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Yay!!! I cant believe yet!! The final tree girls from the first Basic collection are mine now!! I´m so so happy with them, they are so gorgeous!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh Im so so happy!!! =D
textures thanks to calebKimbrough.
I probably won't be around this week...My Mum is quite poorly, so my sister and I are taking it in turns to look after her which involves a 100 mile drive down the motorway! taking my camera and laptop so I can work on some photos...but no internet connection :-(
have a great week....catch up soon hopefully :-)
..I got to meet the incredible Freda www.flickr.com/photos/freda_balmain. She is an absolute joy and can’t wait to meet her again.
Finally he's looking more how I envisioned him. :3 Just waiting for his canine friend to be finished and then shipped to me (I've got an awesome custom order going with Elleo dolls and I can't recommend them more so far!!).
Finally, about two months after getting back from our two-week trip to Pt Pelee, Ontario, and Tadoussac, Quebec, I have edited the first few photos from our second day in Ontario, 8 May 2018. On this day, we drove to Rondeau Provincial Park and enjoyed walking some of the trails. We found all sorts of things, from turtles and snakes to birds and wildflowers.
Anyone who has been following me for a long time will probably know that I try not to post two photos of the same thing next to each other. For this holiday, though, I am posting photos in more or less the order they were taken. This will help me to better remember where we went and when. Also, I often took similar photos using two different cameras, which makes everything more complicated. It is going to be a challenge to remember much now that two months have already slipped by! Please bear with me, especially as so many of my photos are simply distant, often blurred, rapid captures. I will try and post as many of them as I can at night, when hopefully most people are off Flickr. As for marking them on my map, I have no idea exactly where we saw what, so I will place all the Rondeau photos in one general location, mainly to show where Rondeau Provincial Park actually is. Also, a few of the photos may have been taken while driving to and from the park, back to our hotel in Leamington.
I will be adding Anne Belton's and Janet Gill's e-bird lists of birds seen on our four days at Pt Pelee (7 - 10 May 2018), in comment boxes under some of the photos, mainly to remind myself of what was seen. Each day, I, myself, did not see every one of the species listed.
Four friends and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as a camera(s) is enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends', I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, the barn there was amazing! I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds, including many of the little White-crowned Sparrows seen in the third photo. Here, in and around Calgary, I so rarely see one of these birds, though I do hear them singing sometimes. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos.
Anne, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
... did I get to see the Northern Lights (auroras)here were I live in the southernmost town in Finland. Earlier when the sky was still deep blue I could see the green color with my eye, but by the time this grainy picture was taken the eye could see white curtians dancing over the sky. It went on for the whole night and even the early next morning I was able to catch a little of the auroras. Heaven gave my aunt a grand welcome!
C702 fresh out of Green Bay's Pulliam Power Plant is making its way south with 120 empty WPSX hoppers. Is it ever going to stop raining?
I've been spending all of my free time and energy toward getting my house done and moving in. Finally seeing the light at the end. Its been a stressful process
It was a little late in coming (the cloud deck was only 6,000 feet high or so) but the color was magnificent when it finally showed up.
Sunrise from the overlook at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
48mm
F8@1/6th
ISO 100
GND filter
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©Don Brown 2023
I have been wanting a well-lit photo of a freight train blasting under the UP Milwaukee Subdivision for the last 15 years. Normally, Canadian Pacific freights on the C&M Subdivision exit at Tower A20 in Northbrook, which is located on the other side of this bridge. CP freights take the connection to reach the Union Pacific's Milwaukee Subdivision at Shermer, so they usually do not pass under this bridge. The rare ones that have operated at times when the lighting was crappy or when life got in the way and I was elsewhere. Not this time.
Recently, train 298 has been running on the C&M Sub in the early morning and turning onto the Elgin Sub at Tower A5 for the trip to Bensenville, allowing rare shots with freight trains in locations not normally available in daylight (The Wisconsin & Southern runs their freight through here 98% of the time at night). This line is mostly Amtrak and Metra passenger movements.
With a Soo Line SD60 in the lead, train 298 gave me a Valentine's Day gift as it went via A5 on a sunny morning. I can finally cross this off my 'to do' list. Thanks to Ryan (beep! beep!) for the heads up. Ryan, you are my sweetheart...
I Finally managed to make a HDR! Remember, that's my first, so be kind!
Clouds in a rainy day at lagoa do peixe, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Hope you enjoy!
I finally got to see the art of Dale Chihuly when I was in Seattle last May. A real playground for photographers! This is the first of several shots that I'll be posting of this amazing artwork.
Chihuly Garden and Glass is an exhibit in the Seattle Center showcasing the studio glass of Dale Chihuly. The exhibit opened in 2012.
Seattle | Washington | Chihuly Garden and Glass
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Rolleiflex SL66 medium format camera
Carl Zeiss Rollei-HFT Planar 2.8/80 lens
Kodak Ektar 100 film
Scan from negative @2400dpi
made that old focal piece into something...I must be bored. (thanks to Sunnybc123 aka Elsie Smith for the inspiration on the setting.)
Doosan DX380LC moving rock to stabilise the road which has been eroded by the tide so it finally reopen to two way traffic.
Minolta Maxxum 9 - Minolta Maxxum AF 28-135mm 1:4-4.5 - Ilford Delta 100 @ ASA-100
Ilford DD-X (1+4) 10:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
I've been waiting and waiting for a chance to capture a beautiful butterfly...and while resting on my patio, there he was flitting about in my infamous Mimosa tree. Another off my 'bucket list'.
Just to let you know...still in 'resting' mode, so comments from me will be sparse. Thanks for your understanding.
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We have been at a loss for snow here in Indiana this winter
So When it snowed in the middle of the night, I had to go outside and see it......
Look! XD it's lobster but definitely not blue, not green, not gray! FINALLY!! Jacquard Acid Dye power! 😆✨
I've finally got my design wall back and am ready to add to these awesome blocks from the folks in the Falu circle of the Simply Solids Bee!