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The interconnected mesas that make up the Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park light up a beautiful red at sunset, April, 2023. The one on the right reminded me of a locomotive, hence the title of this photo with my thanks to Ian Anderson.
The Digger memorial , a remembrance cenotaph in many small towns throughout Australia . They were erected at the end of the Great War of 1914 -18 . A permanent reminder of the huge sacrifice this young country paid with the lost of so many young lives in time of war .
With a population of fewer than 5 million , 416,809 enlisted , 62,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded gasses or taken prisoner .
Anzac Day . Less We Forget .
1954 Felber Modell 101 Möwe Kabinenroller (Hofmann & Moldrich body)
- it is a microcar with a 0.8 mm aluminium egg-shaped coupé bodywork built at Hofmann & Moldrich in Vienna
- this bubble car proved more expensive to produce and the heavier bodywork reduced performance and made the car less stable
- 398cc 2-stroke twin-boxer Rotax engine air cooled
- power 15 bhp
- top speed 75 km/h
- only 10 produced in 1953 and 1954
- this is the only known survivor !!!
P1690123 - Loten's Sunbird - Size - 13 cm
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The Loten's sunbird, long-billed sunbird or maroon-breasted sunbird, (Cinnyris lotenius) is a sunbird endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its long bill distinguishes it from the similar purple sunbird that is found in the same areas and also tends to hover at flowers. Like other sunbirds, it feeds on small insects and builds characteristic hanging nests.
The species is named after a colonial Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Gideon Loten.
DO YOU KNOW - Less than 100 Pygmy Sloths Survive.
The Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) - is one of the world's most endangered mammals, according to a detailed survey of the population, which found less than 100 sloths hanging on in their island home. (May 24, 2012).
Happy birding! 🐾
Considerably less beloved than E8s were the low-slung Bombardier LRC locomotives, built to power matching trainsets. At least in the early days they looked somewhat impressive as eight and nine car consists with an engine on each end, as in the case of VIA No. 6908 at Brockville on 6 July 1986 with a corridor train.
The weather recently has been less than acceptable all over the country and yesterday was no different. I wanted to shoot something and just get out for a while, so I found a field with sage grass being saturated with the misting rain. The light was awesome, like a huge soft box so I used a long lens to isolate the subject and focus on those tiny droplets of cold.
Thanks for stopping by.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
In snowy nature, the short branches of spruce are useful. Less snow accumulates. Such spruces are called candle trees.
Melaleuca parviceps is a spreading or erect shrub, up to 1 m high. Young shoots are densely hairy. Leaves are elongate, round or elliptical in cross-section, 20-25 mm long, and pointed at the end; initially hairy but becoming hairless with prominent glands. Flowers occur in globular heads at the end of branchlets. The floral tube, sepals and petals are less than 4 mm long. The stamens are bright pink to purple and in bundles 10-20 mm long. The buds are pinkish brown and shiny. Fruit a woody capsule, 3-5 mm across with sunken valves. Grows in shallow soil on granite and on lateritic soils. Previously included with M. scabra but that species only occurs on the south coast of WA.
I captured this image on Castle Lake Road in Siskiyou County, California, USA on a late October 2021 afternoon. The sun was getting fairly low in the sky to camera right and beyond the trees around the curve in the road. The scene was absolutely majestic with the oaks in such vibrant fall colors.
The old castle of Machaerus lies less than 20 km southwest of Madaba at the King's Highway on a stark promontory (720 m), overlooking the Dead Sea and protected on three sides by deep ravines. This dramatic hilltop is the traditional site of the execution of John the Baptist.
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Machaerus war eine Burg Herodes des Großen. Die Burganlage liegt auf einem kegelförmigen Berg östlich des Toten Meeres im heutigen Jordanien in der Nähe der alten Weihrauchstraße. Hier soll der biblischen Überlieferung nach Johannes der Täufer enthauptet worden sein.
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Ich war oben, der Anstieg zur Burg ist steil, und das war bei über 30 Grad schon anstrengend. Von der Burg stehen nur spärliche Mauerreste, der Blick ins Land und auf das Tote Meer ist aber ein Traum.
One of the most numerous and widespread diving ducks in North America, especially on inland waters. Can be very active when feeding, diving and surfacing repeatedly. In winter often seen on lakes and bays in dense flocks, numbering hundreds or even thousands, and often with no other species of ducks associated with them. The two species of scaup sometimes occur in the same places, but they tend to keep to themselves rather than mixing freely.
from audubon.org
In the recent weeks/months I've been unsuccessfully wrestling to keep a presence in the Flickr community.
If on one side I have less and less time for myself, on the other I have been struggling with my own photography: I imagine I am going through what afflicted many other photographers before me: Having started many years ago with film, I was at one time seduced by digital and later disappointed by the said medium. Yet, aiming at the best from both worlds, I returned to medium format film; somehow I cannot bring myself to scan those minute 35mm negatives.
Additionally, I decided to try colour photography, from which I have long shunned, owing to my partial colour blindness to red.
This picture is one study I have recently made on sharpness in photography: sharp or not so sharp, that is the question. My eyes tell me that sharpness adds a lot to a photograph, my heart that it adds too much.
The above are two different edits of the same digital photograph made with a Leica M10 Monochrome and the Summilux 1.4/50 Asph. Lens. While the left version was edited to enhance contrast and sharpness, the right one was edited to soften both.
Your comments and views on this matter will be highly appreciated, thank you.
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Leica M10-M, Summilux 1.4/50 Asph., EI 160 ISO, 1/360s, f/13
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P.S.
Although I will reply to each comment, I would like to thank here all who took much of their time to share with me their thoughts on this subject.
A friend and colleague photographer here on Flicker once said that medium format film is my "at home", and I think he is quite right.
Although I have taken a lot of 35mm photos in the very early 90s, from 92 onwards I used mostly medium format film. As the gear got a bit too heavy for my liking I moved to the 35mm format but was never entirely happy with the results. Getting a good scan with a "normal" scanner is pretty difficult.
I tried my hand at digital photography and was initially fascinated by the sharp resolution and the vivid colours, but with time the images started to feel too aggressive, and recently I tried my hand again at medium format film.
This test was to prove myself that I could get a "film-like" soft resolution, soft contrast image from a very sharp, very contrasted file. Curiously, this does not satisfy me for, what is the point in having ultra-sharp gear if you prefer softer images.
And so, my heart brought me back home to medium format film photography. I'll occasionally do some digital photography too, but for as long as I can, medium format will be my main line.
And maybe time will bring me back again to digital, one never knows....
Thank you all again, for your great input
Smile on Saturday - Less Is More (Minimalism)
A couple of Canon body caps and a Fitbit charging cable strategically placed on a yellow T-shirt. Hope this makes you smile on Saturday. :-)
By August 1998, Union Pacific had been in charge of Southern Pacific's Shasta Route for almost two years. Aside from the UP C40-8 bracketed by the two SP SD70Ms, this photo on the Dry Canyon viaduct near Hotlum, California could have been taken pre-merger. For a few years after UP's acquisition, most of the manifest traffic on the I-5 corridor was handled by ex-SP power. The UP GE is an interesting sight - a decade earlier it was the latest and greatest power, while today it's just another six-axle motor.
The excess height boxcars, used for paper loading, strongly suggest that most of this train will be turned over to Willamette & Pacific at Eugene, Oregon. In 1998, WPRR had major paper facilities online at Newberg and Toledo. The mill at Newberg was closed in 2016. Although the Toledo plant is still active, traffic today for Portland & Western is less than it was when this Kodachrome was exposed.
for the first time this year i was go by bike and took a look at the nearby locations like this lake, alot of people i meet here, all enjoy the clean nature around here, i like this too because thats one of the rare lakes without privat areas directly on it and no motorboats are allowed here so the water and nature quality holds on here
Or more less...
Or more or less... the same?
We were lucky enough to catch a burst of warm sunlight around evening time on a cloudy day, that lit up the bright yellow of the rapeseed, producing this beautiful contrast of warm yellow and cool blue.
Tried a number of compositions using the same elements, but in the end liked this sweeping, fairly minimalist shot, as it captured the flavour of the location and time the best - relatively flat, open countryside, with broad, sweeping sky, and cool, though bright conditions.
A single RAW image, tonemapped in Photomatix, finished in Lightroom and Elements.
What is it? Macro Mondays
This portion of the "whatsit" is less than 2" long.
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The Leaning Tower and the Basilica were breathtaking but on our walk back to the station for our return to Florence we took a couple of unwise detours and found ourselves very quickly in, well, ahem, shall we say, less salubrious surroundings.
It was quite sad really, especially given the unique cultural importance of the site and the numbers of visitors that the town pulls in.
This was the view across the river from the south side.
Thanks for the visit and I hope that you enjoy the work.
Cluke