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A car stole my clear view of this charming house. With the help of AI, I removed it—more poorly than properly, so please forgive me.
Always wonderful to watch, don't think I properly saw one until about 15 years ago when I took up wildlife photography - until then I can only remember the occasional glimpse of a rapidy moving blur of azure blue.
This was taken with Nikon F801 one I was in Zurich 1998. I used Kodak PJA 100 film. It was my favourite negative film, along with EPP reversal film. Unfortunately the film has not been stored properly. The the scanned photo is not great and I do not have proper film scanner which may be able to remove some spots better.
The ReShade DOF hates me but with the slight blur it still looks better then without it... for some reason the Manual Focus don't want to work properly.
ReShade
SRWE
Capture Mode
DET Cheat Table for FOV
Since I properly explored this region a couple of years ago, it has become one of my favorite areas. At this point in life I'm willing to say, there is only one way to know a place, to actually walk it (on foot) and be there.
And this particular spot is windy!, the air has no other choice than to go over this saddle, at some places it's obvious, all the trees are bend over in one direction. Probably takes some getting use to, living up there, some folks do.
Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
heliopan Infrared RG 1000 (87A) 800x filter
ISO1600, 24mm, f/6.3, 1/125sec (-0.7EV)
(therefore 36mm FX / full frame equivalent)
single photo, handheld, finally mobile again..
I’ve joined the Bento revolution with my purchase of the new Catya head from Catwa. At last a mesh head that you can properly adjust!! I’ve done a few little tweaks on the basic head but will be experimenting more in the days and weeks to come. Also really cool is this new hoodie dress from Addams which is perfect with my old Milou hair from DeLa.
so tired I dont know my own name...back to Cardiff early tmrw...cat was ecstatic to see me again....alls well at home....sleep is calling me havent slept properly for days.........
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Winnebago River Basin - Leland
Wandering around some today enjoying a beautiful 1st day of fall. We are still pretty green in north Iowa, but there are some areas that are beginning to show some autumn colors.
I know, I get anxious for the October colors early, but wanted to commemorate the first day properly!
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After setting out a singular gondola in the house track at Lebanon Junction, M573 rolls over the massive truss bridge over the Rolling Fork with a YN2 CW44 doing the honors. This bridge is often outshined by the L&N coaling tower just a mile to the north, and one I've been neglecting to shoot properly for a long time.
Toki-Doki 2nd Anniversary Festivities!
Please read it all (I know it is long) to properly participate and receive all the gifts in the anniversary!
First, I want to thank you all for supporting Toki-Doki these years, there are many of you who have been keeping up and wearing Toki-Doki since it's initial stages, thank you for believing and enjoying Toki-Doki's style. To everyone else who at one time or another has enjoyed any of the creations, thank you! You honor Toki-Doki and it is a pleasure to see so many beautiful people enjoy what we do.
To the many friends of Toki-Doki, the bloggers, the designers, the event organizers and Chihiro from Spirited Away, Thank you!
Second, I must explain that the Toki-Doki group is now closed, this is to make the gifts more exclusive and to thank those members who have chosen to join our update group. The group will re-open shortly after the anniversary festivities have ended.
Third, there are three parts to the event:
1. Every day there will be brand new exclusive group gifts, these gifts will not be given out past the event, please try to pick them up before Monday July 30th, at 11:59 PM SLT. A group notice will be sent when a new gift has been rezzed at the store, please wear your group tag.
2. Every day, 5 different items (all colours included) will be marked 75% off. You will have to find them though :) no special marks, no hints, can be any items in the store look carefully! ^^ (Mayallivanders items are excluded).
3. There is a particular section in the store where everything is sold for 2 or 0 lindens! Please look around and try to find it, it is really easy :)
Lastly, to my close friends...
ありがとう！ あなたを愛しています。 ♥ ♥ ♥
Ampan man ♥ and Haijin power ♥
♡女帝Sango
and 無理をしないで！
Please visit the Toki-Doki Main shop to get started!
(Solent & Severn rover day 1/8)
I suppose it's only right to run a 'green' bus to a bunch of (COUGH - 'mystical' stones), but it's not solar, electric, or even a hybrid. Perhaps if methane can be properly captured and used as fuel then ... shut up Forbesy.
1637 - HF66 CFG
Alexander Dennis E40D, ADL Enviro E400MMC (H47/32F)
Go-Ahead South Coast (SA)
New Canal, Salisbury
30 January 2017
Though properly known as the Common wall lizard, spotting this lizard was a first for me. A non-native species to the UK, it's a protected species of Central and Southern Europe.
The most photographed building in India after the Taj Mahal. More properly called the Hawa Mahal, situated in the heart of the city of Jaipur.
Constructed in 1799 by the Maharajah Sawai Pratap Singh, the purpose of the palace was to allow royal women to observe street festivals and daily life from within without being seen from without, which satisfied the requirements of the purdah system.
The palace is renowned for its façade, which resembles a honey-comb with allegedly no fewer than 953 small windows or jharokhas. These windows are adorned with intricate latticework, allowing cool air to circulate, earning it the name the Palace of Winds. The structure is built from the local red and pink sandstones, contributing to its moniker as the Pink Palace.
The Hawa Mahal is a blend of Rajput and Mughal architectural styles, reflecting the cultural fusion of the era. It stands as a testament to the opulence of the Rajput dynasty. The Rajputs were the high-status warrior clans of Rajasthan.
The rest of Jaipur adopted its distinctive pink hue in 1876 to honour the visit of Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria, to India. Maharajah Sawai Ram Singh II of Jaipur chose pink because it symbolised what he saw as the hospitality and warmth of Indian culture and he aimed to leave a lasting impression on the British royal guests.
To achieve this, the Maharaja ordered that the city's buildings be painted in a uniform shade of pink, or more accurately, terracotta. This decision was so impactful that, in 1877, a law was enacted requiring all buildings within the walled city to maintain the pink colour, a tradition that continues to this day.
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The nine new cygnets on the Bishop's Palace moat in Wells this morning, now six days old. There's always one that will get out of line!
first properly-calibrated palladium print made here at home... made from a straight iPhone snap
the building is called the Bjargtangar Lighthouse (or Bjargtangaviti in Icelandic), first established in 1903, the current building was constructed in 1948. It's the westernmost point of Iceland, and hence also the westernmost building in Europe.
Shooting Raton Pass (properly) is not for the faint-hearted, but the classic Santa Fe signals and infrastructure surrounded by gorgeous landscapes was not to be passed up. Aside from Amtrak’s modern passenger equipment, Raton is truly a trip back in time.
To kick off our second day, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, train No. 3, throttles up passing the intermediate signals at Jansen shortly after departing the station at Trinidad, CO. Fresh snow from the night before and clear morning skies was a real treat.
March 11, 2022
Jansen, Colorado
Darchen དར་ཆེན་
Darchen (4,575 m),more properly known and still signposted as Lhara, was formerly an important sheep station for the nomads and their flocks. Until the late 1980s it still consisted at that time of only two permanent buildings. One survived the mass destruction of religious shrines during the Cultural Revolution, since it was said to have belonged to the Bhutanese government through the Drukpa Kagyu tradition, Which still claimed jurisdiction over it. More recently, Mount Kailash has become a popular destination for tourists and trekkers, and Darchen has correspondingly chanced out of all recognition. Sleaze, garbage and prostitution are the hallmarks of this once tranquil pilgrims'trailhead. Consequently many visitors and pilgrimage groups now prefer to camp further west at Darpoche or to stay at Jiu Gonpa beside Lake Manasarovar, and send their guide on ahead to make the final preparations for the circuit of the sacred mountain. ལྷ་ ར་ . དར་ཆེན་ IW long prayer flag, sail RY long prayer flag; a sail. standard; great flag. Darchen, Darpoche (dar po che), the Great Flag, at Mount Kailash www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Chicago South Shore & South Bend GP38-2 2003 — properly equipped with a Leslie five-chime — breaks the silence of a quiet Michigan City morning as it jogs down 11th Street, en route to Shops.
Having spent December 2018 through July 2022 in the East Coast, I missed the last days of the South Shore Freight / NICTD street running in Michigan City in February 2022. At the time, I was a little displeased that I missed getting those last classic shots, like dipping down the grade at 11th St. and Lafayette and passing First Christian Church, or snaking onto 10th St. after clearing the Amtrak diamond.
Therefore, the promise of a relatively rare eastbound freight on the morning of August 6, 2022, was something of consolation prize for being six months late to the party. No more were scenes that seethed of an interurban railroad, with two steel ribbons laying in the pavement, boxed in by a series of stick homes and bungalows, and capped by overhead wire.
In retrospect, this consolation prize was worth more than the proverbial big check. Truly, how long will this brief moment in time — when the first crossties and continuous welded rail of the second track are going in, but the catenary and overhead wire still aren't in — be available? Certainly shorter than the century that photographers had to capture the classic Michigan City scenes hundreds of times over.
Moved up north properly now, this is the last new photo I'll post from my 'old' life!
Took some new ones from my 'new' life today, lots to look forward to up here.
How to Expose Shots in the Dark:
OK, so now I will describe my technique for properly exposing shots in the dark. I begin with my last shot as my baseline. I’ve got the composition I want, and the settings I used were 30 seconds at ISO 6400 with the lens wide open at f/3.5. For this shot, I want to have less noise and more star trails. I’ve decided to keep the aperture wide open so the only settings I will be adjusting will be the shutter speed and ISO. This keeps things simple.
A couple of things to keep in mind about shutter speed and ISO: 1) All other things being equal, doubling the exposure time lets in twice as much light. Conversely, halving the exposure time lets in half as much light. 2) All other things being equal, doubling the ISO setting lets in twice as much light. Conversely, halving the ISO setting lets in half as much light.
OK, now supposing I want to keep my exposure the same, I need to keep the light equation in balance as I make my adjustments and here’s the thoughts going through my head: If I change the ISO to 3200 from 6400 I will be letting in half as much light (actually, I’m turning the gain down on my sensor making it half as sensitive). To keep the exposure the same, I then need to double my exposure time to 1 minute. Good, different combination of settings but I will have the same exposure. Now I keep on going. I can change my ISO to 1600, again halving the sensitivity, so I double the exposure time again to 2 minutes. Back in balance. Halve the ISO again to 800, double the shutter time again to 4 minutes. Halve the ISO again to 400, double the exposure time to 8 minutes. And one more time I halve the ISO to 200, and double the exposure time to 16 minutes.
So here I am. I’m at ISO 200, which is the setting on my camera that has the optimum signal to noise ratio, and if I take a 16 minute exposure it will be exposed exactly the same as my test shot.
Now I’m going to make one more judgment call before I take my shot. My test shot was a little bit underexposed. I want this shot to be a little brighter. Doubling the exposure time again to 32 minutes would make it one f-stop (or EV [exposure value]) brighter but I don’t want it that bright. I think maybe 1/3 to 1/2 an f-stop will be just fine. I decide to add another 5 minutes to my exposure. That’s right in the range I want, and I know that at these long exposure times a minute more or less isn’t going to make a huge difference.
So I’ve decided on a 21 minute exposure at ISO 200 and f/3.5. I know this is going to be a perfect exposure, and I’m in a beautiful location so it’s going to be epic. I go back into my menu and turn the long exposure noise reduction back on. I put my camera in bulb mode and using a cable release I open the shutter. Bonus tip: Having a cheap $10-$20 digital watch is priceless when doing night photography. They have a stopwatch and a light. I start my stopwatch when I start my exposure and now all I have to do is wait for 21 minutes and enjoy the view. Sometimes the wind dies down and I can hear the brook babbling… sometimes I babble back.
OK, my stopwatch hits 21 minutes so I go over to my cable release and close the shutter. Since I’ve got the noise reduction on I’ll have to wait another 21 minutes for it to take the dark frame. I sit back down and resume my conversation with the melt water flowing through the rocks beneath me. OK, after 42 minutes my picture is done and Voila!!
Final Thoughts: So I can go out there and just wing it with night shots. It’s not that difficult considering there’s a pretty wide margin of error on long exposures. Using this technique, however, I’m able to get the exposure I want with a minimal amount of trial and error. I hope this tutorial helps folks interested in night photography. I’ll probably post some more tips later. Cheers!
21 minute exposure, f/3.5, ISO200
Darchen དར་ཆེན་
Darchen (4,575 m),more properly known and still signposted as Lhara, was formerly an important sheep station for the nomads and their flocks. Until the late 1980s it still consisted at that time of only two permanent buildings. One survived the mass destruction of religious shrines during the Cultural Revolution, since it was said to have belonged to the Bhutanese government through the Drukpa Kagyu tradition, Which still claimed jurisdiction over it. More recently, Mount Kailash has become a popular destination for tourists and trekkers, and Darchen has correspondingly chanced out of all recognition. Sleaze, garbage and prostitution are the hallmarks of this once tranquil pilgrims'trailhead. Consequently many visitors and pilgrimage groups now prefer to camp further west at Darpoche or to stay at Jiu Gonpa beside Lake Manasarovar, and send their guide on ahead to make the final preparations for the circuit of the sacred mountain. ལྷ་ ར་ . དར་ཆེན་ IW long prayer flag, sail RY long prayer flag; a sail. standard; great flag. Darchen, Darpoche (dar po che), the Great Flag, at Mount Kailash www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Properly one of the most photographed trees in the UK. Apart from the iconic viewpoint facing Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor from the River Coupall at Glencoe I think this is the second most photographed ( Landscape ) viewpoint in Scotland.
In March 2008 I bought my first DSLR and motivation for this hobby came when I saw this photograph by David Mould. I have always looked to David's photostream for motivation as I reckon he must be one of the best amateur photographers of the Scottish landscape.
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Canon 50D
Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm
210 second exposure @ F18 with B+W ND 110 (3.0)
Lee 0.9 GND & Lee 0.6 GND
RAW processing in Digital Photo Professional (Canon)
White balance, levels and sharpening in Photoshop CS3
Removal of colour cast in Photoshop but my p/p skills are not that good yet to get everything right. Work in progress...
It is night, I am on the lake shore, without my headlamp I can't see past the end of my nose, and I am going to photograph the Milky Way above the Dent's d'Ambin, in the French Alps. Yes, I wanted to take this shot, from this spot, since a long time, but being in the middle of the night in certain alpine places, with the right weather conditions and lunar absence always requires a lot of planning.
You really have to try to do these things to properly understand what I'm talking about. But in the end, you just need to be determined and things get done sooner or later :-) I will post on my new YouTube channel a video about this experience.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, being in the high mountains, surrounded by the peace and darkness of the night, always has a real regenerating power for my soul, whether I manage to take home the desired shot or not.
Especially in this period, during which phobia reigns supreme in the plains, the mountain reminds us about human precariousness and sense of constant risk, which must be accepted if we want to live, rather than just survive.
The majesty of the mountain relocates everything on a larger scale, we can even touch the cosmos "with our hands”, and thus it becomes clear the duty to give real value to the UNIQUE opportunity that each of us has to be here, now, on this planet.
The value of every single moment.
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Lol, a premiere, my photo got kicked out of MMs, apparently I haven't read the description properly, and there is too much negative space in the capture, while the task was to fill the frame with food and nothing else. Next time I'll again read the entire description (which I usually do, but most stupidly not this time).
A very popular main meal of the day: cabbage rolls. "Tinyfied" for MMs :-) We didn't have cabbage rolls in a long time, but they made a delicious comeback as Sunday dinner yesterday ;-). In Germany, cabbage rolls are often made with a savoury mincemeat stuffing and are served with potatoes and a creamy (white) sauce. For this capture I made one (extra) miniature cabbage roll and sliced it like one would do with a sushi roll. The cabbage used here is savoy. To make it look more sushi-like, and also more complete, I also garnished it with a tiny potato cube (made of a blue potato) in the middle. The slice of "cabbage roll sushi" is roughly 2 cm / 0,78 inches in diameter, and I've cropped the final image to 3 inches. I had one image with some of the creamy sauce added, and another one with a little bit of horse radish, but liked neither captures, so I settled for this "dry" version.
I can't come up with a reliable recap of my processing steps here, I'm afraid. I processed one of the two final captures mostly in ON1, the other mostly in Luminar 4 (with a short excursion into Luminar 3, because I'm still struggling to retrieve all those filters). And which is which... I know that I removed some colour cast caused by the use of artificial light, because I took the captures late in the afternoon when it was dark outside already, and I experimented with the foliage filters both in Luminar 3 and 4, and also in Color Efex (but didn't like the result), but that's it. And I don't like the chopstick shadows, but, well, nobody's perfect, right?
I hope to catch up with you this afternoon!
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Jetzt hat es mich auch mal erwischt: Mein Foto ist aus MM rausgeflogen, weil ich dummerweise die Beschreibung nicht zu Ende gelesen habe, wonach außer der Hauptmahlzeit nichts anderes im Bild zu sehen sein sollte. Nun gut, beim nächsten Mal lese ich wieder alles ganz genau... ;-)
Der Sonntagsklassiker: Kohlrouladen, hier für's Foto miniaturisiert und auch irgendwie "sushifiziert" für das MM-Thema "main meal of the day". Wie es der Zufall so wollte, gab es gestern nach ewiger Zeit mal wieder - sehr leckere - Kohlrouladen als besagte Hauptmahlzeit. Bei der Zubereitung fiel ganz nebenbei (völlig [un]beabsichtigt, natürlich...) auch ein Miniaturroulädchen an, das ich, ganz wie die großen Originale, in ein Blatt Wirsingkohl eingerollt und dann, als eine Art deutsche Sushi-Variante, in Scheiben geschnitten habe. Um die Scheiben noch Sushi-ähnlicher aussehen zu lassen, habe ich in die Mitte noch kleine Kartoffelwürfel (blaue Sorte) gesteckt; Kartoffeln sind ja schließlich auch die klassische Beilage. Eigentlich wollte ich drei der Scheibchen im Bild haben, am Ende gefiel mir aber die Solo-Variante mit den Essstäbchen am besten. Die Kunstlicht-Schatten finde ich nicht so toll, ich habe es gestern am späteren Nachmittag aber nicht mehr besser hinbekommen und irgendwann lief mir auch mal wieder die Zeit davon.
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die (bei uns) sehr trübe November-Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
I have definitely stepped back into my darkness after yesterday even though I've had a few bad days already this week I haven't been eating I get really hungry but just the thought of chewing gets me tired but I did finally eat properly today I've been really down and tears have been my friends. I sat on my coach and just thought about the fact that I'm here all alone for days on end with only my head and that’s why I've been going crazy. It's making up all these stories and thinking up thoughts about realities that don’t exist!!! So I decided to watch a movie my sister recommended and it was waiting for me on the computer to see…
I've only watched half cause I got interrupted a few times but there were a couple of things he said I just had to pause and write them down.
The first was
"Some people feel like they don’t deserve love so they walk away into empty spaces trying to close the gaps of the past."
And the second thing I had to write down was this
"The seas' only gift s are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don’t know much about the sea but I do know that that’s the way it is here, and I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions facing the blind deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and you own head."
And I have definitely done that!! More than once and I'll do it again.
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Im not crazy about this picture by the way! my face is terrible!
I'm finally properly back, I'm sorry, I know I've been very on and off with uploads over the past year and a half, but I'd like to continue a sort of christmas tradition and upload a bus picture everyday of this month, like I've done for the past 2 years. I embarrassingly failed that last year and the reason for that will be briefly talked about on the last upload of this month . In general its also been hard because we're currently in a lockdown again and also the pandemic is far from over, so if I do fail to upload every day for this year I'm sorry again, but I'm also trying to limit my time being outside to be safe and keep others safe.
Well enough of that, let's talk about about one of the worst route cutbacks that took place exactly 2 years ago. Unfortunately, Route 25 was cutback to City Thameslink which was a part of bus proposals linked to the opening of crossrail, however even when it was announced that the opening had been delayed, it didn't stop TFL from delaying this change. As a result the route is no longer the #1 busiest route in London anymore, and now the 18 has taken it's place. Clearly I'm still not happy about it, we already had/have poor bus links from South East London to Central London and so to add this on was just swell!
Darchen དར་ཆེན་
Darchen (4,575 m),more properly known and still signposted as Lhara, was formerly an important sheep station for the nomads and their flocks. Until the late 1980s it still consisted at that time of only two permanent buildings. One survived the mass destruction of religious shrines during the Cultural Revolution, since it was said to have belonged to the Bhutanese government through the Drukpa Kagyu tradition, Which still claimed jurisdiction over it. More recently, Mount Kailash has become a popular destination for tourists and trekkers, and Darchen has correspondingly chanced out of all recognition. Sleaze, garbage and prostitution are the hallmarks of this once tranquil pilgrims'trailhead. Consequently many visitors and pilgrimage groups now prefer to camp further west at Darpoche or to stay at Jiu Gonpa beside Lake Manasarovar, and send their guide on ahead to make the final preparations for the circuit of the sacred mountain. ལྷ་ ར་ . དར་ཆེན་ IW long prayer flag, sail RY long prayer flag; a sail. standard; great flag. Darchen, Darpoche (dar po che), the Great Flag, at Mount Kailash www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
just stopping by to say how much i've been missing all of your wonderful work- i've got a lot going on my life right now and unfortunately not enough time to properly relish in the flickr world. i have been missing your work however and look forward to catching up very soon!
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The blizzard passed, winds abated, and the skies bright blue, it seemed a good day to go Christmas tree "shopping." Tho properly layered and with the spirit of the season upon me, with the temp never rising above 0F, I was gratified that I didn't have to go far to find a more than ample selection.
Wandering about in total stillness, I mused about Christmas' past, loading up the kids, getting in the car and wandering around tree farms on the outskirts of Chicago searching for that perfect tree. And much like pumpkins for carving at Halloween, I would commit as much time as necessary (to the dismay of all others involved) to find the one that was "just right."
Christmas has always been a wondrous time. Ultimately, we ended up with an annual assortment of 4 natural trees...all of different variety, in different rooms of the house, each decorated in a different motif. Decorating the house was truly a month long occupation...in retrospect, the results gratifying and the time spent well worth it. Many were the very late nights when, not a creature stirring, I moved about placing one of the hundreds of Santas collected over the years, or endlessly arranging/refreshing the boughs that adorned the furniture. I have no recollection of ever tiring of it whatsoever...rather always anticipating the day to follow as an opportunity to putter further.
Times have changed...but the memories of this marvelous season came rushing back as I evaluated the pines which spread themselves out in front of me. In truth, I now found little flaw in any of them...the severity of my judgement less extreme. But I settled on this...a Queen of the Spruce indeed...regally rising at least 40 feet into the clear, cold sky, trumpeting the season and momentarily transporting me to a different place and time. I reckon it shall be my permanent and enduring Christmas tree.
Celebration of the season has taken on a very different aspect...as it does for all of us as time moves on. I no longer need an ax and nature provides better decoration than I could ever artificially create. Yet the spirit of this special time of year endures...in mind and in heart. And on Christmas Eve, I believe I'll go and visit "my" tree for a bit and ponder those things which it, as much as any other symbol, is meant to represent...
May all of you have the opportunity to do the same...and Merry Christmas...
Properly exhausted from the previous day's hike, I opted to take it a little easier on my final day in Zermatt. This meant riding the Gornergrat railway (Gornergratbahn) up to the final station and hoping for some better weather than had been forecast.
On the way up I wondered how busy it would be at the lookout and whether I would be able find a good place to set up my camera. These thoughts turned out to be completely unnecessary - I was one of about five people to exit the train at the Gornergrat station and there were exactly zero others already up at the lookout. Even my fellow train passengers soon left, leaving me to share the views with the birds.
Committed to expired Ilford HP5+ using a Hasselblad XPan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD 1:39, dev. time as per the massive dev chart, and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final contrast in Photoshop.
The wind feeds on dust and rolling bushes
and on the pride of erased footprints and scattered clouds.
(Giorgio Faletti)
And yes, now we are in winter.
Today it changed abruptly in the afternoon, in half an hour and did not give us time to notice, nor to dress properly. The escape into the houses was the only alternative ....
Thanks for your recent visits, favorites, comments and invitations. I go slow, but everything is very much appreciated, as always....
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Hello, how is everyone? I've not had chance to properly get out with my camera since the end of summer - hopefully I'll get to correct that sooner rather than later but on the meantime here's a couple of opportunitic autumnal snaps taken whilst taking Scraggle for a walk during my half term a few weeks ago
Barney's "Gimme that biscuit" face! He's not especially keen on posing for cameras but does love a tasty snack & so for limited periods of time, he will usually cooperate with me, so long as he is properly compensated of course :) We do have to be a bit careful with how give Barney his treats these days as his eyesight isn't what it used to be & he's been known to misjudge taking the food & accidentally chomp on fingers!
This was taken during a nice little potter round the town churchyard last week. Barney had a sniff about & then kindly agreed to sit in front of one of the small old side doors while I took a couple of photos. Once he was done with posing, he got back up & off we marched homewards. In his old age, Barney has become very opinionated about where he goes & when. There are certain routes he likes to take & very specific places where he likes to cross roads... He gets quite put out if I try to take him the "wrong way" - or if I won't let him cross to the other side of the street immediately (like if I stop him stepping off the curb because there's a car coming!!). Since Barney had his spinal stroke back in 2021 & spent a long time learning to walk again, he seems to have realised that if he wants to make me stop, or go in a certain direction then he can just... temporarily "forget" how to walk & flop into a sit. He'll refuse to get back up & use his legs, until I step in the direction he wants to go in - at which point Barney miraculously remembers how to move & off we go again at quite a brisk pace!
This is most dramatically seen at the vets (a place Barney loathes). We get there & Barney looks ancient - practically crippled, requiring a lot of physical assistance from me, in order to get up & hobble into the consult room at a snail's pace... However, the second it's clear we're finished & Barney sees me turn around to leave the consult room, he is scrabbling to his paws & skedaddling for the door, actually pulling on the lead, no help required, thank you very much. It even makes the vets laugh - such a sudden & remarkable recovery!
This is properly the most famous walk on the Island and definitely the busiest. The ‘Old Man’ is a large pinnacle of rock that stands high and can be seen for miles around. As part of the Trotternish ridge the Storr was created by a massive ancient landside, leaving one of the most photographed landscapes in the world.
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Well here is something that caught my eye as I walked down to the shops , there has often been a flag flying here - sometimes the Union or Union Jack , sometimes the Ukraine Flag , sometimes the England Flag , but today I note it is a flag of Remembrance .
Try as I might , the wind was not playing ball and if it was not laying wrapped on the flag pole it was at best just a gentle flutter in the breeze , so I did not get a straight out view of the flag to see the whole image properly . There was one that showed the flag straighter but the " Lest We Forget " part was folded over and hidden . So take as you view it and remember the poignant message it makes .
I have taken quite a few shots here , including the one where the wind was blowing in two different directions at once and on another occasion when " Heathrow Had A Problem "