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Shot this guy at Black Lane on the CSX St. Louis Line Sub near Caseyville, IL.. Waited for over half an hour for this thing to finally move, and the waiting sure paid off.
I decided I didn't really like the idea I had to "start over fresh" on a new account, so I'll continue using this account for now. It was kind of a spur of the moment idea to start over fresh, anyway.
"Persistence Pays Off"
10/8/2019
This was the only sunset where the skies decided to cooperate during my trip to Acadia National Park last week. I took this after sunset and there was no color until several minutes after the sun had officially set. A lot of people had left thinking the sky wasn't going to be pretty, but I know better when I see high clouds like this that it's worth sticking around for a little bit.
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As goofy as Mr. Personality is, he never gives up. Points for persistence & ambition. Unfortunately, I got distracted by a raptor flyover & didn't see what happened. The log was empty when I next looked.
Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni)
Yellow-bellied Slider x Red-eared Slider intergrade (Trachemys scripta scripta x Trachemys scripta elegans)
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Persistence pays off! I stood under some trees for my entire lunch hour today, trying to get a leaf in mid-fall. It took probably a hundred shots to get this one
Actually taken at Radnor Lake, but I have lots of other shots to share this Saturday so I wanted to go ahead and post this one now!
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This is the third time in the last few days that we've found a fully built nest on one of the van tires. With all of the perfectly nice trees & bushes to build a nest in, we're wondering what this bird is thinking!
Onion on the windowsill, Tintype.
(Wet Plate Collodion on aluminum)
Photographed under natural light using the Lerebours et Secretan 15" lens on the 8X10 Deardorff. Shot wide open (f5), exposure was 110 seconds.
Common mullein or great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), with a velvet leaf, thrives on disturbed soils, or even cracks in asphalt driveways.
This year, 2026 is the centenary of the formation of Zeiss Ikon, a major player in European camera manufacture in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 20th century.
To mark this anniversary, I've decided to use a different Zeiss Ikon camera every two weeks throughout the year, a project I'm calling “Twenty-six in Twenty-six”.
Box cameras are firmly at the bottom end of the camera market, but as you might expect from a device bearing the Zeiss name, the Box Tengor raises the bar slightly when it comes to specifications. That said, it's a fairly low bar, and the rise isn't that great!
Cheaper box cameras were often made of cardboard, but this one is constructed from sheet metal covered with black leatherette. Whereas most box cameras had a single element meniscus lens, this one has a Goerz Frontar two element achromat. Furthermore, while the more basic box cameras have a fixed aperture, there are three different setting here, albeit a rather paltry f11, f16 and f22.
There is still only a single shutter speed, plus a “B” setting, with a little lever sliding into place to act both as shutter lock to prevent accidental exposures, and, when the “B” setting is selected, to lock the shutter open, in effect providing a “T” setting.
When I saw that there were three distance settings, I assumed that focussing was by moving the lens backwards and forwards, but in fact it turns out that once you move away from infinity, the two other distances are achieved by swinging supplementary lenses into place. By this method, the closest focussing distance is 3 feet, which is a lot closer than your bog standard box camera of the era. Note the imperial units for the focus, indicating that this particular example was made for export.
The camera is designed to be used at waist level, and there are two viewfinders, one for portrait and one for landscape orientation. These viewfinders are not the easiest to use, and in reality allow little more than rough framing to be achieved. Like the majority of box cameras, it uses 120 film and produces 8 negatives per roll. These are 6cm x 9cm, perfectly adequate for contact prints which were the default output for family snapshots right up until the 1960s.
Fomapan 100 film with a red filter, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 8.5mins at 20 degrees.
I'm going to get that nut if it kills me!! Determined Great Tit on the peanut feeder - Bartley Green Birmingham UK 21st December 2019.
This weed started growing from a small patch of moss on an ornamental boulder. The root then found its way down the boulder into the ground. I haven’t had the heart to pull it - yet.
And, she did. Chuck thought he had moved the blind cord out of reach. That changed when our newly adopted cat, Molly, received an early Christmas present of cat furniture. Santa Maria, CA.
The blossoms on this star magnolia tree have been bitten by frost, yet they continue to declare that spring is here!
"A consistent and determined effort can overcome all resistance - like water flowing over rocks." -Unknown
This beautiful red-bellied woodpecker kept coming to the suet feeder again and again. "You will get fat eating like that!"
Own Storm.
Elements, as a great cycle in nature, as life.
Elements, as composing cycles of reminds, along hours in a watch, along days on calendar...
Turbulences in our minds. They last.
How much is too much? Sometimes forever.
"Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel.
It's very natural -
and I wouldn't want to say easy -
but natural and comfortable to write about,
and there are so many different forms of it,
millions of layers -
you could write forever about it."
~ Shawn Mendes ~
When macular degeneration took away much of her ability to see "the whole picture" Jane gave up oil painting for paper collage . . . just another way to express the many layers of her long, phenomenal life, shared in an infinite array of mediums.
Jane loved Sedona and visited there every September to absorb the landscape and interpret it on canvas or in journals.
I'm blessed to be surrounded by her art in every corner of my home, so her spirit will live on forever.
Visited a location today with many rusty farm equipment pieces. This new growth was a lovely find. Thanks for your appreciation, Gail
bumblebee on turk's cap, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX. Sony nex5r and micro nikkor 55/3.5.
Uniquely beautiful carving of the Tennessee rock created by the persistent flow of water makes the new Winding Stair Park in Lafayette a jewel.
From my observations I can say that bees are territorial. The smaller long-horned bees are often "patrolling" the sunflower patch for interlopers and then pouncing on their backs in an attempt to get the bigger bees to leave.