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This elk had just lost a confrontation with another bull, at an area where a lot of tourists were gathered at Mammoth. As you can see, he is very close to one of the entrances to the lodge at Mammoth. The other bull, and a group of several cows, is just across the common area that contains hundreds of tourists and dozens of cars, park offices and shops.
Park rangers and personnel were on high alert and trying to encourage this one to run up the hillside to the left. We quietly drove away under direction from the ranger. I was very concerned about the outcome for the elk, as well as for the tourists.
Please note, this is not my photograph. It is my shot of a photograph in an art gallery in Oldham! A fantastic montage of photographs taken well over a hundred years ago. Worth the visit to this gallery for this alone, but all of the displays were good. I loved it, and will return. This panorama was about four yards long and a yard high. Brilliant! I love this section of the image. It shows the sewing machine factory, and a parade of coal wagons, some of which are from South Yorkshire (Silkstone), West Yorkshire (Flockton) and Derbyshire (Clay Cross). Wonderful!
I have tried and failed to find a person on these images. Is that because of the time of day, or a long time exposure on the photographs?
...with fruit blossoms in every garden, and houses and farms in the mountainsides above the fjord. Note the farms high up there above the forest, when we're already up in the mountainside here (!)
I look forward to even more photos like this tomorow - in warm summer weather ツ
My album of images from this beautiful part of Norway here.
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This fab (if rather neglected) bench is up at the Stockport end of the walk along the Mersey, just before you get to The Crown! I liked how it looked in the sun
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Found this fingernail sized snail trying to take a running jump from one leaf to another, Took a while but he made it.
This was just something I got killing time while the big steam locomotive was laying over and was actually a nice fully lit scene...but alas the clouds didn't cooperate at train time.
In addition to the 2102 trip and all the regularly scheduled weekend trains and normal LGSR trips the Reading and Northern also had another special passenger train out running on this busy day. In conjunction with the Mahanoy City Community Days celebration they ran three round trip public excursions from that historic coal mining town to Tamaqua and back via the normally freight only Mahanoy and Shamokin Branch. The train consisted of five coaches and a caboose bracketed between GP38-2s 2014 and 2015 and operated as symbol JTMA/MAJT. The 3 PM third trip of the day has just departed on its way to Tamaqua as it rolls past some early fall color in Mahanoy City in this going away view west of the North 8th Street overpass near MP 108.9 on the branch.
Per Trains magazine: The M&S Branch was once part of the Reading Railroad’s main line from Philadelphia to Shamokin, Pa., and beyond to Williamsport, Pa., route of the onetime flyers King Coal and Williamsporter. [Note: technically the RDG main officially ran from Philadelphia to Pottsville and all other territory inlcluding this was considered a branch.] In the 1920s, 14 weekday passenger trains served the line and later many of Reading’s 51 steam-powered Iron Horse Rambles (1959-1964) also traveled this route. Scheduled passenger service on the M&S ended when the remnant of the King Coal made its final run on June 28, 1963.
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
Saturday September 13, 2025
I know that some people will think that I added too much color to the sky. i actually did not add a thing. The sky was so amazing on this morning it actually made the news. A very weird morning because everything had a rose tint to it.
I spent some time this past summer trying to learn how better to secure images of pollinators of all kinds. That project was motivated by my sunrise walks down an abandoned road southeast of Ottawa, where overgrown wildflowers grew in thick and deep bunches on the sides of the road, and where butterflies and moths and bees and wasps spent the first light re-energizing for the new day.
The subjects of the photographs had a lot more freedom to drift away from the road to the wild meadows than I had - old fences and thick vegetation kept me pretty hemmed in. That meant having to get creative in most cases, which was part of learning how to manage the situation. I really liked this image, shot through a wall of vegetation to find the Skipper - not an especially exotic one for people who know these creatures - who was drinking from the wildflower.
This activity and the many early mornings it entailed was a response to the impact of the pandemic on birding and bird photography. Most of my usual places had not adjusted particularly well to the changed circumstances, and so the solitary mornings were just what the public health officials ordered.
I really hope everyone is safe and has a great holiday break. I now know people (healthcare workers) who are scheduled to be vaccinated shortly in Ottawa so things are slowly moving forward - please take care.
And many sincere thanks to the people who look at, like and/or comment on my images. I really appreciate the connection. I spend a lot of my free time looking at and learning from others, but this is an amazing community, and it offers a lot to me in different ways - especially with the superb images people are posting. So: many thanks, and stay safe.
This shrike sits on a high perch on the edge of a tidal flat looking for mice or voles, but it will take a songbird on occasion as well.
So This Gas Station Existed But It Was "CLOSED"..
It Felt Like A Trick Where ALL Of A Sudden My Car Was Going To Break Down And I Was Just Gonna Be Stuck..
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This was running around Blackford Pond in Edinburgh. Quite small for a wild rat. I have seen them much much larger.
This shot was taken from the Chitlom station overlooking Thanon Sukhumvit.
Thought that this made an interesting shot of contrasts. I took several shots at 70mm as this moved across the road. This one turned out the sharpest (though there is still some motion blur). One of those few that are best not seen in large!
To clarify some of the questions as to why the arrow is blurry and the cart is in focus - I was panning the camera with the cart and this is deliberate since the focal point of the image is the cart and not the arrow.
Check out the whole set - Amazing Thailand.
Bangkok, Thailand
2006
The Gawler Arms Hotel was established in 1848 with the first licensee being David Vickerstaff. Notable early licensees included John Korff and Edward Clement. Various additions were made during the 19th century, and in 1903 the hotel was subsequently reconstructed. The hotel has also undergone renovations to open up the ground floor into a cafe.
Gawler, South Australia:
A group of small shops including a drapery store established by Oscar and Otto Wehrstedt operated on nthis site form the 1860s. Alfred Sheard owned the drapery store after 1886 and built the first (southern) part of the current complex in 1905. This section features Wunderlich pressed metal ceilings and the unusual overhead angled mirrors used for security observation.
The architects of the 1905 building, English and Soward, were commissioned to expand the building in 1928 and designed the expanded front façade to match the earlier façade. Original features of the northern section include the stained glass windows (the Essex House name windows are recent additions), pressed metal panels and the cast iron columns supporting the roof. The shop operated until recent years as a major clothing, footwear and drapery store with H. B. Crosby who purchased the shop from Sheard in 1930, being the most notable owner.
One of the most interesting features of the building is the 'Flying Fox' system of operating payments. The Lamson Paragon rubber powered system dates from the 1920s and remains able to be operated. The central accounts section received payments from a sales counter via the wire communication system and returned receipts and change to the sales counter. The 'Flying Fox' equipment has been donated as a heritage gift to Gawler.
Gawler, South Australia:
The first part of Gawler that was settled is very significant for its associations with Colonel William Light and the surveying company Light, Finniss and Co. Light first visited the Para Valley in December 1837. His journal of the 15th of December 1837 described the area with 'Altogether we have a beautiful country'. On the 3rd of July 1838 Light joined with Boyle Travers Finniss to form the private land agency and surveying company of Light Finniss and Co. Staff members of this company were Light, Finniss, William Jacob, Henry Nixon and draughtsman R G Thomas.
Light returned to Gawler in January 1839 to carry out a preliminary survey of the site. During this period he camped at Dead Man's Pass. At this time Light and Finniss discovered the corpse of a white man in a red gum at Dead Man's Pass. Light is recorded as having been quite unwell for much of this trip through Gawler and the Barossa. However, he recognised the potential of the site where the Para rivers met.
In early February 1839, John Reid and Henry Dundas Murray rode to the Gawler area to inspect the land which Light had suggested for a town. They then applied for the Gawler Special Survey No. 2 of 4,000 acres to be prepared. Their application was approved, payment accepted and surveyors from Light, Finniss and Co began work on the sight. The town was laid out by Jacob and Nixon from a plan drawn by R G Thomas and supplied by Colonel Light.
Because of his ill-health, Light was not directly involved with any other town surveys after Gawler. In April 1839, Light said:
I have refused them all [commissions to survey towns] but the town of Gawler, which I have just planned.
However, Light retained substantial interest in the Gawler area, visiting the Lyndoch Vale with Jacob between the 31st of May and the 9th of June 1839. He then died on the 6th of October 1839.
In summary, Light is documented as having visited and worked in the Gawler area three times, December 1837, January 1839, and June 1839. In January 1839 he undertook a preliminary survey of the Gawler town site and as a principal of Light Finniss and Co. took great interest in the Gawler town plan which was drawn up later that year. Jacob, surveyor with Light Finniss and Co., attributes both the location and planning of Gawler to Light.
Light's most significant achievement in South Australia was his design of the Adelaide plan. The only other town with whose design he was directly involved was Gawler. These two early South Australian towns formed significant prototypes for the young colony, particularly as regards the use of parklands. Parklands have now becolme an important feature of many South Australian country towns.
Other significant contributions of William Light in the Gawler area include the survey and naming of the Barossa Valley, the naming of Lyndoch and Greenock, and the suggestion of a route between the Barossa and the Murray which is now known as Light Pass.
Various historical accounts of Gawler have commented on the significance of Light's Plan for Gawler. In his 1989 History of Gawler, Derek Whitelock wrote:
It was Light who first recognised the potential of the pleasant hill where the North and South Para Rivers converge
to form the Gawler River, surveyed the area with his colleagues, and sketched the plan for Gawler Town.
Ian Auhl's 1973 Gawler Sketchbook contains the following:
Light's choice of the site for Gawler, bounded by rivers and backed by hills, gave the town a natural charm and a
lasting identity. It also gave Gawler its place in the history of South Australia as the "Gateway to the North"
Robert Cheesman's analysis of the Light's plan includes the following comment:
In the planning of Gawler, Light virtually had a free hand to be spacially innovative; there were no radical economic
or social policies as constraints ... The concepts of town squares, town enclosure, common land, and axial
geometry all prevailed ... This plan is unique.9
In 1982, Hignett & Co's Gawler Heritage Survey summarised Light's achievement as
follows:
The foundation of the township of Gawler was characterised by far-sighted planning unique among South
Australia's country towns and particularly private townships. Within the township designed by Colonel William Light there was ample scope for a natural evolution and development of a harmonious mixed commercial and
residential complex.1 0
Light's plan of the town designated sites for many of the major buildings, including
churches on the three squares on Church Hill and a court house in nearby Cowan Street.
The original intentions of this plan are demonstrated in the existing building fabric in this
area.
The whole of the original Light plan of Gawler was an early entry on the Register of the
National Estate (1979) in recognition of the national significance of Light's plan and the
built and natural heritage of the area.
Source: Gawler Heritage Survey 1998.
I'm uploading when I can, but still don't have too much time to browse your streams right now. Please bear with me..., I'll get there soon enough and catch up.
This is an accidental double exposure of me and my daughter taken with a Mamiya 6 folding camera. I shot the image of my daughter first and then she snapped the picture of me. I forgot to advance the camera to the next frame and created a double exposure. I don't think I could have done this on purpose nor could I probably recreate it if I tried. It is a cool image nonetheless and a treasure in my eyes. Mamiya 6 on Foma 400 film.
Yes, I realise this topic has already been talked over many times on our humble photo gallery. This time however, we have another big developement in front of us.
The famous Polish ban on photography had not really been in power, no matter what any person said. You were fully permitted to photograph anything you want, as long as you were on public grounds, which is a reasonable idea. All is to change now though.
My first post in this "no photo" topic has been published on 6.02.2024, when the Polish Ministry of National Defence published a draft of the ordinance containing the description of a "Photography forbidden" sign, along with many other things. This ordinance is what is required for the photo ban to be implemented in practice, as per a law published all the way back in 2022. The draft remained all that, just a draft, up until... this very day, 3.04.2025. It is now a full-blown ordinance of the allmighty Minister himself.
The published version can be seen on the official government service Dziennik Ustaw - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU
The ordinance itself, numbered 432 can be seen here - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2025/432 - contains a PDF file with the ordinance and a graphical display of the sign.
From now on, any person responsible for the security of an object of critical infrastructure (whatever that means...) will be able to hang out these legal signs and there is nothing the poor citizen can do about this, even when standing on public grounds.
*The ordinance comes into effect 14 days after its publishing, you have time until the 17th of April. For real now.*
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Photo was taken in Knurów (Krywałd), the old sign is on a wall of a tiny explosives production facility.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
This pretty geyser is indeed, solitary, all by itself, located a short hike from either the Upper Geyser Basin boardwalk or on the way up or down the trail from Observation Point. This is one of those geysers that people tampered with way back when they didn't understand geysers or geology that well. They wanted to use the hot spring water so they put a pipe in it, which lowered the water level several feet and caused the then-hot spring to turn into a geyser that erupted every few minutes. They removed the pipe and the water level rose again, but it continued to be a geyser that now erupts every 5-7 minutes (give or take). It's not a huge geyser, though. It sort of "burbles" and erupts about 3-4 feet (so the nearby sign says). It was difficult to even see it erupt on that chilly day because of all the steam. I could only tell it was going to erupt by watching for ripples in the water, which occurred just before that "burble" of an eruption.
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This male tree bumble bee was hanging around a nest that is somewhere in the middle of the garden Japanese anemone patch. Unlike the specimen posted previously he has managed to keep his hair on. He is furrier than the workers and has some brown hairs an his abdomen whereas they are all black.
This flower carved out of stone makes one of the fine details of the entrance to the garden.
For a backgrounder on this Road Trip please read the description on my Photo of the Day, Carl's Jolly Fountain.
This modern living room collection features geometric concrete wall panels to customize your space!
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Madrugada - This Old House
This was the home of Theodore and Mildred Hoover. Theodore was the manager of the Standard Mill and lived in this house for about three years.
Theodore was the brother of the would-be President Herbert Hoover, who occasionally visited Bodie – but that was long before he was president. At the time, Herbert was working as a mining engineering in California and Colorado. But he did stay here at the Hoover home while in town.
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Photomanipulation with PS Elements 13
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This was THE pano that I was most excited to see when I got the drone shots on the Mac as the sky was so dramatic and I thought that the sweep I did would give a really nice comp. I was right (or I hope I am) on both counts but once I started pixel peeping I could see a lot of degradation from the slow shutter speed and ISO I was having to use due to the fading light and relatively high winds. I have edited and re-edited this pano and now I just have to put it out there and see if it is loved for what it is, instead of being disliked for not being technically good.
I wait your comments, good and bad....
This is the vibrant and lively Jarabacoa
its streets always active
his people in daily activity
create a panorama worthy to be enjoyed.
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Esta es la Jarabacoa vibrante y llena de vida
sus calles siempre activa
su gente en la actividad diaria
crean un panorama digno de ser disfrutado.
This was one i had wanted to shoot for sometime
I was lucky as the sky changed continuosly while I was there
Mosaic of my photos of Australia. To be able to see the smaller photos properly .. view in larger original size. (2096 x 1863)
Things like this are much better appreciated in person.
After spending so much time with my eye to a viewfinder, I'm starting to rediscover that simple, basic truth.
Yesterday, for example, we had one of those moments where the sky is almost black, and then the sun breaks through, and it's late afternoon and the sun's rays are long and red, and it lights up the trees and the garden and a slice of sky... and I was tempted to grab my camera and go out and try to capture it... and then I realized I had no idea what I wanted to shoot to take advantage of the light, and I knew that, by the time I got my shit together the light would probably be gone anyway...
And so... instead of running around, chasing disappointment... I just stood gaping out the window at the lovely light.
The light in this photo is, of course, different light. And looked so much better in reality. Because the beauty of the sky is its vastness, its limitlessness, its endless variation. As soon as you cage it up in a frame, you lose that.
This concludes installment #472 in the series "Reasons I am not taking any pictures right now." Thank you for your time.
This bird seemed to have something in its bill and I couldn't figure it out until I saw it in my camera and saw that the bill was defective. Must be handling okay since it looks healthy to me.
This lovely centenarian will be celebrating her 102nd Birthday and still works in and manages the 155 Year Old Fremont Store in Minnesota
This wallaby hard a sharp lookout for threats. He must've considered me a threat as he bounded out of the garden when he realised I was nearby.
This is Niz! She makes a great evil queen, though I find it hard to see her as one, as she's one of the loveliest people I have ever met