View allAll Photos Tagged previous
Having experienced a high the previous night from extensive auroras we hoped for a repeat night. NOAA forecasted a dip in aurora activity during the day but predicted increased activity by nightfall. As the day rolled by so did the clouds in the south of Iceland by Jökulsárlón. Hoping to find some clear skies Aaron, Alan, Rebecca, and I headed east after sunset towards Vestrahorn, where clouds were forecasted to subside by the morning hours. On our way we ended up stopping at Höfn for a langoustine dinner. The grilled langoustine was delicious: tender, buttery, and sweet. It set the stage for a wondrous night.
Once we arrived at Vestrahorn the near full moon aided us in scouting out the location. While scouting we noticed some faint aurora low in the sky. Though weak it was still a pleasure to see and photograph but soon the incoming clouds spoiled the show. Hence we called it a night in our Happy Campers and waited it out for the morning hours.
Snoozing away, Aaron suddenly opened our van door and yelled for us to get up at 5am. The majority of the clouds had cleared and the aurora activity picked up to a KP4. From then on time flew by as we blasted away until after sunrise.
Sony A7r
Rokinon 14mm f/2.8
We then relocated to track level via the grade crossing seen at the rear of the train on the previous photo. Another of the long, and frequent, grain trains was next up in our viewfinders.
Making a return visit, the first group of baby quail hatched in our backyard make another appearance.
Every now and again I go back to a location I’ve scouted out previously and attempt to get that elusive shot that I’ve pictured in my mind but never quite manage to catch. Today’s post is a revisit to the location of a nice little island near the edge of Loch Leven. My vision was for a misty morning with a light fog on the water but with the colours of the sunrise creeping in from behind giving some warmth and tone. A few weeks ago I posted a ‘very’ misty version of that vision but with no sunrise. That version was received with much better feedback than I expected and I have grown to really like the image. I dismissed it at the time primarily because it didn’t meet the brief but that would have been a mistake. Today I post the sunrise version of the island but alas there was no mist on the water to provide contrast to the far shore. I like both images in their own right but neither quite makes the grade in meeting my idea of the perfect shot. I’ll have to keep an eye on the forecast again and look for those perfect conditions and maybe I’ll get it just right next time.
Previously it was Boiga dendrophila melanota but in 2020, it was elevated to a full species i.e., Boiga melanota.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/vinceadam2021/
Today I was out to remove Red-Clawed Lobster (an invasive species) from our waterways, this is not supposed to be a herping trip haha! But as cliche as it sounds, "once a herper, always a herper" Haha!
Also known as Western Mangrove Cat Snake previously Mangrove Cat Snake.
This specimen was slightly longer than the one on Friday at about 1.8-1.9m.
Another previously unpublished image, this one from last December. This was taken from a bitterly cold highpoint on the Bealach na Bà where Iain and I had hoped to witness a sunset across the Inner Sound islands to Skye and beyond. Unfortunately after the sun dropped behind the Cuillin there was to be no more colour and our uncomfortable wait was to be something of a disappointment. There are elements of this I really like and others not so much. However my decision to post was tipped by the effort and discomfort it took to capture in the first place, so here it is.
As the cloud shelf (previous two images) continued to swallow that last light in the sky, I stopped for these horses. I jumped out and made some wide angle shots, but the first raindrops were making it difficult to keep my lens dry, so I retreated to my car, switched to a 50mm, and shot a few more from the driver's seat.
Five minutes later, the rain was pounding down so hard that with my wipers on high I could barely see the road. Fortunately home was only five minutes away.
The next morning instead of birdsong I listened to chain saws as a work crew cleared away downed trees. Power outages continued yesterday for the third day in a row. The power company replaced three poles that were damaged by falling trees or tree parts. All is calm now. Flip a switch, the light comes on. I feel nearly normal again.
Photographed along Butte Road, near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Purple on Purple - As per my previous post, the Mexican Sage (Salvia leucantha) is blooming around my office and the Anna's Hummingbirds are out in full force. This particular male staked a claim to a large patch of the flowers. In addition to the traditional isolated portrait I previously posted, I also zoomed out to capture a small in frame habitat shot showing the setting.
Special thanks to a friend who inspired me to get out and capture this image during a time when I haven't been getting out much and have lost a lot of motivation for photography.
Species: Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Location: Northern California, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400mm IS II + EF 1.4x III Extender, Handheld
Settings: 1/400s, ISO: 320, f/8 @401mm, Electronic Shutter
It wasn’t that long ago that we saw the horrible images of all the fire in Australia on TV and here we are experiencing it in Canada. We’ve personally been lucky to escape the worst of it so far but there is so much destruction and smoke! I feel for the people and wildlife affected by it all! In this iPhone image of a previous inferno, some recovery is evident but it will take many years to regenerate the forest. I continue to have limited access to Flickr and will comment more in a couple of weeks or so. Thanks for your patience! Be safe!
Back in September
In the Brookside pub,
Windermere.
Watching Burnley beat Leeds United 1-0 at Elland road.
There were two football matches on the TV’s (I asked if they’d put the Burnley game on)
We’d previously phoned two other pubs to ask if they were showing the Burnley game, they weren’t. One of them mentioned that the Brookside might be! Bingo… only a five minute walk from our accommodation too!
The Burnley game and the Manchester United game were being shown.
My brother in law and nephew watched the Man Utd game, my father in law kept an eye on both games, I watched the Burnley game. We were all sat at the same table!
My nephew is 29 yo. Two pubs in Windermere wouldn’t serve him because they thought he was underage!!
#Goodtimes
BW version of previous shot.
A short series taken from a walk the wife and I had in the Copenhagen Harbour area. To my delight, it was nice and foggy and it has given the shots an extra twist, which I really like. I only had the 35mm with me, so all shots have been made on that. I used AutoISO and Aperture Priority for all shots.
I hope you like the results.
Oh, and it felt good "shooting from the hip", not having to set up tripods, flashes, finding the food colours and what not for water drop shots!
This is not an HDR photo. This image was converted from Lightroom and then sharpened with highpass sharpening
Synonym:
Previously Gonyocephalus robinsonii (BOULENGER 1908).
Gonocephalus robinsonii (GRISMER 2011)
Found this beauty with my oversea friends who is doing a full tour in Malaysia and South East Asia.
Also known as Robinson's Forest Dragon.
The name Malayodracon was chosen to express that the type and currently only known species of the genus is restricted to Malaysia (latinized malaya, male form malayo owing to the gender of the ending -dracon) and constitutes a genus belonging to the subfamily Draconinae (gr. drakon / δράκων; a serpent in Greek mythology; latinized dracon = engl. dragon). The species is named after the collector of the types, H.C. Robinson.
401Da-314 is about to arrive at Komorów - a station of WKD (Warsaw's Commuter Light Rail) - together with EP05-23 of PKP Intercity.
In one of my previous posts I talked about how the event presented on the picture was organised and for what reason. What I didn't mention though (as I wanted to have something to talk about next :)) is that the ride for Night of Museums was also the 401Da-314's last day of duty.
With the last bigger repair (P4 level) done by Techservice in late april of 2020, the repair cycle requires another overhaul by the end of May, if the locomotive wants to run. With the WKD having no plans of repairing the 401Da, it is officially ending service about now, as the first, only, and the last 401Da engine in the company. It is to be put on display in WKD's museum in Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
The 401Da-314 was produced in 1976 in the Fablok works in Chrzanów, as one of 500 locomotives of this series, which were produced for the Polish industry. It has always belonged to WKD, though originally it was painted in the classic green scheme. I personally like the 'corporate' livery of WKD very much though ;).
The duties of this locomotive were very limited and it most likely doesn't have a lot of mileage on it. I assume the only times it was needed, were some emergency situations or minor trackworks, aswell as transporting new electric units for the WKD network.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The previous post of this was in need of a refresh for the processing. Still I wonder how it could have looked if the original file was not so noisy.
A shot i've previously uploaded but have decided to rescan. 37379 'Ipswich WRD Quality Assured' working 6F11 1735 Garston - Ellesmere Port empty cartics 16/05/00. I don't believe many 'Mainline' 37's had ploughs and even though 379 was starting to look a bit tatty by this point, i always thought it looked the dogs b**locks complete with black headcode box and white backed name plate.
GFX 50R / GF 50mm
Wasn't sure whether to post this. One on hand, you can see two or three of my previous shots in this frame, which is something I try to avoid. On the other, I like this shot quite a bit.
So I'm posting it.
A shot i had previously been and was happy to take the kids. Photography with kids is completely different and fast paced - requires a lot of planning to know exactly what you hope to shoot, take the shot and then keep moving to make sure they don't wander off the side of a cliff. This was a great day exploring a cliff walk, the kids having a great time even if i had to carry them all the way up.
Much more orange than those I've seen previously, but can't see what else it can be! Dorsal shot in comments.
Nonvilliers-Grandhoux - France
For the previous week this train left the Liverpool docks biomass terminal anywhere between 1 hour and 30 minutes before its booked time. Obviously when I visit and try to photograph it, it pretty much hold time.
66756 is about to disappear under Bootle on its way up to Tuebrook sidings, easing away from the dock complex on its way with a new load of biomass bound for Drax power station.
In the previous photo I described how I came to take these shots in the airspace outside our house. The Tamron SP 150-600 Di VC USD G2 lens performed admirably, especially when handheld and trying to catch a fast moving helicopter. In the overcast conditions a fast shutter speed and higher than normal ISO was essential, and I was glad that in this shot particularly 1/3200 was just enough to stop the rotors.
At 600mm the magnification of this lens is 144 times. So that will give you some idea of how far away the helicopter was - it wasn't exactly hovering over our house. But at least I didn't have to do much of a crop either.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter in Tasmania works closely with police, ambulance and emergency services and has been involved in thousands of important rescue missions. www.westpacrescuetas.com.au/
A few weeks ago, while enjoying the early evening light along False Creek with my friend Christian, I took this photo shortly before dusk.
Previously,
St Johns, Newfoundland
My previous photo was also taken from St Johns. A remarkable place.
Highest Explore Position: 98 on Saturday, February 16, 2008
Within the last few days this spray painted image has appeared on what was previously a blank wall on the side of a local pub.
As we approach the centenary of the Great War armistice, I cannot imagine many people would argue with the sentiments of this!
The management of the pub should be thanked for giving permission for the artwork to be carried out and the artist applauded for using his/her incredible talent and time on such a project!
Related to my previous upload here's an earlier shot on a smaller ice rock at the beach near Jökulsárlón.
"L"ooks better on black!
This image was shot along with the previous image.
Tips:
when you shoot the main subject, just think about adding a sub-subject.
Especially a famous building, in combination with other subjects makes your image deffercientt from others.
In this case, Shooting one world trade center(main subject) solely was too straightforward, so I shot under the facade of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
Looking at my previous image, you can imagine that past this point in time the moon would move away from the Ankeballe to set further to the right. But while taking these images I started to notice some illuminated specs right below me: probably better prepared photographers, showing up on time for their predetermined composition. Since I felt I got my shots from the current position, I rushed downhill and a bit to the left. Result: the supermoon was lining up with the Ankeballe again, and this time much closer. So I took a couple of shots, this being one of the last ones where the moon was cradled by the trees of the Ankeballe. Notably, by this time most other people there already packed their gear… All in all, it was a night to remember. Only minimal planning panned out greatly for me this time. And sitting for hours in a moonlit landscape in Baselland, Switzerland was just ❤
New York City
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1609.
The "Sons of Liberty" destroyed British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from throughout the Thirteen Colonies met in the city in 1765 to organize resistance to British policies. The city's strategic location and status as a major seaport made it the prime target for British seizure in 1776. General George Washington lost a series of battles from which he narrowly escaped (with the notable exception of the Battle of Harlem Heights, his first victory of the war), and the British Army controlled New York City and made it their base on the continent until late 1783, attracting Loyalist refugees. The city served as the national capital under the Articles of Confederation from 1785-1789, and briefly served as the new nation's capital in 1789–90 under the United States Constitution. Under the new government the city hosted the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States, the drafting of the United States Bill of Rights, and the first Supreme Court of the United States. The opening of the Erie Canal gave excellent steamboat connections with upstate New York and the Great Lakes, along with coastal traffic to lower New England, making the city the preeminent port on the Atlantic Ocean. The arrival of rail connections to the north and west in the 1840s and 1850s strengthened its central role.
Beginning in the mid-18th century, waves of new immigrants arrived from Europe dramatically changing the composition of the city and serving as workers in the expanding industries. Modern New York City traces its development to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 and an economic and building boom following the Great Depression and World War II. Throughout its history, New York City has served as a main port of entry for many immigrants, and its cultural and economic influence has made it one of the most important urban areas in the United States and the world.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City
New York City LaGuardia Airport
The site of the airport was originally used by the Gala Amusement Park, owned by the Steinway family. It was razed and transformed in 1929 into a 105-acre (42 ha) private flying field named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport after the pioneer Long Island aviator, later called North Beach Airport.[9]
The initiative to develop the airport for commercial flights began with an outburst by New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia (in office from 1934 to 1945) upon the arrival of his TWA flight at Newark Airport – the only commercial airport serving the New York City region at the time – as his ticket said "New York". He demanded to be taken to New York, and ordered the plane to be flown to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, giving an impromptu press conference to reporters along the way. He urged New Yorkers to support a new airport within their city.[9]
American Airlines accepted La Guardia's offer to start a trial program of scheduled flights to Floyd Bennett, although the program failed after several months because Newark's airport was closer to Manhattan. La Guardia went as far as to offer police escorts to airport limousines in an attempt to get American Airlines to continue operating the trial program.
During the Floyd Bennett experiment, La Guardia and American executives began an alternative plan to build a new airport in Queens, where it could take advantage of the new Queens–Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan. The existing North Beach Airport was an obvious location, but much too small for the sort of airport that was being planned. With backing and assistance from the Works Progress Administration, construction began in 1937.[12] Building on the site required moving landfill from Rikers Island, then a garbage dump, onto a metal reinforcing framework. The framework below the airport still causes magnetic interference on the compasses of outgoing aircraft: signs on the airfield warn pilots about the problem.[13]
Because of American's pivotal role in the development of the airport, LaGuardia gave the airline extra real estate during the airport's first year of operation, including four hangars, which was an unprecedented amount of space at the time.[14] American opened its first Admirals Club (and the first private airline club in the world) at the airport in 1939. The club took over a large office space that had previously been reserved for the mayor, but he offered it for lease following criticism from the press, and American vice president Red Mosier immediately accepted the offer.[15]
Opening and early years
The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport,[16][17] and opened for business on December 2 of that year.[9] It cost New York City $23 million to turn the tiny North Beach Airport into a 550-acre (220 ha) modern facility. Not everyone was as enthusiastic as La Guardia about the project; some[who?] regarded it as a $40 million boondoggle. But the public was fascinated by the very idea of air travel, and thousands traveled to the airport, paid the dime fee, and watched the airliners take off and land. Two years later these fees and their associated parking had already provided $285,000, and other non-travel related incomes (food, etc.) were another $650,000 a year. The airport was soon a financial success. A smaller airport in nearby Jackson Heights, Holmes Airport, was unable to prevent the expansion of the larger airport and closed in 1940.
Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world". Even before the project was completed LaGuardia had won commitments from the five largest airlines (Pan American Airways, American, United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air) to begin using the new field as soon as it opened.[18] Pan Am's transatlantic Boeing 314 flying boats moved to La Guardia from Port Washington in 1940. During World War II the airport was used to train aviation technicians and as a logistics field. Transatlantic landplane airline flights started in late 1945; some continued after Idlewild (now John F. Kennedy International) opened in July 1948, but the last ones shifted to Idlewild in April 1951.
Newspaper accounts alternately referred to the airfield as New York Municipal Airport and LaGuardia Field until the modern name was officially applied when the airport moved to Port of New York Authority control under a lease with New York City on June 1, 1947.
LaGuardia opened with four runways at 45-degree angles to each other,[19] the longest (13/31) being 6,000 ft (1,800 m). Runway 18/36 was closed soon after a United DC-4 ran off the south end in 1947; runway 9/27 (4,500 ft) was closed around 1958, allowing LaGuardia's terminal to expand northward after 1960. Circa 1961 runway 13/31 was shifted northeastward to allow construction of a parallel taxiway (such amenities being unknown when LGA was built) and in 1965–66 both remaining runways were extended to their present 7,000 ft (2,100 m).
The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 283 weekday fixed-wing departures from LaGuardia: 126 American, 49 Eastern, 33 Northeast, 31 TWA, 29 Capital and 15 United. American's flights included 26 nonstops to Boston and 27 to Washington National (mostly Convair 240s).[20] Jet flights (United 727s to Cleveland and Chicago) started on June 1, 1964.
After the road train from the previous photostream post had left, the local rolls east coming off the branch as only a caboose hop. This was back in the day when locomotive variety was still a thing on Class 1's. As if two C-628's that just left weren't enough, the local has two varieties of Baldwin rebuilds for power. Lead unit #1489 is an ex-MKT Baldwin/EMD AS-16M while second unit #1507 is a C&NW original Baldwin/EMD DRS-6-6-1500M. Not only can you not imagine these type of oddballs being assembled by today's railroads, it's even harder to imagine one road buying them from another. The C&NW owned 13 of those ex-MKT things. The branch remains partially in service under the CN, but in C&NW days it stretched as far as Wisconsin, and at one time was a source of relatively heavy ore traffic.
Lake Mackenzie
New Zealand
This is the wider scene earlier in the evening from my previously posted shot of Lake Mackenzie. The heavy rains during the day soaked through all my waterproofs but it was all worth it to see those waterfalls cascading off the side of the mountain combined with the ever improving light. I made a decision that I wanted to focus on single shots when the light really got better so I took this panorama just beforehand.
These were three of the four little mallard fuzzball offspring of the protective mom featured in the previous photo. They briefly watched mom splashing around until heading to the long grass nearby.
The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The early 20th century Vizcaya estate also includes: extensive Italian Renaissance gardens; native woodland landscape; and a historic village outbuildings compound. The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements. Paul Chalfin was the design director.
Miami-Dade County now owns the Vizcaya property, as the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, which is open to the public. The location is served by the Vizcaya Station of the Miami Metrorail.
A Few Frames on from the previous shot posted...
Red Deer - Cervus elaphus
Hinds scrapping for herd position?
London Royal Parks
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa. Red deer have been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In many parts of the world, the meat (venison) from red deer is used as a food source.
The red deer is the fourth-largest deer species behind moose, elk and sambar deer. It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats and cattle. European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives. Subtle differences in appearance are noted between the various subspecies of red deer, primarily in size and antlers, with the smallest being the Corsican red deer found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and the largest being the Caspian red deer (or maral) of Asia Minor and the Caucasus Region to the west of the Caspian Sea. The deer of central and western Europe vary greatly in size, with some of the largest deer found in the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe.Western European red deer, historically, grew to large size given ample food supply (including people's crops), and descendants of introduced populations living in New Zealand and Argentina have grown quite large in both body and antler size. Large red deer stags, like the Caspian red deer or those of the Carpathian Mountains, may rival the wapiti in size. Female red deer are much smaller than their male counterparts.
The European red deer is found in southwestern Asia (Asia Minor and Caucasus regions), North Africa and Europe. The red deer is the largest non-domesticated land mammal still existing in Ireland. The Barbary stag (which resembles the western European red deer) is the only member of the deer family represented in Africa, with the population centred in the northwestern region of the continent in the Atlas Mountains. As of the mid-1990s, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria were the only African countries known to have red deer.
In the Netherlands, a large herd (ca. 3000 animals counted in late 2012) lives in the Oostvaarders Plassen, a nature reserve. Ireland has its own unique subspecies. In France the population is thriving, having multiplied fivefold in the last half-century, increasing from 30,000 in 1970 to approximately 160,000 in 2014. The deer has particularly expanded its footprint into forests at higher altitudes than before. In the UK, indigenous populations occur in Scotland, the Lake District, and the South West of England (principally on Exmoor). Not all of these are of entirely pure bloodlines, as some of these populations have been supplemented with deliberate releases of deer from parks, such as Warnham or Woburn Abbey, in an attempt to increase antler sizes and body weights. The University of Edinburgh found that, in Scotland, there has been extensive hybridisation with the closely related sika deer.
Several other populations have originated either with "carted" deer kept for stag hunts being left out at the end of the hunt, escapes from deer farms, or deliberate releases. Carted deer were kept by stag hunts with no wild red deer in the locality and were normally recaptured after the hunt and used again; although the hunts are called "stag hunts", the Norwich Staghounds only hunted hinds (female red deer), and in 1950, at least eight hinds (some of which may have been pregnant) were known to be at large near Kimberley and West Harling; they formed the basis of a new population based in Thetford Forest in Norfolk. Further substantial red deer herds originated from escapes or deliberate releases in the New Forest, the Peak District, Suffolk, Lancashire, Brecon Beacons, and North Yorkshire, as well as many other smaller populations scattered throughout England and Wales, and they are all generally increasing in numbers and range. A census of deer populations in 2007 and again in 2011 coordinated by the British Deer Society records the red deer as having continued to expand their range in England and Wales since 2000, with expansion most notable in the Midlands and East Anglia.
My previous post of Pine Lake showed it completely painted with autumn reflections. While admiring the reflections I noticed three Wood Ducks in the center of the lake. They never moved close enough for a detailed shot, but it was a beautiful scene nonetheless. Here I singled out one of the males as it moved across the multi-colored reflections.
I have many more shots from beautiful Brookside Gardens in this dedicated album: flic.kr/s/aHskaad2bD
As written previously some strange encounters and experiences only hit the full impact mark with some delay.
On a recent event I was viciously struck, once again, by the fact how people are trying so hard to stand out from the crowd.
Clutching for recognition haunted and conforming to some distant paradigm.
In an almost perverted way of begging for attention, they act just merely all the same…
Waiting for a miracle to get noticed, dwelling around (could be a side effect of too many mojo-cocktails though) with eyes closed to their own originality.
Peculiar fact: they want to stand out and simultaneously being simply slightly different from the crowd terrifies them …
Exhausted by too much conversation, by all those attempts to come up with jokey and lively epigrams as the hours and the evening evolve, they seem to fill less and less the room, a kind of emptiness silently surrounding them. Awaiting some miracle solution or advice on how to navigate the crowd.
Wouldn’t it be more simple, every now and then, just to merciless avoid the crowd and just stand tall, against the wind …
A previous coal mining location that was used in its last years as a place for old vehicles especially Fords.
Last minute 48 hour trip taking in a few new spots and some old locations. 17 hour days and mixed weather added to the fun.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
Instagram: www.instagram.com/Timster_1973