this is still hard to do, but since I'm getting a little more used to it, I just love taking shots like this!

For whatever reason, I found myself in Chattanooga a few nights ago. I haven't done many night shots for quite awhile and the Walnut Street Walking Bridge in downtown Chattanooga is a great place to do it.

This is a sidewalk just beneath the bridge. I was heading back to my car when I noticed the switchback pattern and the wavy lines on the left. It just struck me as a cool scene.

“It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.”

― Leonard Cohen

“This is where I live – somewhere between the wasteland and the rain.”

— Leslie Parrott

So just when you're wandering the ruined landscape and to your surprise find an apple tree with hopefully non-polluted apples, you hungrily tuck in...and hear a strange sound from a nearby building. I'm armed with my trusty Tsarknife from FOE, although its seen better days, and I'm sure my Outlander set from Somnium will help me blend in with the treeline. Time to run.

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SS 2025 - Ticket Booth (From the Salvage Station hunt)

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Abandoned Farm in Central Saskatchewan

Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Bell of Westminster, the hour bell of the Great Clock , hanging in the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, the home of the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

The bell was named "Big Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, the Chief Commissioner of Works. Another theory suggests that at the time anything which was heaviest of its kind was called "Big Ben" after the then-famous prizefighter Benjamin Caunt , making it a natural name for the bell.

Big Ben is commonly taken to be the name of the clock tower itself, but this is incorrect - the tower is simply known as The Clock Tower. Sometimes, the tower is referred to as St. Stephen's Tower, but this title is not used by staff of the Palace of Westminster.

Darkness is always temporary

This marmot was from an August hike at Mt. Rainier National Park, on a very foggy day.

Art - with altered frame

The Canada goose, sometimes called Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe. Wikipedia

Mass: 7.1 – 14 lbs (Male, Adult), 5.5 – 12 lbs (Female,

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my hair was awful in december

This year, my webbed footed friends skipped the picnic ;)

This is one of my first efforts at capturing birds in flight. There is a lot more to it than one might imagine. About 99% of my shots end up in the trash.

my fence, the same you've seen a wek ago. much better on a sunny day, don't you think? HFF!

This Yellow-rumped warbler was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.

This one is for you, my friend

A bleeding heart that is blooming again

This is obviously not my photo ;))

But it is me paddling.

This song by Bjork entered my mind as I was sitting by the sea earlier this week.

This was taken at 36,000ft heading west over Austria during some extremely powerful storms. We diverted our course to the south (left) to stay clear of them as the tops of the thunderstorms went up beyond 40,000ft. In the foreground is a towering cumulus, the precursor to a cumulonimbus, one of which can be seen in the background with the flat top.

More of my in-flight cloud photos here youtu.be/tbmL6yNda4U

This was my first venture into Narrowband that I uploaded in September. I have been running through further tutorials from Kayron Mercieca. Steep learning curve but a great improvement.

This is a standard Hubble Palette.

Previous attempt www.flickr.com/photos/astropictures/20769012433/in/photos...

Taken with my TS 65QAPO telescope, filter wheel, LRGB filters and Atik 490ex. Guiding was 90x50 finder with QHY5IIL. Software used was Artemis capture, PHD guiding, Pixinsight and Photoshop.

HA x14 20mins

OIII x14 20mins

SII x12 20mins

BIN 1x1

This is what winter should be like.

2024 one photo each day

Very quiet here this morning. All thanks to the snow. No trains. No buses, no nothing, but a lot of snow. I took this photo five minutes ago from a window on the second floor at home.

This Great Blue Heron seemed quite surprised when lunch fought back. The eel (I think) seems to be biting the heron's bill.

Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. January 2013.

This is a shrine set in shallow water just south of Isola del Tinetto. South of Porto Venere, Cinque Terre. I couldn’t find out much about this statue but I imagine it is some sort of sea faring shrine.

This photo is from Marado [Mara Island]. Marado represents the southernmost point in South Korean territory. The island is about 30km from the southern port of Jeju and the trip by ferry took about 15-20 minutes. The island is comparatively small (approximately 0.3 square kilometers) and you can walk around its entirety at a leisurely pace in about 90 minutes. Marado is home to about 90 residents and "…has long been known for its population being composed of strong women and docile men." (Wiki). While there, we saw traditional "haenyeo" women divers actively working at their trade of free diving to gather seafood.

Probably a non smoking section

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This grey (possibly pied?) Currawong gave me a good stare as I approached for a close up. I was amazed to get within 6 feet or so. Taken at Lake MacIntyre near Millicent in South Australia.

This is in th e"Not Terribly good club" I heard when I got to Royal Park today there was a female Pink Robin hanging around the park. I finally found it, but could not get a clear shot of it. There's always tomorrow.

This little calf was on the west bank of the Sagavanirktok River, commonly called the Sag River, and its mother was on the east side. When I first arrived, I seen a small herd of muskox on the east side of the river. I heard a sound coming from north of my location but had no idea what it was. As the young muskox came closer and seen me, it started wailing really loud. In an instant, the entire herd stared running towards the Sag River at full gallop. When the herd got close to the bank, they stopped, they too had noticed the photographer taking pictures. After a few minutes, the calf wailed again and off they went to where the calf was, but, they stayed on the east side of the river. The calf's mother, waded into the river but would not cross. She kept calling to the calf but the calf refused to cross. The herd walked slowly to the south, which put me between the calf and the herd. The calf began a fast gait towards the herd, which put me right in its path. There was no time to retreat back to the truck, so I stayed put and took photos.

In this photo, the calf was about 20 to 30 feet away. It kept its eyes on me as it passed me by. About 200 yards south of where I was standing, the calf finally had enough courage to cross the river and rejoin its herd.

This family of Great Horned Owls was seen together after sunset, in Walnut Creek, California. Perhaps they were celebrating Spring!

Streptocarpus saxorum flowers with blue sky in the background.

A walk in an old burned forest

This was such a dangerous picture to take...cars flying at me, cars whizzing past me!! Hope you guys like it!

This pretty Northern Parula displayed his colors nicely among the golden catkins of the tree.

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Well this was just one of the keepers from the wonderful morning of September 27, 2021 at Fergusons Trestle west of Antonito, Colorado. Here Denver & Rio Grande 168 rolls across with that fiery sky backdrop, that without these wonderful clouds would have been just another - ho-hum standard sunrise silouette. I am pretty sure most on Pete Lerro's charter would have been happy to return to Antonito and head out for a nice breakfast, as we all knew, that we could not out do this "dawn on fire" scene the rest of the day.

This Black-crowned Night-heron was seen at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek.

Watching the world go by in Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel.

I composed this photograph while hiking in Alberta's Kananaskis Country. It is an image of a Columbian Ground Squirrel. These animals live in Western Canada and Northwestern United States. "They can dig and continue to live in their same burrow for several years and may never live elsewhere. They'll often even have certain chambers for specific purposes like a toilet chamber and a hibernation chamber. Year after year, they will work to make their burrows more comfortable and safer." (Travelhope.ca.) (This image will also be found in my Albums: "Favorite Wildlife Photographs Series," and "Favorite Photographs From 2022.")

This young male Common Merganser is transitioning from juvenile to adult plumage. A few feathers from his previously brown head are still visible.

This little bird visited us daily on the patio in Mexico. Male or female?