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Urban foxes have to work twice as hard to find enough food to feed their families. Click twice to enlarge.
Ich danke euch für euren Besuch, Favoriten u. freundliche Kommentare / Awards! Ich schätze es sehr!
Thank you for your visit, favorites and kind comments/awards! I really appreciate it!
Inside this tin covered engine-shed is a broken grain-elevator lift engine. So they backed this old tractor up to the shed and connected its output shaft to the belt-drive inside.
Want some grain? Fire-up the tractor.
Dankin, Saskatchewan.
The male of a pair of blackbirds nesting in a bay tree in my garden. This is situated right outside my patio doors which is handy, I can hear the little ones all the time. The only problem is my cat, she caught him in the week & brought him inside where I managed to grab him quickly before any harm was done. I popped him back where he is in the picture & he scutttled back into the tree.
Survival of the fittest plays out in the eagle nest near my home. These egg-eaglet-full size transitions can be amazing to watch. I learned the other day that this is the fastest growing species in the bird world. This is an oldie and remains one of the memorable photos from the ongoing story of the nesting pair.
Yellow wagtail gathering food for the young.
Seen in the nature-sanctuary Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Schafstelze beim Futter sammeln für die Jungen.
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet am Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen.
Just occasionally I get tempted to join in, but I always resist. If you use other social media and photography is your thing, chances are you get adverts from editing software providers, regardless of the fact that you're already a paying customer, telling you all about the latest sky replacement tools and the facility to squeeze as many real life unicorns as you can sensibly into your images. I can't help but stop and read the comments sometimes, and am always intrigued by the ones who profess to be completely against editing of any type whatsoever. Among them I'll find the sage counsel of the genius who states there's no need at all, because they always take their photographs correctly in the first place. Do they never get dust spots on their sensors or specks on their lenses? They're obviously far cleverer than I am, so I don't ask them how they manage to avoid low light noise with the ISO rammed up to twenty gazillion, or how they pull back the shadows and drop the highlights, or how they reduce the saturation that cameras often seem to add of their own accord. I'm still not sure how they manage to get a shot looking reasonably in focus throughout the scene at longer focal lengths either. But it seems they can. I just can't be dealing with the plaudits from one side and the vaguely focussed vitriol from the other, as they accuse me of adding too many unicorns under my replacement sky. The conversation is often heated as responses get shorter and shorter, often just reduced to a couple of short words, one of which is unrepeatable. I often wonder whether the "Be Kind" movement needs to intervene at such moments. So I scroll past and look at other peoples' photos instead, with and without unicorns. I tend to prefer the ones without the unicorns, but that's just me. When Topaz put up an advert for their wares, the posturing gets even more intense, even over the utility suite programmes that are only there to enhance file sizes for heavy crops and reduce noise or sharpen blurs.
So yes I admit it. I've never been tempted by the replacement sky option, and I'm studiously avoiding the new "add unicorn" button in Photoshop, but I do edit my raw files. Call me Mr Manipulator if you like, but if such luminaries as Mads, Nigel, Gavin and all the rest of them do, then why on earth wouldn't I? And until cameras are able to see what the human eye does instead of averaging everything out, I don't think there's any other option when you shoot into those big dynamic range scenes. Mostly I blunder through, slowly accumulating half an idea of what I'm supposed to be doing, and gradually I'm getting the hang of how it all works - often with the help of those YouTube gurus who've unknowingly dragged me through the process. Maybe I've learned about two percent of what Photoshop does now. The other ninety-eight could take several lifetimes.
But here's the thing - this shot, taken at sunset on that blustery bluff above Hay on Wye has been barely touched. All I did was crop it to this aspect ratio and slightly twiddle the white balance before frowning briefly and concluding nothing further was needed. Not even a unicorn or two. Those hazy hilly layers before the setting sun spoke for themselves, or so I felt.
What about you? Unicorns or not unicorns? Nobody judges you here.
A good provider and he always stays to watch that it goes down the hatch because sometimes the new baby will lose the meal provided. Unfortunately, the loons at my lake weren't successful with their hatch. I found the egg abandoned, leaking and punctured by 4 sharp teeth. So I drove two hours to another lake hoping to see loonlets. The wind and waves were crazy but I didn't let that stop me. When I paddled up to the far side of the lake I could hear the loons screaming. A fisherman was casting his line at the family without a care. He saw me coming (lucky for him or I would have chewed him a new one) and left. Situation thwarted the family was at peace once again until the next mishap. I hope to see them in another 2 or 3 weeks, preferably in calm waters at sunset. The babies are the cutest at 1-4 days old.
*Side note*
The Oilers won (what a game) and it finally rained. Things are looking up.
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Philadelphia, PA. For the first time since 2018, T4 has young red-tailed hawks to feed. This season was off to a slow start, but egg incubation began on April 8 and hatching seems to have followed the standard timeline. The nest is too high to see the eyasses right now, so the number is unknown. Fledging is expected at the end of June.
Grumman C-2A Greyhound, BuNo 162164, US Navy VRC-30 "Providers", NAS North Island CA @ NAS EL Centro, CA
N960HL, a Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster, lifting off runway 09 at George F.L. Charles Airport (formerly Vigie Airport) at Castries, Saint Lucia. Operated for DHL Express by Air St. Kitts and Nevis (now Kingfisher Air Services), it was bound for Marigot, Dominica.
6C97 Crewe Pre-Assembly Depot - Rugby Electrification Depot move for some track machines, the 97 humming along here with little drama - apart from the Pendo that I could see on the track diagrams catching up, just a few seconds short of blocking my view!
I gather the track machines are 'Linsinger SF06-UK Milling Machines', they have slanted grills on their front ends, look rather like a class 70's ugly young sibling.
Thanks to gen providers.
This hard-working male Cross Fox caught vole after vole. He did something I've never seen before, he would bury the voles very shallow in the snow with his nose and later gather several and take them to the den.
This bald cypress tree was most likely damaged in a storm and the cleanup crew left the stump that is providing food for plant life and wildlife as it slowly decays in the swamp. Nature takes care of it's own without drawing attention to the important function it lends back to itself.
A good read: The Hidden life of Trees.
Atlantic Puffin / fratercula arctica. Inner Farne, Northumberland. 16/05/24.
Not sure that a feather in the beak marks the sign of a good provider! A well arranged line of Sand Eels would have done the job nicely though.
Obviously this proud looking individual hadn't read the Puffin Parenting Guide ... bless!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This is the male of a pair of local barn owls (Tyto alba). I've not seen them for a month and with the appalling weather and the constant presence of jackdaws at the roost I was afraid they had not survived. Great to see him hunt successfully, return straight to the nest with the catch and go back out immediately.
This time of year the birds are busy courting and building nests and of course the great blue herons put on a wonderful show for all. Their amazing feather detail and color make them a true masterpiece of creation and what a privilege it is to see them in the process of building the future !!
Wishing you all a restful and blessed night !
Background - Made the BG using 4 different photos
Model - extracted from one of my favorite Deviantart providers Stargazer s-t-a-r-gazer.deviantart.com/art/Stock-Moon-climbing-up-t...
Textures, lighting effects, dodge/burn adjustment layer and a slight vignette added
The handsome steamer Canadian Provider of Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. is empty up bound near St. Clair, Michigan on June 3, 2010.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The jars of tea that greets one when entering the door of Wall & Keogh on Richmond Street, Dublin. The finest tea distributor (and coffee provider) in Ireland. COVID-19, Level 3, June 2021.
Taken with a Leitz Elmar 50mm f2.8 lens on a Leica M4-P camera body, using Fujicolor PRO400H (400 ASA) colour film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
Mike Skinner has been part of the HRG team since August 2013. After participating in PDS and Time Trial events in his 2004 street GT3, Mike bought an HRG-built fully race-prepped Boxster and set out to earn his POC Cup Racer License. Indeed, Mike earned his Cup Racer license in mid-2014 and has been improving his skills by participating in every single practice, qualifying, race or enduro available.
Mike has already earned two podium finishes, and eagerly solicits guidance and direction from HRG’s VP of Operations and team coach Eric Oviatt. It’s no secret that Eric expects safe driver improvement and isn’t shy about giving directions. He currently races his #698 Boxster in POC GT5.
Mike is married to Wendy and has 3 adult children and two neurotic chihuahuas. Mike and his family live in West Hills, CA. In his spare time Mike watches every race broadcasted by his cable provider. In the winter Mike and his family are snowboarders in California’s local mountains.
Matthew Richards, a registered nurse from
Shasta County's Health and Human Services Agency, provides and explains health materials to Dr. Nirmal Mehton at the Anderson Medical Associates clinic. The resources include maps of local outdoors activities and support tools for quititing smoking for local health care providers to pass onto their patients.