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For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Taraxacum officinale
Great fun to watch them on dandelions - they really get stuck in!
check out my google spreadsheet of honey bee on named flowers pictures here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
walled garden at Rowalane
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Didnt have my macro with me so took this at a bit of a distance with the 750. Pictures would have been better with the 50mm lens and the Raynox.
I certainly didnt notice the little solitary bee at the base when I was photographing the honey bee. It popped out for me just now as I am posting it on Flickr! I quite like little surprises!
for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Hope Sandoval - Suddenly Beside You
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We bounce back, bounce back like a tennis ball
Bounce back, bounce back like a basketball
Bounce back, bounce back like a soccer ball
Or really any kinda ball, except a football
pollen load much smaller and less clear in this one
aka black parsley - impressive big flowers.
At University of Dundee Botanic Garden
a new one for my spreadsheet!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Cirsium arvense beside my wildlife pond
A nice dark bee with pollen loads are clear to see - cream coloured.
Lovely to see the summer weather back for another while!
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
REM - Indian Summer
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"21 and Invincible" by Something Corporate
And woah, we're twenty-one and invincible
Woah, can't wait to screw this up
And woah, we're twenty-one and invincible
I'm in power for the hour
I guess today's gonna blow us away
Generally I work from home on Friday which means I get to stay in my pajamas while working through emails and spreadsheets but it also means that my supervisor keeps a close eye on what I'm doing.
Fyero doesn't allow for slacking so it's all work no play on the days I stay home.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Perhaps no location better typifies the Oregon Trunk than the "Twin Bridges", where the railroad vaults across the Deschutes River two times in just a quarter-mile, separated by a curved tunnel punching through the ridge which the river winds the long way around.
I've historically had poor luck trying to photograph the northerly of the bridges; on one occasion, a southbound snuck up on us while we had just parked the car by the road, leaving no time for us to get into position - a disappointing moment to say the least. The conventional photo angle most folks attempt is the afternoon view from the west side of the bridge, but to try to avoid repeating what everyone and his brother has done, I was interested in a morning view from higher up on the ridge. All it would take is a mid-morning southbound... which is a lot to ask for on a line that currently averages maybe 4 to 6 trains per 24 hours.
My fiancée and I were en route to Tahoe for a visit with my future inlaws, so I booked us a cabin in the tiny hamlet of Maupin for one night in the hopes of pulling off the shot that has long eluded me. We left home after work and arrived Maupin about 11 p.m... right as a southbound train was motoring past in the dark. The cabin met the basic need - although my fiancée really could have done without the multitude of spiders we discovered. I opted to pay an extra $15 for late checkout (as late as 1 p.m. rather than 11 a.m.) from the cabin. Experience has shown me over the years that somehow, 11 a.m. hotel checkout has a magical way of almost always conflicting with an important photo opportunity...
Upon waking the next morning before sunrise, *another* southbound was cruising by, long before the sunlight would reach down into the canyon. Now I was getting worried, as almost a full day's worth of southbounds had already passed in the past 6 hours. But all I could do was try. I scouted a few different locations in the early morning until I knew the canyon shadows had sufficiently cleared at the Twin Bridges, and I hiked up on the ridge to wait. My dad had told me about an Oregon DOT highway traffic camera near the Celilo drawbridge on the Columbia River at the northern end of the Trunk, which I could check on my phone every few minutes. This effort felt a bit in vain considering the traffic camera would only update with a new image every 10-15 minutes, but it was something to pass the time at least... and then right about 9 a.m. I saw it - lumber loads on the camera! A southbound was on the way.
Because I am a bit psychotic, I had made a spreadsheet to estimate the running time for a train from Moody to the Twin Bridges using the milepost limits of speed restrictions, plus some estimated fudge factors for acceleration/deceleration. A train making track speed should take about 85 minutes, in theory. I watched with nervous anticipation as massive cloud shadows passed overhead every few minutes. All I could do was hope and pray.
Almost to the minute of my estimate, the roaring thunder of GEs suddenly filled the canyon, and the southbound Vancouver, Washington to Fresno, California manifest freight came into view. The menacing cloud shadows played nice, and I got *the shot* at 10:31 a.m. With a few minutes to hike down off the hill, and a 20 minute drive to the cabin... yeah, that extra 15 bucks was well worth it.
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"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" by The Beatles (although I love the Pearl Jam cover too!)
Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone, I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
not a great picture but it is a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set! so I am posting it.
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Lou Doillon - Devil Or Angel
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The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
Rowallane in the walled garden yesterday.
The bees were loving them!
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
I occasionally work an afternoon at home or fire up a spreadsheet on the weekend. This is the typical help I get in my home office. Jasper thinks its all horribly boring and will sometimes put his head in my lap or bring me a toy to tempt me away. Then resume his spot in front of or on the couch if his boring human can't break away
Some poppies result in very dark pollen loads. These ones were resulting in light cream loads as seen in this picture.
University of Dundee Botanic Garden
one for my spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Early Yellow Bidens
a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
A real gem of a plant I think - grown into a very big plant in a large pot on the patio - I was surprised at how spectacular this has been. Great to see the bees find it!
& talking about real gems :
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
at Rowallane in the walled garden
a new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
I completed a couple of projects last year. In January 2021, Larry and I started a project to achieve 65 summits in the year I turned 65, and we completed that one in September. Over the years, we have travelled throughout Canada, and recently we were thinking about whether we had visited each and every Province and Territory, there are 13. With our trip to the Yukon in 2021, we realized we had indeed visited each one. This year, I thought I would keep track of the different birds I see over the year, and see what kind of number that brings. For me, different means different, and so it won't be an exact species count, as in some species, the males and females are more-or-less identical, and in others they different, and so I will count the males and females in those species as different birds. With Northern Flickrs, there are distinct variations, based on under-feather colourings, with Red-shafted, Yellow-shafted variations, and a hybrid of the two. For this project, I'll count each variation if there is one, and each of the different genders if they are visually different, as different birds. As with my summit project, I'll maintain a thorough spreadsheet. Wish me luck! PS I may turn it into a post-one-a-day project, except the photos won't necessarily be taken on different days. Today I have already four different birds done, but will post the rest over the next few days...
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Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I'm the King on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the Alley Oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
'Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow
Tower Bridge, London
Last year a bunch of us arranged to meet up in London for a social outing with the odd stop off for pics. It was a great day out and much banter has passed in the intervening months about doing it all again, although we can't decide on where. So, taking the bull by the horns here is another call out to all you reservoir togs (see tags... you know who you are) about a second meet up, again in London. Several missed out on the first trip so why not London again!
We went on 8th April last year, just before the Easter weekend and so to gauge the interest this time around, here are some preliminary dates to get the ball rolling... 25th March, 7th, 14th April.
It would be great to grow our numbers and so if I've not tagged you in, it's because I don't know everyone personally, but it's an open invitation so just comment your interest to this posting and I'll add you to the tags list. Having just seen Gary Oldman's Oscar winning performance in Darkest Hour (nailing my colours to the mast here!) this could be our finest hour!
No pressure to commit if this isn't your bag or the dates don't suit, however, the spreadsheet is ready, it just needs you lot.
Kew gardens
....will go on the spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Matthias Church
(Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle)
Budapest, Hungary
09-11-2024
Processed: 03/05/25
I create spreadsheets before I leave on any trip, filled with information on what I want to photograph, and when, so I can keep moving, and get the most out of my time. I had the Matthias Church listed on my spreadsheet for the second of two days in Budapest. It's on the site of one of the oldest churches in Budapest, founded in 1015. It's been remodeled many times since then. In the 13th and 14th century undergoing massive redesigns. The last major redesign, restoring it to an earlier version, was in 1893.
I snapped some photos as I advanced up the street leading to the church. Here is a view from about a block away.
When I got to the site, and angled my camera for multiple shots, I noticed something familiar. I'd photographed so many cathedrals and churches in three different cities in a little over a week. I'd actually photographed THIS church the previous evening. It's flanked by the Fisherman's Bastion fortress, but I couldn't see that from this view. What was familiar was a little model of the church over near that blue gazebo. So I've got shots of this particular church at night and during the day.
It felt really weird when I realized I'd already been there, but had scaled the steps leading to the other side the previous evening, and had taken the bus down the hill.
I went to try to get a decent picture of a honey bee on Himalayan balsam for my bees on named flowers spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
The Himalayan balsam has taken over the banks of the Lagan and is beyond control now I think. It does a lot of damage but the bees love it.
A good picture of this combo has eluded me. ...And continues to do so. Weather and light were not great. There were honey bees (our association apiary is about 800m away) on the balsam flowers but I managed no postable pictures.
This is what you do when it’s bucketing it down with snow and your feet are almost solid ice from a couple of hours scrambling around at dawn on a winters morning. You head for the shelter of a pine forest and crawl around in frozen vegetation till you come up with a composition your happy with. Mind you, I must have looked a real sight making this image. I was hovering very low over a frozen puddle (not sure how deep it was, but I desperately balanced myself in a contorted position to ensure that I didn’t find out). Whoever said that landscape photography was a serene, calming, romantic experience? Who gave the impression that it was an existentialist pastime? I wouldn’t have it any other way!
I did consider cropping this to a square (before anybody suggests it), I also considered posting my landscape version, but for some subtle subconscious reason, this version just had the edge.
Out of interest, I’m giving a talk this Thursday evening and I’m going to do a questionnaire to solicit phrases that best describe good landscape photography and I’ve made a questionnaire that if you have five minutes I'd appreciate you filling in , cheers in advance! P.S. I’ve made the form anonymous so unless you want to make your views known to me or anybody else you can always put your name on your results (o:
UPDATE: View the results here
also called the white rose of York,
At Kew
Orange pollen load on view.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go (eventually!) on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Not far behind train 291 was train 499 with a single CP GEVO up front. It's seen crossing the North Fork of the Crow River just west of Regal, slowing as the 291 is taking the siding up ahead at Murray to meet an eastbound out of Glenwood. At least these 8800 series GEVO's were still pretty clean at this point. I actually kept a spreadsheet to track how many of CP's fleet of GE's I photographed leading trains along here from 2008 to 2015. The 100 units of this 8760 to 8859 order were definitely the most common. According to those records, I have pictures of 77 of them leading trains, many of them multiple times, including the 8802 on three separate occasions.
another one in the herb garden within the walled garden at Glenarm Castle.
Who needs to go any further than a few miles from home? ...
with this lovely sunny weather - lovely short staycation on the North Coast
for my Honey bees on named flowers set!
...And also for adding eventually to the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W... (please do consider checking it out if you have time!)
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
At Rowallane gardens.
They spend a lot of time in each flower which should make it easier to get good pictures. However as most of the time is spent well inside the flower they are actually quite hard to photograph.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
And some music, just if you like:
Undertones - Julie Ocean
in the Rock Garden at Kew
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go (eventually!) on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
I spend so much of my days working from home looking at spreadsheets, so it’s lovely to have this pot of cactus on my windowsill. It’s a great bloomer.
Just at the entrance to Othello Tunnels , textures were so beautiful that I was going back and forth … shooting gorge and shooting rocks . Such a different view from same place.
I really needed something different than looking at the spreadsheets and bunch of papers. Last few weeks were busy , so was rest of the year and year before. I think we do way more than we used to do, I think it started with Blackberries … I don’t think there is way to go back
In the early 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway decided a route was necessary to link the Kootenay Region with the BC coast by rail. The railway was built over three mountain ranges. In the Coquihalla Gorge – the river cut a 300 foot deep channel of solid granite. A straight line of tunnels were built through it which are known now as the Othello Tunnels.
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Useful font for adding some authentic lego lettering to any project. A simple frame allows you to add one row of lettering at a time without the fear of total collapse that comes with most of my other lightsaber based MOCs. I built a spreadsheet to calculate how much space the lettering will take up but I'm still tweaking that. goo.gl/sbjtkF if you want to have a play around with it. Be warned though it's rather primitive and probably wrong at this stage!
a new one (I do of course already have Cotoneaster horizontalis) for my much beloved and very nerdy spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
pollen load clearly seen - grey cream colour with quite a wet looking texture
His owner has been slaving over Excel spreadsheets all sodding day long, so he took Danbo to the skate park just before it went dark today to unwind. A robot really is man's best friend. The dog came too.
Rowallane Gardens
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Let's put down the chaos, let's stop with the rushing, let's take a minute to just breathe.
We spend so much time running from one thing to another that we often forget to take a minute for ourselves.
It's not selfish or greedy, it's healthy and necessary.
Let's find that balance between responsibility and relaxation. Let's aim for a little more zen, a little more tranquility.
Let's work to live and not live to work. Let's pick up a book and put down those spreadsheets.
Let us just be.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Holly.
I used to call myself an experimental photographer, then I became a bit embarrassed about it so I thought of something else.
But, unfortunately, it’s a true description. I’m experimenting at being a photographer. But I doubt I’ll get much further than that because whenever I try something I never hang around to perfect it. There’s always the next idea to try, the next lightbulb lights up and it always looks far more interesting than hanging around to get better at something…
This is my second attempt at combining intentional camera movement with a close-up subject. I think it works because of the colour contrast, and the still-evident prickles of the Spring holly leaf. It was taken when I first had the bright idea in March, in the local woods.
This is another one for my 100x project exploring motion in photography. Apparently, according to Andrew’s spreadsheet, I am currently about 14 images behind, so you can expect more blurry pics sometime soon... provided I don't get another idea :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the blurry bits. Happy 100x :)