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According to National Trust, in 2007: “the deadly squirrel pox virus reached the Formby area, wiping out around 80% of the red squirrel population. A hard winter further reduced the population to only 15% of the pre-pox level.
Details of an old bugle turned sideways to the camera.
The bugle is 3 inches across the end of the instrument so turned the bugle sideways to reduce the photo's width and created a curving tunnel.
Macro Mondays "Music"
Micro Nikkor 55mm f2.8 at f8 P8070119
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Monsoon dusk throwing interesting light over the Ganges. Heavy clouds rolling in reducing light further heralding a dark and wet night.
.Mars. - Ruoka Table & Chair
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Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
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Mustachio'd Northern Flicker dining at my feeder.
Common year-round area resident, reduced in winter.
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
100 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
The Orion constellation shot under Bortle 3 sky.
Equipment:
- Nikon D300 modified
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 ED
- Skywatcher StarAdventurer
Frames:
45 frames x 120sec at ISO 800.
Preprocessed in APP and Pixinsight and post-processed in Lightroom.
Old data, re-edited.
..and prey, a flesh fly.
This is another older picture, as I tidy up and clean out. I thought that I would post this one. I took a series of pictures of this scene and uploaded two of them 4 years ago. In retrospect I think that this one would have been better and in any case, I now don't reduce the resolution as much as I used to for uploading.
This is my 2nd image taken in the Cepheus region of the night sky. I had a few issues earlier on which delayed me for about an hour so I had to stay out later then I wished, 3:00am. Rather than wasting more time with a meridian flip I let it run for an hour pass the Meridian which didn’t seem to cause any issues. This object is faint and would have benefited from an increase in the subs by 1-2 min. As a result of only using 4min subs a lot of time was spent in processing to keep the noise under control.
SH2-155 (Sharpless 155) the Cave Nebula is made up of a combination of areas of emission/reflection/dark Nebula. It lies in the constellation of Cepheus at a distance of approximate 2,400 ly with a visual mag of 7.7. The Cave refers to the area of ionized Ha where star formation is actively ongoing.
EQUIPMENT:-
Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Explore Scientific 0.7 Focal Reducer
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
Astronomik 6nm Ha Filter
Astronomik 6nm Oiii Filter
Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
SH2-155 Cave Nebula (Cepheus)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
Dithering
30 Ha subs@240sec (2h 00min)
30 Oiii subs@240sec (2h 00min)
Total imaging Time 4h 00min
20 Darks
25 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
DSS
PS CS2
Hoodoos, the bulbous pillars seen all over Bryce Canyon don't grow like trees, but are eroded out of the cliffs where rows of narrow walls form. These thin walls are called fins. Frost-wedging enlarges cracks in the fins, creating holes or windows. As windows grow, their tops eventually collapse, leaving a column. Rain further dissolves and sculpts these limestone pillarsbinto spires called hoodoos. The delicate climatic balance between snow and rain ensures that new hoodoos will emerge while others become reduced to lumps of clay (from National Park Service brochure)
Sand Point, a Nevada State Park, on the north eastern side of the lake is famous for its sandy beach and large boulders, this view is looking south along the Nevada side of the lake. On this day the forest service was conducting a controlled burn to help reduce the effects of a wild fire, some are clouds and some is smoke in this shot.
Due to lack of natural cliffs, many kittiwakes nest 20 miles up the River Tyne, in Newcastle and Gateshead, including many on the old flour mill. I’ve never been on the viewing platform before, and you get a great view, and smell!
As it’s behind a glass partition, I had a lot of reflections, so I used this as a test for the new AI reflection removal tool in ACR, which has done a good job of reducing reflections and adding back contrast, in what would otherwise have been a bin shot.
Warsaw, Poland. Tunnel acts as a sound barrier to reduce traffic noise in residential areas. Seen in Explore.
Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
RMC Tokina 135mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/5.6
through Quenox Focal Reducer Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...
The theme for this week's Macro Mondays is "plastic". I became very aware of the issue of single-use plastic contaminating our oceans on visiting uninhabited areas of eastern Greenland last year and taking part in a beach clean-up - we collected dozens of items of throwaway plastic. It has become big news this year with the UK's proposal to ban plastic straws and cotton buds. For my macro entry I decided to take a picture of my water bottle, which I now use instead of buying bottled water - saving a lot of money as well as doing a small bit to save our oceans. So - this is "Plastic" for Macro Mondays. HMM! (field of view is under 2 inches)
And doubling up - my Day 23 entry for April 2018: A month in 30 pictures, and #23/100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition - my x is macro with a dedicated macro lens.
(P4231460)
Thanks to fellow birder-watchers who spotted and shared this sighting or else, I will be still searching for him at the other part of the 'playground'. He stay long enough and still enough for me move a bit closer and reduce my ISO. xlolx
Getting out & hiking into a place like this is always good for the mind, heart, & soul. At least it is for me! My son & two of my nephews went with me to Turkey Foot & Mize Mill Falls Saturday. Great day to be in the woods.
Pushing pixels around to come up with something interesting. This is a composite shot of a queen annes lace blossom that I converted to B&W, made an inverted copy, dragged one around to change the angle and combined them in a new image. I then cropped the image to reduce the amount of extraneous background and flattened the layers. I sampled the image background with the eyedropper and and then double clicked the paint can that gave me the shaded background. (That was an accident but I liked it so kept it.) All of the above and a bit more in PS13. Don't think I could repeat it again with the same result.
Flanders is a cyclist's paradise with many beautiful routes along the canals and rivers. Besides bicycles, you also see recumbent tricycles.
A recumbent tricycle is a solution that helps the rider lean back in a reclined position, distributing the weight over a wider area. This makes the ride much more comfortable and reduces strain and pressure on your back, shoulders, neck and wrists.
I shot this from the hotel in Boerne where we took refuge after losing all delivery of power and water at the house.
This is another test of my RC10 scope with the ASI 294 camera to see how deep I can go with three hours of exposures.
Data: 3 hours of two-minute exposures during early October 2022
Telescope: 10-inch Ritchey-Chretien with a 0.7x reducer
Camera: ASI 294MC Pro (gain 120, offset 13 at -15deg C)
Mount: SW EQ8
Location: Cambridge, UK
Taken with an 8" Astrograph with focal reducer & Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro Mount
Shot through thin cloud
Best 35% of 150 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom
When Rio Grande and Southern Pacific united in October 1988, one of the first actions taken was to reopen the Modoc Line to through traffic. It had been closed by SP in early 1987. A new symbol was created - EUASM - reflecting service from Eugene, Oregon to East St. Louis, Illinois.
Initially, two EUASM trains a day were operated. Train size was kept relatively modest (in relation to historic SP practice) and plenty of power (five or six 3,000 hp SD's) was assigned. This was done so the trains could go over the Cascades and the Modoc single - i.e., without helpers. The 'extra' power would be dropped at Wendel, California so it could return to Eugene on a westbound.
In a subtle way of showing that there was a new sheriff in town, the first seven eastbound trains on the Modoc Line had solid sets of Rio Grande locomotives. On the morning of Saturday, October 15, 1988, the fifth new EUASM reduces power by one unit at Wendel. Back in the steam days, an engine house stood next to the water tank in the background.
Today, all of the trackage at Wendel has been pulled up. Ghosts of narrow gauge Nevada-California-Oregon steamers share the site with ghosts of Espee SD45T-2s.
This year has been an odd one with my doing little photographic activity after a ''something' reduced my ability to carry my camera bag and distance.
However I went in, in early December, to be fixed by the electrophysiologist with his new procedure. It worked, hence this was my first time out with full camera bag for about least 6 months.
Now to return to the age old dialogue - what to photograph, where?
Once a queen, EL 810 had been reduced to transfer service at the end of Erie-Lackawanna's life. The beautiful E8 started out life as EMDX 810, one of EMD's demonstrators. The DL&W bought her to power its passenger trains. But nothing lasts forever, especially the good stuff, or so it seems. Here she is back in August of 1975 at Griffith, IN, returning home after delivering a transfer to the EJ&E.
Following the re-introduction of front door boarding, the maximum capacity of buses has changed due to social distancing. Therefore, even though this bus normally has a maximum capacity of 57 and has 31 seats, it can now only carry 10 passengers. Metroline West ADL Enviro200 DEL2145 (LK65EAA) shows off the new features whilst out on the 331.
Check also the small, dense but much fainter cluster NGC2158, best in full resolution. There are two asteroids in the image: (1075) Helina, magn. 15.0, and (580) Selene, magn. 14.8.
5 hour exposure with William Optics Fluorostar FLT91, dedicated reducer, ASI2600MC camera. The FLT91 is a wonderful scope for widefield astrophotography for sure! Check out the corners of the image...