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THORNWICK Bay...(pronounced Thornick... welcome to Yorkshire, lol)
Thornwick Bay derives it's name from "Thor" the God of Thunder because of the roar of the breaking waves on the rocks during a North Easterly gale which pounds the magnificent cliffs.
In the winter when the winds are strong and the weather is bad, when the waves hit the rocks, foam and spray blows up the cliff and over the cafe, but thankfully most people come to visit in the Spring, Summer and Autumn months when the weather is much calmer, and people can sit on the cliff top and admire the fantastic scenery and watch the sun reflect off the brilliant white chalk cliffs which have been cleaned by the winter storms over thousands of years.
The stretch of water North of the Lighthouse was named 'the graveyard' by the skippers and crew of sailing vessels which once they had lost the safety of Bridlington Bay, and without the aids of navigation and weather forecasting which we now take for granted, were at the mercy of the angry weather, Marine charts show hundreds of wrecks all within a few miles radius of Thornwick bay.
A great many people visit Thornwick Bay each year to enjoy wonderful cliff top walks observing the abundance of seabirds including Puffins, Guillemots and Kittiwakes etc.
Always you have the 'risk-takers' who will venture and walk the very narrow and crumbly ridge to get to the furthest point.
Do you spot this one?
Have a lovely day and thank you, as always, M, (*_*)
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Imagine if you were unable to touch or kiss your newborn baby. This is an ordeal thousands of families, whose child arrives too soon, too small or too sick, are forced to go through each year. But you can help. By baking and selling cupcakes, youāll be raising funds to help support families during what can be a very lonely and frightening time, and to provide a brighter future for their babies.
Some facts and figures:
ā¢ There is a shortage of 1,150 nurses to care for the 70,000 babies in need of specialist hospital care in England. Less than a third of units have enough nurses to meet minimum standards.
ā¢ Neonatal units are working way above recommended occupancy levels meaning there is no safety net for peaks in the number of babies being admitted to units.
ā¢ Families of babies admitted to specialist hospital care face a crippling financial strain on top of the normal costs of having a new baby.
ā¢ Over half of parents face the prospect of not being able to stay near their baby in hospital due to a shortage of overnight rooms for families.
Cake A Difference is the annual fundraising initiative from Bliss, the special care baby charity. Bliss offers guidance and information at a critical time in families' lives, funds ground-breaking research and campaigns for babies to receive the best possible level of care regardless of when and where they are born. Cake A Difference 2011 takes place from 14-20 February 2011. For more ideas on how you can support Bliss contact katiaw@bliss.org.uk
Go ahead, bake my day!
Silly me... going through old photos and realized I missed out on posting photos from an entire day at Malhuer...
We found a Black Necked Stilt nest on the side of the road on the way to the refuge, we passed it every day there and back and stopped every time to see them. I have never been close to those birds and wow they are fun to photograph. We even got to see the difference one morning when there were no eggs at the beginning of the day and two eggs by the end of the day.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
Chuck Close
sooo busy, try to catch up soon and wish you a good weekend ahead :)
The difference in the structure of this spider web and the one on the previous image is quite striking - 2D vs. 3D...
Obviously, both strategies work for the makers of the webs.
This is an alternate to a photo I posted about 2 weeks ago from only the fourth time I've been dressed outside my house. It was taken by my amazing partner before we went to dinner with a small group of crossdressers and trans women. So amazing to be dressed outside in the daylight!
Can you spot the difference with the previous image? There was a wind gust when this pic was taken, look at my hair.
Due to differences in the calculation of fiscal horsepower, the cars were given different names.
the 7CV became the Light Twelve
the 11CV became the Light Fifteen or in long wheelbase version the Big Fifteen
and the 15CV became the Six Cylinder or Big Six.
(citroenet.org.uk)
The rain was well-timed in that it passed overnight and once some minimal fog burned off it was another day of abundant sunshine. The radio was relatively quiet as I made my way across town and there didn't seem to be anything happening on the hill, nor at the south end of the yard. At the north end however, was 357 parked on the mainline for a crew change. Despite the all too common GEVO up front it was going in the right direction and I had some summer morning northbound shots in mind.
I've mentioned the trees taking over at the places I revisited but nothing compared to the forest that has sprung up at Van Dyne. Van Dyne had been the go-to place for elevated views where you could include the two mainlines, sometimes two trains, or nice sweeping panoramas looking east towards Lake Winnebago. Now I had to pick my spot and carefully time my shot according to gaps in the tree shadows. 357 is coming up the "SOO side" and the side track has been lifted. The "CNW side" is now Main 2 and obscured by the trees at left. July 21, 2024.
Spot the difference! This is the countryside, nature as intended.. not that the nature found in the city's parks isn't beautiful... but far outside the city's walls you'll find just that extra bit of extra magic.
Once upon a time, there was a little white stray cat who lived in a Bus Depot. Life was pretty tough for this little cat; food was scarce and to start with at least, it was hard to find somewhere warm and dry to sleep ā especially during the long, cold wet winter nights. However, the cat had used some initiative, and had taken to crawling up into the engine bays of the big buses. It was a bit smelly, and his white fur often ended up black and greasy, but ā well ā beggars canāt be choosers, and he was (after all) a beggar!
And then sometime last year, Life suddenly took a turn for the better for the little cat. The kindly man who was the Yardman for the Depot started leaving a bowl of food and a bowl of water near the fuel pump... The cat couldnāt believe his luck, and before long, he was happy for the man to scratch his ears! ā which was a big step forward for the cat, for this was his first experience of Human Kindness!
After six weeks or so of regular meals, the little white (and at times partly black!) cat took to sitting near the Depot door, looking longingly inside. He was dying to find out what was on the other side of the door, but to go inside was a potentially scary move. After all, he might end up being trapped in there with a lot of angry Humans. But finally, one afternoon just as a Driver entered the Depot building, the cat seized the moment, and raced through the rapidly closing door...
As it turned out, it was a bit of an anti-climax. The world never ended, nothing untoward happened, nobody shouted at him ā and in fact nobody really took much notice of him at all. But there was an old couch near the foot of a stairwell, and that couch looked Comfortable... Within minutes, he was fast asleep, curled up in a tight little ball of fur. In the middle of his sleep, he thought he heard voices, even thought he might have been touched by more than one person, but he was just too tired to worry, and he slept on!
Late in the afternoon, he awoke with a start. Voices were indeed close by; what should he do? Opening one eye, he surveyed the scene. There was nothing alarming to be seen ā in fact the scene that filled his eye took him by surprise: someone was placing a plate of food on the couch beside him, and someone else had already placed a fresh dish of... milk?!? Suddenly, someone else was scratching his ears, and in spite of his uncertainty, he had to turn his Purr Motor on; heād never, ever been patted like this ever before...
And so a routine developed; the little cat would sneak into the ground floor of the building during the day, and heād sleep outside during the night ā but even that wasnāt too bad now because one of the Mechanics had built him a little house to sleep in. However, there was still something that puzzled this curious little feline: what was up those stairs???
One day ā and now no-one is quite sure when that was ā the cat took the plunge: he raced quickly up the stairs, had a quick look... and raced back down again. Heād survived...! And so he tried again the next day, and the next ā each time getting a little bolder, each time staying at the top of the stairs for a little longer... until, early one cold Spring morning, he followed an important-looking man up the steps and through a door into a room filled with a warmth that the heād never ever experienced before! He didnāt know it at the time, but heād just walked into the Team Leaderās office, and there ā over against the wall ā was a nice warm āThingeeā glowing red hot and giving out warmth ā lovely, lovely warmth!
The cat slunk into a corner of the room and tried to stay out of sight, but he watched with interest the many comings and goings. One thing especially struck him (Figuratively speaking!): everyone seemed so nice. No-one was yelling; no-one was angry... After a while, he slunk out of the room and raced back down the stairs, but he was quite pleased with himself; heād discovered what was up the stairs, heād liked what heād seen, and he hadnāt been chased or hit... Heād certainly pay another visit the next day...!
And so the very next morning, the cat once again carefully entered the office ā and there in front of the warm machine was what looked like a nice white fluffy bed ā all nicely stretched out... and the man was calling him over to it... The cat decided that the risks werenāt that great now, so he succumbed to temptation, stretched out in front of the warm heat, and quickly fell fast asleep... Somewhere in the middle of his slumbers, he thought he heard a new voice suggest that he should be called "Diesel", but he wasnāt sure if the voice was for real, or whether it was a dream, so he slumbered onwards...
Which brings us forward to today...
Today, this little white stray has indeed been named āDieselā, and he still mostly sleeps on the comfy sheepskin in front of the heater, but every now and again, he curls up on the desk behind the Team Leaderās computer (Above); it just saves people having to bend down to stroke him! And when the Team Leader leaves in the middle of the afternoon, Diesel quietly ambles into the Driverās Room and makes himself at home in a nice big comfortable armchair ā directly below the wall-mounted heat pump!
So Life for little Diesel has never been so good now; he knows he's loved, and he's feeling pretty good about himself. But - and here's where things took a totally unexpected turn - a busy Bus Depot now has a warm fuzzy atmosphere that it never had before, and it's only got this atmosphere because it's been lucky enough to have been adopted by a once homeless, nameless, grease-smeared little stray cat...!
What a difference a little bit of Love makes!
What a difference a week makes. The weather was decidedly dodgy, but it was the perfect escape from the Queen's Jubilee celebrations with another thoroughly enjoyable camping weekend. We were here with around 40 kids ranging from 4 to 18 (I know it's hard to believe from my drawing). The tent on the left was where the food was prepared. I spent rather a lot of time in it over the weekend. Three meals a day with puddings, plus late night egg & bacon sandwiches. I think I've stretched my stomach! The tents in the distance were another Woodcraft group from Tooting so although the scene appears rural we recreated our London suburbs perfectly!
Another year is almost over, hopefully we can emerge from the shadows soon although much still remains out of focus.
Handheld shot with FE 85mm f1.4 GM late in the evening along this historical street.
Havenāt bought any photographic gear this year although a couple of lenses are firmly in my sight.
The 70-200mm f2.8 zoom is a lens Iāve avoided thus far as it typically weighs as much as a high end 100-400mm zoom which is too much unless we are just carrying this lens alone.
Then came Tamron FE 70-180mm f2.8 (815g) and Canon RF 70-200mm f2.8L IS (1,070g), both however do not work with teleconverters (TC) and the Tamron additionally omits lens stabilization.
Had some initial interest in the Tamron but the just released Sony FE 70-200mm 2.8 GM OSS ii (1,045g) has both lens stabilization which is more effective than IBIS at the long end and works with TCs which can get me to 400mm f5.6 if needed. My FE 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM OSS works flawlessly with 2x TC and I expect the same for the new FE 70-200mm f2.8 GM ii.
The Tamron is $1,199 vs the Sony GM ii $2,798 (same as Canonās RF version), a substantial difference. Looking at the photos taken with the Tamron, itās a nice lens but thereās no āwowā quality in the photos taken and there are also some distracting structures within the specular highlights.
The photos from the new FE 70-200mm f2.8 GM OSS ii however, are impressive. If we donāt use a 70-200mm f2.8 zoom too often and does not need more than 8fps or TC compatibility, the Tamron version makes a lot of sense. Canon and Sony users have access to lots of lens choices, the same cannot be said for Nikon however.
It seems that Sony achieved significant weight reduction without making compromises in TC compatibility or omitting stabilization but with a more efficient design with less glass used in GM ii with 17 elements compared to 23 in the older version. Is this advancement all due to improved glass quality or software?
I do wonder if they can do the same with their future generation 2 100-400 GM and 200-600 G zooms when the time comes, perhaps even with the soon to be launched 24-70 GM ii?
Meanwhile Tamron has just released their FE 28-75mm f2.8 G2 which appears to be an improved version of its highly popular 1st Gen lens. Personally Iāll rather wait and see what Sony will do with their imminent FE 24-70mm f2.8 GM ii replacement.
Advances in lens making have produced zooms capable of matching Prime lenses at equivalent apertures. For this reason, I stopped bothering with Primes which are just 1 stop faster than f2.8 zooms especially at focal lengths below 85mm.
Those who had aggressively suggested that the Batis 135mm f2.8 was reasonable at $2,000 are clearly shills, you can easily identify these fellas from the various gear forums by now. Iāve spoken out against the value of Batis lenses from inception and in particular the 135mm f2.8 since its release. We really need to be wary of these marketing shills as they are so rampant in gear forums masquerading as hobbyists these days. flic.kr/p/GC4PWY
WIP
(this is actually my 4th or 5th unposted mech over here... backlog as usual :P)
SCOUT Mk. II
won't really write much about it since it's not done. :P
A big difference...I was 'chorus' in school and never learned to play an instrument...something i regret to this day... I had both kids in band as soon as they could; one played the violin and the other played the flute.
My 365 shot for today was MUSIC, so i took out instruments and played in the light coming in my window. The one I posted was B & W but I was fascinated by the warm browns.
āReason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of thingsā
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
āDifferences were meant by God not to divide but to enrich.ā
- J.H. Oldham
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The green monkeys found in Barbados originally came from Senegal and the Gambia in West Africa approximately 350 years ago. About 75 generations have occurred since these monkeys arrived in Barbados and, as a result of environmental differences and evolution, the Barbados monkeys today have different characteristics than those in West Africa.
The monkeys are found mainly in the parishes of St.John, St.Joseph, St.Andrew and St.Thomas, where much natural vegetation and woodlands still exist. However, monkeys can also be seen traveling through hotel grounds in St.Peter and St.James.
...the age difference between my grandma and Eli.
It was my gran's birthday today and I took Megan and Eli over to her flat for lunch. I think it is so wonderful for Megan and Eli to have a close relationship with their great-grandma, and I'm so pleased to be able to give my lovely gran so much pleasure by involving her in their lives.