Managed to catch a gorgeous sunset over St Giles church at Sandiacre. Despite the saying of Red Sky at Night..It wasn’t a Shepherds Delight! Woke up to thick fog! 😳.

I found this 1977-78 Chrysler LeBaron coupe at T&B Motors on Raymond and Bluff Rd in Indianapolis. Of course this rare example is already sold. Hopefully someone will restore it to it's former glory. It was rainy, cold and windy so most of my shots were bad quality but I managed to salvage a couple.

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Managed to get a better pose second time round

Managed to escape the chewing teeth of the deer

I didn't get out kayaking in 2016 nearly as much as I would have liked. I just didn't seem to time my weekends well enough to get the best weather along with the fact that my urge this year was to walk rather than paddle. However this is one of my shots from my paddle in September.

I managed to get a shot of one of the juvenile kestrels at RHS Hyde Hall the other evening, but today I managed to get four of them in one shot! We think this is all of the juveniles as we stood and watched for a while. The one on the edge of the nest box kept hopping down out of sight, but there was never any sign of a fifth juvenile!

Managed to get out this morning and pay the beach a visit - this time it was Newcastle Beach, NSW; Australia.

Here I've used the rusty posts that surround what's known locally as The Canoe (or World) Pool a children's saltwater pool that is located beside the Newcastle Ocean Baths.

The sun was pretty high in the sky so it was necessary for me to use my Lee Big Stopper and Lee .9 Hard Grad filters to create this long exposure image.

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Another one of those beautiful, calm days on Loch Eck, with a lovely sky reflected in it at the end of the day.

Explore position: 252 on Sunday, February 20, 2022

Managed to shoot a few lovely shots of one of these speedsters swooping low over the field picking of midget flies. This is a 50% crop.

Olympic Peninsula near Forks Washington. May 2025.

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko 50mm 1.8. Salvaged camera and lens. Cinestill 800, lab processed and printed (BMC)

I managed to make time for a visit to Stodmarsh NNR (one of my favourite wildlife destinations) and, despite an unpromising forecast, the light wasn't too bad. The more than predicted 'fresh breeze' meant small birds and insects, apart from odonata, were mostly hiding.

Just managed to capture the northern lights on a 50:50 cloudy night. Corona appears as a curtain from straight above, with rays coming down directly overhead.

The pinkish clouds are glowing from light pollution, produced from 2-3 lights that illuminate the junction of two major Alaska roadways, a couple of miles away.

Rokinon 12 mm 2.8 manual fisheye lens.

This week I managed to photograph both Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler at close quarters. This one is a Chiffchaff and I'll post the similar Willow Warbler later. Most years the Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is the first spring migrant that I see and this year was no exception as I saw a couple of singing birds on 28 February. This coincided with some unusually warm, fine weather. Chiffchaffs do overwinter in Britain but they tend to occur at lower altitudes, so living in the Pennines I rarely see them in winter, and assume that singing birds in my area are genuine migrants. The early migrants like Chiffchaff mainly winter around the Mediterranean, so do not have as far to travel as sub-Saharan migrants. They can also make use of good migrating weather systems in Europe whereas the weather in sub-Saharan Africa has little relevance to the weather in Europe.

Chiffchaffs are very closely related to Willow Warblers and it was Gilbert White (author of the Natural History of Selborne) who first realised they were separate species by listening to their distinctive songs. He also separated Wood Warbler at the same time. This was in 1768 in correspondence with Thomas Pennant, twenty one years before he published the Natural History of Selborne. It isn't just the song that distinguishes them, Chiffchaffs are duller than Willow Warblers, with shorter wings and distinctive dark legs, all visible here. They also have a more ptominent white crescent below the eye and have a habit of down-pumping their tails. Willow Warblers are similar, except Willow Warbler is a little brighter with longer wings, and paler legs. That eye crescent is less obvious, and they don't habitually pump their tail. But if spring the song is the best way to distinguish them. Here is Chiffchaff song on Xeno Canto: www.xeno-canto.org/466006 (By Andrew Harrop at Rutland Water). For comparison here's a Willow Warbler www.xeno-canto.org/621080

The scientific name Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner from its habit of searching leaves for insects. Collybita means money-counter which refers to the song; chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chiff-chiff-chaff. This really does sound like someone counting coins from a table top. And for me that coin-counting repetitive song will always herald the arrival of spring.

I have not managed yet to do a current "time" challenge, however, when the challenge was set I thought about this image which is where my family used to live when I was aged 2-5. It is one of those places that becomes etched in your soul. My parents owned the local store in Pigeon Bay and they were the happiest of days which our family can remember. I visited it a few years back just to get a photo in time. I am sitting on the veranda of the shop.

Somehow I managed to get between the male and female coyotes in the cold weather. -2 degress, no wind and sunny. She went back into the woods and I hung out for about 15 minutes. I could see both the male and female pacing on either side of me just inside the tree line. Finally the female decided to catch up to the male and I got my photo op.

Finally managed to get out again for a sunrise shoot!

I decided to give my old Tokina 11-16 lens another run (now that I've got a new crop camera - Canon 7D mk ii).

Unfortunately, a lack of cloud and sunrise color didn't welcome me back - but the moss covered rocks and a couple of filters helped extract some life from the moment!!!

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Lee .6 ProGlass + Progrey 1.2 Reverse Grad used.

Just managed to catch this very pale imm bird as it flew through A small clearing in the trees directly overhead so A snatch shot !!

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Managed to get out once while in Newcastle over Christmas (annoying 2 beautiful sunrises which I missed due to Christmas Day and a flight to Southampton!) and headed to my favourite local spot, St Mary's Lighthouse. For once got the tide height and sunrise pretty bang on for a nice level of water over the causeway.

St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Nikon D750 / Nikon 16-35 @ 20mm / f/8 5s / LEEfilters 0.6nd Hard Grad

Managed to make it down to the lower lighthouse at Eastbourne last Thursday. What was a risky walk over the slippery rocks and staying away from the base of the cliffs, just in case of rock fall. I had the pleasure of seeing an incredible sunset. As the sun dipped under the low clouds, it managed to put some colour on the sky before dropping below the horizon. Times like these I'm very glad and grateful that I live close to the coast.

This is a shot taken from above the waterfall that I call the Whale's Tail in Puck's Glen. The scene is a wee bit cluttered due to logging and landslide debris and this is the reason why the water over the rocks has been re-directed and no longer takes the shape of a whale's tail.

"Her words are like her plays. Dangerous and hard to fly pass" ~ Gossiping Hufflepuff

I will be starting an Album of Slytherin Quidditch Players and hopefully other house team players.

Managed to get the French Tricolore flag

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Managed to catch this hummingbird hovering next to the chili petin bush. I think it's probably a female black-chinned hummingbird.

Montell, Uvalde County, Texas

A simple pat on the head doesn’t seem quite that innocuous when you weigh hundreds of pounds and your claws don’t retract. But when brown bears spar, the injuries are few. Occasionally one might see a bit of fur flying on a breeze but not much more. I’m not at all certain how they manage to avoid hurting each other but they seem to do just fine. #BrownBears

I don't often take wildlife photos but this horse, in a field near Ardentinny, was very photogenic and seemed keen to have its photo taken. I think that it expected an apple, or some sugar, for its efforts but all I could offer it was some green, green grass from the other side of the road :)

This panorama was merged from 5 single shots taken with the H5D-60 and the 4/210 lens. Black and white conversion was made with the channel mixer in photoshop.

Additionally a gradation curve in a further layer was made to manage tonal values as good as possible. With the 210 mm lens, angle of view is a bit closer than it was with the first panorama I have shown some time before.

Managed to get Petrov up into the forest for a test flight with new firmware, just as the Sun was about to disappear below the ridgeline.

Day 16 of Pentax Forum's Daily in August 2017 Challenge.

Managed to see a pair of Grey (English) Partridges this morning. Getting rather short supply now & on the endangered list now. I have been looking hard & was beginning to think I might not see them this year

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The books and assignments keep piling up in Otter's OWLs year, he is only just managing to keep up.

Photo Mojo has disappeared, but at least I managed something for the Digital Photography Courses 52 Week project! Taken with my iPhone 12 Pro.

Managed to put the birds aside for a day to look for Autumn colors. We did some searching in Western Iowa and found this beautiful spot. What a wonderful time of the year.

Had fun yesterday trying to catch birds doing some leaps from the branch to the birch tree feeder...finally managed on in focus :)

I managed to create an image of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) between clouds on the morning of July 11, 2020. The photo was made of 8 fifteen second exposures taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 400, f/4.5)

I managed to acclimate this Swallowtail Butterfly to me when it was a caterpillar, and it remembered me after its metamorphosis. It's willingness to let me get close, coupled with some cool temperatures, allowed me to take a lot of photos.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order.

You won't find this forest on any tourist information map or a National Park Map as it's a forest managed for logging.

This planted forest is one of England's biggest managed forests and spans several miles in all directions, there's no road, no foot path, no bridleways, no car parks, no toilets, nothing, just miles and miles of dense forest, this picture was taken from roughly the middle of the forest.

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Made a detour on the way home from a conference in Virginia to celebrate World Pinhole Day. Cost me an hour of driving, but the falls are pretty amazing, even with the big crowds. Managed to hopscotch across a few creeks to find a decent spot without any fishermen in the way. This was about as close to the falls as I could figure how to get.

Lensless Camera Company 4x5 camera: Fujifilm FP-100C45. Exposure a pinholer's guesstimate of 30 seconds based on a 2 second meter reading.

I managed to visit the interior of the church when it was open the next day. Another Very DARK church inside. It was so dark in there that many of the murky details in the photos were impossible to see when I was actually visiting the church. My simple camera performed miracles.

Managed to get a shot with him looking into camera this morning, still lots of twigs in way as usual

Managed to get a shot of this turtle paddling along the coast off Argostoli.

Managed to grab a quick shot before if flitted off. never seem to stay still long. This little fella is exploring some mossy branches . Lovely little birds can be quite confiding so when one strikes A pose for the camera I grab it !!

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Meh edits and all that jazz. I just needed a picture for the profile on her wikia... So here it is! <.<

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Yay, music.

I spent a great day in the Alabama Hills during a recent trip to Vegas. Absolutely fell in love with this area. Can't believe I've not been here before. The arrangement of crazy Alabama Hills rock formations against the backdrop of the incredible Eastern Sierra mountains is just total eye candy for me. I never realized how close it was to Vegas and/or LA.

After a bit of sunrise shooting followed by a fantastic breakfast at the Mount Whitney restaurant (best home fries ever!), I went for a drive around the hills to familiarize myself better with the area. There were some clouds starting to decend over the Sierras so I pulled over and stuck the 70-200mm on my camera to do some handheld closeups of the cloud covered mountains.

As I was shooting I heard the unmistakable roar of jet fighters and spotted a pair of them streaking across the valley towards the mountains. Managed to catch one as it was ascending over the mountain range. I also happened to catch a pair of birds startled by the noise flying through the frame. I'll confess here that I didn't actually catch these together in the same frame at the same time, so this is in fact a composite but it was a pretty simple job to merge the two pictures. Not something I do very often but since both shots were real and taken within seconds on the same spot I didn't feel too guilty for blending them together. As to the jet I'm not an expert but I'm guessing an F/18 from nearby Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake.

Now I'm super excited to go back and visit this area again and take more time exploring. Not sure when that might be in these troubled times.

I managed to catch this jet stream as it passed the sculpture of The Ship at Half Moon Bay, Heysham. It has the effect of passing through the cavity in the sculptured mans body.

This sculpture is by Anna Gillespie to celebrate the maritime heritage of the Morecambe Bay area.