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had some doodling fun today. i'd like to point out that drawing/tracing on the computer is very very difficult.
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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.
Kauai, HI. This was a really difficult scene to shoot because of the insane dynamic range between the near-black lava rocks and the highlights around the sun. I'm pretty happy with it, though! Single exposure, 0.9 reverse grad. What do you think?
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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.
Why must love be difficult in today's day and age? Why must it stand up to social standards instead of a relationship between a man and woman? When truth is lost it is hard to find. If you stop loving one then why stay with them? If you like someone then why not try and ask them out? Life is hard enough without making love be hard as well. Love is beautiful if transpired in the correct form.
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.
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.
A long bill is great for getting to those difficult-to-reach parts. Except this one is a Short-billed Dowitcher. Knowledgeable birders will immediately recognise this as a young Short-billed by those internal markings on the tertial feathers (those ones just above its left leg). On young Long-billed Dowitchers they only have a narrow pale border with no internal striping. You can see it on this Long-billed: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/48830741847/in/photolist The name Dowitcher comes from a native Iroquoian name for these birds. The two species of Dowitcher in North America are very similar and were only considered to be different species in 1950. Fortunately their calls are different and Short-billed tends to inhabit saltwater habitats outside the breeding season, like this bird on the shore at Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.
Here is a video of that cavern: www.flickr.com/photos/freeflyer09/8123532375/in/photostream/
And here am I, with another photo from my trip to Mexico. This one was on a "cenote" (an underwater cave made of sharp rocks). Holding the breath while my friend was shooting was difficult, but definetely worth it, hahaha
We came to that cavern on a great hour, becouse the sun was perfectly situated, and it generates light rays, and it was... totally awesome, seriously.
Hope you like it!
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Aquí está un vídeo de esta caverna: www.flickr.com/photos/freeflyer09/8123532375/in/photostream/
Y aquí estoy, con otra foto de mi viaje a México. Esta fue en un "cenote" (una cueva bajo el mar, hecha de rocas más o menos afiladas). Contener la respiración ahí abajo mientras mi amigo sacaba las fotos fue difícil, pero definitivamente valió la pena, jajaja
Llegamos a esa caverna en una hora genial, porque el sol estaba perfectamente situado para generar esos rayos de luz, y fue absolutamente increíble, en serio.
¡Espero que os guste!
The Westfjords or West Fjords (Icelandic: Vestfirðir [ˈvɛstˌfɪrðɪr̥], ISO 3166-2:IS: IS-4) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative district, the least populous administrative district. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of Iceland by a seven-kilometre-wide isthmus between Gilsfjörður and Bitrufjörður. The Westfjords are very mountainous; the coastline is heavily indented by dozens of fjords surrounded by steep hills. These indentations make roads very circuitous and communications by land difficult. In addition many of the roads are closed by ice and snow for several months of the year. The Vestfjarðagöng road tunnel from 1996 has improved that situation. The cliffs at Látrabjarg comprise the longest bird cliff in the northern Atlantic Ocean and are at the westernmost point in Iceland. The Drangajökull glacier is located in the north of the peninsula and is the fifth-largest of the country, but the only glacier of the region.
The most difficult shot from 2007 red list cetonid series, beetle imported from Greece was again provided by Petr Sipek.
IUCN (EU) red list status is displayed HERE.
Excerpt from www.hiddennewfoundland.ca:
The Brigus Tunnel is a surprising reminder of the impact that the Labrador fishery and seal hunt had on the community of Brigus. The historic town is littered with reminders of what life was like hundreds of years ago and is known for its large number of heritage buildings and picturesque gardens. But the most notable historic site in the town is a large tunnel cut through solid bedrock near the harbour front. To many people’s surprise the tunnel is an artifact of the Labrador fishery in which many of the town’s inhabitants once participated.
The tunnel was built for the famous Captain Abram Bartlett. Bartlett frequently made trips to Labrador to partake in the summer fishery but due to an overcrowded harbour would often have trouble finding a dock to unload his catch. After purchasing a larger ship, his previous berth at Riverhead was no longer usable. The only remaining suitable deep water berth nearby was in Brigus Harbour. Brigus' sheltered and deep water harbour was ideal for holding large ships but finding a place to dock a ship was often difficult due to surrounding cliffs. A tunnel through the ridge would give Bartlett access to his ship and allow for easy offloading of the catch.
Bartlett immediately purchased a section of land near the ridge and hired the help of Cornish miner John Hoskins. Hoskins began construction of the tunnel around 1860. John Hoskins was a professional who had previously been employed at the Tilt Cove Copper Mines on the Baie Verte Peninsula [Virtual Museum]. The roughly 80 foot long tunnel was constructed by hand drilling holes into the rock in which gunpowder would be placed. In order to keep the drill bits sharp a special forge was constructed near the tunnel site. The tunnel is reported to have taken around four months of continuous work to complete. The tunnel measured eight and a half feet high and about eight feet wide allowing wheel barrows, wagons and even horse and carriages to access the wharf on the other side. The tunnel was used until around 1910.
Today the tunnel is accessible by anyone who wishes to venture through. The tunnel is located near the waterfront behind St. Georges Heritage Church near the Bartlett Memorial.
How difficult can it be? With up to a hundred shooting stars an hours from the pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle in the sky, capturing one should be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Not so; I took just over 150 15-second images, courtesy of my brand-new Triggertrap from the wonderful Helin and team and this was the only one worthy of an upload.
I saw lots of beautiful streaks of light that last for a fraction of a second but take your breath away each time, travelling faster than a speeding bullet to the left and right and above where I had the camera set up. Those that I did get were travelling so fast, they barely show up, even with an ISO of 2500. Any more pushing of the ISO made it seem like daylight.
The main issue is cloud, as the meteors can't be seen through it, Baconsthorpe Castle is a great location as there is very little light pollution but the wind kept on tugging at those clouds and interrupting the view. Apparently, the further north you are, the clearer the skies.
This stuff is so hard to do well; you need to choose a night when there's very little moon, an annual meteor shower, no cloud, little wind and a location with something interesting in it that's facing south. I also need a wider lens. Ho hum.
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.
It is difficult to imagine that this vast plain was once a great pine forest! I stopped near Kadoka to visit a petrified forest, where the had many samples of drowned logs became petrified.
(In my journal of my road trip, I mused that Kadoka is not a very clever name for a town.)
Canon FTb
Kodak Gold 200 film
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
Here's the complete album of the photos shot on this Road Trip.
Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2001.
Calumet discharges gypsum at National Gypsum in Waukegan IL. It took almost all day to unload, gypsum when wet is like unloading mud.
We each have our reasons why we are here and why to "enjoy" this difficult way of taking photos. As a kid my father had the "time life" book on space one of the illustrations was the Horse head, I was always taken as a kid there was a Horse out in space. I all ways knew where it was as Orion on the norther side of the equator was very easy to spot much like here on the southern side.
The traditional view with a one shot colour camera RGB red background. This shot is SII as Red Ha as Green O3 as blue but RGB stars. As the Ha is the dominant element its usually very green but I have only kept a hint of Green.
Glad to see this in real life I have never see the Horses beard before. Look closely you can see the shadow cast by the Nebula Back lit from behind. I have to work on getting the focuser set up and filter wheel balanced to be able to rotate the whole train to get the better view. The Filter wheel is very heavy so if you move out from inline the whole rig is thrown out of balance very badly. Thinking as Only MacGyver can.
QHY183M -10c 100 Odd shots 5 min each filter over five nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
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
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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Taken in July 2014. It's very difficult to photograph this girl because she is very scared of the camera. She had no idea I was taking photos, and I couldn't see how the photo was as I was acting like I wasn't taking photos so she wouldn't run away. She is all grown up now.
Not entirely sharp, but incredibly difficult to photgraph ..
So I'm very happy with the result!
"Why do I do all the thinking?
Why do you all the work?
Is it 'cause I think I'm dyin'
When I'm workin' as a clerk?
I'm swimming into deep water
Would you help me one more time?
I'm tryin' all my best to keep live goin'
I'm swimming into deep water
Would you help me one more time?
I'm drowning but I'd like to stay around
'Round for a while
Though I'm always busy hidin'
Though I'm always on the run
It's not you that I am fightin'
It's the clouds while you're the sun
I'm swimming into deep water ...
When I was a little schoolboy
A life I'm living far away
They said: "Life it's just a fake, boy"
But I want it anyway, ah
Now the days are getting longer
And my life is going on
Hear my heartbeat getting stronger
No, with you I can't go wrong
I'm swimming into deep water ..."
Don Rosenbaum
Swimming into deep water
Difficult to miss!
If you Spanish is good, these give more information on the murals.
www.hotelartmadams.com/en/video
This is the reopening of the hotel in 2021
www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2021/07/01/86193/...
Artist José Luis Mesas
The bill for the mural is estimated to be around 150,000 euros, for scaffolding, 5 months work by José Luis Mesas and other costs.
Though a later news article indicates the own and the artist were in dispute.
There was also a dispute with the Palma authorities.
We didn't have time to peek inside, I suspect that is also rather bold.