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Since I still have some photos to upload I'll post two some days
P.S. you can't imagine how difficult it is to focus an image like this with a f/1.8
A banded snail kite hauls off a recently caught crawfish to a nearby tree, Really. Do we need a name change to "mudbug" kite? Just sayin'......................
Taken in Florida.
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Tierpark Nordhorn
Since 2004, free-flying, wild storks (Ciconia ciconia) have been breeding successfully at the Vechtehof and on the barn at the African savannah. Storks that are unable to fly live in the meadow in the zoo. These are usually victims of an accident that can only survive thanks to human care.
Recently, more wild storks have been coming to the zoo every year, trying to build their large nests in trees or in aviaries. The Nordhorn zoo, together with the NABU Graafschap Bentheim, is trying to lure the animals from the zoo to nature reserves by placing nests in the side arms of the Vecht outside the zoo.
Since there's no FL9 for picture 490, we'll return to Conrail and freight action (technically there was an Amtrak FL9 No. 490 but it was one of six junk units sent for scrap). Here at Oakland Road in Weedsport, a gift that keeps on giving as far as locations go, we see westbound double stack train TV-201X with C36-7 No. 6643 leading a B40-8, B36-7, and GP40-2 for power, on the pleasant late summer afternoon of 21 September 1991.
Since many groups discourage either posting images of nests, or giving their locations, I am not going to bother "sharing" this with a group. However, I did want to share with those who follow me on Flickr the curious nature of the general location of this nest that I learned about on Friday. Specifically, I have never seen, nor did I ever imagine a Bald Eagle nest in such close proximity to human activity. I captured this image in the parking lot of a shopping plaza with a large supermarket. A local told me the eagles have been there for at least two years, and managed to fledge two juveniles last year. This eagle flew in while I was observing. The other eagle that had been on the nest, took off a few minutes later leaving this guy to guard to site.
Since the temperatures here have risen noticeably in the last few days, the probability of a white Christmas is now close to zero.
So at least start the day here today with some winter forest romance.
This picture was also taken on my trip to Cinovec in the Bohemian Ore Mountains.
But unlike the first motif, there is no single tree here that draws all the attention to itself, but rather a small group, because we are not in a clearing here but in the middle of the "wilderness" (which, by the way, made moving through the deep snow quite a good fitness exercise.
Additionally, I always had to be careful not to accidentally ruin a composition with footprints by walking around somewhere where I might be able to photograph later.
Da die Temperaturen hier in den letzten Tagen spürbar angestiegen sind, ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit für weisse Weihnachten inzwischen eher nahe Null.
Also starten den Tag heute wenigstens hier mit etwas Winterwaldromantik.
Dieses Bild entstand ebenfalls bei meinem Ausflug nach Cinovec im Böhmischen Erzgebirge.
Doch im Gegensatz zum ersten Motiv gibt es hier keinen einzelnen Baum, der alle Aufmerksamkeit auf sich lenkt, sondern eine kleine Gruppe, denn wir befinden uns hier nicht auf einer Lichtung sondern mitten in der „Wildnis“ (was die Fortbewegung in dem tiefen Schnee übrigens zu einer recht ordentlichen Fitnessübung gemacht hat.
Darüber hinaus musste ich immer aufpassen, dass ich nicht versehentlich eine Komposition mit Fußspuren ruiniere, indem ich irgendwo herum laufe, wo ich später vielleicht noch fotografieren könnte.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Since these ladybirds visited my giant Chrysanthemum, all the aphids have disappeared from the leaves and stems. I am grateful to these pretty and industrious insects :)
The other day our historical society put on 125 years since the first train arrived in Charlevoix. All sorts of festivities went on at the Depot.
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Since “The Lonely Tree” (German: Der einsame Baum) a 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich, solitary trees have been depicted in many ways and are popular objects in photography, so here is mine rendition. The famous painting measures 55 × 71 centimeters (22 × 28 in) and depicts a panoramic view of a romantic landscape of plains with mountains in the background. A solitary oak tree dominates the foreground. For more information and different interpretations follow the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Tree
since the picture that's next in the photostream is my posting for the macromonday theme of food, i thought it only fitting to do a PSA about flossing :)
145/365 aDaD "a duck a day" day126
the whole aDaD album is here:
Since moving to the mountains I have had to get used to looking down on airplanes arriving at the airport. It takes a shift in mental space and is a constant reminder of geographical location.
Since several years acid rain is affecting that in a higher altitudes the forest is getting ill. After this bark beetles are destroying a part of the sick forest.
* Since reading Ian McEwan’s 2007 novel “ On Chesil Beach “ I have wanted to see this strange geological structure .
Chesil is not your typical British beach lined with stripy deckchairs and pastel painted beach-huts but wild, rugged and at the mercy of Mother Nature. John Fowles, captures the landscape of Chesil perfectly in his quote: ..... “It is above all an elemental place, made of sea, shingle and sky, its dominant sound always that of waves on moving stone”
The beach runs for a length of 18 miles from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and in places is up to 50 ft high and 660 ft wide. Behind the beach is the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon. The lagoon is home to the mute swan colony at Abbotsbury, the only place in the world where you can walk through a nesting colony of mute swans.
The pebbles on Chesil Beach are graded in size from potato-sized near Portland to pea-sized at Bridport and are made up of mainly flint and chert from the Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks, along with Bunter pebbles from Budleigh Salterton. It is believed that smugglers landing on the beach at night could could judge their position along the coast simply by picking up a handful of shingle.
Both the beach and the Swannery are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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I'm leaving Poland and soon gonna be on my way back to China...
She's the reason!
Since their founding, the Marble Sisters had only one task: to watch the archives. They spent every day caring for the scrolls; returning borrowed texts, replacing fragments too torn or faded to understand, and, every once in a while, creating new manuscripts to join the ranks of the endless rows in their vast library. Although the sisters were able to achieve great knowledge and wisdom thanks to the scrolls, they received a curse as well: a hunger, a never-ceasing addiction for more knowledge. This drove most of the sisters to madness, however, those who managed to control their urge gained more than anyone could possibly imagine...
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Built for Brickscalibur in the 12x12 vignette category.
I decided to build this as my entry for the 12x12 category after I was inspired by some concept art for the wheel of time Amazon show. I figured I'd venture beyond libraries and books and take my chances with some scrolls instead. Let me know what you think!
Feedback is always appreciated,
Happy Building!
Since we have entered into the season of summer - I thought my glass topped coffee table should be "summery". (Not sure "summery" is a word - but I think most people will understand what I mean.)
Wishing all of my Flickr friends a very happy summer.
Its been a while since I last posted to Flickr, but its not due to lack of shooting. Its been a busy year with the new baby and new job, but I am sitting on quite the backlog of photos. I am planning to post more frequently in the upcoming months.
Here is a pano from our recent trip to San Francisco. We arrived a little later to our spot than planned, but Im still happy with the photos I walked away with. This is a 5 shot pano at 50mm.
for dinner~~~ since he was flying into the wind I had the advantage that he would come right over me....the tricky part was keeping that big yellow ball in the sky out of my picture, such a nice and unusual problem to have in our rainy west coast forests....heheh ....hope you all have a great start to 2016....
Since this photo was taken a couple of weeks ago I've moved house (finally, after a nine month horror show) and also navigated a return to school following a forty page COVID risk assessment. Life is busy, but good and I've many blessings to count.
EN: Since the Bergen line was totally newly built in the 90ies, the line was lead no longer in snowtunnels, but open with good view for passengers and photographers. Et 601 is observed between Tunga loop (situated in a long tunnel) and Finse station next to lake Storurdi.
Slidescan.
DE: Seit die Bergenbahn in den 90ern komplett neu trassiert wurde, konnte man auf die Einhausung durch Schneetunnel verzichten, was sowohl Passagieren als auch Fotografen bessere Perspektiven bringt. Et 601 konnte zwischen dem im Tunnel gelegenen Ausweichbf Tunga und Finse am Storurdi vatn beobachtet werden.
Diascan.
Since the razor is shown diagonally, approximately 2.362 inches are visible.
Lightning 💡: One remote controlled Speedlite 430EX in a ten inch soft box.
I wish you a happy MacroMonday and a great week.
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Since it's President's Day I looked back in my pics and dug up a shot I took at Mt. Rushmore last August.
since i posted some pictures from our driving day north yesterday, here's one from that day made into a print...
ware's cyanotype, HPR, bleached 20 sec and then toned with coffee for 5 min