Managed to capture, through the reeds, this Juvenile Deer feeding. Always a delight to see these shy deer.

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managed to get a quick shot in after work

eventually - manages to spring back into its old familiar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time :-)

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Managed to get out for an hour.

This is a early morning street shot in Stow-on-the-Wold

I managed to escape to the Peak District this week to catch up with an old friend and visit a new location. The idea was to wild camp and take both sunset and sunrise shots, but the weather forecast changed and the sun failed to show up at sunset and with heavy rain predicted through the night and into the next day we decided to call it a night.

A nice view but one for another day when the conditions are better. A nice leg stretch and a good chat in the pub before heading home to a comfy bed.

I managed to take my pictures using RAW on my camera without realising and I couldn't work out how to upload... I couldn't see the pictures like usual so I was panicking and thinking noooo dont make me do this again. Time consuming enough as it is.

I have a few days till I start working again so I'm hoping to do lots more in that time.

Managed to get my first three shots of the fledglings in the garden this morning. There is about five of them but not staying still long enough! The blue tits are nesting too so hope to get some shots of them also.

I managed to grab two nice flight shots from this fella that leaped off the sage. These YHB were quite friendly. It was fairly easy to walk up to them this year. My very first trip years ago they were very skittish.

Managed to capture an image of this fast-mover. Seen near the Turtle Pond at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia CA.

Managed to borrow a boat to get me here. The little Cumbrae is a small relatively inaccessible island on the west coast of Scotland

Managed to stack together 11 photos for this !

Manually aligned the images so the bulk of the alignment is around the galactic core. Resulting in a slightly fuzzy outer edge - which allows you to focus more on the core itself :)

Used the Samyang or Rokinon 12mm f2 wide open (at f2) for this photo

Wee drone shot of Loch Eck looking north over Jubilee Point.

This is the most managed creek ever.

Managed to find the nest site of a pair of Dartford warblers kept our distance as Mum & Dad kept a steady flow of food coming

Managed to get out yesterday and shoot some of the autumn colours before they disappear completely . This is Golithia falls near Bodmin one of my favourite spots in Cornwall , a special place that i all ways visit once a year .

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Managed a nice dark background to make him stand out.

South Australia has managed the COVID-19 situation relatively well, however a rise in cases during November resulted in restrictions tightening throughout the metropolitan area with some consequences resulting in interstate travel being banned. The passengers on JBR’s “The Ghan” from Adelaide to Darwin found this out the hard way when their train was halted in Alice Springs on the 16th of November with the Northern Territory government refusing the train to proceed further, the decision was made to return 1AD8 back to Adelaide with all but 2 passengers remaining on the train.

After a sprinted run from Alice Springs, with a short stop at Spencer Junction for a crew change, JBR’s amended “The Ghan” 2DA8 races South through Korunye with Pacific National units NR74/NR75 in charge of 38 carriages on Tuesday the 17th of November 2020, The Ghan is typically a once weekly service from Adelaide’s Parklands Terminal to Darwin with off train excursions for passengers provided en-route, Pacific National provide the locomotives and crews for all JBR services, whilst JBR manage and operate the train and the rolling stock.

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only one I managed on a drab day

Managed to catch this at around lunchtime today when I was searching for my photo for today, didn't have a lot of time so it was a quick grab and run. Have a great weekend everyone.

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I managed to click just as the Pelican 'dived' for the Carp yesterday.

I managed to get the whole train in a single frame with my 85mm. Because of the distortion and perspective, the train looks like a big metal worm.

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Managed to get a clear view from garden. Still a lot of light pollution.

Managed to get a little colour through.

Managed to creep up fairly close to this Brown Hare and take a few shots before it legged it.

It never lifted its ears once until it was running away from me!

Managed to get a few shots of a pair of Cattle egrets with the British white cattle this morning. Holme Dunes NWT NNR

Yellow-browed Warbler is a puzzling bird in many ways. Its closest breeding area is just west of the Urals, which is at least 3000km from Britain, yet hundreds turn up in Britain each year, particularly in autumn. The species breeds right across the taiga zone and winters widely in Nepal, southern China and the Malay peninsula. So birds would generally fly about 6000km southeast to reach their wintering grounds. So why do hundreds fly 3000km west (ie the wrong direction) to reach Britain? I wonder if there is now an undiscovered wintering area in Africa that has established recently and so these "vagrants" reaching Britain are just stopping off on their normal migration to Africa. At least one Yellow-browed Warbler has occurred in Senegal in December.

Anyway there were an unbelievable 27 Yellow-browed Warblers in the Spurn area yesterday, and I managed to find two of these myself as I was wandering along the peninsula, including this little poser. They are small birds, considerably smaller than a Chiffchaff, but this crop makes it look large. There was a bit of clutter right and left so I opted for a portrait crop.

Its scientific name, Phylloscopus inornatus, is also a bit of a puzzle. Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner and it is the same genus as Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler. But inornatus means undecorated or inornate, yet it has more stripes and bars than its undecorated cousins. That is because when Edward Blyth first described it new to science back in 1842, he thought it was a type of Goldcrest but lacking the golden crown. So Blyth named it Regulus inornatus, the undecorated Goldcrest or Kinglet.

Managed to get a shot of the famous Austin Blues legend statue at Butler Park. Tried to get the city skyline behind him with the foliage. Used Lightroom to bring up the shadows and add a vignette on this one.

I managed to squeeze in an afternoon trip to Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta National Park on Midsummer's Day (of 2022) and ended up climbing up along the small creek hoping to get some good shots of the demoiselles fluttering over the water which looked absolutely gorgeous with their metallic wings. It turned out to be quite difficult to capture them though so I began walking (or climbing really) towards home when I spotted a real treat on a rock next to the water!

This is a female copper peacock beetle (Elaphrus cupreus) at just 9 mm (3/8") body length shot at 2:2 magnification. It is also a two-exposure focus-stack. I didn't use any particular stacking software though and just blended the parts together using Photoshop.

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Part 3, a portrait shot, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52521447433/

Part 4 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52545297405/

Once all the group had managed to make it safely up Buckshot Lake Road a wee bit where they managed to head into the trees to stay out of the falling snow and wind, the "traffic cop" did a "hop skip and a jump"

up the hill no doubt celebrating a successful traffic monitoring for all those under it's watchful eye.

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Managed a few more shots before it started to melt!

I managed to capture this beautiful sunset scene over a wheat field near where I live in West Sussex, UK. As I was walking through the field I came across the curved tractor track in the wheat that adds nicely to the foreground. I had to do quite a bit on noise reduction in post production though as it was quite a low light scene.

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The National Trust is usually thought of as an organisation to protect historic buildings but as I learnt in Dorset they all protect precious habitats. These delightful sand dunes on Studland Bay are managed by the Trust and appear to be thriving . Maintaining a sand dune is clearly a complex process . The following notes are from the Trust website the information contained I thought was fascinating .

“What we know about sand dunes, how they function and thrive, has changed. Previously, we thought dunes should be stabilised – protected from disturbance and cornered off from people. And so, fences were put up, we were told to stay away, and the dunes had nothing to keep them dynamic. Climate change and air pollution only made matters worse. They sent a boost of energy and nutrients into an ecosystem that had formed on the bare minimum, catalysing plant growth. Combine our intentional and unintentional efforts, and we began to lose the essence of our sand dunes.

We removed factors that would normally result in cycles of dune formation and instead accelerated the forward process. Now Studland’s mosaic landscape is slowly becoming smothered by gorse and trees. Open sandy habitats are being buried and rare wildlife pushed out. Data from the Cyril Diver citizen science project in 2016, reveals species like the Sand Lizard and Meadow Pipit shrinking in distribution, their numbers squeezed to the dune edges.

Studland’s dunes need our help. We need to slow down the acceleration of plant growth, restore Studland’s mosaic landscape and bring back the dynamic nature of our dunes into a self-regulating system. These are the aims of the Dynamic Dunescapes project. The project is a partnership between Natural England, Plantlife, Natural Resources Wales, The Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust, with National Trust sites including Woolacombe and Studland Bay.

At Studland Bay, four routes will be taken to restore the dunes:

1 Bare ground creation: Using tractors and mechanical excavators to clear sections of dense vegetation and re-create areas of bare sandy ground.

2 Reintroducing cattle grazing: Cattle mimic the benefits wild herbivores have on an ecosystem; they create bare ground, crop vegetation and form mosaic landscapes. In 2021, ten Red Devon cattle will arrive to Studland and start grazing the dense vegetation at the centre of the dunes.

3 Removing invasive carp from Little Sea: Carp were illegally introduced to a freshwater lake, known as Little Sea, triggering an ecological collapse. Dynamic Dunescapes will provide funding to remove carp from Little Sea and restore the ecosystem.

4 People: What better way to open the land, limit vegetation growth and create some much-needed disturbance than our very own feet? We want to remove the presumption that exploring the dunes will harm them. Instead we want to encourage people into the dunes, to learn about them, experience their beauty and help get them back to their sandy ways.

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This is what the sometimes waterfall looks like after days of rain, as opposed to barely existing during dry periods. Despite being down in a gully on a rainy, overcast day I was lucky to catch this shot in a brief period of illumination.

We managed to get out & enjoy a couple of nice walks in the sunshine but my buddy has had a bit of a rough time of it this week! Barney had a dreaded trip to the vets for a vaccination on Thursday, so he got jabbed and his horrid hooman stopped him from biting the evil vet again! Then on Saturday, he had his first dog fight in a looooong time (he came off worst). The scrap was with dad's partner's BC Hovis, who's quite nervy & anxious about Barney but also rather provocative & annoying. Hovis will do things like follow Barn around for ages, really invading his space, nipping his hocks, then skitter away nervously when he turns around.

For everyone's sanity, I mostly keep them separate when Hovis is here & when the dogs are together, they're watched, praised for calm behaviour & parted if they start getting too tense. Up till now, Barney has generally been restrained in his responses to Hovis but he must've had enough this weekend. There was a brief, loud scuffle, in which Hovis came away with a minor cut on his paw & Barney got bitten in the face a few times :( He's now looking rather the worse for wear. I was initially worried but having cleaned him up, it's clear the cuts are superficial - hopefully they'll heal fast. It was quick & mostly just noise but I still feel really bad they managed to have a fight :( Barney seems fine in himself but he's still had quite a few extra treats & cuddles this weekend! Hoping next week is less... exciting.

Managed to capture the Piebald Pigeon in Flight as it took off when a car drove by.

Canon EOS 5DS with a Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS lens. Cropped in Lightroom CC.

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Never have I managed to take a good photo with short(-ish) telephoto lenses and 135mm is no exception for me - I do not see the picture, I have to hunt it actively, so, expectedly, I don't use short telephotos very often.

Here, some high-rise buildings near my current workplace. December 2021.

Taken with Pentax MX film camera, Admiral MC 135mm F2.8 telephoto lens, on Agfa APX 400 black and white film. 1/250 exposure, ƒ/4 aperture, at 800 ASA, pushed one stop. Developed with Kodak Xtol, 1+1 dilution.

Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 dedicated film scanner using VueScan x64 9.5.

I managed to not tread on these two lovers as they were canoodling in the grass .. I hate hearing that crunch when you don't always see them until it's too late ! .... :(

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I managed to get out for a walk around Burrator on Thursday night, the plan was to walk up Sheeps Tor for sunset but when I climb to the top I was uninspired so decided to take a walk around in the woods along the reservior.

I was surprised to find the Blue Bells still out in bloom and stumbling across this small meadow I had to take the picture. There is a small moss covered rock in the picture (I should have been close if I am honest) in a sea of blue and the evening sun shining through the branches.

My wife and I were on our way to the Sonoma coast last week to photograph the heavy surf and weather. We've driven Highway 37 many times and spotted this oddity along the North side of the highway. Every time we passed it in the past we were wishing we had a long lens to capture it. This trip we both had long lenses. Ale remembered last minute and grabbed her camera. It was pouring down rain but she rolled the window down anyway and managed to capture this. I'm driving at 55mph and she's looking through the viewfinder... "Where is it? Where is it?" and I'm thinking "Really?!"

Managed to capture this Swan as it flew overhead... have to say bright blue sky and white feathers don't make photography easy, especially with limited photoshop knowledge......

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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."

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Wizarding Faire is coming soon and this year, my little store will be in it. Much excite! \o/

I'm not sure if the sim is open to the public now. According to the sim's schedule, students are currently on summer holidays. Plus, certain areas are closed for Wizarding Faire setup.

But here's the sim's official page if you want to check out RP details or if the sim is open or not.

The sim is gorgeous!

This Green Heron managed to find a spot that was convenient for it, but a challenge for anyone wanting to photograph it. Cutting through the clutter to grab the capture. I know what most of you are saying, but I have turned off most of those automatic features in my camera. The Sony does have eye and face recognition along with a host of other features including AI. Call me old fashioned, but I’ve turned off all of those settings and rely strictly on what I can see. To me, it just seems like the camera is taking the photo and not me if too many of the settings are set to automatic. Just turn it on automatic and fire away and not worry about a thing and come home with the perfect capture. I just enjoy the challenge to focusing on the subject myself and using the camera to take the photo. It’s your camera and you can do as you see fit but I'm just "old school". Green Heron perched amongst the cluttered branches on Horsepen Bayou.

I guess that I should have called it - clustered in the clutter!

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I love animals, I don't eat meat and I get upset when I see an animal suffer. But flies, I hate. For the last 2 months flies seem to have taken over the house and it's surroundings. It's driving us insane. I reckon I kill about a hundred a day with the fly swatter but they seem to replace themselves instantly. We tried all sorts of things but to no avail. Any suggestions??

As I take a photo of one of the massive windmills at Whitelees, a storm approaches from the right.

I managed to get within 20' of this big guy. And I'd of been scared out of my socks, had I not been in my truck at the time. Some times it helps to take a trip to Yellowstone, even during a drought.

There were very few animals in the Park, and just outside the Park the animals I did see looked to be about half starved. We waited a life time to make this trip, and because of the lack of rain everything was pretty much dried out. I pray we get lots of rain this winter. We need to put out all these Fires and fill-up our lakes and reservoirs.

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Managed to snag a bolt piercing through the base while taking frames for a time-lapse.

Managed to get a few snaps of this beautiful field just before it started raining, Plenty of photographers out snapping this so difficult to get one without someone in the picture. I am surprised how lovely it still looks following the recent storms we have had

Last year when I was kayaking on Loch Long I came across an old pier and a derelict building at the top of some worn concrete steps. It turned out I has come across the remains of an old World War 2 building used to winch anti-submarine nets across the loch. I often wondered if there was a way to get to it across land, and a couple of weekends ago I managed to find an old trail leading to it.