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I often shoot this scene in low fog and have for many years long before it became a popular spot. On this day, the emerging green hues and dappled lighting were ample for a nice frame.
This is a Barking Owl (Ninox connivens). They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to a shrill human-like howl of great intensity.
The barking owl lives in mainland Australia along the eastern and northern coast of the continent and the south west areas surrounding Perth. Inland they occupy areas near lakes and waterways or other wooded environments. They choose to live in forests or woodland areas that have large trees for
nesting and foliage cover for roosting. They often reside near river, swamp or creek beds as these features often have large trees with hollows required for nesting and the productivity to
support sufficient prey.
Once widespread, barking owls are now less common in southern mainland Australia. The only detailed studies of barking owl home-ranges have been conducted in southern Australia where the species is declining
Happy Macro Monday!
I've passed on the last few Macro Monday challengers as I've been busy moving. As part of the moving process, I've been assembling a lot of different pieces of furniture, lamps, etc. Figured I could use some of the small hardware to make a heart.
HELP REQUIRED
My first move from number taking to photography was too black and white using a Hanimex Compact non SLR “point and shoot” camera with a 40mm lens of dubious quality around the edges of the frame.
Unfortunately, I have no records of that time and therefore we have a mystery Class 46 Peak stabled in York sometime in 1974. Any ideas on the identity of the Class 46 gratefully received.
After due consideration I have come to the conclusion that this is 46053.
Locomotive History
Fifty-six Class 46 locomotives were built at Derby Works between 1961 and 1963 with withdrawals commencing in 1978 and all had been taken out of service by 1984. 46053 was delivered as D190 in January 1963 allocated to Gateshead MPD and apart from two spells at Holbeck in 1963/64 and 1967-70 it would spend the rest of its career at Gateshead where it would remain until withdrawn during February 1981. Following withdrawal it was moved to Derby Works and broken up during July 1981
Hanimex Compact, Ilford FP4
158734 scurries towards a dilapidated platelayers hut on the outskirts of Blackford with 1T26 Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street.
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No color editing required, thanks to the inherent beauty of Pacific Northwest sunsets.
I think I agree with T Kubik, lucentstain, TwoGrayDogs, and "CAVE CANEM"...maybe it could use some cropping. I think I was trying to convey a feeling of isolation...as if the heron had found the only scrap of land for miles around. Maybe I'll post a cropped version sometime. Thanks for all your tips and suggestions!
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For Utata's Iron Photographer 349 challenge, requiring 3 separate elements:
1) something made of wood
2) something you wear
3) in the kitchen.
Petit Andely Saint Sauveur Church: Building Chateau-Gaillard required the presence of over three thousands workers in les Andelys. The Saint-Sauveur church was built for them. Works started in 1198 and were finished four years later, in 1202, that is why the church has an outstanding unity.
Outisde, note : 1) the greek cross structure, 2) the elegant spire, 3) the blessing Christ (13th century) in the entrance of the church.
Inside, note :the gothic choir and the pipe organ, one of France's most beautiful ones. (1674)(lesandelys.com/church/)
The town of Les Andelys lies in a tight bend of the Seine. The valley has been shaped by the river, forming white cliffs. A walk on the riverside offers beautiful views on the ruined castle Chateau-Gaillard, the old houses of Petit-Andely and the Seine valley.
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On an early Easter Monday bank holiday morning, I set off towards Bradgate Park under a biting wind, with my car showing just 4°C. Despite the cold, the land was clearly awakening with spring, quietly signaling renewal in every detail.
As I stepped into the park under the soft morning light, there was a rare stillness—no people, just nature beginning its day. Instead of the usual robin, I was greeted by a Eurasian chaffinch foraging on the ground. Around me, small birds were busily flying back and forth, carrying nesting materials in their beaks into tree hollows.
Continuing my walk, I noticed a group of fallow deer on my right. Among them, a young deer fixed its curious gaze on me, and I believe I captured that exact moment of connection in a single frame. Between us flowed the River Lin, its subtle elevation difference and fresh greenery adding depth to the scene.
As I observed the group, something remarkable caught my attention in the distance. Eurasian jackdaw were landing on the deer, pulling out loose fur and flying off to line their nests in ancient tree hollows. This interaction seemed less about parasite removal and more about building soft nesting material.
I waited patiently as the light shifted and the sun rose higher, creating a beautiful backlit background. Finally, the moment came—a female deer allowing a jackdaw to pull fur from her back. I captured this frame at ISO 4000 and 1/1250 sec.
It’s also worth noting that the deer are currently shedding their winter coats, which the jackdaws are clearly taking advantage of. Interestingly, not all deer tolerated this behavior—some females resisted, perhaps due to discomfort.
Nature’s balance and these subtle interactions continue to fascinate me, often leading me to reflect more deeply on the connections within the wild.
I hope this story adds another layer to the image and helps convey the moment beyond the frame.
Wishing you all a peaceful and joyful Easter Monday.
I've captured some unforgettable moments with my camera, and I hope you feel the same joy viewing these images as I did while shooting them.
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Lens & support:
Nikon AF-S TC-14E III — hand-held or monopod, SPORT VR enabled.
Aperture set to f/8, full focal length.
All images were converted from RAW to JPEG.
During long walks, I use either a Nikon cross-body strap or a monopod.
Monopod setup:
Gitzo GM2542 Series 2 4S Carbon Monopod
Really Right Stuff MH-01 Monopod Head (Standard Lever)
Really Right Stuff LCF-11 Replacement Foot for Nikon AF-S 500mm f/5.6E PF
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Yes, I realise this topic has already been talked over many times on our humble photo gallery. This time however, we have another big developement in front of us.
The famous Polish ban on photography had not really been in power, no matter what any person said. You were fully permitted to photograph anything you want, as long as you were on public grounds, which is a reasonable idea. All is to change now though.
My first post in this "no photo" topic has been published on 6.02.2024, when the Polish Ministry of National Defence published a draft of the ordinance containing the description of a "Photography forbidden" sign, along with many other things. This ordinance is what is required for the photo ban to be implemented in practice, as per a law published all the way back in 2022. The draft remained all that, just a draft, up until... this very day, 3.04.2025. It is now a full-blown ordinance of the allmighty Minister himself.
The published version can be seen on the official government service Dziennik Ustaw - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU
The ordinance itself, numbered 432 can be seen here - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2025/432 - contains a PDF file with the ordinance and a graphical display of the sign.
From now on, any person responsible for the security of an object of critical infrastructure (whatever that means...) will be able to hang out these legal signs and there is nothing the poor citizen can do about this, even when standing on public grounds.
*The ordinance comes into effect 14 days after its publishing, you have time until the 17th of April. For real now.*
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Photo was taken in Knurów (Krywałd), the old sign is on a wall of a tiny explosives production facility.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
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Chicken and Waffles. This is not traditional Western Canadian food, but rather a culinary "guilty pleasure" of the contemporary Southern USA. It does consist of southern fried chicken, which requires art and science to do, as well as waffles. The white stuff is a stunning gravy, another element that takes a lot of skill and know-how to do.
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Spending your final years with a bucket on your head probably isn't what this boat would have hoped for!
Of all the times through the years I have been down to the sea to take winter pictures, I think this was the fastest one to make my fingers as good as useless.
"Only" - 16 C (it was over -40 C up north last night) today but a stubborn wind that made it feel so much colder.
Beach of HUS, Hanko, southernmost town in Finland.
(picture taken with the phone's camera)
Between PACK and TROBE stand four intermediate signals, all destined to fall this coming Sunday. The western two, 307 and 310, I've shot quite a bit since I got into the hobby. The two easternmost signals - 302 and 304, I've not quite shot so much. They're not easy signals to get to, requiring a good bit of walking for both.
But, since they'll be history after Sunday, I figured I would get my final shots of them today. The MP 302 signals stand just west of the crossing at Gray Station, and are Darth-Vader style signals, which replaced a PRR bridge around 2007. These are the approach signals to PACK going east.
NS 39Q with three SD60Es and a Dash 9 roll by these signals this afternoon. I'd imagine these particular signals will probably end up surviving, and not be scrapped, as it seems NS is trying to save their new model signals.
40058 heads through Heaton to the east of Newcastle with 7S41, the Haverton Hill to Leith Ammonia Tanks train on 31st May 1984.
You are looking at the business-end of the Canon RC-5 IR remote which requires a 2-second wait after you push the button until it trips the shutter. What a slo-mo pain! Fortunately there are better options!
Macro Mondays – theme: photography gear
No WD-40 required for these two. There's so much to Dinorwig quarry. It's not just the sheer scale of the place, the grandeur and beauty of the mountains and lakes around. or the mountain goats, the ruins, the man-made inclines, the colours and textures in the slate, but the whole human history of the place. What tales these two rusty nuts might tell if they could, but I suspect they have only fallen recently. The fact is that the whole place is slowly sliding downhill and breaking up. It's never the same place on any two visits and I didn't notice this pole on the previous twenty times I must have passed this spot. But I love it. And I wish it would be there forever, but I know that even within ten to twenty years it will be very different and even more inaccessible.
A young Filipina removes the yellow skin and peel from reddish pomelo fruit while in a squat position on a city sidewalk. Peeled pomelo fruits are more expensive because of the tedious labor required to peel them to get to the juicy, sweet citrus fruit.
I was at Vandalia by the dam waiting on this guy. The high sun was setting in and getting too far around for a northbound. A stack train stopped right in front of me, so I had to race to the car and make a mad dash up I-75 to Troy. I set up just in time to get this Q352 with a dogs brunchfast: KCS SD70MAC/CN SD75i/MP15T/GP15T. The light angle was a bit better here, anyway and wider open.
Thanks to Erik Landrum for the heads up and Rob W for the updates.
my sister was just sitting and thinking, and when i saw her sheila fly i snapped.
not fotoshopped at all !!
just scanned
The first run did not cross the bridge into Havre de Grace because of an oncoming NS coal empty that would complicate the required crossover move at CP Grace. KP 2025 was instead stopped short of the bridge at the Perryville MARC station. Once we figured out dispatcher/ train conversation we headed the Furnace Bay Golf Course for this view.
Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgarian: Велико Търново, romanized: Veliko Tǎrnovo, pronounced [vɛˈliko ˈtɤrnovo]; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
Often referred as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Tarnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famously known as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists with its unique architecture. The old part of the town is situated on three hills, Tsarevets, Trapezitsa, and Sveta Gora, rising amidst the meanders of the Yantra. On Tsarevets are the palaces of the Bulgarian emperors and the Patriarchate, the Patriarchal Cathedral, and also a number of administrative and residential edifices surrounded by thick walls.
Trapezitsa is known for its many churches and as the former main residence of the nobility. During the Middle Ages, the town was among the main European centres of culture and gave its name to the architecture of the Tarnovo Artistic School, painting of the Tarnovo Artistic School, and to literature. Veliko Tarnovo is an important administrative, economic, educational, and cultural centre of Northern Bulgaria.
Veliko Tarnovo is one of the oldest settlements in Bulgaria, with a history of more than five millennia. The first traces of human presence, dating from the 3rd millennium BC, were discovered on Trapezitsa Hill.[6]
First Bulgarian state
Tarnovo was a stronghold of the First Bulgarian Empire. A number of coins, specimens and ceramics from the First Bulgarian State were found on the hills on which the capital city of Tarnovgrad stretched. [7] The city was important for the first Bulgarian state. There was an important military garrison in it. In the church of St. Forty Martyrs were found specimens that historians believe are the work of Bulgarians from Volga Bulgaria[requires source].
The Uprising of Asen and Peter began on 26 October 1185, the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and ended with the restoration of Bulgaria with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, ruled by the Asen dynasty.
Veliko Tarnovo, originally Tarnovgrad (Търновград), grew quickly to become the strongest Bulgarian fortification and most prosperous city during the second half of the High and the Late Middle Ages and also most important political, economic, cultural and religious centre of the empire. In the 14th century, the city was described by Bulgarian cleric Gregory Tsamblak as "a very large city, handsome and surrounded by walls, with 12,000 to 15,000 inhabitants".,[7] the fortress of Tsarevets being the primary fortress and strongest bulwark from 1185 to 1393, housing the royal and the patriarchal palaces.
In the 14th century, as the Byzantine Empire weakened, Tarnovo claimed to be the Third Rome, based on its preeminent cultural influence in Southeastern Europe.
As the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, Tarnovo was a quasi-cosmopolitan city, with many foreign merchants and envoys. Tarnovo is known to have had Armenian, Jewish and Roman Catholic ("Frankish") merchant quarters, besides a dominant Bulgarian population. The discovery of three Gothic heads of statuettes indicates there may have also been a Catholic church.
thx to Wikipedia. For more Information on the further history under the Ottoman rule also please see Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliko_Tarnovo
The day we visited the Border town abbeys in Scotland... Getting from Melrose Abbey to Dryburgh Abbey required a bus and a healthy walk; we passed this on the walk.
Egglestone's Abbey Bridge was built in 1773 when J S Morrit required better access to his Rokeby Estate. A single arch bridge, high above the river, and with castellated parapets, a toll was payable until the mid 20th century. The bridge was strengthened in 1982 and was further modified in 1998.
Is better viewed large.
Pips. Her fascinations and, well, obsessions, require great patience.
Already a skilled and accomplished lizard seeker and stealthy stalker.
Almost moving like a pray mantis ... slowly, slowly edging closer…
Here she is now, waiting, waiting.
Just for the next glimpse of Mama Possum.
On our friends' front veranda, pieces of fresh, sweet fruit sit high up on a shelf.
Even some of Pips' kibble. But she doesn't mind.
If it brings Possie out, it's all worth it.
Pips is a dedicated possum watcher.
More waiting..
Clear skies over the eastern horizon required me to look west where mid-level clouds developed a nice fire sky. GoPro 10 in time lapse mode captured 1 frame per second and was played back at 4x to 8x in this clip.
Picture of the Day x 2
This enormous engine was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1941 for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Ridge railroad, one of the primary iron ore hauling railroads in Minnesota. Iron ore is heavy, and combined with the railroads steep grades, made transporting this material from the mines to the Great Lakes a tricky task and required great amounts of power. Indeed, even the 2-8-8-0 locomotives - the most powerful ones of the DM&IR's roster - needed a helping hand.
The DM&IR decided to build eight engines that would be similar to the Western Pacific's 2-8-8-2's. These new engines were built with large fireboxes and all-weather cabs requiring a second axle to be added on the rear truck. This arrangement earned them the name "Yellowstones" and were the most powerful engines of this type, producing 140,000 lbf of tractive effort.
Although the 225 is called a "Yellowstone", footplate crews called it a "Mallet" after Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet. Mallet introduced locomotive articulation, in which the rear engine is rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front engine rides on a separate truck attached to the rigid rear frame by a pivot so that it can swing from side to side.
The first eight were delivered in 1941 and performed beyond the DM&IR's expectations, who ordered another ten of these engines in 1943. The engines performed so well that several were loaned out to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad for use on their Tennessee Pass route. The Rio Grande heralded the engines as being the best ones to operate.
The engines began fading into obscurity as dieselization took hold. After an accident on Tennessee Pass, the loaned engines were returned. Afterwards the DM&IR began scrapping them, only saving three of the later batch.
The DM&IR donated #225 to the city of Proctor on the 25th of March, 1963, and put on display at Charles E Carlson Park, where it remains today.
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