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Did manage to get the whole Male Bearded Tit in shot, amongst the reeds, but there was quite a lot of vegetation clutter. Thought it worked a bit better as a close crop - helped by the fact that he popped up quite close to me.
Taken in Norfolk.
managed to catch a minute or so of good light after work from the Mt Jukes lookout, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
23rd April 2021 :
Managed to get out for a short walk just before lunchtime today. I didn't go far, but it was good to get out for a bit.
Saw this in the car park and decided on something different for today. You can see the whole thing here :
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I managed to get out early on the latest in a series of misty mornings characterised by a temperature inversion in the Derwent Valley (and, indeed, across a much wider area). I took this shortly after sunrise with mist starting to roll in to envelop Over Owler Tor.
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Managing to avoid the mizzle, which threatened to end the night early. Mart and I fired off a few shots. I like this simple orange background lighting and a cooler light used in the Backlight Scanner used through the archway.
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I've walked past this waterfall many times and it is usually barely more than a trickle. However, after many days of rain, it can be more interesting.
There are 2 ways to get down from Pucks Glen ... coming down via the Lower Glen path, or coming down via this woodland path. Both routes are beautiful.
I managed to scramble early to watch sunrise from the Alabama Hills in California. About 20 minutes before the sun's first rays hit the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, this neat pink/blue combination set in. Over the next 20 minutes they would completely change. There are so many great perspectives from these hills. Both formations are granite, with the foreground hills showing more weathering and soft shaping.
A flock of birds flitted by very fast. But I managed to catch a shot. Not sure, but think these birds might be dunlins.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
Managed to blag my way onto Ards Airfield tonight to get a few shots of some of the aircraft flying in the Newcastle Festival of Flight tomorrow. Time was a bit limited but it was nice to get a peep at them....especially the Bristol in the background :)
Managed to catch this small private Porsche Carrera GT run leaving yesterday.
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I noticed this blue blur go past a few times today but I was always just too slow to catch it. Finally I managed to get a few shots of it off in the distance and thought that was as good as I was going to get. Just when I gave up and started heading back to the car it landed right in front of me and posed long enough to capture this.
I managed to leave my camera on the roof of my car earlier in the day and drove off. Unbelievably the thing still worked though the lens suffered considerably - that's why there's bad blur on the left, and overall the image quality is suspect.
Bozeman Pass, Montana.
The sun managed to find an opening in the clouds after the afternoon storms had passed through bringing a beautiful warm light on the upper part of the falls and surrounding cliffs. I found this unique perspective last fall and have since wanted to go back and finally got the opportunity to go. Honestly it was so refreshing to go back out and let the Lord refresh my soul which had honestly felt so empty from how difficult things have been between my health and my work. I am thankful to live so close to so many beautiful places and for God's grace to be able to go to them and enjoy the majesty of His creativity.
Managed to get a bit better background as well as one of the chicks with its head sticking out of the nest hole.
Whilst the amount of rain in Scotland can be tiresome at times, it always makes for great river and waterfall photos :)
I managed to get a photo of these before the birds ate them all.
The flowers, leaves, berries, bark and roots of the elder have all been used in traditional folk medicine for centuries. There is also a rich background of folklore and traditions surrounding it. In the Middle Ages legends held that tree was home to witches and that cutting down one would bring on the wrath of those residing in the branches.
I managed a few days away before the lockdown. Here's an hours exposure spent after midnight in a field stargazing and watching moon shadows darken the Langdale Pikes before rushing down the fells and over me.
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She managed the pearls and the scarf, but Muriel thought she might need help clipping on the earrings. Personally, I'm just relieved she didn't find the red lipstick. :))
I bought these earrings for next to nothing in a local shop last year to use as a prop, but this is the first time they've seen the light of day. I was happy to see the theme this week!
For this week's Smile on Saturday! group theme, Earrings.
I managed to capture this tender moment when a mother Grizzly Bear was given a hug by her young cub. The bears were so well fed on the abundant salmon they had excess energy for play fighting with mum, and between her twin cubs. This was on the Nekite River in British Columbia.
Somehow, I managed to arrive at Westward Ho! at exactly the right time. The tide was going out (I had planned that part) and thankfully most of the dog-walkers were still making their way towards the beach.
Imagine that, the gloriously soggy sands of Westward Ho! devoid of frantic paw prints, ball divots and start-stop welly-boot tracks. Not that I actually have anything against dog-walkers on beaches - it's a joy to see the excitement and the wagging tails - it's just extra-nice to find pristine sands when the weather is perfect for photography.
Epic clouds. Unending wet sands. Intermittent sunshine. Strong, but managable winds. Just what the Doctor ordered.
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Is it World Hyphen Day? I seem to have been on a mission to hyphenate, necessarily and un-necessarily - whatever took my fancy really.
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Possibly the most photographed tree in Scotland? This was taken the evening before my Devil's Pulpit shot. I had finally arrived at the B&B but was pretty late and had the idea of trying to shoot this tree as it wasn't that far away. Unfortunately the weather was so good and it was a Saturday so there were families having evening meals and kids climbing over the roots so it wasn't until after the sun had set that I bagged a shot. The roots were nearly surrounded by water but not 100% hence the crop. I managed to drag more detail out of the shadows than I was expecting 9( credit to the Canon sensor in the R5) but purposely left it almost silhouetted as I thought it looked natural. I'm can't pretend it's in any way 'original' but never shot it before and, considering there wasn't a cloud in the sky I liked the early Blue Hour light.
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Visited RSPB Snettisham this morning for the Spectacular - and wasn't dissapointed. Managed to get there for 6am and then walked to the hides / viewpoint. The car park was almost full.
Have never been there for this event - where a particulalry high tide drives the waders off the wash and into the lagoon - where the birds congregate in huge numbers before returning to the shore when the tide starts to recede. Murmerations galore! The sound of thousand of birds flying so close was amazing! Even the sound they make milling around on the island is quite mesmerising.
Someone estimated that there were at least 100,000 birds of various species active this morning - no idea how you work that out!
Had to stand on tip toe to see the group of Knots milling about on the small lagoon island - shooting into the sun to try and get some backlighting. Actually could have done with a smaller aperture than F11 as I was trying to get a really slow shutter speed to show motion blur on the moving birds - but 1/40 was all I could manage - even deliverately over exposing. Maybe a tripod would have been useful too. But at least carrying just the RF800mm and RP was heaven!
I ideally wanted one bird to be stock still, somewhere central and looking at me - but only got the back of his head. Maybe next time!
If you haven't been i highly recommend it, providing you are guaranteed good light by the met office.
Managed to find this old jetty at Meiklejohns Bay, Lake Wakatipu. I have seen a couple of amazing shots from this location, so was looking forward to visiting it. The rustic old jetty certainly looked surreal surrounded by snow caped mountains.
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I managed to catch another nice sunset at home and I nipped into the field at the side of our property to catch a silhouette of this old Tree.
I have taken shots of it before and it won't be long now until the farmer has to take it down before it falls. It has had a long life and it still has a nice shape to its structure.
Managed to get out this morning and pay the beach a visit - this time it was Newcastle Beach, NSW; Australia.
Here I've used the rusty posts that surround what's known locally as The Canoe (or World) Pool a children's saltwater pool that is located beside the Newcastle Ocean Baths.
The sun was pretty high in the sky so it was necessary for me to use my Lee Big Stopper and Lee .9 Hard Grad filters to create this long exposure image.
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This is the uncropped version of my Mischief Managed photo for Eclipse.
Finally managed to get out and see a few sunrises. I spent quite a bit of time just watching the colour change, the previous morning I was watching a Pod of Dolphins swimming around this lighthouse
Managed to get out and take some pictures over the weekend, these two were having a right old ding dong at each other.
These little birds were a delight. A dawn trip with the early morning sun, I struggled to hold the camera at such a low shutter speed, 500mm + 1.4 tc and no tripod or VR .but managed a few sharpish shots.
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managed to find some virgin snow at last
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Managed a shot with both the Muntjac & the Rabbit in. taken through triple glazing @ 7.30am on a dull morning
Well… for the first time this year… I finally managed to shoot something that I’m actually quite pleased with!!
Maybe it’s all the crap weather (hot, windy & hazy) that we’ve had here in Cape Town recently… or maybe it’s just that I’m feeling like I’ve already shot every potential subject within an hour’s drive from my house… but I’ve been feeling terribly uninspired lately! The last couple of times that I have actually made the effort to go out and find something interesting to shoot… I’ve come back with only one or two (really boring) shots on the camera… not even worth the effort of copying them onto my computer! I was even beginning to think that I’d lost my photo-mojo somewhere… and that I would never find another landscape that really excited me! :)
But when I woke up yesterday and noticed the thick pea-soup-like fog outside… I jumped into some clothes… grabbed my gear and was driving within ten minutes of opening my eyes! We don’t often get foggy conditions where I live… so this was a real treat for me! But where to drive to… that was the million-dollar question!? As I was driving I noticed the fog starting to clear to the north… so I made a U-turn… and headed south! After a few kilometers I could see the fog was clearing on that side too… so I turned 90 degrees and drove in an Easterly direction! Please let me find a composition before the fog clears… I was thinking to myself… please don’t let me get back home without shooting anything!!
Then I suddenly remembered a farm dam nearby with some dead trees in it! I drove like a bat out of hell… noticing the fog getting thinner and thinner with every passing kilometer! Damn… the farm gate was locked… jump the fence and run Paul… just don’t miss this moment!
As you can see… I didn’t miss the moment!! I had to take off my shoes, roll up my pants and wade into the water to get in front of the reeds that were blocking this composition… but I did… and it was totally worth it!! I was in seventh heaven… this was exactly the kind of shot I was hoping to get… I even hummed a little tune to myself while driving home (a sure sign of a successful shoot)!
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 12mm, aperture of f8, with a 1/1250th second exposure.
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