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This is a broad-tail hummingbird at Cherry Creek State Park, at the turnout on the main road below the office. It's taking off and flashing it's ruby colored gorget. I love the details when viewed full-screen. I also love how the green prairie grass behind the hummer gives a nice, smooth, green bokeh.
Infrared Photograph
Canon Converted T3i
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Joy: Take my advice and drink your favorite beverage, have a doughnut or two and read a good book. That’s it. Enjoy your day off!
I'm taking off tomorrow to Yosemite with my friends. I'm hoping to come back next week with some good shots! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
We had watched this adult bald eagle at the mouth of the Russian River finish off eating a lamprey eel and then bathing itself in the river's fresh water. Once finished with a full belly and cleaned up, it lifted off for the flight up river back to it's nest. Who says eagles are not civilized ;-)
Russian River, Sonoma County California.
April 2014: A month in 30 pictures. Day 10.
I couldn't sleep last night and after trying for about an hour and a half, I decided to get up and tidy my craft room, I also spent most of today having a clear out and rearranging things in there. There wasn't much time left for photography so I decided to take a photo of my brushes.
A westbound BNSF grain train passes the old ATSF warning sign on the BNSF Marceline Subdivision in Hardin on a sunny November afternoon.
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Hardin, Missouri, USA
November 4, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
A young swallow doing flight trials before his maiden flight to Africa.
(Exhausted here. This was a wee outing of relaxation! Catch you shortly!)
DAIR 3021 hops off the Beresford branch onto the Dakota and Iowa main. The Beresford branch used to be an old CNW line and they used to crossing over the Milwaukee Road just in the background of this photo. To the east of the tracks D&I used to service a grain elevator but it seems they haven't serviced it in quite some time. Around 2021 they ripped out that connecting track and now only about 10ish miles remain left of the line that is now used for car storage as seen here.
A predator managed to spark a massive blast off of snow geese at the Bernardo Wildlife Area in New Mexico. Evidently, the sandhill cranes didn't get the memo!
This was a narrow field of view of the overall blast off. I could've used a wide angle lens and included many more geese. The uprising caught me by surprise so I just had to go with the lens that was currently attached.
Little Raven (Corvus mellori) Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
As I wandered along Hoppers Lane yesterday I spotted three Black Kites coming over the hospital, closely followed by eight Little Ravens 'escorting them off the premises'. Suffice to say, I wasn't ready for the shots - this is the best of five.
Juvenile Cormorant drying off after a successful fishing session, Alexandra Park, Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland
It seems when one Pelican takes off many others will follow. The nice thing about this time is that they took off one at a time allowing me time to capture the take off of many Pelicans. I walked over a mile back into the marsh and was rewarded for my efforts with a few images like this.
Kolkata is one of those cities that doesn't sleep. There may not be a lot of vehicular traffic in the early hours of the morning, but there is a lot of foot traffic happening. The Howrah bridge connects Kolkata with Howrah. At the Kolkata end of the bridge is Mullick Ghat and the Howrah Flower Market. Foot traffic along the bridge is continuous all through the night with people coming to set up at the flower market and those going in the opposite direction to either the Howrah Train Station, a main terminal which services Kolkata and it's greater area, or the bus station. Either way the bridge is always very busy.
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Kolkata, India
An old Limestone Quarry originally opened around 1900 although these buildings are more modern than that. Its seen better days, but I quite like the dilapidated industrial look. A revisit of this site with Paul as previously we had concentrated on some other comps, while walking back to the buildings following the railway tracks this pov presented itself (As well as others) Lit with the BLS for the foreground and the Klarus for the buildings. It was a cracking night made slightly stressful when packing up, I was not able to find my car keys. A concentrated search was launched retracing our steps, however, nothing, so the careful walk back to the car ignoring any stealth in hope to find them at one of the various fence and gate crossings, Slopes and banks we had scrabbled up and down was our best chance, Luckily they were found about 100m from the car on the side of the road.
On a walk around Abberley Park October 26, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
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