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I don't know if there ever was Gold in Cologne, but if there was, they must have put it into this into this bridge. When I got close, I could see there is is another kind of gold on the bridge. It's full of padlocks hung by lovers. I have never ever seen so many padlocks in one place, as on this bridge. It's from one end to the other.
--Jacob Surland
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Depuis quelques jours et quand la lumière le permet je passe quelques temps à shooter ces Cooper juvéniles.
Ils sont quatre et s'en donnent à coeur joie dans le quartier. Cette lumière dorée entre six heure et sept heure est un vrai régal.
For a few days now, when light permits, I spend some time tracking and shooting the neighbourhood Coopers.
There's four juveniles having a party everyday. Caught this one leaping off my neighbour's chimney at golden hour.
Just returned from a week in Cayo Guillermo where we had great weather and I was able to take some time tracking down some local wildlife. On our final day there this juvenile Little Blue Heron paid a visit to our resort, dining on the local cuisine of lizards.
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Being in the eastern Midwest has always meant Amtrak trains are usually in the dark, if they are on time. Here, in this encore Flickr posted image for "F-unit Friday", we have two F-unit big brothers stopping with the eastbound Lakeshore Limited around 11:30 PM. At some point in 1977-78, problems with the new power caused Amtrak to do a "time machine" move and put older power back into primary use again. This of course, met with approval of the railfans as it put the old machines back into the lead more often than not. And I guess if it kept the trains moving, it should have been good for Amtrak too. Unit 436, a 1952 built E-8A, look's cool in this paint scheme version, although it probably looked even better in it's original Illinois Central paint.
On a sidenote, this is right on the Conrail mainline, former NYC and PC mainline. And we are two years into Conrail doing big time track rebuilding, but notice the eastbound main in the foreground? One can only imagine how it must have looked a few years earlier before Conrail started repairs. So far removed now from the pre-Conrail years, it's sometimes hard to imagine and recall just how bad things really looked around here before 1976.
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."- Carl Sandburg
How fast are you ? Come try our new time track
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This is back to my current project - taking objects from their normal location and putting them into a new home. For those who know Cardiff this is normally in the centre of all the shops and restaurants and the city Library.... It was heavy to move !
Every summer we get to spend a week, maybe two, at a camp in North Frontenac township, next to a beautiful deep lake. The only technology is the camera and an emergency cell phone, and the only real imperative is being outside. The lack of wifi is a huge appeal (though I do try to catch up on Flickr when I get back).
Common Loons have been on the lake since we started coming ten years ago. At least one nesting pair is around most years, and often as many as three nesting pairs. Given the wildness of the lake and the timing of our visits, I am reluctant to pursue them with a camera on the water, as I am not interested in inadvertently threatening or pressuring them.
So when one comes near the shore I try to be ready. They hunt the entire lake, but spend considerable time tracking the shoreline in the early mornings and in the evenings. Available light is often a challenge, as the trees on the shore provide shade to the shallower water, enabling the fish and crayfish to gather. And it is always a trick to try to guess where and when they might come up, as they can stay underwater for several minutes and cover a lot of ground while down there - in the end it is pure luck, as they will follow the food.
I was able to secure this image right as the bird surfaced, and froze for a moment (likely trying to gauge whether a camera shutter sound was hostile or not). It then patrolled briefly with its head underwater, scanning for more food, before diving again. It is always great to see that red eye, so distinctive of the summer Common Loon adult (the eye colour flattens to a dull shade after breeding season, and the young have dull eyes as well - it is thought the red eye is to attract breeding interest).
The most striking thing about these birds is the size - of their bodies, their wingspans, and, for me, their bills: a hunting tool so efficient that it looks designed.
The young Loons from the lake will migrate separately with other young Loons to the southern Atlantic coast to overwinter, and then stay there for a couple of years, before migrating back.
Goembel is the second CTC siding on the Bloomington District. It was originally named North Osman but changed to Goembel in recognition of Phil Goembel, a long time track supervisor on the line.
(Lontra canadensis). Angelina County, Texas.
Last week at this time we were without power in the aftermath of Uri, a historic winter storm that brought with it heavy snowfall and single digit temperatures. The storm was undeniably devastating, but it was also beautiful and exciting. It also created once in a lifetime photo opportunities.
Opportunities like this trio of river otters, that didn't seem to mind the frigid conditions one bit. I really like river otters. They're numbers in Texas were greatly reduced, but they're slowly making a comeback, and are fairly commonly sighted in our area. We've seen them a number of times, but I've struggled to photograph them, with several devastating near misses when I didn't realize that they had crept up to within a few feet behind me.
I finally had my first real photo opportunity with them on Monday, and what a way for it to happen! Carolina spotted them swimming in the lake at a local nature preserve that we frequent. I spent some time tracking them and trying to position myself to photograph them in the water, when suddenly all three of them hopped up onto an old downed pine half submerged in the icy water. The otters proceeded to play on the log: rough-housing, cuddling, and frolicking in the snow. The pursuit of wildlife photography is full of incredible experiences and memorable encounters. This encounter, however, stands above the rest. It was a combination of factors - the animals (not one, but three otters!), the weather (snow and temperatures almost unheard of in my part of Texas), the setting (a snow covered log with a snowy forest backdrop), that all came together perfectly for this. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience that I will forever cherish.
A panorama of the glacier-fed Athabasca River and peaks around Mount Fryatt in Jasper National Park, as the Milky Way is setting and the waning gibbous Moon rising, lighting the peaks of the Continental DIvide with lunar alpenglow. Mount Fryatt is at centre, while to the right is Mount Geraldine, and to the left are Brussels Peak and Mount Christie.
I shot this on a fine night on October 15, 2022 from the "Goats and Glaciers" Viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway. Jupiter, large and fuzzy in some thin cloud, is at far left, while Saturn is left of centre over Mount Christie. The bright area in the Milky Way over Mount Fryatt is the Scutum Starcloud. Altair is the bright star at top. Some green airglow tints the sky at left, while some red airglow or possibly low-level aurora tints the sky at right. The location is called Goats and Glaciers because mountain goats are often here enjoying the salt lick deposits.
This is a blend of three 3-section panoramas:
- the first taken with a Star Adventurer Mini for 3 x 2-minute tracked exposures for the sky at ISO 800 starting about 9 pm;
- the second immediately afterward with the tracker off for 3 x 3-minutes at ISO 800 for the ground;
- and the third taken about an hour later as the Moon rose lighting the peaks for 3 x 2.5-minutes at ISO 1600.
All with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at f/2.8 and 15mm and Canon R5, and with the camera not moving location between image sets. So this is a time blend, combining frames taken an hour apart, to retain the dark sky with the Milky Way before moonrise, blended with the alpenglow at moonrise. However, most of the landscape comes from the earlier panorama lit only by starlight.
Panoramas stitched in Adobe Camera Raw and blended and masked in Photoshop.
How exciting to see liftoff with this many snow geese. I just love them. I've had a hard time tracking them down this winter...until they all converged just down the road from where I was photographing owls. My friend and I made it in time, but daylight was fading fast.
Nikon d850 | Nikkor 500mm handheld | f5.6 |1/800 sec | ISO 2000
Canon 6D @70mm on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer, My first time tracking Milky Way and my second time using a tracking mount
I spent a fair amount of time tracking down this species in Arizona. They aren't common, and they sure don't perch in decent places very much.
One space opened for next year!
Another collaboration between Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
In this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Comet C/2017 T2 takes another photo op as it passes by Galaxy Messier 106 (M106) in the night sky this past Tuesday night, June 23, 2020.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show over the past couple months. Here it's seen passing within a degree from M106, a very close and beautiful event. While they might look really close to each other in this image If you were travelling at the speed of light it would take between 22 to 25 million light-years to reach M106 but only 14.5 light-minutes to reach Comet C/2017 T2.
Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and It’s is one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies similar in size and luminosity to the Andromeda Galaxy.
A great write-up on Comet C/2017 T2 can be found on Universe Today at: www.universetoday.com/144774/catch-comet-t2-panstarrs-thi...
A real time tracker of Comet C/2017 T2 can be found here: theskylive.com/c2017t2-info
Wiki of M106: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_106
Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the June 23, 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on the William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope.
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: June 23, 10:08pm - June 24, 12:17am
Color RGGB 125 min, 20 x 300 sec, 10 x 180 sec.
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
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A bit tattered and torn but still a beautiful bird. I wish I had spent more time tracking this hawk while I was living "on the ranch".
- Galileo Galilei.
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Birds in flight images are hard. There are so many factors that you need to keep an eye on, and so many things that can go wrong and ruin a perfect opportunity. The first time I tried my luck with getting a decent shot of a flying bird, I came up empty. Not even a single good shot from the whole day. Most of them were so bad that I began to consider a shot with a bird fully in the frame as a success as most of the images only had part of their body in my photos.
This is were critically reviewing your images even if you weren’t successful, is essential. Once I started to go over my pictures, it becomes clear that I was having a hard time tracking the birds and also trying to figure out which way they are taking off. A bit of research online solved both issues. I learned about birds taking off and landing into the wind and some tips on practicing panning with a telephoto lens. My second outing was a lot more successful, and I got about a 20% success rate.
I tracked this blue heron from quite a bit far, and as he flew towards us, armed with the knowledge that birds land against the wind, I positioned myself perfectly to get the right flight image. I know its still a work in progress but very proud of this shot.
Slit-scan images produced in camera using Time Tracks for the Iphone.
This is a horizontal slit, 10 pixel rows per second, facing relatively forward (slight angle and down camera orientation) on a 25 minute bike ride from Downtown Austin to my home in Hyde Park. "Time" (and "Space") proceed bottom to top in these images.
With a faster sample rate you would be able to read some of the street markings. Also noticeable is the right-hand curb/grass/shoulder... some linear road markings... and relatively long pauses at stop-lights.
Will combine these into one image but it will be hard to preview on flickr. The sectional ones are easier to view here.
SD 40N leads a southbound at the west end of Western Ave.
We were waiting at Bridge 15 on the other side of the river for a well lit shot but they died here waiting for day time track work so we crossed over and at least got a shot here. Woulda looked good with calm waters reflecting clean yellow engines but... perhaps another day.
These Razorbills where extremely challenging to shoot in flight, they made photographing my local birds of prey seem like child's play.
The problem was they would come up from below and land on the cliff so you would only have a split second to locate the bird, and with thousands of seabirds buzzing around it was difficult picking out the ones that where coming to land near me.
The second issue was technical and my beloved 7D found its match, combined with the 100-400 zoom it had a really difficult time tracking such a fast incoming subject.
Working out a means of escape... series
__________
Hush; may I ask you all for silence?
The dreamer is still asleep
May the goddess keep us from single vision
And you to sleep
The dreamer is still asleep
The dreamer is still asleep
He's inventing landscapes in their magnetic field
Working out a means of escape
We'll cut across the crop circles
The seer says no
Not much time left for these escape attempts
Look at it this way
In ten years' time
Who'll care? Who'll even remember?
One dies like that, deep within it
Almost inside it
It's there for a reason
I'll give you my old address
And take that little book
To tear and cut the paper
The beginning is also the end
Time defines it, time defines it
It will end
Like close friendship
Nothing could be further
We forget the space between people and things
Is empty
We forget, and don't notice the loss
Crossing into venerable degeneration
It's that radiant pollution
The god with the silver hands surveys this vast contamination
The dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still dreaming
In the heart of your heart
Your eye remains
Is that hurt you? Is that blister you call loveless?
Your whole life is a cold slow shock
Your whole life is a cold slow shock
Take all your time
Track the shabby shadow down
Through hissy mists of history
The dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still dreaming
Hush; may I ask you all for silence?
Will he wake in time to catch the sunset?
Hush; may I ask you all for silent?
May I ask you all for silent?
(The Dreamer Is Still Asleep, Coil, 1999)
First proper attempt at this Comet, was really not ideal conditions shooting in the supermoon conditions and shooting into light pollution, but glad the clouds finally parted briefly. this is 6 min total integration time tracked 30sec exposures, when it gets higher in sky ill do this again and properly. and hopefully get better results.
Masai Mara (MMNR) | Kenya
Given the muddy conditions in the reserve which restricted access to many areas, we were really lucky to find this beautiful female leopard called Bahati. Whilst it was a lovely encounter I didn't think I'd be able to take any decent photos simply due to the tall grass, but after a bit of time tracking her we got lucky as she eventually came out into the open to walk along one of the tracks.
A thin layer of wildfire smoke clouds the air as Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr (train #6) rolls past a stopped UP Grand Junction to North Yard (Denver) manifest just as the days end draws near at Tabernash, CO
Another collaboration between Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock in this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Comet C/2017 T2 takes another photo op as it passes by Galaxy Messier 106 (M106) in the night sky this past Tuesday night, June 23, 2020.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show over the past couple months. Here it's seen passing within a degree from M106, a very close and beautiful event. While they might look really close to each other in this image If you were travelling at the speed of light it would take between 22 to 25 million light-years to reach M106 but only 14.5 light-minutes to reach Comet C/2017 T2.
Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and It’s is one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies similar in size and luminosity to the Andromeda Galaxy.
A great write-up on Comet C/2017 T2 can be found on Universe Today at: www.universetoday.com/144774/catch-comet-t2-panstarrs-thi..
A real time tracker of Comet C/2017 T2 can be found here: www.theskylive.com/c2017t2-info
Wiki of M106: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_106
Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the June 23, 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on the William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope.
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory, Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: June 23, 10:08pm - June 24, 12:17am
Color RGGB 125 min, 20 x 300 sec, 10 x 180 sec.
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
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One of my favorite pics from all the WNYP chases in 2019. A Northbound train with 34 Driftwood cars passes the horse pasture at Combs Creek Road in Liberty, just a few miles South of Port Allegany, PA on June 1, 2019. BP & I had a hard time tracking the train down this day. There was supposedly going to be a pair of light units running from Olean to Emporium where the previous days Driftwood Turn had outlawed. Hopes were high for a set of 5 Bigs on the Northbound train. Turns out the crew taxied down to Emporium. BP searched them out while I waited in Olean for a crew for the supposed light units. After BP found where they were I had just enough time to get down to Keating Summit to intercept them. This was before the madness started and I believe there were only 3 of us in pursuit. The crew turned at Olean and ran back to Emporium with sand to finish the day.
Here on the South Plains of West Texas there are many of these old abandoned farm houses in varying states of decay. They happen to be one of my favorite subjects to shoot under the night sky and I've spent a lot of time tracking them down. Unfortunately, as flat as it is around here, lights on the horizon can been seen forever away. In most cases I prefer a cloudless night and a sky full of stars, but in this case, I think the wispy clouds add to the eeriness of the scene.
Shot with my Fuji X-H1 and Samyang 12mm f/2.0. (5) 15 second shots + (2) dark frames @ f/2.0, ISO 3200, 3800K WB. One LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins. (Shot April 9, 2019; finally catching up with editing.)
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- Herman Melville.
I have seen pictures of a pileated woodpecker many times, but it was a real shocker the first time I saw one in real life. I always assumed that it was a regular-sized bird, something along the line of a mourning dove. My first encounter with the pileated woodpecker was at the nature trail near the Siloam Spring lake. I was walking on the elevated wood bridge when something big caught my peripheral vision. I turned around, expecting a turkey vulture, a common bird in that area, but it was a pileated woodpecker. I was a bit shocked by its size but quickly recovered and started taking pics. They can be stealthy when they want for a big bird, and I had a hard time tracking him. It also felt like he was keeping me in his sight as well. Anytime I even moved slightly, he would adjust his distance. I know this is not the best image of one, but I was just excited to get my first pileated woodpecker.
With the disappointing news recently that Rousselot will be closing their Peabody plant by the end of 2023 I decided I better make the effort to photograph CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 (technically I guess L055 now) making the trip up the Eastern Route to Salem and the freight only Danvers and South Reading Industrial Tracks to access the plant.
The closure of this plant will bring to the end all freight operations north of Everett Junction on the Eastern Route unless any new customers materialize along the commuter zone. With rail operations to end around June, well before the plant finally shuts down, now is the time to get out.
Having made the 17 mile run up from BET in Somerville and run around at North Street Yard they are now gingerly working west (timetable east) out the nearly 2.5 mile mong branch to the plant at the 5 MPH maximum speed. They are crossing Howley Street as they pass an old brick mill still standing on the other side of the little North River.
It's hard to fathom now, but at one time tracks radiated in three directions from Peabody Square and Budd cars from Danvers passed over these very rails enroute to Salem and Boston as late as 1958. Today this wobbling twice a week local freight is all that remains, and even it too is about to come to its conclusion finally ending all rail service to Peabody.
Holding down the job is CSXT's ex Pan Am GMDD GP40-2W MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472) which was given this mysterious retro fresh Guilford gray paint job at Waterville in August 2020 and has been frequently assigned to BO-1 since then. If you haven't seen what she looked like sparking fresh check out this shot:
If you've not seen it, here is one of several news articles on the closing of the plant which has been in operation in some form for over 200 years! www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-a...
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday March 9, 2023
Please write to ricseet@gmail.com if you like a FREE copy of this picture. In return please donate any amount and to any charity of your choice. Just trying to do the little we can help to the needy. Thank you for your generosity!
Thank you for viewing and have a happy day.
Explore #4, May 10 2012
When I visited my daughter on March 20 2011, my grandson, Aidan, was telling me about this bird with babies. I was excited and asked him to show me. He took me outside his home and pointed up - "there they are".
Wow - I saw how cute they were and grab my cam from the car.
Thank you Aidan!
Update: May10 2012
This pic is sold to Nat Geo for their coming book. Proceeds is going to charity.
The lady who bought the pic had a hard time tracking me down becos the person who downloaded this pic from my Flickr account without my knowledge, plastered this all over the internet and change my name from Ric Seet to Rik Seet. So no one can track the originator down. Now others are profiteering from this scam and here is the link to one such websites. You pay them to download my stolen pic:
pixdaus.com/under-her-wings-by-rik-seet-birds-aves-fauna-...
When I did a Rik Seet goggle search there are about 4 full pages of links to such websites !
www.google.com.sg/search?q=Rik Seet&ie=utf-8&oe=u...
This is one of the downside of the internet. To prevent such future mishaps, I have since disabled the download feature under Privacy & Settings. Base on the feedback this is not even safe. Additional advises is to add Watermarks and reduce file size to 800X800. From what I am hearing nothing is save on the net.
Thank you friends for your kind advise. .
Update: May13 2012
I managed to write to a few websites/blogs via email and FB.
1. A friend responded on FB and apologize for posting the pic on FB for Mother Day.
2. An Australian cyclist by the name of Craig plaster the pic for 2012 Mother Day. I wrote to inform him that the pic is my and he blocked me off immi'ly. Isn't that just great, steals your pic and ignores you!
3. What's even more interesting is Pixdaus.com has an option for you to complain if your are the owner of the intellectual property. Isn't this a laugh. I presume they believe they excuse themselves of any legal obligation in the eyes of the law by having this feature on their website! I have written to them and waiting for their reply.
Update June 1 2012
Today a caring Flickr friend brought to my attention that the above pic was stolen again and this pic was posted on Flickr. Wrote to the person to delete my picture which was done. Not a word of apology.
These people have no shame - steal other pictures and post it like theirs. Even took part in invites and participated at the various levels of award to claim credit for themselves.
here is the link if this shameful person and I have seen another couple of stolen pics as well becos they are too skillful for him. Even wrote to advise that these be remove. I am contacting the legal department of Yahoo in Singapore and making a few suggesting to them to apprehend such people.
by Pasckal2011
www.flickr.com/photos/69511790@N07/7293622534/
Since then more Flickr friends have alerted me. I am now no more angry becos I have learnt to share and come to realized this picture brings great memories & joy to others. One guy wrote to request for a print becos he wanted to place it next to his Bible.
He said that it is "God's Gift To Nature"
Update June 4 2012
Great to see that couple of my Flickr friends have added water mark to their pic. Very creative as they take the trouble to strategically position the watermark . I will borrow this idea. Thanks guys!
Update Dec 17 2012
Nat Geo is now printing double the number of copies and has agreed to denote US$300/ to charity of my grandson choice - SPCA. Thank you Nat Geo.
Update Dec 25 2012
Today I received a very touching letter from a mother who requested this print. I am glad that a picture is worth a thousand words and holds special meaning and brings great joy.
So if you need a print please drop me a Flickr mail and your mailing address. Thank you.
My heart goes out to this special lady and this picture is my gift to her. Some of you are aware that my daughter was critically ill. In her own works she told me she nearly died in Oct. Now I rejoice becos she is making slow recovery ----. A small step at a time!
Hi Ric,
I have been searching for the photographer who took the absolutely beautiful photo of the colorful momma bird with it's babies under its wings. I've actually been praying I would find the original photographer. I won't get into the details, but for the last almost 2 years, I've been going through a really hard time with my health due to a horrible medical mistake that I suffered at the hands of a doctor. I will not let anyone tell me I am not going to get better. My husband and my son need me back. This picture holds such meaning for me...I've found it on other websites, which I am so sorry that people are stealing your work, and I have gone back to look at it a lot over the last several months. It brings me great comfort and the colors are just so beautiful and bright. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy a large print of it from you so that I can frame it and have it matted with a verse so I can look at it every day in my house. Would you mind letting me know if it's possible to buy a print from you? If so, what are the size proportions that you could print out for me? The place I want to hang it could handle an overall size of 24"x24" or 24"x28", which would be framed and matted with an inscription matted under it. Hopefully that description makes sense. Would you mind contacting back?
Update April 11 2016
Today i received a very comforting email from this lady and I thank her for helping mereach out to others who may need this pic becos of the sentimental/special meaning this pic means to them. For me this pic means a world to me bcos I am a dad to two precious daughters that I love dearly. No matter what -- I will always be there for them as long as I am on this good earth.
Hi Ric,
I must confess I posted your beautiful picture of the bird shielding her babies under her wings on a tweet and my FB page. I didn't take it from Flickr, I (wrongly) assumed it was in the public domain. Would you like me to remove it or would it be mutually agreeable to post a link to you for your credit and publicity? I am a solicitor working from home writing wills and trusts, hence the family theme, I have not tried to profit directly from the photo, just thought it was a nice image of caring. Sorry.
Kind regards,
Elizabeth
Thank you Elizabeth. There are lots of caring people on this good earth.
I was out with a couple of other crazies last night photographing the stars. Between the three of us we had a gazillion things go wrong with our gear because of the cold. When I finally went home at 11:30 pm the temperature was -25 Celsius with the wind chill factor! As I've written here in my Flickr gallery at previous times, you don't have to be crazy to do this hobby in the Canadian winter, but it sure helps!
Camera: Nikon D5500 unmodified
Lens: Nikon 300/f4 ED
Aperture: f5.1 using stepping rings as aperture mask
ISO: 100 images at 1600, and 70 images at 3200
Exposure: 170 x 30 seconds = 1.4 hours total integration time
Tracker: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky conditions: dark clear sky, good seeing
Pre-stacking: Raw files converted to 16-bit TIFF files in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Processing: Photoshop CS5
I'm not really happy with the quality of this image - its too grainy and not perfectly focused - but it's a start anyway, especially at these insane temperatures. I really wanted to do 60-second exposures for better fine details, but the AAA batteries on my intervalometer quit from the cold forcing me to use the internal 30-second timer in the camera. The batteries quit even though they were almost new plus were wrapped in a hand warmer. I'm getting super-power Lithium batteries today for our next outing tonight.
Camera: Nikon D5500 unmodified
Lens: Nikon 300/f4 ED
Aperture: f5.2 using stepping rings as aperture mask
ISO: 1600
Exposure: 112 x 1-minute = 1.86 hours total integration time
Tracker: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer mini-EQ mount
Sky conditions: Dark sky, poor seeing, Ottawa light pollution
Processing tools:
rnc-color-stretch
Photoshop CS5,
Gradient Exterminator,
HLVG (Hasta La Vista, Green!)
Since 2007, LunaMare Designs has been helping business owners in SL establish, run and promote their businesses with a neat set of scripted tools and gadgets.
Whether you are just getting started or looking for tools to improve your guest experience, sales, marketing or product presentation, make sure to stop by LunaMare Gadgets showroom, all tools are placed in world so you can preview and test them.
Gadgets and scripted tools including:
* Store starter kits including building, gadgets and decoration to get your business started all in one set.
* Greeter boards with multiple features all-in-one.
* Visits and stay time tracking tools with graphical reports.
* Store signage kits such as roll up banners, directory signage, 3d words, message boards, notice boards with multiple fonts and colors.
* Vendor machines for multiple items with multiple panels and pages with sales tracking built-in. (Several models available)
* 3D hologram vendor machines (allows your visitor to preview your creations in-world).
* Directory teleporters with multiple panels for multiple locations working grid wide or within your parcel/region.
* Environment setting boards, allowing your visitors to select specific environment setting managed by you.
* Laser light systems and interaction tools for clubs and recreational areas.
* Scripted car rezzers (allowing visitors to "drive" in your region ) and racing cars.
* Landscaping and flowers kits to add color and "life" to your home, store or entertainment area.
Visit our new main store at the Pilantin region, in an outdoor mall design called Timberline Village.
Make sure to test the Sky Wizard while walking or driving around the mall, the setting "Hazy Afternoon" is our favorite!
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