Long exposure at the beach, Aberdeen, Scotland.

When the sunset doesn’t go as expected.. but still a great chance to practice some landscape

Maisy, the dog, Hannah and Cole await a new family member. She will be our 3rd granddaughter - all under 2 years.

Dear friends, here is a picture from my family series in the dearest moment of expectance - the baby waiting. Check out my blogpost with full seris.

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Okay, I like these a lot more than I first expected. They are clean, contrasty, and sharp. Sure, there's a bit of visible grain, but overall, it adds to the sharpness. The contrast is deep and rich, exactly what I expect from a cinefilm! I think the bit of overexposure and slight pull in development work perfectly, although I could have developed them at the listed nine minutes.

You can read the full review online:

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Canon EOS Elan 7 - Canon Lens EF 50mm 1:1.8 (Yellow-12) - ORWO UN54+ @ ASA-80

Blazinal 8:45 (1+50) @ 20C (Constant Rotation)

Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE

Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC

Expect some TankFest photos tomorrow.

ILFORD DELTA 3200.

Leica M2.

Carl Zeiss Planar T* 2/50

Straight negative scan

Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. On the Bluff Trail. Garrapata State Park. Santa Lucia Mountains. Coast Range. Central Coast. Big Sur Area. Monterey County, Central California. On the last day of July 2017.

Exposure Time: 1/640 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 5650 K

Really wasn't expecting to get stuck behind this in Sutton Valence near Maidstone Today!, and this ex FirstGroup Buses vehicle from down in Bristol!, is now used by W.B. Chambers Farms to transport Farm workers around Sutton Valence and Langley Heath, and is used along with many other vehicles, including many ex Stagecoach Vehicles, and acording to Google Maps Satalite Imagery many other Farm Workers Buses can be found around Five Wents, Langley, Sutton Valence, Coxheath and Mereworth, all near Maidstone in Kent.

And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw This Week!!

I twiddled by thumbs all morning. It was a blue/gray day with clouds everywhere (except to the west, behind the forest) and almost no contrast in the sky. It was too windy to work on my blue-morning project (it’s a surprise) so I just sat there.

I only knew sunrise had happened because I looked at my watch. But I sat there talking to some friends until, suddenly, God-beams started shooting out into the valley. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting that.

From the overlook at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

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ISO 400

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I was expecting to experiment this top down angle approach a while ago, but I never really took the change to do it. Few weeks ago I finally got the opportunity. Shooting exclusively in the street is always challenging, especially when we are looking to bring something totally different from what we are use to create (I'm not talking about subject). I was lucky to find a bridge with a kind of geometric ground then I just needed to wait people to come into my frame.

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I expect that most visitors begin their day on the BM&LP much like I did, sitting in the truck along highway 98 waiting for when and if the train runs. When there was no action for hours I admit leaving the shot to peak into the power plant for any hint of activity and even going back to the motel to recover the drinks I forgot in the fridge. Fortunately that didn’t kill the day like it often does. They started unloading the night train just after 9:00 and were ready to leave just after 10:00. Of course 10:00 on Arizona time in May is getting to be pretty high sun but at least they ran. The reason for the railroad is the Navajo Generating Station in the background. Along with the need to supply power to growing populations in Arizona, Nevada, and California, a major factor in building the plant in 1970 was the power requirements to pump water from the Colorado River to Central Arizona. The current operators own other alternate fuel plants and have decided not to renew the lease at the end of 2019. For now no other operators are stepping forward. The Navajo Nation voted against taking over operation. The power plant and railroad are likely to close. In case things don’t change I made a one day effort to get a look after a Phoenix business trip and was rewarded with a slow start but then a full day of juice chasing. Can’t remember ever doing that before and likely won’t again, at least in North America. May 4, 2019 just outside Page Az. Thanks to FIREMAN424 and steve55126 for background on this operation that gave me enough confidence to give the trip a chance.

Minolta XD-s, MC Rokkor-PG 58/1.2, Kodak Vision 3 250D.

It's a bit of a birders' bird and it looks rather uninteresting in thumbnail, so I'm not expecting much attention. But while out for a walk in a wood on the edge of the Peak District yesterday afternoon I found this Nightjar resting in a tree. It was such an unusual find of this nocturnal bird in broad daylight that I had to post it. They sit motionless during the day, near-impossible to find but after sunset they become active, making some wonderful calls and bouncing around the sky with great acrobatic agility. They eat insects which they catch on the wing by flying round with their enormous mouths open, like a Swift (Apus apus). They return from Africa in mid May and disappear in September after one or two broods of chicks. They are also scarce and extremely patchily distributed in Britain, but with their greatest populations on the dry heathlands of southern England. This is a male as you can see white patches on his tail below the branch. If you look carefully you can see the rictal bristles around the bill gape which increase the catching area for insects. I found him in a wood on the edge of the Peak District.

The scientific name Caprimulgus translates as goat-milker from the ancient belief (dating back before Aristotle) that Nightjars fed from goat udders, which caused them to stop producing milk, and eventually to go blind. This seems to be based on the simple observation that they have large mouths that might be capable of clamping on a goat's udder, but the large mouth is really to catch insects with. Because milk is a mammalian product, birds have never evolved the enzyme lactase that enables them to digest milk. It was fat that the Blue Tits used to steal off the top of the milk, and they stopped feeding from milk bottles once our tastes changed to low-fat semi-skimmed milk.

Space Science image of the week:

Maybe you’re reading this caption while drinking a coffee. As you stir your drink with a spoon, vortices are produced in the liquid that decay into smaller eddies until they disappear entirely. This can be described as a cascade of vortices from large to small scales. Furthermore, the motion of the spoon brings the hot liquid into contact with the cooler air and so the heat from the coffee can escape more efficiently into the atmosphere, cooling it down.

A similar effect occurs in space, in the electrically charged atomic particles – solar wind plasma – blown out by our Sun, but with one key difference: in space there is no air. Although the energy injected into the solar wind by the Sun is transferred to smaller scales in turbulent cascades, just like in your coffee, the temperature in the plasma is seen to increase because there is no cool air to stop it.

How exactly the solar wind plasma is heated is a hot topic in space physics, because it is hotter than expected for an expanding gas and almost no collisions are present. Scientists have suggested that the cause of this heating may be hidden in the turbulent character of the solar wind plasma.

Advanced supercomputer simulations are helping to understand these complex motions: the image shown here is from one such simulation. It represents the distribution of the current density in the turbulent solar wind plasma, where localised filaments and vortices have appeared as a consequence of the turbulent energy cascade. The blue and yellow colours show the most intense currents (blue for negative and yellow for positive values).

These coherent structures are not static, but evolve in time and interact with each other. Moreover, between the islands, the current becomes very intense, creating high magnetic stress regions and sometimes a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. That is, when magnetic field lines of opposite direction get close together they can suddenly realign into new configurations, releasing vast amounts of energy that can cause localised heating.

Such events are observed in space, for example by ESA’s Cluster quartet of satellites in Earth orbit, in the solar wind. Cluster also found evidence for turbulent eddies down to a few tens of kilometres as the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.

This cascade of energy may contribute to the overall heating of the solar wind, a topic that ESA’s future Solar Orbiter mission will also try to address.

In the meantime, enjoy studying turbulent cascades of vortices in your coffee!

More information: Perrone et al. (2013) ; Servidio et al. (2015) and Valentini et al. (2016).

Credit: D. Perrone et al

“There you stood on the edge of your feather” - Day 5, Photo 1 is something shot about an hour ago at a Content magazine party, and all I can think of is a song Neil Young wrote with the Buffalo Springfield a very long time ago...

Not quite what is normally expected to pass through the Great Central Railway's popular Kinchley Lane location, but certainly something different. Class 769 No. 769434, previously Class 319 No. 319434, is on test from the nearby Brush Traction works following conversion to a bi-mode unit. It now has a diesel engine positioned beneath the floor of each driving trailer. The unit was engaged in a press preview on 5th November 2018. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved

I do perform all the tasks that you would expect from such a slutty bitch.

I was expecting this to be a 1600 or 2-litre, but I'd forgotten about the different engine sizes Capris had outside of the UK.

More photos to come from this garage - they appear to specialise in Italian cars but had a number of other older things around the place.....

I took this photo of a mill building reflecting in a traffic mirror at an intersection as we waiting for the light to change. I was really surprised how clear the reflection of the mill came out. Overall I was pleased with the shot. It was a quick for fun shot I never expected to work out.... but it did. HAPPY!

I have to admit that life aboard Leon's Claw is a lot harder and with more responsibility than I expected... but I love it! Every day I have to make rounds throughout the entire ship and inspect everything and make sure it's all in working order. If one little thing is out of place or whistling wrong or smoking when it shouldn't, it can affect the entire ship and the lives of everyone on board.

Aside from my responsibility inspecting the ship, I also help Damien when he needs it. To be honest he doesn't need that much help. He's very handy and strong! I watched him lift three heavy crates all on his own during our first stop after my joining the crew! They weren't little crates either! I'm pretty sure Damien was amused by my awe ‘cause he kept smirking when I stared and said, "Whoa!"

Having Damien as a bunkmate wasn't all too bad but it took some getting used to. I'd never shared a room, so to speak, with another person. My hammock is directly above Damien's and privacy is a rare treat. I have to use a crate to climb up and let me tell you it is NOT an easy thing to do; especially when you are sore and tired. In fact, I nearly fell several times trying to get in the first time and Damien just stood there looking so fucking amused and told me that if I fell on him while he was sleeping that he'd kill me and make it look like an accident. We both laughed it off but at the same time I don't ever want to find out how serious he is or not.

Before I knew it, it had been nearly three weeks since I'd left home! It took some adjustment but soon I was getting used to my new life. I was an airship engineer! No, it wasn't on one of those big airships I'd dreamed of but this could one day lead to that! I wrote to Papa twice and told him all about the ship and my crew mates and what life was like for me now. Though if I am to be honest, I was starting to feel homesick. I could send Papa letters but would I ever be able to receive any back? Surely there had to be a schedule of planned stops. It meant Papa could send letters ahead for me! I knew the captain would know of them but I didn't want him to think I was regretting my choice to do this.

To be honest, I hadn't seen much of the captain in the past few weeks. When I did see him, he was often busy mapping things out and writing letters and going over ledgers while sipping on a cup of tea. He wasn't hard to find on a small ship but our paths just didn't cross too often.

It was mid afternoon and I'd finished inspecting pipes beneath the mast* when I figured now would be a good time as any to speak with the captain. He usually takes his afternoon tea around this time so I made my way down below deck to the small kitchen area. Sure enough, there he was! Captain Vincent was just finishing up brewing what appeared to be one of his favorites: Earl Grey.

I inhaled deeply and smiled slightly. "Mm, smells good." I watched as the captain glanced over and gave a small, "Mhm." His gaze looked down at his teacup, lifting it gingerly to his nose before taking a deep inhale and sighing contently. He seemed to be in a good mood so I decided to take my chance before he departed. "Sir, I wanted to ask you something." He'd just started to turn when I watched him pause and glance back at me expectantly. "What is it?"

Licking my lips, I explained, "I was wanting to ask if it would be possible to find out ahead of time some of the ports we'll be at. I wanted to let my father know so maybe he could send me letters." I watched as the captain quirked his brow and for a moment, I felt like he could see deep within me, that longing and yearning for home. I was so sure the captain was going to belittle me when instead, he gave a small sigh, then replied, "Come with me." Relief filled me and I began to follow him along towards his quarters. "Thank you!" "You're welcome."

A moment later, he opened the door and let me in before following in after me. "Things don't always go according to plan but we do have a schedule for some of the major stops we'll be taking a few months out," he explained, reaching for a notebook calendar on one of his shelves. He set his teacup down and began to thumb through the notebook until he found what he was looking for. "We'll be stopping in Arturstown in one week. After that..."

And the captain began to show me on his calendar some of the big stops we'd be making and when they were planned. He was stoic, factual in his explanations as always. I took mental notes of where and when some of them were. Fantastic!

"Thank you again, Captain!"

"You're welcome."

I watched him settle in on his chair to finally enjoy his tea. As I turned to leave, something caught my eye. It was a chess set! A very nicely made one, at that. I recognized the brand! My father had a chess set from the same maker! The memories of playing chess with my father made me smile softly. "Can I help you with anything else?" I heard the captain ask behind me. "Oh, no. Sorry, Sir. I was just admiring the box of your chess set. My father has one from the same maker." "Ah, I see." I glanced back at him as he lifted his tea to his lips and began to sip quietly from it. He looked so content just sitting there like that. I gave a small chuckle and a small jerk of my head. "Fancy a game, Captain?" I could tell I surprised him with the offer because he looked up at me and quirked his left brow.

"Are you serious?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

The captain stared at me for a long moment. "So you know how to play?" "Of course I do." I replied, grinning. Then I added quickly with politeness, "Sir." Perhaps he'd thought someone like me wouldn't know how to play something like that. To be fair, most people of my station live their whole lives working and not having hobbies outside of that. I watched him glance towards the box and I realized that he was actually considering it! Pushing just a touch more, I teased, "Come on. I'll even go easy on you."

The captain gave a snort; an actual snort. Then he responded, "Go easy on me? Kid, I don't think you know who I am."

"Don't tell me. Show me."

"Fine. On your King's head, then."

Standing, the captain motioned for me to move and then reached up for the box, tea secured in his other hand. I thought for a split second I saw a small smirk at the corner of his lips but maybe it was just a trick of the light. We walked across to the cargo hold that also doubled as the living quarters for Damien and me. It didn't take us long to get set up. Sitting on a barrel opposite the captain, I grinned a little. "Your move, Captain."

It became clear within a few minutes that I was not playing against an amateur. Then about fifteen minutes into the game, the captain revealed just how good he was. I was good. I was not THAT good! He seemed to be several steps ahead with an answer to everything I could think of!

"Checkmate."

"How?!" I exclaimed, eyes widened and fighting back incredulous laughter as he checkmated me. I stared, going over all the pieces. Yeah, he...he got me good! I folded my arms over my chest, jaw dropped and just dumbfounded! By chance, right then, I glanced up and suddenly...I felt the wind knocked slightly out of me.

I'm not sure what it was about that one moment, but for a second the way the sunlight filtered through the ceiling and fell upon the captain, it took my breath away. His eye was staring right at me, the sunlight making his sea colored eye look so vibrant and lovely like the shallows in a lagoon. I'd never seen a man look so handsome and beautiful at the same time. His full lips curved ever so slightly into that tiny smirk I thought I'd seen earlier, and he looked so content to be sitting there with his tea and having kicked my ass in the quickest chess game I'd ever played. "Hm." His lips smirked just a touch more as he lifted his tea to his lips and slowly drained the rest of it. Before I could make any sense of what just happened...

BOOM!

"What was that?!" the captain exclaimed, looking around in shock. God, I felt as if my heart jumped into my stomach! And suddenly, the whole ship lurched and the chess set was flying along with several crates nearby! I scrambled to steady myself and stared in horror at the captain who gazed back at me while clutching a barrel. There was a horrible cranking sound that was very obviously slowing down as we heard Damien's scream rise above all of it through the ceiling window. "VINCENT!!! AIDEN!!!! YOU BETTER GET UP HERE QUICK!!!"

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Vocabulary:

*Mast: a tall, upright post on a ship that carries the sails

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***Please note this is a BOY LOVE (BL/yaoi/gay) series. It is a slow burn and rated PG13!***

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Special thank you to the smexy husbando of a man: Vin Aydin Raven-Mysterious for collaborating with me on this series and co-starring as The Captain!

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A beautiful pregnancy photo I did for Araumi in her mermaid form.

better/melhor: View On Black___this is not a collage, I positioned her this way to get the rays of light coming out of clouds.

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'Expect the unexpected' is what I have learned from three of years of landscape photography, especially on Dartmoor where the weather can be so unpredictable. Today there was no obvious sign of what was about to happen and I almost wondered if I’d sacrificed my sleep yet again. However, I had my suspicions that the early sun would provide some light and colour but perhaps not quite as impressive as this. Thank you for taking a look. Mk

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Fallas de Valencia 2015

My friend Jara is expecting a little baby girl in 2 weeks.

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I posted a shot a few days ago of The Deep an aquarium on the banks of the River Humber in Hull. I was not expecting to post another so soon but this shot is rather different. I went to The Deep last night to watch a light and sound instillation that was projected onto the side of the building.

The work was called Floe it was designed by two British artists Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer. Floe ‘virtually’ transformed and remodelled the architecture and facade of The Deep. The performance lasted about 15 minutes and the sound of ice cracking and waves breaking was incredible. Floe showed the geological forces and biological processes, which originally inspired the appearance of The Deep. It also reflected a sense of the rich aquatic life contained within the building.

The work is only going to be displayed for the next two nights. If you live anywhere near the city it well worth braving the cold to see it

As the display was constantly changing I took quite a few shots of the show another image is available to look at at the top of the comments

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At Legion of honor.

While walking to class this morning I glanced up the street to see Via 70 arriving at Brantford with P42 907 on the point.

I wandered a couple blocks past campus to snap a few shots on my cell phone, no hell but not bad either!

Photo taken at the MuCEM, in Marseille, France.

The weather forecast.

A tongue-twister.

Sydney expects a much hotter year in '23 after three 'La Nina' years. Earlier this week hazard reduction burns aimed to reduce 'fuel' loads in the outskirts. Unfortunately, a high pressure cell around the city meant the smoke hasn't cleared, although no burns today. Air quality is worse than New Dehli and Beijing!

Sydney marathon on this weekend will start a bit later than usual at 7.10am. Temperatures of 30 degrees expected this weekend, two weeks out of winter...

In January 2009 (one year ago), UN proclaimed that Kenya's drought and food shortages were expected to last until March 2010, seven months longer than previously projected.

Unhopefully, they were right.... and it is hitting the economy of the country, since the death of a large number of animals posed a risk to the country's tourism industry that is famed for its wildlife.

The most affected parks and reserves were the Amboseli National Park and Tsavo National Park that recorded the highest number of collected animal carcasses. It is estimated that the parks lost 40 per cent of animals.

But besides the animals, human lifes are in risk also. With no cattle, no harvest, no food, surviving is very hard.

And it is not just a problem for Kenya. Aid agencies estimate more than 23 million people will need food aid in the Horn of Africa region. It is becoming evident the inability of most African countries to address climate change impacts, a climate change they have created.

At the surroundings of a Maasai village, in Amboseli. Tanzanian border.

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En enero de 2009 (hace un año), las Naciones Unidas comunicaron que la sequía en Kenia se esperaba que durase hasta marzo de 2010, siete meses más de lo esperado inicialmente.

Desafortunadamente, estaban en lo cierto .... y está afectando a la economía del

país severamente, ya que la muerte de un gran número de animales salvajes plantea un gran riesgo para la industria del turismo de un país que es famoso por su fauna.

Los parques y las reservas más afectados están siendo el Parque Nacional de Amboseli y el Parque Nacional de Tsavo, que han registrado el mayor número muertes de animales. Se estima que estos parques han perdido el 40 de su fauna.

Pero además de los animales, están en riesgo numerosas vidas humanas. Sin ganado, sin cosecha que recoger, sin comida, es muy difícil sobrevivir.

Y no es sólo un problema de Kenya. Las ONGs estiman que más de 23 millones de personas necesitarán ayuda alimentaria en la región del Cuerno de África. Está quedando patente la incapacidad de gran parte de paises de África para hacer frente a los efectos del cambio climático, un cambio climático que ellos no han creado.

En los alrededores de un poblado Masai, en Amboseli. Frontera con Tanzania.

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Expecting a fine day with clear skies, I got up early to set up a long exposure star trails photograph. Ten steps out the front door of our apartment block, I looked up, only to see almost complete cloud cover. Oh well, I'm up now so I may as well head down to the lake and see what photographic possibilities present themselves.

The NightCap Pro camera replacement app on my Phone 6s Plus has become my favorite app for taking long exposure photographs over the past few months, supplanting Slow Shutter Cam. This image was the product of using NightCap Pro in "Long Exposure" mode to stack (i.e., average) the many individual frames that were acquired with an exposure length of 1/3 seconds over a total period of 93.93 seconds. This stacking process had 3 obvious benefits when I look at this image - (1) to dramatically reduce the level of high ISO (i.e., an ISO of 5000) random speckle noise, (2) to give the water surface a satin smooth appearance, and (3) to produce a lovely sense of movement for the clouds.

I felt a deep sense of satisfaction to have overcome my initial disappointment at seeing clouds in the sky, for still heading outside, and for coming back with a shot that actually benefitted from the overcast conditions!

Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

iPhone 6s Plus - Photograph taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s Plus.

NightCap Pro - This camera replacement app was used in Light Trails mode, with a total exposure length of 93.93 seconds, a manual white balance of 3400K, an aperture of f2.2, a frame exposure length of 1/3 seconds, and an ISO of 5000. The output image had 4032 x 3024 pixels (12MP).

Snapseed - Cropped the image to 16:9 (panoramic) aspect ratio. Output an image with 4032 x 2268 pixels.

Photoshop Express - Applied the Sharpen filter.

ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from the original photograph to the final image.

Just won an eBay dress for £0.99. Woo Hoo! That's 2 new things to try soon. A top and a dress. And another dress. No....! 3... it's 3 new things. A top and a dress and a flirty dress... and another dress. 4! 4 new things. A top, a dress, a flirty dress and a sparkly dress. And another top..... I'll come in again.