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Stanier Black Five 45305 emerges from Loughborough with great style on a positioning move to head the 11.15 departure
Before the latest snowicane hit our beloved state, my wife and I made a quick sojourn to see how various wildlife was anticipating what was to come. For whatever reason, within a few miles out of town, we were able to spot a half dozen eagles flying about. A couple of them were carrying Florida maps, not sure what that was about.
I saw one eagle flying toward our vehicle but by the time I had stopped, grabbed my camera and opened the door, all I was able to snap was an in-focus shot of his posterior. But before I could climb back into our vehicle, this one came from out of the western skies and I was a little better prepared.
When I photograph flying eagles, I try to get different positioning of their wings. If I am close enough like for this photo, wings in an open position show off the wonderful texture and color of their feathers.
Not everyone shares my enthusiasm for eagles. I laughed one time when I posted an eagle shot on a site and a fellow from Alaska was not very impressed. He said in their area eagles were considered a nuisance and looked on as just more colorful crows.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Highest position # 2 - thank you!
Haven't been doing very well with my 52 wks project thus far, but I was immediately inspired and motivated by this theme! :)
I positioned myself between some large rocks and waited for the big waves. As all the water was funnelled into the gap I was standing in - it was quite hard to keep my footing. Lost a flip flop and nearly my phone in the pursuit of 'the shot' - trying to get the impact splash of the wave hitting with the rock illuminated by the setting sun.
Taken on Taurito beach, Gran Canaria.
Explore Highest position # 248 on Friday, May 8, 2009
The Marble Temple, Bangkok, Thailand.
“The Marble Temple” as known to foreigners is most satisfactory architecturally with its symmetry and lovely proportions. The Hall was constructed from Carrara marble from Italy and showing distinct European neo-classical influence. It has been reckoned for its architectural and decorative arts of finest Thai craftsmanship, say, second to none in the world. It attracts the interest of tourists throughout the world to come to visit with a large number each year.
วัดเบญจมบพิตรดุสิตวนาราม เป็นที่รู้จักของนักท่องเที่ยวทั่วโลกว่า "The Marble Temple" เพราะพระอุโบสถ พระระเบียง ประดับด้วยหินอ่อนที่ดีที่สุดจากประเทศอิตาลี ประกอบกับเป็นวัดที่มีความวิจิตรงดงามด้วยศิลปะสถาปัตยกรรมไทยโบราณ จึงมีนักท่องเที่ยวทั้งชาวไทยและชาวต่างประเทศสนใจเข้าชมจำนวนมากทุกวัน พระอุโบสถวัดเบญจมบพิตรและพระระเบียงที่ประดับตกแต่งแล้ว จึงวิจิตรงดงามสมบูรณ์แบบด้วยศิลปะและสถาปัตยกรรมไทยโบราณ อย่างน่าอัศจรรย์ยิ่ง
Exposure: 1/60, Aperture: f/16, Focal Length: 12 mm, ISO:100
Nikon D80, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX
Three shots HDR, light and color work in PS.
(No multi invitations please.:))
Explored 30-09-2019. Highest position #87
Shrewsbury Abbey
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Church of England
(Commonly known as Shrewsbury Abbey)
The Abbey was founded in 1083 as a Benedictine monastery by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. It grew to be one of the most important and influential abbeys in England and an important centre of pilgrimage.
Much of the Abbey was destroyed in the 16th century but the nave survived and today serves as the mother church for the Parish of Holy Cross.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury_Abbey
The Great Reredos
by John Loughborough Pearson
Ooof! Delaine Buses of Bourne very kindly positioned their brand new ADL Enviro200 MMC 175 AD23DBL for me to snap when I passed their depot today, 01/02/2023. Of course, as this bus has been registered with a 23 mark, it won't be on the road until March 1st. This is their 6th ADL Enviro200 MMC.
Other members of the 40-strong fleet were also noted.
Thanks must go to Delaine Buses for their time! 😍
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Sumpfgebiet Holderfeld
Schilf am Sumpfgebiet Holderfeld! .
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aka 700 mm
f/8.0
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS IS plus
external flash
Canon Speedlite 430 EX II
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Highest position: #370 on Friday, July 31, 2015
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Tübingen - Nord, Holderfeld · EVERGLADES Holderfeld
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The Latin name for the common reed, nal, or Danube grass, is Phragmites australis.
Das Schilfrohr (Phragmites australis; Syn.: Phragmites communis Trin.) ist eine weltweit verbreitete Art der Süßgräser (Poaceae) und wird auch allgemein als Schilf bezeichnet. Es werden drei Unterarten unterschieden, die alle auch in Europa vorkommen.
Explored, Highest Position: #4
Back from a self-imposed Artistic snooze
I decided to have a break for two reasons. One, my trip to Iceland spoilt me with the incredible scenery and the weather was so dramatic and extreme that it left me wanting more, and the Summer weather seemed too flat by comparison. Two, the gap between my processing and what I visioned in my head was getting wider, so I decided to close Photoshop and have a rethink. Not that I could stop shooting :)
Back a great trip to Scotland and Isle of Skye, this is the first from that outing.
Looking forward to the Autumn and some experimentation.
It take about 2 to 3 days for the "Course" :))
(How To Make A Ladymouse 1/5)
Selected on EXPLORE on Monday, 17th August, 2009 Highest Position At # 159 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Westbound Amtrak train #43, with a P42/P40 pair on the point, passes through CP White in Garfield Heights on a sunny June afternoon in 2001. White featured some unique signals with PRR position-light signals mounted on New York Central-style bracket masts. The train's consist had two baggage cars, four coaches, one MHC, and 15 RoadRailers. It was more of a freight train that a passenger train.
Highest position: 470 on Monday, February 13, 2017
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America first
German second?
We built a great german wall.
Just built it!
And we made the russians pay for it
So great! I totally love it.
And by the way, when you push the red botton to destroy Germany with nuclear weapons, this is how Germany looks like on map.
Fake
lol
fun
German Comedian Launches Global Trump Roast
[ E x p l o r e d ] [ Best Position #321 ] on 19 Oct, 2010.
Camera : D90, 50mm 1.8.
SpeedLight : SB-600.
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Tonight the sky colors were especially glorious, and these birds filled the sky with constantly changing density and patterns. Some of these passing Cranes wheel around and drop to join the flock already settled on this shallow lake for the night. In the past, we have captured images of individual Cranes dropping to the pond very close to our position in the east blind. There are three blinds on this lake, and tonight I selected the two on the western shore for nearer vantage to the gathering night-roost birds. (The range has recently cleared brush overgrowth to improve the visual access from these blinds.) Eventually the entire pond space was populated with overnighting birds (both Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese)... they continue arriving long after it's too dark for decent photography.
IMG_4281; Sandhill Cranes
Another view while still positioned below the Lower Bridge.
The Falls of Bruar are a series of waterfalls on the Bruar Water in Scotland, about 8 miles from Pitlochry in the council area of Perth and Kinross. They have been a tourist attraction since the 18th century and were immortalized in a poem by Robert Burns, The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Atholl, supposedly from the river itself entreating the Duke to plant some trees in the then barren landscape. The falls were probably formed some time in the last 10,000 years, after the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age. The waters slowly cut through the rock which had been pushed up by the geological forces which formed the Scottish Highlands some 500 million years ago. The layering of the rocks means that the water has cut a meandering path through the softer rock and left the harder rock untouched. This has led to the creation of deep pools, outcrops and, in one place, a natural arch. The falls consist of two large falls and a number of smaller drops. The water is often coloured brown from the peat through which it flows. Nowadays, the A9 Perth to Inverness road passes near the foot of the falls in Glen Garry, and there is a shopping centre and car park from where visitors may access the falls. A circular footpath leads up to the Lower Bridge, close to the natural arch, and continues on to the Upper Bridge, about 1/2 mile from the car park, before returning down the opposite bank. The total drop of the falls is about 60 metres. The narrowness of the gorge means that the falls are most impressive after heavy rain, but since the construction of a hydroelectric power scheme in the late 1940s, water is extracted farther up the river and the falls no longer reach the volumes they once did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_Bruar
A gull perches atop a riverside pier in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/6.3, 250mm, 1/250s
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Explored #255 : Highest position 163
The shot
3 exposures [-2,0,+2Ev] in Raw
Photoshop
° Converted to black and white with the corresponding filter, this works much better than the desaturation filter, since you can perfectly control how all colours convert to their grayscale equivalent.
° Used the tint option to about 5%
° Used the mask of the adjustment layer created above to selectively get some more colours where the lamps are shining.
° High pass sharpening, see below.
° My photoshop tutorial on Layers, Masks, Selections & Channels.
° Channel mixer tutorial to remove lens flare spots.
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I'm currently reworking some of my images to a near black & white version or at least a dimmed version, sometimes with a dash or spot of colour, just like here.
This is the 5th of the new batch.
Mechelen train station.
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It was early in the morning,and a little bit raining.
Many frogs appered at the lotus pond.
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Thank you dear friends for your support, and for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star.
With an apparent magnitude of around 2, it is the brightest star in the constellation and is readily visible to the naked eye at night.
The position of the star lies less than 1° away from the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
The stable position of the star in the Northern Sky makes it useful for astrophotographer in the Northern hemisphere to align our telescopes with the central axis of the Earth. [Wiki]
Imaged over 11 nights in June and July 2024 while waiting for my main target to reach altitude.
I have always wanted to capture the IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) around our pole star in the Northern hemisphere.
I thought that while I am waiting for my main target to rise in altitude, just sitting on Polaris would be a cool idea.
The main problem is guiding your telescope at the pole. In the end none of the frames were guided, Plate solving was interesting too. I attempted to centre the star but the mount would never end up plate solved and locked on. The solution was to place Polaris off centre. The result was that I obtained a better view of the IFN surrounding the star.
735 x 2 minute images were originally taken without a filter and reduced down to the best 349. This left me with over 11 hours of the best frames to process.
I am very pleased with my first attempt. I must look at either making a mosaic or using a wider FOV telescope to feature more of the surrounding space dust.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/fdzm9m/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 11 Nights in June and July 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 11h 39m
Filters: None
Pixel Scale: 1.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
Image Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 6R Pro
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
And through it all she
offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call she won't forsake me
A rather appropriate doodle expresses its condolences for the doomed Pennsy position lights at CP Morgan, Chicago, as an inbound approaches. Later that night, the southernmost signal heads were removed, with replacement of the other two on each consecutive night. With the lights at A-2 having been swapped out for modern LED color-lights earlier, these were the last set of PLs in the Chicago area, and some of a fast-dwindling number in the Midwest generally.
Highest Explore Position #348 ~ On November 16th 2007.
Deer - Richmond Park - London, England - Sunday November 4th 2007.
I would have liked this shot more had it have been totally in focus, but they were quite a way, away, and I didn't have a tripod..:O(
But I liked the way I caught Mother and Child looking like each other and in the same direction...just luck I guess..lol..:O)
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Thank you dear friends for your support, and for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
« La Maison Cauchie, habitation personnelle de Paul Cauchie, construite en 1905, peut être considérée comme une des plus belles œuvres de l’Art nouveau à Bruxelles. L’artiste tend à affirmer, à valoriser ses goûts, sa culture et sa position dans un contexte social où domine le conformisme »
Franco Borsi, Bruxelles 1900.
Paul Cauchie (Auguste Paul Cauchie), architecte, peintre et décorateur belge, né le 7 janvier 1875, à Ath (province de Hainaut) et décédé le 1er décembre 1952, à Etterbeek (Bruxelles)
Il fut une des figures marquantes de l’Art nouveau en Belgique. Son style architectural, contrairement à ceux de Victor Horta ou Paul Hankar, qui utilisaient le fer forgé et la pierre pour suggérer des volutes végétales, se caractérise par une rigueur géométrique compensée par la richesse des décorations picturales.
JEWEL OF BRUSSELS ART NOUVEAU
“Maison Cauchie, the personal home of Paul Cauchie, built in 1905, can be considered one of the most beautiful works of Art Nouveau in Brussels. The artist tends to assert, to promote his tastes, his culture and his position in a social context where conformism dominates."
Franco Borsi, Brussels 1900.
Paul Cauchie (Auguste Paul Cauchie), Belgian architect, painter and decorator, born January 7, 1875, in Ath (province of Hainaut) and died December 1, 1952, in Etterbeek (Brussels)
He was one of the leading figures of Art Nouveau in Belgium. His architectural style, unlike those of Victor Horta or Paul Hankar, who used wrought iron and stone to suggest vegetal scrolls, is characterized by a geometric rigor offset by the richness of the pictorial decorations.
WIKIPEDIA
La Maison Cauchie, la casa personale di Paul Cauchie, costruita nel 1905, può essere considerata una delle opere più belle dell'Art Nouveau a Bruxelles.
Paul Cauchie (Auguste Paul Cauchie), architetto, pittore e decoratore belga, nato il 7 gennaio 1875 ad Ath (provincia dell'Hainaut) e morto il 1 dicembre 1952 a Etterbeek (Bruxelles)
Fu una delle figure di spicco dell'Art Nouveau in Belgio. Il suo stile architettonico, a differenza di quelli di Victor Horta o Paul Hankar, che utilizzavano ferro battuto e pietra per suggerire volute vegetali, è caratterizzato da un rigore geometrico compensato dalla ricchezza delle decorazioni pittoriche.
Highest Explore Position #378 ~ On November 28th 2008.
Ducks - London Wetland Centre, Barnes, London, England - Saturday November 22nd 2008.
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I thought this Duck looked more like Turkey in flight then a Duck...he certainly doesn't look very elegant..lol..:O))))
Happy "Turkey Day" to all my American cousins across the pond.....when your giving thanks, just think of us poor English who got left behind lol...:O)))
EXPLORED!!! Highest position: 163 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I haven't been really active these days, I'm sorry!!!
This is my first attempt with infrared and sea. It gives an effect similar to the 10 stops ND, plus some nice tonal shifts if you include greens, such as I did in this one.
Thanx a lot for the great appreciation comments for my previous upload!
The shot
This was shot one the little promontory you can see on my last upload.
The Processing
Camera Raw
- White Balanced in Camera Raw
Photoshop:
- Converted in Black and White with Silver EFEX Pro
- Multiplied the sky and the sea
- Created 4 Overlay layers to adjust light
- Run Neat Image to reduce Noise
- Applied a level layer to improve contrast
- Resized
- Added a slight vignette
- Sharpening (Smart Sharpen + more accurate)
- Framing and signature.
Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
Have a splendid week, my dear friends!!!
Under overcast skies on an unseasonably warm early November morning, this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrived.
Here it's just been lifted off the flatbed truck that brought it in from Gardiner, NY. This year's tree, a 10-ton, 78-foot Norway Spruce, was donated by Albert Asendorf and Nancy Puchalski.
With hundreds of onlookers excitedly watching, it was craned into position where it will live into the New Year delighting millions through the holiday season.
The tree will be lit on December 2 and stay up in Rockefeller Plaza until January 6. Let the most wonderful time of the year begin!
Duart Castle positioned on a high crag at the end of a peninsula jutting into the Sound of Mull. The Keep was built by Chief Lachlan Lubanach Maclean and on the vulnerable landward side is 29 feet high and 10 feet thick. The walls facing the sea are less thick ranging from 5 to 9 feet. The castle dates back to the 13th century and is the seat of Clan MacLean and is still lived in by the 28th Chief of the Clan. The castle was closed when I was there, but is open to the public and often used as the venue for a wedding. There has been scaffolding here for quite a while, hopefully it will soon be repaired and removed.