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A 4 shot pano in landscape mode and stitched by my brother Graham.
For some reason my Elements stitching would not work properly.
This entrance also gives access to The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal .
The Severn Bridge can also just be seen,middle left.
A sharp pair of SD40-2's lead BNSF's Market Street local through Sand Creek Junction on a beautiful morning in Colorado.
The bird feeders have not been well-patronized lately as our local Sharpie has been keeping an eye on the activity. Amazingly, this bird perched only 25 feet away from me for 5 minutes and didn't seem to mind me so close.
Just preparing to launch
I saw him fly in and land. I went for my camera.
I couldn't open the door - he would be gone in an instant.
I shot him through double panned windows. I took 18 shots and this was the 19th. I saw him spread his wings and fly through the view in my camera. The 20th shot was a bare branch.
On April 29th I started my day at 2:45 am. I drove with three friends to a lek in Southern Alberta. We had to be in the blind by 5 am. It sure took a long time before there was enough light to take photos. We could hear the grouse. They were making many sounds and e could see their outlines in the dark. It was another great day. The last time I was out there was two years ago.
I was using a brand new camera so I had many photos to delete and of course far too many photos over all. Most photos were only cropped. I didn't adjust any colors. Some photos are not even cropped.
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They keep on building these sharp, tall objects down the coastline, blocking everyone's sun and the cool sea breeze.. What a shame.
- Netanya, Israel (June 2017)
The peculiar design of the CC-40110 electric powered locomotive launched in 1964 on French railways, retired in 1996. AJECTA, Longueville (77)
A view from the Galibier at dawn.
Lens: EF 300 f/4L IS (click to see all my photos with this lens)
300 mm f/11 0.4s ISO 100 + tripod
Was outside today when i noticed something all puffed up in the neighbors cherry tree. an hour earlier i watched it chase a flock of sparrows into a bush. it looked like he was successful at the time.
i ran inside and attached the 300 f4 and 1.7X to the d300 and mounted it all to my tripod.
incredibly it allowed me to walk up to within about 30 feet from him before flying off.
in the original file there looks to be a blood spot on its lower breast where it blends to white.
Accipiter striatus,
Perched in the neighbor's yard,
Morro Bay, California
I saw this Accipiter fly over me and noticed its long, straight-tipped tail as it landed. I treid to sneak close enough to get a photo and, after getting out into the open for many minutes and knowing I had to be obvious to the keen-eyed bird, I got quite close. It perched for most of an hour before moving on.
For the return southbound run of the Blackstone Valley Polar Express I returned to Blackstone and broke out the wide angles lense to try something I'd long had my eye on. I kinda like how it came out, what do you think?
PW 4004 (GE B40-8 (blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4002) is leading the southbound train over Saint Paul Street at about MP 17.8 on the Providence and Worcester mainline. The bridge in the foreground framing the train that once carries the New Haven's Midland Division Mainline. It had scheduled through passenger service as late as 1955, and in fact my father as a young child boarded a train at the station here for a ride on this very route to Putman, Willimantic, Hartford, and on to Waterbury. And while those trains ended when the flooding associated with Hurricane Diane in 1955 severed the route at Putnam, commuter passenger trains to Boston continued to run here until April 24, 1966 when the town of Blackstone elected not to subsidize service and it was cut back to Franklin which continues to be served to this day by the MBTA. Sharp eyes will note a plywood sheet just to the right of clearance sign covering an opening in the stone wall. This is the access to the stairs that led up to the modest wooden station building that sat between the two mainlines serving trains on both routes.
The Midland line remained as a freight route primarily for over dimensional loads until the viaduct just out of sight to my left collapsed in 1968. The line remained in limbo as the New Haven disappeared into Penn Central and the latter abandoned the entirety of the route from Putnam to Franklin 7 miles to the east of here in 1969. In recent years much of the route has been restored as a gorgeously paved bike path misnamed the Southern New England Trunk Line Trail.
Blackstone, Massachusetts
Saturday December 11, 2021
Mural by Patrice Moretti aka @smogoneart, seen at 320 NW 29th Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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April 9th_2019
Forgive me when I post too many photos of the grouse!
On April 9th 3 friends and I drove south of the city to a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek. I hadn't thought about the degree of difficulty that might challenge me in climbing over the stile with a knee replacement. I really struggled so I do not think I will be returning to see the grouse in future years.
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One of the rocks from the varied geology on Penders beach. This one with sharp edges that appear to be iron intrusions. Penders Beach at Bithry Inlet Mimosa Rocks National Park on the Far South Coast of NSW.
Sharp as a tack HMM
ran out f time so looked through some photos taken in italy and though this was an odd flower - star shaped, sharp as tack because of the detail in the 'hairy' stars Macro Mondays HMM
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Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male defends its little square of territory in the "lek" on the prairie landscape near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Fortunately the landscape is groomed by a herd of beef cattle which keep it in a nice state for photographing the birds on the grass cover.
19 May, 2016.
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The male is more spectacular and they do their nice little dance. However, I like the female subtle beauty and more quiet attitude, perhaps even more. Perhaps, I am getting old. Nice that Grassland National Park provides an opportunity to see both.
For Crazy Tuesday’s theme “MADE OF METAL”
Have a nice Crazy Tuesday
For Macro Mondays’ theme “SHARP”
HMM
Metra 194 thunders away from the curve under Canal St with a dinky bound for Aurora. 194 is one of a few F40PHM-2's to be painted in the "new" corporate scheme. I gotta say, that scheme looks sharp on the squashed nose.
although similar and often sharing the same habitat notice the different feather pattern and detail (from previous posting) of grouse vs prairie chicken.....also 'on the lek' activity will begin in another month or so....they should have been 'named' after me 'star tailed grouse' !
Sharp joined the squad at Palpatine's personal request, yet something always seemed off about him. Wound too tight maybe, but it's always felt as if he had a different mission on Laceropes.
-CT-7540 Dueles
Some artsy shot of one of my favorite clones, I absolutely love the Laceropes members and was able to snag this little shot for y'all.
Idiom: "to throw something into sharp relief"
Fig. [for something] to make something plainly evident or clearly visible
(Taken from The Free Dictionary)
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The backyard was very quiet for a long period of time and there were no birds in or around the feeders, and this was the cause. In the back corner of the backyard, perched on top of the compost bin, this small hawk waited patiently. The smallest of the bird-hunting Accipiter hawks, this one is also the most migratory, breeding north to treeline in Alaska and Canada and wintering south to Panama.
Having made the 25 mile trip to the end of the line in South Barre and back Mass Central Railroad train PA-2 is almost done with their day as the arrive in Palmer with a healthy train of outbound interchange for the CSXT. They are pulling around the connection track to head east down the lead to CSXT's yard while in the foreground can be seen the diamond crossing of CSXT's Boston Sub mainline and the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Sub mainline (the former Boston and Albany and Central Vermont respectively).
MCER GP9 1749 (ex CO 6199 blt. Dec. 1956) and GP38-2 1751 (ex PC 7997 blt. Jun. 1972) are dressed in a sharp scheme that mirrors the original Boston and Maine bluebird colors debuted on their GP9 order of 1957.
Palmer, Massachusetts
Friday October 11, 2024
Sharpness.
The black-headed gull is our commonest small gull. During summer, it actually has a chocolate-brown head, rather than a jet-black one, which turns white for the rest of the year, with little black ruminant spots on either side of the head, which make it look like the bird is wearing headphones. It is silvery-grey above and white below, black wingtips. It has red legs and a red bill, which become darker in summer. (The Wildlife Trusts).
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