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Finally, I managed to get out for a short walk this afternoon. Maybe should have gone this morning, as it was hot out there.
On my way home I nipped into the old supermarket car park to photo the Buddleia flowers. Loads of bees and butterflies around too, but I missed them.
I however didn't miss the Hummingbird Hawk-moth that passed by. I don't often see them and am still trying to get a near decent photo of one. I didn't see that it had photobombed my shot, until I'd uploaded the photos onto my laptop.
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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.
I managed to see the Aurora on Thursday night. I took loads of photos and had such a great time. I was completely alone on my favourite beach at Rhossili (3 miles long!). Not the best Aurora shots I have seen but still happy to get anything! All shots taken in RAW and converted to jpeg images with no added saturation.
Managed to capture Kippie while she was sniffing a plant and trying to fight the mosquito which was flying above her head :)
Have a nice weekeend everybody.
I've been saving this photo to share during the Christmas season. The dancing northern lights over the iconic mountain and waterfalls of Kirkjufellsfoss reminded me of mother nature's own holiday display!
In Iceland, the weather is about as unpredictable as any weather I’ve seen. I managed to get a few shots of the aurora display before the cloud cover swiftly moved in and obscured the northern lights.
We managed to get out & enjoy a couple of nice walks in the sunshine but my buddy has had a bit of a rough time of it this week! Barney had a dreaded trip to the vets for a vaccination on Thursday, so he got jabbed and his horrid hooman stopped him from biting the evil vet again! Then on Saturday, he had his first dog fight in a looooong time (he came off worst). The scrap was with dad's partner's BC Hovis, who's quite nervy & anxious about Barney but also rather provocative & annoying. Hovis will do things like follow Barn around for ages, really invading his space, nipping his hocks, then skitter away nervously when he turns around.
For everyone's sanity, I mostly keep them separate when Hovis is here & when the dogs are together, they're watched, praised for calm behaviour & parted if they start getting too tense. Up till now, Barney has generally been restrained in his responses to Hovis but he must've had enough this weekend. There was a brief, loud scuffle, in which Hovis came away with a minor cut on his paw & Barney got bitten in the face a few times :( He's now looking rather the worse for wear. I was initially worried but having cleaned him up, it's clear the cuts are superficial - hopefully they'll heal fast. It was quick & mostly just noise but I still feel really bad they managed to have a fight :( Barney seems fine in himself but he's still had quite a few extra treats & cuddles this weekend! Hoping next week is less... exciting.
Managed a shot if our moon tonight, taken with an iPhone through a very big telescope. Thanks to Dave of York astronomical society for his help.
every time i look at this image i am blown away knowing that it was taken on an iPhone,
I've never managed to work out why there are so many pylons around this area. I'm not aware of a power station or similar in the vicinity. Standing on the top of a hill not far away and casting an eye over the landscape there are loads of them :-(
One day I might grab a pair of binoculars and count them out of some kind of morbid curiosity. Just to put my mind at rest n all that.
Anyone interested in this kind of thing can maybe take a look at my 'Seriously. What the **** were they thinking?" Flickr album which contains a few photos of houses that people have bought with a pylon close to the property. Bewildering. Behind the trees in the valley there looks to be a nice stone building. What a terrible outlook.
Managed to get a few snaps of this beautiful field just before it started raining, Plenty of photographers out snapping this so difficult to get one without someone in the picture. I am surprised how lovely it still looks following the recent storms we have had
Managed to get a few shots of Pulpit Rock after a storm had moved through which produced a great array of colours in the sky. This is a 3 shot stitch using the shift on a 24mm tilt shift lens
I managed a fast turnaround as this one which was taken yesterday evening 3rd December. I had wanted to take some shots from this location on the Thames foreshore for a while. There have been a few other pictures by others but not many. For a start it requires low tide in the evening and a reasonable day. I had checked tide times and low tide came 40 minutes after sunset and also showers were due to clear to blue skies by the evening which they did just in time. The scene now is very different to earlier pictures with 3 tall new skyscrapers nearing completion on the western side of the Canary Wharf financial district for this view from Rotherhithe. This shot was taken at 4.30 pretty much at low tide and a sandy area was showing going further out into the river. This gave the opportunity to get a composition leading into the image. During the next image exposure though I had to make a fast retreat as a speedy river ferry came by creating a great wave. The surface of the river bank in the area was gravelly or firm sand unlike the quite dangerous deep mud which is present on some parts of the Thames foreshore.
I did some advance research using Street View which includes some parts of the riverside Thames Path to find the stairs down to the foreshore. The area is close to Doubletree Hilton Hotel and going west from there the first alley after the Blacksmiths Arms leads to the steps. These are very slippery with a railing for only part of them so a lot of care was needed. It is not exactly easy to get to. The nearest Underground is Canada Water and then the C10 bus which goes right past.
The picture was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 zoom at 11mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using contrast optimiser setting in Photomatix for a natural look; Topaz clarity was used for more detail. In Photoshop some adjustments were made to hue saturation to bring down blue saturation for a more natural look and bring up reds and yellows.
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I managed to take a few shots of a semi-cooperative Gecko. I looked down at my camera to adjust the exposure compensation on my flash and when I looked up it was gone.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 1x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.
I managed to not tread on these two lovers as they were canoodling in the grass .. I hate hearing that crunch when you don't always see them until it's too late ! .... :(
Seraph Sin are a Glasgow-based Industrial Metal band.
Their single "Up On High" (filmed in Glasgow) can be seen here:
Yay! I managed to reverse-engineer this amazing tessellation!
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Managed to snap this heron (though not in ideal lighting) on the canal walk between Chippenham and Lacock.
In France, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (“CMN”) is a State-run organization that manages many of the most important historic monuments. As such, it is composed mostly of civil servants, some truly knowledgeable and in love with the monument they’re administering, others with a decidedly and predominantly “administrative” (read: fussy and regulations-loving) mindset. Anyway, having learned my lesson the hard way, I now never approach a CMN-run monument with my photo tripod without having made prior contact, gained as much legitimacy as possible, and secured the authorization to take photos on site. With that in mind, one is, most of the time, very welcome, and even given access to very interesting parts the general public doesn’t get to see.
That is just what happened in Le Puy-en-Velay, the starting point of the Via Podiensis to Compostela and home to many Romanesque wonders, some of which I had never seen but firmly intended to photograph on this trip. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t cooperating and it rained most of the day. Furthermore, the Saint Michael of Aiguilhe chapel wasn’t accessible owing to works being underway. In other words, another trip to Le Puy will need to be scheduled in March, but for the time being, I will upload the photos I managed to take in the canons’ cloister next to the Notre-Dame cathedral, as well as in other, more “secret” parts of the cathedral complex. I hope you will enjoy them.
During the Middle Ages, the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay was a major Marian pilgrimage site, thanks to the devotion of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims for a small statue of the Virgin Mary, one of those “Black Marys” of Auvergne that made miracles. That one was supposedly brought back from the Holy Land Crusade by Saint Louis himself (i.e., French King Louis IX), and it may have come originally from Coptic Egypt, or even Ethiopia. There’s no way to tell now, as the wooden statue was burned by revolutionaries in 1794. The Black Virgin one can still see in the cathedral today was made in the 19th century to replicate the genuine one, using descriptions made by visitors who had the opportunity to see it before the French Revolution.
Because of this pilgrimage, it was easy for Le Puy to also become a starting point of a path to Compostela when that pilgrimage took off, and because people consequently thronged the cathedral, it had to be enlarged several times. A cloister was also built next to the nave, on the northern side, for the canons. They were secular canons, a number of them from the highest nobility, and their chapter both carried out the Opus Dei in the cathedral and served as an advisory body to the bishop. This means most of them lived in the city in very comfortable, sometimes even luxurious, accommodations, and I personally believe that, given those circumstances, the construction of a cloister and other “monastery-like” buildings was more for show than anything else. A cloister is meant for solitary meditation, and I’m not sure that that cloister got a lot of it...
It remains a magnificent monument well worthy of a visit and of an in-depth study.
The southern and western galleries of the cloister. The pouring rain did not permit to step into the garden and shoot from there. This will have to be for the next trip.
I managed to spot this from the ground of the Hotel Suvastu ast Fiza Ghat in District Swat. Brown Crakes are rare in Pakistan - only recorded around Rawalpindi previously but I managed to spot two here. The fact that two are up here and in March could mean many things - they could be resident, they could be on passage migration, they could be dispersing, they could be a pair, they could have bred, be a family....
It is the first time I have seen this bird. A great pleasure to add to the list!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_crake
The Brown Crake (Amaurornis akool), or Brown Bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.
Its genus name, Amaurornis, comes from the Greek amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown" and ornis, meaning "bird".[2] The species name, akool, is of uncertain origin. It may come from Hindu mythology, or it may be a derivation of the Sinhalese word kukkula, which is used for both moorhen and watercock.
Managed to spot this girl up on the moors today and for once, she stayed put long enough to get some shots off
Looks to be a Sempervivum but sad to read that after blooming it will die. "beauty in the death of a hen & chick plant as it reaches upwards in a burst of colour and bids farewell to this world"
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'Dottinous Foul teetered about the courtyard, in the dying breeze of Summer. The cobbles beneath her feet chimed mellow tunes to passing leaves, and the beaming sun cracked impressively through the varying concrete arches - Care of Magical creatures was approaching, and so was its biggest fan.'
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Managed to snag a shot of a flying gull with the Sony DSC-H1. Not easy with a bridge camera made in 2005! I have to say, even though old and slow as molasses, the thing has the ability to take some nice images.
I actually managed to get up for 4.30am and up onto Hengistbury Head ready to capture the sun rising! The cloud stopped me from getting the shot I intended on (excuse for a revisit!) but the pathway leading across to the coastguard hut caught my eye. Very philosophical but it got me thinking about my pathway and all the great things happening at the moment.
Anyway, for a moment I thought I wouldn't come away with anything then the sky lit up for a short time just as the sun was rising to the left of the scene.
Have a great day guys!
I managed to catch the last hour of light today at Kynance cove. It really is a spectacular location, and all the better in a bit of sunshine! I feel so lucky to live and work in this magical part of Cornwall. It was blowing a gale and pretty cold, but a very welcome change from rain.
Managed to get over to the Lakes on Boxing day for a walk. The light was wonderful especially earlier in the day. This is looking South on the way up Higg Rigg (Naddle Fell).
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My Entry for the 2023 Bio-Cup Preliminary round, the theme being Villain.
I wasn't sure if I would end up entering this year, but I managed to throw this together. It's better than nothing at least.
I only managed one purple wing from this angle but I still think it looks pretty stunning. As you move the iridescent purple bounces from wing to wing. The name Purple Emperor has been in use since the middle of the eighteenth century. I think it was Benjamin Wilkes who first coined the name in 1741 for this butterfly. Purple was a very difficult colour to produce and in Japan the colour was traditionally only worn by Emperors and the top aristocracy so I'm assuming this was behind Wilkes' name. But the colour purple in this butterfly is not a pigment but an optical illusion created by the microstructure of the wing scales. The colour created by a thin transparent coating on each wing scale where light reflects off both the front and back of this layer, creating "interference colours" rather like the colours you see on a puddle when a microscopically thin layer of oil is on the surface. I photographed this male in Fermyn Woods, Northants a couple of weeks back.
I managed to grab a shot of this lady walking through the historic Citadal in Hue. This palace was the scene of a lot of fighting during the Vietnam war.
Sony DSC-RX100M3
24-70mm F1.8-2.8
Aperture ƒ/9.0
Focal length 11.0 mm
Shutter 1/40
ISO 200