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Taken over a year ago this photo feels like a lifetime ago; before Lockdowns and pandemics, before Brexit and talks of food shortages. Still ... it evokes nice memories of a warm afternoon sitting on a rock in Glen Massan, alternating between daydreaming and trying to work out the best angle for this shot.
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 find the nest site of a pair of Dartford warblers kept our distance as Mum & Dad kept a steady flow of food coming
Floating apartments organized around a central courtyard. Housing with common roof terraces, green roofs and solar cells (a bit of four solar cells can be seen on the roof to the right). Urban Rigger addresses the lack of available and affordable housing in our cities. The global sea levels are also continuing to rise and building on water is a way to manage that. This student housing have room for over 100 residents in 72 apartments. Built in 2016 of low-cost shipping containers in the harbour of Copenhagen city.
Designed by the architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
Having never managed to see an Arizona and California Railroad train, I've now done it twice in a week.
I've spent more than a few hours at Cadiz, perhaps because it has been one of those places where I've gotten lucky with one thing or another, perhaps because I've waited for the four-axles on the BNSF Cadiz local from Barstow.
But never have I seen the A+C train arrive from Parker AZ.
Tick.
It's a pity I didn't manage it in the days before the corporate Genesee and Wyoming look, I'm sure that elderly four-axles in that delicious green and cream looked absolutely sublime in this very spot.
But no matter.
It was non-stop at Cadiz on the TransCon, I barely had time to write my reference notes and there was another train on the horizon.
This was the cherry on the top. And sprinkles!
Cadiz CA, 13 February 2023.
ARZC 4403 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4527
ARZC 4401 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4577
ARZC 4400 GE C44-9W ex-BNSF 4534
The locomotives were returned by the BNSF to GE Leasing (GECX) then sold on.
The Grade I Listed Ashby de la Zouch Castle, a ruined fortification which is managed by English Heritage, in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, accompanied by the creation of a 3,000-acre park. Constructed on the site of an older manor house, two large towers and various smaller buildings had been constructed by 1483, when Hastings was executed by Richard, Duke of Gloucester. The Hastings family used the castle as their seat for several generations, improving the gardens and hosting royal visitors.
During the English Civil War of the 1640s, Henry, a younger son in the Hastings family, became a Royalist commander in the Midlands. He based himself out of the castle until he was forced to surrender it after a long siege. A fresh rebellion occurred in 1648, leading Parliament to slight the castle to prevent it being used militarily: the two towers were irreparably damaged with gunpowder and undermining. Parts of the remaining castle were turned into a new house and continued to be used by members of the Hastings family for many years, although they moved their main residence to Donington Hall.
The castle became famous after it featured in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe in 1819, and its owner, Francis Rawdon, opened the ruins to visitors. Restoration work was carried out over the course of the next century, but by 1932 the Rawdon family could no longer afford to maintain the castle. It passed into the guardianship of the Ministry of Works, who carried out extensive repairs and opened the castle gardens before ownership was later transferred to English Heritage.
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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 borrow a boat to get me here. The little Cumbrae is a small relatively inaccessible island on the west coast of Scotland
Managed to capture an image of this fast-mover. Seen near the Turtle Pond at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia CA.
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
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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Oh, another one of those stitched panorama macro shots where the subject is to large to fit in frame, right?
Wrong. This blunt stretch spider (Tetragnatha obtusa) is absolutely small enough to fit in frame (as can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52807137438/), but since the top and bottom was just pure white, I figured I could get away with cropping that away and make this a 21:9 image.
And the trickery doesn't stop there. This is also rotated 180 degrees as I found this one upside-down in the veranda ceiling so I had to get a stool (which was a little too high) and shoot this with the camera upside down, pressing the shutter button with my left pinky finger (my mom took a photo of me looking very elegant here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52806686381/).
This is a focus stack, but instead of just taking multiple shots while moving or shifting focus ever so slightly, here I actually lowered the camera and rested between two shots because of the awkward position and still somehow managed to get the exact same angle and focus where it was needed - I'm as surprised as anyone!
Looking closely at this spider, you can see what will be its doom. On the back of it, there is a larvae of the parasitic wasp Acrodactyla quadrisculpta which has attached itself and will eat of the spider - but not enough to kill it until the larvae is ready to pupate.
I actually managed to get a few good shots of Dean today. This is my favorite though because of the nice reflection in the window. He is usually not still enough to take photos of but the bird outside had him captivated.
I managed to find some color in the sky this morning; this to add extra appeal to the nice rock shapes and water motion here at Burwood Beach, NSW; Australia.
I'm really pleased with a recent purchase of a 6 stop slot-in ND filter by Haida - excellent optics and trueness of color (Schott glass as used in B&W filters) and considerably cheaper than the Lee Little Stopper!
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Managed to get a decent shot of a Blue Winged Teal last night while out on a drive for groceries; both male and female were there - couple of more pics to come
The fact that Large Tortoiseshells have managed to recolonise Britain after an absence of about 50 years really was against all odds. This is because the population is in steep decline across Europe, so greatly reducing the chances of colonising from Europe. Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands experienced a >75% decrease between 1975 and 2000. Belgium and Romania declined by 50-75% and Czechia, Germany and Slovakia 25-50% decrease.
This one was basking on a Poplar Tree trunk with wings half open in Orlestone Woods, Kent. From this view it looks rather like a Small Tortoiseshell but this is definitely Large Tortoiseshell. There was a report of one somewhere in the National Forest in Leicestershire last week, which is unbelievably far north for a recent colonist.
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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I managed to spot some lovely crepuscular rays over the sea recently and rushed down a field to catch it. Glad I did, it was a spectacular show! The manacles are a group of rocks that stretch nearly a mile just below the surface of the water. Extremely hazardous to ships, there are countless wrecks there.
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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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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. . . Well I managed to break my Snowy Owl curse this morning, found this beautiful female sitting on a dune at Pere Marquette beach, thanks to friends for tipping me off!
The session was spoiled by some idiot with 3 large dogs running the beach NOT on leashes, and the dogs scared her away. Otherwise I would probably still be down there, no wind, great sunshine, and those EYES!
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I managed to squeeze in a bit of brick therapy during the past few weeks.
This is small cargo shuttle, that I've been building over the last five weeks or so. This ship is intended to be the space equivalent of a box truck, like this. I imagine this particular ship as having a lot of light-years under its belt, used for longer journeys than originally intended, so there's a hammock in the cargo bay. As I explained above, I had a lot of time to think about this creation, even if I didn't have much time to build or blog. I also imagined the that it might not always have been docked in the nicest of space neighborhoods, so I built after I took some photos, I covered it in graffiti.
I managed to squeeze in a bit of brick therapy during the past few weeks.
This is small cargo shuttle, that I've been building over the last five weeks or so. This ship is intended to be the space equivalent of a box truck, like this. I imagine this particular ship as having a lot of light-years under its belt, used for longer journeys than originally intended, so there's a hammock in the cargo bay. As I explained above, I had a lot of time to think about this creation, even if I didn't have much time to build or blog. I also imagined the that it might not always have been docked in the nicest of space neighborhoods, so I built after I took some photos, I covered it in graffiti.
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.
Part 1, from the top, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52218581464/
Part 2, from the side, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52267322328/
Part 3, a portrait shot, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52521447433/
Part 4 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52545297405/
While trying to prepare my breakfast at 7:30 am, who should appear in the driveway but this bobcat. After a desperate hunt for a camera, I finally managed to fire off five shots through an open window before the cat disappeared into the bush. This is the best of the bunch.
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 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.
Walking in a Winter Wonderland ~
| Cy & JD throwing snowballs on a date in Hogsmeade.
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Managed to drag myself out of bed the other morning to hike down to Hope's Nose and catch the sunrise :)
Managed to get my other half down to Cornwall for a few days, staying in Talland Bay. Unusually for me taking photo's wasn't really important, I just enjoyed some nice walks and paddles. Didn't venture very far, just Polperro and Looe along the coastal path.
Managed a few Barn Owl flight shots this morning. Had to pp them on PC as only from my "bridge" camera. Saw a toatl of 7 Barn Owls in various sites this morning
I managed to lose the front of my diffuser back in July. I was leaning over the railing on a floating a bridge to shoot a spider and the wind caught it and it fell into the water. It being held together using neodymium magnets is very useful, but obviously I hadn't built it strong enough.
Since there was no one around but my family (this was out in a nature reserve) I decided to strip off and dive for it.
I spent a while there, but my attempts were fruitless so there was not much else to do but go home and build myself a new one.
This is the second test shot taken with version 7 of my diffuser. It had been raining that day and this was in the evening so I had couldn't be too picky with subjects and this acalyptrate fly (Meiosimyza decempunctata) in the neighbour's hedge is perhaps not the most challenging of subjects, but I am please with the results.
Version 7 now have 10 magnets instead of 5 to hold the diffusion sheet so I believe it will be much more weather-safe now.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52258437870/
"For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud."
although...
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."
- Dumbledore's quotes.
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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!
managed to outwit this little guy. I spent a good half an hour stalking and chasing through the bush. Eventually it sat still in the open for just long enough so I could rattle off a few frames. It doesn't look to impressed though.
Hooman?
Flynn?
This... stuff... what is it again?
Tinsel!
Tinsel. Hmm... an' can I play with it?
No... please don't, it'll break!
Well, can I eat it?
NO! Flynn do NOT eat that tinsel!
Yeah yeah. I was just checking. It smells all... crinkly... I don't actually wanna eat it!
It smells 'crinkly'? What? How can something smell crinkly?
Sorry Hooman, I forget you're hooman sometimes, you couldn't really understand 'bout crinkly smells. But tinsel has crinkly-smell an' that's not an eat-y smell.
Riiight. OK. Well, glad we're agreed you won't be eating it anyway.
If I can't play with tinsel an' it's no good for eatin' an' frankly, it's not a very comfy scarf either... what is it FOR?
Erm, tinsel's just meant to look pretty? People wrap it around trees at Christmas time, for decoration.
Hooman. You do remember I'm not a tree, right? I'm a collie!
You'll be a collie who gets a nice treat to eat, if you just stay still and ignore the tinsel for a minute longer!
I'll get a treat for just... lying in bed, with the crinkly-smelling tinsel?
Yep!
You know... maybe tinsel IS quite pretty after all!
That's the spirit, Flynnie!
It's a simple pic but one I'm glad to get - for most of his life, I knew Flynn wouldn't have wanted to "pose" for a Christmas-y pic like this, so we didn't even try. He wouldn't have cared much about the tinsel touching him but icky hooman hands were icky & he definitely wouldn't have wanted me faffing about, reaching over to drape it on, or near him - no matter how tasty the treat on offer was! Last year, I managed to quickly toss a loop of tinsel over his head while we were outside. This year, Flynn was perfectly content to lie on the bed & have me place the tinsel on/around him... In return for snacks, of course!
Earlier this week, Flynn went to the vet, for a check-up. Vet did a thorough physical exam & everything (including the troublesome ear) looked fine! We discussed doing bloods, to check on Flynn's chronic kidney disease but sticking him with a needle seemed a bit mean, given he currently seems reasonably alright & to be honest, there isn't much more we can really do (he's on meds, supplements & diet). Anyway, the vet's comment on Flynn's recovery after being so very sick earlier this year, his general condition & continued OK-ish-ness as of now in December was: "miraculous"!
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??
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.
God bless America.
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Haven't managed a Friday sunset in well forever now that I'm thinking about it.
Hectic mad day today felt the need for some fresh after dinner ... ducked down to Boonerah Point .. It's an easy walk when your knackered :-)
Two images this one with the Irix 21/1.4 and the other with the Irix 15/2.4
This one Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4 - two exposures ISO100 -3 and -0.3ev f/1.4
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 and HDR blended in Aurora HDR - bit of a touch up in Topaz AI, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in DxO PhotoLab 6
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
Yay! I managed to reverse-engineer this amazing tessellation!
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