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Ok, so I hadn't been out for a while and thought it might be good to stay local and try lighting up this mysterious rock close to home. Happy with the result but I must remeber that my images tend to come out 2 stops darker on screen than on the camera LCD display.
As always, my own comments are simply to document personal thoughts on each photo but your thoughts and criticism is always welcome.
You see pivot irrigation but the Grackles see an amusement park.
Journalism grade image.
Source: 4,200x2,800 16-bit TIFF file.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.
Milan Fashion Week 2022
Hasselblad 500c / Makro-Planar 120mm f4 / Portra 160
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Class 196 diesel multiple unit No. 196105 approaches Droitwich Spa station with 1V26, the 11:50 Birmingham New Street to Hereford service on Monday 15th April 2024.
I'm sorry, I managed to cut off one of the finials. Sigh.
G'day g'day ladies and gentlemen. Here's a shot from an age ago, one of my early forays into playing with motion blur. Hope you are all having a grand old week.
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One of the first skill sets my elementary basketball coach sought to instill in a bunch of young squirrely athletes over six decades ago was the pivot step. A pivoting movement is when a player with the ball steps once or more in any direction while his other (pivot) foot is kept in contact with the floor. No matter what level you play basketball, this skill is important.
It took me some time to train my wife to do this step. Coming decades ago from an Australian culture she was not naturally adept and it was especially difficult trying to learn it in her late 60s but now she is pretty nimble. She used it several times when I asked her if she would corral this young buck to pose by a bed of wildflowers.
(Photographed near Cambridge,MN)
Sprinkler line south of Idaho Falls at sunrise.
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Your standard three-step process for capturing a Chuckit that takes a wonky bounce. Some quick fun in the green space this morning before it gets too hot. I checked the temp yesterday when we took our 5:30PM walk. It was 111°F (~44°C), but just 9% humidity, so a dry heat. We made it a short walk.
(Not- My Image- just a Door that Pivots I LIKE!)
(not my work- nor my image in fact- here for INFORMATIONAL/Educational purposes!)
Moulin pivot datant du XVIIIe siècle.
Il existait sur le Mont Cassel jusqu'à 20 moulins. Le 30 octobre 1911, le moulin se transforma en torche visible à des kilomètres.
Le Syndicat d'Initiatives de Cassel racheta en 1947 le moulin Ruytoor d'Arneke qui se délabrait et l'installa sur le Mont. Il devint alors le "Casteelmeulen", ouvert au public dès 1949. La fête du moulin a lieu le 14 juillet de chaque année.
Equipé de 2 paires de meules, l'une fonctionne au vent et produit de la farine biologique, l'autre fonctionne à l'énergie électrique munie d'un tordoir pour fabriquer de l'huile de lin ou de colza.
Photographed in New Zealand, lying on the ground, no cover
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When I came upon the male and female with their ducklings earlier the male gave me the threat posture mentioned in the Wikipedia text below, "The male adopts a threat posture by dropping its head low with bill horizontal to the ground. "
I, however, was oblivious to the fact that I was seeing behavior typical of the male of the species and just thought I had unwittingly provoked that particular duck.
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From Wikipedia: The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata), also known as the paradise duck, or pūtangitangi in Māori, is a species of shelduck, a group of goose-like ducks, which is endemic to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin placed it in the genus Anas with the ducks, geese and swans. Both the male and female have striking plumage: the male has a black head and barred black body, the female a white head with a chestnut body.
Paradise shelducks mate for life and usually live as pairs, and moult their feathers from December to February. They are primarily herbivorous, and mostly graze on pasture grasses and clover, but have been observed eating a wide range of invertebrates. They are seasonally hunted as a game bird throughout New Zealand, and today the IUCN Red List classifies them as a species of least concern.
Description:
The paradise shelduck is a colourful, large bodied species of duck that differs in features depending on the sex. Both females and males have chestnut-colour undertails, primarily black wing feathers with green secondary wing feathers, and upper wing surface feathers that are white. They have black legs and webbed feet for swimming.
The adult male has blue-black head and neck, with a black rump and tail; back and flank are lightly flecked with a pale yellow colour. The wing of males have contrasting white upper-coverts and black remiges, metallic green speculum feathers, and rusty brown tertials feathers. The male also has a dark grey flecked with pale-yellow breast and abdomen, chestnut undertail and underwing, and black iris, bill, legs, and feet. The female, unlike the male, has an entirely white hand head and neck with a dark grey back heavily flecked with pale yellow. The rest is very similar to the male with the female's body being dark or light chestnut depending on age and stage of molting.
The downy young are white with a brown crown and brown stripes from crown to tail. Juvenile males look much like the adult males, but the females are smaller with a white patch at the base of the bill. The females assume their white head during the first molt and 1–2 months after fledging their breast and abdomen turn dark chestnut.
Behaviour and ecology:
The male adopts a threat posture by dropping its head low with bill horizontal to the ground. If a female notices a threat on the water she responds by stretching out the neck and body while swimming towards the threat swinging her body back and forth, and making a high pitched call. On land she will lower her head and charge. Males will respond to the females by charging with her or taking on "high and erect" posture. In this posture the male will stretch its neck and head upwards and forwards, raise its feathers on the lower neck, call rapidly, and pivot between facing the threat and the female. When a predator threatens an adult pair with young, the parents will adopt the "broken wing display". The pair will run away from the young in a crouched position, raising and lowering its half-opened wings to distract the predator. Once the predator follows the pair away from the young, one of the adults will return to them.
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