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I managed to capture the 2nd full moonrise of October on the night of Halloween. Otherwise known as a blue moon.
I made a little video showing how I took this picture, and what settings I used here youtu.be/9V0j5YRQ8YM
Time flies like wind, creating all kind of vortex, twisting everything into past, somehow much faster than it used to be. I wish to slow it down, but I guess it is not for me to manage. So I have to go, move along, try to catch a quick glimse of what it is carrying away. I'm not that fast anymore.
Managed by the National Trust, consider joining, for a photographer or historian its a ticket to some wonderful locations.
I haven't seen many of these large birds flying here on the East Coast but managed to catch a shot of this one as he flew over Lake St. Louis in Pointe-Claire, QC.
A few nights ago a mixture of a cloud inversion, then fog, rolled in over Loch Eck. The moonlight occassionally managed to find its way through to light up the Loch Eck waters.
We managed to get up to the Mount Baker Ski Area with enough time to spare to catch the alpenglow on Mount Shuksan.
I managed some time to shoot for myself today. I have been wanting to visit the Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area for quite awhile now. When my friend and photographer, Michael Rosell, posted his image I knew that it was time to go. If you find your way out there, you will see this area is right at the main gate to the right. There is a very small parking area and a wooden fence. Make your way past the fence and up a very short trail to this grove. These trees feel like something out of Northern California.
These are actually Pine trees as well which is weird given the name of the park. I shot with my 24-105L, 85mm, and 50mm. There are quite a few different styles I chose to work with and I’m excited to hear which might be your favorite. I would encourage you to click on each one to get a further detailed look.
Since 1800 this watermill on the River Test in the small town of Whitchurch in Hampshire has been dedicated to the weaving of silk. At its peak over 100 people were employed at Whitchurch Silk Mill, many of them young children. Though no longer in full commercial production, it does still produce silk for specialist customers using 15 Victorian-era looms and a multitude of fascinating machinery. The magnificent three-storey Georgian building (Grade II*) with its breast-shot water wheel is now managed by a charitable trust and open to the public. The trust's aims are to educate visitors about silk, to retain the skills of silk weaving, and to maintain the historic machinery.
Managed to get myself up to Plymbridge today for a bit of a ride around the woods. Got caught in a bit of a rain storm and managed to get a quick snap of these dog walkers going for shelter under the bridge.
Managed to get my DJI Mini2 up before the rain came down and took away most of the snow that descended this morning.
One of the small waterfalls in Upper Pucks Glen. The water level was very low that day so the waterfall was not that impressive.
Managed to get out this morning before the snow disappears again. Stayed very local as wasn’t sure how good the roads were. The mist/fog was stuck on the higher ground, so I stayed relatively low and close to home. This was taken as I had just passed through a patch of fog, and spotted this little cluster of trees, with the sun just breaking through to give some diffused light. Liked the animal tracks leading toward the trees as well.
Managed to get to Kithurst Hill at 7.15 this morning, and had myself better dialled into the butterflies.
The little Blues are such mazy creatures, leading me a merry dance on a warm morning.
I think this is a Common Blue, happy to be corrected.
Glad I went out early, as was able to collect Dave from hospital this afternoon. He's sore, and I guess our plans for mountain biking have gone awry, but at least it wasn't anything more serious.
Managing to avoid the mizzle, which threatened to end the night early. Mart and I fired off a few shots. I like this simple orange background lighting and a cooler light used in the Backlight Scanner used through the archway.
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I managed to scramble early to watch sunrise from the Alabama Hills in California. About 20 minutes before the sun's first rays hit the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, this neat pink/blue combination set in. Over the next 20 minutes they would completely change. There are so many great perspectives from these hills. Both formations are granite, with the foreground hills showing more weathering and soft shaping.
I think that here in the UK we don't get the question mark butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis), so no potential punctuation mix-ups for us!
Though this guy gave me as many shots as I wanted with its wings completely folded up, the only time it allowed me to see its rich orange colouring was in flight. This glimpse was all I managed to capture.
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Whilst the amount of rain in Scotland can be tiresome at times, it always makes for great river and waterfall photos :)
I managed to capture this Fox just at the moment he stuck his tongue out though I think he was licking his lips. Foxes are found throughout Britain and Ireland. In fact they are found pretty much throughout the Northern Hemisphere. British Foxes were once thought to be a different subspecies (crucigera) with smaller, more widely separated teeth. But further work has shown that dentition varies and it is highly doubtful whether British Foxes are sufficiently different to merit being called a subspecies. Though Foxes from even warmer parts of Europe seem to develop longer coats compared with British Foxes. They are highly adaptable and can occur in many different habitats feeding on a wide variety of food especially rabbits, voles, birds, beetles, worms and fruit. Foxes living in urban areas tend to scavenge for food scraps just as they do for carrion in rural areas. But they will also take live food in urban situations. The one visiting my garden is partial to peanuts.
Foxes mate in the depths of winter when the Vixen can be heard making that familiar screaming bark. Gestation is just over 50 days and the young are fully weaned at about 10 weeks. The male usually helps provision the young with food. The cubs usually associate with their mother until autumn, when they disperse to find territories of their own.
Somehow, I managed to arrive at Westward Ho! at exactly the right time. The tide was going out (I had planned that part) and thankfully most of the dog-walkers were still making their way towards the beach.
Imagine that, the gloriously soggy sands of Westward Ho! devoid of frantic paw prints, ball divots and start-stop welly-boot tracks. Not that I actually have anything against dog-walkers on beaches - it's a joy to see the excitement and the wagging tails - it's just extra-nice to find pristine sands when the weather is perfect for photography.
Epic clouds. Unending wet sands. Intermittent sunshine. Strong, but managable winds. Just what the Doctor ordered.
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Is it World Hyphen Day? I seem to have been on a mission to hyphenate, necessarily and un-necessarily - whatever took my fancy really.
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Usual caveats etc.
I managed to get a photo of these before the birds ate them all.
The flowers, leaves, berries, bark and roots of the elder have all been used in traditional folk medicine for centuries. There is also a rich background of folklore and traditions surrounding it. In the Middle Ages legends held that tree was home to witches and that cutting down one would bring on the wrath of those residing in the branches.
I noticed this blue blur go past a few times today but I was always just too slow to catch it. Finally I managed to get a few shots of it off in the distance and thought that was as good as I was going to get. Just when I gave up and started heading back to the car it landed right in front of me and posed long enough to capture this.
I managed to persuade my grandson to come for a short walk after dinner but, he was quite alarmed when I asked two young ladies if they mind me taking a photo of their drinks.
🇳🇱 Na bijna 60 jaar trouwe dienst is het moment daar: de Klassiekjes van de NMBS gaan definitief uit dienst. Vandaag, 14 december, wordt een belangrijke epoche in de geschiedenis van de Belgische spoorwegen afgesloten met een afscheidsrit, eentje waar ik helaas niet bij kan zijn. MS66 660 zal het enige stel zijn dat behouden blijft.
Bon, op 19 september heb ik gelukkig nog MS66 663 kunnen vereeuwigen op station Manage, die we hier als S62 E4262 naar Luttre zien vertrekken. Eigenlijk had ik een ander stekje in gedachten, maar door een recent geplaatst hekje was dat helaas niet mogelijk.
🇬🇧 After nearly 60 years of loyal service, the time has come: the NMBS/SNCB "Klassiekjes" are being retired for good. Today, December 14, marks the end of an important era in the history of Belgian railways, with a farewell run that I, unfortunately, cannot attend. MS66 660 will be the only unit preserved.
Back on 19 September I was fortunate enough to capture MS66 663 at Manage station, seen here departing working S62 E4262 to Luttre. I originally had a different spot in mind, but a recently installed fence made that impossible.
🇩🇪 Nach fast 60 Jahren treuem Dienst ist der Moment gekommen: Die „Klassiekjes“ der NMBS/SNCB gehen endgültig außer Dienst. Heute, am 14. Dezember, endet eine wichtige Epoche in der Geschichte der belgischen Eisenbahnen mit einer Abschiedsfahrt, an der ich leider nicht teilnehmen kann. Der MS66 660 wird die einzige Einheit sein, die erhalten bleibt.
Am 19. September hatte ich glücklicherweise noch die Gelegenheit den MS66 663 am Bahnhof Manage zu verewigen, hier zu sehen als S62 E4262 auf dem Weg nach Luttre. Eigentlich hatte ich einen anderen Fotostelle im Sinn, aber ein kürzlich errichteter Zaun machte das leider unmöglich.
She managed the pearls and the scarf, but Muriel thought she might need help clipping on the earrings. Personally, I'm just relieved she didn't find the red lipstick. :))
I bought these earrings for next to nothing in a local shop last year to use as a prop, but this is the first time they've seen the light of day. I was happy to see the theme this week!
For this week's Smile on Saturday! group theme, Earrings.
I only managed to get a few worthy shots on this particular evening as the ball head part of my tripod had broken. Thankfully I found the same ball head at the local camera shop later on and although it was an extra expense, I couldn't really fathom the thought of being in South Island for another 2 weeks without being able to use my tripod.
I admire all you landscape photographers out there. New Zealand is so picturesque, it truly is a landscape photographers haven. I gave it my best shot but I've come to realise that I may be out of my depth as far as this genre is concerned, lol. But still, I'll keep at it.......
White-bellied sea eagle collecting leaves for their nest. Kranji Coastal Nature Park, Singapore
Unfortunately I made a beginners mistake setting a wrong - too short - exposure but managed to somewhat recover from the resulting noise in post-processing.
I managed to get back in to an abandoned factory I thought was lost forever and was secured by fences and security guards. Now it seems all the guards have gone and the gates were wide open. And who am I to refuse another chance to visit an old favourite lightpainting haunt!?
The old factory in question was a refractories facility close to Matlock in Derbyshire, England. It's about a 40 mile drive from me so not exactly local and driving all that way only to be turned away by a security guard is not an option. Especially now since fuel for my batmobile is so expensive.
Inside the factory are wide open spaces with curved roofs and long narrow corridors. It's like a playground for lightpainters since there are so many places to shoot in.
Along the first floor is a long gallery or walkway with a cool roof supporting structure. This gallery has featured in my images from here quite a bit and last night we found ourselves up on the first floor again.
For this shot I set up a gelled flashgun at the rear of frame and asked the model, @inksurgeon to stand in the middle. We set off a smoke pellet to provide background seperation behind the subject. Once happy with the main part of the image, I replaced the lens cap without ending the exposure.
I then turned on a couple of tactically placed RGB LED cubes pointed at the steelwork. I then removed the lens cap and rotated the blue lit steel structure for a total of eight ways. The camera is rotated around the lens axis and I expose each segment for a couple of seconds before rotating the camera.
Possibly a bit complicated to explain to the non-lightpainter but I can say that this image was made in one photographic exposure.
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I managed to get this photo after I tripped in Bodie last Saturday, but it was clear that I had injured my wrist, so I put the camera and tripod in the car and focused on setting up shots and lighting subjects for the rest of the night session.
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With the sanders working, 56091 restarts 6M43 from a signal check at Rattenclough Cottage Crossing on the climb to Copy Pit. 2N90 was running late in the section ahead and I imagine the driver was cursing the red aspect on the climb.
I wasn't mind, it gave enough time for the sun to climb above a bit of thin cloud. To be fair, the grid immediately found its feet and continued the climb at walking pace.
Managed to include my trusty 20 year old Defender 110 in the frame and write off a pair of Adidas Simba trainers in the morning dew having traipsed across the fields looking for the best shot, when I could have just walked along the pavement from where I parked my Landy! Perils of the hobby.
Glad to get this rare hire in by Colas of the DCR 56, the train is 6M43, 02.43 Haverton Hill to Preston Docks, itself a relatively new flow, taking over from the flow from Lindsey.
This is the uncropped version of my Mischief Managed photo for Eclipse.