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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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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.
A difficult challenge trying to photograph the back of your head without a mirror - a lot of angling and good guesses
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"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt." Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ironing time is getting closer again :)
Strobist: On camera Nikon SB910 with built in diffusor at 1/64th power. Right and left Yuongnuo YN 460-II at 2/10th power triggered by the nikon.
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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Feelings of excessive demand easily take over in difficult times. Right now, times are tough. And so these challenges cause the surrounding's former vivid colors to gradually fade into a uniform gray. As slowly but surely no day differs from the other, frustration starts to spread.
Therefore, it might be tempting to let out the frustration because this promises relief. However, this redemption is often too short-lived. Though it might seem pretty challenging, working on patience and resilience might be the better solution in the long-term. This way, the danger of fully burning out can decrease enormously.
Shocktroopers were the most feared soldiers in the Separatist Army. They endured some of the most difficult training and were relentless in their pursuit of being the ultimate soldier. Those who couldn't keep up with the intense training were reassigned to infantry units. Shocktroopers were revered for their immense strength and fortitude during battle. It wasn't uncommon for a small squad of three or four Shocktroopers to take on an entire company of Marines- and survive. The record of Most Kills by a One Person (at 648 confirmed kills) is held by a former Shocktrooper; Percy "Bullseye" Hamilton, Staff Sergeant, Retired.
Hamilton is also credited with one of the most heroic acts of the war. Pinned down by a squadron of GH-23's from the 47th Marine Aircraft Wing, he single-handedly downed fourteen GH-23 Infantry Dropships with an unmounted 18.7mm Anti Aircraft Cannon, giving his troops the necessary time to escape.
Very difficult to see these Transits within London now, and really everywhere as age and tightening emission controls have caught up with them.
This one is still going.
The dating game is a difficult one,
it's been ten years for me,
But tonight's the night for me
to express my femininity.
I'll start gettin' ready early,
there's so much to be done
To prepare myself for this wondrous event,
so in union we will be one.
I'll make a list, that's what I'll do,
the preparation a must,
Wash me hair, shave me chin;
Oh, I'm just fillin' with lust.
I'll wax me legs and trim me twat,
an' plait me underarms too.
This date's a first but I'm sure to impress,
yes he's the one that I'll woo.
Now for the big decision,
will I wear knickers or not,
Will he see me as ice maiden cool
or think I'm luscious and hot?
I'd better pamper me pussy
so she'll purr right through the night
And I think I'll prop me boobs up,
a cleavage would look a sight.
Yes, me bright red bra with the underwire,
it's sure to make him swell
Me in me sexy underwear
will send him straight to hell.
Gee wizzies I'm so nervous,
me stomach's tied in knots
Me bowels are fairly churnin',
I hope I don't get the trots.
I wonder what he'll look like,
maybe a cowboy, rough but smart
Big ears, big nose and big riding boots,
cause' I'm just a cowgirl at heart.
We could pretend we're at the rodeo
riding them wild beasts,
Then we could have midnight snack,
body chocolate a sumptuous feast.
Well, I know you fellas are disgruntled
that it's not gonna be one of you
But if you want to win one like me,
here's what you gotta do…
Whisper sweet nothin's in her ear,
a little romance to bait her
But there's a time and place for everything
so leave the tongue 'till later.
Cuddle and caress her
for she's a goddess to be sure
And she'll grab you by the family jewels
and lock the bloody door.
But in the meantime, it's now my turn,
this one is just for me,
'Cause tonight's the night for me
to express my femininity.
~Paul Bearer
Makeup and styling by Kelayla
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7 May 19
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes it seems difficult to find a wilderness in the Bay Area due to the occasionally overwhelming number of people that live here. But standing on a ridge in the pre-dawn hours high up on Mt. Tam, I was reminded how truly wild this place can be. It really is amazing how many acres of forest land there are just a few miles from downtown San Francisco.
Update: I just reprocessed this image with a demo version of Silver Efex Pro. All I can say is wow, this software gives you amazing control over B&W images. I think I may be hooked!
Nikon D300
1/30 sec
f/16
ISO 160
Nikon 18-200mm @ 120mm
No Filters
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.
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 body 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.
Horizon Community College have been performing at the Swanage Folk Festival for about 12 years. Most years I take shots of the students while performing. This year about 50 student attended. They are energetic and professional and are great entertainers. It is difficult to get all the students mainly due to where I can get a position to take the shots. Apologies to those that I miss.
The college is located in Barnsley, Yorkshire about 16 miles from where I was born so I have a great interest in them.
A lot of shots will be going on over the next few days so that the students can get a link to the folder.
All or any images can be copied by the students at any time. No authorisation is required.
The model was painted with wet clay which then dried.
The model was Lyndsea Moore. Black and white conversion in LIghtroom.
I will accept any tips
very good wig from www.etsy.com/shop/akasarushi that I'm just having trouble putting into Missy's tv hairstyles
"Je vous le dis aujourd'hui, mes amis, bien que nous devions faire face aux difficultés d'aujourd'hui et de demain, je fais tout de même un rêve. C'est un rêve profondément enraciné dans le rêve américain. Je fais le rêve qu'un jour, cette nation se lève et vive sous le véritable sens de son credo : “Nous tenons ces vérités comme évidentes, que tous les hommes ont été créés égaux.” Je fais le rêve qu'un jour, sur les collines rouges de la Géorgie, les fils des esclaves et les fils des propriétaires d'esclaves puissent s'asseoir ensemble à la table de la fraternité. Je fais le rêve qu'un jour, même l'État du Mississippi, désert étouffant d'injustice et d'oppression, soit transformé en une oasis de liberté et de justice. Je fais le rêve que mes quatre jeunes enfants habitent un jour une nation où ils ne seront pas jugés sur la couleur de leur peau, mais à la mesure de leur caractère. Je fais ce rêve aujourd'hui ! Je fais le rêve qu'un jour juste là-bas en Alabama, avec ses racistes vicieux, avec son gouverneur qui a les lèvres dégoulinantes des mots interposition et annulation; un jour juste là-bas en Alabama les petits garçons noirs et les petites filles noires puissent joindre leurs mains avec les petits garçons blancs et les petites filles blanches, comme frères et sœurs. Je fais le rêve qu'un jour chaque vallée soit glorifiée, que chaque colline et chaque montagne soit aplanie, que les endroits rudes soient transformées en plaines, que les endroits tortueux soient redressés, que la gloire du Seigneur soit révélée et que tous les vivants le voient tous ensemble."
Martin Luther King
.../...Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up... live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tenneessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside.
Let freedom ring,
And when this happens,and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
"I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King
This is very difficult. | You’re doing the best you can.
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These are words I wrote when I didn’t know how to keep functioning or how intense things might get as I faced the unknown and the uncertain condition of my husband’s health.
I had this tiny sketchbook and one of my favorite pens in my jacket pocket nearly 2 weeks ago [10/3/22] while anxiously sitting in the waiting area at the hospital during my husband’s bronchoscopy that was being done so doctors could diagnose what type of lung infection my husband had in order to treat it effectively. I became even more anxious and overwhelmed when my husband’s lung transplant doctor came out and talked to me and let me know that his lungs looked bad enough that he would probably need to be admitted to the hospital. As I sat there, not knowing how I would manage to survive the anxiety, stress, fear, unknown and overwhelm I was experiencing, I pulled out this tiny sketchbook and wrote some phrases that came to mind in order to help myself try my best to cope. I am thankful for the gift we each have of listening to what may be helpful for us to cope in the moment.
It was 25.5C at Manchester Airport this afternoon, difficult to believe I know! Unfortunately there was a lot of heat shimmer.
This was a Manchester United FC Football/Soccer charter taking the team on their pre-season tour of the USA.
This aircraft was delivered to ANA All Nippon Airways as JA404A in Mar-99. It was sold to Oasis Hong Kong Airways as B-LFC in Apr-07. The aircraft was wet-leased to Air Namibia for three weeks in Mar/Apr-08. On it's return to Oasis on 09-Apr-08, it was impounded at Hong Kong. Oasis Hong Kong Airways ceased operations the same day and the aircraft was transferred to B-LFC Ltd on 10-Apr-08. It was sold to Wells Fargo bank Northwest as N263SG in Jul-08 and was ferried to Victorville, CA, USA for storage. The aircraft was leased to Atlas Air in Mar-10 and wet-leased to Sonair (Angola) the following month. It returned to Atlas Air in 2011 and is used for VIP, contract and passenger charter flights. Current (Jul-17).
In difficult situations, The Bluebird is equipped with a variety of gadgets to help Arthur with his investigations. These include:
Twin, double barreled blasters (equipped with stun and flamethrower settings)
Static bond tires (for hi speed driving on difficult roads, as well as wall climbing)
Grille mounted bonnet launcher (for catching monsters and pulling down obstacles)
Bomb deployment chutes: (useful for smokescreens, and high speed getaways)
Hidden weapons and tool hatches: (should Arthur need to make emergency repairs, or use a spare pistol)
Why are the Rochdale 9 locks so difficult? Well, this photo illustrates it. There are no bypasses to these locks which allows water to flow from one pound to the pound below the lock, if there is a lot of water coming down the canal (maybe because of a lot of boats using the canal or because of a lot of rain) it will flow over the top of the lock gates. Leaky lock gates also don't help. This means that when you are trying to empty a lock so a boat going up the canal can get in the lock, or the water level in the lock is being lowered for a boat going down, it is also being filled with extra water from the pound above. This can make it very difficult to equalise the levels and open the bottom gates.