I managed to test out the close focus of my bird lens with this one!!!

Taken yesterday during a session at Hunter Wetlands Center (Shortland, NSW; Australia).

This was my last shot of the day too.

Most of my time was spent trying to spot and capture a male Scarlet Honeyeater that I posted yesterday (more to follow!).

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I have never managed to make it to the final and largest Hilbre Island. It's the only one of the three tidal islands that is iinhabited. I always get distracted before I get there. This is the closest I've been.

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I finally managed a photo of the waxwings, the first since last September, back when a flock of them came to the fountain every day. I've been hoping they'll renew that habit. Today I also saw a pair of goldfinches mating in the yard, which I hope means that they will nest nearby. Cedar waxwing, backyard Olympia.

Managed to identify at least 3 different individuals, Mrs Hungry

managed to remove the sign

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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Der Leipziger Weihnachtsmarkt hat zwar sein Zentrum auf dem Markt vor dem Alten Rathaus, dort stehen auch der mit Lichtern geschmückte Weihnachtsbaum und und die Weihnachtskrippe. Dort konnte ich aber dieses Jahr gar nicht fotografieren, weil es einfach zu voll war. Aber vom Markt aus breitet er sich der Weihnachtsmarkt über große Teile der Innenstadt aus, zum Teil mit speziellen Attraktionen, wie diesem Riesenrad, das meist gut besucht ist.

Leipzig's Christmas Market has its centre on the Market Square in front of the Old Town Hall, where you will also find the Christmas tree decorated with lights and the nativity scene. There I didn't manage to take photos, because it was too crowded. But from the Market Square, the Christmas Fair spreads out over large parts of the city centre, sometimes with special attractions such as this ferris wheell, which normally is very well frequented.

Managed to get above the clouds and from the miradouro was amazed to see this rainbow over the town.

Managed to get up early enough to catch the sunrise. This is looking at the south tip of Quadra Island on the left of the image with the sun peaking over the coastal range on the mainland.

With a free day in Chicago, I grabbed my gear and set off through the city on foot. I rented a citibike and went up and down the harbor coast of Lake Michigan. While stopped in the shade, I managed to take this, the astonishingly blue water of Lake Michigan has continued to leave me in awe.

I managed to spot this family and snap their picture while they were checking me out. I initially thought it was just two bears, but if you look through the plants you can see another eye looking through a small hole, just below mom's face. The unique coloring is thanks to the Kolari Vision IR Chrome filter, which is meant to mimic the old Kodak Aerochrome filter. So what you're seeing is not Photoshop, but rather a modified camera. In any case, I love the fall look it creates!

People of Ventspils have managed to build a hill, which they named after the long-time mayor of the city – “Lembergs’ Trilby”. The unique hill in the coastal lowlands of Western Latvia was built artificially from debris and discarded priming materials. At the moment it is 58 m high and the length of track is 240 m ,it have risen up every year.

In wintertime it pleases downhill skiers and snowboard fans who wants to enjoy their own special Snowboard Park and Cross-Country Skiing Track. It is real fun to ride down the Sledding Track for adults and childen and the Tube Track.

The operation of the hill is ensured by five ski lifts, five snow blowers and a snow tractor. The tracks are lit and during winter professional instructors will assist those who are not so sure about their skiing skills. Rental of skiing and snowboarding equipment is available at the foot of a hill.

Managed a couple today Stuart :-)

Managed to get the last bit of the sun before it setting down for the day -Hangnaameedhoo, Maldives

Managed a better shoot last Sunday but same as past experience with this babbler, they came out for a minutes or so and disappear in the woods again. xlolx

Managed to get away from the desk for a quick snap in the woods during a foggy day!

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I'm not entirely happy with this one. I'm posting it to see if anyone disagrees. There was a lot of flare in the waterfall area, but I managed to clean it up a bit. The overall effect is a little too crunchy. I may revisit it at some point.

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Taken one evening on a bike ride around La Suze area. I had passed this in the car on the way to Arnage to watch the race and saw this, so decided to come here armed with my camera, and managed to get this.

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

I only managed one shot of this fly before it took off. It is a new one for our garden.

Managed to grab half an hour at Charnwood Water with the magic formula of sunshine and wildlife (woohoo!)

The coot family were alarmingly unperturbed by people, which is a bit concerning really...

Thanks for looking, it's really appreciated :)

Managed to zoom in to max 500mm and capture this shot through the branches and leaves for this active starling.

Looks like the red eye reduction feature on the camera ain't working :)

I managed a few shots of the line through Leigh on Sea during my trip to the South-East at the end of March. Here we see C2C's 357321 heading west towards it's final destination of Fenchurch Street through the town, with the Thames estuary (or vast expanse of mud!) visible beyond. Saturday 30.3.19

Managed to capture this Heron as the sun was setting. It let me get quite close which is unusual and seemed to be posing for me!

This was taken the first night of Glacier boot camp with Aaron and Alan. When there are clear skies, shoot for the stars. Just hours before, it was all different; the sky was blanketed with clouds with a thunderstorm rolling through the mountains. However the thunderstorm unleashed its force so swiftly it departed the scene far too quickly. All we were left with was clear skies.

Surely the epic sunset we were hoping for was not going to happen but at least I could put my rented lens to use. I knew I wanted to frame the Milky Way with Mt. Reynolds in the background and hence I searched for an interesting foreground. Luckily, Logan Pass area has a plethora of compositions with various cascades, waterfalls, and wildflower patches. I ultimately settled on this particular shelf with a twin cascade flowing over it. Looking up I noticed the valley to the right of Mt. Reynolds. With Mt. Reynolds having so much prominence, I wanted to frame the Milky Way appearing from behind Mt. Reynolds with the core filling in the space in that valley.

One thing I was not quite used to in Montana was the extremely long days. I had not realized being so far up north increased the daytime by so much. On top of that, it took far longer for the sky to get dark enough for the Milky Way to become visible. At last by 11pm, the sky finally darkened enough for stars to twinkle. And there she was: the Milky Way exposed herself from behind Mt. Reynolds. For majority of the time the core was hidden behind Mt. Reynolds but I waited until the Milky Way moved enough to expose its core in the valley as I had originally envisioned. By around 11:30pm, the scene was complete. The Milky Way stretched diagonally across my frame and the majority of the core was exposed in the relief of the valley.

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Managed to get this one published in the local newspaper.

Managed a break in the rain a few weeks back.

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So ventured down to my local park in search of some Snowdrops, ideal conditionas as it was still overcast.

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Found it tricky to get a good angle even with the tripod splayed to ground level.

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Then I came across a fallen tree with the snow drops growing up from the raised root base.

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This is one from the set I took that morning, a single Snowdrop with rain drops on it.

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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 out to see the Eagles at Nicomen Slough one grey morning.

This Red Rhododendron Bloom was shot with my Canon PowerShot SX1 IS with the Raynox DCR-250 lens attached.

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Managed to catch this busy little bird as it sat for a rest from inspecting the shrubbery for insects.

Managed to catch this in-between the rain and strong winds during my walk of yesterday!

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I manage to head up all the way to the top of Griffith Park's Mountain...

In my Opinion, I think it's The most beautiful place

you could ever go to in Los Angeles

It's a Photographer's paradise =D

If you love taking pictures and if your from LA, you totally need to head up there.

Well Apparently I got Tagged by Annie and Amanda

...Two awesome chicks..

Fave music

Asian Kung fu Generation - Yoru No Call

Ten people I tagged :

Mariana

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twitching-eye

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Bucheke

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Adam

Managed to snap this on Saturday (15/04/14) as the storm passed over Congwong Bay on it's way out to sea.

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Managed to get another Athearn GP40-2 done. The prototype photo I used for reference was from RailPictures.net and was taken in 1999. www.railpictures.net/photo/55432/. You will notice some detail differences between the prototype and the model. The model is as the loco would have been in 1984 when painted into this scheme. However, I liked the look of this as it is in this photo so decided just to go with it. The locomotive was originally Western Pacific 3553 with a build date of Apr 1980. UP renumbered it to the 900 series in April 1984 and then to 9988 in Jan 2003.

Managed to capture the quick take off of this Great Blue Heron .....from my kayak. Happy Wing Wedneday

managed to get out for an hour at fairburn yesterday first time in ages.

Managed to visit the Red Tower in York a few days later with my 10-20mm lens this time. The clouds were interesting and the wind had picked up so I thought I'd dig out the 10-stop filter.

Managed to capture this show of affection and protection.

Yay, managed to get up to London yesterday after too long an absence. I had wanted to capture this artwork and was very happy when the car park space in front of it was vacant. Just as I was about to press the shutter a car drove into the space, the driver got out and said, sorry, and headed towards the ticket machine. I was quietly cursing under my breath, when lo and behold, he got back in his car and drove away - either a parking restriction, too expensive or his conscience got the better of him ... I would like to think the latter but know it was one of the first two mentioned ...

Managed to beat the flying footballs today (Just!)

They love nettles and this little swarm of mini munchers has managed to strip a patch.

www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=io

Larva

The behaviour of the larva is very similar to that of the Small Tortoiseshell, the two species often being seen together. In the first instar, Peacock larvae are very similar to those of the Small Tortoiseshell. However, mature Peacock larvae are jet black for the most part, whereas Small Tortoiseshell larvae are typically dark green with a pair of yellow stripes running down the length of their sides.

On emerging from their eggs, Peacock larvae build a communal web near the top of the plant and from which they emerge to bask and feed and are usually highly conspicuous. As the larvae grow, they move to new plants, building new webs along the way. Webs are decorated with shed larval skins and droppings and are easily found.

Larvae have several techniques to avoid predation. When disturbed, a group of larvae will often jerk their bodies from side to side in unison, which must be a formidable sight to any predator. The larvae will also regurgitate green fluid and will, if necessary, curl up in a ball and drop to the ground. Larvae feed both during the day and at night. There are 5 instars in total.

The primary larval foodplant is Common Nettle (Urtica dioica). Hop (Humulus lupulus) and Small Nettle (Urtica urens) are also used.

1st Instar

"The larva eats away the crown of the egg, and all hatch at once. Those at the bottom of the batch immediately start feeding through the leaf, and all live in a dense mass, spinning a web over the leaf. Directly after emergence the larva measures only 1.6 mm. long; the body is cylindrical; the head large, black and shining, beset with fine black hairs. On the body are four longitudinal rows of long, fine, black, simple hairs with bulbous bases; they are slightly curved and have the extreme tips very slightly clubbed and whitish. On the ventral surface and claspers are paler fine straight hairs; the spiracles are outlined with black. The surface is finely granular, with minute, raised, dark points. The colour is a very light ochreous-green, almost white-green." - Frohawk (1924)

2nd Instar

"The first moult was on June 5th, 1908, the first stage lasting six days. Before the second moult, nine days old, it measures 8 mm. in length. It is a good deal similar to the previous stage; the base of the longest hairs now form black conical tubercles, which are beset with bristles, and each terminates in a long, slightly serrated black hair. There are numerous black serrated hairs of different lengths, some extremely small, scattered over the body, which is granulated with fine black points. The head is shining black, with minute black bristles. The surface of the body is very shining, of a mottled olive-brown, blotched with pale ochreous round each of the largest tubercles. They live and feed in company. Preparatory to moulting they all assemble in a dense mass on a thick carpet of web spun over the eaten part of the plant, and thereon, packed together, undergo the second moult. When disturbed they all throw up the anterior half of their bodies in the form of a hook (thus c__) and remain so for a few minutes." - Frohawk (1924

3rd Instar

"The second moult occurred on June 9th, 1908, the second stage occupying four days. Before the third moult, thirteen days old, it measures from 12.7 mm. to 14.8 mm. long. In this stage a further development in the size of the tubercles is noticeable, especially the two dorsal rows, which are of considerable length and terminate, as all the shorter ones do, with long, slightly curved hairs. The ground colour is purplish-dark-brown, the longer hairs, which are scattered over the body, are placed on white dots. The head and other details of the surface are as in the previous stage; the claspers are pale olive-ochreous. They still live gregariously, and, as in the previous stage, prior to moulting they all assemble in a dense pack, forming a conspicuous black mass. In this stage they consume a great quantity of food; and when touched or irritated exude from the mouth a comparatively large drop of green liquid; and when slightly disturbed they throw up their heads and fore part of the body as in the last stage, and if still further annoyed or shaken they fall to the ground with much wriggling, at the same time lowering themselves by a silk thread." - Frohawk (1924)

4th Instar

"The third moult June 13th, 1908. The third stage also lasted four days. Before fourth moult, eighteen days old, the larva is 25.4 mm. in length; very similar to the previous stage. All the tubercles are well developed, the two dorsal rows being about twice the length of the sub-dorsal and lateral series. The white spots are now more distinct and numerous. The head and legs are shining black, as well as the anal pair of claspers. The ground colour is a purple-black; in other respects the details are the same as in the previous stage. Before moulting they again assemble in a dense mass." - Frohawk (1924)

5th Instar

"The fourth and last moult took place on June 18th, 1908, the fourth stage lasting five days. After fourth moult, fully grown, about twenty-eight days old, it averages in length about 41 .3 mm., some specimens as much as 44 mm. long. It is fairly cylindrical and comparatively slender; the first segment is much the smallest. There are six longitudinal rows of black shining spines from the fifth to eleventh segments inclusive; the second and third segments have each only two dorsal spines, which are longer than those on the other segments; the fourth and anal segments have each four spines; the first segment has no spines, but a transverse ridge of fine black hairs. The spines are sub-dorsal, super-spiracular and sub-spiracular. They are long and shining black, sharply pointed, and bear numerous bristles of various lengths; the body is densely covered with minute black bristles, which adds intensity to the rich velvety-black ground colour. At the segmental divisions the surface is smooth and of a dull leaden-black. Each segment is encircled with numerous pure white globular warts, each emitting a fine white hair; the largest are in front of the spiracles. On the first segment is a dorsal, shining, black, transverse disc, and two round ones on the anal segment; the first is small and adjoins the eleventh segment, the other forms a large rounded knob on the extremity. The head and legs are shining black and thickly studded with black bristles of varying lengths; the claspers are ochreous-brown at the base, the middle portion bright ochreous, the foot palest. Several of the larvae were fully grown on June 24th (the fifth stage occupying six days), making the larval period twenty-seven days: twenty-five days feeding and two days occupied in changing to pupa." - Frohawk (1924)

managed to get a shot in before dinner tonight

Well I managed a trip out this afternoon, not much about as it was still quite chilly, but I did spot a few of these guys sitting on Dandelions, this is one of the Tenthredo sp. Sawflies and I'm not sure which, although it is a species I see commonly, but I know there are many similar species in this Genus.

Anyway as it was cold this one allowed me to take an 18 image handheld focus stack of its noggin, I used ISO 320, Aperture F/5.6 and a 1/160 shutter speed. Soon after this the Sawfly started to stir and promptly flew off.

Possible ID :- Tenthredo arcuata or Tenthredo notha

Hope everyone has a grand week :o)

320/365 - 13/52

Wait in line

'Till your time

Ticking clock

Everyone stop

Everyone's saying different things to me

Different things to me

Everyone's saying different things to me

Different things to me

Woooohh

Do you believe

In what you see

There doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

Do you believe

In what you see

Motionless wheel

Nothing is real

Wasting my time

In the waiting line

Do you believe in

What you see

Nine to five

Living lies

Everyday

Stealing time

Everyone's taking everything they can

Everything they can

Everyone's taking everything they can

Everything they can

Woooohh

Do you believe

In what you feel

It doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

I should apologise for diss-appearing again, i have had so much on and still have a lot to sort out. Hopefully things will get on the right path for me so until then please bare with me.

On another note this is my entry for this weeks Teleidoscope theme of Oxygen. I had wanted to go in my friends swimming pool, i had some great ideas but unfortunately things are still freezing here, despite it being a heated pool! Another time then, besides i managed to try this out in a large bucket indoors, it was transparent but had a murky pearlescent tint to it so it is not as clear as i wanted it to be. It didn't help that the bubbles kept floating straight up either, i had to improvise them with a straw!

Not my finest edit skills but an image that turned out how i at least visioned it in my head.

I have also noticed i have a re-occuring blue and water theme recently, strange as i didn't intend for that!

Anyway have a great weekend peeps and catch you later. :)