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ACDME Race Weekend GT3 Cup
SINGLE SEATER SERIES - Race 2
Car: Swift SC97
Driver: Pedro Vilarinho
Team: Pedro Vilarinho
Photo by Andy
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Photographing swifts feels a bit like playing a video game, with targets flying at you from random angles at ridiculous speeds.
Helen and I have been enjoying trying to keep these amazing birds in frame immensely and it's been a real thrill having these speedsters whizzing past us, often passing by within a few feet so you could hear the whoosh as they passed by.
We wondered whether they were paying us such close attention because we were attracting the insects (some of which bite) that they were feeding on.
Interesting fact "As the bird is hunting, insects are collected in the back of the throat in a special food pouch and bound together with saliva into a ball called a bolus, which is periodically eaten or taken to the nest. These food balls can contain thousands of insects.
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About 1,500 of this type of car were made at the Swift Factory in Mile Lane, Coventry. It would have cost £595 when new. This 1923 Swift Tourer, ES 5309, was purchased by the Coventry Transport Museum in 2003 with aid from the Preservation Scientific and Industrial Museums Fund.
A Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) stands guard at the entrance to her den with several young on the prairie landscape in southeast Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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On a brief visit to corfu Town on an excursion. Managed to see Alpine swift in plentiful numbers also pallid and common swift along with swallow and house Martins. Feeding to high up for a side on shot. Nonetheless Great to see
Tracking a swift over the water is something I love to try. It eats batteries, makes the arm muscles burn and fills up memory cards with blurry shots really quickly.
The Swift is the most popular fly fishing destination in Massachusetts, with maybe the exception of the Deerfield: great scenery, many big fish, and it fishes well all year-round.
But, it is also the most technical fishery in Massachusetts, and it can be a real challenge to hook the super-picky rainbows. With some research, you can find out a lot about the river... (see below link).
A straight swift sucking nectar of the cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) flower.
Parnara guttata (Straight swift or Common straight swift, ‘Ichimonji-seseri’ in Japanese) is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, native to Japan and eastern Asia. Cosmos bipinnatus (Garden cosmos, 'Ooharushagiku' in Japanese) is a species of annual flowering plant in the aster family, native to Americas and cultivated worldwide.
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Not an easy bird to track in flight and focus on by any means. Found the only way I had any chance - with their speed and jinxing flight pattern - was to try and lock on some way off and follow them in.
The fastest accurately measured bird in the world under its own power (Peregrines are faster in a stoop but not in level flight).
I like the way the feet seem to fold into the body to improve its aerodynamics.
Taken in Norfolk.
After much failure I finally got one flying at me! Not perfect by any stretch, but still feels Yippee to me!
Photo by Helen :-)
So... Whilst waiting for the American golden plover to come closer, which it didn't, I rattled off several hundred swift in flight shots... The great majority of these were blurry blobs in flight shots or wing tip just poking into the frame shots, both of which were definitely not aesthetically pleasing. After wasting a considerable amount of time trying to achieve an impossible goal for old fat people, I took the converter off, this improved things immensely, I could now, at least, track a bird. As the day wore on and the wind increased, they came much closer to the ground and I actually got a frame I liked.
(Removing your converter increases field of view and does NOT reduce your BMI... It is recommended that eating a heathy, mixed diet, preferably vegan, and getting plenty of exercise will address your sofa slug with a camera syndrome).
Tealham moor
Morning capture there along the Swift River and the covered bridge located at Conway, New Hampshire.
A barn swallow seen on my company campus yesterday.
It was a humbling experience photographing the non-stop flying swallow over the water. This is the only lucky shot among lots of bad ones.
拍飛燕真不容易，這是唯一一張看得清楚的。昨天在公司拍到。
Orange swift (Triodia sulvina) moth resting on a wall.
Krótkowąs sylwina (Triodia sylvina) odpoczywający na ścianie.