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Well I was not expecting to see this little fellow at the Highland Wildlife Park it was just so special for me. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw a red squirrel for myself. The Highland Wildlife Park do have feeder boxes out for the squirrels they do feed them hazelnuts but the squirrels also forage for buds, fungi, insects and berries. This wee one sat for what seemed a while and I enjoyed watching it. This was an extremely good start to my outing to the park.
In this first part of a "vintage" sequence, Batman has tracked down a supernatural menace plaguing the night hours of Gotham City.
The vampire, shrewd with centuries of experience, is expecting the Caped Crusader, and has summoned a venomous pet to address the new masked mystery man of Gotham.
Batman, although still a novice crime fighter, knows his best chance is not in dealing with the dangerous arachnid, but in dispatching its master.
I put this one together hoping to get some good use out of the classic 8" Mego-style figures. This makes two nights in a row of the Batman, but with much different takes on it.
I got one!!!!!!!!!! And in my own yard of all places!!!!! Lately, several friends have been showing off their hummingbird moth photos and making me very jealous. I havent seen one of these in a few decades, much less since i got proper camera gear. Well today while looking for butterflies again, I went to try and chase a goldfinch that was feeding on my zinnia patch. It flew off quickly like usual, but I kept watch incase the hummingbirds came by. I noticed what I thought was a bee at first flying around but was off colored. Expecting to find a Golden Northern Bumblebee, I went to investigate and it was a clear wing moth!! I was so excited to finally see one, in my yard, AND with a camera in hand that I kept getting too close, to where the camera couldnt focus. When reviewing the shots, more disaster, more out of focus while in the middle of firing off shots. Thats ok, I did manage a few that are close enough in focus that I was ok with processing and posting. This is one of those shots to start with. I will probably add a few more as I keep editing and hopefully it comes back a few more times.
Don't expect that just because trees dream that they dream in any fashion recognizable to us.
Holga 120CFN / LomoChrome Turquoise
26.8.2021.
Expecting Bulleid Pacific No 35018 I was somewhat disappointed when a couple of Duffs appeared on the SSE!
Newly painted Class 47 No 47815 (two tone green) and 47848 (West Coast maroon) head 1Z24, the 07.40 Carnforth - Scarborough 'Scarborough Spa Express'.
Seen here passing the caged semaphore at Weaverthorpe.
New release! Take your bikini off the closet and head down to the beach, new momys need to keep thier vitamins up to keep their babies healthy... today we are going for the D! Hope you enjoy! lol
XoXo ♥
Original digital painting with Procreate, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencil.
The image started as a brush test of the new Keith Haring brush set from Adobe and I was doing multiple layers to test different brushes. When I started using layer modes to blend the unrelated images together I got this - it turned out “Better Than Expected.”
Antingham is one of those quietly remarkable Norfolk villages where the churchyard tells a bigger story than you expect. Here you have two medieval churches in one enclosure: the working church of St Mary the Virgin and, only a short distance away, the roofless ruin of St Margaret.
Why two churches in one churchyard?
In the Middle Ages Antingham was effectively split between different manorial interests, each with its own church. One manor was linked to the Abbey of St Benet at Hulme (recorded holding a lordship here by the late Anglo-Saxon period and at Domesday) and St Margaret belonged with that connection. The other manor passed after the Conquest into the orbit of Roger Bigod and later the local de Antingham family and St Mary was associated with that side of the village’s story. The result was unusual but perfectly logical for its time: two churches serving the same place, side by side, reflecting rival patrons and separate obligations.
A nice local detail is that the village appears in Domesday as Antigeham. The name is understood as a Saxon settlement name meaning the home of Anta’s people and it is said that the River Ant takes its name from the village rather than the other way round.
St Mary the Virgin
The present St Mary’s is largely a 14th-century building in the Decorated style, constructed mainly between about 1330 and 1360. It has a strong sense of unity, partly because there were relatively few later changes that disrupt the original plan. A notable feature is the long, continuous interior line with no strong structural break between nave and chancel, which gives the whole space an unusually flowing feel for a parish church of this period.
A few details to look out for:
The font is 13th century and made of Purbeck marble. It predates the 14th-century fabric and is thought likely to have come from St Margaret’s at some point.
There is historic graffiti around the south doorway including shields and marks interpreted as travellers’ or pilgrims’ crosses.
During renovation work a 12th-century limestone coffin slab was discovered, a reminder that worship and burial here long pre-date St Mary’s present walls.
St Mary’s has also had its moments of crisis and renewal. By the early 1700s it needed serious attention and materials from St Margaret were authorised for repair work. A major Victorian restoration followed in 1864 (recorded with a cost of £430) bringing new fittings such as seating and a pulpit. The porch was rebuilt in 1882 after storm damage. In more modern times there has been further care and adaptation including a bell re-hung in 2003 and an added extension in 2009.
There is also a long-lived village tale about two sisters who quarrelled and built rival churches. It is a charming story but the buildings themselves make clear the timescales do not line up and the more convincing explanation is the practical one: two manors and two patrons.
St Margaret
St Margaret’s is the older foundation. What survives is mostly an ivy-clad shell but the fabric still reads clearly if you take your time.
The nave dates to around 1100 (possibly with Late Saxon elements suggested in some accounts)
A west tower was added in the first half of the 14th century
The chancel is thought to be 14th to 15th century
Its decline is closely tied to institutional change. When the monasteries were dissolved in 1539, St Margaret lost the support associated with St Benet’s and the church slid into long-term deterioration. By the late 1600s it was effectively abandoned. A particularly telling document is the 1703 faculty granting permission to take down parts of the ruined church, with the strict instruction that the stone and materials be used for repairing St Mary’s steeple and the churchyard walls. In other words St Margaret became, quite literally, a quarry for keeping the surviving parish church going.
Even after worship had ceased the administrative tidying-up took much longer. Consolidation arrangements are recorded as being formalised in 1748, though practice on the ground had probably shifted earlier. Much later still, St Margaret was finally consolidated with St Mary again in 2003, a modern footnote to a medieval split.
Today St Margaret remains fenced and fragile in places, roofless throughout, its walls heavily burdened by ivy and time. It is still deeply atmospheric: a medieval parish church reduced to its outline, standing within the same churchyard that continues to serve the village.
Two medieval churches, one churchyard
Standing here you can see layers of English parish life in one glance: an early medieval foundation that faded after the Reformation and the Dissolution, and a 14th-century rebuild that survived by restoration, adaptation and, at one point, by reusing the stone of its neighbour. Antingham’s churchyard is not just unusual for the double skyline. It is a compact lesson in how patronage, economics and changing religious institutions shaped what endured and what fell into ruin.
Sorry that it's a bleating stand shot…
Moving shot upon arrival in Bromley didn't work cause of the blinds doing their thing (quelle surprise), and for the town stop when leaving again - the sun hid. 😂
Did not expect to see this happen at all, so a pleasant surprise today!
this one started as a Parka Coat but became more abstracted & I added an abstract head....this was mirrored & framed.....decided to add water droplets which also reflect parts of the image......didn't realize this included the boarder.....remind me of early flying aces...."tallyho old chap...what what"
thanks for looking.....best bigger....hope you have a great day
added to Mel's "Vivid Mirror Challenge"....VIVID IMAGINATION
Who expects to find the equestrian statue of Don Quixote in a Chinese mall?
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Qui s'attend à trouver la statue équestre de Don Quichotte dans un centre commercial Chinois ?
Not as sharp as I'd like (although I do like the motion blur of the wings), but I wasn't expecting all the action from the crows chasing the owls or for this one to fly from behind me and right at me.
I found myself in his flight-line as he headed for the safety of a tree behind me as he was being chased by a Crow.
(... and then he veered away from me to land on my car door in the shot a few posts back ...)
Happy Friday-Eve !
Expecting maritime categories ...
Model of the Soviet anti-submarine cruiser "Leningrad" (pr.1123 "Condor", NATO designation - Moskva class). Built on a ship-model scale 1:350. The LEGO model has a length of 74 studs, it took about 1,500 bricks.
A magnificent example of the Soviet naval design of the nuclear missile era. At that time, people still dreamed of flying to the stars ...
This build is just some game fun for DA4. If you are interested, head over to this group and leave a comment to let the organizers know you are interested...
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Trying to mix Urbex & Modeling once again, let me know what you think of this shot in the comments!
Music to listen to : Arkasia - She's the one : www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9opD8gnGLo
I expected this to have been off the road for years but it was still taxed and was only a few days out of MOT.
Even more surprisingly it had covered 12,000 miles between it's last MOTs; a real bangernomics car.
I've never heard of a Highlight before. It's 954cc and looks to be fairly basic.
Only two Highlights remain according to Howmanyleft.
Tynemouth, as might be expected, is a town at the mouth of the River Tyne, a few miles from Newcastle. Historically part of Northumberland, the modern town of Tynemouth includes North Shields and Cullercoats. We came back home this way in September following a short holiday in south-east Scotland.
The history of Tynemouth dates back to an Iron Age settlement and its strategic position on a headland over-looking the mouth of the Tyne. The heart of the town - seen here - is known by residents as "The village" and has popular coffee-shops, pubs and restaurants. It is a prosperous area with comparatively expensive housing stock, ranging from Georgian terraces and Victorian ship-owners' houses to 1960s "executive homes".
One of the defining features of Oswestry depot over recent years was the sheer volume of unusual or unexpected vehicles that would turn up, often for a matter of days or weeks only, but occasionally staying a little longer to enliven the scene. Here Arriva Midlands, Shrewsbury P&R liveried Dennis Dart SLF 2305 - N305 ENX is pictured while on loan at the depot, having been displaced from its home town by a batch of brand new Optare Versas.
for the first time in the Bretagne (Breizh, Brittany) we expected fresh weather, waves, some rain or more - a refreshing time for us after a hot and dry summer. but the hot and dry late summer cuaght as here too, and we found much sun, ok, not bad, but few freshness and often worrying drought, like in our region. But we enjoyed a lot of walks on the GR 34, the Sentier des Douaniers. and a lot of cultural highlights and pittoresque cities and villages, as you can see here.
We expected something
Something better than before
We expected something more
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Walk away now and you're gonna start a war
Music Monday today features another "Take-Away Show" by Vincent Moon, this time Start a War by The National. I'm only going to link one version of the song, because I think this particular version is more emotive than any other: the band members and a few others, sitting in a dark space around a long table, picking at guitars and tapping out a beat on the wooden surface of the table and on glass jars. So simple, and yet it works so very, very well.
This image was made in Ireland, with a Holga, and features those magnificent Beech Trees again... which, from what I understand, will be making an appearance on this season's Game of Thrones.
Panama City Beach, Fl
We were only there for 2 days. I was hoping for a decent sunset but I wasn't expecting one like this.
Check out the two surfers in the water on the far right.
1/5 sec at f/20. Lightroom and Topaz Adjust.
We were expecting a class 60 on the 6E32 Preston - Lindsey empty tanks, and up until a couple of moments before the train came the sun was out.
Happens to us all in this game!
The Calm before the storm Lorenzo, expected to make landfall in the afternoon today. We're ready for it, we think!
I've seen many sunrises and sunsets but I have never seen this 3d look as much or strong as this, it looked unreal, almost like molten lava.
You can see a flock of birds just above the centre of the shot, on their way to somewhere safe in the high winds. They know stuff that we don't!
An exciting time if you could make your way to the coast and capture some large breakers crashing. Not for the faint hearted I guess, but exciting all the same!
I went down to the well known Maeklong Railway Market, also known as Talat Rom Hup, hoping to get a passing shot of the train as it went through the market to its terminus station, Maeklong Station.
I did expect a big crowd at the market too trying to jostle for a good place too, but I was not expecting that huge of a crowd during Christmas season.
Alas, I felt that it was pointless to get a shot that many others had probably already done, and decided to go for the street shots of the passing market crowds and vendors instead.
Some of the shots that came out were great as I stood on the sidelines.
I must say though, this is possibly a crowd that looks rather too overdressed for buying groceries in the market I suppose?
Not the sort of car you'd expect to spot out in the open nowadays! The few surviving examples tend to be in enthusiast ownership and only come out in summer months! This has been untaxed since 1999, yet it certainly doesn't look as if it has sat in its current position for that length of time, so I reckon it was dragged out of one of the surrounding lock ups more recently. It would be good to see the car on the road again, as the Rekord is a real rarity in the UK, although I'd imagine the chances of it ever returning to the road are pretty slim.
HGX 962V
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 01 May 1999
MOT
No details held by DVLA
When I left the shaw tower from some camera work, I walked past the convention center and had a talk with the construction manager at the Cactus club being re-designed.
He informed me that there would be a little fireworks show at 8 pm.
I was the only one near my place that was out with a tripod and looking for them.
The winter storms were hard on the hardiest of plants, the ones that call the sandy, salty beach home. Having seen the waves and high tides flatten the dunes where these plants grow, I wasn't expecting to see them again.
I underestimated them. Their roots must run much, much deeper than I thought they did. Now that it's May, the sand verbena and other beach plants are back, bigger and better than ever.
Ocean Park, Washington.
I spent a few hours at Huntley Meadows yesterday, but generally the park was somewhat quiet. I was hoping for a bit more snake or turtle action, but I couldn't find either. The birds were around, but not in the numbers I was expecting. Nor did I find any baby geese...which was a slight disappointment. However, on my way out of the park, I was keeping a close watch on the brush along the trail which did allow me to spot this cute little Snail, hanging out on a dew covered leaf. I love the way the drops adorn the adjacent leaves, almost like little Christmas lights.
Fuji X-T3 - Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4 - ISO 250 - 1/200s - Flash used
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Didn't expect to find this guy today.
What a spectacular figure. My only complaint is that his impressive arsenal should have also included a shotgun and uzi.
© Jeff R. Clow
Six years ago this month I joined a new website called Flickr.....and I certainly did not expect the site to have such an influence on me as it has since that day.
I had read an article about this new site that allowed you to upload your digital photos online and back them up so that if you lost your computer or hard drive, you'd still have the file.
So I dutifully began uploading my small photo collection - almost exclusively photos of my family. Photography was not a hobby for me then, but simply a way for me to capture shots of my kids at the holidays and during special events.
After several months on Flickr, some kind soul commented on one of my images - a functionality that I did not even know existed at that time.
And that one kind comment triggered something in me.
I remember thinking that if people - besides my family - were actually looking at my photos, I better get better at taking images with my point and shoot camera.
Thus began the journey....from casual shooter to photo enthusiast to DSLR owner to stock photo photographer to photo tour guide.
And what a ride it has been because of the grand community of Flickr. Not one of those things would have happened without kind people commenting on my photos and instilling in me - through their comments - a desire to get better at the art of photography.
The photo you see above is one of my personal favorites - taken on New Year's Day in 2006. I had at that point acquired a Nikon DSLR that was capable of doing a thing called bracketing - and this is one of the first bracketed and blended shots I ever took using that technique.
It is a solitary tree on the shoreline of Meadowlake Park in Enid, Oklahoma. I was visiting my Mother and my hometown during the holidays.
Little did I know that the shot would end up on the front page of Flickr and then would be purchased and used many, many times since that fateful day. It has been on the cover of an Israeli newspaper and has been used for a couple of print ad campaigns as well.
And it is the most "favorited" photo of my almost 4,000 photos now stored on Flickr since 2004.
For those of you just starting on Flickr, I hope your journey is as rewarding as mine has been - and continues to be for me.
For those of you who have been around since those early days, I salute you and I thank you for your frequent visits to my photostream all these years.
Flickr is a magical site and I am constantly amazed at how it continues to be such a positive influence on my life day after day, week after week, and year after year.
Thank you all for your comments, your faves and your encouragement. You have touched my life and I am very grateful.
3 December 2021
Unbelievably lucky! A misty murky morning sees 66793 on the 6H10 Bletchley-Peak Forest. I was at Woburn Sands expecting a full dull shot, but just as the train left Bletchley there was the first hint of some hazy sun so a last minute dash to Husborne Crawley. Less than 10 minutes later the sun was gone for the day.
The interior corridors of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Niagara on the Lake is exactly what you would expect a grand old hotel to be. It takes you back in time (but there's also a good wifi signal)