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I had to lighten it up a bit, but I got this done on my 18th birthday, July 31st, same as Harry Potter. :]
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Aures, Tove, Lulu, Lysandra, and Bobby prepare for their first real concert as a band. A surprise pop up show in Hogsmeade for the monthly school trip to the village. Toves father provided the stage, decor, and of course some equipment upgrades. He had a lot to make up for since he promised Tove and Aures a trip to Japan over the summer but didn't follow through.
Of course what was a first gig without proper band photos!
I luckily managed to grab some shots of a Peregrine Falcon having his lunch. If you look closely on the back right of his mouth you can still see some yellow feathers making their way down to his digestive system.
Olympus E-M1
LUMIX G VARIO 100-300/F4.0-5.6
Aperture ƒ/4.5
Focal length 150.0 mm
Shutter 1/500
ISO 640
Managed to drag myself out of bed for a sunrise great morning but by lunchtime I was playing scrabble in the community hall on Bryher with the rain pouring down. I hasten to add none of the family had taken waterproofs with them.
...how plants survive.
Seen in the interesting roof garden atop the new Transbay Transit Terminal. San Francisco.
Finally managed to get the camera out over Easter, we had some family stay at Mooloolaba & decided to stop in for a visit, gave me a good excuse to get out for a shoot, the sky was rather bland until the sun went down behind me & these crazy rays appeared in this intense colour to the east.
The lighthouse you see is Point Cartwright, another great seascapers spot.
Canon 50D & 10-22@13mm
15sec@f13, ISO100, CPL & Singh-Ray 3stop rev GND.
We have managed to get back up to Skye for a few days but since we arrived the weather has been diabolical. However, it hasn't stopped us getting out and about and here are some photos of young birds we've come across.
It's strange that wherever I go this year I see many young Wheatears but hardly any adults.
Managed to get out for the first time in a while last night. I took my wife to some of my old favourites, after seeing my favourite phonebox had been removed and my favourite church was lit up like Big Ben we strayed a few miles to another place I used to shoot back in the day. Trailed for 30 mintues before packing up and going home, lit by passing cars and trucks as well as a little foregound lighting from my iphone. I remember there was a security light that came on when you got too close so I chose to stand back and get a nice fisheye shot.
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Managed to get up to Skyline Drive for the one-hour window between the end of twilight and moonrise.
Managed to get a few outdoor portraits done recently. The trees are starting to bud and the flowers are slowing showing up on the west coast.
I finally managed to debox my Karl Lagerfeld Barbie and, of course, Poppy was the chosen doll to wear her outfit for the first time.
Thanks to my friend Luis Manuel that helped me to unsew the outfit from Barbie.
Managed a few hours out today with the camera, and the recent mild weather has brought out the adders. I thought this looked very large until two heads appeared. I was surprised how many we spotted. You can see how well they blend into their surroundings, very easy to walk past.
Managed to get close to this Hare today as it ambled through the grass towards me.A wonderful experience to get so close to these amazing animals!
Taken at Havergate,Suffolk
I managed to get into a remnant of bamboo forest near Tokyo, just before I left for Australia. It was very poor for invertebrates, as expected, apart from mosquitoes. But after a while, I managed to find a few collembolans, happily, on the decaying bamboo. The pleasure of being amongst native, fully grown bamboo was immense. When I saw bamboo growing wild for the first time, it was incredible. I hadn't quite realised how similar it is to woodland, just done with bamboo instead. Just fantastic.
Managed some damselflies and now a butterfly, things were definitely getting better!!
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Thank you for your favourites. :O)
Concrete and metal, trying in vain to stop the inevitable flooding of Norfolk's low lying countryside.
Walcott, Norfolk.
Finally managed to persuade my mate, who is an archer to come round and have his pictures taken with his bow. So we went for pizza and after getting back to my crib whilst I was setting up the lighting he pulled out his worn brown hoody, donned his quiver, put some arrows in and posed like this and said how does that look then. For the life of me I thought he had a compound bow but no he sold that as prefers to use a more natural wood bow, so in true fantasy adventure styley I composited him into a dungeon scene and with some heavy processing ended up with this. Background courtesy of Devantart (I think?). Oh also got first use of my 60x90 gridded softboxes. Luvverly!
Can't help but feel that I should post a more natural looking shot next week, but let's see how the mood takes me.
All lighting is Lencarta Elitepro 600W fired using RF602 triggers. Gridded softboxes at about 2 and 10 o clock, with a 40cm beauty dish at 7 o clock and high above camera. Canon 5D with 24-70 F2.8L.
Managed to spend a lot of time in the woodland making the most of the rich greenery and sunlight. This photo was easily my favourite from the day.
Managed to get to a couple of events this week. This is how I looked.
From left to right:
- Tuesday night at Candygirls
- Wednesday morning getting ready to go to Lovejoys
- Wednesday afternoon at Lovejoys.
Lovely to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.
Now we'll leave out tonight with one of Grimsby's later ex-Manchester additions, looking a little bit... well, logo-less. Grimsby is a bit behind on new livery repaint, so it seems. Thankfully, the destination on this was easier to take, even if it is a bit wonky, although I'd hoped to catch this with 5W blinds up. Unfortunately, the driver was in the process of changing them over, and I managed to catch them a bit too late. Oh well, there's always next time.
The final double-decker of the day, Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes' 19074, a 2006 ADL Enviro400 new to Stagecoach Manchester before coming up to Grimsby-Cleethorpes in 2020, is seen having just started on the 5W - although not displaying it - along Pelham Road.
Well I guess that this is my last shot of 2024! I have only managed to put up 22 shots this year which is equivalent to less than 2 shots each month but I guess I did have a couple of updated shots this year which brought the total up to 24. However, what I have lacked in quantity I hope I have made up for in quality and interesting photos.
This is where I say thank for viewing my channel this year and for all the new followers I have gained thanks so much, its genuinely appreciated and I never take for granted the amount of favourites I get as over 100 was genuinely unimaginable.
I don't know about you but this year has flown by and been a rather challenging year. When starting the year with major surgery and subsequentially been behind with life for 5 months and having to learn to walk again it was rather mentally intense. For those who have struggled know that it will get better and good times lie ahead.
As we look forward, continue to look after people, make connections, build community and be empathetic as people are only human and continue to struggle but by being there can really make the day better.
For 2025, they are the goals to be more content, calmer and less of a perfectionist. But lets continue to be there for one another, I also hope that everybody had a great Christmas and if possible in a period of calm and restful.
Now shall we move onto the bus. For my Christmas/end of year shot I wanted one to look festive and atmospheric. I try to avoid the centre of Edinburgh for the majority as I feel like loads of shots are taken there and its great to get out of the centre. But, making an exception I thought the Mound would be good as there is usually a nicely lit tree. How wrong was I This year the tree was hardly visible so a change was required and I was passing Waverley and realised that the lighting would look quite nice.
Waverley Bridge returned to fleet usage in June of this year after 4 years being closed to the public initially for Covid 19 restrictions and then for prioritising pedestrians which I completely understand. However, due to the terrible fire at Jenner's last year repair work was needed, this meant that the Airlink services were in need of a new home, so Waverley Bridge was back in actions and will be for the next 2 years.
These XLB buses have been taking the Airlink loads for the best part of 5 and a half years with a small Covid break in between, they are perfect as they have lots of seats and also look really grand and impressive. I remember when I first rode on one as a "I want to ride one of these" the bus that turned up that November Friday back in 2019 was 1136.
Ever since I have really wanted a shot of 1136 but the opportunity has never until now presented itself. But when I had decided what location my shots was going to be in to my luck in was Lothian Buses 1136 that was trundling down the Mound, About 15 shots later (the driver must have thought I was mad as no other bus got a single snap) I managed to get a rather well composed and atmospheric shot of the royal blue bus.
So, here we see Lothian Buses Airlink 1136 collecting a lot of passengers at the terminus as it begins another ride out to the Airport on a cold but sunny Thursday afternoon in December.
Finally, a huge thanks for 2024 and wishing you all the best for 2025!!!
Alex
I managed to get an early morning view of the new nova in the constellation Sagittarius this morning, March 29, 2015. According to recent observations, this unusual nova has had an unusual magnitude shift, up and down and now back up again. Grab a blanket and head out to see this bright nova before it is gone!
Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 was discovered by nova hunter John Seach of Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia.
Sagittarius is low on the southern horizon from my viewing location, just above tree level, but I did manage to capture it this morning. The nova is the brightest object inside the yellow circle. I used a Canon 6D, Canon 100mm f/2.8L lens mounted on a tripod with no guiding. I placed some reference star magnitudes on the chart for you.
Managed to capture this perfect strawberry Before the critters get it, like they did with the other berries.
Salami managed to keep still on my palm for a record 5 seconds today, before scrambling right off my palm >_____< It was a great relief he landed on my bed >_____< Until recently, it was impossible to have him hold still at all! Silly boy!
Thankfully Sashimi has always been more obliging :3
Explore: 28 August 2007
I managed to sneak a few backpacking trips in while the family was visiting my in-laws in Toronto the last two weeks of July. This was from the second weekend, where we spent 3 days in Chicago Basin (located between Silverton and Durango, CO). It was a great trip, and we covered a lot of ground. The weather wasn’t ideal, and it did rain on us every day, but all in all we all had an excellent outing.
On Saturday morning, we caught the 9:45 AM train after a full belly of Denny’s. The train dropped us off at the Needleton station, which provides access to some cottages and the trailhead leading into the Chicago Basin. After throwing our packs on, we crossed the Animals river and made the 6.5 mile hike into the basin, establishing camp as far in as we could get while remaining beneath tree line. The first night was clouded in and wet. In fact it rained all night and into the morning, washing out sunrise as well.
Sunday morning, we hiked up to Twin Lakes, which is another mile+ and another 1000 – 1200 ft of elevation gain to scope it out. Erik and Koveh hung out near the lake, and Craig and I scrambled up to a saddle straight north of the lake to get a view of the basin on the other side. It was pretty spectacular, however the wrong time of day. I will probably post a shot of it later though anyway. I’m glad we mad this extra hike though, as it’s when I spotted this spot for a sunset shoot. After returning to camp in the rain, we eventually came out of our tents to the warmth of the afternoon (literally, as my tent turned into a microwave and if I did not come out, I would be cooked). An early dinner, and we were back up to Twin Lakes for sunset, where we were rained on once again with the added bonus of some rumbling thunder.
The clouds cleared quickly however; actually too quickly and after fiddling around with some compositions around the lake, I decided to take my chances and head up above the lakes for a different perspective. Besides, I figured Koveh and Erik would have enough shots of the reflection in the lake, that we didn’t need any more. I’m glad I did, as there were some distant clouds, and the sky was pretty dynamic as the sun began to set. The alpenglow on the shoulder of Sunlight Peak was a nice surprise as it came through a hole in the clouds rather than lighting up the entire mountain.
This was close to one of the most tranquil sunsets I’ve been able to experience in the alpine in summer. The wind was perfectly still and the view was incredible. Definitely one I will not forget.
The hike down in the dark was uneventful. It rained off and on through the night, but Koveh shook me out of my tent before dawn to head back up towards Twin Lakes for sunrise. Going from REM to hiking in about 5 mins is one of the joys of backpacking after all. After shooting the rise near the stream draining out of Twin Lakes, we headed down; ate breakfast (Mountain House granola with blue berries for me...highly recommended); packed up and headed out. We were at the trailhead a little after noon.
This is when the most entertaining part of the trip arrived. We had been told, without any uncertainty that their would be three trains rolling through; 1/2 hr apart; and that only the middle train would stop. Hikers had been coming out of the basin all morning and afternoon, to the point where there was probably close to 40 of us waiting for the train. We had rolled out our mattress pads and were resting comfortably when the first train approached. It then stopped, which it wasn’t supposed to do, and hikers began to get on! We began frantically packing up, but before we could finish the train whistled it’s way off into the distance and when it was gone, the only ones left were the four of us; wondering what in the hell just happened...I think the worst part for me was the couple hikers that were peering out the windows of the train with a smug smirk on their faces waving at us...you could read the “Later suckas!” expression on their faces.
Anyway, the next train did arrive and we were more than ready for it. In fact they were wondering where everybody was as they were supposed to pick up 40 hikers. Turned out that the other train had plenty of room and decided to stop and pick up anyone who wanted to get out early...which would have been nice. On the plus side, we did not have to compete with 36 other hikers raiding the food car, and a couple $4 hot dogs after 3 days in the backcountry tasted better than you could imagine.
We disembarked the train in Durango at around 6:30 PM and headed for Denver. McDonalds in Pagosa Springs, speeding ticket in Del Norte, and we were in Denver around 2 AM. All in all, a pretty damn good adventure.
Managed a brief session with the local lizards this morning whilst the sun was out. Seem to be quite a few around this year which is great to see.
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; 983.77 MB).
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Stoke wood is a managed nature reserve that sits directly behind Cherwell Valley Services at junction 10 of the M40 motorway between London and Birmingham in the British midlands.
Well known locally, it's our nearest piece of woodland, and we visit at all times of the year. In springtime there are bluebells, wood anenomies, buds and new groth everywhere. In the autumn, like this, the floor is carpeted with beech leaves.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) and President and CEO Aspen Institute Walter Isaacson (R) talk about Innovation, Technology and Jobs at the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at the IMF Headquarters April 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe