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Wasn't expecting to see this on my way to Work today, and this vehicle had been on SouthEastern Trains Emergency Rail Replacement Standby, due to a 3rd Rail Power Supply Failure between Dover and Canterbury East this morning, according to a notice at the station, and a thank you to this vehicle's driver for the friendly wave.
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Not the decoration I expected to find in the Christmas Tree - Before I decorated the tree, I like to let it settle indoors, I heard a buzzing and then this lovely wasp flew out of it, I guess I had disturbed it's slumber bringing it in from the cold! ;0)
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Ornella Dress @ The Belleza Event
HUD controls textures, transparency and shine.
Rigged for Petitex, Larax, Lega, Perky, Bombshell, Reborn, Waifu, Genx Classic.
Shoes by Madame Noir @ The Mainstore
ANIMOSITY POSES
Out at the Saturday Sale Extravaganza Party
Animosity - The Neon Box (F-214)
Pose comes pack 10 female poses with mirrors and curvy options. Neon box with poses loaded inside and stool prop is included. The box comes in 3 versions PBR glass, Pbr glass with probe and then non-pbr. Invisible light prims are attached to the box but can easily be turned off by editing linked parts. Copy Modify No transfer.
Model Rachele Ignoia
Yeah. You just don’t expect a Japanese tea house (and garden) on top of a mountain in Huntsville, Alabama do you? Yet, here is is. In Monte Sano State Park.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
18mm
F16@1/4th
ISO 400
Polarizer
White Balance on Flash
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While out scoping out a night shot just happened to catch CREX 1214 leading a eastbound oil can at
Steward, IL.5-10-14
If you follow me at all, you will note that there are two types of landscapes that fascinate me: mountains and desert. For some reason, they make me relax and I just seep in all that nature has to offer. One of the great desert destinations that I enjoy is Sedona. It is a beautiful place with the requisite sandstone rock formations. On my last visit there, my wife and I were traveling with great friends. I am the only photographer in the group, and my only real photography time is at sunrise. I usually head out before dawn and shoot until it is time to meet them for breakfast. On this occasion, I asked my wife if she wanted to come, not expecting her to say yes (she never has before). She shocked me by saying yes. We headed out before 5:30am, and I drove to this location overlooking the town. I got out of the car and set up. I don't think she got out of the car more than once, and it was for a short time. Needless to say, it was the last time she said that she would go with me for a shoot.
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From "The Peanuts Movie", Craig and Bryan Schulz, Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Animation, 2015. Screen capture, 2016, adapted. It is a wonderful movie. Check it out if you haven't already. No rights assumed.
A long time ago… in galaxies far far away, the first stars were born in the early universe. But when and how? That’s a mystery Webb is one step closer to solving.
Using Webb, researchers have found two early galaxies that are unusually bright, one of which could contain the most distant starlight ever seen. The galaxies are thought to have existed 350 and 450 million years after the big bang (respectively, from top to bottom). Unlike our Milky Way, these first galaxies are small and compact, with spherical or disk shapes rather than grand spirals.
Webb’s new findings suggest that the galaxies would have had to begin coming together about 100 million years after the big bang — meaning that the first stars might have started forming in such galaxies around that time, much earlier than expected.
Follow-up observations with Webb’s spectrographs will confirm the distances of these primordial galaxies and help us learn more about the earliest stars. More: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-draws-back-...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
[Image description: Graphic titled “Abell 2744 GLASS; JWST / NIRCam,” with two large square images, one on the left and one on the right, and two smaller images in between, one stacked above the other. The small images are zoom-ins that show details in the large images. The large image on the left shows galaxies of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and several bright foreground stars with Webb’s characteristic diffraction pattern. On the left side of this image is a box around a galaxy, labeled “1”, which zooms in to a red galaxy shown in the top small center pullout image. Image 1 is labeled “z ~ 10.5” to indicate that the galaxy’s redshift is about 10.5. The image on the right also shows galaxies of different colors, shapes, and sizes, but without any prominent diffraction spikes seen in the left image. It includes a box on the left side, labeled “2”, which zooms into a red galaxy, shown in the bottom center image. Pullout image 2 is labeled “z ~ 12.5” to show that the galaxy’s redshift is about 12.5.]
eu crio expectativas às pessoas ao meu redor e como consequência, elas vivem me decepcionando, constantemente.
alguém tem um remédio pra que eu simplesmente pare de me importar? to cansada de ficar levando na cabeça, a toa :/ (ps: incrível que é uma atrás da outra, será que não tem um descanso não?)
Never did I expect to see this flower in July because it was in September that I shot the same flower last year. This flower is called hototogisu(杜鵑) in Japanese. It is said that the pattern of the flower resemble that of hototogisu(不如帰, lesser cuckoo). I wrote in the description as follows. "It is such a fabulous flower that I got dazzled while shooting as if I had been in my dream." I felt the same way this year too.
I suggested that Camembert should have some rest after a long journey, but instead she put up an awesome juggling show "just to stretch out a little"! Did I mention how amazing this girl is?
Full custom by wonderful Charon Dolls <3 - expect more photos soon!
And I expect a lot of people would have tossed this one because I missed the focus . My hand is clumsy at the moment and I hit the shutter before I was really ready- so... blurry foreground, focussed background!! Being an odd sort of girl though, I decided I would keep this. I just like the colours and the "busy-ness " of the shot. You do NOT have to agree :-)
You always hear crazy things about California. Whether it be from the tales of the Wild West or from the tabloids of Hollywood. Nonetheless, this watermelon chilling on the beach was just what I expected when I visited California.
Santa Monica Pier. We had one night here. We photographed the pier for a little while and then headed up to see what the pier had to offer. Basically it consisted of; ice cream, rides, and screaming kids.
I was pleased with the composition of this photograph but I'm not expecting much attention because people generally don't like smaller bird images in the context of the habitat. Probably because it looks boring in thumbnail but here it is anyway. It is an American Belted Kingfisher photographed on a dead tree washed up in the Nekite Estuary in British Columbia. Growing on the tree are the epiphytic Liquorice Fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) is so named because its roots (rhizomes) taste like liquorice when chewed. They have also been used medicinally to treat colds and sore throats.
You can identify female Belted Kingfishers because they have a second (orange) breast band below the main upper band, whereas males have just the upper band, which is blue. Juveniles have the upper blue band mottled with orange so this one is a young female with the extra orange band. The darker head is also a juvenile feature. Although it looks tiny in this photograph it is a giant in comparison with the diminutive European Kingfisher, which weighs about 40g whereas the Belted Kingfisher is nearly four times heavier at 150g.
The scientific name Megaceryle alcyon has its roots in Greek mythology. Megaceryle means huge Ceryle, which was a mythical bird associated with Halcyon (or Alcyone). Alcyone was one of the seven sisters, or Pleiades (the tight clustered constellation just visible far right in my recent Canadian Skies photo here www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/37315402972/in/photolist ), and daughter of Aeolus, ruler of the four winds. Alcyone married Ceyx but they vexed the Gods by jokingly calling each other Zeus and Hera. Zeus drowned Ceyx in a storm and Alcyone threw herself into the sea in grief, but was transformed into a Kingfisher. Legend has it that Alcyone builds a nest of fish bones that floats on the sea, and her mother Aeolus (Ruler of the winds) calms the sea for 14 days around the winter solstice to allow her daughter to nest undisturbed. This is the origin of the term Halcyon Days.
Well, that went quicker than expected. I still need to add the under-wing weapons pylons, cockpit interior and stickers, but the Corsair II is almost done. Of course, I had my existing A-7E as a starting point, as well as the F-8 Crusader (for the undercarriage) as a template, which helped. However, while a few parts (including the tailfins, cockpit canopy, main undercarriage struts and the radome) were transplanted from the old model, most of the model is brand new.
I had been trackside near Railton, expecting #446 loaded coal train to Railton when I found myself confronted with the return run of empty wagons instead.
Straight into the hire car, I was blindly giving chase down unfamiliar roads with only Google Maps to guide me. I had no idea where the shots where or where I'd lose the line, so when I saw a funky looking windmill in a nearby field I pulled over and jumped out for a shot.
Thankfully a large cloud had settled over the sun a few minutes before, otherwise this would have been a total mess.
2053 and 2054 work 445 empty coal from Railton to Fingal. Shot here near Dunorlan.
Here is a close-up detail shot of the rain barrel and the corner of the 1860 log cabin at the Littleton Farm Museam showing some of the techniques used the pioneers expected to put into a home. They even had to save the runoff for kitchen water but this one might leak.
They knew they would have do survive the seasons in this log home so they built accordingly. They even This log home shows the marks of careful construction like the specially-cut end notches that allowed it to last 150 years. The settler brought a good skill set with him to the west. I did not spot a drain to collect rainwater from the roof for the barrel so maybe they just hauled water from a well and kept it handy by the door. Not a lot of running sink water in the day, Life was very deliberate for these pioneers!
Once past the museum building, we made a beeline for the 1860 section of the farm and were delighted by truly authentic early structures. I marveled at the structure of the log and mud structure of the chimney, wondering how it could hold up over the decades. Oscar the cat was on mouse patrol, earning his keep. Eddie was in a rush to get to Doudy before sunup, the bike track by 10:00 and the Littleton Farm Museum after that. The museum was a place that I never heard about before found it to be an excellent experience. We kept expecting good skies but only those shots aimed properly could take advantage of any opening in the clouds. The rest were in flat light. This was major work to dig out this angle. Lighting is everything and needed to pop up pictures. I admired the daisy sculpture outside but marveled at the farm exhibits.
This museum is free and the one place you must take the kiddies. They were concerned about Eddie's camera and didn't want us shooting indoor or commercial shots. They would only be so lucky if they had Eddie to do their shooting for them! Oh well rentless onward. This is a treasure trove of old agricultural exhibits and far better than others I've encountered. Plenty to keep the young occupied as we discovered them bouncing from exhibit to exhibit. This is outside, before we got in!
I waited and shot and waited for the skies to start clearing; they didn't. I know what you are thinking; enough skies already! Most kinds of skies are worth it. Today's barely worth it.
Expect the unexpected! I had time in the garden at Bamburgh with different lenses to try at some insect life.
Canon 1Ds Mk III + TSE90 f2.8 + 25mm focus ring - ISO 400 - 1/640th @ f8 Full forward tilt
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That's me! This, sadly, wasn't taken by me, my sister took it but I really liked it. I'm working on a stop motion, the best one I think that I've done so far :)
The shot above was an unexpected treat that I captured while photographing the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 -- Baily’s Beads!
Baily's Beads are the tiny beads of light seen in the upper left quadrant of this photo. This happens at 2nd and 3rd contact (this shot is 3rd contact - the point where the moon begins to leave the sun). The sunlight filters through the mountains and valleys of the moon, creating beads of light between lunar mountains. There is a phenomenon called the Diamond Ring effect that happens when only one bead remains.
I knew about these from my research but never really thought that I would capture them with my simple setup. But, I did.
I will be posting more images in the coming weeks as I sort through them and create the composites needed to show off the eclipse. I captured over a hundred shots from first contact to sunset and then a few more.
More later - stay tuned!
One last thing - I have been very busy lately getting ready for this series and have not been posting comments. I shall catch up, eventually - bear with me, if you can.
References:
a. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily's_beads
b. www.thousandoaksoptical.com/solar.html
c. Location: Boot Mesa: g.co/maps/8chfb, shot from Hwy 163 east of the mesa about four miles.
Process:
Nikon D200, 300mm, 1/8sec, spot metering, manual focus, ISO 400, f/11, 62T solar filter(b). Minor adjustments in Adobe Photoshop Elements: (a) cropping, (b) resample, (c) minimal level adjustments.
Observations:
1. “Expect The Unexpected” - sums up this shot quite well. I should have simply captured images every 5 seconds or so during the Second Contact and Third Contact. But, not thinking I could achieve the capture, I didn’t try.
2. Without the eclipse, the exposure using my solar filter is about 1/80th sec at f/11 at ISO 100. The drop in overall brightness due to the eclipse was, at this point in time, about 40 to 1 - about 5 1/3 stops. I kept aperture fixed at f/11 during the entire shoot. I used ISO for exposure compensation once the exposure time got near or below 1/10th second. Otherwise, using a fixed ISO would cause edge bluring as the exposure times dropped.
3. The filter is reported to have a filter ratio of 1/1000th of 1 percent. This is very high (20 stops) and, by design, brings the exposure settings from unreal levels of f/a-billion and 1/a-billion sec expsoure into the realm of reality.
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As a wildlife photographer I've learned to always expect the unexpected, my encounter with this Mountain Hare is a classic example.
Recently I've been frustrated by the constant high winds, especially in the Cairngorms, it was with great relief that on Thursday I finally managed to enjoy a free day in the mountains, it was made even better by sharing the day with my friend James Shooter.
Our target species for the day was Ptarmigan, but en-route we were very easily distracted by some wonderfully compliant Hares. This one initially lolloped off behind some boulders only to re-appear within a couple of minuets.
As the day progressed we quickly established that for some unbeknown reason to us the Ptarmigan weren't in the mood to have their photo taken, maybe the passing of a Peregrine didn't help matters!
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Believe me, the last thing I expected to see in Kyoto was a starbucks attempting to look like a traditional building. I don't have a whole lot of a story to tell on my behalf so instead let me take a moment to tell ya about this establishment. This particular starbucks was under wraps for over 10 years while the company held on to the empty machiya (an old Japanese townhouse). Because of the compact nature of it's surroundings, it took a while for them to come up with a new design that appealed to local governments. What may seem like normal designs to people like me, proved way too big to be in a place like the Ninen Zaka Path.
The final result was a 2 story building with a draped entry, a private mini garden and more traditionally Japanese seating options (sitting on the floor). Instead of selling coffee the primary item sold at this joint was ocha. And for reasons that are actually quite obvious, there are to be no lines outside the restaurant, (cause you're in a tightly spaced, busy area of Gion).
Not much was changed during the editing process. There was some natural light poking out from the right that I just didn't want to be there, but other then that, just about nothing changed. I'm sure there's a deeper meaning as to why they just had these cups on a chain link dangling from the ceiling but I never found an official answer.
In April we expected Spring but we had a return to winter! And May has just repeated April weather patterns. Our coldest May on record!
By the end of the month some warmth and even heat has crept into the mix, and as May ends with the Bank Holiday Monday we have sunshine and blue skies.
The garden is beginning to bloom, and there is a feeling of 'catching up' and 'making up for lost time'. And I feel the same! The constant cold has kept us indoors too, and now we want to catch up and see how the world around us has fared during the long 8-9 months of winter. We had a week earmarked for outings in May, but never managed to brave the cold and the rain. Maybe we can try again in June? Fingers are crossed!!
In pandemic terms the talk is all of the new Indian variant. "We'll be led by the data not by dates" was the mantra of the last few months, but it seems that the dates are ruling everything, as England looks set for a June end to restrictions. Here in Scotland we have beaten down a local flare up in our neighbouring county of Moray, but are struggling to contain the new variant in Glasgow. Maybe a summer of vacations and sun is not to be? 'On a knife edge' probably sums it up as we move into June....
Once again, thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves. I hope the collage gives an enjoyable look back through May.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
~Unknown
I am leaving for my annual winter photo trip to the North Shore. This is my favorite trip of the year. In the winter each and every time you visit, the conditions and scenery change sometimes by the hour. You never know what to expect!
See you all when I get back!
Model: Natalia Larioshina
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
As would reasonably be expected of an Inspection Shop, good daylight was important and in this view it does appear to be so. When Bus Sales arrived at the AEC site, this was the only significant size building remaining. But it was frustrating to have so many pits over which buses could be put - except that with no electricity for lighting, no amount of daylight from the glazed roof was going to help. Consequently, just simple, quick tasks could be done on the underside of a bus using a torch for light or, up to a point, headlights of a bus parked nearby. Having this building did at least provide protection against bad weather for preparing buses for sale.
On 21 March 1983 BL`s 82 and 54 are present and the tidy RM facing in is 1670 - with a silvered radiator that gives it away as a former Mortlake bus. It was being prepared for sale to a drinks company based in Harlow but would subsequently be exported to New Zealand.