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My post for tomorrow folks, early out, great weather predicted and hoping for a good day for photography.
I waited this guy out and took so so many of this behavior, and it just kept on getting better and better.
Thank you for the visit and it is so very much appreciated.
I could not pull myself away from this guy and waited for him to do something like this, and in for sure payed off for me, ( I Think )
It was not the quantity of image on this day, but the quality, and what we experienced.
Thank you all for everything.
Good evening everyone and just wanting to say that this series will be of 3 images to attest to the ability of the camera to follow focus, much faster and more accurate than I can ever be.
Have a wonderful evening everyone, thank you also for visiting and commenting and also very much appreciated.
This is folks number 2 in the sequence and I'll have one more after this, this is all camera folks and the tracking portion of the program is nothing short of phenomenal, maybe one day I will be a contender.
Thank you all so very much for visiting and commenting and all your kind words are truly very much appreciated.
Praying Mantis
Another Mantis that flew just after I got the shot, possibly the same one as previously - same species in pretty much the same area - again I didn't catch it in flight!
Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday!
A very good Friday morning to everyone and a safe and glorious weekend to all. As promised this is the last one for now of this speedster, there are many many more, but will end it here with this "V" for Victory wing pose.
I was going to by-pass this one folks but when I looked again I just could not, so sorry, you will have to wait for tomorrow for the end, and thank you all.
And I am sure you qll noticed the remains of what he was eating on his right, your left with the bone fragments and what looks like a leg, I tried to frame it but Adobe said that feature was no longer available.
This will be the last in this series folks although there are so so many more, maybe in my other life.
Have a great night, thanks for stopping by and for all the very kind words.
I do apologize folks but the more I look at these images the more excited I get, I am very passionate about what I do and it always excited me to do it, but the rarity of this species in these parts really get me going, hope you do not get bored.
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And there she is, ready to launch.
But first, you gotta set the flaps
(a.k.a. set the tail to full-bristle for drag),
Get a good grip with the rear feet, lean into it,
and as the head begins to fall, give the thrusters full-boost.
Sound easy?
Well actually there was more to it than that, and the prep for these jumps to the bird feeder began weeks ago, when she chewed off the end of the branch upwind of her launch platform, to get rid of the flimsy tip and horizontal side shoots that interfered with her flight plan.
Another shot of the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's), in the ornamental Cherry Tree. (Lillian-Hoffar Park, BC).
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
At ESA’s mission control, before the launch comes the pre-launch briefing – and the all-important group photo. This is the team that will fly Juice to Jupiter with four planetary flybys of Earth and Venus, then switching orbit from Jupiter to its largest moon, Ganymede, followed by a tour of the icy, complex Jovian system comprising a whopping 35 lunar flybys.
Never before has a mission switched orbit from a planet other than our own to one of its moons. Radiation at Jupiter will be extreme. Light at the edge of the solar system will be just 3% of what powers us on Earth. It will be cold. Time delays of up to two hours mean teams are only ever communicating with a spacecraft in the past. Ten science instruments need to be oriented precisely, without interference, from hundreds of millions of kilometres away.
Juice was made for this extreme environment, and mission control is ready to navigate it. Back-to-back critical operations over the next decade will make this possible. We are GREEN for Juice launch.
Credits: ESA
Image of a pre-launch countdown at daybreak over the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Post-processing with Topaz Photo AI, Snapseed HDR, Midjourney, and Photoshop Elements 2024.
So I'e been stuck in Fort Sumner New Mexico. Never heard of this bustling metropolis? Probably because the 4 people here want to keep this little gem a secret. They have 2 attractions.
1. A Billy the Kid museum
2. A NASA facility purely dedicated to launching balloons.
For the past 5 months I've been one of the engineers building a payload to go on the BRRISON mission to observe the comet ISON. For the past week or so, I've been in the NASA hanger, prepping to launch the high altitude balloon payload. Its about to launch today (rolling out as I write this), and I'm stoked just to see the thing get off the ground (and out of my frantic mind).
Heres a shot of attraction number 2, with my 3 other teammates enjoying the surprisingly epic New Mexico sunset. Then back into the hangers for more all-night tests and computery fun.
For more info, check out our work blog here
daystarengineering.wordpress.com/
And for a full albulm of the pre-launch fun, see it here
daystarengineering.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/daystarbrriso...
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I caught this guy just a moment before he jumped away. You can see its legs coiled beneath it before it launched. Anyhow, this was the second time I found one of those odd speckled versions of this species. I have only seen one other like it and it is most curious.
Anyhow, I hope that you like this!
A timed exposure of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night- time fantasy of light. Structures to the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structure.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-81PC-0136
Date: March 5, 1981