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With snow gradually vanishing, flowers in Rhododendron trees start blooming atop the Sinthon pass in Kashmir Himalayas, India
Outfit: zOOm - Lucy Outfit
Panties: duckie . barely there black update
Hair: Sintiklia - Hair Lei - Blacks&Browns
Pose: Diversion - Blossom
Photos taken at Sunny's Studio
Early start and a ride down to the other local woods that border the Manchester Ship Canal on one side and industrial units on the other.
Not been here for a while and the intention was to fly the drone.
When I arrived this oil tanker, The Thun London was in view by a place called Mount Manisty which is the slag heap from the original canal cutting. A quick change of plans and this is the resulting shot.
After it had passed I still had enough time to fly the drone and checked the drone assist app. The area is in a Controlled Traffic Region ( CTR, ) and I couldn't remember if you are allowed to fly in a CTR so decided against it and made the mile or so ride home.
As it happens you can fly in a CTR. I also checked this ship and it was outbound for Amsterdam, which then got me checking oil pipelines, which then had me checking the entire European pipelines from Russia and Azerbaijan across Poland, The Czech Republic and Germany into Holland. I also checked the draught of this ship ( 6.5m ) and the depth of the canal at this point is 28 feet. So it's clearance from the bottom of the canal is only about the height of an average bloke. I then discovered the MSC is tidal up to Latchford near Warrington and ships of this size can only use the canal for a few hours either side of high tide.
All of which is fascinating to a pedant like me but probably inherently boring to most. And all of which I'd forgot and had to go trawling the internet to find the info out again before posting.
It's a long day when you take your exercise so early but worth it in the end.
.... starts with steamed Florida stone crabs served cold with a zesty horseradish cocktail sauce and a salad made from oven-roasted vegetables. Add Luna di Luna's green-bottled Pinot Bianco/Sauvignon with it's aromatic flavors of melon, green apple and tropical fruit and you may not want to move on to the main course.
Tomorrow the main course; roast pork with sweet chili sauce....
My wife's family lives in Australia in an area where snow never visits. These kind of scenes never grow old for them to see whereas someone who has endured decades of Minnesota winters has to be jump-started to appreciate fleeting beauty during a mild winter thus far. A week of heavy morning fog only adds to a spectacular landscape around this unused barn.
March 03, 2016
Ambiguous:
[am-big-yoo-uh s]
adjective
1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal:
an ambiguous answer.
2. Linguistics. (of an expression) exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous.
3. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify.
4. lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct
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So, generally I'm not a fan of cropping images to a non-standard sized format. I don't know why, they're digital images and can be any size they want to be since I rarely get them printed out, but still I hesitate and dislike it.
But today's image is one of those that I couldn't resist the crop for. This is how I would have shot it, if I had more than my 40mm with me or the ability to hover. (still working on that)
Since this is how I would have shot it if it were possible, I don't feel terrible about the crop, but still it bugs me. Weird, isn't it?
Anyway, even with the crop I like this shot. Especially knowing it was done very early in the morning without a tripod!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.
One month ago, the southern Africa section of the botanical garden was just beginning to come into bloom. It is still beautiful!
I started going over to Bayview early on weekdays, before I started my work day, sometime in June when days were at their peak length. I was aided in this quest by the fact that my son was getting up at 0500 to go to his summer job. Getting up at 0500 and getting out of the house and over to Bayview before 0600 would get me there just as the sun was beginning to light the area. Arriving at that time guaranteed me four eastbound GO trains out of Hamilton and whatever freights CN ran. On this day CN waited until the somewhat muted sun was up high enough in the sky to make a difference before they ran a #274 off the Dundas Sub. These autorack trains often run with a single unit so it was a bonus to get a pair of SD75Is on the point.
Yesterday was the 10th birthday of the Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre, and one of the features of the day was restarting the Wirraway (made by one dedicated gentleman, from scraps of other Wirraways lying all over the countryside)
Shot for the Crazy Tuesday group - Opposites Attract.
Since fruit was allowed, I went with the tart fruit encased seed that fuels our economy. I give you the simple: coffee bean.
On the right is the actual coffee bean fruit on top of a coffee bush leaf (I have my own coffee plants that I grow and they happen to be currently ripe). Inside that red ripe coffee cherry, are seeds that are to become coffee beans.
The coffee beans first need to be fermented, washed, dried, and eventually roasted.
Two polar ends of a product.
#Crazy Tuesday
#Opposites Attract
@Danube Delta.
Trees crossing from summer to autumn, that moment when colors start to change on some trees faster.
It's the first sign of September, my favorite month.
"There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again." - Ruth Ahmed
again sunflowers are in the bloom.
After my focus in the last two or so seasons too much on the aspect to get a fine aperture star of the sun, i now consider more to get the sunflower highlighted. Maybe I therefore just stress it a little too much to keep the aperture max wide open ... my guess F5.6 would be better: flower sharp and backgroudn still as bokeh.
"It might all come together for a moment and then just as quickly it is gone." - Narelle Autio
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