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What is this wee little piping plover up to? No, it’s not doing beachside calisthenics. In fact, it’s reversing direction to escape the powerful force of the wave headed in its direction. This precocial, four-day-old cotton ball with legs has been searching for small invertebrates churned up in the wake as the waves pull back out to sea. Yup, they are that smart already! On high alert, it dashes quickly away as the waves roll back into shore. Seriously, don't mess with nature! It knows what it needs. <3 #sharetheshore
This is a remake of an old photo already on my photostream. (See in the comment below).
To create this macro effect, you need to take the lens off the camera and invert it, easier said than done, but can give fun results.
I put this through Topaz Studio for a painted effect.
Poor man's macro
stacked images with light painting the real moon and las vegas glowing in the distance. the luxor spotlight visible
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Back to Big Tree forest and a walk through the forest. While it is a pleasant and peaceful trek with birds singing, my eyes are not seeing any compositions. After reaching a point deep into the hike, it is time to turn a round.
But, it is now one hour later and the forest has taken on a very different look. The suns rays have moved, and some of what was lit is now in shadow. More importantly for a composition, some of what was in shadow, is now lit.
Made a random turn onto a nearby county road the other day, one I have driven numerous times over the years. Only difference this time was I just happened to be traveling opposite my normal direction. Halfway up a hill I came upon this stunning scene. At first I wondered how I could have missed it after so many passages. After stopping to check it out, I soon noticed that it was all but invisible for a westbound motorist (my normal direction of travel on this road). The dramatic sightline only opened up in the eastbound lane.
Thought this was a wonderful metaphor for life. I tend adopt a singular view of things over time. This happens all the time in driving. I often see things as I expect to find them rather than how they truly appear. The human brain has a remarkable tendency to connect the dots in this way. Driving the road in the reverse direction forced my brain to reset and see the landscape from a new perspective.
Back in the moment, the dead tree was the personification of pure evil. It loomed over the old barn as if guarding it. Tons of weight, precariously balanced, and capable of dropping black shards of dead wood without notice, ready to impale the unsuspecting. Even the comforting softness of early spring could not ameliorate this scene.
C-GIWD, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, rolling out on runway 33 at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario. It was arriving from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec and Charlo, New Brunswick.
Serial number 721 first flew on October 27, 1980. It later operated in the United States, Kenya, Australia, Seychelles, South Africa, Algeria and Mexico before returning home to Canada. The 40-year-old looks magnificent.
Located at Mahar Point, the northern point of a narrows separating Dennys Bay from Cobscook Bay in far eastern Maine. The narrows are subject to a reversal of current twice a day, owing to the area's unusually high tides.
This is the first photograph of the Reverse/Reverso series. It was while taking and processing this photograph that idea to create a series of photographs around the “reverse” theme started.
The Reversing Falls is series of rapids on a narrow gap in the Saint John River near where the river empties into the Bay of Fundy. At high tides the force of the water from the tides can cause the rapids in the gap to reverse from their usual down stream flow. There is both a railway and vehicle bridge spanning the gap. The Irving pulp mill sits just north of the bridge. Saint John, New Brunswick
Taken during a sunrise shoot yesterday at Bar Beach, NSW, Australia.
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This chap skated everywhere in reverse gear showing off his backward driving skills. Picture was taken on ‘Wheels Sunday’; the Sunday of the ‘Manchester Pride Week’.
Sometimes I like to turn upside down certain pictures, especially when some reflections are involved. Not sure why I do that, but it is all part of the fun.
Goldentail morays (Gymnothorax miliaris) are usually brown with tiny yellow spots, see here). Every once is a while you find one that is yellow with some brown to form a honeycomb. (Or more precisely, instead of small yellow spots, there are large yellow spots.)
This was a small one, maybe 15cm long in total. The trick is to get it to be out of its hiding hole enough to get the strobes to light the moray without hitting the background coral.
From a sunrise shoot at Chalky Beach, Swansea Heads, NSW, Australia.
I had hoped for some cloud cover, but as they say, "be careful what you wish for" because as it turned out there was no colour in the sunrise at all.
None the less, I hope you like these images from this location.
In this shot I tried to highlight the water flowing back.
Thanks for any views, comments or faves on these or any of my images.
LTWI661 twists through the reverse curve just east of De Graf, Minnesota on the former Great Northern main, now BNSF Morris Subdivision. Acting as the de facto caboose is a scale test car seen on the left; something of a rarity in 2025 now. 661 was a Wilmar-Aberdeen local that took the GN main to Benson. From there, they would hop on GN's branch to Watertown, continuing west to Appleton where, they would hop on the former Milwaukee Road transcon for the rest of the trip to Aberdeen. BNSF has combined the Benson-Appleton part of the GN Watertown branch with the Milwaukee Appleton-Aberdeen main and this whole line is now known as the Appleton Subdivision. The well powered local will need every horse they can get to lug heavy stone loads up the eastern flank of the Coteau des Prairies; 13.5 miles of 1% grade starting near Twin Brooks at MP618.5 and ending east of Summit at MP632.
This was my first little taste of the Minnesota-Dakota tristate area. Back then I was fascinated by BNSF's Watertown local. At the time they were using sets of geeps and usually had large trains making 2 trips a week. So our initial goal was shooting them west of Appleton. However, a TCWR west end job with four CAT motors parked in town peaked our interest. We had heard they would have a 1500 crew to head west. But as the sun set lower to the horizon it was becoming more clear that would not be the case. Also concerning was that the Watertown local hadn't shown up yet.
Instead of waiting, we hightailed it to Willmar, finding the place in a meltdown mode that was typical of the oil-boom era. LTWI661 got kicked out first, so we chased them towards Benson before doubling back to shoot LTWI675, the Watertown job, until the sun set into developing tunderstorms. It wasn't what we wanted but at least we got some shots.
We still wanted those 4 CATs on the TCWR west end job. So we camped in our car by Appleton's water treatment plant while severe thunderstorms popped off to the north and south of us all night. It was a miserable muggy night "sleeping" in a puddle of sweat. I was awoken at 0330 the next morning by the sound of 4 CATs beginning their trek west to Milbank. This would occupy us the rest of the morning. I'm glad it worked out but that would be THE LAST time I would ever sleep in my car.
It's really funny looking back now with the perspective of hindsight. The 2731 was a neat geep with the large Wagon Wheel. But back in the day we thought the RV camper air conditioners looked ridiculous. Man...if only I knew what BNSF was capable of only 5 or 10 years later.
Created with Dream Wombo
Prompts: Rusty damaged alien flying saucer inside abandoned barn, rusty farm tools and equipment, hay, ultra realistic details, dusty misty atmosphere
Style: VFX v2
A texture was used on "normal" to enhance color
Looks like they gave up on this project!
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