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NS I78 enters Suffolk VA with a very long train of intermodal heading to portlock yard with two BNSF gevos and a UP gevo trailing. Goodness the foreign power has been awesome recently, you would think we were in Iowa lol. This train did put a smile on my face. i love my NS but to see a train with no black and white was a nice change of paces. I did plan on catching this in Downtown Suffolk but ended up checking google maps and wanted to go for a shot. Half way to the spot, i realized that i would be shotting completed backlit. It was to late for me to turn back so i had to make it work. I end up walking down a little on the lit side and ended shotting next to a farmers cotton felid and sitting on a stick of wood to get some height. I ended up puling this off and I'm super happy with it. It may still just be a wedge shot but I'm still pleased with the results
Love how the late evening sun spotlights the white layer of fluff on the slough and also floating in the air. Just click the image to see it.
"Poplar trees produce their seeds in catkins, which hang unpollinated on the trees in early spring. Once they are pollinated, green seed capsules form, and when they break open the seeds are released, each carried by a tiny parachute of fluff. This is what you see stuck in the tree, floating through the air, or lying on the ground.
Sometimes the fluff accumulates on the ground so thickly that it looks like snow! [...]." The Furry Gnome
Wishing you a wonderful new week from Bluebird Estates.
A lovely male kingfisher in beautiful condition perched patiently watching out for his next meal. I just loved the way the wind picked up slightly from behind him to fluff up his beautiful orange feathers.
Valentino the Kookaburra was looking after Ernie, today again. So, he sat on the neighbours roof and followed his grandson's every move around our garden.
Senecio Vulgaris or Common Groundse (wiki)
I posted the same plant a couple of days ago. There were no fluffy stuff, just flowers (buds?) then. Yesterday I saw some fluffs like dandelion seeds. Still not sure what sort of weeds.
My kind friend, PokemonaDeChroma, suggested that's "pollen bag". I thought "pollen bag" was a flower name and searched for the images.... not really flowers but some yellow handbags came out. I thought, Oh my, they're not my tastes. I am a bit too old for yellows 😂
Last one was macro. This one is not. 250mm zoom lens. I went out for birds... then only ended up seeing a funny cuckoo baby.
Seeds of butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, photographed in situ. This orange-flowered milkweed is not invasive here. It also isn't toxic enough to protect monarch caterpillars from their prey. Monarch butterflies will stop for nectar on the flower but will not lay eggs, given a better alternative.
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All fluffed up
Glossy Ibis posing with its feathers fluffed up to protect from the cold North wind at Ocean City, New Jersey
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Up close with a small (about a cm. long) day-flying moth (Heliolonche pictipennis) on its preferred flower, a desert dandelion. Mojave Desert, California. I particularly like its lovely pale-green eye.
No doubt this breaks a load of photography rules - wings chopped off, half the bird etc. however I do love it when puffins fluff themselves up. Almost like they're playing to the crowd.
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I wanted to test out the new EOS R grip so I went out in the light rain. This guy was al cuffed up. Coming from the 1dx II, I really like the feel of the grip.
Cold temperatures during Minnesota winters is responsible for many actions that are not needed in warmer months.
For us humans, we put on layers of clothing to ward off the cold. We find it more difficult to move around freely as we did last summer and as an added negative, we tend to eat more resulting in many life-like Santa Claus profiles.
Wildlife similarly adjust as well. Some species can go days without eating during severe stretches of winter. Others head south before the cold sets in.
For birds like this Goldfinch, fluffing up their feathers is their way of simulating Thinsulate wear. For this wee bird that weighs about the same as a ketchup packet in a cafe, the fluffing traps their body heat so that during the worst of the winter helps them survive temperatures lower than -40F for nearly a day at a time.
I do worry a little about how they keep their feet warm. I may know somebody in our house that wouldn’t let them in bed.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Hakuba Goryu Alpine Botanical Garden, Fluff of Sieversia pentapetala
白馬五竜高山植物園・チングルマの綿毛
This is something you would never imagine from the yellow and white flowers of the Sieversia pentapetala.
黄色と白のチングルマのお花からは想像できない姿ですね。
Hakuba-mura, Nagano pref, Japan
This place belongs to my personal story ever since - here I can experiment the taste of freedom, of gift and peace.
I have scores of photos showing the monumental dolomitic ridge of the Pietra Grande, and it's so much nailed into my heart that those clouds won't remove it!
Madonna di Campiglio, western Dolomiti di Brenta - Italy.
Sorry for posting so many today, feels like play instead of work. Love days like this except no actual work is getting done.
Week 25:52 Stars (June 17th-23rd)
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The theme this week is STARS. In the past I have attempted photos of our wonderful Moon, plus have been able to capture the bright light dots of Venus and Jupiter, but they are not "stars". Have to confess that Astrophotography is a little out of my range, so I used my imagination.
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Back story: The base photograph that I used for this image is a blurry shot of a Dandelion in full fluff regalia with the seeds ready to disperse from the head. I read that the Dandelion was one of the only flowers that represented the Sun, Moon and STARS in all of its stages, so...