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I like difficult places. I like untrod territory - places other people haven't done. I need to be out of my elements so my vision isn't contaminated by what others have done. Those places are difficult in creature comforts, but there's a freshness to them.
~ Sarah Leen - Popular Photography - issue of March 2008, p. 127.
Poor Grant. A beautiful, mild day, spring in the air, chickens to watch and follow and be chased by...It's such a burden! ;)
Costa Rica. Sometimes its difficult to stand far enough back to get the whole bird in. This was one of those occasions. The birds showed no fear of humans. Notice the bug crawling up the breast.
Difficult to take this one.. There was a very narrow space between the window and the blinds but she was too cute to be missed :)
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It was so hard to hold this postion without sliding back. It doesn't look like it but this slab of cement is on a very steep angle :P
The location that i am at is really close to my house and is the remains of a building that burnt down a very long time ago. I always feel somewhat awkward photographing there because there are houses at the top of the hill overlooking the location.
dark dropwing/trithemis furva
Coming back all the time to the same spot in the same position it was not to difficult to take a shot of this one.
Even in difficult times my furry friends can put a smile on my face!
Hope it works for you all too:)
Because of some cercumstances I am not able to visit and comment. Hope to catch up with you all real soon!
Well this was a difficult challenge - or at least I made it difficult for myself with the subject I chose! I do not recommend trying to take a macro reflection shot of a 9mm Swarovski crystal star! This is the best shot out of the many I attempted! Happy macro Monday everyone!
The size of insects and spiders is difficult. Not only does our eyes struggle quite a lot with measuring small sizes by eyesight alone - but
on top of that, there is the issue of what to measure.
For spiders for instance, it's boy length which is the corect way and yet many talk about leg span and citing huge numbers. The obvious problem with this is to convince every spider to stretch their legs out all the way so they can be measured. Sure it would work for a house spider or a huntsman - but how about an orb-weaver? Not likely.
Bush crickets (Tettigoniidae) are another one that's confusing people. When measuring body length, the ovipositor which the female uses to lay eggs isn't counted into body length and neither the wings which extend quite a lot behind the body (and above the ovipositor). I've had more than one discussion with people claiming they have find a specimen twice as long as they should be!
So, the green giant in this shot is a wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) - a verruca-vore :). This is based on an old Swedish myth that if you held one of these next to your wart or verruca and managed to get the poor animal to bite it - it would make the wart go away. I suppose Carl Linnaeus believed that one.
Here in Sweden, the entire family of Tettigoniidae are known as wart-biters, but I believe in English it is just this species.
Oh, and as we were talking about sizes - this one is about 45 mm in body length, but as you can see, the wings and ovipositor continue for quite a bit behind the actual body.
I spent shot after shot trying to capture this butterfly, it just would not stop moving! The shot was taken at Butterfly World in Moncton NB.....I had a great time!!
Crimson Sunbird (Male) ... Probably one of the most difficult birds to take. Not just that it stays at one spot for no more than a few seconds but also the difficulty in achieving good exposure and focus. The feathers are in such dark colors that auto focus doesn't work well and "spot metering" always give you over-exposed image. I failed 9 out of 10 times and this one is all I got from several hours work.
For a year of terrific fun, beauty, inspiration and friendship.
I hope you and your family are all in good health in these difficult times,
You have all been great and you have cheered me up tremendously! LOVE YOU.
(I hope my effort in creating a heart shape is somehow recognisable :-)
Difficult to classify, the Silver Chute Spider seems to be an arachnid contorted into the guise of an canine. With an exceptional sense of smell (Second only to the Energy Hounds), they can find suitable prey regardless of how it hides. Once located, they will ambush the target by jabbing them with their hollow proboscis, injecting a nasty anesthetic venom which renders the victim helpless as the spider begins to feed while the prey is still alive.
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It was quite difficult to get this one as security were all over the place giving me evils but managed to in the end.
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I like difficult places. I like untrod territory - places other people haven't done. I need to be out of my elements so my vision isn't contaminated by what others have done. Those places are difficult in creature comforts, but there's a freshness to them.
~ Sarah Leen - Popular Photography - issue of March 2008, p. 127.
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Difficult to have the event cancelled this year -
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Since 1995 the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival has grown into the most highly anticipated free cultural event in South Florida.
Presented each February with the support of sponsors, artists and volunteers, the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival claims bragging rights as the largest free festival of its kind in the world. Now in its third decade, the festival attracts 100,000 visitors each year as artists converge, using chalk as their medium and the pavement as their canvas. They turn the downtown streets of Lake Worth into a temporary gallery overflowing with diverse large-scale traditional, contemporary and 3D illusionist art.
Calumet discharges gypsum at National Gypsum in Waukegan IL. It took almost all day to unload, gypsum when wet is like unloading mud.
Dassanech
Tribes a bit difficult to geotag where they are living, along the Omo river
in an area located in the south western part of Ethiopia, eastern part of Southern Sudan and north of Kenya
Tribus, difficile de géotagger où elles vivent, le long de la rivière Omo
dans une zone dans le sud ouest de l'Ethiopie, l'est du sud Soudan et le nord du Kenya
It difficult to travel thru Ireland and don’t stop at so many beautiful churches and cemeteries that surround them. This is as much of Ireland as the green rolling hills , emerald sea and wonderful people.
Last night I was invited to the concert in the local pub ... you will see , that was something special.
As you Know i am an older fart than some and this whole trans thing has been a struggle stumbling from one event to another.
Never really knowing in the early days because it wasn't spoken about we weren't on the telly and apart from the odd newspaper article i knew nothing of being trans until a lot later in my li8fe.
That said it hasn't really been a struggle but the journey is full of regrets and missed opportunities.
Now that sounds bad with regards my life now and I do not regrets getting married or having our daughter what so ever.
So why this post.
Well i have just caught a program on Amazon called always jane. I won't tell you anything about it other than its a documentary about a trans girl called jane.
It killed me within minuets of watching bring back memories, talking about and doing things i never had the chance to do but dreamt of. Its a hard watch emotionally but if you can please watch it.
Difficult times for all of us at the moment - platespotting is not exempt from this. "Fortunately" I have just arrived with my photos in September 2019, when the world was still turning normally.
But this discovery was anything but normal - I would say my best find so far in Leipzig. On the way home from work, I saw this wrapped motorcycle in a quarter of the city that had never before been able to shine with foreign plates. I almost fell over my handlebars, so surprised was I by this Asian guest. Only 4 weeks before I saw my first South Korean plate in Prague - I never thought that it would work again so quickly with a motorcycle in Leipzig. Already the Chinese guests, which I could see in 2017( and who probably just got lost ;-) ), were a sensation for me at that time.
One day later I saw this bike again in the city centre without cover and in its "whole splendour".
Seen in Leipzig.
Even back in 2007 a solid set of red and silver warbonnets had gotten difficult to find on the Transcon. Back in those days if you had the student password you could get on the BNSF ODIS site and see what was running before it was all locked down. On a beautiful September afternoon during my senior year a good friend of mine from St. Louis Dave Sanderbeck was in town.
I was finishing up classes at Drexel 50 miles south of the city and checked the Marceline Sub. to see what was running. There was probably lots of decent stuff out there at the time, but a solid set of ATSF paint on stacks was just what two Santa Fe fans wanted.
Dave picked me up from school about 1500 when they were by Ethel and we hauled ass north through rush hour traffic, beating BNSF Train Q CHISBD6 26A to KC Union Station by just a few minutes. Here it swings through an iconic KC angle on the KCT East-West Corridor on Main Track 2, as seen from the then almost brand new Freight House Bridge after running off 120 miles in just over 2 hours. When we pulled in we didn't know if we'd beat it or not. No smart phone, no ATCS, no access to check on the train's progress. I don't really miss those days in that regard, the technology for keeping track of these is an amazing tool to have.
I remember thinking then how it was almost unfathomable that a train could cover that ground in such a short amount of time, being used to the stop and go meltdown prone single track UP that I grew up with in Southeast Missouri.
How things have changed. Today a Q Train runs like a manifest. They're usually not powered up, Trip Optimizer is running the show at 50 MPH maybe, and you're lucky to find a non-orange engine even trailing. Thankfully a lot of the 600's and 700's have PTC finally so you can still occasionally catch one on the point, but they're looking pretty long in the tooth these days.
It's almost hard to imagine the same engines that were already worth shooting then are still kind of sought after as far as wide nose GE's go, but I still wonder how many EMD or foreign leaders we scoffed at that day when they weren't even close to being rare, even if "somewhat uncommon".
It's all relative, and time certainly changes what you might consider worth going after, but I'm still glad we shot this one. I wouldn't have guessed when I was 17 that I would be 32 and occasionally running them.
"The Super Fleet lives on...well sort of."
Locomotives: BNSF 777, BNSF 649, BNSF 692
9-26-07
Kansas City, MO
Horsefly bites are painful. Some people develop serious allergies to horsefly bites, but this is rare. Avoiding horseflies can be difficult outdoors in summer.
Horseflies are a flying insect found most in rural, farmland areas, where they feed on large mammals.
Scientists call horseflies blood-feeding arthropods. The scientific name for their family of species is Tabanus.
Horseflies must bite large animals - including horses, cattle, dogs, and humans - as part of their lifecycle.
Only female horseflies bite. Male horseflies do not have the mouthparts that females use to bite animals. Females do this to drink the blood that they need to produce their eggs.
Female horseflies need a large amount of blood for reproduction - up to 0.5 milliliters. Scientists estimate that they can take up as much as 200 milligrams of blood in a few minutes.
Compared with other insect bites, horsefly bites are particularly painful and slow to heal. This is because of the way the flies bite.
The bite from a horsefly:
Is a cut type of wound, rather than a small puncture hole
The mouthparts of the horsefly use a scissor-like action to create a wound in our skin
The fly "mops up" the bleed after cutting through the skin
The fly anchors to the skin while drinking the blood, with the help of small hooks along its mouthparts
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A difficult to find Sykes's Lark near Velavadar National Park in Gujarat, India. This rare bird is the same colour as its habitat and blends in so well. Usually seen when it flies. Sykes's Lark is mainly restricted to central India, although stray records have been found elsewhere on the sub-continent.
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An old street in Nessebar, Bulgaria.
Traditional Balkanic architecture.
Van Dyke Brown print on Japanese Tosa Hanga paper (96g/m2)
The same negative, sensitizer and exposure time as the perviouse one.
Quite difficult to work on this traditional Japanese paper. It is hand-made of 70% Kozo and it has a harsh look. It is a very absorbant paper and difficult to sensitize. While being very strong it has a very sensible and easy to scratch surface with visible fine fibers. Should be handled with care while wet.
Here it is mounted on Khadi hand-made Indian paper.
This is the first time I've tried the dry-mounting system for the traditional Sumi-e paintings with a Van Dyke Brown print. It works very well for me.
I like the colors of the print on this paper more than on other papers.
Ripley's Aquarium finally opened! It's a very fun place. Difficult to photograph. I didn't do very well this time. Much room for improvement.
No, Jasper's talents don't stop on the frisbee field. He's been exposed to music from a young age because his mom is a pianist with her masters in piano performance. Here Jasper works his way through a difficult passage. Not easy without opposable thumbs. We try to find him pieces with a lot of tone clusters. He's becoming quite accomplished!
This guy proved pretty difficult to photograph. I spent half an hour or so photographing him in his entirety as he would just not stay still. But towards the end, he stopped running around and kind of calmed down for a bit, allowing me to photograph his eyes at this magnification. He was about 9mm long.
You can see his palps and legs sticking out in the reflection in his eyes.
Focus stacked from two photos, which were taken with the 28mm reversed mounted to a 2x teleconverter which was mounted to my macro bellows.
A few of my previous photos of this species are on wikipedia here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycryptus_undatus
Also tolweb has a photo I took of a female Platycryptus undatus on their website here:
Edit: Wow, this photo sure did well: 50,000 views in just 24 hours!
It also made the front page of reddit.com and was #8 on Explore at one point.
Passing through difficult times while the last weeks
it makes me glad to know Henry by her side.
I was the one that always told her
that she hasn't´ enough time to be a good mum for a dog.
She struggled so hard to convince me of the contrary.
And she was right.
I always will admire her belief and her fortitude.