SKILLS OF NOTTINGHAM
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So this rocky headland at Terrigal, NSW is known as the Skillion. A skillion is by definition a towering rocky headline overlooking the ocean. Pretty well sums it up! It also doubles as a piece of training equipment judging by all the groups of youngsters running up and down it early in the morning. Crazies!
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These guys who surf are amazingly skillful, at times I wonder how they stay upright for so long....they bring great entertainment to the beachgoers with their tricks and enjoyment of the sport....never a bored moment while they're on the ocean
I can't quite make out what it is this crow was working on, but there was obviously some skill and patience involved. I was just able to grab a quick shot while holding Blanca with my left hand. She wanted to chase the crow, and the crow knew it but was reluctant to abandon the prize and waited till the last moment before flying off with it.
Popped over to the The Skillion last week, a long time favourite spot of mine. It's a great place photography-wise. There is the Skillion itself you can see here. There are rockshelves to the north and south underneath. I've visited all of these many times over the years for taking photos at sunrise. There are surf beaches, protected harbours, pubs, cafes - a great seaside village vibe. We may have taken advantage of the pub for a delicious seafood gnocchi and cold beer afterwards. Several. Beers, not seafood gnocchis ;)
The Skillion itself is about 150m high and you can often spot sports teams, boot campers, and random masochists running up and down in an efort to kill themselves. It has some geologial signifigance beyond my understanding involving sedimentary rock, Middle Triassic thingies and Hawkesbury Sandstone.
So why we are on deep and meaningful thoughts - the hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. Or these days I guess it's more like - the hardness of the olive oil spread is proportional to the softness of the eggplant discs.
Hope everyone is having a great week !
In Denmark, people with skills in paper cutting do things like this during Easter to send a secret message to friends... this one is from a very special person. You -as receiver- have to guess who made the paper cutting...
The palace was built between 1729 and 1732, initially by the ruler of Amber. The architects achieved a fusion of the Shilpa Shastra of Indian architecture with Rajput, Mughal and European styles of architecture. The entrance gate so richly decorated was reserved for the royal family only.
As could be seen from this entrance gate, together with all the other historical architectures, there must be millions of skilled stonemasons in India at that time and that their skill in making iron/steel tools cutting the stones was rather advanced. There is a research saying that some of the stone smiths --or, at least some of the skills of stone cutting-- came from Egypt after the latter's long experience in pyramids building.
While waiting for the Ospreys to show up in a local storm water pond, I noticed that this juvenile Caspian Tern was going through this routine where he would pick up a leaf from water surface, then would drop it in midair only to come around to pick it up again. He doesn't know yet how to dive like an adult, so he would simply land on water like a gull. I believe this is all part of honing his fishing skills. One of the parents was flying above him, occasionally diving in to grab a fish and showing him how to do it. I understand that the juvenile Terns take a long time to learn how to fish, they stick with their parents for as long as a year. Richmond Hill, Ontario.
she doesn't write about them with great skill ;-)
Charles Solomon
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hemerocallis, day lily, 'Barbara Mitchell', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
At sunrise young bull Elephant Seals (Mirounga augustirostris) pracitce skills which eventually will allow them to dominate other males and reprodue
Coppicing, Charcoal and Hurdle making. Demonstration of traditional Forestry skills. At Westmorland County Show, Cumbria.
““Now what ?" asked the man in black.
"We face each other as intended," Knives said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your Kunai and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?””
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The weather here in Los Angeles now feels a lot like autumn back in DC...it just doesn't look like it. It's currently in the upper 40's and breezy thanks to the Santa Ana winds and while there's been some gloominess and rain, there are no colorful falling leaves anywhere.
I will get back to sunsets and reflections tomorrow but I wanted to post an autumn shot I took last November back in Maryland when the dog and I were out on a road trip to Pennsylvania. I remember this day pretty vividly actually, even a year later. I must have passed over this bridge in Rocky Ridge, Maryland dozens of times over the previous 6 months on my way out to explore with the camera and dog and for whatever reason, decided to stop this time and finally see what the view looked like into the water below. I had found what became my favorite waterfall only a few days earlier and now I was focused mostly on finding other sources of water for daytime long exposures with the neutral density filters. We were actually headed there after this but i pulled off the road and took a handful of low perspective shots while Scotch nervously looked on. He hates bridges and probably wasn't fond of me sitting in the middle of one with my camera and tripod.
My abilities and understanding of photography have improved greatly over the last year which is what I hoped would happen moving across the country. Part of it is the natural progression from learning through trial and error but I've also studied a lot of techniques and put in a ton of practice. What frustrates me most is when I take a shot I really love and have zero clue how to properly edit it. I try over and over and then give up, thinking I'll come back to it later when my editing skills improve more. Learning lightroom and photoshop from scratch is like learning a foreign language from scratch. Often, what looked great to me a year ago is now basically unacceptable and I often find myself rummaging through some of my old favorites and trying to edit them with a fresh set of eyes and new abilities.
At the time I shot this, I didn't have lightroom or photoshop, relying only on iphoto software and further, I edited them on my old tiny macbook with a really dark, cracked screen. The computer was so bad, I had to make small changes one at a time and then post them in a flickr folder to view on my iphone or ipad since they looked completely different on my laptop. I had previously posted a version of this a year ago but re-edited it from scratch using the methods and techniques I use now and am really glad I did. It's funny, I loved the original post of this but now looking back, I can't say I still feel the same way at all. It was way too dark, far too much contrast and missing a substantial amount of the details it had out of the camera. I kept meaning to redo it but kept getting sidetracked by newer and newer sets of images I'd take.
Tomorrow I will start posting some new images I took this past weekend on a very weird, rainy evening on Venice Beach but tonight I'm thinking about autumn, especially as it's now shifting to winter back in DC, where temperatures are in the low 30's at night. I always loved fall weather and some of the gloominess that came with it but really didn't appreciate it until I got into photography and then moved here. I do plan to mix in some more autumn shots from back home as well over the the next couple months, at least until I no longer miss it. There's almost nothing to complain about living in Los Angeles but I do wish Autumn was more like what I was used to and real trees were everywhere. To me, a palm tree is basically just a really strong, resilient weed. it grows in any conditions, doesn't need much water, and I think they're ugly :)
WHEN & WHERE
Monocacy River Bridge
Rocky Ridge, Maryland
November 1st, 2015
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/8th second
Sunrise views with Avoca Beach rowers in silhoutte going past The Skillion at Terrigal on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Coal Tit - Periparus Ater
The coal tit (Periparus ater) is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate to subtropical Eurasia and northern Africa. The black-crested tit is now usually included in this species.
There are afew different subspecies of the coal tit, those being the British, North African and continental ones. They are most commonly found throughout Europe and Russia in coniferous forests and trees.
The coal tit is an all-year resident throughout almost all range, making only local movements in response to particularly severe weather; only the Siberian birds have a more regular migration.
Coal tits will form small flocks in winter with other tits. This species resembles other tits in acrobatic skill and restless activity, though it more frequently pitches on a trunk, and in little hops resembles a treecreeper (Certhia). Its food is similar to that of the others; it is keen on beechmast, picks out the seeds from fir (Abies) and larch (Larix) cones, and joins Carduelis redpolls and siskins in alders (Alnus) and birches (Betula). It will also visit gardens to feed on a variety of foods put out, particularly sunflower seeds.
Being common and widespread, the coal tit is not considered a threatened species by the
The coal tit has the dubious distinction of having the largest number of bird fleas (Ceratophyllus gallinae) reported from a single nest, 5,754 fleas.
A favourite nesting site is a hole in a rotting tree-stump, often low down, and the nest is deep within the hole; holes in the ground, burrows of mice or rabbits, chinks between the stones in walls, old nests of Pica magpies or other large birds, and squirrel dreys are also occupied. The materials, moss, hair and grass, are closely felted together, and rabbit fur or feathers added for lining. Seven to eleven red-spotted white eggs are laid, usually in May; this species breeds usually once per year.
Population:
UK breeding:
680,000 territories
Autumn is very much on the horizon now, and with it many changes occur - a new season, falling leaves and in this case, a new operator for the Medilink!
Skills have always had a strong presence in the Nottingham area's private hire and contract work so operating an "open doors" service, so to speak, is a new venture for this operator.
Taking over from previous operator CT4N, Skills have invested in a new fleet of diesel Enviro 400 MMC double deckers for the route. There are 6 of these machines, kitted out to a high specification, branded for the route in the rather attractive Skills emerald livery.
Two of these vehicles were delivered just in time for the start of the new contract on the 1st of September and as such, are registered on 75 plates - brand new, as seen here!
The other 4 have been in the fleet a little longer, being delivered in May 2025 as part of a batch of six 25 plates. The other pair in this batch are to be used on Skills other contracts, such as the extensive Bilborough College "R" series bus network and the usual private hires.
While a slight reduction in frequency from 5 to 4 buses an hour has taken place, the arrival of these new double deckers will mean an overall increase in capacity from the tired K9URs allocated under CT4N. I'm sure the new timing and fleet will help improve the reliability of this route, which passengers and drivers alike are bound to appreciate!
A hole in the wall reveals the skill of 14th Century stone-masons' closely-jointed stonework and a spiral staircase constructed from triangular flags threaded onto a central pillar.
Castle Bolton, N. Yorkshire
Teh Tarik or “pulled tea” is a strong, hot tea mixed with sweet and creamy condensed milk. It is made by repeatedly pouring and pulling the tea between two mugs until it becomes rich, smooth, and frothy.
This Medilink isn’t even an actual Medilink. At least two of the YX25s remain in standard Skills livery and can be differentiated by their higher spec with tinted windows and additional tree deflector on the offside... although OGN has already managed to lose its nearside one. I imagine these are the Medilink ‘spares’, that when not required can be used alongside the 17 plate MMC as regular double deck coaches.
OGO is the other high-spec YX25, although it isn’t on the ticket machine list on Bustimes, so does it actually get used on the Medilink? Also I haven’t seen the 17 plate on Bustimes either but surely it’s cleared to be used on the route? Well with all these MMCs at their disposal now, that’s pretty much dashed my hopes of Skills putting one of their ex-Lothian Presidents on it as a spare.
Being the “fancy” Medilink with tinted windows, YX25 OGN passes QMC Island with a Queens Drive-bound journey, about to call into QMC and perform a lap of the grounds, on 28.11.25
Alongside the Medilink, Skill's also now operate the 'closed door' contract from City Hospital to Phoenix Park which was initially operated by Central Connect.
YW25DDU is seen on Linden Way in the City Hospital Grounds with the Medilink behind, Skill's now the kingpins of the site.
Ex Dublin Bus Volvo B7TL Alexander ALX400 AX458 (06-D-30458) is a recent addition to the Skills fleet where it is registered FT06 VGV. It was seen at Derby Arena, 30th March, 2022.
Skills of Nottingham East Lancs Pyoneer Volvo Olympian S456ATV is seen arriving at Derby stadium having worked a football shuttle, 21st April
Skills YT16JLU Scania Lahden Omniexpress 360 Finesse coach at Derby Bus Station on 26 November 2016.
Noted parked on Longwood Drive Sutton in Ashfield on 07-10-22 is former Lothian SN08 BYG now with Skills.
It's always a good day out watching the coaches arrive at Wembley, especially when the less regular teams from outside the London area play.
If you haven't been since Covid then you'll be in for a shock! The new Pink and Green dedicated coach parks are almost entirely undercover which makes photography a challenge. Nevertheless, decent shots can still be obtained with good planning.
Here's a reminder of some of the visitors to Wembley Stadium seen in 2022.