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I was finally able to get some images of the adult rails and the little chicks this week. They are constantly on the move and it is difficult to keep them in the viewfinder and get decent images.
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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!
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!
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.
The little island of Runde was one of my destinations in Norway. It is well known for its large Puffin colony but also home to several thousands of Gannets who were starting to breed on the steep rocks. And separate from these birds there were many other bird species so it was a very enjoyable place to spend a few days.
It took me quite some tries to get a few decent shots of Gannets who were circling around the cliffs. while I was standing at ca 200 meters above sea level. Most of the time they were deep down, so my autofocus was continously in error on what to focus on, the sea with all its moving waves or some fast moving birds everywhere.
This little group of Gannets was riding on the wind, and therefor they were hanging around.
From a decent stretch of our coast this little mysterious rock is visible! But in reality, it's pretty big! 4km across!!! Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited island, protected bird sanctuary and a well known granite quarry producing curling stones. To me, it sits there like a giant "muffin" and that's how I refer to it most of the time :) :) :)
But it's nickname originates in a funny little story: "Legend has it that long ago one of the giants who lived in Northern Ireland was quarrelling with a giant who lived in Scotland and threw a ‘rock’ at him which didn’t quite make it."
At least geographically, it makes sense :)
Take care dear friends and have a lovely weekend :) :) :)
Two kept approaching me in shadow water, when they decided to take off. Got a few decent shots of them.
what a confusing winter we have here.... some snow and warm air whitch not fits together at all our citys looking bad in lots of mud
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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.
#MacroMondays
#Brush
One last, desperate attempt at getting at least a decent image for our "Brush" theme (after spending half of the afternoon trying to make a tiny brush, made for small bottles with thin necks, look like a Christmas tree).
I've photographed this toothbrush (exclusively bought for macro photography) once before in high-key for a past "Pastel" theme (please see the first comment). And if that was the "A Night At The Opera" version, this low-key attempt is the "A Day At The Races" variant. Or so.
To get extra close, I mounted the Laowa 50mm 2x macro lens, which also means it's a single shot. Illuminated mostly from above with my natural light photo lamp and, stupidly, also from the right with one of the LED lamps, which explains the slight colour change on the right because that lamp casts a more yellowish light. But I didn't want to take yet another photo. I left the protection cap on the brush because I thought it added "something" to the scene.
Since from this POV, the toothbrush's handle was in the way, I glued it onto the table tripod's head (with modelling clay) to get a little more stability (and stabilised the brush's head with my hand). I pointed the camera slightly down to get a good view of the colourful bristles. That's it.
HMM, Everyone!
Lower Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. I took this shot back in 2006, shortly after I bought my first DSLR. I somehow had the white balance set for fluorescent lighting and at that time I didn't do any post processing. I have learned a lot since then. It's actually a decent shot after a post processing makeover! HSS
Macro Mondays contribution for 24 October 2016:
Swarowski Crystal Pig. The title means something in that "he" managed to get from his home and under my feet - quite a drop! As I needed to capture a back lit subject he became the obvious choice!
Lighting is all natural which meant I didn't have much time to get a half decent shot. Now I get an idea of what landscape photographers have to deal with.
The contract brush cutter on the New Hampshire Northcoast is just about finished clearing the main line, this combined with some additional efforts by a certain employee have made the Union Meadows causeway look as good this spring as it probably has since construction of the railroad! Up until relatively recent times this causeway had high brush and trees growing on it, making it completely unshootable. With the freshly rebuilt GP38-2 back on the train this week, albeit in the middle of the consist, combined with decent weather it was a good time to shoot the causeway before the brush starts creeping back up. With 2 loads for Rochester and 25 loads for Boston the three units are having no trouble making track speed despite a late start from Ossipee.
Union Meadows, New Hampshire
June 15, 2017
Alavus, Finland
Temperature -7°C, icy wind. Perfect day for skiing but too little light for decent photogaphy.
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.
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.
I always keep an eye on the Mandarins, hoping to catch them flying or taking off. Its not often you see them in the air. Got lucky on this day, and was glad to see, when I got home, that it was actually in focus and a half decent shot ! :-)
Doing all the things you can do inside, olive oil on water with the macro lens. Surprisingly difficult to get a sharp decent shot.
A rework of an image posted 11 years ago has yielded a decent enough improvement to post this new version - thanks to new software and rather better editing skills.
Sulzer class 25/0 unit 25042 is captured approaching Beeston station with the 7.15pm Nottingham Parcels Depot - Liverpool vans (4F02) in what was close to being the last of the usable light at this spot. The train was a fairly regular runner and was pathed to follow the circa 7.00pm Nottingham - London St Pancras express.
In the far distance can be seen another class 25 held in the loop at Boots Bridge. The different cab window design indicates it was a later version built without the centre communicating doors which allowed the crew to pass between the locomotives when two were working in multiple. Not surprisingly they were rarely used and, as in the case of 25042 pictured here, were removed and the gap plated over - a modification which probably reduced the draft in the cab, as well as saving the crew from what must have been a tricky, if not dangerous, passage on the move.
The signal TT345 on the left wasn't the first one to be installed at the end of the down platform. If memory serves me right the original installation around 1967 was a two-aspect signal on the platform itself (just before the road bridge) with switchable filters giving the same four signalling options. Sadly this was before my photographic exploits took off so I never got shot of it.
On a final note, the Goods Shed, at least 15 years out of use when I took this shot, was finally demolished 2-3 months ago in early 2022 to make way for a new housing development. There was plenty of activity around the site when I passed on the train in March.
I took the opportunity of doing some virtual pruning for this one. The original version has been deleted. Comments off, thanks.
Agfa CT18
29th May 1979
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.
Another shot from the windy session in the Peaks a couple of weeks ago. This one was taken from the top of Higger Tor just prior to sunset.
I was looking for a decent sunset spot, but due to the wind it was proving extremely difficult to get set up as the tripod was constantly being battered. And so with this spot, I was able to get low behind the rock, which provided some degree of shelter.
I was also attracted by the distant winding road which could be mistaken for a river. I was after the illusion of the water flowing out from the rock to the road/river, but I wasn’t able to get low enough without the pool of water losing its impact!
I originally did do a focus stack right across the scene, but in the end I only merged the foreground images and left the background out of focus.
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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 !
…finding a decent vantage point for a shot of this great Cathedral is not easy - this was taken from the carpark rooftop at Lemon Quay for those who know the area.……
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66089 crossing Carlisle Bridge on the approach to Lancaster Castle station with 6K27, the 14.43 Carlisle - Crewe engineers on Wed 19th May 2021.
Note: a sagging wire in front of the loco removed in PS.
Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum - The landing runway flight path is very close to the museum. Air Lingus jet landing seen through the Ascent sculpture.
I've been trying to get a decent shot of a blue-gray gnatcatcher for a few years now. This year, I tried a different tactic. I first determined what their call sounded like as there were usually a pair "talking" back and forth. Once I recognized a call, I then stopped and waited, hoping one would briefly show itself as they typically hide among the tree branches and leaves. Sure enough it finally paid off and I was able to snap off a few frames with with cute little one posing for me. Gotcha!
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Returned to the North Norfolk Coast this morning in search of Snow Buntings. Although I managed some ground shots last Monday (with the RF 800mm F11), I didn't get anything decent in flight. So lugged the 600mm F4 and tripod this time.
Still quite a challenge to track these very fast and erratic birds in flight, but very enjoyable!