL. It was a special moment just to watch that cryptic tiny owl in the open and calling too which is extremely late in the year for that. They usually stop calling around the first week of July. The Poorwills were eating all the bugs that were biting me and they are just such cool nocturnal birds to watch! I just love nightjars. The cool thing about Common Poorwills is that they are similar to owls. I say this not because they are nocturnal but because they eject pellets out just like them!
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A belt. And one with a history. Originally, this belt had belonged to my mother (magrit k.), but when I was a teenager, she gave it to me, because she didn't wear it anymore, but I thought that it looked cool and also very much 1960s. Back then, I was totally obsessed with anything 1960s, especially music and fashion. And this blue leather belt, although from the 1970s, in my opinion, had (or rather: still has) the perfect swinging sixties vibe with its 5 cm/1,96 inches width, its nicely shaped buckle, and the large, punched holes. And those holes were the "problem". I simply couldn't wear it with its original style, because that belt was a low waist belt, but the dictate of fashion at the time I got it asked for a waistline almost under the chin. So I clumsily drilled some extra holes with a simple gimlet. Since the result, not entirely unexpectedly, looked ugly, I took the belt to a cobbler who did some decent punching work and also added the metal eyelets to the extra holes. I've been wearing this belt ever since, on and off, to this day.
The image is a focus stacking made of 15 photos. The in-camera stacking result looked good so I used the Jpg out of the camera and further processed it in Analog Efex. I've illuminated the scene from above and slightly from behind. To add some visual punch, I placed the belt against that red, transparent chocolate box lid which, as you know, usually serves as a colour filter. You can see how scratched that lid already is, so maybe it's time to buy a proper colour filter. On the other hand, I might simply buy another box of Mon Cherie chocolates to get a new "colour filter" – with the bonus of some extra chocolate pleasure ;)
HMM, Everyone!
I took some quite decent images of the first winter male Bluethroat on Sunday in the most vile weather but the images of the full adult bird were quite poor .These birds are rare in the here in the white spotted form and it is possible that some years only around 40 birds visit the UK . I managed to get a few hours off work today and returned to the spot they were .I knew that the sunshine would shine on the far bank of the dyke after midday and lo and behold the adult bird was still there so I managed to get some much better images ( the other bird I could not find )
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!
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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A marshy swamp in the mountains? I know, crazy right? This sits at around 3,800ft in elevation between Clay and Macon County in Western North Carolina. I had considered doing a big impressive sunset over the swamp here, but found this composition by the lakeside as the light was waning a bit. So I scuttled my plans to try and get some decent light shooting from the road and hunkered down on the soft wet ground shooting across the swamp into this mountain top in the distance. Found this log in the foreground, unfortunately I ignored my own advice and didn't bend this sapling back and it sits prominently in the bottom right. Otherwise I enjoy this shot, the colors, contrast, light reflections.
ISO: 160
Aperture: f4
SS: 1/125
Focal: 33mm
A K&F CPL to help brighten the blues in the sky, cut through the reflections a bit.. This is a focus stack of 42 images.
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?
Looking across Deception Pass through the underside of the bridge. The bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island in Washington State.
I was out late yesterday evening failing to photograph Barn Owls but I did manage some decent shots of Stonechat and Linnet as a consolation prize. Stonechats are resident birds in Britain in that they don't migrate south for the winter. This is quite unusual for an insect eater and the population is hit hard when we have prolonged snow cover. They can usually tough it out on lowland heaths where the snow does not normally last for long, but in the high moors they probably succumb. After a bad winter our hill Stonechats disappear completely, sometimes for a few years, but they gradually recolonise. At the moment they are on a population high with 65,000 pairs. Over the last 25 years the population has increased by 147% and the breeding range has increased by 48%. I was amazed at the narrowness of the old willowherb stem it was perched on. They weigh about 16g so I'm surprised it didn't snap.
I had a lot of photography planned for the weekend, I was going to visit a few places in Wales, and then a few in Dorset. But on Wednesday I was hit with a rather nasty bout of the lurgy and didn't have the energy to do anything. So I decided to have a few days rest and not venture out with the camera.
On my way home from Dorset yesterday I stopped at Portland hoping for a decent sunset. it was extremely windy and the sunset was pretty decent so I managed to get a few photos from the visit.
My first shot is of Pulpit Rock, an old favourite, as it's such fun watching the waves crash up here. We couldn't get down to the bottom level last night as we'd have gotten soaked, and there were people silly enough to be out on the rock when some huge waves were crashing over, so we sat higher up and tried our best to get a decent shot.
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Two SD70Ms bring MEWOL-26 down the Angleton Sub, having just come off the BNSF at Algoa.
This daily manifest for Brownsville, TX is great to shoot during the winter months on its way out of Houston, typically running in good light and quite often featuring decent power.
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.
I popped home to Weston to check this out. Its a decommissioned oil rig which has been transformed into an art installation. In a couple of weeks it will be dismantled and recycled.
It makes a great photo subject both inside and out. Visiting at low tide is recommended if you want shots from the beach; its great for blue hour as it's lit up.
You need to go in to get decent shots of the waterfall and obviously a wide angled lens helps. This is a hand held shot.
It's free and the considering it's half term the queue was really quick!
CSX L411 rolls over Bridge 40 near Bank Lick with a pair of ex-Seaboard System SD40-2s in the lead. The last time I was here, I shot 8094 leading the same train (although it used to be symboled J767) over this bridge and got cloud banged, so I'm happy to finally have a decent shot from this angle.
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.
Doing all the things you can do inside, olive oil on water with the macro lens. Surprisingly difficult to get a sharp decent shot.
E o Dr. Sig convidou me para tomar um banho de mente.
Eu o analizava como que ele fosse um louco.
Banho de mente.
Oh doido doto ...
Sentei me sobre a pedra e pensei no que falou a menina que gostava de mergulhos no mar.
Ela alegre com as gotas de chuva
com os pingos das aguas
com o cheiro da terra
com a forca do pingo
que quando comeca a pingar
perfura as pedras
entranha a terra
tortura o poeta
o estudante
o inocente, decente
que quiz revoltar.
(O DOPS) botava pra quebrar ...
O pingo constante na testa
te faz confesar coisas nao feitas
mas oras pois
eh apenas um pingo.
(Constante como um Metronomo)
Um pingo
contado como um voto
a alguem que eu convido a roubar
ah, deixe disso,
prefiro o mundo imaginario....
Pingos, sao capazes de fazer
um sol amarelo
dois tracos, barco
lua, espaco solar...
Pingos sao beijos
na noite enluarada de mel
sao gotas de suor entre os amantes
no calor, na beira do mar....
Um deles constitui a vida
e como um unico atomo de areia
um pingo pode ser uma esperanca
pois fomos tambem um dia
um pingo de gente.....
(E eu pergunto ao Dr. Sig onde eh que erramos e porque nao pensamos mais em voz alta, porque nao protegemos mais nossos castelos de areia, nossos sonhos de valsas, nossas dancas na chuva..................................................................................................................).
E ele fecha a porta e disse que continuaremos depois...
Dr. Sig eh louco,
Max Tuta
NYC
11/11/08
Happy thanksgiving everyone.
Hope that you'll all have a great time.
Monotropa uniflora
I took a while but after rummaging through my archives I finally found a decent capture of this translucent flower
On a visit to Las Vegas, I took night shots without ever thinking of stitching them into a panoramic shot. Recently, while looking through archival shots, I saw the potential to blend three shots into a single panorama, and artificial intelligence did the rest. Three uninteresting shots rescued to make a half decent nighttime panorama.
Huge steam engines mounted on skids made of meter wide tree trunks used to haul lumber up and down this incline. This operation was run by the Lougheed Abernathy Logging company which entered bankruptcy in the 1930's during the depression and after a massive forest fire.
This forest fire was likely caused by the "Steam Donkeys" a surviving example is on display at the University of British Columbia's Malcom Knapp research forest.
I will be back by September 3rd after a visit to Banff National Park.
One of the many Plovers that are found on the coasts of India and are highly confusing to id. This was a lifer for me that morning.
Shot on a sandbank where there were 100's of the endangered Skimmers - -this was flying around and I managed to grab 1-2 shots from a difficult prone position.The area had a huge population of Lesser and Greater Sand Plovers - I am not 100% sure of the exact differences between them except for the size - this is the bigger of the two visibly.
This is a small bird - 20-25 cms and found across the costs of South Asia, Australia, South East Asia where it winters after migrating from Central Asia and parts of Siberia. The birds hunt marine worms, crustaceans, insects using a run and pause technique unlike the steady probing technique shown by other waders. There were 100's of these in the banks along with several other plovers and being small, were hard to get a decent shot from close.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, feedback and faves.
This is a Ruby Crowned Kinglet. I was actually very excited to get this shot. I must have taken 30 shots, trying to capture a decent one.... most of the shots were of empty branches, as this tiny Kinglet had moved on while my finger was pressing the shutter button. They move every few seconds, and they are FAST!
Anyway, I did get a good shot, so here's a Kinglet for K.
Happy FAFM !
I have been trying to get a decent shot of a Harebell for some time now, nearly all the one's I see are in small clumps and I could never get a composition I liked, until last week that is.
I managed to find one on its own on an old anthill in a small hollow and so spent over half an hour trying different positions to find the best composition, when towards the end and in a single frame only, this hoverfly popped in and out. Only briefly saw it on the live view and didn't really know until I downloaded the file whether it was any good. This is it and with absolutely no cropping required.
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(Small Crop).. This is the first.. 'half decent'.. shot I've got of a 'Cinnabar moth'.. 'Tyria jacobaeae'.... and the first I've posted on flickr.. View On Black
HGGT..!! Have a great day.. thanks for looking..
Info from.. Wikipedia
'The cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) is a brightly coloured arctiid moth, found in Europe and western and central Asia. It has been introduced into New Zealand, Australia and North America to control poisonous ragwort, on which its larvae feed. The moth is named after the red mineral cinnabar because of the red patches on its predominantly black wings. Cinnabar moths are about 20mm long and have a wingspan of 32–42 mm (1.3-1.7 in)'..
A member of the swallow family and a small bird around 13 cms long. These are common in our neighbourhood and several places with cliffs, edges and bridges. They are resident birds in the country and parts of South East Asia.
Its been a long target for a decent shot - not just flight shot. But they are hard to get on good perches. The birds fly a lot and catch their food / insects on the wing that results in a terribly erratic flight path. Shooting them is a test of skill and I have always struggled before - with a longer lens it has become even harder now - both to focus as well as holding the lens.
During the weekend, we couldn't get any other birds, so spent the time shooting several swallows including Barn, Wire Tailed, Red Rumped, Streak Throated and this. Managed only a few good shots out of 3 hours and came back with a terrible sore shoulder.
Many thanks in advance for your views, faves and feedback - Very much appreciated.
Westchester Country the large suburban county north of New York City is one of the wealthiest counties in the state and in the whole of the US. However in an area known as downtown Yonkers in Yonkers NY is an impoverished, blighted neighborhood straddled with very high crime. The reason my wife and I were there is get our COIVD boosters at a local armory where we could get it without an appointment. Now this area has had a bad reputation for decades and it's many years since I last even past through and I saw retail districts where over half the storefronts were locked up and not in use and a decent number homes and buildings in a very poor state of repair. As Siri on my phone was guiding us back towards the highway I passed this home that was obviously 19th century in design and some very unique architectural features in the windows and the wooden trim. At one point back when my grandfather was a boy or earlier a wealthy family probably once lived here. If this house was located not that many miles north in one of the wealthier Hudson Valley towns it would probably have been reconditioned and restored to pristine condition and the home of some very wealthy individual or even given some level of landmark status. Instead it's obviously been decaying for decades in a township that is too poor and or apathetic to either restore it or tear it down and just sits as an rotting eyesore of neglect. What a shame.
The American White Ibis I posted yesterday was the end of my shot series of an Ibis altercation and the start of a series of birds in flight.
This Sandhill Crane shot is one of my first decent birds in flight shots. I've practiced and improved my BIF photography over the years and have a few good ones, some of which I'll post over the next few days.
This crane was photographed at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
(Pedionomus torquatus)
Somewhere 70km North of Deniliquin - NSW
Austrália
When we were planning our trip and looking for interesting places and species to photograph in/around Victoria, we came across this amazing but endangered bird. From that moment, we couldn’t wait to have the oportunity to get some shots of it!
However, when we contacted Patricia Maher in late April, we found out that Philip Maher’s available dates were super limited. Since we’d already booked our internal flights, it didn’t seem doable at first. But we’d left our last day in Melbourne free, partly to avoid the risk of delayed or canceled flights and partly to enjoy the city a bit before heading back home on the 26th.
That gave us a whole day (the 25th) to go for this bird! We booked two nights in Deniliquin and braced ourselves for a birding marathon starting at 6:30 AM and possibly ending at 2 AM on the 26th (luckily, our flight home from Melbourne wasn’t until 3 PM).
Two days before the big day, we got in touch with Patricia again, and she told us the weather forecast wasn’t looking great – rain was expected. But hey, plans are plans.
The day before, we drove from Melbourne to Deniliquin (a 3-hour, 270km drive) under nonstop rain. By this point, we were beyond exhausted: after 4 weeks of birding (our longest trip ever!), dealing with an 11-hour time difference, staying in 12 different accommodations, catching 5 internal flights and 3 international ones, eating food very different from what we were used to (and often skipping meals), waking up most days at 5 AM, we almost decided to turn back.
Plus, we already had a decent collection of photos on our hard drives. Honestly, all we wanted was to head back to Melbourne, relax, and enjoy the photos we’d taken.
The idea of driving in the rain for what might turn out to be a wasted effort wasn’t motivating at all. We were this close to turning around and heading back.
Thank goodness we didn’t! Not only did the rain ease up the next day, but we also managed to spot more than 40 new species – including both the male and female of this gorgeous bird. We got hundreds of photos from all the angles and distances we wanted! The female wasn’t super cooperative (she didn’t show off her pretty legs), but the male was a real show-off and a photographer’s dream. I’ll share his photos later too.
Note 1: This is the female of the species. She’s actually more colorful than the male, though some individuals are even more vibrant than this one.
Note 2: Nope, she’s not in the nest. Fun fact about this species: it’s the male that incubates the eggs and raises the chicks. The female focuses on defending her territory and mates with multiple males.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Austrália (2024) (309)
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- All the photos for this family Pedionomidae (PedionomÃdeos) (4)
- All the photos for this species Pedionomus torquatus (4)
- All the photos taken this day 2024/11/25 (30)
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