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De nuevo Atxabiribil, Sopelana (Bizkaia), en esa tarde de nubes grises potentes, viendo otro angulo de los posibles. Utilice un filtro ND 1.2 de Tiffen y un degradado 0.9 de Lee para dar ese aire de "fin del mundo" en el cielo. Con Photoshop aumente contraste y toque los niveles un pelin ya que estaba bastante bien de luz para mi gusto. Aumento de nitidez y filtro ruido para el cielo.
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 66422 is seen on the rear of the 6Z68 1330 Long Marston to the Mid-Norfolk Railway, with Transpennine Express 68026 'Enterprise' leading.
DRS' 88010 'Aurora' and 68004 'Rapid' pass the along the sea wall at Saltcoats with 6M23 from Hunterston to Sellafield. This service is used to move nuclear material from the Hunterston nuclear power stations to Sellafield for processing.
Hunterston in North Ayrshire is home to 2 nuclear power stations - Hunterston A and Hunterston B.
Hunterston A operated between 1964 and 1990 and is in the process of being decommissioned by NDA licensee Magnox Ltd. The decommissioning process is planned to end in 2072 at which point the buildings will be demolished and site cleared.
Hunterston B - operated by EDF Energy - is still active having started operations in 1976. The station has managed to remain operational for longer than initially expected (decommissioning was due to start in 2011), but operations will cease within the next few months with the decommissioning process planned to start no later than the 7th of January 2022.
Within the last decade Hunterston B has gained media attention after it was discovered that the number of fractures in the reactors exceeded the operational limit specified in the safety case. The reactors were shut down while investigations were carried out and a revised safety case submitted to the regulator. Each of the 2 reactors were subsequently restarted in August 2020 and September 2020 respectively.
Direct Rail Services Class 68 locomotives 68006 "Pride of the North" and 68008 "Avenger"
4S44 Daventry International Railfreight Terminal to Mossend Down Yard
Rugeley Trent Valley, Staffordshire
Direct Rail Services 66422 “Max Joule 1958 - 1999” heads the daily departmental tripper 6K05 12:31 Carlisle North Yard - Crewe Basford Hall along the picturesque Settle & Carlisle railway, seen between Selside and Horton in Ribblesdale, with a near uniform consist of Network Rail FEA wagons loaded with concrete sleepers.
January 2025.
When following this Heron, all manner of beasties showed up. I was trained on him, but saw some ducks fly into the area. They quickly landed and began to swim into my frame. Just as quickly, adjustments were made on the camera, then the lens, and a different story took fold.
The congestion was mounting, Geese, Heron, and Seals were now all present. Each going about their own business and for a moment, the ocean seamed crowded. However, all stayed in their lanes as traffic tends to do. And, the Heron stood like an intersection Officer from decades ago, directing traffic.
La voiture de mesure de l'état des rails par ultra - son V3 arrive aux Laumes depuis Périgueux après avoir transitée par Villeneuve Saint Georges. La marche 813461 approche de son terminus avec le 69309 en tête! La voiture va passer quelques semaines à L'EIV pour le câblage du chariot de mesure qui avait déraillé quelques mois plus tôt. Après cela, elle partira en calibration à Mezidon avant de repartir en tourné.
Mardi 8 février 2022, étant de passage à Roanne, petit détour sur la Loire afin d’immortaliser quelques trains. Le dernier train surpris en ce beau jour hivernal est le train Sibelin St Germain des Fossés 75018. Il est composé en ce jour là d’une habituelle UM de 75400 et de tombereaux qui seront chargés de Feldspath chez Imerys à Lavaufranche et iront ensuite à Modene en Italie.
I learned something new. This is a direct transfer from an inkjet print on copy paper, transferred to artboard with soft gel gloss.
“Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.”
Robert Delaunay
Have a terrific Sunday!!
Alors que le soleil commence à décliner, silencieusement ils passèrent au dessus de moi. Juste le temps de déclencher et les voilà évaporés...
Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide organisms vision, the ability to process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons. - Some eye have the power to stop time.
Barn Owl, Norfolk.
I was treated recently to some close up shots of this barn owl on various posts.
Pulling up in the portable Pug 308 hide, with its rattling diesel engine, this bird not only tolerated my arrival but stayed around for the next 45-50 minutes.
The light was tricky by this time with bright sunshine making it difficult with the exposure, especially when she was looking towards me as one side of her face was in complete shadow and the other in the direct sun. Hopefully I have done enough to rectify both post edit.
Couldn’t help but take this photo (looking over a rock between us). Great Blue Heron just sitting at the edge of the bay.
Venice Beach, Venice, Los Angeles (California, USA). Martedì, 5 aprile 2016.
I was walking around the beach at sunset with my Polaroid, looking for a nice scene with the ocean, the sun going down... but nothing stood out.
While I was going back to where I came from, I met this group of guys playing football. One of them looked at the Polaroid and started doing that face "Oh, cool camera! Take us a picture!". I just replied: "If you'd just were playing by the ocean...".
This shot is the direct result of his answer: "Well, let's do it!".
Thanks again Sean, Joshua, Dante and Melik!
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- Polaroid ColorPack IV
- Fujifilm FP-100C
- Scanner Epson PerfectionV500
At the end of the opening credits of Roman Holiday, when it says Produced & Directed by William Wyler, it was shot at a similar angle as this at Piazza del Popolo.
Nikon F4. Nikkor 50mm F1.2 lens. Lomography Berlin Kino 400 35mm B&W film.
ma voisine Aymée a fait tailler ses agaves parce qu'elles devenaient trop grosses, c'est ce qu'il en reste en partie.
Sinon la branche verte pointée en direction du ciel c'est une fleur d'agave relativement rare.
Samedi 7 février 2022, le soleil est présent en cette belle journée hivernale et un tour en Savoie pour les pointes d’hivers est effectué. C’est à la fin de la journée peut avant Landry que le Thalys 9986 Bourg St Maurice - Bruxelles passent sous nos objectifs, dans un sublimes décors alpins. Il est assuré en ce jour par les rames PBA 4535 et la rame PBKA 4332, elles sont misent en boîte quelques minutes après avoir quitté Bourg St Maurice.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
EF600mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x III
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 cm (8 in) long and has glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts and other gregarious situations, with an unmusical but varied song. Its gift for mimicry has been noted in literature including the Mabinogion and the works of Pliny the Elder and William Shakespeare.
The common starling has about a dozen subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and western Asia, and it has been introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa and Fiji. This bird is resident in southern and western Europe and southwestern Asia, while northeastern populations migrate south and west in winter within the breeding range and also further south to Iberia and North Africa. The common starling builds an untidy nest in a natural or artificial cavity in which four or five glossy, pale blue eggs are laid. These take two weeks to hatch and the young remain in the nest for another three weeks. There are normally one or two breeding attempts each year. This species is omnivorous, taking a wide range of invertebrates, as well as seeds and fruit. It is hunted by various mammals and birds of prey, and is host to a range of external and internal parasites.
Large flocks typical of this species can be beneficial to agriculture by controlling invertebrate pests; however, starlings can also be pests themselves when they feed on fruit and sprouting crops. Common starlings may also be a nuisance through the noise and mess caused by their large urban roosts. Introduced populations in particular have been subjected to a range of controls, including culling, but these have had limited success except in preventing the colonisation of Western Australia. The species has declined in numbers in parts of northern and western Europe since the 1980s due to fewer grassland invertebrates being available as food for growing chicks. Despite this, its huge global population is not thought to be declining significantly, so the common starling is classified as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The common starling is 19–23 cm (7.5–9.1 in) long, with a wingspan of 31–44 cm (12–17 in) and a weight of 58–101 g (2.0–3.6 oz). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 11.8 to 13.8 cm (4.6 to 5.4 in), the tail is 5.8 to 6.8 cm (2.3 to 2.7 in), the culmen is 2.5 to 3.2 cm (0.98 to 1.26 in) and the tarsus is 2.7 to 3.2 cm The plumage is iridescent black, glossed purple or green, and spangled with white, especially in winter. The underparts of adult male common starlings are less spotted than those of adult females at a given time of year. The throat feathers of males are long and loose and are used in display while those of females are smaller and more pointed. The legs are stout and pinkish- or greyish-red. The bill is narrow and conical with a sharp tip; in the winter it is brownish-black but in summer, females have lemon yellow beaks while males have yellow bills with blue-grey bases. Moulting occurs once a year- in late summer after the breeding season has finished; the fresh feathers are prominently tipped white (breast feathers) or buff (wing and back feathers), which gives the bird a speckled appearance. The reduction in the spotting in the breeding season is achieved through the white feather tips largely wearing off. Juveniles are grey-brown and by their first winter resemble adults though often retaining some brown juvenile feathering, especially on the head. They can usually be sexed by the colour of the irises, rich brown in males, mouse-brown or grey in females. Estimating the contrast between an iris and the central always-dark pupil is 97% accurate in determining sex, rising to 98% if the length of the throat feathers is also considered. The common starling is mid-sized by both starling standards and passerine standards. It is readily distinguished from other mid-sized passerines, such as thrushes, icterids or small corvids, by its relatively short tail, sharp, blade-like bill, round-bellied shape and strong, sizeable (and rufous-coloured) legs. In flight, its strongly pointed wings and dark colouration are distinctive, while on the ground its strange, somewhat waddling gait is also characteristic. The colouring and build usually distinguish this bird from other starlings, although the closely related spotless starling may be physically distinguished by the lack of iridescent spots in adult breeding plumage.
Like most terrestrial starlings the common starling moves by walking or running, rather than hopping. Their flight is quite strong and direct; their triangular-shaped wings beat very rapidly, and periodically the birds glide for a short way without losing much height before resuming powered flight. When in a flock, the birds take off almost simultaneously, wheel and turn in unison, form a compact mass or trail off into a wispy stream, bunch up again and land in a coordinated fashion. Common starling on migration can fly at 60–80 km/h (37–50 mph) and cover up to 1,000–1,500 km (620–930 mi).
Several terrestrial starlings, including those in the genus Sturnus, have adaptations of the skull and muscles that help with feeding by probing. This adaptation is most strongly developed in the common starling (along with the spotless and white-cheeked starlings), where the protractor muscles responsible for opening the jaw are enlarged and the skull is narrow, allowing the eye to be moved forward to peer down the length of the bill. This technique involves inserting the bill into the ground and opening it as a way of searching for hidden food items. Common starlings have the physical traits that enable them to use this feeding technique, which has undoubtedly helped the species spread far and wide.
In Iberia, the western Mediterranean and northwest Africa, the common starling may be confused with the closely related spotless starling, the plumage of which, as its name implies, has a more uniform colour. At close range it can be seen that the latter has longer throat feathers, a fact particularly noticeable when it sings.
The common starling is a noisy bird. Its song consists of a wide variety of both melodic and mechanical-sounding noises as part of a ritual succession of sounds. The male is the main songster and engages in bouts of song lasting for a minute or more. Each of these typically includes four varieties of song type, which follow each other in a regular order without pause. The bout starts with a series of pure-tone whistles and these are followed by the main part of the song, a number of variable sequences that often incorporate snatches of song mimicked from other species of bird and various naturally occurring or man-made noises. The structure and simplicity of the sound mimicked is of greater importance than the frequency with which it occurs. Each sound clip is repeated several times before the bird moves on to the next. After this variable section comes a number of types of repeated clicks followed by a final burst of high-frequency song, again formed of several types. Each bird has its own repertoire with more proficient birds having a range of up to 35 variable song types and as many as 14 types of clicks.
The late 1980s threw up another of BRs quirky class 50 diagrams. For a while there was a scheduled Hoover working over the Portsmouth Direct line, 1P15, the 09:25 Waterloo - Portsmouth Harbour. From there the diagram took it on as 1V12 12:03 Portsmouth Harbour - Paignton
Although loco hauled services of any description were few and far between on the Portsmouth Direct line, few photos seem to come to light of this interesting working
50 039 Implacable is seen at Petersfield with 1P15
Prime Minister David Cameron has travelled to Brighton where he spoke to local residents about how the Government can reduce the deficit and cut spending in a way that is fair and responsible.