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Serendipity is when you unexpectedly stumble across something good. And that is what happened yesterday when I was out walking on the moors with a friend and a Short-eared Owl popped up in front of us. Short-eared Owls usually breed on the Peak District Moors so I often see them in summer but they are pretty thin on the ground in winter. Most Short-eared Owls leave the higher ground to spend the winter in lowlands, especially around estuarine saltmarshes. Though the BTO Bird Atlas says that birds in the Uists, Orkneys and the Pennines appear to winter close to their breeding grounds, yet I rarely see them in winter. There was a bit of snow on the ground yesterday but not enough to hamper its hunting. We watched it for about five minutes, and it did appear to catch and eat something, then it slowly headed south and out of sight. I did manage some closer shots but I quite liked this one showing the winter moorland habitat.
From left to right, South Shields 204, Rotherham 37, Bournemouth 99, Nottingham 493 and Maidstone 72. All but Bournemouth 99 are serviceable. 99 requires some bodywork attention and a new resistance bank.
I can't believe this worked! The wind was so strong I was holding my tripod down while I took 4 sets of 3 exposures in order to make an HDR panorama in Lightroom.
M39431 31 creeps through Brantford with CN 3245, CN 3154, CN 2189, IC 2455, CN 2428, and 193 cars.
The three C40's were once again destined for K&K in Pickering, ON
Wittow / Rügen / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Germany
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Five Big Lemon vehicles lined together. Volvo B10M N173 LHU, Scania M106 PKS, Volvo B10M V9 VSN, Volvo B10BLE R846 PRG and Mercedes L313 AUT. This photo line up was part of a company training day and was mainly for photos of the team with the vehicles and not purposely for vehicle shots.
Our Daily Challenge - 5 (five)
The "Wild Chickes" (originally "Die Wilden Hühner") series was my favourite read when I was a kid.
What were your favourite books to read?
Continuing with my personal 50mm challenge. With this lens you fill the frame. Here is a 19th century building with a fascinating facade. Each of these five faces are not exactly the same. And then there are the lion heads and a pigeon sits sentinel at the top.
For some reason I find this shot pleasing. Most of the wooden gates have
now been replaced with less attractive, but more durable, metal
replacements.
Perhaps it reflects myself at present - just been told missed out on a long
desired directorship to an external candidate!
- www.kevin-palmer.com - These horses I've driven past many times on my way home from the mountains. On this evening they were grazing near the road and with a fiery sunset on the way, it was the perfect time to stop and photograph them.
IMG_6384manip
well hello there, fail manipulation.
i've seen so many cloud pictures floating around flickr (get it? hehe) that i decided to try one myself.
for the item collab group, umbrella.
that is me gloomily studying for my exams, first ones are tomorrow ):
"But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (when I come home) well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you..."
- The Proclaimers.
An old factory complex that has had numerous uses over the years and now sits vacant and rotting. A significant portion beyond the power house was knocked down, the wing to the right is little more than a shell, the wing to the left has seen at least one small fire, and the wing where I’m standing to take this picture is littered with dozens of former offices and retail spaces. The area below was an al fresco drinking and dining deck for the little restaurant on the ground floor.
45231 heads away from Church Stretton at Little Stretton. Ragleth Hill lies behind
I really wanted a shot at Church Stretton as this is where my interest in steam trains came from! As a 5 year-old boy I used to watch light engine movements from my bedroom window as they went north on Saturday mornings, later returning with the Welsh Marches Expresses in the afternoons. Locos I can remember seeing were Hagley Hall, Lord Nelson and Princess Elizabeth. I was on foot yesterday so had to make the most of the locations I could get to!
(Someone kindly gave me a lift to Stokesay at the last minute!)
I don't practice telefoto landscapes much, but Bryce Canyon NP is the perfect place to use zoom lenses for unique landscapes. There are so many different hoodoos and layers in Bryce that almost every composition will be unique. Here is a shot that I focused on the large brighter hoodoo and noticed some nice layering behind the hoodoo. This is a late afternoon shot as the sunset shots in Bryce are blocked out and there is zero light on the landscape.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Utah
Four Aces With Joker's Wild beats Royal Flush
Note: Hong Kong transferred from the British Empire to China in 1997.
For FlickrFriday
Theme: Lucky Number
(Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL; 07.03.2009; 1/60 at f/1.8; ISO 100; white balance: Auto; focal length: 50 mm)
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