Winterthur, Switzerland

The supermoon rising over Lake Michigan with the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse in the foreground. As I am sure many of you already know, this was the largest and brightest full moon since 1948, and it won’t be this big and bright again until 2034.

Quite a bit of planning went into this photograph. I used Google Earth on my computer and the PhotoPills and Sky Guide apps on my mobile phone to precisely plan my location and timing. The lighthouse was approximately 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) from my tripod placement, so my DOF chart told me that if I focused on the lighthouse, the moon would also be in focus (infinity) at 400mm and f/5.6.

I was working with a 30-megapixel image, so I was able to crop generously to accentuate the scale, and I still had a very large file to work with. The sky was clear. I let the moon rise above most of the horizon haze before taking the picture. It was a beautiful sight!

Fresno, Ca.

This is in an alley. I have no idea why they are there.

on display at the Holst & Holst gallery until October 13th. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wolfs%20Den/128/78/1689

Taken at Sunny's Photo Studio maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Photo%20Studio/128...

backdrop - Amitie Cola

Yes, there is a rhyme and a reason to the placements and exploring is the best way to find them.

Visit this location at The Shire - A homely slice of Middle Earth in Second Life

Still older fossils document the genus since the Late Oligocene onwards. The genus seems to have originated in the Southern Hemisphere, in the general region of Australia. By the Pliocene, it was probably distributed worldwide:

Gallinula sp. (Early Pliocene of Hungary and Germany)

Gallinula kansarum (Late Pliocene of Kansas, USA)

Gallinula balcanica (Late Pliocene of Varshets, Bulgaria).

Gallinula gigantea (Early Pleistocene of Czech Republic and Israel)

The ancient "Gallinula" disneyi (Late Oligocene—Early Miocene of Riversleigh, Australia) has been separated as genus Australlus.

Even among non-Passeriformes, this genus has a long documented existence. Consequently, some unassigned fragmentary rail fossils might also be from moor- or native-hens. For example, specimen QM F30696, a left distal tibiotarsus piece from the Oligo-Miocene boundary at Riversleigh, is similar to but than and differs in details from "G." disneyi. It cannot be said if this bird—if a distinct species—was flightless. From size alone, it might have been an ancestor of G. mortierii (see also below).

In addition to paleosubspecies of Gallinula chloropus, the doubtfully distinct Late Pliocene to Pleistocene Gallinula mortierii reperta was described, referring to the population of the Tasmanian native-hen that once inhabited mainland Australia and became extinct at the end of the last ice age.[6] It may be that apart from climate change it was driven to extinction by the introduction of the dingo, which as opposed to the marsupial predators hunted during the day, but this would require a survival of mainland Gallinula mortierii to as late as about 1500 BC.

"G." disneyi was yet another flightless native-hen, indicative of that group's rather basal position among moorhens. Its time and place of occurrence suggest it as an ancestor of G. mortierii (reperta), from which it differed mostly in its much smaller size. However, some limb bone proportions are also strikingly different, and in any case such a scenario would require a flightless bird to change but little during some 20 million years in an environment rich in predators. As the fossils of G. disneyi as well as the rich recent and subfossil material of G. mortierii shows no evidence of such a change at all, "G." disneyi more probably represents a case of parallel evolution at an earlier date, as signified by its placement in Australlus.

Looking close... on Friday! - Shoes with Laces

I apologize for it being so blurry, this is something i built about 2 months ago.

IMG_1083 2022 09 14 file

OK, it's not the real deal. The real deal (Jaguar) only produced one, and only one ever made, and the owner of that one has already turned down a seven million pound offer! However, the fine example above is a replica built by New Zealand company, Tempero, and this one is number 7 of only 7 built. Body wise, it's a very accurate, all aluminum construction right down to rivets placement, but it differs in the engine department. The original car also a mid engine format, but with a 5.0 liter, 4 cam V12 engine designed by Heynes and Claude Bailey. It produced 502hp at 7600 rpm. All that was fed through a 5 speed manual ZF Transaxle. Only 10 of that engine was ever produced, and very few remain. The replica example above, on the other hand, has a 6.1 liter, twin cam V12 with a 5 speed ZF Transaxle. As far as replicas go I'd have to say it's quite nice, and with only 7 ever produced it's still quite exclusive. If you are wondering about the color, of course it's BRG, use your imagination. :)

Probably one of the prettiest I've ever seen...and soon to be eaten. A touch of processing here of course. The SOOC in comments for the originalists.

Otis is lounging on the deck.

One of many photos taken on the LSRC on Aug 12, 2016. Many thanks to the great employees of the Lake State Railway for setting this up for a bunch of railroaders.

© Eric T. Hendrickson 2016 All Rights Reserved

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The CP Rail Smith Falls, Ontario yard job sets a pair of SD's in front of the offices. These two units will be heading west on the Chalk River Sub. Man, it's still wicked cold!

Great Blue Heron, Magnolia Gardens, USA

Macro Mondays contribution 21 November 2016 - "Stitch"

There's no disguising what this is or what I've done with it!! Apart from some of the filter work done using the Nik Software suite - particularly the vignette blur tool.

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Comes with texture changing HUD for curtains and rod.

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Yashica 230-AF : 70-210mm Yashica (Kyocera) f/4.5 : Ilford FP4 Plus : PMK Pyro

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, May 2019

Where do we all fit?

Photo taken at the 2015 Woodward Dream Cruise.

On Amsterdam's Magere Brug.

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There are a number of picnic tables scattered around this end of the lake. There's a put in and an incredibly large parking lot. Mostly the area is used for fishing, but I will often take lunch here.

I've also taken photos here for years. One of my first rolls shot in eastern Washington used this location.

Over the last decade, they've replaced the tabletop which was rotting out and a bench where they had been none.

The park is well maintained, but very short staffed. There's not much work to be done, really. Not that it's an easy task, of course. The work to do there is hard work.

But it's one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. I know it's not the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. The beauty is subtle. It's a lived in sort of beauty.

It's the kind of beauty that requires solitude. The beauty might not exists if it were heavily trafficked. The roads would need to be paved and widened to accommodate buses and RVs. And the beauty of spring mornings walking the faint trace of coyote paths might dissipate if they were transfigured into well-maintained hiking trails and a line of cars waiting at the trailhead.

I realize this is a selfish love - even more selfish that love often is. But here is my church, my religion, my faith, and I have never been an evangelist.

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'Placement'

Camera: Ansco Color Clipper

Film: Vericolor III; x-04/1996

Process: DIY ECN-2

Washington

April 2024