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Kamloops BC
The buildings in the distance are of Tranquille which was once a self-sustaining community but is now, basically, a ghost town. A few days before official stay at home orders were issued I got notified by my theatre group of a casting call that was going out for extras forVan Helsing which is a vampire series on Netflix. They were to be shooting for a few days out at Tranquille.
I was conflicted. I've always wanted to be an extra and always wanted to see inside the buildings of Tranquille. In addition, the pay would have been around $200 a day for 2 or 3 days of shooting, But I was already about 2 days in to self-imposed self isolation. And there were guidelines about physical distancing and about no gatherings involving 50 people or more. I didn't see how they could possibly keep those so I passed on the casting call. :-(
Marmot,
McArthur Island,
Kamloops, B.C.
There is something so endearing about these creatures. This one just sat up on a rock so still and looking at me, like he was a professional studio model. They are more than a bit tame. I think people feed them peanuts.
Mid afternoon Betty Buick dropped us off in downtown Kamloops near City Hall. The building has the appearance of a mishmash of add-ons. The camera liked the welcoming central garden.
About Kamloops:
The city was incorporated in 1893 and today is home to approximately 90,000. The city promotes itself as the "Tournament Capital of Canada".
The word Kamloops is the English translation of the Shuswap word Tk’emlúps, which means “where the rivers meet”, and has been the home of the Tk’emlupsemc, the “people of the confluence”, for centuries.
The rivers meeting here are the North & South Thompson.
From our summer adventures... This was one of a few storms that we had pass through while camping.. It was a fun area to explore.
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses we'll ride them some day
-- The Rolling Stones
I've taken pictures before in this area of a pair of horses that were definitely wild. [In fact I posted one and used the same song lyric. :-)] Later that same day I saw a large group running together on First Nations land near the road, pretty close to this spot where this shot was taken. I assumed they were wild too but now I am not so sure. Either way, wild or tamed, they are being fed there and were enjoying a nice meal of hay spread out on the snow.
Female mallard
McArthur Island
Kamloops, B.C.
The ducks in a nearby park seem to have taken to the snow like... well... like a duck to water.
Love those little front paws!
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. It is one of fourteen species of marmots, native to mountainous regions of southwestern Canada and western United States. They weigh up to approximately 5 kg (11 lb). They’re quite social, living in burrow colonies of up to twenty marmots, with a single dominant male. They are diurnal and feed on plant material, insects, and bird eggs. They hibernate for approximately eight months starting in September and lasting through the winter.
They are found in valleys, meadows, and foothills. Their territory is about 6 acres around a number of burrows dug in summertime. They construct leaf-lined burrows under rocks,where they’re less likely to be seen by predators (foxes, dogs, coyotes, wolves, and eagles). Even when stretched out relaxing, a marmot keeps his head and neck in an alert position - if he does spot a predator he whistles to warn the others in the area before taking refuge in a rock pile until the threat disappears.
A marmot’s average day, once he emerges from his burrow will most likely be taken up with morning grooming, sun bathing and dining on grasses and flowers.Afternoon brings more sun bathing, napping in the burrow, and eating more grasses, before eventually returning to his burrow for the night..
Spring greets my song with hawthorn flower and briar.
Rewards my voice with nectar-tinted sun;
The thrum of earth's renewal is my lyre
As thaws begin and waters speed to run.
--- from "The Willow Warbler"
by Sara L Russell
Walking along the edge of a farmer's fields, I was surprised to come across this pair of hawthorn trees. Could they really be hawthorns I thought for I associated the trees with the wet, cool climes of Vancouver Island where I had lived for many years. As it turns out, yes indeed they could be hawthorns for apparently the trees thrive in hot and sunny places as they are drought resistant. In the foreground here are some of my beloved sagebrush and in the background some beautiful red sandstone boulders.
McArthur Island
Kamloops, B.C.
I came across a group of ten mule deer foraging on the old golf course on McArthur Island. It's a common spot to find them in the winter. Four of them were young like this one, probably about 6 months old, and in addition to eating leaves and grasses, were frolicking about in the snow. It made me wonder if deer youngsters like snow as much as human youngsters.
Kamloops, BC
The buildings in the distance are a ghost town of sorts. Over the years the place has gone through many iterations -- King Edward Tuberculosis Sanatoriium, Tranquille School, Padova City, Tranquille-on-the-Lake, Tranquille Farm Fresh --but is once again empty and unused.
It was opened in 1907 as a hospital for tuberculosis patients and was its own independent, self-sustaining community. Besides hospital buildings, it contained staff dormitories, several small houses, several multi-family complexes, an elementary school, office buildings, a gymnasium and many ranch & farm structures. A system of underground tunnels connects many of the buildings.
The rock bluff looming to the right is called Battle Bluff and has its own fascinating history.
Tranquille area,
Kamloops, B.C.
These are just weeds but positioned on a small hill as they were they looked like weird trees and I suddenly felt like I had been miniaturized.
To my Flickr friends: I am leaving in the morning on a 2 week vacation. I'm not sure how my Internet will be or if I'll have any time to get on line on a regular basis. I will try to do so when I can. I will try to put up a pic of beautiful Vancouver Island when I can.
Batchelor Heights
Kamloops, B.C.
This is the neighbourhood that I look towards from my balcony. Lightning hit a hill top off to the left (although I myself was unaware of any lightning) I first noticed a few puffs of brown smoke drifting down then could make out some flames over to the left. I watched in horror as the flames, fanned by strong winds, raced along the ridge toward many homes.
From a visit a week ago.. This is one of the abandoned locations I went to investigate... Looking forward to revisiting it in a couple of weeks and getting more images of this area.
Taken up at the Mile High Lodge on Face Lake while on a fishing trip. It was calm and peaceful up there on the lake.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five hundred and fifty five metres, at 09:34am on Friday 13th September 2019 off Trans Canada Highway 1 around thirty kilometres West of the city of Kamloops, looking out over Kamloops lake in from a viewpoint West of the Tobiano Resort in British Columbia, Canada.
Th distant smokestacks are part of the Wood mills industrial section . Domtar's Kamloops Mill is located at Mission flats, opening in 1965 and nowadays uses third party sawmills softwood fiber to manufacture Northern bleached and unbleached softwood kraft pulp for the Domestic, Chinese and South Asian markets. It also produces renewable green energy for the operation and exports to the provincial power grid.
Nikon D850 Focal length: 220mm Shutter speed: 1/500s Aperture f/16.0 iso250 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX) Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode Focus mode: AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking Area Mode: AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable Exposure mode: Aperture priority exposure Nikon Back button focusing enabled Metering mode: Matrix metering ISO Sensitivity: Auto White balance: Natural light auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Nikon Distortion control: On Picture control: Auto High ISO NR: On (Normal) Vignette control: Normal Active D-lighting: Auto
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LATITUDE: N 50d 45m 1.60s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 43m 35.10s
ALTITUDE: 555.0m
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
~~ Dylan Thomas
Whew! Dylan Thomas was a pretty intense guy. He once said that his poems should be read aloud either very softly or very loudly. This is definitely one of the latter. :-/
To my Welsh friends: I bear no animus toward your favoured son. Heck, I share the same surname as him and, in fact, my ancestor emigrated to Canada from Wales in 1850. :-)
Kamloops, B.C.
Paul Lake is about a 20 minute drive from Kamloops. I never appreciated what a beautiful place it is when I lived here before. When I was growing up Paul Lake was a place you'd go on a hot summer's day to go swimming or perhaps you'd go camping there for a weekend. There is a provincial park campsite and sandy beach the other side of that rock bluff.
That coppery rock is known as Gibraltar Rock and has an elevation of 900 metres. I've never climbed it but I've read there is a good trail up it and it's a moderate hike. I hear the view is spectacular so my quest for photographs may just take me up there later this year. Watch this space. :-)
Lac Le Jeune Road,
Kamloops, B.C.
It was quite hot today (32 C) and so I am sure the cattle enjoyed being able to stand in this temporary pond while taking a drink. I say temporary because the water table is high right now but as it drops and the water evaporates too, the pond will eventually dry up.
Ever wondered what geese are trying to eat when they peck and poke at the grass? After Googling, it seems that it's just the grass itself. How dull. However this guy appears to have found some kind of berry.
Above Thompson River
Kamloops, B.C.
A snowy Mount Paul looms in the background and beyond that are hills shrouded in low cloud.
A long station stop at Kamloops, BC allowed me to hop off VIA's westbound Canadian to grab a few time exposures of the Park-series car on the hind end. This is VIA 8702, Assiniboine Park. If my memory is correct, the freight passing on the adjacent track belonged to the now-defunct Kelowna Pacific Railway. It was powered by 3-4 former CN M420Ws which I was (of course!) unable to photograph.
Courthouse Gallery Christmas Art Show,
Kamloops, B.C.
One of the co-op members greets people at the entrance.
The Old Courthouse was built in 1909 and was originally -- you guessed it -- a courthouse. Today it is home to an art co-operative composed of painters, photographers, First Nations artists, jewellery artisans, weavers, just to name a few disciplines.
Marshland,
Paul Lake Road,
Kamloops, B.C.
The marsh was alive with birds and their song, including that of this red winged blackbird. Had it not been for the abundant insect life there as well (which were nibbling on me), I could have stood forever listening and watching the birds dart around. The rays of the setting sun glinted off the shallow marsh waters and sent shadows rippling through the many branches arching over the water.
I played around with processing of this image for a long time, zooming in on the bird & cropping, trying out special effects, etc etc. Finally I settled on this which is just how it looked as I took it, for the shot wasn't just about the bird but about the feeling of the marsh. If only I could include the birdsong!
a 20 image pano of Leighton Lake located just north of the community of Logan Lake. Taken just as the sun was setting for the night..
While exploring near Kamloops I found this abandoned farmstead.. A place I will be exploring again..
A coyote runs down the middle of the frozen river
Kamloops, B.C.
This photo isn't the best quality. The coyote was far away and I don't have a very long lens so I've had to zoom it in with Lightroom.
When I spotted the tiny canine shape running down the river, even though it was far away, I knew it was not somebody's pet dog. It ran very, very quickly. As I watched it through my telephoto lens, it lay down in the middle of the snow-drift covered ice to rest for two minutes. Then it was up again on its speedy way, covering a lot of territory in a short time.
I wasn't quite sure if it was a coyote or a wolf. I thought then it might be a wolf because of the bushy tail for I didn't realize then that both have bushy tails. Either would have been a rare sight so close to the city centre but while a coyote is not uncommon in outlying areas, wolves are extremely rare anywhere in the region. When I got the several photos I'd taken zoomed in on the computer there was no doubt it was a coyote for I could see the characteristic pointed snout. Later I found info on the internet that coyotes run with their tails held down while wolves hold their tails out behind them.
Taken up at the Mile High Lodge on Face Lake while on a fishing trip. It was calm and peaceful up there on the lake.
And so is she, I'd imagine.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police in attendance at Remembrance Day ceremonies, Kamloops BC
Taken up at the Mile High Lodge on Face Lake while on a fishing trip. It was calm and peaceful up there on the lake.
While camping the last couple of weeks, we had a thunderstorm roll past us about 10 km away. Was lucky enough to catch a couple of lightning bolts
Kamloops BC has a few classic brick buildings.
2 of 6.
Perched at the corner of 1st Avenue and Victoria Street is the old Bank of Commerce built in 1904.
Toronto-based architects, Frank Darling and John Andrew Pearson designed the building.
The front façade is clad in dressed stone and Kamloops pressed red brick, manufactured at the local brick factory in Mission Flats.
A major force in Canadian architecture, the partnership of Darling and Pearson was responsible for close to a thousand bank projects, ranging in size from urban headquarters to small wooden structures in remote locations.
Throughout the decades, the building transitioned from a financial institution to a political hub when City Hall was located here from 1953 to 1964.
Today the building is home to Brownstone Restaurant.
This $100,000 monument honouring wildfire volunteers by Vancouver sculptor Cameron Kerr was erected at the site that served as the evacuation centre in Kamloops 2003 wild fire season 0- the Kamloops Civic Centre.
During the summer of 2003 the Thompson-Nicola Regional District endured its most devastating wildfires ever.
Unprecedented in numbers and massive in scope, the fires destroyed 89 homes, 9 businesses and scorched 62,000 hectares of forest and range lands, left hundreds jobless and ultimately caused the evacuation of 13,000 people.
On July 30, 2003, a wildfire was started by a discarded cigarette in the hills behind McClure, British Columbia. The fire burned for 75 days, destroying 65,285 acres (26,420 ha) of forest and 81 structures (72 homes and 9 businesses).
The fire cost Can $31.1 million to extinguish and caused another 8.2 million dollars in property damage. 3,800 people were evacuated from the communities of McClure, Barriere and Louis Creek.
In 2005, former firefighter Michael Barre was found guilty of dropping the cigarette which started the fire. Barre was convicted in BC Provincial Court for the crime of dropping a burning substance within one kilometre of a forest. Barre faced up to a $1 million fine and three years in prison, but was instead sentenced to pay a $3,000 fine.
The Two Worst of 2003:
1. Okanagan Mountain Park Wildfire.
During the 2003 fire season this was the most significant interface wildfire event in BC history. The fire's final size was 25,600 hectares. Much of BC was affected by the fire but the communities of Naramata and Kelowna suffered the largest effect when the blaze caused the evacuation of 33,050 people (4,050 of these people were also evacuated for a second time) and 238 homes were lost or damaged. The fire also claimed 12 wooden trestles and damaged two other steel trestles in the historic Myra Canyon.
2. McLure Wildfire:
This one caused the devastating loss or damage of 89 homes and 9 businesses. Due to this fire, 3,800 people were evacuated (880 of these people were also evacuated for a second time) from the small communities of McLure, Barriere and Louis Creek. The fire reached a final size of 26,420 hectares.
First in a series of 3 -- I seldom post more than one photo in a day and never all at the same time but these three form a story of sorts.
I've thought of this tree as the eagle tree for some time now. I started visiting it about a year ago and go every month or two. I noticed the nest in it right away and assumed from the size of it that it was an eagle's nest. That was verified a couple of months later when I saw a pair of bald eagles there.
This day, I saw the one eagle sitting on a branch up above the nest and decided to get a bit closer by walking on a lane that cuts across the rancher's fields beyond it. I don't have a long enough lens for bird photography but I could at least use my 250mm like binoculars. :-)
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three hundred and forty three metres, at 12:56pm on Sunday 11th September 2019 off Lorne Street beneath Kamloops viewpoint walkway on the North bank of the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D850. Focal length 82mm Shutter speed 1/125s Aperture f/16.0 iso360 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 40m 46.20s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 20m 19.36s
ALTITUDE: 343.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 92.1MB
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five hundred and fifty six metres, at 09:26am on Friday 13th September 2019 off Trans Canada Highway 1 around thirty kilometres West of the city of Kamloops, looking down the valley past Six Mile Hill Protected Area towards Tobiano in Kamloops, out over Kamloops British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D850. Focal length 40mm Shutter speed 1/100s Aperture f/16.0 iso250 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 45m 1.95s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 43m 33.35s
ALTITUDE: 556.0m
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five hundred and fifty six metres, at 09:26am on Friday 13th September 2019 off Trans Canada Highway 1 around thirty kilometres West of the city of Kamloops, looking down the valley past Six Mile Hill Protected Area towards Tobiano in Kamloops, out over Kamloops British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D850. Focal length 40mm Shutter speed 1/100s Aperture f/16.0 iso250 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 45m 1.95s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 43m 33.35s
ALTITUDE: 556.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.6MB
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five hundred and fifty four metres, at 09:28am on Friday 13th September 2019 off Trans Canada Highway 1 around thirty kilometres West of the city of Kamloops, looking out over Kamloops lake as it narrows into the Thompson River from a viewpoint in Savona, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D850. Focal length 24mm Shutter speed 1/100s Aperture f/16.0 iso250 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 45m 1.88s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 43m 33.60s
ALTITUDE: 554.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.5MB
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.3.1 11/07/2019). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three hundred and fifty metres, at 12:50pm on Sunday 11th September 2019 off Lorne Street beneath Kamloops viewpoint walkway on the North bank of the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
Here we see a rather handsome little Ring-billed gull (Larus Delawarenensis), in non breeding plumage with a streaked head. A medium sized gull around the size of a crow, these can grow to around twenty two inches in length with a wingspan of up to forty seven inches, and weigh up to 700g.
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Nikon D850 Focal length: 300mm Shutter speed: 1/125s Aperture f/16.0 iso200 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
Nikkor AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E. Lee SW150 MKII filter holder. Lee SW150Con adapter for Lee 100 rings.Lee 100 67mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 Circular polariser glass filter. Lee SW150 Filters field pouch. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 40m 45.26s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 20m 19.91s
ALTITUDE: 350.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 90.2MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 53.10MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18) LF 1.00
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.3.1 11/07/2019). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
©All photographs on this site are copyright: DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams) 2011 – 2020 & GETTY IMAGES ®
No license is given nor granted in respect of the use of any copyrighted material on this site other than with the express written agreement of DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams) ©
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I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 36.132+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 18th 2020
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This photograph became my 4,270th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three hundred and forty three metres, at 13:20pm on Sunday 11th September 2019 off Lorne Street beneath Kamloops viewpoint walkway on the North bank of the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D850. Focal length 70mm Shutter speed 1/125s Aperture f/14.0 iso125 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Hand held with Nikon Image stabilization VR enabled on Normal mode. Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.
Nikkor AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E. Lee SW150 MKII filter holder. Lee SW150Con adapter for Lee 100 rings.Lee 100 67mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 0.6 (2 stops) Soft ND Grad resin filter.Lee SW150 Filters field pouch.Nikon EN-EL15a battery.Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.
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LATITUDE: N 50d 40m 45.09s
LONGITUDE: W 120d 20m 19.84s
ALTITUDE: 344.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 91.0MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 45.60MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18) LF 1.00
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.3.1 11/07/2019). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.