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I was so embarrassed when we wore the same suit...lol, actually, I'm just waiting for her to call in sick!!
The Same Black Crowed Night Heron Chick That Had Fallen Out of the Tree Is Captured By a Volunteer and Will Be Taken To A Bird Rescue Center. W. 9th St. Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.
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Another image at the same fan as previously posted. Guam has some astounding sea fans and other items to see if you are willing to go deep, past where the majority of divers travel. Mark Glasgow inspects this beautiful 4 foot specimen on his rebreather at 185 feet.
French postcard by Editions F. Nugeron, no. Star 130. Photo: Air France / Distribution VU. Caption: Orson Wells (sic), Septembre 1967.
American actor, director, writer and producer Orson Welles (1915-1985) worked in theatre, radio and film, both in the US and in Europe. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), ranked as one of the all-time greatest films. His other films include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958) and Le Procès/The Trial (1962).
George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1915. He was the second son of Beatrice (née Ives) and Richard Hodgdon Head Welles. In 1919, his parents separated and moved to Chicago. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a popular bicycle lamp, became an alcoholic and stopped working. His brother ‘Dickie’ was institutionalized at an early age because he had learning difficulties. Welles's mother, a beautiful concert pianist, had to support her son and herself. In 1924, Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital, just after Welles's ninth birthday. He was taken in by Dudley Crafts Watson. At the age of ten Orson ran away from home with Watson's third daughter, Marjorie. They were found a week later, singing and dancing for money on a street corner in Milwaukee. Welles' father died when Orson was 15. Maurice Bernstein, a physician from Chicago, became his guardian. His school teacher Roger Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to perform and stage theatrical experiments and productions. Welles was awarded a scholarship to Harvard University, but he chose instead to travel to Europe. In Ireland, he strode into the Gate Theatre in Dublin and claimed he was a Broadway star. The manager of Gate, Hilton Edwards, was impressed by his brashness and an impassioned quality in his audition. Welles made his stage debut at the Gate in 1931, appearing in Jew Suss as the Duke. He acted to great acclaim, word of which reached the United States. On returning to the United States he wrote the immensely successful Everybody's Shakespeare. In 1933, he toured in three off-Broadway productions with Katharine Cornell's company, including two roles in Romeo and Juliet. In 1934, he shot his first film, an eight-minute short titled The Hearts of Age, and he married Chicago actress Virginia Nicholson. By 1935 Welles was supplementing his earnings in the theatre as a radio actor, working with many actors who would later form the core of his Mercury Theatre.
In 1936, the Federal Theatre Project (part of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration) put unemployed theatre performers and employees to work. Orson Welles was hired by John Houseman and assigned to direct a play for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Theatre Unit. His production of Macbeth was set in the Haitian court of King Henri Christophe, with voodoo witch doctors for the three Weird Sisters. The play was received rapturously and later toured the nation. At 20, Welles was hailed as a prodigy. A few minutes of Welles’ ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ was recorded on film in the documentary We Work Again (1937). Welles rehearsed Marc Blitzstein's political operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, but because of severe federal cutbacks in the Works Progress projects, the show's premiere at the Maxine Elliott Theatre was cancelled. In a last-minute move, Welles announced to waiting ticket-holders that the show was being transferred to the Venice, twenty blocks away. Some cast, crew and audience members walked the distance on foot. Lacking the participation of the union members, The Cradle Will Rock began with Blitzstein introducing the show and playing the piano accompaniment on stage with some cast members performing from the audience. This impromptu performance was well received and played at the Venice for two more weeks. Welles and Houseman then formed the Mercury Theatre, of which Welles became executive producer and whose repertory company eventually included the actors Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Everett Sloane, and Erskine Sanford. The first Mercury Theatre production was William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, set in a contemporary frame of fascist Italy. The production was widely acclaimed. In the second year of the Mercury Theater, Welles shifted his interests to radio. He adapted, directed and played Hamlet for CBS and Les Misérables for Mutual with great success. CBS gave the Mercury Theatre a weekly hour-long show to broadcast radio plays based on classic literary works. In 1938, their adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells brought Welles instant fame. The combination of the news bulletin form of the performance with the between-breaks dial spinning habits of listeners from the rival more popular Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy program was later reported in the media to have created widespread confusion. Wikipedia: “Panic was reportedly spread among listeners who believed the news reports of a Martian invasion. The myth of the result created by the combination was reported as fact around the world and disparagingly mentioned by Adolf Hitler in a public speech some months later. The 1975 docudrama The Night That Panicked America was based on events centering on the production of, and events that resulted from the program.”
Orson Welles's growing fame drew Hollywood offers, lures that the independent-minded Welles resisted at first. RKO Radio Pictures president George Schaefer eventually offered him complete artistic control and signed Welles in a two-picture deal, although Welles had a budget limit for his projects. In Hollywood, Welles toyed with various ideas for his first project. RKO rejected Welles's first two movie proposals, but agreed on the third offer, Citizen Kane (1941), for which Welles co-wrote, produced, directed and performed the lead role. Co-scriptwriter Joseph Mankiewicz based the original outline on an exposé of the life of William Randolph Hearst, whom he knew socially and came to hate, having once been great friends with Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies. Kane's megalomania was modelled loosely on Robert McCormick, Howard Hughes and Joseph Pulitzer as Welles wanted to create a broad, complex character, intending to show him in the same scenes from several points of view. On Welles's instruction, John Houseman wrote the opening narration as a pastiche of The March of Time newsreels. Autobiographical allusions to Welles were worked in, most noticeably in the treatment of Kane's childhood and particularly, regarding his guardianship. Once the script was complete, Welles attracted cinematographer Gregg Toland, and actors from his Mercury Theatre. After gossip columnist Hedda Hopper saw a preview screening of Citizen Kane, the attempted suppression of Citizen Kane started. Hearst's media outlets boycotted the film. They exerted enormous pressure on Hollywood, but RKO gave the film a limited release. The film was well-received critically, and garnered nine Academy Award nominations. Welles was nominated as a producer, director, writer and actor, but won only for Best Original Screenplay, shared with Mankiewicz. Today, the film is considered by most film critics and historians to be one of the classics in film history.
Orson Welles's second film for RKO was The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. At RKO's request, Welles worked also on an adaptation of Eric Ambler's spy thriller, Journey into Fear (Norman Foster, 1943), co-written with Joseph Cotten. In addition to acting in the film, Welles was the producer. Changes throughout RKO caused re-evaluations of both projects. RKO took control of The Magnificent Ambersons, and ordered to edit the film into a ‘commercial’ format. They removed fifty minutes of Welles's footage, re-shot sequences, rearranged the scene order, and added a happy ending. It resulted in an expensive flop for RKO, although The Magnificent Ambersons received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Agnes Moorehead. Welles found no studios interested in him as a director after the disaster of The Magnificent Ambersons and worked on radio. In 1943, he married Rita Hayworth. They had one child, Rebecca Welles, and divorced five years later in 1948. In between, Welles found work as an actor in other films. He starred in the film adaptation of Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944), trading credit as associate producer for top billing over Joan Fontaine. He had a cameo in the wartime salute Follow the Boys (A. Edward Sutherland, 1944), in which he performed his magic act ‘sawing’ Marlene Dietrich in half. In 1946, Sam Spiegel produced The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946), starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Welles. The film follows the hunt for a Nazi war criminal living under an alias in the United States. Although disputes occurred during editing between Spiegel and Welles, the film was a box office success and it helped his standing with the studios. He then filmed The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) for Columbia Pictures, in which his then-estranged second wife Rita Hayworth co-starred. Cohn disliked Welles's rough-cut, and ordered extensive editing and re-shoots. Approximately one hour of Welles's first cut was removed, including much of a climactic confrontation scene in an amusement park funhouse. The film was considered a disaster in America at the time of release, though the closing shootout in a hall of mirrors has since become a touchstone of film noir. Welles convinced Republic Pictures to let him direct a low-budget version of Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948). Republic initially trumpeted the film as an important work but decided it did not care for the Scottish accents and held up general release for almost a year after early negative press reaction. In the late 1970s, a fully restored version of Macbeth was released that followed Welles's original vision.
Orson Welles left Hollywood for Europe. In Italy he starred as Cagliostro in Black Magic (Gregory Ratoff, 1948) with Akim Tamiroff. His co-star impressed Welles so much that Tamiroff would appear in four of Welles's later productions. Welles starred as Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten. The film was an international smash hit. Welles also appeared as Cesare Borgia in the Italian film Prince of Foxes (Henry King, 1949), and as the Mongol warrior Bayan in The Black Rose (Henry Hathaway, 1950), both with Tyrone Power. Welles was channelling his money from acting jobs into a self-financed film version of Shakespeare's play Othello. From 1949 to 1951, Welles filmed Othello (1952) on location in Europe and Morocco. Suzanne Cloutier co-starred as Desdemona. When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival it won the Palme d'Or, but the film did not receive a general release in the United States until 1955. Welles's daughter, Beatrice Welles-Smith, restored Othello in 1992 for a wide re-release. Welles played the murdered victim in Trent's Last Case (Herbert Wilcox, 1952) and the title role in the 'Lord Mountdrago' segment of Three Cases of Murder (George More O'Ferrall, 1954). Herbert Wilcox cast Welles as the antagonist in Trouble in the Glen (1954) opposite Margaret Lockwood, and John Huston cast him as Father Mapple in Moby-Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. Welles's next turn as director was Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955), filmed in France, Germany, Spain and Italy on a very limited budget. Welles played a billionaire who hires a man (Robert Arden) to delve into the secrets of his past. The film co-starred Welles's third wife, Paola Mori. Frustrated by his slow progress in the editing room, producer Louis Dolivet removed Welles from the project and finished the film without him as Confidential Report. In 1956, Welles returned to Hollywood and guest-starred on radio and television shows. His next film role was in Man in the Shadow (Jack Arnold, 1957) for Universal Pictures, starring Jeff Chandler. Around this time period, Welles began to suffer from weight problems that would eventually cause a deterioration in his health. Welles stayed on at Universal to co-star with Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958). Originally only hired as an actor, Welles was promoted to director by Universal at the insistence of Heston. He reunited with many actors and technicians with whom he had worked in the 1940s including Joseph Cotten, Marlene Dietrich and Akim Tamiroff. Filming proceeded smoothly, but after the end of production, the studio re-edited the film, re-shot scenes, and shot new exposition scenes to clarify the plot. In 1978, a longer preview version of the film was discovered and released. Next, Welles filmed his adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote in Mexico, starring Mischa Auer as Quixote and Akim Tamiroff as Sancho Panza. While filming would continue in fits and starts for several years, Welles would never complete the project. Welles continued acting, notably in The Long, Hot Summer (Marin Ritt, 1958) and Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959), but soon he returned to Europe.
In Italy, Orson Welles directed his own scenes as King Saul in David e Golia/David and Goliath (Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier, 1959). In Hong Kong he co-starred with Curt Jürgens in Ferry to Hong Kong (Lewis Gilbert, 1959). In Paris he co-starred in Crack in the Mirror (Richard Fleischer, 1960). In Yugoslavia he starred in I tartari/The Tartars (Richard Thorpe, 1962) and Bitka na Neretvi/Battle of Neretva (Veljko Bulajić, 1969). In 1962, Welles directed Le Procès/The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962), based on the novel by Franz Kafka and starring Anthony Perkins as Josef K, Jeanne Moreau and Romy Schneider. The film failed at the box-office, but during the filming, he met Oja Kodar, who became his muse, star and mistress for the rest of his life. Welles played a film director in La Ricotta (1963)—Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of the anthology film Ro.Go.Pa.G. He continued taking what work he could find acting, narrating or hosting other people's work, and began filming Campanadas a medianoche/Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1966). Filmed in Spain, it was a condensation of five Shakespeare plays, telling the story of Falstaff (Welles) and his relationship with Prince Hal (Keith Baxter). Then followed Histoire immortelle/The Immortal Story (Orson Welles, 1968) with Jeanne Moreau, which had a successful run in French theatres. He appeared as Cardinal Wolsey in A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966) for which he won considerable acclaim. Welles began directing The Deep, based on the novel Dead Calm by Charles Williams and filmed off the shore of Yugoslavia. The cast included Jeanne Moreau, Laurence Harvey and Oja Kodar. Personally financed by Welles and Kodar, they could not obtain the funds to complete the project, and it was abandoned a few years later after the death of Harvey. The surviving footage was eventually edited and released by the Filmmuseum München. In 1969, Welles played a supporting role in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter. Drawn by the numerous offers he received to work in television and films, and upset by a tabloid scandal reporting his affair with Kodar, Welles moved back to America in 1970.
In Hollywood, Orson Welles continued to self-finance his own film and television projects. While offers to act, narrate and host continued, Welles also found himself in great demand on television talk shows. His primary focus during his final years was The Other Side of the Wind, an unfinished project that was filmed intermittently between 1970 and 1976. Written by Welles, it is the story of an aging film director (John Huston) looking for funds to complete his final film. Financed by Iranian backers, ownership of the film fell into a legal quagmire after the Shah of Iran was deposed, and disputes still prevent its release. Welles portrayed Louis XVIII of France in Waterloo (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1970), and narrated the historical comedy Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin, 1970). He appeared in La décade prodigieuse/Ten Days' Wonder (Claude Chabrol, 1971), co-starring with Anthony Perkins. Wikipedia: “That same year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an honorary award "For superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures". Welles pretended to be out of town and sent John Huston to claim the award. Huston criticized the Academy for awarding Welles, even while they refused to give Welles any work.” Welles played Long John Silver in Treasure Island (John Hough, 1972), an adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. He completed F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) , a personal essay film about art forger Elmyr de Hory and the biographer Clifford Irving, and his documentary Filming Othello (Orson Welles, 1979). During the 1980s, Welles worked on such film projects as The Dreamers, based on two stories by Isak Dinesen. His last film appearance was in Henry Jaglom's Someone to Love (1987), released after his death. Welles had three daughters: Chris Welles Feder (1938), with Virginia Nicholson; Rebecca Welles Manning (1944–2004), with Rita Hayworth; and Beatrice Welles (1955), with Paola Mori. His only known son, British director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (1940), is from Welles's affair with Irish actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, then the wife of Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 4th baronet. On 10 October 1985, Orson Welles appeared on his final interview on The Merv Griffin Show. He died several hours later of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. His estranged wife Paola Mori refused to allow most of Welles's friends to attend the funeral, limiting the mourners to just nine: herself, Welles's three daughters, Roger Hill, and three of Welles's friends, as well as the doctor who had signed Welles's death certificate. Welles's companion for the last 20 years, Oja Kodar, was not invited, nor were either of his ex-wives. Welles's ashes were taken to Ronda, Spain, where they were buried in an old well covered by flowers, within the rural property of a long-time friend, retired bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez.
Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Same image as previous in photostream - uploaded to allow a friend to compare this version, post-processed on my PC, with the version post-processed on his Mac. Monitors on both machines were calibrated using the same equipment.
Same Sparrowhawk, different pose.
Thanks to those who advised me that this is a one year old male, just starting to moult into his adult feathers. you can see some of the the grey-blue feathers mixed in with the brown.
I was amazed watching him as it fixed on to noises in the trees and undergrowth. What an incredible bird. My daughter says she has seen this a few times when she has been in the house during the day.
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Update photos taken yesterday morning just after adding last photo we see nest change over and by the time i got in bedroom with Camera bird on the nest had gone and incoming bird was was just walking into the nest and checking the two babies and the older baby started to beg for food and started to get crop milk from mum and then the younger one also started to beg for food and started to feed other side of mum beak so both now feeding at the same time and you can see baby on the left is a little bigger as 24 hours older feeding lasted for just over 5 minuets when looking at the times taken on the photos and i got over 280 photos and can see both babies are strong and doing well when they finished feeding and then both lay down and mum started to settle down over them to keep them warm and safe .
The sole locomotive belonging to the New England Southern Railroad, SW1500 2555 (EMD blt. 1/70 for the Southern Pacific with the same number), switches their sole customer 3M.
The 60,000 sq ft plant first opened in 1947 and was known as the Quinn-T and Corporation and then Innovative Paper Technologies (IPT) for many years. Since the late 1970s IPT has developed and manufactured more than 300 inorganic paper products engineered for diverse industrial applications at temperatures ranging from below zero to more than 250 degrees centigrade, including electrical insulation for motors, generators and transformers and flame barriers in household appliances. At the time of the 2007 acquisition by 3M, Joe LaPlante, vice-president of operations at IPT, said that the company's annual sales were about $15-million.
3M is located about 16 miles north of Concord on a spur off the former Boston, Concord & Montreal main that was a through route seeing daily Montreal- Boston passenger service right until the segment north of Plymouth to Wells River was abandoned at the end of 1954. Since then it has just been an extension of the branch from Lincoln.
The B&M petitioned for abandonment in 1975 and the state of New Hampshire purchased the entire line. The NEGS was formed in 1982 and has been the contract freight operator since. The Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad operates two tourist operations (the Winnipesaukee Scenic and Hobo Railroads respectively) on the middle and northern portions of the line.
Freight traffic has dwindled over the years to the point that NEGS has just this one remaining consistent customer, and they only receive a dozen or so cars per year meaning the NEGS only runs 8 to 10 revenue freight trains a year making it arguably the must elusive and hardest to catch operation in New England.
In fact, given the dearth of traffic the railroad shuts down all winter and bridges are planked over, handrails and signage put up, and the line is turned over as a state sanctioned snow mobile trail corridor.
The train seen here was the first run of the 2020 operating year and picked up two loaded tanks for 3M and and six loaded center beams of ties for track improvements along the length of the state owned property.
Tilton, New Hampshire
Wednesday April 22, 2020
Same COE Peterbilt I posted last week. This time he's SB on I83 in York, PA in '83 or '84. Original equip bumper and air foiler.
12 Months of the Same Image #5
My new job has meant a lot of very long days in the last two months, which has meant that there hasn't been nearly enough time for photography for my liking! However, the very early starts do have an upside ... driving to work in lovely sunrises, and getting to see lovely spring mornings like this one. I like the lovely little patch of yellow oilseed rape in the distance, catching the morning sun.
Sony A7RII
Sigma 17-35mm lens
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 24-Oct-21 (DeNoise AI).
Arriving back from Canada after summer lease to Skyservice from MyTravel Airways Denmark via MyTravel Airways UK. With additional Alba Tours titles.
Considering that this aircraft has only been with different versions of the same company all its life, it's got a very long history.
First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWKA, this aircraft was leased to Airtours International Airways and sub-leased to Premiair Denmark as OY-VKI in Sep-00. Premiair was renamed MyTravel Airways Denmark in May-02.
It was wet-leased to Garuda Indonesia Airlines for Haj Pilgrimage operations between Dec-03/Mar-04, Dec-04/Feb-05 and Dec-05/Feb-06. The aircraft was sub-leased to Skyservice Airlines, Canada as C-GVKI between May/Oct-06. Registered OY-VKI again, another Haj Pilgrimage wet-lease to Garuda Indonesia followed between Nov-06/Feb-07.
That pattern was repeated when the aircraft was again sub-leased to Skyservice Airlines as C-GVKI between May/Oct-07 and then, as OY-VKI, on wet-lease to Garuda Indonesia between Nov-07/Jan-08
In Apr-08 the aircraft was sub-leased to Skyservice Airlines again as C-GVKI. While it was away, the MyTravel Group was merged into the Thomas Cook Travel Group, becoming Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia in May-08. The aircraft returned to Thomas Cook Scandinavia as OY-VKI in late Oct-08 and was wet-leased to Garuda Indonesia for another Haj Pilgrimage operation just three days later, returning to Thomas Cook Scandinavia in Jan-09.
The aircraft was leased to Thomas Cook Airlines UK for the summer season between Apr/Sep-09 before operating another Garuda Haj Pilgrimage between Oct-09/Jan-10. It was leased to Thomas Cook Airlines UK again between May/Sep-10 and then back to Garuda Indonesia for the Haj Operation between Oct/Dec-10.
It was leased to Thomas Cook Airlines UK between May/Oct-11 and again between Jan/Feb-15. The Thomas Cook Group (a UK registered company) ceased operations on 23-Sep-19. However, as Thomas Cook Scandinavia was a separate registered company, it continued to operate at a reduced level. At then end of Oct-19 the company was bought by a Norwegian Consortium and renamed SunClass Airlines on 01-Nov-19. The aircraft was eventually repainted in SunClass livert in Feb-21. Now 23 years old, it continues in service. Current, updated 24-Oct-23.
The flickr stats state 3998 uploads, so a bit of head scratching for what to single out for number 4000. In the end, two very distinctive products from the same stable are selected for uploads 3999 and 4000.
Relaunched on to the preservation scene in 2025 after a long absence was this magnificent Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs with a unique style of bodywork to the order of Bolton Corporation. This example was the last new bus delivered to Bolton before its fleet was absorbed into the SELNEC PTE in November 1969 and so the opportunity was duly taken for it to be presented in the erstwhile PTE's Northern Division livery. The only survivor of this batch of 15, it is a credit to the Team who have devoted the time and resources to returning the bus to active use once again and in a scheme that many of a certain generation are familiar with.
Pictured on Boyle Street as it left the Bury Centenary Event at the Museum of Transport following its relaunch that weekend.
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It is not at all easy to get close enough to a dragonfly for a good shot. Observing them for some time helps, because after flying a round they tend to come back to the same spot. Here I was sitting for some time motionless until this one came back to its place on a dry leaf, where it remained sitting for about 30 seconds.
I held my camera with stretched-out arms in front of me and took aim with the camera's LCD in "life view" mode (which, unfortunately, is not a very reliable method in plain sunlight). Autofocus was set to continuous mode. The 105 mm lens helps to keep some distance from the shy insect. When I took this shot, the distance was perhaps a little less than one meter. The 36 megapixels of the Nikon D800 give you enough reserve for enlargement, which makes the dragonfly look closer than it actually was.
In addition to sunlight I used a Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash. Using a small aperture f/20 helps to get one shot with optimal focus with "only" five to ten attempts. But choosing the aperture too small would actually decrease sharpness due to diffraction. Moreover, a small aperture gives often gives you too many details in the background. Here I used photoshop to reduce background detail with a Gaussian blur.
This is the same family I have been taking photos, spring till now. Hen with same number...6 jakes and jennys have been visiting pretty often for the last 7 months, still growing, looks like they are doing very well, great to see !!
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Hanover, NJ
West Wales Motors Tycroes near Ammanford purchased this Albion Venturer SPM80 in April 1933 fitted with Albion's own 7.8 litre EN85 petrol engine and a English Eletcric highbridge body seating H27/24R Registered TH 3293.
It was rebodied by Duple in 1942 with a lowbridge body seating L30/26R and also acquired a Gardner Diesel engine sadly it caught fire and burned out on 30th August 1948 near Cadle Bridge Fforestfach while in service (Photos From My Collection)