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Successful catch this Cormorant coming up with a Tench of about a pound in weight and swallowing it in the blink of an eye.
Successfully used in combat in the Battle of France, accounting for about a third of the AdLA victories.
Typically French, the throttles had to be modified to operate in the opposite direction to aircraft for the US and UK.....
This wild beautiful coastal brown bear focused on her objective of digging clams while the tide was out - only a few times did she raise her head to inquire on her surroundings. She was very successful in her pursuit of finding clams beneath the tidal surface.
Little burrowing owl got one of those juicy figeater beetles. Plucked it right outa the air. They're so good at this.
I was photographing a Curlew when she popped down to catch a fish, so I missed the action but she was successful and the little fish is just disappearing down the hatch
Ask Gemini said
This photograph of the Phippen Museum mailbox is a strong example of "found object" photography, successfully capturing the rugged, Western aesthetic of Prescott, Arizona.
The photo features a unique, rustic mailbox designed to look like a Western saddle.
Key Visual Details
The Saddle: The primary decorative element is a metal sculpture of a saddle, complete with a horn, stirrups, and decorative "leather" fringe. It has a heavy, rusted patina that gives it an antique, weathered appearance.
The Mailbox: Tucked underneath the "seat" of the saddle is a standard-shaped metal mailbox, painted in a dark, matte grey or black.
The Stand: The entire assembly is mounted on a thick, rusted metal pipe that serves as the post.
Setting: The object is set against a naturalistic background of pine trees and a rocky, gravel-covered landscape, fitting the Western theme of the museum.
www.experienceprescott.com/things-to-do/museums-history/p...
Phippen Museum
Prescott, Arizona’s Phippen Museum is named after local artist and first president of the Cowboy Artists of America, George Phippen. It presents museum quality fine art exhibitions, educational programming, youth and adult workshops, and special art and heritage events for visitors of all ages. The 17,000 sq. ft. facility currently houses 4 galleries, 2 studio replicas, a research library, multipurpose classroom, well-stocked Museum Store, and a western heritage gallery featuring local artifacts and photos, a working chuck wagon, and the Arizona Rancher & Cowboy Hall of Fame.
The Phippen is also proud to be home to the Ray Swanson Gallery and the Prescott Area Art Trust’s Solon H. Borglum Collection, an exclusive display featuring bronze sculptures, paintings, furniture, and other extraordinary objects from the artist’s life. In addition to several outstanding permanent displays, the Museum also offers continuous rotating exhibits throughout the year.
Outdoor Art
Explored #10 2016-10-03
Musiara, a well known Cheetah in the Mara is seen with her young cubs at sunset. The cubs were ever active whilst she was ever attentive on the lookout for any danger nearby.
Photographed in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
After successful mating the male Mandarin seems really satisfied with himself.
See what happened before:
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Just up the shoreline from the Least Terns, this is a Forster's I think. On this May Gray day, the lone fisherman nailed one. I was a little slow finding the water exit (behind it), but I'm still pretty happy with the 2x on my little 300. It's actually lighter than my big 200-600 zoom by a few ounces, my new walkabout lens.
It was a very successful day at the Swamp: five species of damsel and dragons (plus one unknown orange species). Four of the five had emerged from their larval exoskeletons indicated by the fact that their wings hadn't "hardened" and were a bit misshapen. Note the left - not that left, the other left - wings: they are not full, but in an hour or so this dragonfly will be patroling his territory.
Found in the lagoon where the majority were last year, he was in the company of a Flame Skimmer and two Cardinal Meadowhawks. I'll reintroduce you to them in the next few days. The Blue Dasher is a relatively small dragonfly found throughout the U.S. (and Vancouver, Canada) except for Idaho, Colorado, Montana, and North Dakota. It is one of the most common, but still beautiful dragons. Note the yellow band on the side of the thorax.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. Blue dashers live near still, calm bodies of water, such as ponds, marshes, slow-moving waterways, and ditches, in warm areas typically at low elevations. The adults roost in trees at night not that I've ever found one in a tree. They are, along with most dragonflies. the primary predator of mosquitoes, larval and adults, and can eat 100 or more in a day. As I said last summer, I have not had a mosquito bite in the 50+ years I've lived near "the swamp."
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After a successful summit of Denali late on the 9th of June, these 2 climbers are seen descending the 17K ridge on the west buttress route. It's quite a feeling being at least 6000' ABOVE the cloud layer seen below us.
Wish I was back there......
Large On Black View On Black
I've always thought of successful landscape photography as the intersection of chance and preparedness. You can prepare as much as you like, but you can't control the conditions on a given day.
This was the last morning of our Alberta trip. My friends and I got up kinda late and didn't really want to venture too far for a day where we'd be later traveling to our respective homes. And to add to that, the weather forecasts didn't look great either. We assumed we'd be looking for intimate scenes in the ice, if that. As expected, the morning was completely overcast - we couldn't even see some of the mountains. We walked out along the lake and spread out looking for interesting ice. The lake wasn't as clear as I'd have liked, and it began to snow very lightly. Gradually, we all seemed to come to the conclusion that this morning was going to be a miss. Chance did not appear to be on hour side.
After packing up, the three of us started to gradually make our way back to the car, but extra slowly; as if still holding hope for a miracle. Out of nowhere, the cloud began to break around only part of this mountain - slightly showing its ridges through the falling snow and cloud. Immediately, compositions started jumping out of everywhere. The three of us scattered like frightened cats. I started frantically searching for cracks or other features in the ice before the snow covered it up! I managed to find this crack just as the ridges of the mountain became very prominent, and in the end I felt that the bit of snow that had already accumulated actually added to the scene. Before long, the crack wasn't really visible any more, but thankfully I managed to get this shot before the scene fell apart.
Anyway, it just goes to show you that sometimes taking your sweet time giving up on a scene can pay off!
Thanks for reading!
One thing that makes grocery shopping more palatable is the colourful array of flowers stocked by increasing numbers of stores. So most weekly shopping trips include long, lingering looks at the banks of flowers on offer. And once home, trying to find containers to hold all the delights that I have found irresistible! Some of the most successful solutions have been a little strange .... as here where a teapot has a second career! ;o)
Textured with my own textures and processed with a nod to Van Gogh .... using Tangled FX
PA - Texture
my Iris set: the beauty of Iris
My Simple Pleasures set: Simple Pleasures
My PA set here: Prompt Addicts set
My Post-processing set is here: Elisa Post-processing
My Textured set here: Elisa Textured set
Last month I had a Flickrmail from a young Californian man called James. He told me that his girlfriend Emmi was studying in Ireland and he was about to travel over to Ireland to meet up with her on St. Patrick's Day. James said that he was planning to propose to Emmi during his visit and wanted my advise on a nice quiet and scenic coastal location in Dublin for the proposal. Wow, talk about putting me under pressure, LOL! After a little thought I suggested the above elevated location in a large parkland at Killiney Hill and gave him detailed directions.
I didn't think I would hear from James again. However earlier this week I got another Flickrmail from a very happy James. He told me that the proposal went very well on Killiney Hill and that they both loved the location! So I'm sure you will all join me in congratulating James and Emmi on their Irish engagement.
I took the above shot a few days ago as a little tribute to the happy couple while I was up for a regular walk on Killiney Hill. The inserts are photos from James and Emmi which they took themselves on Killiney Hill just after the successful proposal. Yes I know the blended image is probably a bit mushy and sentimental...but I'm an incurable romantic, LOL!
You can visit James and Emmi's Irish proposal page photos at www.flickr.com/photos/jamesemmi/page22/
(Reached #167 on Explore)
In the weird way that train roulette works out, the RF&P heritage unit is yet to lead a train on the RF&P. While I don't necessarily go crazily out of my way to photograph these units, I certainly will prioritize them when I am out. On President's Day, I had intended to focus my time in and around Richmond, getting shots of the ACL bridge, and filling in some gaps in locations, if you will. This empty coal drag was supposed to be just another empty coal drag running the Buckingham Branch (empties west) with the RF&P as the trailing unit. But the head end unit had issues, so the power set was swapped around in Fulton. All of a sudden, they were toning up with the 1836 in charge, and I scrambled to figure out where they were heading. As 2 of the trailing units had minimal fuel, it was unclear whether the Buckingham Branch would take them, as it's apparently their policy that CSX units have certain amounts of fuel on board. Unfortunately, their desk made the call to allow this train West. If they hadn't, this train would've run the RF&P. The lighting was spectacular in Beaver Dam, affording me the opportunity to get this roster shot at the depot. It's certainly a fine photo, but man, we were ONE dispatch decision away from the main event we've all been waiting for. Hopefully that day will come soon, and we can finally have the RF&P (we've had seemingly ever other one of these things) on home rails, and complete the circle.
My first successful shot of a bug in the wild (never mind the poor little jumping spider I trapped under a glass :)) He was so focused on the bounty of the sunflower he paid no mind to me. The breeze was bouncing the bloom around and I'm still a total rookie when it comes to metering but not too bad.
February and March were very difficult months for our amphibians - the weather being far too cold for successful spawning. Several batches of frogspawn were laid and I was obliged to bring one batch indoors because all the others just didn't develop. The toads experienced 100% failure in spite of trying three times in March April and again in May. By then there were STILL no warm days. The frogspawn I brought indoors hatched beautifully and I looked after the tadpoles [ approx. 200 ! ] for several weeks until at last I was able to take them back outside. Surprisingly they did well in their pond with extra feeding and eventually all left the water, more or less overnight. I felt a strong attachment to my little brood so it was a sad day for me when they so suddenly disappeared. Just occasionally now I do come across one in the garden, as I did this morning. It was hopping amongst the woodruff and looking quite a bit bigger. I'm happy to know that at least some of our amphibians have made it to independence this year.
This successful cheetah mother, Neema, (Acinonyx jubatus) has successfully raised three of her original litter of four cubs.
Having three young cubs to feed she has to hunt daily as the cubs are yet to begin hunting and still very young, to be left on their own.
Neema and her cubs on the prowl was captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Watched this cormorant fishing for 20 minutes and I observed he was very successful. A fisherman would be very impressed.
Island of Hiddensee, Baltic Sea, Germany
Chinook HC.4 ZD981 delivers a forklift during a training exercise between 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, and the RAF.
A glorious Friday afternoon on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and visiting EWS liveried 31466 has just departed from Oakworth and rounds the curve over Mytholmes Viaduct with the 15.05 Keighley - Oxenhope.
This was the first day of a very successful 2012 Diesel Gala and with the 2024 season of the Diesel Gala's upon us, lets hope for similar conditions!
After my successful mission on board the Black Sun station in deep space, Command was kind enough to hand me a promotion and put me in charge of the 253rds very own Item Company. After a few transfers, the men of Whiskey Company's first platoon were back under my command. I was then told to select a small squad to accompany me to Mon Cala, our next mission...
Company members:
Left to Right;
'Spade'
Number: CT-3926
Name: Spade
Rank: Private
Primary Weapon: DC-15s Blaster Carbine
Secondary Weapon: Cleaver
'Bishop'
Number: CT-7768
Name: Bishop
Rank: Private
Primary Weapon: DC-15a Blaster rifle
'Rook'
Number: CT-6798
Name: Rook
Rank: Sargent Grade I
Primary Weapon: DC-15a blaster rifle
'Lucky'
Number: CT-1864
Name: Lucky
Rank: Sargent Grade II
Primary Weapon: DC-15s Blaster Carbine
'Scout'
Number: CT-1807
Name: Scout
Rank: ARC Captain Grade I
Primary Weapon: DC-15x Blaster Rifle
Secondary Weapon DC-15s Blaster Carbine
Alright so here's my squad for mission 8, I hope to get the build up later today, so stay tuned.
As always, thanks for viewing and enjoy!
After successfully completing their northern patrol, 1st Lieutenant Dirk Allcock's troop is assigned the more challenging South Western sector, near the ill defined southern border. This area has a vastly different environment to the cooler North, here the pine forests give way to arid grasslands and desert. The locals are a mixture of races and cultures and the cavalrymen encounter many colourful characters. At a traditional southern house, the patrol are welcomed by the locals, who offer them a place to stay for the night. In the morning, they will continue to search for the bandit gang plaguing the area. Tonight; however, they can relax to the upbeat music and fiery food of offered by their hosts.
A lot of inspiration from Norton74's Mariachi wagon and Mexican house in this one!
After a successful rebuild, Union Pacific's famed FEF-3 #844 returned to excursion service pulling the 2016 addition of the Cheyenne Frontier Days special between Denver, CO and Cheyenne, WY. Having highballed Denver right on the advertised the big ALCO has command of 22 passenger cars as it storms across Sand Creek in Commerce City with the downtown Denver skyline in the distance.
UP 844 ~ PDVDV1 ~ Commerce City, Colorado
Union Pacific's Greeley Subdivision
07.23.2016