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Managed to catch the 1995-built "Cable Innovator" on a beautiful day. One of the largest cable ships today.
Stray, Manila, Philippines.
Tip of the ear is not clipped meaning it has not yet been picked up for neutering and inoculations which volunteers manage specifically in this area of the city.
Managed to snap this one on a trip to Tal-y-bont earlier this week, very lucky to witness a beautiful sunset and be on the beach with my camera. Also lucky to have the guy fishing in the sea at the right of the frame to give a sense of scale.
(Picture above is one of my first Fotos i have from her. Here she shows me the Sim she manages...and gives me a first ride *giggle* ;-) )
.....as i asked her...why she was sorry....she said....i bumped accidently into u...SL lag...and so i wanted to tell u i was sorry. But then you vanished.
Hmmm...i think that was the first time in SL...i thank the Linden Gods for lag. ;-)
Now after a nice short talk...i saw she was a funny and sweet Lady. So we decided to met in SL. She gave me TP to a nice danceclub, and yes....all what i remember from 7th January is..that i had a very good night with her dancing and talking about her life...and all what she had on her heart. I never met such a lovely person before....so direct but also lovely together. We had much laugh.
Then my next days were busy. Didnt came often into SL. A Day before i had my flight to Greece for vacation...was around 11. january....i wanted to buy a new nice skin. Some sweet lovely SL Goddess told me about it...i think her name starts with Mel...Mel something....dont remember the full name now. ;-) Yes...she told me about Minnu Model Skinns. So i was there to find my new look.
I only had some 30 minutes until i had to log out..and go to bed. As next day in morning my flight to Athens was booked. The sweet Lady from from my rezzday meeting Imed me....asking me what i do now. I was in hurry...only told her i was shopping a skin. (secret notification: she had as i met her a very ugly skin...and yes only one in her inventory....so no..it was not the skin that attracted me the dance night).
So i gave sweet Alexis a LM....and as i was looking for skins there...she was flying around me...starting to get a new obsession. Dont blame me....but i think..she has today around 200 expensive skins...and 2000 free or 1 L$ ones. I cant say...who started this obsession inside her. Couldnt be me. ;-)
After i came back from greece 10 days later....she Imed me again. Told me to met her. So i got a invitaion to her home.
to be continued on next Pic....
As soon as Mario and I managed to find each other in the crowded center of Milan, we walked around looking for a good spot: I think Mario did see the beautiful Lera and Anastasia and I did go and approach them: at first they both were ok with posing, but a bit surprised and uncomfortable, but a few shots later they both enjoyed the experience and helped us with strong expressions. If I recall correctly, Mario suggested to take advantage of the cigarette and use it for the frame and, at some point I think Mario also helped with the reflector.
It took me a while to get proper control of the situation: thankfully Lera is an experienced model and was really great and helpful!
I got quite a few good shots, but I think the gaze in this one is pretty strong.
I had the chance to have a talk both with Lera and Anastasia and we spoke about their experience in Italy and about the beautiful Russia: Anastasia suggested I should go and see Moscow.
This definitely was a good start for a great day with Mario!
Thank you so much Lera: it was really fun taking pictures of you and wish you all the best!!!
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from our amazing shoot today! my third last shoot of the year, can't believe how fast everything this year happened and how much i managed to shoot. i'll be doing an end of year blog post hopefully recounting everything that's happened and releasing new images from all these recent shoots i've been squeezing in so close to christmas.
model: mimi
clothing: lenni vintage
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Last year when I was kayaking on Loch Long I came across an old pier and a derelict building at the top of some worn concrete steps. It turned out I has come across the remains of an old World War 2 building used to winch anti-submarine nets across the loch. I often wondered if there was a way to get to it across land, and a couple of weekends ago I managed to find an old trail leading to it.
Managed to find the nest site of a pair of Dartford warblers kept our distance as Mum & Dad kept a steady flow of food coming
On our way to Knysna the day before we were lucky enough to photograph the train heading east in sunshine and the same happened the following day. With the tide out this time we were able to climb down to the Kaaimans River bed and photograph the the clagging 24's as they worked west.
Unfortunately the afternoon was not as good weatherise as we climbed to Power and over the Montague from George to Oudtshoorn in cloud. The two shots we had managed here though more than made up for the disappointment of missing out on Montague.
Mamiya 645. FujiRDP.
Blue Hour at Kirkwall Harbour.
Out early this morning for the Blue Hour, managed a couple of shots before the camera battery died:(
I managed to capture this beautiful flag in the February breeze last weekend at Old Washington. The occasion was "Frontier Days at the Hill of the Five Trails." It is a small get-together of reenactors demonstrating life in the 19th century in early Arkansas.
Old Washington is on a hill where four Indian trails intersected with the old Southwest Trail near Fulton at the crossing of the Red River. It was well established by 1822 as "Ebenezer Campground" and administered by the reverend William Stevenson who came to be known as the Father of Methodism in Arkansas. Stephen F. Austin and his brother-in-law, James Bryan were among the first landowners as they set up a supply depot to serve nearby Fulton's Landing. ¹
This flag probably never flew over Old Washington in the 1800s. In fact, the Betsy Ross Flag was never an official United States Flag.²
By 1822 the official U.S. Flag had 24 stars. It remained as such for 14 years, somewhat of a record at the time, until 1836 when the 25th star was added to represent the new state of Arkansas.
¹ books.google.com/books?id=AHEae3j2xusC&pg=PA4&lpg... "Hill of the five trails"
I managed to squeeze in a bit of brick therapy during the past few weeks.
This is small cargo shuttle, that I've been building over the last five weeks or so. This ship is intended to be the space equivalent of a box truck, like this. I imagine this particular ship as having a lot of light-years under its belt, used for longer journeys than originally intended, so there's a hammock in the cargo bay. As I explained above, I had a lot of time to think about this creation, even if I didn't have much time to build or blog. I also imagined the that it might not always have been docked in the nicest of space neighborhoods, so I built after I took some photos, I covered it in graffiti.
Managed to borrow a boat to get me here. The little Cumbrae is a small relatively inaccessible island on the west coast of Scotland
Managed to get down to this spot in the rain without slipping to my death, and waited out the shower till it passed further down the Newlands Valley.
This was taken on our last morning at Puerto Pollenca, we had to get up early to get ready to go back to the airport, we were in the process of packing our cases when I looked outside to see the sky taking on some amazing colours, needless to say I was off like a shot grabbing my camera and tripod charging across the beach to capture the gorgeous reflections over the water. I even managed to fine a few small rocks to place in the foreground. Not a bad way to finish our holiday 😊(1/4 f/6.3 @ 12mm NiSi GND8 Reverse grad + polarising filters v5 system holder )
On this visit I did get to see these butterflies and in decent numbers, but managed few photos due to their limited settling for any length of time.
I do like the setting.
managed to outwit this little guy. I spent a good half an hour stalking and chasing through the bush. Eventually it sat still in the open for just long enough so I could rattle off a few frames. It doesn't look to impressed though.
Managed to get out for a little while this morning, and headed to Higger Tor in the Peak District. Conditions weren't exactly what I wanted - clear sky, which was expected, but no mist which I had been hoping for. It was also heaving with people, and someone, somewhere, was having a rave in their car. Unfortunately I forgot my glowsticks and whistle...
Played around with a few compositions using the gritstone rocks in the foreground, and some nice warm sidelight, and it was nice just to be out with my camera for the first time in over a month, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.
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I managed to escape to the Peak District this week to catch up with an old friend and visit a new location. The idea was to wild camp and take both sunset and sunrise shots, but the weather forecast changed and the sun failed to show up at sunset and with heavy rain predicted through the night and into the next day we decided to call it a night.
A nice view but one for another day when the conditions are better. A nice leg stretch and a good chat in the pub before heading home to a comfy bed.
Managed to get in the revamped Kingfisher hide today for the first time, I arrived at around 11.30 and by 3.00 the resident female visited at least 10 times.
Ok the weather was crap but I still managed to bag a few decent images when the clouds thinned every now and again..
I shot this same comp a year ago at Alkali Pond in the Eastern Sierras, CA and wanted to try it again. Rich Bitonti joined me for several days during this trip which was fun. Unfortunately it was extremely windy which made shooting lakes difficult. Tioga Pass was also closed which really sucked. I guess spring is arriving late this year. Anyway, I did manage some pretty good shots despite the conditions so I'll post those later.
Canon 5D mkII, Canon 17-40 f4@17mm, f11@1/125th sec, ISO 400
Uppland, Sweden - January 2025
I traveled to Bälinge near Uppsala to photograph Pine Grosbeaks. The temperature was a biting -17°C, and I had borrowed a foldable metal ladder from my housing association to bring along. After many hours of effort, I finally managed, in the last rays of sunlight, to set up the ladder and climb to roughly the same level as the birds. This allowed me to capture them without the usual blue sky background from below.
At last, I got a clear shot of a stunning red male—a truly beautiful representative of this species. Pine Grosbeaks are a rare sight around the Stockholm area, only appearing in certain years when they arrive in numbers from the northeast, leaving the coniferous taiga forests in search of rowan berries.
"Without remorse, sorrow, or regret
God has preformed another glorious sunset"
~ Michael Edward Peadro
It requires no special place to shoot good pictures. And sunsets don’t recognize any particular region in this planet to expose their exquisiteness. The signatures of beauty are myriad as any one sunset possesses own idiosyncratic mannerism – happens only once – distinctive and unique.
This sunset was captured at my place in Saujana Utama as I was about to reach home that evening. Thought the colors in the sky were extraordinarily gorgeous when I drove past the main boulevard in the area, not too far from the newly-built mosque.
Owing to my habit of pulling over at an unlikely place, I made do with the mucky landing ground on the grass and managed to have it captured before the sun disappeared. And it didn’t bother me much for having to send my car to carwash as all fours were mud-splattered.
Oh yeah, thanks to the neighbors for honking, I take it as a moral support.
Final in this series taken on a photo walk with Sylvia Kahler . The "College Crawl" covered 14 of the University colleges. I was impressed that Sylvia and her family managed to keep up with me:-)
I had to show her a Cambridge sunset scene! Left to right: Peterhouse, United Reform Church, Pitt Building, Pembroke College.
Managed to get out yesterday and shoot some of the autumn colours before they disappear completely . This is Golithia falls near Bodmin one of my favourite spots in Cornwall , a special place that i all ways visit once a year .
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Managed to capture an image of this fast-mover. Seen near the Turtle Pond at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia CA.
The Grade I Listed Pembroke Castle, the original family seat of the Earldom of Pembroke. It is a medieval Linear castle as it is a castle designed to confront its attackers with a series of barriers/impediments in a line. In Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
In 1093 Arnulf of Montgomery built the first castle at the site when he fortified the promontory beside the Pembroke River during the Norman invasion of Wales. A century later, the castle was given by Richard I to William Marshal, who became one of the most powerful men in 12th-century Britain. He rebuilt Pembroke in stone creating most of the structure that remains today.
It 1648 during the Second English Civil War it was the centre of the Siege of Pembroke. Colonel Horton marched his 3,000 troops west to Tenby and laid siege to Tenby Castle which was held by about 500 Royalists under command of Colonel Rice Powell. Oliver Cromwell later arrived with further troops, leaving Horton with enough men to deal with Powel, Cromwell marched the rest of the army to lay siege to Pembroke.
When Tenby Castle was stormed Powel was taken prisoner, but Pembroke Castle, under command of General Rowland Laugharne and John Poyer, was a strong medieval fortress which could not be taken as quickly. It stood on a rocky promontory surrounded on three sides by the sea, and on the landward side its defences consisted of a deep ditch and walls up to 20 feet (6.1 m) thick.
Ships carrying siege artillery to Cromwell were forced back up the Bristol Channel to Gloucester by storms, so Cromwell tried a frontal assault. It failed because the ladders used to escalade the walls were too short. The defenders managed to surprise the besiegers in a sudden sortie, killing thirty of the besiegers and damaging the circumvallation. The siege guns arrived in mid-June but over the next month they made little impact on the thick curtain walls.
Eventually, the siege ended when Cromwell's forces discovered the conduit pipe which delivered water to the castle and cut off the defenders' water supply. Poyer and Laugharne were forced to surrender on 11 July.
Cromwell then ordered the castle slighted so that it could never again be used as a military fortress. Laugharne, Poyer and Powell were taken to London, tried and sentenced to death, but Poyer alone was executed on 25 April 1649, being the victim selected by lot.
Major restoration took place during the early 20th century, the castle it is open to the public and is the largest privately-owned castle in Wales.
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I spent some time this past summer trying to learn how better to secure images of pollinators of all kinds. That project was motivated by my sunrise walks down an abandoned road southeast of Ottawa, where overgrown wildflowers grew in thick and deep bunches on the sides of the road, and where butterflies and moths and bees and wasps spent the first light re-energizing for the new day.
The subjects of the photographs had a lot more freedom to drift away from the road to the wild meadows than I had - old fences and thick vegetation kept me pretty hemmed in. That meant having to get creative in most cases, which was part of learning how to manage the situation. I really liked this image, shot through a wall of vegetation to find the Skipper - not an especially exotic one for people who know these creatures - who was drinking from the wildflower.
This activity and the many early mornings it entailed was a response to the impact of the pandemic on birding and bird photography. Most of my usual places had not adjusted particularly well to the changed circumstances, and so the solitary mornings were just what the public health officials ordered.
I really hope everyone is safe and has a great holiday break. I now know people (healthcare workers) who are scheduled to be vaccinated shortly in Ottawa so things are slowly moving forward - please take care.
And many sincere thanks to the people who look at, like and/or comment on my images. I really appreciate the connection. I spend a lot of my free time looking at and learning from others, but this is an amazing community, and it offers a lot to me in different ways - especially with the superb images people are posting. So: many thanks, and stay safe.
Managed to fit a trip to one of the local spots alongside the weekend commitments...nothing too exciting but it was nice to get the camera out :)
I've noticed Mistletoe growing increasingly in UK trees, so I read up about it and learnt that it's due in part to an influx of continental blackcaps from Germany that have started overwintering in Britain, with many thousands now spending their winters here.
'Blackcaps are migratory warblers that are becoming regular winter visitors to our bird tables. Berries, including those of mistletoe, are an essential part of their diet. On eating the white flesh of the mistletoe berry, the birds wipe their bills on twigs and branches, leaving behind the seed. If the seed is deposited on a host tree and manages to take hold, a mistletoe plant might germinate on the branch. It seems that blackcaps are more efficient at spreading mistletoe seeds than other birds, such as the mistle thrush, which also feed on the berries.' - www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/12/where-does-mistleto....
'According to the Anglo-Saxons, kissing under the mistletoe was connected to the legend of Freya, Norse Goddess of love, beauty and fertility. According to legend, a man had to kiss any young girl who, without realizing it, found herself accidentally under a sprig of mistletoe hanging from the ceiling.' www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/articles/mythology_folklore/mis....
Mike Oldfield ~ Incantations Part Four
Once all the group had managed to make it safely up Buckshot Lake Road a wee bit where they managed to head into the trees to stay out of the falling snow and wind, the "traffic cop" did a "hop skip and a jump"
up the hill no doubt celebrating a successful traffic monitoring for all those under it's watchful eye.
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I managed to get the whole train in a single frame with my 85mm. Because of the distortion and perspective, the train looks like a big metal worm.
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The National Trust is usually thought of as an organisation to protect historic buildings but as I learnt in Dorset they all protect precious habitats. These delightful sand dunes on Studland Bay are managed by the Trust and appear to be thriving . Maintaining a sand dune is clearly a complex process . The following notes are from the Trust website the information contained I thought was fascinating .
“What we know about sand dunes, how they function and thrive, has changed. Previously, we thought dunes should be stabilised – protected from disturbance and cornered off from people. And so, fences were put up, we were told to stay away, and the dunes had nothing to keep them dynamic. Climate change and air pollution only made matters worse. They sent a boost of energy and nutrients into an ecosystem that had formed on the bare minimum, catalysing plant growth. Combine our intentional and unintentional efforts, and we began to lose the essence of our sand dunes.
We removed factors that would normally result in cycles of dune formation and instead accelerated the forward process. Now Studland’s mosaic landscape is slowly becoming smothered by gorse and trees. Open sandy habitats are being buried and rare wildlife pushed out. Data from the Cyril Diver citizen science project in 2016, reveals species like the Sand Lizard and Meadow Pipit shrinking in distribution, their numbers squeezed to the dune edges.
Studland’s dunes need our help. We need to slow down the acceleration of plant growth, restore Studland’s mosaic landscape and bring back the dynamic nature of our dunes into a self-regulating system. These are the aims of the Dynamic Dunescapes project. The project is a partnership between Natural England, Plantlife, Natural Resources Wales, The Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust, with National Trust sites including Woolacombe and Studland Bay.
At Studland Bay, four routes will be taken to restore the dunes:
1 Bare ground creation: Using tractors and mechanical excavators to clear sections of dense vegetation and re-create areas of bare sandy ground.
2 Reintroducing cattle grazing: Cattle mimic the benefits wild herbivores have on an ecosystem; they create bare ground, crop vegetation and form mosaic landscapes. In 2021, ten Red Devon cattle will arrive to Studland and start grazing the dense vegetation at the centre of the dunes.
3 Removing invasive carp from Little Sea: Carp were illegally introduced to a freshwater lake, known as Little Sea, triggering an ecological collapse. Dynamic Dunescapes will provide funding to remove carp from Little Sea and restore the ecosystem.
4 People: What better way to open the land, limit vegetation growth and create some much-needed disturbance than our very own feet? We want to remove the presumption that exploring the dunes will harm them. Instead we want to encourage people into the dunes, to learn about them, experience their beauty and help get them back to their sandy ways.
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