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Taken with my Lomo Holga with a AGFA RSX II 200ISO espired in June 2007 film cross processed @ Sant'Angelo Lodigiano (Lodi)
A Postcard of New Zealand's largest city - Auckland. From top left to right: View from the Sky Tower overlooking the city and Rangitoto Island; Tamaki Drive; City from the North Shore. Bottom left to right: View from Mt Victoria overlooking Waitemata Harbour and Rangitoto Island; Westhaven Marina; One Tree Hill.
It was so fun to get the chance to photograph Quixotic!! Their shows are packed full of magic and wonder.
Si is in the "Ride the 44" campaign and is currently appearing on the sides of buses and trollies all over town. Our pal Drew worked on the campaign and chose the photos. See the original here. It's super cool when a bus just rolls by with his big old face on it.
8.16.12
This is the 2nd time I see a hummingbird using my feeder, and the third time a hummingbird in my backyard. I was about to give up until yesterday when I saw a hummingbird less than 2 feet away using the feeder. It came across to me as if it had just discovered the feeder and was checking the nectar quality.
Unfortunately for today, my camera setting wasn't done right. so the focus is way off. It also didn't help that this guy is very camera shy.
This hummingbird seems to be small than those from last year. I waited for hours for their returns yesterday and today, but I didn't see their return. Last year all I had to do is to wait 15 to 30 minutes from sighting to sighting.
The impacts from the February feeze is state wide. Don't know what sort of impact it had to these hummingbirds.
Philpots Island, Baffin Bay, Nunavut, Canada
September 8, 2018 - Day 13 of Quark's Northwest Passage Voyage.
The activities, sights, and sounds on FLICKR:
Excerpt from the day's Journal:
"We landed on the southern side of the island, where a light coating of snow had fallen through the night. The snow continued to fall lightly as we departed the ship, but visibility was good.
On shore, a perimeter was set up, with lookouts creating the boundary. Inside this area we were able to wander freely, explore the landscape and take the time to think about this land we have been privileged to visit. A few of us opted to walk a loop stopping at each guard to chat and get some exercise. Most of us stayed lower on the landscape, preferring to investigate the small lake nearby and the multi-tonal rocks underfoot. With the snow and fog looming, our visibility became lessened to a level that had us returning back to the beach and to the ship."
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Philpots Island was discovered in 1869. The island consists of ancient red granite that is part of the Ellesmere-North Greenland geological complex. It has been dated to 1.6 billion years in age. It is relatively flat by comparison to Devon or Baffin Island.
In the open water icebergs, calved from a huge glacier, represent glacial ice. Gradual accumulation of snowfall on Devon Island has been pushed out by its sheer weight and calved into the sea. In a large piece the ice seems to glow with an ethereal blue light, the larger the piece the bluer the ice.
Blue ice is not an optical illusion, but the result of dense, clear terrestrial ice allowing only the shorter bluish wavelengths of sunlight to pass through, while filtering out the longer reddish wavelengths.
White ice contains small bubbles of air, leftover from the snowfall. These reflect and refract all wavelengths of light and we see white. When pressure has forced the air from the ice, leaving pure, crystalline H20, the ice rejects, as it were, more of the wavelengths that we perceive as blue.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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