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A freight train crosses the Fox River heading east into the Chicago suburbs. The secondary bridge underneath the main rail bridge is actually a pedestrian and bicyclist access for crossing the river. One is in for quite a sensory experience if on the bridge when a train rolls by overhead. You will definitely hear a loud rumble through your earbuds and maybe even feel a light shake.
Island Park,
Geneva, Illinois, USA
Lens: Nikon 80-200mm f/4.5 N (Manual Focus)
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I'm so looking forward to seeing some Flickr buds in Yosemite in a couple of weeks. You never know what nature will reveal to you there.
This is Horsetail Falls taken during a magical time in February. This morning, I visited Michael Frye's blog and watched his video tip on using Photoshop selective color adjustment layer. So it only took 8 months to figure out how to get back the color into a white sky. As an added bonus, was surprise of the seeing the light pink clouds again.
The colors are probably over-saturated but that's what the weekend is for right? Some sliding fun? Anyway, I've gotten so confused with color profiles and color calibaration. There are so many variables. For all I know you're seeing a cyan green sky and think I'm just being "creative". You're all such nice people.
three different expressions
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Three-toed Woodpecker from our Dalton Highway, Alaska trip this summer. One spot left for next year: www.studebakerstudio.com/dalton-june
On a dead tree along the shoreline of Hoople Island we paddled this evening. We got a bit closer on our canoe then they took off. A few more views below…
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I went out for a drive today especially to take some shots of trees that I have seen around the area. I ended up with about 80 shots of a selection of trees from different angles and different locations so plenty to get through and process.
These three trees are situated in a field just on the main road from Ironbridge to Shrewsbury, on the crossroads where the turning to Cressage is. I have seen them many times and always promised myself I would photograph them.......job done.
As I've said before, one of my goals in photographing birds was to get this particular resident species, the Oak Titmouse. (Second on the list was the White-crowned Sparrow in breeding plumage.) My first two cameras didn't have the range for avian photography of any kind ... well, with the first exception when an Oak Titmouse popped up on a newly planted five foot orange tree right in front of me.
Still, I persisted, and I think I have 15 pretty good images of this titmouse. One in particular was my prize and was the first image I hung on my wall. (flic.kr/p/ufUbT1) That's not the reason that I never posted this image. The reason for that was that I wasn't on SmugMug or later Flickr, and so I just printed this, put it in an album, and there it stayed until this morning.
I was in the archives again, and I must say I really like this shot. The way the tail just clears and follows the curve of the piece of rotten oak which was also used as a granary for Acorn Woodpeckers (which is why I was there taking pictures that day in March). More than that, there appeared to me that there was movement in this pose. He actually had just landed, and was already about to take off again. 1/640th was my go to prep speed, and it worked very well here. The light was good, too. And that's why I'm starting off the week for you (I can look at it any time) with one 3 gram Oak titmouse on a Live Oak (that's the name, not the description).
I've described this bird many times. Let's just let it go with this: The Oak titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the plain titmouse into the oak titmouse and the juniper titmouse in 1996, due to distinct differences in song, preferred habitat, and genetic makeup. It sleeps in deep cavities, and what better place than a woodpecker hole in an oak or yucca. We are surrounded by thousands of acres of three of the twenty species of oak in California: valley oak, interior live oak, or blue oak. The Valley Oak is the largest oak in the state, and we have 30+ heritage oaks within a quarter mile of my front door. (Heritage oaks are huge, some with canopies 100 feet or more across, 70 feet tall, and with trunks about 25 feet in diameter. How can you tell if one is a "heritage oak?" Easy: every heritage oak is numbered with a metal tag about 8 feet off the ground ... and that's all I'll say. They are also between 200 and 350 years old. And every one has an Oak titmouse in it! I just made that up, but it's where I'd start to photograph these little flitters.)
DDC "Three"
When I saw the cue for the Daily Dog Challenge today, I wondered if Shyla could balance three milk bones on her nose. She could, although I must admit that she didn't look thrilled about it - that is, until she was allowed to eat all three milk bones!
From time to time I have tried to share with you some of the individuals I have come across and follow. If you have not met her, let me introduce to you to Dawn . I find her to be an utterly brilliant talent. She is masterful in her expression of an image through color, blur, texture and crop. I am always intrigued and inspired by her images as with the one above. After seeing her image ^ ^ ^ ^ of tent tops, I was inspired to try my hand with a similar scene. The Cavalia show is playing here in Denver and they have an amazing tent set up. So here is one of what I believe will be 3 images of a similar nature.
My thanks to Dawn and the many others of you out there for your perspective and wonderful creativity. That is what it is all about, inspiring each other and challenging one another to look at the world around us in different ways. Keep it up.
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"Galt is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario on the Grand River. Prior to 1973, it was an independent city, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the village of Hespeler, the town of Preston and the village of Blair formed the new municipality of Cambridge. Being the largest constituent community in the city, it is commonly seen as the downtown core of Cambridge. The first mayor of Cambridge was Claudette Millar.
There was considerable resistance among the local population to this "shotgun marriage" arranged by the provincial government and a healthy sense of rivalry had always governed relations among the three communities. Even today, many residents identify Galt, Preston, and Hespeler as still being cities or towns in their own right. Each unique centre has its own history that is well documented in the Cambridge City Archives.
No current population data is available for the former Galt since the Census reports cover only the full area of Cambridge.
The former Galt covers the largest portion of the amalgamated municipality, making up the southern half of the city. It is located on the Grand River and has a very long history as an industrialized area. The former Preston and Blair are located on the western side of the city, while the former Hespeler is in the most northeasterly section of Cambridge.
Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers. The city had a population of 138,479 as of the 2021 census. Along with Kitchener and Waterloo, Cambridge is one of the three core cities of Canada's tenth-largest metropolitan area.
Cambridge was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of Galt, Preston, Hespeler, the settlement of Blair, North Dumfries, as well as east and west Galt. The former Galt covers the largest portion of Cambridge, making up the southern half of the city, while Preston and Blair cover the western side. Hespeler makes up the most northeastern section of Cambridge. Historical information and records of each entity are well documented in the Cambridge City Archives." - info from Wikipedia.
Late June to early July, 2024 I did my 4th major cycling tour. I cycled from Ottawa to London, Ontario on a convoluted route that passed by Niagara Falls. During this journey I cycled 1,876.26 km and took 21,413 photos. As with my other tours a major focus was old architecture.
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I spend a lot of time helping people with sight loss to improve their lives with the right technology. There's always the reward of observing them making progress and realising how much they can achieve; occasionally there are additional, tangible rewards. Margaret, the wife of one of my trainees, has a lovely houseplant which caught my eye with its distinctive leaf shape. Next visit, she had divided her plant and I went home with my own. It just flowered, so a photograph simply had to be taken. It's oxalis triangularis. Thanks, Margaret!
Playing with Millefiori. 3 x 10'x10" panels. Vitreous glass, Mexican Smalti, ceramic, gold, stained glass