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Spent the last few weeks exploring a local wood - from full on autumn colour to the last remaining glow.
What defense can there be against madness? Coming ever so softly, ever so quietly, a talented and patient predator. Taking time, changing actualities here and there. So it begins, convincing that lies can become solid as truths. A master of horrors and cruelties convinced.
What defense can there be against madness?
Surely none.
As you can guess I love this place in the Autumn and cant get enough of this bridge.. That said this should be the last one you will have to endure for a while.
The 365 project so far...
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Gentoo penguins jumping into the water, Cuverville Island, Antarctica. Approximately 6,500 pairs of gentoos nest on this small island.
Antarctic water is indeed cold. I discovered just how high my waterproof boots were in the course of shooting these guys.
See more in the Antarctica Set
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Our time in Norway was the first time in my life I had gone on a photo specific holiday and as such I went in as a complete rookie when it came to packing clothes. I've always prided myself when it came to packing for holidays as I knew exactly how many socks, shirts, underwear and trousers I'd need for any given amount of days away from home. I've gotten it down to an art. Mainly because I wanted the suitcase as empty as possible so as to fill it with goodies (mainly clothes my family would buy in advance and have shipped to wherever I was staying) and other products that are hard (or more expensive) to get here in Sweden. But this trip to Norway was leaving me perplexed when it came to clothes. In the end I packed way too much clothes (four pairs of trousers for five nights! Really?!?) for what I needed. Today we were planning on driving quite a bit - first to another area of Rondane called Peer Gynt Hytta and then onto Jotunheimen national park in the afternoon.
As we got ready in our cabin we constantly looked out at the weather. It was bleak and raining in the early morning but the weather apps promised that it would stop raining round about 10 O'clock. I didn't trust them at all. I asked Dom how much he was taking as extra clothes today and like a photo holiday pro answered along the lines of "what I'm wearing". I felt a bit of a noob as I packed a duffle bag with an extra set of, well, everything but Dom was too polite to pass judgement on me. So we headed down to the car with me carrying a rucksack full of camera equipment and a rather large bag with clothes and extra shoes and headed off down to the town of Otta.
Once there we headed north for a few kilometers before turning off the main road and onto a gravel road that had so many switch backs I lost count quite quickly. Up we drove through quite breath taking forests and views until about 20 or so minutes later we arrived at small car park which was the start of our one hour hike to Peer Gynt Hytta. Needless to say the duffle bag of clothes stayed in the car. I might need them when we got back. The walk was stunning, with just a light rain at the start. Those weather apps were correct this time around. It had stopped raining soon after we started to walk. I wish I could paint in words how barren and beautiful the walk was but I'd struggle to do it justice at all. I'm sure we would have gotten here a lot quicker but yet again we found ourselves stopping and admiring the jaw dropping views resulting in our cameras coming out quite a few times.
After spending over an hour here we started to head back to the car. I went ahead of Dom as I was walking slower and he followed after a while. It was then I was joined by a bee for company. He must have smelt the peanut butter sandwich in my backpack and hoped to get in on the lunch action. It was then that I realised that in all our time here - this was day three - that I hadn't seen any flying wildlife. Be it birds or insects. I'm sure they are there, somewhere but it came almost as a shock to see this bee buzzing around me in the middle - and I do mean middle - of nowhere. No mosquitos or midges were seen which I do find surprising. Not sure why but both Dom and I were happy this was the case even if I had bought us those silly (but practical) nets to put over our heads to ward off those blood sucking insects.
I arrived back at the car a few moments before Dom. Just enough time to rummage through my bag of clothes and decide that Dom was right. Still it was nice to change out of the hiking boots into hiking shoes for the journey to Jotunheimen.
Also I just want to take the time and say thank you to all the comments and well wishes I've had concerning Petra. We have had quite a week after her operation including two nights up (one spent at the hospital) and one with a doctor's visit at 4am at our home. She's had her cast reset as they need to check for infection in the area of her operated ankle and she's now on antibiotics due to an urine infection. Oh and I fainted in the hospital when they pulled the bandage off her operation scar. What an experience! Finally things seem to be going in the right direction for her. Take care everyone!
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I can't believe its almost Monday already - How has everyone's weekends been? Mines been super busy with photography and even talking about photography over at Ilton RPS Club in Somerset. Thank you for having me guys! I still can't get my head around the fact that people want to hear me speak!
Here's a shot from Saturday morning taken at Stourhead in Wiltshire. A gorgeous place at any time of year but well worth a visit in Autumn, that's for sure! After shooting here for quite some time, I have a decent amount of images and there aren't many views here that I don't have a picture of. Its always nice to capture something different, so here's a shot of the Pantheon through the foliage.
Have an amazing week ahead guys!
On a nice Thursday afternoon, a beltline job heads west through their line seen here heading over the old wooden bridge. No beltline unit unfortunately, 5260 was running around before this train and 5261 hasn’t been seen in a while. But I’m perfectly content with 5113 being the star of this picture.
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I had been kneeling at the tripod using the X100F and the 10 stop ND filter, shooting the waterfall at the Sasebo pond. I looked up and around to see what else was going on and spied this guy about 30m away. So snapped a couple shots with the X-T1.
From this angle the neck curve can be seen and I believe it's a blue heron.
I stayed longer at the waterfall, then made my way behind it to the heron's side of the pond. I shot more waterfall from about 3m to the heron's right.
The bird seemed to be quite nonchalant about me being so close.
He had retracted his neck and head quite close and by this time he looked more like a blue and white penguin than a heron. I was able to get some more shots of him.
I then walked around a bit more and ended up on his left side, less than 2m from him. He turned his head to keep an eye on me but still wasn't at all concerned. So I snapped a few more.
I figured even if he didn't seem concerned, he didn't need any more stress from a bozo photographer and left him alone.
Not once did he extend his neck to look like the typical S-shaped heron neck.
This is the first time I've seen what I think is a heron here. I wouldn't think that Sasebo pond has the right fish for him. He seemed more interested in basking than anything else.
Tubular the Stack felt so out of place living among so many rectangular shapes. He was aware all the other structures were staring at him wondering if the stories about him were true.
Portland, Oregon 2015
NR62 and 8025 pass through Yanderra with 5NY3 Steel Train to Whyalla. The 80 class will be detached at Broken Hill for shunting duties.
2020-07-09 Pacific National NR62-8025 Yanderra 5NY3
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