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Kinda funky rendering of a sample shot using my Panasonic GF1 body with Tokina 70-210mm f4-5.6 legacy lens attached. Not too bad for an old lens and hand-focused with old eyes!
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation dx4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
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My fine art landscape lenses for the A7RII are the Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens and the Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS Lens ! Love the Carl Zeiss and super sharp Sony Glass!
Sony A7RII Photos of Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography on Walls & in Galleries: Sony 16-35mm Vario- Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount
Sony HX400V---I looked at the sharp bend in this contrail and was surprised to see an airliner make a turn like that. I went home and used the Flight Radar 24 Program to check out the plane. It really did make that turn. It was a 737-900, going from Las Vegas to Portland. It was at 16,700 feet of altitude and was flying at 398 mph.
I thought there might be some trouble and that it was diverting to a closer airport. But after checking the airport data, I found that shortly before, the wind at Portland had shifted and was coming from the opposite direction it had just before this. So the plane was turning to come in from the East, rather than from the West, as had been planned previously. It's an interesting program, if you use the information you can pull up from it.
I'm not sure you can take a bad shot of Chicago's Skyline. Even though the wind last Wednesday was 25-35 mph, I was still able to get a decently sharp shot. My long exposures didn't stand much of a chance.
Just as work was ending today, I glanced outside my office window and watched this Sharpie settle to the ground with a Junco in it's talons.
If you zoom in on this pic, you can see that the Junco also has it's toes wrapped around the leg of the Sharpie.
Sadly for the Junco, it was the end of the line.
Not as sadly, for the Sharpie, it was the first (and today, the only) successful strike of the Sharpie. I watched it make four other attempts at grabbing one of the Juncos that were feeding in our back yard.
After bringing the Junco to the ground, the Sharpie resituated the Junco in it's talons and then flew off to a tree to partake of its bounty.
Circle of Life Stuff!
Today was an absolutely perfect day to be out on the Chesapeake Bay! We left the marina a bit after nine and returned at 3:30! We ventured farther afield than we have before going south and across the bay to the Choptank River and then up the Tred Avon River (which flows into the Choptank) to Oxford, Maryland . A great exercise in planning the route and waypoints. It's amazing to be out on such a huge expanse of water and be almost alone!
There were lots of working boats near Tangier Island running trotlines for blue crabs.
www.bluecrab.info/crabbing/trotline.html
I had not yet seen this lighthouse and was glad to have the chance. The bay was incredibly calm as you can see in this shot. We could not get too close as it's in just a foot or so of water now!
What a wonderful way to spend the day!!
From Wikipedia:
The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.[2] The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977.
The first lighthouse was built on Sharps Island in 1838, but due to the island's erosion it was moved in 1848. This was replaced with a screwpile lighthouse in 1866 near the original location of the first structure.[3][4]
The second lighthouse lasted until 1881 when it was forced off its foundations by an ice floe. It floated nearly five miles down the Chesapeake—with its keepers still inside—until it ran aground, allowing the men to escape unharmed.[5]
The current light, a sparkplug lighthouse, was constructed in 1882 with a concrete caisson foundation and a 35-foot (11 m) cast iron tower. The fourth-order Fresnel lens was replaced with a 9.8-inch (250 mm) lens in 1977; the focal plane is 54 feet (16 m) above sea level. The tower includes an integral dwelling and was manned until 1938 when the United States Coast Guard automated the light.[3] Leaning by about 15° since it was ice-damaged in 1977, the structure is picturesque, but in poor condition.
The Sharps Island Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (reference # 82002821) on July 22, 1982.[1] It is one of the many historic features along Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
It is also on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.[6]
As of 2006, the lighthouse was a candidate for sale under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.[6][7] It was deactivated in January 2010.[8]
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Olympus C-5060 self-converted to infrared, Hoya R72 filter used, white balance was set for the grass.
Second in the line of Sharpes vehicles was Gemini 2 60 YWX, carrying a registration that was formerly on a Dublin Olympian. IIRC this is an ex-Bournemouth bus, which although still a G2 has come from a city besides Edinburgh for once.
Maid Marian Way, Nottingham
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A Sharp-shinned Hawk that was circling high over Santiago Park, in northeast Santa Ana (Orange County), CA. 3 December, 2016. Appears to show the proportionately shorter tail (vs. Cooper's), with the sharply squared off tail tip. The head size and projection beyond the plane of the wings appears relatively small, this being accentuated in Sharp-shins by the wings, which when soaring are often held just slightly forward from the body (in the above photo this appears fairly subtle, but can be more pronounced in this species). Cooper's, when soaring, always seem to hold their wings straight out--perpendicular to the body--which helps to accentuate the head projection beyond the plane of the wings. Lastly, although this bird was getting fairly distant, it does not appear to show a prominent white terminal band on the tail, which is normally easy to see on a Cooper's Hawk.
Recently I've had some rotten luck narrowly missing several good deckers from the coach operators (including Tiger European ex-NCT Y667 DRA), but some good fortune here meant I was in the right place at the right time to get a better photo of Sharpes Volvo B7TL ALX400 MIB 658, which is depicted here on Mansfield Road, but about to turn up Woodborough Road on 21.3.22
When on NCT's brown line buses, I've seen on most days a Sharpes double decker (or two) parked down Haydn Road and it was only a matter of time before I had a walk down to take photos. That time came on 30.4.22 when I'd already seen there was one (despite it being a Saturday) and on my return journey towards town decided to go on foot and take a look.
Rather fortunately, the bus waiting for me was NLZ 116, an ex-Dublin B7TL which I was after a better photo of! It is pictured on Haydn Road outside Nottingham Free School, on a Saturday evening, which seems like a weird time for it to be there. What was weirder was that two days later it was still there, seemingly untouched.
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I was diagnosed diabetic at 21 - no real surprise as there were cases on both sides of my family. I tried to control it with diet and pills and resisted the needles until there was no other option about 4 years ago. It's become part of my daily life now - testing before every meal - 4 shots a day - having to take my 'works' everywhere with me. It is a pain in the butt but I have it under control now and there are worse things to be afflicted with. It does mean I really have to stay in a big, corporate health plan though or go back to the UK and the NHS.
I came across 4 sharp tailed grouse today. Unfortunately I had too much lens on (not a problem I'm used to), and could not back up and keep the birds in view.
They survive the extreme cold, by borrowing into the snow at cold temps. A few days ago, I saw one with just its head out of the snow, as I approached to investigate, the snow exploded into flying grouse.
You can also see the feathers on the feet to keep them warm even when they are about in the cold.
Coach & Bus UK 2019 took place at the NEC in Birmingham over October 2nd & 3rd. The biennial event is the smaller of the two major UK trade shows which both take place at the NEC in alternating years.
Nonetheless there was still plenty to see including exhibits from ADL, Arriva, BASE, BKM, Dawson, EVM, Harris, Irizar, Mellor, Moseley, Noone, Pelican, Unvi and Volvo to name but a few. I visited on the first day of the show.
A break in the storms yesterday gave us some blue sky and fantastic clouds over the Pacific Ocean.
Well, it is not exactly blue here. Removing the color accents the forms, and that is what this photo is all about.
I used a polarizing filter on a 10 mm lens, so the wide angle of view caused the sky to have a widely varying amount of polarization, which appeared as a severe reverse vignette. It took some careful processing to minimize that effect, and working in b&w certainly makes it easier.
HMB !!!!
I'm going to start a portfolio just for portraits , most of them in B/w , so you guys will be seeing some of my new stuff soon ^_^
Night Flickr :))
EXPLORED !!! Highest position #265 on Wednesday, April 15, 2009