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Have not managed to get good photos lately.
So it is time to share some more from this year's Vivid Sydney.
This year's theme was "Ocean creatures" and that one reminds me on some sort of flowers, hence the name.
More info here: www.vividsydney.com/
Thanks for looking and have a great day.
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Norbert
Just managed to catch this very pale imm bird as it flew through A small clearing in the trees directly overhead so A snatch shot !!
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Thanks to everyone that takes the time and makes the effort to comment and fave my pics its very much appreciated
Regards Clive
Somehow I managed to get between the male and female coyotes in the cold weather. -2 degress, no wind and sunny. She went back into the woods and I hung out for about 15 minutes. I could see both the male and female pacing on either side of me just inside the tree line. Finally the female decided to catch up to the male and I got my photo op.
I managed to get out to the Pond [Lake] last week. It was a very dull day, but made a welcome change to the rain and high winds we've been getting lately.
There were plenty of ducks, gulls and geese around plus a pair of swans and this pair of white doves.
I've never seen any white doves over there before, so this was a nice surprise and they stayed put for me too.
When I got back home I decided to look doves up on line as I know nothing about them. Most results seemed a bit disparaging about them and called them pigeons. Well, I suppose they are of the pigeon family but to me they are so much more distinctive.
Anyway - I know pigeons can be seen as a nuisance, but I read somewhere that people's perception of them changes for the better when they find out how useful and stoic homing pigeons were during the war and they were even awarded medals - so there!
Managed to get this shot a couple of days before the city went into 'Shelter At Home'.
Stay safe and healthy San Francisco! Stay indoors! Each one of us is responsible for containing the spread and saving lives.
I managed to get this male beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) to land on my arm and also somehow stay still enough for me to get two shots from the same angle which enabled me to focus stack them and end up with eye, body and wing in focus.
The detail on the compound eye came out absolutely marvellous and I am so happy with one. Zoom in yourself and you'll see why.
The next day the weather was better and after a good breakfast at the "Hotel Steel" we got to work fresh. We managed to get at least one good picture on the south side of the complex, but it is clear that we wanted more. After a double check by the Ochrona, we positioned ourselves near the oxygen station and waited there in the din of the huge facilities. Two Qarmet locomotives were active at the same time and posed for us: TEM2UM-907 was shunting scrap for the steel converter, while TEM1-1697 was moving into the plant. Under the bridge, i.e. below us, the Ochrona was active and checking the fence. We noticed very clearly that we were not welcome and went in search of another place.
Kasachstan, Казахстан
Oblast Karaganda, Temirtau, Карагандинская область, Темиртау
JSC Qarmet, АО «Кармет»
ТЭМ1-1697
ТЭМ2YM-907
Managed the two front feet alright but I should have paid more attention to the back feet. Now what am I supposed to do. Should have stayed on hard rock surfaces.
I managed to get into the best hotel in all of Vietnam - Vinpearl Resort. This is truly huge and wonderful hotel I've ever seen. It's is located on a separate island. Also, from the mainland to the island stretched the longest cable car over the sea. This is a wonderful thing! After I arrived at the hotel and got the keys to the room, I took this photo from my balcony. I really like this incomparable landscape!
Managed to sort of save this one after ruining the whole roll by not loading the tank correctly !!!! Won't be making that mistake again.
Managed to get out once while in Newcastle over Christmas (annoying 2 beautiful sunrises which I missed due to Christmas Day and a flight to Southampton!) and headed to my favourite local spot, St Mary's Lighthouse. For once got the tide height and sunrise pretty bang on for a nice level of water over the causeway.
St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay
Nikon D750 / Nikon 16-35 @ 20mm / f/8 5s / LEEfilters 0.6nd Hard Grad
Managed to catch the SpaceX Starlink 10-40 mission from Forest, VA, this past Wednesday morning. Despite the pre-dawn scramble, the Nikon Z6 III and Tamron 24-70mm combo handled the dynamic range beautifully. You can clearly see the Falcon 9 second stage leading the way, its exhaust expanding into that iconic "space jellyfish" as it hits the sunlight in the upper atmosphere.
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This is a shot taken from above the waterfall that I call the Whale's Tail in Puck's Glen. The scene is a wee bit cluttered due to logging and landslide debris and this is the reason why the water over the rocks has been re-directed and no longer takes the shape of a whale's tail.
Managed to shoot a few lovely shots of one of these speedsters swooping low over the field picking of midget flies. This is a 50% crop.
I managed to get out today as the sun finally decided to shine.
I decided to do a 'stuck in the mud' exercise where I just stand in one spot for about 10 minutes to take the time to really look at what's there. This ivy winding its way up and around old fencing really caught my eye.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
...nevertheless humans managed to capture an alien spacecraft!
We did a road trip from California to Utah. We drove along the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada, and stopped at the Little A'Le'Inn, located near the mysterious Area 51. An old truck is parked in front of the restaurant. It was very windy that night, and I had to take several shots until I got one where the flying saucer was not moving too much. The title is a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson, well a joke by him in an interview.
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I managed to get a shot of one of the juvenile kestrels at RHS Hyde Hall the other evening, but today I managed to get four of them in one shot! We think this is all of the juveniles as we stood and watched for a while. The one on the edge of the nest box kept hopping down out of sight, but there was never any sign of a fifth juvenile!
I was desperate to get a snap of this tree, but circumstances prevented me from getting there. However, someone else in the family did manage a visit, so I requested permission to upload their photo. It's a deciduous sweet chestnut tree festooned by multiple bunches of mistletoe, a parasitic plant particularly abundant in our local park. I liked the idea of this seasonal floral cuckoo combined with a rare photographic parasitism.
Olympic Peninsula near Forks Washington. May 2025.
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko 50mm 1.8. Salvaged camera and lens. Cinestill 800, lab processed and printed (BMC)
This photo was taken standing midstream in the Corarsik Burn in Glen Massan, Argyll, Scotland.
It was the first "real" photo taken with my new Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 VR.
Highest position: 402 on Sunday, October 11, 2020
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Grizzly Bear seen in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park on June 22. First time this year I managed to get some shots.
This week I managed to photograph both Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler at close quarters. This one is a Chiffchaff and I'll post the similar Willow Warbler later. Most years the Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is the first spring migrant that I see and this year was no exception as I saw a couple of singing birds on 28 February. This coincided with some unusually warm, fine weather. Chiffchaffs do overwinter in Britain but they tend to occur at lower altitudes, so living in the Pennines I rarely see them in winter, and assume that singing birds in my area are genuine migrants. The early migrants like Chiffchaff mainly winter around the Mediterranean, so do not have as far to travel as sub-Saharan migrants. They can also make use of good migrating weather systems in Europe whereas the weather in sub-Saharan Africa has little relevance to the weather in Europe.
Chiffchaffs are very closely related to Willow Warblers and it was Gilbert White (author of the Natural History of Selborne) who first realised they were separate species by listening to their distinctive songs. He also separated Wood Warbler at the same time. This was in 1768 in correspondence with Thomas Pennant, twenty one years before he published the Natural History of Selborne. It isn't just the song that distinguishes them, Chiffchaffs are duller than Willow Warblers, with shorter wings and distinctive dark legs, all visible here. They also have a more ptominent white crescent below the eye and have a habit of down-pumping their tails. Willow Warblers are similar, except Willow Warbler is a little brighter with longer wings, and paler legs. That eye crescent is less obvious, and they don't habitually pump their tail. But if spring the song is the best way to distinguish them. Here is Chiffchaff song on Xeno Canto: www.xeno-canto.org/466006 (By Andrew Harrop at Rutland Water). For comparison here's a Willow Warbler www.xeno-canto.org/621080
The scientific name Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner from its habit of searching leaves for insects. Collybita means money-counter which refers to the song; chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chiff-chiff-chaff. This really does sound like someone counting coins from a table top. And for me that coin-counting repetitive song will always herald the arrival of spring.
IN CHARACTER:
The books and assignments keep piling up in Otter's OWLs year, he is only just managing to keep up.
Managed to find my special Mimosa tree yesterday, but sadly it had a good prune at the end of last year and all the lovely low branches have gone. So used a bit of zoom instead.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
I managed to sneak up onto another young Nursery Web spider yesterday, not an easy thing to do, normally they scurry off before I get anywhere near but this little one stayed put long enough to get a few shots.
I used MP-E 65mm with 2X converter and defused flash
I managed three visits to the Mjällådalen nature reserve during our July trip to my mother-in-law in Härnösand, Sweden.
As on the previous two, my son joined me and proved an invaluable photography assistant and beetle herder.
My favourite find on this visit - and possibly of the entire trip - was this red morph of the green-socks peacock beetle (Elaphrus riparius). That's right, this is the very same species as this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53022438739/in/album-721...
This is the smallest peacock beetle in Sweden at 5-7 mm (.24") and quite variable in colour although this hue has to be considered quite extreme.
As before, Daniel turned out to be invaluable and we came up with a process where he put his hands down on the sand with his thumbs ands index fingers formed a diamond shape around the beetle so it couldn't run away and I then stuck the camera down close over it and took a shot whenever it took a little break in running around like it was on crack.
I've seen small groups of stone stacks in Pucks Glen before, but on this day there was a whole crop of them.
Highest position: 375 on Friday, August 20, 2021
We managed to get down to Yosemite for a beautiful winter day. It snowed the day before and the paths were pretty much frozen everywhere making it a pretty slick experience - quite literally.
Looks like this hit explore on 12/31. Thanks to everyone for the faves and comments.
I managed around 85 frames of this pair running across the water. I started shooting after they were up and going. They must have run for 9-10 seconds. Toward the end of the display a rival male tried to horn in on the action. His awkward, flapping scoot across the water was comical after the grace and power of the bonding pair.
We are still in Atherton and suffering from wifi-itis! So I have just managed to upload this one shot and then I gave up. Tomorrow we move on so perhaps it will be better then and I can catch up with some of you. Maybe! A few days ago we were north of Mossman in Far North Queensland as they say, but where the line in the sand exists between these pretend geographics like Far North, North, Whitsundays etc I have no real idea! It's just north Queensland to me. This shot of a two foot gauge sugar locomotive, appropriately named "Daintree" as that's the next town north after which one crosses the river of the same name by barge and enters the real Cape York Peninsula area (far, Far North!!!) was taken in the very small town of Miallo. It is heading south to the mill in Mossman which is the only sugar mill north of Cairns and which I now know also takes cane from the newer growing areas of the Atherton Tableland, brought down by truck.
The Mossman mill wagons differ from all other mills in having two four wheel bogies on which cane containers are loaded. This gives more flexibility as these same containers are also hauled by truck in areas not served by the cane railway network. Being around the start of September, the crush is at its peak, about half over its early July to December season. Many fields are already harvested and readied for or already planted with next season's crop.
This train will pick up consists of wagons with chopped cane from sidings on each farm. It has done one already, another just down the road with yet another group of wagons further down the track. By the time it has picked up all its scheduled loads it will be a long and heavy train. The harvest and transport of cane is a well co-ordinated operation and all cane must be at the mill within 24 hours of harvest or it starts to lose its sugar content. Very little burning of cane is now carried out. It has a number of downsides (although spectacular at night) and these days very little goes to waste. A lot of the left over leaves are ploughed back in, sold in big bags at hardware stores for garden mulch or used with other left overs as bagasse and burnt in the mill's boilers. The smell of sugar syrup that pervades the air around the mills is not one to be forgotten, a special sweet aroma of a major industry. On the other hand the left over black mill mud from the crushing and crystallisation process is at the other end of the smell spectrum but is a great fertiliser which is dumped in the fields and ploughed in.
Managed to put the birds aside for a day to look for Autumn colors. We did some searching in Western Iowa and found this beautiful spot. What a wonderful time of the year.
Managed to get to Kithurst Hill at 7.15 this morning, and had myself better dialled into the butterflies.
The little Blues are such mazy creatures, leading me a merry dance on a warm morning.
I think this is a Common Blue, happy to be corrected.
Glad I went out early, as was able to collect Dave from hospital this afternoon. He's sore, and I guess our plans for mountain biking have gone awry, but at least it wasn't anything more serious.
Finally managed to get this shot, had been planning it since November.
This was shot during the past full moon and had to scout the place the evening before. When I was hiking to the mountaintop I crossed paths with a rattlesnake, thanks to it's advice I took my distance and the shoot went all right.
Picture is a stack of 18 shots at 300mm, making it a huge file.
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Después de planear esta toma desde Noviembre, por fin la obtuve.
La foto la tomé la última luna llena y tuve que caminar al lugar adecuado desde una tarde anterior para asegurarme de la toma. Mientras subía a la montaña me crucé con una víbora de cascabel, pero gracias a su aviso, me separé y todo salió bien.
La imagen está compuesta de 18 fotos a 300mm, haciéndola una imagen bastante grande.
I managed this shot a couple of nights ago whilst on a short trip to Bournemouth. I used my f@4 . 70-200 on the long end, a lens that never fails to deliver.
Photographing piers is a bit of a novelty to me,as we don't have these great structures in Cornwall.
I managed to make time for a visit to Stodmarsh NNR (one of my favourite wildlife destinations) and, despite an unpromising forecast, the light wasn't too bad. The more than predicted 'fresh breeze' meant small birds and insects, apart from odonata, were mostly hiding.
having managed to pull myself out of bed with only 3 hours sleep, i drove to buttermere in the lke district uk. its a place i frequent but havent had a walk round it for a few months.sunrise wasnt anything special but there was some interesting driftwood laying around and the low water levels made the usual shot of the lone tree a bit unpleasant on my eye.
this old branch on the other hand stuck out like a sore thumb. i really like how its twists and the textures on it really appeal. it made an excellent foreground subject.
Managed to get up to London on Friday night to see A Christmas Carol with Jim Broadbent, we stayed over and had a quick walk around Shoreditch in the sunshine on Saturday before being pestered to return home to watch the Strictly Final by KP. Her favourites Kelly and Kevin didn't win but were amazing ...
Hard to believe that it was so warm in December ...