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Successful breeding in 2015 at the WWT's Martin Mere centre, Lancashire. D7100_23977.NEF. Many thanks for views, comments and favourites.
The development of NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle, the Ares I rocket, took another step forward on Jan, 29 as Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, successfully tested a critical piece. ATK conducted a full-scale separation test of the forward skirt extension for the Ares I-X flight test at its facility in Promontory, Utah.
The Ares I-X test launch is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during 2009. The rocket will climb about 25 miles in altitude during a two-minute powered flight. The launch will culminate with a test of the separation of the first stage from the rocket and deployment of the accompanying parachute system that will return the first stage to Earth for data and hardware recovery.
The test simulated the separation event that will take place following the first stage flight of Ares I-X. During the Ares I-X flight, the booster will separate at the frustum, a cone-shaped piece that attaches the first stage to the larger diameter upper stage.
Image credit: ATK/NASA
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www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flighttests...
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Saw this eagle circling around for breakfast and it was successful with the catch. .
Was a little tough shooting into the sun but was happy to get this shot.
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A Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) shows off its successful Dog Salmon catch as a gull screams probably in excitement at the prospect of getting scraps. This bear was plying Pack Creek on Admiralty Island in Alaska on the Inside Passage.
Op deze dag organiseerde Het Stoomgenootschap diverse pendelritten tussen Leiden en Haarlem. Op diverse plaatsten stonden nog wat bollen in bloei. Ook reed De Karel treinstel 466 nog een rit naar Haarlem. Dus ook een bezoek gebracht aan het station van Haarlem. En we werden aangenaam verrast door de Dutch Dakota Association DC-3 die bij Hillegom kwam overvliegen. Het weer begon mooi, maar het werd gedurende de dag wat bewolkter. Niettemin een zeer geslaagde dag.
On this day, Het Stoomgenootschap organized several shuttle trips between Leiden and Haarlem. There were still some bulbs in bloom in various locations. De Karel set 466 also made a trip to Haarlem. So we also visited Haarlem station. And we were pleasantly surprised by the Dutch Dakota Association DC-3 flying over Hillegom. The weather started out beautiful, but it became a bit cloudier as the day progressed. Nevertheless, a very successful day.
An diesem Tag organisierte die Stoomgenootschap mehrere Pendelfahrten zwischen Leiden und Haarlem. An verschiedenen Orten blühten noch Blumenzwiebeln. Auch der Karel 466 fuhr nach Haarlem. So besuchten wir auch den Bahnhof Haarlem. Und wir waren angenehm überrascht, als die DC-3 der Dutch Dakota Association über Hillegom flog. Das Wetter war anfangs schön, bewölkte sich aber im Laufe des Tages etwas. Trotzdem ein sehr gelungener Tag.
I have been taking my panning shots at 1/60th, which seems to be ok most of the rime.
As Heritage railway, speed limit 25 mph, so not much movement in wheel, connecting rods et. So thought try 1/40th. If enlarge, I can see some movement so partly successful.
Trouble with the Watercress Line is view points are from the northside, so looking into light. This morning it could not have been worse ! Bright sun, so when photographing train and try to keep same spot as focus, in deep shadow. I usually try to keep the number as focal point, but this morning difficult to see if I was on the right spot.
I fitted polariser to reduce light by 1 1/2 stops as iso at lowest setting without.
Trains run just couple days per week, and now not for winter, so nearly the last chance to try.
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My first successful lightning catching, it was easier than I thought, try different settings and wait for the lightning to start its magic show, I got six photos out of about 20 waiting sessions.
Aperture: between f/18 - f/11
Exposure: between 15 - 30 sec.
Camera: Old baby Sony Alpha α200
Lens: SAL 18-55
Full manual, RAW
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Another successful trip to Dean Mason's Windows on Wildlife hide and a lovely hour spent photographing these super cute harvest mice!
Please note these are captive breed but Dean has a huge respect for his mice.
The Coal Tits must have done well so far - suddenly they have taken over one of my feeders! Taken in Hampshire.
First successful attempt of catching milkiway using crop sensor and kit lens. Been trying for it since 2017 and never thought I would catch milki on my camera just sitting on my roof.
Undoubtedly air pollution and light pollution have been reduced by a tremendous level because of the pandemic. Will keep trying for better milkiway photographs in the upcoming days!
600sec in total (20 shots of 30seconds exposure each)
18mm
F/3.5
ISO200
Color correction in Lightroom
Stacked by Sequator.
Device: Canon EOS 700D and 18-135mm.
In the Capuchin Church (Kapuzinerkirche) in Vienna
In art, there are two ways of depicting St Joseph: either as an old man or as a young man in his early thirties who is still in his prime. The view depends entirely on which biblical or apocryphal narratives one follows. Sometimes Joseph is an old widower, sometimes he is a man who has just built up an existence and has now found himself a wife who has just reached sexual maturity and is half his age. In the latter story, given the lifelong chastity attributed to Joseph, there is a heavy pinch of kitsch, which is why I find this presentation in the Capuchin Church extremely successful.
A Pied-billed Grebe was an early arrival at Mud Lake in the spring, and it hung around for quite a while - my friend Rudy had some amazing footage he shot of it calling. I had spent time with the one we had on the Lake last fall, and found watching it hunting really fascinating.
I was pretty chuffed when I saw it a week ago putting the finishing touches on a nest. I had some reservations - the nest location was out in the middle of a Lake that is full of Herons, Hawks of several kinds, the occasional Bald Eagle, literally countless Gulls, and then there are the Snapping Turtles, consumers of Goose eggs and goslings. The current crop of Wood Duck ducklings is shrinking by the day, which hardly bodes well.
But we will never know. After a very stormy Saturday, during which the bird hunkered down of the nest, there was nothing but the nest on Sunday, and Monday, and…
Nesting and breeding in most species of bird is successful only seldom. The percentage of any species that survives to the end of the first year of life is very low. And failed nesting is common. So too is predation of nesting birds - from overhead, this bird must have looked like a feast served up on a platter; while these birds are amazing in the water, on the nest the bird would have struggled to move very quickly.
It is amazing, given all of that, that they manage to reproduce and keep going south and then returning north the next year. Which I try to bear in mind whenever I see the birds: it is amazing that you are here, with all the ways it might not have happened.
And a post-script, thanks to my friend Rudy: he has shared some mating images of two of the birds on the Lake this week. So some sort of ‘phase II’ may be in the works. Fingers crossed.
A successful morning at Brighton's West Pier where what a feared was sensor dust was actually one of the buoys that mark the pier no go limits.
30s at F18, converted to monochrome for effect.
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A repeat...but my first successful "action" photo. This was the first trick yard crew at Loyall, Ky. on December 30, 1959. It was an unseasonably mild day and the crew was dragging cuts of coal up and over the hump. From there, the cars would be dropped one at a time over the scales, where gravity would take over as they dropped into the appropriate tracks for blocking to various gateways. Switchmen would ride the cars and use the hand brakes to keep the speed within some measure of sanity. Sometimes they would go much too fast, and when the rolling loads hit the standing cars in that track, the sound was like a cannon going off! You could see the cars jump, and much of the load shift over the end. It was a constant job to keep accumulated coal scooped up on the "load" side of the yard. The switchmen, by the way, had already swung off by then and were walking back to the shanty on the right for the next cut of cars to ride. Alco RS-3 No. 249 was barely moving, so my Kodak Brownie's slow shutter speed wasn't an issue. The engineer leaning out was "Puss Eye" Saylor.
After fire, or logging, paper birch is an early pioneer species. For some reason, when loggers came through here recently, they left a few trees here and there. No matter, in 10 years, this hill will sport paper birch and big-tooth aspen replacements. I will return.
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After successfully extracting the uncoscious pilot from the strange exosuit, he's been transported back to Starbase and into a life support pod for further examination.
The seed part of this buld was obviously the new classic space print that comes with the brown spaceman... thats no baby monitor I say.
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
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This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Another successful expedition to Cornwall with my personal guide! Massive thanks to Max for showing me places I'd never have found by myself.
Forgive me if I don't credit who found which insect in every case! However I will say that this is one of Max's finds, and a species I'd previously looked for but never actually found. The slightly plumper and more colourful female is on the left.
The thrift clearwing is categorised as Nationally Scarce B.
After struggling up the Acton grade, CN L53331-28 passes through Guelph where Metrolinx is currently rebuilding the second track. 2296, 8864, 5775 lead this 123 car train.
glacier bay NP and preserve, AK usa
was it too early in the season or the day ?
was the fog too thick ?
for whatever reason, the expected NP ranger never made it to the ship to give a running commentary or to guide the captain to a glacier ...
and eureka ! with no local expertise - a glacier !
arriving from kobe japan, via yokohama, hakodate, kushiro, kodiak AK & ketchikan AK
destination vancouver british columbia canada
I have successfully completed my journey from VT to Utah! While traveling I stopped at four national parks along the way. Although two of them were nice but rather lackluster (sorry, Indiana and Ohio), the Badlands in South Dakota easily made up for it with how cool and alien the landscape was. Though I was still on a tight travel schedule I managed to set aside two hours to explore along the scenic road. What I found were incredibly gorgeous rock formations and surprising pops of color.
You can see the way the flake has broken off on this piece in a kind of cone shape, following the shock wave applied to the rock.
That's a hard hammer in John's hand. Those are generally pebbles. Soft hammers are made of bone.
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
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A nice moment after a successful tandem jump of the two on the right, great atmosphere among the skydivers!
Combat and Hunting Game System .to play in the Second Life Simulator .
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Hunting-and-combat-game/2476...
This mature bald eagle has just successfully grabbed a fish out of the Susquehanna river (note the tail fins rising behind the body) with its right claw and will be on its way to a private lunch. It was not challenged for the fish like some eagles were. I love the column of water behind it still rising where the eagle had snatched the fish from the water.
Taken 13 November 2016 at Conowingo Dam in Maryland.