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Species: Coracias garrulus.
Location: Greece.
The European roller is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East, Central Asia and Morocco. The European roller is found in a wide variety of habitats, avoiding only treeless plains. Info: Wikipedia.
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One of the beautiful breaking waves off the coast of Shetland this summer. It's hard to ever tire of the simple pleasure of watching waves breaking. Holy Roller Novocaine is by Kings of Leon
I couldn't get enough of these rollers on my trip to South Africs.
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Film testing a 1938 Voigtlander Brilliant. I’m not sure whether it is meant to be this blurry, or whether I didn’t put the glass back together correctly after dismantling and cleaning the fungus! Or it could have been camera shake, as it only shoots at a leisurely 1/50th second. Oh well, interesting effect.
I only got 8 shots off the roll, as I took the first four on the paper backing, didn’t wind it on enough after loading ♂️.
Voigtlander Brilliant, dodgy blurry triplet lens @f7.7 (wide open!), Kentmere 100, 15 minutes in Caffenol CM @20C.
Whilst these rollers are found in South Africa I've never seen them there so these two were a first for me. They were in the gardens of the hotel every morning along with the ubiquitous LBR's (Lilac Breasted Roller) who made a helluva racket chasing away the crows.
This was unfortunately the closest I could get to them and they never descended from the tree tops (at least whilst I was about).
Hakuna Majiwe Beach Lodge
Paje
Unguja
Zanzibar Archipelago
Tanzania
Many of my wildlife shots, particularly birds, although generally acceptable, are spoiled by an unattractive background. This often happens when they are shot against a blank or featureless sky. I have found that the Luminar 4 editing program is not just a boon for landscape photographers, but is also a fun way to give the birds a second chance. Sky replacement in these shots is not an attempt to deceive - just a bit of fun to let the subjects have their moment in the sun (or cloud, or storm, or sunset!).
The Lilac-breasted Roller and its perch are absolutely real.
The Purple Roller(Coracias naevius) is a large, stocky roller and can be observed in a dry woodland and savannah type habitat. Its colours are dull and from a distance or in poor light it appears, a plain dark brown with broad pale supercillium and white spot on the hind-crown. The upperparts are mainly dark olive-green, the rump is blue-purple. In flight they are marginally brighter.
Size: Lenght of 35-40cm, and weigh ±160g.
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An Indian roller (coracias benghalensis) using its high perch to send its call across open land near Panama, in Sri Lanka. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
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High Roller is a 550-foot tall, 520-foot diameter giant Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States
While driving on Highway 12, somewhere between Capitol Reef NP and Kodachrome Basin State Park, USA, I checked the rearview mirror and saw this scene that reminded me somehow of a roller coaster.
taken with fujifilm x-t1 and xf55-200 zoom leens.
L591 rolls north on the Mayville Sub with everyone's favorite geep, GMTX 2322. This Milwaukee Road branch once stretched all the way to Fon Du Lac, passing in close proximity to the legendary Byron Hill. In the WSOR days, it's simply a short branch to Mayville. However, the 7 mile line is packed full of interesting locations such as this one, where they traverse a roller-coaster-like profile by the trash dump south of Mayville.
I had intentions to come back in the Autumn to do this, but I never made good on those plans, leaving a pretty gaping hole in my coverage. A major regret of mine.