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A couple of mornings ago my compliant spotter and I were headed out of a deserted parking area near a quiet country lake. As we drove slowly toward the main tar road, I spotted a bluish-gray bird swooping over the adjacent fields of tall grass with its head pointed downward.
From my past experiences, I knew this was a Norther Harrier on a morning hunt so I stopped our vehicle, got out and leaned against it for some support. I extended my telephoto lens and centered in on the action but with the old eyes I now have I realized I could only follow the shape in the lens without really seeing much detail from about 60 yards away.
After tracking it for a while, I figured it would take me about a day and a half to go through all the photos I had taken so I quit. I climbed back into our SUV where my wife reminded me again not to let mosquitos in although I had not seen any since last October.
I remarked to her that I thought I caught a glimpse of another bird that photo-bombed the photos of the harrier and was eager to get home to see on my large monitor what it might have been.
Imagine my surprise to bring up this photo with two differently colored raptors that necessitated an online search of bird apps to find out what I was looking at. Turns out they are both Northern Harriers, a male and a female. Like in a lot of cases, the female harriers are larger and more aggressive than males and often chase the males away when food is involved.
Females are colored brown while their mates weigh in with black wingtips on a grayish-blue body. Some research suggests the females will even steal prey mid-air from their male counterpart while he is flying somewhere on his way to eat it.
Armed with all this new knowledge, I have begun to be a little more aware of my wife when I am in the kitchen preparing a snack.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
GBRF 60096 builds up some momentum on the approach to Knottingley station whilst working the 6E09 0738 Liverpool - Drax biomass .
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Location: Navarro Beach (Navarro Redwoods State Park) in Mendocino County, California.
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Royal Jordanian Air Force No.3 Squadron's C-130H Hercules '347' took on a distinct lean as she taxied out to depart Fairford after RIAT 2017
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Sagging lamp on a sagging table leaning on a sagging wall...does it get any better for grime photography?
Went for a photo walk this morning around Botanic/Queens in Belfast and came across these two Gentlemen who appear to have enjoyed their evening a little too much.
For me this shot is an attempt to come up with something slightly more unique than my conventional way of photographing long exposure waterfalls. I’ve been to this location, in the wonderfully named and spectacularly beautiful “Valley of Desolation”, many times over the years, but this time I wanted to change my approach in order to overcome the slight dissatisfaction from my previous efforts here. which have been either compositionally challenging, (there is an irritating holly bush at the top of this waterfall, that is hard to make work compositionally), or standing in the obvious place does give you good foreground interest, but makes it impossible to take more than one shot, as not surprisingly at the bottom of a waterfall the spray is a nightmare...Interestingly as a friend and I walked up the valley towards the waterfall, my apprehension became further compounded as I was also struggling with my own perceptions of what a waterfall offered in the way of subject originality and desperately wanted to find a new approach.
Now I tentatively make the following comment in the apprehension that it may sound a little arrogant and I honestly do not intend it to offend anybody, but as subjects I feel waterfalls are bordering on the fringes of cliché. Now this obviously doesn’t mean that they are, on the contrary I’ve seen many wonderfully emotive and powerful images of waterfalls that have taken my breath away, but maybe this abundance of quality in itself is part of the problem, as I seem to have become numb to obvious positive elements... It’s kind of like when you over play a favourite song, the track doesn't change, but your perception of it does with over listening. So as Wayne and I walked up the valley to the waterfall I was subconsciously struggling with my very own perception and felt a need to challenge and change it.
Now digressing a little to strengthen my position and to attempt to elevate your growing distaste to my slight arrogance, I sometimes feel the same way about images made at ‘famous’ photographic locations such as , Antelope Canyon, or Bamburgh Castle, or indeed subjects such as sunsets or long exposure coastal shots, (man I do sound like a hypocrite here). There still remains an oversaturated, (excuse the obvious play on words) ever so slightly putrid aftertaste from seeing too many. As I said before, this doesn’t mean that any of the shots are poor pieces of work, or indeed are not well composed and considered, but like the music analogy, you can only listen to a pop music for so long and at some point you end up wanting Nick Cave or PJ Harvey as your taste develops. Funny I have never become tired of ‘Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction’, anyway enough of that...
I think for a large part the oversaturation from photography magazines, personal blogs, social networking sites and massive influx of affordable good quality digital cameras, has produced thousands of images that only 20 years ago would have stood out and shone. Now the competition to be unique, to be fresh and dynamic is much harder especially if you choose a subject or location that have been done many times before, which I’m at paints to reveal I frequently do. I can’t help myself, I just love those locations.
This is why I must keep reminding myself to ‘try’ and avoid the obvious compositions in such subjects or places, as most importantly, there is a greater potential for personal development opportunities when the lean pickings of a location or subject are worked around and eventually found. But with heightened potential comes heightened vulnerability, as the images you make in those locations risk being perceived falling between the cliché and pretentiousness. Don’t worry I’m not advocating becoming a incongruent fine artist that takes shots of dog feces and pretentiously pins some social commentary to it in the hope that others will buy into the junkstaposition of meaninglessness, I’m just trying to challenge my assumptions to stimulate and develop my own vision, within my preferred subjects.
Anyway back to the photograph, this time I clambered up a slippery muddy slope, to the more or less inaccessible side of the waterfall and lodged myself into the thick of the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ type undergrowth. With my tripod firmly wedged in, saving me from slipping down into the pool of icy water and one side of my body wet with a mixture of mud and soggy leaves, I composed this shot with an attempt to gain as much depth and movement I could from the hanging windblown vegetation.
Funny as unpleasant as it is, I don’t feel like I’ve been working hard enough unless I come back with muddy or wet trousers, is this just me?
Many, many thanks to my brother-in-law who came and fixed my computer! I had over 350 Trojan viruses and many others. D'oh!!
My dear daughter leans on this sea stack at Rialto beach providing some perspective on the height of it. I also presented a similar shot in black and white.
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Two Gerbera (South African sunflowers)
Shot with the Sony NEX-6 using the E30mm F3.5 macro lens
My Gerbera, Daisy set: Gerbera & Daisies
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Wonderfully restored Everett Railroad 2-6-0 Mogul leans into the curve. Built by Alco Cooke Works in 1920.
Sadly, this house has now leaned all the way down to the ground, over the course of one year between visits.
Not a web-builder; rather, it stalks its prey like a hunting feline. Hence the lynx title. I have applied as much "magic" as I can with Topaz to improve the sharpness of the spider, but the identity of the prey is not clear.
Taken at Campbell Valley Park, Langley, British Columbia, CA.
This little Dee puts pressure on me for a handout of seed. They were following me continually on the trail some even flying into my face to get the point across. Either that, or it was just my personal magnetism. Some call it the Snow White syndrome.
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" . . .Lean on me when you're not strong, I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on . . ."
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Model - Rachel Kenney
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Buffalo Tom, Leuven, Belgium, July 2022
After the previous succes of my last photograph on [Explore] I have decided to snap a few other Leaners I pass on the way to work.! This is on the A39 Also just outside of Kilkhampton this afternoon on a lovely bright day but very cold!
We arrived at the Grand Canyon just as the sun was setting and enjoyed the incredible views of the absolutely massive canyons.
We had to head over to our campsite as they were first come first serve and after driving around, the last one was just taken minutes before we arrived.
We ended up asking a couple if we could share the space that they had and they were more than welcoming.
After unpacking all of the tent stuff, we realized that we were missing one piece, the actual tent...
With several minutes of searching and realizing that we were indeed tentless, we decided to fashion a lean-to out of the slip cover that would go over the tent to protect from rain. The tree we found worked perfectly and everything was set.
I knew that I wanted to try and capture a frame with our lean-to and Polaris just happened to be perfectly placed for a star trail photo.
The lights going back and forth from the tent are from headlamps as we went back and forth while cooking our food. They are obviously messy but I loved what they conveyed about the photo.
Stacked using Starstax.
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