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This looks like Neoscrobiger patricius, but has some distinct extra blobs that I haven't seen on any other examples of the species. This one was really fast and looked/behabed exactly like a spider wasp (video to accompany). the bottom unfocussed pic shows the markings.
Hi everyone,
Just a minor update to my custom Lego Roboute Guilliman. There are several changes that can't be seen, but I improved his proportions slightly (a much more difficult task than it sounds).
Hope you like it!
Here is a small portion of my precious memory from 2020. An autumn-coloured gorge on one crisp morning. The sun shines gently even in this difficult time.
Iga Province, Mie Prefecture.
for this one ..ive made at least 35 shots with my nikon d70.....the difficult part was to let go of the slice ...(prefocus the lense ) and click until ive got this one...piuuufffff
Baia das Pedras, Southern Pantanal | Brazil
The Pantanal is home to four different armadillo species, ranging in size from the extremely elusive and very rarely seen giant armadillo which spends virtually all its life underground through to the small three-banded variety. Between these two species are the six-banded, which can be seen during the day, and the nine-banded which will generally only be seen at night by torchlight. Also called the Yellow Armadillo, the Six-banded Armadillo favours open ground where it lives in burrows. It will excavates everywhere if the ground is right, leaving some areas like minefields littered with mounds and holes. It’s solitary and although active by day is extremely difficult to see. If you are lucky enough to spot one they are usually lying in the entrance of their burrow and at the slightest sign of danger they will bolt back in. However, if you’re very patient, you may see one travelling between burrows or hunting for food. And, if you’re very lucky, you may just see one standing up in order to get a better view of its surroundings.
HI ALL, To my AMAZEMENT!! I was able to get on the internet right now!! No clue why I haven’t been able to for more then a month. No clue how long I can stay on or if I will be able to get back on anytime soon.
My health is oretty lousy with allergies on top and pretty bad to. No covid I have been tested more then once. The guy in the next apartment seems likely to have covid, but refuses to be tested or mask up or isolate and the building doesn’t seem to be able to do anything. Guy next door says it isn’t his problem if anyone gets it they were ment to get it.
Anyway I have been stuck in my apartment due to health so I haven’t encountered him much so that is a good thing.
How are you all doing?? I hope well!! Enjoying life?? Doing anything fun this summer??
I better send this while I hopefully can.
Please take care and prayers for you all.
I hope you are all well. :)
Charles.
I do force this old body out for walks when i can and of course I need food so to get grocerys a very painful difficult thing to do. Ordering them to be dilivered is not affordable for me and not have internet accesse makes that not possible even if i could. But getting out some is good and thus these two pictures.
Hugs all. No clue when I'll be on again.
Charles.
It is difficult in general to image faint objects in the high star population density area in Milkyway. SNR G65.3+5.7 locates in such area. Narrow-band pass filter is helpful here. We can not find such objects on the frame taken without narrow band filters.
right half:
equipment: Askar FMA180 Pro, Optolong L-Ultimate Dual 3nm Filter, and Canon EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding on Genuine Tripod
exposure: 9 times 1,800 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5
Frames of latter half were taken under 50% illuminated moon.
site: 680m above sea level at lat. 36 59 01 North and long. 140 32 05 East in Kanotsunodaira Fukushima 福島県 鹿角平. Ambient temperature was around 10 degrees Celsius or 34 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild, and SQML was up to 21.16 before moonrise. Seeing was bad, and guide error RMS was around 1".
left half:
equipment: Sigma 40mmF1.4 Art and Canon EOS 6D-sp4, modified by Seo-san on Vixen AXD Equatorial Mount, auto guided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 4 times x 900 seconds, 3 x 240 sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.5
First exposure started at 15:32:52UTC July 2, 2022.
site: 1,410m above sea level at lat. 37 45 03 North and long. 140 06 25 East in Shirabu pass at the border of Fukushima and Yamagata 福島山形県境白布峠.
Sky was dark and clear. SQML was 21.34. Wind was almost none. Ambient temperature was around 17 degrees Celsius or 63 degrees Fahrenheit. It was superb night.
Its difficult to believe that it has been 3 years since I built this model and finally photographed it!
To be fair, it was substantially rebuilt last year just before exhibiting it at Skærbæk 2019 in Denmark. The model has the following features:
1. Full interior lighting
2. Directional headlamps
3. PFx Brick sound effects
4. Dual 9V motor bogies with dedicated motor channels from the PFx Brick
5. Close coupling mechanism which elastically expands around corners and switches
I will be uploading some more detailed shots of the interior, lighting, couplers, etc. very soon for the benefit of anyone interested in those sorts of details.
I had to take a huge detour to get down wind of this Roe kid. I sat on the ground with the camera on my knees and watched it through the viewfinder as it slowly came closer.
Without doubt, they are my favourite deer. They are usually solitary or in small family groups and almost always difficult to get close to.
They can be quite inquisitive and so long as they don't detect the human form, or see any white skin, they will often approach very close.
I set the camera to quiet mode and kept taking shots as it worked its way closer. Although it could hear the shutter, it couldn't make out the shape of me.
This is as close as it came and by now it was filling the viewfinder.
Roe start to lose their spots at about 6 weeks and this one still has a few on its hind quarters. They are born in May or June so it is probably about 3 months old.
Difficult to resist taking the classic ceiling light and spiral staircase shot from inside the fantastic 'Museum of Liverpool'. Although I am sure this has been taken a thousand times before I bet there is no one single composition that is identical due to the many varying view points from each floor of the building.
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Olympus 12-60mm
Canon 5D.
On the beach in North Berwick, Scotland.
Narcissus in a Red Dress (The Like) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRs6okNTpkU
Good morning everyone. Just a short video taken yesterday at Lacey Pond to show how difficult it can be to get still shots of a Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes). Not only does one have to contend with the constant "fluttering" that swallowtails typically do while feeding, but to make makes worse was a stiff NE breeze.
In the end I did get a few nice pics of this same butterfly, which I'll post in another day or so.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a most pleasant weekend.
Lacey
PS...you might have to click on the video a couple of times to get it to play. Sorry about that...flickr glitch of some kind.
Hope everyone stays safe at home to weather this virus outbreak. Several counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have already put in place a "shelter in place" order today. The current grave situation makes me wonder what would happen to this lady I came across on the street of San Francisco over a month ago. I pray that she would make it.
My own favourite.
This picture is not easy to understand or maybe even difficult to watch. For me is just the right time to post it here. I made this some time ago. Represents my internet life and everything I have experienced in last years. Despite the partial dark tones of image, this is a pure love energy.
I got recently 2 hate mails in Flickr, from somebody I personally don’t know. From a group admin with low and brutal energy. I have never before got any hate mails, therefore I was feeling terrible.
But I can say only some famous words: „Forgive them, because they don’t know what the are doing!“
Gorefest - Smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6muK0Y_Zk&feature=related
Did you ever dream
Did you ever dream
Did you ever dream about tomorrow
Did you see the blood
Did you see the blood
Did you see the blood and feel the sorrow
Did you ever see yourself
Dancing on your grave
Did you ever cry
Did you ever cry
When you woke up cold and smelled your fear
Your fear of the world
Your fear of the world
Your fear to get hurt but none would ever hear
Did you ever see yourself
Dancing on your grave
With a smile on your face
I know these might not look like spectacular pictures, but they’re incredibly difficult to take. Ever heard the expression “quick as lightning”? So in the same split-second, you have to spot the lightning bolt in a sea of black clouds from 400 km above, aim at this minuscule white dot with your viewfinder and a big 800mm lens, focus (in the dark), and shoot. Needless to say this is impossible unless you figure out another technique… Oh well, maybe looking at the thunder striking the planet from above the massive night clouds doesn’t impress you, but I find it excessively beautiful and menacing, like swimming in deep dark waters at night and wondering what’s below you… Huge respect to Andreas Mogensen who only spent eight days on the ISS but still managed to capture a lightning strike and an even more elusive blue jet erupting upwards from it. His photo (well it was a video still actually) encouraged the "space storm hunter" ASIM facility that is now outside the Columbus module. It is purpose-built to take pictures like this, but they are not so beautiful as they use different wavelengths that are much more interesting and useful to scientists. Also it takes 720 pictures of our planet a minute... continuously, how can we compete with that? Come to think of it, Andreas must be an extremely lucky guy! ;) ASIM is revealing things nobody knew about thunderstorms, explaining new phenomena and discovering new ways of how lightning is interacting with our atmosphere and influencing our climate! www.esa.int/asim
Survolés de nuit, les orages sont spectaculaires, à la fois magnifiques et un peu inquiétants – un peu comme nager de nuit dans des eaux sombres sans savoir ce qui se cache dans les profondeurs... On devine la couverture nuageuse qui recouvre les lumières des villes et donne une texture ouatée au noir du sol, et puis de manière aléatoire, une espèce de boule de lumière s’allume ici et là et dessine les contours du nuage jusqu’ici complètement indistinct dans l’obscurité.
Pendant ma première mission, je n’ai jamais réussi à prendre d’orages en photo de nuit, pour la simple raison que la durée d’un éclair ne donne pas le temps de viser, faire la mise au point et prendre la photo… Cette fois-ci j’ai changé de tactique : je vise une zone d’orages intense avec une mise au point qui devrait être la bonne et je prends les photos au hasard en espérant avoir la chance qu’un éclair claque au moment où j’appuie sur le déclencheur (et que mon exposition et ma mise au point sont correctes). Pour une fois, après 5 minutes de mitraillage, je ne suis pas revenu bredouille de la chasse aux éclairs. Mon collègue et ami Andy Mogensen a quant à lui réussi à photographier des jets bleus jaillissant par-dessus un orage pendant sa mission en 2015, dans le cadre de l’expérience THOR, et a ainsi permis de lever le voile sur un phénomène jusque-là resté très mystérieux. A la suite de son cliché, l’ESA a fait installer l'équipement ASIM sur l’extérieur de la Station, capable de mitrailler les orages (longueurs d'ondes différentes et 720 photos par minute !). On a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur la foudre, notamment comment elle interagit avec notre atmosphère et influence notre climat.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Difficult to make good astro pictures so close to the city. The light down to the right is an airliner leaving the near by airport.
All over the Arctic it is rather difficult to bury the dead and maintain cemeteries due to permafrost heaving.
In the background one can see piles of crushed rock, which is the best solution to keep the ground somewhat drained and level.
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2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
CN 5318, IC 6250, and CN 5338 make easy work of the 2.2 percent Proctor Hill grade with two empties from Duluth on July 17, 2015.
Been difficult getting an evening train coming up for the past couple of summers on CN's Proctor Hill, but a 1400 call time for this job gave some good light after they pulled loads down to the dock.
The temperature was 90 down by Lake Superior, so the crew has to be thankful for the AC units on these SD40-types.
Raiding an Imperial conveyex transport; In theory, this might sound like a simple job. But in reality, this is way more difficult than some people might think. These transporters are built to operate in the most treacherous terrains, and are heavily guarded by Imperial Troops and several high-security containers. An assault on one would typically result in the destruction of the person trying to raid the train. If only Quay Sta´nn knew about this before accepting this job. If he wanted to get the credits for this mission, Quay would have to do something he normally does not do: Planning the mission, and putting together a crew. Luckily, he knew a couple of people who could help him do this…
First, he went to some old friends of his who were looking for a job. Now that Coruscant is under control of the Empire and patrols of Stormtroopers roamed even the streets of the lower levels of the planet, normal crimes like pickpocketing and scamming people became harder and harder to pull off. So a few old friends of Quay, Jayda Darren, a female humanoid with a green skin, and Tyree Somer, a male Noghri, were more than excited when Quay offered them this job. Next, he knew someone who owed him quite a lot of credits. He came up with the idea that if he let Quay rent a cargo hauler with a cloaking device, he would be free of his debt. The man accepted this offer, and so the crew got something to transport themselves and the cargo on. After this, Quay buyed from his last credits equipment that they would need for this mission.
The plan the crew came up with was simple. First, they would need to leave Coruscant and fly to Vandor, where the heist is going to take place. Once one of the trains left the station, the crew would activate their cloaking device to hover above the train unnoticed. Two crewmates would enter the train, while one stays behind to pilot the ship. With the equipment Quay brought, they could enter one of the containers to take everything that is in it. When this is done, the cargo can be stored in the ship, and they will be able to fly back home without too many problems. Sounds like a straight-forwars and safe plan, right?
After a couple of hours of flying, the crew arrived on the cold, icy planet of Vandor. It would take a while before the train would arrive, so the crew used this time to play a game of Sabacc and to prepare for the heist. Not too long after the second game of Sabacc they played, they heard the train arriving in the distance. They all jumped into the cargo hauler, activated the cloaking device and went heading to the train. Once they were hovering above the train, Quay and Tyree jumped out of the ship, while Jayda stayed behind to pilot the ship. They secured the ship with cables, so that it could not fly too far away. Trying to keep your balance on this train was a real challenge, but with some grappling hooks it was almost impossible to fall off the train. With some electric equipment, Quay was able to breach one of the doors that was securing the cargo. But when the door opened, they saw the first problem of this mission.
¨Well, what is in the containers?¨ Jayda asked through the comms.
¨Coaxum, it's all coaxium!¨ Quay replied. ¨The client did not mention a single thing about the cargo being just coaxium! There is no way we can transport this all without being blown to pieces!¨
¨Well, check another container then! The client asked for cargo from the train, he didn't specifically say what kind of cargo he wanted!¨
Just as Jayda said that, the train took a sharp turn. Quay and Tyree almost lost their balance, but because of the grappling hooks they had the two smugglers were able to not fall to their death. With a lot of struggles, they made it to the second container. But when they opened that one too, they saw that this one was filled with even more coaxium.
¨Well, what did you find?¨ Jayda screamed through the comms.
¨Even more of that stupid coaxium. If we knew about this before, I could have gotten us a transport fit to store all of this. We could have been rich! But now, we can either leave it for what it is, or we can take the coaxium anyways and risk getting blown to pieces.¨ Quay replied. ¨We could search more containers, but i doubt we will find any goods we can safely transport.¨
¨Let's just take all of this stuff. Staying on this train for much longer won´t be too safe either, and I like the risk of this cargo being able to explode any minute.¨ Tyree said.
Just as they were in the middle of getting all of the cargo in the transporter, the next problem on this mission arrived. A dozen of little speeders, all piloted by people who certainly looked like pirates arrived. The pirates opened fire on the two smugglers, and this only made things worse for all of them.
The events that unfolded after this, could only be described as complete chaos. The cloaking device of the cargo ship started malfunctioning, meaning that everyone could now see it again. A few of the pirates took this opportunity to board the ship, while the others headed towards Quay and Tyree. One of the pirates landed on top of the train, and started shooting at the smugglers. Tyree got out his heavy repeating blaster, and shot the pirate multiple times. The pirate got hit, and lost his balance while the train took another turn.
¨Jayda, are you alright?¨ Quay screamed into the comms.
¨Can you wait just a minute? I'm a little bit busy at the moment.¨ She replied while gunshots and explosions made her voice almost unable to be heard.
¨Tyree, quickly, get on the speeder! Quay yelled to him. ¨If we stay here, we probably won't make it.¨
¨But what about the coaxium? We can't just let that all stay here.¨
¨Take it with you, we might be able to use it against out opponents.¨
Quay took the steering wheel, while Tyree took the passenger seat. He started the speeder, and they went flying through the air.
¨You know that coaxium is pretty explosive, right? If you throw a few of those small bottles at the pirates, we might be able to take them out.¨
Tyree took Quays advice, and he threw a small container at one of the other speeders. It created a small, but powerful blast which most likely killed the pirate. One of the other pirates saw what was happening, and tried to flee the conflict. Quay saw this happening, and started chasing him. Just as Tyree tried to throw a container at the pirate, Quay saw that the cargo ship Jayde was piloting was catching fire, and that the train stopped moving.
¨Jayde, come in! Are you okay?¨
¨Could not be better.¨ She replied, while Quay immediately knew that she was not fine. He turned around and went to the ship. When he arrived, Jayde was standing near the door. She was coughing up blood, and had a few nasty wounds on her body. The two smugglers let Jayde step onto the speeder, but she immediately collapsed from the exhaustion.
¨I took out those darn pirates, but the engine got hit pretty hard. The ship can explode every minute, and especially with all of the coaxium onboard this is gonna be a big explosion. Get us out of here, fast.¨
Quay raced towards the spot where they originally landed with the cargo ship, and parked the speeder. While Tyree quickly set up a small camp with what they had left, Quay laid Layda down and tried to stop her wounds from bleeding.
¨My god Jayda, how many times did you get hit?¨
¨Way too much.¨ She replied, while awkwardly smiling and coughing. ¨You know, even though i'm literally dying here and i just murdered a few people, i really enjoyed this mission with you guys. It had been such a long time since we all committed small crimes back on Coruscant, and i really missed that all.¨
Tyree stopped with setting up the camp, and walked towards the two.
¨I'm really sorry if this event will lead to you two having to spend the rest of your lives in an Imperial prison somewhere. Just don´t start blaming yourself for all of this, this has been my fault.¨
¨It's okay.¨ Tyree said. ¨We were all fully aware of what kind of risk we were taking when we accepted this job, so we will also fully accept the consequences of our actions.¨
Quay and Tyree waited for her to respond, but she didn´t. Jayda still had a smile on her face, but the life was drained out of her eyes. She was dead.
The two didn't say a word to each other for a few minutes. Quay had gone through so much pain when he lost his parents, but he was not prepared for this. Someone he knew ever since he became a smuggler died because he thought it would be a good idea to accept this job. Before this, Quay never realised what kind of stakes there actually were with these missions. But now, he knew that these missions could become fatal to the people he loved.
The silence was interrupted by the sound of metal boots walking through the snow. Both Quay and Tyree jumped up, with their guns pointing at the sound. The figure that was walking towards them, was dressed in a similar way as the pirates.
¨I'm guessing you guys are the ones who tried to raid that Imperial transport?¨ The person said, with a voice that was certainly distorted by a vocoder.
¨And i'm guessing you are the leader of those pirates who attacked us?¨ Tyree replied. ¨The one who caused all this mess?¨ He pointed at the destroyed train and the burning cargo ship in the background.
¨Indeed, i am. And I'm sorry that your friend died. It wasn´t the plan that anyone would die on this mission. As soon as I get back with the others, i will inform them of this.¨
¨Eeh, yeah, about that….¨ Quay said, just as the cargo ship exploded with full force in the background. ¨I think you might want to look for another crew.¨
¨Whatever, I got what i needed. I secured some of the coaxium while you all were busy fighting each other. Oh yeah, here, take this. As a compensation for the loss of your friend and the cargo.¨
The person handed the two a few small coaxium containers, and 10.000 credits.
The two smugglers were speechless. Why was this random person so generous towards them?
¨Why did you give us all of this stuff?¨ Quay asked.
¨I already said that.¨ The person said while walking towards her speeder. ¨As a compensation for the loss of your friend and the cargo. And the fact that I have known you guys for a while might have helped in this decision.¨
¨Wait, but who are you then?¨
¨I'm pretty sure you know that already, deep inside of you.¨ The person replied, before driving away on her speeder.
Well, that didn't make Quay and Tyree any wiser about the person's identity. Before they left this planet, they buried Jayda´s body in the snow, and made a little memorial for her. This job taught Quay a few important things he would definitely use in the future. Now, the two just needed to figure out a way to get off this planet..
It is difficult to focus when it is only 2-3 mm in size. Since it was sunny this morning, the light filtered naturally. I don't use extra light anyway. I know I'm a little late for the mushroom photo. Most of them were damaged and did not look good for photographs.
I saw it by chance on dry tree branches. It turned towards the sun between 2 dry brown leaves.
With more than 15,000 species in the UK, fungi make up an entire kingdom of their own. These curious beings are neither plant, nor animal, and their diversity is stupendous. Every habitat is home to a great variety of fungi, and autumn is the best time to explore this little world.
Nitrous Bonnet - Mycena leptocephala / Mycenaceae - Mushrooms of this type grow in clusters on stumps and logs - particularly those of conifers - across North America, Asia, and Europe. Nitrous bonnets smell distinctively of bleach, radish, and garlic when crushed. They are not edible, and indeed, the smell should drive most people away.
The nitrous bonnet is a woodland mushroom. It is a terrestrial species, but it actually grows on fallen branches, twigs, needles, or in the grass. It is often associated with moss.
I hope you'll enjoy the my images as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Thank you so much for visiting my stream, whether you comments , favorites or just have a look. I appreciate it very much, wishing the best of luck and good light.
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It is often difficult to know how well the final product will turn out when shooting HDR. Similar to how non-digital film photographers don't have the luxury of being able to look at the camera's LCD and make sure they captured the shot as they wanted, when shooting HDR, some imagination is requrired to blend the images together in your head. I think this is where there is a lot of room for improvement in the way that we shoot HDR. If the camera were able to produce a pseudo HDR image immediately after bracketing away, it would be a great advantage for photographers, although I would never suggest it would fill as big a void as the introduction of the LCD in the first place. Beacause of HDR's increased popularity, you've got to think that someone is already working on this.
In the meantime, understanding the presence of a wide range of light in a scene, and being able to imagine an HDR image in your head is an important skill for us HDR photographers. Today's image is an example of a time where I just knew that the scene was well suited for HDR and that the subject of a Parisian enjoying a beautiful sunset would make for a great scene. The challenge with this shot was waiting for the right moment when this man stopped moving and keeping the camera nice and steady while handheld. I wonder if someday this man will ever see this photograph. Probably not...
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Douglas DC-3, C-47, Dakota, a flying legend.
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s/1940s and World War II. It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version of the Douglas DC-2. It is a low-wing metal monoplane with conventional landing gear, powered by two radial piston engines of 1,000–1,200 hp (750–890 kW). (Although most DC-3s flying today use Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engines, many DC-3s built for civil service originally had the Wright R-1820 Cyclone. The DC-3 has a cruise speed of 207 mph (333 km/h), a capacity of 21 to 32 passengers or 6,000 lbs (2,700 kg) of cargo, and a range of 1,500 mi (2,400 km), and can operate from short runways.
From Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
About the model:
Following my Catalina model it came natural to build my DC-3 to the same scale, 1:72.
The model is my LEGO representation of the last airworthy DC-3 / C-47 in Denmark, belonging to the non-profit association DC-3 Vennerne (Danish Dakota Friends).
It wasn't particular difficult to build, but still had a few challenges, and it follows many of the same techniques used for my other models, e.g. the wing dihedral is made in the same way as my N.A.Harvard, with a basic hinge on top of the wing-panel, and a finger hinge on the lower side, that isn't fully interlocked and prevent the outer wing-panels from ”falling” down. For the leading edge de-icer panels, the new curved 1x1 brick came in very handy. The most difficult part was getting the nose-profile right, but I'm very happy how it came out!
As always, comments and critisism are more than welcome!
Difficult to tell through the snow flurry if this photo has captured any colour at all - it has just. The morning's walk up the Lane to Brynglas provides a variety of views and this is over the river to a working farm. And I do wish the sheep would put themselves in positions I want !
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Difficult lighting and lightning fast bird movements meant that I had to shoot this one with high ISO. I don't think that this matters and actually gives the image a nice quality, what do you think?
Really difficult shooting conditions for me today. With light rain and cloudy skies my Canon 7D connected to my Canon 300mm f/4 had to work really hard to get an image without a lot of noise. Probably more operator error than blaming the camera. ISO 500, 300mm, f/8.0, 1/320 sec. Many thanks to Jerry am Ende for sharing these kits with me.
On westbound Westjet plane; unfortunately due to lack of map function in the plane, location difficult to determine
It's difficult to imagine just how much this station has changed. Taken at 9 o'clock on a hot Summers evening sees 2epb 6230 at the head of a 6 car train arriving in platform 1, which will form a service back to Swanley, and on platform 2 4epb 5432 is about to depart for Sutton. The sign says platform 5 for Holborn Viaduct, now just a memory. 18 July 1985.
Its actually a difficult to believe that this is an abandonement but it's surly is. The door was broken and it has stood like this for several years according to my source. There was a telephone catalouge from 84/85 laying on a table and a dead bird on the floor. The other rooms in this house was in much worse condition. Even if there was family photos everywhere it seems like the old person that used to live here probably died or moved to another location leaving everything behind with no one else to clean it up and take care of the place.
Swedish tour 2014 together with Juha and OlavXO. Total mileage on this trip was about 2500 km.
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The day started beautifully on Armand Bayou, but the same clouds that produced the magic in the morning also covered the sun for most of the time also, making for a difficult shooting day.
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difficult to paint on that wall , and it was so cold , anyway happy to show you the first piece in 2011
So here it is 40! Glad to get here. This is my life message. I feel Lucky and privileged to be 40. I've seen in the news and witnessed first hand those that have not. Life's dangerous and difficult. Stick with it. Dig in. Be safe. There's bad days I get it, there's mean people there's dreams that don't always become reality but there's also a lot of good and great stuff. Enjoy the little good things in life. The hug from a loved one the last cookie! When you look back there will be a lot of great things too it's just perspective as you get older you didn't see it when you were younger. Love all my friends and family. For those that believe God bless. For others best wishes going forward.
It's really difficult to shoot these festivals and anyone who thinks otherwise should really read the following:
I was assigned both Foals and The National that were playing 15 minutes apart across an extremely crowded sold out park this past wekeend at Lollapalooza. This is Grant Park, which is incredible stretched out. To make matters worse, the stage closest to Foals was the stage Ellie Goulding had just finished playing. About five minutes before Foals was supposed to start and after Ellie had just finished, the stage manager told myself and all other photographers who had been waiting in line (As per my usual, I was there early for my assignment), that the band had decided they wanted photographers to shoot the last three songs instead of the first three.) I then ran like crazy to catch The National.
Now, you hear about stampedes and people dying at music festivals. I am prone to panic attacks and claustrophobia but the kind experienced by the throngs of Ellie Goulding fans was pretty beyond tolerable. I literally felt like I stopped breathing at one point and then I had to run even faster with all of my camera gear in tow just to not miss The National.
I shot The National (Matt Berninger is always dull in the first three songs anyway and now they have a right grab photo contract and all he did was wear sunglasses and slightly open his mouth). Then, I ran like crazy the 3/4s of a mile back to Foals and worked my way through another relentless crowd.
And, do you know what this photographer was told after she ran herself ragged and thought she was going to die? She was told that the band's manager had changed his mind halfway through the first song and decided photographers should shoot the beginning of the set. They wouldn't allow me in the photopit at all.
People, I am not one to give up on an assignment. When I couldn't get good pit shots of Justice last year because of that ridicous cross they sat on top of, I embedded myself in the crowd and got beer spilled down my back. I have been pushed and elbowed. I have been jeered at while running with all of the hopes of my knees not giving out "Get out of the way of the female photographer. She has to get her shot right now" said one sarcastic adolescent male on my way back to Foals.
But, I always get my shot. The festival organizers are actually incredibly nice to me but bands should really start making up their minds, though. That would be pretty helpful to a girl like me.
Official Foals website: www.foals.co.uk/
I sent Pitchfork both this shot and another shot. Here's a link to the shot they used and posted:
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