Yesterday's 52R is stopped at Bishop to meet 376 and manages to get a bit of sun. The 8099 looks great after being washed and having the lettering touched up for some festivities at the Southeastern Railway Museum earlier in the week.

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

I managed this shot a couple of nights ago whilst on a short trip to Bournemouth. I used my f@4 . 70-200 on the long end, a lens that never fails to deliver.

Photographing piers is a bit of a novelty to me,as we don't have these great structures in Cornwall.

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Manage to Capture a few second Posture of The Praying Mantis

Just when got her prefect badge, lol!

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.

Just managed to get home before the heavens opened up.

On the west side of Loch Eck is a lovely track stretching alongside the loch from Glenbranter to Benmore. If you time it right you can even make this walk even more colourful.

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.

Managed to get a few shots before a man on his tractor arrived to see what was going on, the Owl bobbed down out of sight, had a chat to the man but the owl did not re-appear again.

Wollaton Park

I managed to get out and about for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon during the frequent snow storms we where having. I have been meaning to visit this location alongside the A1 road for a while as it looked very favourable for a sunset location.

This was one of only a few shots I managed before the snow closed in again.

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almost missed it - but managed a video capture from the morning training

Managed to get a shot of this little mouse who is regular visitor to the bird feeders in the garden.

Managing to gaze into the open eyes of a snowy in daylight can be difficult, at best. Their sensitive retinas leave them squinting throughout most of the day… that is when they are not actually sleeping. But in the minutes before sunrise, when its rays lazily find their way above the horizon, the beaches and bays are eerily blue and the golden iris of the snowy glows with pupils as large as saucers. It takes luck! Luck finding a bird in a suitable place, luck having a cloudless sunrise, and luck finding an owl motionless enough to allow for a photograph in such low light. As luck would have it, we were -- quite lucky. It was a brief but memorable moment at twilight dawn, indeed. #SnowyOwls

I managed to hit the shutter at just the right second this afternoon. Fyero had jumped up on the couch and was making her way to the window sill but hesitated for just a second before making the leap and I was in the perfect spot to snap this moment.

I've watch her follow this routine multiple times a day for years and have always wanted to get this shot but was never in position or the light was wrong, or... list the endless reasons why it never worked out here...

But today, well today was the day! So needless to say, I'm happy to have finally capture this moment!

Hope everyone has had a good day.

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Finally managed to get into this part of the red zone to get a few shots of the Catholic cathedral. This damage was done mainly in the 6.3 quake on Feb 22nd... more damage has apparently occured in the latest 6.3 as well but this was shot a few days before that happened.

The two front towers have collapsed and gone and that front wall on the left is held up by a bit of kiwi inginuity - shipping containers and hay bales.

To the right of the shot out of frame there is a carpark full of blocks and stone from the collapsed cathedral each layed out seperately and numbered - there being saved to possibly rebuild in the exact way once the quakes finally stop.... if they ever do... (they are doing the same to the Anglican cathedral in Christchurch's Center

The latest Quake has damaged it a lot more and it might now be never rebuilt, on this ground anyway....

Just as an interesting fact. The still standing tower at the back had a statue of the virgin mary facing inwards in the front window, during the feb 22nd quake the statue turned an exact 180degrees to face outwards - looking through the window - without falling over or being damaged.

The road im standing on - Barbadoes St - has been identified as having a Fault Line directly underneath - previously unknown. There are now 3 Major active faults under Christchurch.....

This is a 3 exposure handheld hdr processed in photomatix

Cheers for looking, ive got a few more of this from different angles ill post up

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Red moon over Loch Goil during the Blue Hour.

Highest position: 229 on Thursday, May 18, 2017

Managed to capture this beauty in poor light conditions and through other obstacles but pleased with the result, never put your camera away !!

Sam managed to catch me but i can’t say the say the same for our friends the floor caught jon and I’m sure xinfo is still icing his back. Overall the date was great 😌

I managed to get out for the first time this month and I took my Sony A6000 & Ricoh GR with me.

The reason I took my Sony was to see if I still want to sell it. After yesterday's day out in the dull rainy weather the GR kicked the Sony's butt. OK I only had the kit lens on the Sony but I wasn't too impressed.

I'll give it a few more days out with the prime lenses on to see if it's off to eBay or not.

The reason the GR won was the image quality at ISO1600. The Sony images with the kit lens were starting to fall apart :0(

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Raw shot.

Taken at Mischief Managed.

Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

This has to be one of the most difficult shots I’ve ever made.

I thought it would be easy but boy was I wrong. They don’t stand still, not even for a second and they are as quick as lightning. This is the best I could manage and the only real good one. But I love a challenge and I’ll try again real soon.

Have a great weekend

Explore: # 52

Managed to capture this seal as he was jumping out of his pool for his fish...Taken at skegness natureland and seal sanctuary..

I only managed 1 1/2 hours of Oiii due to clouds rolling in but as this was an unexpected clear night I can’t complain🤔 but I will as that’s what astronomers do....😁

This is my 2nd image testing out my Explore Scientific 0.7 focal reducer. Due to not being able to get correct back focus because of running out of inward travel on my focuser, I'm getting slight stars distortion in the bottom left and Right of the image.

I've have manage to correct some of this by copying the image, changing the blending mode of this layer and nudging left or right and up 1 or 2 pixels, as the error is only in the corners I masked out the rest of the image.

Note:

I removed all the stars after the initial processing using StarNet++ and then added the Ha stars back in at the end.

IC1805 also known as the “Heart Nebula” and is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. It’s is approximately 7500 Light Years from earth with an apparent magnitude of about 18.3 and apparent size of 150’x150’. Near the centre of the heart nebula is the cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 which contains many stars great then 50 times the suns mass

EQUIPMENT:-

Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT

Explore Scientific 0.7 Focal Reducer

ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera

Orion Mini Auto Guide

Astronomik 6nm Ha Filter (New)

Astronomik 6nm Oiii Filter

Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC

IMAGING DETAILS:-

IC1805 California Nebula (Cassiopeia)

Melotte 15 Open Cluster

Gain 139 (Unit Gain)

Dithering

36 Ha subs@300 (3h)

18 Oiii subs@300sec (1h 30min)

Total imaging Time 4h 30min

20 Darks

25 Flats

PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-

APT "Astro Photograph Tools"

StarNet++

DSS

PS CS2

I managed another sunrise outing with friend and fellow flickr photographer Paul Hollins to Merewether Beach and Burwood Beach NSW; Australia yesterday morning.

Conditions were wonderful - a really low tide exposed this nice collection of rocks and these were complimented nicely by some great color just prior to sunrise.

It's scenes like this that make you grateful for good vision and health that allow us to enjoy the magnificence of nature and the world around us!!

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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.

Almost managed to walk straight past this on my way back to the car. It was only because a family walking the other way stopped to look at it that I looked left and noticed it. So glad I parked where I did, had I parked where I normally do I wouldn't have had this chance encounter at all. Shame there's not a Stag standing in the light, but you can't have everything!

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Sunny Smoking Switcher Sunday:-

New York & Lake Erie’s No. 308, which I thought was just a renumbered switcher from some other short line masquerading as Erie 308, really is wearing its original identity. The Alco S1 was built in November 1946, so this is the oldest diesel Alco I’ve managed to ride behind. The Portuguese RSC-2s were built August 1948 onwards, so are quite a bit younger at a mere 71 and a bit years old!

Here the 77 year old switcher strolls across the Cattaraugus Creek Trestle with a photo charter on the New York & Lake Erie Railroad on 25th June 2022. [Some power lines have been removed].

Alec's bed in the sixth year Ravenclaw boys' dormitory.

Taken at Mischief Managed.

Liverpool

Taken from near to the Piermaster’s House, which is a WWII museum, looking across the entrance to Canning Dock, which is over to the right. The bridge on the right leads across to the Pilotage Building Museum, the red brick building. Behind that the modern structure is the excellent Museum of Liverpool. In the distance the familiar sight of The Three Graces including the Royal Liver Building.

Over to the right is the old Great Western Railway Building, on the dock side (which I seem to have hidden) is the propeller from the RMS Lusitania. This area gets incredibly busy, I took this photo early afternoon and even though there were many tourists around I managed to get this shot people free. I put this down to the fact that a couple of Policemen on horseback had turned up a few yards behind me, they were like a magnet attracting almost every visitor in the area, just about everyone wanted their picture taken with them and the horses, leaving me free to get this image.

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We managed to do a snowshoe trip to Hyak Lake yesterday. A cold, beautiful day. We saw nobody else in the woods all day until we returned to the car at 5 pm, when a man was out walking his dogs.

Here is where we ate lunch. The temperature was about 22 degrees, with no breeze, complete silence. From here we wandered further uphill to the warming hut used for cross country skiing. A thermometer on the outside of the building, facing the sun, read a balmy 22 degrees.

When we started the car and let it warm up as we removed our gear the car's thermometer read 11 degrees.

Managed to get a very special package together just in time, Hopefully it will arrive for my Friend's Birthday.. Susie Stopped me from Shipping it before I put the Card in!

Good job Susie Sass!

Singular photo booth picture of Angel during the Hearty Party

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Managed to capture the first ornamental Cherry Trees in bloom against a beautiful blue sky. This one is across the street from us. Spring has sprung for sure!

Just managed to go through shots I took at Notting Hill Carnival this Monday. It was the best one I ever had - amazing public, light and vibes.

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Remnants of a fence on the edge of the chalk cliffs at Saltdean in Sussex, parts of which have evidently already been taken by rock falls. Shot from behind the newer fence that replaced it.

Having never managed to see an Arizona and California Railroad train, I've now done it twice in a week.

I've spent more than a few hours at Cadiz, perhaps because it has been one of those places where I've gotten lucky with one thing or another, perhaps because I've waited for the four-axles on the BNSF Cadiz local from Barstow.

But never have I seen the A+C train arrive from Parker AZ.

Tick.

It's a pity I didn't manage it in the days before the corporate Genesee and Wyoming look, I'm sure that elderly four-axles in that delicious green and cream looked absolutely sublime in this very spot.

But no matter.

It was non-stop at Cadiz on the TransCon, I barely had time to write my reference notes and there was another train on the horizon.

This was the cherry on the top. And sprinkles!

Cadiz CA, 13 February 2023.

ARZC 4403 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4527

ARZC 4401 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4577

ARZC 4400 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4534

The locomotives were returned by the BNSF to GE Leasing (GECX) then sold on.

I managed to capture some data on this comet passing close to the galaxy M101.

Baader modified Canon 6D @ ISO1600

Canon 500mm f/4 L IS Lens

120x 60 second subs.

Captured 15th January 2015

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📍 Marazion, Cornwall

While shooting a Heron at Marazion Marsh, this fella landed a few meters from me for a moment while frantically squabbling with another. I swung my lens around and managed to rattle off a few frames. This being my best.

My pictures of the Heron, who stayed in one spot while it fished for all the time I was there didn't work for me. It was stood just in front of the reeds which made the scene look too complicated.

I was happier with this very rushed shot of the Reed Bunting - as I was able to capture a more artistic composition where the stem it perched on was isolated in frame.

Canon R5 | 600mm | ƒ/6.3 | 1/640 sec | ISO 640 | Handheld | No filters | Adobe RAW & Photoshop | Date: 09-06-2024

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Managed to get a few nice shots like this one, whilst out testing my new Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens.

Managed to get out for a couple of hours today, and boy was it a little different to what it has been. Lovely clouds in the sky and no sun blazing down.

Anyway visited Wheal Coates, a fantastic spot and excellent for walking and of course photography. So i done a bit of both.

This must be one of the most photographed engine house ever, it is always busy here in the day time.

Best to view in Lightbox, press L.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Zeiss ZE 21mm f2.8 Distagon T*ZE

Exposure 320 seconds @ f/13

Filter used Lee 4 stop hard grad at the top, 1 stop soft grad underneath and Hitech 10 stop IRND

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i managed to get 3 photos of christine in the last light of day on friday. we had so much fun even tho it's getting cold out there! i can't wait to do some more editing but today i will be at roslindale open studios all day showing my work. i love it when days are full of creativity. :)

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Managed to capture this sweet pea just after a light rain shower while the sun was coming back out.

I managed to grab a quick image of the crescent moon and the planet Venus before the clouds rolled in last night. Hope you like it!

Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM lens, ISO 3200, 1.3 seconds, f/5.6, 135mm, tripod mounted. Image Date: March 27, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA.

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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.

I did not wander too far but managed to go down the driveway to GP's garden and check out if anything was starting. The cherry tomatoes in pots are starting to produce fruit.

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