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This deep gorge in an otherwise flat rockshelf created an active channel for the ocen to explore.
Boat Harbour, Gerringong.
It appears so peaceful, out the front door of our hootch. But every once in a while, Charlie would fire a rocket at us. Thankfully, due to the mountains behind us, it was pretty much impossible for him to get the right 'angle' of attack, and they either ended up near the air base, or waaaaaaaaaaay out in the rice paddies.
And yes, that is Monkey Mountain in the distance. That's where our AFVN radio station was located. It would give us the 'sanitized' news of what was going on back home. People just don't realize how much truth there was in the old Robin Williams film, "Good Morning, Viet Nam."
At least they would play Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Grass Roots, and Steppenwolf, without whom we would have never survived.
The Original Photo:
Turimetta Beach is one of Sydney's most popular beaches with photographers. And these two rocks are the definitive features on the beach.
Fantastic sunrise this morning with the Focus crew.
Reviews posted this week about the present exhibition ECHOES OF ILLUSION by Frank Atisso @ The Annex of Nitroglobus.
Please read and (re)visit the gallery, that is if you didn't do so yet.
REVIEWS:
Oema in ILOVEEVENTS.online:
www.iloveevents.online/swerve-when-art-embraces-the-etern...
Inara Pey in Living in a Modemworld
modemworld.me/2024/08/08/scyllas-swerve-at-nitroglobus-in...
Owl Dragonash in Owl's Eye
throughowlseye.com/2024/10/06/echoes-of-illusion-a-visual...
taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
Published...Very blessed to have this Black-tailed buck image published in the most recent Mule Deer Foundation Magazine. Sorry I have not kept you abreast of published images for the past year or more...too busy!
In th short time Barangaroo has been open, this has become one of the classic compositions.
A calm spring morning, with great light.
My image called "Water Art: A young couple walk hand in hand on a Brazilian beach" (www.flickr.com/photos/artsylens/5432055901/in/set-7215760...) has recently been purchased for use in a commercial for a UK high street brand.
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Thank you all for your kind comments and warm congrats! Much appreciated.
Wood anemone in the Amper floodplains. Is also known as white Easter flower. I wish all flickr friends happy Easter.
Focus stack of twenty individual images. I decided to blur the background, because this gives a more pleasant image impression.
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Published in National Geographic as one of the Daily Dozen:
yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/daily-dozen/2011-11-09/
Northern Lights over Hvalsneskirkja in Iceland
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With the sun setting over Arran I spotted these young boarders exploring the shipwreck of the Kaffir.
Taken at Newton on Ayr.
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( Published as the "Picture Of The Day" in The Glasgow Herald – September 9th, 2021 )
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The Harbour shipping control tower, which is destined to be demolished.
As part of the redevelopment of Barangaroo the tower has ben decomissioned, but a long battle to save it from demolition has failed.
a 2 minute and a 1.5 minute exposure stacked for the cloud movement
There was some nice light over Bronte Beach over the weekend.
This was just after sunrise, and the pastel skies and soft light off the water really appealed to me.
PUBLISHED:
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The lesser flamingo (Phoenicoparrus minor) is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, with another population in India. Birds are occasionally reported from further north, but these are generally considered vagrants. It was moved from the genus Phoeniconaias to Phoenicoparrus in 2014.
The lesser flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and large bird by most standards. The species can weigh from 1.2 to 2.7 kg (2.6 to 6.0 lb). The standing height is around 80 to 90 cm (31 to 35 in). The total length (from beak to tail) and wingspan are in the same range of measurements, from 90 to 105 cm (35 to 41 in). Most of the plumage is pinkish white. The clearest difference between this species and the greater flamingo, the only other Old World species of flamingo, is the much more extensive black on the bill. Size is less helpful unless the species are together, since the sexes of each species also differ in height.
The lesser flamingo may be the most numerous species of flamingo, with a population that (at its peak) probably numbered up to two million individual birds. This species feeds primarily on Spirulina, algae which grow only in very alkaline lakes. Presence of flamingo groups near water bodies is indication of sodic alkaline water which is not suitable for irrigation use. Although blue-green in colour, the algae contain the photosynthetic pigments that give the birds their pink colour. Their deep bill is specialised for filtering tiny food items.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_flamingo
Lake Amboseli is located in the Nyiri Desert (also called Taru or Nyika Desert ) that stretches along southern border of Kenya and Tanzania. The name ‘lake’ is a bit of a misnomer as for most of the year all it is is a massive flat desert pan with no water in it, except after extended rains, when it becomes an alkaline lake.
A simple image from sunrise this morning. Just great to be out early - not too cold and a beautiful still morning on the beach.
I had a longer than usual visit there last Sunday--I seemed to be the only one there, despite the better-than-predicted weather.
Published in Photography Week (Issue 146 July 3rd 2015)
A frosy Nottinghamshire morning.
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The bright green seaweed growing on this rock shelf would hav been a major focal point if the sunrise hadn't stolen the show.
An amazing sunrise at Bungan Beach / Mona Vale Headland.
Suspended Animation Classic #327
Originally published April 2, 1995 (#14)
(Dates are approximate)
Judge Dredd, Nexus, Star Wars
By Michael Vance
Judge for yourself.
In a world of corruption, immorality, and violence, he is absolute, unbending LAW. He is judge, jury, and executioner embodied in one hulking man, Judge Joe Dredd.
The quickest way to court death is to throw yourself on the mercy of this court.
Not another grim, dark, and violent vigilante comic book!?!?
Yes and no.
In this world, a murdered President, a corrupt Chief Judge, and his jackbooted thugs – the Ministry of Fear – have perverted the Law they’ve sworn to serve. Computers sentence perpetrators who are shuttled to “Iso blocks”, jails that few ever leave.
And the bad buys win while Dredd naps … for fifty years or so.
Then, Mega-City One becomes a radioactive wasteland, and Dredd promptly kills, sorta, his papa and a whole bunch of rioters.
If it still sounds like more yes than no, persevere. You haven’t met the mime judges yet.
“Judge Dredd” is down, dirty, and … funny?
It is dark, grim, and violent satire of dark, grim, violence. Dredd’s tongue is so firmly stuck in cheek that it near pokes yer eye out.
If that’s not enough, plotting is tight, characterization is abundant, and there’s enough twists on clichés to keep readers hopping.
If that’s also not enough, the art is better than drab and seems to improve each issue. There’s also big guns, bombs, bullets, and clenched teeth!
And if that’s not enough, at least you’ll learn an important lesson.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Hey! I have a tongue to!
“Judge Dredd” #s 10-12/$1.95 & 25 pages each from DC Comics/words: Andrew Helfer; art: Doug Selogy and others/available in comics shops and by mail.
Also recommended, “Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law”.
MINIVIEW: “Nexus – The Wages of Sin”. Science-fiction, superheroes, satire and slapstick, it remains one of the best romps in comic books.
MINIVIEW TO: “Star Wars – Droids Special”. R2D2 and Threepio in great robotic fun for hardcore fans and young readers.
This linocut is one of eight that I'm working on that will be published in Noel Sloboda's "Our Rarer Monsters" in 2012. The publisher is sunnyoutside press.
linocut
5" x 7"
Just received a copy of the winter edition of the World Policy Journal. This article features my photo!
No shortage of atmospheric effects as RHTT working 3J11 heads out of Gargrave station towards Hellifield in North Yorkshire on the afternoon of Thursday 23 October 2025. Motive power was provided by 70806 & 70809 of Colas Rail.
For an alternative angle on railway photography, why not take a look at the Phoenix website:
The Autumn 2025 edition of the Phoenix Railway Photographic Journal has just been published and you can read for free by clicking on the link below:
A small channel encrusted with sea life.
Very low tide at Tamamrama / Mackenzie Bay allowed access to the rockshelf.
Freshwater Headland.
The wedge shaped rocks and the resulting wedge shaped bits of water appealed to my sense of geometry.
Wheatfield.
Midsummer:
the blue of the sky stretches
from horizon to horizon,
fading from intense cerulean overhead,
to a gentle haze closest to the plain’s edge.
The wheat field gleams
golden in the noon light,
vast as a prairie,
the ears heavy,
bending
under their own productivity.
That was then.
Now,
in early spring, there is still snow in the north,
the pristine whiteness mired in mud,
and blood,
churned by tanks, craters, artillery,
pits blown apparently randomly,
deep and water-logged,
recalling the almost forgotten horrors
of Ypres and Passchendaele.
The woodlands give little cover,
the trees split, twigs scattered.
No birds sing.
No seeds have been planted.
The only yield will be that of death
and destruction…
yet still the flag flutters
optimistically,
hopefully,
heroically,
echoing the blue and yellow,
of sky and land:
the colours of peace.
Published in reach poetry 284 June 2022
Voted 2nd of the month by readers.