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These two little cats have been put through the proverbial ringer this morning! First, I processed them "in-camera" (something I have never done until now) to a "colour sketch" filter and then uploaded them to my LR4 where I converted them to black-and-white and then mixed them the blue tones up a little to end up with a "kind of" infrared look .... poor little things, but technique is for today!
7 Days of Shooting week #10 - The number 2 Technique Tuesday .....
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Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius), in Greece.
There are a couple of places left on the forthcoming tour of Rhodes, Greece. See link for details or contact me...
www.greenwings.co/page/greek-island-odyssey--rhodes--gree...
The island of Rhodes is blessed with more days of sunshine (300 or more) than almost anywhere else in Europe, so its name ‘The Isle of the sun’ is well justified.
The tour will encompass the diverse flora and fauna, culture, cuisine and history of Rhodes. We will stay right in the heart of the medieval old town (a World Heritage Site), in a charming and traditional Greek family hotel.
From our base we will venture out in a comfortable mini-bus to explore the island. There will be chances to see and photograph lots of flora and fauna, including Lesser Fiery Copper, Bee-eater, Golden Oriole, Scarce and European Swallowtail, Oertzen’s Rock Lizard, Rhode’s Dragon, Aegean Meadow Brown, Long-tailed Blue, Large Wall Brown, Dragon Arum, King Ferdinand’s Orchid, the rare and beautiful endemic Rhodes Peony and Fritillary and much more!
The adventure will start on Thursday 26th April and journey’s end will be reached on Thursday 3rd May.
10% of profits will be donated to Butterfly Conservation.
A photo of two trees and two rocks at Olmsted Point, in Yosemite National Park. I'm sure that there are 100s of 1000s of photos of these well known trees. Nonetheless, they still make a compelling subject to photograph. I particularly like the way the diagonal crack in the rocks, and the diagonal strips of light color rocks so nicely lead into the frame of this image. It never ceases to amaze me that trees can find a way to take root on these massive granite domes!
The last two airworthy Lancasters, photographed at the Portrush airshow 2014. Converted to black + white for a vintage feel.
two fashionable girls on the streets of Bath
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On September 24, 2012, President George W. Bush and 22 wounded service members participate in the sponsor/practice round for the Bush Center's 2nd Warrior Open golf tournament. Opening ceremony of the final round of the 2012 Warrior Open.
Photo by Eric Draper warrioropen.com/
My two Macs, a 13" MacBook, also handy for preparing eggs due to his heat performance, and the loyal iMac G5. The beautiful girl on the MacBook desktop is the actress Evangeline Lilly, wonderful interpreter of Kate character in Lost.
Monday, 23 December 2019: more fresh snow has fallen, so everywhere looks like a winter wonderland. A day to stay off the roads, I'm sure, but I have an appointment for a desperately-needed haircut later today. Temperature this morning is -3C (windchill -5C) and, like yesterday, we are under a Fog Advisory. Sunrise is at 8:38 am and sunset is at 4:32 pm.
Five of the six photos posted this morning were taken six days ago, when six of us travelled in two cars (which turned out very fortunate!!) down south of Calgary to the High River area. It was the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for High River, on 17 December 2019. A few days ago, I posted photos of the beautiful sunrise that greeted us when we started the Count at the first location, Frank Lake.
Some years, we have a beautiful hoar frost to start this Count, but not this time. The only birds seen at Basin 1 were 4 extremely distant Mallards and 1 Grebe (Horned or Eared) that was too far away to ID exactly.
After checking out the outflow and the blind, we drove to the area half way down the west side of Frank Lake. Part way along this back road, the 'road' becomes a nightmare, no matter what time of the year! I never, ever go on it. Having uttered what a terrible road to drive along, my words were proven to be so accurate. I knew it - we were stuck in a deep, frozen rut with the front wheels in the air. After pushing and digging didn't work, we knew that there was only one thing left. The other car drove along the edge of the field to get behind us and tied a towing rope to 'our' vehicle. Thank goodness this was successful - just a shame that we lost quite a lot of valuable birding time.
The rest of the day was spent driving various backroads, and calling in at several farms. No matter how many Great Horned Owls one sees, it is always a real treat to see one. We ended up seeing six of them by the end of the day.
Many thanks, Jim, for driving all day and for the extra bit of birding after the count had ended - too bad that we couldn't find a Snowy Owl. Strange how our group didn't go to the farm that we always go to last on this Count.
From the island was spotted that two Spermwhales were about to beach on a nearby sandbank.
With human help the two were brought back to deep water and eventually they found their way to open sea.
A picture story of the rescue.
Gestrande potvissen op Vlieland gered
Vlieland, 2 november 2004 - Zo`n dertig Vlielanders en Terschellingers hebben gistermiddag het leven gered van twee gestrande potvissen. De dieren waren vastgelopen op de Richel, een zandplaat in het zeegat tussen de beide eilanden.
Rond zessen dook het duo in het zeegat Stortemelk onder. ,,We hebben na gistermiddag niks meer van ze vernomen``, meldde Diana Schouten van het Kustwachtcentrum in Den Helder vanochtend. De bemanning van een overvliegende SAR-helikopter van de luchtmacht ontdekte de stranding rond drieën, waarna tal van eilanders te hulp schoten.
Vanaf het havenstrand op Vlieland volgden tientallen belangstellenden de verrichtingen van de redders. ,,Enorme vinnen steken boven het water uit``, vertelde Peter Klaassen van het KNRM-station op Vlieland. ,,Het zijn grote beesten.``
Het gaat waarschijnlijk om sterk verzwakte dieren van zo`n twee jaar oud, die elk 10 tot 12 meter lang zijn. Boten van de reddingsmaatschappij, de politie en het Terschellinger bergingsbedrijf Noordgat probeerden met hun schroeven het zand onder de walvissen weg te blazen.
Dat lukte, maar eenmaal los zwommen de dolende potvissen steeds weer in de richting van de ondiepe Waddenzee. Daarbij leek het alsof de ene potvis zijn zwakkere metgezel ondersteunde. ,,Ze waren hun oriëntatie kwijt``, zei Terschellinger Hessel Wiegman. ,,We hoorden ze gewoon klikken. Zo communiceren ze, hé. Van dat getik. Heel indrukwekkend.``
Hij schat dat de beesten wel 20 ton wogen. ,,Die trek je niet even aan de staart los``, weet Wiegman. ,,Wij bedachten om met onze schroeven het zand onder de potvissen weg te malen. Het was een hele strijd, we zijn wel twee uur aan het draaien geweest. We waren er net op tijd bij.``
Het is de derde maal dit jaar dat Vlieland te maken krijgen met walvisstrandingen. Een stervende bultrug vond op 22 juni zijn einde op de Vliehors. Enkele dagen later spoelde er op het Noordzeestrand een grotendeels vergane potvis aan. Het skelet van dit dier moet voor € 25.000,- worden geprepareerd voor het bezoekerscentrum De Noordwester. Een inzamelingsactie heeft tot dusver € 15.050,- opgebracht.
Volgens Kees Kamphuijsen van het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) verdwalen potvissen sinds 1988 steeds vaker in de Noordzee. "Om de zoveel tijd heb je een periode van twintig, dertig jaar dat er veel potvissen in de Noordzee komen. In de achttiende eeuw wemelde het er bijvoorbeeld van. Daarna was er weer een hele lange tijd niks."
Two clocks in the lobby of the Gage building in Chicago. The one on the left is a painted image; the one on the right is truly a clock but it is broken. Each of the clocks is right twice a day.
Tenuous Link: clocks
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and St. Luke's Hospital above Morningside Park.
Two photo panorama.
By chance I found these two wonderful one sixth scale glass teapots, which have matching cups, on eBay. They were made by a master glassblower. I bought these two teapots and the two matching cups for each.
He did a gorgeous creating them. What luck!
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Gadwall (Anas strepera) in Locke Park, Redcar. Not the best photo but I don't think I've seen these here before, although they do go to Coatham Marsh over the road. Lots of exotic birds in Locke Park that day!
The next week: 3 dabchicks, 3 gadwall. I think they've moved in for winter!
These are the two wolves we gave the wolf popsicles to. It's cool to get both of them in the same shot looking the same direction. The picture feels a bit off balance, but it still seems clear enough to me. Only the paw looks blurred and that's because it's moving, of course. Zooming in, I could still see the one wolf's eyes fairly clearly, so I decided not to scrap it. It was a tough call on this one.
The reason we gave these two wolves the bottles and not the others is because this was the only enclosure that had just two wolves in it. If we put them in one of the enclosures that had three wolves, they would have fought over them. Next time we'll try to bring three so the other wolves can have a treat too. Then again, they're not hard to make. I'm sure Tonya might give the rest of the wolves some frozen water bottles before we drop by again.
Anyways, I like this shot because of how they're both proudly standing, looking like the kings of their domain.