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I love taking shots of birds in flight and swallows are especially challenging as they are speedy and change direction constantly. Years ago on Flickr, l saw a photo of a swallow in flight and that showed me that it could be done given a lot of practice
Birds leave when you to get too close, but I wanted a shot that had little cropping. So, I added a teleconverter making my lens 560mm so I could be further away. I also hid in the shadow of a low wall so I wouldn’t be as visible.
It was a bright day, so I was able to change my aperture to f/10 to get more of the shot in focus and to increase my shutter speed to 1/3200 trying to decrease motion blur. Fortunately, I was able to keep my ISO at 800 so my shot would not have too much noise. I set my camera on burst mode and waited until something happened. Then I got lucky!
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2018 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Best enlarged - minor crop
ƒ/10.0
560.0 mm
1/3200
ISO 800
I am honored that this photo was chosen as one of top 25 photos on Flickr in 2018 from around the world.
In this image the parent Barn Owl has just dropped off food to the young Barn Owl on top of the owl box on our property. The young owl hasn't been fed in at least fifteen hours and it's been screeching for food impatiently every since it came outside about twenty minutes earlier. The owls only come out and hunt (or wait for a delivery) after the sun has set.
Strobist info: Here's the description of the setup that I use for photographing the Barn Owls, and the owl house.The owl house is on top of a fifteen foot pole, which is about two feet in the ground, so the bottom of owl house is about thirteen feet off of the ground. I have one tall light stand on either side of the owl house, extended as high as they will go, and a third shorter light stand in the middle. The one on the left is lower because it is positioned on a slope that goes down from the house. The light stand in the middle is a shorter stand than the others, but it is extended as high as it will go. The flash on the left is a YN560, the middle flash is a Strobie 130 and the flash on the right is a YN560-II. All thee strobes are in manual mode set at 1/2 power. The middle and right flash are triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603 and the left flash is in slave mode and is triggered by the light from the other two flashes. I have a Yongnuo RF-603-N trigger on my camera which is triggered by an identical trigger that I have in my hand while sitting in a chair off camera. The Yongnuo triggers can act as either transmitter or receiver. The great thing about these triggers is that they are reliable, and are about $33 for a pair of them on Amazon. Wonderful technology at an amazing price. They're cheap, they work and they have a range of 15 meters.
Pictures that I've taken of the Barn Owls can be seen in my Barn Owls set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/
My Parents got a puppy! Tily is an Australian Labradoodle, and is just the most floppy thing ever. Her full name is Waltzing Matilda, because my Parents name their pets Geographically.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I love you dad and mom!!!! <3333
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Un flash Yongnuo 560 III à gauche dans parapluie blanc diffusant au 1/4 de la puissance et un autre Yongnuo 560 à droite dans parapluie blanc diffusant à la 1/2 puissance
A flash Yongnuo 560 III left in white umbrella diffusing to 1/4 of the power and another Yongnuo 560 right in white umbrella diffusing at 1/2 power
It was loaned to you by your children :-) Kenyan proverb
I got to spend some time with my son Michael when we drove together to the top of Mt Evans. Here he is enjoying the view as we took a break before approaching the summit.
Mount Evans is a 14,265 feet (4,348 m) mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It is one of 54 fourteeners (mountains with peaks over 14,000 feet (4,300 m)) in Colorado, and the closest fourteener to Denver. It is often compared to Pikes Peak - another Front Range fourteener - which it exceeds in elevation by 154 ft (50 m).
The peak is one of the characteristic Front Range peaks, dominating the western skyline of the Great Plains along with Pikes Peak, Longs Peak, and nearby Mount Bierstadt. Mount Evans can be seen from over 100 miles away to the east, and many miles in other directions. Mount Evans dominates the Denver Metropolitan Area skyline and can be seen from points south of Castle Rock, up to (65 miles (105 km) south) and as far north as Fort Collins (95 miles (153 km) north), and points east of Strasburg (105 miles (169 km) east). In the early days of Colorado tourism, Mount Evans and Denver were often in competition with Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs
The Mount Evans Scenic Byway consists of Colorado State Highway 103 from Idaho Springs, Colorado on I-70 about 13 miles (21 km) to Echo Lake, and Colorado 5 from Echo Lake 15 miles (24 km), ending at a parking area and turnaround just below the summit. The latter has long been the highest paved road in North America and is only open in the summer
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
Style is the second hatchling, and she takes after mama Cherry. She was about 17 days old in this shot. I think she is a girl because she has Cherry’s nostrils and slight under-bite. I have no scientific reason to believe the beak shape is maternal or paternal in Sandhill Cranes as a species, but it appears to be with this pair. The way the chicks stick with one parent or the other more seems to be same gender based because they look so much like the parent they follow. Not just their beaks, but the shape of their knees is something else I’ve noticed which is similar to their same gender parent. The boys stick with and learn from dad and the girls from mom. As I type that “out loud”, I realize it seems like common sense for their procreation.
As you know by many posts, Classic has huge open nostrils, as do his boys. In the words of the Big Bad Wolf, “All the better to smell you with my dear.” ;o) Or maybe that was a paraphrase… =o)
The family hung out with out with their other parents/grandparents most of the day today. They even had a bath in the lake. The chicks were splishin’ and a splashin’ and running around like kids do. Classic stayed in the water longer than everyone else, no doubt enjoying the weightlessness on his injured foot. When he got out of the water he preened his feathers and seemed pretty sturdy in doing so. He is walking better and standing taller. He is not hunkering over, and flapping his wings to reduce the weight. The swelling is a bit less, but it was last week, and then it got worse.
Their other mother/grandmother and I are trying to be optimistic, but we know he may need to go to rehab. She shared the bath story today, and I am sharing the highlights with you. I’ve seen it other times when she wasn’t around and had no idea where “her cranes” were at times. We are like two halves of the whole of their lives, and it’s a gift.
Please keep those prayers coming and thank you so much for your sweet comments and moral support. All the Craniacs around here love reading how there are these Flickr people who love these cranes as much as they do!
Love, hugs and thanks for viewing! =o)
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A beautiful Parent Bug with her brood of early instar nymphs on a birch leaf in the garden. Two additional pictures below.
Most parents think that their primary task in parenting young children is to care of them properly and schedule their day. Of course, all this is important. But a child's life is not limited just to these actions, especially in the first year of life: developachild.net/child-parenting-from-birth-to-12-months/
Parent’s Login
The article is about Parent’s login but the article is for Teachers. Yes! Continue reading to know why.
Oh my Busy World! Educated parents but have no time to know how their kid’s education is shaping up.
How often parent teacher’s meet are held at schools and ‘how many parents really turn up to the meetings’ and how many hang up on calls with teachers giving excuses? But we really care about future of the growing buds. It’s important that every parent should know not only their kids academic performance but also when they win a first prize in running race or a drawing competition.
World was created from BIG BANG they said but see now the world runs on small phones! It’s the technology that’s ruling the world. People getting socialized, working on smart techs and trying new things have no time for traditional Parents Teacher’s meeting.
Modern parents need Modern monitoring methods. Don’t just make techno schools and try making students smarter. Make parents aware too.
Wake up, Schools don’t you feel it’s important to connect with the parents even if they’re busy? Oh! Yes it is.
With this concern we decided to connect Teachers and parents in the easiest way possible. MarvelSoft’s School Admin connects schools and parents online with Parent Login integrated with the software.
So how does it help parents and Schools?
We’ve desktop version of parent’s login app and also provide android application. In android application, the app is exclusively made available on the google play store to the parents of the kids studying in your school.
Parents are given a username and password to login into the software. The username and password is generated by the software for every student and the login details can be sent to the parents via SMS or mail from the School Admin itself.
Parents can use their respective username and password and login into the parent’s application to view student’s school activities and academic performance.
Not just the performance, a working mother can view their son’s school dairy on the way coming back home and plan for it before hand. A hard working dad can view his daughter’s Cultural event dates scheduled to free from work.
With the easy and beautiful User Interface, it’s quick and easy for the parents to monitor their kids even in their busy schedule.
Great Crested Grebes.
This juvenile gcg would soon be chased off to give it's smaller sibling a chance.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
A project for the winter.
I recently made a photobook out of all the old photos and negatives that I have of my parents. I did a bit of research on my grandparents and great-grandparents and built of the story of my parents lives as best I could.
I had a copy printed for each of my children and one for the nursing home where my mother now lives.
This is a project that opens a window on a less documented time and is an investment for the future.
I used Lightroom to make the book and Blurb to publish.