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Farmers burning a hay field off just below my house. Today, they disced under the remains and got all the ash stirred up in the wind....it is now in the bottom of my pool!
On our 2h30 drive to our chosen destination, Robin Hood's Bay, on the beautiful North-Yorkshire Heritage Coast, we passed this, in an excited rush to get there, I saw it only in a flash...
We tracked back asap. I mean I've seen so many yellow fields, red field, but NEVER a mixed field, it was humming, WILD FLOWERS more than rapeseed, I guess an eco-field? Whatever... it was a photographer's delight. A memory to behold and treasure!
Have a bright day and thanx, M, (*_*)
I drove past this field a few days ago and noticed a small number of white flowers at the top of the enclosure. 3 days later I took a chance and drove back to see what three days of sunshine had done. It was very much worth it and I don't think these beautiful poppies have even peaked yet as there were plenty of small plants yet to bloom. Farmed beauty.
Young women attending an adult literacy class in Makthar.
1/Jan/1990. Makthar, Tunisia. UN Photo/Sanjeev Kumar. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
Although a common sparrow of brushy pastures and old fields (Cornell Bird Guide), this was a lifer for me. This male (and nearby female) were busily feeding their nestlings. A hearty thanks to David Cree, who is now paying the price with umpteen chigger bites.
LA: Melampyrum arvense
EN: Field cow-wheat
DE: Acker-Wachtelweizen
HU: Mezei csormolya
On this shot one can see the black dots on the bottom side of the bracts, that are nectar glands to attract ants. The plant needs them to distribute its seeds.
Target Field, the first year home of the Minnesota Twins, the day after the Twins clinched the division title, hopefully a World Series is on the horizon!
Taken at one of the poppy fields near Badminton a couple of weeks ago.
- A 2 Stop Grad Filter was used to help control the exposure for the sky.
No amount of post processing could possibly capture the beauty of this day. I went over and over touching this and tweaking that to make this photo look like what I saw through the viewfinder at this very moment. This is a moment that every photographer has.. the moment when you find yourself in the midst of a perfect shot and all you can do is press the button over and over again...
It might not be the best to everyone, but to you, it is pure beauty and you can't seem to get enough. Once you are on the editing table, you spend countless hours (maybe) tweaking this and that and NOTHING seems to work, nothing can capture that moment like it was when you looked at that scene...
This is because you have left the moment, and you are thinking that it has something to do with the visual stimulation, but it wasn't that, it was the moment you had, the connection you made with that moment of beauty, when the universe opened up to you and you really saw beauty in its simplest form, that is why it is so hard to convey.
I give up, this is the shot with no additives, just me, my camera, the sun, this field, the feeling on my face as the wind ran across, the sound of the field and a great friend with me to enjoy the moment.
This is why we do what we do, this is what drives us, these moments.
it doesn't matter if you like it, it doesn't matter how many views or likes or comments, it is this moment I had to share that was when I was exposed to the beauty of our world. I would so like to share with you how it felt. I was beside myself in the most simplest of places, I just pulled over for a moment and I was embraced by a scene that visually reminded me of how beautiful our world is. Once more having someone to share it with was much more than I could ever ask for.
This scene immediately made me think of this song (even though this is corn) which is one of my favorites:
------ Sting: Fields of Gold ---
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
"Yellow Canola Field" by Patti Deters. This bright yellow field of rapeseed (aka Canola or 'Brassica napus') stretches for miles in the rural countryside, along with other agriculture such as the hay straw bales seen in the background. If you like this image, I invite you to please share or see my main image gallery (floral, plants, and more) at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/yellow-canola-field-patt....
This is a 5 shot panoramic from my seats in Qwest Field in Seattle, WA before the Seahawks/Bucs game. I stitched this using Photoshop CS3.
The original size is 7035x3630.
Holland Sunset Field, Gronsvled , Holland
In 3 Shot Raw + Photomatix
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We went to Ireland last year to visit the homeland of my husband's family. I have tons of fabulous shots, but I dont want to upload too many in one day.
Coors Field, located in Denver, Colorado, is the home field of the National League's Colorado Rockies. It is named for the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, which purchased the naming rights to the park prior to its completion in 1995. The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown (or LoDo) neighborhood. The park includes 63 luxury suites and 4,500 club seats.
Coors Field has a reputation as a home run-friendly park that, arguably, equals Chicago's venerable Wrigley Field, and earned it the nickname "Coors Canaveral" among critics (a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft). Denver's dry air tends to dry out baseballs, which makes the balls harder and travel farther. Other factors include the relatively low height of the fences and very limited foul territory area. In an attempt to limit the number of home runs, since 2002 balls have been placed in a humidor before games to keep them from drying excessively.
The Rockies knew that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs because of its high altitude, and moved the fences farther away. This created a ballpark that not only gives up the most home runs in baseball, but also gives up the most doubles and triples as well.
Coors Field was the first new stadium added in a six year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along with Pepsi Center and INVESCO Field at Mile High. It was also the first baseball-only National League Park since Dodger Stadium was built in 1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with accessibility in mind. It sits near Interstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail access.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season—the most in baseball history—plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the left field upper deck were added. The centerfield bleacher section has its own informal name: "the Rockpile."
While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple. This marks the city's one mile elevation point.
Unlike most baseball stadiums, where home plate faces east or northeast (so as to prevent sunsets from disturbing the batter), Coors Field faces due north, resulting in the sun shining in the first-baseman's eyes during sunset. (Wikipedia)
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Some background:
The roots of the Estonian Air Force go back to the Russian revolution of February 1917, after which the Estonian state obtained a degree of autonomy within Russia, which included the establishment of national armed forces. Thus many Estonians in the Russian Army returned home to take up arms for their homeland. The Estonian Declaration of Independence in early 1918 was not recognized by Germany, which invaded and occupied the country during 1918. The Estonian armed forces were disbanded.
After the armistice on 11 November 1918, the Estonian Provisional Government immediately set about establishing a military aviation unit. On 21 November 1918 Voldemar Victor Riiberg, the Commander of the Engineering Battalion, assigned August Roos to organize a flight unit. The Aviation Company of the Engineer Battalion began to establish air bases near Tallinn for seaplanes and land planes, but it was not until January 1919 that the first operational aircraft was acquired – a captured Soviet Farman F.30.
In the meantime, on 22 November 1918, the Soviet Red Army had attacked Estonia and soon occupied most of the country. The fledgling Estonian Army, with foreign assistance, managed to counter-attack in early January 1919 and went on to liberate the country by late February. It subsequently moved on to liberate Latvia. Aviation Company aircraft flew a limited number of missions in support of the army. Following the February 1920 peace treaty with the Soviet Russia, the Estonian Army was demobilized, but the Aviation Company was retained. With the delivery of more aircraft, it was reorganized as an Aviation Regiment (Lennuväe rügement), comprising a landplane squadron, seaplane squadron, flying school and workshops. More bases and seaplane stations were built.
Some Aviation Regiment pilots were involved in a pro-Soviet coup attempt on 1 December 1924, but this was crushed within hours. From 1925 the First World War era aircraft were gradually replaced by more modern types. One of these types was the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, a British biplane single-seat fighter aircraft.
The design was a development of the Siddeley-Deasy S.R.2 Siskin, as a response to the 1922 British Air Ministry Specification 14/22 for an all-metal single-seat high performance landplane. This led to the Siskin IIIA, a sesquiplane with an all-metal structure, which was powered by a 14 cylinder Jaguar radial engine. A contract for three production aircraft was placed on 13 October 1922 with a further six ordered on 26 January 1923 including one as a prototype of a two-seat variant. The Siskin III first flew on 7 May 1923, with first deliveries to the RAF (six for evaluation) taking place in January 1924. The fighter was the first all-metal fighter in the British Royal Air Force.
The main production version was the Siskin IIIA ordered in 1926, which originally was powered with a Jaguar IV engine, but was later re-engined with the supercharged Jaguar IVA engine. The supercharger, a novel idea at the time, had little effect on performance below 10,000 ft (3,050 m), but it greatly improved speed and climb above that height.
Following the RAF procurements, Romania ordered 65 aircraft but they were cancelled following a crash on takeoff in February 1925 during acceptance tests; the Romanian pilot being killed. Following an evaluation of two Siskin IIIs, the Royal Canadian Air Force ordered 12 IIIAs which were delivered between 1926 and 1931. Further orders came in 1928 from Estonia: fifteen fighters and three dual control trainers were ordered in 1927. The fighters received a different engine, though, the Bristol Jupiter, which was lighter, less complex and offered considerably more power than the Jaguar. These machines received the designation IIIC and differed, beyond their engine, in some other details from the RAF's IIIA version, e. g. with a simplified landing gear, which saved even more weight and improved the Siskin’s aerodynamics. The machines for Estonia were delivered between 1928 and 1929.
During 1928 the Aviation Regiment came under the control of an Air Defence (Õhukaitse) organization which included the Anti-Aircraft Artillery. In 1939 the Estonian Air force consisted of about 80 active airplanes. Beyond the Siskins, Bristol Bulldog, Hawker Hart and Potez 25 biplanes from the 1920s were operated, but also the more modern Avro Anson multipurpose aircraft. The aircraft were divided into three groups, stationed at Rakvere, Tartu, and Tallinn. The Navy also maintained two multipurpose aircraft wings.
Plans to acquire Spitfires and Lysanders from Britain were thwarted when the outbreak of World War II in 1939 forced Britain to cancel all export orders. After the defeat of Poland, Estonia was forced to accept a Mutual Assistance Pact with the Soviet Union, signed on 28 September 1939. This allowed the Russians to establish military bases in Estonia, which were later used in the Winter War against Finland. On 17 June 1940 the three Baltic States were invaded by Soviet forces. During the June 1940 invasion the Air Defence took no action and subsequently aircraft remained locked in their hangars. The air force became the Aircraft Squadron of the 22nd Territorial Corps of the Soviet Army in the summer of 1940.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 25 ft 4 in (7.72 m)
Wingspan: 33 ft 2 in (10.11 m)
Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
Wing area: 293 ft² (27.22 m²)
Empty weight: 1,960 lb (890 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 2,885 lb (1,310 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Bristol Jupiter V 9-cylinder radial engine, 480 hp (345 kW)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 165 kn (190 mph, 305 km/h) at sea level
Range: 271 nmi (310 mi, 500 km)
Service ceiling: 27,000 ft (8,230 m)
Rate of climb: 3,200 ft/min (10.480 m/min)
Endurance: 1 hour 20 minutes
Climb to 10,000 ft: 6 min 20 sec
Armament:
2× 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns
Provision for up to 4× 20 lb (9 kg) bombs under the lower wings
The kit and its assembly:
I had bought an incomplete Matchbox A.W. Siskin kit a while ago, but lacked a good idea. This eventually came when I searched through the decal stack and came cross a Blue Rider sheet with Estonian triangles (see below) - and thought that an Estonian Siskin could be a good and exotic use. This was quite plausible because the Baltic country actually operated the type before WWII.
However, for a more whiffy touch, and in order to replace some missing parts, a few conversions had to be made. One modification concerns the landing gear, which had to be improvised; the struts came from a Revell Sopwith Triplane, IIRC, and the wheels from a Matchbox Gloster Gladiator.
The engine was replaced, too, with a Bristol Jupiter from a Mistercraft PZL P.7 fighter, and a leftover propeller from a Matchbox Gloster Gladiator. While the new engine appears a little large, the whole affair looks quite plausible and would even allow a free field of fire for the cowling-mounted, original armament.
Otherwise the simple but pleasant kit was built OOB. Rigging was done with heated black sprue material, glued into place with white glue after painting and decaling.
Painting and markings:
Well, there were not many Estonian aircraft, and most from the inter-war era seemed to carry a NMF/aluminium dope finish. I was able to dig up a profile of an Estonian Siskin IIIDC trainer, and it also shows some dark green round the cockpit area.
I used this as a starting point for a more camouflaged finish, also inspired by Latvian and Swedish Gloster Gladiators of that era, with dark green (FS 34079) upper surfaces, combined with aluminium dope on the undersides. In order to liven things up a little I also added an RAF Dark Green (ModelMaster) area in front of the cockpit, inspired by the Matchbox box art – but the different green tones are hard to tell apart.
Some metal panels were painted with Aluminium (Revell 99), while the fabric-covered areas, incl. the wings' undersides, were painted with Humbrol 56. The upper wing’s supporting struts were painted in black, as well as the cockpit interior – even though the latter is blocked by the pilot figure.
The Estonian national markings come from a Blue Rider sheet and actually belong to a modern 1:72 An-2. The tactical code was created with two layers of white over black single digits from TL Modellbau, creating a fake shadow effect for a better contrast. In order to liven things up a little more, I also a small unit badge to the fuselage flank under the cockpit, even though this was not typical for Estonian Air Force aircraft.
Some light dry-brushing with light grey was done in order to emphasize the nice surface structure of the Matchbox kit. Finally, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri).
A relatively simple build, but the overall result looks quite convincing, despite the exotic markings and the large diameter engine from the PZL P.7. Made me wonder what an Estonian Spitfire – had it been delievered – might have looked like? Hmmm…
Second image from my spontanous stop in the fileds yesterday. Used the Tokina AT-X 11-20 F2.8 PRO DX @20mm on Canon EOS 80D. Postwork in Luminar 3.
Would you believe that I got my first pair of converse yesterday? And they fit my feet like a pair of snug mittens (because gloves don't help with keeping your hands warm).
I think I'll probably mark them somehow to make them my own, but haven't decided how yet. I have a few ideas...
Oh, and I wore a skirt yesterday.
I'm turning into such a girl. I think it's the hair.
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Olympus E-P2 45mm f/1.8
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I had to do some admin stuff so I took a day off. After having that done, I visitied my sister and the kids. They live in a small town with a lot of nature around. I got some good shots of the area. Including some animals. This is what you rarely see when you live in a city.
Our good friend Steve is out in Arizona, and is having a blast finding and photographing the abundant and diverse reptile life that can be found there. Some of us Jersey-bound old-time herpers are feeling a bit jealous. Feeling a bit dejected today, I decided to check out a spot I know of in Somerset County that can be great for snake hunting. I found no snakes- but I did find this rare, elusive and very dangerous beast foraging in a small forest clearing. Eat your heart out, Steve.