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Spent last weekend at Portland International Raceway shooting the Portland Grand Prix. True to the Pacific Northwest, it rained heavily during the USF 2000 race.
An image taken in response to the Macro Mondays' group weekly theme of "Into The Woods". For the avoidance of any doubt, the piece of eggshell is less than 1" in both height and width. ;)
Let's hope that this is the result of an uncomplicated birth rather than the underhand actions of some other bird or animal!!
HMM to all in the group.
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“Badavut” – A Morning at Ayvalık’s Salt Lake: Flight, Light and Silence
Badavut, part of the İda Madra Geopark on the southwestern side of the Ayvalık–Sarımsaklı Peninsula, is a remarkable area where geology, history and wildlife meet. Volcanic formations, ancient stone quarries and the famous Blue Flag beaches attract visitors throughout the year, while nature photographers are drawn by its rich birdlife and unique coastal habitats.
I arrived shortly after sunrise and spent nearly four hours exploring the area with my camera. The morning offered a few surprises. Although the Badavut Wetland is known for hosting hundreds of Greater Flamingos and many migratory bird species from spring onwards, not a single flamingo was present today. Looking back through my photographs from previous years, most of my flamingo sightings were recorded during July and August.
Across the distant shoreline, I observed six Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta) feeding in the shallows. Swallows were busy with nesting activities, repeatedly crossing the wetland in small groups as they searched for food.
This visit was also a reminder that Badavut is more than a birdwatching destination. The sandy coastal plain supports a variety of wild orchids during spring. I arrived too late for the peak flowering season, but I was pleased to see that orchid colonies are now protected by fenced enclosures, helping to prevent accidental damage by visitors. Information boards also indicate that camping and picnic activities are no longer permitted in sensitive areas.
As encouraging as these conservation efforts are, it was still disappointing to see traces of plastic waste left behind from past human activity. Hopefully, continued protection and greater public awareness will help preserve this beautiful nature park for future generations.
I hope you enjoy these eight photographs from a peaceful morning of flight, light and silence at Badavut.
I've captured some unforgettable moments with my camera, and I hope these images bring you even a fraction of the joy I experienced while creating them.
Thank you for visiting my gallery — whether you leave a comment, add a favorite, or simply take a quiet moment to look around. Your presence and support truly mean a great deal to me. I wish you good luck and beautiful light in all your photographic journeys.
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Tech Notes -
Camera: Nikon Z8 with Really Right Stuff Base Plate
Lens: Nikon NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S
Hand-held or used with a monopod, always with SPORT VR enabled.
Typical aperture settings: f/5.6 for close detail work and around f/8 for full-body compositions.
All images were processed from RAW and converted to JPEG.
Monopod Setup: Gitzo GM2542 Series 2 4S Carbon Monopod
Really Right Stuff MH-01 Monopod Head
Your comments and constructive criticism are always welcome.
Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to explore. 😊
This little waterfall probably has more people seeing it than many in the area just because of it's location. And most people pass it without hardly paying attention to it. It's small and unobtrusive. I like it because it can have some of the most brilliant greens surrounding it than anywhere else in the gorge. And most of these greens people aren't able to trample or they surely would. So here is my second take on this little guy in the last three years when Danilo and I ventured up a couple of weeks ago.
Managed to get the SpaceX cargo mission CRS-22 orbital insertion on camera last Thursday but it required some processing on ground to make the colours come out. Orbital insertion is when the spacecraft enters orbital flight (which is a ballistic freefall around Earth), after the end of the propulsive phase (which is when the rocket was pushing you). After that critical point, there are manoeuvres to catch up with the International Space Station, raise the chasing spacecraft’s orbit to the same altitude as us (or almost), and finally manoeuvre around the Station until docking. See: spaceflight is simple after all – if it wasn’t I couldn't do it 😉.
J’ai réussi à photographier l’injection en orbite du cargo SpaceX jeudi dernier. Il a fallu un peu de temps pour traiter la photo afin de faire ressortir les couleurs (ce sont des collègues qui s’en occupent, comme pour les timelapses 😉). L’injection orbitale, c’est la phase après le décollage lorsqu’un vaisseau entre en vol orbital (qui est une chute libre balistique autour de la Terre), une fois la phase propulsive (= quand la fusée lance le vaisseau) finie. Après cette étape critique, le cargo qui doit rattraper l’ISS effectue plusieurs manœuvres, notamment pour atteindre la même altitude et enfin se positionner correctement en vue de l’amarrage. Vous voyez, les vols spatiaux c’est assez simple après tout - si ce n'était pas le cas, je ne pourrais pas le faire 😃
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet/A. Conigli
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Mr. Creighton sat down at a table across from a tired looking woman. He hated home visits, but this is what the school board now required of teachers, so he had no choice. She looked as if she were dressed in a Halloween fortune teller costume, even though it was early September and school had just started.
“Mrs. Talbot, I’m sorry to have to have to bring up this so early in the year, but I would like to talk to you about your son Larry.”
“Larry, my son,” she said with a mournful tone.
“Yes, Larry seems to be having trouble adjusting to school.”
“Is he not doing his homework? If he refusing to do his math I will beat him until he can’t sit down. I was never good at math in school, but he can do better.”
Mr. Creighton held out a hand in protest. “No, it’s not homework. We usually don’t give homework in first grade the first week of school.”
“Is he wolfing down his lunch? I don’t understand.”
“No it’s not that. If I had to put it in one sentence I’d have to say he doesn’t play well with others.”
Mrs. Talbot said, “In this he is just like his father. He needs to be engaged in sports. Do you have wrestling program?”
“I’m afraid we don’t for first grade students. I’m not sure sports is the answer. Larry is… how shall I put it? Running around biting and scratching his fellow students.”
Mrs. Talbot smiled. “Why didn’t you say so? I will keep him home at the next full moon and that should solve the problem. Can you give me his homework to complete during this period of time? We may also wish to go on vacation.”
“Gladly, Mrs. Talbot. Gladly.”
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Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) Are Un-mistakeable...Tall, With Long Legs, a Long Beak and Grey, Black and White Feathering...They Can Stand With Their Neck Stretched Out, Looking For Food, or Hunched Down With Their Neck Bent Over Their Chest...."
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The Cobalt boat...black hull,collided with the water taxi's moorings and became entangled and jammed...needing the lifeboat to rescue the occupants.
The yacht Vixen ,,just sailing past, looks on ..
Taken at Conwy Marina
Another early start required for this shot but not as bad as the Maidens as it's a short walk.
This is my first go at shooting this light house and I wanted to avoid the classic shot from the top cliffs as I feel it looses a little of the drama and scale of the cliffs so instead I headed lower and used a longer focal length.
The light was quite nice and the sun was just breaking the horizon and lighting the side of the light house.
Any thoughts and feed back always appreciated and read with interest also quite often used to try and improve.
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The shaddows are getting longer as NR28 leads 4SA8 around one of the many curves between Tarana Quarry and Gemalla.
I have to admit: when I found this pencil drawing while clearing out my apartment I was really impressed by myself ;-) I drew this in 1990, I was 25 years old and I've had the patience of a saint whie drawing. Today I'm sure that I would get ants in the pant when I had to draw this drawing again.
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Kenosha bound Metra / Union Pacific North Line train 118 approaches Grace and Ravenswood. A most grubby but interesting afternoon on Chicago's north side.
GOT #623 follows a Lakeshore West outbound towards the Willowbrook maintenance facility for servicing.
This shot required some editing, as a car had it's headlights directly on the camera for a period, blowing out the area of the blue house. Curiously, the red house(apparently lit by car tail-lights) came out of the layered composite exposure exactly as you see here and is Not Edited - but a different exposure of the blue house had to be used. I found an exposure where the blue houses had been lit by me, with a super-potent LED flashlight - light-painting style, and simply layered that over top of the blown-out portion of the original composite photo (apparently by the same car headlights).
This was my first night shot which resulted in the capture of reflected star trails.
Sky note: There was no moon & the sky was exceptionally clear. A number of people were on this trip who had never seen the Milky Way & it was easy for all to see on this night.
This shot was comprised in approx. 154 30sec exposures, for 77 min total time. These were then layered with StarTrails.exe prior to the edit described above. This first starting point i'm calling 'layered composite exposure'. This procedure is what assembles the star trails themselves, by simply picking the brightest pixel of all exposures. Exposures were f3.2, iso 1250 for this one. This is shot from Patricia's house, which was empty.
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Early on Sunday morning, the cold was biting, well below zero. Bradgate Park was already busy with visitors, and in places the ground had turned white, dressed in a true winter coat. Trusting the BBC weather forecast that promised a bright, sunny day, I set off towards the park.
Almost immediately, I encountered a young male Fallow Deer (buck – Dama dama). As soon as he noticed the crowd, he stopped and, almost knowingly, posed for a few seconds. What caught my attention straight away were his antlers. The left antler showed the typical broad, palmate shape of a Fallow Deer, while the right one looked strikingly different—more like the pointed tips of a young male Red Deer.
Most likely, this unusual shape resulted from a deformation or break during the growth phase of the antler. I found it fascinating; perhaps the experienced park rangers would have more insight into the history behind this individual’s antlers.
With winter clearly arriving, migrant birds have started to appear. After recent sightings of Stonechat, Goldcrests have now begun to show themselves. I am sharing two Goldcrest photographs from this walk. Unfortunately, I experienced a technical issue with my Z8, so I am confident that on my next visit I will be able to present sharper and more varied poses of this tiny bird.
As always, my photo walks would not be complete without the Robin (European Robin / Redbreast), which once again stepped onto the path in front of me, as if keeping me company.
I am sharing a total of seven photographs and hope you enjoy them.
Wishing you all a beautiful week ahead.
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.
Thank you so much for visiting my gallery, whether you leave a comment, add it to your favorites, or simply take a moment to look around. Your support means a lot to me, and I wish you good luck and beautiful light in all your endeavors.
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Lens - With Nikon TC 14E II - hand held or Monopod and definitely SPORT VR on. Aperture is f8 and full length. All my images have been converted from RAW to JPEG.
I started using Nikon Cross-Body Strap or Monopod on long walks. Here is my Carbon Monopod details : Gitzo GM2542 Series 2 4S Carbon Monopod - Really Right Stuff MH-01 Monopod Head with Standard Lever - Really Right Stuff LCF-11 Replacement Foot for Nikon AF-S 500mm /5.6E PF Lense -
Your comments and criticism are always appreciated.
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Illuminated barbershop pole, outside "Roots", next to Booths supermarket in Fulwood, Preston.
In days of yore, if an establishment displayed such an elaborate advertisement, then you could expect a bit more than a 'short back and sides' if you dared to venture inside!
From perhaps medieval times ‘barber-surgeons’ would provide a variety of services (a sort of casualty department from the Middle Ages), such as; dentistry, boil lancing (nice!), minor surgery, bone setting, amputation, and perhaps most infamously of all, bloodletting.
Bloodletting is the act of taking a person’s blood, either by cutting into a vein or scraping the skin. Sometimes leeches were used, which, if particularly hungry, could ingest almost 10 times their own weight (we’ve all been there).
There are many different theories of what the red and white (and sometimes blue) pole signifies. Some claim it represents the bloodied and clean bandages used during the bloodletting process, left hung out to dry outside the shop. Others assert that the barber's pole originated from the rod that the patient gripped to make their veins bulge, thus making them easier to slice open during phlebotomy.
To this day the barber’s pole is still universally recognised as a sign that a quick haircut and a conversation about where you are going on your holidays can be had therein.
Thankfully, if you require accident and emergency treatment here in Fulwood today, there is the Royal Preston Hospital just across the road from the barber shop!
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Denver & Rio Grande Western westbound Rio Grande Zephyr, led by EMD F9A locomotive # 5771 and F9B locomotives # 5762 & # 5763, is stopped for fuel, water and possibly for some food supplies at the station in Grand Junction, Colorado, Summer 1980. The building with the red tile roof that is behind the train on the right side of the photo is the station building.
Grand Junction is the mid way point location in the trip between Denver and Salt Lake City where the locomotives of westbound or eastbound Zephyr's are fueled and watered. The passenger cars also take on water at this location plus any required food or drink for the diner or lounge car are supplied here too. At this stop some minor required repairs can also be made or a substitute locomotive may be called upon if necessary.
Good thing I got my shot when I did. As the train arrived an employee got off the train and asked me for my permit. "Permit?", I said. He explained to me that I needed a permit from CTA in order to have my camera and tripod on the platform. "Oh ok... I'm from Ohio..." As I left the platform area another employee asked me what company I was with. I figured playing dumb was the best way to be. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through just for a shot or two. Having the shot I wanted I didn't stand around to debate the public place angle.
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Southern Railway's Bulleid Pacific 4-6-2 No 34081 '92 Squadron' stands in the bay platform at Bury Bolton Street.
ELR Steam Gala.
8256 is seen leading the first portion of 3AS8, the Indian Pacific as it heads towards Platform 3 at Central on Wednesday 25th May 2016. This is believed to be one of the first times an 82 class has been part of the Indian Pacific loco combination.
It is believed the 82 class may replace the more regular DL class on Indian Pacific banking duties, required to assist the train up the Blue Mountains on the return leg to Adelaide. Pacific National currently have a number of spare 82 class locomotives due to the downturn in Hunter Valley coal traffic and recent loss of the Leigh Creek coal service.
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A Dani war chief passes through the oval courtyard of a traditional fortress-like compound as he prepares for a ritualized mock battle that is about to take place high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands, 1600m/5200ft above sea level - Grand Valley of the Balim River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Digital film scan, shot with a Pentax point-and-shoot pocket camera directly under the noonday sun, circa 1996.
Battle Dress
He is adorned with a large decorated bib of nassa (snail) shells, an upturned boar’s tusk nose piece, rare bird-of-paradise plumes and other feathers, a bailer shell chest piece (with smaller shell pieces attached to a tightly woven bush-twine neck band of cowrie shells), an ornamental wristband of finely woven pandanus fibres, arm bands of dog fur, and the iconic long koteka or penis gourd – all part of traditional Dani ornamentation and battle dress. His forehead is smeared with a thick layer of charcoal-blackened pig grease.
Ritualized Warfare
Many Dani elders in the valley today were once engaged in an elaborate system of ritualized warfare, organized around changing political alliances and large shifting confederations across the Grand Valley. War was embedded in Dani culture as a constant and immediate part of everyday life. Brawls, feuds, and wars would begin with conflicts between individuals that would escalate to prolonged intergroup fighting.
Much of the fighting ended in the 1960's under an enforced Indonesian government pacification programme, although it is likely that certain forms of traditional fighting still occurred in isolated pockets of the region up to the late 1990's. Most fighting is now expressed through mock combat rituals that includes women and children in some of the ritualized running patterns.
Trembling on the Edge of Change
The Grand Valley Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a sophisticated neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology that anthropologists see as "trembling on the edge of change.” Accelerated contact with the outside world is inevitable. The road up from the coast up to the highlands and beyond has been under construction for more than two decades and is near completion. Little has been done to prepare indigenous Papuans for the inundation of permanent Asian migrants from other over-populated islands (especially Java) under Indonesia’s official state-sponsored transmigration resettlement programme.
Alienation of the land to foreign mining interests, organized tourism, the advent of cash and alcohol, and expanding state intrusion into indigenous Papuan affairs - all pose a serious challenge to the traditional Papuan way of life and very survival as an independent and culturally distinct indigenous nation.
Repression and Resistance
Indonesian state control in West Papua is particularly reminiscent of earlier times in the Americas and elsewhere when aboriginal peoples were contained through a colonization strategy of political subjugation and cultural assimilation. Indigenous Papuan resistance in the highlands has taken several forms, ranging from mass protests and sporadic hostage-taking to low-level guerrilla warfare and a loosely organized yet persistent political movement for separation and the creation of an independent Papuan state within Indonesia.
At the time of this photoshoot (February 1976), indigenous insurgents of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) had abducted 12 European and Indonesian nationals on a biodiversity research expedition to the highlands in an adjoining tribal region just 70 kilometres away, roughly five days by foot. They were held as hostages in the mountainous forests, moving across rugged ridges and deep river valleys from one makeshift prison camp to another as members of the International Red Cross tried unsuccessfully to mediate the crisis.
Papuan insurgents conducted the raid with bows and arrows and a handful of guns. Indonesian Army Special Forces ultimately launched a militarized hostage rescue operation with helicopter gunships and crack counter-insurgency troops with limited success. The controversial South African mercenary group, Executive Outcomes, provided both training and operational advice. Two of the hostages were executed during the struggle. Organized Papuan resistance continues to this day.
First Contact
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian continent about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age when sea levels were lower and distances between islands were shorter. Western "first contact” with West Papua's Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological expeditions to the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
About 50,000 Dani now live in small compound clusters or settlements scattered across the fertile and densely-populated "Grand Valley" of the Balim River (about 40 miles long by 10 miles wide) in West Papua's central highlands.
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Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani Neolithic cultural practices and ritualized warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition. They include anthropologist Karl Heider’s accounts in “The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea,” Aldine Publishing (1970) and “Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors” (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing (1996); also filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic ethnographic documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965); Peter Matthiessen’s “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962.