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I managed to get many Flamingo shots including in flight and landing but I'm very disappointed with the quality and sharpness of the majority of them. This was one of the better ones - It'll have to do.
My son's band, Megalomatic, on a recent photoshoot in the old, ruined torpedo testing station in Loch Long near Arrochar. Today they announced that they now have a manager onboard :)
Links:
Album: megalomatic.bandcamp.com/album/hunt-for-the-midnight-sasq...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ThemeGalomatic/?fref=ts
Management: www.facebook.com/RipItUpMusic/?fref=ts
Managed to get in a few times (in boardies) whilst i was there. Initially the waves seemed weak and windblown (they were) but then we got a bit of power and size one afternoon and i was made to pay for my complacency and lack of respect by a crack on the head from a fin (hard enought to shatter the fibreglass on the board). That woke me up a bit, and I caught a few decent rides after that, i still had a small dent in my head when i got back to England!
Apologies if i dont get round to everyone today, flickr is moving slower than my brain after a couple of pints of ESB and is very frustrating
I managed to persuade my Wife that it would be a good idea to go to the beach for the day as we have not had a holiday so far this year.
I am not sure that she realized i meant starting on the beach at 4.30:-)
We did have a splendid sunrise followed by coffee on the beach and eggs benedict at a very nice little cafe near by. We then sat and watched Porthcawl start to wake up.
On the down side, she got a better beach shot than me, She has a smug look on her face.
I managed a few hours in Strathconon today and the weather was quite mixed with spells of sunshine and showers. There was a strong, bitterly cold wind from the north west which would explain the snow on the tops of the hills.
This shot was taken from the Meig Dam and shows that there is still plenty of autumn colour about.
My last outfit i posted didnt get accepted got a notecard today saying it Isn't appropriate,:'( said i need black stockings,robe thats reaches the knee,button up white shirt with collar(which i was wearing in the last one) so im redoing it hope maybe this outfit will be appropriate now,so going to cross fingers!
Soon.....
(PS we politely ask RPers avoid visiting the ground floor of alohomora until further notice, to avoid spoiling anything for you!)
Shropshire's 8th species of bush cricket was found just over a month after the 7th, when, in November 2020, a male southern oak bush cricket walked into a moth trap in a Shrewsbury back garden. Another male appeared in the same garden in 2021, suggesting a breeding population. In October 2021 I was given permission to visit, resulting in the discovery of this rather gravid-looking female in an apple tree, the first female to be seen in Shropshire.
M. meridionale was first recorded in Britain in 2001, having been spreading north in Europe since about 1960. It has now been recorded sporadically throughout England & Wales as far north as Yorkshire. It has managed this range expansion despite being flightless!
Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Managed to find one lone flower to photography in the middle of winter. First time the weather has been nice enough to play with my new toy...65mm MP-E macro. Center of a Viola, at appx. 2x life size. Single shot, hand held. More soon.
Managed to catch the last dregs of the sunset with this 30 second exposure. The colors that came out are amazing and I love the blue of the sky with the stars shining out. No post-processing on this one except for straightening.
A wee fun photo taken at the end of Megalomatic's "Symbolism" EP Launch tour.
Listen to/buy the EP here:
megalomatic.bandcamp.com/album/symbolism
Southern Memories - in this shot we see vintage 4-SUB unit 4719 arriving at the platform at Effingham Junction station on service '82' heading for Sutton. From my logbook notes, I jumped on after taking this shot and with my great friend Tim Proudman superb50002 managed to cadge a cab ride all the way to Epsom (in driving coach S12778S) transferring to the cushions where we continued on to Sutton :)
We used to keep very fit in those days - taking photos such as this, and then legging it down the stairs to board the train :)
And here are Tim's notes from the day:
We did various units in the morning before heading over to bash the Selsdon for the very last time.
Morning Highlights include -
4SUB 4719 cab ride Bookham to Epsom, where we alighted and continued on to Sutton....for
4EPB 5425 cab ride Sutton to Wimbledon ("Wall of Death")
and haulage behind 5763, 5725 on the Selsdon line.
We did - Elmers End to Bingham, Bingham to Elmers End, then to Coombe Road and Sanderstead, back to Elmers End, back to Selsdon to Elmers End, back to Sanderstead, and back to Elmers End. This was the last move / last train, formed 5720 and 5209.
4-SUB bashing! In the summer of 1983, whilst enjoying my first year as a Geography undergraduate at Kingston Polytechnic, me and my good friends Tim Proudman and the sadly late Llew Griffith spent many happy hours riding around the rails of the Southern Region! One of our top targets was to get some 4-SUB rides before the demise of the class in October 1983. This day was one of those occasions.
My bashing friends and I spent some time clearing all the passenger routes on the Southern Region when we were at Kingston Polytechnic back in 1982-1985. During this period, we had many a ride on the old 4-SUB units which were finally withdrawn from service in 1983. We noticed a collection of the units withdrawn in the old Hither Green Continental Sidings, and managed to gain entrance for a good look around one day in the late autumn of 1983. ***I still have a full set of 4-SUB stencils in my garage - courtesy of Llew Griffith (FOR SALE if anyone's interested!) - and our raid on Hither Green sidings in November 1983 - see comments section below :)***
History of individual units
4621-4754 4-Sub 1949–1951 DMBTO+TT+TT+DMBTO Most cars had new bodies on old frames, though some were entirely new build. 4667-4754 included an Augmentation trailer from withdrawn units.
More information on the old 4-SUB units here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_4Sub
Photos that were nearly lost to oblivion!
The original slide was rescued from a box of 'duds' that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;)
Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original slide with minimal digital restoration
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
I managed to catch the sun just peeping over the horizon. The trees and fields are still in shadow, but to the west you can see the towers of Toronto gleaming in the dawn's rays.
This High Dynamic Range 360° aerial panorama was stitched from 78 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 953.01 MB).
Location: Ontario, Canada
I had just managed to zip around Paris (not Hilton BTW) and had fired the Zogmobile to a little place called Chateaudun........here I rested,had a coffee(it does beat wine for breakfast) and watched this town wake up.
It was 8am god damn it!!!!!!!!!! and people were moving about.......making their way to work,going home to the wife or having said their goodbyes to their lover had made their way to the cheese factory to spend the next 12 hours putting those blue veins in that particularly pungent fromage.
And the sun began to shine.
I managed to find a somewhat new angle to shoot this rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) at the Haga Ocean butterfly house.
Here you can see the proboscis of the butterfly. That's the almost rolled up appendage which butterflies and moths use to suck nectar from flowers with.
The proboscis is actually made up of two tubes which are held together by tiny hooks and can be separated for cleaning. The proboscis also contains muscles which allow the butterfly/moth to roll it up or in and also directi it towards the nextar.
Each tube is inwardly concave, which means they form a central tube which moisture is sucked up through.
Managed a half hour slot to take some photos of the Forth & Clyde canal near a village called Allandale. Beautiful clear reflections today.
365/29 - Year 12 Photo 3316
We managed to head to the car right before the snow came down.
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
Managed to get out and re-take picture that I have taken a while ago at Spurn point. Thank you all for looking and all faves and comments are greatly appreciated.
Managed to get above the clouds and from the miradouro was amazed to see this rainbow over the town.
Over the Christmas period i managed to lose my stick whilst out and about one evening....but thats another story! so there i am with out a stick and given that i was waiting in all day for a theraband order that didnt arrive i thought ide make my new stick.
lurking by the fire side was a nice hazel stick i cut back in October from a local hedgerow,not overly straight,but then i dont like ultra straight stix ,for the collar i used a piece of scrap dimondwood from a catty i made and the stick top was an Exmoor deer crown from a 8 point stag i bagged a couple of years back.
The stick,collar and top were duly drilled with my trusty stanly hand drill,then a section of threaded bar inserted and glued together with epoxy resin.Cup of sweet tea and a bacon butty later and it was good and solid ready for shaping ,and polishing with 0000 wire wool,job done.
So many times i have set a coin in the crown of the antler,this time i thought ide do some carving,after looking in some books i fancied a go at a Tudor rose,this proved a tall order! so first thing this morn i started carving with the dremmel and an ultra fine routing burr having first drawn it out with a pencil,the job started ok but mid way i was very unhappy,and having spent 3 hours on it was a bit disappointed,time for lunch!
Once the pheasant pasty was washed down with a pint of cider i set back to the carving,the cider had had the desired effect and things started going better,after a bit of buggerin about i darkened around the rose with wood dye and bobs yer muvvers bruvva!
Stunning conditions if you managed to find a good spot above the fog this morning, This is just South of Buxton, taken from High Edge.
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I managed to take a quick walk on the golf course today while it was still sunny. Later it clouded up and started to rain. I don't play golf and have no intention to ever do it but I like the golf course because I think it's beautiful. The sign basically says that the place is private property (as it belongs to the local golf club) but that you are allowed to use the public paths which lead across the golf couse, as long as you don't step on the fairway and keep your dog on lead. It also says that if you cross the golf course you do it at your own risk, which means that if you are hit by a golf ball it's your own fault and not theirs. :)
I managed to narrow down to 18 pictures from today to upload, and I'm going to upload them 3 a day :)
Today I went for a shoot with Ylana, Clem and Gemma and it was delightful :D I took a good mixture of stuff too :) most of them are of Ylana, aha, then most of the Clem ones are hand shots, and then I barely shot Gemma, but Ylana took so many of her that I think it makes up for it aha.
I hope you all enjoy them! :)
So yeah, I'm back! :D I promise I have a couple of photoshoots in the pipeline, and I'm going to try to shoot more regularly, and I'll spread the pictures from shoots over a longer period so there is more new stuff for you all to feast your eyes on :) and maybe in a few weeks if I have the money I'll buy pro :D so we'll see what happens :)
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I really managed to gets captures showing it's red vent.
I read this bird is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Mir ist es tatsächlich gelungen ihn mit seinem roten Steiß zu fotografieren. Habe gelesen, dieser Vogel wäre auf Sri Lanka endemisch.
2 heavy storms in 2 weeks meant that getting into Pucks Glen to take this shot was a bit of a scramble ... wading though flooded tracks and clambering under fallen trees. However I got to take a few shots before the heavens opened again. This is one of them. I am always amazed that this tree manages to survive everything that nature throws at it and yet is still standing.
I managed to book myself on a tour of Subsea 7 building in Sutton this morning as part of Open House London. Really well organised tour that included finding out a lot about the building itself plus the staff wellbeing programme.
Met Sean Batten and his wife Wendy on the tour. You can check out their talented streams here.
Managed to capture an image of our nearest planetary neighbour Venus during the afternoon of the 26.03.20.
This is a false colour UV/IR filtered composite image in order to reveal some cloud definition in the thick atmosphere of the planet. Some brightening is evident at both poles.
The IR filter is mapped to red, the UV filter to blue and the green channel is a blend of both.
Imaged with a Celestron C8 and a ZWO 290MM camera.
managed to get to the eagle spot with some autumn colors still in the background
still havent managed to get a satisfying close eagle but these autumn backgrounds will have to do for now
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First of all don't look at my hand it has got as many layers of msc on it as the doll's face has.
Now I still need to glue her mouth.
The finished doll will be photographed tomorrow. Just to be sure I'll leave her head off the body so the mouth is able to dry all night without any friction.
She's not my Punzie, she turned out different than I imagined.
Although I do like her I won't be heart broken if her face up would ever get damaged and maybe it is better that way
Being typically bad at managing social media, I have finally gathered the energy to post about these MOCs days after the setup… but here they are, my final MOCs before becoming a LEGO Designer! 😊
The big idea of the showcase is that each of the model shows a part of who I am. “Imagine!”, being the biggest of all, represents my passion for LEGO, which is a pretty big part of me. I always had the idea if the day ever comes that I get to display something at the Masterpiece Gallery, I will create a piece that celebrates the imagination of LEGO bricks, an ultimate love letter to my hobby… and what captures the essence of LEGO better than the LEGO House itself? So, the idea came to me: What would LEGO House look like if it’s reinterpreted into a sculpture?
Looking at the model from afar, you can immediately see the four iconic colours of the zones at LEGO House, and then in the middle there are two figures, representing the History Collection below and the Masterpiece Gallery on top. More importantly, they also echo my journey – as well as, I believe, many others’ – as a LEGO fan: it all started from me sitting on the floor playing with the bricks, falling in love with the system, and eventually grow up to become an AFOL and continue to create more and more crazy models with the bricks.
As you look closer, there are also a lot of easter eggs related to the House. For example, there are the rocket, submarine, hot air balloon and sea monster from the rooftop playground. There are also a microscale version of every single LEGO House exclusives released, representing perhaps the most important place of the house for many visitors: the shop!
Each of the 3 MOCs also has their own unique set of challenges. For “Imagine!”, it was about the composition, as well as capturing dynamic and organic objects in LEGO bricks, like the smoke and fire, clouds and waves, and the twisty beanstalk. I also had fun tackling the structural issue for the tall rocket flame, and balancing the yellow castle on the beanstalk, but none of that had nearly prepared me well enough for what the second MOC brought to the table…
P.S. Fun fact: I was first invited to display in 2020, but due to COVID everything was delayed… Despite getting over a year of time to prepare due to the delay, I went with the usual route of being a deadline fighter and rushed through everything in my last month in Hong Kong. I am pretty proud to say that I managed to pull off this ambitious project in just 10 days. Time pressure makes miracles! 😊
Full Album: www.flickr.com/photos/legocityson/albums/72157719956599360
#3263 - 2016 Day 341: This section of shingle beach between Selsey and Bracklesham Bay was breached in 2013 as part of a managed realignment flood defence scheme. New defences created inland of the shingle bank and a new tidal channel have created a large area of saltwater marsh, now managed by the RSPB.
Only one problem for me. In plans afoot for a walk [...] , what was a 50m section of shingle is now a 12km detour to reach the other side ...
Managed to get out this afternoon for a few more Marsh Harrier shots. Nice to see them quite active. Male was in flight & distant so only records