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This wader is 'little' in two senses: first, it is a member of the Little Egret species (Egretta garzetta); and second, it is a juvenile, a dainty thing darting along the mangrove edge chasing a school of tiny fish. The image was captured at dusk at the edge of Currumbin Creek on the Queensland Gold Coast.
Tricolored Heron, Egretta tricolor. I have quite a few images of this individual, not sure how many will eventually get posted. I like the shadow on this one.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
17 Aug 2022; 01:00 UTC; Velvia+
The centre of a stargazer liily , beautiful colour.
pollen matchsticks , thanks to chomchom for the new title
A few evenings ago, ominous clouds appeared from the southwest just before sunset. It was a grey sunset, so I didn't even consider running out for a shot, but I did keep my eye on the obvious storm front just in case it developed into something. When I saw the first flashes and heard distant rumbling, I scrambled to intercept.
It turned out to be my favourite kind of storm to photograph, and the first of its kind this summer: distant enough to be relatively safe, close enough for high drama, and dry. The rain would follow, but during the first advance of lightning strikes, I did not have to wipe raindrops off my lens.
The lens I chose, by the way, is the oldest in my kit: a manual focus Nikon 24mm f/2.8 that I bought in 1981. It still works well. Now you know why the EXIF data is not present. EXIF did not exist when I bought this lens. I shot at f/8 and f/11 (stopping down as the strikes got closer), shutter on "B", cable release with mirror lockup to eliminate shake, focus on infinity, tripod set up inside my car just in case the lightning decided to jump a few km instantaneously to where I was sitting. It can happen. I doubt that I was much safer in than out, but I felt better about it.
The best part was a faint trace of the sunset's afterglow on the western horizon. This far north, our sunsets can last a long time. This one element looks even better than I expected: it adds an interesting element, some colour, and clearly separates earth from sky. Because this strike occurred too close to one edge of the horizontal frame, I cropped vertically, and still ended up with a 50 MB hi-res file (saved in TIF format), from which I created this lo-res jpeg.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
This is the same American kestrel who perched so nicely for me, after it had made this strike, but come up empty.
I wonder what the view of this CG strike was like from the Ambassador Bridge, and is this potentially the first international lightning strike on Flickr? And yes that is my passenger window in the bottom of the frame. I had my tripod set up on my passenger seat to keep my camera out of the rain.
Windsor, Ontario/Detroit, Michigan
Still in its former Colas Rail livery, 60096 throbs pass Hincaster working a specially timed 6Z19 Tuebrook - Shap Harrisons stone empties. This train normally runs to Shap and back again in the night, but due to strike action, it was given a special daytime path.
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This little chap definitely loved posing :)
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Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
The egret stood very still for several minutes before it made this strike. See the result in the next photo.
So the funny thing is I chased a Logger Strike around the park for about 3 months trying to get a good shot. I chased him so much that it occured to be I was most likely stressing him out. So I decieded that I should just give up. A couple days ago when I was out trying to photograph Manatees, guess who came to see me.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) currently on strike, a sign in support of the musicians as the strike reaches day 11.
A heron strikes in the river for food, it all happens so fast it could be missed in a blink of an eye. I think it was a success, but the reward was only small, for the next shot didn't show the fish in it's beak. I quite liked the way the ripples across the water were hit by the light.