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Sunset at Sharpness point, Tynemouth with Stu
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A bit of focus on locomotive builder Sharp Stewart and Company today - works no.2961 was a 3'6" gauge 2-4-0 built in Manchester in 1881 for the Staats Spoorwegen (Indonesia). Seen here 97 years later at Kanigoro (?) with a passenger train from Madiun to Ponorogo.
Sharp, Stewart and Company was established in 1843, initially based in Manchester, England before moving to Glasgow, Scotland in 1888. In 1903, having built over 5000 locomotives, the company amalgamated with Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Company to form the North British Locomotive Company.
This Red Tailed Hawk lives in captvitiy at the Palm Beach Zoo. At some point in the past, this bird, and many others in their collection, suffered a permanent injury that prohibits them from being rehabilitated and released back in the wild. The exhibit helps demonstrate the impact people have on the wildlife around them.
Made it out to the lake this week. Not many clouds on this night so I decided to play with the exposure and dynamic range on my new Sony A7RII. Also wanted to put my new 70-200 F4 G OSS lens to the test. A really sharp lens. I also remembered my "OFF" so I could keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Khukri blade
ODC - Sharp
An interesting image for me - on my laptop this looks like the background is almost grey. On my 4k monitor it looks brown (which is what it is in reality). On my tablet, it shows about half way between the two.
Laptop screens don't seem to have much in the way of calibration options and it just shows that people may not be seeing what I think they are.
The hawk was perched for at least 10 minutes in the lilac shrub at the very back of the garden. Photo taken through window.
This is the beach as you walk from the parking lot at the inlet park of Ponce Inlet.
Explore rank #90, Aug. 7, 2012
I finally found something useful (or at least decorative) to do with these pesky sweetgum seed pods.
Hope you're all staying warm today...brrrrrr!
September 10, 2018
A closeup of the edge of a piece of obsidian. Obsidian is fast-cooled (and hardened) volcanic lava with the qualities of glass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian
(a "MacroMondays" submission, theme "rock" HMM!)
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Wish this one was in our garden! I used to have a wool winter coat this colour with a black velvet collar! That was when I was young and "glamorous"- ;-)
Sharpes of Nottingham: (YJ16 EMX) a Van Hool EX16H, painted in silver, black and blue fleet livery and captured here parked up at Donington Park whilst attending the 2017 Showbus event there.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 17th September 2017.
Ref No: DSC_20270/PJ.
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.
It sometimes seems that everything in the desert either pokes you, bites you, stings you or burns you. These Teddy Bear Cholla will inflict some nasty puncture wounds if you come in contact with them, but they are still beautiful to look at, especially when lit up by the setting sun. - Sonoran Desert, La Paz County, Arizona
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