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Sunwing Airlines and Air Transat aircraft stored at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) during the COVID-19 shutdown
Sunwing Airlines B-737-800 C-FLSW / C-FTDW
Air Transat A-321-200 C-GEZD
Commentary.
My birthday, midsummer, 25/07/2013.
I had visited Scotland with my son, then 19.
He had had a very challenging and difficult year.
A trip to the incredibly beautiful and natural West Coast of Scotland might allow him to re-boot and find himself.
It has certainly worked for many others, including myself.
It has now become an accepted fact that nature can do that.
Here we are on the ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Island of Mull.
Just before passing Duart Castle on the south-east corner of Mull, this view is the Hebridean Sea south-west down the Argyll seaboard.
The weather had been very kind.
Still warm and balmy the cloud had temporarily bubbled up to present a sky and sea of many hues of silver and grey.
The light here is so varied, penetrating and long-lasting in summer, that even the lack of stark, prime colours made for a mystical scene.
A pewter grey sea broken by the boat’s wake, endless skerries and islands, ends up a hundred tones, as the water reflects and refracts colours, hither and thither.
It is captivating, almost surreal.
Down the Firth of Lorn we see the Island of Kerrera, opposite Oban. Seil, with its bridge over the Atlantic.
Luing and Scarba are fading into the distance.
Masked by cloud the Paps of Jura make up the furthest horizon.
The Hebridean Sea is a tantalising and beautiful place.
It has an ambience and magic that is impossible to define
and impossible to forget.
Hey-ho – happy days!
we are back to black (well, zebra-striped) mountains and brown fields for exactly ONE day — snow in the forecast tonight and back into the negative teens for temps…
10113 LX12DCZ seen approaching Whipps Cross working on route 20 towards Leyton, Baker's Arms.
This bus and 10114 LX12DDA are loaned to CT Plus for around two weeks.
It was amazing to see what the tide would do to the water level ... In the morning, you could jump from pool to pool - in the late afternoon, you could kite surf at the same spot. Just amazing! #Tanzania #beach-life
During the rut young stags and yearlings are persona non grata in the herd so remain on the periphery singularly or in small groups.
The cicadas arrived in droves but they won't be here for long. They only live a short time once they leave their subterranean lives behind.
The remains of the temporary scaffolding railings along the promenade during refurbishment of the Knightstone Island complex and the Marine Lake. The recent weather and storm surge probably responsible...
A street portrait from a doorway.
One hand holds the face. The other keeps the cigarette alive. The entrance does the work of a chair.
Series: Portraits / Small Dramas.
Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.
StreetSoul.me
Pentax Spotmatic, smc Takumar 50mm f1,4, Kodak 400TX developed in Microfine, Epson GT-X830. 1/1000, f//16.
Roadworks site set up at the Welland Steam Rally.
The vehicle is a 1926 Ford Model TT,registration BF 8147.
Over time, I've been collecting images in a temporary folder.
Not quite photographs, not quite intentions.
More like sketches, drafts, ideas - starting points.
Files meant to disappear, to die.
And yet...
This temporary album has eventually become the largest of all my projects.
Little by little, over the past ten years, it has traced a continuous line - one that, while not really leading anywhere, takes paths worth lingering on.
I found it meaningful to offer these stolen moments - once destined for the trash - a proper setting.
To build a true photographic object, something a little luxurious, maybe even deliberately too beautiful...
During the next weeks, i will publish all 4 volumes of these temporary files.
R694DNH rests in our Poplar Farm Depot, a temporary fleet addition owing to the demise of DD85, it will run on schools duties for us until our new double deckers arrive!
The White noize music festival.
Chupa village, Medvezhka peninsula, Northern Russia, Republic of Karelia.
This "love lock" is locked on a rope, on top of an active volcano. Eternal love (or until next eruption...)
Bonkers, freshly washed (with a damp pet wipe) and groomed with a nice comb, resting on the bed. He was purring gently while I cleaned him up (lately, he’s fallen into the litter box and smells a bit like urine - the pet wipe helped with that particular issue but his tunic needs to be washed). He’s still purring softly next to me...
Hana and Archie resting on a bed in the computer room. The resting is only temporary before they enter crazy mode again (which at their age, is most of the time they are awake).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Mujib
Wadi Mujib is a gorge in Jordan which enters the Dead Sea at 410 meters below sea level. The Mujib Reserve of Wadi Mujib is the lowest nature reserve in the world,[1] located in the mountainous landscape to the east of the Dead Sea, approximately 90 km south of Amman. The 220 square kilometers reserve was created in 1987 by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature and is regionally and internationally important, particularly for the bird life that the reserve supports.[2] It extends to the Kerak and Madaba mountains to the north and south, reaching 900 meters above sea level in some places. This 1,300 meter variation in elevation,[1] combined with the valley's year round water flow from seven tributaries, means that Wadi Mujib enjoys a magnificent biodiversity that is still being explored and documented today.[3] Over 300 species of plants, 10 species of carnivores and numerous species of permanent and migratory birds have been recorded until this date.[2] Some of the remote mountain and valley areas are difficult to reach, and thus offer safe havens for rare species of cats, goats and other mountain animals.
Geography of Mujib
During the last Ice Age the water level of the Dead Sea reached 180 m below sea level, about 230 m higher than it is today. It flooded the lower areas of the canyons along its banks, which became bays and begun to accumulate sediments. As the climatic conditions changed, about 20,000 years ago[citation needed], the water level of the lake dropped, leaving the re-emergent canyons blocked with lake marl. Most canyons managed to cut through their plugged outlets and to resume their lower courses. However, Wadi Mujib, the biblical Arnon River, abandoned its former outlet by breaking through a cleft in the sandstone. This narrow cleft became the bottleneck of an enormously large drainage basin with a huge discharge. During the years the cleft was scoured deeper and the gorge of Wadi Mujib was formed.
The Mujib reserve consists of mountainous, rocky, and sparsely vegetated desert (up to 800 m), with cliffs, gorges and deep wadis cutting through plateaus. Perennial, spring-fed streams flow down the wadis to the shores of the Dead Sea which lies 400 m below sea-level.
The slopes of the mountaineous land are very sparsely vegetated, with a steppe-type vegetation on plateaus. Groundwater seepage does occur in places along the Dead Sea shore, for example at the hot springs of Zara, which support a luxuriant thicket of Acacia, Tamarix, Phoenix and Nerium, and a small marsh. The less severe slopes of the reserve are used by pastoralists for the grazing of sheep and goats.
The hot springs of Hammamat Ma'in lie close to the borders of the reserve are heavily used for tourism/recreation.[3]
The Jordanian military have a temporary camp in the south of the reserve.
A large dam was recently finished at the bottom of the wadi, where the modern road crosses the river. As a result, a large lake has formed. Today, Wadi Mujib is fed by seven tributaries.
Bird and Animal Life in Mujib
As well as resident birds, the reserve is strategically important as a safe stop-over for the huge number of birds which fly annually along the rift valley between Africa & northeast Europe. It is possible to see the following birds in Mujib:
•Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)
•Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
•Eurasian Griffon (Gyps fulvus)
•Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes)
•Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)
•Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor)
•Sand Partridge (Ammoperdix heyi)
•Hume's Owl (Strix butleri)
•Hooded Wheatear (Oenanthe monacha)
•Blackstart (Cercomela melanura)
•Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps)
•Striolated Bunting (Emberiza striolata)
•Trumpeter Finch (Bucanetes githagineus)
•Dead Sea Sparrow (Passer moabiticus)
•Tristram's Starling (Onychognathus tristramii)[4]
Many carnivores also inhabit the various vegetation zones in Mujib, such as the Caracal cat, striped hyena and the Syrian wolf. One of the most important animals in Mujib is the Nubian ibex, a large mountain goat which became threatened as a result of over-hunting.
It looks like this view of Mount Rainier will be blocked before too long.
Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
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In Tokyo I had the exciting and unintentional privilege of living for a couple days in the Korea Town area of Shinjuku. It's a very beautiful and unique area that I really enjoyed spending my time in.