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Meet Khalees, a nine year old white, female, Gyrfalcon. She is a captive bred, and trained working bird I had the pleasure of meeting this past Saturday on a nearby farm.
She is lucky to be alive, for while she was working last fall, a wild Bald Eagle attacked her and she was badly injured. The vet was sure she wouldn't make it.
Thankfully she recovered and her knowledgeable owners were able to give her physio-type exercises that allowed her to strengthen her flight muscles and make a full recovery. Many birds with similar injuries never fly again...
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
After a year of only going to the supermarket once a week at 7.00 in the morning and twice per week at 7.30 to the physio, and for the rest staing at home, I can hopefully cuddle my grandchildren soon again.
Hi guys, I am back again and will try to catch up slowly. I have my brandnew knee. The operation, although very painfull, went well, and appears to have been a succes so far. I am recovering very well by doing the excercises the physio gave me regularly. This shot was still taken before the operation. It will be a while before I can go out again.
I'd noticed that one of the gardens near home had some Tulips growing in it, on my way to my physio (by car) the other morning.
So braving the small incline to get there, (not easy with a wonky leg), I made it to the garden fence.
Yes, there were some lovely pink Tulips growing over the top of the fence, but what a surprise, these were growing behind it and were so much prettier.
Taken through the fence and cropped to remove anything unwanted.
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I had another session of physio this morning and as no-one was available to take me, I walked down again - slowly. Still no benches outside the Town Hall, so sat on the wall again.
Obviously, I now don't need to give myself so much time to get there,
Saw this beauty when I'd almost got to the Post Office, which is opposite my physiotherapist's rooms.
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As no-one could drive me to my physio session this morning, I took a slow walk down to it instead.
I had hoped to be able to take one of my pit stops on a bench by the Town Hall, but for some unknown reason, all the benches near it have been removed. I found a wall instead.
Then as I was still early took a small walk down the road to take a few photos.
Sadly, I've been grounded from taking too many walks by my physiotherapist. I keep getting something that feels like "cramp" in my left calf and he wants me to see our doctor, before I go for any "long" walks. A two week wait for an appointment.
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I had another session of physio this morning and as no-one was available to take me, I walked down again - slowly. Still no benches outside the Town Hall, so sat on the wall again.
Obviously, I now don't need to give myself so much time to get there, as I was early again, so took a couple more photos of the Granny's Bonnets. They looked good against the blue of a car parked in the driveway.
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The curtain around my father's hospital bed in a two-bed ward at Penang's Lam Wah Ee private hospital.
Each morning the physio would come and pull the curtain shut before proceeding with his routine of moving Dad's arms and legs to exercise them.
After a physio appointment for my shoulder at Winsport, I opened up ATCS to see if anything was heading toward Keith from Calgary. Sure enough, a westbound was lit up to get out of town. A quick drive down to the Bowness Dog Park, and I snagged an all KCS powered CPKC 201 as it crossed the Twin Bridges. I went with a slightly different angle than I normally do here.
CPKC 201:
- Origin: Lambton Park Yard, Edmonton, AB
- Destination: Coquitlam Yard, Coquitlam, BC
- Head-end Power: KCS 4748 (GE ES44AC) - KCSM 4539 (GE AC4400CW)
...and all that:
* so pleased I kept my walking poles
* the physio suggested resurrecting them
* they make an appreciable difference to walking out
and match my purple boots (which you cannot see )
and a baggy trouser pocket holds my iPhone (also purple)
posting for Selfie Sunday
Thanks, as always, for visits, faves and comments.
Happy week ahead!
Seen while waiting for my physio session this morning and just liked what I saw.
Also, much to my delight, it was being driven and used by a woman.
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After Physio this morning I took my first walk around the city in ages. My leg still is very sore but it was worth the pain!
Cathedral Sq November 28, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
On top of twice weekly physio appointments, I'm constantly being urged (harried!) lately to exercise my leg in time for my hip replacement on 19 January, so yesterday afternoon we went for such a lovely walk into the Cotignac countryside, specifically within the Domaine of the St Joseph Monastery which we could see peeking through the trees on a hillside. It was the view of the hills in the distance that caught my eye, enveloped in a lovely haze. The sun was bright in my eyes but I thought I'd try and see if I could capture on camera what I was seeing with my eyes. This is kinda the same as how it was. The temperature was mild and we were amongst olive groves and not a person to be seen or heard. It was one of those perfect moments. I hope your Friday is equally as perfect! :-))
More Pareidolia.
Taken back when I was having physio for my leg and never uploaded.
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It's really hard for me to try to explain how hard it is to motivate myself to do any photography these days whilst I continue to recover from my knee injury. Recovery has been seriously interrupted by lockdowns and closures of gyms...indeed, I've not even been able to see a physio for over 6 months. With all of that my fitness has suffered considerably and so even short excursions can sometimes feel like I'm hitting the wall at mile 22 of a marathon. Therefore, the thought of making the effort to climb a hill for photography when the conditions are less than ideal...well, it doesn't appeal.
When on the hill, a different fear now presents itself. Fear of another injury. I used to head out without a care in the world really. Sure, I might slip and fall, but I always felt that I was the master of my own destiny, even in those circumstances...but now it is different. My body just failed when I injured my knee, with very little in the way of warning, just a little knee pain like I've had for years anyway. The actual step I took when my tendon snapped was so incredibly innocuous, it's the type of step I've taken thousands, if not millions, of times before...it was just like going down the stairs at home...but in that moment, my tendon chose when I was alone, on a hill, in inclement weather and without a mobile signal, to snap...not at home, going down the stairs. And now, although the injured knee presents no pain, my other one does, so the fear is that that will someday go too, as so often seems to happen with people who rupture one tendon, eventually the other one ruptures too. Add to that a lack of strength in the injured knee, some balancing issues and a tendency to give way without warning...that all adds up to a heck of a lot of nervousness when going off the beaten track.
The day I took this photo was no different in many ways. I was solo. The weather was inclement. There was no-one really around. I did have some extra protection in the form of a satellite transceiver that enables me to send an SOS and I did tell my wife where I was this time. But with boggy conditions underfoot, it still meant my mind wasn't wholly invested in photography until I'd set up my tripod and decided to wait, in the cloud and drizzle, for things to happen. And so I waited...and waited...and waited. About 2 hours later I felt the subtle change in temperature on my neck as the sun tried to break through the misty conditions. Poised with my finger on the shutter just hoping for the mistiness to clear a little to reveal the landscape, the conditions brightened to the left of the scene you see here until not only were the two tress visible, but also the landscape beyond...and low and behold, a rainbow. What resulted was a stitch pano consisting of 7 vertical frames and 160 megapixels of Lake District loveliness. This scene lasted for all of 30 seconds...and then it was gone.
I don't tend to big-up my photography, especially these days. I tend to work behind the scenes, especially for anything from Snowdonia, where I spend most of my time, refining my project and building, what I hope will be, a quality book. However, when I go elsewhere, it is sometimes nice to share what I captured, and I think even I like this one enough to shout about it.
On my way down to my physio I saw a head down a manhole. Took a photo, but most of his head was hidden by the tool (to the left of him).
When I got nearer, I asked the feet (to the right), if I could take another one, and as him in the hole was totally unaware of what was going on, the feet agreed. The feet liked it. 😄
Thank you to the men from "Orange" for their help in finding my Wacky Wednesday" photo. 😂
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Well, I use my physio aid indoors generally, so I guess this counts as something that is usually inside taken outside.
Taken on today's daily exercise and physio regime and In keeping with the Welsh Government’s Lockdown rules regarding exercise.
Quote "There is recognition that people with specific health or mobility issues may need to travel further than the area around their home to be able to exercise"
Another image from the archives , this time a wee mushroom in the early morning autumn light in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire.
Hand update:
Another visit to the physio at Oxford today. All still on track, but different exercises to be done, with a whole new world of pain....... Hey ho, as I saw on the back of a t-shirt once..... Pain is only weakness leaving the body 😣
The physio told me to start doing a short ride every second day moving up to, hopefully, every day fairly soon... just 2-3 miles to start with on the e-Bike just to get thing moving a little bit.
She didn't say it had to be on road.
There are a few places that I want to explore in the sub-5 mile range for photography so I think this may be a good excuse!
After Physio this morning I took my first walk around the city in ages. My leg still is very sore but it was worth the pain!
High and Cashel St November 28, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
HPPT my friends Feeling sore after physio yesterday but the sun is shining and life is good
Explore 25th August 2009
After Physio this morning I took my first walk around the city in ages. My leg still is very sore but it was worth the pain!
Cathedral Sq November 28, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
Not been on here too much lately as I've got a couple of slipped discs (again) and in between physio and hospital visits have been ridiculously busy trying to finish off my wretched PhD. I've finally started writing my thesis and have been working pretty much non-stop, so haven't even shot any landscapes in a couple of months and it's driving me crazy! Looks like things are going to be pretty patchy for the next few months photography-wise and I'm not really happy with a lot of what I've got in my archives, so my uploads will probably be quite infrequent, at least for the time being. I'll still try and drop by to see what other people have been getting up to though; I can't go completely without a daily dose of photography, even if it is vicarious... ;-)
This image is from the stunning Mupe in Dorset. It's been in my mind's eye since my only other visit there a couple of years ago, when I combined it with stops at Man o' War Bay and Durdle Door. Back then I didn't have any dense ND filters so couldn't achieve the image I had previsualised, and must admit to being a little jealous of my buddy Pip, who'd just got hold of a B+W ND110 and pulled off the kind of thing I wanted to go for. Well, a couple of months ago I managed to get back down there with Rob while the Lulworth ranges were open during the week in the Summer holidays and grabbed this. I say "grabbed"... actually this took a while as it's a crop from a panorama of 5 frames, each with the equivalent of a 90 second exposure, so it took a while!
This is the first picture I've uploaded here that's made use of "exposure stacking", a long exposure technique I've been dabbling with for a year or so after discussing it with Dave. My ND filter isn't dense enough to make very long exposures and after losing my cable release I can't do bulb exposures, so if I need to I'll shoot a number of frames back-to-back and stack them in photoshop, blending them via the layer opacity. The effect is the same as one longer exposure, but instead of the extra noise gained from a single frame, the noise averages out and leaves a much cleaner image. For this image I stacked three 30-second exposures at ISO 100, which works out as equivalent to a single 90-second exposure at ISO 33, leaving plenty of tasty clean detail.
Finally, massive thanks to Alan Delmas for the kind testimonial - go check out his stuff, it's nice :-)
The shot:
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM @ 100mm
- 5 frames, each a stack of three exposures of 30 seconds @ f/16, ISO100
- Cokin P-series circular polariser (P164), Light Craft Workshop LCW ND500MC 9-stop ND (actually 8 stops) and a cheap Chinese P-series 2-stop ND (I know, I shouldn't put cheap filters in front of high-end kit but I needed something to tide me over until I can justify springing for some Lees... and besides, at 100% this image looks flawless so I don't mind using them)
- Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with 322RC2 joystick grip ball head
Processing:
- WB and minor tonal adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw
- Stacked each set of three exposures into a single averaged frame
- Manually stitched the five resulting frames into a panorama
- Global curves layer for contrast
- Selective detail enhancement using local contrast (like Clarity)
- 50% grey layer for some very slight dodging and burning through luminosity selections to even out the tones
- Slight Levels adjustment for improved contrast
- Colour boost through Saturation mask (allows finer control over how colours convert to B&W)
- Converted to B&W with a Black & White adjustment layer
- Curves for a bit more pop
- Gradients added to darken the top and bottom, with some noise masked in to smooth the transitions (ISO 33 is nice and clean, but gradients band like nothing else when there's so little noise!)
- Cropped to improve composition (this is much stronger than the full pano, which is about twice as large in each direction as this crop)
- Resized and sharpened with Smart Sharpen
Three days ago, on 20 July, I went for my first physiotheray appointment for my injured right shoulder. Apparently, I have a frozen shoulder as well as the completely torn tendons from my trip and bad fall in September 2022. Great physio assessment and treatment for an hour and a half, which included acupuncture, TENS, ultrasound, and suction cups.
Like in so many other places, and for so many other people, our weather has been crazy - either smoky, hot, or rainy - or all three at once. The other day, the smoke from our Alberta wildfires returned to the Calgary area. Almost every day the past few weeks, the weather forecast has included risk of thunderstorm, rain, sometimes smoke. Some days, the forecast turned out to be accurate, many days it turned out to be wrong. Anyway, on 13 July 2023, I needed to get out for a while. Also, I read that the berry U-picks at the Saskatoon Farm start on 17 July, which will mean that the parking lots will be packed, so I wanted to avoid that.
I hadn't been to the Farm since last year, perhaps a couple of months after September, when I had my bad trip and fall. During all the (7!) winter months, there was no way I wanted to be walking on snow and ice, given all the damage to my body from my fall, and definitely wanting to avoid any risk of slipping or tripping again! I really missed calling in at the Farm and having either a delicious breakfast or lunch. So, finally, I made myself do this on 13 July 2023.
It felt good wandering the grounds and walking through the greenhouse, taking a few photos. Fresh garden vegetables have started being available, but not yet broccoli, etc.. Knowing that I only wanted a light bag to carry back to the car, I chose a few white potatoes (delicious) and a bunch of golden beets.
After the Farm, I had planned to drive straight home but changed my mind and took the longer way back, via Blackie. The canola fields were just beautiful. A few birds were seen, including one of my favourites, a Wilson's Snipe. I had seen a Snipe at this location before, but it was not my more usual place.
The weather was a mix of Alberta wildfire smoke, wind, overcast, and rain (part of the time). Far from ideal conditions for photography, but I did my best.
Physio for today...Managed to pick my camera up today and go to Bothal,only had to walk a short distance.. still in pain.Few more weeks and I should be able to walk further.
After Physio this morning I took my first walk around the city in ages. My leg still is very sore but it was worth the pain!
Hereford Street November 28, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
After Physio this morning I took my first walk around the city in ages. My leg still is very sore but it was worth the pain!
Colombo Street November 28, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
Having another faff with physiograms tonight. Never pulled them off before but after some advice off Fade To Black I decided to have another go. Needs some polishing but I think I have it.
Guess what tomorrows 365 photo will be? ;)
Great Uncle and noted pathologist Dr. Horatio X. Peg traveled with the Springer and Schofield Brother's Circus teaching physicians, veterinarians and taxidermists the science of comparative anatomy. He insisted that all students wear silk top hats and comport themselves as gentlemen throughout the process to avoid conflict with local constabularies.
Never the less, Dr. Peg became a wanted man in Knockemstiff, Ohio after he asked for dissection volunteers while inebriated at a local pub. He was forced to blend in with the circus performers. When the Ringmaster would not relinquish his position Dr. Horatio X. Peg assumed the role of lion cage attendant Unfortunately he still smelled like a butcher to the big cats and he sobered up to discover his right arm in the jaws of an hungry lion.
Although he lost his arm in the incident, Dr. Horatio X. Peg survived. He spent the better part of two years attempting to attach the arm of an orangutan to his shoulder so he could continue teaching. He succumbed to the ravages of a perfidious immune system and was laid to rest in the Ozark mountains. His contributions to the science of comparative anatomy were lost as the circus clowns rolled cigarettes using the paper of his notebooks and journals.
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