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No, smoking is not productive and doesn't say much about taking care about myself, but... having a glass of red wine is!
Since being back to work full time in RL, my walks at the park and quiet moments on my own are more precious now, even more when is possible to enjoy the afternoon sunshine.
I'm still juggling to get things done at the same time as keeping everything balanced, so I try to remind myself that is not bad to take time for yourself. ♥
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Halnaker tree tunnel, West Sussex
It was a fairly productive Saturday last week as after shooting the West Pier and Shoreham 'Hot Pipe' I decided to stop off at the Halnaker Tree Tunnel to see if if was wearing it's autumn coat. Most years I seem to be there too early and then the frosts come along before I can get down there so I decided to try it later this year and as we've not had any frosts to speak of it was looking quite good. Sun was a little bright which I like for the dappled effect but have just tried out a new editing function in the 2023 version of ON1 which has helped me slightly balance the light.
As well as the 'Honeypot' view from the gate looking down the track I decided to move further up the track and shoot towards the gate (due mainly to the seemingly endless line of people coming into shot just as the previous lot cleared my shot).
I did try to focus stack but there was too much leaf movement so I took one of the shots focused closer in and accept some softness. As I have tried a bit of a painterly effect on the edit I didn't think that mattered.
Thanks for viewing and will try to catch up with commenting on others images asap.
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I had a very productive and frantic Saturday and Sunday morning in a couple of favourite local forests... finally me being free and mist came together! I have had a number of compositions awaiting thick mist... and I managed to get a few more shots like this in the time too! The mist could have been thicker at Dalkeith Country Park still... but that was just a function of going there second and it had started to thin by the time I got there. I'll go there first next time... which will prob be in a few years time here as mist like this is soo rare!
While I am not out taking photographs much at the moment, I have been using my time productively. I have completed Photobooks for my Tasmania and Hawaii holidays. My most recent project was a photobook of mostly seascapes from holidays at Phillip Island. I was able to download my Flickr album and then included many of my Flickr musings accompanying some of the images in the album.
It was a really fun thing to do and made me glad that I write so much waffle about how that particular photo came to be or about my feelings at the time. Of course there was a fair sprinkling of Bob Dylan lyrics amongst them.
I would encourage anyone to do it if they feel so inclined. I think it will be nice for the kids to appreciate one day!
This image is just after sunrise at Richardsons Beach, Coles Bay, Tasmania. The title is from a Barry Maitland book on my shelf.
First attempt at photographing this elusive Warbler. Turned out to be quite a productive morning.
Like most of us, all I have ever seen is a skulking shadow, and that's if you're lucky in the undergrowth. The song is very distinctive, so once memorized you cant not but hear/identify them. So I followed the call around from bush to shrub to gorse back to scrub. A fleeting glimpse here and there. Seemed like I was wasting my time then I saw the bird call from an exact branch I had previously seen it sing from.
I set up at the this spot and waited. Ignored all the calls around me sometimes very close. Then patience paid off it came back to where I was standing and quite amazingly crept up to where it had been previously. It was too close so I had to step back. I cant believe it was so confiding. It would continue on its rounds flying past me low down within 2m sometimes closer still. It didn't always pop up or to the same branch, however it would return to the same area of scrub/bush.
It seems like you have to dedicate sometime in for this species, observe its movements and try to see where it comes up once it sings. Maybe I just got lucky on this one. However, I will try another one as I think its territory is primarily gorse. To get a shot of that with the yellow flowers would be something special.
It was a special morning this for me....to just wait and the bird to be comfortable with my presence. I was happy for the rest of the day :)
Taken at Swillngton/St Aidens.....I would like to stress no recordings were used as it was reported some photographers on site have been seen using some recording/playback device. This is not my style.
Thanks to all who comment and view my images, much appreciated :)
This red-bellied woodpecker seems to have found a very productive dead branch for beetle larvae since he sure looks well fed.
A productive morning to say the least. A final view of the Three Sisters. It may be sometime before they appear for me again.
Greetings my friends. Sorry to be behind on commenting once again. I hope you are all well and enjoying life.
I have been a bit busy recently, I am grateful that it has been in a productive way.
This week will be a busy week.
Partly because my birthday is on the 24th. I hope people count me a year wiser and not just older. I have reached a point my age feels more like a number than a defining fact.
This beautiful little owl is a Tropical Screech-Owl. My guide, Kenneth Martinez, set us up with Alvero Gutierrez, a well-known bird expert who proved his worth to me. We spent a very productive day together and I saw many species for the first time, including this guy. (Megascops choliba) (Sony a1, 400 f/2.8 at f/4, 1/250 second, ISO 640, flash)
After a long productive morning at Stone Harbor, we stopped by Forsythe to finally get shots of the Black-Belied Whistling Ducks. This is one of seven there. They really do whistle. Found them at marker 14 right to the right of the big Egret tree. Very cool duck. That is not a shadow on it's belly, it is really black. After they took forever preening, they swam around briefly and took off. They circled the big tree and turned back towards us, the sun was behind us and was a perfect moment. The back side of their wings are even more amazing. There is lots of white that can't be seen unless they are in flight.
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Mono Lake, nestled in California's eastern Sierra Nevada, is renowned for its extraordinary saline environment, dramatic tufa towers, and the incredibly productive ecosystem it sustains.
This highly alkaline lake provides a unique habitat for brine shrimp and alkali flies, which in turn support millions of migratory birds.
The striking tufa towers, formed by mineral deposits, stand as iconic, otherworldly sentinels around its shores.
Even in the frigid winter, Mono Lake remarkably remains unfrozen, a testament to its high salt concentrations.
Adding to its geological intrigue, the Mono Lake volcanic field, with vents on its northern shore and on Paoha and Negit Islands, was last active mere centuries ago.
(Nikon Z6III, Nikon 28-400/f4-8, 1/800 @ f/13, ISO 500, edited to taste)
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I had once again a slight non productive month in the way of Photography in November 2022.
So I decided to share a capture from a series I took in Decembre 2022 instead.
One of my hardships in life is that I never sleep. Due to chronique pain in my life... I have gone for years without a healthy amount of sleep nightly. An although it plaques me and is reeking havoc to my longterm health.
I did learn to work with and around this issue.
When the moment I picked up a camera and started to teach myself the wonderful (albeit sometimes hard ;-) ) world of photography.
I found an outlet to release my nightime restlessness of never sleeping. And I found a way to get through the pains of my nights.
And although it's not for everyone... Not being able to sleep has it's advantages when it comes to doing photography. I use driving as a form of therapy to calm the nerves and relax the body. And though even if it doesn't help in the way of pain management... it does allow you to go around at night in the cities, towns and country roads and see things so few people ever see or even know about.
When you add being an avid photographer to the mix... You can capture so many unexpected and magical night time scenes. Or see Nature's nocturnal side alive and well and so wonderfully active, all from the window of your car.
With the added bonus of NO traffic and nobody on the roads... It makes for a wonderful relaxing and visual photographic experience, driving around between the hours of 1am to 5am.
For that (and that only..) I and so grateful to be able to occasionally physically drive myself around at night and capture beautiful scenes such as this!!
Although between you and me... I wish I could sleep too! :'(
Costa Rica
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Another image from a productive day out to Nottingham visiting family this week.
DB Cargo Tug 60039 'Dove Holes' passes through the station and disappears east with the 12.20pm Toton Sidings - Boston Steel 'pig-pens' (6E02). Meantime, Cross Country unit 170114 stands at platform 4 after arriving with the 9.45am ex-Cardiff (1M60).
Bay platform 5 is to the near right, and currently empty. Once a through platform it was turned into a bay during the track modifications made a few years ago intended to increase the station's capacity.
I couldn't resist exploiting the shape and rippled texture of those 'pig-pen' wagons, and who knows how long they'll be around.
Apologies for the obscure title - those in the know will know, maybe.
1.14pm, 22nd June 2021
A delightfully productive little rural valley near Ashton in the Adelaide Hills, filled with Autumn colours and a dash of sun. The yearly crops include cherries, apples, lemons, pears as well as many other fruits and vegetables, and of course, grapes!
The image is a stitch of 5 separate shots taken on my trusty iPhone 4S and merged using Photoshop CS5.
Autumn, Ashton Valley, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Productive trip to Derbyshire with the Dippers. Will post a couple of portrait shots when sorted, but I am looking a bit more towards habitat shots as well.
Your comments and faves are much appreciated. Many thanks.
Very productive (23 species) morning hike in Avoca riverside park. Last night the temp was below freezing, so warblers did not migrate and peoples stayed away. i had the place to myself!
Epic birding and "tomb raiding" (eco-tourism) last Friday... north west from Amman down to and along the Jordan River Valley Road and north to ancient ruins of Roman Pella and then Umm Qays (ancient Gadara) and return south through the middle nighlands... 13 hours of adventure goodness...
As usual, the landscape and scenery is lovely, astonishing, remarkable and with history at every turn and view. At the end of the outbound trip, we came to Umm Qays Town in Jordan and the ruins of the ancient Decapolis city of Roman Gadara. Not as well preserved as the Jerash Roman ruins between here and Amman to the south, but sitting up on an escarpment 525 m (1,700+ ft) above the agriculturally productive flood-plain formed by the Jordan and Yarmouk Rivers, its location is conspicuous, phenomenal, and well... just breathtaking.
This panoramic image includes the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias or Lake Kinnereth) and the southern extremity of the Golan. The Yarmouk River flows at the foot of the Golan hillside and is the current (disputed) border between Jordan and Israel at this spot. Also, between the Yarmouk and the foot of the Umm Qays escarpment, nine km (5+ mi) to the northeast is the southern extremity of Syria. And southern Lebanon sits just over the furthest background mountains. Neolithic, Biblical, Crusader, Saracen, Umiyaad, Ottoman and recent history overflows from this image. :-)
While standing here, it's easy to understand why this is called the Holy Land. You just feel it.
Staying hydrated and productive on this Saturday afternoon. Pray you all are having a blessed weekend.
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Another productive outing to St Aidens/Swillington Ings. Thank you all for your comments and faves etc, much appreciated :)
Today I start off a series of images that I took on a lucky productive day. Normally in a series I would save the best for last, but could not wait for this one, so I will post in chronological order as taken.
My plan was to head to Elk Island, and if the north gate was closed I would turn around and head into Edmonton. Well, the North Gate (and the north end of the park were still closed) but instead of backtracking I figured I would take the road that borders the north end of the park. Well I am so very happy that I did. Much of the road has trees blocking the view, but driving past a break in the trees, I thought I saw something. I slowed down and backed up and sure enough, a moose. Well my heart started racing. I took a number of shots from within the car, knowing they may be compromised from the heat of the car, but wanted to at least get something. Sure enough they were all on the blurry side.
I then got out of the car and walked away from it and got about a dozen shots.
I am over the moon getting this one (the best of the lot) She (and I hope it is a she) spent most of the time browsing the ground, so did not give many great poses.
The only disappointing part of the encounter was that as she was headed away and when I took the camera down from my eye behind the trees was a male. I wasn't able to get any shots of him, as he immediately disappeared. And to boot, when processing I found at the very edge of two frames the eye and nose of a calf. I have no idea how I could have missed it. I would loved to have got a few captures of it. But hey I am certainly not complaining. To get a clear view and under some pretty nice morning light, well I am still smiling three days later.
'Find one thing you can actually complete and give yourself over to it, even if it is of no immediate benefit, to anyone but yourself.'
Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry; Overcoming in Uncertain Times, 2022, Crown publishers (Penguin Random House), p.38
I have eyeballed the glowing red enamel wire for several weeks. I don’t “do” holidays, but I do like the hues.
This was a very productive shoot in Stanwood Washington. Unfortunately this will be the last season open to anyone as it is being turned into a water way providing for the declining silver Salmon.
These shorties will find another place to hunt moles, mice. rats etc. They share this area with Northern Harriers and often get into a squabble over turf. Unfortunately the areal fights I missed. :-((
As always I appreciate your interest in my work and leaving a comment is always appreciated.
A couple weeks ago a productive Saturday morning saw me make a chase of a U704 out of Dubuque into Northwest Illinois. I didn't know it until I got down around Galena, but there was a meet setup for Scales Mound, Illinois, which would make for a good chase back towards home as a follow-up.
In this view courtesy the aerial camera device, U704 rolls eastward through the picturesque town of Scales Mound on the main. Led by CN 2379, 2999, and 5469 the trio is working to lift the 98 car train up the grade it has been battling since they left the Mississippi River Valley 16 miles to the west. The former Illinois Central main follows the Galena River and it's forks through the scenic Northwest Illinois countryside as the route gains elevation. In what seemed like a pretty well-timed meet, U705 on the far track with CN 3151, 2236, and 8933 arrived only a few minutes ahead of the U704, just enough time to get locked into the siding and allow the dispatcher to keep the eastbound moving. In just a few minutes with the meet complete the U705 would get the light down the hill to continue west.
Years ago the wind felled this tree, enough roots remained in the earth to keep the tree alive, it is still productive.
To follow: an attempt to prompt a civil (hopefully productive) dialogue about a subject central to photography, most especially, street photography.
I took this photo from a vantage point on the cliff high above the beach. I like a number of things about the photo, the geometry formed by the rocks and their shadows, the pattern formed by the footprints in the sand, the pseudo drone-like aerial perspective, the edge to edge warm monochrome brown colour and most of all the juxtaposition of the dog and the suntanning woman. For me there is a subtle humour to the photo and I chose the title specifically to capitalize on that. However, I knew when I made the photo that there would be some who adamantly believe the photo is an invasion of another person's privacy and that I should not have taken it much less post it in a public forum.
I believe I could make cogent arguments both pro and con regarding this matter (I have thought it through many times and I revisit my thinking any time I photograph people on the street and in public places). I have drawn a personal 'line in the sand' on when and under what circumstances I can photograph people in public (and more importantly when I can't) but I am hard pressed to put into words exactly how I make that decision that will help inform others. I would never knowingly take or subsequently post a photo that I think could embarass/demean/ridicule or hurt in any way the person/people in the photo. I also, in my 'about' section on Flickr, have made a promise to anyone who recognizes themself, family members or friends in my photos to take down any picture they are in immediately on request - no explanation required. Please comment below (in a civil and thoughtful manner) what your thoughts are on the issue. I am very interested in deepening my understanding and improving my approach to photographing people on the street and in public places generally.
A second photo of the same scene is in the first comment box below.
Cheers, Michael
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Today was productive morning spent in pursuit of Minnesota Commercials Hennepin Job. It took some time for the unit to get facing nose forward, and the sun to shine.Eventually I was rewarded with one of the few if only RS-18s working in the country in nice light.Here job #52 crosses 33rd avenue in Lauderdale with some nice smoke. 01/29/16
After spending the night in Alexandria enjoying dinner and drinks with a good friend we headed out Friday morning only 15 min from his home for a wildly productive morning of photographing 12 different trains in the span of only three hours (plus a couple we didn't bother with because it was raining so hard when we first showed up).
With the world renowned Sakura (cherry blossoms) at peak there was only one place to go to photograph some trains. Few places in the district are more iconic for rail photography than the short bridge over the Washington Channel flowing from the Tidal Basin as seen from East Potomac Park.
This was the second of nine trains I shot at this spot before we moved to two other locations for trains 10 thru 12. I'm not actually sure what this is as there were no more Virginia Railway Express inbound trains scheduled at this time so perhaps it's a returning protect set or some other deadhead going back toward Union Station or Ivy City Yard. VRE V50 (MPI MP36PH-3C blt. Jun. 2010) shoving on the south end is at about MP CFP 111.3 on modern day CSXT's RF&P Subdivision. These rails leading to the Long Bridge over the Potomac River (out of sight to the left) are ex Pennsylvania Railroad and a few catenary poles remain as seen in this shot from the days when long freights behind electric motors headed for classification at the mighty and long gone Potomac Yard.
The roof of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is visible at right center behind the spring trees and the 555 ft tall Washington Monument rises beyond
Washington, D.C.
Friday March 24, 2023
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I guess you could call this 'found still life' photography. It caught my eye enough for me to frame and capture this shot on the streets of Glasgow, Scotland.
I had a day of street photography ruined in Glasgow yesterday after receiving random abuse from a passing Celtic football fan in the city as hundreds of them came in for a match. It triggered my PTSD and that was my day ruined. In 11 years of street photography in Glasgow I have been sworn at many times, stalked once and physically assaulted once. This was the first time I ever felt frightened. PTSD sucks.
Another street photographer, Billy, was a star and treated me to a coffee and a chat that rescued the emotion of the day but my photographic confidence was shot. I headed home early.
It is extra annoying that I now have a 4 hour round trip to get to Glasgow and that, with my Long Covid, it is such a physical investment to make. I have to rest for two days beforehand and for two days afterwards I am completely devoid of strength, energy and can do nothing but sleep all day and night.
Fingers crossed that my next expedition into Glasgow is a more productive one. I hope that you are all having an awesome weekend and that you have been able to take some amazing photos.
Take care.
First attempt at photographing this elusive Warbler. Turned out to be quite a productive morning.
Like most of us, all I have ever seen is a skulking shadow, and that's if you're lucky in the undergrowth. The song is very distinctive, so once memorized you cant not but hear/identify them. So I followed the call around from bush to shrub to gorse back to scrub. A fleeting glimpse here and there. Seemed like I was wasting my time then I saw the bird call from an exact branch I had previously seen it sing from.
I set up at the this spot and waited. Ignored all the calls around me sometimes very close. Then patience paid off it came back to where I was standing and quite amazingly crept up to where it had been previously. It was too close so I had to step back. I cant believe it was so confiding. It would continue on its rounds flying past me low down within 2m sometimes closer still. It didn't always pop up or to the same branch, however it would return to the same area of scrub/bush.
It seems like you have to dedicate sometime in for this species, observe its movements and try to see where it comes up once it sings. Maybe I just got lucky on this one. However, I will try another one as I think its territory is primarily gorse. To get a shot of that with the yellow flowers would be something special.
It was a special morning this for me....to just wait and the bird to be comfortable with my presence. I was happy for the rest of the day :)
Taken at Swillngton/St Aidens.....I would like to stress no recordings were used as it was reported some photographers on site have been seen using some recording/playback device. This is not my style.
Thanks to all who comment and view my images, much appreciated :)
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I’d noticed the striking white building with its handsome blue roof as we’d passed this way a day earlier, mustering our spirits as best we could under a grey, leaky sky that gave no hint of the beautiful evening we’d later enjoy by the side of the lake at Kirkjufell. I’d also spotted the rough pull in where the road snaked gently upwards through a patch of rocky scrub. “That might make for a shot,” was only the vaguest of thoughts as we passed through this remote area, heading for Arnarstapi and Dritvik Beach beyond. At this stage, the only thing we were certain of was that we’d passed the road that led to the Black Church of Budir and not taken it. And as we were following a circuit on the lonely road of West Snaefellsnes, we knew we’d need to be back this way the following day. That black church screams for attention you see. One of the most impossible to ignore hotspots on a peninsula that offers all sorts of possibilities.
So now we were here again, this time travelling anticlockwise on the most fantastic of coastal roads. Coming from a densely populated country where the sound of the internal combustion engine dominates almost every waking moment, driving here is an unrelenting joy. The Útnesvegur takes you through a brutal and dramatic landscape, where the story of Iceland’s violent volcanic birth is forever on show. In the far western reaches, we drove for miles, flanked by moss filled lava fields, roughly hewn and worn by the rages of a thousand winter storms, barely seeing any other vehicles at all. At times only the bulk of the ice clad Snaefellsjokull, rising mightily above everything else here seemed to anchor us to the land as if by some gravitational pull. A harsh elemental landscape in a time and place that has crept in under my skin and stayed there to settle into a contented glow that burns slowly within, forever calling me back. Having more time to explore on this, our second Icelandic adventure, was enabling us to see gems we’d had no time for on that dash around the ring road three summers earlier. You could easily fill an entire visit to Iceland with Snaefellsnes alone.
By now I was in a particularly fine mood. We’d already bagged compositions at half a dozen spots on this amazingly productive day as we made our way around the circuit. To add to the internal satisfaction levels, I’d also visited the fish and chip van at Arnarstapi. Let’s face it, if your stomach’s rumbling it’s game over on the photography front. Hunger is a big distraction when you’re trying to take epic photos. And now, a few minutes later after a spell in gastronomy heaven, here we were, pulled in at that patch of scrub and gazing at another epic vista, filled with more of those moss covered lava flows. And a handsome blue roofed building. And some other interesting stuff, I hope you’ll agree.
It was another Super Saturday moment, grabbed in a five minute roadside stop in the grand space between Arnarstapi and Budir. Well maybe a ten minute stop for a second layer to complete the twelve exposures for this handheld panoramic view that filled the space, tailing off into a hinterland of mountains rising from the red sands of the Snaefellsnes south coast under a huge gathering of heavy clouds that promised so much, and later delivered even more. It seems that wherever you stop - when you can stop - the chances are there will be something to fill the viewfinder with. Something that you perhaps didn’t see in a million other images when you planned your own adventures. Just like so many others, I love visiting the hotspots and trying to grab those memorable moments and record them forever. That’s what we were doing for most of our two weeks here, but I also find satisfaction in those impromptu moments when I see something else. And this is definitely an image I’d urge you to look at on the big screen if you can. “Best viewed large,” I sometimes read as I enjoy your stories. And you’re always right of course.