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Most everyone knows the Rock Pigeon, and few are big fans of the species. It has certainly been successful in establishing itself in many places where it has been introduced around the world beyond its native range in the Old World. It is intriguing to note the many colour variations to be found, as in this individual.
Fog hangs above the Snake River at dawn on a cold autumn morning in Grand Teton National Park in Teton County, Wyoming.
CN eastbound ore #754 from Minorca mine, on the Iron Range of Minnesota, arrives at ore dock yard behind DMIR411-DMIR406-WC6915.
Okay, quick disclaimer, I'm very biased, ..of course. 😜 But a rather experimental monster panorama, I had not much expectations for, actually turned into two subprojects yielding two special images I'm pretty fond of. 😊
As with all nature stuff out there, one can't order certain conditions or occurrences, some are more rare than others though..
Source for this is a 18 piece telephoto panorama, trying to go all out on the mountains in the distance, I just had to do it. I switched the tripod head around again (180°), cause at that focal length (~250mm) and number of photos, the slightest lag would ruin the whole thing for sure. Or worse, the mount plate gets loose entirely and the front of the long and heavy lens rotates down and bashes against the tripod.
Another not so promising thing, or lets say challenge, was that the right end of the mountain range is ~32km, and the left is ~66km away, so there is a natural perspective going. It does not matter if it's true or accurate, when the whole thing is skewed, it just does not look nice in this more or less extreme panoramic format, which yielded 55122 x 6123px, ~337,6MP. Regarding format, looking at this a such does not make much sense at all, perhaps as a mega print, but certainly not on any regular display, it's just a thin sliver when viewed with full width.
Also, being there, just above this ocean of fog, the mountains did not appear very prominent, sun was gone already (about to pack up my stuff) and I was not aware that there were actually two nice sections with these delicate rose colored cloud formations, but hey that's why we have telephoto lenses, right?
Technically, this subproject consists of 7 individual photos, portrait orientation, finished to 14771 x 6105px, ~90,2MP, ratio ~1:2,4.
Nikon D750 (full frame / FX)
Zoom-NIKKOR 100-300mm f/5.6 AI-S
ISO100, 250mm, f/8, 1/60sec
tripod, 3-way head, all manual
Open range corral for penning and loading cattle during round-ups. Kane County, Utah. Happy Fence Friday!
The green canopy of summer has given way to the barren oak trees of winter. Made with a Leica SL and Elmarit 24-90 lens. For more go to www.elviskennedy.com
Teton Viewpoint, Grand Teton National Park. Storm was coming. After shooting Schwabachers Landing, I got a shower on the way back to car. But a few minutes after I dried up myself, surprisingly, the rain stopped and I saw the sky was blowing off! And that was the best sunset I've ever got.
Habitat: Oak Savanna, open barrens, sandy patches among woodlands, and Alvars. (Alvars are areas of limestone with shallow soil and sparse vegetation of grasses, shrubs, and wildflowers.)
Range: southern New England west to Ontario, Minnesota, Wyoming and Colorado; thence southward to Texas and eastward along the Gulf coastal states to Georgia.
While I was finding my composition to shoot the sunset in this location, the low angle of sunlight defined the ridge tops. The light was gone very soon after.
The take away from this is, once you see it, don't fiddle around too much. Take the shot! Take a couple shots! Set your camera to bracket exposure a couple stops if you're not sure about exposure.
I still had a circular polarizer on the lens from earlier that afternoon, which helped with the color saturation. I'm glad I got off a few shots when I first arrived in this location before starting to set up with split ND filters for sunset images.
This is in the Bear River range of the Wasatch Mountains.
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (on the old Cache N.F. portion)
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HDRI. High Dynamic Range Imaging. Imagerie à Grande Gamme Dynamique. Bracketing d'exposition. Prise de Vue en Fourchette pour nos amies Canadiens.
Llanddeusant, Carmarthen, UK. To see a wider range of images. Please click on the links below. www.normanwest4tography.zenfolio.com
Florida Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata obscura) found crossing a trail around dusk in southern Volusia County, Florida. This is a little outside of any documented range that I've been able to find.
Random, but Interesting Facts about Cows
Cows are social animals, and they naturally form large herds. And like people, they will make friends and bond to some herd members, while avoiding others
Cows are red-green colorblind. In a bullfight, its the waving of the cape that attracts the bull not the red color
A cow’s heart beats between 60 and 70 beats per minute
Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.
An average dairy cow weighs about 1,200 pounds.
A cows normal body temperature is 101.5°F.
The average cow chews at least 50 times per minute.
The typical cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.
An average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements in a day.
Cows actually do not bite grass; instead they curl their tongue around it.
Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.
Cows have a single stomach, but four different digestive compartments.
Cows are pregnant for 9 months just like people
A dairy cow can produce 125 lbs. of saliva a day
Cows spend 8 hours per day eating, 8 hours chewing her cud (regurgitated, partially digested food), and 8 hours sleeping
You can lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. Cows knees can’t bend properly to walk downstairs.
Cows can’t vomit
The average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day
The average cow produces 70 lbs. of milk. That’s 8 gallons per day!
Cows only have teeth on the bottom
Cows have a great sense of smell. They can smell something up to 6 miles away
Dairy cows are economic job creating machines! 1 dairy cow creates 4 full time jobs in the local community
A Holstein’s spots are like a fingerprint. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of black and white spots. They are all different